AMAZING!! Eve empyrean age released!

[Riverhound777]

Reading this thread got my to thinking and looking through my old screenshots. Thought i'd post a few.

Inside 10/10 Complex in Impass.
http://i99.photobucket.com/alb...Eve/20050713010459.png

Faction Battleship, I forget the name but they kick ass.
http://i99.photobucket.com/alb...Eve/20050711191534.png

The first player created station, I was part of ASCN
http://i99.photobucket.com/alb...Eve/20060226201659.png

Big ass fleet
http://i99.photobucket.com/alb...Eve/20060226201951.png

Another pic of the fleet
http://i99.photobucket.com/alb...Eve/20060226201946.png

Keep in mind these pics are from late 2005, early 2006.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Oakenfold
Anyone care to comment on the time criteria for this game? How many hours per week do you put in?

I put in about 30 on a good week. 15 on a bad one. I don't have a girl friend/wife/children at the moment so I can be a good old fashion in-the-spirit-of-a-basement-dweller gamer. Only my 40hr job gets in the way. One day I'll get a tan and another chick, until then I'll happily blast people in the face in space.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Mide
So can anyone describe how this new expansion works? You join a militia in a base and take missions for a faction and you're still killing NPCs? Am I correct or does it turn into PvP somewhere?

The objectives have NPCs but it is all set in lowsec space, which means potential for anyone to shoot you, and you have an active war dec from the opposing2 factions. There is tons-o-pvp to be had. I think my corp has gotten over 200 kills since we got the green light weds. after DT to shoot Amarr/Caldari skum.

 

[BadRobot]

im caldari fighting for minmatar =)

 

[Michael]

My alt is now FCing Gallente fleets. The FW fighting is a little too much blob, but it isn't that bad. There are a lot of players trying PvP for the very first time in it and there are a ton of mistakes happening like friendly fire (people don't know how to keep their overview clear of fleet mates).

The fun part for me is that the pirates, for all their boasting before the expansion was released, are leaving the FW fleets alone. The ones that have tried to bother them have been blown up for the most part.

Michael

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Michael
My alt is now FCing Gallente fleets. The FW fighting is a little too much blob, but it isn't that bad. There are a lot of players trying PvP for the very first time in it and there are a ton of mistakes happening like friendly fire (people don't know how to keep their overview clear of fleet mates).

The fun part for me is that the pirates, for all their boasting before the expansion was released, are leaving the FW fleets alone. The ones that have tried to bother them have been blown up for the most part.

Michael

You haven't been late night US TZ on the Minmatar side then. Mutually Assured Distraction [BEES] have been pirate camping. Also, while there has been a lot of blobby fights because of the sheer number of people willing, my corp finds that following blobs and holding out a jump or two to pick off stragglers is the best way to negate their effect. Especially after blobs engage each other we swoop in and go for the money shot.

 

[Acanthus]

I know we have some eve players around the forums, and ive posted my thoughts on eves shortcomings in the past. Namely that the with the skill over time system a player can never catch up to the "seasoned vets" and so forth.

Empyrean Age has appeared to have changed that, by bringing out the factional war and the pvp between the militias in low security space. They have also locked alliances out of the militia warfare keeping most of the rediculously high SP chars out of the fight.

Im very happy with the expansion and i just wanted to see if others are happy with it as well.

The expansion page:
http://www.eveonline.com/empyreanage/index.html

You can see 2 teasers and a full trailer for the expansion there.

 

[SunnyD]

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[nsafreak]

I personally haven't played with the empire warfare aspect of it myself. I do have some friends that are enjoying it a ton though and it seems to be attracting a wide variety of players. The one downside is that it has also attracted some of the older players to join in on the fun and some newer players have gotten their arses kicked pretty badly. Some friends of mine are playing around with it and while they do typically get good fights they also get a ton of noobs coming after their 6 man gang. The problem is, for the noobs, that they're fighting against players with character ages in between 3 and 4 years old all flying tech 2 fitted heavy assault cruisers and command ships. They've taken on 30 man gangs of newer players in tech 1 ships and won without a single loss. I guess if anything this will teach newer players that they need to co-ordinate their attacks and how to focus on one target. Even with tech 2 ships I was surprised a 30 man gang wasn't able to take down ONE of their ships. To me that indicates a lack of focus on whomever's part was leading that particular gang.

Over time it will balance out and the newer players will figure out how to combat the older players. I just hope that for the most part that the newer players stay out of lowsec when fighting older players with this going on. Lots of these older players (I know my friends have a couple that they haven't felt the need to use) have capital ships available to them and they know how to use them. And if they bring those things out to play the results won't be pretty to say the least.

 

[Riverhound777]

Originally posted by: nsafreak
I personally haven't played with the empire warfare aspect of it myself. I do have some friends that are enjoying it a ton though and it seems to be attracting a wide variety of players. The one downside is that it has also attracted some of the older players to join in on the fun and some newer players have gotten their arses kicked pretty badly. Some friends of mine are playing around with it and while they do typically get good fights they also get a ton of noobs coming after their 6 man gang. The problem is, for the noobs, that they're fighting against players with character ages in between 3 and 4 years old all flying tech 2 fitted heavy assault cruisers and command ships. They've taken on 30 man gangs of newer players in tech 1 ships and won without a single loss. I guess if anything this will teach newer players that they need to co-ordinate their attacks and how to focus on one target. Even with tech 2 ships I was surprised a 30 man gang wasn't able to take down ONE of their ships. To me that indicates a lack of focus on whomever's part was leading that particular gang.

Over time it will balance out and the newer players will figure out how to combat the older players. I just hope that for the most part that the newer players stay out of lowsec when fighting older players with this going on. Lots of these older players (I know my friends have a couple that they haven't felt the need to use) have capital ships available to them and they know how to use them. And if they bring those things out to play the results won't be pretty to say the least.

Well i'll tell you this, if you took 6 noobs and put them into those T2 command ships and such, and put 30 vets into T1 frigs, the vets would still most likely win. It doesn't have to do with the ships or the skill points.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
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Are you going to keep acting like an uninformed, bitter moron in every EVE thread?

 

[KeithTalent]

Bump for merged threads.

KT

 

[randay]

did some faction warfare as a random. it was a little blobby, and lacking the organization of true small-medium scale warfare. i didnt really like it because being on comms with the entire fleet and coordinating targets feels like a big part of it to me, but I guess it is a very good way to get into pvp for newer players. at the very least it is a good way to just log in and get some pew pew when i get that itch.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: hooflung

Originally posted by: SunnyD
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Are you going to keep acting like an uninformed, bitter moron in every EVE thread?

Are you going to keep calling everybody uninformed, bitter morons?

I played EVE... several times in fact over the last several years. It's fun for a little while, in small doses if you will. But essentially my post stands for what EVE's gameplay is like, whether you're a carebear, a privateer, a corp-junkie and a goon.

Lest you call me uninformed again... since I'm most definitely NOT uninformed.

 

[nsafreak]

Originally posted by: Riverhound777

Originally posted by: nsafreak
I personally haven't played with the empire warfare aspect of it myself. I do have some friends that are enjoying it a ton though and it seems to be attracting a wide variety of players. The one downside is that it has also attracted some of the older players to join in on the fun and some newer players have gotten their arses kicked pretty badly. Some friends of mine are playing around with it and while they do typically get good fights they also get a ton of noobs coming after their 6 man gang. The problem is, for the noobs, that they're fighting against players with character ages in between 3 and 4 years old all flying tech 2 fitted heavy assault cruisers and command ships. They've taken on 30 man gangs of newer players in tech 1 ships and won without a single loss. I guess if anything this will teach newer players that they need to co-ordinate their attacks and how to focus on one target. Even with tech 2 ships I was surprised a 30 man gang wasn't able to take down ONE of their ships. To me that indicates a lack of focus on whomever's part was leading that particular gang.

Over time it will balance out and the newer players will figure out how to combat the older players. I just hope that for the most part that the newer players stay out of lowsec when fighting older players with this going on. Lots of these older players (I know my friends have a couple that they haven't felt the need to use) have capital ships available to them and they know how to use them. And if they bring those things out to play the results won't be pretty to say the least.

Well i'll tell you this, if you took 6 noobs and put them into those T2 command ships and such, and put 30 vets into T1 frigs, the vets would still most likely win. It doesn't have to do with the ships or the skill points.

Which was pretty much the point of my post It isn't so much the differences in the ships & mods that the two groups were using it was tactics. With the proper tactics that group of t1 ships could've defeated the vets in the t2 ships.

 

[Michael]

You don't even need to change much except for the FC. I was FCing a "noob" FW blob around. Before we even got into a fight, I had everyone fix their overview properly, and drilled them on focused fire and following the FC's commands.

A small gang (5) of HACs with experienced pilots killed one of our cruisers while we were clearing out a plex. I scanned them down at a planet and then we killed 2 of them and the other 3 ran (getting new players to understand spreading points is not going to happen, but the focused fire worked).

Later my little fleet waited at a gate and our 25 man group killed 40 of them. Again because I was able to call primary and secondary targets and they died much faster than we did (we lost about 10).

There is a lot more to Eve than orbiting and turning your weapons on and newer players can beat more experienced players.

Michael

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Michael
You don't even need to change much except for the FC. I was FCing a "noob" FW blob around. Before we even got into a fight, I had everyone fix their overview properly, and drilled them on focused fire and following the FC's commands.

A small gang (5) of HACs with experienced pilots killed one of our cruisers while we were clearing out a plex. I scanned them down at a planet and then we killed 2 of them and the other 3 ran (getting new players to understand spreading points is not going to happen, but the focused fire worked).

Later my little fleet waited at a gate and our 25 man group killed 40 of them. Again because I was able to call primary and secondary targets and they died much faster than we did (we lost about 10).

There is a lot more to Eve than orbiting and turning your weapons on and newer players can beat more experienced players.

Michael

good job the noobs need teaching

 

[Acanthus]

Im fighting for the Amarr, we are getting crushed by the Matari pretty badly

At the rate its going the Matari are going to join the Gayllente to fight the Caldari because we cant even field a good fleet.

 

[Michael]

As a Gallente, I fully support the crushing of the Amarr slaver empire.

However, we've killed all the Caldari, so they'll have to stay and keep picking on you.

<grin>

Michael

 

[JRich]

Got ballsy last night and took on a curse with my throwaway incursus. I lost, kekeke

 

[ibex333]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Empyrean Age has appeared to have changed that, by bringing out the factional war and the pvp between the militias in low security space. They have also locked alliances out of the militia warfare keeping most of the rediculously high SP chars out of the fight.

Im very happy with the expansion and i just wanted to see if others are happy with it as well.

I'd rather have them return the 30 and 90 day time cards at old prices. I'd be willing to give up the Empyrean Age expansion completely in exchange if this was done.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: ibex333

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Empyrean Age has appeared to have changed that, by bringing out the factional war and the pvp between the militias in low security space. They have also locked alliances out of the militia warfare keeping most of the rediculously high SP chars out of the fight.

Im very happy with the expansion and i just wanted to see if others are happy with it as well.

I'd rather have them return the 30 and 90 day time cards at old prices. I'd be willing to give up the Empyrean Age expansion completely in exchange if this was done.

I actually dont mind the price hike on GTCs, because itll cut down on the people playing with 6+ accounts for free.