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?

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?

me too,  hell, I'm actually planning on spending a month on WoW to take a break from it but I've already planned a 34 day skill to coincide with my timecard running out...  

Eve has alot more too offer than just jumping around and Prowling Low sec for stuff too blow up

But yes it is quite addictive too watch your skills improve over time That is the part that Realy makes Eve Special after all

If your looking for suggestions what too do in Eve... It's your own fault for not taking more Risks ... Low sec .. ? sure you can get blown up or you can get some good kills but .. Join a Merc corp or a 0.0 Alliance take a Risk made a Jump more than you usualy would you'll find alot of fun hiding in Eve but it's YOUR job too endulge in it

I'm a somewhat new player myself I Truely regret not having been playing since the start ( for more SP's!!! oh Yeah! ) but Hey .. this game? take your time with it and find your Thing(s) most defenintly something for just about evryone in it.

I've subscribed to eve for nearly two years now, and have actually played maybe six months.  :)  Now I'm doing level 4 missions and am actually playing a bit again, but each time I play I always think geesh this would be a lot easier with a few more skills.  Of course then I see that the skills I want take 20+ days each to train and I just go do something else for a few months while training...

*chuckles*

4 year player here, and, just broke the 54 mill SP mark. I know how its, in nearly 90% of the MMos, you see the xp bar go up and then you log off from the game. Your bored of it for a few weeks, you come back and pick up from the exact point you logged off with no improvement.

But, in Eve, if your gone for a few weeks, or, a few months, and log in, your amazed that you can fly that most wonderful T2 ship, or, fire that impressive T2 weapon, there is actual benefit for taking time away from a game like Eve.

I currently really don't have time to play EvE. And what I really love about it, is that I can still train my skills
That is as many of you have already said a very good part of the game.
Quit?- pffft, hell no, I really like the game.

well this is very good for "casual" gamers, advance on skills the same way that someone who play 5-6 h/day
also the fact that u dont make things show that u are alone in eve u dont have friends to help or to help u

You're playing a space game because its the only viable space game out there....a point I've been trying to make for a long time. Many of us want the imerse ourselves in the aspects of a space mmo and Eve comes as close as we can get but yet so far in many places.

Jump Gate Evo. MAY be a ray of light for this problem.

I'm still on trial account but am really digging the low-key atmosphere so far.  One thing that can be said for the realism of the game is that training in the game is like real life - it takes time and study (your character studies).  You can't get a college degree by clicking "train" and instantly know 5 years of Physics.

Eve is fun in short bursts for me, but boring most of the time.  I normally set a 40ish day skill and cancel.  After that is over I normally resub for 30 days, work some more skills to level 4, make some isk, set a long skill again, and rinse and repeat.  Sometimes I forget to resub and go a month or 2 without.  Maybe someday I will decide to stick it out like I did in the beginning, but not anymore.  I think the longest I was ever subscribed was 7 months straight.

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?

True, if you need to be able to learn the game in the first five minutes then EVE isn't for you. In the first five minutes you can barely get the primary tutorial done, the one about undocking, flying to an objective, and blowing up the target drone. The very basics of gameplay, the stuff that in most games includes 'how to use the WASD to move' and 'how to aim your gun at enemy'.

Certainly, you're not the type of player that would be interested in EVE. Other game types I don't think you are very interested in are most strategy games (not RTS-style), any and all simulator-style games etc. It's not EVE, it's you.

As for the OP, yeah, EVE can get boring when you have no goal nor any idea of what your next goal might be. This is a self-motivator game, and accumulating SP does hold certain wicked appeal, doesn't it?

I agree with your statement about Eve being 'self-motivating', Finwolven.  That is part of the problem for me, I don't have the time to do the things I want to do in the game.  So I end up just doing what I can, which is a little small-gang or solo pvp, some missions, and that's about it.  Actually, it is part of the problem I have with all mmorpgs right now.  I don't have time to fully enjoy all they have to offer anymore.  Work, kids, vacations, etc seem to come in the way of sitting down in front of the computer for more than an hour or so at a time.  So EVE sp gain is about all I can consistently accomplish.