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What motivates you in EVE?

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Caleb Seremshur
Commando Guri
Guristas Pirates
#1 - 2016-08-04 11:51:08 UTC
As title, what makes you want to log in to eve and what makes you log out?
Memphis Baas
#2 - 2016-08-04 12:15:36 UTC
Usually, it's either making some good ISK, or having a blast with the corpies.

Currently, I'm not motivated, though. No corpies, got ok ISK for now, and CCP is going through one of their shittier phases, with the forced in-station TV ads, not quite complete citadels, and numerous bugs.

I had a CTD bug due to, I believe, an incompatibility between the in-station big screens and the SLI setup on my (older) Nvidia video cards; I ended up upgrading my video cards to a single, more modern card before they had a chance to fix the bug, because it was going to take forever, but I ended up using the improved frames-per-second to play other games. I have about 3 to catch up on.

So I'm queued up for 6 months and probably won't log in much.
Rogwar Toralen
AZLE FUN STUFF
#3 - 2016-08-04 12:27:50 UTC
Learning new stuff. Having fun with friends in fleets.
Maekchu
Doomheim
#4 - 2016-08-04 13:16:59 UTC
What makes me want to log into EvE is shooting stuff and explosions, my own included.

What makes me want to log out, is the general risk-averse nature of EvE players.
Lucy Lollipops
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2016-08-04 13:22:10 UTC
New signatures in the wormhole and the chance to pay a visit to some good neighbour whs Smile
Kei Nagasai
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2016-08-04 13:23:17 UTC
Building the war-machines that people use to kill each other, the bigger the war-machine, the happier I am.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#7 - 2016-08-04 13:31:50 UTC
To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women.


As for logging off, only as part of a trap Blink

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Caco De'mon
The Conference Elite
Safety.
#8 - 2016-08-04 13:49:15 UTC
Caleb Seremshur wrote:
As title, what makes you want to log in to eve and what makes you log out?


I log-in each day to help spread the word of HighSec's savoir, James 315.

I log-out each day when my blasters run dry.

*"See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand."
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#9 - 2016-08-04 14:03:47 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women bears. Blink


FTFD


☼

There's a million angry citizens looking down their tubes..at me.
Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#10 - 2016-08-04 14:04:27 UTC
I like to log into loads of new signatures to scan down, especially long wormhole chains, like a thread I just keep pulling until there's an end which could be good sites to run or some chance at PvP. Even better is when I feel immersed in the game and there's some lore feels to be had.

I log out because I also play Real Life.

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Linus Gorp
Ministry of Propaganda and Morale
#11 - 2016-08-04 14:09:25 UTC
Boredom makes me log-in and pretty much every *feature* from the last two years makes me want to log out again.

- New UI
- In-station billboards
- New map / dscan (I don't use those)
- New camera
- ...

The citadels are shiny, though. Like those.

When you don't know the difference between there, their, and they're, you come across as being so uneducated that your viewpoint can be safely dismissed. The literate is unlikely to learn much from the illiterate.
Roci Nantes
Perfusus Sanguine
Pandemic Horde
#12 - 2016-08-04 14:17:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Roci Nantes
Building a new ship, taking it out into the stars and doing things with bros. Most things revolve around making isk in order to fund the "fun machine"



The only thing that is rage inducing in the game to me, is the citadels. Some of the systems are no more than space junk yards. I hate seeing these heaping piles of scrap everywhere I turn. That is simply because it kills my "captin kirk" space immersion. The reality is, eve is more like space costco.
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#13 - 2016-08-04 14:20:55 UTC
Caleb Seremshur wrote:
As title, what makes you want to log in to eve and what makes you log out?


Log in: A stupid idea for a new way to kill some NPCs and get some loot.

Log Out: Watching a stupidly fit PVE ship that never stood a chance to succeed despite my intensive EFT Warrioring skills explode because it was a bad idea to begin with... Big smile


But seriously, I log in to play with my friends and contribute to my team (corp/alliance), try new stuff (see above about explosions), relax after a long day of dealing with idiots and to enjoy something I can't in real life.

I log out when it's time to go to bed, or when it's family time, or otherwise when real life calls.
Varcutii Renalard
#14 - 2016-08-04 14:59:17 UTC
Corpmates. Best awesome corp members :)
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#15 - 2016-08-04 15:17:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Nana Skalski
Huge unexplored areas of space, where I can go and steal dank modules from dirty pirate outposts. \o/

As for log out, its usually night and everybody else is sleeping.

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Sonya Corvinus
Grant Village
#16 - 2016-08-04 15:17:20 UTC
I'm motivated to log in to temporarily ignore the god-awful monotony that is the soul-crushing experience of day-to-day adult life.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2016-08-04 15:24:27 UTC
Spaceships. Just spaceships.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
Crystalline Entity
Black Dragon PHP
#18 - 2016-08-04 15:33:24 UTC
To crush my enemies. See them driven before me. Hearing the lamentations of their women
Brokk Witgenstein
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2016-08-04 15:40:56 UTC
Still on a quest to become a better pilot. In order to do this, I have had to teach myself to not rely on killboards. Learn how to whelp blindly into stuff; learn how to kite better, dodge better, pilot manually; experiment with new fits for old ships and undock some of the more expensive ones that were gathering dust.

It may sound funny but concentrating on the actual combat rather than trying to minimize the risk (and losses) was something I needed to learn for I had come to think of loss as something to be avoided- whereas in fact initiating combat under uncertain or sub-optimal conditions is more rewarding if you pull it off and even if you don't it's still more entertaining.

I log in to see what I can do, where I should improve... what motivates me? Pitting my skill against yours, and see who emerges victorious! (or is what horrible way I will die today LOL)
Pandora Carrollon
Provi Rapid Response
#20 - 2016-08-04 15:48:52 UTC
Maekchu wrote:
What makes me want to log into EvE is shooting stuff and explosions, my own included.

What makes me want to log out, is the general risk-averse nature of EvE players.


I'd be willing to bet you might be in that 'risk averse' crowd.

Ask yourself a simple question, do you always seek a fair or underdog fight? If the answer is yes, then you are not in the risk averse crowd. If the answer is no, then you are in the same crowd, just a ship to ship PvPer.

The risky behavior crowd in ANY MMO is extremely small, likely less than 2% of the player base.

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