EVE General Discussion

Solo Player: The hero with cojones the size of watermelons. You have to be an all-star to go it alone against 500k other pilots.

I have nothing but respect for those that take up that challenge.

Mr Epeen

Hmm, exactly how much experience with serial killers do you have and should CCP (or the NSA, o/ guys) inform your local police?

Of course, being Dex Lysia you would go to kill someone, but end up letting the, go right?

Not that old chestnut again. Multiplayer just means that a lot of players can play at once, in EVE on the same server and not in shards. It does *not* mean that everyone has to play in groups or gangs.

As for the OP's question: to me being a solo player is all about being independent, owing nothing to anyone. Eve players always say, "Trust no-one" so I don't.

Certainly I do not make much ISK, do not see areas of the game as they need to be done "en-masse", but that's fine by me. I pay and play for me, no-one else, and at the end of the day, being selfish is what Eve is largely about.

I'm mostly a solo player but I enjoy playing in a world populated by other real people rather than NPCs. I enjoy the risk of random unpredictable behaviour and encounters that would be very difficult to simulate. I enjoy occasionally running into good people that may become friends even if we don't feel the need to play as if joined at the hip. I enjoy running into 'bad' people that make explosions happen on my screen. I enjoy having people to chat to while occasionally doing otherwise boring grindy activities. I even enjoy the fact that my refining/manufacturing/trading alt is interacting with other real people all the time while hardly ever undocking.

I do not enjoy spending 40 minutes of my 90 minute play time waiting for a fleet to form. I do not enjoy letting down fellow fleet members by needing to leave early or never being able to say for certain 'yes, I'll be there' because my available play time is limited and to a certain extent random.

Why do so many people have this preconceived notion that solo play is only for offline games? Just because there are other people in the game we must play in groups all the time? Nonsense. The real world has billions of people but we don't form a party/fleet/raid group for every activity we take part in, we spend much of our life alone, surrounded by other people going through their life solo. Group activities are great and should be enjoyed, but they are not all that life or mmos have to offer.

Edit: with regards to the OP, my definition of a solo players is someone who spends little or none of their time in game taking part in group activities eg fleets. Many activities involve interaction with other players but if these don't involve actively cooperating then they'd still count as solo in my book.

My definition of a solo player requires

> Social anxiety
> Offgrid Boosts (neut alt)
> Back Up reps or ECM (neut alt)
> A cyno with back up
> Fraps (only fraps when you win)
> Buying plex to afford pimped out fits and slave sets.


- Solo is dead -

^^Does only affect solo elite pvp^^

" let the butthurt replies flow :D

One character, one account, no alts to watch your back.

Never said I wasn't one (either of those things), just wanted to know what the connection you saw was)

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I am very much a solo player and there are many reasons why, among them being:

I don't want to participate in the feudalism that is 0.0.

It requires great risk, for very little gain to invite people to my corp.

I like to explore a lot, so I rarely stay in one place for long, most of this occurs in hostile 0.0 space and I am blue to no one.

I don't want to join a narrowly focused corp that requires you to play their way.

This is supposed to be a sandbox game, and I like to make my own goals and work to achieve them. I would love to join a corp or better yet, build my own, but the risks completely out weigh the rewards. I enjoy playing an MMO solo because I like to live in a dynamic universe with real risks and a functional economy.

-I'm not posting on my main because I am no one and can't be bothered to relog.

Some people (trolls?) don't get the difference between solo and isolated player

Playing solo doesn't mean you won't interact with others. For me, it means just running things on your own, either because you don't trust or don't want to rely on others to do your things. Be it PvP, hauling, industry or whatever.

I believe most people that play solo don't have the time to take part in corps or don't have the will to follow someone else's agenda. Speaking for myself, I only took part in a corp once. Although everyone was very helpful I just didn't want to have obligations like flying the corp fits, joining in teamspeak and stuff like that. My everyday life already have enough obligations without me needing to do what I'm told in my limited playing time.

I also like the feeling of being by myself in this huge universe, specially when I go to nullsec. It's like playing tag but with everyone else being the chaser. It's also playing eve on hard

Edit: changing terms

Sorry if that sounded offensive, I've edited my previous post .
What I meant is that people don't see a difference between playing solo and completely isolating from interaction with other players. It is not always the case. I haven't taken part in a fleet for months now, but that doesn't mean that I don't talk to other players in the NPC corp chat, or compliment or ask things to anyone who I traded shots with.

It seems people see a need that every player is socially interacting and creating large scale content for the community, while you can simply play solo and mostly create content for yourself while still affecting the environment around you, even if in a small scale.