EVE General Discussion

More like not logging in supercarrier or titans.

unless your endgame is vince draken's superwreckingball fleet

You are aware there's a yearly subscription plan yes? That costs 131 Euro a year (dunno the amount in other currencies, but I assume it's about equal value)
While it indeed takes a bite out your real-life wallet, it's actually fairly reasonable, you pay 131 euro a year for your hobby, sounds pretty okay for me! Quite some hobbies are more expensive on a yearly basis.
From the conversion 540 dollar = 480 hr, it does seem subscription is still kind of expensive for you (roughly guessed 131 euro = 120 hours I think)

While I do get you want to pay your account with PLEX so it doesn't consume any RL currency as it can be very tight forpeople, you should be able to make it okay with 2-3 accounts, especially if you do wormholes, even simply raiding them is very profitable (aka you scan m out, jump in, do sites and jump out).

Another option is to specialize one of your alts into incursions & join one of a multitude of the incursion groups for big isk. Your other alts/chars can then do a variety of isk-generating stff wile your incursion char is in queue to join an incursion fleet.

My advice would be to specialize your chars, to easier isk making: Scan-alt, plexrunners/WH Site runners, Incursion runner. Such acts will bolwter your isk-profit greatly.


In short:

Pay by Plex: gameplay geared for profit, to buy monthly PLEX and to cover for months with subpar isk income & to cover isk-expenses (new ships, replacement ships etc)

Pay by Subscription: More time for the enjoyable stuff, without stressing an isk income to pay for your subscription, just keep an income afloat to buy new ships/replace ships

The true "end game" here is something far bigger than any PVP battle.... aka "Spreadsheets Online".

Think of it as this games iteration of the "Golden Rule".

Now this IS how i view endgame.To me endgame means just as the word describes having reached the end of the game.In eve's case that would mean to me having done everything i can in eve to it's fullest and even after 10 years of having played eve i still have not reached that endgame by far .

OP, you are posting in EVE's end game.

You don't need to be rich and you only need one active sub to participate.

Mr Epeen

Ultimately, eve is a subscription based game, you are meant to pay a monthly fee to gain access to the services, for almost all MMO Subscription games, there is no way to avoid this.

the PLEX system provides a unique situation where those with enough wealth in-game can effectively buy their gametime with their wealth, from those with the real-world wealth to spend on PLEX they sell for ISK.

It's a symbiotic relationship, based on Supply and Demand, if the market is stable at 400m isk per PLEX, then people are willing to sell a PLEX for 400m ISK and others are willing to grind 400m in-game just to avoid paying the subscription. If a PLEX costs 900m, then the same is true.

Ultimately, if you feel it is "not worth it" then perhaps you should not be playing eve, rather than demanding that it should be cheaper for you to do so.

En anglais, sil vous plait

Interesting concept to bring up in General Discussion