EVE General Discussion

I play because it is better then watching shows like Coronation Street.

Well I enjoyed this post immensely...and have a strange desire to get a life AND watch coronation st

Thanks to all the peeps who posted

I enjoy EVE for it's unforgiving nature combined with the sandbox nature of the game. Be all you can be and all that good stuff...

1:The rewards for one are so great as they are difficult to achieve alone. My biggest fear is that many aspects of the game will be nerfed so that they simply cannot be done by an individual pilot. The day they bork T3s is probably the day I will hang up my coat.

2:It's a sandbox sci-fi game in space!

Removed an off-topic post and those posts quoting it.

My reasons have remained the same in my time in EVE. Was getting very tired of WoW and needed something more dynamic and unforgiving. I read an article on google about EVE Online being a sandbox game that was not for the faint of heart. It was hailed as being a game for misfits and sociopaths. I went ahead and bought the game with 60 free days and got that cool little interbus shuttle. I still have that thing, btw.

I first got started in high sec like everyone else and did the mission and mining thing. Got boring quickly but it was a fun beginning given that it was something vastly different than watching a bunch of alliance guys sitting inside of Stormwind and me unable to attack them because they weren't flagged.

When I first joined EVE, I met two guys that really stood out to me as good natured. They became genuine friends for me even outside of EVE. One plays and one no longer does. He got addicted to minecraft of all things. Still a very good friend though. So anyhow, the novelty of high sec wore off quickly and I went back to WoW for a bit while afk-training my first toon of a similar name.

After a while I came back and found my old two friends again and reconnected with them. We happened to join this alliance that was continually getting wardec'd. It was actually quite amusing to watch people die left and right when they could have saved themselves if they just used their heads. It was even more amusing how seriously all the members were taking it. You'd swear someone had just shot their dog. One day a corporation joined with only two members looking for others to go to a wormhole and live in it. As I made more and more money in high sec my greed grew and I decided to be adventurous and go with them. One was a complete idiot and one was an ok person for a bit. It worked out fairly well. They had previously come from null-sec (F-Con) and decided the novelty of living in W-space was getting old and wanted to go back. We had been living in a C3 and I enjoyed the solitude of the wormhole without having to worry about some stupid armchair commando's internet spaceship politics.

Ok, so we packed up and joined an alliance in Paragon Soul. It was a completely different world. The alliance I was with was very relaxed and chill. I was told this was a very rare thing for nullsec alliances but I just shrugged it off. I started raking in big bucks and enjoyed the idea of being able to buy shiny ships and blow them up without a care in the world. Hell I had times i made so much money I'd take 300 million isk a week and go waste it on cleaning out entire mining systems in high sec of its miners. The tears were wonderful and I laughed. Good times. Well the time came I finally got introduced to the rest of the HBC coalition.

Rules and regulations left and right! Holy ****, if these people would have made this much of an effort in real life they'd put Donald Trump to shame. I guess it's easier to work at McDonald's for 20 hours a week and live in Mom's basement all the while playing internet spaceship politician. I finally got a whiff of all the requirements and mandatory partcipation rules and immediately became disenchanted. How can ANYONE take a game so damn seriously?!?! I also found out that the ceo of my corporation was skimming money from the members and it pissed me off because I had helped build up the corporation to what it became. I said **** it and split off to form my own one man corporation. I stuck around because I had made some decent friends there but my disillusionment with internet spaceship politics was set.

I was and still am a free spirit. I have no political correctness, subtlety or care. After all it's a video game but I still couldn't help but notice all the people who took it seriously. I stuck by my friends and endured the political crap for a while. After Sort Dragon's stupidity and flack from this other moron named Triget from Tribe we got ousted from our space. Soon the coalition went **** up and everything went to hell in a handbag. Yup! Time to pack up! We bounced from region to region before I hit up my old friend from back in high sec. He had joined CFC and this little alliance called Circle of 2. There was some stability there and so I figured I could join, participate a little bit then disappear and go unnoticed while I farmed up money for a Nyx and a Titan. That didn't work. Well the nyx part did but the titan definitely didn't. Oh well bummer.

The alliance leadership loved to play games and mess with its members heads. They tried to awox one of my carriers but thanks to one of their mouthy leadership guys I warped out before they could. I immediately jammed all my stuff into the archon because i knew what was coming. Sure enough they ousted me for lack of participation in CTAs (nevermind the fact that Jabber was always ****** up and nobody would ever tell anybody when CTAs were occuring but whatever). Ok cool beans so back to my friends. I got the money for the Nyx, I bought the Nyx, still have the Nyx even though it's now 100% useless. I was going to sell it but I've decided to keep it since it is a notable moment in my EVE life. Not many solo pilots can farm up the money by themselves to buy a super carrier. Most corporations or alliances hand them out to trusted people. I doubt I'll ever use the thing again, though. Oh well.

That's odd... a lot of people I know with these who aren't high-levels FCs made the isk for their own supercapital.

But wait, nullbears

I honestly play EVE for things like this

ASMR

Or making Meta-Magical conceptual art like this

The EVE Online Effect

Or when I feel in the mood this

Paradigm Shift

Back in the day I enjoyed a LOT doing this

Why the forums are NOT the place to look ...

Also this from others

Plight of the Carebear

And a lot of other things.

To be honest, due to having been here for almost 10 years, I think that , believe it or not, I have grown to be a better person due to EVE. The Friends I have made and the things I have experienced here have forced me to reevaluate many many things.

Sometimes when I see posts of 3, 5 or 8 years ago I created I can see how much I have changed! (I think I was a very very different person back then) Some of them have been quite bad and others actually helped me meet awesome new people here.

I get a strange feeling when I see the people I have played with go away from the game and all the experiences I had with them only live now in my head. Time does that.

Also EVE and to an extent CCP have been an strange constant in my life, always there, in the background, ready to let me in to entertain myself a bit, in game and out of game by it´s sheer ENORMITY AND COMPLEXITY, regardless of the country I might have been.

I have moved between 4 countries, 7 homes , 1 marriage and 5 cars, plus a lot of international short trips during all this time and the only constant during all of the chaotic mess that has been my life lately has been EVE.

It´s always there. Cold, uncaring, ready to gobble me up in the huge TOWN it has become. You eventually end up knowing your neighbors, you know who to talk to, you know who you cannot talk to anymore (due to mistakes), you know where to go buy this or that or find who will do an specific job.

I know my way around town, except W-Space, which is for me a farm lot in the outskirts that piques my curiosity every once in a while. I know the Career Politicians, know who is in for a bad ride, know who lies the most (everyone lies) know where to buy my eggs and jam, know where to buy clothes and who can fix my car.

I end up knowing which neighborhoods I don´t ever ever want to be in (again) and which places show promise. I know very few faces stay the same and laugh when i recognize certain people that should not be playing anymore that come back in under a different "guise".

I am always busy though, this game sees to that. There is always a new fit to try, a new way of doing old things or of learning old things. There is always a market order to try update, there is always a new spot of the universe I try (mostly failing) to seed with items to create a market for a specific item (the trade thing is ... quite interesting here).

There is always something new, some people to meet. I enjoy randomly barging in public channels to see what people are talking about.

I think I have passed Sunk Cost Fallacy on eve already a couple years ago. It´s now like part of my own personal story on this strange trip we call life, or perhaps its a new meta level of the same ol´fallacy, don´t care at this stage.

But I remember, I remember many friends, now lost to time and to them, when a thread like this one pops up that makes me remember, to them all I can I do is salute them!

o7

I enjoy EVE, not for the game, but the people. That close edge on which they walk everyday, that edge that drives them to the same places I am driven, it´s amazing! Comforting even.

Yeah, total fanboi here, though I do enjoy screaming at the CCP devs every once in a while. Not CCP Punkturis tho

Love and hugs to you all!
Pew Pew!

Also some extra for you all, since I enjoy sharing videos from my country sometimes

Explanation for the Ritual

That's ok. I haven't! LOL

I haven't seen a whole lot of that with the exception of retribution. It kind of threw concord under the bus in terms of in-game roles. The whole thing with killrights really put a big dent into the function and purpose of concord. Other than that, I haven't seen a lot. In fact, ironically since retribution, despite the killrights issue I've seen far less miners. It's like the big mining fleets just jumped ship unless they're all now in the same system. I guess the 60% return on reprocessing really pissed em off as of late. Opportunity-cost being what it is.