Actually playing this game with friends

[Jamie]

Hey guys,

Recently signed up for Eve with a friend and we're both loving it. We're just wondering when/if the time will come where we can actually do missions together and it not feel pointless?

We've finished the tutorial missions (where if you fleet up > warp > you get split up...fair enough, it's the tutorial) and have started the career missions. We get different instances in the career missions meaning we can't really 'meaningfully' play together...as one of us is always working for the other's mission.

Will we get to a point where we can actually do co-op missions? i.e "Go kill 100 baddies" and the kill score is shared?

Eve has been breath taking so far...but if this 'solo' feel continues for the rest of the game, i'm not sure we'll carry on :/ thanks guys!

[Harrison]

Did you try warping to the other person? Or doing a fleet warp? Being in fleet doesn't mean you'll warp to the same place even if you're given the same mission.

Missions can be done together and as long as you're in a fleet together, and if you so choose, you'll share in the turn in rewards. If you both help to kill rats in the mission you'll both get a share of the bounties from them.

[BIG SHAQ 👑]

I was told that being in a fleet does not mean you will share the loot and the money from missions. If you are in the same grid as your friend when in fleet together then the money will split.

About looting if one of you loot the wrecked ships, the other one will not be able to loot because it will be empty right? So with looting unfortunately or you share the loot together or one of you take the loot.

[Strings]

the person accepting the mission has the option to share the reward at mission completion. bounties on destroyed rats are still awarded but it do help if you is ina fleet

[Jamie]

so...there aren't any missions that are truly shared? As in...the progress is split between us? Only the reward gets split?

That's pretty lame :/

[Exo]

the one who complete the mission can choose to split rewards equally among all fleet members, that is isk reward and standings boost.

Bounties from killings npcs will always be shared equally among players on grid, wether you dps or not. you have no control over that.

About the cooperation, there is a huge amount of content you can do together. being innovative is your only limit.

While people recommand solo fits, you can do all sorts of duo fits both for pvp and pve.

For instance, google RR and spider RR gameplay. Where you basically "remote repair" each other and one of you flyies, while the second is anchored to you (he keep at range on you).

Eve is one of the most cooperative game ever in the mmo genre. it's a virtual world after all.

[Shotgun]

Forget about sharing tutorial and career missions; those serve only as content to get you acquainted with the game. When you start doing normal missions, as has been said before, you can share the rewards by using the turn in as a group option. You can use fleet warps to get to the mission sites together.

Ultimately, however, missions are a pretty crappy form of content to try to share with friends. They're boring, linear, and screw up your faction standings to such as extent that after a few weeks, you won't be able to go to half of the game's high-sec space without getting attacked by NPC navies.

Learn how to use probes, and then do exploration content together. Maybe do some class 1 or class 2 wormholes.

And don't focus on PvE. PvE is just a means of providing baseline funds that you use to engage in the game's true selling point, which is empire-building. Yes, that does mean competing with other players, often violently. But you're already a step ahead of the curve already, aren't you? You have friends.

[MTB-Fritz]

Originally posted by Jamie Finch:

so...there aren't any missions that are truly shared? As in...the progress is split between us? Only the reward gets split?

That's pretty lame :/

Your problem seems to be that you either dont form a fleet or dont fleet warp through a beacon which will end both of you up in seperate instances. Hit the eve university for more info about fleets and their mechanics.

[Jamie]

Some great advice here guys. Thanks a lot! :)

[[MC]DW]

Same problem here...
It said "MMO" game... but somehow,, i feel lonely..
Just reading chat on help tab,, and maybe find somebody to talk with ( and end up with, "nice to talk with you, see yaa!")

[Zen]

Originally posted by Jamie Finch:

Hey guys,

Recently signed up for Eve with a friend and we're both loving it. We're just wondering when/if the time will come where we can actually do missions together and it not feel pointless?

Missions are really jsut like dailies from other games, purely to give you some money. If you want a goal or a content, you mostly need to set it up on your own.

Originally posted by MDW:

Same problem here...
It said "MMO" game... but somehow,, i feel lonely..

Join a corporation that actually has some other goal than "we're a nice highsec mining corp". Example: Our corp (doesn't recruit via Steam forums, sorry) is currently a part of large coalition, which is at war with another coalition. The war doesn't solve in one day, not even in one month, it will quite probably go for couple of months. As a part of that war there are multiple goals we need to achieve. At the very same time we, on a corp level, need to start moon mining, which means to build our own refinery and to start producing a fuel for it, for which couple of our corpmates started to run planetary colonies. At the very same time some of our guys who were kinda bored of large fleets decided to start gatecamping and roaming around our space on their own, they are shooting neutrals who wonder to our space and they are getting experience while doing it. We talk about all of these things in corp chat, on teampeak (voice) or on discord (text).

Try to join some corporations like EVE University (newbie teaching corp in highsec) or Karmafleet (nullsec corporation focused on newbies), you'll get much more people to talk with.