EVE General Discussion

Please for the love of Pete tell me that you didn't work on that game and if ya did please tell me ya didn't help design I13. I read that and a friggen chill went up my spine like the ghost of RV just walked over my grave.

They just shut their servers down....

To the OP: I think you are just bored in general. To keep things fresh, I change things up regularly.

I multibox: SWTOR on my main computer, two EvE accounts on a second, and one EvE account on a third older machine. I'll set up my mining fleet to run semi-AFK, while I run around in SWTOR. It keeps me busy. I'm out of my chair with relatively high frequency. It's way more fun than doing either alone, or God forbid, playing on a single account in EvE.

Also, I play a large variety of games to keep things interesting: Perpetuum, Black Prophecy (not in a long time though), DIablo III, LOTRO, Team Fortress II, and the list goes on.

Also, doing it this way is immunity from server outages/downtime, so there is always something available whenever I want to log on. And due to my job, I am up at way strange hours of the day/night...

Plus, there is nothing wrong with avoiding gaming all together for a while. When I am getting bored with games, I'll work on hands-on projects, and do stuff around the house I have been meaning to do. Or, I'll ride my bike or meet up with buds...

Change things up :: keep it fresh.

I am not an avid gamer, although I started on the original Atari 400, but I got into text MU*s in the very earliest proto stages. I loved, and still miss, the absolute freedom: Not only was content was player generated, the landscape was. The items were. The monsters were. The code was player written. On one MUSH I was on, the combat system was player written, and optional: You could do 100% RP'd combat. Your character looked like whatever you could type in, and that included code. There was no respawning; if your character died, you were taken back to the character creator. I spent years in that space, happily, until the graphical MMOs drained the players away. It turns out that a lot of people want their scenes pre-rendered for their convenience. I ignored MMOs and went back to tabletop games.

Fast forward to about 13 months ago. A few friends were talking EVE, EVE, EVE all the time. So finally, I broke down and created this character. EVE still falls far short of the freedom I enjoyed on the MU*s, but it's as close as any graphical game has come, and for better or for worse, graphical games are where people are, and people are the whole point. One thing I especially love about EVE is that there is so much to learn, and with some reasonable exceptions you can learn whatever you want in whatever order, and enough of what there is to learn is player skill that you do the learning from other people, not from NPCs.

Much more recently, I indulged some friends and family and finally downloaded WoW. I created a warlock because I'd heard they were as close to WoW-on-hard-mode as there was, only to find that the latest expansion had completely retooled them so they weren't. All the railroad tracks that I dreaded about MMOs were there, but WoW has this oddly schizophrenic thing going on where the combat is insultingly easy until you're in an instance and suddenly it's "what do you mean, you haven't discovered the optimal tactics for your character?" Well, no, I haven't. Everything else dies too damn quickly, and the combat has nowhere near the tactical complexity of EVE's. Your fitting decisions boil down to, "is this obviously better than what I have?". The lack of customization is terrible, and the animations are a frequent source of unintentional comedy. I still pop on for my friends and family, but the day they leave, I leave too. I can't say that about EVE.