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EVETV - Sport For Nerds
Your grandparents will be watching golf tonight, so why not watch some sports of your own? If golf isn't your thing, then perhaps multi-ton space vessels slamming each other with lasers and missiles might be more entertaining? Virgin Worlds is carrying some details for the riveting EveTV. Today, the channel is in reruns, but tune in anyway to see some matches from the last few days. Footage from ongoing PVP matches in the space MMOG EVE Online will make your Sunday go by much quicker. From the article: "The commentary is just like a traditional sports cast and the fellows calling the matches seem quite knowledgeable not only on the technicals of play, but also the backgrounds of the competitors. If you have an opportunity to check it out, I recommend it. Kudos to CCP for organizing this event."
"You have chosen to download EVE_3913_a.exe"
no thanks.
maybe know something about eve before you post crud like this. CCP actively work with Transgaming and the client works perfectly well under cedega. A simple google would have found that out. The directX 10 client is going to co-exist with a directx 9 client for a long time as not everyone is going to windows vista and it would be utterly stupid to think that a company that relies on subscribers would cut most of them on older platforms off. To each his own with regard to you leaving. I've been playing a long time now, probably over 2 years, yet i have a character i started 4 months ago who specialized and regularly takes down far older players in pvp. it's down to player skill not character skillpoints. One of the key elements that people with the opinion "I'll never catch up" forget is that by combining forces with other players, you can overcome far older players. There is never a case of an older player being a god of every facet of the game. GoonSwarm (an ingame alliance) is a great example, with over 2000 members, this is an alliance that consists mostly of newbie players and yet they are one of the powers in the game at the moment. Swarming works :)
It's not like this is intended to appeal to non-players. For those of us who play it, it's fun to see which of the big alliances prevail in what is essentially a PVP competition. I have no interest in watching WoW recordings, because I don't play it, and I assume the same would be true of people who don't play EVE.
EVE is great but it's very difficult to get any kind of enjoyment out of it when you play by yourself. The fun starts when you join an aggressive 0.0 (lawless space) corp. It's beyond me what the empire carebears play this game for at all, given how immensely boring empire is.
Let's address these points eh?
* They run the backend of their *supercomputer* on MSSQL, mainly because as a bunch of game devs, they didn't really have the time to learn the intricacies of a UNIX based system when they needed to roll out their updated hardware ASAP.
* Client is indeed Windows only. Mainly because it's DirectX only, I'll give you that.
* They are porting it to DirectX 10, but that ported client is *optional*. If you want to stay with XP/DX9 you can. Not to mention the upgraded graphics engine will still run on DX9 machines, with some minor graphical details missing.
* And you know, this stream works with other players, like the open source VLC. Use that.
And yes, the system has no way of catching up to older player's skillpoint counts, but the whole purpose is to specialise in a class of ship, where the skillpoint/age difference disappears as old players were not able to specialise. And as a bonus, the skill system is time based rather than grind based, meaning poopsockers get no real advantage.
For one thing- Eve has a free 2 week trial program. If you want to try it, google for it. No CC needed.
The thing about eve is the PVP. It's one of few games that dieing can actually cost you something. Or everything. You can spend your entire eve career never entering PVP. I wouldn't suggest it.
I would suggest getting a few months in the game, and then trying to engage in combat with another player. You won't have a problem finding someone to fight. And when you notice your heart rate going thru the roof, and your hands shaking from the exitement you'll understand why some people enjoy this game so much.
A few more notable things about eve.
Players shape the face of the world. In the last 2 weeks we have destroyed a 1500 player alliance, taken their territory, and been invaded by another alliance. (corporations are eve version of clans, alliances are groups of corps)
The world map is controlled by the players for the most part. They own, and build up infastructure in their territory and then try and hold that territory against invaders.
In eve, Most of the economy is run by players. And built by players.
In eve, Your character doesn't level. You instead have skills which level individually. The nice thing about this is that the skills train in REAL TIME. That means that you can't jump into the game and grind your way to the top in 2 months. But it also means that your skills are constantly increasing even when you are offline.
It's an adults MMO. It's harsh, hard and complex in a way that can't be written. But it's also rewarding in a way that most games only wish they were.
Whats the end game in WOW? Instance raiding? In eve, there is no end game, but you could call it end game to form an alliance, build a capital ship fleet, conquer a part of space, build a space station, start industrial operations and try and take over the galaxy. For a start.
-Locke DieDrake in game.
I found the opposite.. it was as boring as hell. All the 'missions' are 'take this item from here to here, and talk to this person'. Maybe there's the occasional 'kill the pirate' (but they're way too easy). No grouping (definately no group missions0, and you rarely if ever actually see another player. I like my MMORPGs to actually be multiplayer, otherwise I'd sit at home and play any one of a dozen good non-online games.
In Germany for example there's Giga and Gamesports. http://gamesports.de/Gamesports cover Warcraft 3, Starcraft, Quake and Counterstrike matches. For example during the Electronic Sports World Cup last Month in Paris, it streamed live matches for hours. http://giga.de/Giga concentrates more about the games themselves but about 2 hours every day, they cover the matches in their Giga e-sports programm. Giga 2 is a pay for view that streams live matches of many games.
Hrm, actually, there's more 'kill' mission types than any other - by a factor of about 2/3rds. The newbie agents are there to give people that don't want to do all out combat another choice. You can skip those and go right to agents that are almost exclusively 'kill', 'trading', 'mining/manufacturing', or 'courier' types. (not technically what they're called, but you get the point)
No grouping!? I'm trying to understand how that could even be experienced... You can stay strictly solo if you want - oh wait - there's no way you can unless you start your own one man corp - which is nothing a fresh player in his/her first days can do. Takes mebbe a week to do so if you've played before. Usually the newbie corps have several hundreds of new players and people recruiting for real corporations that actually do stuff. The newbie ones are there just to learn - and are a good place to do so - there's a lot to take in for a new player. You missed a lot, but it's not surprising given the level of complexity and amount of content in the game. Most at least give it a fair shake tho. *sniffs*
The lowest I've seen the playercount has been 12-14k lately...