The experience so far.

I can't believe that I've been in space for over a month already. I still remember trying to wasd my way around when I first logged. :)

I'm still a bit overwhelmed about the amount of choices, but I opted for exploration / hacking / archeology profession at the moment while improving my Gallente cruisers skills. Still in the "safety" of the empire space since I can't really afford to loose to many ships in low-sec. Money is tight for someone learning the game with only 3 hours or so of playtime.

Missions reward and the salvage from those wrecks are the mainly income right now. I alternate the mission running with exploration using my funny looking Imicus. Exploration is doing fine. I've found 2 w-holes and a couple of dead space areas. The w-hole experience didn't go too well the first time as I failed miserably using my d-scan. The second time around I took my Imicus in to probe the place before jumping on my ship. The sleepers that time proved to be tougher than expected and I went back licking my wounds on my capsule. But... It was a lot of fun. Can't wait to try it again.

Dante is currently training Science V with 1.8M skill points under his belt. Once I hit 2M I will really consider joining a corp. But right now I'm not good enough to be of any use, so I'll keep learning on my own.

Dante Styx

The start

After procrastinating for weeks, this blog is online. I wish I had started it earlier, but to be honest I wasn't sure if I was ready for EVE. It is not my first MMO, but my first sandbox MMO.

I still remember the first time I heard about EVE. A friend sent me this magazine article with an incredible story of how a spy from the GHSC corporation infiltrated some other corporation and stole not only tons of things but also killed the CEO. I've never heard of anything like that in any other game. It blew me away. I immediately researched this game, but the jargon, complexity, strange UI and free-for-all pvp (oh noes! my purplez) kept me from trying it. Later on I heard about it again when a post about the gfx changes made it to a FFXI community I was part on. Again caught my attention (this game is still growing and looking better than ever), but I was too busy at that time to get into a third MMO. So time went by.

Feb 09... I was burned from the theme-park MMOs, but kept visiting MMO related sites to see if there was anything in the horizon that was worth my time. During a visit to Massively.com I read an article that claimed that BoB was no more. I followed that for a few days and again was blown away by the openness of the game. I also found out about the New Players Experience being introduced by CCP in Apocrypha and decided that this was the time.

I've been living in space for over a month now and its been amazing. It is definitely not for everyone. Even with the tutorials, rookie channel and official wiki a player has to do a lot of research to get going.... but I like it. Not only the game is great, but the community is incredible. Yes, there are trolls (is still the internet), but the amount of players that share their knowledge and experience can be seen thru the incredible number of Blogs, unofficial forums, unofficial wiki, and plenty of videos in youtube and evetube.

A final note... I'll be using this blog to share my experiences in this incredible universe. I don't think it will be as entertaining or informational as many of those listed in the blog list (side bar), but hopefully some can find something good here.

Fly safe and see you in space!

Dante Styx