# Measuring success in EVE Online **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 3, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269 "2019-12-03T07:55:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Voltak\_Ostus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/voltak_ostus/32/172585_2.png) [@Voltak\_Ostus](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Voltak_Ostus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 7:55am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/1 "2019-12-03T07:55:42Z")
So what exactly is a successful character in eve online for you guys? In real life we set goals and have a general sense of where we are in relation to where we wish to be. Do you people have certain goals that determine your success? Certain isk goal or certain number of corp mates recruited? Does success matter for you to keep playing? ---
**Author:** ![Solecist\_Project](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/solecist_project/32/479741_2.png) [@Solecist\_Project](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Solecist_Project)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/2 "2019-12-03T08:15:02Z")
I measure success based on my impact on society. ---
**Author:** ![Scoots\_Choco](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/scoots_choco/32/262262_2.png) [@Scoots\_Choco](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Scoots_Choco)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/3 "2019-12-03T08:21:06Z")
> [@Voltak\_Ostus](#): > > So what exactly is a successful character in eve online for you guys? How much fun I have per hour of gameplay. ---
**Author:** ![Avaelica\_Kuershin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/avaelica_kuershin/32/478139_2.png) [@Avaelica\_Kuershin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Avaelica_Kuershin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/4 "2019-12-03T08:28:26Z")
Ask a thousand people, get a thousand (or more) different answers. ETA: I have failed miserably in two of my goals… they are rather silly goals but I was sure someone would have helped by now. 💸 ☠ ---
**Author:** ![Ravid\_Bheskagor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ravid_bheskagor/32/472687_2.png) [@Ravid\_Bheskagor](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ravid_Bheskagor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/5 "2019-12-03T08:42:39Z")
I enjoy playing EVE online. ---
**Author:** ![Compo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/compo/32/167680_2.png) [@Compo](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Compo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/6 "2019-12-03T08:57:29Z")
![hilmar](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/8/b/8b40d81e939e4570cd5cf5dfd428ba6985593d51.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Cypr3ss\_Deteis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/cypr3ss_deteis/32/392947_2.png) [@Cypr3ss\_Deteis](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Cypr3ss_Deteis)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/7 "2019-12-03T09:21:18Z")
Are you having fun? If so, **success** 😃 Cause it’s a game, after all, so that’s the important bit. Regards, Cypr3ss. ---
**Author:** ![Andre\_Matar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/andre_matar/32/296078_2.png) [@Andre\_Matar](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Andre_Matar)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/8 "2019-12-03T11:12:50Z")
I don’t play for success. That would kill my enjoyment. I play for advancement, and in EvE there seems to be no end to that. ---
**Author:** ![Mesacc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mesacc/32/173151_2.png) [@Mesacc](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mesacc)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/9 "2019-12-03T15:04:47Z")
I Own one of just about every ship in EVE short of capitals and have the skills to fly them all… Have run missions all over the map. Ran courier missions in and out of low sec and slipped through countless gate camps… Have mined in a hulk (without a permit, afk while watching netflix) and have never, ever suffered a loss at the hands of other players… I have now retired after a long career that started in 2005 from a play style despised by most of you with a hanger full of ships that can never be touched by gankers… That is how I define success. ---
**Author:** ![Rocket\_Hellfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/rocket_hellfire/32/396905_2.png) [@Rocket\_Hellfire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Rocket_Hellfire)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/10 "2019-12-03T15:36:59Z")
Not joining the blue-donut circle-jerk is the sure sign of success. ---
**Author:** ![Gadget\_Helmsdottir](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gadget_helmsdottir/32/374037_2.png) [@Gadget\_Helmsdottir](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gadget_Helmsdottir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/11 "2019-12-03T16:22:19Z")
“Measuring success in EVE Online” Sometimes I use Imperial; sometimes I use metric. –Gadget works with both ---
**Author:** ![Foggy\_Bernstein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/foggy_bernstein/32/407887_2.png) [@Foggy\_Bernstein](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Foggy_Bernstein)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/12 "2019-12-03T18:05:48Z")
> [@Voltak\_Ostus](#): > > So what exactly is a successful character in eve online for you guys? The only metric that counts is how much whiny hate-mail you get. The more you get, the more successful you are. Ask any code agent. They live for that ■■■■. ---
**Author:** ![The\_NewGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/the_newguy/32/166853_2.png) [@The\_NewGuy](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/The_NewGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/13 "2019-12-03T18:57:49Z")
Probably a multibillionaire ingame of networth in isk, and continually progressing in knowledge and skill and isk. ---
**Author:** ![The\_NewGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/the_newguy/32/166853_2.png) [@The\_NewGuy](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/The_NewGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/14 "2019-12-03T18:58:43Z")
Until I have 1 quadrillion isk and all jita freighters and jump freighters belong to me and i control this game. ---
**Author:** ![Gerard\_Amatin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gerard_amatin/32/481361_2.png) [@Gerard\_Amatin](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gerard_Amatin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/15 "2019-12-03T19:16:22Z")
My goal is to have fun. I log in, do something I enjoy or try something new and if I had fun, it’s a success. If I got blown up, it’s a success. If I blow up someone or help friendly ships not to blow up, it’s a success. Quite easy to be successful in EVE that way, only when I log in and do nothing enjoyable before I log back out again I’d call it a failure. I guess that’s why I stopped caring for my planets… ---
**Author:** ![Harabec\_Ojutai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/harabec_ojutai/32/212638_2.png) [@Harabec\_Ojutai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Harabec_Ojutai)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/16 "2019-12-03T21:09:17Z")
> [@Voltak\_Ostus](#): > > In real life we set goals and have a general sense of where we are in relation to where we wish to be. Oh yeah, for sure, I so obviously do that, I mean who doesn’t right?! ::Chuckles nervously:: ---
**Author:** ![Solstice\_Projekt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/solstice_projekt/32/503293_2.png) [@Solstice\_Projekt](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Solstice_Projekt)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/17 "2019-12-03T21:16:29Z")
What goals? ---
**Author:** ![Daichi\_Yamato](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/daichi_yamato/32/252995_2.png) [@Daichi\_Yamato](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Daichi_Yamato)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/18 "2019-12-04T00:12:06Z")
Success is having fun in the game. That applies to everyone. But different people have fun in different ways. For me it would be having an impact on other players. Creating/taking part in player driven stories. The butterfly effect. The player agency. ---
**Author:** ![Kezrai\_Charzai](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/kezrai_charzai/32/394578_2.png) [@Kezrai\_Charzai](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Kezrai_Charzai)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/19 "2019-12-04T00:52:06Z")
I measure success in EVE in a couple ways: 1. Did I add anything positive to other people’s experience of the game while I was on? 2. Did I think up something I find interesting to try out in EVE and give it my best shot? 3. Did I think of a way to make EVE better even if I know CCP can’t/won’t implement (most) improvements? ---
**Author:** ![Frege\_Descartes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/frege_descartes/32/247951_2.png) [@Frege\_Descartes](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Frege_Descartes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269/20 "2019-12-04T01:02:47Z")
> [@Kezrai\_Charzai](#): > > Did I add anything positive to other people’s experience This. [Next page](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/measuring-success-in-eve-online/204269.md?page=2)