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SOLO IS DEAD! Or is it? Is it worth playing EVE Online solo? It is an MMO afterall... Well in this video I share my take on the issue after more than 10 years as a capsuleer!
There’s a lot of ways to play EVE Online but the sheer amount of stuff there is to do in the game can be pretty overwhelming for a lot of new players because unlike a lot of other games, EVE doesn’t point you in any particular direction or tell you what to do once you complete the tutorial. It teaches you the basics and then releases you into this massive universe with seemingly endless possibilities, a mountain of things to learn and skills to train and basically no advice on where to even begin figuring it all out.
It can be a pretty brutal, but one of the most common questions I get on my other EVE Online videos is whether or not it’s even possible to play this game solo and actually succeed at it, and the simple answer is yes, although it might not seem so for the first couple of months. The fact is though that it’s completely playable solo, whether you want to be a casual miner or you’re interested in doing pve combat sites and missions, or become a hardcore pvper taking on entire fleets on your own, you can do it all and actually succeed at it as a solo player, with only a handful of rare exceptions.
Will you die? Yes, everybody dies in EVE whether you’re in a fleet or not, and if you’re not dying or at least getting into situations that routinely make you soil yourself then you’re not playing it right. It’ll be rough, it’ll be hair rasing and it’ll test your nerves to the limit from time to time, even when you’re doing something you think should be fairly safe, but it will also be one of the most rewarding and memorable experiences you can have in gaming. Period. And you’ll remember the most thrilling moments from your capsuleer career for the rest of your life.
But before we get more into all that, let me address the most obvious question probably on a lot of peoples minds right now. Why would you want to play an MMO solo when the very name Massively Multipler Online, suggests that the game was built to be played with other people, especially when everything allegedly becomes so much easier when you join a corp and do stuff together as a fleet instead, and as someone who prefers spending most of my gaming time doing my own thing, I feel like I can answer this one with a fair bit of insight… Quite frankly, people have a tendency to… How can I put this? … Well People Suck.
Now before you blow up into a G-Fuel enduced gamer rage in the comments, obviously I don’t mean everyone and not all the time, quote un-quote “people” can be pretty awesome when they want to be, but generally speaking I find things just go a lot smoother when I know what I’m doing and what I want to achieve, and there’s nobody else around getting involved with their opinions and ideas or showing up 30 minutes late to a pre-planned fleet op, or turning up on time and then starting to fit out their ship, eSPECIALLY when we’re talking about a bunch of random gamers who’ve never met trying to work together to achieve the impossible, where half of them are getting chewed out by their wives for not helping out more around the house, and the other half are watching Band of Brothers and doing their taxes on their second monitor.
Yeah I know you know what I’m talking about.
So to answer the question, I enjoy playing MMO’s solo because it’s just simpler. There’s no drama, there’s no personality clashes or feelings that can get hurt, and after 8 hours of work, sometimes I just want to come home and turn on a game and be around other people, without necessarily interacting with them and having to be ‘on’ all the time, and I expect there’s a lot of people out there who feel the same way, and that’s how I’ve spent most of my 10 years playing EVE.
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27 май 2024
