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So I was reminded to go look at my eve day from another member and realized that I missed my 2 year anniversary a few days ago. Of the last two years over 508 days were spent in the Hatchery and Spawning Pool combined.

After 2 years perhaps I should detail my journey. At the very least, newer people can look back on this and laugh at some of the awesome mistakes and misconcceptions I had in my early days.

I had heard of eve off and on while I was playing wow over the course of a couple years, however I had never committed to actually looking it up for some odd reason. A few months after I had finally given up on WoW I was bored reading team liquid and saw the eve thread post. From reading a bit on the forums I started watching the trailer videos for eve.

The dominion trailer was what did it in for me. I was sold hook, line, and sinker. This was clearly a representation of how eve worked. Totally, it must have been fraps from a real fight, people totally used call signs and acted like that in fleet battles.

I didn’t consider myself part of the team liquid community so joining never crossed my mind. Instead I looked up things on the eve online forums, watched videos, and looked at pictures. Clearly the megathron was the best ship ever.

It took about 3 days before I realized you could actually manually pilot your ship, I literally spent the first three days using celestials to align and point my ship towards areas I wanted to go that didn’t have an asteroid or rat I could approach.

I bee lined the skills to just barely get into a mega, despite glaring advice even on the eve-o forums to NEVER DO THAT. I had read that missions were the best way to make money, however I could not afford fancy megathron to mission. Clearly I needed to join a corp. I pretty much joined the first corp that posted in the recruitment channel. NEW Euroengineering Arms Race. (yes NEW is in caps) What a total shit corp. They had some blah blah plan about null sec and they were willing to teach me to be pro eve player.

So I started mining. Mining in mighty gallente space fish Navitas, I had picked megathron as my long term plan because clearly it would be best ship because gallente people were noble freedom loving people I could roleplay as. Luckily my new found mentors would help take me under their wing and join the group L4 missions. That’s right these guys were so talented they needed multiple people to run L4’s. I grabbed my 1337 altron to help defend local from terrible evil angel rats, with the help of a dominix repping a drake. I saw the machariel for the first time there, and began to fall in love with it, however I didn’t even know you could fly one.

Even though running missions like this is horribly sub optimal, one of the greatest experiences I had was doing that mission. I had never been to a place like Jita or Dodixie or even rens, I had never really even seen anything larger than hulk in the mining belts with me. Being in a tiny atron circling through fleets of giant battleships gave me a sense of scale I had never had in another MMO or even most games for that matter. I was sold.

Mining sucked. So I made another mistake to rectify my last mistake. I was paying for my subs with real cash, but knew if I could make enough isk I could pay that way. So I took out a plex loan, which made sense to me at the time. Bought a 60 day and sold it on the forums and bought my first l4 mission ship. Navy Megathron, mainly because my skills were so shit I couldn’t even fit the failest of regular megathrons. I grinded day and night attempting to do fucking serpentis blockade with a shit skilled RAIL navy mega. There is nothing more painful than this trust me. This was long before the hybrid buff so rails were lucky to track anything at even 50km. However this was not all bad, I learned a lot about tracking and sig sizes doing this as well as manually piloting a shit in order to get the best transveral to still hit things.

Then disaster struck. New Something Something had been war decced. I knew nothing about how this worked and just assumed I was hours of jumps away from the rest of my corp and that I would just get over looked while I missioned. I was wrong.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=10677627

I was jumping out of Gallente space to go run some mission when suddenly flashy red everywhere. At first I panicked. Then I began locking thing. The only thing I knew was I saw a drake, and that drakes were shit because they couldnt do l4's solo, because the drake pilot in my corp couldnt. I was going to fucking murder that drake.

First lost. Painful lost, it more than paid for itself, however I had to put off plexxing through isk to get another one. It also important to note that the people who ganked me were so confused about what a 30day old character was doing in faction fit navy mega that they offered to sell me back the dropped faction mods at a discount, I was too prideful though. She was named FNV Devastation, FNV totally stands for Federation Navy Vessel because I was totally going to RP. That and it is a reference to another awesome space game that I doubt most of you will even be old enough to remember.

More later maybe.