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Too late to the game to matter.

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Chewytowel Haklar
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2014-08-01 18:40:35 UTC
Yep, 2 months and I am probably done already.

Not sure if dev's want to know why but here goes (even though this might sink to the bottom of the forums or get locked anyway). I tried industry out some, but it takes time and so do the skills to invest into it. It's not bad necessarily, just tedious and I have no desire to min/max everything possibly so I can efficiently build items in the game that I can use for pvp/pve and selling for profit. Selling for profit or isk generation in any aspect in this game seems to go only towards making either more isk or being able to buy the items that you want to use to pve/pvp with. PVE itself is rather uninteresting to me and even though I have not tried all aspects of it out the shooting at red crosses thing and increased difficulty doesn't appeal to me in its current format. Sure there are stories, and sure there are harder enemies to fight that require a tad more strategy. At this point though pve seems like something you just farm over and over again for drops and bounties, perhaps sec status as well. PVP on the other hand is pretty damn exciting and has many elements that are interesting as the challenge changes up depending on the number of ships and their type that you have to face. Yet, I find myself not very good at this and the required number of skills to be proficient can to me get tiring to even bother with. I find myself pulled in many directions as a newer player wanting to do many things and yet finding that to be truly good at them a part of that effort is to skill specifically into those activities and wait. I suppose that is part of the problem inherently there, waiting. While I don't have to wait to get into mission running or fighting other players, or even joining others in their fleet operations I don't feel I can add to the game with lower skill points as well as I would like to be able to. Basically I want to feel that I can do something of significance, and yet with most players with tons of skills points, alts, and accumulated wealth and knowledge in the game my ability to matter seems greatly diminished.

I wanted to like EVE, I want to experience the intrigue of it all, but the truth is that there are massive coalitions that have a stranglehold on nullsec and my ability to truly feel like I can take my own piece of the pie without having to pay a fee monthly to them do so. My ability to feel powerful is diminished also by my lack of skill in pvp. I utterly suck at it, and the hardcore death mechanics of having to potentially refit my implants, by another ship, refit that ship, and then insure all while having to head all the way back out adds insult to injury. I could choose to be a pirate and widen my scope of potential enemies but that is not going to go well when I obviously suck so bad at pvp. Faction warfare is nice and offers a bit more of that structured experience which can be exciting but it seems like everyone is out for good fights and hardly at all out to capture plexes. It seems capturing plexes is looked down on. Many people apparently want fights, and for what logical purpose other then to perhaps fatten ones killboard I have no clue. Maybe they want more isk so they can continue their cycle of killing things in pvp and thus keep up their ability to not have to play any other aspect of the game they don't want. I found it fun for awhile, far more then shooting red crosses in pve or mining, but grew frustrated when I felt like I didn't matter and obviously the lack of skill didn't help as well. Even if I had hung around and grew to learn more and more about the game and became proficient at killing other ship types, that seems to me like something that wouldn't last. I suppose one graduates to killing bigger fish later on, being a part of major fleets which seems interesting.

But what is it all for? I can grind pvp for the sake of kills, I can grind pve mission/incursions/anomalies for isk/rep/drops, or I can be a part of industry. What truly appeals to me as a player is no the number of kills I have, not the amount of isk I can accumulate, but raw power. When you have such massive alliances like Pandemic Legion with a complex operation and HUGE 10+ trillion budget to work with my attempts at power seem miniscule. I don't know how you all might interpret that. I can't fathom though as a new player how anyone can matter or make any real impact on the game when there are such powerful alliances that have essentially set up shop and can project their power anywhere at anytime within the game. They have a hold on that aspect of the game that perhaps I thought would appeal to me. I wanted to explore, to build my own thing, and to perhaps expand and find my own niche. Yet it seems that those very established in the game have made it a near impossibility for me to do so. Instead I am limited to the bland often exaggerated forms of 'content' that players come up with. Killing hulks...lame, Huola campaign was pretty much how faction warfare should be in every zone instead of people just looking for kills, CODE? Are you kidding...killing miners and freighters is so pathetic and boring of an activity I can't believe people would consider that content. The game is mostly boring, has a pretty damn rough death mechanic, and takes way too much time to even be able to do anything of importance and for what? So I can be someone else's *****? There's just something missing from the EVE experience that begs to be introduced. And yeah the game is dangerous, but to me it feels more like an annoyance as I find it stupid and lame to camp gates for hours. Where is the fun in that?

Some might say you don't get EVE...what is there to get O.O? I grew bored of it all. I perhaps also have no desire to play alliance/corp simulator and project power in a sandbox universe that has already been colonized and mastered by players. I am essentially too late to the game.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#2 - 2014-08-01 18:43:12 UTC
My eyes..




Your stuff...

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Tom Gerard
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
#3 - 2014-08-01 18:46:30 UTC
You have to be really smart and really charismatic to do well in this game.

Look at me for instance.Cool

Now with 100% less Troll.

Nihi Li'aldoko
The Mucking Fuppets
#4 - 2014-08-01 18:48:04 UTC
Just remember all those huge alliances are led by people that started out the same way you did. A dumb rookie with dreams too big for his skills. You won't become the dictator you want to be without first building and learning and failing and learning and trying new things and failing at that as well. To survive in EvE I have found that you need to stick with a group of friends, your corpmates, your alliance mates, your blues, the community to really appreciate what can be done in this game.

Sorry to see you go, and that you don't have the fortitude for a game like EvE Online. Fly Safe bro o7 o7 o7
S'Way
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-08-01 18:49:57 UTC  |  Edited by: S'Way
Chewytowel Haklar wrote:

Some might say you don't get EVE...what is there to get O.O? I grew bored of it all. I perhaps also have no desire to play alliance/corp simulator and project power in a sandbox universe that has already been colonized and mastered by players. I am essentially too late to the game.

Join a corp that isn't a renter and actually does things. Something like brave newbies would show you that you don't need millions of SP's to be effective in a battle and have fun.

As for being too late to the game - I remember them telling the Goons something similar when BoB held most of null-sec. They seem to be doing ok though.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#6 - 2014-08-01 18:50:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Chewytowel Haklar wrote:
But what is it all for? I can grind pvp for the sake of kills, I can grind pve mission/incursions/anomalies for isk/rep/drops, or I can be a part of industry. What truly appeals to me as a player is no the number of kills I have, not the amount of isk I can accumulate, but raw power. When you have such massive alliances like Pandemic Legion with a complex operation and HUGE 10+ trillion budget to work with my attempts at power seem miniscule. I don't know how you all might interpret that. I can't fathom though as a new player how anyone can matter or make any real impact on the game when there are such powerful alliances that have essentially set up shop and can project their power anywhere at anytime within the game.
Those alliances are lead by individuals. The trick to becoming one of those individuals is to keep building your power base and not quit after two months. The rest is just to find people who'll follow you and give them a reason to do so.

That's how those alliances came into being. All you have to do is the same thing.

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The game is mostly boring, has a pretty damn rough death mechanic, and takes way too much time to even be able to do anything of importance and for what? So I can be someone else's *****?
This is just a choice you make. You choose not to be able to do anything. You choose to be someone else's *****. Or you choose neither of those and start building your own alliance.

You have everything you need to start down that path right now.
Leoric Firesword
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#7 - 2014-08-01 18:56:33 UTC
Your stuff, is it spoken for?
Paranoid Loyd
#8 - 2014-08-01 18:57:05 UTC
TL;DR OP doesn't have the patience it takes to play this game.


"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!

Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#9 - 2014-08-01 18:58:30 UTC
Chewytowel Haklar wrote:
I am essentially too late to the game.


No you aren't too late, because with the attitude you've displayed every time you've posted, you could have started on May 1st 2003 and you still would have failed.

That may sound harsh, but it's true, you don't seem to have what it takes mentally. The starkest evidence of this is that you took the time to write all that crap when you could have spent the same amount of time figuring out what your goals are and how to overcome the barriers in your way of achieving those goals....like a real EVE player would.

No one who blames others (or the game) for their failures has ever or will ever succeed in EVE Online. And it is in real life as it is in EVE.
Barzai Mekhar
True Confusion
#10 - 2014-08-01 18:59:22 UTC
The stuff of someone that played two months, dabbled in everything but didn't take the time to get to know anything in detail? Are you guys so desperately in need of rookie ships?
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#11 - 2014-08-01 19:00:35 UTC
Barzai Mekhar wrote:
The stuff of someone that played two months, dabbled in everything but didn't take the time to get to know anything in detail? Are you guys so desperately in need of rookie ships?

Free money is free.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#12 - 2014-08-01 19:06:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Ralph King-Griffin
Dude, paragraphs.

Yes pve is crap, no surprise.
Pvp is hard and nuanced but gets easier if your skills grow not your toons.
Eve isn't boring, you are being boring in eve.

Tippia wrote:
Barzai Mekhar wrote:
The stuff of someone that played two months, dabbled in everything but didn't take the time to get to know anything in detail? Are you guys so desperately in need of rookie ships?

Free money is free.

Not when you have to wash out the smell of apathy and failure, tears are valuable.
Takari
Promised Victorious Entropy
#13 - 2014-08-01 19:08:04 UTC
Every tackle frigate can be a game changer in huge fleet battles.. Very little skill points required, a great deal of actual skill comes in handy. Then step up to a destroyer, lay waste in Talwar fleets, lots to do while skill points keep ticking up. All exciting, all meaningful.

"Roll the dice, don't think twice. This is the way of things. Welcome to EVE." ~ CCP Falcon

"Good luck, shoot straight and don't back down." - Serendipity Lost

Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2014-08-01 19:08:27 UTC
Go read the history of Brave Newbies.

"CCP Dolan is full of shit." - CCP Bettik

Skydell
Bad Girl Posse
#15 - 2014-08-01 19:09:56 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
TL;DR OP doesn't have the patience it takes to play this game.




It's less about patience, more about how much time you are willing to sink in to the game. Most people won't 'matter' in EVE. It has little to do with when they joined. They just can't wrap their head around the EVE concept. It's an on call job, 23/7 for people who 'matter'. For people like the OP, they look at end game and decide they want nothing to do with that and see anything else the game has to offer as servitude to end game. I'm guilty of this thinking myself at time. It's a hard bug to shake.
Wendrika Hydreiga
#16 - 2014-08-01 19:11:59 UTC
I think your mistaken. EVE is about the goals you make for yourself, and the people you meet along the way.

I want to pilot a Nestor, and that's simple. Skill up, save ISK and LP, and I can pilot it. Others want to out wit and out ship others, and scour the game for "good fights" just for that. A few join Faction War for a more refined reason to kill others. A few industrialists mine because they want to arm the PvPers for the quest for "good fights and make some ISK out of it.

You want power. And you have no idea how to get it in EVE. Worst than that, you think power comes from being part of sovereignty and just sit on laurels you clearly haven't fought to deserve.

Well, I'm five months in, on an alt and having a good time. Pity you couldn't find something to strive for.

At least the others have your stuff? I'm good though.
Asia Leigh
Kenshin.
Fraternity.
#17 - 2014-08-01 19:15:57 UTC
Barzai Mekhar wrote:
The stuff of someone that played two months, dabbled in everything but didn't take the time to get to know anything in detail? Are you guys so desperately in need of rookie ships?


Yes. Can I have your Rookie ships you don't need anymore?
Apply the damn rules equally >.>
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#18 - 2014-08-01 19:17:14 UTC
Skydell wrote:
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
TL;DR OP doesn't have the patience it takes to play this game.




It's less about patience, more about how much time you are willing to sink in to the game. Most people won't 'matter' in EVE. It has little to do with when they joined. They just can't wrap their head around the EVE concept. It's an on call job, 23/7 for people who 'matter'. For people like the OP, they look at end game and decide they want nothing to do with that and see anything else the game has to offer as servitude to end game. I'm guilty of this thinking myself at time. It's a hard bug to shake.


Having that kind of 'bug' is the problem. NO ONE matters in EVE (except Chribba, he's the man), EVE is what you make it for yourself. That's the beauty of EVE as opposed to the rest of the MMO world that lies to you and tells you you are a special heroic snowflake.

I've been in alliances and other kinds of groups, I've never once been or seen myself as someone elses *****. The alliance (and the alliance's 'boss') got someone to shoot stuff for them, and I got access to all manner of enjoyable things that I either would not have had other wise or would have had to 'ninja' to get. Fair Trade is not exploitation.

The problem is the 'soloer' mind set is that it views cooperation (which is necessary to achieve higher goals) as subjugation. It's not.
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#19 - 2014-08-01 19:18:26 UTC
Wendrika Hydreiga wrote:
I think your mistaken. EVE is about the goals you make for yourself, and the people you meet along the way.

I want to pilot a Nestor, and that's simple. Skill up, save ISK and LP, and I can pilot it. Others want to out wit and out ship others, and scour the game for "good fights" just for that. A few join Faction War for a more refined reason to kill others. A few industrialists mine because they want to arm the PvPers for the quest for "good fights and make some ISK out of it.

You want power. And you have no idea how to get it in EVE. Worst than that, you think power comes from being part of sovereignty and just sit on laurels you clearly haven't fought to deserve.

Well, I'm five months in, on an alt and having a good time. Pity you couldn't find something to strive for.

At least the others have your stuff? I'm good though.


Real EVE player detected.
Pheusia
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#20 - 2014-08-01 19:21:33 UTC
I started playing in 2006. I was too late for the T2 BPO lottery, the first titan was already in build and Dr Caymus was closing in on the 100M skillpoint mark.

You don't have to be the best in game at anything to make it in EVE. You only have to be better at something than someone near you, even if it's only patience.
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