Alex Coren
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.02.17 15:12:00 -
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Right, here goes nothing.
I started playing EVE a couple of years ago and I feel like I have taken a wrong turning. Like most people, I started out playing the tutorials, running a few missions, mining a few asteroids, and so on. But then, instead of jumping in and enjoying all the things that EVE has to offer, I discovered something disappointing about myself: I'm much more risk-averse than I thought I was. When I say risk-averse, I really mean it. My character is still in the NPC corp he started in because I was too afraid of being ripped off to join any of the player corps that were recruiting. In all that time I've rarely left high-sec for fear of being ganked, and as a result my PvP experience is next to non-existent. In fact I think it's fair to say that my level of interaction with other players in the game is next to non-existent, which is pretty sad really, especially as I'm not the typical loner type. I spend almost all of my in-game time sitting in a station, reading local and fiddling with my spreadsheets, and when I do go into space I find myself scuttling from one NPC station to another hoping that nobody spots me and decides I might be easy pickings. The stupid thing is that I have the ISK and the skills to buy and fly quite a range of ships, but I'm too afraid of losing my hard-earned money to actually do so. It's pathetic, I admit it, and frankly I am bored. Bored to the point of feeling I may give up playing the game at all.
What I'm looking for is a chance to change all that. I have started a new account and a new character, and I want to make a fresh start. I want to go out there and take risks. I want to join a player corp, train skills to have fun instead of to make money, fly out into 0.0 space, pew-pew with other people who want to pew-pew, pod and get podded, maybe get scammed if I'm unlucky but not worry about it too much. In short I want to enjoy EVE the way it was meant to be played. Now of course you could say that I should do this with the my own money, and of course you'd be right, but in practice I know it would never happen. I know because I've tried starting a new character before, but because I was still trying to play it with my own hard-earned ISK I quickly ended up falling back into my old ways.
So, here's my "bid" for the money. I promise to go out and play the game. I promise not to waste your money but to enjoy it. I promise to play EVE with internet spaceships and pew-pew and other players, not spreadsheets-in-space all on my own. And hopefully by the time the money eventually runs out, I will have found a way past my risk-aversion and will be able to continue playing with my own money, instead of hoarding what I have like a fool while I watch everyone else having fun.
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