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Wasting my time?
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Aliaksandre
Screaming Hayabusa
#21 - 2012-07-03 18:05:13 UTC
As people have said , you are always training offline so you should, at the very least, never feel like you are doing "nothing."

Pick a nice area that has the agents you want for missions or whatever bear activities you want to do, and has an entrance to low sec. If you only have an hour or so to play, its easy to just jump in a frigate and roam around low sec looking for something to kill :)
Rath Kelbore
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#22 - 2012-07-03 19:28:42 UTC
Atrocitus Parallax wrote:
I average 2-3 hours a night, 3-4 nights a week. Is this enough time to accomplish anything?

From what I'm reading big group PVP requires too much prep, organization, and consecutive gameplay for me to do it. Small PVP wolf packs might be an option. Missions seem doable other than the fact that I'm rarely able to get the time bonus, and once in a while I lose one entirely because I take too long to accept. Mining seems doable if not for being less exciting than watching paint dry.

So I guess my question is, with EVE being the type of game where you get back what you put in, is my limited time enough to get a good return or am I destined to spend eveturnity trailing behind the curve?


That is plenty of time to play. What you need to find however, is a group that consistently does whatever activity you wish to do in a time frame that works for you. For example, my corp usually has some form of roam that begins at 0200-0300 or so.

Let's call it 3 hours that you're online, that gives you a good probability of 2 hours of roaming(or whatever)most days you log on.

TL;DR - Find group that does stuff when you're on.

I plan on living forever.......so far, so good.
Gaellia Bonaventure
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#23 - 2012-07-03 20:45:01 UTC
You are playing a lot more than I currently am able. Sad

Bring your possibles.
Corvus Borealis
AUS-BadBadNotGood
#24 - 2012-07-03 20:49:03 UTC
Atrocitus Parallax wrote:
I average 2-3 hours a night, 3-4 nights a week. Is this enough time to accomplish anything?

From what I'm reading big group PVP requires too much prep, organization, and consecutive gameplay for me to do it. Small PVP wolf packs might be an option. Missions seem doable other than the fact that I'm rarely able to get the time bonus, and once in a while I lose one entirely because I take too long to accept. Mining seems doable if not for being less exciting than watching paint dry.

So I guess my question is, with EVE being the type of game where you get back what you put in, is my limited time enough to get a good return or am I destined to spend eveturnity trailing behind the curve?

This is a game.

Your goal is to have fun.
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#25 - 2012-07-03 22:20:40 UTC
Corvus Borealis wrote:

This is a game.

Your goal is to have fun.


^^^ This.

For the time windows I have, which are generally similar to the OP's:

I can do some scanning, often I''ll make a 'throw away' ship and venture in to WH space and see if I make it out with an sleeper salvage.

Or I throw in a movie/surf while running a mining mission (especially if I scanned down a good grav site, but I will mine mission areas too.

I can blitz a bunch of level 3 missions or a couple level 4s

Pile up all my crap and melt it all down to see what I have accumulated.

Jump in to a FW corp for a couple days and get blown up.

Once I week or so, when I remember, I go pick up and sell my PI stuff.

Sometimes I just jump in to the help channel and help people.

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"If you are part of the problem, you will be nerfed." -MadMuppet
Marconus Orion
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#26 - 2012-07-03 22:30:20 UTC
Thought topic was about training Gallente. Left disappointed.
Annabell Ood
Ood Mineral Resources Management
#27 - 2012-07-03 22:47:07 UTC
From what I am reading friend your main problem is that you don't know what you want to do in EVE.
EVE is a mature game and it takes patience and some vision.

I would suggest a "shotgun" approach and do some research.
for example-
If missions are giving you a bother then see what ship and skillz you should be useing.
Get involved with FW and loose a few frigs ( if you can afford it).
Maybe check out the market with trading/hauling.
Try out a little salvage action and learn how to work with probes.

After a few weeks of that start setting some goals for yourself and you will really start to see why EVE is where you want to spend your time.
Jimmy Gunsmythe
Sebiestor Tribe
#28 - 2012-07-03 22:55:37 UTC
Yeah, I get an hour here, two hours there. Not doing much with that time, waiting for skills to go up. I'll probably RvB for awhile, not too demanding over there. After that, who knows.

John Hancock
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