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I find myself training more then actually playing
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Yokubou
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-07-19 19:46:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Yokubou
I used to actually do things in the game. Mine, get my ships blown up whatever the case may be, I was actually playing. Now all I find myself doing is queing up skills for ships I want to fly but when I finally am finished with my training I feel so disconnected from the game from not playing for a month that I just set up another goal and leave for a month. Will this cycle end? I work 4/7 days of the week so skilling seems to go by a lot faster. Maybe it's because I'm not in a corp and have nothing to look forward to every time I log on except to see how many days left until I start my next useless goal. Also if anyone comes here trying to recruit me the reason I'm in my corp alone with myself is because I want 0% tax when I do incursions Big smile so keep that in mind.
stoicfaux
#2 - 2014-07-19 19:49:50 UTC
Are you playing on Serenity by chance? If so, then Why You Feel Hungry an Hour After Eating Chinese Food

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Yokubou
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#3 - 2014-07-19 19:52:09 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
Are you playing on Serenity by chance? If so, then Why You Feel Hungry an Hour After Eating Chinese Food


No, not sure what that is.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#4 - 2014-07-19 19:56:12 UTC
Quote:
I find myself training more then actually playing


I don't see a problem with this.



Now, if you trained more than you actually played, you might be doing Eve wrong.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Gallowmere Rorschach
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-07-19 19:56:22 UTC
Yokubou wrote:
I used to actually do things in the game. Mine, get my ships blown up whatever the case may be, I was actually playing. Now all I find myself doing is queing up skills for ships I want to fly but when I finally am finished with my training I feel so disconnected from the game from not playing for a month that I just set up another goal and leave for a month. Will this cycle end? I work 4/7 days of the week so skilling seems to go by a lot faster. Maybe it's because I'm not in a corp and have nothing to look forward to every time I log on except to see how many days left until I start my next useless goal. Also if anyone comes here trying to recruit me the reason I'm in my corp alone with myself is because I want 0% tax when I do incursions Big smile so keep that in mind.

So, basically, you're letting a mild tax rate ruin the game for you? Which is worse: losing 10-15% of your income, or doing absolutely nothing of interest in the game?
Yokubou
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#6 - 2014-07-19 20:05:33 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Quote:
I find myself training more then actually playing


I don't see a problem with this.



Now, if you trained more than you actually played, you might be doing Eve wrong.

In the last month I've logged on maybe 4-5 times. and 4 of those times were in the past 24 hours, the other 1 time was to buy and add a plex. I pretty much just play to train.
SIrera Artrald
Titans Rising
#7 - 2014-07-19 20:23:56 UTC
Yokubou wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Quote:
I find myself training more then actually playing


I don't see a problem with this.



Now, if you trained more than you actually played, you might be doing Eve wrong.

In the last month I've logged on maybe 4-5 times. and 4 of those times were in the past 24 hours, the other 1 time was to buy and add a plex. I pretty much just play to train.


Something tells me you completely missed what he was trying to say. . .

Life is a bitch but she's totally doable. She may be a beauty but life, life is a bitch.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#8 - 2014-07-19 20:29:13 UTC
So go do something.
Obunagawe
#9 - 2014-07-19 20:30:58 UTC
Yokubou wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Quote:
I find myself training more then actually playing


I don't see a problem with this.



Now, if you trained more than you actually played, you might be doing Eve wrong.

In the last month I've logged on maybe 4-5 times. and 4 of those times were in the past 24 hours, the other 1 time was to buy and add a plex. I pretty much just play to train.


That's fine. The more of you there are, the higher PLEX prices will get until you can't afford to "not pay for a game you don't play". At which point you will need to make a decision.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#10 - 2014-07-19 20:32:20 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
So go do something.

Not empty quoting

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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Goldiiee
Bureau of Astronomical Anomalies
#11 - 2014-07-19 20:36:23 UTC
Gallowmere Rorschach wrote:

So, basically, you're letting a mild tax rate ruin the game for you? Which is worse: losing 10-15% of your income, or doing absolutely nothing of interest in the game?

I can understand that, having been in a few corps early on with directors that absconded with a few billion in tax earnings from my incursion running, leaving me in a corp with a bunch of members sitting around asking WTF. As everyone says 'Trust no one, and give the rest of them nothing but grief, tada you won EVE.'

And OP, yes it feels that way some months for me as well, but I know there will be a break in the RL work someday and then it will be fun to go blow things up in EVE with the fully trained toys, or get at least get blown up in them. Smile

Things that keep me up at night;  Why do we use a voice communication device to send telegraphs? Moore's Law should state, Once you have paid off the last PC upgrade you will need another.
Silverdaddy
Ourapheh Holdings
#12 - 2014-07-19 21:24:57 UTC
The name of the OP's corporation is ... well.. alluring. ;-)

The problem with slavery is that only half of the manacles are visible. The Holder, supposed master, is equally bound by the gilded chains of privilege and wealth.
Tao Dolcino
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2014-07-19 21:25:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Tao Dolcino
You can play the game from day one without even training a skill. It's entirely up to you to play or not.
No one has to tell you how to play and what to do, but if you are so passive, then nothing will change.
YOU are the solution. Move your a** !

Or wait, maybe it's a troll, ah well, anyway
Hadrian Blackstone
Yamato Holdings
#14 - 2014-07-19 21:45:06 UTC
Of course you train more than you play. You train 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You'd have to not train at all to do the opposite. Which is dumb.
Nose' Feliciano
#15 - 2014-07-19 21:46:32 UTC
Silverdaddy wrote:
The name of the OP's corporation is ... well.. alluring. ;-)



Good name for a gay bar.

Remodeled Crane Concept
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#16 - 2014-07-19 21:50:19 UTC
I reformatted my PC 3 months ago and I can't be ****** with fixing my UI etc.

Oh god.
Yokubou
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#17 - 2014-07-19 21:50:30 UTC
Hadrian Blackstone wrote:
Of course you train more than you play. You train 24 hours a day 7 days a week. You'd have to not train at all to do the opposite. Which is dumb.

yea obviously I'm not playing 24/7 but yea if I wasn't pvping which I suck at anyways I would just be doing incursions Ugh
Christopher AET
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2014-07-19 21:52:24 UTC
Well unless you play more than 12 hours a day that will always be the case.

I drain ducks of their moisture for sustenance.
Seraph Essael
Air
The Initiative.
#19 - 2014-07-19 21:58:51 UTC
Gallowmere Rorschach wrote:
Yokubou wrote:
I used to actually do things in the game. Mine, get my ships blown up whatever the case may be, I was actually playing. Now all I find myself doing is queing up skills for ships I want to fly but when I finally am finished with my training I feel so disconnected from the game from not playing for a month that I just set up another goal and leave for a month. Will this cycle end? I work 4/7 days of the week so skilling seems to go by a lot faster. Maybe it's because I'm not in a corp and have nothing to look forward to every time I log on except to see how many days left until I start my next useless goal. Also if anyone comes here trying to recruit me the reason I'm in my corp alone with myself is because I want 0% tax when I do incursions Big smile so keep that in mind.

So, basically, you're letting a mild tax rate ruin the game for you? Which is worse: losing 10-15% of your income, or doing absolutely nothing of interest in the game?

That's what greed does. Funny part is, some corps don't even have as much tax as you're saying. But of course he wants all the ISK to himself.

So basically, if you are getting board of Eve because of this, you can't really complain...

Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person."
Liam Inkuras
Furnace
Thermodynamics
#20 - 2014-07-19 22:02:19 UTC
I too, train more than I play, and thank God for it. I don't know what I'd do if i played 24/7 day and night even when on break.

I wear my goggles at night.

Any spelling/grammatical errors come complimentary with my typing on a phone
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