I always enjoy having a goal in mind when I play a game. I feel it is that sense of achievement you get from completing something that I like in games.
Once I had got my head around Eve a bit more, I knew I would need to find that goal and it quickly became clear that it would need to be something that was going to take time. I am fully aware that some players could probably complete this over night but this is my challenge and one I am so far really enjoying.
My Eve challenge is to collect every ship (where possible) and a 1 run BPC in game. In most cases I intend to build the ship myself by collecting and producing all the materials.
The Ship Museum currently stands at 304 ships. All packaged, clean and ready to be viewed at any time. My records show that we need another 98 ships but a bunch of those are AT ships so they will need to wait till my bank can purchase them.
Are you collecting anything in Eve? Any advice?
Fly safe but dangerous so you buy some of my T1 ships to keep the Museum open!
Short, medium and long term goals will help you get through Eve, just like in real life. Having a plan and taking that plan to completion through smaller, actionable steps makes Eve a great game to play. For me building characters, doing Industry, doing FW, doing null sec, doing mining, living in low sec, doing the AT at least once and many more goals have kept me active and busy and sustained the drive to play Eve over the years.
Congrats on having an achievable goal and sticking with it to the end and seeing it through!!
It is currently set up in HS but we are looking at an alternative venue to host the non-HS friendly ships. As I hope to build the ships I probably want an industry friendly space to store them but am a bit off of that challenge at the moment.
The extra challenge (and it is a good one) is that since I started this Eve have added several new ships to the game, the Pi haulers, DOTs and the Legion ones. I really need to get a move on with some of the bigger ships so that I can tackle the new ones easier.
Very cool, you’ve collected 304 ships and only have 98 more left to get…
I’ve been a collector for quite a long time… So far I have collected 764 different Men’s and Women’s Apparel items… Other than CCP, I probably have the largest collection of Apparel items in New Eden… And those items aren’t just sitting in a station collecting dust.. I have 12 characters who use those items for new portraits every few months…
Anyway, last time I checked there was over 900 different apparel items in CCP’s database… That basically leaves a little over 200 items left to have the complete collection… Course most of those items haven’t been released yet and others were ‘special’ one time limited release items…
As for advice on where to find items, check 3rd party Eve Market apps, in-game Public Contracts and here in the Marketplace forum…
I’m sure anybody who’s a collector will agree it’s a long term goal to complete which can be very expensive… I know my collection has definitely cost me time and money… And that’s something I feel is well worth it each time I change my portrait…
This is EVE, usually there are multiple ways and methods to achieve success.
Not my forte aside of providing some to prospective buyers but some tend to collect corpses.
Some people collect various types of dolls, apparel and other fashion items, and rare collectible items (from events, related to discontinued features, COSMOS and regular mission items and so on) that are difficult or outright impossible to acquire anymore.
Personally I tend to collect killrights.
Another thing some people tend to focus on is collecting killmarks, although this generally has to be accompanied by a corresponding killboard as otherwise nobody can know where the killmarks came from, as farming alts for such is also a possibility.
Thus to have a meaningful high killmark ship you also need to showcase the related PvP prowess, else nobody will take your accomplishment seriously.
Some people do other kinds of collecting, one prominent example being…
Which accomplishment was commemorated by CCP with the addition of an in-game monument.
So as you see people can get creative with their collecting and some cases can put in tremendous effort and ISK or even real-life money doing so.
In the end what matters is to have fun doing so and make the journey worthwhile.
As for specific details as to how to accomplish your collection, it depends on the type, as the examples I’ve listed all require a different method to accomplish.
In general: Be creative, do related reading and research, ask for advice (as you already did) and think about the subject how to accomplish it; and also worth thinking about what other things you might want to collect as it is also an option to seek to accomplish more than one type of collection.
