Sectorgame

Basically what the topic title says. I've been lurking around this forum for awhile, and EVE sounds kind of neat to me. However, I have other things going at this time (FS campaigns, fanfiction writings, college) that I'd rather not completely annihilate like I did when I got into Navyfield for awhile.

it will take as much time as you wanna give it.

you can fix it so you only have to log in every once in a while to change the skills you're training early on. but eventually, you will become addicted.

I started playing the 14 day trial, I do all my coursework while playing. You don't even have to pay attention to play it if you don't want to... at least until you start flying around in the dangerous areas.

which you have to do to get to the interesting content.

Though the whole game seems to have been arranged to make it easy for Old Timers to beat up on Noobs.

Surely that applies to any game.

Not like in EVE, you Old Timers have to go out of you're way to kill us noobs.

The way it works in WoR, usually, is that any 3 month or younger, still in a noob corp, is not a target. Anyone 3 months or older should know better, and anyone not in a noob corp is either an alt, or should have been taught better.
We also go by the rule "If its not blue, its goo." Meaning if you dont have a positive standing with us, you're fair game.

If you do need to go through low sec, there are lots of things that can help keep you alive. Warp Core Stabilizers (Pirates worst enemy, keeps you from being pinned down), Nanofiber Internal Structures (Makes you align and accelerate faster, as well as boosting your top speed), Instajump bookmarks (no need to travel 15km to a gate).
In addition to this, if you want to be a real b#stard to pirates, lone gategankers for instance, get in a frigate with a warp scrambler and go through the low sec systems. When you get attacked, you're free to shoot back, so you can pin the pirate down and let the sentry guns kill him. Difficult if he has missiles or drones, but if you can tank or evade them, he's more or less toast. 1 year old taken down by a two week old noob. Its happened.
If you're smart about it, you can kill just about anyone.

I'm not smart like that though, my only tactic that i've ever used in RPGs is overwhelming force and that doesn't work here.

hehehe No, this isn't a hack'n'slash You need to think carefully, spend some time reading through what everything does, you'd be amazed what you can do with the right training
Half the fun of PvP in Eve is outhinking, not just outshooting your opponent, if anything Eve is fairer than most games in that repect, a lvl 1 character would never beat a level 8 character in most RPG's, but it's possible in Eve with enough forethought.

Also, 'interesting content' is where you find it I can get enough materials to build most things without having to put myself at undue risk, and whilst I'm manufacturing and mining, now that my Industry skills are nice and high, I can start training on my combat skills a bit more.

If you want to see the latest ships or the biggest battles then, sure, go into 0.4- , but if you do, you have to take the risk that your ship is a target too, and like any game, if theres a target, there someone who will take a shot at it.

As Thorn says, you can take precautions, and to be honest, you don't need to go into 0.4 for much at all for the first few months of playing. Curiosity has killed many cats

Well, I'm one of those crazies who would wander in late at night with something small and very fast "just to look around".

But I think I'll give EVE a try...

just don't open your mouth in local in a 0.4 and think you're still in gang chat.

flip, you know im gonna razz you about that for a while

If you want to come down and say hi, then the SG office is at Renyn IX - Federation Customs Assembly Plant. You'll usually find some of us over there, cept hippo since hes still too ebil to go into 0.9

lol hes workin his way back up to bein a good guy

Just check big red blobs on the map in evenings.. Thats where I'm at.

there was one in cloud ring or somewhere over there last night

To be successful at this game you have to be:
devious
sneaky
two-faced
self-serving
and
have lots of time on your hands for making isk early on

That's the hardest thing for me right now is staying in the black earnings wise.