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Cyber SGB
Mecha Enterprises Fleet
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Posted - 2015.07.20 15:23:38 -
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How am I suppose to remember way back in 2006?
I do remember flying down deep in Null in a rookie ship. I can't remember which. I saw this huge bright thing that looked like a lightning storm in space. I typed in local, "Wow, do you guys see that thing? What is it? It looks like a huge lightning storm in space!"
The rainbows of newness were bright around me. They took pity and explained what it was. Then, I saw HUGE ships. I was like, "Wow, can I fly up close and get a screen shot?" They agreed. Sure they said.
I talked to them a while and finally I asked how to get back to High Sec fast. I didn't want to fly all the way back. It would just take so long. So, they blew up my ship and podded me in order to expedite my travel.
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Lan Wang
V I R I I Ineluctable.
1120
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Posted - 2015.07.20 15:46:34 -
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i remember looking at the map after a couple of days playing and hearing "see those red places, dont ever go there" so i thought im gonna go there... feeling impressed with my dual tanked arty, blaster, rocket atron i figured i would be able to kill something but it was far away and i was hungry...
so i undocked my bad-ass atron and set autopilot for nullsec and wondered off to grab some food, thinking about the excitement of what i was making to eat and sitting down to do some serious gaming action little did i know autopilot wasnt a good idea. On my return i was intrigued at the pretty big blue spheres that were all around me and somehow i stopped inside one and was like sheesh what happened, why am i stopped here i still have 3 jumps to get to my location. So i started burning out and i seen what looked like star wars x-wings flying super fast at me, so i was like yeah ok ill take you both on, i was redboxed and killed before i could even lock these 2 things.
so there i was in a pod burning back like 90km to the gate with these 2 x-wings flying around me, they must have been impressed with my atron but too scared to ask me about it, anyway they shot me back to highsec and ever since then i wanted to be a pirate :)
i spent the month fitting more super atrons with weapons i knew were good in rl situations, "autocannon" it has cannon in the name it must be awesome right? i died over 100 times before getting a kill and i shot at many pirates just because i wanted to be like them, i was very careless in my young days, if i landed in a gatecamp i would fight them all without trying to get away.
I got nearly excited one time when i had a ship, 4 pirates (2 logi) jumped in and i thought yeah ill take them on, so i was winning and i was excited, then the reps landed and they started killing me, i was sad, then they started repping me, i was like wtf!, well i died again but yeah they were repping me for fun, i was happy because these guys were like playing with there food sorta thing, i was such a noob i didnt really know what was happening.
anyway thats my story about being a noob in eve most fun i ever really had in a game
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ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
6192
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Posted - 2015.07.20 16:10:14 -
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Removed some off topic posts.
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
Vice Admiral
Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)
Interstellar Services Department
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Bibs Dallocort
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.20 16:30:17 -
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Cyber SGB wrote:I talked to them a while and finally I asked how to get back to High Sec fast. I didn't want to fly all the way back. It would just take so long. So, they blew up my ship and podded me in order to expedite my travel.
Exactly the turn I thought it was going to take, haha! |
Tsukino Stareine
Sock Robbers Inc. Low-Class
1244
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Posted - 2015.07.20 23:22:14 -
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EVE Uni.
Spent a lot of time going to classes and learning. Missioning in the meantime to make isk.
Eventually headed to lowsec after my I got a few battlecruiser skills trained up. Lost my first multimillion ship (poor myrmidon) while missioning in low sec.
Was a hard lesson as that myrmidon was around 1/5 of my finances at that point so started smaller and roaming in cruisers. |
Selaria Unbertable
POS Mortem Renegades Of Silence
91
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Posted - 2015.07.21 00:07:35 -
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Summer 2012... Well, I started with missions, and soon discovered the advantages of ninja-salvaging and stealing from the wrecks of other mission runners. That was quite a fun time, although scanning back than was terrible compared to today. After about a month I started my second account, since I wanted to dip a toe into industry and mining without switching the focus of this character. So I had a combat pilot, who soon ended up doing lots of exploration instead of missions, and an industry character, who did occasional mining and sooner than later some serious manufacturing and researching.
About a year later I started a third account, did some PvP in RvB, but that is another story... |
Bibs Dallocort
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.07.21 01:38:21 -
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Selaria Unbertable wrote:About a year later I started a third account, did some PvP in RvB, but that is another story...
What's RvB? |
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat Working Stiffs
5106
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Posted - 2015.07.21 02:13:28 -
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"How did you Veterans start?" |
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat Working Stiffs
5106
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Posted - 2015.07.21 02:16:40 -
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Bibs Dallocort wrote:Selaria Unbertable wrote:About a year later I started a third account, did some PvP in RvB, but that is another story... What's RvB? Red vs. Blue
A perpetual limited hisec war between Red Federation and Blue Republic, restricted to a few hisec systems.
They primarily use frigates and cruisers. They've probably destroyed more frigates in EVE than anybody else, primarily because of their free-for-all (FFA) events, example: they had a 100,000 FFA event where they fought and destroyed that many free frigates over a weekend.
http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/community-spotlight-red-vs-blue/
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=6408 |
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
11352
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Posted - 2015.07.21 03:09:51 -
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well hmmm after some trial accounts over the years, and finally going with a sub on this one, much of my time was spent in exploration, primarily radar sites. This was in the old system, where you just pop open cans and rats spawn on you. So it was about hacking ship fits and weapons, none of these silly modules and rigs for this new mini-game thing. In forums there were always great topics on this, always active, all kinds of discussions, good times. It was all pretty much over written by the new system, rather than added to. I'd suggest something else.
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GordonO
Caldari Provisions
140
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Posted - 2015.07.21 21:02:34 -
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I did the tutorials and tried doing some mining and low level mission. The missions payed better, so did that till I found a good corp who helped in to a drake and went in to wh's. I think people underestimate the power of a decent new player corp. When I started no one would take you if you were in your first month, thats changed.. new players should aim to get in to a good one. Salvaging behind a group of lvl4 mission runners in a destroyer is a great way to make isk while you train
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Thorlund Amatin
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2015.07.22 18:47:35 -
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Sere O'Asis wrote:Let me preface my reply by noting, 1) I'm a woman
Why did you feel this was relevant? |
Noragen Neirfallas
Dedicated and Dangerous The Marmite Collective
1372
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Posted - 2015.07.22 19:05:34 -
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Thorlund Amatin wrote:Sere O'Asis wrote:Let me preface my reply by noting, 1) I'm a woman Why did you feel this was relevant? Boobies make everything better
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE
1316
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Posted - 2015.07.22 19:29:18 -
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I started my first trial Christmas 2006, mostly ran lv1 missions, bought a bunch of ships and skills, traded it to a friend. Made Plankton, got all my stuff and went back to missions. Joined IDLE not too much later. Did a ton of intercorp frig pvp. kept grinding standings 8.0+ to caldari navy for corp jump clones, and 5.0+ caldari state for a pos, as back then you needed corp faction standings to have a pos in highsec. had a few wars, where in one I learned (the hard way) not to go afk in a fleet. Spent a lot of time on the learning skills. Went to nullsec for a while, learned (once again, the hard way) just because there are a bunch of blues in system they aren't going to do a thing when a bunch of neutrals come through.
being a newb was awesome!
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DaReaper
Net 7
2382
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Posted - 2015.07.22 22:31:26 -
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mining
OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!
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Erica Dusette
Isogen 5
48714
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Posted - 2015.07.22 23:40:48 -
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This!
I started out mining around the starter system I began in. Began a little corp for my alts and I. I'd talk a bit in local, always sociable, and ended up meeting a lovely pair of can flipping pirates who were also a RL couple. Became friends and they showed me around beyond the starter areas, got me my first pvp experiences and even showed me my first wormhole.
Later I'd make another friend who had a dream of living in wormholes and had found some crazy German guy living alone in a C1 who was willing to share. So both our corps moved in and I fell in love with wormhole space. I'd barely been playing a few months, would die a lot in the WH and in the end wanted to learn how to fight back better. So took my main and couple other characters and joined faction wars. Did the FW thing for maybe 6 months, along with a couple of pvp classes (Agony Unleashed's courses were great). Returned to wormholes, been there since, winning most of our fights!
Ended up moving into bigger WH corps for bigger action, while still maintaining a wormhole of my own and alts on the side that dabble in everything from mining to highsec ganking. My mains (and heart) will always be with wormholes, but you can never have your fingers in too many playstyles. So much to experience in EVE.
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Lugues Slive
Diamond Light Industries
32
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Posted - 2015.07.23 02:23:38 -
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I start eve back in 2003 (not with this char ) and spent my first month mining veld for 1 isk per trit because I didn't know ant better. Would get warnings for selling any other mineral below recommended minimum.
After a while I got invited to a Corp 20-30 jumps away and got convinced to drop my assets in Corp hanger and donate my first million isk to help the CEO get his first cruiser. Next day Corp was gone.
Then got conned into fleeting up with these two great guys who were going to help me fight some higher level rats, only to lose my first Stabber.
All within maybe 3 months. Still here though. |
Vol Arm'OOO
Bagel and Lox
686
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Posted - 2015.07.23 02:46:29 -
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Bibs Dallocort wrote:Quite straight forward. How did you all spend your first few months in Eve? As a new player I'm quite interested to see what other things I could be doing instead of windowing my game and going semi-afk mining in high-sec to scrap up some ISK. Alternatively, what are different tasks other than mission running, station trading, and mining which I could be doing to get some ISK in my wallet? Need to get some of those 10M+ skillbooks.
Ran the soe epic arch mission then joined a corp, then left that corp with a guy that said he could find us pvp, did a couple of war decs, then trained into a stealth bomber and can flipped miners - was great fun.
I don't play, I just fourm warrior.
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Candi LeMew
Isogen 5
34555
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Posted - 2015.07.23 11:42:16 -
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#iwasthere
I used to pilot a Mammoth. That's right, A ******* MAMMOTH. Hauling the ores that the Dusette sisters would mine.
NOW LOOK WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO ME.
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Aladar Dangerface
13. Enigma Project
197
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Posted - 2015.07.23 14:00:30 -
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Bouncing around high sec corps not having a lot of fun, then moved to low sec where i started to do exploration, which was both fun and profitable. Eventually ended up in w-space (best space).
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Eli Apol
Definitely a nullsec alt
437
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Posted - 2015.07.23 14:14:48 -
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Within my first week I was found mining veldspar in a rookie system and invited into a mining corp based in Hoth...I quickly realised there was a niche for someone to haul and refine the ores for our group ops when the CEO wasn't there in his orca, so instead of training into an exhumer I went for Gallente industrials and started charging a small percentage to my corpmates for moving their ore back to a station in an iteron, refining it down into minerals and selling at the nearest hub for them - I eventually had a couple of understudies helping move the ores back to the station and contracting them over to me to refine as our mining ops grew and grew...
Around the end of month 1 my first corp failed as the CEO disappeared (pretty sure he just used us to mine ore for him to build a carrier or something...jerk) so I moved, along with some of the other members, into an industrial and mission running corp based around Rens - they were grinding standings to start running a POS so I trained up into a myrmidon and assisted on L4s (this was pre aggro changes so you could just fit for max gank and let a battleship warp in first and tank the spawns). They happened to also have a similarly oriented alliance a few jumps away in Cat who I ran missions with when nothing else was happening.
After a short while one of their members invited me WH diving into C1s and 2s -10mil nanoribbons made us stupidly rich very fast and the news spread through my new corp - within days I was training up all the mission runners in my new corp on how to use D-scan and probe launchers and bringing them in on WH dives - we were completely PvE oriented, mostly in disposable Drakes with me in a salvage Myrm doing some drone DPS whilst grabbing the loots. Through Dscan RSI we made a small fortune with very minimal losses (I still vividly remember watching one of my diving partners get taken out by a T2 gang whilst I scared off their tackle wolf with my drones and made it to a safespot with all the loot!).
Around this time my new CEO had a baby IRL and he offered up his position to anyone that seemed popular for the job and one of the guys I'd been diving with stood for and got the position, his first act was to make me a director and his second act was to decide we're moving into WHs - We made a deal with the friendly Cat alliance that anyone who wanted to stay in highsec would move to them, whilst we'd absorb anyone from their corp that wanted to explore Wspace. We collaboratively saved up for maybe a week to buy 'Milliways' our first POS and scanned and scanned and scanned to find our first home.
By the end of month 3 my horribly trained industrial/refining/myrmidon/scanning toon and a couple of crappy scanning alts had been made a director in a brand new WH corp and were completely over our heads sitting inside our POS shield in wspace. It was glorious.
but what would I know, I'm just a salvager
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Keno Skir
755
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Posted - 2015.07.23 14:58:41 -
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Oops misread the post i was replying to :D
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Retfird Rats
Mining Industrial and Research Collective
1
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Posted - 2015.07.23 16:47:28 -
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As I really wanted to get into production, I spent my first couple of weeks mining, buying BPOs, and experimenting with T1 production/sales. Did not make very much from that and was always waiting on sales. I saw how much T2 ships went for so I spent weeks skilling into research, R&D, invention and higher ship production. Created a few T2 BPOs to find materials to make T2 ships can only be gotten through infrastructure set in .4 and below or through direct material purchases that ended up costing far more than the ships are valued. So now I am skilling into to what I guess I should have which is higher end barges and base offensive and defensive skills. Knowing what I know now, I would of never even attempted R&D, invention, or production of any kind and would of just skilled further into mining and base offensive and defensive skills as I have a bunch of seemingly worthless skills trained and am basically playing catch up. |
Marcus Gord
Pyre Falcon Defence and Security Multicultural F1 Brigade
83756
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Posted - 2015.07.28 12:39:04 -
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i started mission running with a side of mining. then after the first wardec i wanted to learn to fight. joined an industrial arm of a small pirate group. weekend warrioring. fast forward a few years, i'm in facwar full time, and outlaw sec status.
full time pvper.
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Bastion Arzi
Red Federation RvB - RED Federation
222
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Posted - 2015.07.28 13:58:37 -
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i mission ran, i also stubled across a corp called pro synergy who salvage for you and give you 45% of the profits each week. was a nice bump to my income using the logic that if i didnt have to salvage myself i would be able to run more missions in a given amount of time.
i got quirte lucky with a few nioce vets listening to my noob questions and giving me generous isk donations.
also met a nice industrialuist on my travels who built me a few nocti and harbingers.
there are nice folk out ther |
V1r4L B00sh
Kill Them With Kindness
0
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Posted - 2015.07.28 17:47:49 -
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I started off being a high sec carebear miner for a month. I had paid for 3 months of game time, plus my one free month. About two weeks after I subbed, I moved states and had no reliable internet connection to actively play. I was able to keep my skill queue updated, however. About six months after my sub dropped, I'd reestablished myself and resubbed for more carebear highsec mining then unsubbed. Came back around April this year, did some mining for a week, then decided to move to Null with my corp at the time (Brave Newbies Inc.)
I mostly struck around F-8 and 1-5 with Bovril doing ratting and defense fleets. Then I started a mining Indy/apt and did all my mining in 1-5. Decided mining/Indy wasn't profitable enough as I didn't dedicated much time to it, so I then started a market alt and have been making dank passive isk since.
I now spend my time in FW fighting for CalMil. I'm not that great, only one solo kill, but it's definitely my calling. I don't have time to dedicate to fleets. I just want to get on, undock, blow **** up/Gert blown up, log off. FW is perfect for this. No waiting on the fleet to prepare, no simple F1 monkeying. And I'm getting to the point where I don't just instantly lose my **** when engaging in fights!
May get started in PI on my marketeer here in the next week or so. Seems like another good passive source if income.
Edit: I do rarely run level 3 securirty missions in Caldari space, and am going to snag a BS gfor level 4 missions eventually. I thoroughly enjoy just running missions sometimes. They're actually decently profitable when I loot, salvage, and sell everything on my alt. |
Ella Echerie
The Scope Gallente Federation
11
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Posted - 2015.07.29 15:16:01 -
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Career missions and assorted hi sec missions until I was ready to run the Sisters of Eve epic arc. Then lvl 3 and 4 missions, some cosmos missions and exploration, and eventually a dabble in FW. FW is a great place for newer players once you can afford to fit a bunch of frigates and don't mind losing them. |
Vortexo VonBrenner
Tadakastu-Obata Corporation The Honda Accord
2048
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Posted - 2015.07.29 20:54:29 -
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First while in EvE? Mining in the starter system and learning about New Eden with the RL friend I started EvE with. First goal was to work into a T1 basic hauler. Finally got that only to have it shot out from under me 2 days later in the next system over. Welcome to EvE. I didn't know why "gf" was being put into local...when I found out it meant "good fight" I thought "What? There was no fight, he must be making fun at me". I was told, "no, he is showing good sportsmanship doing that, not mocking you". Good times. Now I'd be doing the tutorial and then the Sisters of EvE epic arc. Then I'd probably train up salvagers and go salvage missions for a specialty corp like Pro Synergy....maybe some ninja salvaging, some salvaging along major pipes (trade routes)...then perhaps train up a basic cloaking device, learn how to use your D-scan (Directional scanner - every ship has one), and go salvage Faction Warfare battle areas. Meanwhile be training up scanning and probing skills and go exploring. Probes and scanning will open up a lot of EvE to you.
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Alaric Faelen
Sabotage Incorporated Executive Outcomes
324
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Posted - 2015.07.29 23:25:59 -
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I came to Eve knowing no one that played, or even what the game was really about. My first couple months were scratching around high sec running combat missions and learning some game mechanics- back when there was essentially no 'new player experience' that CCP cared about. You were just dropped into the game and left to figure it out.
In those first couple months I nearly quit Eve because it sucked playing alone (my first corp was a random invite to care bears that mined...while I ran missions just as alone as before) and in PvP there were basically only two ships that mattered- Drakes and Sabres. It was perhaps one of the lowest points in Eve to get involved with the game.
Then Incarna came out and I didn't log in for a couple months. Space Barbie was the last thing I wanted in a game, and it seemed most of the player base was about to walk away as well. If Eve didn't have the real-time training mechanic where my character continued to develop despite me not really playing- I would have absolutely left.
After a few months of sort-of caring about Eve, I applied to join a low sec pirate corp- and it changed the game entirely for me. Eve was a whole new game- fun, social, challenging. I reveled in only using one character- now with outlaw sec status- and the challenges that presented. The debacle of Incarna re-focused CCP into spaceships and we had great expansions and ship re-balancing that Eve was missing all along. So I am glad I stuck with it.
I gave space piracy a year or so before wanting to move up to the big leagues of PvP, and joined a sov alliance- the same one I am still a member of today.
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Baneken
Arctic Light Inc. Arctic Light
520
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Posted - 2015.07.31 06:31:50 -
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There's also a sticky on this forum about the subject but like everyone else I started with mission running and learning skills. |
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