EVE New Citizens Q&A

It was never possible.

A lot of people avoid contact with everyone, but face it: you buy things from other people, you sell to others, others can come to your pocket and blow you up.

There is a reason why it is classed as a MMO.

You can try to avoid PvP combat, but it will find you sooner or later.

Now as for missions, they have been beefed up a bit, but they are basically the same "shoot red crosses" thing that was in EvE since... ever?

You might want to try incursions, but they are PvE content meant for groups. So you will have to find a group to fly with.
Incursions are quite more beefier than usual PvE.

There are in game channels for them, can't recall the exact names (look in the Missions and complexes forum).

No need to come back, nothing really has changed since 2003. Basically the same crap and probably even worse.
I know it pretty good since i am playing eve every day and started with an other toon during beta time.
Its boring, nothing really serious to do at all. Better go outside and play football or just plain watch TV.

Yes there is. It's called incursions and you have to bring at least 10 pilots. MMO you know.

Why do you come to a massively multiplayer online game .. and then decide you want to play a single player game? I don't get this logic.

Most content in Eve is "MMO" - from the markets you buy your products in, to the players who will gank you. Content development is firmly centred on MMO content (changes to 0.0 .. player held space & Incursions are the recent additions).

Incarna itself will eventually be a MMO environment within a station.

TBH, you probably should log in, and sit in your captains quarters. Alone. It pretty much sums up what you're looking for.

Yes, industry is doable solo. Planetary Inter(whateveritis) - PI. Production, Mining, Ratting, Missions (boring as hell, but nevertheless).

Incursions are the new top end PvE which needs PvP fleets organization to complete successfully. Which means MMO.
It's an MMO but there are single player content if you want to do it.

Yes...but the game is based largly on group interactions.

solo pve content is maily market trading, manufacturing, minning, missions and wormholes.

Missions are okay but fairly repetative and WH are great as they combine exploration and varouse eve profesions...but in WH space you will need to avoid the pvp and that may be hard.

Why do you want to play an mmo solo?

u can mine
run missions up to lvl 4
market trade
scam ( not reccomended)
attempt to pvp ( though contact with others is made)
manufacture stuff

all solo, but mining yield will be lower without orca to boost and haul,
missions will be fun for a while and make u isk but running missions will get boring
market trading is only fun for so long
scamming will get u a bad reputation, basically u will need to delete your character to scam again
solo pvp is difficult but can be fun, remember to only fly what your willing to die with

manufacturing stuff is boring tbh, its just a way to make isk... but its something people strive to do sometimes.

IMO, just talk to some people in the NPC corp chat channel, or join a small pve corp and get some friends, u can play eve solo but it gets boring.

I'm not so sure. I often pass by some systems and find the NPCs endlessly collecting rock dust and selling it for chump change.I point out to them that they'd make more money elsewhere ... but they seem completely bugged.

For the most part I play EvE as a single player game with a glorified chatroom. Of course I use markets and am in an alliance, but for the most part I do stuff on my own.

I consider myself a lonewolf of manufacturing. I run my own L4 missions, salvage and loot my own missions. I reprocess my own stuff, then turn it into goodies. I know this is not the most efficient way to make isk, and that I lose out a ton via opportunity costs*, but I have a lot of fun doing a lot of different things.

*For maximum opportunity costs, I have a trade alt who sits in Jita and has undocked maybe 10 times in as many months. When I need a burst of isk I log him on and then buy and sell stuff on the auction house. If I work hard I can make billions of isk per month if I try to focus purely on profits...but it's boring as all getup. Although this isn't true SP, I'm buying and selling from and to other people of course, but neither am I relying on other people to provide me with information; I just do my own thing and it works.

Recently I filled my biggest manufacturing order, it was about 100,000 cruise missiles and took me about 2 days to manufacture all by myself. I was able to cut about 10% off the regional price for a customer who bought in bulk while still retaining a hefty profit margin for myself. It felt really good to do this and I had a lot of fun so opportunity costs be damned, I had fun AND profited at the same time.

Of course this isn't "single player" either because I'm interacting with another player, but it is close because I did everything myself. From buying and transporting the BPO to the region (Solitude), researching the BPO using public stations, harvesting the minerals myself, and manufacturing using public stations, too, everything was done by me.

There have been months where I have gone without joining a fleet or targeting another player in space or even being targeted in space (that I knew of.) With that said I believe that EvE can be psuedo-single-player if you try. Just be prepared to "miss out" on a lot the game has to offer. But if you can enjoy EvE like that, then it's your EvE to play how you want to play.