You need to understand that you are playing the wrong game. I am not saying that I wouldn’t like arena-style EVE PvP but that is not going to happen besides ocassional Proving Grounds events.
These posts “I want EVE to be a PVE only game”, “I want EVE to by arena-style PvP game” etc. are all nonsense. If you really wanted such game then you would playing it already, there are games offering that on the market and they are doing it better than EVE (ever would have). But you don’t like those games do you? Ask yourself why is that and why would EVE be any different if it was rebranded/remade into such game. Answer is that it wouldn’t, it would probably be even worse.
Game is definitely playable with just 1 account. Except that no matter what you do, you are constantly thinking of “if I multiboxed and had (one) more accounts this would be much simpler/faster/safer/enjoyable/profitable/thrilling”.
You can excuse it as you want, but EVE is horribly bland game which actually plays itself for most of the time. Everything is so damn slow and I can’t see another reason for that being the case other than “so we sell them more PLEXes via multiboxing which we allowed and encouraged”.
I mean okay, I suppose the original intent was perhaps so all these activities requires more than just 1 player and that is fine idea and I used to do it with friends back when I started and it was much more enjoyable, but the fact that multiboxing was slowly encouraged and became dominant playstyle along with much less (real) players playing the game since then effectively made all these activities multiboxing only.
Especially because many activities are gated behind other restrictions like timers, opportunity cost, risk from them being in ls/ns/wh only, random (escalations) and more and especially because even with one or two friends, it often still is super slow and boring.
There are activities that are bit more demanding on player’s input, but essentially 90% of time we are staring at an (empty) screen where either nothing is happening or the game plays itself (ship mining, shooting npc sometimes (with drone boat)). In my opinion this is the main reason why EVE is niché game and will never be popular and why no “proplayers” or “esports” can come from it. It really is boring and multiboxing is often a way how to cut the boredom at least a bit.
Also, when “everyone” is multiboxing, then you (meaning globally) feel compelled to also multibox in order to keep up and being able to compete. This is of course just psychological and it doesn’t exclude you being able to do that with just 1 account but yeah.
I mean you are right yes, but I logic’ed it out to my self that for every extra account you use the less skill you can apply per character and the more alts you add the more mundane and boring the task would have to be to manage all those accounts.
Luckily there are things in the game that if done well with one character can be sustaining enough in isk generation and also fun so that is enough for me tbh and anything that requires multiple people I would rather do with friends than with alt’s.
But you didn’t see the bio posted about me. I beat baby seals with a club, drown kittens and butcher puppies just to begin with. I run over old ladies in their walkers, stomp on bunnies and fry chipmunks with a magnifying glass.
No one wants the hand shaking, beer spilling, can’t even keep a smoke in your mouth kinda combat anymore. Small corps are out. Being part of a null block is what I fought against. No more Robin Hood and merry men is this game anymore. Meh
The way CCP changed null you have to be huge otherwise you get walked over.
So the simplest solution is if you want to be a small group just live in low sec or wormholes.
For me, if they turned Eve into an curses based, rows 58; columns 203 based green screen game, to which you ssh, I’d LOVE it. Don’t hide the fact that those are spheres, not complex shapes. Don’t hide the fact that those moons, asteroids, stars, etc. are not what you see. Plato’s Cave. I still have SOME imagination.
