re: PC Gamers: Online Multiplayer Games MMO or Not

I played for a couple of weeks. I got a Gallente Vexor and started going around hacking radar sites. I'll probably go back to it at some point, but I found most of the mundane tasks to be draining rather than fun. I didn't join a corp, so that's probably part of it.

I can see that.

Eve is kind of an oddball game.

Its not for everyone and you have to put yourself in a position to make it fun, rather than be guided there by the game itself rather than most MMOs

You see, I like that component.

It lets my character progress if I can play or not. But I can see how it is a pain early on.

This is why I don't like the new system of having you train from basically nothing (but have 2x training speed).

I would rather get lvl 5s of the chosen basics like it used to be.

Although it is also a bit of a pain on the other end of the spectrum.

At the end though, the game is build that it is pretty easy to get the initial levels and get in a ship....but it takes fricking forever to achieve perfection in skills

Later on in the game it is not really a problem to have long training times because the ships/items you are training for cost so much ISK that I am mission running in the downtime.

Dude, we gotta keep posting until we hit a new page, those huge images are killer.

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Unfortionately, no.

I can probably count on one hand the total number of missions of any kind I have done.

If I want to go to somewhere "different" I scan down either a grav site, or a sanctum to shoot up.

Certifications don't really matter at all.

They serve as a good benchmark of what you want to train though. Nothing more.

It would be a rare thing that the fact that you can publically display a certification will be the difference in you getting a corp or not.

You want to get either engineering 5 (if you are combat) or electronics 5 (if you are mining) ASAP (and eventually both).

The boost in ship stats gives you room for fittings.

Another thing you don't want to neglect are your capacitor skills.

Without capacitor, you can't use shield mods, armor repairers, mining equipment, or even weapons depending on the type.

In fact, one of the main things that makes it hard to permatank the harder stuff is being able to sustain capacitor indefinitely, rather than being able to fit something that theoretically can do it.

Well it also ties back into the capacity of your ship. Some skills increase your maximum capacity but it is ultimately tied back into your ship.