After learning the ropes through the tutorial missions, I
went out and did some missions to get some ISK together and progress through
the ship sizes –
frigate > destroyer > cruiser > battle-cruiser > battleship
Once I got into a destroyer, I started the Blood
Stained Stars Sisters of Eve Epic Arc and promptly lost a few of them to NPC
rats in Mission 27, Burning Down the Hive. Arnon is called the lost ships capital of EVE
due to this mission as it can be the first time you get proper caught by a
bunch of web / scram drones. I was
into a cruiser by the time I finished the arc. Er, probably.
At some point during this, I joined a friend’s corp with an
eye on training up to play with their alliance in Syndicate, but kept putting
it off and the corp left the alliance. Lesson learned - just get stuck
into PVP on day 1. This did however provide
me with my first proper death at the hands of a real person.
Twat
For some strange reason, I thought it would be safe to go
mining under a wardec. I cheerfully loaded
up an Iteron with a couple of giant secure containers and after checking local
for reds, warped to a gate to grab a belt 1 jump away. As I returned with cold lager in hand, I
heard the telltale scream of my shields being hit and found myself in a pod.
Ah.
Presumably because we were in high-sec, he didn’t pod me and
I limped off home thoroughly chastised. Lessons
learned –
1. Don’t go AFK during
wardecs. Not even for lager.
2. Think carefully
about mining during wardecs. Well,
mining in general really. Unless you
need the minerals to build something or you're watching porn.
3. Don’t piss off your
alliance [& possibly corp] by being a twat.
On the Move
With the Sisters arc complete, it was time to relocate to the
corp HQ some 20-odd jumps away. A nice
corpie kindly agreed to freight all my stuff over there for me, taking most of
the pain out of it. He also advised me
to leave some kit back there for missioning, but I’ve not returned to it since I
left. A year ago.
I pre-emptively got my own back by not offering to web his freighter on
every jump so it could enter warp quicker.
o7
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