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Why do you build?
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Banor Garsk
Valkyrie Heavy Industries
#1 - 2012-09-13 19:21:31 UTC
Hey guys, I'm just asking this for the sake of asking.

Why do you build? What do you get out of industry? Millions of ISK? Satisfaction? Providing things for corp mates and friends? Just curious really. I build for some supplementary cash and because I'm a welder in RL. Building is in my blood.
Skorpynekomimi
#2 - 2012-09-13 19:31:58 UTC
ISK.
Satisfaction.

Economic PVP
Alyssa SaintCroix
Leihkasse Stammheim
#3 - 2012-09-13 19:37:58 UTC
I enjoy being a piece of the puzzle. I like knowing that maybe the ammo or mods I made today were on the ship that took out a capital the next day. I don't think I'd say that I do it for the profits, mine are fair, but I suppose they could be larger if I was more serious.

It's something to do I suppose. I never enjoyed trading and not all too fond of mission running.
Bath Sheeba
Another Success Story
#4 - 2012-09-13 20:29:45 UTC
Like an old testament writer I am all about the profits.




I build because it is a 50% return on my money and that I can use to do other things with.
Ginger Barbarella
#5 - 2012-09-13 20:47:37 UTC
Needing to use your brain to accomplish something is a lot more rewarding than just pew. If all I wanted to do was shoot stuff I'd play Halo or some other fps all day.

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Zyella Stormborn
Green Seekers
#6 - 2012-09-13 21:06:07 UTC
Mining, Building, Inventing, really anyone that does any of those is for the same reason. It presses their buttons. Its fun for them. ;)

There is a special Hell for people like that, Right next to child molestors, and people that talk in the theater. ~Firefly
Huttan Funaila
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-09-13 21:06:44 UTC
In most games, crafting, is a type of "achievement" in Bartle's taxonomy of game players.
Richard A. Bartle wrote:
Another common tactic is the counter-example that isn’t: “I like building/crafting/fishing, but that isn’t one of the types!”. Well yes, it isn’t – but have you asked why you like building/crafting/fishing? Because you want to get your fishing skill up? You’re an achiever. Because you want to give fish to your friends? You’re probably a socialiser. Because you want to see what kinds of fish you can catch? You’ll be an explorer,then. Because you hope to lure someone else into joining you so you can suddenly attack them while they’re armed only with a fishing rod? Well, that would make you a killer. It’s wholly possible, too, that you simply like the fishing mini-game, in which case you’d fall into the meta-player category: you’re not playing the MMO because it’s fun itself, you’re playing it so you can play the fishing mini-game for fun.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_Test


  • I do it to see what I can make (this usually loses the most isk).
  • I make stuff so I have ships, ammo and modules to use, and so do my corpies.

Someday, I'm going to figure out how to make money making stuff for sale. Other folks are doing it, so clearly I'm a scrub.
LuckyQuarter
Eden Dominion Coalition
Scary Wormhole People
#8 - 2012-09-14 02:25:23 UTC
Purely because it's a strategic puzzle with players competing obliquely against each other. It wouldn't be fun if there was an instawin button or if it was just against the computer -- nor do I find 0.1 isking worthwhile....rather, I want to make continuous ever increasing amounts of ISK where the ISK can be reinvested. CCP could make it better by letting manufacturing companies slowly over time differentiate their products from other...
Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#9 - 2012-09-14 04:18:12 UTC
Ginger Barbarella wrote:
Needing to use your brain to accomplish something is a lot more rewarding than just pew. If all I wanted to do was shoot stuff I'd play Halo or some other fps all day.


Nicely said, I know its hard for a non industrial to understand the satisfaction but its there.
Vanria Vexed
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-09-14 04:44:33 UTC
I get a great amount of enjoyment in RL and in EVE from creating and building. EVE just provides a different kind of challenge than RL manufacturing.

**Playing EVE at times feels like putting a 10000 piece puzzle together, enjoying the accomplishment of succedding in completing it, then having some random stranger walk by and flip your table over. **
Samillian
Angry Mustellid
#11 - 2012-09-14 08:20:54 UTC
I build because I like to and I take joy in each and every positive wallet flash.

NBSI shall be the whole of the Law
Shanara As
Psy Corp Ltd.
#12 - 2012-09-14 08:37:59 UTC
LuckyQuarter wrote:
Purely because it's a strategic puzzle with players competing obliquely against each other. It wouldn't be fun if there was an instawin button or if it was just against the computer -- nor do I find 0.1 isking worthwhile....rather, I want to make continuous ever increasing amounts of ISK where the ISK can be reinvested. CCP could make it better by letting manufacturing companies slowly over time differentiate their products from other...



thats exactly the reason I will get into production / building. this stream of income. the constant positive flash of the wallet...
the leverage effect it creates.
plus I see it as an enormous challenge for me to get the grasp on it until i am able to manage it to the level that i am cost effective and making good money off of it.

i am challenged by excel sheets and trying to manage it all, understand it all and bring it life

"Gotta spend money to make money" "A fool talks, a wise man listens" "He who doesn´t wanna listen, talks the most"
Gumby Ambraelle
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2012-09-14 10:56:56 UTC
the satisfaction of knowing that I am making a contribution to my corp...

To see a corpmate die in a fiery explosion , or to watch them pilot a ship to create a fiery explosion for a visitor to our home... and to know that I created the ship or the ammo or the mods

to see the shinny bubble around the POS and know I am nmaking the fuel that keeps the bubble up

and on the rare occasion to make a few ISK.... (but it is very rare ;-) am I doing it wrong)


I like flying around and wondering did I build the ship I see out there, did I supply the ammo for the fight I witnessed?

I like to solve the puzzle, to overcome the logistics to get everything I need into our home and back out again.

I build because it is fun....
Azrael Dinn
Imperial Mechanics
#14 - 2012-09-14 12:10:04 UTC
For the fun of it.
Nothing wins a well planed huge complex build Smile

After centuries of debating and justifying... Break Cloaks tm
Pinstar Colton
Sweet Asteroid Acres
#15 - 2012-09-14 14:49:23 UTC
The satisfaction of long term planning bearing fruit despite market fluctuations and pirates working against you.

In the cat-and-mouse game that is low sec, there is no shame in learning to be a better mouse.

Invictra Atreides
Toward the Terra
#16 - 2012-09-14 14:50:22 UTC
Its in my nature. Cant go against it.

Blog | Tutorials | Youtube "I don’t know everything, I just know what I know."
Korsiri
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2012-09-14 16:22:06 UTC
Because it's complicated.
Brooks Puuntai
Solar Nexus.
#18 - 2012-09-16 11:01:10 UTC
Why do people build stuff in RL? The satisfaction of actually building something from the ground up is appealing to many. The more complicated the more interesting. The isk can be nice aswell.

CCP's Motto: If it isn't broken, break it. If it is broken, ignore it. Improving NPE / Dynamic New Eden
Marcus Caspius
#19 - 2012-09-17 05:33:44 UTC
'cause I have time on my hands and don't have to pay some dude for my Dreads and ships that goes pop!

Grammatical error and spelling mistakes are included for your entertainment!
Asklepiodes
Bre-X Heavy Industries
#20 - 2012-09-17 11:00:32 UTC
It's all about the isk and self sufficiency. I went into building when capitals were introduced to the game and prices were insane. Corp needed them so I knuckled down and started mining/buying/building. Nowadays I fund our replacement program, infrastructure expansions and fleet doctrines through it. Nuff said really.
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