Hmmm, while true, i look at it this way

EVE Online (CCP) perfectly strikes your life! Wrecking for 2.34 years!

Im taking a bit of a break from eve. about a day or so so you may not see me on. If any other furs from here join eve let the into the fur channel if you like.

Never played EVE myself, but I have watched the Zero Punctuation on it.

The zero punctuation is a good review. It really sights all the issues with EVE. But that being said, its really a game that can not be reviewed after playing the game for only a month. Its a game that really does not start to get very interesting till after you have skilled up a lot. So you are looking at about 3-6 months of real world time.

If a game doesn't start to interest me from the beginning, I'm probably not going to play it.

It did for me. I was a fan of Escape Velocity, and eve is like super huge version of that with about 5 million times the complexity. So i loved it from day one. The 21 day trial really does let you get really into the universe before you go "okay you got me" and start paying to play. In that time you can get into a prity serious mining ship, or if you are a combat person, a battlecruiser. But like any game, you don't know until you try it.

I'm currently working on training my primary character up to fly a battleship, it's hard work and I've almost got the basic skills to fly it, just short 40 million to buy it.
But theres something to be said for working hard and achiving something, one of my first such moments in the game was when after admittly begging for a handfull of rare materials, I was able to build my own battlecruiser. It took me several weeks to get most of the materials but whenever I use her, I have a sense of deep satisifaction.
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It was true in WoW too, I still proudly remember answering someons question of where did I get my armour, which at the time was full ornate mithral plate with the line "I made it". I used to make a pretty penny crafting and selling armour for fellow warriors and paladins as well as enchanters.
(This was just before the gold sellers/booster babys got out of control)

It is rather cool that the game allows you to build everything that you could even need. Save of course for the rare items. Frigates take about 15 minuets to pop into the oven and be ready to go. But some ships take as long as 3 months (thats real life time) to build. And that is not counting getting all the prerequsitie conditions to build the cursed thing. The game is really in depth and full of suprises that eve I don't know about. I still utter the phrase, "you can do that?" more often then i would like to admit.

Good luck on getting the battleship. Let me know if I can help.

The battleship skill is good to have, just make sure you have the support skills to go with it! No sense having a 100mill worth of hull, and 10k of fittings that die within seconds of entering a fight!

I'm training for Command Ships myself right now.

Hey Sideromelane, poke me some time in eve and I can get you into some Fur channels if you would like. Just PM me.

Yes support skills are key. But the only thing more important then support skills are learning skills. It lets you get the highly prized Skill Points faster.

I might do. I dont tend to contact people i dont know well though.

And while there *is* a Sideromelane ingame, its no longer my account. Would be a great way to confuse some random dude though if you want to contact that nick!

Learning skills happen in the first couple months. I havn't looked at them in over a year. All fours and fives though. And a set of plus4's in my main clone.

Still, looking at over a month to go for the prereqs for Command Ships.

Yah I can fly a lot. Ben concentraiting on one race for the characters entire exsistance.

Sorry for the misspelling, i have a massive migrane.

I tend to run missions with my chat box closed, but not always so if you want to chat and I don't respond that's why, flick me a evemail or start a private convo if you really need to talk.
Hope your feeling better Keyou-bi !

No worries man. I'm usually in the middle of being attacked, attacking, or waiting to be one of the two. So I'm not usually looking at anything but the intelligence channels and flying around going "AAHHHHHH KILL KILL KILL!"

Speaking of munitions etc - if you every need some, just give me a mail (Unless you can make em yourself of course)
I don't sell munitions but I'd be happy to make some for my friends for a small fee

I fly Amarr. So I'm not usually in the position to be needing more ammo. Unless my ship explodes.

I do equipment & drones too. Besides some Amarr vessels use missiles :p

This is true. I'm slowly learning that shoving mass at people can incure some damage. Though my ability to point flashlights is much better. As for drones, i really need T2 drones more then anything.

I only use t1 drones, even in my cruisers a pair of drones can rip a frigate to pieces.
The trick is to wait till all the enemies are targeting you before launching or you'll lose the drones.
With the right skills (Drone Interfacing for one) drones become a viable offensive weapon and like lasers they don't need ammo.
Granted vs. players their worth drops slightly as in low sec, a smartbomb will deal with aggressive drones quickly.

PvP is more complex in low sec. But to be honest PvP is complex period. As in the things you have to learn how to do. Its not hard but just... i dunno. Im really bad with words all of the sudden.

Just wanted to say Woohoo I've got my Rokh, just need a fornight or so to fly the thing