I have been playing eve for 5 years + now and wondered do any of you have any ideas to help keep me playing????
I have done 0.0, pvp, cosmos, missions from 1-5, trading, mining, capital building, invention and salvage and now I am rarely logging in :(
Any good suggestions received greatly.
Positives for those suggestions recommended!!!!
Thanks,
Matt.
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oatmeal pirate
Doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're with a group of friends you enjoy being with. When you're corp mates and friends stop logging in the game gets real boring real quick.
Try making a noob character under an unknown alias and re-experiencing eve through a noob corp. This time you'll be able to lauph harder at the dumb stuff and meet some new folks. Just don't tell em who you really are.
Being the unknown supporter to a group of complete noobs is actually very rewarding.
takes me back 2 years ago when we setup a sister corp for noobs as a feeder to the main corp and yes I agree can be rewarding but also reveals just how fickle some folk are!!!!
Have been lucky to meet and play with some great people though and have met in real life with a handful so is worth it but alas I do not have the youthful energy I had when I started so I think I maybe a little to la sais faire or negative for noobies!
Like some kind of secret benefactor, a Magwitch type character? That might be cool. Be bloody annoying if one of your wards pops you though.
ilan berci
just compare against your alternatives.. quitting Eve will allow you to spend more time with you wife??!! See.. now get back in there!
max sage
I have been asking myself exactly the same thing (we are about the same age) and here are my own challenges for the next 2 years: - do crazy stuff like subwarp and warp frigate racing; - try to get a 9.99 faction standing with all empire factions at the same time; - learn new eve players the mechanics of the game and convince them to stay; - make new friends within eve; - do the rookie tutorials and see how ccp changed them. Here are some other challenges, which aren't on my list but could be on yours: - get number 1 on the killboards; - try to get every eve player in your contact list. This is just a short list of some possible challenges and there are so many more.
I guess this guy who is circumnavigating the whole cluster, again, and the other who is trying to visit and screen capture every single system kind of fall into this thinking?
virtucon
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titans are overate. the best thing you could do is to take a break from the game and wait for enough new stuff to come around that you become interested again. if possible, leave your account in control of a GOOD friend that you know in a year or 2 will give you your account back, that way your skill training will continue and you could still get your account back.
do won
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Try and bring down an alliance, guiding hand style, or give everything away to the first person who trades you a tritanium in Jita and leave as a legend :)
mezlock
Yes the right people surrounding you is what it is all about.
Got to be time to start busting out a new corp then, hasn’t it? Or do the secret newb idea above?
Melissa Blick
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You didn't mention wormholes. They're fairly new, and you might not have experienced them. L5's bore you? Try doing a Class 5 or 6 wormhole sleeper site.
Have you flown every major ship in eve? Every ship seems to have it's own quirks which are fun to figure out and fly under different conditions.
One last idea: Explore and observe. Jump into a covops and explore the far reaches of eve. Whether it's to the deserted amarr lowsec, or drone 0.0 or the npc pirate regions. Or fly into a system with an active battle and just watch it unfold.
Yeah I forgot that :(
I do have a LVL5 Capital Char stuck in a wormhole at the moment waiting for peeps of that corp to build him a Chimera to own some sleepers :)
The wormhole is fun but does get tedious pretty quickly!
Thank you for this suggestion tho :p
Werner Lucifer
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That's what rich and bored people do.
You probably know a lot about eve. Use that. This is a great way of adding meaning to the game. One dimension becomes multiple. Take inspiration from your daily adventures inside the game, or from you IRL life, or make something up. You can even write for CCP: join Mercury. They also have bug hunting, arranging of events, support team and wiki-people.
So basically take your IRL interests/characteristics and write them down and then try to put them together with Eve. It's a sandbox game. Set crazy goals. It doesn't have to be something that actually makes you play the game. Just something to keep you interested in the eve-universe until new content comes out.
pedro_46
Go for a titan and the doomsdaysdevice and make a gatecampe ;) Or make your own alliance :P
Thats a def possibility, I have a char that can fly one so maybe one day, doubt that enough to keep me ingame though :(
hakshak
I didn't see wormholes in your list.
Nicolai Brogaard
You could try other games, see if you fall back to EvE, last time I paused EvE, I put on a one month skill training, and played something else.
I came back to EvE, because I missed the sort of game experience that EvE gives me...
But then again, the T1 Frig Frak Fest, is pretty damn fun :D
Yep most of my eve m8s are all playing Star Trek online but I have not got round to trying it yet, perhaps at 32 years old I dont have the energy to get into something new????
Star Trek Online will make you fly back to EVE in a jiffy. Ive played it on month and that was it.. too easy, too lineal… gets boring after a while. On the other hand.. FF14 is coming out.. =)
general foxx
go and play darkorbit as an alternative to EVE you will soon be broke and back playing on EVE
Rhys
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The DUST link up might bring something new in, when it eventually gets here. Will certainly shake up a few dynamics. Perhaps set yourself up to be one of the first people to exploit those?
Or maybe, if you followed the make-every-faction-love-you-at-once-route, afterwards you could see just how quickly you could get yourself to fall from grace, into KOS and -10 Sec territory, without getting yourself concorded. Get yourself in the news!
Red Mage
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Try some eve that is not so eve. Try running your own corp. Get 300 people and turn it into an alliance. You will spend more time talking to people then flying around.
upsideyourhead
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In a word.... /dance
See, CCP will be writing in routines to allow our avatars to dance while in station. I am already planning on a number of choreographed routines. Come out to Tenal for an evening of entertainment and singing.
zalarok
Take a break for a few months. Sometimes you just dont realize how much there is to do and how much you enjoy eve until its gone.
You could always forget everything you know while on that break and come back and start from scratch. Grab a few newbies in frigs and set out to rediscover eve. I did this a while ago and it was a blast. Theres nothing quite like leading a frig fleet of 2 day old players and getting their first kill. Some of the simplest aspects of eve are the most fun, yet they get left behind on people's pursuit of bigger wallets and space.
Lex Starwalker
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Dude, I think you need to alter your perspective. You talk about 32 like it's old. It's not. If you're lacking in energy, it's not your age, it's your attitude. I'm older than you, and I still have all the energy and vitality I had when I was 18. It's all in the mind.
If you're truly sick of EVE, take a break. Try something else--a different video game, or get away from video games all together. One suggestion I haven't seen: play WoW for a while! Yes, that's right! Why, you ask? Because a month of playing WoW will bring you running back to EVE!
Honestly, other than the perspective thing I mentioned above, it sounds like you just don't have enough good friends in-game. That's what makes the whole thing worthwhile. Maybe you should find a new corp. Don't look for a corp that's the most elite corp in EVE (you've probably been there, done that). Instead, find a corp that's made up of decent, awesome people that you really like. That, more than anything, will rekindle your interest in this game.
Cheers!
jonnykefka
Try living in W-space for a bit! It's very different from 0.0 or empire, probably the most unpredictable thing you can do in the game. You never know where the next hole will lead to, or who's going to be on the other side...or who's already come through. Even the sleepers are more interesting than your standard rats. Especially in higher-class wormholes, it just takes one mistake to send even a relatively simple site spiraling into chaos. A trigger goes down too early, someone is a little too slow on repping the scorp, someone caps out sooner than expected, suddenly a routine site turns into a chaotic deathtrap with NPCs that will spread their tackle and then pound you to dust. Never mind what happens if some players happen to find you....
That said, I'm a much newer player and I find my interest waxes and wanes. Sometimes I just need a week or two to do something other than EVE, then I hear about something awesome and get back into it. If you need to give it a break, give it a break. You don't play a game for 5 years unless it's got something that brings you back time and again.