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Legatus Augustine
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Posted - 2007.11.16 23:25:00 -
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Edited by: Legatus Augustine on 16/11/2007 23:32:12
I have been playing for one week as Minmatar soldier. I now have 900K skill points, 10 mil ISK, and am happily flying a around in my Thrasher flying level 1 quality 18 npc missions. just learning. I know there is more out there but....
My question to anyone ( i would love to hear from everyone ) is this.....
Where were you all at after one week in the game? What about one month? And six months?
I WANT to hear from different people what their strategies and goals were for themselves at different times in the game (1,000,000 skill points or 3 months into the game etc.) I'm looking for BIG picture answers..were you trying to join a corporation or were you just happy soloing...or is it all about PVP?
What were you doing and flying and focusing skill points in to make YOUR game good from 1 week to 6 months?
thanks....
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Dang Khoa
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Posted - 2007.11.17 00:51:00 -
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at 1 week, I'm a noob
at 1 month, I'm still a noob
now at 6 months, and I'm an old boob... Who says there's a typo??
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miro hirisko
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Posted - 2007.11.17 00:55:00 -
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on my very first char (got delteted  ) on my second week after lapying i heard all the best ore was in 0.0
so i packed up my hauler and vigil and wondered of to curse space as that was the nearest. so i set up shop in the belts dumping secure cans in variuos belts so i could run away from rats in one belt and mine in another, picking up the ore was tricky but managable.
so after about 7 days of mining i get a frig turn up and ask me what i was doing. which ofc i replyed to by saying i was mining, with in about a hour at least 30 ships had turned up at this point to watch my antics. possible becuase i was told i was insane 
i had ofc no idea what they were on about, i was a 3 week old noob at that point  so finally they decided to blow my ship up and told me to leave town (thank you ua industrys)
apprently i would of most likly gone unnotticed cept for the fact i was selling the ore in there main base :¦
well a quick podding and a few mill, it was worth it 
just rememeber noobs can do the silliest things cause we simply dont know better, oh this was about 3-3.5 years ago.
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Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
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Posted - 2007.11.17 02:43:00 -
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1 week, caracal doing level 1/2s with a terrible fitting
1 month: drake, level 3s, learning skills
at 6 months i believe i was in a t1 fit raven soloing level 4s, while skilling up to fly amarr ships
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Legatus Augustine
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Posted - 2007.11.17 02:57:00 -
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chainsaw, miro....thanks.
definately a steep learning curve. lots to learn in this game i can see. from reading other posts it seems a good three months is needed to get going real good.
it just seems Sooo long.
DOES ANYONE belive that Newbies should try and progress as quickly as possible through the ship tree...i.e. advance to the NEXT ship as quickly as possible in their race?
probably...
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Commander Prishe
Caldari
The LoneStar Corp
Edge Of Sanity
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Posted - 2007.11.17 03:10:00 -
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Edited by: Commander Prishe on 17/11/2007 03:12:46
First few weeks was an information overload, took time to learn the game, was learning new things constantly at the same time was not understanding a lot of stuff. Hardest thing was understanding how agents worked and how to find them. A little tip dont look at the ingame map of the universe in your first few days of playing, this made my head explode.
I think I picked the game up pretty fast, had 4 million isk on the second day due to getting lucky and looting a nice module on some level 2 mission, was flying caracal on day 3, I was ready for my drake on day 12 so had to buy subscription, was doing level 3s in the second week, joined a corp after 1 month, was flying the raven and doing level 4s a week after that.
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Zyol
Gallente
Work Sucks
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Posted - 2007.11.17 05:03:00 -
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Personally I feel that you should get out into low sec and 0.0 as soon as possible to learn about the game mechanics. High sec is like ******, at first it feels good, safe, warming to your blood, you get relaxed, all in all a good time.
However; it slowly starts to drain away at your soul, you become paranoid, you don't want to take risk and lose your precious pod. Of course there is your attachment to ships and implants, can't lose those...next thing you know you are a full blown ****** addict, I mean high sec carebear, who is limiting themselves to less than 1/3 of the game.
Join one of the player run corps that accepts new pod pilots. Fly in gangs in low sec, become a tackler, learn the ropes a bit. I promise you that 95% of corps will either fully replace or offer you discounted ships and modules if you are flying with corpmates and get blown up. The more experienced pilots will guide you towards which skills you need and which skills are nice to have.
Remember, this is a great big sandbox the developers have created for us to "play" in. There used to be a great U.S. Army recruitment quote that went a little something like this:
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Join the army. Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people. And kill them
It's all up to you where you end up. I went down both paths, I was lucky back when I started they had the Power of 2 so I have one pod who is purely focused on mining and industry, which is boring as hell and I hate every minute in game, then there is my free spirited flying in gangs having a blast pod, who happens to enjoy a bit of PvP and some missions for flavor when my friends aren't around.
Either way, take your time, make some friends and set goals like I want to be a really great frigate pilot in the next 3 months or I want to carebear my arse off flying a Caldari Drake running the same missions over and over again, up to you!
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Femintaki
Gallente
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.11.17 07:49:00 -
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1 week - had learnt to mine and had about 500k in my wallet (In May 2003 making isk in Eve was not quite the simple process it is today)
1 month - Met and joined up with my first corp (these guys are still some of my very closest friends in eve). Everytime I found a piece of loot I checked the skills it needed, if I did not have the skill on my sheet I bought it.
6 months - had just about made enough isk to buy a BS through working with friends, joined an alliance, started buying low end tech 1 bpos and becoming a trader of rare items.
1 year - owned 37 tech 2 BPOs which I started buying from lucky lottery winners, many of my friends were taking breaks from game.
Today (IE 4.5 years) - I own 147 tech 2 BPOs (145 of them purchased) and I am as big a noob as ever . I enjoy trading, manufacturing, invention, missions, low sec ratting, mining (occasionally), large scale PVP - ie BIG fleet battles, small scale roaming PVP etc. My strategy on skills has meant there is little I cannot do in the game which opens up every possibility.
You currently have 325 skills and 74,306,258 skill points
0 skills at level 0
0 skills at level 1
26 skills at level 2
101 skills at level 3
103 skills at level 4
95 skills at level 5
My wallet is "healthy" 
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Do or do not - there is no try!
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cal nereus
Perkone
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Posted - 2007.11.17 07:53:00 -
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One Week - I was still learning many parts of the game, and portions of the interface still confused me. Since I was too weak to fight NPCs, I just mined veldspar in my Bantam.
One Month - I had a Kestrel, a Retriever, a Badger Mk.II, and I could use five tech-1 light scout drones by then. I had enough gaming experience to be the one answering more questions in the Help channels and Noob corp channels than I was asking. I moved to Amarr space to enjoy the less crowded asteroid belts, and whenever I wasn't mining kernite I was doing a handful of level 1 missions in the Kestrel.
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Sicil Fioet
Minmatar
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Posted - 2007.11.17 08:13:00 -
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At one week I was flying a frigate doing an odd mission here and there in empire. Was working on my learning skills. It was at the time when you had to have level 5's on basic learning skills to plug in advanced learning skills (we also did not start with 800K sp but much less). So I was working towards improving my learning skills, slowly making ISK, and trying to make sense of EVE.
At one month I was flying a destroyer in low sec - 0.2/0.3 - ratting. I was done training almost all of my basic learning skills to level 5 and plugged in a few advanced learning ones (low sec ratting paid well so i had no trouble affording them). I flew my dessie for a few weeks, didn't like it, and switched to a cruiser and started training up combat skills for my cruiser which I totally lacked because over 70% of my sp were in learning. My first encounters with low sec rats in a cruiser weren't much better than in a destroyer, but as I gained sp i got better at it. I was already in a corp by that time. We hanged around low sec a lot and our main preoccupation at the time was low sec piwate griefers who didn't let us mine and rat in peace.
At six months I could pilot assault frigs and interceptors, and was working on battleship skills along with some skills needed for tech II equipment. I was already hanging out in 0.0 for several months, member of a corp that was in alliance. Skill-wise I was focusing on making myself better at killing the 0.0 spawns. I could not fly a battleship, didn't consider them very interesting, so i had to make do with the ships I could fly. By six months though i was rather good at 0.0 ratting, and finally decided I'd train for a bs so that I could fly one for alliance ops. I usually came to fleet ops as tackler or e-war support so I also trained up to have decent e-war skills. In a few months I was envisioning myself training for recon and dictors, but there were always these unexpected support skills I had to train cropping up and it took a while to get to these ships.
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Disco Flint
Caldari
Disco Corp.
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Posted - 2007.11.17 08:18:00 -
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1 week: ratting in lowsec with my shiny new (and horribly fitted) Moa. Goal: not to lose my Moa again (did on my second day)
1 month: ratting and some PvP in lowsec with my shiny new Ferox, some Lvl 2 missions, created a Corp along with a handful of RL friends. Did my learning skills & the Basics (engineering, electronics and all that). Goal: getting all my corpmates to lowsec as well.
6 month: Still lowsec and now and then some highsec missions with my shiny new Raven. Got my ass handed to me by Zazzmatazz. Learned how to friggin fit my ships. Missile skills and shield tanking skills. Goal: jumpclones and monies. Lots of monies!
1 year: No idea really... somewhere lowsec or 0.0 with whatever toy I fancied at that time... I think it was the Drake. Probably started training for HACs and Command ships by then, also crosstrained to Gallente and Minmatar, started gunnery and armor tanking skills. Also started collecting faction toys. Looked for fun in 0.0 and only found blobs, headed back to lowsec. Goal: I abandoned all goals by that time and just started doing whatever the heck I wanted to do.
Now (close to 2 years): Still in lowsec with whatever toy I fancy at the time :)
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Jacob Holland
Gallente
19th Star Logistics
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Posted - 2007.11.17 09:03:00 -
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After one week I had nearly fifty thousand SPs, I'd lost six ships and I had a wallet balance of about 200k.
After one month I joined my first player corp, I'd made more than fifteen million ISK and given a good chunk of that to friends who weren't doing so well and I'd just got into my first cruiser. I'd lost eleven ships IIRC.
After six months I'd lost close to twenty ships and two pods. I was ratting in Catch in a Thorax when the nasty pirates would let me, I was flying frigates almost exclusively plus mining barges and haulers (though I hadn't been in empire for a little while and I was living out of the corp POS).
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Originally by: cordy
Respect to IAC .Your one of the few people who truly deserve to own and live in the space you are in.
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Estel Arador
Minmatar
AFK
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Posted - 2007.11.17 11:37:00 -
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one week: flying Rifters in a 0.0 corp
one month: flying Rifters in a 0.0 corp
six months: flying Jaguars in an empire (player) corp
Been running missions and trading since then. Never used a skill plan, just trained whatever seemed like a good skill, or whatever I felt like. Worked out quite reasonable, if you ask me.
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DayVV4lkEr
Liga Freier Terraner
Cult of War
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Posted - 2007.11.17 11:44:00 -
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1 Week I was happily hauling Giant Secure Containers from Yulai to Tourier (more profite then mining) and trying to get a clue about how eve works (totally overwhelmed by information, guess that is even worse nowadays)
1 Month I happily jumped into my first Caracal and realized in Missions that it was crap! (btw still a noob)
6 Month I jumped into my Raven (either it took longer back then or i just have been a noob (i bet on a mixture out of both)
1 Year I have joined the Corp I was always intending to join (been in their "acadamy" Corp before) and with that I joined Xetic
2 Years My Wallet looks pretty good 1 b cash and 1 T2 BPO (bought! not from an Agent)
2,5 Years my Corps System changes to a Communistic System (btw still the same Corp) I'm already in a pretty high position in the Corp so there is a lot to do on a Side note we left Xetic (no clue when it was exactly) ran around Empire for 3 or 4 month got bored and joined -V-
Now my Corp got pretty rich we own a lot of T2 BPOs now (around 40 and no crap, all that we have is for self supply in PvP) we had our own Alliance for a short Time it has happend a lot. Changes in Allys, changes in Ideas and changes by the almighty CCP. And btw i stopped feeling like a noob when i hit 40 m SP all specialized in PvP (didn't have to do anything with the ammount of SP it was just the time i realized i can fly pretty much anything with Caldari)
And just for your Info you will never stop learning in EVE. Even if you have playe 4 years there a still new things to be found at each day.
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Kavol Valarius
Amarr
Unity of Honor
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Posted - 2007.11.17 12:48:00 -
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I was sitting mining in a Bestower for like.. a year.. while I did learning skills. Back in the old days. *shakes walking stick*
I'm either hardcore or absolutely insane. Probably the latter.
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lookingatme
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Posted - 2007.11.17 12:55:00 -
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ugh where to start...
First week: i was in a thorax..which conincidently was a sheild boosted thorax ( o.O ) i didnt no what skills where.. i just seen big ships and thought.. i want them. i had this theory that bigger was better.. soon found out it wasnt. joined a corp and started level 1 missions and it evenually led to level 2.
first month: battle cruiser... bit better, but i lost 3 of them (brutix) before i learned my lesson in level 3 missions. by this time i had no backbone skills. mechanic/electronics/engineering. it was mostly in drones/spaceship command.
6 months: i now had the backbone skills to 5, hull upgrades to 5 also (great skill to have) doing level 4 missions solo in a domi/mega.
present: hmm right now im about 10-11 monthes old. i have battleship level 5. good gunnery skills to get me by. some nice drone skills (what i consider nice others consider..wtf)
i have gallente dread level 1. and i have around 10mil SP. so im moving up slowly but surely. isk in my wallet at the moment is 800mil and some change. i PVP alot cause.. its good obviously :D and to eb honest best thing a new person could do is really get into a good starting corp and ask questions to everything. dont do certain missions without asking.. what is resistances, what do these guys do here?
you will get there evenually though :) just have to stick at it really lol..its a long lengthy process trying to build up your capital and trying to make a name for yourself :)
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squall321
Gallente
Blackguard Brigade
Aftermath Alliance
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Posted - 2007.11.17 12:56:00 -
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the above si me btw. cleared my cookies and forgot to set this as default :( i phail lol
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Legatus Augustine
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Posted - 2007.11.17 19:32:00 -
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...next thing you know you are a full blown ****** addict, I mean high sec carebear, who is limiting themselves to less than 1/3 of the game.
Now that is funny....CAREBEAR? HAHAHAHAHA....NOT GONNA do that.
There used to be a great U.S. Army recruitment quote that went a little something like this:
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Join the army. Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting, unusual people. And kill them
AWESOME QUOTE.
Either way, take your time, make some friends and set goals like I want to be a really great frigate pilot in the next 3 months or I want to carebear my arse off flying a Caldari Drake running the same missions over and over again, up to you!
i THINK you have the right idea....thanks for responding.
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Tortun Nahme
Minmatar
Heimatar Services Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.11.17 20:00:00 -
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after my first week I was still flying a frigate and had next to no isk left
After my first month I was flying a destroyer with no isk left
after my first 6 months I was still flying a destroyer because I liked it better than cruisers and battlecruisers were too expensive, but I had my cheetah (still broke)
after my first year: Occasionally popped into a cruiser or battlecruiser but destroyer was still my second home, made a whole lot of isk scouting in my cheetah for privateer gatecamps
1.5: Battlecruisers were the norm for running level 3's
2: I could fly most t2 frigates (all races)
now: I can fly all t2 frigates, and all minmatar t2 cruisers
my hangars have multiple battleships and I have a hard time deciding which ship to fly for what 
Originally by: Cecil Montague
They should change that warning on entering low sec to:
"Go read Crime and Punishment for a few days then come back."
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Laura Steel
The Chaotic Order
Fallout Project
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Posted - 2007.11.17 22:28:00 -
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Week 1: Stepped into a Rupture and was grinding level 2 missions.
Month 1: Stepped into a Hurricane and did level 3 missions.
Month 2: Got wise and bought a Drake for doing missions.
Must be close to month 6 now. Still do missions, some mining, ratting in 0.0. Training Gang assist and corp helping skills and working out logistical stuff with my corp :)
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Caldorous
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.11.17 22:47:00 -
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1 week: i was in a imicus doing courier missions
1 month: i was in a tristan mining in 0.9 and doing lvl 1 or lvl 2 missions
2 months: maybe it was the time when i got my first cruiser, i can't remember
i started with... 80k sp? the newbies nowadays only have advantages '^^
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Thorek Ironbrow
Ironbrow Industries Co.
Empire Research
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Posted - 2007.11.17 23:18:00 -
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2 Weeks, barely used to the game still. Getting into Industry, making Sabretooth missiles
2 Months later, finally left MG Companys. Made my own corporation and joined an Alliance
1 Month later (now), getting into research and industry. My friend tells me I should mine. But I say there's no point, when it's just as fast to buy the minerals I need.
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Part of the Empire Research Alliance
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Xiut
Rens 911
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Posted - 2007.11.17 23:29:00 -
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1 week : training learning skills not playing
1 month : training learning skills not playing
2 months : training to efficiently mine in an osprey and basic normal skills
3 months : decides to start training to fly dominixes to better mine and not be an easy --target( started out as caldari)
6 months : still training to be a good dom pilot and plan to never mine again.
today at 1.25 years : the only smaller class ships I can fly are only to level 4 and training tech 2 guns.
i specialized in gallente battleships in short.
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Aseoph
Dirt Nap Squad
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Posted - 2007.11.18 00:58:00 -
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Lets see....
1 week...
I was still doing n00b missions, might have been in a cormorant.
1 month...
think I was in lvl 3s, barely. and in a Ferox.
6 months...
got picked up by a carebear mining corp at about 3 months and proceeded to waste the next year or so training mining/indy skills. Wasn't until about 8-9 months that I realized I needed to focus in on training.
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Qui Shon
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Posted - 2007.11.18 01:30:00 -
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1 week.
Well, I did some missions, but a lot of the time I was looking through low and no sec for rat and player drops other people had ignored, some might call it stealing their loot, but since they didn't want it I figured it was up for grabs. Got lucky and found a snake implant or something like that, don't remember for sure. Sold it for 50 mil or so, and that got me some implants, advanced learning skillbooks and a cruiser of two.
2-3 months.
Got bored as well as disheartened by dev scandals as well as all the evil in this game, griefers and whatnot, despite not having direct contact with either issue. Didn't log in for 1,5-2 months, despite having paid 6 months in advance for two accounts.
6 months.
Doing some manufacturing, some trading and L4's. Obsessing about ship setup efficiency for missions, and mission time & dps per training time and isk.
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Wayward Hooligan
Sniggerdly
Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2007.11.18 02:46:00 -
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I read a post on a forum somewhere that explained how to get involved in pvp right out of the gate. I got my ****ty Incursus fit up and headed out to low sec to kill folks.
Lost a lot of Incursus but had a good time. Made me want to keep playing eve.
I think I had about 3million isk in the wallet when I made my first trip into 0.0. Went to h-pa29 in an Incursus and had a good time trying to get through MM controlled space.
Got blown up within a week of making it to h-pa.
Tried that one more time before looking for a 0.0 pvp corp to join.
Dunno how old I was when I joined SniggWaffe but I've been 0.0 pvping ever since.
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niroshido
Caldari
Soldiers Of Zahaar
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Posted - 2007.11.18 02:57:00 -
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1 week: learned that attacking CONCORD with another guy = pwned
spent my time in my bantam mining in the belts of a 1.0 system
1 month: i was in my first corp and industrial corp ISIS technologies, still have good friends
6 months: a merge between CXI and ISIS occured and i moved to refuel pos's for the largest empire t2 mineral producing corp.
1 yr: after getting bored i dediced to try 0.0, found myself staring at a KBP gatecamp by ]V[ alliance, and joined them 1 week later, helped in the scouting of ]v[ alliance as we moved from LV space to set up our own outpost at 5 am in the morning. Got my b8tt handed to me by a member of MC during there contract in I-N. TCF then overran the system. ]v[ disbanded after a while, joined MCORP, now im in empire making ISK from missions as i plan other stuff
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Ziggy Smalls
Department of Defence
Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.11.18 15:48:00 -
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1 Week: I learned that you can't kill people with bounties in high sec.
1 Month: I learned that you can't salvage your gang member's wrecks in high sec (unless they're in your corp).
6 Months: I learned that I can run level 4s but can't fit a BS for $#!%.
Basically, I've been having absolute fun with the sink or swim method ever since I started. And it doesn't stop "taking off" in terms of unlocking new things to do for quite some time. I love this game.
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Tripoli
XenTech
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Posted - 2007.11.18 16:14:00 -
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I was mining. Saving up for my first Thorax, then for my first Megathron.
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Dranadar
Gallente
Privateer Industrial Operations
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Posted - 2007.11.18 16:22:00 -
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Edited by: Dranadar on 18/11/2007 16:25:24
1 Week, mined, trained guns, got buggerd by some dirty piewats
1 month in - made about 4 Billion in ETC trades, bought a character with learning completed and started using him as the main. Realised PVP was no were near as much fun with no risk, gave up trading ETCs and blew the lot on ships/mods etc. Was asked to leave the corp with my new main by my RL mate who was CEO (as suicide ganking was geting him alot of nasty eve-mails), joined PRIVS
3 Months in was using "Sorted" and was director in Privateer Allaince.
6 Months in was still yaring it up in empire with some 100-250 weekly empire wars (90% of eve was a little red star, LOVED IT)
12 Months-current, after the Allaince P nerf joined another RL mate who was in IAC. Left shortly before FAT fell to join some old allaince P buddies in low sec and enjoying Eve again....
EDIT: theres about 12+ people I know in RL who play, the majority of us move around the same corps together, so there was always familiar faces to pew pew with.
Dranadar - Space Monkey
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