I by no means means want to or am I trying to condemn this great game.
I am a liitle north of the target audience (56) for Dust but I feel there's more than a few that feel the way I do. (Maybe 2or3) Injuries I recieved from a racing accident many years back have caught up with me and I'm now disabled and home 24/7. I've been an avid Eve player for the last 2 1/2 yrs. and over the years I've watched all the news about Dust 514. January of this year came and Dust put the open sign in the window, but it feels to me like there's a group that have been playing in the back room for quite a while now.
I know I'm old by the gaming standard but I have had the help of my 2 grandsons and I put in about 8 hrs of playing a day. 1 Month and 20 days later I have earned close to 10 ml Isk and 3.5 ml skill points, thats a decent jumpstart, I've spread the sp's around so as not to be heavy on one end. I've played against the best and been thrown in the fire it seems over and over.I have some nice gear to use but man do I feel naked in some of these battles! Believe me I think you can learn alot by playing with the best of the best but I also think that you should bring the young ones along slowly so as not to discourage them and believe me I have felt like I was banging my head against the wall many times. I do think as the game progresses there should be a system for new warriors to learn instead of like me standing in front of the A Complex and can't figure out how to jump up on the step and then finally getting to the screen and not knowing how to start the hack.
It may be my imagination but the last 2 weeks feel like the compitition has really ramped up. There's been some great team play that I've seen and most of it was almost impossible to compete with, these guys are good, but one tactic really bothers me in fact its cowardly. In the last week 75% of the time when I've respawned to the surface there would be a group from the opposing team shooting as you came out of the bubble or jumping from the ship. I've been in a dozen games the last week that were won this way. The opposing team would get control of the 3 or 4 complex's right at the start and as soon as they did a group would target the spawn points and ship there by cutting new troop's off. Some might think this is a good idea but in effect their shooting defense-less soldiers. I mean I tryed everything, running or shooting as soon as you hit the ground even with 4-5 hitting the ground togeather we were mowed down everytime. Thats why I call this the work of cowards trying to win a game other than the way it was imagined to be played. If you can't let a team land and fight the battle on the field then your just a bunch of cowardly point grabbers. This has happened so much in the last week I get the urge to quit but then I come back to see if any real players are on and 3 out of 5 games I get discouraged again.
Maybe one of these days I can make it to the top 10 of the list at the end of the game, it's really not fun being a bottom marker every game. But then those of us on the bottom should feel important because if we wer'nt there the top 10 would'nt get many points.
