Any EvE Online Players (ex or not)

[hammer2b]

i played eve hardcore . 4 acounts 9 carekters 4 of whit capitals .but the game tok all my time .. it was like a drug .. grind grind.. the out to kil and when there was no killing log in a grinding carekter.. the game got to complicatet . and to many exsploits plexes where ppl made millions .. the way the first bp came out and made some ppl rich forever . the way the rich areas was only for ppl in the big alliances . like i was in . it took way to mutch time . and u coud die ass soon as u left the boring empire .

[AngryGames]

I played Eve from Alpha on, (off and on) for 7+ years. I was a dreaded pirate for Shadow Cartel alliance (Immortalis, Inc. corp), had seven accounts, and the best FC's in the game.

No game will ever take Eve's place in my heart for PvP awesomeness.

That being said, I'm over Eve, and now I'm into Elite and hopefully SC (I'm an SC backer, but there's nothing to do in the game except dogfight for the moment).

My wife and best friend were also Eve pirates (and carebears before that!). No, we're not living the pirate lifestyle in Elite (maybe in Open with some of my old Eve crew who play). Just want a nice PvE community to do lots of stuff with.

KrustyKrab
AngryGames
Angry_Games
AngryGames13
AngryMusheen
Momma Musheen
Angry Frylock

Props to the best FC crew I ever had the pleasure to fly with: W0Wbagger, Asakura Manji, and hearnie!

[Ev Tankero]

To DeckardRunner...

/me also admits that he has played in the online game called... EvE Online.
/he did that with _three_ real-life-money-paying characters... luckily only at the very end of his 'career' in EvE-Online.

So far,
"he" likes the environment of Elite: Dangerous and it's possibilities to play "the very game" far more ... further than "he" did in EvE Online...during "his" ... last days... in that game.

If You wanted to ask
- which of these 2 games anyone likes better...

-> "my" answer...
(after having experience of the EvE Online from about the end of Dec of 2009 / gaming history in Elite Dangerous starting only in late December 2014...)
will be...
Ev Tankero prefers ED Dangerous over EvE Online, for now(tm).

CMDR Ev Tankero

[Manny72]

I tried eve for about a month, and honestly thought it was one of the most boring games I've ever loaded into my computer. You start with nothing with nothing to do, all that is possible is mining, so it was....point click wait....point click wait....point click wait...etc.... then when I wanted something new...a big damn spreadsheet thing was thrown at me...it's like WTF!!!, I'm supposed to be playing a game, not doing f*&king MATHS!!!!. But the real killer for me, I was sitting outside a station looking at the ships...when the stations exterior was breached with hull components of a ship that was BIGGER than the station, yet it was inside the station??? how does that work. Eve is all mostly pre-rendered and static, how could they make a ship that was bigger than a space station?.... Nah, game is so not for me, there really wasn't a single element in it that appealed to me.

And I still maintain that it's not possible to compare eve online to Elite, though people keep doing it. Eve is 12 Years old with 20+ Expansions added to it. That and the fact the gameplay of the games is in no way shape or form similar.

Same as comparing Elite to SC is not possible, though they are all set in space, the gameplay core mechanics are totally different, SC is a FPS in space, Elite is...well Elite is Elite, it's what Elite has always been. A Space Exploration/Trading game with some kick-ass Combat thrown in for good measure.

And Elite has something the other to don't have. In Elite you get to where you are with hard work... and, this is the most important.... PLAYING THE GAME!!!. There is no buying your way to the top with Real Cash Money. I honestly don't get the mentality of people that buy a game (presumably to play it and enjoy it), then go and spend hundreds if not thousands more Real Life Money, far more than the game is actually worth and will ever be worth, to cheat their way to the top without ever having experienced the game.

[Sasquen]

I'm still sub'd to EVE and Ive been playing about 4 years now. Some of the replies here are typical of a great many players new to EVE, thats understandable the game is so huge and open that it may seem there is "nothing to do", as for catching up other players, well in a month you can train all the skills needed to fly a frigate with as much skill and weaponry as anyone who has played the game for 6 years or more.

Its a great game, but its a planning game not a flight game like Elite. You plan your weaponry and load out VS the opponent you plan to attack. You plan your stratergy in the fight and the best way to beat the horde pitted against you. When in null sec or deep space you plan the best method of avoiding getting killed and your best route of escape. Clicking a button set to orbit your opponent at the optimum distance requires no skill, yet knowing what that distance is requires knowledge and planning.

[Zathrus]

A retired and recovering EVE player here. I think the only way to experience all that EVE has to offer is to be part of a corporation/guild. The downside with EVE corporations (or excitement to many) is the constant drama. For many the game mechanics and PvP aspects are frustrating. It is a complicated and difficult to master game. In my personal case it became too time consuming with little entertainment growth. When it started to be work rather than fun it was time for me to move on.

[Tigorath]

An Ex Eve player here too. Ten years playing it. In the end I got the bitter vet syndrome so put it down for a bit. i will return one day. However Elite dangerous is wonderful and for now surpasses Eve. The key is to take your time, enjoy everything Elite throws your way and notice the splendour of the Universe.

[Ev Tankero]

What i miss the most from EvE Online is the possibility of being able to "contribute to your own group of friends" more than it seems possible in Elite Dangerous at this point: the maximum members of a wing in ED is 4... there was no limit to the count of members in one corporation / alliance / even coalition in EvE.

I remember some fun groupings of my very corporation where we had about 20 to 30 members at a time, most of who had a role of raping the asteroids or ice blocks out of their valuable goods while the very few (usually they were the second/third/etc characters of the "main" characters) were kept busy in hauling the mineral / ice the other were grinding to the nearest deposite. After that extraction operation one of our God-like refiner -characters refined the exctracted stuff to products that were either consumed in our own corporation's facilities or sold to the market for again maximum profit.

I must say also this: i didn't hate the PvP -aspect of the EvE-O, not until i got drawn into the massive battles that freezed the gameplay too badly. And not until everything became more of a duty than being something of a choice where one could "freely" join or decide not to join. Any small gang "roam" in the wild was quite fun when you could trust on "my effort / my lack of effort" really counts. The most rewarding aspect in being in PvP was to know that "i am a bit more than just gun fodder...". And yes, i was very rarely seen in a damage-dealing role, i liked more to give that glory to the big boys and stayed rather in the back in a healer/logistics role.

If that kind of gameplay (keeping the size of the wings / groups / corporations / etc NOT TOO BIG) will ever come into ED also, i will welcome that opportunity ... as far as there still will remain a choice for a private group to choose whether or not get involved in PvP or any other metagaming aspect there will ever be in the game.

07
Ev Tankero

[TorTorden]

Also a an ol' bitter eve vet.
Started in 2006, fizzeled into the ether sometime between 2012-2013.
I even attended the fanfest a couple of times

Started off as a standard pve'r and back in 06 it was still not entirely given that another player was with you in the system. Heck i lived for a while in amarr prime and there where hardly more than 20-30 players online there at the time. Last I checked if there where 10x that it would be a very light day.

Well even if you start going for pve in eve, eve will force you to go pvp.
But that in its own is ok, what is less OK is that the game also makes you less trusting, more devious.
I did most things I could imagine I could do in eve.
I spent a year and a half with a very small pvp group being chased through 0.0
That year we lived in the following regions:
Fountain, deklein, back to fountain then back to dek, followed by a short week in branch/Tenal.
Then curse/heimatar followed by another short stint in feythabolis all for being either chased by the BOB frontlines or chasing the BOB frontlines (spent 4 weeks having a bob titan/carrier camping our stations 24/7)

Then goofed around in highsec again, training up new recruits and working on my own skills (in other words, waiting)
We gained some momentum landing us about 7 months in a state of constant wardeced this turned my little band of carebears into adrenaline junkie pvp'ers, well those who didn't quit that is (I was CEO at the time and woefully inadequate for the task, at best I am a capable bureaucrat not a fleet commander )
After these wardecs we started running battleship hunting packs poking the then big boring bear known as the northern coalition, they where such good fun to antagonize we where at most 12 people and they where hotdropping titans and supercarriers on us and failing to get us

After this we actually wound up joining IT alliance (formerly BOB) and we where doing large scale fleet ops and a fleet of 1000 people firing at another group of 1000 people can be summed up with one word.
Boring...

After all of this hoopla I missed small groups, and some my old friends where setting up in w-space.
Again I was in small gangs of no more than a dozen people (when dual boxing, i had a total of three accounts)
We didn't stay small for too long though and eventual our group started going under the name of No holes barred (pun intended) and as we grew we went from basically being a drunken top gear expedition in space to a "our killboard stats are down this week" group.

Last I heard long after I had quit they packed up our home sys in w space and I'm still logged off there in a cloaky cruiser (I think) I doubt I would be logging in anytime soon.
And I even have ED now
Wow, walloftext.
Guess I had a rant in me

[Skipp]

I'll let my sig speak for me

I actually tried EvE on several occasions but I never got into it because I never gave the game a chance due to its complexity. However, last year me and a few friends got the accounts and once I went through the actual tutorials i loved the game. It had space, and tons of ship you can pilot, it had missions you can do alone or with friends... I really loved it.

However, I forgot about one major thing - War decs. The corporation I was in had a guy who took 80bil ISK, took a titan and left the corporation with a few other corporations from the alliance. All hell broke lose since there was tons of war decs against us. Basically, I spent the last 3 weeks of my sub sitting in a station because half the players were after us - ESPECIALLY in hi-sec where i usually was.

So I stopped playing. Good thing ED has Mobius