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Yoma
12-05-2006, 02:26 AM
Not to sound like a broken record, but here you can download the footage from the Eve tournament this past summer.

http://eve-files.com/evetv/

It may be a little hard to appreciate if you don't know much about the game, but some things I'd like to point out:

There's a pretty good mix of ships here. It's not all battlecruisers. Some of the guilds are using frigates as target painters.

It's harder to get a lock on a ship the smaller it is. And when there are larger ships in the area it becomes harder to target a smaller ship, and there are devices to make it even harder. The target painter makes it easier to get a lock-on.

Additionally, it's a lot easier for a small ship to obtain a lock.

It's just one of the things they do so that the end game pvp doesn't get dominated by battlecruisers.

They also have healing in the form of power transfers and repair drones.

There's also a bunch of really neat devices you can equip on your ships if you have the skills to use them, like cloaking and EMP.

Anyway, I guess the one thing you can get out of the videos without knowing much about the game is that the PvP isn't some 5-second affair, it can take a while. And there's some real strategy too it, and a lot of different ways to build your fleet.

Kyra
12-05-2006, 09:59 AM
Yeah this game is uber fun actually! I played the free trial a few times through and it was a *giggle* blast.

Miach
12-07-2006, 08:05 PM
I have played Eve on and off a few times. It is actually the best pure pvp game out there right now.

It is the only current game, a la Shadowbane, where you can ruin your enemy's assets and grief the shit out of them.

That being said it has a pretty steep learning curve and is in a genre that doesn't seem to be attractive to fantasy MMORPGers.

Koltas
12-07-2006, 08:56 PM
Ruining peoples stuff is great and all, but if the gameplay and actual combat is slow and monotonous, there's no way I'm even going to install the damn game. And that's exactly how Eve combat is.

Slak
12-11-2006, 09:36 PM
meh doesnt seem that bad.

Elad
12-12-2006, 08:27 PM
sounds all right

Yoma
12-29-2006, 01:03 PM
MMORPG of the year.

http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/loadFeature/1043/page/1

Yoma
01-01-2007, 09:51 PM
There's a nice article over at the EvE Tribune that explains better than I could ( or am willing to sit down and type out ) what EvE has going for it.

http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=2_1&page=4

Also of interest in that issue is is a good summary of the year's player-driven events.

http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=2_1&page=3