Oso Peresoso
Condotta Rouvenor
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.06.21 18:28:00 -
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My own journey in Eve has taken me to some incredible places and introduced me to incredible people. I tend to play in 3-6 month stints before taking a long term break, just because being into Eve is an intense experience (or it can be a very boring one). Living full-time out in nullsec with a corporation of people that you rely on for everything is a formative experience and changes how you perceive every other aspect of the game. Really, its other people, be they allies, enemies, or bystanders, that are the content of the game, which keeps it fresh. The game rewards intelligence, initiative, and nerves of steel.
Ship to ship pvp combat, when its not 15 guys catching one guy traveling, is a real adrenaline rush that cannot be compared to any other video game experience. Coming away from a good engagement with shaky hands is not uncommon, even for veterans. Over the years I've been a part of frigate wolfpacks roaming deep in enemy territory, occasionally getting trapped behind enemy lines by a response force in a dead-end system, faced with running a literal gauntlet or logging off to try to get out in the morning (i've done both successfully). I've flown with with a stealth bomber gang in a system with 800+ hostiles, picking off targets of opportunity. I've flown battleships in large fleet engagements, fighting over control of valuable moons. I've camped bottlenecks in enemy supplylines, inflicting billions in damage, and I've baited and killed others doing the same. I've hunted down targets in nullsec. I've mercilessly stalked targets in hisec among the faceless crowds of hisec with alts, stockpiling intel on the locations of their assets, bases of operations, and leading to lightning strikes or deadly traps against juicy, expensive ships. I've found targets of in wormhole space, and I've also gotten lost there too, managing to find my way out only several hours later, but faced with a journey across half the cluster to get back to my stomping grounds. On the PVE end, I've taken ships worth well over 2 billion isk into deadly NPC dungeons in locations that also put me at great risk from other players. I've also taken rookie pilots and old friends alike into such places for some collaborative PVE action.
I've also engaged in space-business, investing significant amounts of my own isk into risky and labor-intensive ventures, such as running moon-extraction starbases (without the support of a large alliance) and producing minmatar logistics ships. I've lost a few hundred million over the years in poorly-researched, bandwagon-inspired market speculation, and made almost as much from the appreciating value of resources that I was too lazy to sell sooner. I've examined markets and made purchases from trade hubs, hired other players to move my stuff to remote locations, and sold it for tidy profits, enriching myself and benefiting my allies. They really aren't kidding about "spreadsheets in space."
I've been in small corps, and big corps, and small corps again. I've met all kinds of people and even met a few in real life. I've gone solo, I've lived in nullsec sov space, I've lived in nullsec in a small organization harassing the big ones. I've lived in hisec, I've lived in the north, I've lived in the south. I've done missions, I've done mining, I've done industry, trading, and planetary interaction. I've done exploration, scouting, surveying. I've fought in wars, I've watched wars, I've profiteered, I've spied. I've taken raw recruits who've been mining and never seen pvp and turned them into capable and intelligent pilots, and bloodthirsty killers at that. Mentoring is in fact one of my favorite things to do, I prefer it to outright leadership.
I've been playing on and off for 7 years. My two characters have 70 and 60 million skillpoints. I even have a carrier. Yet with all that I've only been to maybe... 10-15% of the solar systems in the game at least once, and there are whole avenues of gameplay that I've never even touched. One of the reasons I keep coming back to Eve is that it keeps getting better. I feel an incredible connection to my own characters as they've grown in skills over the years. And they're always there waiting, deadlier and more capable than the last time. |