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What motivates you in EVE?

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Pandora Carrollon
Provi Rapid Response
#21 - 2016-08-04 15:53:33 UTC
My motivation is I enjoy the game. I'm finding out all the great things I can do in it. There's always something new to try to become good at.

EVE is my game, made my way, played the way I feel like it. The mistakes are mine to own, the victories mine to own. The people are great, even the rotten eggs, and the game devs seem to give a damn about me as a player, so all's good.

Fly Smart! o7

8 Golden Rules of EVE • EVE is entirely PvP
Moac Tor
Cyber Core
Immediate Destruction
#22 - 2016-08-04 16:05:00 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.

That's what makes it all the more sweet when you kill them. If Eve didn't encourage risk averse behaviour then it would just be like every other meat grinder multiplayer type game where you don't really care if you kill or get killed because you simply respawn with all your stuff.
Nana Skalski
Taisaanat Kotei
EDENCOM DEFENSIVE INITIATIVE
#23 - 2016-08-04 16:27:25 UTC
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#24 - 2016-08-04 17:20:50 UTC
Moac Tor wrote:
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.

That's what makes it all the more sweet when you kill them. If Eve didn't encourage risk averse behaviour then it would just be like every other meat grinder multiplayer type game where you don't really care if you kill or get killed because you simply respawn with all your stuff.


+1

Also, there is a difference between overly risk averse behavior, and smart game play. Not taking an even odds fight (or a fight where the odds are *only* slightly in your favor) is overly risk averse behavior. Running away from a 15 man gang when you are by yourself in NOT risk aversion , staying would be stupid most of the time.

I've heard people say "we need to get rid of killmails because if you did people would pvp more". Same for the whole "insurance should pay for everything" suggestions people have floated around. Totally bad ideas, losing something in EVE is supposed to hurt, you are supposed to dislike getting hurt, and that makes getting actual kills that much sweeter, because you know it hurts lol.
Yokai Mitsuhide
Doomheim
#25 - 2016-08-04 17:21:49 UTC
The experiences you can't get on any other game is what keeps me motivated. The rush you get when doing something like pvp...I've done tons of pvp in other games but never have I had the feelings EVE can give you. First time I did pvp in this game, my hands were shaking...I forgot how to play almost entirely for a moment or remember to even activate my ships modules. I've never found that kind of rush in another game.
The community is a big part of it, all the stories players can tell you that sound like they are straight out of a novel or a movie. Even the people you don't like provide awesome content in which to read about or take part in.
There are more but those things alone will always keep me loving this game. Even when you "quit" or take breaks...you know you're going to go back, EVE becomes a part of your life. Big smile
Brigadine Ferathine
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#26 - 2016-08-04 17:26:03 UTC
Caleb Seremshur wrote:
As title, what makes you want to log in to eve and what makes you log out?

flying with corpies and stuff, but they don't really exist right now so.....
Maekchu
Doomheim
#27 - 2016-08-04 19:14:46 UTC
Pandora Carrollon wrote:
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.

You take smart fights. Some fights are just plain stupid. But yes, I do tend to take fights that are not always in my favor.

Probably happens a bit less these days, since I'm spending time with my newly recruited corpmates and just wait a bit for their skills to catch up, while creating some stable isk income.

But if you would have checked KB stats before posting, then you would see that my kb ain't all that green. And there are plenty of T1 frigs vs factions frigs, T1 frigs vs dessies, some T1 frigs vs cruisers (Although taking on cruisers have become rather hard) and some T1 frigs vs battlecruisers. Solo with no links.

But I suppose, I am risk-averse after all. But it's really nothing compared to how risk averse the rest of EvE is. So many people have fled my T1 frigates, even if I've given them a favorable fight like against a faction frig or dessie.
Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#28 - 2016-08-04 19:27:24 UTC
Do stuff, relax after work. There is never not something to do, fleet action, solo roaming, industry jobs / hauling, PI, market orders, ...

I'm my own NPC alt.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#29 - 2016-08-04 19:42:08 UTC
Putting together some sort of crazy contraption or scheme and somehow getting it to work.
Eleonora Crendraven
Global Communications AG
#30 - 2016-08-04 19:50:46 UTC
Making mistakes: some small, some with REAL impact on your play.
(Oh, sh... that was not the amount of ISK I wanted to sell that for...)

Seeing all these people buying things from you.
Making money to build new stuff people can buy :)
And collecting things, like skill books, offices, ISK...

Sometimes blowing up the stuff just built. But just sometimes.

https://twitter.com/gcAG_EVE

http://eveboard.com/pilot/Eleonora_Crendraven

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Dibz
Doomheim
#31 - 2016-08-04 20:03:02 UTC
Caleb Seremshur wrote:
As title, what makes you want to log in to eve


Boredom.

Caleb Seremshur wrote:
and what makes you log out?


Boredom.
Bumblefck
Kerensky Initiatives
#32 - 2016-08-04 20:08:50 UTC
Motivation

Perfection is a dish best served like wasabi .

Bumble's Space Log
Moac Tor
Cyber Core
Immediate Destruction
#33 - 2016-08-04 20:32:09 UTC
Maekchu wrote:
But if you would have checked KB stats before posting, then you would see that my kb ain't all that green. And there are plenty of T1 frigs vs factions frigs, T1 frigs vs dessies, some T1 frigs vs cruisers (Although taking on cruisers have become rather hard) and some T1 frigs vs battlecruisers. Solo with no links.

Well there is your problem right there. Fly something more substantial than a t1 frig and people might consider it a worthwhile fight and engage you.
Gwenaelle de Ardevon
Ardevon Corporation
#34 - 2016-08-04 20:34:17 UTC
To sell guns to everyone & everybody and not ask them what use they will make from ... like a real warmonger ShockedPiratePiratePiratePiratePirate

«An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour». Albert Einstein - [11, S. 154]

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Chewytowel Haklar
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#35 - 2016-08-04 20:34:56 UTC
People

Simply it is the people that make me log into the game. This game without people would be utter ****.
Maekchu
Doomheim
#36 - 2016-08-04 20:38:25 UTC
Moac Tor wrote:
Maekchu wrote:
But if you would have checked KB stats before posting, then you would see that my kb ain't all that green. And there are plenty of T1 frigs vs factions frigs, T1 frigs vs dessies, some T1 frigs vs cruisers (Although taking on cruisers have become rather hard) and some T1 frigs vs battlecruisers. Solo with no links.

Well there is your problem right there. Fly something more substantial than a t1 frig and people might consider it a worthwhile fight and engage you.

Flying around solo in FW, or at least I was. Fine space for frigate PvP.

You can get fights with every ship, you don't need to fly blingy ships to get fights. You will actually find, the blingier ships you fly solo, the worse engagements you will get, cause no one will solo you and instead they just come with a whole blob. Again, talking to the general risk-averse nature of EvE players.

I did get decent engagements, but there is just something funny when faction frigates and dessies run from a solo T1.
Serene Repose
#37 - 2016-08-04 22:59:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Serene Repose
Just so absolutely *etarded to say what other players don't do affects what you do. If you don't like other players way of doing things, just burn your computer, get yourself a backpack full of nutrition, go sit on a lonely mountain top looking down on the world and feel superior.

Someone actually said "risk averse" again. Try and keep up.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
Jasmine Deer
Perkone
Caldari State
#38 - 2016-08-04 23:07:30 UTC

Making stuff
Flying different ships and trying different modules.
Scheduled joint operations.


Gatecamps.
Others in my TZ saying they are logging off as it is late.
Valerius Ravin
#39 - 2016-08-04 23:58:17 UTC
It's a question I daren't ask myself, in fear of not coming up with a satisfying answer anymore.
Nafre Attano
Doomheim
#40 - 2016-08-05 00:18:59 UTC
It's nice to interact with players that are generally (there are always exceptions) more intellectual and mature than those of other MMORPGs.