I bought the retail package as my mate asked me to pick him up a copy so he can make another account and I thought I'd get one for myself and play along. However I got into the game and he and my other 2 real life firends who play also never logged in apart from just to switch skills around. So I had to find people to play with and this is where the game stumbles for me. I tried several corps in the game but most of the time they were dead and people logged on, then logged straight back off. I tried joining Corps that had people on and all they ever seemed to do was boring stuff like mining or gate camping and I just find that really sad as I could waste hours of my life doing anything else that is more fun than watching paint dry. I then joined a Factional Warfare corp like people on these forums told me to do and I expected as the tackler that when I lost my ship they'd replace it for me. However no I was expected to replace it myself....... so I had two options really 1. Mine or 2. Agent Missions. Now both of these are boring as hell and I just didn't want to do any of that so I flew around in an Ibis trying to PVP with no luck so I just gave up until my mate gave me some cash for another ship. All my friends buy time codes and trade them in for ISK btw and thats how they make their money, they have carriers and Titans all through doing this. It seems everyone I meet in the game just basically buys ISK because making it is so unfun.
So I left the Factional Warfare corp cause they wern't any help and tried to join 0.0 corps to experience that but trying to get through to 0.0 left me podded trying to make it through each time in my ship cause every gate is camped. So I tried to to do exploration and find these wormholes which I never did cause all it involved was hours of sending probes out and narrowing the location down until you got 100% signal strength. This is so boring I really don't understand why anyone would watse hours sitting there doing this. All I want to do is have fun PVP fights but it's always unfair fights of gate camps and hoping Worm holes would fix the problem but finding them is boringggggg!
So I joined factional warfare again and all that ever come down to is two sides of gate campers too scared to jump into eachothers zones. The worst part of it all was that everyone just bitches in local or the factional warfare chats and it's full off constant elitist arguing which just pissed me off so much. Noone could ever get organised cause all they were doing is arguing so you just had aload of idiots around a gate. If you try to PUG then heaven forbid they'll actually help if you're being attacked, they just run away and leave you to die! Like thanx for the fucking useless group!
Never go to the EVE forums btw cause again heaven forbid anyone can actually help you there. the constant elitist arguing is worse than the WoW class forums. It's like worse than CS :\ I mean EVE Online has one of the worst and most angry communities Iv'e ever come across and I just don't understand it. I play cause I want to have fun and theres all these people treating it like if you're a noob in EVE you might aswel die in real life cause you suck and EVE is the be all and end all.
I just don't find making money in the game fun because it's just doing repetitive tasks over and over again.. I already do that in my real life job and EVE just feels like a waste of time when I'm not having fun. I want to PVP but I have to wait months and months just to have the skills to be useful and I want to progress through the game from playing and having fun, not logging off like all my friends only logging on to switch skills and buying money to afford everything.
I also don't see the appeal of the unfair PVP too because it only ever goes one of two ways. You overpower them and easily win and they try to run away instead of attacking or they overpower you and you try to run away. Most the time it's me trying to be skillful and do 1 vs 1 cause I learnt you can't relly on anyone in the game but then you get some sado who has lots of accounts tackle you and then warp in other ships to finish you off. I just don't see the fun in any of that and it wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't gates because thats all PVP seems to center around. What I'd love to see is like Arenas like the Alliance Tournament and have me and my friend do a 2 vs 2 and you don't know what you're gonna fight until you load in. That would be really kool fair fights where the amount of ALTS you own doesn't effect anything.
I love the market and I love how I'm not tied down to a single class, though I would have prefered it not to be real time training. I just think the game is really flawed and boring when I could have better and fair PVP in CS where it purely revolves around skill and I don't have to spend months doing repetitive tasks for money.
I've tried to get into this game but it just isn't any fun and feels like one long grind to get anywhere. People who say you can get in straight away and PVP are wrong cause all you can do is get in and die straight away.
Things I like about EVE that I hope over developers take away from it are...
- Punishing death penalty that makes dying scary and makes your heart pump hard in PVP.
- The market is in depth and all player driven which reminds me of SWG and so much better than loot based games.
- Skill based system where everyone is unique and not locked down to a class, though I prefer SWG's system more.
- Character customization on botht he character creation screen and in game.
- Player PVP Bounty system is really great to hunt other players and collect the money.