Donnachadh
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Posted - 2015.11.29 21:55:18 -
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It may be off topic but I wanted to touch on the right and wrong way to play EvE.
In reality there is no way to play the game that is wrong, to be blunt as long as YOU are having fun then you are playing the game right. I will use myself as an example.
Go to low / nul sec / worm hole that is where the "fun" is, that was the advice I always heard when I first started.
Well I followed that advice and endless hours of warping through low sec to find the one person that you could fight only to discover that they were actually a log off trap. Or even worse was finding nothing.
So I thought nul will be better so off I went, the problem there was the requirements of the corp / alliances I tried and to meet those I found I was spending virtually all of my online time just meeting those requirements with little time for fun.
So a group of guys I was flying with were thinking the same thing and decided that living in a worm hole was the best way to have fun so off we went. They all love it and they are still in the same worm hole today, but to me it was even more boring than anything else I have ever tried in this game.
Missions are boring, if you cherry pick them, use an optimal fit for the mission you are running and blitz them for max ISK / hour. As DMC says change agents, change division, change areas of space and for god's sake stow the max ISK per hour and instead look at missions as a puzzle and see how many ways you can find to solve it. If you normally run a long range sniper fit, try getting in ultra close and poking them in the nose is just one example. If you normally blitz missions then try complete clear and loot / salvage as a change of pace.
As your skills and knowledge of the game improve helping new players to get started and to come to grips with the game is extremely satisfying. Nothing better than the good feeling one gets from helping others to achieve their goals even if it is just a game.
Rotate around. Sure if all you do is run missions for the same agent every time you log in the game will get boring, so change it up. When you log in say screw missions I am going to go explore around and see what I can find. Try warping from system to system and talking ot whoever is in local it can be both fun and educational.
So to recap anything done to an extreme or exclusively including PvP can become boring depending on your expectations for the game. |
Donnachadh
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Posted - 2015.12.01 15:32:32 -
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Hasikan Miallok wrote:The numerous threads around about whether running IIIs in a Mach is better ISK per hour than IVs and what is the optimal fit to do a burner mission in 1 minute 45 seconds instead of 1 minute 55 seconds (and spending 300 mill on officer mods to save that 10 seconds) are about solving logical puzzles and the challenge. The actual ISK you make is a useful side effect not the point of the exercise.
I actually disagree with you on this and the ISK per hour posts.
If the fitting puzzle and the posts were about completion times why are they always posted as comparisons of ISK per hour when a far better comparison would be actual completion times for each specific mission?
I am blessed with an unstable internet connection, one that drops out 4 or 5 times a week and is out for 20-30 minutes every time it goes out. For me the fitting puzzle is how to maintain enough tank and capacitor to survive a dropout at the worst possible moment in any mission yet still maintain as much DPS as possible. I am going to pick on Chainsaw Plankton here just as an example. If he was in it for the fitting challenge only then trying to find an optimum fit for someone with needs like mine holds just as challenge as finding the max ISL per hour fit and yet he dismisses my fitting puzzle as worthless and irrelevant.
If they only want a fitting puzzle and do not care about the ISK per hour then why not compare completion times for level 3 missions using any number of the smaller ships in the game. Minimizing your completion times on a level 3 mission using say a Fed Navy Comet is just as challenging a fittings puzzle as maximizing ISK per hour running the same missions in a Machariel, yet they never look at those fitting puzzles. And when they do look at these smaller ships again it is all about max ISK per hour running burner missions.
All that to say that you are partially incorrect in your assessment of why they do these things.
They do see them as a puzzle to be solved, but they are not in it for the puzzle they are in it for the ISK and it is only the ISK that really matters. |