Science & Industry

I purposely posted in Sci/Ind - Lets pretend wasting rats isn't an option.

The kid is napping, the wife wants to watch her show, and you manage to kick back for a cool 60 minutes. How do you spend your time?

I love the depth of this game. I've dropped and picked it up so many times since 2007 I've lost count... But I find myself without any in game goals, which is what keeps me driven. Pretend for a second that you're maxed in all things science/indy. What do you find entertaining if you don't have the time for large 0.0 roams, or even L4's? If you could only log in for 1 hour segments, how would you keep yourself busy?

i find myself logging in, salivating over the market, and logging back off.

I'm jaded and I don't wish to be.

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that's a hard one TBH, you could try doing something outrageous like ninja'ing PI or plex mods out of null sec using wormholes and blockade runners, takes little time but more attention

Why would you have to play Eve on her back when she clearly watches her crap when she decides to without asking your permission?



"If I ever catch you watching that crap again without asking me permission you're gonna be out of "meat" for a month !"

Sweet Jesus, what's with the complete derailment off the topic and the hate mongering against my wife? I try and make some coy little title, and people completely miss the subtle word play for the (what i thought) was obvious jest. Now we have a womens rights activist commenting, and a handful of others who clearly don't know what family responsibility is.

So let me rephrase this and get back on topic here.

Assume you're over the age of 25 - you've got family that takes up a lot of your time, and it's hard to sneak away for more than an hour at a time because you have real life responsibilities. I realize the core demographic isn't probably people over 30, but I have faith that we have some smart people on these forums who have solid information to contribute.


I like the PI I guess. A bit dry, but a safe way to make money. Freighting may the way to go - haven't really done a whole lot of purchasing on margin, but I do have a charon gathering dust. Never dabbled in T2 production - but it sounds like fun. I think I'll look into that further.

Dude. Right there with you. My play times are limited. I get an hour or so nightly and binge a bit when I can for as long as I can.. I still have fun, but I am pretty new. Summer is tougher because my daughter is up later than usual so my window of after-bedtime to my bedtime is narrower than usual.

So far I like to spend time doing industry, pi, market, mining, and exploration. If you have a fit ship and a locale in mind exploration doesnt really take that long.

I guess with my limited time in my pod I spend it doing as many different things that I can.

Hour of playtime? I'd spend it doing what I always do. Mine. I've been playing since 2004 and have kinda done everything in the game. The game itself is pretty boring. But what you can do with it to interact with others can be amazing at times. I never could seem to have fun in pvp. Lost ship after ship and spending time refitting just to lose that one soon after got old.

I figured since I could just semi-afk mine everyday and the game basically pay for itself then why not. When I get home from work I fire up the laptop and get my retriever out in the belts while I wash dishes and clean house. I make way enough to cover the plex each month doing that. Every 30 days or so I'll find a new system far off and haul everything out there and mine there. All I really need is a small fix of being in space and flying ships and I'm good.

I used to spend most of my eve time flying around. No joke, I would just auto pilot to the other side of the map and explore all the systems there. It gave me a small sense of being in a different place even though all the systems are really the same anyway.

That's how I play the game.

My concern is why are you calling your wife/GF, you're wife/GF? Which is it!?!?!

My GF does the same s#!$/ to me...complains about me playing an internet spaceship game...she can watch Games of Thrones without my permission...when she gets home I need to get off eve but when I visit her I need to watch that BS...F this I am off to eharmony

An hour sounds great until you realize that it's not guaranteed to be an uninterrupted hour. So whatever you choose to do, you have to be able to walk away at a moment's notice.

When the kids and wife are (finally) all asleep you can try doing something uninterrupted, but by then it's late.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............. and you're too brain dead to do anything serious and you have work in the morning and you promised you would do the dishes since the missus is busy with a baby and ......zzzzzzzz..........


tl;dr You're not going to be playing Even with any regularity until the kids are older, because, you know, your kids childhood and your wife's sanity are more important than Eve. Mostly.