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How do you handle eve burnout?
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Tho'mas
Nerds United
#1 - 2014-07-17 17:28:31 UTC
I've never met a veteran player who doesn't experience this from time to time. Eve is a demanding game. Demanding on your time, concentration, and patience. I myself tend to play Eve in a furious non-stop period of a couple weeks, and then just vanish entirely for months at a time (minus skill que changes of course).

How do you guys stave off Eve burnout and keep yourself interested/active/effective?
Rana Ash
Gradient
Electus Matari
#2 - 2014-07-17 17:35:29 UTC
I cut back on play hours drastically after having a few months of just skill Changes, from about 24/7 i am usually on once a week unless requested to show up for something..
Bradorski Federov
Sturdy Investments and Loans
#3 - 2014-07-17 17:36:30 UTC
One thing that has worked for me is making 3 or 4 days a week "no EVE days". Helps with with burnout and has the added benefit of giving me time to do rl stuff that I've been putting off.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#4 - 2014-07-17 17:38:59 UTC
Tho'mas wrote:
How do you handle eve burnout?

Stop mining, or doing un-fun things, and do fun things instead. Preferably with friends.

You don't burnout if you are having fun.
Carmen Electra
AlcoDOTTE
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#5 - 2014-07-17 17:41:08 UTC
Just don't log in for a couple days, weeks or months, however long it takes. Just don't biomass or anything. You'll be back. I know I was.

Bacon makes us stronger
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#6 - 2014-07-17 17:42:18 UTC
If you burn out, you are doing EVE wrong.

Over seven years and I have yet to voluntarily stop playing for any length of time.

Mr Epeen Cool
Xavier Holtzman
Sith Interstellar Tech Harvesting
#7 - 2014-07-17 17:43:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Xavier Holtzman
Tho'mas wrote:
I've never met a veteran player who doesn't experience this from time to time. Eve is a demanding game. Demanding on your time, concentration, and patience. I myself tend to play Eve in a furious non-stop period of a couple weeks, and then just vanish entirely for months at a time (minus skill que changes of course).

How do you guys stave off Eve burnout and keep yourself interested/active/effective?


I used to ghost train. How else are you going to get Marauders V?

These days I just unsub and play something else. Usually within 3-6 months I'm back for another year or two.

edit: Accelerated summer Anatomy class also cut back on my EVE time.

I do not like the men on this spaceship. They are uncouth and fail to appreciate my better qualities. I have something of value to contribute to this mission if only they would realize it. - Bill Frug
Jade Blackwind
#8 - 2014-07-17 17:43:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade Blackwind
I burn out, quit the corp, delete the EVE client and live happily ever after.

Then, after a few months, I suddenly have an idiotic urge to check the forums, or how my former corp(s) are doing by now, then I read a dev blog or a Mittani article, look through the old screenshots and oh noes, not that again.
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#9 - 2014-07-17 17:46:25 UTC
My first 'burn out' was not really a burn out. I usually start feeling stagnate, unmotivated to play, usually I still log in and chat, and 9 tiems out of 10 something will make me go 'oh hell no!' or 'hey I wan tto do that'

I took two breaks in my 10 years here, one was for a month after I got married, the second was ~a year after the birth of my son.

I'm in a lul atm, not feeling motivated to play, and part of that is the wh i'm in and lack of corp mates... I really need to recruit soon lol

OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!

Eve For life.
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#10 - 2014-07-17 17:47:17 UTC
Sacrifice a miner's Hulk to Cthulhu. It does wonders for the libido as well.

Star Jump Drive A new way to traverse the galaxy.

I invented Tiericide
Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2014-07-17 17:56:57 UTC
I hot drop something.

"CCP Dolan is full of shit." - CCP Bettik
Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#12 - 2014-07-17 18:00:17 UTC
Interested/active/effective? Isn't Eve all about suffering/pain/struggle and acceptance of failure?

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Jade Blackwind
#13 - 2014-07-17 18:04:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Jade Blackwind
Schmata Bastanold wrote:
Interested/active/effective? Isn't Eve all about suffering/pain/struggle and acceptance of failure?


By being interested, you overcome the pain and accept the failure
By being active, you endure the suffering
By being effective, you win the struggle

P
Yarda Black
The Black Redemption
#14 - 2014-07-17 18:09:30 UTC
Tho'mas wrote:
I've never met a veteran player who doesn't experience this from time to time. Eve is a demanding game. Demanding on your time, concentration, and patience. I myself tend to play Eve in a furious non-stop period of a couple weeks, and then just vanish entirely for months at a time (minus skill que changes of course).

How do you guys stave off Eve burnout and keep yourself interested/active/effective?


I don't. I share your experience although my episodes of frenzied fleetfighting are between 6 to 12 months. I once "officially" quit EVE. Never stopped training either and kept the skillque going like you did. So I was lured back into null by old EVE-buddies of mine.
I'll probably "burnout" again and take a break. It happens. I'll be back anyway. Addicted from day 1 you know?
Xavier Liche
ACME Mineral and Gas
#15 - 2014-07-17 18:17:06 UTC
more medicine Big smile
Drago Shouna
Doomheim
#16 - 2014-07-17 18:23:36 UTC
Well it ain't happened yet, but when it does I'll answer Big smile

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Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2014-07-17 18:36:55 UTC
My Megathron does huge burnouts from station undocks. It's how I show chicks how macho I am.

Sugar Von MurdererTits : Jake Warbird gets my vote for most intriguing and attractive male character in Eve.
Captain Stupid
Swiss Army Spoons
#18 - 2014-07-17 18:38:13 UTC
Elite Dangerous. Nothing else needs to be said.
Jango Cane
Doomheim
#19 - 2014-07-17 19:05:24 UTC
Citalopram 40mg a day. Resolves sadness, boredom, social anxiety and even cures premature ejaculation... however if you don't suffer the last one it can make ejaculation more effort than its worth. It takes the edge off eve losses, you become too zombiefied to burnout.

Don't mix with coke...
Shizuken
Venerated Stars
#20 - 2014-07-17 19:12:34 UTC
I stop reading the forums.
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