EVE General Discussion

i did it a long time ago, and this character was born. but its boring as crap, as far as characters go. about a year later i did it again and ended up with a logistics character mainly doing frigate/cruiser logistics in FW, its the character i played the most over the last year or so. mainly due to the frigate/cruiser rebalance, the new t1 logistics are fun to fly, too bad the mechanics of frigate pvp in FW always end up with clones dead... otherwise i would actually invest training time on it. as it is, its stuck in t1 hulls. considering t2 hulls are kinda crap for their price i guess its not such a bad thing.

Didn't we already do this thread over in New Citizens subforum?

Ah hell... I'll do it again.

Absolutely.

More often than you think.

And how much SP does that toon have?

I probably started like 50 trial accounts throughout the years

I did. This here was a new character. He just passed his 1y birthday on the 4th of April. He is at 19.3m SP now. Probably could have done more if I had bought +5 implants but alas.

The whole rerolling thing just kind of makes you stop taking skills for granted. On my main I've had AWU, Drone Interfacing, High Speed Maneuvering, ... for ages and never really thought much of it. It's just one of those skills you have and you consider the most normal thing in the world. Like who doesn't have Drone Interfacing 5?? :P

Retraining those longer 'core' skills suddenly made me respect them a lot more, if that makes any sense. I stopped taking them for granted. :P

I did enjoy starting over and joining RvB in the process was a good idea. I enjoy PvP more than PvE and the ships and fights you end up in with RvB are very much accessible to new players. It also showed me that there really is no skill requirement for having fun in EVE. It's very much possible from the first day you log in. People who say they can't do XXX because of their lack of SP just aren't looking or trying hard enough.

I did do the new tutorials as well, as well as the Blood Stained Stars mission line. I might do some of the Empire faction story lines later, when I get enough standing to access them. :)

Never have used a trial account, but we have 2 characters (unused alts) on various accounts which date back to the first week of the games launch and have never been in anything but the starter corp that we just started skilling for kicks and giggles.

I believe it has to do with the T20 scandal, though I'm not sure.

Back when I skilled up Carriers I got my first Archon, a great milestone for any capsuleer. Anyways, after messing around for a bit, it became readily apparent you need at least one cyno alt on another account to be truly effective. So I started a new account for this purpose.

For fun, I used one of the slots to start a miner/builder/inventor from scratch. It has actually been fun to learn a completely different part of the game and play in hisec. The new toon is up to 30mil SP and with his T2 prodcution actually keeps my main going in PvP.

HOWEVER, it is not the same as a new character that is scratching out a life in EVE. If my indy alt needs isk for a new ship or materials or POS mods or whatever, it takes 2 seconds to just move isk from the main. No more budgeting and planning when it comes to advancing.

My observation over the years is the sort of new players that whine about how a low SP character is not fun are still whining several years later and ironically will even start claiming how "EVE is dieing" and talk about how "its not as good as back when they were a new player" :D