You can see tons of veterans in eve who have playing for years and still havent grasped all the effects their actions have, so I'm pretty sure people who think eve isnt all that complex never properly lost their tunnelvision.
But meh, grampa simpson story:
I have a comparatively low RL income, so it always gave me a slight boner thinking that the ship I flew for solo piracy was worth about 700 euros if I had bought the ISK with RL cash. The "Smooth Criminal", a Rapier, had quite the goodies glued on to make it perform that awesomely.
Of course, like any other ship in eve, it was never a real solopwnmobile. It just gave me complete control over most situations. Or rather... it let _me_ choose with almost absolute control (until I screw up) in which situations I actually wanted to get. If it can kill me, I just dont let it touch me. If I can kill it, I got good chances to have control.
I remember once I was really really hungry for kills and I stalked a few guys til I finally had them pinned down. It was two frigs trying to kill a cruiser in a belt. So I pointed that cruiser, killed the frigs so damn fast they couldnt even think about warping off and then finished off the cruiser. Wait... I think I only got one frig, yeah. His buddy was fast enough to flee, but its still weird I even managed to kill that one frig without point.
The freaky shit was the Curse showing up on scan. Generally, empty cap means death, even for ships that dont need a lot of power, and a curse was my natural enemy. Normally that means you GTFO the second you notice the Curse is coming closer on scan, but I was so starved for a killmail, I thought I'd risk it. I tried to maneuver away from the expected warpin point of the Curse, but those fuckers got some range on those energy neutralizers, thats friggin unholy.
Long story short, OF COURSE I'm in his neutrange once he drops outta warp. The cruiser I was killing at that moment was ALMOST dead so I wasnt gonna leave quite yet. I started to fly straight up, didnt really have time to properly prepare an align, and BAMM there goes the first neut cycle, my cap is ALMOST dead. I feel my heart racing, thinking about the tasty theoretical 700 euro loss i was going to endure. The worst thing would be the humiliation and that amarr slaver scum getting mah tasty lootz....
So I turn everything off apart from the MWD, which I overheat, and let 'er rip, promptly climbing to about 3.5k/s or so. (Damn that thing was fast and nimble) Of course I lose the tackle on the cruiser, moving out of range and whatnot. But hey, remember the clueless people ratio of eve players? Sure enough that guy didnt notice me losing the tackle, and now I even remember why I picked that straight up direction, because I rarely ever did anything without any reasoning: I knew it was an ok direction to GTFO, initially , as well as it would reduce the transversal speed of my ship in relation to the target: My fat arties would get some nice and clean hits while I would try to run.
And well, it worked out perfectly, the next salvo delivered a punch that made the cruiser go pop buuuuut my cap was empty because the second neut cycle kicked in and I was in point range of the curse which promptly tackled me...
But this was all part of my heroic plan (not really) because I was already going so fast I could just point the nose in direction of my safespot, coast out of range (slow amarr fucker!) and warp off.
As soon as I hit warp, I cloaked and cycled safe spots, made a new, random one, and picked that to hide. Even with cloak enabled I wouldnt use semi safe spots (between celestial bodies or any warpable object for that matter) because I actually seen people drop outta warp close to such safespots without them ever actually having the option to probe me out there. I'm sure it was coincidence or the server "ticks" people through those warplanes somehow, but it happens. So ALWAYS make "true" safespots and even then, when you cloak, MOVE somewhere. You can never be too sure
Oh... and after that encounter, of course, I linked "still alive" in local.
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And unlike Yahtzee, I've been in corporations, I've had massive 0.0 fights, I've camped and been camped, I've been scammed and scammed people, it was still one of the most boring fucking piece of pathetic scam shit I've ever played.
That's probably because you just listed the most boring activities (apart from mission running) one can persue in eve. Oh wait, maybe add mining and hauling to that list and you got them all.