It does still have a good and increasing player base. And they finally added in a character instead of just a spaceship and avatar. Granted you cant do much with the character yet but they are slowly adding content. It was never meant to have full bodied characters but once they add more areas to visit in space stations that part will be more than just a novelty.

Incursions are fun. Mercenary pvp is a blast. And wormhole exploration is fun until you go 3-5 wormholes in and find a wormhole based corporation living there in a player owned station and they defend their territory most brutally. I lived in wormhole space for about 6 months and it was a cash cow, but anyone not on the guest list was killed and sent back to their clone.

 

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Eve online can be fun, but most of the time its incredibly dreary.

 

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It takes years of offline leveling to become really competitive with anyone else.

i think you should try it to see how awful it is

 

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False: I was enjoying pvp within my first week. Really just depends on the skills you choose and the career path you choose (and whether or not you know anyone to fly with). I chose the soldier type class and trained combat related skills.

Now you get a a big boost in the amount of skills you will have at the start. They give you so many skill points if I remember correctly and you apply them to skills you want.

6 years later and I have over 65 million skill points and can fly anything in the game effectively and use any weapon type. Just wish I could afford a mothership but I don't have the 450 million isk it takes to buy the skill book or the 1.5 billion it takes to buy the ship, let alone modules, fighter drones, and insurance in case you get popped.

 

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This.

My advice is try it and if you like the game look at buying someones account,and if they still exist look up eve university and let them teach you how to pvp.

 

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Keep in mind the playerbase in general are assholes and death penalties are really harsh.

 

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That doesn't contradict what I said.


You can have fun, especially if you have people to play with who can back you up. It's not like pvping on a level 30 wow character vs level 80s or anything. But you won't be very competitive on a 1v1 basis for a very long time.

Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation's review of the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US92PR1tI1o

Basically, like he says at the end, this is a game that's a essentially a 2nd job that you have the privilege of paying for in order to do it.

I have an active EVE account, but I dont play very much due to time constraints. Basically, my toon sits in a space station learning new skills on the off chance that I have an afternoon to go kill things.


But, EVE online can be a very good game if you have the time to invest in it. Basically, you get out of it what you are willing to put into it. It doesnt take overly long to become useful in PVP situations and the game gives double skill points up to 1.6 million. If you focus those skill points on only combat and ship improvement skills, you can make yourself acceptable enough to participate in big PVP fights in a couple of months. Dont do what I did, which is to start out shooting things, switch over to mining and then long after the skill bonus was up, try to switch back to killing stuff. It just makes for a painful EVE life. Pick a path early on and follow it.


EVE University is still an active corporation and is great for teaching people how to play the game, how to PVP, fit your ship, the proper skills to get etc. Becomming really good takes a lot of real life time and effort on your part. The one good thing about the time sink is that you dont have to be online to improve your character, although the less time you spend online, the less cash you earn and cash makes the world go around in EVE. You need it to buy advanced skills, buying top tier gear for your ship and the ships themselves.

 

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