EVE General Discussion

[whine]

TL;DR: Grown man struggles with real life commitments interfering with playing EVE to a level acceptable to him. Can he play at this level or should he biomass and GTFO?

Not sure if I need a shrink or just a good smack in the jaw, but I have this problem that’s bothering me: I wish I could bring myself to play this game for real (ex. joining a corp and fleeting up), but I can’t.

Half the problem is my outside commitments. My wife *just* tolerates me being a gamer, other games get jealous when I hang out with MMOs, and my job happens to pay for all those games. I feel like those would cut too much out of the commitment needed to be useful in a corp. I’m not even talking about the herculean levels of commitment that hardcore players have, like logging in at 3am their time to defend a POS coming out of reinforced. I’m talking about small FW roams and weekend mining ops in 0.5. I don’t think I can hack it without ditching my wife, cutting work early, and/or making EVE the only game I play.

The other half of the problem is social. I don’t know a single person who plays this game and all my attempts to encourage my few gaming friends to play have failed. That means I have to find a corp who will surely put me—a relatively experienced player with a new account—under a lot of scrutiny for being a possible AWOXer. I was once kicked from a corp on another character for suspicion of being a thief; this made it very hard to join other corps because my only references thought I had stolen their stuff. I don’t want a repeat performance of that.

The one time I successfully played EVE with a corp, it went from being an empire mining corp to heading up a 0.0 alliance; I played for almost two years before the corp collapsed and it was the greatest time I’ve ever had in game. Back then I was single and living off my university funds; it was easy to play for 6 hours a day if I wanted. Now, every time I try to restart I just end up going it alone and quitting from boredom two months later because I’m afraid to commit to a corp.

Are my glory days lost to me?

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Join RvB or BRAVE. Low committment, low skill needed, invest however much you want.

I hear both are helpful with a person like you =)

LOL, after reading the title, I had expected one of those "It's not you, it's me." lines.... :P

Wow, and you said -I- was a dirty scrubber.

Those alarm clock ops are pretty common in the corps I've been involved with, along with those Jabber pings to your phone. Some folks take their EVE pretty seriously! Days off work for an eviction op, pee into a bottle doing hole control, 4am wakeup for a cap kill, 30+ hours in the character creator, etc.

What about socks? Do you have socks?

Was meant as a compliment, one to another >.> Except for the RPing which is scary. I (and another scrubber) tried to RP wookies/lightsabers/ewoks on a SWTOR guild comms during recruitment, because they were being a bit too serious. Didn't end well. They knew we were EvE players and accused us of being Goons. FML.


Ye, they don't do that much after you burst out laughing and tell them to do disgusting things with themselves. I'll stay up for ops if I'm drunk and forget the time but not getting out of bed for it, Jesus. Decent groups usually have a cache of 'dedicated' types for that. Fair enough if it's your corp or you're really tight knit, but it does burn people out maintaining that level of attention for long periods.

Whose socks are those purple ones anyway, and why do they have monkeys on em?

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.




Also do that. Or FW.

Honestly, I'm in the same boat. 5-6 hours a week or less. I buy 10frigates , and head to FW space. Soon as I log in, even if it's only 15 minutes before I'm snagged back to being a husband/father, I undock and start dscanning. It can work, depends how you want it to. Sometimes it's a nice treat to come back to eve on weekends to see a new skill trained.

Recommend less whine


Afraid to commit to a corp, you're being too serious, it's a game.