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(Former?) bittervets of EVE, how did you reignite your passion?
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Dethmourne Silvermane
Oasis United
#1 - 2016-12-09 13:49:53 UTC
I'm so bored af right now I'm autopiloting between freeports in sov null pls send help.

Interested Party (TM)
Izchadie
Ministerstvo na otbranata
Ore No More
#2 - 2016-12-09 13:56:01 UTC
Find new friends, new activities, or do something you always liked. If you spend too much time in EVE you will get bored eventually.

I found my balance, I am playing enough to get my dose of EVE, yet not too much to get bored and I haven't had a break from EVE for 5 years now.
Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#3 - 2016-12-09 13:57:49 UTC
"how did you reignite your passion"

By never letting it die in the 1st place.
Nomistrav
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2016-12-09 14:10:23 UTC
2006 player here. I started losing interest years ago, but the thing that brought me back was Dust 514, believe it or not. I sort of suck at Eve Online, but I'm on the upper echelon of decent with FPS games. Became a serious player in the Dust community and eventually became CPM (Dust's CSM) leading up to Project Nova.

If it weren't for Dust, I'd have honestly quit playing as early as 2011.

Since then I've sort of just been doing the whole RP thing in IGS and fiction writing for the annual Pod and Planet Eve Fiction Contest. I view myself more as a purveyor of lore than an actual player, really.

"As long as space endures,

as long as sentient beings exist,

until then, may I too remain

and dispel the miseries of the world."

~ Vremaja Idama
Anthar Thebess
#5 - 2016-12-09 14:12:50 UTC
Gank some miners.

Stop discrimination, help in a fight against terrorists

Show your support to The Cause!
Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#6 - 2016-12-09 14:37:11 UTC
I started in 2015 and the community does some things sometimes that leave me quite disgusted but I've taken my break and come back with thicker skin and a better ability to keep above the water.

Breaks are good maybe that's all you need.

I don't really call myself a bittervet but that's my only real burnout to Eve.

@lunettelulu7
Lord Ra
Sicarius.
#7 - 2016-12-09 15:40:28 UTC
Just try different things that you havent done before even if you usually find them boring. No mans sky is a fun space sim to play for about 8-10 hours if that helps. Usually the best remedy for it is to take a break, makes everything feel fresh when you come back.



Ra
Gradinger
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#8 - 2016-12-09 17:08:02 UTC
started in '04 and took many short and long breaks and had many fun times on the road

recently came back and enjoying it so far..

i guess it comes down to breaks, having goals and company

because, you know, the least boring ship in eve, is friendship ;)
Dracvlad
Taishi Combine
Astral Alliance
#9 - 2016-12-09 17:15:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Dracvlad
Set yourself objectives and go for it.

Recently I had the following: Build an Astrahus - done, war dec someone to get POCO tax reduced - done, then had a 1v1 with a ship I knew I would lose to because I could.

Now I am playing around with PI in low sec and every so often I try to save freighters as part of AG, it is amusing watching the gankers telling me how fail we are for failing to save the freighter when it is pretty damn difficult to do so, every time they say that in local I get a buzz.

My next objective is to go after a certain entity by allying on war decs.

When the going gets tough the Gankers get their CSM rep to change mechanics in their favour.

Blocked: Teckos Pech, Sonya Corvinus, baltec1, Shae Tadaruwa, Wander Prian, Daichi Yamato, Jonah Gravenstein, Merin Ryskin, Linus Gorp
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#10 - 2016-12-09 17:30:29 UTC
Dethmourne Silvermane wrote:
I'm so bored af right now I'm autopiloting between freeports in sov null pls send help.
Maybe I and a few friends could join you. If nothing else it would relieve our boredom.

Mr Epeen Cool
Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#11 - 2016-12-09 22:51:47 UTC
Define bittervet please.

Post with your NPC alt main and not your main main alt!
Orakkus
ImperiaI Federation
Goonswarm Federation
#12 - 2016-12-09 23:09:08 UTC
To be perfectly honest, for me it has always been the activeness of the community or group I am in. As a couple of the posters already mentioned.. you DO need to take a break. But if you are constantly operating with yourself or a couple other people, then it can get dull pretty quickly.

Expand your horizons, get involved with new groups, try something new and totally different than what you are doing.

He's not just famous, he's "IN" famous. - Ned Nederlander
Bjorn Tyrson
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2016-12-09 23:50:08 UTC
By going out and doing something new and different, if your bored out in null, go somewhere else, do something else. check out low-sec. FW. WH's. high-sec incursions. variety is the spice of life. you spend too long doing any one thing your bound to get bored of it eventually. stretch your horizons and learn something new.
Krxon Blade
Apogee Group
#14 - 2016-12-10 00:09:28 UTC
2005 player here, just returned from long break. I did a bit of everything in EvE.
Eventually everything gets boring, so I guess that breaks do the thing.
My only issue atm is that my friend list is like graveyard - it's full of ghosts.
99% of ppl from it stopped playing. And I'm missing them and good ol times/chats/stuff we had.
I guess that it's time to find new friends, preferably similar ones with their graveyard lists like mine.

My old EvE related Flash games and stuff
XrayZII
4S Corporation
The Initiative.
#15 - 2016-12-10 00:20:43 UTC
holy hell! its krxon!

And yes, take a break or find something to do... something u've never done before. I hear exploration takes u everywhere and is pretty fun.
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Netan MalDoran
Cathedral.
Shadow Cartel
#16 - 2016-12-10 19:02:01 UTC
Breaks and low sec piracy

"Your security status has been lowered." - Hell yeah it was!

Falcon's truth
Vigirr
#17 - 2016-12-10 23:06:40 UTC
Over the years I've had several rage quits, boredom quits and many many restarts. I had never really done trading & manufacturing because to me it's boring as hell so created a character for it, gave is 20 mil SP and started doing just that. After learning some of the tricks it made me a lot of Isk (some 200-300 mil a day without much effort) but it was still boring as hell so I decided that I'd rather eat broken glass than continue doing that.

So I made this character, another restart but going back to my roots: Minmatar, without cross training. Still doing PVP on some of my older characters but at some point I'll switch to this one and fully abolish multi account playing and keep it to one account only. Less self reliance results in more teamwork.
Solaris Ecladia
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2016-12-11 00:05:33 UTC
When I quit a few years ago, I came back and joined my old Corp. Same guys, same nulsec, same so crap. I started to remember why I quit. So I moved to lose by myself and solo Pvp'd for awhile. Then I joined a lowsec Corp. Kept up with my old Corp so I didn't really lose my friends, but did get away from what I got bored and burned out from.

I was forced to stop playing for awhile because of life, and came back recently to low and nulsec for fun.

Basically id say find a new Corp in a new section of the game.
Sweet Adamas
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2016-12-11 00:13:48 UTC
Do different things

At one point i was so burned out that i scanned down a 10/10 in angel space and just logged off i had done so many

Came back and had so much isk i ran a 10 man mining operation solo. 370 million cubic metres of ore later that itch was scratched.

I picked up cans dropped in noob systems at one point which was more fun than you can imagine.


My ultimate goal is to take 4 ships and an orca into nullsec and never come back
Iria Ahrens
Space Perverts and Forum Pirates
#20 - 2016-12-11 01:02:27 UTC
Dethmourne Silvermane wrote:
I'm so bored af right now I'm autopiloting between freeports in sov null pls send help.



That actually sounds fun to me.

My choice of pronouns is based on your avatar. Even if I know what is behind the avatar.
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