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Turning points in your EVE Career...
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SalubriousSky Rinah
Cryptic Spear
#1 - 2013-11-04 05:24:48 UTC
I would say that a few turning points in an EVE career would be...

(a) obtaining the ability to warp cloaked

(b) the eventual grind to a capital

(c) first PVP kill

What else?
Ernest Erkannen
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2013-11-04 05:26:33 UTC
being able to say "well I can now play free if I want"
To Be Me
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-11-04 05:41:40 UTC
being able to fly cloaked was also a turning point for me
being able to fly my first t3 ship (loki) was also a turning point

i remember that my first drake was also a turning point long time ago LOL

thumbs up if you like :))))
Felicity Love
Doomheim
#4 - 2013-11-04 05:45:47 UTC
Various financial goals, and the further opportunities that brings. Blink

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KnowUsByTheDead
Sunlight...Through The Blight.
#5 - 2013-11-04 05:48:40 UTC
Well, let's see...

First time ganked.

First cloaky.

First time ganking.

First heist.

First 1000+ fleet battle.

First revenge.

First PvP kill.

First time WH diving.

Far too many firsts that change your idea of "EvE," or as you call it, a turning point. Way too many to count.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2013-11-04 06:14:16 UTC
First time "quitting for real" and giving away all your stuff.

First time biomassing all your characters (and writing petitions to get them restored 2 months later).

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destiny2
Decaying Rocky Odious Non Evil Stupid Inane Nobody
Looking for Trouble
#7 - 2013-11-04 06:26:20 UTC
First time killing an officer spawn solo with a nighthawk

First time entering a wh and forgetting to book mark exit,

First Pvp Kill

First FC fleet battle.

First Super kill

First being insta popped on singularity while flying a Wyvern by 15 titan Doomsdays. Shocked was pretty to watch tho.
Alduin666 Shikkoken
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-11-04 06:27:56 UTC
The biggest personal turning point in my career is when I stopped trying to be nice and keep everyone around me happy and only started thinking for myself. Haven't gone back and am having a lot of fun now.

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Baali Tekitsu
AQUILA INC
#9 - 2013-11-04 06:43:01 UTC
In exactly this chronology:

1)Draek with T2 Launchers
2)T2 guns on my Thrasher
3)First solo kill
4)500 solo kills
5)20mil SP (that was the point where I first considered myself flexible enough to fly whatever I wanted)
6)leaving my first corp (they went to ****) and selling my moon mining operations
7)AWU V/Drone Interfacing V

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Jasmine Assasin
The Holy Rollers
#10 - 2013-11-04 07:00:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Jasmine Assasin
My first time running with Bombers Bar.
Laserak
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2013-11-04 07:17:46 UTC
The first time I jumped somewhere in my Archon.
Noriko Mai
#12 - 2013-11-04 07:34:54 UTC
destiny2 wrote:
First time entering a wh and forgetting to book mark exit,

This was one of my funniest firstsBig smileBig smile

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Maxxor Brutor
Borderline Procurements
#13 - 2013-11-04 08:13:47 UTC
First (and last) time I took a shortcut through Rancer...
Lugalbandak
Doomheim
#14 - 2013-11-04 09:02:14 UTC
Vera Algaert wrote:
First time "quitting for real" and giving away all your stuff.

First time biomassing all your characters (and writing petitions to get them restored 2 months later).


did you succseed? i biomassed some accounts , also to come back wihtin 2 months but never tried to get my first 3 back online

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Roxie Glitz
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2013-11-04 09:24:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Roxie Glitz
First time getting older
PopeUrban
El Expedicion
Flames of Exile
#16 - 2013-11-04 11:04:48 UTC
Turning points, as in changed the game for me?

In chronoligical order -

Running sacrificial point in Stain for RC when I was new.

Warping cloaked (in a bomber)

Ransoming my first hulk in wildlands, after swearing off sov warfare for good.

Scanning cloaked (in a bomber)

Hacking (post odyssey) This was the missing link for me. Something about it made anoms this thing I could actually play in stead of be bored with. Because fighting NPCs is broing, and sitting around waiting for modules to finish is basically just mining.

Taking my first "backdoor wormhole" trip back to null, and making 700 mil off of the first anom.

Using said gains to help form a new corp.

Piloting my first completely specialized exploration ship.

What can I say. PvP is fun but something about the money, minigame, gambling, and general flippin the finger at blobs I get out of doing the new style exploration bit sealed the deal for me.

It's just more fun to slip gatecamps, play probe based mindgames, **** off sov residents, **** off WH residents, finish a crucial hack before the local inty and friends get done probing you down, and generally push the limits of risk in search of the big score for me now.

It's like, when I did all that PvP, even when I won, I lost. I was always in it for the ISK, and PvP isn't a great way to do that at the personal level. New exploration, I can operate at that level, in hostile space, and when I win I come home with substantial profit every time, but I still get to play in the arena and juggle the sorts of threats I did before, so it's still satisfying.

Or maybe I'm just getting old. I don't know.
Silvetica Dian
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#17 - 2013-11-04 11:20:36 UTC
1. (day 3) When i realised that my income would go up if i salvaged.

2. (week 2) When i realised missions were stupid and wormholes and exploration were better .

3 When i finally joined a corp that played as a group and were fun (about 2 hours before the next turning point)

4. When i realised that PVP is where the fun is in this game (about 3 weeks after returning to game from a ragequit)

5. When i realised that passive income streams were a good idea (after far too f-ing long)

Money at its root is a form of rationing. When the richest 85 people have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion (50% of humanity) it is clear where the source of poverty is. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/20/trickle-down-economics-broken-promise-richest-85
Money Makin Mitch
Paid in Full
#18 - 2013-11-04 11:21:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Money Makin Mitch
first fleet, first pve

first tour into low-sec

first wardec, first cloaked ship

first alt

first hurricane and first trip into nullsec, first nullsec belt rat

first 1bil

first drake, first large fleet fight

first contract flip, first time finding a typo contract

first time being recognized in local by a random

first capital ship sale

first 100bil
Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#19 - 2013-11-04 11:22:55 UTC
First ship loss (not counting tutorials)
First PVP kill (was also first solo kill)
First 1v2 victory (killed one, made the other deaggress)
First 1b solo kill
First kill dual boxing
First big suicide gank
First successful AWOX
First successful scam
First time I hit ten billion in assets

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Guttripper
State War Academy
Caldari State
#20 - 2013-11-04 11:45:31 UTC
Turning point for me was when I realized I was considered a "bitter vet" and remember the "good old days" of Eve...
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