Jacques Danton
Gallente
Federal Navy Academy
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Posted - 2007.08.03 23:50:00 -
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 Originally by: Cmdr Sy
June 2004, there I was, a noob buzzing around in an Atron trying to cope with 0.7 sec NPCs, Mining IV my highest skill, thinking a Punisher from corp was the best gift ever, thinking the 600k I got off my first corp mining op was awesome as it paid for half the starter skillbooks I needed.
And several guys are in BS, having a conversation in a belt about having 10m SPs.
Yep, kinda demoralising being a year late to the party.
But I stuck around, and one thing I learned, a skilled newbie with the right attitude is more useful in a corp (and as a friend) than a random player who might even be from 2003.
If you find intelligent like-minded people, screw the SPs. People are constantly joining and leaving. The average subscription lasts 7 months. There will always be less experienced people to own, and more experienced people to challenge a gang.
Find the right structure too. Some people love being part of a collective in here, cannonfodder, cog in the machine. If you are more of an individualist, adopt a playstyle to suit. Sick of typing x in a channel of hundreds, why are you even there?
Have you ever asked yourself why does the average player stay for 7 months only? On average, meaning plenty stay for less. Aren't you supposed to be becoming really good at stuff around the 7th month, thus why would people leave instead of having the huge amounts of fun all the fanbois claim about in here? Maybe because they caught on something the OP is all about?
Reading this and similar threads one is but to wonder what sort of idiots seem to constitute the majority of this game's community - such idiocy and blatant denial of even obvious problems plaguing EVE to the extent that the average EVE poster posts crap worse than the average (and much hated around here) WoW player. I've witnessed more humor, wit and constructive and even plainly funny posts over at WoW (and related) forums than in this ****hole that is the EVE community forums at large... even though supposedly the average player age in EVE is 25+, there must be plenty of 50+ year old geeks playing this thing it seems...
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