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Cypherous
Liberty Rogues Aprilon Dynasty
152
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Posted - 2015.07.29 00:02:06 -
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I mostly just play with NPSI guys, roams tend to be short so i get pew pew and can leave at any time, seems to work for me, none of this mandatory OP or CTA junk of null sec and lots of cheap pew pew |
Anthar Thebess
1242
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Posted - 2015.07.29 08:47:17 -
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I login my accounts and come to PC when i have some free time - so people see me constantly online , but i am like 10% of this time actually doing something. (this is good as logging to eve take some time)
Bad thing is that most of the fleet leave when my kid don't sleep , but RL >>> EVE.
But yes , i miss PAUSE button in this game :D
Capital Remote AID Rebalance
Way to solve important nullsec issue. CSM members do your work.
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Barrogh Habalu
Forever Winter Absolute Zero.
970
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Posted - 2015.07.29 09:42:11 -
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CCP Falcon wrote:I came to work at CCP... now no one can berate me for playing EVE! But instead, you are getting called out on not playing the game every now and then, whether it's true or not
OT: If everything else fails, playing Skill Training Offline saves the day (week / month / more)
Future of T3 cruisers - multi-tool they aspired to be instead of sledgehammer they have become
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Valkyriane
Love Squad Confederation of xXPIZZAXx
4
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Posted - 2015.07.29 09:42:23 -
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Wife, kids, fulltime job.. I take playtime out of sleepytime. Others sleep, I play.
I like to kill stuff.. and stuff.
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Tora Bushido
EVE Corporation 987654321-POP The Marmite Collective
2632
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Posted - 2015.07.29 10:18:55 -
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45, 2 kids, gaming since the Pong. Secret of gaming when you're older, have kids, etc :
* Always keep the wife happy (coffee, flowers, tell her she looks good, notice the new haircut, etc). * Always tell them they're more important then some space game (even if you dont think that). * Keep playing when they go to bed. * Adapt to the lack of sleep. * Have the pc in the living room for easy adapting.
And remember the secret words passed on for generations ..... "Yes dear".
DELETE THE WEAK, ADAPT OR DIE !
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Lady Areola Fappington
2660
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Posted - 2015.07.29 11:46:19 -
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I've made sure to schedule some "me time" during the week, where I just do whatever it is I want to do at the time.
I've found that most people give recreation and downtime very low priority when it comes to day to day living, and that's just not healthy at all. You've got to set aside some time just for yourself, and consider that time to be just as important as, say, your job.
That's how I manage to play Eve with a full-time and then some job, a spouse, family, etc...
7.2 CAN I AVOID PVP COMPLETELY?
No; there are no systems or locations in New Eden where PvP may be completely avoided.
--Eve New Player Guide
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Blacksuns
Exit-Strategy Exit Strategy..
27
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Posted - 2015.07.29 12:22:42 -
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27, a daughter, a wife, a fulltime job, a sideline and hobby's.
Obviously dedicating a lot of time to RL shizzle. But whenever the ladies are sleeping it's time to chillax and play Eve. Which is a good 2 or 3 hours during the week and about 4 to 5 during the weekend.
If I don't get the pew I want I'll simply play MK-X instead.
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Blacksuns
Exit-Strategy Exit Strategy..
27
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Posted - 2015.07.29 12:34:02 -
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double posted, remove please. |
Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
1927
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Posted - 2015.07.29 16:45:29 -
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40, work full time, do lots of traveling. I keep all of my characters* in one corp with limited in-space assets (POSes, POCOs, etc.) and small rental bills set to auto-pay out of a well-funded corp wallet. This lets me walk away for weeks or more on short notice and everything will be right where I left it when I come back. Finding content does rely heavily on forming relationships with neighbors and fellow small-corpers like me, but I've made a pretty good run out of it.
*All of my publicly acknowledged characters that is....
Relatively Notorious By Association
My Many Misadventures
Inaugural C&P Thunderdome Champion
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Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
460
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Posted - 2015.07.29 17:03:06 -
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Tora Bushido wrote:45, 2 kids, gaming since the Pong. Secret of gaming when you're older, have kids, etc :
* Always keep the wife happy (coffee, flowers, tell her she looks good, notice the new haircut, etc). * Always tell them they're more important then some space game (even if you dont think that). * Keep playing when they go to bed. * Adapt to the lack of sleep. * Have the pc in the living room for easy adapting.
And remember the secret words passed on for generations ..... "Yes dear".
So be a doormat is what your saying? LOL |
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Jenn aSide
Smokin Aces.
11982
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Posted - 2015.07.29 17:06:43 -
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Harrison Tato wrote:Tora Bushido wrote:45, 2 kids, gaming since the Pong. Secret of gaming when you're older, have kids, etc :
* Always keep the wife happy (coffee, flowers, tell her she looks good, notice the new haircut, etc). * Always tell them they're more important then some space game (even if you dont think that). * Keep playing when they go to bed. * Adapt to the lack of sleep. * Have the pc in the living room for easy adapting.
And remember the secret words passed on for generations ..... "Yes dear". So be a doormat is what your saying? LOL
Keeping life in context and being a man by doing your duty to your family instead of selfishly forsaking all that for a ******* video game is not being a 'doormat'. |
Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
461
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Posted - 2015.07.29 17:24:48 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:Harrison Tato wrote:Tora Bushido wrote:45, 2 kids, gaming since the Pong. Secret of gaming when you're older, have kids, etc :
* Always keep the wife happy (coffee, flowers, tell her she looks good, notice the new haircut, etc). * Always tell them they're more important then some space game (even if you dont think that). * Keep playing when they go to bed. * Adapt to the lack of sleep. * Have the pc in the living room for easy adapting.
And remember the secret words passed on for generations ..... "Yes dear". So be a doormat is what your saying? LOL Keeping life in context and being a man by doing your duty to your family instead of selfishly forsaking all that for a ******* video game is not being a 'doormat'.
Being an adult who resorts to kissing butt so their spouse will ALLOW them to pursue a hobbie is. The other stuff is reasonable. I barf when I hear the ol' "happy wife happy life" slave song. |
flakeys
Arkham Innovations
3154
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Posted - 2015.07.29 17:29:49 -
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Jenn aSide wrote:Harrison Tato wrote:Tora Bushido wrote:45, 2 kids, gaming since the Pong. Secret of gaming when you're older, have kids, etc :
* Always keep the wife happy (coffee, flowers, tell her she looks good, notice the new haircut, etc). * Always tell them they're more important then some space game (even if you dont think that). * Keep playing when they go to bed. * Adapt to the lack of sleep. * Have the pc in the living room for easy adapting.
And remember the secret words passed on for generations ..... "Yes dear". So be a doormat is what your saying? LOL Keeping life in context and being a man by doing your duty to your family instead of selfishly forsaking all that for a ******* video game is not being a 'doormat'.
It doesn't mean you have to suck up all day solely for the purpose of playing a video game.I try to keep my wife happy , give her compliments and find common ground as much as i can , but i have never done it just so she would not ***** at me for putting on my xbox or laptop and i have never ever had to tell her she's more important then a video game because when your wife has doubts the game is more important then you allready ****** up in giving someone the attention they need.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Labaianoch
The Scope Gallente Federation
28
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Posted - 2015.07.29 17:31:59 -
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[/quote]Keeping life in context and being a man by doing your duty to your family instead of selfishly forsaking all that for a ******* video game is not being a 'doormat'.[/quote]
Here, here. I started playing eve almost 3 years before my daughter was born. Having hours on end to play, get drunk, **** talk and accumulate vast swaths of enemies hardly compares to the fun I have arguing with a tiny version of me about how to properly use the bathroom.... The wife is fun too.
On my point earlier about feeling of no use to my old corps, when I was in 0.0 based corps there were mandatory kills per month. Mandatory log on reqs. Constant CTA's and late night emails saying "URGENT!!! FULL EVAC NOW!!!"... which I usually found about well after a POS had been overrun. I'd log in to find myself in a station full of reds, in a system full of reds, with bubbles at every gate out, 100's of millions of isk worth of ships and crap in my hangar. Fire sale!
I was definitely of little to no use to those guys and could read their frustration in the emails some times. That was enough for me.
PvP? Meh, I suck at it. No I mean I really suck at it. Casual? Yes I am. And I still love this game as much as anyone with thousands of kills under their belt.
Key theme here ...its much easier for me to find time to do something that doesn't require comms and fleets and that allows me to dock or cloak up at a moments notice when I hear "Baaaabe? Can you come here for a second???"
To each his own.
O/
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Harrison Tato
Yamato Holdings
461
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Posted - 2015.07.29 17:32:54 -
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flakeys wrote:
It doesn't mean you have to suck up all day solely for the purpose of playing a video game.I try to keep my wife happy , give her compliments and find common ground as much as i can , but i have never done it just so she would not ***** at me for putting on my xbox or laptop and i have never ever had to tell her she's more important then a video game because when your wife has doubts the game is more important then you allready ****** up in giving someone the attention they need.
Exactly!
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Shawn Tivianne
The Scope Gallente Federation
3
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Posted - 2015.07.29 17:58:07 -
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My wife doesn't have a problem with my gaming because I don't make it more important than the actual important things. She knows my routine and has no problem with it. She isn't a gamer or anything. She goes about as far as guitar hero on the wii with me lol. I let her do the things she likes, and she lets me do the things I like. We communicate well. I told her the other night that I was tired from staying up late playing EVE, and she said, well sometimes why don't you start earlier so you can get to bed ontime. So last night I went on a bit early and got about 2.5 hours in and went to bed on time. So then maybe tonight I wont go on at all and hang out with the wife. |
Mohandar Sabezan
Hedion University Amarr Empire
1
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Posted - 2015.07.29 18:10:12 -
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Shawn Tivianne wrote:My wife doesn't have a problem with my gaming because I don't make it more important than the actual important things. She knows my routine and has no problem with it. She isn't a gamer or anything. She goes about as far as guitar hero on the wii with me lol. I let her do the things she likes, and she lets me do the things I like. We communicate well. I told her the other night that I was tired from staying up late playing EVE, and she said, well sometimes why don't you start earlier so you can get to bed ontime. So last night I went on a bit early and got about 2.5 hours in and went to bed on time. So then maybe tonight I wont go on at all and hang out with the wife.
I think you should start a service called: Eve Family Counseling
Charge people a consulting fee about how to play Eve and get along with the wife at the same time. |
Panthe3 Black
The Branded Few Test Alliance Please Ignore
1
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Posted - 2015.07.29 18:11:45 -
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Null sec pvp is where it's at |
Shawn Tivianne
The Scope Gallente Federation
3
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Posted - 2015.07.29 18:16:16 -
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Mohandar Sabezan wrote:Shawn Tivianne wrote:My wife doesn't have a problem with my gaming because I don't make it more important than the actual important things. She knows my routine and has no problem with it. She isn't a gamer or anything. She goes about as far as guitar hero on the wii with me lol. I let her do the things she likes, and she lets me do the things I like. We communicate well. I told her the other night that I was tired from staying up late playing EVE, and she said, well sometimes why don't you start earlier so you can get to bed ontime. So last night I went on a bit early and got about 2.5 hours in and went to bed on time. So then maybe tonight I wont go on at all and hang out with the wife. I think you should start a service called: Eve Family Counseling Charge people a consulting fee about how to play Eve and get along with the wife at the same time.
YES! I have found what to do with my EVE time! :-)
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flakeys
Arkham Innovations
3154
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Posted - 2015.07.29 19:54:07 -
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Panthe3 Black wrote:Null sec pvp is where it's at
For casual gameplay?Maybe as i said before with brave , pandemic horde and the likes but usually nullsec pvp is forming up 45 minutes and then move a crapload of jumps in the hopes not to get blueballed.
I've found lowsec pvp much more rewarding for those of us who log in for a few hours with a lot of ''short breaks'' in between because the kids or wife needs a hand/attention.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
3874
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Posted - 2015.07.29 20:13:49 -
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One type of content seriously missing from EVE are large scale projects which can be forwarded in small irregular increments.
The instance I use are hobbies like building a wooden ship scale model. They are very time intensive projects, but most tasks can be forwarded in less than an hour.
Of course, part of the fun is in that nobody will come and smash it with a hammer the minute you're away. As un-EVE-ish as this is, I think it would be wise to give busy family men a mean to set and achieve long term goals in EVE, by working on them in a casual, irregular schedule.
73% of EVE characters stay in high security space. 62% of EVE subscribers barely PvP. 40% of all new accounts just "level up their Ravens". Probably that's why PvE content in EVE Online is sub-par and CCP is head over heels for PvP...
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Karl Jerr
Herzack Unit
103
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Posted - 2015.07.29 21:26:57 -
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:One type of content seriously missing from EVE are large scale projects which can be forwarded in small irregular increments. The instance I use are hobbies like building a wooden ship scale model. They are very time intensive projects, but most tasks can be forwarded in less than an hour. Of course, part of the fun is in that nobody will come and smash it with a hammer the minute you're away. As un-EVE-ish as this is, I think it would be wise to give busy family men a mean to set and achieve long term goals in EVE, by working on them in a casual, irregular schedule. That would be a cool thing. Especially if, one day, they introduce player-owned stargates |
Mina Sebiestar
Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate
921
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Posted - 2015.07.29 22:03:48 -
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:One type of content seriously missing from EVE are large scale projects which can be forwarded in small irregular increments. The instance I use are hobbies like building a wooden ship scale model. They are very time intensive projects, but most tasks can be forwarded in less than an hour. Of course, part of the fun is in that nobody will come and smash it with a hammer the minute you're away. As un-EVE-ish as this is, I think it would be wise to give busy family men a mean to set and achieve long term goals in EVE, by working on them in a casual, irregular schedule.
Agreed
Right now I am low on gaming time due to my job being in flux and it strangling my free time atm iwill probably just be log in Eve while playing other games for a fix.
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
3875
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Posted - 2015.07.29 22:15:02 -
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Imagine CCP didn't screwed up WiS and implemented the (supposedly) modular interiors for CQ. Just on a "home station" scale. Buy a slot in your favorite station, set up your home, and decor it with anyhting from tapestries to frozen corpses.
Impact on other players? Null (minus the frozen corpses part). Thus it can be allowed to be as large and expensive and time consuming as needed, just for the sake of giving a cosmethic layer to something already existant, aka undestructible storage in NPC stations.
High retention, endless chances for monetization, all would be good...
It could be another EVE. One that wasn't condemned to replay itself over and over again -Soveriengty 3, then Incursions 2, then Apochrypha 2...
(Dammit, EVE it's becoming Hollywood! All sequels, adaptations and franchises! )
73% of EVE characters stay in high security space. 62% of EVE subscribers barely PvP. 40% of all new accounts just "level up their Ravens". Probably that's why PvE content in EVE Online is sub-par and CCP is head over heels for PvP...
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Snagletooth Johnson
Snagle Material Services CAStabouts
264
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Posted - 2015.07.29 22:31:51 -
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Mr Epeen wrote:Quote:Playing on limited time/ Older gamers. How do you play?? Being an old fashioned guy, I use the joystick from my Atari 2600. I've heard that the combination of a mouse and a keyboard is superior but I just don't believe it. Mr Epeen
So not only are not a part of the Logitech Masterrace, your not even part of PC Masterrace? Im so dissapointed in you Mr Epeen. Where have all my hero's gone?
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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium. CODE.
13859
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Posted - 2015.07.29 22:34:55 -
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:Imagine CCP didn't screwed up WiS and implemented the (supposedly) modular interiors for CQ.
There was no way for them to not screw up Space Barbies. It's not just the execution that was flawed, it was a bad idea at the conceptual level.
ANYTHING they did that ignored the base game for so long was a net negative for EVE Online, no matter what they did with it.
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
One of ours, ten of theirs.
Best Meltdown Ever.
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Barrak
Wormhole Engineers Greater Realms
136
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Posted - 2015.07.29 22:43:16 -
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Hey,
Just turned 40, married, two kids, we had a dog (sadly it died two days ago..... man... that just fu*%ing hurts!!)
EvE for me has always been more than just logging in. For whatever reason I love all the 3rd party stuff. I love EvEMon, EFT, blogs (giving some old love to the K162 blog (again!)).
So, if I get a spare 10-15mins or so I generalyl gravitate towards the above, thus getting my EvE 'fix'.
However I will generally jump on at around 21.30-22.00 when the Mrs and I have watched our TV show for the evening. I will then play till around 24.00.
Currently I'm trading and am about to dump Barrak here into Lowsec for some solo/small gang stuff.
I've always found that the best way to play this game on a limited budget of time is to do solo stuff..... now... I hasten to add that this doesnt mean you have to play the game solo, you just do solo stuff.
I'm still part of a corp (though I will have to drop that), and I am in the chat channels. I am always chatting with my current/old corpies but I will generally fly solo.
Like someone else said on the front page, a little prep can work wonders for those with limited time to play!
Barrak
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Ishtanchuk Fazmarai
3876
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Posted - 2015.07.30 06:43:35 -
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Kaarous Aldurald wrote:Ishtanchuk Fazmarai wrote:Imagine CCP didn't screwed up WiS and implemented the (supposedly) modular interiors for CQ.
There was no way for them to not screw up Space Barbies. It's not just the execution that was flawed, it was a bad idea at the conceptual level. ANYTHING they did that ignored the base game for so long was a net negative for EVE Online, no matter what they did with it.
It never was "WiS or spaceships". It was "new stuff to draw players in or endless fixing of broken sh*t and going nowhere with demographics".
It was WiS as could have been player structures or player buit stargates to new sectors of space.
CCP had more resources back then, and even now they're not focusing in EVE alone. So it was not a competition for resources, but a way to understand development which turned sour when they underdelivered Incarna.
So they stopped daring and became too afraid to do *anything* outside of the narrow box of the long-term subscribers.
So instead of Daring 1.0, we've got Fixing 15.0, Nerfing-Rebalancing 20.0 and Sovereignty 3.0; and we are on our way to Incursions 2.0 and are supposed to be ecstatic about the coming of Apochrypra 2.0.
All things already done before and with the Old Farts' Seal of Approval.
73% of EVE characters stay in high security space. 62% of EVE subscribers barely PvP. 40% of all new accounts just "level up their Ravens". Probably that's why PvE content in EVE Online is sub-par and CCP is head over heels for PvP...
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Shawn Tivianne
The Scope Gallente Federation
5
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Posted - 2015.07.30 17:53:17 -
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Maybe i'll become a pirate in lowsec and see how low I can get my sec rating :-) |
Rawthorm
D.M.T inc Circle-Of-Two
55
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Posted - 2015.07.31 09:40:55 -
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Since my first attempt at quitting the game didn't work out for me, I've just had to adapt the way I play. A mix of RL considerations and quite frankly a lack of anything remotely interesting to do within EvE means that I've just broken down my EvE time into optimized little fragments that I can do as and when required. (Yes I know, if it's boring I should quit but I still hold out hope that one day EvE will have a resurgence and I'll be in a stronger place to take advantage of that as a player when it does.) Essentially I have a window of time in the mornings while I'm having my coffee and watching the news to keep my industry ticking over. Outside of this, if time presents itself I pick one of my little fragments and run with it.
I spent the last few years making sure my accounts have 3 useable characters on them. For any 1 sub, 3 options. This means that for example my accounts may have 1 industry, 1 PvE and 1 PvP highly focused character on them, all seeded in the areas I operate in for each task. By cutting the need to move about the galaxy I literally can log on, choose the right character, get right into whatever I want to do and log off again. By cutting out all the time sinks like travel what little time I have goes to good use.
Still all that being said, it sure would be nice if there were more personal long term goals in EvE. |
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