EVE General Discussion

3yrs, eh? Maybe you've seen this before? http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/
Eve if you solo a lot, there is still lots to do more or less.
Also you could try training up a lowish SP alt, do the things you typically don't do with your primary.
Then there is a lot of stuff on youtube for inspiration, such as this.
If you are somewhat creative, you can work on things revolving around EVE as you play, such as this or info/help websites, or windows/mac/android apps. You are only limited by yourself.

This misconception is understandable though, given how often various players will state it ["you're doing it wrong"] as fact.

You could design a murder/suicide drinking game around it.

Most definitely this - I am in a massive corp in one of the largest alliances in the game, and I'm easily one of the most insular, quiet, socially awkward bloke you'll meet. I don't talk on comms, I don't talk on jabber, I intermittently post on forums (and I post here more than I do the alliance forums). Add to that, I have quite a busy real life and highly erratic schedule. But I want to participate in big battles, and my alliance likes having people who want to fight in big battles, so here I am, and here they are happy to have me.

Hell, the size of my alliance, if everyone was the super-talkative social guy, you would never be able to follow a single conversation in jabber or on the forums it would be so heavily spammed.

I read your post and do not see any difference (other than the words) to this post:

"I loaded up EVE ONLINE and WISHED Really really really hard for a cup of tea to materialize.

After a really really really long time, still no cup of tea.

I walked off and boiled the kettle to make my own.

I guess I expect too much"

"WELL DUR"

I never understood why people assume solo players can only ever be high sec mission runners miners. I have been in the game for about two years now and am very much like the OP in that I hate being forced to fleet up and hate being forced to group. I have been in null alliances, I have done low sec small gang a bit, but I still really enjoy EVE most when purely solo. I have also never done more than a level 1 mission, and can't remember the last time I shot a rock with a laser. I largely do solo WH roaming with my two accounts. I scout down/run exploration sites and ninja salvage combat sites for ISK, and mainly like the thrill of being on my own in very hostile/unknown space mapping out where/how different groups operate.

Is it a conventional playstyle? No, not in the least, but I love it. To me the game isn't about artificially padding killboards by taking out a transport who can't shoot back, or by presing f1 once on a carrier kill, and being space rich seems fairly meaningless too. Its about finding what you enjoy.

I would encourage the OP to think outside the box, jump into something cloaky that can scan and see how deep into the rabbit hole you can get.

Join faction warfare.It will give you more action then now and you can do it both solo as in a group.Ones you joined a fleet a few times i am pretty sure you'll like the ''multiplayer'' part about the game too.

I've enjoyed most aspects aside from wormhole living in my eve time and as someone who also likes to fly solo and isn't online a lot of hours a day i found FW space to suit me the best.

you are limiting yourself by playing solo. Go join a group

Some people like the idea that all those ships passing , people chatting and people shooting are reall persons and meanwhile in that world they like to do their own thing as you also state yourself.

I've played like that for a big amount of my eve time switching from playing in big alliances to going solo roaming in low-sec/null-sec.I've played a lot of games where i like the game mostly because you are competing with reall players , to be precise i rarely play a single player because of that reason , yet i never join any clan/group in those games.

People missread ''prefer playing solo'' as generally rather playing a solo game and also in contradict with what a lot of people assume , people who do play solo are often verry social people.They just prefer to do what they want to do immediatly when they log on and within someone asking/telling them to do something else first because of reasons.

So in short , playing solo does not mean no interaction with others and i can understand why people prefer this playstyle.

That list you made is indeed what is lacking for OP , he seems to be narrowminded to what one person can do in eve , there are so many options in wich you can entertain yourself solo.I lived in syndicate for half a year on my own with only a handfull of blues and they lived on the other side of syndicate.I just did solo-plexing and solo pvping.Same thing for low-sec.And as far as carebearing goes , trading is another form of pvp wich if it suits you can be verry much fun.

I do solo since Dec 2014, with a small off time in between and frankly even solo you have so much things to do. There is no limitations to how you want evolve your character in game

I do mostly exploration in low and mission in high. But the next step I will try finally is FW, because low sec is fun even when you are blapped (I don't play for a killboard), and FW would be something different.

I don't join any player's corp because I don't talk very well in English (even if I can understand on comms) and have a realtively limited playtime, not suitable for most corps I think. I like to take some initiatives too, not suited for a corp.

But as flakeys said, even solo you fly among other players and that's cool because they create unexpectable events which is pretty unique to Eve.

Some people can hate us to not join a players' corp, but that doesn't mean that you don't interact with people, don't join a fleet for a limited time event or participate to an in-game event.

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