Well you need to pay the monthly fee so no. You have to spend something. But as far as microtransactions go no you can do it without. I only recommend that get some initial plex as seed money or use a service like my newbie referral for 50 million isk. pm for details
Ugh. EVE wants me back again for 5 days. I wonder how many datacores I have by now...
By the way, CCP stopped the accumulation of research points for inactive accounts.
They DID? When? I've got a bunch of datacore alts with lapsed accounts, was hoping to resub some day for a huge payday... When I last had a subscription (september or so) inactive account still gathered RP.
Hmm.. I'm getting the itch to fly caps again. I should never have sold my cap char. Guess I have to hold off on spending every isk I make and buy one. *sulks back to missioning* Fucking PvE.
Missioning is what, 50c/hour or so? I'd say figure out some way to earn a few extra bucks RL and sell some GTCs.
Mission grinding when done with the express purpose of financing something is a lose if you live in a country with any kind of economy. Missioning for the purpose of setting speed records as a personal challenge -- that's something else.
I do about 110m/hour missioning. It adds up quickly. I have 0 income (outside of loans) in RL, so I won't be buying GTCs anytime soon .. although with the rise in PLEX prices it's quite a bit more cost effective than it used to be. Like 40 bucks for 650m or so?
$35 for nearly 800M ISK actually. Still the RL cost can add up fast.
I haven't played eve in about 2 years. I left(rage quit) with about 3-4 Billion Isk split between 2 accounts. Is that still a decent amount of cash in the game at this point?
Each account had a character with a little over 20M skill points. Would it even be worth coming back at this point?
Like anything else in EVE 3-4 Bil and 20m SP is completely relative to what you want to do. The first time I quit EVE I sold off my bigger accounts and kept my (at the time) youngest alt just in case. That's now the character I'm using as my main and he's somewhere around 22-23m SP and I have a great time PvPing with him. Pretty solid subcap pilot. I probably only have like a bil across my accounts at this time (though I do have another 3-4 in assets) and don't really feel poor. So essentially, yeah, I think you could still have plenty of fun with 3-4 Bil and some 20m SP chars.
As a command ship pilot myself I can't recommend it for most people unless you are in a corp/alliance that will be able to take advantage of it. For you and your friend it really is a waste imo.
I get extensive use out of my Damnation with my corp/alliance, any CS pilot a fleet will be looking for a lvl 5 pilot that has all the needed skills for 5 for the ship, modules, and mindlink. That is a few months of training to get all that up.
You would IMO be better off beefing up your skills for a BC then once you can go to the BS, the extra dmg with your friend will help more then a CS 9/10 times.
Don't get me wrong, CS are awesome and helpful but they are a pretty specialized set of skills that take awhile to train to the point where it is worth it. CS pilot job is rather boring at times but man, every fleet loves to have one along and you don't have to worry about being primaried, by an opposing fleet, at least I don't in my Damnation
I haven't played eve in about 2 years. I left(rage quit) with about 3-4 Billion Isk split between 2 accounts. Is that still a decent amount of cash in the game at this point?
Each account had a character with a little over 20M skill points. Would it even be worth coming back at this point?