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DaReaper
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Posted - 2016.03.23 19:59:32 -
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Praxis Astra wrote:The reason I stopped playing EVE is that it got too much like real life.
I don't want to play my computer game to be a tiny cog in a great machine; taking orders from and paying rents and taxes to other players so I can go about my daily activities. I don't want to have to worry about what is going to happening to my stuff when I'm not around. I have a real life where I can do plenty of that.
I played EVE to enact the fantasy of being an outlaw or mad scientist. The illusion of actual freedom.
The Tech II original blueprint made it impossible to compete in the manufacturing markets. The holding of the best moons for goo by the major alliances only in the North (more "realism") locked that down for people who weren't ever going to be me. Etc etc. But who cares because I got to play the game I came to play anyway.
And now the individual player who wants their own POS with the trimmings has been nerfed out of it. We will have to pay someone else for these services. We are that less independent not to mention profitable.
I suppose this is barely acceptable while NPC stations still exist. But if NPC stations are removed who gets to be Jita? I have no intention of even keeping this last account active if everybody in this game winds up having to pay the taxes that now go to the NPCs to other players. Because if the rich are only going to get richer in this computer game, who needs it? I get to play that game in RL. Every single day.
you do know all this is pretty much changing right?
OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!
Yes i am optimistic about eve.. i'm giving it till dec 31st 2016 before i doom n gloom
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Kenneth Endashi
Signal Cartel
EvE-Scout Enclave
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Posted - 2016.03.23 20:40:39 -
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Nah, but seriously though. OP is right in many ways. Because Eve is a microcosm of real-world economics, the same pitfalls apply.
Many Eve games are fixed. There was even a time when the largest, most powerful corporation needed to invent wars to keep its members satisfied, to help the peasants feel good about themselves (sound familiar?).
The idea of OP becoming a powerful outlaw are limited perhaps by his own motivation (sound familiar)? That is not to say it can't be done. I exited a low-sec PVP corporation because it wasn't exciting enough. I used my prowess as an explorer to locate a superior star system in low-sec to set up a drug smuggling operation and employed human traffickers to move my products (sound familiar?). I pulled myself up by my bootstraps! (sound familiar?)
I got tired of playing by the presumably pre-programmed rules that delegate non-creative jobs to non-creative thinkers, and I broke from that model. I am now a slave trafficker. I didn't choose the thug life. The thug life chose me, son.
OP is right that Eve is dismally similar to real life dead-end jobs and capitalistic pitfalls. But videogames are where you go to break that cycle, not perpetuate it. It's just a sandbox. Nothing bad is going to happen in real life if you lurk a corporation 12 months just to **** over their CEO. But you have to think with that mind. Be someone else, OP. Don't roleplay as yourself.
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Velarra
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Posted - 2016.03.23 22:29:00 -
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Is this just fantasy?
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MidnightWyvern
Night Theifs
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Posted - 2016.03.24 15:03:23 -
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Praxis Astra wrote:The reason I stopped playing EVE is that it got too much like real life.
I don't want to play my computer game to be a tiny cog in a great machine; taking orders from and paying rents and taxes to other players so I can go about my daily activities. I don't want to have to worry about what is going to happening to my stuff when I'm not around. I have a real life where I can do plenty of that.
I played EVE to enact the fantasy of being an outlaw or mad scientist. The illusion of actual freedom.
The Tech II original blueprint made it impossible to compete in the manufacturing markets. The holding of the best moons for goo by the major alliances only in the North (more "realism") locked that down for people who weren't ever going to be me. Etc etc. But who cares because I got to play the game I came to play anyway.
And now the individual player who wants their own POS with the trimmings has been nerfed out of it. We will have to pay someone else for these services. We are that less independent not to mention profitable.
I suppose this is barely acceptable while NPC stations still exist. But if NPC stations are removed who gets to be Jita? I have no intention of even keeping this last account active if everybody in this game winds up having to pay the taxes that now go to the NPCs to other players. Because if the rich are only going to get richer in this computer game, who needs it? I get to play that game in RL. Every single day.
EVE is better than reality.
You're a cog in the machine, but you're also an immortal member of the 0.0000000001% who control everything that means anything in the universe.
So it's like reality but the game part is that you're still completely free to do whatever you want at any time instead of having to pay for more education, pack up and move somewhere else....wait, that's still like EVE.
Nevermind.
_#portDust514
Don't let interactions like this become only a memory.
(EVE alt> Sarayu Wyvern. Dust 514 alt> Mobius Wyvern.)
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Laken Starr
Mining and Munitions Ltd
ChaosTheory.
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Posted - 2016.03.25 05:20:09 -
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That's easy. I can't be a hot space chick in real life. Too much neckbeard.
Though, no a more serious note, if you don't enjoy the things you listed, don't do them. There's plenty of gameplay variety in Eve. |
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