EVE General Discussion

Well, I ran into this myself (not quite as many accounts ... but the same burnout) ... so what I did was roll a NEW account, and told myself there would be no ties between myself (i.e. Vel) and the new toon ... no ISK, no ships, no affiliation to my corp, no nothing. The only thing I was bringing to the new acct was my (player) skills.

Hopped on board with some newbie corp, and went along for the ride while they made mistakes, and just had fun.

Sounds like you have no goal anymore.
It won't change until you find a new one.
But with all these chars you get way too much material security, so there's no real excitment anymore, unless you set a really BIG goal.
Another possibility for you is roleplay : Roleplayer don't care about your skills or money. They care about your creativity and ability to immerse yourself into the game's universe.

pretty much this...

if ya leave the game... just let ya accounts die a natural death and return when you feel like it..

'Nuff Said.

Complacency through stagnation eh...


Find something new.

You have those passive income accounts? Keep them. Use them to fund a SRP for your new corp members.

What new corp members? The ones you are now recruiting to find something new to to do.

Aren't sure what to try?

Pick one. See if you can create an empire in 6 months and go and take sov. Build a corp specifically to take over a wormhole.

Switch teams in FW.

Build a capital to specifically lose it (Marlona's flight of 1000 rifter event for instance).

Again, have fun!

Hello there

Im a guy that played quite a lot MMO games and EVE is one of them, actually eve is last in a row. From my experience in previous games, on purpose, i created only one character in EVE knowing from the start it will be only one; ive basicly nerfed myself by playing on guy only, but in the long run ill stay interested in game longer as i would never get every aspect of the game able to play.
I will in 40 years :) but somehow i dont expect playing it when im 70

Im not gonna say which MMOs were those as i might tick people in starting to compare EVE with those. The idea behind multiple characters its always the same. Try mulpile aspects and eventually you have nothing else to do.

Soo play just one character in some new game out there. At first will feel horrible but you will "enjoy" time spent longer.

Food for thought.

Fly safe.

I have no advice to give you OP about how to defeat your apathy. Frankly, I've always found these "I'm don't know what to do next" threads confusing, as I have never experienced this "burnout" people speak of.

I've been playing EVE online since May 3, 2007 (wow, just realized it's been 6 years, 4 months and 15 days lol, in another 4 months my time in EVE will have been longer than my 1st marriage), and with the exception of internet service outages, vacations and needing a few days to repair a marriage or 2 that might have been strained by my gaming habits (or , in one case, strained by one of the wive's other boyfriends gaming habit........You just can't trust these Hoes you know), I've played every day.

Missions (high, low, null, cosmos), exploration, faction warfare, pvp starting in npc null and expanding everywhere including high sec war, SOV warfare, live events etc etc for more than 6 years. And STILL i find excuses to put out my laptop during a break at work to fiddle with EFT or EVEMON and i can't wait to get home sometimes just to die in a virtual fire. I've been playing other games like Tanks or Mechwarrior and a fitting idea dragged me out of that other virtual universe and right back into EVE.

Hellfire, I use a radio on my job everyday and more than once I've caught myself saying "quiet on comms" instead of "keep this channel clear for emergency traffic only" lol.

I've been on my IRL job for 17 years, 15 with my current employer. I train fresh out of training rookies. I've had former trainees come to me after 2,3 or 4 years on the job telling me about how they feel burned out or are considering doing something else. I tell them that I'm sorry if this is harsh, but I'm going to say it anyway because the truth is one of the most useful things you'll ever encounter....


...I tell them that maybe this job isn't for them.

It's not that they can't do the job (truthfully, a concussed monkey with a bad attitude and a drinking problem can do what I do everyday lol), it's that this is the kind of job that sucks real, moldy ass if your heart isn't fully in it. It's ok if your heart isn't in it, but be smart enough to get out before you hurt yourself or ending up hurting someone else.. There are other jobs.

Well, even though you can't hurt yourself playing EVE except for maybe carpal tunnel, it's a less pressing issue here, but the same thinking applies: If you heart isn't into this virtual hobby, walk away till it is, or stay away if it never is. There are other games.

One idea --> sell all this alts buy one with skills you want, have fun with one toon ... you will not miss the isk for sure.

And ISK is not for real, you know.

I felt the same after 3 weeks into the game, then i decided to wipe out goonswarm

this gave the whole thing meaning

Harry, all due respect, you will never wipe out Goonswarm. No matter how many cyno ships you destroy. For every one, sits 500 more, all loaded up with ozone. But that could be my ex-CFC sentiments talking, lol.