EvE allows me to be in contact with other people plain and simple, sure these social sites can do the same. But they dig into your privacy. In EvE I am able to do what I wish and not be followed around by a group of people or eyes. The other is privacy I can say and do what I wish here that is the way I like it. Another is, EvE lets me thrash about and have others worry about me. The me in front of the computer. Lastly though EvE is relaxing and I get to go Pew Pew and qq and drill rock etc. in a spaceship that can explode.

Is it fun?

If it is fun that motivates you to play EVE Online, what is fun?
(What do you define as fun, and what do you describe as the fun activity in EVE Online?)

What motivates the fun, and what fun motivates you?


If other reasons or motivation than fun, please state what is the motivation .


Other motivation or uses (practical use) maybe use for work or learning.

To practice ideas or other life skills...

Memory skills, other skills.
Socialize, Friends?
Business, IT, Arts, Music, Writing.
Science, Astronomy related, Aeronautics, Robotics.
Design, analysis, architecture.

The soundtrack is the best part of the game.

the skill queue.

Being unemployed. If I had a job I probably wouldn't bother playing MMOs.

...Grown up community is point number one...

First thing, I'd like to acknowledge the op for starting a thread that hasn't made me confused and inexplicably angry, good job, I approve of this.

As for the attraction to eve.
From the outside, it's hard , really ******* hard and I like a challenging game, eve deliberately excludes the stupid and weak willied.
I get that some of the vets are so used to the way mechanics work in eve that ye don't see it any more
but learning how to "eve" is far from easy an experience. this is a good thing.

Its unique in its player driven economy which i like (I'm crap at this aspect of the game but i find it fascinating) .
The single shard nature and the fact that i "could" **** with literally anyone else that plays this game.

Its harsh arse nature ,
scams are funny lads, really ******* funny, I'm not interested in running one but I rather enjoy that we have the freedom to do so.
if you fall for an obvious one you deserve to be laughed at (to a point).
I'm only now(a year and a half in) getting into PeeeeVP but the Constant threat of it in game is one of eve's defining features, that gives this place an edgy feel that I instantly fell in love with.

love science fiction, always have.

The community here is fantastic.
Hard to click with but nothing worthwhile comes easy.

Ooo, nearly forgot, the devs are excellent here btw , you dont normally see the level of community interaction from a large studio as we get from ccp.

Nothing anymore, tbh.

I was playing solo in Amarr highsec buying low and selling high and I got really bored. Enough to think about quitting after only about 6 weeks.

Then I was recruited to a corp moving to nullsec.

Now I live for the next roam. One is coming up in about an hour.

Before Crius a lot of things around Industry. In LS, loosing some POSes - It's a part of the game, and next in HS.

After making crying us a lot without listening, I'll stop all activities till the end of the game time of all my chars.

Eve was very addictive and I'm sad of what's coming soon.

Is it fun?

If it is fun that motivates you to play EVE Online, what is fun?
(What do you define as fun, and what do you describe as the fun activity in EVE Online?)

What motivates the fun, and what fun motivates you?


If other reasons or motivation than fun, please state what is the motivation .


Other motivation or uses (practical use) maybe use for work or learning.

To practice ideas or other life skills...

Memory skills, other skills.
Socialize, Friends?
Business, IT, Arts, Music, Writing.
Science, Astronomy related, Aeronautics, Robotics.
Design, analysis, architecture.

Bye bye, pretty. The loss will be influencing to all of us,
including all the influence your other chars had no one ever heard about or noticed.

I am sure your absence will hurt the meta of New Eden significantly!

Blablablablablablabla

This is the reason right here.

You can't stop training now!

Blabla.

Blabla.

Before Crius a lot of things around Industry. In LS, loosing some POSes - It's a part of the game, and next in HS.

After making crying us a lot without listening, I'll stop all activities till the end of the game time of all my chars.

Eve was very addictive and I'm sad of what's coming soon.

Also, things change...look at how exploration changed...

How about trying something else instead of quitting? You might like it. Also, things change...look at how exploration changed...

I've never understood the Dinsdale & Co rhetoric about how these changes negatively effect anyone. Perhaps if you are one of the few who held a lock on a couple of lines in the Forge next to Jita, yeah your going to have to change your game, since all the people who couldn't get to a line there will now be ramping up your costs. But for everyone else, things look to be improving. Of all the guys I talk to who manufacture, most are optimistic (and this includes on guy who manufacturers next door to Jita, but across the region boundary), with at the absolute worst, they are looking to see how everything shakes out in reality since all the hypotheticals are exactly that (especially as I give it a month before someone comes up with a job-install-cost monitor (what are the odds on it appearing on Dotlan)).

I play EVE because the other players create my content, instead of some poor devs on the short leash hold by some commercial zombies.
I'm a very peaceful player, but the fact that almost everyone i cross in space will want to eat me gives the depth to whatever my activities are at the moment .
I have fun surviving when i'm clever enough. That's my fuel.

*Takes out sword and chops Tao's head off because 'there can be only one!!!!!'*

I read that and wondered if I rolled an alt in my sleep to post that lol. What you wrote is pretty much the Creed of a true Sandbox PVE player.

I do some pvp (usually for the sake of my friends who love pvp way more than I do), but the real thrill of EVE for me is being a super kick ass 'Evasion Gazelle" on a plain full as "ganker Lions" lol. It's like being Indiana Jones, i'ma get my treasure, and you CANNOT stop me lol.

It's why I react so negatively to the people who are lobbying for a safer game, they are trying to indirectly nerf MY fun by directly nerfing the folks who are trying to screw with and kill us.

I say people like that should man up and fight back (by running away at high speed) rather than trying to get the game changed.

I'm here cause of the ISD's. They are such reasonable people...

Obviously because we're all waiting for Star Citizen to come out...

If other reasons or motivation than fun, please state what is the motivation .

I live for the applause.