EVE General Discussion

No.

I am just jaded. Not bitter and not vet.

Our Dear Leader

Bittervet quiz:
Q1. How do you earn ISK?
Q2. What is your favourite subcap, and what do you do with it?
Q3. What is your favourite cap, and what do you do with it?
Q4. Rate CCP on a scale of 1-10.
Q5. What's on your skill queue?
Q6. How many alts do you bring on a so-called 'solo' roam? What are these alts?
Q7. How many times have you unsubbed in the last year?
Q8. What's your position in your current corporation? (CEO, FC, etc)
Q9. What do you define as being a lot of ISK?
Q10. When was the last time you were logged on for over 10 minutes?

Answer all questions to receive your rating.

A critical characteristic of bitter vets is that they don't believe (and vehemently deny) they're bitter vets. So no, you are not a bitter vet. Not quite there yet .

It depends.

I'm not aware of any officially designated threshold of duration in EVE beyond which you become a Vet. Some would say it's more a state of mind, when you feel like you're on top of the game rather than the other way around. Others, including myself, would say it's when you've reached the point of deeply sighing, shrugging your shoulders and emo-raging when CCP nerf something yet again... but you keep on playing.

Bitterness is something you go in and out of, depending on what kind of day you're having... it is not a permanent state of mind for most (though it seems to be for a minority).

Am I a vet? Yes.

Am I bitter? Sometimes, but not today.

Have a nice day...

Let's go through your answers:

1. Either harvesting your own moon, T2 BPOs or other passive but lucrative means.

2. Eh, should really be some pimped out "solo" ship.

3. Should be a supercap.

4. -2

5. Good answer. Other acceptabe answers are JDC V, Doomsday V and other long skills so you don't have to log in often.

6. Should at least be two alts: a Falcon and RR

7. You should have unsubbed at least your alt accounts at some point, and possibly your main once or twice.

8. "Position" is misleading. You want to have held a position in the past, but now be retired from it, but still have all your roles/a say in alliance politics.

9.50-100b? You're off by a power of ten. ~500b - 1T is acceptable.

10. Excluding logging on to test out the patch, should be at least a couple months.

OMFG rate me rate me!

Q1: I sit on a stockpile of several tens of billions, and occassionaly scam or market for more.
Q2: Sleipnir, I fly it on sisi
Q3: Erebus, I fly it on sisi
Q4: 2
Q5: Caldari Cruiser V
Q6: 4 - DPS, logi, fasttackle, neuts
Q7: Once
Q8: CEO
Q9: 100bn+
Q10: Today

rate me!!!

You just have to have a healthy distrust of anything which comes from CCP and an infinite pool of hatred that can be tapped at any moment for them and to be a veteran about it CCP must have harmed you personally in someway at least a few times.

"Hey look, Sader is enjoying her toy, look guys, lets ******* break it and ban her for a few days for good measure. Haha."

"One of my alts is in such and such alliance, they are so excited on coms, wait what's this plug, OOPS! server rebooting."

"Hmm, my logs clearly show that this guy lost his Nyx due to a glitch, but paperwork, eh ... the effort. [delete] the logs show nothing. I feel better now ugh that was stressful for a moment."

Typical CCP stuff

Q1. How do you earn ISK?
Mostly patch-related market speculation.
WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. Which I pay back with interest though.
But I have more than I can use so I don't bother making much anymore.
Not for nearly 2 years now.

Q2. What is your favourite subcap, and what do you do with it?
Och, too many to choose from, but I don't do much nowadays. Used to be the Nighthawk back when I was still helping corp members do some missions, but nowadays it's probably the Cheetah. Awesome for AFK and semi-AFK travel.
Not that I undock that often at all anyway.

Q3. What is your favourite cap, and what do you do with it?
None, even if I can fly quite a few. I haven't been out of highsec in ages.
Never owned a cap on TQ. Not even a freighter. Heck, I only ever owned a single battleship on TQ (still have that Dominix in my hangar).
I fly battlecruisers or below almost always.

Q4. Rate CCP on a scale of 1-10.
Overall ? Today ? About 8-ish.
Varied between 5 and 9 in time.

Q5. What's on your skill queue?
Long skills preparing for more skills or even longer skills, neither of which I'm likely to use any time soon.
Capital Ships L4 right now. L5 is saved for when I'll go on some vacation time or have a larger project coming up in RL.

Q6. How many alts do you bring on a so-called 'solo' roam? What are these alts?
I don't roam. And I seldom bother multiboxing. And when I used to solo roam, it was really solo. But it was usually with a couple of friends, no alts, everybody with only 1 account each.

Q7. How many times have you unsubbed in the last year?
Intentionally ? Never unsubbed my main intentionally.
Abandoned a few alt accounts (after selling the char) though. Not in the past 2 years.

Q8. What's your position in your current corporation? (CEO, FC, etc)
CEO. For the past 5 years, 2 months and 4 days as of today.

Q9. What do you define as being a lot of ISK?
I have over 200 bil ISK liquid and more than double of that including other people's debts to me, assets and such.
But I would say anything above 10 bil ISK is "a lot".
On the other hand, not even 100 bil ISK is really THAT much.

Q10. When was the last time you were logged on for over 10 minutes?
Yesterday, I think.
Not that I do anything, but just briefly dropping in usually lasts more than 15 minutes.
Except when I'm really, really in a hurry to just swap skills and don't even have the time to say hello to those online nor gawk at the market graphs or anything like that.
Not that I do much more than that (skillchange, marketgawk, chat) anyway.


Edit : hard evidence - http://eveboard.com/pilot/Akita_T