Harle Armistice

I love Eve as a concept. I tend to watch it from afar with a wistful sigh, because it is a game that I would love to play... but it just doesn't entertain me. I love the idea of being a miner/industrialist and the whole scaling construction system that leads up to the immense projects of building capitals. But... if that's all you want to do in Eve(I didn't like Eve PvP as much as I liked the threat of being destroyed when taking risks), then you're kind of in for a boring game. Mining

Alright, thanks for the various replies. For the tech peoples; I ended up spending another three hours reconfiguring, rebooting, and attempting to host a game(wash-rinse-repeat). I didn't want to send in anything to support unless I was absolutely sure I couldn't get it working. My router's(D-Link with the newer firmware) port forwarding is not particularly straight forward, and as it turned out, even when I'm able to host a game it says that I can't. And while I tried a half dozen diff

And that's to say nothing of the freezing issue, and the multiplayer game loading completely failing. I've seen a jury-rig to fix the loading problem. We haven't tried it yet. And frankly, with the frequent freeze-disconnecting, it's not worth it. There are real problems here that should be addressed. The directions posted on the technical FAQ for bypassing the router should work. They do not, at least not for everyone. Setting the router UPnP does not work. I may have made some stupid

I have opened up ports before. I had already done everything that you suggested, Chroniss, [I]before[/I] I made the post. When that failed, I turned on UPnP. Nothing. I DMZed the computer I was hosting from, which has always been a last resort when port-forwarding has failed for one reason or another. And that also failed. I turned off my Vista firewall, and still nothing. Now, I am no network expert, and I am sure there is a way to make this work, but honestly, I cannot fathom

Urgh. I really enjoy this game, but I've been having so many problems with it that I am considering just putting it away until they're fixed in a patch. I'm sure they will be at some point, but the level of frustration me and my friends have been facing trying to jury rig this game to work is making everything rather cranky. First of all, only one of us has managed to actually successfully host a game. Myself and another friend have had zero luck. I have opened ports(perhaps i

I've been getting this too. Though usually not until I've been playing for a little while(about an hour?). It is highly frustrating, but thank god for autosaving. I've got a brand new system that I built myself, well above the recommended specs for the game. I have the 1.02 patch. Vista Intel Core 2 Quad, 2.4ghz 2GB DDR3 1333mhz SDRAM Geforce 8800GT I'm one of those sorts who ends up playing despite this sort of thing, but it's killing my ability to play mu

I have yet to see the AI do this(seige spam), but I have a friend who is saying the same thing. The AI just spams them with seige frigates and even a highly defended planet with emergency upgrades just takes too much damage to really be fair. In all fairness, a well defended planet should turn a group of seige frigates into dust pretty fast. It should -require- a fleet of ships to start doing enough damage to a planet to actually be an effective tactic, not just some seige frigates. Se