I'm now in my second attempt at playing this game. I played it back when I reviewed it and now I find myself flying around once again. This game confuses the hell out of me though. There's part of me that wants to scream over the lack of action. Then there's the part that feels really freaking accomplished after destroying 10 enemies without warping out of an area.

The skills thing still gets me. I'm now to the point where I'm choosing skills that need 5+ days to learn, and in those 5+ days I feel almost no real push to actually go into the game. Sure I can log in switch to my mining ship and then leave it out on an asteroid belt, checking in on it every 20 minutes to see if I need to change asteroids, or I could just do some more missions for some guy named Charlie, that seems to be my favorite goto guy.

I've been eyeing all these sweet looking ships, but the requirements are far outside my grasp be it skills or the ISK. I'm also trying to figure out how to be more punishing with damage, as it seems that I'm still playing little league ball with the amount of whiffs I accumulate through a battle.

I think this game is all about spreadsheets, point totals, and real time playing. This is not for someone looking for a quick fix. Sure you can definitely run a couple of missions and then hop out, but the game doesn't advance because of it. Then again does the game ever truly advance outside of the Epic Story. This is the kind of game where you're making your own story. It's real life, and sometimes people want to escape their life and just be told to do something, EVE really isn't the perfect place for that type of gameplay, and yet even when I think I'm done, I find myself logging in "just one more time" to see what I've got, what my loyalty points totals are, and if I can make a slightly bigger buck on the next "quest".

Well I have to say that regrettably that I haven't been spending much time with EVE. Then again I have been choosing those skills that take almost a week to level up. I'm almost down with the 5 primary skills of learning (Level 5 that is). I'm hoping that will help me train all my other skills.

Lately when I am on for any duration of time I've been mining in the starting area trying to just make some money so that I can turn around and maybe pimp out the ship that I've been looking at so I can continue the epic story arc that I started a while ago.

Its so odd, I don't feel like I have to play it at all and yet there's always that nagging feeling in the back of my thoughts that has me log in and do something. Sure it might just be that I start the next skill increase, but its something. Of course as a result I left my freaking ship out in the middle of an asteroid belt, and apparently had someone try to take me out. Though I have no idea about that.