Lavente Shihari
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Posted - 2014.11.03 13:07:44 -
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I wouldn't call myself a vet, still here's my story:
Roughly 2 and half years ago my then roommate started playing eve, and i happily joined him. I had heard a lot of stories about, how brutal it could be, the trill off a fight and the great null sec alliances.
I wanted to jump straight in guns blazing, so i finished the tutorials ASAP and started training in to something Battleship sized (because you know bigger is better....) I bought a plex to fund it all and trained the minimum required skills for the modules i thought i would need. Along the path to a Battleship came my first try at a pvp ship, a moa which i brought to tama where it promptly blew up.... 3 feroxes followed and my roomate didn't do much better.
We where broke and raging, we would pvp no more. We tried making some isk and doing mining and missions, but it bored us and training took to long. We did not resup.
Roughly 8 months ago i decided i wanted to play a game worthy of my time, this brought me back to eve. This time i made plan, join a corp to have fun with people and learn the basics. Make some easy isk while mining and gearing up for lvl 4 missions.
I ended up joining a pirate corp near Hek, they did some gate camping and while their add said newb friendly they weren't very helpfull. I did get my first kill with them and it made hungry for more. Still because the lack off interest in helping me out i left and started talking with other corps. I found one with a newb training corp and promptly joined them. It turned out that the newb corp did no pvp whatsoever but, they where very helpfull.
I learned a lot about missions, mining, fits and how to avoid getting ganked in highsec, but mostly the following: 1.) consider everything you undock already lost. 2.) if you can fly something that doesn't mean you should, make sure you can fly it well. 3.) if you don't like something, don't do it (well this i learned from mining)
But the best part about them was when we got wardect. They had a wormhole somewhere and brought us all in to avoid the wardec. At the same time 2 of my friends started playing eve and i made an alt so i could play with them and avoid any of the dangers in Womhole space.
While having fun with my friends and doing some missions i read up about Wormhole space as much as i could. It fascinated me and i wanted to go in there for the full experience. Not just sitting there doing nothing like my ceo had ordered.
While reading i learned a few basics about wormhole space, get a covops cloak, learn to probe fast and press dscan as much as you can. So i started training for the ship i thought would bring me the most fun in WH space, a Stratios. I left the newb corp and started a new one with my 2 friends. We ran missions while training up for the ships we wanted to fly in to w-space. Making the occasional trip in to low sec to try and find some fights.This resulted mostly in us losing ships.
After a month or so we geared up for our first trip into w-space, i still remember trill off the unkown and freaking out at the first sign of danger. We did some sites in c1/c2 and the the isk was amazing, for us anyway. We started looking for c2's on a daily basis and did the first waves from c3's when we would find them. As soon as we would spot something on D-scan we ran to highsec. It was fun, dangerous and exciting. But like all things when you've done them often enough the danger doesn't seem so real and we started slacking....
While daytripping into w-space one day we where being watched, they came from a hole we did not know was there and it was out off d-scan range. We just finished the final wave in the site when we got hot dropped. I still remembered the 2 stratios decloack right next to me they pointed us and next we know 3 battle-cruisers land aswell. We all died, the excitement was back and i wanted to do this to other people.
I joined their public channel saying gf and asking what i did wrong, a month later we where part of their alliance, living in a C2 (hs/c3 static) with their training corp. I learned more and more, how to roll holes, Keep security, finding people with d-scan and how fickle Bob can be.
Unfortunately the alliance fell apart after an eviction attempt. I was left alone as my friends stopped playing, it was a very lonely time, i tried to recruit some new people but my experience was lacking, and most left. I couldn't offer a good fight to people coming in to my wormhole and i was at loss on what to do next...
In the mean time someone i knew stopped playing eve, at that point i wasn't even aware he was playing but he was getting rid of his characters and offered a tengu pilot to me at a cheap price. Now i could run c3 combat sites solo and my isk income rose sharply. Besides that i now had a ship i could do some serious dps in. I was still lonely but i managed keep the pos fueled and occasionally fight some people. I kept hanging on by a thread and i was seriously considering leaving eve again.
Then i got in contact with one off my old alliance members, the same that got me in the alliance. She and few other members had joined a relatively new C5 corp and they were apparently all fun guys. So i went on a frig Roam with them and a week later the POS was offline, my stuff moved out and i was shooting stuff at a regular basis in the C5. The corp mates i met there are now my friends and today i'am still having fun in the same corp With the same friends.
So my advice to all new players, pick a corp with people you enjoy spending time with, doing things you like to do in eve. Don't fly anything your afraid to lose and most of all have fun
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