What you do, is that you get rid of all your accounts (sell 'em) except the three first. You should now have enough isks to be able to sub those the for a year, and spend the rest on HAVING fun.

Simple as that. Your need to make 18 accounts subscriptionfee (plex) is messing up your zen dude.

I'll give you credit for being original, int that it's not a Rage Quit Post.

But it is new kind of "I'm Threatening to Quit" Poast or something. I guess.

Actually, he has 18 chars, so more likely 6 accounts.
But suggesting that he stop subbing on 5 of them will strike terror into the hearts of the CCP accounting and marketing depts.

"Messing up your zen" is very well put.

You have too many alts, resulting in loss of immersion and attachment to your capsuleer avatar.

It's common in this game to focus on min-maxing the rather simple individual systems that form New Eden. Once you "win" such system, you experience "the bittervet syndrome", possibly in the best case even some short-lived triumph. Then you'll move on to the next feature, until you run out of the things you can imagine to be doing.

Many take a break, or as they call it "quit EVE" (lol), or some return to the mindset they had when they first started EVE- they realize they are actually playing a science fiction game about immortal capsuleers capsuleering in a dystopic universe, and that for years they've forgotten the fiction part, and only focused on turning a game into a science.

Ultimately the sustainable way to enjoy computer games is to give reigns to your inner child, the one who controls your imagination. Leave the goals and achievements to real life, stop trying to win a game that has no points, plot or even an end- just be a capsuleer.

Yup after 10 years and 22 accounts Ive finally gotten there myself.

Answer is a goal. Having and creating and striving towards goals in game can keep you motivated and moving and growing. Set longer term goals and provide small steps towards it.

My problem atm is I have completed pretty much every goal Ive created and I dont have a goal anymore.

We all suffer from burnout, or more locally known as stages of bitter vet desease. It comes with knowing what there is and and running out of new stuff to make the heart flutter.

There are ways round this Obviously there is the try new options approach such as start a new corp or join a new one to meet new people, those that have more excitement about the game than yourself.
Or try something you have never tried in a different way.

The other is start afresh without the ties and bounds that come with... ahem... getting old.

Another is... try other games like WoT or somesuch. Hell, it doesn't have to be an online game, in fact offline can be preferable. The good thing about Eve is you train without having to be online. there are positives and negatives about that issue but nothing I will go into here.

I guess you are in a rut. Same old stuff. When Eve becomes as mundane as work or getting up in the morning then it's time to try another job for a while or sleep in.

So, I am curious, is it merely the fact that I do not get that "rush," anymore? Some examples:

-Getting pointed and losing my first dessie in the lowsec systems around Arnon, during the Sisters arc.
-Getting suicided for the first time, making the newb mistake of traveling the "highway" with all of my assets, In an industrial, not knowing any better.
-My first heist.
-My first pvp roam.
-My first pvp fight (I lost, lol.)
-My first pvp win.
-The first time I flew in a 1000 man battle.

So on and so on...you get the drift.

When was the last time you did one of the above - with just one character ?

It's kinda like with a girl/wife. Either you find yourself aspects that keep you interested, or you get bored with her one day and just stay with her because it's a familiar thing to do - or you leave.

Sounds like you have no goal anymore.
It won't change until you find a new one.
But with all these chars you get way too much material security, so there's no real excitment anymore, unless you set a really BIG goal.
Another possibility for you is roleplay : Roleplayer don't care about your skills or money. They care about your creativity and ability to immerse yourself into the game's universe.

It's called burnout. Quit being a turbonerd and enjoy the game as a game.

Ok OP this is what you do!.. send me all your ISK and start a new character, this isn't over yet..on top of it go join a new player driven corp thats large, and play a silly newb for few months with out using any assets that you may have left!

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.

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.

To be quite honest...not since my first month or two. With the exception of my first 1000 man fight. That was about a year into playing and I only moved a single character out to get the feeling of null sec. Since then, it has all been about maintaining the wallet. And I don't want it to be like that...because then it IS just a job.