Sean Drake
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.01.05 01:57:00 -
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Portia Venetia wrote:In the context of EVE, I think "casual" is best defined by two factors: First, the number of characters/accounts a player puts online at once, and second; the amount of contiguous time they can play.
I consider myself very casual, probably bordering on something most people would call super-casual. Just one account to work with, and on weekdays I login perhaps 10-30 minutes a day (usually to engage in market activity). On weekends, I can manage a bit more contiguous time (2 to 3 hours on one day), so I can do other things, but even that is constrained by time. Activities in EVE consume time like few other games, and the level of planning required means I can plan and execute one activity and then it's done.
High-sec mining is the fastest activity to execute, IMO; I can walk into or out of that in minutes. PvP is usually the slowest; putting a ship together, getting into the empty JC, then tripping over to low-sec and looking for fights. I could walk face-first into a gate camp and speed things up, but that still wouldn't save the time of putting a ship together (the same applies to high-sec ganking). The next slowest would be missions (again, in high-sec). They seem to drag on forever.
No matter what I select though, it's usually just one thing for the session and then I'm out of time.
I'd actually love to know the opposite answer to this question; how much time do the "hardcore" players pour into this game. I can't imagine being online for something like 8 hours straight, but I'm sure there's people that do.
When I played EvE what I would consider in a Hardcore manner while off sick from work, I was on at least 7-8 hrs a day I took part in missions late in the us tz while I am in the uk so that I could still spend time with mygf/family and took part in alarm clock ops against pos etc.
I got an email one xmas day asking me to log on as I was a pos gunner and we were under attack and sneaked away from the festivites to do so.
I once played 17 hrs solid and eventually logged off after a corp mate woke me up shouting me on ts after I had fallen asleep and face planted onto the keyboard typing "luh[';/kj[iujh[.;'il[u" in corp chat.
Basically for 4 years a big part of my life revolved around EvE and I would have at that time considered alot of my corp mates among my closest friends.
Then between alliance/corp wide burnout and real life the fun dropped out of the game for me, because at the end of the day for me it was the people that made the game, I found that without the corp and people I had been with for nearly 5 years there was no fun.
At this point I stopped playing all together and just whored sp until my sub expired.
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