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So I'm now starting my third week of very little game time due to moving across country, settling into a new home and all that goes along with that. While I have definitely missed shooting players in the face and watching ships explode, I have missed hanging out with my OUCH friends most of all. Our little band of trainers and killer noobs is family in every way (but without the drama). OUCH is a great corp to call home.

Join us.

Join OUCH. Learn to stay alive without losing 30 Rifters in the process. In the process, you'll get to shoot things. There's really nothing to lose here.

OUCH chooses to live in NPC nullsec because that's where the action is. There is no mindless SOV structure grinding (not much anyway). There are no vast swaths of empty systems. It is not possible to play nullbear games of semi-afk mining or ratting.

Success in NPC nullsec means true sovereignty by occupation. If you want to carve out your niche here, it means living here. You cannot simply clone jump in every few days to collect your moon goo and PI goods. You have to occupy the space. You have to fight to earn the respect of your neighbors.

Comparing NPC nullsec to SOV space, is like comparing owning investment property in Dubai to living on 6th Street in Austin. You might make a ton of money on the investments property, but 6th Street is where the action is.

Join us. Keep Curse weird.

Thanks for your interest. We accept all applicants.

Join the OUCH recruiting chat channel: ouch-uni. There you can chat with current members and other potential students.

You can join corp by searching in People and Places. Set search on corporation and enter Open University of Celestial Hardship. Right click on the search results and select Show Info. From the corp information window, there is a button "apply to join".

Usually, applications are accepted with just a short time depending upon who is online.

Looking forward to you joining us.

Psi

As of this month, OUCH has now graduated over 200 students. That may not seem like much considering how long we've been around; however, we do not graduate students following a single class or roam. Graduation from OUCH represents a significant investment of both the player's game time, and the game time of several OUCH instructors. Training consists of nine structured modules which take a total of about 10 hours to complete. Following the classes, students must then successfully negotiate a nullsec gauntlet run, and join our fleets to participate in a specified number of kills. Only then can the student apply for graduation.

Although we accept all applicants, our program is not for everyone. It can be intense. It can be frustrating at times. Depending upon the skills and experience of the student, he may feel as if he's being fed with a fire hose or he may feel he is being forced to crawl at a snail's pace.

But there can be no doubt that our graduates have gained a wealth of knowledge that vastly elevates their play.

Join us. See what we have to offer.

There is always something to learn in Eve, just look at all the changes introduced in Odyssey. For myself, I'm constantly reminded how much I yet to learn, especially in the area of PvP. I totally ignored PvP for most of my time in Eve, but now I have a new found interest. Thankfully, in OUCH, I have many great pilots to learn from.

There are many ways to learn more about PvP:

1) Just go do it, i.e. learn from the School of Hard Knocks. Buy a bunch of ships and go find some pew-pew. It may be expensive and one should expect to lose a few ships.

2) Search the Internet. There is plenty of information out there, the problem is separating the good advice from the bad.

3) Join a PvP corporation. Eve has many good PvP corporations out there but their focus is not always on training. Focus is often on PvP and while the new guy might get a class or two, much of the learning still comes from the 'School of Hard Knocks'.

4) Eve University offers some self-paced training videos/recordings, sometimes supplemented with student roams. I don't see many instructor led offerings, but I'm also not an expert on Eve Uni.

5) With Agony Unleashed, players can join one of their training classes / roams. These are usually largely attended events as we see Agony blobs regularly roaming Curse.

6) Join OUCH. OUCH exists to train pilots. (This is the option I recommend.)

Highlights of the OUCH program:

• Instructor led classes scheduled weekly. Plenty of time to get good information and ask any questions.
• Plenty of live-fire PvP 'Out on the Bubble' each week.
• Active forum with great guides and other training material
• Active TeamSpeak, where students are welcome to listen in and ask questions
• An Operations Team that is passionate about the mission of OUCH: Sharing knowledge and experience.

How do you want to learn PvP? Join us!

Odyssey sure brought a lot of changes. Good? Bad? It all depends upon your personal Eve. That's the beauty of the game. That's the paradigm of the sandbox. Your Eve is very personal, and no two people play the same game.

But no matter what your Eve, and no matter how expansions change the game, Eve is a dangerous place. Nullsec? Lowsec? Hisec? There is NO place even reasonably safe in New Eden.

OUCH can teach you to survive. Teach you to travel through hostile space. And teach you to assess threats and engage targets on your terms, according to your play style.

Join us. We'll teach you to navigate the dangers of New Eden.

When I started playing Eve some years back, the concept of the game being a big sandbox was foreign. My previous MMO experience came from EverQuest, DAoC and WOW. Eve was just a cool space based MMO and admittedly the most complex MMO I've played. It was hard for me to grasp that pilots make the rules in Eve. A pilot is free to play the hero, or to be the villain. Pilots are free to adopt any play-style that fits, and fly any ship for which they have the skills/resources.

For example: When I first ventured into null, I fully expected to lose my ship and probably my pod. So, I chose a cheap frigate and used a clone with no implants. My wallet would not sustain a riskier play-style. After a couple losses, I bought a cov-ops frigate thinking a cloak would make navigating nul easier. However, as I quickly discovered, a cloak doesn't offer much advantage if you don't understand the mechanics of nul. I obviously didn't understand how to navigate nul and my ship was soon snared in a dictor bubble and popped.

Surprisingly I see the same behavior exhibited regularly in Curse, only it isn't always in a cheap frigate but often in an expensive transport with a hold full of faction loot, blueprints, exploration loot, etc. Many pilots jump gate-to-gate and land squarely in our bubble. Our merry band is always excited to see a transport ship.; such prizes make our day.

Ouch can help pilots, new or old, better understand nul mechanics, bubbles, and why it is risky to warp gate to gate. Join us, train with us and get tools to more easily navigate nul while reducing the risk to both ship and pod. Our training also covers basic PvP, where you can be the hunter vs the prey. The training is free, and we accept all who apply.

On the other hand, pilots are always welcome to play the game their way. Fly any ship they want, anywhere they want. Jump into nul and have a ball. If that is your play-style, please visit Curse. Traffic has been slow, so fly out and visit our bubble. Our staff and students are eager to entertain you.

New to Eve Online? Feeling overwhelmed by the depth and breadth of this big sandbox? If so, join OUCH, and let our team show you how to navigate the universe and how to defend yourself when called for. The lessons taught in OUCH will serve you well as you continue your adventures in Eve Online.

Join us.

Hisec, lowsec, nullsec and W-space. These are the major playgrounds in New Eden. Some are typically considered more dangerous than others, but there is no doubt that all are dangerous. The real difference in these areas is not the degree of danger or likelihood of pod death. The real difference is simply a matter of broad rules of engagement. Oftentimes, the successful pilot is the one who understands the rules of his area of operations. And pod death comes to those who do not understand the mechanics of bubble camps and gate ganks.

While OUCH chooses to play in nullsec, the things you will learn as an OUCH student will prepare you for whatever playground you choose to call home.

Join us. Learn the rules of your chosen sandbox.