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Keen Fallsword
Skyway Patrol
#21 - 2012-09-11 16:46:16 UTC
The fact is that EVE after minecraft is not sandbox anymore :D minecraft is too GOOD at it. I think Eve never was true sandbox but some will not agree.. fine..

but anyway I can understand what you are sayin Im not playing eve anymore. In years Ive collected huge amount of ISKies and now im just buying PLEXes and not playin eve I will be buying them till my wallet will be empty. After that Game Over.

Eve is too time consuming, and very boring, lack of new content (how long you can kill same MOBS and same anomalies / plexes etc.. yuck ... )
Minecraft is just one of the best games that i saw in my whole life, its very modern and genius.

The best MMO sandbox ever was Ultima Online. Now MMOs are ********, focused on AVERAGE player and Average means half-brained... Welcome to internet democracy :D
Sabrina Solette
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-09-11 16:53:11 UTC
Keen Fallsword wrote:
The fact is that EVE after minecraft is not sandbox anymore :D minecraft is too GOOD at it. I think Eve never was true sandbox but some will not agree.. fine..


Don't know about Minecraft as I've never played it, but I agree EVE is not a true sandbox, which is why I usually refer to it as sandboxish.
Praxis Astra
0.0 Axis Fleet
Stealth Syndicate
#23 - 2012-09-11 17:44:06 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Oh god. It's here. That time where I wonder "now what" in Eve and find myself not logging in for longer and longer periods of time. The game got monotonous and I can't figure out what to do.Account subscriptions are starting to lapse and I just can't bring myself to care enough to plex them again.

I've been a total carebear, a griefer, a mercenary, a can flipper, a pirate, an explorer. I've lived in wormholes as a nomad and again as part of a corp. I've ratted, mined, explored, and fought in high, low, and null. I've been a part of notable and notorious actions and had a substantial contribution to several events that have become a part of the history of Eve. Last time this happened, I joined The Skunkworks and completely reversed my character's role in the game. Now I'm just not finding any compelling reasons to keep playing the game. I find a better sandbox in Minecraft than exists in Eve. And yet, part of me wants to stay with Eve. I want it to be the rush it used to be instead of feeling like a task that must be done.

So tell me, guys...what should I do next to make this game interesting again?

(no, you can't have my stuff if I go. I'll slip quietly into inactivity with an inventory full of PLEX to secure me again inflation and come back into the game at some later date when I have a reason to do so)


I can make no guarantees as to your response to it but I'll bet you've never gone though our Hearts & Minds Agent training?

Praxis Astra Master of Assassins and Punctuality http://heartsandmindsalliance.org
Beekeeper Bob
Beekeepers Anonymous
#24 - 2012-09-11 17:48:50 UTC
I've reached the same point. I've tried everything, and nothing really holds my interest anymore. Have more ships and toys than I could possibly fly, Tons of isk, but nothing really seems interesting.

Tried FW, made lots of isk, but found it was populated by 90% afk farmers, and very few live people.

CCP ruined the endgame for me when they screwed up the Supercap nerf, I dumped my Nyx and went inactive for about 6 months at that time.
Came back to shoot Bee's in highsec during the Ice interdiction, returned to 0.0 for awhile, but it was just too boring.

So, is the "Endgame" in Eve...ending the game? Trolling on the forums?

I don't have an answer, but some of my subs are running down, and I can't think of any good reason to renew them....



(And no you can't have my stuff, it will rot with me....) Lol


Signature removed - CCP Eterne
Mr Steinberg
Destruction Creation
#25 - 2012-09-11 17:49:45 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Stuff


Take a break, it should reveal it self when you least expect it ;)
derivativo
Zugleich Techniken
#26 - 2012-09-11 18:22:12 UTC
Cozmik R5 wrote:
Regular answer: can I haz your stuff?

Real answer: Take a long break. By long I mean 6 to 12 months. I just came back from a 10-month break and I find that my love for the game is back and I had missed it a lot.


Seconded.
Keen Fallsword
Skyway Patrol
#27 - 2012-09-11 18:23:50 UTC
derivativo wrote:
Cozmik R5 wrote:
Regular answer: can I haz your stuff?

Real answer: Take a long break. By long I mean 6 to 12 months. I just came back from a 10-month break and I find that my love for the game is back and I had missed it a lot.


Seconded.


If you dont hav ISKis in EVE you are lul ... or half-brained. You may choose
Dragon Outlaw
Rogue Fleet
#28 - 2012-09-11 19:03:53 UTC
If you guys do not stop posting on how Eve has become dull...I will unsub immediately!!!
Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#29 - 2012-09-11 19:05:18 UTC
I like this thread, it makes me that much more excited to play EVE because I still have all these things people are listing to do yet. Big smile
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
Idris Helion
Doomheim
#30 - 2012-09-11 19:11:37 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Oh god. It's here. That time where I wonder "now what" in Eve and find myself not logging in for longer and longer periods of time. The game got monotonous and I can't figure out what to do.Account subscriptions are starting to lapse and I just can't bring myself to care enough to plex them again.

I've been a total carebear, a griefer, a mercenary, a can flipper, a pirate, an explorer. I've lived in wormholes as a nomad and again as part of a corp. I've ratted, mined, explored, and fought in high, low, and null. I've been a part of notable and notorious actions and had a substantial contribution to several events that have become a part of the history of Eve. Last time this happened, I joined The Skunkworks and completely reversed my character's role in the game. Now I'm just not finding any compelling reasons to keep playing the game. I find a better sandbox in Minecraft than exists in Eve. And yet, part of me wants to stay with Eve. I want it to be the rush it used to be instead of feeling like a task that must be done.

So tell me, guys...what should I do next to make this game interesting again?

(no, you can't have my stuff if I go. I'll slip quietly into inactivity with an inventory full of PLEX to secure me again inflation and come back into the game at some later date when I have a reason to do so)


Maybe you've done everything in the game worth doing. You win. Congratulations. Move on with your life.
FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#31 - 2012-09-11 20:11:44 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
Idris Helion wrote:
You win.


I won Eve about a year ago, during our incursion griefing.

Almost immediately after that was over, my family took a vacation to Disney World. While there, I overheard two guys having an Eve-related discussion. I struck up a conversation with them, and after a few minutes was asked if I was in an alliance. I replied "No, I'm in a corp call The Skunkworks." His response: "Which one are you?" I told him, and his face lit up. They knew all about the work we'd been doing and knew of me in particular. We talked for a bit, they got their picture taken with me to show to some incursion guy they knew who hated us, and we parted ways.

When your online persona becomes a character experience at Disney World, I'm pretty sure you've peaked.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
Josef Djugashvilis
#32 - 2012-09-11 22:06:25 UTC
Keen Fallsword wrote:
The fact is that EVE after minecraft is not sandbox anymore :D minecraft is too GOOD at it. I think Eve never was true sandbox but some will not agree.. fine..

but anyway I can understand what you are sayin Im not playing eve anymore. In years Ive collected huge amount of ISKies and now im just buying PLEXes and not playin eve I will be buying them till my wallet will be empty. After that Game Over.

Eve is too time consuming, and very boring, lack of new content (how long you can kill same MOBS and same anomalies / plexes etc.. yuck ... )
Minecraft is just one of the best games that i saw in my whole life, its very modern and genius.

The best MMO sandbox ever was Ultima Online. Now MMOs are ********, focused on AVERAGE player and Average means half-brained... Welcome to internet democracy :D


Take your blinkers off, and you may well see Eve anew.

This is not a signature.
Josef Djugashvilis
#33 - 2012-09-11 22:07:47 UTC
Keen Fallsword wrote:
derivativo wrote:
Cozmik R5 wrote:
Regular answer: can I haz your stuff?

Real answer: Take a long break. By long I mean 6 to 12 months. I just came back from a 10-month break and I find that my love for the game is back and I had missed it a lot.


Seconded.


If you dont hav ISKis in EVE you are lul ... or half-brained. You may choose


I am too stoopid to choose, please choose for me.

This is not a signature.
Praxis Astra
0.0 Axis Fleet
Stealth Syndicate
#34 - 2012-09-11 22:09:23 UTC
Frenemys: Why your opponents are frequently more entertaining and useful than your friends. Step by step Praxis shows you the often overlooked rewards of doing benevolent things for your enemies and horrible things to your friends.

Keeping Your Brospective: The affectionate side of working towards the complete destruction of the hard work of players you know you'd enjoy hanging out with in the Real World.

Lay Back And Enjoy It: Inflicting Agony on players for your own amusement can be even more enjoyable if you harness your natural empathy for your victims for a masochistic thrill hard to find anywhere else. Praxis Astra tells you how to achieve such win-win scenarios. (Some assembly required....)

Their Own Medicine: Any megalomaniac worth his salt knows to work smarter not harder. Checklists to help you determine which fears and flaws apply to your target organization and its members. You will receive a copy of the same matrix Praxis uses (almost) at the conclusion of the class.

Idiocracy: Unspoken agreements. Fears of conflict within the group. Knowing which bad habits a group forces all its members to adopt. Identifying the one element of a Board of Director's groupthink that best turns the screw on the entire group. It doesn't matter what they call their government. We know there's only one form of government.

Homoeroticism In EVE: All primates are capable of bonding emotionally and sexually with other members of their own species. The more "completely straight" your target is the more completely you can operate in this territory with impunity since, by definition, this territory does not exist. We will show you how to play different parts for different targets. The Big Brother. The Little Brother. The Father Confessor. The Buddy Who Would Never Touch Any Part Of You But Your Mind And Heart....Unless You Wanted It. My favorite variation of which: Your New Best Friend You Never Even Knew You Ached For.

Oh my god It Worked What Do I Do Now? Prerequisite: Homoeroticism in EVE

Heteroeroticism In EVE: Ever notice how so many otherwise intelligent charming and attractive guys start acting like idiots when there's even one woman in the chatroom? If you can convincingly fake a female voice, or in any way convince the players that you are a biological female you can go from water boy to She Who Must Be Obeyed in two shakes of a lambs tail. Aspects of your character's female portrait. How to play a character with a male portrait and "confide" to your special friend that you are in fact a female and gain the best effect among a group of players each of whom thinks that he is the special one you told and how he protects you with his silence from those other guys who would be jerks if they knew....... (NOTE: This class is NOT open to biological females who already know all about it already.)

Getting Into Character: This is grueling stuff. Its psychodrama. Effective if you approach it with a certain intent. You want to drag through the jungles of your personality for red eyed beasts licking their razors clean as they reach for you, this is a good way. There are a number of outlooks on life to adopt that I have found useful. Played correctly, they can be used to give your EVE character that extra spice to keep you alert during even the most tedious CTA.

Giggling Psychopath: Hihihihihiiiii! He wuzza funny. Eyes all wide. Ahhahahahahahahahaaa!

Chilly Avenger: All they had to do was leave me/us/him/her/them alone.

Paranoid: My hand trembles only slightly as I fly in formation with my "friend." He thinks.... he thinks that I don't know.

Freelance Sociopath: I've only got to sell out four more of these guys for my new Tengu. That guy Praxis really came through. Bet he'd be worth a bundle to somebody.

Reflexive Hater: Scums. All these little scums. Hating lying cheating filthy scums. Turn on me. The moment they can. Scums.

The Doctor: Note how my electrodes result in a cascading effect between sympathetic and parasysympathetic nervous systems. I have succeeded. I call it: Their Own Medicine.

(Nobody likes this one. Too real maybe?)

Whining Rationalizer: Um. I never did want to have to hurt anybody, but y'know, it was him or me. And I really do think its all for the best. In the end I mean.

Unblinking Fanatic: But only the filth who oppose the universal brotherhood of man will have to die in order for that brotherhood to become a reality. Its so simple.

And my personal favorite

Intraspecies Predator: And I got to do that to him for his own good? I love being me.

Praxis Astra Master of Assassins and Punctuality http://heartsandmindsalliance.org
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#35 - 2012-09-11 23:00:52 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
When your online persona becomes a character experience at Disney World, I'm pretty sure you've peaked.
Nah. Now is where you take that platform and build on it.

Take on the biggest challenge EVE has to offer: trust.

Build a genuine service empire providing… whatever it is people need these days. JCs, mercs, logistics, build-and-deliver-to-order, scouting, intel. All that stuff that people can't be arsed with slogging through themselves. And make it work because of the widely known quality of service you offer.
Psychotic Monk
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#36 - 2012-09-11 23:05:17 UTC
Praxis, I think you just put that in the wrong thread, dude.

Belligerent Undesirables Selling Griefer Immunity
Raiz Nhell
PeregrineXII
#37 - 2012-09-12 02:02:29 UTC
Take a leaf from Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged...

Fly around hurling personal abuse at characters in alphabetical order in the hope that your path will spell an extremly rude word :)

There is no such thing as a fair fight...

If your fighting fair you have automatically put yourself at a disadvantage.
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#38 - 2012-09-12 03:21:53 UTC
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Oh god. It's here. That time where I wonder "now what" in Eve and find myself not logging in for longer and longer periods of time. The game got monotonous and I can't figure out what to do.Account subscriptions are starting to lapse and I just can't bring myself to care enough to plex them again.

I've been a total carebear, a griefer, a mercenary, a can flipper, a pirate, an explorer. I've lived in wormholes as a nomad and again as part of a corp. I've ratted, mined, explored, and fought in high, low, and null. I've been a part of notable and notorious actions and had a substantial contribution to several events that have become a part of the history of Eve. Last time this happened, I joined The Skunkworks and completely reversed my character's role in the game. Now I'm just not finding any compelling reasons to keep playing the game. I find a better sandbox in Minecraft than exists in Eve. And yet, part of me wants to stay with Eve. I want it to be the rush it used to be instead of feeling like a task that must be done.

So tell me, guys...what should I do next to make this game interesting again?

(no, you can't have my stuff if I go. I'll slip quietly into inactivity with an inventory full of PLEX to secure me again inflation and come back into the game at some later date when I have a reason to do so)


Start a crusade to remove Goonswarm and their pets from the game. It will be challenging, exciting, and benefit everyone. I believe in you. Go make me proud :)


Why do people hate goons so damn much? Why don't I hate them yet? Am I still too new in the game?
Ghazu
#39 - 2012-09-12 04:01:20 UTC
Frostys Virpio wrote:
Yokai Mitsuhide wrote:
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Oh god. It's here. That time where I wonder "now what" in Eve and find myself not logging in for longer and longer periods of time. The game got monotonous and I can't figure out what to do.Account subscriptions are starting to lapse and I just can't bring myself to care enough to plex them again.

I've been a total carebear, a griefer, a mercenary, a can flipper, a pirate, an explorer. I've lived in wormholes as a nomad and again as part of a corp. I've ratted, mined, explored, and fought in high, low, and null. I've been a part of notable and notorious actions and had a substantial contribution to several events that have become a part of the history of Eve. Last time this happened, I joined The Skunkworks and completely reversed my character's role in the game. Now I'm just not finding any compelling reasons to keep playing the game. I find a better sandbox in Minecraft than exists in Eve. And yet, part of me wants to stay with Eve. I want it to be the rush it used to be instead of feeling like a task that must be done.

So tell me, guys...what should I do next to make this game interesting again?

(no, you can't have my stuff if I go. I'll slip quietly into inactivity with an inventory full of PLEX to secure me again inflation and come back into the game at some later date when I have a reason to do so)


Start a crusade to remove Goonswarm and their pets from the game. It will be challenging, exciting, and benefit everyone. I believe in you. Go make me proud :)


Why do people hate goons so damn much? Why don't I hate them yet? Am I still too new in the game?

He suffers from goon-induced-battered-women syndrome, bleats helplessly to anyone who would listen, in this case appealing to the OP, a pilot of means and skill, unlike his impotent, useless highsec mining self.

http://www.minerbumping.com/ lol what the christ https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2299984#post2299984
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#40 - 2012-09-12 06:39:33 UTC
FloppieTheBanjoClown wrote:
Oh god. It's here. That time where I wonder "now what" in Eve and find myself not logging in for longer and longer periods of time. The game got monotonous and I can't figure out what to do.Account subscriptions are starting to lapse and I just can't bring myself to care enough to plex them again.

I've been a total carebear, a griefer, a mercenary, a can flipper, a pirate, an explorer. I've lived in wormholes as a nomad and again as part of a corp. I've ratted, mined, explored, and fought in high, low, and null. I've been a part of notable and notorious actions and had a substantial contribution to several events that have become a part of the history of Eve. Last time this happened, I joined The Skunkworks and completely reversed my character's role in the game. Now I'm just not finding any compelling reasons to keep playing the game. I find a better sandbox in Minecraft than exists in Eve. And yet, part of me wants to stay with Eve. I want it to be the rush it used to be instead of feeling like a task that must be done.

So tell me, guys...what should I do next to make this game interesting again?

(no, you can't have my stuff if I go. I'll slip quietly into inactivity with an inventory full of PLEX to secure me again inflation and come back into the game at some later date when I have a reason to do so)



Just do what I do.

Be a SP hore until something cool comes along and then lose expensive ships.


I'll go cry now.


Bring back DEEEEP Space!
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