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Comment by mihaifm | Hacker News Reader

Thanks, this is interesting stuff.

I've been interested in Eve for years but only last week realized that it has a free tier.

However progression in the game seems a bit slow to me and tutorial a bit boring. After how many hours in can I expect some more interesting action?

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You can step into the "fun" aspects of the game pretty quickly if you don't mind being cannon fodder for one of the larger corporations that will even pay for your ships.

Eve's progression is entirely based on feed-the-meter, where you skill up by scheduling your skills to be learned over time. My knowledge is out of date, but it took me hundreds of hours of paid time to get into higher tiered ships to reach what I would consider the "fun" aspects of the game. YMMV.

EVE progression is pretty unlike other MMOs. On one hand, you can't really speed it up, it just kind of plods along. On the other, even brand new players are useful. For instance, in most MMOs, a lower level character has no chance against a higher level character, once the gap is wide enough. No matter how many level 1 WoW characters you have fighting a max-level WoW player, the level 1's won't make a scratch in him. EVE is different, you very much can use quantity over quality to do damage.

You have to just log in and train skills for a couple of months. Then you can try some pvp. Otherwise you're just getting ganked by players who've been there for 3-5 years (git gud lul).

Though you can join a corp where you can provide (limited, since you can't even use more advanced tech for a month or two) use in mass pvp.

Massive waste of time.

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