Eve Online

Dazzer

Will anyone here be playing this when it's released next month?

www.eve-online.com

Tusky

nah...there are so many other mmorpgs coming out :ninja:

Thorbar

I will be, beta test pwns.

Spunj

Been playing it for a couple of days, I may just play it for a bit when it comes out. It only works on one of my 2 machines tho so they'd have to fix that. Also, I hope I don't have to go out and buy the client when I have it already.

I hope theres more to do than mine rocks all day tho

adnans

i've played it enough already, and though i enjoyed it immensly, i will not be playing it when it's finally released. guess im not ready for space mmog just yet where my feet dont touch the ground.

anyway, i have bigger plans for my gaming time. mwhahhaha

adnans

zekiel

I've been playing it for a couple of weeks now and I would say that I would play it when it is finally released but it all depends on the final realease and how it is playing. I'm a big fan so far but I want to see more content.. Just minning all the time gets a little tedious and drags the enjoyment out of the game.

Kevok

I was going to but that was before i got into the planetside beta, i'm gonna fork out my money for that instead. Since theres none here yet and the NDA has been lifted, i'll write a review of PS later today.

Thorbar

pld kevok.

Absolam

Saw it in Game in Henry St yesterday for €45, screenshots look nice, but I'm not forking out €45 plus additional monthly charges until I see some good reviews!

Jorinn

Originally posted by Absolam
Saw it in Game in Henry St yesterday for €45, screenshots look nice, but I'm not forking out €45 plus additional monthly charges until I see some good reviews!

Play it for a month, if you don't like it then just don't pay the fees.

flav0rflav

Been playing the beta for a few weeks. It ended yesterday with Armagedon. Everyone got 500Billion ISK and went mad on buying battleships.

Well everyone went mad trying to buy battleships. What with them only available at certain locations, and some people getting there first and waiting for the others to arrive it got a bit hairy at times.

It also highlighted some problems with server/bandwidth capacity. These problems really need to be tackled for the game to succeed. But thats the beauty of the MMOG model, they have the single server, the auto client patch mechanism and monthly subs to add content and improve performance.

Jorinn

Originally posted by flav0rflav
Been playing the beta for a few weeks. It ended yesterday with Armagedon. Everyone got 500Billion ISK and went mad on buying battleships.

Well everyone went mad trying to buy battleships. What with them only available at certain locations, and some people getting there first and waiting for the others to arrive it got a bit hairy at times.

It also highlighted some problems with server/bandwidth capacity. These problems really need to be tackled for the game to succeed. But thats the beauty of the MMOG model, they have the single server, the auto client patch mechanism and monthly subs to add content and improve performance.

I can't wait to play it tonight, picked it up at the weekend, hope I enjoy it, looks great but I'm not a large fan of RPGs.

Also, they dont' work on a server I think, AFAIk they work ona server cluster so they should be able to expand capacity as the need arrises plus I doubt it's small scale server stuff as in a simple Dell sever you'll find in dell catalogs, it's probably racks of Xserves, Cobalt Raq's or Blades etc.

Thorbar

I think you'd be fairly hardpressed to describe Eve as an RPG.

zekiel

I think you'd be fairly hardpressed to describe Eve as an RPG.

Nooo of course you wouldnt.. All you get to do within the game is play the ROLE of a fantasy character within a fantasy universe.. interacting with other people playing the roles of other made up characters with alternative personalities... hmm nope it aint an RPG.. But what is it? :ninja:

meglome

Originally posted by Dazzer
Will anyone here be playing this when it's released next month?

www.eve-online.com

Hey Dazzer, did you try this?, what did you think?

sidhe

Maybe we should look at forming a boards.ie corp

Thorbar

Originally posted by zekiel
Nooo of course you wouldnt.. All you get to do within the game is play the ROLE of a fantasy character within a fantasy universe.. interacting with other people playing the roles of other made up characters with alternative personalities... hmm nope it aint an RPG.. But what is it? :ninja:

Not very many people actually roleplay in MMOs. There's always a small minority of nutters who are big into rping and react poorly to any OOC comments made with 50 feet of em. They usually make less then 5% if that of the game's population. The rest of the people are just there to make their character more powerful then anyone else and PvP or just there to hang out with their friends and don't really give a fig about the personality/background of their character or acting out a particular role. Eve is a rat race for the powerful character/corp like every other MMO on the market at the moment. An RPG is a game where you have an extremely involving plot and an interesting character who you have to figure out how he would act in certain situations if you're going to play it properly.

Nobody

Just started playing the retail version yesterday, & bought 6 months of gameplay. If I like the way the game develops, I'll most likely continue paying. Only time 'ill tell. Good game, brutal manual.

zekiel

Not very many people actually roleplay in MMOs. There's always a small minority of nutters who are big into rping and react poorly to any OOC comments made with 50 feet of em. They usually make less then 5% if that of the game's population. The rest of the people are just there to make their character more powerful then anyone else and PvP or just there to hang out with their friends and don't really give a fig about the personality/background of their character or acting out a particular role. Eve is a rat race for the powerful character/corp like every other MMO on the market at the moment. An RPG is a game where you have an extremely involving plot and an interesting character who you have to figure out how he would act in certain situations if you're going to play it properly.

I agree.
But you can do this within EVE if you choose to, its up to the players to create this scenario. Granted that within a large game such as this you will get your groups that dont care about the rpg aspect of the game but if you can find the people that do.. there's when the game can become fun.

paddyman

Have to say lads, WHAT A GAME.

ive been playing since beta and recently joined a pirate corp and im loving it. theres so much u can do its amazing. i would definitely recomend joining a corp. make the game a lot more fun.

what are all yis are nicks in the game. what corps u in.

Nobody

I'll second that.

I'm still getting used to the pace of the game... skill learning in real time, and all that. Ingame nick is "Jury" (Amarr race). Jury's a freelancer; focusing on mining/refining at the moment, will probably move on to building stuff, and finally combat. Anyone know of any Irish Corps ingame yet?

paddyman

haven't heard of any irish corps as of yet but u never know, sure why dont u set up. u can never have enough good corps in the game. u might even try what were doing now and take on the biggest corp in eve (ye i mean u TTI, up the FOA). its good craic, theve 150 members weve 15 and we do raids on them most nights now. they've tried hunting us down but still haven't managed to kill one of our ships...

flav0rflav

When in beta I opened up chat channel ireland, but no one every dropped in!