EVE General Discussion

2.25 and dropping

I disagree.

Considering that we all are EVE and that, whenever we stare at the screen, we stare at EVE ...
... and that the game is made by its players, who one interacts with through the screen ...
... through EVE ...
... then I'd say EVE plays us all, even when we're not logged in.

Further proof tthat EVE plays us can be found simply by looking at my sig. :)

Uhh...

It's kinda like smoking.

I enjoy it, but I don't know why I enjoy it.
I want to quit, but I can't quit.
There are times where I don't think I can go on, yet I continue to go on.
I know it's not good for my health, but I don't care.
I think I can cut back, but then I end up indulging more.
I hate when I lose, yet I continue to buy

Basically, I hate everything about Eve, yet I continue to play..

I want to say it's a 1, but I obviously can't or I wouldn't be here, But I also can't say it's a 5 because I absolutely hate everything about it..

WHY CAN'T I QUIT YOU DAMMIT!!!

So you're not rating the game, just your satisfaction with it.

In that case it would be a 1.


Edit:

Now if I was to rate the game, I'd give it a 3 out of 5.

That's because it's a PVP game, with generic and repetitive PVE content provided as a filling. Just like PVE games like SWTOR have generic and repetitive PVP content for filling.

I rate 5. No hesitation, not at the moment, and I'm not easily satisfied. As someone that's always gone through a lot of games and grown bored of them rather quickly, many I haven't even finished before I moved on to something different, being here for even one year has already broken my record of time spent playing any one game. I'm coming up to four years in April 2016. I quiver to imagine what my Steam stats would show if I'd gotten this through that awful platform, but fortunately, I didn't take that route.

I've never met a more inclusive community of gamers. And when I finally understood the nature of EVE, and the paradox of it being that place where good people can do terrible things, I started to understand the playerbase as well, and when that happened, suddenly everyone made sense and was easier to get along with. When I first discovered this game, I was going through a crisis in my life, one that still haunts me to this day, but the people here who make this game what it is are the ones to thank for giving me this amazing single-shard experience that became the lifeline I was able to hang on to through some very rough waters.

It may even be that this game saved my life. I can't say for sure because I'm not sure how far I would have gone back then, but I know I sure as hell wasn't in a good place in my head. Despite the haunting nature of what happened, I am much more stable today, and much more secure as a person, although there is still work to be done. This game, though, and close new friends I made playing it, was responsible for the vast majority of my healing. Learning to overcome the difficulties here helped me learn to overcome them with more strength in real life. No, I worded that wrong - it helped me find the strength to overcome them in real life.

When I joined my first corp in this game, I was timid, I didn't want to cause trouble, and I did what I was told. Now, I won't join a corp unless they invite me and accept my terms. Part of that is because I've found my own feet in this game, and another part is because the people I WAS flying with for a few years, the best friends I've ever had, no longer play, and I don't really have a 'place' in this game at the moment. So I'm actually considering if I want to start creating places for new people in a new corp, or join someone already established that will let me take on a new player initiation and training role of some kind. Anyway, I digress. This is about satisfaction.

My brother summed it up the best for me a few days ago: "You know, without EVE, you'd actually be single." It was meant as a joke, but he's not far off the mark.

Currently I'm a 4.

Mainly because I'm still a pretty new player having to do the early grind and the training which I've found limits the enjoyment somewhat as you have to wait days/weeks to make good progression SP wise. Though it's something I can live with when I look at all that Eve can offer in general.

I rate my satisfaction with Eve a 5 during the high traffic times, and a 4-4.5 when it gets slow. Great game and have enjoyed if for years!

Try remapping all your attributes into willpower.

You just have to make the other guy lose his ship first. Then it's all good.

Like, if we are going for silly generalisations, may as well just also claim it's as easy as not being bad.