EVE General Discussion

So, almost a year after I drop my sub I get an email saying I can have 10 free days of active account back. I figure what the hell, it was worth a butchers (look, for those of you unfamiliar with cockney slang). I won't be re-subbing, and so I am writing this post under the misguided and delusional thought that my new opinions about what is still wrong will have some positive effect (it wont).

Without further a-do, my impressions;

So I log in, and briefly admire the new login screen look from the latest expansion and listen to the new music briefly. Very nice, but ultimately irrelevant. I select my character and land in my Captain's Quarters. Oh this. I walk a little and admire the graphics and the decent animation of it, buy a vanity item or two from the new NES store, and then quickly become disheartened when I remember that is all it is. I won't dwell on that, everything that can be said has been said. It could of been great, but CCP ****** up royally. Anyway, so I take a browse around the UI and briefly admire some of the new UI. Again, very nice but ultimately irrelevant to my decision about whether I have a reason to re-sub.

I realise I should probably do something, because I didn't want to get stuck in the stereotypical Eve trap of staring at the screen for hours doing nothing. So I undock and take a look at local and see two people smack talking. One is too deluded to realise his war target is at perfect liberty to attack him and it's just a game and he needs to chill out, and the war target is way too angry and offensive for a computer game. They both look like kids throwing tantrums.

At this point I need something to do. My options are find a PvP target (my previous favourite past time), do Industry stuff, or PvE.

I figure PvP is out of the question, I have no idea where the balancing changes have taken the game and chances are anyone I attack will probably kill me and end my enthusiasm for trying Eve again. I am a perfectionist so I don't want to PvP badly just to try it. I don't have the patience to get EFT up, download the latest version, check blogs on the balancing changes and try and figure out what the new meta-game is before I attack anything. I could attack someone gullible and defenceless, and despite the joy that used to bring me I couldn't muster the enthusiasm to be an ass hole for fun and I would still need to find this mythical person.

So, next option. Industry. I quickly run over what I might need to do. PI hasn't changed, don't fancy doing that because it was boring to begin with. Manufacturing has, so I figure I could gather some materials and make something. I check my assets and my position relative to the local market hubs and find I am miles away and would have to go via the gank points (Niarja etc). All right, might prefer to mine it then. Mining also hasn't changed and was as boring as hell before. After weighing up all the options I decide I don't actually have the patience for any of it. Nevermind, next option.

PvE. By this point my patience for trying to find something to do has run very thin. I see the Incursion channels in my lists, and check where they are. Miles away and people are desperately trying to get into fleets and not having much luck. **** that then. Missions. Boring ass missions then. Again, my nearest PvE fit is miles away and I don't have any level 4 missions nearby. And that's it, my patience officially ran out. I log off and don't log in again.

Summary

Now, you'll notice a running theme in all the above. Patience. I used to pride myself on my patience, and I used to scoff when people moaned about not having anything to do. "Set a goal and make steps to achieving it", I would say. After a year of doing other things, my patience has been lowered. It is still significantly more than the average gamer. I still play much slower paced games, but for some reason Eve requires too much patience and too much 'work' for me now.

Looking back on how patient I used to be I can only draw one conclusion. That wasn't patience, it was gullibility. Keep playing, it will be fun soon I promise. And lastly, the obligatory Eve is dying sentence. I figured I would check the active player numbers to see if Eve will do just fine despite my lack of enthusiasm for it. Apparently not.

http://eve-offline.net/?server=tranquility

TL:DR

None. If your hobby is reading forum posts but you don't actually want to read them you should probably start looking for a new hobby.

FTFY

That's a sensible thing to do.

Eve has its negative moments. I could only suggest for people who feel similar to try something crazy like the noobship challenge or otherwise try to perform more social activity than environmental.

Was this post jammed in the system for two years or something?

Complaints about asthetics and then complaining because OP can't be bothered doing anything.

No wonder you aren't getting scathing replies;

Your original points are just....meh

Reported for redundancy

Edit: Also false advertising

You don't mention animal husbandry once in your post.

Contract me all your things and send me your isk please.

You've only been gone since April and are still a tremendous crybaby.

WIS is dead, get over it already.

Your thread title is a lie. You're not returning at all. Unless you're a liar.

Have you tried new Burner missions?

Never mind... you're probably not up to the challenge

in the post you identify a favourite activity, avoid doing that activity, and then complain you're not having fun

also. yet more complaining about wis being canned

Do you happen to have a spare Amarr Carrier or Dreadnaught skillbook you have no use for?