EVE General Discussion

gank ppl or team up with ppl that gank ppl. its good fun, on avarage 20 hours of play for 10 mins of rly awesome fun

Just enjoy the ride, do what you can do with the skills you have, if require assistance, get ii: all you have to do is a little asking.

I enjoy EVE even when I lose huge amounts of ISK (pod luck, rod luck is more like it)

As you have to ask this question, you're a consumer.
You'll stay for a few months and then leave without anybody really caring.

Bye o/ :)

Isk farming is not "mindless". It is for a very specific reason - isk helps you achieve your goal. If you play EVE thinking that fattening your wallet is what the game is about, you are only playing half the game, like playing monopoly by rolling the dice and going around the board collecting $200 from "Go" without actually doing anything else. You'll get bored of that really quickly.

ISK is a means to an end - be it to collect and research exotic blueprints and items, to manufacture on a vast scale, managin and organizing corporations and alliance and creating or resolving intrigue, or to destoy your enemies and hear the lamentation of their women, ISK is the tool that lets you achieve this. But just like in monopoly where most of the fun actually comes in the form of the decisions you make, and their impact on the unfortunate victims you extort through rent rather than "money" in itself; so in EVE most of the fun arises from your interaction with the other inhabitants of the universe.

How you interact is entirely up to you - will you be a wretched scammer, a notorious spy, a silver tongued diplomat, an honest and trusted merchant, a fearsome soldier, a cunning flight commander, a brilliant strategist... the possibilities are endless.

My advice?

Play naked...in public...

Go do RvB, they do pvp that's full of other people with lower skills, they'll also do arranged fights where everybody will be in frigates. Good way to do pvp without needing three years of training.

Quit focusing on what you don't have skill wise, and focus on what you do have, and use it to its fullest.

You'll never enjoy this game unless you're able to have fun at the expense of others.

Or at least not until CCP is done casualizing it. Then you'll be set up with a pre-fit mining barge at each login, and will have lots of "laffs" blasting space rocks with your {insert a racially-diverse group of 18-35, middle-class urbanite} friends while updating your linked Facebook profile via an in-game browser that can finally play Angry Birds.

You will have fun. Trust me. It will be the only way you'll be able to justify the lifetime subscription you'll purchase without turning to tears and alcoholism

I think I'll go back to trying to find my niche in industry.

You can always watch custom x-rated combat training videos in captains quarters... That is the end game.