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Delusions of grandeur - Do you get it???

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VaIefar Drekavac
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#41 - 2015-01-08 12:33:24 UTC
"My body is ready, but please be gentle".

~

You were saying? I think I missed a part.
Hipqo
Tyde8
#42 - 2015-01-08 12:53:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Hipqo
A quick update..

I woke up this morning with a venture and gas mining skills! I did it again.....
I dont think i have any other choice, but to accept it is out of my reach and that this game has a "mind of its own"!

VaIefar Drekavac wrote:
"My body is ready, but please be gentle".

~

You were saying? I think I missed a part.


Lets call it a "subtle request" to all the lonely deranged space bandits out there!

Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Hipqo wrote:
Does it happen to you veterans? Do you have brain melts, ... thinking "what have i done....."?
This starts as soon as I am in the process of logging in or loading up the forums.

Im beginning to see what you mean....

A life is best lived, to not step into your grave in a well preserved body. Instead, to slide in side ways, all battered and bruised, screamming, "Holy SH**! What a ride!"
Jenshae Chiroptera
#43 - 2015-01-08 13:50:43 UTC
Hipqo wrote:
A quick update..
I woke up this morning with a venture and gas mining skills! I did it again.....
I dont think i have any other choice, but to accept it is out of my reach and that this game has a "mind of its own"!
..
Sleep deprivation is extremely under estimated. Thank goodness for the new queues, I can sit down rationally, plan a ship and throw in the skills, rather than throw things in to keep the queue full and keep forgetting what I needed.
As a general thing, a player, I don't think I could ever sell my pilot .... (well maybe on the cheap for some people to shoot repeatedly or something (besides obviously, the fact I will never sell accounts or characters).) because I see something I want to do and I train for it. Mix of III and IV skills in Planetary Interactioin, I think I have diplomacy and stuff but I am not a high sec mission runner? Most of my skills are in industrial and mining things. I looked at my skills on one of these chart things ... and it was pretty scary, I thought, "I must fly cheaper things and use an empty pod. I am a really soft target!"Shocked

I keep saying, "Anyone that dies to me, should biomass from shame." P

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#44 - 2015-01-08 16:17:54 UTC
If I played eve for the pve, I'd have to start drinking too.

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Vapor Ventrillian
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#45 - 2015-01-08 23:45:13 UTC
Hello I am an expert on delusions of grandeur (check my sig)

I put what you done down to simple desire for change and risking a lot to achieve it.

I have little to lose and so I will happily risk more. older players are stuck in their cyber palaces of hard worked game hours..and you cant leave your box

start again buddy...truly start again whatever you were doing...do the opposite , go hard or go home ect ect

It'll work I promise

The Evil Overlord of Scope, self elected as all good overlords should be
Asura Vajrarupa
Doomheim
#46 - 2015-01-09 00:01:23 UTC
Hipqo wrote:
Does it happen to you veterans? Do you have brain melts, and then sit an hour later going "what have i done....."? Do you ever learn to control the craving for more, in this game?


Most of the billions I've made and spent mate, most of them.

Ignorance is the cause of suffering.
Ursula Thrace
Dreamland Augmented Consortium
#47 - 2015-01-09 01:32:40 UTC
OP, i think most of us that have played the game for several years have experienced this. after reading your post, i laughed, because i saw myself in it.

i've literally done the same things. i'll watch a youtube video from some guy like wingspan and think - yes! - i've got to do that. i'll queue up a bunch of skills and then a week later go - what the F was i thinking? then i'll switch to something else.

i think it's just natural for most people to bounce around with the skill queue. in the end, if you play eve long enough, you'll be O.K.

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Hipqo
Tyde8
#48 - 2015-01-09 07:28:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Hipqo
BeBopAReBop RhubarbPie wrote:
If I played eve for the pve, I'd have to start drinking too.

Well, in all honesty, PVE has, and always will, be my bread and butter Smile
I am a sucker for anything lore or storyline related, the more immersive the better!
Ive always had a hard time immersing my self in PVP activities in MMO's, im much more of a PVE (carebear, if you must Cool)

Ursula Thrace wrote:
OP, i think most of us that have played the game for several years have experienced this. after reading your post, i laughed, because i saw myself in it.

i've literally done the same things. i'll watch a youtube video from some guy like wingspan and think - yes! - i've got to do that. i'll queue up a bunch of skills and then a week later go - what the F was i thinking? then i'll switch to something else.

i think it's just natural for most people to bounce around with the skill queue. in the end, if you play eve long enough, you'll be O.K.


Im glad so many people can relate haha, makes me more at ease.
But yeh, the cravings for more and more are truly hard to control in this game, maybe its an intentional design choice by CCP? Big smile

I will most likely keep doing this, till i end up in the same situation as those of you with 150m+ SP, if i havent gotten insane and ran away by then!

A life is best lived, to not step into your grave in a well preserved body. Instead, to slide in side ways, all battered and bruised, screamming, "Holy SH**! What a ride!"
Hengle Teron
Red Sky Morning
The Amarr Militia.
#49 - 2015-01-09 19:09:39 UTC
I don't get it

can you elaborate ?
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#50 - 2015-01-09 19:11:23 UTC
Im too great for any kind of delusions.

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
Hipqo
Tyde8
#51 - 2015-01-10 13:23:15 UTC
Hengle Teron wrote:
I don't get it

can you elaborate ?


If you dont get it by now, im afraid you might never get it. You have to be ready to face that fact!

A life is best lived, to not step into your grave in a well preserved body. Instead, to slide in side ways, all battered and bruised, screamming, "Holy SH**! What a ride!"
Chance Ravinne
WiNGSPAN Delivery Services
WiNGSPAN Delivery Network
#52 - 2015-01-24 02:28:14 UTC
Ursula Thrace wrote:
i'll watch a youtube video from some guy like wingspan and think - yes! - i've got to do that. i'll queue up a bunch of skills and then a week later go - what the F was i thinking? then i'll switch to something else.


It's never too late to train Customer Service V.

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Ursula Thrace
Dreamland Augmented Consortium
#53 - 2015-01-24 02:33:15 UTC
Chance Ravinne wrote:
It's never too late to train Customer Service V.


damn! i only have it to level 4. what benefits can i reap what it cranks to 5 oh wise owl?

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Solops Crendraven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#54 - 2015-01-24 04:45:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Solops Crendraven
Zimmy Zeta wrote:
Hello and welcome to the glorious GD section of the forums- and thank you that your first post wasn't a whine or a cry for nerfs.

I refer to the problem you mentioned as the EVE Paradox: We all try to plan everything carefully to avoid mistakes- and yet, if everything is running smoothly, the game quickly becomes so boring and meaningless that you are very likely to unsubscribe.

ISK and personal success is mostly meaningless in the greater pattern- content is what matters and keeps you hooked to this game.

I found failure to be the best personal content creator.
Embrace your fails, don't be afraid to lose ships or lots of ISKs or potential Skillpoints. Every setback will get you out of your comfort zone and into a much more interesting and fun gameplay.
And fun is the main reason to play videogames, after all.

I disagree that Isk and Personal sucess is mostly Meaningless its the isk i invested in skills that keeps me paying subs or I wouldve uninstalled a long time ago However I do agree Failure is the Best Content Creator And my Desire to succeed in my Delusions of grandeur its what keeps me Playing this Odd Video game in the first Place.

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Ptraci
3 R Corporation
#55 - 2015-01-24 11:36:12 UTC
Hipqo wrote:


Does it happen to you veterans? Do you have brain melts, and then sit an hour later going "what have i done....."?



No, because now I take my medication.
Pok Nibin
Doomheim
#56 - 2015-01-24 14:57:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Pok Nibin
I shall condescend to respond to your rather pedestrian post, which I found here in this quasi-slum I frequent in order to fulfill the requirements of Noblesse Oblige. Mind you, the petty considerations you entertain in your unrefined mind, though perfectly suited to one of your stature, hold no interest for one such as myself, as I am accustomed to navigating my intellect in more superior lines of thought. However, I shall endeavor to add what I can in the same sense that adding a touch of soap to the cheek of a waif can but reveal the slimmest potential lying beneath the accrual of ordure.

It is not necessary for one such as myself to entertain any such delusions to which you refer, OP, as grandeur is my quotidian routine. Alas, such splendor as is my custom would indeed seem grand to you, however to me it is merely the quality of accoutrement to which I am most habituated given the circumstances of my birth, and bloodline.

Were I you, and most fortunately I am not, I would not agitate my hopes with regard to achieving (through the menial efforts of the lowborn stature which is your wont) anything remotely resembling the affluence to which I belong, as punctilious as your labors may be. Rather, it would seem wise to resign yourself to your station in life, and appreciate the truth of the statement nature offers you when comparing your baseborn condition to that of my own.

Thank-you very much for your interest.

The right to free speech doesn't automatically carry with it the right to be taken seriously.
Solops Crendraven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#57 - 2015-01-24 17:44:24 UTC
Pok Nibin wrote:
I shall condescend to respond to your rather pedestrian post, which I found here in this quasi-slum I frequent in order to fulfill the requirements of Noblesse Oblige. Mind you, the petty considerations you entertain in your unrefined mind, though perfectly suited to one of your stature, hold no interest for one such as myself, as I am accustomed to navigating my intellect in more superior lines of thought. However, I shall endeavor to add what I can in the same sense that adding a touch of soap to the cheek of a waif can but reveal the slimmest potential lying beneath the accrual of ordure.

It is not necessary for one such as myself to entertain any such delusions to which you refer, OP, as grandeur is my quotidian routine. Alas, such splendor as is my custom would indeed seem grand to you, however to me it is merely the quality of accoutrement to which I am most habituated given the circumstances of my birth, and bloodline.

Were I you, and most fortunately I am not, I would not agitate my hopes with regard to achieving (through the menial efforts of your lowborn stature which is your wont) anything remotely resembling the affluence to which I belong, as punctilious as your labors may be. Rather, it would seem wise to resign yourself to your station in life, and appreciate the truth of the statement nature offers you when comparing your baseborn condition to that of my own.

Thank-you very much for your interest.
What is This Amarrian Gibberish?

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Serene Repose
#58 - 2015-01-25 00:17:04 UTC
Solops Crendraven wrote:
Pok Nibin wrote:
I shall condescend to respond to your rather pedestrian post, which I found here in this quasi-slum I frequent in order to fulfill the requirements of Noblesse Oblige. Mind you, the petty considerations you entertain in your unrefined mind, though perfectly suited to one of your stature, hold no interest for one such as myself, as I am accustomed to navigating my intellect in more superior lines of thought. However, I shall endeavor to add what I can in the same sense that adding a touch of soap to the cheek of a waif can but reveal the slimmest potential lying beneath the accrual of ordure.

It is not necessary for one such as myself to entertain any such delusions to which you refer, OP, as grandeur is my quotidian routine. Alas, such splendor as is my custom would indeed seem grand to you, however to me it is merely the quality of accoutrement to which I am most habituated given the circumstances of my birth, and bloodline.

Were I you, and most fortunately I am not, I would not agitate my hopes with regard to achieving (through the menial efforts of your lowborn stature which is your wont) anything remotely resembling the affluence to which I belong, as punctilious as your labors may be. Rather, it would seem wise to resign yourself to your station in life, and appreciate the truth of the statement nature offers you when comparing your baseborn condition to that of my own.

Thank-you very much for your interest.
What is This Amarrian Gibberish?
Makes perfect sense to me. But, then, I don't have a tiny vocabulary.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Solops Crendraven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#59 - 2015-01-25 08:54:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Solops Crendraven
Serene Repose wrote:
Solops Crendraven wrote:
Pok Nibin wrote:
I shall condescend to respond to your rather pedestrian post, which I found here in this quasi-slum I frequent in order to fulfill the requirements of Noblesse Oblige. Mind you, the petty considerations you entertain in your unrefined mind, though perfectly suited to one of your stature, hold no interest for one such as myself, as I am accustomed to navigating my intellect in more superior lines of thought. However, I shall endeavor to add what I can in the same sense that adding a touch of soap to the cheek of a waif can but reveal the slimmest potential lying beneath the accrual of ordure.

It is not necessary for one such as myself to entertain any such delusions to which you refer, OP, as grandeur is my quotidian routine. Alas, such splendor as is my custom would indeed seem grand to you, however to me it is merely the quality of accoutrement to which I am most habituated given the circumstances of my birth, and bloodline.

Were I you, and most fortunately I am not, I would not agitate my hopes with regard to achieving (through the menial efforts of your lowborn stature which is your wont) anything remotely resembling the affluence to which I belong, as punctilious as your labors may be. Rather, it would seem wise to resign yourself to your station in life, and appreciate the truth of the statement nature offers you when comparing your baseborn condition to that of my own.

Thank-you very much for your interest.
What is This Amarrian Gibberish?
Makes perfect sense to me. But, then, I don't have a tiny vocabulary.
I hope The Freighters You haul are as Big as your Vocabulary.Pirate Now where were we? Delusions Of Grandeur -Do You Get It?

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Pok Nibin
Doomheim
#60 - 2015-01-26 03:01:53 UTC
Solops Crendraven wrote:
Serene Repose wrote:
Solops Crendraven wrote:
Pok Nibin wrote:
I shall condescend to respond to your rather pedestrian post, which I found here in this quasi-slum I frequent in order to fulfill the requirements of Noblesse Oblige. Mind you, the petty considerations you entertain in your unrefined mind, though perfectly suited to one of your stature, hold no interest for one such as myself, as I am accustomed to navigating my intellect in more superior lines of thought. However, I shall endeavor to add what I can in the same sense that adding a touch of soap to the cheek of a waif can but reveal the slimmest potential lying beneath the accrual of ordure.

It is not necessary for one such as myself to entertain any such delusions to which you refer, OP, as grandeur is my quotidian routine. Alas, such splendor as is my custom would indeed seem grand to you, however to me it is merely the quality of accoutrement to which I am most habituated given the circumstances of my birth, and bloodline.

Were I you, and most fortunately I am not, I would not agitate my hopes with regard to achieving (through the menial efforts of your lowborn stature which is your wont) anything remotely resembling the affluence to which I belong, as punctilious as your labors may be. Rather, it would seem wise to resign yourself to your station in life, and appreciate the truth of the statement nature offers you when comparing your baseborn condition to that of my own.

Thank-you very much for your interest.
What is This Amarrian Gibberish?
Makes perfect sense to me. But, then, I don't have a tiny vocabulary.
I hope The Freighters You haul are as Big as your Vocabulary.Pirate Now where were we? Delusions Of Grandeur -Do You Get It?
You totally missed the point. That's okay. Have a banana.

The right to free speech doesn't automatically carry with it the right to be taken seriously.