CrazyKinux answers EVE Online questions for WoW players

by Samuel Axon Sep 13th 2008 at 4:00PM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Sci-fi, EVE Online

If you're a World of Warcraft player looking for something completely different, head over to CrazyKinux's blog and read what he has to say to WoW players looking to make the move to the alien beast that is EVE Online. It reads a bit like one of those articles designed to ease PC users into a transition to Apple's Mac computers.

EVE blogger, Drone Bay podcast co-host, and former Massively contributor CrazyKinux covers many of the bases, noting many of the strongest differences (skill-based instead of level-based character advancement, everyone is on one server instead of scattered between hundreds of small servers, etcetera). He also links to several articles written by him and others that are helpful to newbies.

It's a fantastic post -- a perfect starting point for anyone considering the switch, or even for folks just curious about what EVE is all about. CrazyKinux ends on a pretty funny quote, too: "EVE is like a sandbox with land mines. Deal with it." But don't let that scare you. Really. We named it our #1 Sci-Fi MMO a while back; admittedly that's not saying much, but it ought to count for something, right?

Tags: articles, converting, crazykinux, eve, eve-online, fresh-meat, help, introduction, mac, moving, newbie, pc, servers, skill-based, switching, world-of-warcraft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

george said on 4:18PM 9-13-2008

The only reason I will not buy Eve is because its all in real time... Gotta pay a TON of months just to get good equipment... no thanks ;) Even if I started now, I wouldn't be able to catch up with the people that have had it for a year.. :(

Durinthal said on 4:31PM 9-13-2008

It's all relative. You won't be the best battleship pilot after a month, but you could be at 80%-90% effectiveness of even the oldest players in a cruiser or frigate.

You can only use so many skills at once and since everything caps at level 5, people end up diversifying instead of becoming continually better at one thing.

SgtBaker said on 4:35PM 9-13-2008

You're doing it wrong.
You don't have to have as much SP as the old EVE players.

Nothing in EVE happens solo (generalization of course, but EVE is not a "solo game").

Find a group of players to play with - your newbie will be able to fly cheap frigates and tackle ships - you'll be useful in fleets and can start participating in groups pretty much from day one. Start blowing up players who have played years more than you.

possum said on 4:42PM 9-13-2008

quote] You won't be the best battleship pilot after a month, but you could be at 80%-90% effectiveness of even the oldest players in a cruiser or frigate.
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Misinformation to new players, nuff said.

CunningB said on 3:27AM 9-14-2008

How is it like a guide for PC users to use macs? surely its more like a guide for Mac users (using the easy to use intuitive mac software) on how to use the infinitely more complicated and un-intuitive pc? ;)