EVE General Discussion

Kind of, sold everything but 3 ships (one per char), 5000 missiles, and a missile bp. Gave away the rest. Very liberating.

But but skill points don't matter!

Good observation skills!

It's something I've done, and something I have both enjoyed and regretted with equal measure.

My first character (from launch in 2003) was deleted when I first quit EVE in what was genuinely it's darkest hour (early 2004) - the low numbers and huge bugs drove numbers down significantly in the early days, when peak was only 5-6k players at best, and I was convinced it was over.

My second character (2004-2005) came a while later, returning sheepishly, behind my brother and friends on SP but otherwise content. I played too much, too fast, too hard. I burned out when I realised it was taking more time and effort to make corp profits than I was putting in to my actual real world job.

After another break, I was back (2006), this time, I wanted a complete change of direction, I wanted to focus on Amarrian RP, and damn, my old Minmatar null-sec character wasn't going to cut it. He was sold, and I started over. This is one move I've never regretted, even losing the SP, I met the greatest bunch of people in my Amarrian NPC starter corp. We gelled, it fit, EVE became the social MMO I always hoped it would be. We formed a corp, we went from newbie miners to successful freighter manufacturers. I stayed for over 3 years.

Ultimately, I took another break though, this time for real life - I met and married a wonderful woman, kids came along, I stayed away from EVE for nearly 5 years, before returning once more last year.

This time, I haven't sold or deleted my old character, but it is something I am tempted to do each time I log in with him. He has SP, but I have few connections to the game through him. The people I knew have long ago left. What we achieved together is long gone. Flying as my old character has its benefits, but it also feels vaguely.... wrong. He is a misfit now, he doesn't fit my new goals or my new vision of EVE. It has been a frequent temptation to sell him and start over.

To a degree, I have, I have started this alt account and tried to re-live that newbie experience. It isn't easy rebuilding those skill points, starting over when I know I can log in to my main account and jump in to almost any ship. But that feels somehow like. cheating. I have the isk from my past, mostly sat in my wallet doing very little. I log my old main in and have tried to do things with him, he certainly can earn isk more easily, but the satisfaction isn't there. I don't know why.

I feel like I'm looking back in a wish to relive a newbie wonder and fascination that faded over a decade ago, but EVE isn't the same game and nor am I the same person. Pragmatically I should just embrace the SP of my past, it would help me do more. But somehow, I just can't shake of that temptation to sell him off and keep pushing this new character instead.

I've done it many times, I'm in fact selling this one heh. It doesn't necessarily make sense but sometimes I get bored of a character.

I sold my original main, still undecided if it was a bad idea or not.

This. All that days sitting useless at station etc.

It remembers me the first days of eve with 1 month of Learning Skills semi afk Rookie Ship Spinning. Never ever.

Could never fathom selling this toon. 127mil sp. it will die with me when i go, probably the servers will die first.

It's the names for me. All of my characters have names I use over multiple games going back to my first MMO. If this character could become Gallente Citizen 12345 and I could shift the name, I'd be more likely to consider the Skill sheet an asset and put it up for sale.