EVE New Citizens Q&A

OP, a word of advice: both the extasy of winning and dissapointment from losing will increase over time, to slowly fade when you become so experienced you 'have seen it all'. It will never go away completely, because every loss represents invested time, ISK, or both. That is actually, one of the major draws of Eve Online.

Eve is a throwback to a time when games were actually this brutal by default, and we liked it that way. It's the Dark Souls of MMORPGs, it is supposed to be NES-hard at the start so you can only appreciate it all the more when you do reach that milestone, do conquer that objective.

Right now me and my corporation are getting their asses kicked by a larger force. We could sob and whine about it, or just accept the game mechanic of steamrolling blobs as a fact. You know those old space strategy games like Masters of Orion or Birth of the Federation? They used to have these massive entities (like Borg cubes etc) that would scour the map and brutalize your entire empire. Same mechanic, but these entities are player driven.

Eve is no different, but it has many more metas. You might find yourself low on personal funding, like yourself. You might see some of your infrastructure sieged, your complex being invaded, your farming BC being hotdropped... you have not even begun to discover the myriad was of getting sand kicked in your face. But each is a lesson, best pay attention, and make a mental note of every mechanic you encounter. You might use it to your advantage and turn the tables next time.