EVE Online: Finally Finding My Calling - MMORPG.com

System · July 2019

EVE Online: Finally Finding My Calling - MMORPG.com

In the three or so years I’ve played EVE Online off an on, I’ve really struggled with one core question: Who do I want to be? Within New Eden, Capsuleers can literally be anything they choose: A Diplomat for a large player-run corporation, a spy not unlike those from the Cold War, or even a space trucker who hauls goods along New Eden’s valuable trade routes.

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Asch126 · July 2019

So you were bad in everything, so you decided to become an explorer.

Hariken · July 2019

Why keep playing this gank box in the first place. A waste of time and money.

lotrlore · July 2019

Asch126 said:

So you were bad in everything, so you decided to become an explorer.

Yea, I guess you could sum up my EVE Experience quite like that: a revolving door of failure until I found a ship that reminded me of the corvette I'll never own.

Tiller · July 2019

I found mining to be mine, back when I did play.

c0796 · July 2019

A good read, thanks. That's about all I could see me doing if I went back, like the other poster said...gankfest. I get that its a PVP game, but, it's also demotivating. Glad to hear the exploration side is well received.

Einstich · July 2019

Try J-space. It combines exploration with PvP... But first of all - get yourself a corporation ! Join a wormhole group (where you can explore and scout at the same time), they are mostly a tight knit group of players. It will completly change your view at the game and your playstlye. It's like they say: Best ship in EVE ? Friendship !

MrTuggles · July 2019

Best ship in EVE ? Friendship !

Lies.

Conan explains the goal of Eve best: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

Kyleran · July 2019

MrTuggles said:

Best ship in EVE ? Friendship !

Lies.

Conan explains the goal of Eve best: "To crush your enemies, [and friends] see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

Fixed that for you.

MrTuggles · July 2019

Kyleran said:

MrTuggles said:

Best ship in EVE ? Friendship !

Lies.

Conan explains the goal of Eve best: "To crush your enemies, [and friends) see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"

Fixed that for you.

You crush your enemies. You only rob your friends.

ACommonMugger · July 2019

I've always wanted to get into this game - I really love Elite Dangerous for example, but it seems ridiculously intimidating. Like all that nonsense on the screen? Not even sure what I'm looking at.

Zbigz · July 2019

I haven't played for a couple years but what I had fun with was trading goods between Jita and Amarr and sometimes Dodixie. I hauled my own goods with a freighter for bulk goods and a blockade runner for light but valuable items because I was always paranoid of suicide gankers. I still have like prob like 15 bil ISK in assets which is chump change for the hardcore players but I was proud of myself for doing it on my own. I also skilled up stealth bomber and made pretty good money running faction warfare missions with it. I used some of my trading profits to buy Drakes and Ravens for playing faction warfare and had some pretty fun big battles. When I quit playing I put all my liquid ISK into 30 day PLEX at like 800 mil each but idk how inflation has affected Jita prices since then but it's prob worth more now.

H0urg1ass · July 2019

From the moment I scored my first kill, I knew what I wanted to do in EVE from that moment on.

I was living in Molden Heath, running level four missions out of Gelfiven when I met up with some people running level fours out of Hedaleolfarber (yes, I can still spell that from memory) and they were making a lot more money... but it was in scary low sec.

Still, I went out there and ran missions with them too. Then one day, we caught a dirty dirty pirate soloing in a Raven and jumped her. When her raven exploded and I was the one that got the killmail I had a sudden epiphany, "I want to do this every day."

So for the next four years I basically did nothing but PVP, and back then you could even PVP profitably if you were good at it. Killing a T2 fit battleship running missions could net you 70-100 mill in T2 modules. T2 Invulnerability Fields were FORTY MILLION EACH at one point before Invention was added into the game.

Interesting side note, my first solo kill was Tempest vs Tempest in Bosena. I was baiting in an asteroid field when the hostile tempest warped in and we started fighting. I killed him and got the mail. No shit, people don't believe me when I tell them this, but that pilot was Awox. THE Awox. The reason that we call killing a friendly player "Awoxing" in EVE is because of this guy.

Unfortunately, since zkill replaced all other KB's in the game while I was taking a short break, that killmail and hundreds of others are lost to time forever.

Kirtis · July 2019

H0urg1ass said:

From the moment I scored my first kill, I knew what I wanted to do in EVE from that moment on.

I was living in Molden Heath, running level four missions out of Gelfiven when I met up with some people running level fours out of Hedaleolfarber (yes, I can still spell that from memory) and they were making a lot more money... but it was in scary low sec.

Still, I went out there and ran missions with them too. Then one day, we caught a dirty dirty pirate soloing in a Raven and jumped her. When her raven exploded and I was the one that got the killmail I had a sudden epiphany, "I want to do this every day."

So for the next four years I basically did nothing but PVP, and back then you could even PVP profitably if you were good at it. Killing a T2 fit battleship running missions could net you 70-100 mill in T2 modules. T2 Invulnerability Fields were FORTY MILLION EACH at one point before Invention was added into the game.

Interesting side note, my first solo kill was Tempest vs Tempest in Bosena. I was baiting in an asteroid field when the hostile tempest warped in and we started fighting. I killed him and got the mail. No shit, people don't believe me when I tell them this, but that pilot was Awox. THE Awox. The reason that we call killing a friendly player "Awoxing" in EVE is because of this guy.

Unfortunately, since zkill replaced all other KB's in the game while I was taking a short break, that killmail and hundreds of others are lost to time forever.

you either don't know how the killmails work or think that others don't - I can check out in game right now my killmails that occurred ten years ago. And I can post them using external killmail link any time on Zkill - so sorry to bust it, but your story does not sound legit.

illutian · July 2019

Definitely love me some EVE. Sucks I haven't had time these past few years to play it extensively.

Also, yes, yes I do like waffles.

wilcoxon · July 2019

My big problem with Eve was CCP at least used to claim it wasn't a PvP game - it was a game you could do whatever you wanted in it (including PvE). But then every patch included 9 things for PvP and 1 for PvE and they left huge holes for @&;$^*& to gank people even in high sec. It was a game I really wanted to like and probably would have if it wasn't developed in such a PvP-centric fashion (I haven't played in at least 5 years (maybe 10) so this may have changed but I doubt it).

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