EVE General Discussion

Not in FW it isn't

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PS, some green little dude in a Galaxy far, far away said "There is no try! Do, or do not!"

So I spent some time doing plexes in FW. I was in a Caldari system, got spotted by a pirate who then proceeded to spend the next 20 minutes chasing me down as I warped to different nav points and systems, trying to shake him off! Crazy! In the end I died, but what disturbed me was the relentless pursuit, as if I spat on his mother's grave.

It was WEIRD. It felt like I was being chased by a Reaver from Serenity or something.

I do appreciate the oppurtunity to throw out one of my favorite EVe Truisms: EVe is a sandbox, if you are in a sandbox but not having fun, it's not the sand's fault".

I've been playing EVE for more than 5 years and though I've "lived" in null for 3 and a half of those years, I'm still primarily a pve player/ I've done every kind of "pew pew" pve there is, missions, incursions, anomalies and complexes, Belt Ratting, cosmos, Events, you name it. I just recently moved to "Blood Raider" space after being away from it for almost 2 years and re-learning how to tank rats that neutralize your can and how to survive in those super nasty Blood Complexes has been a lot of fun. When it stops being as much fun there are still other things to go and do, and new things on the Eve horizon.

And you're wrong about low sec. Every time time i go into low sec it's a close call, but then again I never have to deal with gate camps because i use a scout.

Mining while naked? I detect an attempt to deter miner bumpers via homophobia. Emergent game play at its finest.

I couldn't disagree more. They say there is no right or wrong way of playing eve but I think you might actually be playing it wrong. Right off the bat you say you're a carebear and that you're bored. See... that right there is an obvious contradiction. You see... You aren't taking enough risks.

I'm the type of pilot that makes magic happen. I'm not trying to sound conceited but it's true. I take risks and get rewards because of them. I have 10-20 close calls and brushes with death a day! Ask anyone who's flown with me, I make **** happen. I live by the philosophy that "If you're bored, you aren't taking big enough risks" and every time I'm bored I try to push the envelope. I try to come up with some crazy ass thing for me and my eve friends to do and I'm never bored because of it.

I truly believe that I can get away with saying this because I know I'm not the only one of my kind. Half the people responding to this post are the real deal. This is what happens when you take a creative mind and put it in the context of Eve online. A creative mind sees possibilities, comes up with experiments, tries out stupid ideas... because why not?

All around me I see players who don't take risks. They buy expensive ships and turtle wax them. They mission endlessly and they complain that they're bored. It's silly. They would never hop in a 40 mil cruiser and go solo in nullsec. The idea seems impossible to them. Now... it's not that these people are stupid. On the contrary, they're quite smart, but they lack creativity and they simply can't see the possibilities that I see. Or they have creativity and fear the risk involved with their ideas. But I say **** that. This is a video game. Do stupid ****--it will be worth it, what are you really risking? Time? Get blown up more, it's not like you can actually get a "game over" in eve. Life goes on in the form of an eternal montage.

So with all this said I probably look like a cocky bastard... maybe I am. Personally I think I'm just confident, and when you fly with a little confidence, a little creativity; if you allow yourself to come up with ideas, you can really do amazing things in this game. Basically what I'm saying is don't hate the player, hate the game--cuz you're clearly approaching it wrong. You need to change your mentality if you want to have more fun. You need to think like a boss if you want to "win" at eve. Cuz, eve is like life. Everyone is competing for success, you have to do something different to get it! It's the only game of its kind.

So for starters:

-Review your fight-finding methods: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kMwU-J_NjE
-Start building CHEAP ships in BULK, fly with confidence knowing you can use your piece of **** to kill things that cost 10x as much. When you fly expensive ships you fly with less confidence unless if you're in a bling fleet! If you die in your cheapo shitbox, you've got 9 more waiting in your hangar! Get back out there!
-Come up with more imaginative schemes and experiments
-Be a problem solver not a problem creator
-Whenever you feel bored in eve either log off and go do something else, or come up with something batshit crazy to do!
-Watch more solo PVP videos to see what exactly it takes to solo

The entire world of eve is constantly hustling and bustling with activity. Ponder this: there is ALWAYS pvp happening in Eve. There is ALWAYS something to do in Eve. If you can't find ANYTHING to do... just log off. If you think about it this way the game is perfect. It will never disappoint you, you can only disappoint yourself! Clearly what you're missing here is simply a pep talk, so I hope you read this and get what I'm trying to put across. You are a freaking space pilot. Isn't this what you always wanted ever since you were a little kid and saw/read your first science fiction? What did you expect to do with this great honor? What would you do if you really were in space? Be one of the colonists that get captured by Sansha and turned into a robot chicken? Or be one of the few, the proud, the capsuleers; who defy the laws of physics and mortality and who's power knows no bounds.

Welcome to Eve Online

TLDR: You make eve what it is.

Yah, I've been in FW for a few days now. It's sorta fun trying to dodge the gate camps, pirates and what-not.

The excitement you feel for the game is affected by your wallet. Once you have a couple hundred billion in isk and assets, what is there left to strive for?

Oh sure, there are a few people who are driven to have more, more more, but that is an addiction, not normal gameplay. The average person just wants enough to do what he wants. What is the point of grinding isk beyond that?
PvP is decent at gang level, but it's still a matter of finding a target(s) you can handle, and avoiding the ones you can't, I've gone on roams where you didn't get a fight for 2 hours.
Fleet level pvp is a boring joke, waiting hours to hopefully get a fight, then either blueballing due to numbers, or getting blueballed due to numbers. Then when you do get a fight it's F1 until you die .....

I didn't mention PvE, since PVE is really just a way to make isk...nothing more. If you no longer need isk, PVE is simply a time waster.

The thrill is gone baby.......

Wait, EvE is a game? i thought we were controlling real people on the other side of the universe through this game!!

I play by myself quite often. Only got caught once.