What to do

I'm a big fan of this little site which is a giant clickable graphic of many (most? all?) of the game play options in EVE Online.

This blog has never really been about "what I do in EVE".  Sure, I've written about it when I was running for CSM but this isn't the sort of blog where you show up and find out what I've been doing this week.  Ain't my thing.  There are lots of blogs for that.  Still, I thought it might be amusing to make a big list of all the things in the WTD site and then document the ones I've tried, how often I play EVE that way myself, and when the last time I did this or that thing in EVE was.

So that's below.  Consider this a post that kind of informs my perspective on EVE Online and where I'm coming from.  For reference, I normally operate with one main income source and one supplemental income source.  For the table below, "most recently" represents the most recent time I engaged in that activity.  "For how long" is either how long I engaged in that activity, or for ones I'm doing today, how long I've been doing it for.  For activities I engage in today, "How frequently" is how often I engaged in them.  For obsolete activites, "How frequently" is how often I engaged in them when I did so.

Category	Activity	Done?	Most recently	How long	How frequently
PvE	Wormhole sites	Yes	Mid-2010	Six months	Daily(1)
PvE	Exploration/Signatures	Yes	Today/active	Four years	Every few months
PvE	Exploration/Anomalies	Yes	Today/active	Four years	Every few weeks
PvE	FacWar/Signatures	Yes	Today/active	Few months	Every few days
PvE	Ratting	Yes	Today/active	Five years	Every few days(2)
PvE	Incursions	Yes	2012	One year	Every few months(3)
PvE	Incursions/Trading	No
PvE	Missions/Standard	Yes	Late 2011	Four years	Almost daily(4)
PvE	Missions/FacWar	No
PvE	Missions/Epic arcs	No
PvE	Missions/COSMOS	No			(5)
PvE	Missions/Salvaging	Yes	Late 2011	Four years	Almost daily(6)
PvE	Missions/R&D	Yes	Today/active	Three years	Passive income
PvE	Missions/Griefing	No
PvE	Missions/Ninja salv	Yes	2010	Few months	Almost never
PvP	Gate-camping	Yes	2012	Three years	Every few weeks
PvP	Roaming gangs	Yes	Today/active	Four years	Almost daily(7)
PvP	Ransoming	No
PvP	Suicide ganking	Yes	2010	One month	Almost daily(8)
PvP	Ninja looting	Yes	Today/active	Three years	Almost daily
PvP	Contract scamming	No
PvP	Trade window scams	No
PvP	Corp theft	No
PvP	Psychological warfare	Yes	Today/active	Two years	Almost daily
PvP	Ratter/bot hunting	Yes	2011	Two years	Every few weeks(9)
PvP	Can flipping	No
PvP	Corp spying	No
PvP	Scouting	Yes	2011	Two years	Every few days
PvP	Solo PvP	Yes	2012	Two years	Every few weeks
PvP	Wardec griefing	No
PvP	Red vs Blue	No
PvP	Faction warfare	Yes	Late 2009	Eight months	Every day(10)
PvP	Mercenary contracts	No
PvP	Structure bashing	Yes	Mid 2011	One year	Every few days
PvP	Homeland defense	Yes	Today/active	Two years	Almost daily
PvP	Sov war	Yes	Mid 2011	Two years	Almost daily
Mining	Asteroid belts	Yes	2012	Five years	Almost daily(11)
Mining	Grav sites	Yes	2010	Six months	Almost daily(12)
Mining	Mission ore	Yes	2010	One year	Every few weeks
Mining	Ice belts	Yes	2011	Two years	Every few weeks
Mining	LADAR sites (gas)	Yes	2010	Six months	Every few days(12)
Mining	Moon	No			(13)
Mining	Planetary interaction	Yes	Today/active	18 months	Passive income
Industry	Station trading	Yes	2011	Two years	Every few months
Industry	Market manipulation	Yes	2012	Two years	Every few weeks
Industry	Loans	No
Industry	Reprocessing	Yes	2011	Three years	Every few weeks(9)
Industry	Blueprint research	Yes	Today/active	Two years	Daily
Industry	T1 manufacturing	Yes	Today/active	Two years	Daily
Industry	T2 invention	Yes	Today/active	Two years	Daily
Industry	T2 manufacturing	Yes	Today/active	Two years	Daily(7)(14)
Industry	T3 manufacturing	No
Industry	Capital manufacturing	No			(5)
Industry	COSMOS manufacturing	No
Industry	Drug manufacturing	No
Hauling	NPC goods trading	Yes	2009	Two years	Daily(15)
Hauling	Courier contracts	Yes	2009	Two years	Daily(15)
Hauling	Low-sec/null logistics	Yes	2012	Two years	Every few months
Player	Create corps	No
Player	PvP tournaments	Yes	2012	Twice	Weekly
Player	Races	No
Player	Lotteries	No
Player	Create graphics	No
Player	Writing	Yes	Today/active	Two years	Almost daily(16)
Player	Role-playing	No

Hm.  That was kind of diverting.  It certainly reminded me of a couple of things that I want to try in-game.  It also reminds you just how many options there are in EVE Online!  It surprises me how many things I haven't tried yet.  I think I'll do this kind of post once a year or so and see how things change over time.


(1) In 2010, this was my main income source.
(2) Today, I do this mostly for sec status.  In 2010 and early 2011, this was my supplemental income source.
(3) In late 2011, this was my supplemental income source.
(4) In 2009 and early 2010, this was my main income source.
(5) I've taken a lot of notes on this and plan to try it out.  Just haven't gotten around to it.
(6) With the most recent salvage nerf, I almost never salvage rat wrecks any more even outside of missions.
(7) I'd characterize this as one of my two main EVE play styles today.
(8) I tried this for a month almost every day, got bored with it, and stopped.  I prefer targets that shoot back.
(9) I need to go do some of this again.  It was fun and/or profitable.
(10) For that time period, this was my main EVE play style.
(11) In 2008, this was my main income source.  In 2009, it was my supplemental income source.  I've always found mining very relaxing.  I actually tried this with the new mining lasers early this year, just to see if it still was.  It was.
(12) This was confined to wormhole grav sites.
(13) Did this on Singularity for a while to get a feel for it.
(14) This is currently my main income source.
(15) This was my supplemental income source in 2008.
(16) This is currently my supplemental income source.