EVE General Discussion

The jobbiness of EVE is its main draw. Jobby people trying to learn the fine points of the game mechanics and getting an edge over even worse jobby people. But when the developers change the baseline rules every month, and negate the fine-tweaked jobbiness... what's left? Endless relearning how to be the best jobber?

Yes, I too have grown bored of books and sex

I can't stand to eat the same thing twice in a row. As a resident of the first world... I don't have to.
But I do have my favorite foods. I can always return to those.

Books and movies are the same way. I have to wait for some time to "forget" the story, but I've read certain books until I've needed to replace them. And no matter what I'm doing, if I see 5th Element, I'm going to stop what I'm doing and watch.

And I'll avoid lhreadlock on that last subject by acting a bit prude.

--Gadget - not a Quaker

Wondered what triggered that?
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Too soon?

--Gadget

told you id get em

multipass?

taken, 80mill + a shitfit ishtar im keeping as a trophy

My Eve thing works like this: Mine, grind, build cool stuff, dive into the badlands, do cool things until cool stuff gets blown up, mine grind...

If it feels like I must log into do do this or that, and I'm less than enamored by the prospect then I simply do not log in, the world will not end if I do not do this Eve thing.

One advantage to cracking the elderly barrier is that repetition, reading the same books, watching the same movies, is not that much of a problem when you forget the thing about as fast as you watch/read.

The constant change of Eve's mechanics is just another thing, like big rats and rude players, just something else to deal with.

I like it here, sort of.

And this post is number somewhere close to seventy, if it's read at all will be the surprise.

I'm not a hardcore player, so this may not come off as right...

I only pay a quick sub once a year or so when I think of how much fun this game could be, then quickly lose interest.

For me...

It's not the open nature of the game. I like world building games where I make my own fun.
It's not the time sink. I can lose days in an interesting game.
It's not the time delay of the rewards. I can be patient if I'm really looking forward to the goal.

The problem is the goal itself. The goal is PvP. I'm not a huge fan of PvP.

As for the other careers? The myriad of options for playstyles? Once you get past the "doing this action is new and feels fun"...it's just to fuel the PvP. If not yours, then that of others. Even the other non-combat jobs are there for the same goal.

Gaining ISK? It's a pointless number by itself.
Gathering and Industry? That's just gathering materials used for PvP to get ISK to fuel your PvP or get equipment that lets you be more efficient at gathering materials used for PvP to get ISk to fuel....

(I skipped Exploration. For that once, I feel that it falls under the "doing this action is new and feels fun". Once you're used to it, it's samey.)

This wouldn't bother me, I think, if there was more of a goal, but the PvP is just fighting for no point. I could get completely engrossed in an Alliance between a gathering, indy and combat corp to make and defend a null sec trade hub to rival that of Jita. The combat has a goal. The gathering and industrial fuels that goal.

But...roam around with a few people to see if we can make a few explosions in a couple hours, maybe, if we're lucky and people aren't paying attention?

I dunno. Might just be me.

TL;DR - Stop being lazy. Reading is good for you.

Um...actually, that was the point. The group goals that are set generally are "get in random PvP or fuel random PvP". Solo goals don't get past the "just messing around" level either, since large scale game effects can't be powered by solo players.