EVE New Citizens Q&A

I started in 2003, I was a miner and trader.

That's all I remember, the end.

Lol. You are both funny men . :P

Comon. Give us a real story!

I'm no Veteran, but my first few days playing EVE were memorable for me.

My brother and I decided to download the game and give it a go. Both of us were green as grass without a clue between us. We started at different stations, so it took us a minute just to find each other in-game. I look at the distance we were away from each other now and laugh, but then it seemed like a long ways.

We decided to fly out to a planet in a system off the beaten path and learn how to fly our ships. I was in a Rifter and my brother a Tristan. Once we landed and flew around each other for a short while, some rats landed on grid. Being new to the game i got all excited and started locking them up. My bro took his kiting position and started applying the minimal DPS we were capable of.

I came to a target i had locked and a pop up appeared on the screen. In an excited furry i canceled it out and continued my assult on the rats. The pop up came up again, this time i saw something about a safety before I canceled it out. By now I was frustrated. I couldn't figure out why the damn game wouldn't let me pop this rat! Then I saw the safety button! YES! I clicked on it and turned my safety from green to red.

WOO HOO! I figured it out! It was letting me shoot the rat now! All the sudden Concord landed on grid and popped my ship faster than I could say "WTF?!"

Come to find out I had my brother locked up. That was my "Welcome to EVE."

December, 2005.

The lure of Internet Spaceship Pewpewpew drew me in; I saw the Caldari Battleship designs and thought "Yep, that's for me."

So I started working my way up mission running. I was used to MMO progression so the idea of "Start in Frigate, work your way up to the Battleship endgame where you can do stuff" made sense to me. And, even though I refused to train Learning skills (feel fortunate if you don't know what those are) it turned out that the time it took to train BC 1 was roughly the same amount of time it took to grind the ISK to afford one.

I was well on my way to earning some money. I believe at the time I had the dream of being some sort of lowsec pirate in a big ship. All shall tremble before my Rokh, and despair... and so on.

What training BC1 didn't prepare me for however was the L4 missions I had my sights set on. So ISK was slow. And training was slow. And the constant micromanagement of skill training was long and tedious.

So in Feb 2006, I quit for the first time.

I think I probably reactivated for a trial later, but the next time I remember playing was Oct 2010. Learning skills were being removed, and the boost to training speed seemed like as good an excuse as any to get back into the Internet Spaceship Pewpewpew that I still loved the idea of (but couldn't stand the wait for).

This time, my dream of lowsec life had moved on. FW was a thing now, so you could get in fights and not need to mine on the side to pay for it all. There was one small wrinkle. At the time, they way FW paid out was by doing missions. To get the real ISK you needed to run L4s, and to run those you needed Stealth Bombers.

So another big skill queue was micromanaged as I tried to move from a Battleship focus to Frigates again. Naturally, since I had aimed for the Rokh my first time around I didn't even have the Torpedo skills needed for the bombers.

Faced with another 2-3 month wait to get into the ship I was looking for, I quit again around Dec 2010 - Jan 2011.

After than I was clean. EVE was barely even a thought in the back of my head. I was having fun with other games, and from what I could tell the EVE players were happy congratulating themselves over how masochistic they were.

Then, just recently the perfect confluence of Scott Manley's EVE playlist being suggested while watching KSP videos, the "This is EVE" promo vid, and my own hidden desire for self flagellation got me to resub again about a month ago.

I'm not even sure what I'm aiming for right now, but I fully expect I'll quit again in a month when I realize it'll be November before I can properly fit the hull for it.

This is from a bad memory so there may be a few innacuracies here)

My story starts the day after xmas day in 2010. I had heard of EvE before on the net and had taken a trial account sometime earlier but found the learning curve too hard and left. Having promptly forgotten that trial accounts login details my account that was set up in Dec 2010 was new rather than an extension of the trial. I didn’t have a clue (sometimes I still feel that way too). I went with Caldari because I though missiles would be awesome.

My early time in game was doing ratting and low level missions until I searched for a corp, a guy from a very small corp contacted me and I joined him but really just carried on doing what I had already been doing in game. 2 months in and we got wardecced, he folded the corp and again I found myself in an NPC corp. He found another corp called the Fiction Factory and I joined with him, he left shortly afterwards but I stayed for about a year. It was a high sec corp and the CEO seemed really knowledgeable on the game. I remember my first fleet PVP with wardeccers in a fleet, the adrenaline was flowing and my heart was pumping so hard. We killed their fleet and my guys even stood cover as I went to get a Noctis to hoover up their wrecks. Soon after this my hulk was ganked and I was pissed off, a 200m isk ship gone.

Eventually The CEO decided to take the corp to null sec, that scary place and I didn’t want to go, so I was alone in high sec whilst they did their thing in null sec, it was a setup that was never going to last and so I went corp hunting.

The very first people that I spoke to were in a corp called Inner Visions, the EUTZ portion of a mainly USTZ alliance called Of Sound Mind (Inner Visions, Reasonable People and Raising the Bar are all part of Sound Mind), I joined them on 03 Feb 2012 and really for the most part I have been with them until today, although with a few excursions to other places here and there but always found myself drawn back.

I loved being in Inner Visions, we would have 26 people mining fleets in high sec, we did this to build ships to hand out to replace loses. I remember seeing orca’s, various indy ships shuttling backwards and forwards and 20+ hulks laying waste to asteroid fields. We would also go roam in null sec in fleets generally in the providence area.

Leadership knew some people in Providence and we eventually got sov there and so we moved into 9-FOB2 and 4B-NQN and become a null sec corp, I was more prepared this time and we were having a whale of a time, I even saw a Station Egg planted and blossom into the station that is now in 4B, Brave Newbies were our frenemies and we had plenty of fights on the 9-FOB2/G-5EN2 gate, ratting gave good income as did PI and we were only a couple of jumps (if you took the JB) from high sec. That lasted sometime before tensions between our leadership and CVA blew over and that took us into what we call the Nomen war. We held out for some days before brokering a peace deal and left.

In fact I would say go to this link - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=324528 - and read the first 6 posts by XavierVE here, that guy tells it in a much more interesting way that I could and tells the history of that corp/alliance up until fairly recent times, and 90% of that corps history is mine. His 3rd post outlines the nomen war but really it is worth reading the first 6 posts in its entirety. His commentary outlines that we went to curse (I left the corp for most of that period as I hated it there) the moving to Syndicate (Where I rejoined) through to our time in Catch.

There was a bit of everything going on in my eve life, industry, PI, PVE, PVP but found as time moved on the number of people logging on in EUTZ was dwindling and so I left again. I went to various other places, FCON where I was bored surrounded by a sea of blues and I had to fulfil quotas in fleets etc, so not my way of enjoying myself, Modus Angels where the guys were good, but due to my limited game time I was doing most things solo, 3 days in the Kadeshi which I knew was not for me even when I joined and a small stint in blue republic before going back to my spiritual home with Of Sound Mind where we were still part of the Hero Coalition but leaving Catch and heading the Fountain.

Now that Hero has fallen apart Of Sound Mind has moved to a wormhole, EUTZ member numbers are low/inactive and I am finding that I am losing interest, having played this game since December 2010 without a break I either need a change of scenery or a break from the game. EvE is a game that can be played solo but I think it is better if you are in a corp of people you can trust and have the same interests as you, doesn’t matter if it is 5 or 50 but just other people.

Of Sound Mind is very trustworthy and are doing the right thing however what I don’t have there is many people online during the TZ I play in, most of the original crew I flew with back when I joined have left, it is a shame really as I feel such a connection there, such a history and a story it feels traitorous almost to leave but leave again I must as the WH has killed it for me..

I don’t know where my story will take me now, although I know it will not be to live in a wormhole. I’ve thought of Faction Warfare or Low Sec PVP but I don’t want to trash my sec status, The idea of just mining scares me and PVE only will not keep me engaged, I think if I decide not to take a break I will try and find something micro/small gang related, although fitting ships is something I have not really learnt (or even decent PVP skills if you look at my KB) in my time in game.

Highlights are the “this is eve” trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0 – don’t know about you but I love that video and gives me a rush each time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTl2Gn8-oJM&feature=youtu.be @ 1:40 (I love that too)

Seeing the station egg come to life

This.

Just saw this thread, thinking... I've got a story that goes twice into the deep rabbit hole and back again...
I'll give it a write-up...

Part two

This is where everything took a turn for the better and proved to be the element of knowledge I lacked in regards to pvp.
After a month in the alliance, we came together to build an archon and we all pooled together to do it, practised triage and shield doctrines on Singularity and it was all good fun.
Shortly thereafter, war-dec! I simply thought, oh no! we are a 50 man alliance against a 100-200 man corp – Cute alliance.
What happened was that the guys who recruited us originally, infiltrated the corp.
What followed was a series of supplying bad intel, and a record of 30+ kills in an hour with a wolf, with and without the help of the alliance mates. Finally something worked, and it friggin rocked! Quickly learned and became efficient and chasing people, catch all flavours of ships running away to any celestial, like a bloodhound on steroids with machineguns strapped to the back. This was how EVE was supposed to be played. For now.
The war decs came on and off for a few months, until everyone went afk and started playing other games a lot. I thought it was time to give null another try with my new knowledge.
Back into Providence and started spanking people, making rock solid ISK off anomalies, plexes, belts. Got myself that Rokh I dreamed about and got rails on it. #I’m-in-a-Rokh-*****
This was fun for a few months, but again, became stale since people would hunt me to kill my ratting raven, when that didn’t work – they left.
Also used the raven a few times for bait – but the cancer of people not being able spread points were painful.
Back to Galactic-Rangers, which by the time had become very afk’ish, bad choice.
Then came Mecha enterprises – Met a guy when I were in provi who were all about the pvp, but I had been hesitant to join – now was the chance, so I took him up on the offer and went to Villore to participate in Faction Warfare on the Gallente side. This were back in 2010 and I stayed in Mecha for a few good months, which eventually lead me to leave since most of the guys were US Timezone, so I were alone a lot flying with other people, so eventually I jumped over to Capsule Corporation(CapCo) and joined in what was probably the beginning of Perungas, Drakes & Canes fleets. Decent content, kill loads of squids every day. Taking a loss for the team now and then, but it quickly dawned on me that faction warfare was a cash machine like no other, building navy dominix’s in a rapid pace. Value 550million a pop.
This was back with the old system before Inferno struck.
Then I had to get away abit, you can only want to fly Drakes for so long, until pulling range and firing one missile after the other gets trivial.
So back to hi-sec, played around with a few guys who wanted to get a feel for pvp, and as it turned out, they had a tendency of shooting something and getting concorded, not realizing what had actually happened, they thought the other players were just that good, but the issue was, they were a mining corp, and if there is anything like watching paint dry – that would be it, I still do it out of silly a habit, with an alt, with tackle fitted.
Then incursions got introduced and I got drafted by a mainly Danish corp to have a crack at it, and it turns out a blaster dominix was quite hard-hitting in vanguards, I had no idea what was happening, so I just kept shooting at whatever people said I should shoot, and I got some “dank” ISK, eventually people started not logging in for the Incursion ops, and boredom struck. That’s when I heard of RvB and thought, hundreds of newbies, all scattered around a few hi-sec systems flying whatever they can get their hands on, should be fun and easy kills… Turns out some people flew brick-tanked bait mallers and just used the odd scrubs to pad their killboard, that’s also when I found out I were quite decent at FC’ing. Stayed for a day and joined minmatar militia, simply because I could and I wanted insight and some comparison between the warzones of Gallente/Caldari & Amarr/Minmatar
Purifier for running missions – Missions were, soloable, easily blitzed, only required killing 1-3 targets and it was easily done in a passive shield tanked purifier. Then I got recruited by Ash Stewart into “The Tenori Tigers” he had an attitude, we weren’t many but it was all about frigs, dessies and AF’s, and there was an infinite amount of content and massive amounts of ISK.
Also met Doctorkaba, with whom I tried out living in a wormhole, with POS and everything and that’s when I started to want content on the bigger scale – Guardians, Archons, battleships etc.
That’s when I somehow ended up in Spiritus Draconis, where I am now.
First shock, the voice of our –at the time- glorious FC, JasonXXl, if you’ve heard his voice, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
2nd shock, The blinged ships, the calm mentality to fights and roaming – but instead of backing down, mildly overwhelmed, I grew with the task… and the fun has been that much more interesting ever since.
But it happened again, lots of the time I were the only one logged in, for a lot of hours.
Then I made the choice of joining some dudes in “Intergalactic Fender Benders”, turns out I had talent dualboxing logistics and doing efficient gate-camps, and wanted to make serious ISK, they said: we make good money, we got plenty of targets, you should join us – we are definitely active.
Turns out they were station huggers and ran solo lvl 5 missions in tengus, never sharing the how-to. So I ended up making a living on gate-camping the Barleguet gate, which at the time were occupied by none other than Brave Newbies. All those kills, but haulers, battleships, frigs etc. just with a pair of Augorors and a Rupture, everything died all the time, except that once when the black ops gang dropped on it. Fun fun!

Here's your "real story"

Now drop more supers on us! <3

2007.
Trial account creation.
Frustration.
Tutorials.
A friend on msn call for support.
Started doing L1 missions.
Got ganged.
Missions.
Ganged.
Mistakes, missions , ganged , moar mistakes , got bored of empire.
21 days in the game and with my account upgraded joined a small null sec pvp corp.

And i never left.

At least my mind never left despite all the times i had to drop the game cause of RL.
Never minned , never did wh , productions , trading or w/e.
Just pvp and some side sub-casual ratting to support my wallet.
And thats all about it folks.