Zero Kelvin

The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: “Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game, with a ton to learn, so much that you never stop learning. So, the question is; What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?”

What do I wish someone would have told me when I first started out? Well first off, that VE is so big! It’s such a big game, and if you don’t like one niche there is always another niche, another ship or another challenge waiting for you. So you run LVL4 missions in a bs after 1 month? Great, are they boring yet?

Try wormholes or scan for complexes, or start trading, or … You get my drift, there are tons of stuff to try, to skill for to strive for.

I was sort of lucky, me and a friend started playing about the same time, he started a few months before me so I had good help from him.

BUT, back to the question at hand. I think you should join a corp at once, when you start playing EVE. After joining the corp, dont be afraid to ask 100 questions and try all the different things people do in the corp. Please dont join a niche corp that only mines or only runs missions because then you probably end up with old geezers that already tried alot of the game and are comfortable with mining a couple of hours per week.

Make sure the corp you join also is diverse in its members, dont join an all oldtimer corp and dont join a corp that has mostly new members. In an all oldtimer corp, you run the risk of people not having patience to teach you the basics of the game to get you going, and in an all noob corp you might miss out on learning the good stuff until later in the game.

Also, make sure its an active corp and they are active in your tz, you don’t want to be the one that sits with and empty corp in you timezone, or be the one that logs off in the middle of every op since it’s way past bedtime.

Welcome to the thirteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The first banter of this 2nd year of EVE Blog Banters comes to us fromZargyl from A Sebiestor Scholar, who asked the following: On the EVE Fanfest 2009 page are pictures of prizes for the Silent Auction that was held during the event. One of these photos was entitled “Design your own EVE mission”. My question now would be what kind of mission would you write if you got that prize? What would the mission be about? Would it be one using the new system of epic mission arks? What would be the story told by it? Feel free to expand upon his questions and put together your very own mission!

 

There is a strange paradox in MMO:s which both is interesting and irritating. Even though it is a Massively Multiplayer Online game, most people prefer to do their own thing.

In EVE, you want as much a reward as possible for your time, this means that you do as much as you can solo because if you mix in another player you reward is halved. This means that you haveto have a pay out of at least double of what you can do alone…

So, how can you make missionrunning capsuleers want to do missions as a group?

I read in some of the other blogs about making mercenary contracts more like missions which would truly be awesome. Imagine designing your own mission with objectives like killratio, destroyed ISK or a period of time.

One other  thing that I enjoy is escalations and I think more missions should be like that, you scan down a agent in a ship in a system and get a mission. Maybe even a mission that you haveto do in a fleet on several locations simultaneously?

Missionrats should also get an upgrade, give them the Sleeper AI please. I really need missions that are more Al Dente. Today I field a maxed out domi with dualrep tank and just plow through the missions. Boring but it gives isk, if they were a little smarter I’d probably hate them but it would give a little more edge to the entire isk-farming business.

Crazy Kinux has released the topic of the eighth installation of the EVE Blogbanter. This installation gets it’s topic from Gal’en out of http://www.eve-druid.com.

The topic is: “What new game mechanic or mechanics would you like to see created and brought into the EVE Online universe and how would this be incorporated into the current game universe? Be specific and give details, this is not meant to be a ‘nerf this, boost my game play’ post like we see on the EVE forums.“

I would actually change the way capitals work today. Read suggestions in this area before and I think they would work nicely. Carriers today are glorified trucks hauling stuff to the frontlines. One exciting idea would be to be able to man the fighters with actual poduleers and jump into battle with 10 drooling, battle hungry, actual poduleers in the ship bay would be way cool. Or maybe this is a role more apropriate for the moms?

One other mechanic I would like to change is the use of planets and moons. Imagine moving settlers and factories to new systems.

To conquer the planet, jump into orbit and launch marines towards the planet. Defend it with local masses of marines.  The level of moons and planets should be on the meta level I think like an old school building game. I’m thinking of something like Master of Orion 2.

CrazyKinux is running a blogroll with a collection of blogs about EVE on the Interweb!

He added this blog as no 138.