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...It pulls me back in...

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Rao Kappa
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-02-25 23:44:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Rao Kappa
I've played this MMO on and off for the past few years.

I play for a bit, then take a break...so on and so forth.

I figured I'd load up the capsuleer once more and try again. There is something about Eve, something about its cruel complexity and indifference that keeps me coming back. It is the one MMO I think you can never master, that will challenge you constantly, and in this MMO environment, there isn't much willing to do that.

Most just seem happy with the vanilla, on the rails experience. My brain just demands more.

This is an MMO that forces you to be intelligent, or pay harshly for your stupidity.

So, I hope to meet some of you ingame, and if there's any advice you'd wish to impart, I could sure as hell use it.

Thanks for reading.
~RK
Mr Chili Palmer
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-02-26 00:37:04 UTC
i must agree, i have only had an active account for about 5 months however my real life working shift patterns mean for 4 days i do not play at all so am kind of in the 3 month mark, most of the time i have a vague idea what i am supposed to be doing, the majority of the time i have not got the foggiest of how to get onto the next rung :) but i find myself drawn to this game, its a kind of sadistic pleasure, you want to master it but just can't quite get there ................

"If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried"

"If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail"
Mors Prima
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#3 - 2012-02-26 01:06:26 UTC
Rao Kappa wrote:
I've played this MMO on and off for the past few years.

I play for a bit, then take a break...so on and so forth.

I figured I'd load up the capsuleer once more and try again. There is something about Eve, something about its cruel complexity and indifference that keeps me coming back. It is the one MMO I think you can never master, that will challenge you constantly, and in this MMO environment, there isn't much willing to do that.

Most just seem happy with the vanilla, on the rails experience. My brain just demands more.

This is an MMO that forces you to be intelligent, or pay harshly for your stupidity.

So, I hope to meet some of you ingame, and if there's any advice you'd wish to impart, I could sure as hell use it.

Thanks for reading.
~RK


I know precisely what you're talking about. Like you I've also been playing EVE on and off for a few years. Only one other MMO has ever brought me back to play it once I stopped, but I can definitely say that my interest in EVE Online runs deeper than it does in other MMOs I've played. I love the complexity!
T0RT0ISE
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2012-02-26 03:54:36 UTC
I feel like I could be moderately proficient in a musical instrument if I had put my efforts into that rather than ever start Eve. She is a cruel, brilliant, complicated beauty ♥
Gerrick Palivorn
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-02-26 06:41:59 UTC
I may take breaks but I always maintain my accounts to keep up that SP. Everytime I come back I have some new toy to play with :)

As far as advice, change your mentality from the vanilla MMO's that hold your hand. Everytime you undock, expect to lose your ship, and be thankful when your able to dock up again. This is at the core of don't fly what you can't afford to lose. Go out and do what you love to do, build, mine, kill, pillage, anything you like to do. Don't limit yourself, try everything and really know how things work, try something before you write it off completely. Don't fear what you can lose, instead think about how you can gain from every gank and kill.

Finally, find a good group of people that you enjoy talking on comms with, many times I will hop on comms and not log into Eve just 'cause I like the people in my corp. They will be the ones that will keep you playing when the game gets to you, they will be the ones keeping you logging in.

Gerrick

MMOs come and go, but Eve remains.  -Garresh-
Sin Pew
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2012-02-27 08:47:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Sin Pew
I can't tell about the breaks part, though with ME3 coming, I might put some skills to 5, but most of the time, I have no clue what I'm doing, if I do it right and anytime I think I know something, I find out I didn't, I love/hate this game Lol

[i]"haiku are easy, But sometimes they don't make sense, Refrigerator."[/i]
Xerces Ynx
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-02-27 09:49:10 UTC
This is my second time in EVE. Few years ago I tried it, but More Important Things(tm) got in the way. Since then I tried many other MMOs (except WoW; what I've seen and heard is enough for me to know I won't like it), but nothing kept me playing them, so I resigned usually after two or three days. But EVE was always somewhere in the back of my head. I was hooked and my comeback was a matter of time. I tried again and now I can't stop playing. I don't know why... It has to be subliminal stimuli, pictures and text messages injected between frames. Yes, that must be it. I'm sure CCP is composing messages for our brains to register... "You must play EVE", "EVE is your friend", "Come back to EVE", "Dominix Navy Issue w/ rigs @ 10kk convo me [Multiple items]"...

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Moonsuga Benza
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-02-28 18:03:13 UTC
its so true. I tried eve 2 or 3 times before finally subbing and enjoying it now more than ever. First couple times I tried years ago, I was used to MMO hand-holding like WOW and I thought this game was to complex. Now I love how complex it is. never going back to theme-park, daily grind MMO's ever again
FeralShadow
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-02-28 18:19:20 UTC
I am exactly the same as the OP. The brain just... begs for the complexity and the challenge of coming up with something new and creative to gain an advantage.

The OP gets eve.

One of the bitter points of a good bittervet is the realisation that all those SP don't really do much, and that the newbie is having much more fun with what little he has. - Tippia
Syds Sinclair
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-02-29 00:46:31 UTC
..Blizzard pays millions to their dev team to make a different variation of content to keep subscribers.

CCP get paid millions to just keep the sandbox free of cat poop. The players will take care of all the content.

♠ Sinclair Consulting ♠
Rao Kappa
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2012-02-29 08:34:21 UTC
Syds Sinclair wrote:
..Blizzard pays millions to their dev team to make a different variation of content to keep subscribers.

CCP get paid millions to just keep the sandbox free of cat poop. The players will take care of all the content.



I think that just goes to show when a developer makes a pretty sound sandbox to play in, and leaves players to their own devices, the 'content' they create can be just as enjoyable, if not more so, then anything the devs can dream up.

A game like Eve really just needs the devs to manage the balance of the game, and give us just enough tools to build weapons to slaughter each other with.

Other MMOs are about playing the game. Eve is about the people you play the game with.
Syds Sinclair
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2012-02-29 15:41:14 UTC
..Exactly Rao. That 'What' of Eve is very simple. Anyone can learn the game mechanics. But the 'Why' of Eve is where the brilliance comes out.

♠ Sinclair Consulting ♠
CCP Phantom
C C P
C C P Alliance
#13 - 2012-02-29 16:02:44 UTC
Welcome back!

That are nice words. We not only say that EVE is a living, breathing universe, we mean it. You, the players, make all the difference. Thank you for that, thank you for creating such an incredible world!

CCP Phantom - Senior Community Developer
Vigilant Archer
Doomheim
#14 - 2012-02-29 21:34:43 UTC
Remember EVE is about the journey not the destination.

It' not the destination that matters it's the journey. The same can be said about life.
We're all on a journey that ends in our death. We know our destination we don't know how we will get there we just know that we will someday. It's the good experiences and the bad experiences, the friends we make and the enemies we create, what we accomplish, what we fail to accomplish, the love that we make and the love that we lose, the good that we do and the bad that we do, the interesting people we meet, our hopes and our fears, our wishes, our longings, the times that we laugh in joy and the times that we cry in despair, those are what make life worth living. At the end of our life when our sun is about to set, when we look back on our life before we die it is if we smile in joy our cringe in regret that determines if we lead a good life, not our death. When we die our bodies decay into dust, those who remember us also eventually die, and sooner or later we are all forgotten by history, nobody to remember what we have accomplished, when our sun is about to set if we ourselves can't look back on our life and smile then we have not lived life to the fullest, I wouldn't have it any other way. Besides who knows death may just be the beginning of an exciting new adventure just as the sun that sets will eventually rise again and repeat it's journey across the sky once again.
Raiz Nhell
State War Academy
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-03-01 05:44:53 UTC
I just appreciate the fact that I can do whatever I like whenever, wherever...

Sometimes I like to shoot rocks, some times I like to haul whatever I have built, sometimes I like to stress test my graphics card with my rapidly expanding cloud of salvage...

I've never thought "What do I do next?" Cause at the heart of EVE is the ability to make it up as you go along...

There is no such thing as a fair fight...

If your fighting fair you have automatically put yourself at a disadvantage.