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Kaye Kaye
Mining and Trade
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Posted - 2014.12.15 17:38:08 -
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I like solo game play and was trying to find a reason to continue subscribing.
I'm a casual gamer and was hoping for suggestions from those solo players who've ran through the linear game stuff and found a reason to continue playing more than 3 months. I've done the mission/mining/trading things and they're just rinse/repeat actions.
Is it the social aspects of the game that keep you here? Or is there some hidden coolness that drives you to want to log in again.
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Caldari 5
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. S.A.S
368
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Posted - 2014.12.15 17:42:14 -
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Main reason for continuing to play is to continue to achieve goals that you have set yourself. |
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
7557
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Posted - 2014.12.15 17:44:35 -
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Kaye Kaye wrote:What's next for a new solo player?
You should go to Disneyland.
Obligatory:
Gÿ+
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the ho's and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' and I'll look down, and whisper 'Hodor'.
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Aiyshimin
Shiva Furnace
233
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Posted - 2014.12.15 17:52:11 -
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Kaye Kaye wrote:I like solo game play and was trying to find a reason to continue subscribing. I'm a casual gamer and was hoping for suggestions from those solo players who've ran through the linear game stuff and found a reason to continue playing more than 3 months. I've done the mission/mining/trading things and they're just rinse/repeat actions. Is it the social aspects of the game that keep you here? Or is there some hidden coolness that drives you to want to log in again.
EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online game set 23,000 years in the future.
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Gallowmere Rorschach
Enlightened Industries Goonswarm Federation
879
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Posted - 2014.12.15 17:52:32 -
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To be honest, Eve is a pretty terrible game (thought it's getting a lot better), and the only reason we all keep playing it, is because of the people. I don't necessarily mean friends, either.
So, with that being said, you are truly depriving yourself, if you try to play this game solo. |
Sol Project
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
258
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Posted - 2014.12.15 17:56:24 -
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I would suggest quitting, but before that you should give me all your stuff. |
Garnoo
Eternity INC. Goonswarm Federation
122
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Posted - 2014.12.15 18:03:38 -
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What's next for a new solo player?
make alt - booster alt is awesome for sols-pvp :D
People are going to try to ruin your day. Get together with others, ruin their day back --á EvE
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Siegfried Tahl
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
92
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Posted - 2014.12.15 18:05:26 -
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Aiyshimin wrote:EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online game set 23,000 years in the future. Some stars according to their info are 44-68 billion years old, with our universe being 13.5 bil y.o gets EVE bit further into the future, haha.
Things I do solo are exploration in nulls, gas mining in WHs, highsec combat explo. Want to try solo camping in a recon sometime, WH sites or whatever.
Improved Preview Tool for Ships, Stations, Gates etc.
Two Rogue Drone Mothers
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Jade Blackwind
Alexylva Paradox Low-Class
231
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Posted - 2014.12.15 18:28:14 -
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Siegfried Tahl wrote:Aiyshimin wrote:EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online game set 23,000 years in the future. Some stars according to their info are 44-68 billion years old, with our universe being 13.5 bil y.o gets EVE bit further into the future, haha. The New Eden cluster is situated in a parallel universe, much older than the one the people came from. This universe has different set of physics laws. Hence, all the eye-rolling stats on celetsial bodies.
Also, it has WD-40 instead of vacuum, and everything is a rubber ball.
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ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
2941
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Posted - 2014.12.15 18:30:36 -
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Kaye Kaye wrote:Is it the social aspects of the game that keep you here? Yep.
Kaye Kaye wrote:Or is there some hidden coolness that drives you to want to log in again. See the above answer.
ISD Ezwal
Vice Admiral
Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)
Interstellar Services Department
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Unezka Turigahl
Det Som Engang Var
504
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Posted - 2014.12.15 18:31:38 -
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Exploration. See things. Get loots. Meet people. Run away or kill them. |
Sista Slade
Nano-Tech Experiments
5
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Posted - 2014.12.15 18:32:32 -
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Kaye Kaye wrote:I like solo game play and was trying to find a reason to continue subscribing.
Your not going to find a reason to continue if you want to try to keep playing solo. You might as well just unsub now.
Eve is obviously not for you.
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Ferni Ka'Nviiou
Republic University Minmatar Republic
46
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Posted - 2014.12.15 18:38:42 -
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Kaye Kaye wrote:I like solo game play and was trying to find a reason to continue subscribing. I'm a casual gamer and was hoping for suggestions from those solo players who've ran through the linear game stuff and found a reason to continue playing more than 3 months. I've done the mission/mining/trading things and they're just rinse/repeat actions. Is it the social aspects of the game that keep you here? Or is there some hidden coolness that drives you to want to log in again Always challenge yourself.
Fly out to nullsec and do combat anomalies in a frigate. Go out to a mission and combine it with remote station trading. Just do things that generally you wouldn't think of doing.
Beyond that and PvP, if you are bored with the game, well, there's not really much else to offer, asides from social interaction probably. I had a friend who got bored of the game, and I still can't give him a reason to play it again.
I play the game because I find it fun irregardless of what I'm doing. All I can suggest is it be creative. |
Gully Alex Foyle
Black Fox Marauders Spaceship Bebop
2647
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Posted - 2014.12.15 18:57:53 -
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Solo PVP is great - though it's not really solo since you're interacting with other players.
Make space glamorous!
Is EVE dying or not? Ask the EVE-O Death-o-meter!
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Ralph King-Griffin
Lords.Of.Midnight The Devil's Warrior Alliance
7476
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Posted - 2014.12.15 19:05:31 -
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"What's next for a new solo player?"
Making some friends, hopefully.
"I'm also quite confident that you are laughing
and it's the kind of laugh that gives normal people shivers."
=]I[=
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Dracvlad
Taishi Combine Second-Dawn
519
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Posted - 2014.12.15 19:50:34 -
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Kaye Kaye wrote:I like solo game play and was trying to find a reason to continue subscribing. I'm a casual gamer and was hoping for suggestions from those solo players who've ran through the linear game stuff and found a reason to continue playing more than 3 months. I've done the mission/mining/trading things and they're just rinse/repeat actions. Is it the social aspects of the game that keep you here? Or is there some hidden coolness that drives you to want to log in again.
I largely play solo currently, though I have lots of contacts and am in multiple channels, so I continue because I have made some good friends in Eve. Even if you play solo talk to people there are a lot of people who play solo and talk with people like them. Also make friends with people that you can join with for PvP and stuff, so do not play completely solo.
Another reason which has been stated by others is to have objectives, to put up your own outpost is an impressive one, but one of mine is to use a dreadnought at least once. To get on a super kill, tried for that the other day, almost, to get on a Titan kil. To fly every single subcap in the game, almost there... To do a BLOP's drop... I intend to get involved in one more sov war with my current skill levels. Another objective I have is to be difficult to kill, and to have fun by wasting the time of people who play in a lame way, such as AFK cloaky campers, I like making people trying to kill me waste hours of their time hunting me and its so easy to do.
Earning ISK when people try to stop you is great fun, I used to operate in a system in NPC 0.0 where I would rat with reds in system, even though the ISK level was low it was fun because if you can kill all the rats in a belt when someone is trying to kill you in that belt then warp out to another belt their morale is deflated by a huge amount. Its fun to do it even when they try to stop you. When in Sov 0.0 we had one in a bomber and he was on his own, I worked that out so I was doing Sanctums in a Raven, I was set up to omni tank and come in from 170 km distance, the other toon does the warp in from a random location. This merchant uncloaked to find that I was not tanked for EM only, I set my drones on him, he warped away, I continued doing the Sanctum, he came in three times and ran each time. Then I had the joy of killing him later on the gate as he was leaving system, oh the joy!!!!
For example when we have lame cloakies in a bomber who have cyno back up, then go and run the belts in frigates with a group of other people. So many people in Eve play to stop people from playing, if you can continue to play and have fun in spite of this then that is worth doing.
Ella's Snack bar
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Cosmic Girl96
Red Swords
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Posted - 2014.12.15 20:02:59 -
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I have long - term goals that involve building up my skills so that I can eventually move to null, but in the meantime I mine and trade while I enjoy being a social butterfly and making all sorts of new friends out of random people I meet on the forums and in local. I'm always surprised by how friendly random people are towards me |
Aurelius Valentius
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
435
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Posted - 2014.12.15 20:26:08 -
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...actual human interaction?
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...continue to add content for others in various forms while playing solo.
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...testing the limits and digital column amount of ship spinning?
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...exciting forum PVP or not so exciting Solo-forum play?
-or-
...****? |
Dori Tos
Galactic Innovations
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Posted - 2014.12.15 20:55:36 -
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You can do industry/trade solo,you can pvp solo,go in wormholes solo -- even set up a POS of your own in a wormhole system and live there solo,you can do exploration,you can suicide gank alone,you can become a master at scamming,there's a lot of stuff you can do.
Of course most of this will require you to have at least two accounts,but hey,that's for almost everyone in EVE online,not just the people playing solo.
At the end of the day it's all about your ability to create content for yourself and others.
I'm delicious.
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Skywalker
WILDSINT S.C.A
72
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Posted - 2014.12.15 21:01:49 -
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Start your own 1 man corp and apply for S.C.A
S.C.A -Small Corp Alliance
Visit our homepage to read more
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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
6992
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Posted - 2014.12.15 21:34:12 -
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OP, you started this thread in the most rewarding solo play area of the game.
Keep up the good work and enjoy your forum career.
Mr Epeen
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. You just saved one of them by typing 'u' instead of 'you'.-á Congratulations, dumbass!
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Cosmic Girl96
Red Swords
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Posted - 2014.12.15 21:45:14 -
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Mr Epeen wrote:OP, you started this thread in the most rewarding solo play area of the game. Keep up the good work and enjoy your forum career. Mr Epeen
As much as I found your sarcasm kind of harsh, I admit your post had me rofling. |
Agondray
Avenger Mercenaries VOID Intergalactic Forces
170
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Posted - 2014.12.15 22:25:06 -
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Siegfried Tahl wrote:Aiyshimin wrote:EVE Online is a massively multiplayer online game set 23,000 years in the future. Some stars according to their info are 44-68 billion years old, with our universe being 13.5 bil y.o gets EVE bit further into the future, haha. Things I do solo are exploration in nulls, gas mining in WHs, highsec combat explo. Want to try solo camping in a recon sometime, WH sites or whatever.
not all galaxies in the universe are the same age and if you've read the novel series its closer to 30k years, although it is unknown at how long people lived in eve before the collapse of the wormhole and it dates 30000 years of death and darkness, entire civilizations disappearing to climb from the brink of nothingness back to the first spaceflight of the Amarr, followed by an unknown number of years before the 4 races discovering each other, followed by the discovery of the Jove who showed the races how to make capusleers as well as CONCORD before leaving off to their corner to figure out their disease that got worked in to the genetic engineering they were doing to themselves......those seats for the Jove at the Minmatar council meets still sit empty
And to the poster id say find someone to fly with, as a vet from 05 just last week i ran into a new guy thats been in game 2 weeks and fly with him now as im mostly a solo pilot myself because you can not trust no one in eve. Never trust anyone.
Make acquaintances and keep a finger on the trigger.
"Sarcasm is the Recourse of a weak mind." -Dr. Smith
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Veers Belvar
Swordmasters of New Eden
371
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Posted - 2014.12.15 22:25:22 -
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Stick with what works now. Do PvE, amass wealth, buy cool stuff, materially affect the Eve economy, and have a lot of fun. There is nothing compelling you to engage with other people when playing Eve - it's perfectly viable to essentially play it as a single player shoot em up and profit game. |
dark heartt
522
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Posted - 2014.12.15 22:53:55 -
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Kaye Kaye wrote:I like solo game play and was trying to find a reason to continue subscribing. I'm a casual gamer and was hoping for suggestions from those solo players who've ran through the linear game stuff and found a reason to continue playing more than 3 months. I've done the mission/mining/trading things and they're just rinse/repeat actions. Is it the social aspects of the game that keep you here? Or is there some hidden coolness that drives you to want to log in again.
I'm fairly casual about Eve. The reason to keep playing Eve is the social interaction. Eve focuses on the Multiplayer part of MMO very strongly, so while you can solo play, you need to understand that you will be at a disadvantage to those who work together.
The other thing I wanted to point out is that every action in any MMO is rinse/repeat. You are literally doing the same things over and over.
I have been solo since I came back a couple of months ago, and found exploration really fun. You get to fly around all over the map, there are different types of sites, and you can find a wormhole to drop into from time to time. It's varied and for me, doesn't get old as quickly as mining or station trading did.
That all being said, I still interact with others, even if it's just in various chat channels I participate in.
http://tetrisisunrealistic.blogspot.com.au/
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Merovee
Gorthaur Legion Imperium Mordor
161
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Posted - 2014.12.15 23:02:13 -
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I like being hunted. Keeps me on edge.
-½o-+ Sauron Of_Mordor
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Celise Katelo
State War Academy Caldari State
38
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Posted - 2014.12.15 23:10:03 -
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This is what you do: This is end game for solo players
Edit:
Try it with a Ishtar - disco ball style |
Kaye Kaye
Mining and Trade
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Posted - 2014.12.15 23:18:07 -
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that was perfect...... that's how I feel at this point playing... perfect. Couldn't stop laughing.
I think I need to make friends.
EDIt: Still laughing. |
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University Minmatar Republic
1215
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Posted - 2014.12.15 23:20:29 -
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Do what ever you want :D
If for real life commitment reasons, or simply as a matter of personality, you prefer to play solo go for it but be prepared to set your own challenges and goals as EVE does not provide much in the way of "pre-formatted ready to pursue" long term goals.
Joining a corp can be rewarding but can also suck (you hear many stories of people slaving for ages mining and fighting when ordered to - only to have the corp leadership suddenly go AWOL, generally becasue they were all alts of the same guy who got bored) so if you go that route choose very carefully. I suspect as many people quit EVE due to bad corp choice as quit due to being disillusioned with solo play.
Note there are quite a few activities in EVE that are communal without necessarily requiring joining a player corp. You can run incursions as part of a fleet with an incursion community without ever joining a player corp. Trolling and being a general nuisance on the forums or in Jita/Amarr chat is fun, communal and does not require joining a corp.
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Saint Celeste
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
9
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Posted - 2014.12.15 23:36:32 -
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Kaye Kaye wrote:that was perfect...... that's how I feel at this point playing... perfect. Couldn't stop laughing. I think I need to make friends. EDIt: Still laughing.
that's where most people are who are single player orientated. well atleast all my toons are more or less solo, came to same conclusion that friends or social aspect is what is missing from that solo part of the sandbox. i'd recommend keep playing and find a bunch of like minded people on one of the chat channels or forums etc. then upon failing that if for some unseen reason unknown to you now, decide what you want to do then.
well that is what i'd do. but i love internet spaceships but good luck with whatever you decide one way or another. but loved that video. station spinning. ha ha ha. |
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