EVE General Discussion

Just remember that no game has limitless content. Eventually you will run out of things to do. HOWEVER, this game comes as close to limitless content as I think you can get...

I always thought it was more like:

"If one cannot do, teach"

Just sayin

I know something in EVE you haven't done yet, and that's given me all your stuff.

Speaking as someone who has played Eve since 2003.

It goes in cycles. Sometimes I'd vanish for a couple of months, once, 2 years. But everytime I come back, damn its a good game. It really can't be beat.

Time away is a good thing though.

(Unless your like me and get perverse enjoyment out of making a new character everytime you come back for no reason beyond enjoying roleplaying and making backstories. If only you knew how many times I've trained Drones 5, Hull Upgrades 5 and Weapons Ugrades 5. Its sickening.)

Wow, I thought I was the only one. I rember being laid off and recently divorced wondering aimlessly through the massive software aisle of my local book store in a vain search for my next cyber fix to divert me from a boring depression. 2003 had been a very tpugh year. Then, on a cool endcap, I see boxes of a new game with spaceships and hopeful looking pioneer/pirate types on the front. 45 bucks and an hour later I was spewing photon death at a gigantic veldspar rock and chatting with guys that were "beta vets". Then a couple xdays later I zighted my first cruiser, a brand new shiny osprey just pealing isk out of a scordite. I was hooked, just as if I had wrapped a belt around my arm and used a dirty needle to inject my childhood dreams of exploring the stars into my thirsty veins

Over the years I have quit eve for every reason you can think of, but I have always found my way back to the same old crusty probe the carved the seeds of my now fortune from the beauriful plag in caldari space. Oh never fear, fair reader, my mining turned into industry which, in turn gave me ships to lose. Some I cried for, some I laughed about, and a lucky few are in my own personal museum system.

It seems with each new quit and return I managed to discover a richer and more immersive activity. I have learned from EVE as well. I now know that I am a solo man at heart. I have only real life friends and family in my corp and I encourage them to each learn what interests them in the game the hard way....independent failure and rise to personal greatness. I just recently have been able to coax my teenage sons away from console eyecandy games and into a truly incredible cyber universe. A frontier of pixels, emotions, and math (both fuzzy and absolute)

And I am still fnding new ways to have fun, to escape to my sandbox and let the real world be a universe away for a couple of hours each day. My messed up little zen garden where I find peace in destruction, as this clears the land for new life. If I sneak up on you in you first cruiser or miner while you scrape away at our universe with noob ideas and fail fits, don' t let the flames of your hull boil your tears and blind you to what is really happening. I am simply proving to you the great wonderbof immortality in eve and helping you find a more productive path to internet spaceship happiness. We have all been there and are better for it

And now, I too find myself logging in for the simple joy of undocking and flying a fortress of cyber death intk the vast empty of space.....simply to look at the stars. What a wonderful game.

My friends and I were discussing this exact thing. Or rather, what to do about it.

I've had this character now for about a year and a half and all I've done is train it. I haven't shot anyone in the face for almost 18 months. I log in, I train, I keep tabs on the game and its design changes and I keep waiting for the day that CCP radically improves PVP by doing something big- like removing local.

But back to my point- we were discussing how to make Eve fun again, and what we came up with was to try and invent novel and interesting ways to kill people as unexpectedly as possible, just for the emotional impact of it. Basically, causing as many tears as possible for no other reason than to cause distress.

But, this isn't just because we're sociopaths. We're doing this because it actually adds to the game. It builds emotional attachment to the game for our victims. They will remember the adrenalin and the shock. And a few of them will want to get that rush again, and lo and behold- they're set off upon a journey to PVP. Most won't, but some will. I'm willing to kill a thousand carebears if it means turning one of them into a PVPer.

Congratulations, you managed to be successfull at Eve.
Now go out and be an utter faillure. Do ´stupid´ things.

In the end none of these online pixels and assorted shabang matter at all. It are afterall tool to entertain you. No reall vallue or purpose attached to it other then that.

If you get to a point where you actions so far has provided a good run but increasingly lowered the entertainment factor, it wouldnt be a bad idea to just shake things up and do the complete opposite.

There are many, many ways in Eve to find entertainment. All you need to do is let go of the idea that these pixels matter in the slightest.

Hey I quit for 3 years and counting :P

I came back becuase of the maybe change to FW, and to have a voice... we'll see what they pull off. I just want a fun system to play over. it is so boring to own space in eve, it MIGHT get better, we'll see.

however, this video def made me want to get back into some 0.0 warfare/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMFahR4wXTg

War is coming.

Not the new wardec and aggression mechanics. You can literally not have done it.
Warfare in highsec is going to change and I am looking forward to that.