EVE General Discussion

Let me give a nickel's worth of free advice to anyone in the same boat as the OP.

1. PvP is hilariously entertaining, even when you lose.
2. If you have never PvP'd before, find an active PvP corporation (RvB for example) and join them. You won't even have to leave highsec to find fights. You'll also be exposed to the most important tanking style in the game: the fleet mate tank. If you like classes, take an Agony PvP Basic class.
3. Spend your time in your PvP corp making friends and learning how to actually fly for PvP.
4. PvP does not have to be expensive That bears repeating, so: PvP DOES NOT HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE!!! I spend about 1 weekend a month funding my entire month's worth of PvP. Flying mostly T1 frigates is fun, requires a decent amount of skill. and fast tackle is never turned away from a roaming small gang. T2 frigates are not much more expensive in total. Even some of the pirate frigates are relatively inexpensive.
5. Finally, and most importantly, go out and get blown up. After the fifth or sixth time, it stops being painful and you start learning from your mistakes.

Allow me to highlight the part sof your post that are wrong.

This is the same kind of 'advice' I got when i started EVE. It was dumb then and it's dumb now. The CEO of my 1st corp (a mission runner) told me "you can't go to low with less than 20 million skillpoints or null with less than40 million skill points". For a couple days I actually thought there as a game mechanics cap that wouldn't let you leave high sec without that many skill points.

Here is your game that that favors blobs, and here it is again without even a combat ship.
. If I could have one wish, it would be to have the people with failure mindsets keep their bad advice *(like PLAY SOMETHING ELSE) to themselves...or at least take their own advice and play something else.

You can't read or did your little feelings get hurt? The OP said he's tried most of what EVE has to offer. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to. Spending time doing something you might enjoy is never bad advice. I never put any requirements on him. Stop being unreasonable. Stop looking like a fanatic.

Oh look! Another fanatic.

There isn't an argument here! Are arguing opinions? This makes you a fanatic. Oh well. I guess that's what you get from a guy named Paranoid...

You're not wrong, but it's a crude analogy. The function of gates, wormholes, stations, and any other point of interaction in space is just that: interaction. Content in EVE is largely driven by the players, either teaming up against one another, or teaming up against NPC ships. A lot of newbies and veterans alike get distracted from this by generating small fleets of their own accounts to substitute, either because their schedules are haphazard, or because they haven't yet found an outfit that matches their social milieu. As you found out, ganking alone isn't for everyone, but unless you're a station trader, chances are any other activity you want to pursue would turn out much more fun and rewarding if you tried to fly with other sort-of-like-minded players.

At the end of the day, mutli-boxing (love it or hate it) is here to stay, and it does open up a lot of doors even for multi-person operations. Just don't let that feeling of needing to cover your own bases and sustain your own little fleet distract you from getting into fleet with others. There's an entire meta-game in and outside the client which drives EVE and has allowed it to out-last even the biggest names in the MMO business. Do a bit of soul (and corporation) searching about what directions you 'might' want to go in and then get involved with someone.

Not many of us, myself included, were lucky or insightful enough to join a first-class outfit from the start. It is a bumpy ride joining a good corp, just like it's a bumpy ride making good friends IRL. People will screw you over if you're too generous, but you'll also miss out on most opportunities if you chose instead to exist as a hermit. Hopefully you'll find the happy medium that gets you on the way to more entertainment and fewer chores. Again, I don't even want to claim I am all the way there myself, but from what I have experienced thus far, it's worth it to try.

Good luck in your search.

When in doubt, go slumming in Low. Works for me every. Single. Time.

It's why I keep a probe launcher on my Hawk and Vengeance for well for exploration combat sites anyway.
http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Exploration_combat_sites_for_new_players
Recent probe tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cKc1AZZfmw
A Hawk fitting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3bYqRp0qYU
And other ships work well too. And good use for the new T3 destroyers (2/10 sites and above).

Funny, your three accounts are almost exactly the same setup than my three accounts, and my history playing resembles yours as well, right up to the trying PvP/nullsec stuff and not being convinced. These days I'm mainly active in highsec mission running, mining, industry and the like with one alt living in lowsec.

When I need a change, there are several things that work well:

• Change scenery: switch regions, build a new base of operations somewhere else, preferably way out the beaten path
• Run some COSMOS missions, there's some of the most original game content in there
• Do an epic arc you haven't done yet, or redo one (you can do them every 6 months)
• Find a ship you haven't flown (any, really), try to build a good fit for it, testdrive it
• Start EFT and review the fittings for your main workhorse ship(s)
• Find a new agent to work for. Chose him/her by gut feeling, not efficiency. Personally I like to choose pretty girls
• Live like a nomad: pack your marauder, fly around aimlessly, discover stuff, run some missions on the way
• Do a screenshot session: run a mission or two, take in the sights. Tip: L2/L3 missions are often way more original than L4s

I could go on. In my opinion, it's all about forgetting about profitability or efficiency. That's probably one of the reasons my industry ventures never really were profitable, but I don't think that has to be the point. I find that playing without expectations is quite liberating.

Except that the OP didn't try most things EvE has to offer and your "advice" to leave the game was, to say the least, premature.