Hivemind said "EVE is to control of your own zergling in someone else's starcraft game, with an endless stream of replacement zerglings for when you die handed over to you so you can jump right back into the fray and perpetrate brutal violence on some unsuspecting terrans. Phrased like that I think there's a lot more people who would be interested in saying yes because they don't care about the starcraft game, they just want to be ripping up Terrans and Protoss." Obviously the "starcraft player" is an alliance leader while the alliance members are his zerglinks.
Do I find anything fun in ripping up a random Terran? Absolutely not. Do I find it fun to socialize with other zerglinks, just hanging out with them and chat? I find nothing more annoying than idle chat. It doesn't mean that I should look down on those who are happy to be zerglinks. Yet I'm not one of them and nothing can change that. I can't enjoy "the journey" of massive fleet warfare mashing F1 even if it's spiced up by me being logi and not a Drake. I see it as a grind towards a goal. I'll never be a really skilled logi pilot. I will only participate in sov structure battles. No alliance will take me for being logi pilot. I'd surely hate small gank PvP. That's "good fight", consensual PvP, Arathi Basin bridge in space. I positively hated AB bridge fighting. Can I be a leader, the one who runs the Starcraft game where the bloodthirsty zerglinks kill each other for fun? Clearly not. Both my social skills and my affinity to herd cats make me totally unfit to lead anyone but totally rational people. (who don't want to be zerglinks either)
I enjoyed highsec trading, but having income nearly equal to he ship reimbursement fund of the largest sov holder alliance is kind of "congratulations you won, game over". What goals left for me in trading? Make more money alone than GSF?
Today I planned to announce my leave from EVE and return either to WoW or try out GW2 or something like that. I was busy compiling a list of my old EVE posts and found one of the earliest: "I think that if you are not a moron or slacker, if you can think and act a-socialy, you'll be fine in EVE. I'll document my journey from rags to riches, of course without buying PLEX in the item shop. I will prove that those "terrible griefers" that make EVE "awfully unwelcoming to new players" are just preying on the morons and slackers and cause little problem to players with brain, even if they are new. Let me clarify, I'm not trying to prove that you can progress in EVE, that's trivial (whoa, you can progress in a video game?!). I'm trying to prove that despite EVE has the reputation of mindless violence, you can progress without being better in violence. Actually you can collect masses of wealth without ever firing a gun."
Then it hit me: the point was never to amass pixel wealth. It was to discover something, to disprove commonly accepted misconceptions. This is how a scientist make difference. While no one obeys him, people obey the rational results he found or created. I enjoyed figuring things out. I enjoyed blogging about it. I did not enjoy actually updating the market orders. I wanted to prove that anyone can be rich and prosperous in EVE. I reached that goal and by doing so, I made a change for everyone who'll be rich using my trading posts (full guides will be published on Wednesday, Thursday). I disproved the common belief that the big money is in WH space (it's in highsec trading), disproved that you must join a player corp to make money, and disproved that Tech alliances are dirty rich. This information allows others to make an informed choice and reject a spammer highsec mining corp telling "we make lotz of mony togetr" or even a nullsec one if they don't like PvP. I clearly disproved that trading has anything to do with 0.01, a common misconception that kept lot of people away from Jita.
I succeeded in my first EVE science project but then foolishly attempted to enter the "endgame", the sov warfare. Wanted to be a leader, a job I'm fully unfit. Wanted to be a titan pilot (still do, but it's rather a luxury plan now). Tried to figure out new ways how I could be more useful than a doctrine pilot. All were meant to fail as none of them were an internal goals. I wanted them because I believed that this is the endgame of EVE, that is the way how you become relevant, make those stories. Accepting external goals are the best way to be irrelevant. I was obviously uninformed and untalented in these fields and even if I could get there (got enough followers, find alliance leader who want a titan so much), I'd still be mediocre at best.
The smart move is to start another project on the field I'm good on. To investigate something, disprove an old myth or find results where there were none. To create more guides that people can use and by using it their game change. This is a change that no leader can undo. Even if The Mittani would send all his Goons to Jita to 0.01, a single guy could stop them all from making money by undercutting heavily.
My logi pilot is almost ready but I won't apply anywhere yet. I'll apply to a nullsec alliance when my jump freighter pilot will be ready. Of course my logi will be there for sov battles, but I won't be much of an asset as a combat pilot. I will be an OK-ish asset in the PvE efforts of the alliance with my Rorqual. But I can be a really good asset in the field I'm good at: as a trader. I will supply the alliance nullsec hub with Jita materials and help the local miners and ratters by buying up their loot for a decent price and get it to Jita. This way I will help the alliance without being selfless. Altruism has a serious problem: it doesn't spread. If you find a way to help someone while you get profit, it won't be hard to convince others to do the same. In Jita I practically halved the profit rate on the items I trade. So because of me every seller gets more and every buyer pays less. Did I do it to be nice? No, I did it to be rich. I heard the margins in nullsec "hubs" are much-much larger. Many nullsec conglomerates live in regions with no hub at all. I can solve these problems, letting the local population to buy cheaper and sell higher.
I would rather leave the game than be Drake#845. I could suffer being Scimitar#96. I would be OK as Ragnarok#8. I will be happy as a nullsec hub operator and as the trading equivalent of those PvP gurus who sell PvP videos (except I post them for free)
Tomorrow comes a "mythbuster" post. Not speculation or ideas but hard facts. Really surprising ones.
Saturday morning report: 127.6B (2.5B spent on main accounts, 1.9 spent on Logi/Carrier, 1.5+0.1 on Ragnarok, 1.1 on Rorqual, 1.4 on Nyx, 1.3 on Avatar, 2.6B received as gift).
Sunday morning report: 128.9B (2.5B spent on main accounts, 1.9 spent on Logi/Carrier, 1.6+0.1 on Ragnarok, 1.1 on Rorqual, 1.4 on Nyx, 1.3 on Avatar, 2.6B received as gift).
Monday morning report: 131.0B (2.5B spent on main accounts, 1.9 spent on Logi/Carrier, 1.7 on Ragnarok, 1.1 on Rorqual, 1.4 on Nyx, 1.3 on Avatar, 2.6B received as gift).
Do I find anything fun in ripping up a random Terran? Absolutely not. Do I find it fun to socialize with other zerglinks, just hanging out with them and chat? I find nothing more annoying than idle chat. It doesn't mean that I should look down on those who are happy to be zerglinks. Yet I'm not one of them and nothing can change that. I can't enjoy "the journey" of massive fleet warfare mashing F1 even if it's spiced up by me being logi and not a Drake. I see it as a grind towards a goal. I'll never be a really skilled logi pilot. I will only participate in sov structure battles. No alliance will take me for being logi pilot. I'd surely hate small gank PvP. That's "good fight", consensual PvP, Arathi Basin bridge in space. I positively hated AB bridge fighting. Can I be a leader, the one who runs the Starcraft game where the bloodthirsty zerglinks kill each other for fun? Clearly not. Both my social skills and my affinity to herd cats make me totally unfit to lead anyone but totally rational people. (who don't want to be zerglinks either)
I enjoyed highsec trading, but having income nearly equal to he ship reimbursement fund of the largest sov holder alliance is kind of "congratulations you won, game over". What goals left for me in trading? Make more money alone than GSF?
Today I planned to announce my leave from EVE and return either to WoW or try out GW2 or something like that. I was busy compiling a list of my old EVE posts and found one of the earliest: "I think that if you are not a moron or slacker, if you can think and act a-socialy, you'll be fine in EVE. I'll document my journey from rags to riches, of course without buying PLEX in the item shop. I will prove that those "terrible griefers" that make EVE "awfully unwelcoming to new players" are just preying on the morons and slackers and cause little problem to players with brain, even if they are new. Let me clarify, I'm not trying to prove that you can progress in EVE, that's trivial (whoa, you can progress in a video game?!). I'm trying to prove that despite EVE has the reputation of mindless violence, you can progress without being better in violence. Actually you can collect masses of wealth without ever firing a gun."
Then it hit me: the point was never to amass pixel wealth. It was to discover something, to disprove commonly accepted misconceptions. This is how a scientist make difference. While no one obeys him, people obey the rational results he found or created. I enjoyed figuring things out. I enjoyed blogging about it. I did not enjoy actually updating the market orders. I wanted to prove that anyone can be rich and prosperous in EVE. I reached that goal and by doing so, I made a change for everyone who'll be rich using my trading posts (full guides will be published on Wednesday, Thursday). I disproved the common belief that the big money is in WH space (it's in highsec trading), disproved that you must join a player corp to make money, and disproved that Tech alliances are dirty rich. This information allows others to make an informed choice and reject a spammer highsec mining corp telling "we make lotz of mony togetr" or even a nullsec one if they don't like PvP. I clearly disproved that trading has anything to do with 0.01, a common misconception that kept lot of people away from Jita.
I succeeded in my first EVE science project but then foolishly attempted to enter the "endgame", the sov warfare. Wanted to be a leader, a job I'm fully unfit. Wanted to be a titan pilot (still do, but it's rather a luxury plan now). Tried to figure out new ways how I could be more useful than a doctrine pilot. All were meant to fail as none of them were an internal goals. I wanted them because I believed that this is the endgame of EVE, that is the way how you become relevant, make those stories. Accepting external goals are the best way to be irrelevant. I was obviously uninformed and untalented in these fields and even if I could get there (got enough followers, find alliance leader who want a titan so much), I'd still be mediocre at best.
The smart move is to start another project on the field I'm good on. To investigate something, disprove an old myth or find results where there were none. To create more guides that people can use and by using it their game change. This is a change that no leader can undo. Even if The Mittani would send all his Goons to Jita to 0.01, a single guy could stop them all from making money by undercutting heavily.
My logi pilot is almost ready but I won't apply anywhere yet. I'll apply to a nullsec alliance when my jump freighter pilot will be ready. Of course my logi will be there for sov battles, but I won't be much of an asset as a combat pilot. I will be an OK-ish asset in the PvE efforts of the alliance with my Rorqual. But I can be a really good asset in the field I'm good at: as a trader. I will supply the alliance nullsec hub with Jita materials and help the local miners and ratters by buying up their loot for a decent price and get it to Jita. This way I will help the alliance without being selfless. Altruism has a serious problem: it doesn't spread. If you find a way to help someone while you get profit, it won't be hard to convince others to do the same. In Jita I practically halved the profit rate on the items I trade. So because of me every seller gets more and every buyer pays less. Did I do it to be nice? No, I did it to be rich. I heard the margins in nullsec "hubs" are much-much larger. Many nullsec conglomerates live in regions with no hub at all. I can solve these problems, letting the local population to buy cheaper and sell higher.
I would rather leave the game than be Drake#845. I could suffer being Scimitar#96. I would be OK as Ragnarok#8. I will be happy as a nullsec hub operator and as the trading equivalent of those PvP gurus who sell PvP videos (except I post them for free)
Tomorrow comes a "mythbuster" post. Not speculation or ideas but hard facts. Really surprising ones.
Saturday morning report: 127.6B (2.5B spent on main accounts, 1.9 spent on Logi/Carrier, 1.5+0.1 on Ragnarok, 1.1 on Rorqual, 1.4 on Nyx, 1.3 on Avatar, 2.6B received as gift).
Sunday morning report: 128.9B (2.5B spent on main accounts, 1.9 spent on Logi/Carrier, 1.6+0.1 on Ragnarok, 1.1 on Rorqual, 1.4 on Nyx, 1.3 on Avatar, 2.6B received as gift).
Monday morning report: 131.0B (2.5B spent on main accounts, 1.9 spent on Logi/Carrier, 1.7 on Ragnarok, 1.1 on Rorqual, 1.4 on Nyx, 1.3 on Avatar, 2.6B received as gift).
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