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Can this game just die already
When I last played a few years ago it felt like a huge part of the remaining game population has all been playing it almost non-stop for at least 10 years and has spent like 80 hours a week either in game or in game related chat rooms that entire time. I don't it's going to die until something finally comes along to suck those people into a new game or they all have massive heart attacks.
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- GOOD TIMES ON METH
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I couldn’t sleep so I stayed up and watched the rest of that 6 hour EVE Online documentary. I got emotional at the end when the last track was called “Home”. I’ve put off writing this post for about a year now and I’m going to do it.
I’ve played this game on and off or followed it in some form for nearly 20 years, that’s almost my entire adult life. This stupid terrible spaceship game had a massive impact on my life and weirdly enough for the better. As I creep towards middle age, I actually like who I am and I feel that I have EVE to thank for that.
I joined Goonfleet sometime after they had moved into Deklin and found that peacetime in Null Sec was not something I could really do. I won at Eve, but I continued to keep up with what was going on in the game. VileRat’s death had a profound effect on me, I never really knew the guy. But hearing people talk about him and what he did for this game, the outpouring of support for his family. That really affected me, it was my call to service.
It's hard writing that because I don’t feel I deserve to say it, I never knew the guy and only know what people said about him. But I honestly think that pushed me to be a better person. All the places I’ve gone, things I’ve accomplished, the amazing people I’ve met. The work I’ve done to help people. It’s all because I wanted to be a little bit like VileRat.
EVE and the CFC/Imperium were there for me when I needed them. When I had to kick out my drug addict fiancé of 10 years and be truly alone for the first time. There was the Casino War and I could stay up all night running clownshoes.
I had finally retired from EVE when COVID hit. I was in a bad place, I was stuck inside, didn’t have many friends, and had a lovely job. My dad had gone in for surgery and couldn’t breathe on his own, he was stuck in the hospital on a ventilator, and I couldn’t see him for months. I was at the very low point in my life when I decided to check my spam folder and the Mittani had asked me to come back for one last war.
That war and The Imperium saved my life, I don’t think I’d be alive today if it wasn’t for that war.
Every Fireside Chat, every Metashow, every Reddit bullshit drama was a distraction that I desperately needed that year. It was something I could do and not worry about getting a text from my mom that my dad had gotten worse. If you were involved in the planning of anchoring those Keepstars into Delve in October that had us throwing everything to blow them up. THANK YOU! October was when I could finally see my dad in the hospital after months of not knowing what was happening. I got to watch his body and mind slowly wither away while he died on a machine. I really needed a distraction that month. To those of you who made those day long TIDI fights happen, I don’t have the ability to repay you.
It’s hard to describe just how wonderful it was to get a ping for a fleet and get on comms and listen to people laugh and have fun for a couple of hours. EVE was a bright happy spot in a year that was cruel to me.
Things got worse in 2021, my brother got COVID bad and almost died on a ventilator. He was stuck in the hospital for months and may never fully walk again. Having back-to-back loved ones on ventilators broke me and I just faded away after the war and I’ve no desire to come back.
Anyway, this was hard to write. But I love this stupid, absolutely terrible spaceship game that I’ll never play again. I love you magnificent bastards, every one of you.
EVE ONLINE has and will be Home to me.
o7 o/
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Nov 10, 2023 15:31
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There is 7 days of free Omega with expansion if anyone is feeling nostalgic. I signed up for a random Gallente newbie FW group a week or so ago and it has been pretty fun, or at least 10x better than awful nullsec stuff
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Nov 14, 2023 15:12
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The server not deleting all the clones sure seems like a bug, I hope he petitions it
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Nov 14, 2023 18:35
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Seems like a good solution to all this is for Waffe to join the Goose alliance
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Dec 2, 2023 20:33
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Doing your fun wrong, aka playing Eve Online
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Dec 4, 2023 03:55
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The politics channel often made me question why the gently caress I was in Theta still. The only reason I never really left it til recently was it was easy to just ignore the entire drat discord. Hell, the occasional transphobe in the Imperium in general has made me question why I stay. Oh right because the one I was calling out is in GSOL. gently caress this poo poo.
Even if everyone in GSF were a nice normal person the game is honestly much more fun outside of big alliance blocs. Everyone should at least try it out
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Dec 6, 2023 21:01
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Instead of training JF and all the nav skills to V + sinking 12b into the hull and fittings + and have a bunch of cyno alts to make 5% margins or whatever I would just train marauder and hop into any number of empty C5s that pop up when scanning and pay off your ship after a few sites
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Dec 27, 2023 16:18
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The surge of sheer pleasure that one must experience when the chance comes to run an audit on someone while role-playing as a space corporation middle manager
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