Gindar
Dragonfire Intergalactic Crusaders of Krom
iPOD Alliance
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Posted - 2006.11.08 05:53:00 -
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on my first day, after completing the tutorial, i decided it was time to go make some isk.
being a  i chose to attack some scordite asteroids because they don't shoot back.
i arrived at the belt, and it was bare! there were several haulers afk mining it.
i soon realized "hmmm, many peoples have come before me,did the tutorial, and mined here."
solution: travel 10 jumps to lowsec! not many people there!
*10 jumps later*
woah, what are those ships in this belt?
hmm. right click->show info
woah! (it was a bantem rat, i thought it was a picture of the actual pirate flying it)
this is a member of the guristas pirates protecting assets. thread level: dangerous.
hmm. i decided i would blow them up and mine lots of scordite next to their wrecks! 
*10 seconds later*
shield drops. crap! warp out! warp out!
made it out with 10% structure.
cowered in 0.9 for a few days 
met up with some rl friends who played. friend showed off his whopping 5 mining lasers on his thorax. i was very very impressed. then he said that the corp makes money by "ninja mining". it sounded fun. so i went with him on this really really far trip.
you are about to enter a 0.0 security level system.. this is extremely dangerous and concord cannot protect you.
uh oh.
me to best friend> i dont think this is a good idea!
friend> no its ok! just be really careful and run if anyone sees you
me> well ok
*clicks ok and jumps*
hmmm this place is big! so this is 0.0? ok lets warp to a belt and mine!
my "friend" hugs the gate and just watches, probably laughing.
i warp to 1st belt. waoooaaahhh!!! huge ships! oh crap they are shooting missiles at me and doing LOTS of damage! warp out! warp out!
i somehow survive and warp out, to another belt. i warp out of that one with 2% structure... to the 3rd belt (i am a slow learner sometimes)
pop goes my tristan. 
now im in a pod! back then i was still enthusiastic and not a bitter grouch about eve. wow, my pod ship still looks kind of cool. and look they aren't shooting me!
friend> time to go.
he was disappointed in me :(
afterwards my rl friend quit and i wandered around aimlessly for days. i talked a lot in help channel, learning about the game. someone named Veronica SP (founder of Big Blue) started advertising impromptu mining ops and well... it kinda went from there ;)
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