Bunyip
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.04.16 04:33:00 -
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Alright, huge wall of text, but I've had a long and storied history in this game. Here we go:
I guess I should really begin at the beginning. I started Eve in January 2004, back in the infancy of Eve. I had been playing Diablo 2, which I thought was an MMO. When I went into a netcafe, I saw them playing Eve and CoH, and subbed to both.
My first character was a nightmare, as I boosted charisma mostly. I deleted him and made Bunyip at that time.
I remember most of the big milestones (but not the game's launch, unfortunately). I remember when the scanner was a hideous mark on the lower-right side of the screen. I remember when the first Battleships were introduced, and only the uber-rich could afford to fly one of these beasties.
It was during this time that I saw somebody with a Dominix, the famous space potato. Back then, it had an insane drone bay (I don't recall how big, but in the thousands of m3). I fell in love immediately, and became a drone addict. It would be a while until I could afford a Domi, but I kept at it....mostly.
As I learned scanning, I would sell people BMs to various exploration sites, and made decent money at it. I also learned that everybody who was anybody was mining Omber, and set up my HQ in a station in Gallente space to make it rich. I learned to fly the Covetor, the money ship for mining, and would be at the belts as soon as DT was finished to get some mining in before I headed to work.
Eventually, I had some ISK built up, but finances made it problematic to play this game. My girlfriend, who I was living with, became my wife, and I had to start supporting her. So began my great adventure with marriage.
After a few months away, I couldn't resist the Eve addiction any longer, so I resubbed and trained up an alt, Nicodei. She was a Minmatar, and I found out how much I loved the Rifter. She ran a low-sec newbie mining corp, back when low-sec was relatively safe due to the few players who actively played this game. As a Christian IRL, I founded it with those principles, and called it Alpha Manufacturing Enterprises [AMEN].
I had my first real taste of PvP during this time, and found myself on both sides of the gun (even though I'm a diabetic IRL and it caused my blood sugar levels to plummet). I also made friends that would continue to shape my enjoyment of this game.
After a few months in game, I had to leave due to the conception of my first daughter. I left my alt with a friend and sought out my future in the dark and scary thing we call Real Life. Eve was still in my blood, so much so that my eldest daughter's middle name was Nicodei.
Eventually, it was late 2007, and I resubbed to Eve. I found out that my friend had sold my old character off, and there was no way I was gonna get her back. This news shredded my heart, but I redoubled myself and made a new alt, Krazeek. I chose her because the new Vherokoir line had such beautiful avatars.
Also, during this time, I had heard about the CSM, and followed it closely. I decided to run for the 2nd term, and started up the propaganda train which got me elected (barely). My health was failing me during this time, but I attended every meeting I could, and CCP flew me out to Iceland twice (with disastrous results each time). However, I have a few notches on my belt from the CSM, though not something to talk about here.
My daughter was born during my term in the CSM, and that caused me to be distracted at many of the wrong occasions. On one, Krazeek was flying through high-sec in an Itty 5 (back when it was the king of the haulers), and set my system to autopilot while I tended to my daughter. I came back to see my pod slowboating through space. In the gank., I lost over 10b ISK due to T2 BPs I was carrying. It hurt, but I at least laughed at the fact that the only thing that dropped from my wreck was a 10nm AB.
I believe I represented myself as best as I could during this time, especially as I watched Pattern fall away and Ankeseptemah start to fall away. I learned a lot about the game, and am eternally grateful for CCP allowing me to serve in the capacity of CSM Delegate.
As the term neared it's 6 month end, I found out that my wife was pregnant again, and so stayed subbed a few more months until I had to leave. I sold Krazeek, and I'm happy she found a new home with somebody else.
My current alt was fashioned after my wife (names have been changed to protect the....er, um, people). I'm training up a new alt, who will remain until self-sufficient. I'll then sell her off, as my wife has decided to leave me.
The next few years were pretty rocky, and not much of major import occured. I've gotten rich through missions and exploration, and seen others get rich due to my naivete in scams. Life in New Eden continues, and every new expansion increases the breadth and depth of this amazing game, or refines some clunky mechanics.
I mostly stick to high-sec (mostly due to the physical condition mentioned above) and play the markets or solo fly missions myself, with a little mining and manufacturing (what I call the 4Ms of PvE in Eve). I may leave occasionally, but I'll always be back later to go at it again. |