Servian Scargotti
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
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Posted - 2013.09.05 07:31:00 -
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I'm a new player, and I hate the changes (read: nerf) to the Iteron Mark V.
I started playing Eve about a month ago, and chose the Gallente race. Since then I've joined a corp and braved the wilds of low-sec. I have quickly learned that not getting blown up all the time requires having good ships with good fittings. And... that required ISK. LOTS of ISK!
So like a noob, I've tinkered with missions, mining, trading and hauling. I learned about markets and the whole "buy low then sell high" concept. Being a noob without the bankroll to make the cost of freight services affordable, I saw an opportunity to make some ISK by buying stuff in Jita and risk hauling it out to our CORP base in lowsec, where I could sell it and make some decent noob cash. I just needed a decent hauling ship.
The training path to Blockade Runners and Jump Frigates is a long and expensive one. So I turned to the one ship in the Gallente fleet that a poor noob like me could afford: the Iteron Mark V. I found that I could actually survive cargo runs from Jita to low-sec with just T1 fittings, and some practice with Cloak. I didn't even use an MWD. I just tanked my ship the best I could, bought as much Jita junk as my noob wallet would let me buy, and ran like hell to our base way out in lowsec.
I found what items were in short supply at our low-sec base, flew to Jita and back to put that stuff on the market. I had to work fast, before the experienced players could buy that stuff in Jita with their alts trained to all 5's in Trading skills, and contract ship it back without having to leave the base. My advantage was that I could haul it myself faster than the freight contractors could get around to moving those items in their T-infinity ships. I took the risk, and if I bought the right stuff and it actually sold for a decent markup, I might make 10 to 20 million ISK per run. Don't laugh, I'm a noob...
Anyway, the thing that made this grand venture in to markets and low-sec hauling possible was my faithful Ity V. But now the Ity V has been nerfed all to hell, and there is now no Gallente industrial ship within reach of this noob's skills level and budget that has even a slight chance of surviving hauling into low-sec. The new changes have now put lights, bells and pyrotechnics around the "Gank Me" sign on my Iteron Mark V. Low-sec gate camps were risky enough for me with my 6500 hp Ity V. However, what was once the poor man's Blockade Runner, is now just a guaranteed KillMail entry.
Unless things change, I'll be keeping my Iteron Mark V in the low-sec Corp dock, and flying my Venture back to high-sec to mine until I get bored enough to never log back into Eve. 
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