why do YOU still play?

cos eve is an awesome chatroom.

Sick freak.

The skill queue is like crack, and I am an addict.

why do YOU still play?

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why do YOU still play?

and interesting enough to serve as a fully functional alternative life.

The skill queue is like crack, and I am an addict.

Not sure which path to take at the moment. My online time is irregular at best.

why do YOU still play?

Because everything else is a cheap WoW clone, and I hate WoW and all of the crushing banality that it stands for.

why do YOU still play?

I don't know

and that's why i am in an NPC corp....

why do YOU still play?

That is my answer to the OPs question every single time I log on

That is also my answer to the question; why do I post on forums?

Maybe if I knew, I wouldn't be here

Show me a more awesome space game than EVE.




spoiler alert; you can't.

inb4 some asshat links SC

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why do YOU still play?

I play because I'm searching for a wife.

why do YOU still play?

I have been playing nearly 10 years and would feel too guilty to stop the training.

Current Skills: 363 (Skill Points: 160,507,697)

I have done nearly everything in this game, from mining in 2004 with frigs and cruisers...

to being part of an 'alliance' in querious before there were game mechanics to make it official...

to being a major person in a founding corporation of what became, at the time, a top-5 alliance (i was a recruiter, a director, and eventually CEO)...

ran my own industry 'hub' from a POS, making nearly 10b a month without undocking much at all...

dabbled in WH's where i became too terrified to move, and thus left...

to low sec PvP with some npc corp nubs, who really are the funnest people i have played with in more than 8 years... most of them have played less than 6 months, and are awesome.

BUT, i have also had some downsides.

I have been ganked multiple times carrying things, once in an AFK occator, the guy used over 30 fully insured ravens (back when insurance on a raven was a profitable loss), and once in a 1B+ pod, and another time in a 3.5b isk CNR... i could have rage quit at any of those times, and didnt--very nearly, but didnt.

I lost my first BS in 2004 hours after i built it (i spent months saving for it). i DID quit then, but came back with a bit more determination.

I have seen the best of EVE, and the WORST of it--including the people in it. I have flown every race of ship in every security of space, and ran every mission there is (including the Cosmos), mined every rock, built everything up to capitals, ganked, griefed, explored...

and every day, i still feel like i dont know enough about EVE...

so i keep playing.

The trick is, that playing eve is not about ease, or pleasure, or 'fun' in the traditional sense, EVE is ... about learning things, about growth, about grief and moving on--it sets childish things asside and makes you deal with the harshness of existing in a world full of very dangerous people. The funny thing is, it's terribly easy to become one of those terribly dangerous people, and justify what you are doing with good intentions.

I used to feel a terrible guilt for PvP ... like a theif, a murderer, a low life.

Then i met the Scope PvP group, and used all these years of what i know in EVE to help some new people, to pvp a little, to lose a LOT of isk... and i grew. I ended up having no problem with pvp, and justified it by ... havign fun with friends. I wasnt EVIL, i was helping!

... and that's sort of when i realized, when i got ganked for a 3.5b loss, that... they were only trying to help me.

So, i stayed. I have to, if i dont, my personal growth stops.

So, thanks EVE, for makin me feel too guilty to stop training...


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why do YOU still play?

The harshness of life in New Eden makes real life look like a doddle! Even though it's just a game, it kind of puts things into perspective IRL once you start thinking of it as another mode of living.

Because I want to be able to post on these forums when they are shut down as CCP eventually fails because they catered to the blob-sec crowd, and the bulk of their sub base left for greener pastures.

The skill queue is like crack, and I am an addict.

Not sure which path to take at the moment. My online time is irregular at best.

I'm asking myself this for a while now.
Game is fun, but "eve is real" and "balanced" makes me sometimes mad when i see all this ....

because... its the best chatroom evvvaaaaaa with nice screensavers

why do YOU still play?

hm, Im not nearly as old as you, or have nearly as much SP as you (Im currently hovering around 4.7 mil sp) but i play because every other MMO out currently is a carbon copy of the next, one can say video games in general are carbon copies of each other recently. EVE Truly is orginal, there is something for everybody, me personally I love being blown up, i say that because Im not that great at pvp yet, but the rush of a fight is sensational and thus very hard to ignore. Then you have the interactions with others, this can be harvesting tears in local or in GD to having some drunken laughs in comms while attempting to do anything remotely constructive, this game truly is one of the best on the market and I play for that reason.

I have to keep my skill queue full or the smoke monster will get me and the island explodes

I have to continue to be a tyrannical soft-skinned CEO who never logs in, is rude, and caves to all demands by hypersensitive offended people who just can't handle a little bit of abusing newbies or posting "revenge" NSFW pictures.

Or so the haters say.

Sick freak.