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The Tuskers
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Posted - 2014.03.24 17:03:00 -
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Good idea for a thread! Two years in for me.
My journey has always been a 'Sociable Solo' play style, partly due to circumstance and partly by choice. Voice comms is a problem for me as my family are asleep when I'm on, but the main reason is after trying loads of fleets and small gangs, I've come to realize I'm more of your 'Jubal Early/Jango Fett' type. Just the mould I came out of. I think it's partially about immersion as well. If I'm chatting on comms, then it's 'Bob from Croydon' or 'Terry from Texas' I'm talking to, whereas in game IRC immerses you in New Eden to a much deeper level.
Spent My first year in New Eden seeing the sights, trying loads of different content:
Finished the tutorials and did the SoE arc.
Tried mining for about 2 minutes and had enough.
Worked my way up through the mission levels but was bored by the time I got to L3's.
Exploration lasted a bit longer, and I happened to scan down a Cytoserocin cloud in low sec and was amazed at how much it was worth. This led to an unexpected career change into Booster production, and I was soon sitting on a significant pile of isk.
That made me think it was a good time to try PvP, so I took the 'Tribes Shilling' in the Spring last year to try my hand at it, not expecting to like it - Just wanted to have done it.
Fleets were meh. Structure bashing worse. Small gang better. But then I got my first solo kill, and before my hands had stopped shaking I knew I'd found my game. Been racking up solo kills practically every night since and it aint getting old.
Progressed through a few corps who were happy to take me understanding my preference for solo PvP until I finally felt ready to fulfil my day one ambition of being good enough to apply to The Tuskers.
Us soloists often get wrongly labelled as not being a part of the sandbox. But there is a big difference between ppl who avoid contact with the community, and those who participate and interact in a solo context. My experience has taught me that solo players can be a valuable asset to any corp/group in loads of ways.
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