Second chances
Okay, so I ended up dying in Eve. I left my character idle, and apparently when they go idle, they turn their engines on. And after about 20 minutes or so, I don't know, maybe I ran into a star or something. But I came back and my ship was destroyed. Big whoop. I couldn't figure out where to do my quest anyway, so I wasn't terribly worked up about it. I just did what any MMO player worth their salt would do. I rerolled. Different race, different stats, different other stuff that I have no idea why it's important.
After walking through the tutorial again, I realized that I had missed an important part of questing, which is that not all of your quest objectives are in the immediate vicinity of the places you warp to. In order to get to, say, the wreckage of the ship you're supposed to salvage, you right-click in dead space (the area between planets/moons, and there is a LOT of dead space!) and open up the menu which pertains to the quest you're on. It'll have an option for your quest objective, and you can choose to warp there. It's actually quite a neat way of handling objectives in an environment such as space, where anybody could stumble upon the ship that you need to interact with. I'm 99% sure that when you warp to someplace in dead space for a quest, you're warping to your own little instanced area of space, complete with a semi-random assortment of space objects and, of course, your objective. It's quite elegant, and perfectly plausible when you think about how much SPACE there is in space. A ship is tiny compared to a space station, but huge compared to a person. A space station is tiny compared to a planet. A planet is tiny compared to a star, and so on and so forth. In between all of these objects is lots and lots and LOTS of nothing. So they use that to their advantage. Who's to say where this objective is located? It's close to the such-and-such moon of the what's-it-called system, and then from there it's a short jaunt into nowheresville.
So yeah, Eve's gotten a second chance, and I've got 9 days left on my account. We'll see how it turns out.
After walking through the tutorial again, I realized that I had missed an important part of questing, which is that not all of your quest objectives are in the immediate vicinity of the places you warp to. In order to get to, say, the wreckage of the ship you're supposed to salvage, you right-click in dead space (the area between planets/moons, and there is a LOT of dead space!) and open up the menu which pertains to the quest you're on. It'll have an option for your quest objective, and you can choose to warp there. It's actually quite a neat way of handling objectives in an environment such as space, where anybody could stumble upon the ship that you need to interact with. I'm 99% sure that when you warp to someplace in dead space for a quest, you're warping to your own little instanced area of space, complete with a semi-random assortment of space objects and, of course, your objective. It's quite elegant, and perfectly plausible when you think about how much SPACE there is in space. A ship is tiny compared to a space station, but huge compared to a person. A space station is tiny compared to a planet. A planet is tiny compared to a star, and so on and so forth. In between all of these objects is lots and lots and LOTS of nothing. So they use that to their advantage. Who's to say where this objective is located? It's close to the such-and-such moon of the what's-it-called system, and then from there it's a short jaunt into nowheresville.
So yeah, Eve's gotten a second chance, and I've got 9 days left on my account. We'll see how it turns out.