I think this is the very 1st time I agree with Mr Epeen! 
Good thing to since I quit and got to change my name 2 wks later.
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First day in Eve Online:
" I want to be a dusty and moody space miner. "
Looks up the corp offices tab in station
Finds one
Sends a wordy application
and waits …
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still waiting …
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Day one? Let me see, would it be about a week or two after I created my account, when my neighbor showed up and actually told me how to play it? Because all I did on day one was make up 3 characters with my grand daughter who did all the physical models of her Disney Princesses. I sat there reading and sipping on my tea. She was going to name them Snow White, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty I told her not to and I made the names Rose Ivory, Rosie Ember, and Rosalie Coma. She still persisted on attaching the Princess title on them.
Then a week or more later, my mercenary nerd asked me why I wasn’t playing. I was like, meh… why don’t you show me. The rest I learned from YouTube. So not much of a story there.
Have fun!
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Sometimes you have to be persistent. If you do not hear in say a week. Find out who the recruiter is and send an email through the game. Some Corps, especially the larger ones, can be inundated with requests. Your may have simply fallen through the cracks. If you still haven’t heard back presume one of two things. One the recruiters RL has prevent him/he from being in the game or your application has not been accepted. And move on to the next Corp on your list.
It ican be like job hunting. The company you may want to work for may not be as enthusiastic to hire you on.
Also beware of any corp recruiter that really, really, wants you join. Is constantly sending you mail and trying to talk with you. Just a little FYI.
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I can’t remember tbh. My 1st day was in 2007… But it was probably quite “boring” (slow), because of the learning skills we had in that era. I had to do them first before anything else.
And you held off until Oct 18 2024 to join the forum? Impressive.
Mr Epeen 
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I’m not a chatty person.
Btw, this is a different account, my friend. The old old forum was quite toxic. It’s better nowadays. (I mean, it wasn’t that hard not to post.)
Amazing. I got to learn the general types of activities to enjoy and how they worked. I did a few missions for each of the types of career agents. I lost a ship and it looked so awesome! But then as I played, I started to learn what to do and what not to do.
The beauty is first learning what’s available and how everything works. Once I did that, I started taking more risks and enjoying the game even more. I learned that you get from Eve what you put into it.
If you are in a bad mood and play Eve, if something goes wrong you will probably freak out. So don’t play upset or angry. I find playing Eve while in a good mood makes the game even better.
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Was carrying some low level BPOs in my Badger, along with a courier contract.
Set the waypoint, not having any understanding about High/Low/Nullsec.
The destination was a nullsec player station. I showed up but couldn’t dock… WTH?
A ship undocked. Then another… then another… more and more until there were about 25 ships on grid. I was locked, webbed and scrammed by pretty much everyone and they were calling in a few more from other systems to get in on it. They were actually quite cordial in local chat.
I lost my Badger that day but not before I learned about how courier contracts were used as bait.
The really crazy thing is how far I made it through low and null without blowing up before I even got there.
RIP S Antimatter BPO. 
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Should have self-destructed to deny the additional people the opportunity to get on the KM. 
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This exactly mirrors my experience when, after a few months into the game, I joined a Nullsec Corp. They offered to help me make the journey from Highsec, but I decided to go it alone.
I made the whole journey - Highsec, Lowsec, Nullsec without a single incident. Maybe I was flying something unattractive, but in any case, most of the systems seemed very empty. Guess I just got lucky!
Same. I joined a null group who did the “if you can make it here you can join” so I flew there in my executioner going “now what”, I had to wait so was just flying about checking out the surrounding systems and accidentally ended up in, what I later learned, their capital production systems (which I didn’t know nor understood at all, caps were new and I had no clue on them) and they got really mad about it.
I kinda went from “can I join you guys” to “if you want me gone, make me”.
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…and they keep asking why I don’t leave Highsec.
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Nobody asks that, Aiko. Everyone already knows why you don’t leave high sec.
Mr Epeen
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It’s interesting. I tried Nullsec; hated it. I have a couple of characters in Lowsec and that really is fun - not too full-on, but the content is there (if you can find it).
But Sasha is Highsec-bound. It isn’t because I’m afraid to go elsewhere and shoot ships (I occasionally get the willies on a dodgy gank), but rather that the environment and ambience of Highsec is just, well, cool. I’m a lost cause, I guess…
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This is a waaaaays back, but I clearly remember spending quite a few hours just figuring out how the interface worked, how to undock and pilot my ship, etc. It was kind of overwhelming at first…
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I think he asks what experience we had that felt like the first day in Eve.
(I know ! It’s a joke about what you think is confusing)
My experience was that it was beautiful, but very slow on my PC using CEDEGA . Also people told me to take the loot at the station, I took it, became suspect, got shot then podded. No idea what happened.
Then I had to train the learning skills, Later I got a catalyst, tried some mission, then the agent sent me to LS, and I was ganked at the gate, then podded and I did not have paid for my clone so I lost skills. And I figured it was enough, uninstalled.
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Missed opportunity to conduct a social experiment by waiting and seeing who gets the joke.
Also missed opportunity of witnessing a circus unfold as people bicker about whose interpretation is correct, deliberately waiting in the background not giving an answer what the intent was that would finish the debate. 
Its again the ethics to make an experiment on people without having their consent first.
Even if it does not harm them. Respect is above science.
People need to know that they are subject to a scientific experiment before you start studying how long it takes for their head to die once severed.
(I know, your post was a joke, and this is a literally-guy joke)
10 years ago now.
I figured out how to undock and left my home station in a capsule and ended up in Tama 0.3 where I was duly destroyed and returned forthwith from whence I came.
Only 4 jumps but it felt like I’d travelled for ages.
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