So I have reached this point in my EVE career where I have reached complete and utter apathy toward this game.
This realization did not come during a structure bash. It did not come running some mission. It didn't occur sitting in a belt, chewing on rocks. It came in a "plexing fleet" of 40 people working in absolute synchronicity to turn 5-6 systems over in the course of two days. It happened in a completely dynamic, player created setting...but for some reason, despite the chaos of that kind of fleet...I just couldn't have fun.
Some people in EvE call it "bittervet syndrome." But I think it is something a little deeper than that. I have 18 characters who shall remain nameless for obvious purposes
. Don't wan't to get banned or anything.
Several of the characters are trained specifically, and to be quite honest, move like a well-oiled machine...pulling in passive income...able to be adequately appropriated at the exact moment, for the exact purpose I need them.
My "mains" on the other hand, are not as streamlined, so to speak. They were my first three characters, all made within a month of one another, when I was still learning what was what, and what I wanted to do.
I find myself playing more often than not on one of the streamlined characters, making my passive income my focus...and we all know EvE isn't about making isk...it should be about having fun.
So what happens when I reach this point of apathy on my mains? Do I quit? Do I sell the characters and start over? Do I just say, "**** it," and biomass, and restart from there? How does one justify throwing away 150mil collective SP across three characters, no matter how it is being done?
Curious as to whether anyone else has reached this impasse, and how they overcame it. Security class of systems has nothing to do with it. Unlike a lot of people (it seems), I am not terrified of losing ships, and flying recklessly to merely DIAF. Done the lowsec thing, done the nullsec sov grind, done the endless herding of cats in highsec. How does one overcome the apathy?
Side note: No, you cannot have my stuff. Not quitting, necessarily. And if I did, I would trash it first, and provide a juicy video of the assets going down the drain...just to give the proverbial middle finger to all of you damn knaves.