EVE General Discussion

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Right now I seem to be in a waning phase. The folks I chose to ally with are in an unfortunate situation of fighting enemies that do not play at the same times as we do US vs RUS, and furthermore the region I am in is experiencing a shake-up of sorts, a musical chairs, if you will. So I'm a little disoriented, and trying to pack light, which makes my pvp options limited since I only seem to enjoy a very specific subset of pvp, that being smaller alliance block timer fights and fleet fights. The sweet spot would be 50-100 vs 50-100. So I only have a few doctrine ships on hand and its a crapshoot if I'll have the right one ready if the perfect situation presents itself.

To top that off, just got my grandma's old 93 ford f150, and I suddenly have a very real interest in fixing it up, which will likely draw me away from my best chance at getting fights on the weekends.

While I am contemplating be leaving, I am at odds because I am so close to being able to fly and properly fit t2 doctrine ships, and have an opportunity to be a real contributor to our coalition. The draw of this game for me is to be a real, contributing member to an alliance that grows, to be a small part of that.

Trouble is, being small means every member has to be very committed, especially in time given, and the rewards for such commitment are seemingly few and far between.

Yes. It's pretty much a whole other world/community. It's nice to be able to log in and forget about the stress of real life...

Hey Harry, just saw your post, and wanted to drop and and wish you as much encouragement as I can in your quest to destroy goons. You are truly an inspiration to us all, and every time we see your name in local or intel channels we in Theta cheer you on(even while we start moving to try and kill you).

You are exactly the type of player EVE needs more of, so don't get discouraged.

Keep up the good fight!

Well. Getting sick, dizzy and throwing up now and then as a result of playing Eve due to star gate jump animations isn't exactly a "happy" experience. Living in the map while traveling anywhere, that after constant use, - can break and pixelate the information it gives isn't precisely cool either.

This particularly becomes a pain during the loading of grid after quickly leaving the map, (after you jump a gate). As when grid rendering goes awry you can't click anywhere ongrid, there are only partially existent graphics, which lead to the only solution being to log out to resolve it. Which is fine if you're doing highsec logistics or a splash of PVE, - but anything else? It's a bit of a game breaker.

So in answer, currently? No. For reason above.

If not for the above glaring issue, yes Eve's mixture of risk/reward is pleasant and rather engaging. At worst having played Eve, ... It's ruined all other MMO's making them little more than tourism experiences that eventually grow boring.

If I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't be paying for a domain name and write a blog about various criminal adventures. Eve is one of those odd things. Sometimes you are so hooked you gotta have more and sometimes you just want to go do something else.

Eve is a social game to me. I enjoy the company of those I fly with, and even plan on going to fanfest just to share a drink and some laughes. There are people though who look at this game like a second job or snub others if their elitism is threatened. God forbid someone has fun in serious spaceshipsland.

I also am obsessed with the power Piracy has given me over others. What scamming has wrought upon the ignorant and foolish. The tears and the self posturing of a few only to see their ships and pods explode at my hands is a sick satisfaction one only gets in a universe as free and broad as Eve.

Yeah I'm happy. I get to log on with friends and **** in someone's cereal.

I did come back the 3-4 month because of the stiff learning curve and there was something new each day to find out, after this time there is a severe dropoff and you find out that the actual gameplay consists too much just of waiting, especially PvP, nothing is going on out there in nullsec, there are not enough fights, not spread out enough over the map, all just sit there and wait...

thats the reason I won't come back after some time, I'm sure about that, at the moment I just login to see if something is happening, but within 3-4 hours not much each day, now i can decide to become a afk zombie like many others, just do PvE which I'm not interested at all, or just grind money in highsec.... at the end I need a game where I can be fully committed, day to day PvP provided in here is thin, its more searching for it (95% of the time), than actually doing it (5% of the time)

some said try FW, but thats not what I'm looking for, fights need to have meaning, so it can only be the fight in SOV space, the problem are the big alliances in my opinion, 50% of the map are friends, it would help alot if there are just smaller factions who fight each day against eachother, vs. one big fight every 3-4 month

what the game needs most is bring life to SoV warfare, to assure the map is in warmode completely each day, not just one big fight in one system, but many fights all over it, all the time

A thread on the forum doesn't usually make me think as much as this one has. I've had a long old think about it and I've come to a conclusion I didn't really expect.

I've got to a point now where after having had a contineous sub for five years (and rarely taking more than a week break), I am actually really bored of Eve. I log on from time to time and the music and atmosphere is comfortable and nostalgic but I have no reason to do anything, and nothing to drive me. Nothing new or interesting to try. When I try and do something, I don't enjoy it. Even the rush of blowing up someone else's spaceship doesn't hold the attraction it used to. I've actually let my skill queue lapse a few times recently.

I spend probably three or four times as much time on the forums as I do in-game. I don't even really have a reason to be here expect perhaps to try and steer the future vision of Eve towards something that might actually excite me enough to log in again. I am pretty much just waiting for news of the winter expansion in the hopes it will re-kindle my interests. But the the likely truth, is that it wont excite me that much going by the course CCP are taking with Eve at the moment. And I am probably going to let my sub lapse for the first time, with all three accounts.

confirming that Rhiv is one of the most fun people to chat to while ice mining.

Non autonomic blinking / repeated eye closures trigger some annoying muscle issues in the eyes/eye lids. Primarily as its an uncommon physical activity. While rationally, the idea seems plausible, doing that sort of thing for a few hours is a great way to trigger a vicious headache and excessive eyelid strain.

How about just looking away for a moment?