EVE General Discussion

Newbro perspective here:

I've been playing EVE a couple of months now.

Brought a couple of friends in. They've temporarily quit (they may come back).

I have joined four corporations.

Corp 1: I was given 50m ISK to get implants. Joined TS and then received endless e-mail about how none of us should fly around in our own system because of a wardec. I asked numerous times to see if anyone wants to pvp. I joined in on fighting some defenseless structure for an hour and then camped a wormhole for another hour before deciding that corp was wrong.

Corp 2: Much more fun corp. Mainly because the wardecs gave me exposure to PVP in high sec. Interestingly enough, most of the fighting was solo because the others were afraid to engage in PVP. One day, I received an e-mail from our alliance leader that we'd have a huge battle against the Russians. I recruited my RL friends to join in on this event. However, the event turned into a 1-hour speech where the alliance leader thought he was William Wallace from Braveheart. We then flew out for about another hour and attacked a defenseless structure. Nothing happened. No PVP. No Russians. My RL friends quit after this event. Two days later, the leader of my corp disbanded the whole corp (out of the blue) and I was out a corp again.

Corp 3: Went through this interview process, multiple background checks, and then I was presented with 2754 rules to being part of this corp. I was instructed to go through their "training courses" which...actually were quite cool from a newbro perspective...but I was ordered not to go into null-sec until I had trained up all my skills according to their doctrines. The catch was that I also couldn't fly in low-sec or high-sec either due to war-decs. So my options were to 1) watch EVE mon or 2) spin my ship. After getting bored and flying in some FW zones and getting blown up, I received a stern e-mail from the person that interviewed me (I couldn't tell if it was a he or she...despite "her" having a female avatar) that I should not be flying around in FW under any circumstances. I promptly quit that corp and ended up where I am now.

Corp 4: Haven't done anything yet with these guys.

But frankly, this is my last try for this game. EVE has been touted as a game where the people make all the difference. And I will say, there are an unbelievable amount of helpful people. I'm sure there are good corps out there. But having negative experiences and watching RL friends quit has drained me. Some other poster in this thread said it best: "prostrating at the feet of some stranger". That sums up my newbro experience.

It depends who's decced you really.

In my last dec I sat around and camped the targets every day when I was online. Those that left the cluster to try and rat or mine elsewhere tracked down and killed by Marmite or Forsaken (whom I had hired). I'm sure they could have flown safer and killed me more often, but at that point they really might as well have just been out of high-sec where they could reap rewards more in tune with such risk and effort.

I don't think the problem is so much finding ways to fight back or make ISK in the process, but rather that you're better off doing that same thing in a WH or whatever. Corps that stick together like yours need to be afforded more benefits for doing so.

Ramona also apologised and conceded that the OP had a case that more people would agree with.

I admit I put it in a very poor way and for that I got the treatment I deserved, and congratulated the OP on a well played victory.

I'll be sure to up my game next time.

We cool, m'blud *fistbump*