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Eve is a game that I love to read about, but have never played and probably never will. Same with DF.
by justusthane 4y ago
Eve is a game that I love to read about, but have never played and probably never will. Same with DF.
- godman_8 4y agoDF?
- MaxGabriel 4y agoDwarf Fortress
- elihu 4y agoI haven't gotten into Dwarf Fortress either, but I do enjoy the Dwarf Fortress bugs twitter from time to time: https://twitter.com/DwarfFortBugs https://twitter.com/DwarfFortBugs
- kadoban 4y agoThe Boatmurdered epic is also great fun, for those that find DF interesting but don't necessarily want to actually play. https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introduction/ https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introducti... looks right from the first page. It's _very_ funny in parts, and gives a great sense of the insanity that game can contain.
- RhodesianHunter 4y agoSame. The whole saga of cats getting sick from licking their feet which have alcohol from the tavern floors thing is wild.
- Scarblac 4y agoCarp being ridiculously strong for a long time, because they swim all day and that trains strength. The way of defending a fortress that led invaders through a corridor with a lava tube underneath, which made the corridor so hot that the fat in the bodies of the invaders would melt, something the AI didn't know about.
- lloeki 4y agowild guess: Dwarf Fortress
- tigerlily 4y agoNah you should definitely dive into DF, losing is fun.
- lelandfe 4y agoI had a summer where, Matrix-esque, I stopped seeing the ASCII in DF and it became a marvelous experience. I lost that quickly, and even tile sets weren’t enough to hook me again. For those scared of or put out by the same, the upcoming Steam release might be the ticket: https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/
- npteljes 4y agoI put it on my wishlist a while ago, but I'm not holding my breath. Almost two years now since it has the steam page.
- ihuman 4y agoThere has been regular progress updates on their steam page's news section [0]. In February, they said their "earliest possible launch date would be in the fall" [1]. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370 [1] https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/3099043827445055732 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/30990438...
- Buttons840 4y agoDF is getting a UI overhaul for a Steam release. I will be trying the game again after it reaches Steam. Worth keeping an eye on.
- 0des 4y agoIts on steam, it has the graphical UI like what you see in LazyNewbPack
- 4y ago
- fragmede 4y agoFor some reason, Factorio doesn't have the same effect. Writeups and Youtube videos about it are interesting, but not in the same way.
- cheeze 4y agoBecause Factorio is actually a blast to play and it's easy/approachable. EVE is hard to get into, and harder to stay into.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoAlso, budget. Factorio is a one-time spend. EVE is subscription based, and good luck getting to the point where you can pay for the subscription entirely from casual game play. That's always was in the back of my head while playing EVE in various trials.
- 0des 4y agoEve has an ample free tier.
- evandale 4y agoI'm the same. It's a fascinating game and I've given it a couple of tries but I get the feeling you really need friends or be outgoing enough to make friends in-game. It's not a game you can play by yourself in my experience.
- Victerius 4y agoEVE is a game that goes on 24 hours a day, right? Meaning I stand a chance at losing my ships when I'm sleeping or otherwise not available to play. I've already tried a few 24/7 games and I just can't. Edit: I stand corrected. Thanks guyz.
- xwdv 4y agoThe flip side of this is even when you’re not playing you’re making progress.
- 0des 4y agoYou typically dock your ship and it usually cannot be molested unless undocked
- subdude 4y agoShips that are docked in stations are safe, and in space your ship will warp away and disappear when you log off. The only exception is if you're already in combat. Your ship will still attempt to warp away, but it will remain in space until a combat timer expires.
- snerbles 4y agoIt is worth noting that player-disconnected ships in emergency warp can be probed down by experienced players with the right equipment. The combat logoff timer was introduced as a countermeasure to the "logoffski", a tactic employed by Russian players involving deliberately disconnecting in the middle of a fight to avoid losses.
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- bcrosby95 4y agoEve is not very fun, unless you're playing the right way with the right people. DF is fun though.
- inopinatus 4y agoI’ll affirm that I had fun playing Eve, and I’d be willing to acknowledge a suggestion that this was thanks to playing with the right people. Perhaps participating in large-scale nullsec alliance warfare and industry could also be considered “the right way”. That was a decade ago, however. When I peek in on the goings-on today, it looks like the game is on life support.
- omnibrain 4y agoThe „right“ way depends on the person playing. For me it was w-space (wormhole systems with no gates to their systems, you have to constantly scan for connections an map them - there are tools… - and no list who is in the same system as you) with a small tight knight group. We ran PI (some sort of industry) and Escalations (PvE in a group with defined roles) for income and hunted other players (doing the same) for fun. I would even go so far, that the exploration, mapping, hunting & killing lifestyle of wormholes is how EVE really is supposed to be played. But I can see that if that was the only way to play EVE only a few hundred would play it at all.