Caldari Outcast

Welcome to the sixteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or extensive, funny or serious, but they are always great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com.

The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: “Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game where you never stop learning. What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?”

Things I’ve learned in EVE?

1. You will lose your ship. For me, it was the very first time I ever jumped into lowsec

2. Only fly what you can afford to lose.

3. ONLY FLY WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE, YOU DAFT BASTARD.

4. Friends are good, mmmkay?

5. If you give a friend a Brutix for his birthday, the cheap fucker will turn around and SELL IT.

As far as learning game mechanics, I try to involve myself in EVERYTHING. I’ve ratted, mined, manufactured, pew-pewed, killed, died, missioned, lived in W-space, can-baited can-flippers in a bomber, tried zapping Ninjas with pew shipps and just about everything else the game has to offer. I won’t “play Goon” and act like the game doesn’t interest me, ‘cuz hell, I’m paying for two accounts here. I’ve gotten active on SiSi where the losses are cheap and we’re encouraged to try and break the game for research feedback, and I can say I enjoy every single thing I’ve tried. Now, there’s definitely a sliding scale here, but I spent 3 hours just this morning sucking down rocks and relaxing to the in-game music which I’ve had turned off for about 4 months now.

6. Eve gets under your skin.

-Fly Crazy

(it seems Battleclinic glitched how it displays the fits on my old losses. Rest assure, they were fail fits, but they were NOT 3/15 slots filled failfits )