Fractal Muse
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.11.27 17:38:00 -
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Cousk wrote:
So my question to the community is, how do you deal with emotional trauma caused by major setbacks in the game?
I'm also curious how Eve as a product deals with that, considering how many people must have a similar experience to mine... How does Eve keep us all hooked or at least comig back after such devastating blows?
PS. Now that i think about it, it's not my fault i fell victim to a scam or ambush, that's typical victim blaming. However i still feel i was aware of a risk and took it.
If you think about it, at the end of the day it IS that potential emotional response that brings people back to the game (after they've cooled down.)
Once you experience your very big loss you realize something about EVE Online: there really ARE risks involved and, somehow, it really matters.
That makes every subsequent trip / expedition that much more edgy - until, of course, we become complacent and over-confident which usually leads to another big loss of one kind or another.
I remember when I was out in 0.0 in a "safe part" of space - I was getting REALLY cocky. A red would come into the system and instead of immediately docking up I'd just watch them while continuing to do my thing. We all know how that ended not long after ;)
As to how to recover? Just do what you've done. Step back and let it out. Let the event become a memory. Make it become one of those EVE Online stories that other EVE players will totally understand. The story of what happened when you think about it is an AMAZING one.
You saw what you thought was an opportunity, you decided to give it a shot, you flew out and got ambushed.
If you managed to make it out with your pod all the better.
That's one of those things you'll remember for a very long time.
As to how to start over from, more or less, losing everything; that's harder. One option, of course, is to buy a PLEX and just rebound that way.
Another option is to get some seed ISK by re-doing the tutorial missions. You'll wind up with I think around ~10 million ISK plus assets from doing the full sequence and it doesn't take that long. You can repeat the tutorials for as many starter systems as there are (I think 23? I dunno offhand) so you can get your ISK that way.
You could "borrow" the ISK. You could try your own hand at ambushing someone. You could try ganking (it isn't expensive and it doesn't take a lot of skills - maybe 500k SP and a ship worth ~1 million with fits) for profit. If you pick the right target and the loot faeries dance for you then you can come out ahead.
Since you're a market kinda guy you can just use seed money from the tutorial missions (I prefer those over doing a whackload of level 1 or 2 missions) and seek out the deals then move goods around to get your profits.
If you are feeling adventurous you could go into 0.0 and try your hand at looting other people's anomalies (after all, when you enter the system they will likely dock up so if you're quick you can go to where they were, grab some high value loot and get out) plus you might get lucky and run into some PC ship wrecks with stuff on them.
If you hear about a 0.0 battle (or even low sec) and you are relatively near you could fly out and loot wrecks. It's dangerous. It's risky. But, if you use a cheapish ship (preferably with cloaking) you can make out like a bandit with very little SP.
There are tons of options since this is EVE: so pick something that you enjoy doing and just jump right in. |