EVE General Discussion

as is everything in this world.

The reason I have so many likes is because people ran scripts around Christmas which literally went through every post on these forums and liked them. Even the deleted posts and posts in locked threads.
See the graph here: http://eve-search.com/stats/James_Amril-Kesh

I don't post in like and get likes threads. :P

Everyone will train up for the best ship that everyone is flying and then you get...
BALANCE

Edit: Note to self: Read OP dates before posting.

Doh, great, I sent a mail to CCP Falcon about this thread... i guess it's been some big WTF for him..

I know this is an old thread, but I just want to throw this into the mix anyways: Mining vs PI.

The premises are rather similar. Train skills to a point, AFK while gathering resources, haul those resources to somewhere for sale, rinse lather repeat. Thing is...I'm actually having more fun with PI than I am with Mining. A LOT more fun.

With Mining, you find the system you want (0.5s tend to be nice) pick an ore, then train your Retriever on the ore and go AFK for half an hour. Once the hold fills, haul that back, hit refine, warp back to the belt, and repeat until you want to stop. If you're in a dangerous area, then you can't go AFK and have to sit there staring at the screen for hours on end while mashing your DScan. I shouldn't have to tell you guys this though because basically everyone has at least tried it for a while and most of us hate it.

PI on the other hand? Check the market for what you want to sell, find a planet type that has the resources you want, scan it so that you can produce the product without exploding your Command Center's powergrid, set up the nodes and hit go. Then come back a day later only to find that all the resource hotspots flew away and you're forced to either gut the whole setup and rebuild or stretch some lines at the cost of a few gathering nodes. Oh, and if your scanning skill isn't high enough you need to use the hotspots to guess first, and then pan a gathering node over the area until you find the best spots, then carefully place nodes around it.

They're both passive, carebear activities. Heck, with PI you can go AFK for days on end, and what I've listed above can really just be accomplished within 15 minutes, tops. But that 15 minutes is still far more involved than anything Mining can claim to have. The non-player data is changing and I need to react to it. Asteroid belts? Psssh, those things always have X of Y, A of B and E of L, resetting at this time during this interval. And I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that scanning for Gravimetric sites (marginally more interesting) isn't going to net you better yields.

TL: DR?

Having the game data change under you is a good thing. Sure I'm using a carebear example, but I'm pretty sure you can apply this to what I've heard about Null (which I have admittedly never visited). Heck, the game changing under you is half the premise of WORMHOLES, where your ability to gather cash can dry up, and even your ability to just move around can suddenly result in you getting stuck and needing to selfdestruct your pod or else sit in a deadzone for days on end.

Because it's the other players that add meaning and variety...try playing with them.

A person who used the word, 'sucky' in their thread title is not old enough to play Eve.

I believe one has to be at least 13 years old to have an Eve account.

Yeah, this is getting a lock.