EVE General Discussion

If you are a man in America, the golden ticket you are looking for (with your level of ambition) is Medicare Disability. This opens up all kinds of access to government money - free phone, free food, free housing, free utilities, free medical. If you get turned down because you're fit enough to ride a skateboard, take it to a judge in a metropolitan area and they'll rule in your favor. Especially if you can show being disadvantaged in some way.

If you are a woman in America, the equivalent golden ticket is having a baby out of wedlock that you can not afford. Voila - access to 13 different food programs, etc. etc. Of course, having a baby may cut into your game time depending on your mothering instincts.

Yes - there is....

Become 'unemployable' <> over 50; over qualified; over experienced; under experienced; over-weight (or perhaps also blacklisted)

And now EVE keeps me sane and is effectively a day to day RPG.....

The only downside - no money and the hopeful possibility of being allowed to be gently put down when I can no longer see the screen, or wield the mouse!

EVE = Life.

But also there's time to dock up and look after my, still new, grandson.

Been in EVE 3 out of 4 years since character creation. Not about to find it grindy now XD

Why does anyone think i mean *play eve for free*? I already can play eve for free, thats not the point.

How can i play eve exactly as i do, but not have to go to work every day? Like... Someone just pay my bills already, lol. I can earn the weed on my own.

This is a very interesting question I have asked people that most people dont consider. The idea of what "retirement" is to someone. You find that vacations are nice until you are 'always' on vacation. Then the human condition dictates that someone wants structure, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards and some sort of social bonding. After a while you either crumble into yourself or you do begin to search for these things on your own. There are really so many social conformity issues deeply ingrained in our psyches regarding societal value on a personal level that we try to fulfill in our lives. Work, job or occupation is the primary way we rate or judge ourselves on a personal cognitive level in society through some outside factor, the only greater one is gender here actually. Yet because gender is often not a personal choice, occupation is number one. So to not work after a while will drag on people, in fact retirees today that are living a lot longer than 65 are often being seen finding part time mentoring positions or simply going back to work until they physically or mentally cannot do the job they enjoy simply to gain these deeply ingrained intrinsic and extrinsic value rewards.

With the advent of E-sports I have noticed that when I mention I play Eve to friends they either say oh thats nice or something similar in the derogatory and offputting ways yet as soon as you mention that you are worth a few thousand dollars US in game or that this killmail you were on was a titan worth 2 grand their opinions change incredibly. Because work==money/living to many people.

When most people think of games and gamers being basement dwelling losers I tend to link them the e-sports top money earners site and grin. payouts and rankings

Remember A-Rods $100mil baseball contract? Or Micheal Jordeans Nike deal? These were guys playing a "sport". There is ultimately no difference to watching someone on Twitch and watching someone on ESPN in a dunk contest or a home run derby. in this regard computer and e-sports is the next wave of gaming, gaming that can be done well beyond the physical age of a person.

As someone thats played sports all my life I have now simply gone over into this e-sports ideology. You gotta either keep playing or coaching and Im an as*hole so coaching aint my thing.

With longer and longer life expectancies and more life in those years left to us what would you do if you would retire right now? Remember eventually you will want to have a life again. They say Eve is life.... hmmm maybe Its a pirating life for me!!

I want you to know, personally, that you've won this entire thread.

I would give you all the isk in New Eden if i didn't want it for myself.

The op is one of the most sane and ambitious man I have seen lately.

Please, let us know if you found a comfortble solution. I'll bring weed.

Surely, out of all the rich cats playing EVE seriously, someone would be looking to hire someone in a purely EVE related position.

This is a huge dream of mine XD

In a moment of vast realization; maybe i should wait a few years XD

well now nasa has passed peer review with their emdrives it means ive already started work on building my first corvette class starship
im building this because i would like to get high and play eve all day too
only i get to play it irl and earn money while doing it so its way better