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Originally Posted by Slave
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The gigantic problem with EVE is that skills are learned over IRL time and there is absolutely nothing that you can do as a hardcore player to improve your skill training time over a totally casual player.
So now we have a situation where any beginner is literally years behind most of the veterans, which you can never, ever make up. And skills COUNT. Even after you're able to get into a strong Tech 2 PvP ship, and roll with a good crew, you're going to be routinely eaten alive by someone that has trained up a host of other skills in the same ship.
Another problem is the complete lack of Avatar interaction. After a while, it really feels like you're not playing a MMORPG any more.
The biggest issue though is that combat in EVE is NOT FUN. PvP is NOT FUN. PvE is NOT FUN. You are dots pressing a button to autofire dots at other dots. It is not immersive and it does not really grip you after your first month or two.
And getting killed... it's not like going back to level 1 at all. It's like losing a weapon that you grinded an hour or two for. It's something, it's more than we have here, I'll give it that. In the end, EVE is a very good game with inherent flaws, like anything else. They do get several things very right, such as the 1-server paradigm.
This is information coming from a 4-year MASTER of EVE Online, and the entire time I was a 0.0 CEO and Alliance leader.
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Well, now that im playing EQ i do see the advantage of the EvE system. You can actually go and take a 2 weeks vacation and your Character keeps getting skills. A 5 year old Characater can only have frigs to 5 same as a 2 month old character. There you have your Tier 1 pointer, scrambler. However Eve is way more social than EQ. People take newbs into their their guilds , people train newbs , people want to bind newbs to their guilds.
I was never attracted to 0 sec PvP. Low sec pirating or High Sec pirating is way more fun and personal...or even going out solo is still a rush. I dont know about button pushing and autoattacks...isnt there a mmo without it?? Ever played melee in EQ ? :-D
Eve PvP is all about tactics , gameplay knowledge. I like that, it takes time to really be good in PvP and there are no easy roads like insta clickys...all that say Eve online PvP is awfull got their asses handed to them and couldnt replace the ship they lost :P