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Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#81 - 2012-09-20 07:36:45 UTC
No real life effects notice but if you count the fact that eve has reinforced my belief to not trust people then yes I guess this is the effect I've only met a handful of folks here that judging from their post and actions over time they seem well rounded whilst most seem eradic in their behavior and have a need for chaos.
Titus Black
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#82 - 2012-09-20 07:45:16 UTC
I spend my free time on street corners telling people I will double their money.

I would not say this game has adversely affected me.
Terrorfrodo
Interbus Universal
#83 - 2012-09-20 08:24:14 UTC
Actually I play less EVE than I would like, often I just don't log in because I'm too tired after work and EVE, after all, is hard. Generally I sometimes play every available minute for a week, probably 30 hours or more, other times I don't play at all for a whole week.

The main effect on my real life is that EVE competes with sports. During the week I usually try to go to the gym after work. When I go to the gym, there remains little or no time for EVE. If I want to play EVE, I cannot go to the gym. Sometimes the gym wins, sometimes EVE. On weekends I have two opportunities to play badminton at my club, and since both training sessions are in EVE prime time, this also competes with EVE -.-

EVE may also prevent me from chasing after women. Most weekends I'm too lazy to go out, except to a pub with male friends, because I can play EVE instead. In this regard I sometimes regret that I picked EVE... online communities are a great way to meet a partner, but EVE is really bad for this unless you're gay Ugh It's a pity that so few women play real games.

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Zloco Crendraven
BALKAN EXPRESS
Shadow Cartel
#84 - 2012-09-20 12:08:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Zloco Crendraven
My life was a mess before i started playing EVE. Well i was into WoW for like 5 years. My university was not going well, as my love affairs too. Didnt have job and because all of that the atmosphere within my family was not OK at all.
When i started playing EVE suddenly i had huge amount of spare time. No more must raids, no more must farm consumables, dailies, reputations and all other things in order to be competitive and have a fixed raid spot.
Also EVE had my brain involved lot, lot more and i think i might have been exercising it substantially.
Since than i moved to another university. I am one exam away to finish it, have a job and a wonderful girlfriend.

Dunno if it was because of EVE but fact is that i have lot more of spare time, not scheduled events, and a game that actually puts my brain to work.

BALEX, bringing piracy on a whole new level.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#85 - 2012-09-20 14:25:51 UTC
Fearless M0F0 wrote:
Eve fixed my RL finances... seriously Shocked

Before eve I would go out a lot to restaurants, bars, concerts, strip clubs, etc. Had all my credit cards maxed out, then Eve came by and for $10/month it consumed all my free time to the point every month I found myself with enough spare cash to pay big chunks of my debts Cool

I'm still paying off 10+ years of drunken sailor expenses but now I got a great credit score Bear

Yep. 50 cents per day, for as many hours of play time as you want or can manage. Hard to beat that for quality entertainment.
Tao Dolcino
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#86 - 2012-09-20 16:38:40 UTC
For my part i have quite a different point of view on the topic :

Why a successfull life should always be to have a boyfriend/girlfriend, to get married, have a family, a very busy social life, an important job and a huge credit on the car and the house ?
We all are different and we all have different ways to be happy.
If someone is happy playing EVE all the time, living alone and having no job, in what is it badder than another source of happyness ?
I hate normality, it's the worst dictature.
Sugar Kyle
Middle Ground
#87 - 2012-09-20 16:40:32 UTC
Eve is a hobby. I still go to work, pay the bills, make dinner for the husband and go on trips. Then its great to combine trips and eve (eve Vegas). It's what I do with my free time. My coworkers are calling out of work because of football games and raging over their fantasy teams but I'm the weird one who people would suspect has no life because I play a video game.

It's just life op. People will find another way to ruin it if that is their thing.

Member of CSM9 and CSM10.
Spurty
#88 - 2012-09-20 16:42:02 UTC
I used to have to set alarm clocks to get me up @ 3am so I could switch skills.

Now, if I forget to train a skill, I barely bat an eyelid at the lost time.

Kudos training queue btw

There are good ships,

And wood ships,

And ships that sail the sea

But the best ships are Spaceships

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Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#89 - 2012-09-20 16:51:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Oliver
Tao Dolcino wrote:
Why a successfull life should always be to have a boyfriend/girlfriend, to get married, have a family, a very busy social life, an important job and a huge credit on the car and the house?
Short answer, a sense of security and social fulfillment derived from the persuit and maintaining of such endeavors. Normally I try to avoid this subject though because usually materialistic breeders tend to play the hater card if one calls them on their superficial and affluent lifestyles (or attempts to maintain the outward illusion of one despite a lifetime of resulting debt).
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
Kult Altol
The Safe Space
#90 - 2012-09-20 19:20:53 UTC
Sugar Kyle wrote:
Eve is a hobby. I still go to work, pay the bills, make dinner for the husband and go on trips. Then its great to combine trips and eve (eve Vegas). It's what I do with my free time. My coworkers are calling out of work because of football games and raging over their fantasy teams but I'm the weird one who people would suspect has no life because I play a video game.

It's just life op. People will find another way to ruin it if that is their thing.



lol girls on the internet. stop kidding around.

[u]Can't wait untill when Eve online is Freemium.[/u] WiS only 10$, SP booster for one month 15$, DPS Boost 2$, EHP Boost 2$ Real money trading hub! Cosmeitic ship skins 15$ --> If you don't [u]pay **[/u]for a product, you ARE the [u]**product[/u].

Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#91 - 2012-09-20 20:37:47 UTC
Kult Altol wrote:
lol girls on the internet. stop kidding around.
Never forget Rule 30.
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#92 - 2012-09-20 20:47:05 UTC
Malice Redeemer wrote:
I don't have a GF anymore because I was playing eve a lot a year ago, but I think I played eve so much then because she was treating me like ****, and I had no other outlets. When you have other things to do, all "eve addition" causes is a lost 15 bucks a month per toon and a few mins a week or so putting new skills on your que.



You're better off! With every woman I say this is the last one. Even told my wife this wasn't going no where, like 9 years ago. Women never give up, she wore me down. Had I had Eve back than, I might be happily single today. Not that I'm unhappy, as far as women go she's pretty cool. But single is where it's at! If it wasn't for this damn pe.......

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#93 - 2012-09-20 21:02:59 UTC
Casirio wrote:
I blabber to my girlfriend about how wormholes work and what not and she just smiles and nods and puts her head back in her kindle. She thinks I'm talking to her when I'm talking to my corp mates lol, makes for interesting conversations about how my choices of "ganking that noob" is ethical.

All in all, Eve is a great hobby for me and my GF would much rather me be a nerd than at the bars all night with my buds. I prefer the relaxed nerd lifestyle now that I'm out of college and work full time.

Ha. My wife always says atleast I know hwere you are, you're not out with some bimbo.

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#94 - 2012-09-20 21:06:20 UTC
Lord Ryan wrote:
Ha. My wife always says atleast I know hwere you are, you're not out with some bimbo.
I once had a girlfriend who would say that, then one night I found her with another woman. Shocked
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#95 - 2012-09-20 21:12:50 UTC
Paul Oliver wrote:
Lord Ryan wrote:
Ha. My wife always says atleast I know hwere you are, you're not out with some bimbo.
I once had a girlfriend who would say that, then one night I found her with another woman. Shocked

Dated her girl in high school she said her dad basically forced her mom into threesome. She ended up liking it and ran off with the other woman. Left her husband with 2 kids. What do they say, becare what you ask for.

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
ctx2007
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#96 - 2012-09-20 21:13:13 UTC
Paul Oliver wrote:
Lord Ryan wrote:
Ha. My wife always says atleast I know hwere you are, you're not out with some bimbo.
I once had a girlfriend who would say that, then one night I found her with another woman. Shocked



So you found her with another woman, and did not even ask to watch or join in?

You only realise you life has been a waste of time, when you wake up dead.
Nico elScorpio
Care Bear Hi Sec Industries
#97 - 2012-09-20 21:15:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Nico elScorpio
Paul Oliver wrote:
Tao Dolcino wrote:
Why a successfull life should always be to have a boyfriend/girlfriend, to get married, have a family, a very busy social life, an important job and a huge credit on the car and the house?
Short answer, a sense of security and social fulfillment derived from the persuit and maintaining of such endeavors. Normally I try to avoid this subject though because usually materialistic breeders tend to play the hater card if one calls them on their superficial and affluent lifestyles (or attempts to maintain the outward illusion of one despite a lifetime of resulting debt).


They play the haters card because they feel in a way you critize them, even if you think you are not. criticism always provokes corresponding reactions. Real bliss is the freedom of being yourself and completey not caring about any judgement of anybody on your lifestyle or generally what you are doing or not doing. If you are there, terms like "real life" become totally irrelevant. And also terms like "succesful" do.

Idea
Touval Lysander
Zero Wine
#98 - 2012-09-20 21:16:01 UTC
Played Eve 3 years, got shitcanned regularly by the wife about it.

Introduced her to facebook.

Now I do what I damn well please.... Proof that FB does have it's uses.

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#99 - 2012-09-21 00:07:42 UTC
Touval Lysander wrote:
Played Eve 3 years, got shitcanned regularly by the wife about it.

Introduced her to facebook.

Now I do what I damn well please.... Proof that FB does have it's uses.


Could you please tell me how facebook uses up that much time, (not including kadinga or whatever it's called), as I never really figured it out?
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Bigpimping
Pimp Inc.
#100 - 2012-09-21 00:15:46 UTC
Well I was once tempted to go get an ice-cream, but was too transfixed by my ship spinning. Hours later when the spin counter had hit exactly 34,969 (my favourite number) I realised I didn't have a freezer.

I never got my ice-cream :(