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Xzar Fyrarr
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2008.12.19 20:36:00 -
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Good reasons.
Adding on to my original post that I forgot to include it seems;
I find that my personality isn't exactly the same as some eve players.
I don't care if I lose a ship.
I am non caring - to an extent - if someone else loses their ship.
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Janu Hull
Caldari
Terra Incognita
Ethereal Dawn
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Posted - 2008.12.19 20:45:00 -
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I tend to solo quite a bit. My preferred pasttime in EVE is ratting. Belts, cosmic anomalies, whatever. Its not that I don't enjoy group activities, in fact, I love POS bashes and fleet battles, as well as corp ops of various types. But for the most part, I do my own thing and do it very well. I spend a lot of my time chatting online with my girlfriend, because we're about 1100 miles apart right now. The pacing of EVE solo PvE suits me just fine. I can talk to her with minimal distraction.
In the event of an emergency, my ego may be used as a floatation device.
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Queue K'Umber
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Posted - 2008.12.19 22:08:00 -
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I play mostly solo even though I started a corp.
After 2 weeks in a very old player's corp I had to leave. The only goals were these nebulous promises that swayed back and forth between 0.0 activities, low sec stations and recruiting the best pvp players around. Sounded good but timezone differences and an unexpected RL situation changed that.
Any discussion about skill training, missions or anything like that turned into "i can fly that already" or "i have every bpo include each t2 bpo". Well good for you. I'm 2 months old and struggling to even survive a level 3 mission or tank .5 rats in a Retriever. I didn't need money, a rundown of skills at level 5 or crap popping up in the middle of my screen just as I'm about to lose another ship. I needed to be left the hell alone or involved in some fruitful group endeavor.
I went back to my own corp when my wife surprised me and decided to start playing and wanted help with the learning curve. A few RL friends joined EVE when I did and we all pretty much do our own things in the corp.
Sometimes we run corp ops but mostly we share info, isk, fittings and help if asked.
If they (or I) bail on a mission or op it's understood that RL trumps Imaginary Spaceship Game, no apologies or explanations needed.
No obligations and no pressure.
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Sutter Kane
Caldari
Zombie Inc.
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Posted - 2008.12.19 22:23:00 -
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WHat this solo means ?, is it related to Rolo ? 
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Redd Sectoray
Grand Neurotic Usurping Retaliation Force
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Posted - 2008.12.19 22:26:00 -
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I tend to play solo most of the time. I've been in various corporations in the past, but in EVE as well as in other multiplayer games, there always seem to be a people around that I don't feel like dealing with when I'm supposed to be enjoying myself. Think of people like drama queens that throw hissy fits whenever things don't go their way, people that need to be in the spotlight every single minute they're around, people that try to sucker others into helping them out, people that feel they need to spin a web of lies in order to be accepted in a group, people that need to complain about everything, the list goes on really.
As such I prefer playing solo mostly, and have a small group of people I enjoy socializing with both in-game and out who I team up with for stuff now and then. I set my own goals, I do whatever I'm in the mood for and I like it that way. No obligations, no strings attached.
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Sigul Siento
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Posted - 2008.12.20 00:11:00 -
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Edited by: Sigul Siento on 20/12/2008 00:13:19
When I first started a little over a year ago, I joined a random corp fairly fresh. It was a mix of oldish and new players. Wasn't too bad, got some advice, some free stuff, but started realizing my character was dreadfully made. Then they got wardecced, and I got killed. No fun when just trying to learn. Then more wardecs. I figure screw this, scrapped the char and made a new one.
Didn't join a corp this time around, rather focused on learning the game and find out what I actually wanted to do. Roamed around until I found my calling, and stuck to playing alone, for many of the reasons stated by others. I can do what I want when I want (what I want obviously doesn't involve playing (nice) with others). And most corps seems to want you to join them with a microphone and actually talk to them. The hell I will :p
In short, with nefarious plans and a cloaking evice you can have fun and profit solo.
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Corstaad
Minmatar
Vardr ok Lidskjalv
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Posted - 2008.12.20 00:16:00 -
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I've stuck to solo pvp my whole time in EvE. I of course get run over alot but get quite a few good fights between bad ones. I think its a balance of patience and disregard for your ship.
Yesterday I jumped maelstrom in a unfriendly system as it left a gate. I of course knew I'd get jumped on by all the locals but its only a ruppy so could afford to look stupid with a much lesser ship. To my surprise the guy wasn't using drones didn't have a tank and my 1600plate ruppy was spead tanking him. Anyways mid ways in the fight I get jumped by two BS's, BC,and two caracals. In the end I kill his ship before I blow but was very happy with the fight.
Thats just a example of a decent fight from my side. I lose alot of ships to me assuming people are nubs and plain good fights. In all I'm pretty happy about how solo pvp is in this game it reminds me of daoc/mordred.
Recently I've been doing more gang work to test out support ships I haven't got a chance to fly. ECM is a new favorite of mine since I used to love CC in other games. Finally taking out my rapier is pretty fun to. I do this in FW so its pretty tame for my support nubness. My new fun goal is to solo more in 0.0. I'm about to cloak a Vaga so incoming nub screams on the way.
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Dantes Revenge
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.12.20 00:22:00 -
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I solo most of the time even though my corp would prefer me to do stuff with them. I spend so much time at work what with 12 hour shifts that I have little time left to play so I prefer not to have people relying on me. There have been times when all I do is log in to change skills for a month at a time without ever playing the game. It all depends on my work rota as to what time I have to play.
Unfortunately, CCP has given litle for solo players even though there are a lot who play solo. Lowsec piracy is about the only thing unless you want to play against NPC's all the time in missions etc.
I don't care about kill scores and stuff like that, the fun is in the fight rather than who wins. I used to love the game a few years back when you could find a lot of 1v1 fights and other players had the honour to let you both duke it out to the finish without interfering. I even had guys tell their corp mates to stay out of it even when they were losing. Now the game seems to be more about who has the most kills so it's not possible to get a decent 1v1 without half a dozen others joining in to gank one or the other.
Those of us who like solo play and 1v1 fights would love an arena where only two players can enter and only one exits. To hell with scramblers, I would go down fighting even if I wasn't scrambled and have done on more than one occasion. That's where the real fun comes in, when two people consent to a duel to the death and would die rather than turn chicken. Even though I lost, it has still earned me respect that I was killed even though I could have warped off and escaped.
That sort of honour is not present in this game any more. It used to be important once but now it's all about blobs and ganks and killboards. The honour has gone and a lot of those players who are left now don't even understand the word.
Flame on, it doesn't matter to me, I've heard it all before after being in the game nearly 5 years now.
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There's a simple difference between kinky and perverted. Kinky is using a feather to get her in the mood. Perverted is using the whole chicken.
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Khwalik
Ghetto Kings
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Posted - 2008.12.20 01:51:00 -
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I play solo, although I do run a 2nd account alot of the time, logistic, scout, hauler, command link etc. Been playing just over two years now and for the most part all my time has been solo. I've belonged to one moderate sized corp on this character, went on my own and have pretty much done my own thing ever since.
I do have some people I fly with time to time on this character, but 90% of the time it's just me running two accounts when I play EvE. I find like alot of people said already it's just less hassle and works with my crazy schedule. I do have a PvP alt in faction warfare that does some fleet work but I'm rarely on that character these days.
Always said that if the right situation presented itself I'd look at joining a corp or prehaps a small alliance.
solo isn't for everyone I guess but it suits me okay.
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BhallSpawn
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Posted - 2008.12.20 01:56:00 -
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Be interesting to see the lack of caldari characters soloing.
They really need to add a description on the races for what they can and can't do in terms of game mechanics.
maybe that would help those of us who took caldari and got @#$@# up the a$$ by ccp.
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Wideen
Warped Mining
Strip Mining Club
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Posted - 2008.12.20 01:56:00 -
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in before Chribba.
Tjena hoppsan O/
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