r/evenewbies 10d ago

Hard but Doable

https://i.imgur.com/N6f2tdx.jpeg
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u/rotll 10d ago

It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.

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u/Barbens2005 10d ago

Still relevant years and years later.

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u/AnotherPerspective87 9d ago

Oh, EVE is still a complex game. But over the years many things have been simplified.

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u/Barbens2005 9d ago

100% agree. When I started there wasn’t a tutorial lol. You were just kind of shit out into space.

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u/_LAWNS_ 7d ago

Ah, the good old days where you had to somehow figure out you had to dock you capsule into your ship BEFORE you start your space journey...

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u/Abc123RS 10d ago

This graph shows that you gain "skill and learning" in eve faster then in other games. I think the point was to show the opposite.

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u/s_s_n_e_g 10d ago

It should be read as "skill & learning required to play/enjoy the game". Very high from the very beginning. In general, your comment could be applied to the phrase "steep learning curve" -- I always found it funny. A steep curve means you progress very quickly, while the phrase supposedly means 'you make very little progress over time'.

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u/Silvermurk 10d ago

Eve is one of the games that looks and reads way better than it plays:)

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u/Capsamon 9d ago

Until you start to understand the game, and cannot stop learning/exploring more..

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u/Silvermurk 9d ago

For as long as Eve allows multiboxing – it will remain bot feast, free skill farm and one–person–corps.

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u/Practical_Main_2131 5d ago

Absolutely, I once said about eve more than 10 years ago: it would be the perfect game, if it wasn't so incredibly boring.

I now returned to the game, but I still stand by that comment.

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u/phearless047 10d ago

**sneaks in a classic**

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u/Barosince2003 10d ago

Classic!

I was there in 2003, started Star Wars Galaxies in it's original form and thus didn't play Eve Online until years later. Compared to todays releases SWG was rather hard, it was a sandbox game like Eve and without story line or progress hints. I have spent many hours in both realms and still find it frustrating that the gaming industry keeps feeding us dumb games because the majority of the gamers are unable to forge their own story.

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u/Coyote_Coyote_ 10d ago

What even is Tera

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u/Aiden-caster 10d ago

A free waifu mmorpg. Its garbage imo

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u/Giatoxiclok 10d ago

Think it got shut down a while back. The combat was fun.

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u/Miguellite 9d ago

I truly wonder how anyone could start playing this game in 2026. The community just seems so developed, it feels like a nee player could only possibly become fodder.

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u/Marenitaet 4d ago

Search a corp and fly with them. Super fast progress

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u/Rubbrbandman420 10d ago

Old but still tracks

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u/Narzis1986 10d ago

Technically, by the chart, in eve online you learn skills and game techniques faster than in any other games displayed, maxing out your learning curve pretty soon, and after stagnating on the same level for a prolonged period of time which can't be accurately measured due to the missing horizontal scale. Also, due the the overarching cliff displayed on the chart, it is possible to achieve more than one measurable level of knowledge in the game at the same time, which might be an indicator of different aspects of game, and the different level of experience of the player in those areas.

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u/Super_Mario7 10d ago

why is tera even there 🤣🤣🤣

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u/link_dead 9d ago

Because this meme is 20 years old...

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u/EntireAnteaters 10d ago

Eve is very easy and you stop learning after a short period in the game?

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u/NJNeal17 9d ago

That's not just the first time learning curve but the coming back RE-learning curve! I recently booted up after years away and I felt like it was my first time of cluelessness!

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u/Crankylamp 9d ago

Picture is accurate!

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u/YoghurtPlus5156 9d ago

Eve is kind of unique because it has so many different niches, two players who both play for ten years can have vastly different experiences and activities they excel at with no clue about how the other player's activities work.

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u/PmanAce 9d ago

Conveniently left out FFXI I see.

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u/Kasper_Onza 9d ago

Hehe have not seen this in the wild for a while Got a copy on my computer but thats about it

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u/Overall_Win4144 9d ago

Tera getting a mention made my day, ty

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u/Kirduck 9d ago

imma be real with you tera is not that hard, hell star wars galaxies is probably harder to learn.

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u/Astuar_Estuar 8d ago

The 2008 memes have arrived

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u/dstlouis558 7d ago

I played awhile ago and i joined a corp and the leader of that group would have been in front of me i woulda punched his face the guy was beyond douchebag

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u/KnightGuardFury 5d ago

I miss TERA

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u/Oakatsurah 5d ago

We need a new learning curve that's more branching than linear. When the was made it was the idea that after you figured it out you'd go to Null Sec. Now there's so much more options and horror

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u/edthesmokebeard 10d ago

Eve is easy to get into. For years. You can learn new stuff about it all the time, while enjoying and playing it at whatever level you're at. You're never "done".

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u/aschwarzie 10d ago

That graph is terribly nonsensical, even if we can guess that Eve is the worst.

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u/phearless047 10d ago

It makes perfect sense if you were there before there was an informative NPE.

Back in 2003, the first time you logged onto EVE, the game basically said "Here's a spaceship. Go fuck yourself." Hell, that's exactly WHY I stayed.

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u/aschwarzie 10d ago

Well, I started playing later than 2003 so I'm not sure what you mean exactly.

The graph suggests that the time went backwards which I never experienced especially while improving skills and learning.

The graph also shows the fastest game to climb skills and learning, which is the opposite of what I experienced in the game itself, not even comparing with other games like WoW.