Discomanco
We pooped on your lawn
Resonance.
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Posted - 2015.02.24 17:32:43 -
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Well, now I got inspired to write my own story... damn it!
and as Mynxee, I do not consider myself a veteran just yet (late 2011), but hey! It's all about the stories.
Anyways,
I was a WoW veteran, still only 16 years old, played for a long long time (4-5 years prior to EVE) and done pretty much everything you can do in the game, from farming constantly to high tier raiding and mid-rated PvP.
Eventually during one of their expansions with no new content for 8 months, I started to get really boring and really wanted to find a sci-fi mmo. So I started searching and eventually found EVE from a website with a list of MMOs. I started watching some trailers, which was really really awesome. I then started to look at how EVE PvP was through youtube videos (especially solo), even though it was really hard to find anything worthwhile or informative that would showcase epic PvP (this was way before Battle of Asakai/6VDT-H).
So, I joined November 2011, made a 14 day trial and did the trials. I was not a rushed gamer, so I carefully read the tutorials which helped me out a lot and eventually finished all the career agents. After that I began wondering "hmm now what?", so I just took my Tormentor and started to mine in the belts. That was when I got convo'd by another player by an older player, asking if I was new and what I was doing. When I told him I was brand new and was mining, he simply said "Perfect! Want to join our mining corporation?" and he then offered my a Buddy invite in which I agreed to.
And then it began. I moved myself to their mining system in/near Essescama. There I saw the fleet of Retrievers and a single Orca, and oh my was I jealous, even when I heard it was worth ~500mil. I got guided into what was good to train for a mining character, started to work my way towards a Retriever (which was around 30 days of training at the time) and was promised, that if I subbed I would gain 50mil and a Retriever as a reward, and it hooked me and I subbed, despite not having a lot of money since I was only 16 at the time. But nevertheless, I paused my WoW subscription and subscribed to EVE for a month and got my rewards, and we began mining the belts one after another.
It was all peaceful and so, until suddenly EVE began to be EVE. We got a can-flipper into our belt, and most of us not knowing how it worked, a lot of us died to the bait and the CEO had to instruct what to do and what not to do. He managed to kick a spy from the corp, but that was not enough. We constantly got griefed from the can-flipper in a Wolf, and we had no way of stopping it. Then our CEO made the decision to move. Move to a wormhole, with a bunch of newer players (and of course the veteran directors). We went some 40 jumps to the wormhole entrance and went in, and oh my was it crazy. Unknown places, no local, no stations and not even stargates which also happened to my first time working in a POS (I had no idea how that worked).
We started mining in the hidden belts there (before they became anomalies) and was told to mine Arkanor since it was the most profitable, and still being in the Tormentor at the time while I trained for the Retriever that I could get once I had trained the skills, I could not hold a lot of units. But even within the same day, we got discovered and the next thing I knew I suddenly saw a blue bubble near us, and I saw every ship touching the edge exploding, and man it was scary and managed to get out myself. The CEO managed to find another spy and kicked him from the corp as well, and the corp then moved to nullsec. By that time I had gotten my Retriever and mined in that. Not long after that I quit EVE again and went back to WoW.
Around 4 months passed by, and I decided to give EVE another shot and resubbed my account. And there I found myself corpless (no surprise), in the middle of Curse with a bit of Bistot in my station hanger and a Retriever, so I contracted my Bistot for cheap as possible and started to make my way to Highsec, only to get killed in Doril by a bubble and a Dramiel.
After that I started to go for some missioning in lowsec with mining here and there, died a few times and so on.
Then I started to look for a new corp, and eventually found one based in Nullsec with AAA at the time and I moved down there with a Retriever and Harbinger that the corp donated to me, and was told to mine my heart out, which I did. I managed to fill corp hangers on my own in less than a week, and they could barely keep up with me. Even though, being in nullsec I also got more and more interested in PvP, which of course did not happen so lightly.
Everything from there pretty much went slow and nice. The corp ended moving a lot, due to not being able to find a suitable alliance that was not on the edge of disbanding or a **** to their members and never really found a good nullsec home. Despite the odds, I'm still playing today with 4 characters within almost every aspect of the game (except supers), and I'm still playing with the guys I met after I returned a bit over 2 years ago.
So for me, it was a very heavy start with a lot of **** happening, and it slowly turned down after that, but it has been a rocky ride and now I'm having lots of fun, mainly being one helping out rookies in the Help channels while carebearing and PvPing in lowsec.
And holy ******* hell what a wall of text... |