EVE General Discussion

I did the tutorials. I finished the exploration tutorial last. I thought it was so cool to be able to explore space! So I got in my shiny new Cormorant, fit it to cover anything that could possibly happen (it was a terrible fit, but I thought it was great) and as luck would have it, the first thing I found was a wormhole! The wormhole leads to unknown parts of space, you say? Well hot damn! I'm looking to explore unknown parts of space! I jumped in and was killed by I have no idea what the hell it was right on the hole.

I did the tutorials.
Ran some missions.
I fitted a probe launcher in a Catalyst and went to low sec to explore. Got killed in an anomaly by Blood npcs.
Mined a little, but got tired in two days. Probably less.
Joined a null sec corp and moved to Providence.

-Did all the tutorials
-Ran the SoE epic arc
-Joined E-Uni and learned a bunch of stuff

I got hooked into Eve after the PL Revenant kill made news. I had read about the game from time to time as big events broke into the wider nerd press, but for some reason last July I figured I had to check this stuff out. Basically my trial period was learning stuff in a methodical manner, that's just how I roll. This character started off as a FW alt (I wanted to try it out, but it was against E-Uni policy) and ended up becoming my main.

First I completed the tutorial and all career agents.
Then I did the Sisters of EVE Epic Arc.
Then I did some ninja salvaging.
Then I joined Brave Newbies Inc and had a good time.

I did:
- the tutorials for the agents in Jouvulen system (december 2009)
- mined in Ekura system (next door to Jouvulen) first in Bantam, next in Osprey to get iskies for more ships.
- scanned for stuff, found mostly stuff too difficult for my n00b fits
- at age of 3 days took a Heron I got from some tutorial to a wormhole, loved the scenery and the excitement of being in lawless space, found some sites and the npcs shot the heron in one of them. I returned to high sec via the bookmarked wormhole.
- realized wormhole combat is not for me yet
- hauled Trade Goods with Badger (and later Badger II) between Caldari high and low sec to make more iskies.
- lost a Badger II filled with Trade Goods in low sec to some pirate.
- shot some belt rats, and did some missions for some Caldari agents
- scanned some more, the sites still too hard for my n00biness
- started the SoE epic arc
- tried to Burn the Hive for three times, losing two cormorants in the process and finally stopped doing the arc after almost losing third cormorant. (I finished the arc much later with a drake)
- flew a bantam towards null, but I think I got scared midway with too many people in local and returned to high sec after mining one bantam full of wonderful low sec ore. (this might have happened before SoE arc attempt)
- After that I did some high sec mining in Osprey again, this time in Amarr space
- returned to station and decided to quit mining for the day, took a look at station services in one of the stations and saw a nice looking corporation office there and sent my application to them.
- Soon after (around that 14th day - I had already paid for subscription though) I became a member of that corporation and started to really learn about fitting ships and flying missions.

Oh, and I think I loved EVE all the time, even while mining, even though mining felt... wrong.

-Did most of the tutorials.
-Read some forums posts. Discovered how rude and sardonic the community is. Got rather shocked.
-Read one of the "Methods of Torture" chronicles. Got rather horrified.
-Found out that Goonswarm was huge because it recruited members from a pre-existing community outside the game. Which ruined my idea that EVE was a sandbox in which everybody had an equal Darwinistic chance of building a tribe and empire from within. Got pretty disappointed.
-Joined a corp of drunken British guys on the other side of the pond. Could hardly understand the local dialect, the game jargon, and the 1337 speak. Got pretty puzzled, but had a lot of laughs and learned the game through corp chat.

Kicked myself for not having a 21 day trial. Shot 3 ships in highsec right off the bat, wondered why cops were showing up. Went to lowsec and got my rookie ship blown up by a guy far away with artillery. Went out to mine and turned around, seeing all afk people. Did some missions, lost some ships. Asked strangers for ship replacement. Founds hundreds of kind strangers.

I did Military,Advanced mIlitary, and business tutorial. Mine until I had some ISK and trained. Then started doing missions noticed that running missions was more fun than mining. Sell stuff, learn to salvage , read a lot in the forums on what to do. Close to the 14 days I wonder around a low sec killing rats, I saw it was more profitable than Lvl1 and 2 missions until I started seeing pirates chasing me down. Fun stories.

Strangely, I did that exact thing as well. It did not end well. I was so disappointed with it I started flying Cormorants again until I could afford a Moa.

Then my corpies enlightened my mind by pointing me towards Heavy Missiles and the Drake.

"Train Caldari Battlecruiser." they said. "Come out to losec." they said.

I did. And I never looked back.

I did all the tutorial missions. Then carried on with the Sisters of EVE epic arc. Once that was done I joined RvB. I only play casually , few hours here and there, so that whole process took me like 3-4 weeks. :P