EVE Isn’t Actually Hard — It’s Mostly Time-Gated

Well, unfortunately, although it will be closed, it will not be deleted. So the server space is sadly wasted, and we will need to mine more silicon in order to create new threads. Remember, please post responsibly!

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True, but it won’t be collecting any more data.

Would that be Silicon - III Grade?

I’m not so good at that. I’m already banned right off of Reddit and Facebook has shadow-banned my posts. Facebook Idgaf but I used Reddit for info. But now I have A.I so I don’t have to endlessly surf the Net for a small piece of information.

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Are you doing something wrong?

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I must be but I don’t know what. All I do is comment on things, like in here. Maybe they don’t like the truth the way I see it.
And Reddit, all I ever did was look up information :woman_shrugging:

You could use AI to generate a synthetic friend web, and have different AI characters to bicker endlessly while posting mundane details about their lives, and generating photos of cats and breakfast. This would allow you to emulate the social media experience. That’s what I do!

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You’re funny, @Aiko_Danuja I really enjoy your posts. You have a great sense of humour.
I’m not addicted to social media. I mainly use the Net to get information and knowledge and I have Facebook Messenger to keep up with family abroad. Social media is just an accidental turn on the road.
I should stick to work, books and games. Would be healthier for my mind.

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There are other options. Not all miners are ganked- just the multitudes of bad ones. Personally, I’d love to find meaningful PvE combat content, but all of it sucks in High Sec. So I mine, but I don’t get ganked. There are ways around that and I don’t mean just by hitting DScan and running every time you see RED enter local. Good miners don’t get ganked. There are ways to survive. Mining is relaxing therapy after a long day once you learn how to do it safely.

But yeah, since meaningful PvE combat content in High Sec is impossible (I’ve done Abyssals- not a fan of those), I’m now diving into PvP to supplement my mining just to find entertaining content- and don’t get me wrong- it is entertaining. Camping wormholes, patrolling Low Sec, cleaning up High Sec, etc… it’s been great fun and I’ll continue to do it.

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You posted sources on Reddit? Well there’s your problem! They don’t like that.

No. I didn’t post sources.
All I ever did was look up information.

That must’ve been some very inappropriate ‘looking’ if they kicked you from reddit for it!

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Hm. Eve is not hard to play, but it can be hard to wrap your head around certain concepts that let you excell at it. Is angular velocity still a thing for example, and is it still hidden by default on the overview? It seems to me that EVE rewards patience as players patiently execute their plans, but the formulation of those plans is key. I have seen plenty of long-term players make mistakes, or misinterpret how something works - sometimes fueled by outdated information.

The hard part begins once you realize that it’s a social MMO in which people judge each others conduct, categorizing it as “smart” or “dumb” from a very limited perspective. And that that perspective is build mostly around what people like to do in the game. One players conduct screws over his NPC standings, someone else is tanking their social reputation by ganking. In the end, it all comes down to your tolerance for low numbers - or your obsession for high ones.

And that’s difficult because no-one can tell you how to play your way. I used to be a non-casual that did have an interesting in taking space. In MORE then just casually flying a ship. I can tell you an outline of how to get started, which would start with catching people in order to learn how to not get caught, then recruiting those actual people if they respond favourable to being offered another lesson. How to grow a little network. And how to completely **** up your weekend by wardeccing Eve University once you get complacent. How to bounce back from that.

But put me in a Dread and I’m as clueless as a newbie again. Flew that ship class exactly two times, and assed something up both times. I think it’s good to know your own strengths and weaknesses and admit to them, whether they are a lack of knowledge, experience, or simply SP.

How would anyone who’s been playing for just 23 days ( actually it was just 18 days when you posted this thread ), and has zero killboard record, have even the faintest idea how easy or hard EVE is ? At that stage of the game you are barely beyond the ‘ Hey, look at me, everyone…..I’m flying a Venture !’ state of noob self-bamboozlement. You have absolutely zero idea, at that stage, of what’s ahead, the level of fittings skill you need to be really good, or the skills you need to survive. It’s a classic case of things seeming easy because you don’t know what you don’t know. There’s an epidemic of that these days.

Well that shows how little you actually know about EVE. Nobody skills up, and sets their fitting to the best possible, and learns every trick there is…..only to go out and look for a ‘fair fight’. The idea is to use ones skills to trounce people because one is better than them at the game. If you’re looking for a fair fight you are playing the game wrong.

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Removed several off topic posts. Closed at request of Op.

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