Yes

I agree, I too am paying and not playing, EvE has been a bore after a while, and the offline always skilling is not what some might think IMO. After 20 mill skill points I'm just going to quit and play about 3 months out of the year and oh well I guess I will just have to skill slower.

But they need a 24 skill queue at least, I would have still played but not been so pissed off from skilling at all times of the day and in the middle of my sleep time. 

Originally posted by Wrender

i played eve online for 5 minutes and said screw this. i had no clue what i was doing and could not really get what you are suppose to be doing. as far as i know you fly around in your ship and thats pretty much it. if a game cant really get you going in the first 5 minutes why bother playing it longer?

 

You know they make drugs for that it's called attention deficiet disorder and you seriously need to see your doctor.

I spend an hour at least just creating my character in most mmo's. 5 minutes?!? Give me a break............

why i love EVE, filters out all the undesirables...

Yes EVE can be boring, ratting and missions can be a PITA and having to fly 20 jumps to get some ammo or a ship can be lame, sitting in or shooting at POS is mind numbing and there so many boring time sinks and many are unnecessary but when it comes down to balls deep fleet battles and savage small gang fights and the muck and bullets are flying it all becomes worth it.

I played since launch for 2.5 years, but then got perma banned :(  ebay is bad mmkay

Originally posted by l0wryda

yet for some reason I am utterly unable to quit playing. I've been playing since 2006 and I honestly find eve-online boring beyond comprehension. Sometimes I'll roam low sec and not find anyone at all, or wasting 30 mins jumping gates. There are times I don't play eve for months in a row. I haven't played at all march and april. But WHY CAN I NOT QUIT! There is something about getting more SP that prevents me from cancelling my account. Why is it that im addicted to skilling?!? Does anyone else not play eve-online...yet "plays" eve-online?

sometimes.  yes.

well i think its a great game and there a lot of potential... i started 3 months ago

but played a week when its launched and earth and beyond died at that time its was too complicated for me but growing up its a great game ... when you see the average age. there a good mature player base.

and furthermore its the rare mmog where you can play multipes accounts at the same time. i got three accounts and a friend of mine got ten accounts simultaneously. the market is great man i am training i play only 5 minutes per day until i get the right skills up. i make more than a billion every 3 months (not much, but enough for 3 gtc 90days) with buying low, selling high and the occasional scamming in fiveteen languages :) its f**king great. boring sometimes but great anyways and there room for improvement and the devs are busting their buts when you see what they did with trinity patch.

Eve is boring...

Unless you have a good imagination and social skills. That is the key. Eve is like a social experiment in many ways.

If you hate politics on a galactic scale, wars of attrition, making people emorage quit after killing them, long periods of boredom followed by minutes of absolute insanity, well then EVE is not for you...go back to wow, or whatever  cookie cutter game you came from and have the devs tell you which orc you have to kill next.

As for me, I will continue playing eve, because quite frankly, after 5 years of MMOs and 2.5 in eve there is no lther game like it out on the market.

I like the fact that you dont have a noobie village with some markers on a map to the next contact for a lame mission killing rats, or gnomes. You make your own missions.

good day.

After only four days of trial, I did subscribe.  One of the reasons why I like the game is it's laid-back way of doing things.  I can see how those who need constant entertainment would be easily bored and move on...and for me that's good news!  It's a strategy game more than a constant 'tactical' button-mash.  I see this having a long-term appeal for me because of that and the roleplay corporation I'd joined.  If I want button-mashing, I'll hit up a battleground on World of Warcraft and when I need a break, to Eve I'll go.  I also like the game economics.  It's been an appeal to me for both games I've mentioned.

Originally posted by saint4God

After only four days of trial, I did subscribe.  One of the reasons why I like the game is it's laid-back way of doing things.  I can see how those who need constant entertainment would be easily bored and move on...and for me that's good news!  It's a strategy game more than a constant 'tactical' button-mash.  I see this having a long-term appeal for me because of that and the roleplay corporation I'd joined.  If I want button-mashing, I'll hit up a battleground on World of Warcraft and when I need a break, to Eve I'll go.  I also like the game economics.  It's been an appeal to me for both games I've mentioned.

Whoa, didn't know that there are still people left with reason. Yes, the description that you just wrote is correct. It is not intense (you don't press a same button 5 times in a second), though you will see that it has it's own intensity. When you're in PvP, your heart constantly races. When you loose something, you loose it for good. And that's what I like about the game. It doesn't have a babysitting mechanics. You can die everywhere in space. And the game follows the principle more risk more gain, that's a plus as well.

About the game being boring. Every game has it's boring parts, hell... the whole genre of MMOs is boring. They all follow the same principle and vary mostly by graphics and the setting, lore that the game is being played in.

Be good and enjoy!

I have found the whole waiting thing to be the problem with PvP a lot of times.  A few days ago a corp mate of mine was complaining that we didn't see enough action.  There was to much waiting.  I told him "PvP in EVE is like trying to score with a hot chick, you spend a month closing the deal for 30 mins of fun. But the 30 mins of fun is well worth it."

Originally posted by oakthornn

wait until Stargate Worlds comes out.  NONE of you will play EVE anymore then.

Uh... I am an avid fan of the Stargate franchise... however this statement is so silly it's not even funny.  SGW offers NOTHING that would draw EVE players away from EVE.  I know several (including myself) who may pick it up as a side game (depending how good it is) but it's not a game that's going to supplant EVE.  It's not even in the same Genre beyond being sci-fi.

EVE is a space based game of conquest and empire building.

SGW is a LAND based game of .... well running quests... it's sort of like WoW done with Stargate graphics really...  which is fine... but it's no EVE killer... not by a mile.

Originally posted by Rollotamasi

I have found the whole waiting thing to be the problem with PvP a lot of times.  A few days ago a corp mate of mine was complaining that we didn't see enough action.  There was to much waiting.  I told him "PvP in EVE is like trying to score with a hot chick, you spend a month closing the deal for 30 mins of fun. But the 30 mins of fun is well worth it."

Hmmm interesting.

I see action every single day.  In the past week I've killed almost 60 ships.  I play maybe 2 or 3 hours a day.