Dirk Magnum
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.04.24 13:54:25 -
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I've been in the game for nine years, but I'll start with the last nine months:
I was a bittervet until I found James 315 and The Code. That's not hyperbole. I had unsubscribed, and the idea of never resubscribing was being seriously considered, but I kept up on the latest goings at TMC and EN24. From there I found out about minerbumping.com, and decided "I want to do that." So I signed back up for another month, which became three months, to which another year of time was recently added.
When Karmafleet was created, I was sufficiently reinvigorated with the game to take another stab at nullsec (while signing up for the freight ganking Ministry of Love group in the Goons of course.) Been along for the ride with them for the last three months and enjoying the game like never before. There's always something that calls you back to this game if you're willing.
But my introduction to Eve was troubled. I originally subscribed in May of 2006. I'd hit the level cap in Dark Age of Camelot and had no interest in the end-game content such as it was. Can't fault DAoC for it specifically because the end-game was the same as it was for any other MMO. Maybe even better, because of the "realms" conquest system that could change hands between competing factions. Nothing remotely on the scale of Eve sovereignty, but I had no way of knowing that. My MMO experience in general was fairly limited at the time, and still is (trial accounts in Anarchy Online, Perpetuum, and WoW failed to persuade me.)
Masochism was an must back in 2006. The cost of T2 equipment was exponentially higher in most cases, and there weren't as many ISK-making opportunities available, especially for new players. There weren't as many ships available, and those that were, often weren't very well balanced. The NPE was an absolute joke and third party resources either weren't available or weren't promoted the way they are today. The user interface was unintuitive, and I think you finished the NPE with about 100,000 ISK in your wallet. You got logged off at random, and there was no WTZ.
And I loved it... for awhile.
All my player interactions seemed to end badly. When I tried to go to lowsec I got killed by NOS Domis. When I tried to go to nullsec, not understanding the essential difference to that space, I'd invariably get killed in a bubble that often didn't even display on screen. I decided the best course of action for me was to mine in highsec until I figured things out (a terrible, terrible, terrible idea, then as now.) Sometimes I'd go mine in lowsec but always got killed. And yes, I raged. I raged hard some times. So many times I said I was going to quit, but I didn't. I started to wonder if maybe the PvPers knew something about the game that I didn't, but usually I just operated with the fallacious line of thinking that these players were just sociopaths out to ruin my good time.
Fortunately I got picked up by a corp that divided its time between high and low sec, with occasional PvP forays but also a lot of industry and a chill demeanor. I followed one of the members to a corp in the Band of Brothers alliance in 2007, which was a huge mistake on my part because I had neither the resources nor know-how in the game to play with a group with that particular philosophy. I was out of my depth and didn't really get it figured out before I had a "you can't kick me, because I quit" moment and left before any bad blood got generated that might fall back on the dude who vouched me into the corp in the first place.
After that, I joined a highec merc corp, and between 2008 and 2014 I was generally quite content with whatever I found myself doing in the game. I had a lot of stuff going on for me in real life in that time, such as grad school, a job search, and a military deployment, so the great majority of those years were spent playing very casually and sometimes infrequently as part of RvB. I did start to get a little bored with the game eventually, and wondered if maybe I had just lost interest (I've never really been a "gamer", I guess), which circles back to my first paragraph.
Oh, and I went to Fanfest back in 2007, which was the first time I'd ever been overseas. Those couple of days were, let's call it transformative, and I've been to a variety of destinations on either my own dollar or the taxpayers' since then. So, thanks CCP :D
-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á-á "LIVE FAST DIE."
- traditional Minmatar ethos [citation needed]
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