EVE General Discussion

To the OP, I can figure a few activites that likely wouldn't bore you, but the best one I can think of is this:

This will never bore you

It's relatively easy to master and even succeed, and success won't bore you for a long while.

Me thinks OP got bored with his Custom Designer "Sexy Bites" vampire fangs and is going through serious Halloween post partum depression (take a shower... that'll get the "Edward Cullen Golden Sunset" glitter off your skin and make you feel soooo much less cranky).

Also...

You're doing the sex thing wrong.


On the off chance you're serious... pick up the phone. Call your doctor and say "I feel depressed and I need help". It's the hardest step to take, but it's the beginning of feeling better.

I prefer the Marilyn Manson version

Do you know the names of your great great grand parents maybe not even your great grand parents? Then you might have some portraits, fading photographs, fuzzy stories and ... yet you don't know them. Didn't meet them.
Even the names we all do know; so what? I can name only a few Chinese people of "importance" I am sure they know a good few more but that also comes down to education. I doubt most of the world know more than a few handful of names and probably have busy enough lives not to care.

So that is meaningless.

Not depression, more the thing is ahedonism, which they don't know if it is chemical, some psychological block or physical, which ever it is there aren't enough cases to justify the research and they don't have a treatment for it.



I play to a 17K handicap and don't improve. Occasionally, play it socially now.

I love the internet.... it is simply awesome......

The only thing you are good at is spending lots of time being a forum ho

Am I hating on you? Probably, mainly for coming off as a very annoying armchair general.

Lets see...
Fast reply: check
Multiple quotations for internet argument: check
Inflated Ego: check

I rest my case. Have a nice day. I'm done here.

I've been playing Eve for years, largely because it's one of the few games out there that provides a challenge and doesn't follow the formula, "follow prearranged path, execute action, continue along path(s), gain sense of achievement, buy new game." From time to time I burn out on Eve after having tried most of the possibilities. I go away for a bit, come back, resub, repeat. The only other games that I really enjoy and come back to consistently are the complex grand strategy games like Victoria 1 and 2, Hearts of Iron, etc. You could try those.

Boredom is one of the modern world's most powerful motivators I've recently learned. We bend over backwards to avoid it, even if dealing with it would be far simpler. It's the reason for much of the world's ignorance, apathy, general nihilism, and perhaps even malnutrition. When we are not stimulated or entertained we either frantically search for something to return to that state, or we feel that we lose some kind of meaning or enjoyment in life, when the reality is that meaning and joy are created or found by us and what we choose to place them in or into them.

There will always be books, and I've found there are too many to read in a single lifetime, even if just read once - and the best ones deserve to be read more than a single time, or perhaps in their native tongue, which takes years of preparation and brings an entirely new reading.

Explore the dying world of music which few people really actually delve into these days. Most people don't realize that art music is still alive, let alone the intricacies involved in it, and tend to shirk it for arbitrary reasons: ignorance, boredom, difficulty, lack of perceptual grounding, etc.

Some people, when they find that there's something missing in the world, create something to fill in the gaps. Gaps they fill, not only in the world or in others, but in themselves that they feel must absolutely, unequivocally be dealt with. It's from this that meaning and purpose are derived. And it's a difficult path that takes dealing with adversity, boredom, and even death, but those bring more meaning still. It's all about choices and the perception of choices.

I was once told that the two most important questions ever asked were Plato's "What is a human being?" and Kierkegaard's "Why should I get out of bed in the morning?" I've realized over the years, that those questions are one in the same, with the same ambiguous, protean, amoebic answer that you have to nail down to the floorboards daily with spikes of sweat and sinew and brain matter just to even get a glimpse of it. You may search and search for it and never find it, but one day, unexpectedly, there it is again, come out of hiding to slap you in the face to remind you that you're a fool and that it only matters when you choose to be open to seeing it.

to OP, yes, you do get tired of all this

if you IQ is >>130

you can't read if you are a chimpanzee

Reminded me of this.
Good post, thanks.

Seems you are looking for something to do in life in general, not just Eve.

Within Eve, I'd suggest helping out newbies. The tutorials still aren't the greatest, and they still have tons to learn when they are truly new.

Write your experiences into your own book or "Isk" type information dump. Focus it on the subjects you know the most about, and detail why you feel your opinions formed and then provide facts to back them up.
Visit every system in Eve (I hear it takes two months).
Create a program that is a hybrid between Evemon and EFT that allows users to put together a ship fitting and then shows them what skills they need to train to fly that exact fit (and if it is possible at all in the first place).
I realize that EFT does this, but having a program that does that and then creates the skill queue's etc like EveMon could benefit a lot of people. Heck, make it web-based.

Outside of Eve: Learn to work with metal and stone. Make small ornate display pieces that use copper, brass, and silver. Incorporate semi-precious gemstones into the piece (brass tree, jade leaves. LOTS of them). This of course is a heavy startup fee. If you want cheap-er, get a Dremel or similar tool, some hand size pieces of Jasper (not JaspeT, JaspeR) or Agate, a five dollar box of diamond carving tips, a tub of water, and learn to carve and polish stone.

Beyond that and the other suggestions that people might make, examine your reaction to each suggestion. If you find you are making excuses for every single one as to why you can't, then you need to look a bit further into your attitude/state-of-mind.
It doesn't matter what people suggest, if you believe you can't do anything, you're going to find you are right.