Kessiaan
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Posted - 2012.01.07 17:31:00 -
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SnowxCrash wrote:Hiding in highsec? Okay, so, I reactivated my acc on..the 12th of Dec. I had +1 imps, a kestrel, and 12m isk, and 6.5m sp bc I spent more time training afk than IG due to the lame learning skillset. For all intensives purposes I was a noob with some basic familiarity with a game which has changed quite a bit in 3yrs. In my first week I was in a cruiser doing l2s. Second week in a Drake doing l3s. Now I can tank l4s but still need to train dps to do many l4s. I've been back less than a month, had remote memories of flying a frig, and you're saying I'm hiding in highsec after only playing for under 3wks? I'm learning the game, I'm learning how to be part of a corp. I suppose to an extend I am hiding in highsec as ensuring I have imps to make training faster seems to be a logical step for a long-term plan to enter PvP and Null well-trained, funded, and familiar with the game. In three wks I've gone from trying to passive tank a Caracal to creating a fit for my Drake that outtanks a Nightmare with faction mods while still lacking significant training.
Perhaps this all bias's me towards other noobs. I came to Eve aware of how things would work out due to convos with established players in other games. I admit perhaps I just can't appreciate the salvaging miniprof. However, what I've seen so far in this thread is very few convincing arguments for this profession and an almost complete disregard or misunderstanding of my explanations of whyl my suggestion is better suited to this situation and how it should play out. Something even you don't seem to understand. Maybe I should elaborate, give you more information so you can. The players in question, that were ninja salvaging, were part of a 100 member corp, a corp that had established players flying Tengus and Navy Issue Ravens. If I popped that players ship the risk I take would be as real as his and could have just as much financial impact, perhaps even more if events escalated and with these possibilities the sandbox nature of the encounters which could happen from ninja salvaging would expand to encompass key aspects of Eve.
I resubbed myself around the same time; granted I had a fair bit more prior experience than you but being away for a while really isn't a fair excuse for not knowing how things work, and I had being -10 with no (active) connections to anyone working against me as well.
Life in low/null is a lot more about your connections than your raw SP totals - most of my skillpoints are invested in mining and Gallente stuff, my current corp flies Minmatar almost exclusively and I refuse to touch a Hulk anymore. But I have BC 5 and excellent gunnery skills, which means I can fly a Hurricane. So I fly a 'cane in PvP, rat in an Ishtar, watch alliance and intel channels for hostiles and follow the FCs directions and I do just fine, despite the fact that a good 2/3 of my SPs are invested in skills I'm not using at the moment. I know some big alliances like to move noobs they've recruited into the game out into null on their first day, just so they don't become dependent on CONCORD (not to mention they can make a lot more money).
Also, keep in mind that highsec shenanigans are just that - in 0.0 if someone invades your mission (or anomaly site, more likely), you get an op together and shoot them. Or dock and wait for them to leave, depending on the situation. Same with can flipping, it just doesn't exist outside of highsec. My killboard - http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Kessiaan |