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Top Ten Reasons I Love Living in Curse:

6. Celebrities even more famous than Ryan Gosling (at least more famous to capsuleers) fly through Curse regularly. Azual, Sard Caid, Hans Jagerblitzen have all been through our home recently. Sard even records our fights with him so we can actually hear what his fleet mates say about our merry band of killer noobs. Most recently, Susan Black decided our fleet looked like we would bring her the gud fight. She left in her pod.

Join us. But forget about the gud fights. In Curse, it's all about setting up the gud gank.

Poasting so that I remember to hit you up when sober.

Bump for some good dudes.

Good bunch of guys. Lots to teach the new wannabe pvp pilot.

C'mon Psi what's number 1.

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Top Ten Reasons I Love Living in Curse:

10. It's like the Wild West only there are no good guys in white hats... It's either bad guys that want to shoot you, or bad guys that want to help you shoot others...

9. Everything cloaks in Curse. Cloaky Drake? Seen it. Cloaky Dramiel? Seen it. Cloaky 'geddon Navy Issue? Seen it. Orca? You guessed it. But just because it cloaks doesn't mean it escapes...

8. Everything cynos in Curse. Ever seen a cyno cynabal? We got 'em in Curse. Drakes, drams, cyclones, falcons, badgers, you name it. They've all been known to carry cynos in Curse. How do I know? Well, you have to crack open the egg to find the yolk. OUCH's camp curse has been known to blue ball many a fleet. Sometimes they get really frustrated. Frustrated enough to try to bait and hot drop us with all kinds of shiny goodness. Enough shine to show just how badly they wanted to kill us. It just makes it that much sweeter when we slip out of the trap and leave them with nothing but the smoking remains of spent cyno fuel.

7. Ryan Gosling lives in Curse. Really. Yes, THE Ryan Gosling. Come spend some time in Curse. I'm sure you'll run into him. If you can't find him, just ask for Elan. He'll hook you two up.

6. Celebrities even more famous than Ryan Gosling (at least more famous to capsuleers) fly through Curse regularly. Azual, Sard Caid, Hans Jagerblitzen have all been through our home recently. Sard even records our fights with him so we can actually hear what his fleet mates say about our merry band of killer noobs. Most recently, Susan Black decided our fleet looked like we would bring her the gud fight. She left in her pod.

5. It's as close as you can currently get to actual sovereignty by occupation. If you want to carve out a home in Curse, you can only do so by actively living there. There are good moons for mining, great planets for PI, plenty of places to set up a POS for industry or research AND you can do so with an NPC station in system. Mucho isk is there for the taking. But you can't just set up in a system and expect it to stay free from attack. If you want the iskies, you gotta live there. You gotta defend your home. Everyday.

4. Some of the best small gang PvP to be found anywhere in New Eden occurs everyday in Curse. Curse is home (or frequent stomping grounds) for some great PvP Corps. Outbreak, Apetite 4 Destruction and Agony frequent our little slice of heaven, looking to mix it up however they may. There's also plenty of big name solo'ers come to Play. Do the names Odris Mesa, Cal7, pleniers, Miss Teri, NoamChomsky, FleshDiver ring a bell? They should if you frequent Curse... You're probably on their kill board.

3. The best (and worst) -- well definitely the most prolific -- photobucket posters in New Eden ply their trade in Curse. Clicking on any link in local is likely to seriously disrupt normal social activities for days. When you see the link pop up, you know you shouldn't click it. But you have no choice. It's like walking past a train wreck. You can't stop yourself, even though you know your eyes are going to burn out of your skull and you'll never look at the world in the same way again. Damn you, Bullmastiff!

2. Curse has great geography. Wherever you are in Curse, you are only a few short jumps from Derelik and high sec. From there, it's only a few more jumps to Rens where you can buy anything your black little heart desires. If you are looking for combat, Curse has several choke point systems where you can set up bubble camps for a little ice fishing. Or, if you prefer roaming with your little band of cut throats, the Curse pipeline to high sec provides a neat little highway for you to seek out other fleets looking for the "gud fight". And where else in all of New Eden can you find a system named 0SHT-A?

1. And the Number One reason I Love Living in Curse? The Open University of Celestial Hardship, of course.

When I joined OUCH two and a half years ago, the corp -- although billing itself as a training corp -- had no real instructors and no real training program. The program was simply a forum with a lot of material explaining aspects of null sec survival and a couple of experienced pilots that liked to share their thoughts with noobs. To graduate, one had only to successfully run the pipeline through Curse without losing his ship. Try as often as you like. The day you were lucky enough to get through is the day you graduated. And the OUCH motto at the time was: "You're going to die. A Lot. But with OUCH training we'll teach you to die less."

Today, OUCH is truly a null sec survival and introductory PvP training corporation. We have experienced trainers and thoroughly documented training course curriculum. Graduation requirements still include running the pipeline, but much more as well. Our focus has broadened beyond simply surviving travel through null sec to now include small gang fleet operations, threat assessment, target engagement, etc. We've also dropped that old fatalistic motto.

So that explains OUCH's purpose today, but why do I and the other core members stay? Because the core truly is a great bunch of guys to hang out with. We are low drama (except when Bren switches from scotch to coffee...). We enjoy teaching noobs and experienced Care Bears (it fulfills the desire to give back to the Eve community). We share a foundational philosophy that the Eve a person plays is a very personal game. Just because I don't play Eve the way you play Eve doesn't make me Terribad (although I may be). In fact, one of OUCH's greatest measures of "winning" is in thwarting an antogonist's preferred play style. Our greatest joys in game include: killing shinies above our class in T1 frigs and getting away without a single loss; killing the bait ships while avoiding the trap, generally causing havoc and frustrating the fleets of our respected opponents in Curse.

Join us. You'll learn to love Curse!

Tears in my eyes :)

Break. Break...

Psi's running the pipeline back to 8G from hi sec (well, from Atlanta anyway). Countdown ATL to 8G. T-3 hours. Hold the pod for me!

Quality leadership, top notch instructors, and a great corp to be in to learn how to survive in EvE. Only thing your missing by not joining is knowledge...

For those of you that don't keep up with the meta game, heed this warning:

Stay out of Jita and surrounding systems this weekend. Burn Jita 2.0 kicks off tomorrow. Expect some early birds to start killing haulers today. You have been warned.

What to do while avoiding Jita? Why, join OUCH and learn to survive and fight in null sec, of course!

Join us. We'll still be here while Jita Burns.