Minikrimi Extreme
Caldari
Essence Privateers
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Posted - 2006.09.21 05:45:00 -
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If so, please fill out this survey.
1) What is your monthly play time in hours per day averaged.
-- about 30 minutes a day, average
2) Do you PVP regularly?
-- Not yet, but I will when reasonably trained
3) Do you mission run regularly?
-- Yes; as part of my rp background, contracting to a specific corp
4) Do you mine regularly?
-- No, but I purchase undervalued modules and melt them down for minerals
5) Are you an industrialist?
-- Not specifically, though it is starting to bankroll higher end skills
6) Why empire and not low sec?
-- I am attempting to drive enemies of the state from its center
7) Why empire and not 0.0?
7a) please give as many reasons as you have.
-- roleplay- I craft my characters around the backstory.
-- Politics- when I have joined alliances in the past, every alliance my corps have joined collapsed within a couple weeks due to infighting that was not revealed to the corps previous to joining. After watching four alliances crumble around me, I simply don't feel like investing in it anymore. It's simply no fun for me to have to rebuild constantly with no payday. And especially not at maybe 30 minutes a day.
-- better pvp (in my opinion). There are more surprise battles because there is no way to distinguish friend from foe on the map. You can't track enemy movements without a man on the scene. There are so many people on local that trying to sift through them for allies/enemies renders that difficult (though by no means impossible). For me, just a better overall war experience when the time comes.
8) Do you belong to an alliance?
-- Not at the moment, may join an rp alliance in the future.
9) Do you belong to a player corp?
-- Yes
9a) How many people active in your corp?
-- 1. I fly alone for now.
10) Do you plan to enter 0.0 or live in 0.0 anytime in the future?
-- In the future, perhaps, but it would be driven by in-character motivations, not just to make more ISK.
11) Do you make trips into 0.0 for any reason? More than once a month?
-- Not right now. I have in the past, but right now I have no reason to do so.
Thank you. The point of this is simply to get a handle on the reasons the vast majority of people spend time in empire, rather than 0.0.
I'm an alt, so that politics need not be a part of this. I'm also a 0.0 alliance player, so you can understand where I'm coming from. If you can add something usefull, do so.
If you are a 0.0 player, please keep the comments constructive, this is for information gathering only. Plenty of other places to flame.
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I hope that this is of some use to you. I would be very interested in seeing a compilation and analysis of the results. Of course in a forum thread anyone could do that. I applaud your initiative on this!
For my own comment, I would say that I don't care about the whole risk vs rewards argument. If they gave mission runners 1 ISK per mission and no bounties I would still run them, and I would still live in Empire for now, just because I am motivated by backstory and plot. Yes, I interact quite a bit, I coordinate with others, I help others with missions when I have the chance, I would haul for a rookie miner if the opportunity arose, and when I have reached a point where it is appropriate (good cruiser skills) I will pvp in CONCORD-sanctioned wars. So despite my solo player corp (which anyone can declare war on if they feel the desire, with no complaints from me) I feel that I am participating in the rich tapestry that is Eve culture and society.
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