Why do EVE players take this game so serious?

I use Zkill as more of a comic book than anything, just to see which idiots lost utterly ridiculous fits and cargo loadouts…

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I heard Ahbazon is full of plebs who can’t get a kill on their own.

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that is a very good point.

whenever i tell other gamers, that i play eve, they are like: i heard of it, isn’t that this game where you need excel to play it? or stuff like that

and if you are one of the best players in a game known for it’s difficulty, that is something to feel good about i guess

hahah yeah, that’s right

praise Aiko!

Although many will deny it, EVE tends to attract a lot of narcissistic and otherwise dysfunctional personalities. Put them all in one place and, well…

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You know what, I can’t even be mad. That’s pretty spot-on…

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Though it’s probably more of a generational thing than anything. Boomers and Gen X, that’s kind of what we’re known for…

Think of it this way, once all the Boomers and Gen X have passed and stopped playing EVE, you all can have the 100% safe space farmville utopia that you’ve always wanted…

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Assuming EVE doesn’t go out in a blaze of glory before then…

Not possible, sir. We’ve all sold our soul to the company store. We will still be doing dailies in the afterlife…

I dreamt I got ganked last night, so it’s probably bad enough that EVE has migrated into my dreams…

More true than you realize. Large number of EVE players will in all a likelihood pass away with autorenewal going for their sub and bills/rent. So no one will realized they are dead until the bank account is empty.

That’s weird, I heard that about Uedama?

Yes that one place is Uedama lol

And all the ore will pile up in the stations, never to be used to manufacture anything…because nothing ever gets destroyed so there’s no reason to make anything. Ore prices will plumet to one trillionth of an ISK for an entire Titan full of ore. Eventually the ore will overflow the stations and start blocking up entire systems…making it impossible to warp anywhere. There will ultimately be no space left, nobody will be able to undock, and CCP will finally introduce Walking In Stations.

Sound like a plan. :thinking:

People like to pretend the game doesn’t have dozens of ways to lose a ship. Kinda crazy

you are annoying. pls stop posting in my thread.

in case you did not know, most gankers are one person piloting several ships. so they get kills on their own.

quiet now! thank you

Some troll in rookie chat was asking how to make themselves famous or get a name for themselves. I told him to ask you, but also expect to pay 1 billion ISK for that answer.

Have fun!

People do it so they get talked about on TikTok

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Honestly, it’s something that surprises many new players.

EVE isn’t just a game – it’s a sandbox with real consequences. When you lose something in EVE, you really lose it. Ships, cargo, implants – it all has value, often tied to hours of effort or ISK-making. That alone makes people care more deeply.

But beyond that, EVE is one of the few games where player-driven politics, espionage, and economy are actually core parts of the experience. Alliances rise and fall because of player decisions, spies infiltrate groups like in a Cold War novel, and zKillboard becomes a public record of your “career” in New Eden.

It creates a kind of living universe where reputation, strategy, and trust matter. And that emotional investment makes people take it seriously – sometimes too seriously, yeah – but that’s what makes EVE unique.

Some of the major alliances even have teams of people managing logistics, intel, diplomacy, and fleet operations like it’s a full-time job – because for some, it almost is.

But probably everything I wrote has already been mentioned here.

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