Why do I still play Eve?

This is a question that comes up time to time. Especially when I see long term players leave the game, some of them return later.
Eve is really a sandbox. I like how things you do can have a major impact on the game.
I like how everything is basically player run. It is awesome!

But the main thing that I like is that the sky is really the limit. A buddy of mine came back to eve basically to get into the big end game ships of the game. Carriers, dreads, supercarriers. He has I think 4 carriers, 2 dreads, and one super carrier. The problem with this set up is that Super Capitals need holder characters, or you need to start an account JUST FOR THAT SHIP. It can not dock, it needs a POS to protect it. If you are quitting eve....good luck IF you decide to come back....you might lose that super when people see a super carrier on directional scan along with a neutral character in system.

The moral of the story? Don't get stuck into a narrow niche. Capitals, and Super capitals while they are awesome....they are not used that much in null pvp. I love carriers, so I rat in them move stuff around, run certain complexes in them...basically they make isk for me. I can use a variety of ships, battleships, the every present isktar, strategic cruisers, all which are good at ratting in null. I can I will use them IF carriers get nerfed / or changed.

In eve think ahead! I like carriers, but I found that I need to have other means to make isk, so I found out what ships excel at ratting even more that a carrier, and I trained those skills to the max! Macherial, Vindicator (very skill intense because I trained 2 racial battleship skills to level 5. Other example: Rattlesnake very high drone skills, along with missile skills, AND shield tanking skills. I can fly them all! I am now getting into lasers and Amarr ships are looking really nice to have too.

So think ahead look into other aspects of the game. Mining sucks right? Wrong! If you watch a movie, enjoy a mini series, and you have a 2-3 characters in a fleet with Orca, or Rorqual boosts...you can make a nice bit of coin. Many people think isk/hr is important. Not really. Isk/day is more important. If you can make 100million isk a day your are doing it right. If you mine things will be a bit tight (hopefully you enjoy other things in eve besides mining remember niches can get boring!), but if you rat faction spawns, DED escalations provide a side income that can be billions of isk at the end of a month, or 2 months.

I have 81 billion isk in my wallet, with over 56 billion is other assets. I can fly a wide array of ships. This gives me so many options.

Basically I am not talking to low sp chars, I am talking to the people with over 80-100million skill points. Venture into other areas of eve with your friends. Then go back to what you used to do....fun fun, and more fun! Currently it costs about 12 billion in minerals to build a super carrier. Yogita and I have 6 billion isk in minerals from RATTING only. Once we start mining this number will jump, and I will NOT own a super carrier if I can not dock it. This spring dockable supers will be a thing....so I will get into a Super carrier at that time. I guess it is time to train fighter bombers to level 5!

/tata