Proletariat Tingtango
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.11.14 01:12:00 -
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You know, the one thing that's kept me subscribed this time is the opportunity to pvp.
I've tried to play this game a lot. Before goonswarm existed on several trial accounts, after goonswarm existed but without them, and I got a little further into the game each time, but here's my experience.
Around the time the first trial program came out, I gave the game a shot. I made it about three days. I think I finally figured out how to move my ship and mine a rock once I found someone nice enough to show me how. I don't think I ever figured out how to train that first time.
The second trial was a little better. I was able to run a few missions, but I was alone and every player corp that would even think about taking me had a recruiter who seemed like a moron and I'm no strangers to MMOs and the kinds of guilds/corps that usually take newbies are actually the worst place for newbies to be.
The third time I finally actually bought an account. I joined up with an old friend who had been skilling up industrial skills and wanted to build an industrial-centric corporation. He got me going, showed me how to train and got me into a caracal and effectively killing rats in missions in such a way that I could pay my own bills. The sad fact is though, for all of our dreams of eventually building up something big, two guys trying to build a pve empire was boring as hell for both of us.
After it fell apart I joined a syndicate corp (it was GROON), and I have nothing bad to say about GROON but it's not the place for a newbie who has pve-oriented skills and knowledge.
Then one day I was drunk and had more money than sense, created a new account, and joined goonswarm. Immediately I was shoved into 0.0 and told how to train so I could go on fleet operations within a day. The helpfulness of GSF towards its newbies with ISK, ships, and information was unprecedented in almost any MMO experience I've had.
And that's why this character is still active, and will have more than 10m SP by Jan 2013.
Getting through the months where you can a) fly in a rifter in any fleet or b) fly a noctis someone gave you while they graciously let you hoover up wrecks and sell the salvage was the hard part, and most newbies don't even have that to fall back on. They have to rely on flying missions that don't pay well, in a ship they don't fully understand how to use, using modules they don't understand, and it's a ******* awful experience because I've been there.
I can trash talk a lot of hi-sec corps and ~*Elite PVP*~ nullsec corps, but anyone who helps a newbie, goon or not, is awesome in my book. The more of you guys there are, the better this game can be. |