Hands Off, My Loots!

The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: “Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game, with a ton to learn, so much that you never stop learning. So, the question is; What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?”

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This is actually a rather difficult topic for me.  The way the topic is worded makes it seem like it’s asking what I wished soemone had taught me, that no one did…and I can’t think of anything like that.  Everything I can think of that I would have liked to know about, I was lucky enough to be taught by my first two corps.

I started EVE in November of 2007, with a character named Archammer.  He’s been in the noob corp for ever, and I stopped playing him after a few days/weeks I think and started a new character after I learned a bit about attributes.

I created another character after that, which is when I started reading the forums, google, etc to find everything I could about EVE.  I joined a null sec corp and went out to have fun.  I truthfully don’t remember the name of the corp, but I learned a great deal about keeping safe from them.  Everything from bookmarks, to undocking, to pos safety.  Tackling, fighting, etc…they taught me all of that side of EVE.  So even as a noob, I knew quite a bit about how to take care of myself early on.

I also lucked out when I started EVE.  The person that invited me to EVE, quit a few weeks after I started, and gave me a little under 8 Billion ISK.  I spurged a great deal of it, but with that ISK I learned to trade, and invest, and by the first time I quit EVE I had amassed over 40 Billion ISK.  The trading actually burned me out, which is why I quit that first time.  Over all the other times I’ve started back up, I’ve avoided trading on that level just to avoid that type of burnout.

Also during that time, I quit that first corp, created a newer character (I think I had quit again, i’m not sure, lol…it’s all pretty hazy)…and joined up with Aeon (of Aeon’s EVE) who is the blogger than convinced me to take up my friends offer of starting EVE…as well as blogging.  This is where I really blossomed.  I began to mission and mine with Aeon and the crew of Syrkos Technologies, and eventually even ponied up the Cash for us to start the Joint Venture Conglomerate.  Both, were lone-wolf entities…created for people, that like me and Aeon at the time, enjoyed mostly playing by ourselves, but wanted some friends to talk with and team up with when necessary.

After a while, I realized that missioning and mining was getting boring, and I was going to end up quiting again.  I didn’t want this to happen, so I began looking for something new.  In the end, after lots of research, I found Suddenly Ninjas…and jumped in head on…the rest of that story should all be known to you, as I changed my blog over from The New Eden Diaries…to this one.  I still speak with Aeon from time to time, and although I know he doesn’t approve of what I do, neither one of us harbor any hard feelings with the way I went.

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Well, I got way off topic and turned this into a post about me rather than the topic…sorry about that, it’s my nature as a ninja I guess lol.

I guess what I’m trying to say, is that there isn’t anything I can think of that I didn’t learn as a new player to eve.  I lucked out and got taught everything I needed to know, and have thrived in my capabilities because of it.

I can however, say the things that I’m glad I did learn:

1. Always have a skill training
2. Bookmarks
3. Directional Scanner
4. Diplomacy (lol)
5. Agro Mechanics

There’s lots more…but those are probably the 5 main ones I appreciate learning the most.