So you can pay for the monthly subscription by using in game credits or something? can someone explain that?
So you can pay for the monthly subscription by using in game credits or something? can someone explain that?
There are these things called PLEX. A PLEX is where someone buys gametime from CCP for Eve and they choose to receive an ingame item called PLEX to represent 30 days of game time. People buy them with real money to sell in the game for isk the ingame currency. Players with lots of isk buy PLEX to keep playing the game for free for themselves. There are those of us that make a lot of isk and keep paying for multiple accounts with buying PLEX's from people. For example, I have 3 accounts, they are all paid for for nearly a year still all with PLEX, I didn't pay a single penny for this and instead paid for it using in game currency only, isk.
So in the end, people that need isk, sell PLEX's to get isk from people who want gametime but don't want to pay real money to keep playing. Either way CCP makes their money and the amount of actual isk in game doesn't change but simply swaps hands.
Ah ok, probably not easy to earn the amount of ISK that you need for like 1 month of game time as a new player I assume?
This game looks awesome but at the same time insanely overwhelming... like what is the point if you are a single player with no desire to really join a corp or what not?
Newbies are everywhere to be honest, or really it is more like stupid people are everywhere.... If you get bored of 0.0, go into W-Space. It is a lot more exciting if you ask me. No local to warn you that someone scanned down a connecting worm hole to your system and jumped a fleet of 30 people into it. You are constantly watching/updating the system scanner watching for tell tales like probes (but if they know what they are doing, they will use their passive ship sensors and track you down if you are in a normal site and not an anomaly).
You never know when you jump through that worm hole if you are landing on camp because their isn't another route to go around to get to that system. They will immediately know that someone entered/exited the wormhole as there is a wormhole flash/fire, so you can't just sit there cloaked like you can as you enter a gate waiting out the timer and sneaking your way back into range of the gate. So they will be actively searching about trying to find you (and the space that you appear is a LOT smaller with wormholes, I think max distance to exit is 5k, so a couple cans/bubbles can pretty much decloak anything as well).
Yeah, for a new player it really isn't feasible to do PLEX till you get a good money making scheme going.
The game is overwhelming yes, it throws you into a giant sandbox and you can do whatever you want. How you go about accomplishing the same goals as someone else can be totally different and the end result the same.
IMO, a corp is a must, it makes the game 10x better, but there are lots of lonewolfs out there that like it that way. For a new person, you really should join a noob friendly corp to at least get a hang of all the basics before going out on your own.
Eve is a unique beast. Every action really does have a positive and negative too it, so people don't generally do something unless it is in their best interest to do so. Dying hurts, you'll lose your ship, and if you aren't quick enough or the enemy is ready for it, you'll lose your pod. There goes lots of isk and time just for that, you are truly punished for it and because of that you deal with a lot less stupidity in general imo.
So what happens when you lose your pod?
You wake up in a new clone. You need to keep your backup clone up to date as they only can hold so many sp. If you dont have it updated then you lose I think 1 level off of your highest skill? never happened to me.
You will also lose any implants you had in the clone. This could be in the 5 billion isk range for some.
380million to 420million round abouts there.
Well, current market it is more like 430-480m.... But this might simply be a bubble.
That said, prior to June/July, it was more like 320-380m, with prices a year ago being 280-320m.
(In June/July there was a LOT of PLEX speculation, with people buying hundreds, even thousands of PLEX off the market as CCP was introducing new features which were going to be based on PLEX to gain access/use. That whole fiasco is part of what caused the mass EVE boycotts and exodus. Needless to say those services have been a flop.)
What did they do with the T3's? I didn't see anything about that.
Back in the game. Signed up for a month. I have a few players that I will send buddy passes to. And if they decide to sign up. I will take the money I would had spent on monthly fee's and buy plexes so we all have enough cash to start off the game.
lol, I need an EVE dictionary just to understand half the stuff you guys are saying