EVE General Discussion

The reason I stopped playing EVE is that it got too much like real life.

I don't want to play my computer game to be a tiny cog in a great machine; taking orders from and paying rents and taxes to other players so I can go about my daily activities. I don't want to have to worry about what is going to happening to my stuff when I'm not around. I have a real life where I can do plenty of that.

I played EVE to enact the fantasy of being an outlaw or mad scientist. The illusion of actual freedom.

The Tech II original blueprint made it impossible to compete in the manufacturing markets. The holding of the best moons for goo by the major alliances only in the North (more "realism") locked that down for people who weren't ever going to be me. Etc etc. But who cares because I got to play the game I came to play anyway.

And now the individual player who wants their own POS with the trimmings has been nerfed out of it. We will have to pay someone else for these services. We are that less independent not to mention profitable.

I suppose this is barely acceptable while NPC stations still exist. But if NPC stations are removed who gets to be Jita? I have no intention of even keeping this last account active if everybody in this game winds up having to pay the taxes that now go to the NPCs to other players. Because if the rich are only going to get richer in this computer game, who needs it? I get to play that game in RL. Every single day.

Lol real life isn't like that for me.
Contributing through taxes is the absolute least you can do for a group that provides any kind of support.
If you have nothing to offer, you're gonna have a bad time.

You chose to be a cog, no one made you do that. If you don't want to be a cog, don't be a cog.

The same reason we play any game: because we can do fun things in these games which we wouldn't be able to get away with in real life.

The who-gets-to-be-Jita question is going to be asked several times, probably, and resolved with guns, which is kind of the point.

I guess the EVE experience is different for each player. For me the fact that EVE is a single shard universe and that everyone counts is what makes EVE stand out from the run of the mill MMO:s. Some might not like the whole 'being but a part in the EVE-machine' but I find that concept to be great.

Eve is a lot like real life in some regards, but also completely unlike real life in others. One thing that distinguishes it from real life is the fact, that you don't have to work your ass off to stay fed and alive, to pay your rent and to send your children to college, no matter how poor you are. If being a small cog in a big machinery is not fun for you, you don't have to be said small cog. You can be anything - you won't starve or end up in the gutter if whatever you are doing fails, or if you just don't feel like doing it for a month.

So, in a sense, Eve is like real life with the worst parts cut off.

Stopped playing eve yet still gets on the forum.

Yes this checks out as something an Eve player would do.

If the OP really did stop playing, he would no longer be an Eve player.

Therefore, OP did not quit Eve and is still an Eve player.

Eve logic checks out.

You do not quit Eve. You set a long skill plan to train and don't log in.

Well you have to afford your monthly PLEX or you're out. If you pay sub it's just P2W basically.

Given the amount of T2 stuff I churn out from invented purchased BPC, I can't agree.

Any item worth building has sufficient demand to make invention profitable.

Add to that all the items for which T2 BPO were never available.

Then there is all the T1 items.

People like you are the reason why you can get sued for not having a wet floor sign!