Nothing makes me question why I play EVE more than periods of relative peace

I’ve found that relatively peaceful periods in Eve always bring me quite close to quitting the game. It gets me thinking thoughts like “wtf am I doing, why am I ratting, mining, trading, etc. in a video game, spending hours multiboxing just to make more isk, what’s the fucking point when I could just touch grass and make more money irl?”

Wars fuel the game but also understandably require tremendous resources from leaders and FCs within alliances, which is why any major conflict often seems to die out within a month or two before the game enters another peace cycle of often 1-2 years.

This is probably just par for the course in a game that’s 23 years old, where eviction and extinction-level wars are quite literally impossible with current tech as we recently saw with the squabbles in Frat space. So even major conflicts are mostly just a bunch of skirmishes over logistic structures and some other structure bashes that last until the FCs, coords, and players get tired of every single strat being a 3–4 hour tidi shitfest.