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Family...work...EvE?
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Toobo
Project Fruit House
#21 - 2016-09-23 19:03:06 UTC
Aurelius Oshidashi wrote:
Yeah no worries man. I only play eve a few hours a week, but spend some more time plotting and reading guides while traveling. It's never ever been a problem )


Yes! It's that 'plotting' part while out of the game that makes eve so awesome. You can have so much fun not even logged onto the game and 'enjoy eve just by 'plotting' things. :)

Cheers Love! The cavalry's here!
KaarBaak
Squirrel Team
#22 - 2016-09-23 19:46:09 UTC
Time is packaged in discrete quantities. It's a zero-sum equation. Time spent/invested in one activity is not spent in another. It's simply a value judgement.

2-3 hours per day seems like a hefty investment to me, but I'm old. What are you not doing during those hours? Are you taking them from time with your family? Are you taking them from time you'd be sleeping? Are you taking them from time you could be 'improving yourself?'

It seems the extreme cases a few years ago about people playing MMOs to the point of loss of family, home, jobs, life are behind us.

Entertainment and distraction can be a worthy time investment. It's just good once in a while to step back and ask yourself what else you could be doing. It's easy sometimes to let an activity creep into greater time chunks. I dread the forthcoming release of Civ6 for the time it will take from my sleep. But it's a value judgement I've made and I'll trade a few hours/night sleep for gaming for a few weeks.

It fluctuates. Back in '09/'10 I was pretty into EvE. Setup a streaming radio station...did some news reporting...a couple of apps and extended spreadsheets. Was doing 20 hours +/- per week. Now I'm down to maybe 2-3 hours/wk. Other priorities took over.

There are only 168 hours in a week. As long as the pie chart makes you happy...cut as a large as a slice as you'd like. Just make sure you re-visit that pie chart once in a while.

Dum Spiro Spero
Otago Dogwalker
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
#23 - 2016-09-25 11:04:32 UTC
o7

I am somewhat relieved to see there are many more players out in New Eden who are in the same boat as me with family, work and available time for gaming.

I am hooked on the ethos of EvE, the idea of spending time in an alternative space and "getting away from it all", immersing oneself for an hour or two with like minded Earthlings in a beautiful universe. EvE always struck me as one of those games in which one needs to invest many hours a day making ISK and running missions/sites/fighting/grinding to get anywhere.

Now having dipped my toe in, I realise it isn't like that at all, as I have said previously, you pays yer money and go wherever you like as fast as you like. thanks for the advice and replies, I will continue on my hour or two a day play and hopefully see you out there!

..when the graphics card arrives......Shocked
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#24 - 2016-09-25 12:13:39 UTC
Tbh the Ingame time commitment is fairly easy to manage.
when you start plotting retribution on one of your enemies though it's a different matter, the amount of time you end up thinking about eve, or reading a guide or particularly well written forum post on something you're interested in can get out of hand pretty quickly.

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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