Florestan Bronstein
The Waterworks
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Posted - 2011.12.02 09:44:00 -
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Selinate wrote: So please, don't act like it's the highsec player's fault for not wanting to jump into a situation where they're pretty much guaranteed to constantly lose.
That's the way pvp in EVE works.
More often than not your individual performance won't have any measurable impact on whether your ship gets destroyed or not (the letter your character name starts with might be much more important for example).
If you are on a reasonable internet connection and don't face smartbombs (or scripted HICs) you shouldn't have to lose your pod in low-sec.
In any case use cheap implants - my preference is two +3s for the skill I am currently training and a Rogue AY-1 because that's always good to have.
Whether in low or in 0.0, you will lose ships all the time and in 0.0 you will lose pods all the time, too.
Consider your playtime and ISK income and mostly stick to ships that you can replace within 1-2 days.
If you join a corporation/alliance that you are not quite sure about, don't move all your assets on day one.
In fact, my advice would be to move no assets in at all for the first week or so. Pod yourself to their HQ (set medical clone to the station and self-destruct your pod) with enough ISK to buy 3 fitted battlecruisers (one for PvE, one for PvP, one as PvP replacement) and some cheap implants (that's about 250m ISK).
Buy locally, get to know people, join some ops and only move expensive assets (pimped ratting ships, capitals, BPOs ...) in after a week or two.
You don't need your 2.5b Tengu there on day one. You don't need your jumpfreighter there on day one. You don't need your set of T2 BPOs there at all.
If they have a jumpfreighter service it will make runs at least once every week, if you don't get your stuff shipped now it won't be a big deal because you'll get it shipped next week.
Any recruiter who tells you otherwise is either an idiot or a scammer.
If you are bored while doing high-sec things listen to this: http://wiki.pleaseignore.com/images/2/23/Nynjato%27s_Scamming_Lesson.ogg
Second point is to recognize that there is a hierarchy of corps/alliances and trying to join in at the top with no prior experience and no friends (or membership in a OOG community) will usually be pretty hard.
There are myriads of renter corps, pets, small groups in NPC 0.0, ... that are desperately looking for any members they can get and which you can use to start building a kb and employment history which will open up access to corporations you might find more desirable.
Every game works like this - if you want to get into "serious" raiding in WoW you don't start by applying to Paragon, Vodka, Method, Ensidia, ... as soon as you hit lvl 85, you first join some pugs for outdated content, then you join a guild that clears normals, then you move on to a guild that clears some heroic mode content, move on after some time to a guild that has cleared all heroic mode content at the end of a tier cycle, move to a guild that clears all heroic mode content fairly fast, move on to a really good raiding guild.
In MMOs we don't have college/university which might enable you to land jobs at top employers without any prior work experience irl (EVE University tries to fill this role to some degree but the comparison is weak imo).
However, do not underestimate the effect that a well-written application can have on the flexibility of recruiting requirements.
There are many roles that can be filled by low SP characters (which are usually unpopular with older players who want to show off their shiny high SP ships) and new pilots that are eager to learn and motivated are generally a pleasure to work with.
If you think you found a corporation that matches to you (and can explain why that is the case), give it a try even if you don't fulfill all formal requirements they might have listed on their recruitment page. If they turn you down ask them how you can get into a position where they won't turn you down (where to collect the relevant experience, which skills are they looking for, ....). |