Darth Schweinebacke
We're Serious
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Posted - 2015.07.01 12:24:41 -
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I have started on dec 27th, 2003 when some gaming buddies from Freespace 2 and Counterstrike convinced me to take a look at EvE. So After Xmas I went and got me one of the original boxed editions (Still have the box, CD and manual \o/).
So I installed the game, undocked in my little rookie ship and went to meet up with my friends. One of them just got his first battleship (a dominix) and was showing it off with his drones outside. Little me in my rookie ship decided to just shoot at it, the drones started to get angry and after just being in the game for a few minutes, I was sitting in a pod for the first time :).
So... with a fresh Rookie ship I started training some mining skills (back in those days making ISK was a lot harder than it is today and your options were rather limited) and we started mining all together. Some people with mining ships jetcanning containers all over the belt and others picking up the ore in Industrial ships.
After a few weeks I could finally afford a cruiser to mine with (I think I used a thorax back then) which did speed up the process a lot (a Venture today laughs at the amount of Ore my little cruiser was mining back then!). My next step was to save up for a Battleship and after a short while I was sitting in my very own Dominix and gladly had enough money to insure it as well.
So I took my little Dominix on it-¦s first mining trip into low sec. Of course I did not enjoy my ship for a long time...... While I was happily sitting in my belt a Scorpion warped in on me, jammed me unloaded some torpedos on me and my brand new Battleship was gone.
That was a turning point for me in EvE. I started training caldari ships and jamming ships and mase some more ISK to be able to get a Scorpion myself. I started living as a pirate myself and I really had a blast in that ship as it was insanely strong back in those days.
(Full Torpedo damage on all targets, no matter if it was a frig or battleship and the cycle time of jammers was a lot shorter, which enabled you to cycle your jammers through several targets again and again and enabled you to take on multiple targets solo with ease).
So I kept living the pirate life for a good while and then in 2005 sadly lost a couple of ships because of some nasty bugs happening and as young as I was back then I did ragequit and gave away my character.
I tried to play some other games, but Eve already ruined me. I could not enjoy any other game as much as I enjoyed Eve, so after 2 months I came back and started this character. This time around it was a lot easier to make ISK and get into some stronger ships and quickly I went back to PvPing.
Since then I have pretty much done all kinds of PvP, alliance warfare (<3 PL), piracy, ganking, FW... a bit of everything. I had a few breaks because of RL reasons, but still can not stay away from EvE for a very long time and return one way or another.
The last year I have mostly just been running a few missions or did some relaxed Ice Mining while hanging around in Rookie help with various throw away accounts to try to help out our new capsuleers. I still would love to get back into more serious gameplay, but sadly I currently do not really have the time to be really dedicated to it.
But I am not unhappy with the current situation either, helping out new pilots is a lot of fun too and hopefully I can help to convince new players to subscribe :). |