Originally posted by: Riverhound777
Originally posted by: shortylickens
This is why I prefer Single Player.
Yes, I know that Freelancer is not even in the same league as EVE, and I know I'd get my ass handed to me immediately if I went up against 13 year olds with no lives who play online constantly. I accept that.
What I cant accept is working my ass off for a year and then some mean fucker comes along and wipes it all out inside a minute. That would drive me nuts.
If I screw up or get screwed over, I need to be able to load up an old save file and try again or do something else if I'm not ready.
Thats why the only online game I kept is Guild Wars. Its free to play and nothing bad is ever permanent.
Actually there are very few kids under 18 that play EVE. At least when I was playing. I think the average Eve player was 28. Of course there are some young ones, but they tend to be few and far between, and much more mature in my experience (players for 3 years, had 42mill skillpoint char when I quit).
Yeah I am on my 5th year of EVE and I have played just about every other major MMO on the market too. But I have consistently played EVE. I've met one 13 year old and one 15 year old in my days. I was the vice president of a 2500 man alliance for months as well.
Kids are just too easy to weed out especially in PVP. Voice comms and all you know.
PVP in EVE is fantastic. I've killed about 130 ships this month including capitals and expensive NPC farmers. My current corp is NRDS ( not blue don't shoot ) which is a dying art in EVE. [blue being an onscreen display for friendly players] We only shoot people who shoot back and we have over 100 reds so we are never want for PVP. We also wardec actively to make sure when we are in low number timezones that people have something to do instead of trying to solo in 0.0.
Killing is our buisiness, being an all PVP corp. And business is good. No other game like EVE and the only reason people get bored with it is because they don't have good guides to help them get set.
If anyone is thinking about trying the game or coming back to it to be serious about it...
Try EVE-University corp. They help noobs out and teach you the ropes and have voice comms. Good stuff they bring to the game. 10 man gangs are where its at right now though in 0.0. Also, 3 days of skilling up some basic PVP stuff and a patient group can make any noob a good PVPer in the first week. That is far from the doom and gloom a lot of people preach about EVE. Its the only game where a noob can kill a vet in a dog fight if one knows the game mechanics better than the other.