As fun as EVE can be, I don't think there's anything more dull than those "ZOMG TITAN KILLED!!!" videos. Just a bunch of colorful squares sitting there.
As fun as EVE can be, I don't think there's anything more dull than those "ZOMG TITAN KILLED!!!" videos. Just a bunch of colorful squares sitting there.
lol can't blame the guy that is chewing them out. From the sound of it, it was stupid to do knowing that there were within jump range of a dread fleet. PL must have loosened their requirements on recruitment. While the overall loss is a lot, it is not even a drop in the bucket for them really.
I decided to take up EVE on their free 5 days to see where my characters were left off. Little did I realize I'd have to pick up the tedium of playing with the character creator to create new avatars for an hour or so.
Needless to say, I looked at my one character sitting there with his Orca, Retriever and Hulk and said "Gee, if only I could take one of these out without likely getting killed in about 12 seconds..."
My amusement was mostly spent looking at 3 years worth of corporate office bill emails that have gone unpaid.
Why would you want to play eve so you can grind at asteroids alone for hours to make isk? That would be boring as hell and tedious, I can see why you do not play it.
I would not play EvE either in that case.
I tried EVE a while ago. I was so utterly bored I did not even make it to the end of my trial period. Coworker thought I would love it since I like meta-gaming and statistics. I guess if I stuck with it, then I could have put that to use, but in the early stages, nope. Do boring low level missions, train my guy, mine a few asteroids, ad nausium.
You have to admit, when you distill just about ANY game down it comes to this exact formula.
The problem is EVE seems to have made it just that much more boring than other games.
That's because Eve is based around player interaction. The "single player" experience has mostly been ignored. There is no value in trying to make a single player experience in a game like this.
Even the player interaction though...
"Hey, let's do xyz..."
"Okay, let me click click click click spreadsheet aaaaaaannnnnnnndddddd wait."
Even a hardcore EVE player will admit that there is an inordinate amount of doing nothing in EVE. I think what Possessed Freak was getting at is that the meta-game of EVE is even boring for people who like meta-games. It's very devoid of substance. I guess the best way to describe EVE in a nutshell is like trying to "play" Facebook.
That's because Eve is based around player interaction. The "single player" experience has mostly been ignored. There is no value in trying to make a single player experience in a game like this.
Why would you want to play eve so you can grind at asteroids alone for hours to make isk? That would be boring as hell and tedious, I can see why you do not play it.
I would not play EvE either in that case.
Freelancer.
Sure there is.
Freelancer is very very limited because it at its core you're only interacting against an AI.
You can't do things like griefing, griefing, griefing, etc etc etc.
The fun comes from making people cry over internet spaceships
Fixed that for you.
The problem with EVE is that once you look past the grieving opportunities, the game is kinda bland and empty.
Freelancer is very very limited because it at its core you're only interacting against an AI.
You can't do things like scamming, ransoming, trolling, etc etc etc.
The fun comes from making people cry over internet spaceships