Hellllooo readers,
Firstly I would like to say thanks for taking some time to read my blog. I mean that, reading my garble will only take up some of your personal time, of which you shouldn't be wasting ;0)
Secondly... An explanation as to how and why this is happening.. I'm currently sat at work bored, it's a British bank holiday. As I said, I'm bored... Very very bored. And I want to share my eve experiences with others, so here goes a little intro as to how I've got here.
A year or so ago, I got into a xbox game called fable 2, it was very addictive (not as much as eve) and I enjoyed killing things, the missions it offered and the open maps you could explore. It's very similar to world of Warcraft, but restricted. So obviously I joined the world of WOW. Now this effected my life, I would play it until I couldn't see out of my eyeballs. The missus would get angry at me slaying beasts with my tanked warrior, but I didn't care, I was having a great time. The thing I found difficult with WOW, is that the social side was sometimes a little difficult. I work in a customer face to face environment, that I've been very successful in. But I just couldn't make any decent online mates that would help me along my way. Time went by where I would be paying to play, but never going online. It was a waste.
In RL I've always been a gaming 'geek'. I'm no pro, and I wouldn't say I'm that good at any game apart from the football manager games here in England. (soccer for you guys over the Atlantic). I keep up to date with what's going on in the pc world via buying a magazine called pc gamer (eve have taken over the magazine this month btw) and that's where I saw it. An online space game, multi player, do what you want, space game. I've always been a fan (but rubbish at) these sort of games. There's been a couple ( I can't remember there names) that I've played demos of, but none I've seen where you can blow other peoples ships up!!! YES my son, I'll get the trial.
***addiction starts here***
So, I sign up, download the trial and get going. I set up a toon try the tutorial ect ect and that's it, I'm sorted.
Within days, I get an invite to a Corp, I make a few friends, we get war decced, lose a frig in a frig swarm against a war dec target. Basically I'm having fun. To begin with I had chosen my career as a carebear miner. It suited me, I can set up my pc, afk mine while playing my console. A gamers wet dream some may think.
I don't want to give details of my toon, but I have a long list of corps I've been part of, one thing I like about the game, is the social side, you can never tell what another person is like in RL from this game. Don't get me wrong, I've met some awesome people that I will talk and be friends with for a long time. But you can be whoever you want on eve. It's like an old man pretending to be a 15 year boy to chat up a little girl. (seriously it's that extreme) what I'm going on about here, is Corp thieves. In my second Corp (which was a break away group from the first one I was in) we had one person that stole maybe a billion worth of isk assets. It was shit, really really shit. Robbed by someone you've been talking to for weeks. It's part of the game that makes eve unique.
Anyway, we get war-decced (probably by the thieves alt) and being a noob Corp with no real team work we get dicked on. The one guy is just too good for our unorganised little group of eve toddlers.
This is when I left and joined a friends new Corp he had set up. He was still into mining massively and would arrange Corp mines that I would join. At the same time I had skilled up for amarr battleships with decent t2 guns to earn some iskies doing missions.
While here, I had ventured into null sec (massive fail), lived in a worm hole (went tits up as it produced little isk) and had a little pvp action.
I found in all this, that we came across some dishonest and bitchy people. It's a game, but socially and politically gets complicated. A small group of us then bought a wormhole and lived our eve lives in it. It was a friends only Corp, and we just got on with the game on our own. It didn't last long, as people got a little restless and bored.
Luckily for me, I made a friend at work who was an avid eve player. He lived in null sec. Cheers. :---)
So, just to summarise the above mess. I was a carebear trotting along in the comfort of hi-sec slowly getting bored and all of a sudden I'm in the big bad world of null.
I've had to train new things here. Certain ship requirements. Cloaky ships work a treat, my amarr skills are rubbish versus the rats. Things that will take me a while to train. But it will be worth it.
I've been living in null for a month now, it's fun. The purpose of this, is to share my noob null sec experiences. Like losing a drake in a plex, being bored at 3am being a scout while bigger ships batter an ihub, my plans for skill training. I class myself a noob still, I make many mistakes and know very little. The drake loss is an example. I was soloing a plex in my drake. The first room took about 40 minutes, I had to warp out a few times buy it was going well. The second room, was full of frigs, and having done a couple in a fly before, I know the importance of killing the scrams first. I thought I had, but there was one cheeky frig at the bottom of the overview that I missed. BOOM!!!
It was Xmas eve, I was pissed off and rage quit!
Sitting down for a few minutes, I realised it wasn't the end of the world. I'll get a new drake, fit it with the right drones this time. Lose a bit of gank for tank. And wait for a few skills to finish to make me better.
So, yeah, that my brief story so far. The background of my 6 months playing eve. I just hope I haven't bored you, and you come back to read sone null sec adventures
