EVE General Discussion

Maybe we can talk about something other then a drunk guy named Alex and a fake electronic market for a while.





I still recall being a noob. I vividly remember someone flying into my home system and marveling at how he had a whoping 50M SP. I ofc was mining normal Veldspar in my Ibis and barely had 1m. Ah... the noobish dreams that I had at the time lol. Now, I have 70m SP, I can use all weapons, fly every tech II-III ship, I can fly all 4 black ops ships, and I am currently working on skills I have no reason to train like Jump Drive Calibration Lv 5. Pretty cool for a sub 100M sp character if I do say so myself.


I have tons of friends in game, and still find EVE Online visually spectacular. I enjoy logging in... and then... that is it. There is no motivation left to do much else besides log in. I kind of always figured that when you got tired of EVE that was it, you're done. But in my case at least, I still love the game, it is just a matter of the game play having nothing else to offer. As a player I think that I am reasonable in my expectations, I am just having trouble committing to a roam, running a mission, going into a Wh or running a CTA when the outcome is predictable.


I don't know about the rest of you, but I can pretty much size up two gangs at this point and predict which one will win. I know where to go to get hotdropped, and where to go to station camp null bears. I know how to hunt in WH space, with the god awful "Circle game" and I know the secrets to making buttloads of isk in unexpected ways. There is just no reason to do any of this, because I have done it already. Anyone else experiencing this?




Since EVE Online was my first MMORGP, I have no frame of reference for reaching a game's "end of life" as it were. I guess I am there, but I still like EVE to much to quit it all together. Weird? Or not so weird? ... and no, if I ever quit all together my stuff will go to a few select friends in game or a random noob who will inherent several billion for no apparent reason. So you cannot haz..

Eve gets predictable really fast. For a sandbox, the npc/world elements are too static, and the players arent empowered to create their own mini games or content.

Vacations...

take one.

come back meaner than better than ever.

Oh and nullsec doesn't count clearly.

The emergent empires sitting in 0.0 are just static CCP created content afterall

Don't let Morrigan bully Alistair too much. He might off himself.

In all seriousness though, perhaps a break might be in good order.

Lets see...


* Predictable AI when someone enters system (check)
* Predictable response time to a threat (check)
* Predictable ship composition to answer said threat (check)
* Predicable AI when there is no threat in system, roaming belts and mining ore (check)
* Predictable fleet sizes when engaging in sov warfare (check)


Looks like null sec players are not much diff then NPC programmed world elements to me.
Are you like playing a different game them I am?

This

I've been playing since Eve went retail in 2003 and I always get drawn back. Sometimes you need a break and then you come back with fresh enthusiasm.

I, too, find Eve visually spectacular.

*Dons open-throated pink shirt*
*Dons white suede bell-bottoms and platform shoes*
*Teases 'fro*
*Drapes golden chain w/medallion around neck*

All right, time to go do some combat around a site.


(To answer your question, if you're bored, you can just stop playing for a while and only log in to swap training.)

Wait till the War Dec mechanics change and Declare some wars.

Been there, done that, keep skilling though, burn some plex if you're on a monthly. If yearly, don't worry about it. Put up some long shot low ball market orders. Might come back in a couple months and discover you're rich ... or poor :)

Go read a book, paint a picture.