This isn't going anywhere.
I watched the videos and then went on ebay to check out some more. Im pretty engrossed in school and Fallout right now, but I did have some questions.
1) Is it only ship to ship combat?
2) Is there a legit storyline ala oblivion or is it all just one big world?
I've always stayed away from MMORPG's because I just flat out don't trust myself to not play them too much. I also just read the IGN review from 2003. This game seems like one I should avoid;
There's only ship to ship combat, as that serves as your avatar. walking around on the stations you dock at is thier next big xpac, supposedly, which they think will eventually translate into non- ship to ship combat.
it has a pretty good storyline if you want to do the player vs. NPC missions, and also it has kinda a player driven story. The scope on that is that the middle of the galaxy is "high sec" where, outside of clans declaring a state sanctioend war on each other (which takes alot of in game money to maintain) players are not allowed to shoot at each other without getting killed by the "gaurds" if you will. That is where the Game's storyline takes place, and it is ever changing. this new xpac adds open war between the factions that the player can join up for, we'll see how that goes.
However, outside of what they call "high security", the game is very wild west. in 0 space, players can put up there own space stations, instead of computer controlled ones, with there own defenses and shops, ect, as well as claim sovergnty over a system. This leads to some pretty crazy politics, since it's only one server, and there is only so much real estate to go around out there. There was actually just a pretty major shake up where two of the largest player run corps ended a 4 year war on each other by one infultrating the other with a spy about 2 years ago who finally got up to the point where he could be in co-charge of the other, and he attacked them fromt he inside.
here's a good write up on it.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/65110and here is the political map of outlying space, where players write the story, every color is a diffrent allaince of clans who work together to hold thier country if you will.
http://rdceve.19.forumer.com/a/eve-online-political-map_post4.htmlbig void in the middle is NPC space.
as to time crunch, that could be tough to be trying it out during, but it actually lends itself to casual play once your established because you dont have to be online to skill up, and you can play as much or as littl as you want.
for instance, im pretty time crunched myself this week, and im playing some COD5, so i havent gotten on in the last 2 days. But, im still making progress towards flying my new ship, since i have its skill, which takes 6 total days to train, going on my guy.
But if your ever bored, id give the trial a shot. I mean, games not going anywhere soon, been around 5 years and they just hit thier peak subscriber rate with the first "on the shelves" version of the game coming out.
Tip on that, do not buy the box in a store. They are putting it out to generate intrest here in the states, and it will be 30 bucks. The thirty bucks will be covering 2 months of time, not the client.
The cleint, they have so far said, will always remain a free DL. so, if you ever want to try it, DL the cleint for free and get the free two weeks to see if you like it, rather than buying the full 2 months that come as the box you'll be seeing in best buy march 13th.
Might as well demo it first for free rather than buy it and risk hating that they took your 30 bucks
Topic: Long shot in the dark (EVE Online) (Read 5820 times)