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Yet another Eve post
Aug. 24th, 2006 10:02 amOk, the server was up & down last night, and revisited the joy that is being unceremoniously thrown out of the system. Aside from this, I’m still having problems & I’ve yet to progress out of the tutorial. Either I’m a complete idiot (entirely possible, I admit), or there’s a bug with the new patch that’s been released.
The problem resolves around the introduction to jumping between systems; it introduces this in the tutorial by going via the trade window – you’d buy something that was a few jumps away & then you’d go to that location. Thing is, when I’ve expanded the trade search list to include region, all items on the trade list are ‘station’ or ‘unavailable’ in the ‘number of Jumps’ field. This means that I cant follow the tuition of inter-system travel, as the tuition section on travelling between systems freezes up on me in that I have not selected something that is a) not on the station & b) reachable.
I know how it is meant to look as the first time I was thrown out of the game (earlier on yesterday) I had got to the point where I had bought a single ammo slug that was 1 jump away. On returning to the game, the slug was 10000000000 jumps away, and everything else that was reachable, is now not.
Possibilities:
1) my Jump drive is broken (if this is possible) & I cant travel to collect things? If so, how do I fix it?
2) I’m reading it wrong. I don’t think so as I’ve done this before & it behaved correctly– and then it crashed and went all weird on me.
3) There’s a bug. Is anyone else having this problem? And who do I contact to fix it?
Todays other questions:
is it usually this twitchy? (Ie do patches, when they’re released, cause several days of reduced playability?)
How often do patches come along? (once a month, once a quarter, once in a blue moon?)
What does the aggression counter? It flashed up several times, but I don’t know what it is.
How do you get new skills? I know how to improve existing ones, but how do I get additional ones that are not on the list?
How do you work out what skills are needed for a certain ship? I know what I want to fly & my cash is getting there – but I cant see what skills I require to fly it.
Overall: its exceptionally pretty & engaging. The combat is a pleasant blend of simple & challenging (ie simple in theory, but a lot to do), and the universe feels fleshed out – there are people and places that seem to work very well together. However, the IT issues are causing me some headaches & I’m questioning spending money on a game that I cant play either due to time pressures on my part, or IT issues on their part.
I look forward to playing it again – but I’m now between playing periods, so I’m probably going to be offline until next week.
S
The problem resolves around the introduction to jumping between systems; it introduces this in the tutorial by going via the trade window – you’d buy something that was a few jumps away & then you’d go to that location. Thing is, when I’ve expanded the trade search list to include region, all items on the trade list are ‘station’ or ‘unavailable’ in the ‘number of Jumps’ field. This means that I cant follow the tuition of inter-system travel, as the tuition section on travelling between systems freezes up on me in that I have not selected something that is a) not on the station & b) reachable.
I know how it is meant to look as the first time I was thrown out of the game (earlier on yesterday) I had got to the point where I had bought a single ammo slug that was 1 jump away. On returning to the game, the slug was 10000000000 jumps away, and everything else that was reachable, is now not.
Possibilities:
1) my Jump drive is broken (if this is possible) & I cant travel to collect things? If so, how do I fix it?
2) I’m reading it wrong. I don’t think so as I’ve done this before & it behaved correctly– and then it crashed and went all weird on me.
3) There’s a bug. Is anyone else having this problem? And who do I contact to fix it?
Todays other questions:
is it usually this twitchy? (Ie do patches, when they’re released, cause several days of reduced playability?)
How often do patches come along? (once a month, once a quarter, once in a blue moon?)
What does the aggression counter? It flashed up several times, but I don’t know what it is.
How do you get new skills? I know how to improve existing ones, but how do I get additional ones that are not on the list?
How do you work out what skills are needed for a certain ship? I know what I want to fly & my cash is getting there – but I cant see what skills I require to fly it.
Overall: its exceptionally pretty & engaging. The combat is a pleasant blend of simple & challenging (ie simple in theory, but a lot to do), and the universe feels fleshed out – there are people and places that seem to work very well together. However, the IT issues are causing me some headaches & I’m questioning spending money on a game that I cant play either due to time pressures on my part, or IT issues on their part.
I look forward to playing it again – but I’m now between playing periods, so I’m probably going to be offline until next week.
S