Snake Jankins
Minmatar
Veritas Immortalis
   |
Posted - 2006.11.16 20:52:00 -
[1]
Edited by: Snake Jankins on 16/11/2006 21:23:13
Don't fully understand it, what's so different to when I started 2004/Castor Patch (except the player numbers):
One of my first lvl.2 agent was in 0.2 on the Egbinger route into Great Wildlands. Deadspace didn't exist, missions at gates were normal.
I've also been ratting in belts, but not on that main route, I was too afraid, but in a quiet 0.3 system one or two jumps away, me first time chaining rats, cruisers rats, with my autocannon rupture. Was quite fun. But I never got ganked !
I was a newbie without a corp, explored EVE solo, noone told me how to play it, and I had just started to fly cruisers, but like I said, I never got ganked there.
I checked local a lot and when people like Ginger Magician with his apoc or what it was and 10 mil bounty appeared in local, I ran to station and docked. I knew what a pirate was.
Don't know the only difference between 2004 and now is that there are more than twice as many players on the server, I think. So if I was fresh in EVE now, I'd probably move to a low sec system farer away from the main routes and then I think it would be the same quiet low sec life again.
I never made the fault to believe that people won't try to gank me, I was cautious from my first day. Before I knew how the sec. levels work, I was even afraid to get ganked in 0.6 (Think the old castor tutorial wasn't really clear about that pirates usually won't kill me in 0.6.) 
That's why I can't really understand the new players, who are totally careless with their BC in low sec. and get ganked again and again. I started EVE with a healthy paranoia, because the first thing I read about EVE is that there are player pirates.
Well, I came from a pvp game, Neocron-1 at that time, where you could gank anyone you like anywhere, except in so called safezones. I got already massacred in the beta a lot by higher players.
Later I was in pvp clans, the last controlled half of the map on our server for a year or so. When we were bored, we ganked the opposing clans/factions at high levels spots etc. or raided the headquarter of an enemy faction. ( Was comparable to roaming squads like in EVE, except that outblobbing didn't work so well. You could win a 5 vs. 15, if you played better. Big fun. )
So maybe that's the difference: The first MMORPG I ever played was rough and unforgiving like EVE. You could kill someone and with some luck loot the best gun he had. 
Guess for most newbies, who come from low risk MMORPGS, EVE is a shock.
___________
'Only ships can be assembled, this is a Frigate.' |