EVE General Discussion

I pull those hours at work

I play at work. But I work for NASA, so they think I'm working

For a lot of people, Eve IS their social life. Not saying real life socializing is a bad thing, but you know, social anxiety is somewhat mitigated by the fact that, hey, internet spaceships, and they cant punch me in the face "right now."

Assuming you have no corporation or in game buddies, I recommend living in a wormhole for a little bit. Then do the content the wormhole provides you. You'll have a new connection to a new part of space every day, combat sites to run, exploration sites to explore, and pvp if you're interested in it. Wormhole life gives you a lot of skills, not just scanning. Hunting, exploring cloaked, manual piloting, pvp, self sufficiency, logistics, etc, etc. And if you want to go hard mode, set up a control tower. That'll really teach you a lot of things (one of them that you hate yourself secretly but you really, REALLY want to see this damn thing succeed).

If you have a corporation, probably find a new one, lol.

Play something else.

Join NPSI PVP fleets and whelp a ship you can afford to lose! For example https://spectrefleet.com/
Or fit up a super-tanky cruiser and head into faction warfare space and engage in solo PVP.

I am going to be doing this in the near future :D

Read a book. I recommend "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (currently reading).

Make a goal ingame, like "I wonder how Branch is looking this time of a year" or "Let's visit all systems in k-space" (that's me actully), or "Is this fit will be good to take DED 5?" etc.

If you like exploration try different aproach. I'm flying in hisec mostly and doing combat sites, from time to time I travel into null for week or 2 and doing only non combat sites. A month ago I "lost" myself in wormholes.

Go to the pub, drink some beer, have a laugh, drink lots more beer, chat up a dirty girl and take her home for some nookie and then in your euphoric drunken state as the said dirty lady sleeps after the marathon of pleasure you've just administered log on, jump into your most expensive ship and head to the nearest null sec choke point and shoot everything that moves 😝

What is more important to you, your time or your money? You need to chose one my friend.

I will tell you the best kept secret in EVE:

you will understand this with time and thank me for telling it to you now. This is what every one thinks but nobody tells you, it will save you a lot of your precious time, frustration and you can then spend much more time outside with your friends and family and maybe save your marriage (if you are married). It holds in one simple sentence:

Best and only way to make real isk and have fun (it takes 10 minutes to achieve) : PLEX your account like crazy (tens or even hundreds of billions), skill inject 3 omega characters: 1 main and 2 alts, specialized in an area. You will make CCP very happy and contribute to the game survival. I have 6 accounts, 18 alts and 5 alphas. I can play any race on any ship with maxed skills at any time. It's thank to players like me and maybe you as well that EvE is still around after 12 years.

Forget about making isk in-game, with all this time consuming micro grinding nonsense (exploration... duh! Exploring what?) it's not worth your time. Let me repeat this one more time: Forget...About..Making...Isk...In-Game. Period.

Then, Google all the possible ways to do expensive (the most expensive as possible) things with this game, go out there cruise new Eden with bling ships, kick ass and have fun! That is the only thing which maters. Eve is about kicking ass and the one who kicks stronger and faster has the most fun.

This is sometimes called Pay To Win, EvE has that too and it works great!

O7.

I am in Tech support, in game I do mostly Fleet Command so I regularly get best employee of the month award.