How a game can lead player to interests not boring

9/2/2025

This is the first day I am playing Eve Online, after 4 hours of repeating the same mining agent content, I already feel bored, :yawning_face: :sleeping_face: :expressionless_face:. I understand it’s a sandbox game, if you want to keep sandbox style, you should lose your control of players, do not set up any guidelines, let players enjoy the chaos and freedom. If you want to lead players enjoying the game and pay for it, do it better, lead us further. For example, the mining mission: it has different agents, but the same mission again and again, then it stops there, no further spark. It’s like a super nerdy guy has a girl watching a movie with him, girls want more, but you’re doing nothing but still watching the boring movie, you won’t have a chance with this girl, or other girls, because girls are telling everybody this guy is not funny! If i would, ill tell my players there were more profits for other Ore and missions, lead them deeper and more interactions to pvp, mining, and exploration. I have more to say, but this game already waste me 6 hours straight plus this topic. please hire somebody making the game fun, or u guys will lose your job very soon. because no new generations will play this.

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get away from mining missions… do some combat missions, join a corporation

It seems that the thing with EVE is we don’t get info. We’re supposed to go find it all online or chatting with older players. I guess it stresses the social element and helps player retention. Not sure it’s working.

EVE has always been that way of not holding players hands.. why do you have to rely on ccp to do things? undock go mine at a moon meet other miners join or create a corp…

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right, but old school, old days online communication style. should change a little bit

understand, but like parents, guide them to your content, or even guide them to create content, not stop at some point and say ok, go do whatever you want, Human society is about teaching next gen, not back to the age of great Apes, let their children struggle, survive, or die quickly. We create this society to protect, to teach the next generation to inherit.

It is not the solution, my man; let people be interested in the content is critical. It’s like school teaches students, the teacher says, if you don’t understand something, do not try to find out yourself, ask your classmates to solve it quickly. You need a hit to understand the game mechanisms.

  • Epic Arc is a good storyline solution, but still nothing. Look at Starcraft, gives you a storyline line but it fully depends on yourself later days. That is how the game works, even though, SC is losing players too yall created this discussion block to gather thoughts, that is good, keep the game developing, so appreciate. But time has changed.

CCP didn’t teach me anything except what was in the old tutorial and the career agents.. everything i’ve learned in game, ive learned from other players being in corps, or finding information out there that other players have learned over the 20 year history.

Yeah, when everyone uses smartphones and AI, you still want to carve words on the stone, the problem is here, no one is saying anything to improve this game. That is very sad, because everyone is part of this old machine, and won’t change. Wait it’s rusted and broken.

CCP is in the process of opening up the code to EVE online.. they want THE PLAYERs to have all the choices and to make decisions, not them hold your hands..

Welcome to EVE!

The trick to not get boring in EVE is to not things that you find boring. There are plenty of things to do!

Past the tutorial I never did missions. I tend to find them boring.

What to do in EVE

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I agree, but we’re talking about practices adopted and stuck to for over 20 years, it’s difficult for a company to turn a new leaf and start adopting new ways of doing things.

One relief is that if EVE dies, the blame cannot be put on the players.

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Bye…Has he left yet?

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Is this actually a thing? Is there a git repo?

You’re basing this off of mining missions on your first day in the game? That’s one hell of a generalization.

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