Rifters.
Rifters to blot out the sun…
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I was rolling with a guild in another game that many of us were on the edge of leaving. It was fun, then it wasn’t.
Someone said well we don’t want wow. So……who wants to try internet ships. And thus eve started in 2009.
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I can’t remember how or when I heard about EVE, but it was probably while just searching games.
When I read the blurb and stuff and realised that I would love the Mining, Industry, Missioning side of things I gave it a try.
That was back in 2011/12.
But over the years as they slowly nerfed Poses and Industry etc in HS, I took a break.
When I came back nothing had changed, indeed it had gotten worse with CCP hellbent on pushing players in a direction they wanted them to go, rather than what the player wanted to do.
I haven’t been in HS all my EVE career, I’ve also done Provi and Null with a bunch of good guys, but they left over time.
In early 2011, I was playing a lot of modded Freespace 2. One day I was on the Free Space Wiki when I saw an ad for EvE Online. I never normally pay attention to ads but something about it caught my attention so I decided to give EvE a try.
I didn’t really do much research into what EvE was before jumping in, all I knew is it was a space sim which I was really into at the time. I was sure in for a shock when I first got into game a found out that it wasn’t a space sim like I was used to.
Can’t fly with a joystick, have to give commands for where the ship should go and do like some RTS. I really don’t know why I stuck with it at the time but I did and I’m still here over 13 years later.
EvE is the first and only MMORPG I’ve ever played and the first real MMO I played. I’d played games online before but it had always been console shooters like the Halo series. Sometime after starting EvE, I started using battleclinic and discovered World of Tanks from there. I played WoT for awhile and started watching the Mighty Jingles’s WoT videos and from there discovered War Thunder.
Over the years I’ve alternated my attention between EvE, World of Tanks, and War Thunder. I’ve tried World of Warships, World of Warplanes, and Armored Warfare but never stuck with them. No other MMOs have ever interested me or caught me attention.
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Afaik this character was created in 2003. I heard about the game because someone was talking about it on a Counter-Strike forum. What got me interested was the login screen on the client it was super mysterious and after logging in i was not let down. Things have a changed a bit since then because now the launcher is a mess and also contains ads. And the two tier player system is just wrong + all the other attempts to squeeze money out of players. But it is what it is.
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It was on sale on steam for $5.
All the ‘F1 monkey’ commentors always miss the inverse side where you could at any moment have 50 - 60 enemy ships target you. Keeping up with the FC can help as stragglers often get targeted…but it can equally make you the first ship aimed at when FC warps to a new location on the grid. And there’s always that sense of wanting to take out as many enemy ships as possible before getting blapped yourself. All great fun to survive.
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Yup. I’ve been primary’d, I’ve been alpha’d off a grid seconds after landing. It happens. And sometimes nothing happens to me while I see fleet members getting eliminated. The sweet spot for fun is between those two extremes. Last week I limped back home in structure (my “number” was up again), from one end of the map to the other, thanks to our logi who saved my session. It’s adrenaline, it’s fun. It’s knowing you can’t be the usual control freak but have to trust and rely on your fleet members.
“What do you do with the time you’re given”, it’s not even a joke during these slaughterfests. Well, take as many of the opposition as I can. No quarter received, and none given !
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You tube and walking in stations articles.
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Oh my, what a fearsome PvP warrior you are!
I can’t even imagine how scary it would be to show up to a REAL PvP fight with 200 coalition members where you outnumber the other side 2:1, get absolutely curb-stomped, and then collect your ship replacement funds from the director the next day.
I can’t even imagine being so brave. That’s why I stick to griefing rookie players in high-sec.
I likewise cannot imagine the sheer bravery involved in scouting the gate at Amarr, seeing what wardec ship is coming, and then undocking whatever ship is required to beat it…from your huge collection at the Emperor Academy station. This is practically a solo N+1…and so brave.
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But I just said that I’m not brave, and that’s why I am griefing innocent new players in high-sec, so why are you making it out like I’m bragging about being elite? 
What?
Anyway, if it’s all so easy and simple, why aren’t you doing it?
Are you going to be alright? You seem like you’re really upset about something, and for the life of me I can’t tell what it is. Want to get it off your chest?
Where do you think that SRP money comes from in the first place ? From the members of the alliance of course, via the taxes and the extra programs like buybacks, and from valuable loot on the battlefield. All the individual contributions make that SRP fund.
That’s what cooperation and living in an organized group means. That’s what makes it all possible.
Don’t be daft. Playing EvE Online has absolutely nothing to do with any form of bravery. Wanting to win an encounter and outsmarting the opposition is just that. No more, no less.
If you’ve never tried it, perhaps you should one day. If you tried it and didn’t like it, that’s fine.
But don’t let your sentiment about wardec changes cloud your intelligence… You’re better than that, but you choose not to act that way…
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Destiny, stop being so cute.
Back in your box.
You may think it’s a perfect example of some true space religion to have a princess.
The sad part is that I am forced to share her with other miners who all frequently follow her knowledgeable words of wisdom.
Mind you, to be in the same system as Princess makes the star in that system shine brighter than without her in space.
Only through her perseverance that my princess allows my barge to mine another day as it’s not the ore that is cared for but the isk that awaits to be used to strike down those lost miner souls who had not yet decided to follow her space religion.
Praise James 315
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You hit my blocked list, well done.
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