EVE General Discussion

It's sad........really.

I just don't understand why you feel the need to post that in this sub forum.

This sub forum is packed with a bunch of wild hungry wolfs just waiting to rip into a little lost lamb.

The last thing Eve needs to see right now is more of these farewell hate threads.

It's sad.......really.



Now that that's been said, let's talk about the game and not these forums.



I've been playing this game for over 3 years. I've found that the majority of Eve players are actually cool friendly helpful people. Don't get me wrong, If you hang out in certain areas of Eve then you'll see lot's of bad people. Hell, after a while it'll either make you turn into a bad person yourself or as in this case, just quit. The main thing is to not surround yourself with those type of players. You don't have to join a player corp to meet and socialize with good people. Just gotta step up and look around, you'll find em soon enough.



Now about the little gank horror story. If there's any new players reading this thread, don't let that scare you away from Eve. Seems a lot of players like to paint Eve into a big ugly picture of Doom and Gloom. Those gank attacks are not an everyday occurrence unless you're hanging around is those certain areas I mentioned earlier. If that's the case, then get up and go to another area. The Eve Universe is huge.



While writing this, I'm reminded of a large 100 gl. aquarium I used to have. I had set it all up with lava rock caves, air bubblers, plants, gravel, etc. I then went and bought a bunch of different types of fish for it. They were all small and swimming round together. Looked cool. But after a while some of the fish grew rather large while others stayed small. Well, the large fish had the run of the tank, sitting out in the open ready to attack any other fish that got close to them. Much to my surprise the small fish adapted and were able to survive by hiding in the plants and rock caves. When it came to feeding time, the large fish quickly jumped on the food first and after they got their fill, the small fish would come out and get their fill. While doing this, the small fish would keep an eye on the large fish, ready to dart back into their safe little havens. None of those little fish were ever killed by the large fish, but they did get chased around the tank a few times.



The Eve Universe is just like the fish tank I had. You just gotta be smart and able to adapt, go find your little piece of heaven and keep an eye out for the larger fish. Just remember, Eve is what you make out of it. I guess that's about all I have to say.

Good luck to the OP, I'm sure you'll find your little piece of heaven somewhere out there in the gaming world.


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I'm on top of the big 3.

The only thing the devs will do is move this to OOP, where "I Quit" threads belong.

That being said, EVE isn't everyone's cup of tea. I'm sorry that it took you 5 months, and 16 posts on the forums to figure this out.

EDIT: Question though: why did you invest time and money into FOUR accounts for a game that you do not like? It isn't exactly the biggest secret that EVE is like this.

Thanks. Actually I've always wanted an aquarium that large. That's a very good analogy. I just don't like hiding in the caves and bushes all the time and I'm certainly not a big enough fish to go exploring which probably wouldn't be much fun because i'd be to busy with the directional scanner.

The vast majority of people I've interacted with in Eve have been friendly and helpful. I've actually come across a few that were total a-holes but at the same time were helpful.

I haven't had a lot of bad experiences "Personally", actually I've had relatively few. Perhaps those I fell in with while nice and helpful see eve's "gloom and doom" side. I once came to the forums to try to find an established group from 0.0 that I could negotiate mining rights with. I'd mine, each time I hauled out a load they could scan my ship to make sure I was being honest, I'd give them a pre-arranged percentage of what I mined. I thought that would work nicely, they get free minerals, I get some protection because they are there protecting their territory anyway and regardless all the asteroids would be back the next day. I got two offers to accept my proposal, however, my Corp mate were so adamant that it must be a trap and that they wanted nothing to do with it, that I dropped the whole matter.

Perhaps after months of pretty much playing solo because I don't have enough SP to participate in Incursions and no one else I know is very interested in what I'm doing.... I'VE BEEN BRAIN WASHED!

Not to the extent I've seen in Eve. Actually WoW is much worse than SWG. But in both WoW and SWG those players "tend" (not all by any means) to be the same ones that are avide, elite PvPers (at least in their eyes) so they aren't difficult to avoid.

In SWG there used to be a couple ways to trick you into PvP without you wanting to or even knowing you were elligible until you got killed. Those loopholes were eventually fixed.

If you don't like how a "small group" determines how the "big group" plays, then become part of that small group.

OP proved himself a liar in the first line! Since he lied right at the start, the rest must be a massive troll.

4/10

It wasn't a lie at the time, though it has definitely because an incorrect statement since. Before I could log off there were five responses to my post, I had to see them. I think I even admitted that the first time I responded to someone.

At least if you mean the part about me not caring and not reading. The insults have been much fewer than I expected though I haven't been dissappointed in the... well... uninformative nature of those posted.

Can i haz your stuff?

I generally want to try more aspects of a came than one account can allow. I had four in SWG as well.

We are both wrong :). Sombre comes from the verb Sombrar meaning to "frighten or astonish". Maybe that means I frighten Assassins? or that I'm Frightened of Assassins?

Oh well, if I stay, I'll be sure to request a name change.