trust me when I say right now I envy you. games like this should have no effective 'win' ... which was another thing I was kinda trying to inadvertently point out. it's unfortunate, really, since I wasn't trying to 'win' in any way... just play the game how I wanted to. when the original method of how I desired to play was taken away, I found others... and have effectively exhausted every way to maintain superiority as they were routinely nerfed to the point of having effectively no superiority. I also play Warhammer: 40,000, and those of you who know about the game are aware of the fact that it's an incredibly expensive game to master due to needing to buy thousands and thousands of (insert westernized monetary value here) to buy enough models to be able to combat any style of offense... not even taking into effect the fact that Apocalypse games need a minimum of 3K points for the smaller apoc games. I have over 15K points of Eldar (useless outside of apoc games, but I play a lot of apoc games), approx 12.5K of CSM, 10K points CD, 25K points nids (only because I needed them for a 3-way apoc game... don't ask) and approx inbetween 4 to 7 K points of the other 'main' minus SM (no, I don't have any of the SM varients except Salamanders), I have approx 3.5 K old model SoB specific inquisition and approx 2K points new models with an additional 1.5K points of other 'old' and 3K 'new' inquisition units, and I am kinda ashamed to admit I have an army of Jokaero Weaponsmiths, Vindicare assassins, and sanctioned psykers.... only for apoc games... and other things.... yeah, I need to start something new, and while starting it 'new' not going full in with everything all from the start.

maybe I should start playing something like D&D, or D20 Modern, or Vampire, or something.... I know a lot of incredibly brilliant and intelligent people who have played those games for years and years and years and still don't have even a quarter of everything memorized... although I don't know everything about EVE, or Warhammer, or MTG etc I can effectively say I do know 'almost' everything to an extent ... but it gets old when you're one of the incredibly few on your level. a new challenge will be nice... working from the very bottom and then taking the effort to go to the top... although, in role playing games you really can't effectively do that... and there arent really many new RTS's that are actually difficult.... I mean... SC II's hardest mode was like the original C&C's difficulty level... of which there was only 1. a lot of the older RTS's and ... games in general had 'hard' modes that were actually hard... we don't get those anymore these days...

and it's not a matter of 'EVE'olving, I did that, and indeed I still am on top in almost every aspect of the game... but I have nothing new to do. I want something new. going to a different game is probably the most logical, and everyone that has been constructive has mentioned that it is probably the best option. I am starting to agree with them.