After 5 years of FFXI and a "relatively" short 1.5yrs with WoW. I'm very close in taking the plung with EVE as WoW is having a hard time keeping my attention.
I have played the trail and, after the HUGE learning curve, I started to enjoy the game. There are some concerns the trial cause some hesitation.
1. Training... This is the single biggest hurdle for me upfront. It was confusing to me. Keeping in mind my mindset was on the games above in terms of training. I kept getting, you need so-and-so to equip this do-dad. The possibile training options are daunting to say the least to a new player. Is there somewhere that can give you a "training" tree so-to-speak. For example, if you want to use "rigs" this is the training you need? Or, as you get into more complex ships / equipment - this is the training path to take? I know I'm a bit vague, but that is my inexperience. I heard about EVEMON... perhaps that will help.
2. Travel time - is just a part of the game. I understand. But, it is surely a huge part of it. What do you do to pass the time?
3. Chat - When I was playing the trial - the chat text scrolled so fast that, most of the time I was having to scroll back to re-read. Are there options to slow this down or something to aid in reading? This is a very small beef that I'll get used to.
4. Mouse clicking targeting was a pain though. Is there a keyboard shortcut for targeting?
5. Does the game announce what securtiy sector you are going into for noobs who my inadvertingly venture into a danger zone?
From my trail, I'll probably be mixing mining / mission running. In my trial, I had a mining vessel and a mission (combat) vessel. Mining will be to fill the time between missions as missions more-than-likely will be my main focus.
There are a lot of other questions I have. Like corps and how the operate to clones, and being ganked and my ship being salvaged... Exciting, but scary to know if I go to 0.0 without escort is like putting a donut in the middle of a group of starving ppl.
Thanks
B
Edited, Dec 18th 2008 10:56am by BrennantheDragoon
Edited, Dec 18th 2008 10:58am by BrennantheDragoon