They're offering a 21 day free trial through Steam right now, so I decided to give it a try. I haven't done much. Just the tutorial so far. I don't know anyone who plays this game, and I know that puts me at a huge disadvantage. So, who here plays? I could use some connections and company if I'm going to stick with this.

Goonfleet is awesome if you can find someone to sponsor you (or if you've had a SomethingAwful account for a while).

Especially since Suas just released the next FC song. So awesome.

Almost every EVE Massassian is in Goonswarm.

Also:

<-- Poor.

My alliance is not happy with Goon because they kicked us out of Detorid. But other than that, it's a fun game, complicated but if you like that kind of thing it can be very rewarding.

In game name: Vegera
I'll send you some startup isk if you'd like.

your name sounds like viagra

Hah. Most insightful comment of the year!

I've been busy for the last little while so I've only been logging in to change skills; I'm currently safespotted in NOL- :v

Sigh...

I get that from everyone I meet

Can you add the 21 day trial to another trial account somehow?

If you can I'll play some more.. :\

Nope. I tried.

Thanks for the offer, Veger, but you can hold onto it for now. If I get a bunch of credits before knowing where to spend them, I'll probably just waste them.

Character name is Ballarus. I went with Minmatar, because their ships were described to me as being like giant pieces of scrap metal welded together, and that sounded awesome.

If someone will steam gift the game to me I'll play, then.

Rob should just pay already. Also, if I weren't preoccupied a thousand AU away, I would be camping the Minmatar starting area looking for a certain someone.

(Maybe I am...)

I wasn't aware you could kill people in the starting areas. If it's me you're after, I'm afraid you'll have to wait, for I must first fail as a Spy in TF2.

You can kill people in highsec, but CONCORD ships spawn and kill you once you start shooting at someone. So you have to be quick (suicide bombing raids with a bunch of people in cheap disposable ships [Caracals are popular] are an effective way to kill high-value targets like haulers carrying expensive stuff).

if you got kicked out of Detorid it means you deserved it. you should pick better friends.

If we got kicked out of detorid, then it's because goon thinks they own everything.

Seriously, I know it's a cliche to say this, but Goon is the next frakking bob.

We tried to settle there in some systems with absolutely no sov, and none nearby except for an RA system 5 jumps away, we had residents of KOS for awhile (this is months before they got killed by AAA). We had standings with local corps and alliances, and RA and goon. We wanted to own our own constellation, we got sov 3 in half of the systems. We wanted to grow in our own space and hold it for ourselves. The systems were full of isk farmers anyway.

Then goon told us "move or we will set you to neutral." Then the bastards told RA to set us red.

We argued to get our blue standings back with RA (after they killed a few of our haulers moving stuff out of the systems), and we got all our stuff out and into a station of some of hte last peeps we had standings with.

Biggest 2 alliances in the coalition push us around.

AAA killed KOS about 3 weeks later.

My alliance is of the impression that the coalition is dead and heartless, and will turn on itself once bob is completely gone.

We haven't liked goon ever since they kicked us out.

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Now...I'm sure it's a great alliance to be in...but it's a terrible alliance to be friends with.

Now we're learning about politics!

See, that's the kind of stuff I want to get involved in. I think it's the politics and wavering alliances that really draw people to this game. Just trying to get by, never knowing if you really have a friend in the galaxy sounds fun, at least if you go in with a pirate mentality like I do.

I know leveling is all time based. How many months will it take before I have high enough skills to matter in a fight?

I'm sorta broke..

And what alliance are you in? Because it sounds to me that you're enhancing the truth, or you were completely unaware of what was going on internally. Plus, GF doesn't tell RA what to do. RA makes the calls when it wants to make them, they're the big daddy alliance.

Also, I'd like to point out that GF doesn't think they own everything. But they do own your space. You make not like them because they bully you around, but then again, you're certainly not holding your own against it either.

He's in "Antesignani Alliance" Corp: Clan 86. I believe this was all before my time so...



I'm sorta broke(r)...



Depends on what kind of fight you're talking about. A newb frigate with a web is technically "useful". For the record I've been in about 3ish months and can fly battleships. Skills are less of a problem than money however. Flying a Battleship is stupid if you can't even afford to insure it and thus become a very poor person when it gets ganked.* Also: You should pay more attention to your Reaper, it might have an "accident" while you're just sitting there for several minutes...

Veger: If you REALLY want your own 0.0 space, you've got to come to terms with the fact that EVE is a lot like the real world in that there isn't really any unclaimed territory (Now anyway). If you want to claim territory, you'd better be able and willing to kick someone in the teeth and take it from them and then hold on to it, kind of like Israel I guess, or be useful enough to your new overlords for them to mostly ignore you. If you try to play good guy you'll only end up in a painful position.



* I don't get Empire Hulk pilots. The Jew in me cringes every time I see one in a 1.0. The improvements a Hulk offers over a Covetor in Empire, being basically a couple thousand extra m3 of cargo space, are very much not worth the 100m3 price tag that comes with it when you could get the Covetor for 20m. Such a massive waste of ISK... Tsk, Tsk. Especially when someone goes and blows it up, suicide gank or not...

oh hello, I'm glad to see that eve players are still using the classiest of slang

My ship will never leaves my sight unless I'm docked, thank you (surely you can't get to someone when they're docked?). Did you see me when I was lost at the jump gate, or when I was orbiting around that big, pulsing ship?

As far as ships go, I would prefer something kind of small, but agile and still able to hold their own, like the Defiant (DS9). What ship class is that?

That's probably the biggest thing keeping me from playing Eve: The mind numbingly racist slang. Otherwise it's probably the only MMO I could possible be into.

Really? Because much more important and profound reasons to not play Eve would be the massive corruption and also the fact that the game is boring as counting grains of sand.

omg guyz WoW is soooooo much better than all those other lame mmorpgs

WoW is probably more boring than EVE. :/

I like the politics of it. I think I'd enjoy having it as a little accomplishment in the background.

Random thought: massassi channel?

I was really hoping I could use the 21 day trial on my previous trial account.

Oh well.

anyone remember when we thought humping was hilarious










:saddowns:

Yet you post on the internet without issue?



I believe I did catch you lost at the jump gates. The Rifter that was following and orbiting you for about ten minutes was displeased when you managed to jump away. Also interesting how a 1 day old Minmatar character has Frigate IV and Small Projectile V. I don't remember this when I was being a newb on my main...



Cruiser I guess, though anything can be kinda fast with the right fittings... I think someone theorycrafted a Titan that could move at 7km/s. Holding your own would be somewhat of an issue though, depending on just who you're trying to hold your own against, you can't really rat in a cruiser in 0.0 except in some really weak spawns (Ratting Angels in an Osprey is not advisable).

Word of adivice: Fair fights don't really exist in EVE. 9 times out of 10 you're going to find yourself scrammed and/or webbed followed shortly by rest of the scrambler's gang jumping in and you dieing in a few seconds.

Veger: if that really is your alliance as Commander said, the political maps show that you never held Detorid. Lokta had it first, then we took it from them. There was no one inbetween.

my problem with the eve trial, is that you have 14 days from time of install to play. so that if you install and dont play right after, get super busy and are unable to play for two weeks, you cant play at all. the trial should be 14 days ingame time. should be the same for all MMOs if you ask me. the free trial should be a free trial. 336h isnt that much really.

On Steam you get 21 days.

And you can download ahead of time/start when you're ready.

Yeah, the timer doesn't start until you register. And you don't need to register to download the client.

(Someone should still Steam gift me because I'm bored.. :P)

EVE is certainly more cerebral, but it's also much more boring.

WoW is a stupid game, it's incredibly simple, but simplicity is all I want when I come home after 3-5 hours of school and 5-7 hours of work.

Frigate 3, actually, Command is at 4, and my Gunnery skills are almost all at max. However, skills like Mining and Science are at level 1. My Perception is at 16, Willpower at 13, and my other attributes around 5. I also went Brutor Soldier, so my skills are leaning heavily towards combat and some navigation. I do feel strong for someone who just started.

Thanks to Veger, I now have a Vigil and the ability to use some drones.

Apparently CPP gives close to 1 million skillpoints when you start characters now.
I have an alt I started 4 months ago, this was the case.

Kinda sucks for us older characters.