EVE General Discussion

Been in eve for allmost ten years with 2 small breaks in between.

The way i keep the game interesting is by being a drifter.For example 2 years ago i did marketing for 6 months , went to solo syndicate roaming a few months , back to bpo buying/reselling/researching 6 months , moved to syndicate for small alliance pewpew and plexing.After that went back to piracy for 2 months and then went to join the CFC for 6 months to 'enjoy' the halloween war.Now i am in a faction warfare alliance as of a few months playing with solo pewpewing in frigs mostly.

The only way for me to keep the game interesting is to not stay too long in one place.I make friends in all aspects of eve be it carebearing , solo pewpewing or blobfleeting and so far only once left because of some 'drama' wich was yearssss ago.Every time i join a new corp i make clear that if they look at my corphistory they will see that i am not there for the long run but a 2 to 6 months max 'vacation' .I do try to contribute to whatever that corp/alliance needs when i am there so it's not just joining to leech on something it's joining to have a new experience OR to re-live an experience i once had.For example the current alliance i help seeding the markets , jf'ing stuff around and 'give my idea's on certain directions ' .

The only things i keep my hands off is being in a directors role because of endless drama-lama as i found out in my first years of eve , wormholes as it does not attract me in the slightest and incursions for the same reason as wormholes .But who knows maybe in a few months i might head that direction , i never know where i end up a few months later as i totally have no 'longterm plans'.


Basically it can be summed up by an old song :

' I'm the kinda guy who can never settle down , where pretty things blow up you know that i'm around . They call me the wanderer , yeah the wanderer , i roam around around ... '

As it has already been mentioned, having fun in a game like EVE is all about the social aspect.
Ive spent weeks playing this game solo, and weeks playing the game with other people over mumble etc, It makes a huge difference. First of all I would try out different corps until you found one with like minded players, this game like every other online game becomes so much more fun when you have like minded players who are social and online at the same times as you are.

Then if you cant figure out exactly what you want to do, give yourself a list of challenges:
I will kill 10 players in pvp without dying.
I will generate x amount of income from a POS/PI.
I will build this ship from scratch.
I will be able to do these missions in x amount of time.

Whatever you find to be fun, be it mining, pvp, exploring or whatever, set yourself a list of challenges, and then go out to complete them with a bunch of people you enjoy playing with ;)

Remember them shakes you get when solo pvping?

I would also recommend Elise Randolphs new player stream to help recapture the magic

Pretty much that.

I would also like to add, I see a lot of players doing the things they think they need to do or are supposed to do in this game, a kind of "when in Rome" attitude. This is why we see week old players trying to form corporations and getting turbo-stomped in a wardec a week later.

Therefore, don't try to play the game the way it was meant to be played, but instead find some out of the box things to do. You might even change the game or some aspects of it. From piracy to player-sponsored live events for example.

Given further thought, I think the OP is more qualified to be "emergent" in this game than most other players. Almost an enviable position for having done it all, can now do that which was not intended. The "end game" may well not be a feature or intent of the game.

Actually these days I mostly live in low sec. Does keep things interesting!

Be the villain.

To me, it's always been about the story. For example, whenever I play Skyrim, I always reach that kind of endgame state. That point where there really isn't anymore story to add, so it kind of becomes stale. That's the point where I always restart- I delete the old save files and start anew with a fresh character. And I avoid making the same choices I made in the previous file.

I'm not saying biomass all your characters, but make a new one. And definitely immerse yourself. What would you do if you weren't you? Sure the major plot points may be the same, but those transcend everything. I make the same general choices in game as everyone else. On my main, those choices reflect who I am. Karl is me. My alts are not me. In a way, they should allow you to see the world through a different window, and therefore allow you to see yourself through a different window.

It's a sandbox game. But what is the sand? The game? Or you?

Villains fly Amarr.

Insert advert with Mr.Kane.

I still remember the first two people that killed my main SEVEN YEARS LATER

TheSleeper (who I met and got to kill in Mechwarrior Online) ans Artcurus Dethbane

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