Vartan Sarkisian
Raising the Bar Of Sound Mind
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Posted - 2015.07.10 11:47:30 -
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This is from a bad memory so there may be a few innacuracies here)
My story starts the day after xmas day in 2010. I had heard of EvE before on the net and had taken a trial account sometime earlier but found the learning curve too hard and left. Having promptly forgotten that trial accounts login details my account that was set up in Dec 2010 was new rather than an extension of the trial. I didnGÇÖt have a clue (sometimes I still feel that way too).
My early time in game was doing ratting and low level missions until I searched for a corp, a guy from a very small corp contacted me and I joined him but really just carried on doing what I had already been doing in game. 2 months in and we got wardecced, he folded the corp and again I found myself in an NPC corp. He found another corp called the Fiction Factory and I joined with him, he left shortly afterwards but I stayed for about a year. It was a high sec corp and the CEO seemed really knowledgeable on the game. I remember my first fleet PVP with wardeccers in a fleet, the adrenaline was flowing and my heart was pumping so hard. We killed their fleet and my guys even stood cover as I went to get a Noctis to hoover up their wrecks. Soon after this my hulk was ganked and I was pissed off, a 200m isk ship gone.
Eventually The CEO decided to take the corp to null sec, that scary place and I didnGÇÖt want to go, so I was alone in high sec whilst they did their thing in null sec, it was a setup that was never going to last and so I went corp hunting.
The very first people that I spoke to were in a corp called Inner Visions, the EUTZ portion of a mainly USTZ alliance called Of Sound Mind (Inner Visions, Reasonable People and Raising the Bar are all part of Sound Mind), I joined them on 03 Feb 2012 and really for the most part I have been with them until today, although with a few excursions to other places here and there but always found myself drawn back.
I loved being in Inner Visions, we would have 26 people mining fleets in high sec, we did this to build ships to hand out to replace loses. I remember seeing orcaGÇÖs, various indy ships shuttling backwards and forwards and 20+ hulks laying waste to asteroid fields. We would also go roam in null sec in fleets generally in the providence area.
Leadership knew some people in Providence and we eventually got sov there and so we moved into 9-FOB2 and 4B-NQN and become a null sec corp, I was more prepared this time and we were having a whale of a time, I even saw a Station Egg planted and blossom into the station that is now in 4B, Brave Newbies were our frenemies and we had plenty of fights on the 9-FOB2/G-5EN2 gate, ratting gave good income as did PI and we were only a couple of jumps (if you took the JB) from high sec. That lasted sometime before tensions between our leadership and CVA blew over and that took us into what we call the Nomen war. We held out for some days before brokering a peace deal and left.
In fact I would say go to this link - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=324528 - and read the first 6 posts by XavierVE here, that guy tells it in a much more interesting way that I could and tells the history of that corp/alliance up until fairly recent times, and 90% of that corps history is mine. His 3rd post outlines the nomen war but really it is worth reading the first 6 posts in its entirety. His commentary outlines that we went to curse (I left the corp for most of that period as I hated it there) the moving to Syndicate (Where I rejoined) through to our time in Catch.
There was a bit of everything going on in my eve life, industry, PI, PVE, PVP but found as time moved on the number of people logging on in EUTZ was dwindling and so I left again. I went to various other places, FCON where I was bored surrounded by a sea of blues and I had to fulfil quotas in fleets etc, so not my way of enjoying myself, Modus Angels where the guys were good, but due to my limited game time I was doing most things solo, 3 days in the Kadeshi which I knew was not for me even when I joined and a small stint in blue republic before going back to my spiritual home with Of Sound Mind where we were still part of the Hero Coalition but leaving Catch and heading the Fountain.
Now that Hero has fallen apart Of Sound Mind has moved to a wormhole, EUTZ member numbers are low/inactive and I am finding that I am losing interest, having played this game since December 2010 without a break I either need a change of scenery or a break from the game. EvE is a game that can be played solo but I think it is better if you are in a corp of people you can trust and have the same interests as you, doesnGÇÖt matter if it is 5 or 50 but just other people.
Of Sound Mind is very trustworthy and are doing the right thing however what I donGÇÖt have there is many people online during the TZ I play in, most of the original crew I flew with back when I joined have left, it is a shame really as I feel such a connection there, such a history and a story it feels traitorous almost to leave but leave again I must as the WH has killed it for me..
I donGÇÖt know where my story will take me now, although I know it will not be to live in a wormhole. IGÇÖve thought of Faction Warfare or Low Sec PVP but I donGÇÖt want to trash my sec status, The idea of just mining scares me and PVE only will not keep me engaged, I think if I decide not to take a break I will try and find something micro/small gang related, although fitting ships is something I have not really learnt (or even decent PVP skills if you look at my KB) in my time in game.
Highlights are the GÇ£this is eveGÇ¥ trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0 GÇô donGÇÖt know about you but I love that video and gives me a rush each time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTl2Gn8-oJM&feature=youtu.be @ 1:40 (I love that too)
Seeing the station egg come to life
Some good stories in this thread, great idea.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
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