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Posted - 2015.06.08 01:46:45 -
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Azda Ja wrote:I pity you vets who have everything you could possibly want trained already, every other week is EVE XMAS for me.
Friends and corpmates told me I was going to regret it when I sold my original main of some 80m sp many years back. They said I was certifiably insane when I repeated the same several more times and I'm in the process of doing it again.
Perhaps it's an orthodoxy amongst some that the original avatar is sacred or that the optimal stat distribution on the biggest and best ships is something everyone ought to aspire to, but I agree with you completely. I both appreciate and pity my customers on the bazaar. They're getting exactly what they want and Bob willing they will enjoy their money's worth, but at the same time I know a lot of them are skipping one of the most exhilarating and rewarding parts of the game where you're plugging away at rank 3 on several key skills just becoming able to equip that scrappy little t1 ship.
I've never held on to a character now for longer than the 80m sp of my first. Most never even make it to their second year. Contrary to popular belief, this has never held me back from seeing content. I've lived in high class wormholes, held sov, participated in FW with two militias, pirated, ganked, traded, mined, manufactured, researched, invented, set up POS, explored, and even run a mission or two. The only thing I've yet to really notch into the old bedpost is incursions and frankly, I'm not terribly interested.
I'd just like to re-iterated how true the above quote is. When you don't have a lot of sp, you don't have much to take for granted. Younglings may look up to the sp-gods like Camus and hope against hope that one day they'll have enough isk to buy their way into such lavish sp, but when one conquers the subliminal urge to win the skillpoint game they become infinitely better for it. Not only do they learn to become more effective pilots with the skills they have, but they come to appreciate the open-ended nature of EVE in a way that skill-training-online players only fantasize about.
Last week I was prepping my newest fresh face. Once my latest sale clears I'll be plugging in several skillbooks and hitting the stars. In two weeks time I expect to have some kills and deaths on the new killboard. I'm winning EVE and I didn't even have to log off.
Cheers Azda and all the young pilots like you. |