It’s a shame to watch you go from so enthusiastic to bitter vet so quickly.
I know you think I’m full of ■■■■, but I promise you that your bad attitude is the biggest obstacle to both your success, and your enjoyment of the game. I wish I knew what to say to help you see Eve the way I see it, but I don’t think I have a chance in hell of persuading you.
However, since you are now doing what you can to poison the morale of others, I will do what I can to undermine your efforts until you finally quit.
On Nerfs
Naturally, I lot of players hate nerfs. However, they are not done all willy nilly by the devs. While they can and do make mistakes, the intent behind the changes is to make the game better. So, you’d think players would be more understanding. Unfortunately, however, many players are extremely short-sighted, and can’t look past how a nerf affects their current way of doing things. So, they complain. What is particularly messed up about this, however, is that their response to nerfs ensures that nerfs negatively impact them as much as possible. And that is because the players who are complaining are too focused on the negative to see how they might adapt to, or even benefit from, the change.
And, I should know, because this was something that I used to be guilty of myself. At one point, I was letting bitter vets poison my morale and my thinking, and I too was growing increasingly frustrated with changes. But then two things happened. First, I made an outrage video that caused a bunch of people to say that they were quitting because of me -which made me feel like an ass. Second, I started seeing other people figure out cool and inventive ways to benefit from changes and started thinking to myself, “I could have thought of that. But I didn’t. And it wasn’t because I’m not smart enough or don’t know enough about the game. I didn’t think of it because I was too busy being angry.” So, I set out to stop getting angry at changes, and start figuring out how to benefit from them. Of course, I have not found ways to benefit from every change, but I have found ways to benefit from many. And, over time, I found that I didn’t have to try to stop getting mad at nerfs -because that happened on it’s own.
It is absolutely amazing how much my perspective shifted when it came to changes. I used to frequently get frustrated and angry at changes, but now I view them as opportunity. Doesn’t matter if it’s a nerf, buff, or laterally change because the critical component is that something changed. So, when I say change is opportunity, know that I am not saying that buffs provide opportunity -I am saying that change itself is opportunity.
So, I try to benefit from changes wherever possible. And when I’m nerfed, I either try to develop new strats, or I chase a new opportunity. In fact, it was a 33% nerf to my isk efficiency that inspired me to start looking at other career opportunities, which led me to one of the things I do for money today. This activity makes me triple of what I used to be making. Let me repeat that. I now make three times what I used to make, pre-nerf. And it was the nerf that led me here. I dunno, perhaps I would have eventually gotten hungry for a better isk efficiency, but I can say with certainty that getting nerfed made me start exploring my options a hell of a lot earlier than I would have.
Anyway, I could go on. But this is turning into a wall of text that few people will read, and I have some other stuff to take care of. So, I’m going to wrap this up.
Before I hit post, however, I want to say this. The ability to thrive in Eve online is not contingent upon whether you get buffed on nerfed. It is your brains, attitude, and determination that will determine whether you find success, or whether you flame out and quit.
You are the master of your own destiny in Eve Online. And the sooner you figure this out, the sooner you can start to bend New Eden to your will.