[EVE] Any EVE boxers out there?

[Bradster]

Just wondering if we have an EVE players in here. Currently 5 boxing EVE, started back in December. After a long break of MMO's it's a refreshing experience so far, really enjoying myself. :thumbup:

[Stabface]

I ran 3-6 accounts in EVE off and on for a couple of years. It wasn't really multiboxing in any sense of the term though as I was focused on the industrial side of things. So log in every day or few to deliver and start new manufacturing jobs. I did do some big mining ops but that's about as fun as watching paint dry, and about as challenging. I know some people who actively run multiple accounts for missions or hunting NPCs, it's pretty effective.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

How the heck do you box in that game? When I tried it a couple years ago, most of the targeting/jumping/etc. were menu-driven, which wouldn't seem to lend itself very well to multibox-ish play.

[Morganti]

Yeah, from my experience in EVE I would think anything other than mining ops in secure space would be horrible for boxing. MAYBE ratting in like .5 or .6, but PvP? I just can't picture it. Would be too easy to lose big money on ships because of lack of control due to boxing. I'd like to hear your experiences and thoughts Brad.

[Crazylike]

I've got 3 accouns in EVE which I play with sometimes, but how do you box in EVE brad?

[Bradster]

You can box it, but pretty much the old fashion way.

As many of you stated mining ops, Run 3 miners, a hauler and a rat spawn killer (low sec). Not too challenging. Missions are pretty easy, I either run 2 Ravens or a Drake or Raven combo depending on the missions. Haven’t seen a reason to run more then 2 for missions, might drag another one with me to salvage and loot collect. That’s about it.

For PVP I find it like wow in regards to class selection only ship selection. If I run 4 of the same type ships I can be pretty effective. The key really is having an interceptor as the 5th. First warp in with that, little management required since they can’t kill the interceptor due to tracking issues. Then just warp the fleet in and go to town.

Most importantly to make it a lot easier use Caldari ships. No range issues just spank and tank. From my experience thus far I realize that there’s real potential here on who and how many I can take on. But I’d like to keep the challege in this game; otherwise I feel I’d get bored here like I did for wow for that same reason.

Last night I had a pretty decent fight, Battle Cruiser vs. Battle Cruiser, I won! 8o http://www.bradster.net/movies/wootage.divx Pirate and I agreed to a fight, one I’ve had a bad history with and happened to run in to him as I was passing by. That was great.

Anyway, was hoping to find some active EVE players still. Also to toss out there that I have 4 65 warlocks that I’d be willing to trade for EVE characters ^^

[Morganti]

How are you making your money Brad? I had a couple of 2mil SP toons in EVE, but I always found that money was my limiting factor in most cases. That combined with the slow progression of skills left me feeling like the progression was just too slow. I liken it to seeing level 70's running around in WoW while you are level 40 and only being able to go up a level every 14 days even though you dont have to do any work to get there.

[Morganti]

Just watched your vid. Wow! That's a hell of a tank you're running there. If the guy had hit your drones instead of you it would have been bad though <3 the drone skillz though.

[Bradster]

How do I make money. Well I do it a lot of different ways, just depends on what I’m in the mood for.

Because you only have 2m SP I can give you a couple pointers on how to make some decent money. First try level 2 DED. Fly in with a frigate, shoot everything. Then come back in a destroyer and loot and salvage everything ( in the first stage only), then also salvage all the other wrecks in there. On a good day in 10mins I’ll get around 16 Trit bars, those alone sell for 400K each. Not bad vs. the time. Do that every couple hours during the day between whatever.

Once you hit level 3 missions ISK income becomes pretty decent. Key is to make sure to loot and salvage everything.

My main has 25m SP, where as my alts have 5-6M. I normally run a level 4 with Ravens clear it really fast. Book mark it, turn it in, then if the next mission is small do that and book mark it. I then return to those 2 missions with 2 salvagers and a hauler. Last Saturday I went from 2m to 155M Isk just doing that. That’s just one way.

Other days I’ll run 3 Hulks and a Hauler. Or often while I’m do missions with 2 toons, I’ll be ice mining with the others. With the slow cycle times the ice miners sit there for 10mins to their cargo is full (8 blocks each) Then I just dock them up and send them out again. Per block is 150K for pretty much doing nothing.

If I’m doing well with money I often like to turn what I mine in to things to sell, this weekend I made 15 Thoraxs for sale. Currently working on standings to place a POS for the 100% yield to ice refine, and at that point I’ll start investing in BPO’S research and sell copies.

Also I haven’t done much with trading but something that also helps is saving all your loot until you can fill a hauler. Then take it to a big market trade hub with good prices (but for the love of god not Jita!).

About the slow progression I can agree with you. I played EVE a year ago for about three months and thought, screw this I want to advance! But after three years of wow, I was left bored accomplishing everything I wanted, or not being able to do what I wanted because of needing other people. Eve is different. You can accomplish anything you want; it’s just a matter of time. It was hard for me to have one character and wait for the skill training time, but once I got a couple accounts I prefer the long ones, as I do a lot of micro managing with them. Anytime you finish a big skill its like hitting 70 in that aspect of the game, feels pretty good.


As for that fight you’re going to laugh. I only have 2.5M in drone skills, that’s the first time I ever tried or flew that ship. Drone skills aren’t there yet to technically be in that ship. I saw a video with that setup and thought I’ll give that a try! Glad I did. You don’t need a lot of skill points to be effective in PVP; it normally comes down to fit. As an example in that fight, she/he has over 50M SP, I have 25M. If you look up “the forge” video on eve forum there’s a guy that starts pvping with a freshly made toon with a rifter. That was before when you started out with 200SP now new ones start with 800SP. If you stick and focus to one thing at a time you can fly that one ship very well. But if you want to PVE mission too then it’s going to tank you a lot longer. I have one Pirate alt now that I created a month ago. Soon he will be God in a Thorax. Already can use T2 Armor, Guns and drones. That there is plenty of SP to kill with. Yarr

[PyrostasisTDK]

I have a 30 mil sp character and a roughly 18 mil sp character that I reactivate about once every 2 - 3 months to train. I have just had a fvery hard time getting into the game.

My main beef with the game was, unlike UO, that you have to spend a rather large amount of time pve'ing to afford pvp. In UO I could pve for an hour or two and spend the rest of the day pvping. Eve just has a higher cost per death ratio.

Im planning on reactivating soon once I tire of the WAR beta, might hook up with you there brad if your still playing at that time.