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I finished EVE so im done? Solo Mission Runner - no real choice

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Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#21 - 2011-09-19 18:30:14 UTC
Ladie Scarlet wrote:
Get over yourself and join a corp.


Not empty quoting this while liking this post.
grumpyguts1
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#22 - 2011-09-19 19:42:46 UTC
Still unclear as to why you can't join a corp? We have corpies who we don't sometimes see for months, we have a few who often don't even bother to chat in corp channel, not sure why they in the corp, but hey I guess their missoning contributes to POS fuel and assisting new members, and they get access to BP and a HS POS for industry.
Many corps out there will take casual players...
Malkuth Delapounti
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#23 - 2011-09-19 21:45:39 UTC
I'm in a Corp and maybe play a couple hours a day if lucky! It's a mining Corp and don't even have a mining ship yet! Though I'm working on it.

Grainsalt
Independent'R'Us
#24 - 2011-09-19 21:53:09 UTC
Naming just one solo activity besides hisec missions: Wormholes. Can be alot of fun and very lucrative.
Sul Glass
Fat Dragon Mining Co.
Darwinism.
#25 - 2011-09-19 21:58:17 UTC
Damn, I been in a one man corp for over two years, never been in a corp at all and I still have not come close to doing all the things I want to do in eve. Everyday its a laugh (except when the nasty piwates blew up my navy geddon) (but hey I got away from them last month and they said I had warp stabs fitted and I DIDN'T). Man it just never ends.

My goal? Solo 0.0, and i am getting there.

Coercer FTW.

Sul.
Substantia Nigra
Polaris Rising
Goonswarm Federation
#26 - 2011-09-19 22:22:08 UTC
C'mon, there's heaps to be done solo in eve! But if someone reckons they've done it all and need to leave eve because there's nothing left for them, then there's really only one thing that can be said ... Can I has your stuff?

I did try hisec mission running again a couple days ago, and agree that it gets kinda stale very quickly.

Also see some ppl suggesting that "MMORPG" does not, somehow, mean (or encourage) solo play. Strikes me that that is a complete load of twaddle.

The multiplayer part of it means nothing more than there being a group of people playing ... not necessarily that they're teaming up and doing stuff together. One of the great things, IMHO, about eve is that you can do group stuff if ya want, ya can go solo if ya want, and ya can explore any variation that interests ya and the game dynamics allow.

Good solo income? The best I've managed has been residential w-space ... with my C3 income being better than C4.
Solo mission-running? The epic mission arcs, especially the angels and guristas ones, are very good diversions from the epic-mundane of hisec lvl4s. Nullsec mission running is also an interesting challenge if you're not part of any local corp / alliance. I'm told ppl also run lvl5 missions from time to time.
Solo incursions? Yeah, well sort of. They're designed for group play but some can be soloed, although I don't think that's worth the effort.
Solo exploration? Sure, but a good exploration income is hard-work solo.
Solo industry? Absolutely, if that's your kinda thing. W-space mining, gas harvesting, and PI is way better than empire equivalents and w-space corps are often looking for dedicated industrialists ... sure that'd be solo within a corp but a lot of non-combat resource gathering can be achieved solo or semi-solo.

Go, go, go team-solo!

Big smile



I guess I am almost a 'vet' by now. Hopefully not too bitter and managing to help more than I hinder. I build and sell many things, including large collections of bookmarks.

Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#27 - 2011-09-19 23:28:35 UTC
Substantia Nigra wrote:


Also see some ppl suggesting that "MMORPG" does not, somehow, mean (or encourage) solo play. Strikes me that that is a complete load of twaddle.



No one said that solo play wasn't a possibility, its just that group/team play is more encouraged and rewarded a lot more.

Op stated that CCP does not support solo play. This is partially true to an extent. They support group player over solo play because this is an MMO. However, they still provide plenty of content for the solo player but in general, group play is more rewarding.
Rees Noturana
Red Rock Mining Company
#28 - 2011-09-20 00:00:45 UTC


Liked and quoted for awesomeness.

Although I head up a high sec, mostly social, corporation most of us are pretty much solo players. I've been here a few years now and still haven't tried everything, including stuff that is totally doable by solo pilots. EVE is much deeper than missions and life outside high sec isn't difficult to adjust to.

If you can't find something new to do in EVE, especially after having only done missions, maybe a sandbox world isn't for you. I have never recommended this to anyone before but maybe something like WoW would be more your thing.

_ _

ValentinaDLM
SoE Roughriders
Electus Matari
#29 - 2011-09-20 02:32:56 UTC


Stalking Mio.

And just to add, if you are after solo PVP content, come on, you are going to have to risk. Be it pirate missions in 0.0, FW/l5 missions in low sec, sleepers in wormholes, or exploration in low or 0.0, you have to take risks if you want a different experience.

It is boring, largely because it is safe, I have to say, I am far more excited to run "The Blockade" DED l4 in stain trying to outsmart the people that want to kill me, than comfortably setting in high sec and Running "The Blockade" Blood l4 while having local minimized.

FW is even better, people can see you mission without probes, and warp right to it even, this means you have to pay attention and come up with clever strategies to not fight, or fight the attackers seems far more exciting at least.

Exploration is kinda easy, and sometimes pays out crap, even in low or null, but at least you have the excitement of possibly finding something nice, or getting an escalation.

And wormholes are fun too, you can totally do lower ones solo, and not having local you can never know if there is a bomber or a pilgrim ready to attack the moment you go to salvage that sleeper loot.

If it is excitement you seek, then it is risk you seek.
Kesshisan
#30 - 2011-09-20 04:05:29 UTC
Vanguarder,

It sounds like you are unable to open your eyes to the universe around you and you do not want to make your own path. Rather you would have your path guided in front of you for you to follow. This means that EvE is not for you, and you are not for EvE. That's okay, though. Just because you and EvE don't match up doesn't mean you are a bad person or anything (despite what some people on these forums would have you believe.) There are plenty of games who cater to people like you; many of them are hugely popular, too!

I don't fault you for not wanting to play a game that isn't your playstyle, and I wish you the best of luck on whatever choices you make.
Dilligafmofo
3WAYFOUNDATIONS
New Miner's Union
#31 - 2011-09-20 06:42:15 UTC
Please donate all of your stuff to this char. I will ensure it is put to good use within a corp, sharing with those I fly with. As it was designed to do.

All isk forwarded will be spent gambling on Blink. as it was designed to do !!
Tetragammatron Prime
Pink Sockers
#32 - 2011-09-20 06:57:46 UTC
Rent a system in drone regions or wherever. Can rat your balls off with no obligation to defend space, attend ctas etc. Alternatively do high sec incursions. Or grow a pair and do low sec lvl4s (maybe even join FW).
Obax Bannon
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#33 - 2011-09-20 09:18:55 UTC
Also might be worth thinking about Wormholes.
Loads of stuff to do in there and you can do solo is your lucky enough to find an empty C1/C2
Plenty of smaller corps out there too
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#34 - 2011-09-20 09:53:10 UTC
Vanguarder wrote:
I can only solo, play times and other factors have made that clear to me over my 5 years of time with EVE.


Can only solo, or will only solo?

All those limits you believe exist to your gameplay are self-imposed. Can't join a corp? Self imposed. Won't take part in multiplayer group activities such as Incursions? Self imposed.

EVE is not a theme park, it is a virtual world. You are the master of your own destiny. There is no story to play your way through, there is no content spoon-fed to you in a series of quests.

Get out there, make friends, join in activities that other people are doing.
Uzbeg Khan
Henehen Conflict Logistics
#35 - 2011-09-20 10:08:05 UTC
I used to be in a 0.0 corp which had loinger WH ops with POS's and the whole shebang. Now I can't dedicate much time to being in a corp, so after returning to the game after a longer period I had to look for stuff to do solo.

Now I'm setting up to move into a C3 with this char in a tengu, and my alt in an Orca to see if semi-occupying a WH is any fun. I'll just load up wit ammo and spare stuff, and make the best of it. When I get bored I'll have a look into exploring. Plenty of stuff to do imo.

Now to figure out what to load into that orca...

Things I hate: - Signatures - Irony - Lists

Jowen Datloran
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#36 - 2011-09-20 13:34:18 UTC
Eight years of solo play here (as much as you can solo in a multiplayer environment)

Not run out of content yet. That suggestion tree explains it all.

Mr. Science & Trade Institute, EVE Online Lorebook 

Bloody Wench
#37 - 2011-09-20 13:51:23 UTC
I've never joined a corp or had someone else in my corp, I've only even fleeted with someone else a couple of times (that didnt end well).

Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out other times not so much. I'd like to see more of null especially supers in action, outposts etc. Just for the 'oh that's cool' factor.

I've done lvl 4's until I thought I'd kill myself, but that was really only a means to an end as it happened. I used it to fund my first and second solo ventures into wormholes. First 2 times were both C3 with varying amounts of success/fails.

I went back to lvl 4s for a couple of months to fund my latest WH adventure, C4. Been there since January, so pretty much 9 months. The WH has funded 5 accounts PLEX + a Dread and some Carriers, some expensive tengus and a rorqual, just because I wanted one to move the 6M M3 of Ark I really couldnt be ****** hauling out without compressing. But yeah I'm getting to the point now where I've more ISK than I can use, so again there's a lack of motivation. I really only play for less than 10 hours a week if you don't count lurking in Jita on this character messing about with the market. I bought 32 ammo BPCs because the maths looked interesting, I however failed to realise that the total build time is 30 days unless I import another ammo array. (ammo arrays only have 5 slots) so there's another lesson for me to remember. Jita -> WH production -> back to Jita sounded like a good idea at the time, even without Empire access full time it's pretty easy. So lets hope that ammo doesnt crash before I get it all done.

It does get boring as hell sometimes, the game in general, when solo, just find yourself something else to do. EG I just installed Age of Empires 3, which is crap btw, but it beats looking at the door in EVE.

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Bloody Wench
#38 - 2011-09-20 13:59:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Bloody Wench
Here's something else I always enjoyed. Get yourself a rifter, 3 stabs MWD, guns are optional and see how many jumps into null you can go.
or,
Try a round trip to serpentis prime for starters. Pack some guns and a do a lvl 1 serpentis mission just for lulz. (or wherever the lvl 1 agents are)

[u]**Shepard Wong Ogeko wrote: **[/u]  CCP should not only make local delayed in highsec, but they should also require one be undocked to use it. Then, even the local spammers have some skin in the game. Support a High Resolution Texture Pack

Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#39 - 2011-09-20 15:12:16 UTC
Bloody Wench wrote:
Here's something else I always enjoyed. Get yourself a rifter, 3 stabs MWD, guns are optional and see how many jumps into null you can go.
or,
Try a round trip to serpentis prime for starters. Pack some guns and a do a lvl 1 serpentis mission just for lulz. (or wherever the lvl 1 agents are)


This guy is scared of the brick wall that resides between .5 and .4 space. I doubt he'll head out to null any time soon. Twisted
Seraph Cruoris
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#40 - 2011-09-20 15:18:12 UTC
I will vouch for what one of the earlier posters have said. If you want EVE and you want a solo experience id look into X3: Terran Conflict.. But put 5 years into that and you're also bound to be repeating missions. You've been around too long and you've stuck to the same gameplay element throughout (judging from what you said not from personal experience). Your brick wall and boredom was bound to happen; I don't think any developer designing and supporting an MMO expects you to stick to a solo play style for long as you have.