As a die hard soloist, I may have to break down and ask for help.

InGameName -Hayha

That’s an interesting point about the crafting bug. I have noticed that it’s seemed I’m getting more crafting done than I’d have expected to being limited to 8 hours in a 24 hour period, yet I also hadn’t attempted any major crafting projects since the game went f2p. Just a couple of days ago I started on the process of preparing to craft a dune buggy and I’ve been waiting to see how the crafting limit impacts that. So far everything I’ve set up to craft overnight has been done the following day when I’ve logged on, but it’s still a slow process, even with making sure to log out in a crafting facility, especially since when I do log on I’ve been spending my time actually playing rather than hanging out in a crafting facility.

I love this game, and when the holidays come around I fully expect I’ll be buying some premium game time. How much I’m not yet certain, but probably as much as I can afford. The reality is that for me, as I expect it is for all gamers, it’s about having fun. If the f2p limits start getting in the way of that, then I’ll have to start considering the value of continuing to invest in this game going forward. Since I can’t guarantee that I’ll be able to afford to keep up a premium account consistently, part of that consideration has to include whether or not FE is worth playing at the higher levels as an f2p player. Since I’ll probably crack level 30 sometime over the next several hours of play time, it has to be a key consideration.

My hope is that G1 realizes that the reason why f2p games are currently doing as well as they are right now is directly linked to the current economy and the fact that jobs and therefore discretionary income are limited for many players. When finances get tight, hard choices will have to be made. If players find that the quality of the FE experience declines significantly for them when they are forced to downgrade to a free account, I think many will probably start looking for other games to play. It’s not like there aren’t plenty of other options, after all.

Please, keep up the great blog.

some info imo

in EVE you do not die very often at all anyways and it get’s easyer to cope with it by far as time goes on so NOT such a thing anyways in EVE

In FE it gets more and more prominent thing to deal with but then when you die there are things you got to do like fix your gear etc. that make it realistic in an imersive way.

But the biggest difference is FE you can play the lore big time & in EVE the lore is whaty you read on the website but you don’t play it or get imersed in it in the game and the new epic arcs are extreamly tough and time consuming in a repetitive wayto just be able to start them in the 1st place except for the level 1 epic arc but then they only got one of them and that’s it. and the missions in EVE are like mining.

The one interesting thing about EVE for me was, was just in the fact of learning the game but when it was said and done I was waiting to live the lore like in the EVE chronicals and that is never going to happen after playing 4 yrs in EVE I gave up. Even walking in stations claims no walking around missions and not going to be living the lore in even walking around mode, going to a bar yes but nothing to do with the lore still.

Besides Post Apocalypic is the bomb so much to do and fun and getting into story line and lore etc…

Eaither way no one can play the same game constantly for ever but FE is the best one so far that’s not Fantasy based. Maybe LotRo is the best lore wise for fantasy or maybe Final Fantasy games or whatever anyone opinion on that is..

Now vehicles in FE and EVE are treated different but then in EVE you do got insurance and people bragging how they can get blown up and not lose much especially after their friends loot the wreck they just suicide them self on.

But whatever.

You lose as much as you need to in both EVE and FE and that’s that.

maybe if they put a big price on having to buy a new clone in FE like in EVE then it would be exactly the same.

Life and they way you live it is what’s important anyways, in both games they could just say you got hurt enough to be brought back to a hospital but they use clones for whatever reason, the price tag is the only difference and personally I made plenty of isk in EVE and it really didn’t matter price wise either if you think about it, the time spent getting back to what you were doing needs to be realistic and that’s about it, in both games it is what it needs to be,

life and not dying in FE means something, you got to fix your gear pay to bring back mounts etc. pretty much like EVE

If EVE seems to make not getting blown up and so doing thing right more worth while then good but they same difference is in FE just different and so someone from EVE may not be used of it.

About griefing in both games personaly I don’t see it in FE at all,

In EVE griefing in my experiance has been more in the form of not having any reason to PvP so someone making some I hate to say it but stupid reason to PvP, like saying the asteroids have rights to exist like anyone else and then killing the miners etc…

Note: The reason I don’t play EVE any more is because I was tired of waiting for playable Lore in the game and was not interested in being told what do do and being abligated to someone in 0.0 space just so THEY could have fun running a station or whatever.

Besides Romping around in the Aftermath is the best and the Lore is incredable in FE like EVE but you get to live it and play it in FE