EVE General Discussion

i bet you can AFK grind it if you have determination and a terrible oponent.

Follow your dreams

You can utilize POSs if you do industry outside of mining as a solo player. Ofc they still look terrible, and are a PITA to manage.

"play"

This is a multiplayer game, so if you play solo you have to understand that your needs aren't exactly top priority.

A player owned structure is easily owned solo, I've generally had 2 or 3 for the last 3 years.

The best method of "owning" a station for the solo player is to rent one.

A freeport in EVE is unworkable unless you want the freeforall on the undock, it -will- be infested with people who are red to each other and you and a freeport lets them dock, reship etc even if you do kill them, so you'll be doing endless rights management, and inevitably someone will come to kick you out (even chribba eventually got kicked out).

If you rent, you have docking rights and blues, and your market for your station is then a subset of EVE players that won't shoot each other, which means piracy is intermittent, and killing a player gives temporary relief, since they have to go somewhere else for their clone and reship and you can actually seed up a market. Bearing in mind that all null markets lack customer depth.

In general I like living out of a pos - so I rent stationless - I just store my valuables in a nearby station.

I don't actually like the stuck inside with no windows stations, I only use them as storage for valuables - the POS idea itself is great, its only its archaic management code that makes them seem unfriendly). I can keep a ratting ship in the pos, and I can still run probes (yes that works), and I can d-scan from within the bubble, and I can yank a taranis or sabre out of the ship maint hanger to kill filthy little hobbitses in their filthy thieving hacking boatses.

Ya done goofed

The last time someone accused me of being an evil AFKer was in Local chat, and because I didn't respond he sacrificed his Catalyst to Concordia.

Irony was that I was chatting about him simultaneously, but in another chat.

I think the people who created AFKing as a crime are the same ones who want any excuse to get an easy kill.

Forgive me, but staring at warp animations or asteroids being mined isn't the most exciting thing.

And it's not fun watching, just in case someone might try to kill me.

Anyhow I want to try research out and it seems having a player station is the way to go.

Or will that change in the near future?

I have a pos for research now, but I am not sure whether I'll need it after the next big patch, unless I decide to own all of another races hull bpos at any rate, and then the there is the question of increased exposure to risk after the patch.

I finished my large rig me research a while back (have the full set done), and the other thing I do with the pos - copying bpos for invention or for moving to nullsec for building, will probably be time and cost effective from stations and exposed to bpo loss risk from a pos after the patch.

Hey OP,

I might be off topic but I think you should be aware that I started a community living in 0.0 npc null full of people who are blue to one another and help each other out, there is no obligation to do anything. Please have a look at the Invitation to 0.0 thread on GD.

I have played the game solo for a number of years and always felt there was something missing from my game. I now enjoy the social aspect of the game. It's great having people to work with and the fact that no one here is forcing anyone to do anything is a good thing.

If you joined our community of blues then we would help you to defend your pos, come down to our 0.0 home and do your thing. Hub Zero is full of bitter vets and stubborn people and we have all found a way to get on here.

With regard to the changes that CCP made, I would advise people to flow with it. I could have been angry about CCP reducing the amount of minerals refined from belt ratting loot but instead I saddled up a venture and am now doing occasional mining.

I think your experiencing of random moments is going to increase dramatically due to this thread.