Krxon Blade
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Posted - 2008.06.11 21:01:00 -
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Advice To Live By
Ladies and Gentlemen, brave pilots of EVE:
Watch local.
If I could offer only one tip for the future, watching local would be it. The long-term benefits of watching local have been proved by PvP-ers, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and modules of your ship. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and modules of your ship until they've gone. But trust me, in 20 months you'll look back at the captures and recall how fabulous your 1st cruiser really looked at the time.
You are not as invincible as you imagine.
Don't worry about the implants. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing gum. The real troubles in EVE are apt to blind-side you at 4 p.m. in an roid belt.
Do one thing daily that scares you.
Visit New Eden.
Don't be reckless with other people's pods. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Smack.
Don't waste your time with learning skills; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, you can allways stick +5 plants.
Remember victories, forget looses. Keep old kill mails. Throw away bad ones.
Cloak.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your corp. Some of the most interesting 3-year-vets I know still don't know what they want to do with theirs.
Be kind to your n00bs. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll quit, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll fly carriers, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll crostrain Amarr at 5, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken in Fanfest. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself or berate yourself too much. Your choices are half chance, like everybody else's.
Mine.
Read the corp mails, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read EVE forums. They will only make you feel flamed.
Get to know your enemies. You never know when they'll be gone.
Be nice to your alts. They're the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you. Unless trashed.
Understand that corpmates come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in visited systems because the older you get, the more you need the players who knew you when you were n00b.
Live in 0.0 once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Empire once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Explore.
Accept these certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get bored. And then you'll fantasize that when you were n00b, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and ensigns respected their FCs.
Respect your FC.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a t2 BPO. Maybe you'll have a rich moon. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your setups, or by the time you'll have +100 ships, but will fly only 10.
Be careful whose currier contract you'll accept, but be patient with those who mine. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the backups.
Original by Mary Schmich, addapted by Krxon Blade
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