re: PC Gamers: Online Multiplayer Games MMO or Not

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So I just finished all the military missions. I didn't have many problems, I wrecked an Aton once and had to buy another one. But I trained some skills and bought better shields and repair bots and defeated Wolf. On one hand the leisurely pace was good because I could watch tv and play, but it didn't feel like I was accomplishing much since the pacing was so slow. I felt detached, I would just click an enemy ship, get in optimal range and then wait till I killed the ship. This was repeated ad nausea, I imagine there will be more strategy later on. I think I my try the business missions next.

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One thing to remember, a fair amount of strategy and conflict in this game is player, not NPC driven. That is the appeal of the game for most.

There are a lot of nuances you need to apply (and know WHEN to apply) when you go out in big boy world where it is kill or be killed with no protections.

And that is in deep space where they try to keep things simple: If you aren't one of us, you are assumed hostile and we will make fleets to track your arse down.

Things like NEVER EVER warping to a station when you know hostiles are in system...not even to dock for safety.

And when when things are dodgey, you don't approach the warp gate from a predictable approach vector. You may have interdictiors or drag bubbles along the path that will take you out of warp in a vulnerable position.

So on and so forth.

As far as NPC combat goes though...it doesn't really get strategic until the highest of the high end of encounters.

They do put up a much better fight though than what is basically target practice for noobs out in empire.

I can easily permatank the rats (slang term for NPC pirates and such) with just skills in my fricking mining barge. No combat skills and weapons needed, my shield can just eat the damage for nothing.

Out in 0.0, I need a very specialized fitting that costs more than the ship itself to pull off the same thing, as well as perfect skills in order to be able to fit it in the first place.

In many ways, a lot of strategy is how do you most effectively outfit your ship, and what tactics you use with the modules you elected to install.

One of the things you relearn as you go to deeper space: autopilot is not your friend.

It is your worst enemy.

Its nice for when you are still in your noob corp, going from A to B in empire, and you want to take a nap or something. Little else.

The problem is that autopilot doesn't warp you to 0 on the gates. So you are an exposed target for that 20km you have to slow burn to jump.

This advertises as well that you are probably not being attentive, so if you have something on your ship or cargo hold that makes it worthwhile....you might be suicide-ganked. (Has never happened to me, but it *could.*)

I usually just use autopilot to continually give me updates to the next system I need to warp to, and issue the commands manually.

Whoa, whoa whoa.

I have been out of the game for too long, just checked that map.

Da frick did I miss.....White Noise has systems all over the north, previously owned by RAZOR and the United Front Alliance.

One of them being 1IX, which has been a protracted focal point of campaigns in the past due to its logistical and strategic importance. You don't give it up easily...

To translate this into English, this would be like the US giving Russia the entire West Coast during the height of the Cold War.

Stay awayyyyyyyyy from Goonswarm

So are all those people at war with each other? Which one are you in?

That is just a political map updated daily representing which alliance owns which space. Nothing more.

They are not all at war with each other, think of an alliance as being analogous with a country.

You have some allies, and some enemies.

See that tiny little spec of Strategic Operations Brigade in the lower right corner.

That one.

All my stuff is in Branch.

In hostile space.

I will probably firesale and move out soon....all this talking about it and now actually having time to play it has rekindled my interest.



Kinda sucks though because I am going to get ripped off big time.

I have over a billion in assets I am going to be forced to sell for like 500 million.

If even that.

I know this is a rather dumb question, but I'm trying to complete one of the business missions and he tells me to go mine Veldspar. I warp to the location but I have no idea how to mine it, and he didn't give me any mining equipment. Am I supposed to just go buy some? He didn't tell me that I would need to.

ETA: I just bought a mining laser. Not sure why the tutorial guy didn't give me one or at least tell me to buy one.

I'm also mining myself right now. What kind of ship should I be looking to get to upgrade the one I have?

Ammar. Should I change it?

I'm gallente what are they best at? Also once I chose a career should I remap my attribute points?