Out of Pod Experience

I'll make you a deal: give me your carrier and I won't ask for anything else.

I don't play too much! ......

Oh God! My daughter needs to use the computer for homework and the Minmatar could be deplexing Vard right now! NOOoOoo!

Honestly, I will miss you a lot Trink.

Some background.

Years ago when I was a fledgling pod pilot, mainly a mission running carebear, my mostly carebear corp teamed up with a group of wonderfully wicked wormhole raiders. They weren't the biggest or baddest bunch out there, but to my newby eyes they were totally badass. Their sometimes leader, a figure of awe to me in my Eve youth, was Trinket's friend, the mad aussie.

He and another schemer got me on my first capital kill;
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=10876054
at a time in my eve career when I had never SEEN a dread before (let alone realize that even your T2 elite frigate can't jam a sieged Rev).

I started flying with these insane WH people more and more, and experiencing more and more of the PVP side of Eve.

We sieged and evicted many a carebear corp from WH space together. A highlight of my Eve career will always be when we spent a long night on a mad dash across known and unknown space when a target hired Narwhals to get rid of us, and we crashed static after static, racing their scanners and their T3 fleet, before we were forced out after an amazing battle on the last static high sec we were able to manage before they got in. (You lost an Ishatar, if I remember right, but it was still fun).

Or when I burnt out my launchers on my tengu killing a domi running sites and Khanh'rhh had to bail me out by killing him with a bomber while everyone mocked me on comms:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10361561
I still burn out my guns way too often.

I was sad when I saw you joined Minmatar, but always happy to see you in space, even if it was on the other side of a 50 man fleet battle. I still have great memories of our time flying together.

Anyway, Trink, I for one will miss you. Friend or foe, you were a hell of a lot of fun to play this crappy game with. I hope you find happiness and contentment in whatever you do.

turtle.

I'll take any caldari ships you have (or any other ship that can be melted down and turned into a caldari one ).


Game gets very stressful and its easy to burn out. highly recomend taking a break if its no longer fun, i did that for a couple months at a time on multiple occasions. I enjoyed your friendly advice column, the part about boosters regarding me made me chuckle.

Will miss the amusing forum posts. You're a pretty good writer and should apply your skills somewhere they'll earn you rl cred.

K. Got that out the way. Faction fitted atron pls.

/me waiting for all of the Gallente stuff......

I forgot. I actually have two carriers. Lol.

See.

ISK is easy to make.

There is a sea of it out there, sloshing about, between carebears buying pimped e-peen chariots and alleged hardcore PVPers trying to keep their killboard stats as pure as possiblevia pimp, boosts and ISBOXINg and being useless douchewads.

On the one hand, people sell PLEX for ISK to fund their e-peen insecurities or invest in ISK making; on the other hand, some spend big in real dollars to compensate for their otherwise feckless, worthless mother's basement dwelling lives by ISBOXING and loki-boosting themselves in their pimped Hookbills. others run corps to scam their members of their tax and use the profits to support empires which do little but support twenty accounts based on daytrading scams; other scam and lie and cheat and betray to get their ISk.

Meanwhile, a guy with level five Tycoon skill (one of only eight, last time I checked) sets up a fully functioning market hub by himself with 239 open market orders, all in one system, by himself, suppplied via a wormhole, and charges a 30% markup, and the ISk flows. Oh, it flows.

And after five years of being the water wheel in this river of ISK, when all is said and done, and the fascination with the dynamics of human intelllect, egoes and vanities dies away and you are left with the realisation that, firstly, you are playing with man-children, in an inherently boring game where excitiment is only provided by the allegedly actual consequences of loss associated with destruction of assets (unlike respawning or matchplay based games), the reality is, you have no assets to lose; for the river of ISk fills your buckets over-ful with minimal efforts, leaving you with over 40 billion ISk while you fly 6 million ISK Vigils and murder pimped e-peen deficient loki-boosted hookbills flown by 3 billion ISK clones.

So.

There you are. I'm only halfway through stripping my toon down to a Vargur and a thousand rounds of ammo, which will be my fallback position in case I wish to restart playing, and already people who I haven't known are coming out of the woodwork to scam me, and I've discovered a Chimera i bought on a whim 3 years ago, lying in Aridia, which I honestly had forgotten about.

And when you can turn up carriers and 3 billion ISk Nightmares you never use....really. You're hardly playing the game.

I don't know you but I just wanted to say your EvE success is impressive, I'd like to achieve a small measure of that myself, and your return to RL is equally impressive, I'd drop EvE in a flash if some of my problems could be resolved.

Finally, your corporation and the look on your face are a great match.

Im thinking same , dont give all your stuff away.

But as you can guess , you can allways help amarr to conquer minnies and give me stuff hahaha :D

This ^^.

Also, I will miss your advice column :)