EVE General Discussion

Find another game you enjoy and play that for a while. In a few weeks, or even months, come back to Eve. Don't quit because you'll end up regretting that decision. As others have said, just take a break.

I recommend giving DayZ SA a shot. It's a sandbox game with measurable loss when you die, but it's a completely different animal from Eve.

If you're that young and already bored with EVE you my friend are doing something wrong.

EVE is a game, do stuff for the lulz, like trying to kill flashies with procurors. Or getting your corp mates together and running L4's in T1 frigs.

Hell one time I even locked up and shot Concord, it was a hoot! (the kids loved it too)

Don't wait for someone to come along and create content, create your own!

Just take a break from the game and then come back reinvigorated full of energy to play EvE again that is what I am going to do next year.

And op try playing EvE for 8 years or more ongoing and no stopping and see if you can handle it like us vets.

No need to complain just do it get it

BTW can i haz your stuff

That's not so. Escapism isn't the only reason to do something like what we are doing. I have nothing I want to escape in real life, it's 'Awesome'. I play games to do things I can't do in real life, like fly in space and be immortal (because Death is real, in real life I don't make it a habbit of going to dangerous place like null sec aka Detroit, having a fairly dangerous job like i do, that's enough adventure lol).



That is exactly what I'm saying. In games like EVE (where other people who have every bit as much right to exist in game as you do), what you 'desire' means jack ****. What you can COMMAND and ENFORCE for yourself is all that matters.

I PVE because I choose to and because I can protect myself from people who want to kill me while I'm doing so, not because I have some 'right to do as I please and be left alone' in a game like EVE.

And yes, I do feel a certain disdain for people who think otherwise in this regard, same as I do dealing with such a person in real life who thinks that the world owes them something rather than understanding that life is what THEY make it, and only what they make it.



Who, exactly, is doing that?



"accountability that virtually any other paid product is subject to"

EVE is not 'perfect', but the reason why people 'blame' the person for doing it wrong is because in most cases....they did it wrong (there are multiple ways to do things both wrong and right).

The knee jerk reaction isn't in pointing this out. The real knee jerk reaction is displayed by the person who doesn't even TRY to learn why what they did didn't work and instead runs STRAIGHT to the forums to proclaim that EVE online is flawed and must be changed for the good of humanity.

It is not different than (in the real world) some guy failing to achieve some personal goal and instead of trying to figure out what went wrong or changing approaches, the guy runs to The White House and demands that laws be passed to prevent him from failing in the future lol. That doesn't mean that real life is perfect, it means "how do you know it's imperfect if you can't even be arsed to try to fix your situation yourself 1st?".

Sometimes it's not just what you're doing in the game but who you're doing it with. Change things up and play with some new people, make new friends, etc etc. Doing so every now and then across all of my accounts has kept me going for my grand total of 8 years playing this game almost non-stop.

'06 player here. I've taken a few long breaks from EvE, but never because I was bored. Since coming back this spring, I've made it a point to try out as many different aspects of EvE as I could. I had done missions, losec PvP, and nullsec fleet PvP thing in my past periods of activity, so since this April, I've tried (in no particular order and not necessarily all on this character):

1. Suicide ganking. (Didn't like it)
2. Shooting suicide gankers. (Kinda liked it, great for lulz and bounties)
3. Running a hisec POS. (Kinda sorta liked it, but took lots of work so I wasn't sad when it got blown up)
4. Blowing up hisec POSes. (Once I found out I could do this for ISK, I started enjoying it)
5. Blowing up hisec/losec POS modules. (This is hella fun, and rather profitable)
6. Industry. (This is kinda fun, but makes #5 way more profitable)
7. Research. (Same as industry)
8. Mining. (Boring as all get-out, but made running the POS easier)
9. PI. (Great passive income once you figure it out)
10. Non-POS hisec wardecs. (Hit or miss. Some are fun, some are boring)
11. Exploration. (Kinda fun, but I prefer "real exploration, which is getting out and finding targets)
12. Grudge matches. (Good times man, good times)

Never being bored in EvE is all about being able to access all of its riches. The wider variety of things you are able to try, the more entertained you'll be.

Not quite so shiny, but I got a 5-run, perfect Megathron BPC a while back. It is pretty cool building the ship that you're flying.

I'm in the "take a break" camp. I did it myself. Left for 4 years but kept getting these welcome back emails until I got one that allowed me 1 month free. So, I bit. So, far I'm enjoying myself. But I know I'll get bored again and I've tried about every career EvE has to offer.

What I found was people really make the difference. If you make friends online in the game you can have some great fun. I meet people from parts of the world I've never visit or be able to visit.

Hi

The advice that has been given in this thread so far is nothing short of stupid, whats the point of a game if you have to leave it every now and then to enjoy it, play some benny hill music when reading some of the clueless replies from those clowns, they ain't got a clue.

Like you i've tried everything in game and found every activity to be horribly boring. The problem you , and most people that have replied to this thread forget, is that this is a sandbox, all the pve activities available are there for you to make isk, nothing more. That isk is meant to be spent on having fun. Your sec status is meant to be spent on having fun.

As you state, low sec is shite, no matter what you do. 0.0 alliances are either 2 hour roams for an industrial kill, huge blob fights, or a mail box full of pointless mails from some irrelvant dickhead.

Around april this year i almost bio massed my characters and prepared a **** you mail to ccp. I then came across Code. Once i learned the ropes i have never enjoyed a game more than eve online right now. Killing miners and afk'ers is the most fun you can have. It's all about generating your own content.

Logging in to a mail box full of hate mails will make you laugh way more than any content that any entity in game can provide. The guys in Code alliance & the minerbumping channel are the nicest, most helpfull people i've met in this game ever. The teamspeak couldn't be better.

Around 30% of the miners/afk'ers that i kill convo me afterwards and ask how they can get involved. I've trained many new/old players in the art of ganking, theres way more to it and way more work than most people realise, but it is incredibly rewarding. All your ships are paid for and you get to keep the loot, and if your dedicated enough you can earn plex to run your account every month, it couldn't be better.

Join the minerbumping channel and get involved, or contact me ingame, i'll help you as much as i can.

Your friend

Hal

What's this debate about? single client EVE is slow and boring. Multiboxers have turned a non-twitch game into a twitch game. That's the basic problem people have with it. The other problem is the RP--multiboxers are breaking their precious RP that their character is special.

It will happen in any game that allows it. If it's boring, the game doesn't sell. Otherwise, you ramp up the gameplay to the limits of your gaming ability.

uniboxing EVE sucks.