unfortunately, eve has come to a point where a 1.5k members alliance is "small". was so much better just a year ago, or i just had that illusion cause of what our corp was doing at that time

Jayme

United States5866 Posts

June 22 2010 20:22 GMT

#1562

On June 23 2010 04:55 WiljushkA wrote:
unfortunately, eve has come to a point where a 1.5k members alliance is "small". was so much better just a year ago, or i just had that illusion cause of what our corp was doing at that time

No..no you're right. I don't like and have never liked the whole sov system and the direction Eve went with it.

There have been a few nerfs that have always been consistent.

Speed nerfs
Attacking alliance nerfs

The speed nerfs bothered me the most. Eve used to be a much faster paced game. Yes I realized shit like Calvary ravens may not have been intended but they made the game very fast paced. Nowadays anything larger than a cruiser besides a very few exceptions flies like a brick.

Eve warfare has definitely degenerated into POS warfare :/

WiljushkA

Serbia1416 Posts

June 22 2010 20:25 GMT

#1563

i love how their supposed sov-warfare-and-pos-spam fix managed to break it even worse than it was before

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

June 22 2010 20:34 GMT

#1564

Reading through this thread has both inspired me and discouraged me to try EVE for the first time, leaving me in a rather uncomfortable position of uncertainty. Please, someone, give me a nudge in one direction or the other!

New Zealand6138 Posts

June 22 2010 20:48 GMT

#1565

If nothing else, download the 14 day trial. I did it and I'm 100% gonna buy a month of playtime. It's just too good of a game to be passed up.

Jayme

United States5866 Posts

June 22 2010 20:57 GMT

#1566

On June 23 2010 05:25 WiljushkA wrote:
i love how their supposed sov-warfare-and-pos-spam fix managed to break it even worse than it was before

I was always of the impression that 0.0 should have remained lawless...and I mean completely lawless. The infrastructure out there is nice now and all but it takes something catastrophic to displace a big alliance nowadays... be it not paying all your POS bills or having your alliance forcibly disbanded by a spy...

Oh well, take what ya can get.

UmmTheHobo

United States650 Posts

June 22 2010 23:26 GMT

#1567

On June 23 2010 05:34 Cofo wrote:
Reading through this thread has both inspired me and discouraged me to try EVE for the first time, leaving me in a rather uncomfortable position of uncertainty. Please, someone, give me a nudge in one direction or the other!

Just do it. If you hate it, then who cares, it's just 15 bucks.

WiljushkA

Serbia1416 Posts

June 22 2010 23:38 GMT

#1568

its not really even fifteen bucks, its free for the first 3 weeks.

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

June 23 2010 00:34 GMT

#1569

Downloading 14-day trial right now. We'll see if I get hooked

snotboogie

Australia3550 Posts

June 23 2010 05:11 GMT

#1570

On June 23 2010 09:34 Cofo wrote:
Downloading 14-day trial right now. We'll see if I get hooked

Dammit... I may join you today

Not_Computer

Canada2277 Posts

June 23 2010 06:09 GMT

#1571

You guys DO know that existing EVE subscribers can give you 21-day trials. PM me or other TL EVE subscribers and I'll get back to you in a day. Steam also offers 21-day trials.

edit: Include your e-mail as well as we'll need your e-mail address to send you the 21-day trial code/offer.

snotboogie

Australia3550 Posts

June 23 2010 08:11 GMT

#1572

On June 23 2010 15:09 Not_Computer wrote:
You guys DO know that existing EVE subscribers can give you 21-day trials. PM me or other TL EVE subscribers and I'll get back to you in a day. Steam also offers 21-day trials.

edit: Include your e-mail as well as we'll need your e-mail address to send you the 21-day trial code/offer.

Are they limited? I don't want to take someone's limited invite in case I quit early...

WiljushkA

Serbia1416 Posts

June 23 2010 08:21 GMT

#1573

people get 3 per month per account, so someone with 2 accounts wouldnt mind you not playing (like me :p)

New Zealand6138 Posts

June 23 2010 08:39 GMT

#1574

What kind of ship do you suggest running courier contracts with? Just a shitty throwaway frigate fitted with afterburners or something?

NiTenIchiRyu

United Kingdom273 Posts

June 23 2010 10:24 GMT

#1575

On June 23 2010 17:39 H wrote:
What kind of ship do you suggest running courier contracts with? Just a shitty throwaway frigate fitted with afterburners or something?

Depends on the size of the cargo. Usually if it is a small cargo a frigate will work, however you might(and eventually will) become a victim to a suicide gank. For medium/big shipments. you would want an t1 indie or a t2 cloaking indie(for lowsec and is fairly successful against suicide ganks).

And no, you should never equip Afterburners/MWD for courier contracts. Instead of using the autopilot which warps you 15km away from the gate, warp to the gate manually so you can insta-jump the moment you come out of the warp. Fill those med slots with passive tanks so your indie can have a bigger chance of surviving a suicide gank.

bN`

Slovenia504 Posts

June 23 2010 11:26 GMT

#1576

Wil and Jayme forgot to mention one big thing that arose with Dominion - LAG. As far as I know never before did systems become unstable with less than 1k people in local. Then we attacked geminate and the first few fights we won were basicly them jumping into us and never loading system. From then on this is known as a "blackscreen".
It can happen for many reasons and at any occasion. I've seen it happen with 500 people or even with just with a 100v100 man fight. It doesn't just happen on jump in, it happens on gridload as well. Either way it leaves you pissed off because you log back in in a pod or just at the station in a new clone. Without ever firing a shot or even seeing your enemy. You just die.

6months after dominion and CCP still doesn't know where the problem is. They're moving TQ to a new house today - supposedly with better cooling but I'm guessing it's a code error and not a hardware problem.

WiljushkA

Serbia1416 Posts

June 23 2010 11:41 GMT

#1577

yeah well before dominion the biggest fights i was in were around 3-400 people in local, and that was in unreinforced nodes, and that didnt lag a bit. with dominion, sometimes a 150 people in a system can make it unplayable (ive been unable to load kzf, our home system, on couple ocasions, if there were a few roaming gangs in it), and in the geminate campaign, we always fought in reinforced nodes and 3-400 people in local already meant that anybody new jumping into the system will probably never load it. it was definately much better with apocrypha. every fight with over 600 people, the node crashed.