• passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Honest question, what does it give that eve doesn’t? If X4 is a good alternative why is eve really so lacking? Give it a try, do a level 1 security mission in a merlin, it’s very similar to X4

    • StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      • I can’t simultaneously play a third MMO (already got FFXI and FFXIV)
      • X4 custom start allows me to jump to the parts I want to play instantly, no matter if it’s starting wars, flooding the market, dogfighting, etc
      • My X4 save is a gzip file: no need to worry about latency after moving to another country etc (my EVE account is locked to a region halfway across the world)
      • I don’t have to wait for irl people to do something fun in X4
      • The gziped save file is in xml format. If something breaks I can just fix it
      • X4 has a huge modding scene for whatever features you want
      • X4’s modding tools are super easy to learn: it’s all xml and lua. Took me only 2 hours to figure out how to modify the UI from scratch.