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AlphaOperative Altren Alternative Rendition 15	Posted - 2013.07.03 10:56:00 - [1] - Quote Hi all, I've recently been considering selling everything i own in Eve then buying and activating plexes and starting again with just a Rookie ship and 0 isk. Obviously i wouldnt be starting completely from scratch as id still have the skills & experience ive gained. Just feel like doing something a little drastic to shake things up for myself in the game. Is this something you've heard of people doing before? Does it sound like fun or the most ridiculous mistake someone in eve could make? Just wondered on your thoughts as once ive done it its done! Thanks in advance. Nobody ever figures out what-álife is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. GÇò Richard P. Feynman
ACE McFACE Radical Astronauts Plundering Eve 1382	Posted - 2013.07.03 10:59:00 - [2] - Quote If you do actually do this, give me the ISK. I could use it You should be notified if someone quotes your post so you can continue the argument!
Krixtal Icefluxor INLAND EMPIRE Galactic 18590	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:00:00 - [3] - Quote Why ??? Just keep everything and start a new character on one of your accounts. Why the d-r-a-m-a ?????
Jake Warbird Republic Military School Minmatar Republic 3099	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:03:00 - [4] - Quote ACE McFACE wrote: If you do actually do this, give me the ISK. I could use it Damnit, Ace beat me to it.
Seven Koskanaiken Clan Steel Wolves 240	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:03:00 - [5] - Quote Depends if you have any career missions still left open to you, they pay out quite a bit.
Talemecus Valta Freemasons Corporation The East India Co. 136	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:04:00 - [6] - Quote Here the come the "Can I haz your stuff?" posts. It's not a bad idea, but if you give your ISK away, you won't have it for emergencies. My suggestion would be for you to put the money in a special wallet division, of your corp or form your own corp and then put it all in your own corp wallet. That way you start off with nothing and then you still have cash to buy stuff. It's up to you on how you do it. Only 40 rounds per gun... I hate reloading in the middle! I'll make it through each day, Singing DEATH OR GLORY!!!! Hodor!
Destination SkillQueue Are We There Yet 5393	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:05:00 - [7] - Quote It is increadibly stupid, but that alone isn't a reason to not do something you think you'd enjoy doing. PS. Don't use all the PLEXes immediately. There isn't any need to do it and you might prefer to have a quick injection of cash at hand, if some unexpected emergency or need arises.
Private Pineapple Tea And Sympathy Ltd. Liability Reckless Ambition 378	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:05:00 - [8] - Quote It is not unheard of before... there are quite a few people who like the idea of a "reset". But the idea of a "reset" is very open to interpretation as people like doing different kinds of resets. Like, you want to "reset" your game and re-experience EVE from the bottom up. Sometimes I like to "reset" by doing a massive purge of my online friends, contacts, etc ... changing my user alias and letting only the best online friends know who I am now, and then starting from there. I don't know why I do this, but I just enjoy doing it sometimes. But you need to answer the question of what you are going to do with your ISK and assets. It'd be a shame to see them to go waste. I am the Kingpin of the Crime and Punishment forum.
AlphaOperative Altren Alternative Rendition 15	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:06:00 - [9] - Quote Talemecus Valta wrote: Here the come the "Can I haz your stuff?" posts. It's not a bad idea, but if you give your ISK away, you won't have it for emergencies. My suggestion would be for you to put the money in a special wallet division, of your corp or form your own corp and then put it all in your own corp wallet. That way you start off with nothing and then you still have cash to buy stuff. It's up to you on how you do it. I was thinking of spending it all on plex and just plugging them all in so my account would be paid up for months in advance. Nobody ever figures out what-álife is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. GÇò Richard P. Feynman
ACE McFACE Radical Astronauts Plundering Eve 1382	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:10:00 - [10] - Quote Jake Warbird wrote: ACE McFACE wrote: If you do actually do this, give me the ISK. I could use it Damnit, Ace beat me to it. I knew when I saw that no one had replied I was in with a chance. When I pressed post I kept thinking someone would beat me to it by a couple of seconds. You should be notified if someone quotes your post so you can continue the argument!
War Kitten Panda McLegion 2266	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:11:00 - [11] - Quote There are other ways of playing Eve on hard mode, but whatever floats your boat. At least you're not trashing the isk and you're buying game time with it. I find that without a good mob to provide one for them, most people would have no mentality at all.
Aidan Brooder Dynasphere Ltd. 307	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:12:00 - [12] - Quote AlphaOperative Altren wrote: Hi all, I've recently been considering selling everything i own in Eve then buying and activating plexes and starting again with just a Rookie ship and 0 isk. Obviously i wouldnt be starting completely from scratch as id still have the skills & experience ive gained. Just feel like doing something a little drastic to shake things up for myself in the game. Is this something you've heard of people doing before? Does it sound like fun or the most ridiculous mistake someone in eve could make? Just wondered on your thoughts as once ive done it its done! Thanks in advance. I quit EVE once years ago. I didn't sell or biomass my old character or any of his stuff, but when I did come back, I a) had forgotten my login info (could have retrieved it, but:) b) decided it was time for something new Later on I trained alts up, like everyone else. I'd state it this way: The first few months are full of phantom pain. Yes, you still have the experience as a player, but that new prothesis you got yourself there doesn't really work that well yet, as you remember. I'd say just try it with an Alt for now and see if you can stand it/do like it. Blog: http://aidanbrooder.wordpress.com My EVE YouTube Vids (most recent): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2alSWxXQbI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEzNNYSlDE
Sergeant Acht Scultz School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 924	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:15:00 - [13] - Quote Jake Warbird wrote: ACE McFACE wrote: If you do actually do this, give me the ISK. I could use it Damnit, Ace beat me to it. You dam beggars...let me bear with you: Op send me isk and mods I'll make good use of them. Have fun with your new character and wallet. Thx (you think it works?) removed inappropriate ASCII art signature - CCP Eterne
Six Six Six Republic Military School Minmatar Republic 167	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:16:00 - [14] - Quote AlphaOperative Altren wrote: Hi all, I've recently been considering selling everything i own in Eve then buying and activating plexes and starting again with just a Rookie ship and 0 isk. Obviously i wouldnt be starting completely from scratch as id still have the skills & experience ive gained. Just feel like doing something a little drastic to shake things up for myself in the game. Is this something you've heard of people doing before? Does it sound like fun or the most ridiculous mistake someone in eve could make? Just wondered on your thoughts as once ive done it its done! Thanks in advance. If you've had a higher sp character (10+ mill sp) and you intend to just play the new character, then I'd give you a week before you're bored.
Lugalbandak Anunnaku Industrial Corp. Northern Associates. 2	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:16:00 - [15] - Quote Bio your char and do a prober reset
ACE McFACE Radical Astronauts Plundering Eve 1383	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:19:00 - [16] - Quote Sergeant Acht Scultz wrote: Jake Warbird wrote: ACE McFACE wrote: If you do actually do this, give me the ISK. I could use it Damnit, Ace beat me to it. You dam beggars...let me bear with you: Op send me isk and mods I'll make good use of them. Have fun with your new character and wallet. Thx (you think it works?) No no no, you have to follow the rules of begging. If someone is just doing a post like "I feel like giving away my stuff" then only the quickest person can claim said stuff. If its a "I got ganked, goons are mean, mining isn't fun anymore" whine post then go nuts. You should be notified if someone quotes your post so you can continue the argument!
Turelus Caldari Independent Navy Reserve The Fourth District 451	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:32:00 - [17] - Quote A while ago I tried something called "EVE Survival Test" where I rolled a new character and tried to play the game without using the player market, everything I owned I had to buy from NPC BPO's and build or find (no taking obvious ships) it was actually some of the most fun and exciting EVE I have played in a long long time! Every day when I logged in I had a goal and meaning to being online, something which playing on Turelus rarely brings. It's a project I always wanted to continue and keep alive but the time and dedication needed wasn't something I could do without abandoning all my gaming time on Turelus (who at the time needed ISK to PVP) OP try giving something like that a go and maybe even blog about it and do what I never could... http://eost.blogspot.se/ That's a link to the blog I was planning to run with the project maybe it will give you some help finding a way to make your rebirth more interesting. Lieutenant Turelus Caldari Independent Navy Reserve The Fourth District
AlphaOperative Altren Alternative Rendition 15	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:37:00 - [18] - Quote Private Pineapple wrote: changing my user alias Didnt know you could do this, how do you change it? Might be an interesting thing to do when/ if i reset. Nobody ever figures out what-álife is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. GÇò Richard P. Feynman
S Byerley The Manhattan Engineer District 71	Posted - 2013.07.03 11:41:00 - [19] - Quote I tried blitzing the starter missions, but they jihad'ed my ship when I wasn't paying attention. I was sad
Q 5 Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire 94	Posted - 2013.07.03 12:12:00 - [20] - Quote Mr. OP, no not such a hot ideal. Have you really done "everything" or just been farming the same stuff so long your bored? What you are looking for is a goal, something to try to obtain that that is a new challenge. There's alot of places I find people never heard of nor visited here in eve. But what you might try instead is sell enough to buy a plex, put away then take a break. Just go and do something else in RL for a while, you may find yourself missing some things about eve when you're ready, do the temporary activation to use you're plex to get things moving again.
I Sellsstuffz State War Academy Caldari State 1	Posted - 2013.07.03 12:15:00 - [21] - Quote If you choose to start from scratch i would contact someone trustworthy to hold onto your possessions, I know third parties are not normally free but if you have a real life friend that you trust that would work. The novelty of starting from scratch wears off fast.
Kashmyta Predominant Dynamics 50	Posted - 2013.07.03 15:21:00 - [22] - Quote AlphaOperative Altren wrote: Hi all, I've recently been considering selling everything i own in Eve then buying and activating plexes and starting again with just a Rookie ship and 0 isk. Obviously i wouldnt be starting completely from scratch as id still have the skills & experience ive gained. Just feel like doing something a little drastic to shake things up for myself in the game. Is this something you've heard of people doing before? Does it sound like fun or the most ridiculous mistake someone in eve could make? Just wondered on your thoughts as once ive done it its done! Thanks in advance. Do as you wish, I do not care.
Contagion Chaotic Dynamics 11	Posted - 2013.07.03 17:08:00 - [23] - Quote Just do RMT and you will be nuked back to 0 isk. Or even better negative isk!! But on the more serious side, I applaud you. I've started alts to try and capture that wonder of starting again. Unfortunately the 2nd time is never the same. (so my wife keeps telling me..)
RAW23 197	Posted - 2013.07.03 17:19:00 - [24] - Quote AlphaOperative Altren wrote: Hi all, I've recently been considering selling everything i own in Eve then buying and activating plexes and starting again with just a Rookie ship and 0 isk. Obviously i wouldnt be starting completely from scratch as id still have the skills & experience ive gained. Just feel like doing something a little drastic to shake things up for myself in the game. Is this something you've heard of people doing before? Does it sound like fun or the most ridiculous mistake someone in eve could make? Just wondered on your thoughts as once ive done it its done! Thanks in advance. I gave away everything I owned (c. 400bil) to take a break from eve and coming back to nearly nothing has made the game orders of magnitudes more fun. Decisions are consequential now whereas before I could throw away a cap ship a day without denting my pile of cash. Isk making schemes are meaningful rather than just more of the same. It has really breathed fresh life into the game for me. However, ask yourself why you are doing it. If it is because your wealth has reached a level that the game has ceased to be challenging then I would say go for it. If you just want to try something different, maybe take the less drastic route and roll a new account and put the others into storage. By the way, if you do want to dump your assets, look up Vaerah Vahrokha's charity fund. She stores isk from things like this to convert to plex for the next 'plex for good' charity drive. If you put your assets in that fund you will basically be RMTing the cash value of the plex to the Red Cross. That in itself is a nice thing to do if you have ungodly amounts of isk. There are two types of EVE player: those who believe there are two types of EVE player and those who do not.
Darth Khasei Wavestar Business Ventures Inc. 89	Posted - 2013.07.03 17:22:00 - [25] - Quote Respect. Doing what you want in EVE is what it is all about. Carry on.
Ambassador Spock Starfleet Academy Red Squad 6	Posted - 2013.07.03 17:22:00 - [26] - Quote Turelus wrote: A while ago I tried something called "EVE Survival Test" where I rolled a new character and tried to play the game without using the player market, everything I owned I had to buy from NPC BPO's and build or find (no taking obvious ships) it was actually some of the most fun and exciting EVE I have played in a long long time! Every day when I logged in I had a goal and meaning to being online, something which playing on Turelus rarely brings. It's a project I always wanted to continue and keep alive but the time and dedication needed wasn't something I could do without abandoning all my gaming time on Turelus (who at the time needed ISK to PVP) OP try giving something like that a go and maybe even blog about it and do what I never could... http://eost.blogspot.se/ That's a link to the blog I was planning to run with the project maybe it will give you some help finding a way to make your rebirth more interesting. You've inspired me to do something similar. I'm going to start a new character and follow all the rules on your blog, with one addition. If I ever get podded I'll biomass the character. I shall call my project "EveCraft" since it'll be a bit similar to my other favorite game - Minecraft on hardcore mode! This'll be interesting - to the character creator! Edit: Ooo, and I'll play the game properly this time - I won't train Destroyer until I get Frigate V, Cruiser until Dessie V, etc.. And I'll stick to one race only.... It'll give me a chance to master each ship class before moving on. -á-- -á- Ambassador Spock "Vulcans never bluff."
Vera Algaert Republic University Minmatar Republic 960	Posted - 2013.07.03 18:00:00 - [27] - Quote I did it by accident once (had given away all my stuff because I wanted to quit, came back a few weeks later) - it's boring. I still had my SP so I ran lvl1 missions until I could afford a probing frigate, then started ninja salvaging lvl4 missions (Angel Extravaganza was awesome, ~10m in salvage iirc) - 3 days later I was back in a battleship grinding lvl4 missions, 2 weeks later my battleship had become a marauder and I was back at my old earning potential.
Kahega Amielden Rifterlings Point Blank Alliance 810	Posted - 2013.07.03 18:06:00 - [28] - Quote Vera Algaert wrote: I did it by accident once (had given away all my stuff because I wanted to quit, came back a few weeks later) - it's boring. I still had my main so I just ran lvl1 missions until I could afford a probing frigate, then started ninja salvaging lvl4 missions (Angel Extravaganza was awesome, ~10m in salvage iirc) - 3 days later I was back in a battleship grinding lvl4 missions, 2 weeks later my battleship had become a marauder and I was back at my old earning potential. Even if you biomass your character you retain your experience - and EVE is hard for a new player because he is lacking experience, not because he is lacking SP or ISK making opportunities. You cannot turn back time, as an experienced player you will always know how to make 10-100x more ISK than a newbie with the same skills and equipment. Doing boring things with fewer resources isn't going to make them any less boring and I'm not sure why you expected differently.
AlphaOperative Altren Alternative Rendition 15	Posted - 2013.07.03 18:06:00 - [29] - Quote Cheers for the input guys. Definitely going to consider it, massive commitment. Just liquidating the assets would be a job in itself! Thanks again. Nobody ever figures out what-álife is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. GÇò Richard P. Feynman
Vera Algaert Republic University Minmatar Republic 961	Posted - 2013.07.03 18:11:00 - [30] - Quote Kahega Amielden wrote: Vera Algaert wrote: I did it by accident once (had given away all my stuff because I wanted to quit, came back a few weeks later) - it's boring. I still had my main so I just ran lvl1 missions until I could afford a probing frigate, then started ninja salvaging lvl4 missions (Angel Extravaganza was awesome, ~10m in salvage iirc) - 3 days later I was back in a battleship grinding lvl4 missions, 2 weeks later my battleship had become a marauder and I was back at my old earning potential. Even if you biomass your character you retain your experience - and EVE is hard for a new player because he is lacking experience, not because he is lacking SP or ISK making opportunities. You cannot turn back time, as an experienced player you will always know how to make 10-100x more ISK than a newbie with the same skills and equipment. Doing boring things with fewer resources isn't going to make them any less boring and I'm not sure why you expected differently. I didn't, as I said this was not intentional - I just had given away literally everything to my old corp before "quitting" EVE, then I came back and made the experience that getting back on your feet from zero assets takes a lot less time than I would naively have expected,
Freighdee Katt Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 237	Posted - 2013.07.03 21:50:00 - [31] - Quote It's a reasonable approach to cash in all your stuff for sub time, since you can't get the cash back, but you still get meaningful value from it, which is a few months or a year or however long to rebuild. If I were going to reset in EvE, I'd do it this way. You should come back in a month or three and let us know how it went.
Ray Morrison Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 1	Posted - 2013.07.03 22:19:00 - [32] - Quote I have started over from scratch completely, as a noob no cash no skills nothing, just to do the skills I want at one time to see how hard it is for noobies
BoSau Hotim Uitraan Diversified Holdings Incorporated 5890	Posted - 2013.07.04 03:10:00 - [33] - Quote Before you do that have you done everything in Eve already? I mean even trying things that don't seem so appealing to you? I did make an alt once that was my evil twin, unfortunately I couldn't afford to keep her, but I had a blast while it lasted. It may be more fun to actually buy a new char that is trained differently than you are just to shake things up a bit :). I'm not a carebear... I'm a SPACE BARBIE!-á Now... where's Ken?
Setaceous Nexus Prima 151	Posted - 2013.07.04 03:23:00 - [34] - Quote S Byerley wrote: I tried blitzing the starter missions, but they jihad'ed my ship when I wasn't paying attention. I was sad Still work it as long as you were using a basic T1 frigate. Assuming the OP hasn't done the Career missions more than once, he can do them 8 more times. Boring yes, but they're worth 17mil plus sales from all the extra crap you get given. Each. EDIT: Plus you get a reasonable selection of ships from each race. If you don't avoid Jita, none of the career hubs are more than 11 jumps from each other.
Kaarous Aldurald ROC Academy The ROC 364	Posted - 2013.07.04 03:36:00 - [35] - Quote It can be fun. This character, for example, is an alt I started a while back for a "fresh start" style of gameplay. I strictly refuse to fund his activities from my old main. And I've come to enjoy him more, oddly enough. So yeah, I suggest the "make a new main" route, rather than sell all your stuff. If that floats your boat, then please, consider making a donation to my wallet. :P Not posting on my main, and loving it.-á Because free speech.-á
Paul Uter School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State 17	Posted - 2013.07.04 03:54:00 - [36] - Quote Well yeah , being a Noob while game was still not dumbed down was the best part of this game. Now everything is given on a silver platter to carter new wave of instant gratification players. I feel sorry for them.
FlamesOfHeaven Phantom Fenix 52	Posted - 2013.07.04 06:24:00 - [37] - Quote As mentioned above, sell stuff for isk and buy plexes to fund the extra game time.
Mr Kidd Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation 1251	Posted - 2013.07.04 10:27:00 - [38] - Quote AlphaOperative Altren wrote: Hi Not sure I see any point to zeroing a wallet other than to deprive a skilled toon from adequate equipment. Why don't you try it the other way around.......new toon with isk....sounds like more fun to me. HTFU!...for the children!
Jace Errata Ghosts That Linger 440	Posted - 2013.07.04 11:03:00 - [39] - Quote ACE McFACE wrote: If you do actually do this, give me the ISK. I could use it ffffFFF-- seriously though, I need it more than him. There's this Ashimmu I ~~want~~ need... Stealth OST puns and blatant lies since 2009 Jace Errata on Twitter One day they woke me up so I could live forever It's such a shame the same will never happen to you
BoSau Hotim Uitraan Diversified Holdings Incorporated 5934	Posted - 2013.07.04 11:12:00 - [40] - Quote So, if you do this what path are you going to take in EvE? Do you really want to start from scratch? Maybe you should make a trial toon right now and then see if you really want to do this.l I'm not a carebear... I'm a SPACE BARBIE!-á Now... where's Ken?

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