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Order of the Holy Hand Grenade
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Posted - 2017.07.06 16:29:29 -
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Been in EvE off and on for 14 years now...(started in 2003). Semi-retired now but I still get on and play from time to time. Most of the time reminiscing of "the good-old-days" with some old corp mates. Stories of ships with 3 MWDs going 60k m/s, the C6 Magnetar, self tracking disruptor hack, etc etc. Most of that stuff has been long patched over I'm sure and if I were to return to EvE full time I'd have to completely relearn a new game.
[My first goal was to make as much ISK as possible. I mined a lot, maxxed out some mining skills, got hired by a random alliance to sit in a rorqual 24/7 and boost their fleets. (back when you could still sit in a POS and do that) but my game experience didn't really start until I made a few alts and joined more social corporations.]
I remember doing all the typical rookie mistakes. Shield and armor tanking, putting lasers on non-amarr ships. Mining in haulers. I'm sure we all did that stuff at one point. One of my first corps was a total noob corp. Nobody had over 10 million SP, and one of the directors, a self-proclaimed vet alt, stole off the corp's wallet after a few weeks. It was at that point that I realized EvE was more than a game, it was a massive community of players, some good some bad, but real human people with all their real human traits and flaws. You're probably all like "DUH" but I think fundamentally it's easy to get lost in all the technology and explosions, and forget about the social experience that is EvE Online.
My corp bounced around between a few different alliances, a few high sec wars, and slowly I figured out ship fitting, combat tactics, ship class roles. Most importantly I figured out the types of people I enjoyed flying with.
14 years later, the game isn't even the same game I started playing, T3s, wormholes, planetary industry and many more features have reshaped the modern EvE. However the game still retains the same types of people and in that the experience and comradeship of flying in New Eden remains the same classic and adventurous experience it always has.
Happy flying everyone!
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