Thread: I'm leaving EQ2
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Unread 03-29-2005, 05:59 PM
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Glad you're sticking around here at least, i didnt even get to see you online, im on crushbone btw..

I played Eve .. what was it.. after swg but before my time in CoH.. i cant remember. I played for like 3 months.

a few things...
If you think eqII is boring.. omfgwtfbbq.

There are hours upon hours upon hours of time involved in just flying somewhere. Let alone the hours and hours of mining once you get there. Cause that's what it is, a mining and production simulator.
Just to make sure you cant get any REM sleep, some starsystems spawn pirates and things to come maul you, and if you're rigged for mining properly you'll hardly be able to move let alone defend yourself. Or if you're unlucky, you can be a massive transport pilot, which deals much more w/ the flying and flying. You go near some asteroid field, where 4 or 5 of your corporation's dedicated miners are working, and you pop around picking up their mined minerals. And when you get full you fly and fly and fly to your corporation starbase.

Then if you're rich and feel like being combative, A, hire on production corporation permanently to escort transports, and patrol the asteroid fields mentioned above. B, Go around uninhabited starsystems mindlessly killing NPC spawn pirates over and over and getting their loot. C, hire on or form a pirate/merc company. to take contracts to disrupt other corps mining and production.

I dont know if you picked up on the tone, but it is a patently tedious game. They do have a wonderful training and upgrade system both for your pilot and your various starships. And to tell the truth i really enjoyed my time there. However, when i was ingame i figure there was.. 1/20th of the population required to make it a really great game. You'll understand what i mean when you get there. The place.. is huge. Absofrickinlootly huge. Its the only game ive ever seen where you can almost begin to imagine how big a galaxy really is. Certainly the human mind cant fully fathom interstellar distances, but that game comes close.

And once you start to realize the size of the game, you start to see how there's nobody in it, nobody but noobs, noobing around the main starbases asking for money and shooting one another. Every once in a while one of them leaves the system, and never comes back.

Short version: Do all the reading you can on corporations, find ones that have a charter similar to your mindset, and join them as fast as possible. Make sure to read on the races and any forums you can find on the race's starships. There used to be GLARING imbalances, and im sure there are still.

You may have begun reading this thinking i hated the game. I didnt, it was wonderful. All the pointless flying and eyecandy that is the galaxy at large. (It is spectacular, and that was two computer's ago) All the mindless staring at asteroids w/ mining beams.. Some of the combat i was finally able to win at..

I just never found anyone I wanted to hang out with, so I left.
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