EVE General Discussion

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I just need some kind of push in any direction man, it's frustrating. I have a lot of free time on my hands while I wait to leave for the USAF and need something to sink my time into.

I suppose I had a similar issue and moved all my stuff to lowsec and decided I was now living there, been surviving chatting to everyone who comes through the system and start recognizing the locals. I do everything there in need to survive run whichever site is thrown at me and kill rats, try and chase a few pilots and get,chased.. Met some people I can trust enough to fleet up too and some definitely not. Its very nice out there I suggest you try it or come live near me :-) this is without a corp btw atm I'm not really the corp kinda guy and not everyone is.

I'll just copy-paste from the last thread:

The discovery that the game did not provide me with a reason so I had to find my own. This meant I could do whatever the hell I enjoyed at any given moment, and the game would never get in my way.

look for a corp and make some friends. Playing alone can get boring really fast and for gods sake, stop creating new chars every time! This is not a usual MMO where you can reach max level in weeks. In some cases it can take a month just to train one skill to lvl5.
You always will lose your motivation to reach or do something if you start over every time.

When I joined as a player in 2003, it was for the graphics, the open ended gameplay and the backstory.

I quickly realized that I got a lot of enjoyment out of EVE from using it as a social platform, and flying with other like minded people. When I eventually started a corporation of my own, I was like "meh, I'm not leadership material, but I'll give it a go for a few months."

That corporation lasted seven years before I came to CCP and had to shut it down.

EVE is very much what you make of it. No one can tell you how you'll enjoy playing the game. Trying different things and finding your niche is all part of the journey, and is all part of character development.

Dive in, and have fun

When you say "what you make of it" you really mean it...
Keep it up, what you've made of it is pretty damn awesome...
:)

Started in 2005 after everquest went to garbage, Earth and Beyond went belly up, and DAOC stopped being interesting. Quit a few times sporadically throughout the years due to boredom. That came from not joining up with a corp for many years. Finally after rejoining the 4th time, took the leap and jumped into eve university, joining the amarr mining camp. Had some good times pewing asteroids. Jumped on coms and had a good time with the original creators. Hehe we did a benefit drive for eve u, mass strip mining half the constellation and sending the ore to uni to help fund it. That was a 24 hour mining op.

Left them, wandered around trying to figure out where and what to do. Started looking for a nullsec corporation before I ran into a wormhole corporation's recruitment thread. I figured that would be cool "knew 0 about wormholes", apped up, and joined the corporation. Had some good times throwing my ships at the fights that would come.

We shutdown the hole, and looked for a new home (we're in a c4, and wanted a c2 for more traffic). Ran into a old friend of another corp and we split shared a c2 for months. At the time we were in another smaller hole but it wasnt enough to support the 200 people we had at that time.

At the time we got into talks with the alliance, joined soon after, and here we are.

It is odd because some of the players know each other very well. There is a great comrodary you don't see in other games.

I'm sure someday I'll leave and come back, its like everquest. You quit, come back, play, quit, comeback, etc etc.

You do keep coming back though.

ITS YOU! i swear you hang around my area

I joined in 2005. Since then I've been a nullsec fleet nobody, worked my way up to FC, then senior FC, then top-level leadership. Then we got BoBstomped and the alliance disbanded so I went into FW, then mercenary work, and even some piracy. After a while I decided to switch to highsec industry, and that's turned out to be an entertaining challenge all by itself. Right now I'm enjoying exploration.

What keeps me in the game? The knowledge that there's still plenty of stuff I haven't done, and that all of the stuff I previously enjoyed will welcome me back any time I feel like returning to it.

The people aren't half bad, either.