Luminos
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Posted - 2015.06.30 17:02:01 -
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December, 2005.
The lure of Internet Spaceship Pewpewpew drew me in; I saw the Caldari Battleship designs and thought "Yep, that's for me."
So I started working my way up mission running. I was used to MMO progression so the idea of "Start in Frigate, work your way up to the Battleship endgame where you can do stuff" made sense to me. And, even though I refused to train Learning skills (feel fortunate if you don't know what those are) it turned out that the time it took to train BC 1 was roughly the same amount of time it took to grind the ISK to afford one.
I was well on my way to earning some money. I believe at the time I had the dream of being some sort of lowsec pirate in a big ship. All shall tremble before my Rokh, and despair... and so on.
What training BC1 didn't prepare me for however was the L4 missions I had my sights set on. So ISK was slow. And training was slow. And the constant micromanagement of skill training was long and tedious.
So in Feb 2006, I quit for the first time.
I think I probably reactivated for a trial later, but the next time I remember playing was Oct 2010. Learning skills were being removed, and the boost to training speed seemed like as good an excuse as any to get back into the Internet Spaceship Pewpewpew that I still loved the idea of (but couldn't stand the wait for).
This time, my dream of lowsec life had moved on. FW was a thing now, so you could get in fights and not need to mine on the side to pay for it all. There was one small wrinkle. At the time, they way FW paid out was by doing missions. To get the real ISK you needed to run L4s, and to run those you needed Stealth Bombers.
So another big skill queue was micromanaged as I tried to move from a Battleship focus to Frigates again. Naturally, since I had aimed for the Rokh my first time around I didn't even have the Torpedo skills needed for the bombers.
Faced with another 2-3 month wait to get into the ship I was looking for, I quit again around Dec 2010 - Jan 2011.
After than I was clean. EVE was barely even a thought in the back of my head. I was having fun with other games, and from what I could tell the EVE players were happy congratulating themselves over how masochistic they were.
Then, just recently the perfect confluence of Scott Manley's EVE playlist being suggested while watching KSP videos, the "This is EVE" promo vid, and my own hidden desire for self flagellation got me to resub again about a month ago.
I'm not even sure what I'm aiming for right now, but I fully expect I'll quit again in a month when I realize it'll be November before I can properly fit the hull for it. |