Max Deveron
Deveron Shipyards and Technology
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Posted - 2014.10.06 07:19:31 -
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I started playing exactly 1 week before Christmas in 2010. Was active Duty military at the time.
In a week i was having a terrible time, couldnt figure things out, ships dying, couldnt make any ISK, had no clue what i was doing.....and really learned to despise the rookie help chat.
Met another soldier at one of the bases social places....he introduce me to his CEO who took me in. That guy answered my billions of questions, fitted ships for me and told me how they worked so i could learn better.
Not long after we got involed in i guess you could say a mafia group....where the corp i was in soon became a lead corp in the adhoc shadow alliance. What were we doing? Can-flipping, ganking, extorting for the Status Quo of the area!!
The group became a real alliance then we were under wardec for several months.
But in those months we also had moved to nullsec as renters to give our own miners a chance to be safer from the dec'rs
The war ended. We made lots of ISK.
I learned how to Run a corp as a CEO when he retired from the position. Back in that day being in nullsec was fun. We had lots of fights, we made ISK hand over fist.....and occasionally ganking in our former Highsec home was awesome. It was also near the time of the beginning of what nullsec has become today. Due to stupid inhouse political drama our own alliance shattered.
I created a new character....ran a banking operation for a while that was somewaht succesul.
But i had to keep leaving game for longer periods of time. on my final leave of absence....most of the people i knew or had a close comraderie with had been forced seperate ways or left he game entirely. EvE wasnt the same.
I reitred my main.....made this toon and had the goal of seeing if i could hire on and train a group of noobs to be as space rich as me along with other things. (I made my massive amounts of ISK doing industry)
I learned some serious lessons doing this......not all players are quite equipped for this game. And i was far to lenient with some of them. I also learned there is Carebearism and then there is CareSlothism......the latter broke me....and i finally turned into what i consider a bittervet.
But I am stil kicking around....there are still things for me to do yet that i have not fully experienced...Most of the old cadre players that I have played with are gone....some arguably forever. Yet i faith in the new ones that i have trained, and the couple or so other old timers I met along the way. I have other accounts, I have other characters for many different things and reasons......but none of them would be possible nore the different styles of play or fun i can have without the interaction of others both good and bad.
In short.....all I can say is find a group, a corp, your comfortable with....make friends. Learn to adapt. Losing a ship or pod is not the end of the world. Learn from it.....you have learned to ride a bicycle am I right? |