F13 in EvE: Band of Brothers headshotted! Come help us in Delve!

[Jayce]

So,

How much fun can I have in EvE with about 2 or so hours of gametime a night and not having to talk on vent/TS/etc (I'll listen, but since I don't have a gaming room I do not really feel like bothering my roommates with the talk)?

For reference, I am getting bored with the more actiony games and am looking for something a bit more strategic.

A lot.  I rarely if ever play more than 2 hours per night.  Marathon for me is four hours.

[KallDrexx]

A lot.  I rarely if ever play more than 2 hours per night.  Marathon for me is four hours.

What type of things do you accomplish in that time frame?

[Phildo]

You could hang out and make some money by killing NPCs until there's a call to scramble defenses.  Or you could try running missions in empire with a couple of us that keep empire alts.  Or you could fly around solo in a cloaking ship looking for juicy kills (this takes a few months of training, though).  Lots of things to do in 2 hours.

[Endie]

Or, if you can choose when to log in for those two hours, you can time it to join in a roaming op or defence gang.

[Endie]

For those in Euro timezones in particular, we just got an alliance announcement about a new project that should let you log on and find something to do at pretty much any time.

For those already in, it's Darius's ironically-titled "play Eve on hard mode" post, and it is pretty much made for Pred and Amarr.

[Jayce]

Starting out: tutorial, missioning, highsec ratting.  All of which can be done on any timeframe.
Intermediate: log in for ops and logout when you have to go, mine (if that's your thing), or rat.  Ratting and mining is purely on your own timeframe. Some suicide gank around this point.
Advanced: by now you're space-rich and probably just login for ops or solo pvp.

I have an idea to post some sort of more detailed progression of the above in the protected forum for when you do get started.

[KallDrexx]

Aight fuck it, I've run out of tv shows to catch up on anyway.

Downloading now

[Endie]

For those who went Fuck Eve after the change to 60-day timecards, Oveur's new blog has some excellent news.

If you buy a Game Time Card, you will be able to split it up for sale into 30-day cards (CONCORD 30 Day Pilot Licenses - oh, those wacky RPers) for sale, so folks can go back to buying a month at a time.

GTCs will now be in-game items, tradable (only, I think) through in-game contracts.  And no, you won't be able to leave a station with one, so no experiencing the joy of ganking someone with 1000 bucks of GTCs in his cargo, Slayerik  .  This does, of course, make it harder for people to do RMT for GTCs: CCP are taking on the Chinaman in his Space House.

Aight fuck it, I've run out of tv shows to catch up on anyway.

Downloading now

Sweet.  Join the F13 channel immediately on getting into the game (using the button near the bottom of the left navbar) and ask for help and ISK: Slay attempts to balance out his bad spacekarma by acts of extreme generosity to newbies, and drop an evemail to my logistics alt Justinianus Flavius for some more cash.  Get into the sekrit forum as soon as you have had the chance to get into the corp and someone (Pax) will try and allocate you a mentor.  We have a bunch of new members in now, so there are lots of other new folks around, and plenty of folks to talk to during normal hours.

[KallDrexx]

Will do, I'll be on tonight.

[Endie]

Miasma joined up, and went on his first roaming op last night, organised by Phildo.  Not only did Miasma get his first 0.0 kill, but he survived.

The kill is here.  If you look at the price of the ship and fittings the guy lost, it comes out at two or three hundred times the price of the ship of Miasma, who kept a tackle on him.

[apocrypha]

I wonder what percentage of people are flying rifters in their first 0.0 killmail? I know mine was in a rifter, awesome ships :)

Please stop having so much fun, you're making me want to resub 

[Phildo]

I probably shouldn't tell you that our 6-man gang came very close to killing a couple of expensive T2, faction and capital ships later on but were just 2-3 ships shy of being confident of engaging.  We did mess up their isk-making though by forcing them to dock because they had no idea what we were planning to do to them.

My first killmails were a bunch of rigged russian battleships while I was flying an Incursus.

[KallDrexx]

What exactly is a killmail?

[Phildo]

This

Shows who killed who, using what ships, and what the dead ship was fit with.

[Miasma]

Are they automatic or do you have to do something?  The wiki tells me to post but then I thought I read a thread here saying it was done for me.

[Phildo]

You have to submit them.  Our KB is passworded, the main Goon KB is not.  Passwords are listed in other threads in the main Eve forum.

[KallDrexx]

Anyone know of an issue with Eve not detecting sound card drivers (that's the message it tells me)?  It's kinda annoying to game with sound (and the tutorial would be more tolerable with voice).  I know my sound works cause I just watched a movie on my laptop.

[Viin]

You might be to pick the right sound card from the settings menu (esc, audio tab) - if you have more than one and it can't get the default one it might do that.

[apocrypha]

Wait, EVE has sound?    Sorry, in-joke, everyone turns sound off in EVE after a week. Or an hour if you decide to do some mining :p

Killmails are generated by the game automatically but you have to post them manually on out-of-game killboards.

[Pax]

It is astonishing... No. Actually, it's pretty hilarious, just how warped the general opinion of our current alliance is.

Yesterday, two of our "advanced cruisers" killed a war target in a battlecruiser. "Good-fights" and comments on the terrible damage dealt by our victim were exchanged, even a newbie in a battleship shared his excitement in local chat, as he happened to be in the right place at the right time to see the fight, but in the wrong corp to actually become part of it.
Hilarity ensued as a neutral attempted to mock our unchallanged victory by saying "it is surprising they even undocked".

Just for the record. There are tons and then some alliances that chicken out from a battle. An alliance, which killed motherships in frigates is not one of them.

[Endie]

Eve offers you the big story arcs that people care about, mainly because they are not just made up by the GMs (those exist, but tend to get ignored).

For instance, our northern friends are fighting our enemies at the moment, and after getting pounded on for a while, have turned it around a bit and had some good successes.  This leaflet is a laugh, but also reflects the depth of the narrative that it is spinning off of:

[Phred]

It's kinda annoying to game with sound (and the tutorial would be more tolerable with voice). 

You have no idea how lucky you are not to have voice in the tutorial. :)

[Sir T]

So Mollie lost Titan no.3 then?

As a fellow mental patient I have to offer my sincerest sympathy.

Whats the next one going to me named then, "Darwins' toilet roll" or something equally silly...

[Phildo]

Yeah, Molle lost two titans lost week.  And Triumvirate just lost one a day or two ago.  It's a fun time to play EvE and kill supercaps!

[Endie]

As I understand it, Tri are actually down two titans in the last couple of weeks: another one went off to join Pandemic Legion.  Interesting times.

Also, Tuesday is the day of the speed changes, making this a very good time to be a newbie.  Just not necessarily a Minmatar one.

[WayAbvPar]

OK you rotten bastards, I resubscribed my main character for 3 months, and will likely follow with my industrial/mining/research alt. I will need some hand holding though, since I don't remember a goddamned thing about the game.

[Endie]

Well, we just captured a station in Feythabolis.  I dunno if this one will stay ours: very probably not.  But we were a decent percentage of a Goonfleet fleet, took it, and if we keep it past downtime we will be on the permanent record :D  We are looking for an outpost of our own, whether this one or another, and we will get one.

All this is a loooong way from a year ago and wardeccing miners to make 100 million ransom.  Though that was fuckin fun too 

[TripleDES]

I've applied to LOVEU. My credit card's going to regret this. 

[Endie]

I've applied to LOVEU. My credit card's going to regret this. 

Sweet.

We're doing Serious Business stuff right now, providing a second front while the bulk of the fleet fights at the other end of our current region of conflict.  It means a lot of guerilla stuff, but we're getting mentioned on the alliance boards for working like fuck to harass our enemy, and so far we've done some really good work.  It also has the outside possibility of a pretty sweet payoff at the end if we keep it up.

[TripleDES]

I guess I'll be prepping an Arazu again then.

[trotski]

Dammit. You bastards sold me, I'll re-download tonight and get back in this shit.  I don't remember much about the game either.

[Endie]

Don't start your free trial til after the patch finishes (hopefully tomorrow night).

[trotski]

Ok, thanks for the heads up.

[Phred]

Ok, thanks for the heads up.

Also if it's still going on, Steam had a 3 week trial compared to CCP's 2 week one.

[Sir T]

*sigh* I'm geting tempted to resub. I guess it shows how shitty my life is right now that the hell of Eve might actually be preferable

By the way I have an original box CD key that never got used that guarantees a month long free sub to a new user. If anyone wants to try out the game and not pay those b*stards for a month PM me and I'll give it to you.