Sometimes I feel that I'm the only one veteran that is not rich. I can buy the next month's PLEX and that's it

To be honest, from what I have heard, it's not that good to be really rich. But it does feels bad that I've never flown a Machariel..

PS: Is flown a legit word? English is not my native.

What next, I ask myself. Having purchased everything I need in the game, I now find myself amassing a pile of isk in my hangar. It just keeps on growing and growing, like the pot of porridge in the Hans Andersen fable.

I long for the days when I had a sense of having to work to achieve something, like mining for days on end in a cruiser to earn my first battleship, now with a hulk I can just chew roids at the rate of dozens per hour.

So as a vet who is a 'casual' player, with a mild addiction to the game as a pastime (as opposed seeing it as an alternative life 24/7)... where is the personal challenge in EVE these days?

Posting with my forum alt for obvious reasons. And no, you can't has my stuffs.

Not that I like to stick up for hideously rich people, but there arent often 1090 people in Jita local on Sisi, just sayin...

Didn't care enough to look.

Well thats a bit ******* stupid isnt it.

Not that I like to stick up for hideously rich people, but there arent often 1090 people in Jita local on Sisi, just sayin...

You seem upset.

Stocking a hangar in Jita 4-4 with ships is easy, all it takes is RMT or incursion grinding. The courage to undock in those is sold separately.

IDK that you are entirely correct with your assessment

I started eve as a miner and moved up through what I viewed was the natural progression. I am now looking to PvP in the traditional sense, though I lack the experience or knowledge to do so well and my view of the risk-reward for blindly thrusting myself into FW (as a suicide tackle much as I had done in my early days of eve; no offense to the FW guys either) or the NBSI asshattery of piracy is poor. Also, I don't count high-sec Wardecs (IMHO they fall more under asshattery and piracy than what I think they were intended to which is why I believe CCP has essential signed off on the dec-shield) or dropping "1v1 frigs" cans in a trade hub as PVP.

I want to participate and "play eve the way it was intended" though it at times seems insurmountable for the little guy without becoming someones pet. I have made it through the border camps and "seen the wonders to behold" in 0.0, though if I pursue my desires to one day achieve Sov as well as have my very own "Chribba's Cottage"-style Outpost I will need to train skills for another 6-12 months to effectively be able to compete in 0.0 PvP or just bend over for someone who's already there (I don't mind waiting if that is what is needed, but I would rather be an equal instead of someone's *****). I know of several systems where I could drop a TCU right now if I wanted to, but to do so would be like 8th-grade class nerd going up to the 17y/o jock in his class and slapping him in the mouth.

Anyway, back to what I was saying

I'd wager that there are many players out there who feel the same as me, at least, I'm betting that there are more of them than most people think lurking in the crowd of carebears milling around high-sec.

Well, I struggle for money - you could always advise us "poor folk" on how to be rich like you...

In another thread somewhere I pointed out, you have two options. Years of brain bleeding grind or Plex.

Yes, these are your only two options. There is no way to make isk other than grinding or Plexing in Eve.

Carry on, nothing to see here.

What next, I ask myself. Having purchased everything I need in the game, I now find myself amassing a pile of isk in my hangar. It just keeps on growing and growing, like the pot of porridge in the Hans Andersen fable.

I long for the days when I had a sense of having to work to achieve something, like mining for days on end in a cruiser to earn my first battleship, now with a hulk I can just chew roids at the rate of dozens per hour.

So as a vet who is a 'casual' player, with a mild addiction to the game as a pastime (as opposed seeing it as an alternative life 24/7)... where is the personal challenge in EVE these days?

Posting with my forum alt for obvious reasons. And no, you can't has my stuffs.

Put monocles on every single character you have and on the characters of your entire corp.

Also, randomly gift isk to newer players who you see doing cool stuff and NOT begging for a handout.

What next, I ask myself. Having purchased everything I need in the game, I now find myself amassing a pile of isk in my hangar. It just keeps on growing and growing, like the pot of porridge in the Hans Andersen fable.

I long for the days when I had a sense of having to work to achieve something, like mining for days on end in a cruiser to earn my first battleship, now with a hulk I can just chew roids at the rate of dozens per hour.

So as a vet who is a 'casual' player, with a mild addiction to the game as a pastime (as opposed seeing it as an alternative life 24/7)... where is the personal challenge in EVE these days?

Posting with my forum alt for obvious reasons. And no, you can't has my stuffs.

I have never ratted, mined, missioned, RMTed, done industry or in fact done anything other than PvP for more than like 2 hours, but I have ~30 billion and a character worth more than that

Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta

I still say burn up a few bill worth of comedy fits
or if you care about your K/D buy another character on the bazaar and use it

you'll feel better

Damn, it feels good to be a el presidente's byatch

I have never ratted, mined, missioned, RMTed, done industry or in fact done anything other than PvP for more than like 2 hours, but I have ~30 billion and a character worth more than that

Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta

I'm gonna call BS on this too. Show us a screenie of your wallet you goon RMT'er.