Treat it like a derty slapper you'd bang but not marry. Commit when you want to, cavort with others, run away screaming when anyone mentions alarm clock ops. Or asks for your phone number to ping you for cap ops - seriously the first time this was mentioned I laughed so hard couldn't speak for a minute. Nerds.

Most corps support semi casuals btw - they'd have no 'grunts' otherwise. It's only niche groups that ask for your life (and usually you can just sacrifice FCs/logistics/corp/alliance lead & diplos to that). Even decent 'elite' corps use pings so people aren't logged in 18 hours a day waiting for a fight.

You don't have to maintain high activity levels consistently forever either, plenty of people cycle their activity up and down. Just make sure no one can nick your stuff/it's not trapped in inaccessible spots if you take longer breaks.

Treat it like a derty slapper you'd bang but not marry. Commit when you want to, cavort with others, run away screaming when anyone mentions alarm clock ops. Or asks for your phone number to ping you for cap ops - seriously the first time this was mentioned I laughed so hard couldn't speak for a minute. Nerds.

Don't be shy, we have candy, and exotic dancers.

What about socks? Do you have socks?

Wow, and you said -I- was a dirty scrubber.

Those alarm clock ops are pretty common in the corps I've been involved with, along with those Jabber pings to your phone. Some folks take their EVE pretty seriously! Days off work for an eviction op, pee into a bottle doing hole control, 4am wakeup for a cap kill, 30+ hours in the character creator, etc.

Join RvB or BRAVE. Low committment, low skill needed, invest however much you want.

I hear both are helpful with a person like you =)

Was meant as a compliment, one to another >.>

Except for the RPing which is scary.

Its not really worth it. EVE is only really worth it of you are part of an established group and play regularly. Not much solo / casual content.

Factional warfare is really for organized small gangs;

RvB is a bunch of bitter vets farming noob players out of boredom;

High sec gets boring rather quickly if you solo

OP you have a job, a university degree and are married. Put on your Big Boy pants, stop whining, and Man Up. Your life has changed. Time to adjust to your new priorities. Don't go Millennial on us here.

My wife *just* tolerates me being a gamer

If playing games is a part of who you are, then maybe she should learn to love it.

TL;DR: Grown man struggles with real life commitments interfering with playing EVE to a level acceptable to him. Can he play at this level or should he biomass and GTFO?

Except for the shitload of casual and solo content, yeah for sure.

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TL;DR: Grown man struggles with real life commitments interfering with playing EVE to a level acceptable to him. Can he play at this level or should he biomass and GTFO?

Not sure if I need a shrink or just a good smack in the jaw, but I have this problem thatGÇÖs bothering me: I wish I could bring myself to play this game for real (ex. joining a corp and fleeting up), but I canGÇÖt.

Half the problem is my outside commitments. My wife *just* tolerates me being a gamer, other games get jealous when I hang out with MMOs, and my job happens to pay for all those games. I feel like those would cut too much out of the commitment needed to be useful in a corp. IGÇÖm not even talking about the herculean levels of commitment that hardcore players have, like logging in at 3am their time to defend a POS coming out of reinforced. IGÇÖm talking about small FW roams and weekend mining ops in 0.5. I donGÇÖt think I can hack it without ditching my wife, cutting work early, and/or making EVE the only game I play.

The other half of the problem is social. I donGÇÖt know a single person who plays this game and all my attempts to encourage my few gaming friends to play have failed. That means I have to find a corp who will surely put meGÇöa relatively experienced player with a new accountGÇöunder a lot of scrutiny for being a possible AWOXer. I was once kicked from a corp on another character for suspicion of being a thief; this made it very hard to join other corps because my only references thought I had stolen their stuff. I donGÇÖt want a repeat performance of that.

The one time I successfully played EVE with a corp, it went from being an empire mining corp to heading up a 0.0 alliance; I played for almost two years before the corp collapsed and it was the greatest time IGÇÖve ever had in game. Back then I was single and living off my university funds; it was easy to play for 6 hours a day if I wanted. Now, every time I try to restart I just end up going it alone and quitting from boredom two months later because IGÇÖm afraid to commit to a corp.

Are my glory days lost to me?

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