Jacobs Gladedage

A few days ago I logged in to see ramblings in the Militia chat channel about an Amarr friendly force in our space. I immediately asked to join the Minmatar fleet which was forming and was a little surprised to see myself accepted so readily, no questions asked. I’m still a very low SP pilot after all but it was a welcome surprise for sure. I rushed to pick up my rifter and catch up with the fleet and at first everything was a little overwhelming and a good deal confusing.

A few jumps down a friendly soul informed me about the ingame voice chat where our fleet commander was calling the shots. After joining this and figuring out how to remove fleet members from my enemies tab in the overview everything went a lot smoother.

We chased the enemy for a while. Evertime it seemed like we were catching up on them they managed to scatter off and regroup in new systems. When we finally engaged it was on their terms as they had set up a “trap” of sorts on the otherside of a jump. Or at least that’s what I heard on the voice chat while I was busy loading in. ^^ In my eagerness I had jumped in too soon and it ended up costing me my rifter. Not, however, before I got my first kill!

Our fleet won the encounter and the terrified Amarr weaklings ran home to lick their wounds. After a short break the fleet leaders invited everyone to join them on a venture into high sec in breachers. Unfortunately I had to go cook dinner at this point so I missed out on that. I’m sure I’ll get another chance soon though.

Fun times!

I’ve been hearing about faction warfare for a while now and a couple of days ago I decided to enlist. I quickly learned I had two options. Either I signed up for a player run corporation involved with faction warfare (which I might still do) or I just enlisted with the militia in any Minmatar station thus automatically joining Tribal Liberation force. Doing my time in the lovely rookie help channel I was invited to join several public channels of mass recuriting Amarr active faction warfare corps, but I havn’t seen any for Minmatar pilots so I decided to just go with the NPC’s at first. This turned out being a little trickier than I had thought because I needed a 0.5 standing with the Minmatar Republic. Something my social skills didn’t help me with.

I figured I was doomed to do a lot of mission running to obtain story missions for standing, but it turns out I figured wrong. There are something called Data Centers where you can “buy” faction standing. I went for the one in Emolgranlan and was offered a mission to turn in 10 x Angel Copper Tags. These however are about 2 mil ISK a piece on the market so that isn’t really an option. Luckily it turns out each Data Center has a single Agent which offers you an easy courier mission. The courier mission itself is a story line mission which gives you Faction Standing, but upon completion you’re granted a signed Graduation Certificate which lets you do more story line missions for a story agent.

With my Minmatar graduation certificate (signed) in hand I set off and did the 5 missions which along with two Data Center courier mission brought me up to 0.53 rep, and enough to join the militia!

The three Minmatar courier mission givers:

Emolgranlan data center – Rilbedur Tjar
Arlulf data center – Albedur Vatzako
Engosi data center – West Ludorim

I had my first taste of the MMO genre back in 1998 when I bought Ultima Online. I didn’t have the faintest idea it required Internet to play but we did have a dial up modem <3 . I was 16 and living at my parents at the time and they weren’t exactly happy about the phone bill so it just wasn’t ment to be. A year later ISDN had moved in and Asherons Call released. I played on Darktide (a free-for-all open world PvP server with player looting upon death) and the experince was a defining moment in the kind of MMOs I’ve played since.

Oddly enough I never got into Eve-online despite a strong love sandbox MMOs with harsh PvP. Sure I’ve had several trial accounts and my oldest character dates back to 2005 but I’ve just never got into it. Until recently when I picked it up again after learning a couple of guys at my dorm were playing. These guys have proved to be extremely valuable in conquering the learning curve but perhaps more importantly, helping me figure out how I could get to play how I wanted.

I wouldn’t call Eve-online a hard game to get into anymore. The new – new player experience is fairly smooth and running the three career tutorials will get you fairly sooted for both mission running and mining. Unfortunately both those paths managed to bore me out of the game doing the course of my last trial. This time however, my friends suggested a few alternative options and pointed me in the direction of much needed information. I’m still very much a newbie but I come to perceive the learning curve of Eve-online through completely different eyes.

Getting into eve-online is different from other MMOs in that you’ll almost certainly need other people to point you in the right direction instead of slowly picking up on everything yourself. I’m sure you can learn Eve-online by a traditional “figure everything out on your own” approach but a lot of the answers are hidden within the community; either by learning from other pilots ingame or fiddling around on various parts of the Internet. This blog will evolve around the answers I dig out on my road to living in 0.0 space.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded!