Eve rocks. It's definitely gone well ahead of Anarchy Online and Jumpgate (I don't go for fantasy mmorpgs).
The combat is far more involved than AO, which was tbh, pretty shite.
The number of things to take into consideration is spot on. Normal Combat scenario (two gunships):
- See enemy
Right click enemy, select lock target
Locking takes several seconds depending on your ship and skills, opponent is doing exactly the same at this point.
Proceed to optimal range.
Let the guns fly.
Try to stay at your guns optimal range.
Try to keep your shield up with shiel boosters/hardeners.
- See enemy,
Lock target,
Start heading for stasis webifyer/warp scrambler range,
Engage target jammers, prevent opponent from targetting.
Target is a sitting duck, engage webifiers/scramblers.
Now what, torpedoes or guns...hmm, depends how I feel.
First, I could proceed to kick the guys ass (or maybe ask him for a few million isk to spare his life)
Second, He could engage some sensor boosters and get a target lock on me (this is bad, he's sitting at near optimal railgun range)
Third, some of his friends could turn up...again...this is bad
Anyway I'm rambling. The point and click interface may seem to make combat over-simplified at first, but there is so much depth to it, sooo much depth.
The way that you train your skills in realtime rocks. You can play for a few minutes every day and still have the same skills as a 24/7 beard.
The only PVP safe zone is a station when you are docked. Anywhere else is fair game, and not always entirely fair. Player pirates corporations are all over the place. You can try hard to avoid pirates (like I do, I've not been killed once), but there is the ever-present fear that a pirate might pop up on your local channel and be waiting for you at a jumpgate. I had to go 29 jumps to my new hq earlier, this would normally be pretty dull, but becuase I had to keep a very careful eye out for enemy corps, it was tense stuff. Scared some little corp who were flying frigates on the way
Lazymanc, get this game now and just start training skills up, you know you'll be playing it when we get back to uni anyway....do it now..
My corp (with a bunch of the HL guys who come to shotgun) has recently joined the Venal Alliance, a big conglomeration of corporations, and we now stake an entire system as our own and kill anyone who breeches our space....fluffin rocks tbh
Urr, yeah....eve is good, buy it
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