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How do you know if won in Eve?

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Corey Fumimasa
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-03-18 12:06:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Corey Fumimasa
I have been looking at batreps for fleet engagements and the metrics are all over the place; ISK, ship loss ratios, who got the salvage,post battle forum smack talk, # of pilots who showed up, the list goes on.

For myself, I like to learn something about the game world; even if it costs me a ship, if I learn a new trick or figure something out then I win. !?!? wait a minute, didn't I loose? IDK what is winning in Eve to you?
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
Coalition of the Unfortunate
#2 - 2013-03-18 12:08:58 UTC
Winning is when you find something that makes you want to log in and have fun.
Vilnius Zar
SDC Multi Ten
#3 - 2013-03-18 12:10:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Vilnius Zar
That's a difficult one. To me it's when I finally stop playing for good, then I've won.

Perhaps a less :bittervet: answer would be "when you're comfortable with what you're doing, enjoy it and stop worrying about silly numerical goals like isk or SP and start pursuing more personal goals, knowing you'll succeed".
Djana Libra
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-03-18 12:12:16 UTC
everytime i see a ship blow up I win. I keep playing over and over again tho.
Whitehound
#5 - 2013-03-18 12:20:58 UTC
When one make no differences between game world and reality.

And, yes, this can go horribly wrong so do not do this at home.

Loss is meaningful. Therefore is the loss of meaning likewise meaningful. It is the source of all trolling.
Rian Kurr
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-03-18 12:23:47 UTC
Looked at putting together another ship together........ looked outside and saw the sun .....logged off and took the kids to the sand box in the park....I win... lol
De'Veldrin
Adversity.
Psychotic Tendencies.
#7 - 2013-03-18 13:37:12 UTC  |  Edited by: De'Veldrin
Rian Kurr wrote:
Looked at putting together another ship together........ looked outside and saw the sun .....logged off and took the kids to the sand box in the park....I win... lol


You sir won something far more important than eve.

For me winning at eve is about the little goals. Go out on a roam, come back without losing my pod - win!

De'Veldrin's Corollary (to Malcanis' Law): Any idea that seeks to limit the ability of a large nullsec bloc to do something in the name of allowing more small groups into sov null will inevitably make it that much harder for small groups to enter sov null.
Pantiy
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2013-03-18 14:13:30 UTC
if your asking if the land of RP which is known as provi or better know as CVA has won EvE? lets stick to one battle at a time. from what i hear you have a good one coming very soon.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#9 - 2013-03-18 14:17:44 UTC
Are you still playing?
Then you have not won yet.
Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#10 - 2013-03-18 14:17:48 UTC
there is no winning in EvE. you can only lose.

THE GAME Twisted
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#11 - 2013-03-18 14:17:55 UTC
Sentient Blade wrote:
Winning is when you find something that makes you want to log in and have fun.


/thread
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#12 - 2013-03-18 14:29:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Jonah Gravenstein
Winning Eve is when you no longer log in to play, and can still dictate what large numbers of Eve players do.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Corey Fumimasa
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#13 - 2013-03-18 14:29:38 UTC
Pantiy wrote:
if your asking if the land of RP which is known as provi or better know as CVA has won EvE? lets stick to one battle at a time. from what i hear you have a good one coming very soon.


Most of Prov-bloc is not RP. I am, just because I like to spout strange religious dogma in local. But for most pilots it is a much smaller part of their profile. (Well admitted profile, I think all Eve characters are quite different from the people that play them.)

As for battles; I was reading over the results of G-5EN2, and tbh I'm not sure who won?! The talk on our forums is mostly about what we could do better next time. I couldnt make that fleet and so its actually been kind of tough figuring out how it went.
Naes Mlahrend
Devil's Horsemen
#14 - 2013-03-18 14:50:39 UTC
I win every time I make a sale on the market.
Every time I make it through low sec camps without getting blown up.
Every time I escort my alt through null with no problems.
Every time I 100% a scanning location.
Every time I make a discovery of sorts about how I should play better.
etc

Just the little things that make me happy when I play EVE are wins in my book.
Buhhdust Princess
Mind Games.
Suddenly Spaceships.
#15 - 2013-03-18 14:53:03 UTC
Well first an alien comes, and once you kill it,

"GAME OVER" appears on your screen.

Then you can't play before that unless you saved it before the alien, so u have to just post on forums.

Only took me 8 years.
Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#16 - 2013-03-18 15:01:46 UTC
The day you press the Log off button and you see that awesome Oveur photo - you'll know.

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#17 - 2013-03-18 15:03:35 UTC
You don't 'win' in EVE. You win at plaing EVE.

If you're having a good time, you're winning at playing EVE. If you're not having fun, best you re-assess what yo're doing, and why.

Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.

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Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#18 - 2013-03-18 15:46:21 UTC
Winning at EvE? Get some tech moons, print ISK, go into RMT.

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#19 - 2013-03-18 15:50:45 UTC
I win every day... sometimes because I make vast quantities of ISK... and sometimes because I just know when to walk away and say "fakkit, I'll be back later".

Translation for the paduwans... "Do, or do not. The is no try".

Cool

"EVE is dying." -- The Four Forum Trolls of the Apocalypse.   ( Pick four, any four. They all smell.  )
Acac Sunflyier
The Ascended Refugees
Lord of Worlds Alliance
#20 - 2013-03-18 16:15:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Acac Sunflyier
The thing about eve is it's just a treed mill. One day even goonswarm will no longer be there after being replaced by some other yet to be named alliance; death is the only assured inevitability. The only way to win eve is to get off and stop being apart of the cycle.
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