Why do EVE players take this game so serious?

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So Gloria dual wielding Tengus vs Zaera multiboxing a fleet of Cats? :thinking:

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MonocleGateā€¦

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Brought to you by the letters D, E and I.

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Iā€™m surprised that post got flagged, but Iā€™m also surprised to see a ā€˜reservedā€™ posts.

Does your single question really require that much text that you expect to run out of editing space in the first post that you need to reserve a second?

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Youā€™ll have to bring a few corpses to uncloak me.

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I enjoy the game for it complexity. its lore, the fact that you have to pay attention at all times while undocked.

The challenge of being a self starter. Selecting a goal to work towards. With no guarantee of being successful is a great plus. After all you want to have X. Then you work towards X, Maybe you succeed. Maybe you have to modify your goal. Or maybe you just have to work a little harder.

Regardless you have to want that goal. Be willing to do the dirty work of getting there. Eve has never been about just blowing ships up. Though that is most certainly is part of the game. It is about what do you want to do. What goal appeals to you.

You might start out as doing one activity and decide another is more suitable. Unlike in other games. It very acceptable and encouraged.
For all that I am a mostly casual player. The reason is RL. Otherwise I would be spending a lot more time in the game.

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Not to be funny, but I had the same experience last night where one of mine was flagged as ā€˜off-topicā€™ and it wasnā€™t off topic. Was right on topic, contained two whole sentences and wasnā€™t offensive. So, I donā€™t know.

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Thatā€™s not why I reserved it.

I use it for updates, and Iā€™d rather not edit the first post.

Nothing sinister.

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Itā€™s not - at least not in the way that youā€™re describing. There are toxic tryhards in every competitive game community, most of them are worse than EVEā€™s.

What makes EVE special is that itā€™s less of a game, more of a hobby. So when someone trashtalks your shitfit in local, just imagine theyā€™re a retiree ridiculing your cross stitch. Not that serious.

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For a long guide I could maybe understand that, but yours was a simple question that was answered in the second post.

Well, third post, had you not reserved.

Even long guides can easily go on in just the first post in my experience. I never ran into the limits myself. It really is something from other forums with much smaller character limits that people reserve posts.

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He did it to get people annoyed and to farm reactions on it.

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ā€¦or Chad / Felix. :thinking:

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One of the Frostpackers is definately a Kevin.

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No. I am me, I have alts but if I have ever posted with any? It was accidental. If I suddenly vanish it will be for other reasons.

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Some take Eve Online seriously because friends in the game may be the only friends the gamer has, some want to keep Eve Online going, a refuge for niche sci-fi fans to find a home away from the big sci-fi empires. Others like learning how to manage a small corporation up to a large alliance. And others, others just like to annoy the gankers as much as possible. And othersā€¦other are mystified by the story and mission sense of being isolated and being the victor in the story.

Eve Online is a connected to being involved in a story, where you make the decisions, that you read about growing up and wondered, how can I open the doors on this coat wardrobe?

Thats New Eden on the other side of those doors.

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Hmmā€¦like everyone has a spare sledge hammer hanging around at work.

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Iā€™ve come a long way since the fast align Gnosis ( though I do still fly that sometimes ). I have to say, the Tengu is retrospectively the ship I wanted all along. Now I also want to get hold of that Rattlesnake fitting that Safety could not manage to gank :slight_smile:

I think the sheer investment in time is why people take EVE seriously. Few other games have such a time commitment.

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