Favourite activity in Eve Online?

[mikecoulter]

Hey everyone, I've been playing a lot of Eve recently, and have found myself mainly mining and manufacturing resources for ISK. I'm currently training/saving for a mining barge to help speed up the operation.

What's your favourite thing to do?

 

[DJjaffacake]

Flying around and looking at shit, because the game looks amazing but the actual gameplay is a pile of stinky poo poo and spreadsheets.

 

[mikecoulter]

Flying around and looking at shit, because the game looks amazing but the actual gameplay is a pile of stinky poo poo and spreadsheets.

Hmm, I suppose it can be a little uneventful, until you lose your ship, and that crap load of plex you were transporting.

 

[Stryc9]

I don't play the game but I sure do love reading some of the stories that come out of it.

The tales of Corporate terrorism and such are so cool to read because in EVE they don't actually result in a bunch of people's real retirements being stolen leaving them fucked for the rest of their lives like what happens when someone on Wall Street so much as breathes.

That deal with Goon Swarm a few weeks ago was pretty cool too, unless you were one of the people whose ship got blown up for pretty much no reason.

EVE is the MMO that I would play if I were going to play an MMO, that's for sure.

 

[Iwata]

My favorite activity? Watching people who supposedly love the game rage like hell because of it, to the point of insanity.

 

[joe-h2o]

I used to love mining operations. When you got a massive group together to do it you really got the feeling you were stripping the systems of their resources, since you'd quickly exhaust an asteroid field and have to move the whole operation.

We had miners and haulers and support craft all working together to make far more ISK than we could make alone.

We would allow anyone in the corp to come along and mine in the big operations, even if they only had a cheapy small ship (or an ill-suited ship like a battleship etc) as long as they mined alongside us. We then paid them an equal share to a Hulk pilot (or the guys running the haulers) allowing them to very quickly make enough to buy a low-level mining barge to bring along to later operations.

My T2-equipped Hulk (named Thunder in Paradise, obviously) would be stripping at a huge rate, while a Gallente frigate was beavering away next to me with a couple of mining lasers. If people enjoyed it they were usually up into the second mining barge (the one below the Hulk that I forget the name of) within the week.

We also had an Orca or two acting as the gang leader, providing boosts and so on, and as a central location for the haulers to warp to (the 200k tractor on the Orca was very handy for pulling in local cans) .

I know some people hate mining, and when you're on your own I can see why, but as a group it turned into an afternoon social gathering where we'd shoot the shit while digging up rocks.

 

[Scabadus]

I always liked running the combat missions. If you're good there isn't much risk on the higher levels but there's always the knowledge that if you mess up your massive battleship gets overrun by 50 frigates and swarmed while 2 of them jam you, darting about under your weapons' primary fire arc, too fast and agile to hit.

I never quite lost a ship, but I came very close once and learned very, VERY quickly to have a backup plan or two. The usual involved a retaliatory (is that a word? It is now) drone swarm to overrun the frigates scrambling me, because irony is fun.

 

[ATLAS -.-]

Piracy. I enjoying ruining peoples game. I have played for nearly 3 years, in that 3 years I have seen nothing but tears from players, either because they lost a expensive ship, or i did something to ruin their game.

Yarrrrrrr

 

[joe-h2o]

Piracy. I enjoying ruining peoples game. I have played for nearly 3 years, in that 3 years I have seen nothing but tears from players, either because they lost a expensive ship, or i did something to ruin their game.

Yarrrrrrr

Hence the phrase "never fly what you cannot afford to lose".

Most of that heartache comes from people running just enough missions to buy that battleship or T2 frigate etc and then spending it all equipping it, only to blunder into 0.4 space to run the more profitable and bigger missions and then get raided by pirates looking for easy prey.

PvE fitted battleships are no match for pirates.

 

[Bostur]

Wormholing is my favorite activity. So many different things to do.

I also enjoy sitting outside Jita 4-4 in an Ibis watching the traffic.

 

[drednoahl]

Piracy. I enjoying ruining peoples game. I have played for nearly 3 years, in that 3 years I have seen nothing but tears from players, either because they lost a expensive ship, or i did something to ruin their game.

Yarrrrrrr

Hence the phrase "never fly what you cannot afford to lose".

Most of that heartache comes from people running just enough missions to buy that battleship or T2 frigate etc and then spending it all equipping it, only to blunder into 0.4 space to run the more profitable and bigger missions and then get raided by pirates looking for easy prey.

PvE fitted battleships are no match for pirates.

When I quit last year I sent a rather scathing mail to CCP regarding (amongst other things like ship balance) PvE vs PvP set-ups. I got a short mail back promising that CCP would address all my issues ASAP (but this year - they were too busy last year.) It appears that CCP are keeping their promise to me, and that the days of "PvE fitted battleships are no match for pirates" are numbered.

On topic: I've never got enough experience in EVE to have a favourite bit. It is good working with an intelligent FC though.

 

[Ranorak]

I never knew...
Let me elaborate on that.
I love the game, I want to play it. But I just don't know what to do.
I rather not tie myself down to a corp that demands certain days to active. Having a very varied social life it's hard to schedule a day for mandatory mining.

I know how the game works, I know what everything means, I just lack the experience to do anything that made ISK, so I give up on it.

I wish I could get stuck in the world, but the lack of a personal goal doesn't help.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Honestly, reading the forums and peoples stories because they nerd out so freeking much, people make year long plots for some huge events that ingame aren't interesting in the slightest, but reading about it is just so entertaining.

Oh and having it as a screen saver while I read the forums.

 

[Jason Corner]

Ive been playing for around 4 years. I was a confirmed carebear for a lot of that, sitting in high sec doing missions and what not'. But then i grew bored and explored what else the game had to offer. Wormholes,low sec pirating,exploration etc. But for me, the fun started when you make that leap into null sec. Its eve minus the rules, and there is so much more reward out there (isk wise and enjoyment) that i curse the years i spent grinding level 4s.

Here is some fan art i made if you are interested

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=110114

 

[Ranorak]

Bleh, Now I really want to get back into the game.
Still clueless on what to actually specialize in

 

[Spitfire]

I really liked Eve Online, but I didn't get to play it for long enough to develop a favorite activity.
I might get back in the game eventually, but I'll probably just go for whatever makes me the most amount of ISK the quickest. I hear being a salvager is a good idea.

Captcha: ship-shape.
How does it know?!

 

[mikecoulter]

Bleh, Now I really want to get back into the game.
Still clueless on what to actually specialize in

Mining is a good way to make isk, especially if you buy blue prints and start to manufacture goods to sell using the resources you mine.

 

[Ranorak]

Bleh, Now I really want to get back into the game.
Still clueless on what to actually specialize in

Mining is a good way to make isk, especially if you buy blue prints and start to manufacture goods to sell using the resources you mine.

Well, I think I might give it a shot again.