EVE General Discussion

I was playing from day one, found a corp eventually and died by marmite on my way to wherever they lived, losing my catalyst and belongings.


Next corp was run by a Russian, whom went on vacation for a week and we got awoxed to hell and back, then we left and made our own corp only to be decced by a single man Russian corp who killed us all in a hawk, and got a gila when he couldn't catch a rep frigate.


So yeah. HTFU

and back in the 800k sp starter character days it was super easy to make a character with a ton of useless skill points (I'm still bitter about starting with missile bombardment 5 instead of something useful like small turret 5, or drones 5). And on top of that there were learning skills. Plus most ships were undesirable due to the tier system, unless you think having lower stats, less slots, and often not so great bonuses was a valid trade for slightly lower cost. the merlin had a turret optimal bonus and 2 turret slots plus 2 missile slots.

Also in those days most corps still didn't want newbs as the number of people that would join up and disappear was high. An SP limit meant that people at least had some intention of sticking with it. plus the whole potential of spying. pretty easy to not make a mistake that gives you up via your API with a brand new character. A bit harder with an established character, unless you know you want to use it as a spy at some point.

Personally I love new players and will happily help them out on the forums. As far as recruiting goes I've never really had to deal with it. Started playing because an RL friend said to and that got me into IDLE. but seeing as IDLE has all gone idle, maybe I should look into that again at some point.

Does not apply, because humans are not equal. There is no "random chance" when it comes to people being able to play EVE ONLINE (or in regards to anything else, for that matter). Fascinating how no one speaks it out, while I keep baiting for it.