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EVE End Game -- What is it?
LilFunaho
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in EVE Online
Hi, I'm pretty new to Eve, trying out the free trial. Was just wondering what the endgame is like. Can anyone tell me what the end game consists of? Pvp? Amassing wealth?
Just curious, game looks bomb so far
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there's not really something lika a end game in eve.this mainly because it would take months to eve be totally specialized in one erea.
Also your are free to learn almost every skill in they game (there some rare race specific skills)
For PvP you don't have to be high lvl as in most other games you can do it as soon as you got a descent fitted cruiser (just don't attack battleships :P)
Most people go either in maufacturing or research so in a way you can call that end game.
but it's just up to you
Yes there is no specific end-game to EVE, as opposed to games like planetside where I believe one of the races can dominate the planet or something similar. I suppose the overall goal of megacorporations and the like is to basically tear down other corporations/alliances until they 'own' as much territory as possible. For something like that to occur however could easily take years, and because of the way eve is built you can't really own space, but you can attempt to control it.
I've also heard rumors of being able to buy planets/moons/sectors of space in the future, but I don't know how that will work or if that will ever come out.
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An end game means a reason to stop playing. In my experience I haven't seen many mmorpgs with an end game for that reason.
Hahaha, oh ok, I thought end-game meant that the game comes to some sort of a conclusion and then the server is reset or something.
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I love rain, the color gray, and small apartments.
I hate CS, the term n00b and this thing --> ^^
But that's just me.
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I love rain, the color gray, and small apartments.
I hate CS, the term n00b and this thing --> ^^
But that's just me.
Yep doesn't make sense, financially, to have one. Can someone name a MMORPG that has an end game? Nope.
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The term "End-Game" in the MMORPG world does not mean the point of the closure of the game. The End-Game is usually the game you play towards the end of your "level-treadmill" or when you can be considered a super character, for lack of better words. lol.
AC1 has this, you reach 126 for instance and your at the End-Game...now AC1 has very little to do other than do quests, collect items, max out skills as you can, etc.
SWG has an End-Game. You max out one tree and your at the End-Game. You now have the option of restarting a new tree or well I never bothered playing that game that long so I have no idea. lol
UO had one. You get the GM and your in the End-Game. You can then choose to do quests or community events and the like.
DAoC is prob the best example I can provide. Once you hit 50 you are at the End-Game and the End-Game consists of RvR. That is DAoC's End-Game
End-Game has come to reference the completion of your character advancement and the things you can do next.
Even EVE has an End-Game...it would be the training of every skill and maybe you own every ship in the game. It just hasn't become a very big part of the game yet and I don't think it will anytime in the near future. :P
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Really can't have an end game in a game like EVE; if you finished, then there would be no need to keep shelling out the monthly fee. I think every MMORPG would like to keep the subscribers coming back each and every month with that credit card, it makes financial sense to do so.
I play EvE because its fun... the game really is what you make of it. I don't think there is an end game per-se.
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People in EVE have been playing for over a year, and still haven't maxed out their characters on every skill in the game... partly because new ones keep being added, and partly cos its not really all that feasible due to the length of time the 5th level takes.
But level 5 is something you shouldn't really worry about. Its like a mystical, and seemingly unattainable goal - which upon reaching takes you over a plateau of unimaginable pleasure and brings about a feeling of general brilliantness, from which you should feel free to boast to the world about how much time you have to spare...
Erm... ok, maybe not.
Certainly though, as with other games you can create a character with which you are happy playing, like reaching the aforementioned "endgames" of SWG and the like. The difference is, here, even though you may have gotten all skills up to a level acceptable enough to do everything you want, you can always be better. And that's where you put the extra time into developing lvl 5 skills, brushing up on your afterburner usage, or squeezing a little more out of your onboard cpu to fit that rather natty weapon upgrade you just looted from the remaining debris of yet another Archangel...
EVE is great by the way... Just one of my two cents...
In terms of skills, there will probably never be an "end-game". AS it is, it should take 8 years to max out currently existing skills--- that doesn't include the multitude of new skills that will be introduced.
I would say The game ends when the Next BIG BANG starts ?? when ever that will be....
But as many others have been saying, there is no ending to the game, not even with over 20 Mil Skill points....
Those who think this game is boring and buged, your playing in the wrong systems or in the wrong Corp.
I have a lot of fun, and I cant wait for the new patch to go LIVE
The new Patch will take this game to a new level I can say that for sure......
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Darkness is my Path
My main account started on day 1 of retail now has +15 million skill points and I think I would need another 15 million skillpoints just to have everything I want.
I keep thinking I need Refine Efficiency V so that I can train Scrapmetal Refining but then I also want to get a few better gunnery skills in preparation for level 4 agents. But also I have this interceptor and it would be nice if I had some higher Electronics warfare skills... and then the new advanced learning skills are coming out soon which I really want to get asap but I also want to train some of my Science skills like Amarrian Starship Engineering so I get more Research points every day and so on... There are so many routes in EVE that you can keep training skills endlessly...
And that doesnt even factor in that CCP are adding new skills to the equation regularly...
My second account was created 3 months later when I realised that I needed a specialist fighter. That account has +12.5 million skill points all dedicated to flying battleships and that isn't even enough - still have many level 5 gunnery skills to train - and now CCP have just introduced specialist skills for particular turret types and you have to train about 3 or 4 other skills just to be able to start training the skill you really want - and that is for just one turret type and there are around 8 in the game.
You get the idea
The Community Manager for EVE said on the forums recently that they are looking another 3/4 years to the future...
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As stated earlier, the long, long time it takes to get really good at something should make sure that your character doesn't stop progressing. If you get bored with 7-40d training times, you can always try something else, or roll out an alt.
However, what the skill system has taught me the most, is that the paying for a game that isn't fun to *play* is just waste of money. If you play the game just to kill monsters so you'd get more levels, I say you're wasting not only your money, but also your time.
With EVE, as there's nothing that would make the skill learning faster (after the learning skill and implants), you just have to face it: Find something to do that you like. Luckily, there's plenty of that in EVE.