EVE New Citizens Q&A

At the time, you rolled around in gangs that were larger both in ships and numbers than ours, and threw around capital ships now and then (something we still do not do). You guys also had/have a good part in dictating the tone of the warzone. So, yes, bigwigs.

I wish this thread continued health, well into the future.
its good to see that everyone starts in eve in just a derpy fashion.

I started back in the "Here's a spaceship, **** you." days. Not really a Veteran as I play off and on.

Noob corp leader decided we were ready for npc space in Venal. We weren't. Leader left us to die in flames after a couple weeks.

After our resources dwindled away everyone else bailed. I ended up logging in just occasionally to die then took a break.

Did a lot of reading and decided to give it another shot. Still in Venal I made it my goal to fly back to high-sec. This was not an easy task at the time as all the bottlenecks were camped always. I learned how to avoid death after building up a pretty impressive bookmark collection (pre-warp to zero).

Down to my last ship (Rupture) I finally made it after weeks of lying, cheating, begging and running away. I still have that ship.

Hit and miss corps. Joined E-Uni which was pretty boring but I learned quite a bit.

Messed around with Incursions when they were fairly new. Made back all my lost isk.

Messed around in 0.0 corp which was good fun until a big war came through and due to some broken deals all my stuff was "confiscated".

Currently just messing around in high-sec missions until I find a new home and/or find time to play more than a couple hours at a time.

Got a Bantam through tutorial and went all pro by deploying containers. Expensive at the time, but there was less need to warp. Bantams fill up fast. I was already learning faster cos nobody was that smart. Containers were stolen. Got a nice "thank you" mail tho.

Got a Badger and afk mined. Dude offered to help and give me some ore. No need to be paranoid. Not everybody in EVE is mean you know? Grabbed the ore. Lost my first ship.

Did more stupid things and still fail at EVE every now and then, but that s how it started.

I keep reporting this thread to friends and keep kicking them until they post their story.

Started in 2011, knew no one that played, knew nothing about Eve except that WoW players hated it. I hated WoW players, so it sounded perfect for me.

I began with a regular subscription, no trials, I accepted Eve as a long term investment of time and sub money. BTW, never once have I used a PLEX to dodge giving CCP my fifteen bucks.

Mined for a week, joined a random invite care bear corp, ignored them and ran missions to train combat skills. That CEO took everything (not much, we were all newbs) and bailed. I used the excuse to leave high sec, join a pirate corp in Molden Heath, and shoot people in the face.
Actually, I refuse to play an MMO alone, and my pirate corp was out flying constantly. I learned more in a week there than in months of scratching around high sec care bearing. I started really having fun in Eve, and it became an obsession.

One year of piracy and I needed a change (and we lost our statics to stake out). I wanted to move up in PvP scale. Both in terms of the size of the ships I fly, but also the sheer size of the fleets involved. So I moved to sov null.

I just happened to move to the border between the HBC and CFC just as relations crumbled and TEST fail-cascaded, plunging the entire west of the map into war. Been at war pretty much ever since, in fact.

The advice I always give--- fleet up, play with other people. Even if it's care bearing, grinding missions (yes, they can be done for some reason other than maximum isk/hour...like fun) or dying in a fire on a gate somewhere... Eve is made exponentially better by playing with other people.

Kids these days ... can't even link things properly ...

Will take a while to actually write out what got me into eve, so I'll be back.

Not much to tell for me.

The year was 2006 and I saw a link to this new space MMO on a Freelancer forum.

"Free trial?", I says to myself, "sign me up!".

Back then the tutorial consisted of 'this is space, go forth and do stuff'. So I did stuff.

Some of the stuff I did was fun and it got even better a few days into the trial when I discovered skill training lol. So I trained things. All things. If it was green I bought a skill book for it. I sure couldn't do any one thing well, but I could do most anything okay. After a year of that, I sold that guy and discovered my calling. Character trading. At that time, there was a thing called ghost training that enabled you to start a long skill and unsub while it trained. I made a lot of nice characters for little money and sold them for lots of ISK and got pretty space rich.

With my ISK worries out of the way, I could focus on just doing things that interested me and thanks to my first year of jack-of-all-trades play style, I had a pretty good idea of what things I wanted to do. So now I just do things I like with five permanent accts and a few more I play from time to time as I need their specific expertise for something.

Mr Epeen

I started back in early 2008 in probably most typical fashion. Invited to play by a RL friend who had been playing for a few months already he showed me footage of Alliance Tournament 4 and I thought it looked fun so I hopped on board. Knowing nothing about anything I started out Caldari and started working on getting into that all encompassing noob ship of the day, a Drake. Played for about a week before my friend told me where he was flying so I could come join him for level 4 missions and more ISK than I could dream of. So I packed all my things into my Caracal and headed over only to have my journey cut short when my ship and all my things were hideously murdered by jumping into Rancer.

After being very angry over what just happened my friend told me how to set my autopilot to avoid low sec and I took the much longer route in the new unfit Caracal I bought with the insurance money. At the time I thought going back to Rancer to kill these guys was all I really wanted to do. But after a couple of level 4 missions and I was back on my feet and the anger died away as my killright timer ticked down to zero and I started to think about what I wanted to do. I have been a pvp player in every other game I ever played so with my friend and his group of in game corpmates we started doing semi-daily (2-3 week) forays into low sec for some pvp action. So off I set with my mighty 3 million SP in a Thorax to show the world who was boss. The first Dominix I ran into neuted me out so hard my damage control shut off and that ship returned to the dust it came from with startling quickness although my gang did kill the Domi and thus I was on my first killmail...as a capsule. The tragedy of my first utter failure to pvp taught me much however and the next time I went out I got on 3 killmails and even brought my ship home.

The very next day I logged in and fell into a very old trap of fleeting up with someone at random from local who was at war and going to help them mission and by mission I mean warping to either a friend or alt of theirs who massively outclassed me and almost instantly blapped my ship again. Thus the lesson on scamming being acceptable in EVE was learned. This time I was less angry than the Rancer incident largely due to the fact my wallet was slightly fat for a noob but was still upset to say the least. The trips to low sec continued and soon I lost another ship when our 4 man gang engaged a pirate Maelstrom and were quickly killed by the rest of his gang jumping through the gate and this is where I learned the most important lesson I ever learned in EVE. I realized I did not attack that Maelstrom because of who he was, I attacked him because he was there and I thought I could win. Conversely it seemed impossible to me now that any of the ships I had lost were due to me being me, it was because I happened to be there and not that there was anything special about me or what I was doing. My entire outlook on the game and even life to some extent changed in that moment. All anger over losses past, present and future fell away as I finally "got" the mentality of EVE.

Shortly after my friend and I along with some of the people we met in game decided to go full pirate with our massive average SP around the 8 million mark. None of us were much into gate camping and we started to roam around Metropolis low sec for the next year or so building skills and learning to play from our triumphant victories and crushing defeats all the while taking on pretty much anything we could find in simply fit T1 cruisers. In fact to this day we still have some admirers when we're seen passing through Metropolis low sec who recognize our names from our old corp, No Salvation[NO SA]. We were admired by some for our roaming as opposed to gate camp kill farming and absolute balls out play in ships widely regarded as underpowered at the time and coming out so often on top despite having to deal with gate/station guns that would never be on our side.

We tried the massive blob, null sec wars thing briefly but we all had a taste for small gang warfare at this stage and the massive blob fests just didn't have the same appeal. Alliances wanting a long list of blues didn't sit well for us who wanted some pew on a nearly daily basis now and we returned to the low sec roaming we enjoyed for so long.

Like most people I took a break for a year or so and so did all of No Salvation but most of us kept our accounts active and still training. When we all returned we decided to try to take over a wormhole for the purposes of having a roam nearly every night in a different part of low sec. My biggest loss to date took place on that takeover where I lost an Armageddon Navy Issue when the Russian inhabitants of the wormhole we attacked got on the batphone. We did eventually gain control of the system though so at least the loss was not in vain. The logistics of living in a wormhole with only 7 people started to wear on us after a month or so and following the most epic fight No Salvation had ever won where we fought with 6 people vs. 15 and killed 12 of them for 1 loss the wormhole idea died and sadly it seem No Salvation did around the same time. People having less time to play now than when we had been in school meant it just wasn't the old days any more. Shadow Cartel is my new home now and I love it here as they still have much the same feel as the low sec roaming I've loved for years and only a couple old NO SA members still have time to play and they have joined up with the Cartel as well. I don't play as much as I used to but no other game can give me the same adrenaline rush I get from EVE and I doubt I will be able to leave that behind. As my SP tops 85 million there is just too many experiments for me to run in solo/small gang pvp to completely stop playing now. Time to make myself a pvp video as soon as I learn to edit my footage better.

TL;DR: long story is long.

Some of these stories are amazing. :D