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What Now ? - Stuck in a rut

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Avern
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-04-26 10:45:58 UTC
Hello

I have just come back to eve after almost half a year to give it a second go and still finding myself stuck in doing the same thing.

I fly Caldari Navy level 4 missions solo and that's about it, they are not difficult to do in a well fitted CNR so it just feels like grinding. I'm looking for something else to do but mining and industry really are not my thing.

I was thinking some form of exploration for isk and a change of pace although there are so many different kinda and it would have to be a all in one kinda thing, swapping ships is not a fun thing.

If anyone has any ideas of what and where to get started.

Thanks in Advance
Karn Dulake
Doomheim
#2 - 2012-04-26 10:49:45 UTC
For an as an all in one Mag/radar/plexs explorationer

You can use

1. Tengu

2. Pilgrim


Pilgrim does lowsec, tengu does nullsec/lowsec
I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion.
Cerple
#3 - 2012-04-26 10:50:36 UTC
You're going to be told to PVP but I think that's the wrong direction. You should just quit.
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#4 - 2012-04-26 10:52:11 UTC
Avern wrote:
Hello

I have just come back to eve after almost half a year to give it a second go and still finding myself stuck in doing the same thing.

I fly Caldari Navy level 4 missions solo and that's about it, they are not difficult to do in a well fitted CNR so it just feels like grinding. I'm looking for something else to do but mining and industry really are not my thing.

I was thinking some form of exploration for isk and a change of pace although there are so many different kinda and it would have to be a all in one kinda thing, swapping ships is not a fun thing.

If anyone has any ideas of what and where to get started.

Thanks in Advance



See the link in my sig for some starter ideas

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
#5 - 2012-04-26 10:52:41 UTC
Avern wrote:
Hello

I have just come back to eve after almost half a year to give it a second go and still finding myself stuck in doing the same thing.

I fly Caldari Navy level 4 missions solo and that's about it, they are not difficult to do in a well fitted CNR so it just feels like grinding. I'm looking for something else to do but mining and industry really are not my thing.

I was thinking some form of exploration for isk and a change of pace although there are so many different kinda and it would have to be a all in one kinda thing, swapping ships is not a fun thing.

If anyone has any ideas of what and where to get started.

Thanks in Advance


there is a frighter race in jita this weekend, you should turn up for that.
but you are disqualified if a scanner finds you are flying light so bring stuff to add mass.
Tinnin Sylph
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-04-26 10:58:06 UTC
Have you considered an challenging and fulfilling career in Goonswarm?

Heh.
Tanya Powers
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-04-26 11:07:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Tanya Powers
You're at the point you're disgusted about the game because you'll find out in a few weeks you're still doing the same boring thing.

The best advice I can give you, and believe me you'll find a whole new game, is to move on to more exciting lands and this means WH's - Null sec - Low sec

You know alliances are the result of several corporations working together right? -find one where you feel you'll be fine with people in, move there with something you can afford to loose in your way to, keep your assets in high sec and restart building everything from 0 out there in those exciting places that are the retail version of the game.

Meet awesome people, enjoy the fun around the protection of what you build, go spank guys somewhere to get their crap and get yourself ass kicked, it's a hell of a game. You're just doing it wrong my friend.

Stop playing Eve online beta version 1.1 witch is hella boring. DL Eve online retail version and go there where fun IS about Lol
Dradius Calvantia
Lip Shords
#8 - 2012-04-26 11:09:53 UTC
Meh, it sounds like you have experienced about .01% of the game. If you have a hard time creating your own content... then maybe a sandbox is not the right place for you?
Avern
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-04-26 11:15:00 UTC
Tanya Powers wrote:
You're at the point you're disgusted about the game because you'll find out in a few weeks you're still doing the same boring thing.

The best advice I can give you, and believe me you'll find a whole new game, is to move on to more exciting lands and this means WH's - Null sec - Low sec

You know alliances are the result of several corporations working together right? -find one where you feel you'll be fine with people in, move there with something you can afford to loose in your way to, keep your assets in high sec and restart building everything from 0 out there in those exciting places that are the retail version of the game.

Meet awesome people, enjoy the fun around the protection of what you build, go spank guys somewhere to get their crap and get yourself ass kicked, it's a hell of a game. You're just doing it wrong my friend.

Stop playing Eve online beta version 1.1 witch is hella boring. DL Eve online retail version and go there where fun IS about Lol


I like this answer the best so far, so order of the day would be say.

Step 1 - Pick another faction (I've been using missiles and shield's forever), so say... Amarr
Step 2 - Get those frigate skills up for racing, pvp and the like, living in null/low.

How to find the right corp though ?
Scorsigaar
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#10 - 2012-04-26 11:19:15 UTC
I was in the same boat a while back. I was blitzing lvl 4's like no ones business. Then I went looking at the corp recruitment forum, and dove in. I've been in a large alliance as well as a few low sec corps. I figured I'll always have my mission ship to make cash again if things don't work out. My Paladin has been collecting dust now for quite some time, as I've been having so much fun shooting folks and getting blown up that I haven't taken it for a spin in ages.

Keep your mission boat as a back up. Go shoot people.

You eyes will open and you won't look back.
bartos100
Living Ghost
#11 - 2012-04-26 11:27:56 UTC
if you have been running lvl4's i take it you have some isk you can spend

try running WH out of high sec to start you don't need mutch and you can make decend isk at the same time
JitaPriceChecker2
Doomheim
#12 - 2012-04-26 11:32:02 UTC
Cerple wrote:
You're going to be told to PVP but I think that's the wrong direction.


PVP in EvE??

Never !!!!!
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2012-04-26 11:37:03 UTC
lol hey dev, you should remove the blue tag ...
... looks like you closed the thread accidentially. ^^
Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
#14 - 2012-04-26 11:39:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Mara Rinn
Lady Bloodsucker
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2012-04-26 11:42:03 UTC
Avern wrote:
Hello

I have just come back to eve after almost half a year to give it a second go and still finding myself stuck in doing the same thing.

I fly Caldari Navy level 4 missions solo and that's about it, they are not difficult to do in a well fitted CNR so it just feels like grinding. I'm looking for something else to do but mining and industry really are not my thing.

I was thinking some form of exploration for isk and a change of pace although there are so many different kinda and it would have to be a all in one kinda thing, swapping ships is not a fun thing.

If anyone has any ideas of what and where to get started.

Thanks in Advance


Can i have your stuff if you quit

The Hunger
Cutter Isaacson
DEDSEC SAN FRANCISCO
#16 - 2012-04-26 11:43:28 UTC
I had the same problem 9 months ago which led me to give away all my stuff and quit the game. Now I'm settled in a new home and back in EVE. I brought my best friend in to the game when I came back, so I'm getting to help train her up and then hopefully we will be going in to low/null sec to join a PvP corp.

Having spent almost 7 years being a carebear, and thanks to my friends liking for the idea of PvP, I am going to get a new lease of life in EVE. Perhaps you could do the same? Put yourself in a situation that makes you think, gives you that burst of adrenaline, that should make things interesting again.

Best of luck to you.

"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination." Elim Garak.
Halete
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2012-04-26 11:44:42 UTC
Honestly, the things to do chart doesn't even do EVE justice.

That said, if you've been stuck doing Level 4 missions for so long then I would suggest that what EVE is about has completely passed you by altogether and I'm surprised that you did renew.

"To know the true path, but yet, to never follow it. That is possibly the gravest sin" - The Scriptures, Book of Missions 13:21
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2012-04-26 11:45:34 UTC
lol @ people not knowing what to do in a sandbox game.
Avern
Doomheim
#19 - 2012-04-26 11:57:54 UTC
I guess finding a large active corp is step 1 then...

I had started to train for exploring, is it a fun thing to get involved in at all ?

If it is not I'll start from scratch along the Amarr line but go as high as frigates then drop to low/null sec pvp.
Sunviking
Doomheim
#20 - 2012-04-26 11:59:58 UTC
Came here expecting to find a dev post, can't see it anywhere!
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