Trollo
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Posted - 2011.09.04 16:37:00 -
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I am blessed with a good job, with lots of responsibility. I live on a nice farm with my wife and 2 kids. We have some horses and some sheep and some dogs and 3 cars. I have been playing EVE on and off since the start. I have also been playing other online games on and off since the start, including EQ, EQ2, UO, WOW, WWIIOnline... So thats around 20 years of online gaming (+/- a bit).
This is my life in EVE: I like to play challenging PVE. If I had the time or the ISK, I would now and then like to venture out to low-sec, and see if i could be succesful in some PVP. The problem is, that i dont have the time to read a lot of background, or take two years of pvp-university, so when i go to low-sec I usually get pod-killed within the first 10 minutes.
Then I have to find new ISK, to be able to do lvl 4 missions. Well since it would take me 2-3 month to do that, and I really dont want to spend my valuable playing time, grinding all the time, then I end up buying some ISK by selling these gametime plex-things.
Now I planned to try a lvl 5 mission, since lvl 4 missions has become a bit too easy for me, and because I would like to make more money and have more challenge.
I had to find an agent in 0.4 sec space. When I docked out from the 0.4 station, I got pod-killed by 4 pirates waiting for me. They probably had fun, but I can look forward to either go out and buy some more ISK or grinding the next many times I have time to play, until I have enough again for a good ship.
(BTW: I dont get the idea of having 0.4 space and 0.0 space, when the risk is the same.. shouldnt at least the station protect in and outgoing traffic in 0.4? )
What is the consequence? Well for me it is, that I dont dare to try the lvl 5 missions I would really like to do to get more PVE challenge, because I am forced to PVP at a time when I am not fit for it.
Do I find that fun? No!
Now I will go back and do some highsec lvl 4 missions, and if it goes like the other times, when I go bored, then I quit EVE again. And in a year or two I come back and stay for a few months, to see if PVE has been improved.
Am I whining? well maybe. But I think a lot of players like me, would stay playing for a much longer time, and even start enjoy PVP now and then, if we could get the opportunity to build up something, which had a fair chance in 0.0, without having to quit the job and the family, to go on the EVE-university and have no other life. I am here to be happy and challenged, but not to make some hardcore players happy on my own expense. That is simply naive.
I am a seldom guest in the forums, since I would much more like to fly a spaceship. There is no reason to start shouting at me, since I probably wont see it. But if you understand what my message is, maybe there is a chance that more occassional players will enjoy now and then being cannonfodder for you hardcore people.
BR Trollo
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