This blog is being setup so that I can chronicle my journey through eve. Well my return to my journey would be more accurate. My two accounts are actually fairly old as I have tried, failed, and returned to Eve several times over the years. But this time I feel will be different. This time I will persevere because this time I have vision. What is that vision? To become a part of the culture, my virtual characters are hopefully to become integral in things that are happening in our vast virtual world of space and sovereignty. Or at least that's the plan lol.
I am not a writer, so I am going to take this time to apologize to anyone who finds my writings to be abhorrent or grammatically painful. I do not have an editor besides my friend Google Docs, hopefully he/she will help me to keep it at least somewhat acceptable to those with a more refined literary palette.
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My return to EvE this time was after almost two full years away. It felt like I was waking from a very long hibernation. As if somehow I'd been in some kind of stasis and was crawling out of some sort of biological structure meant to keep me alive but insensate. And as I logged in my eyes were opening to both scenes I immediately recognized but also noticing small changes, things that didn't bring any recollections of what I was before.
This was just over a month ago, and let me just say things have changed but only mechanically, the feeling is still the same, I still log on and feel my mind start to tingle and a small smile turns up the edge of my lips as I watch our virtual world bring itself online there before me. That same sense of anticipation I always get when I watch it all boot up and my eyes quickly glance down to see if that skill has finished cooking (even though I it hasn't it still has two days left, I know this.). This is the kind of emotional attachment that keeps bringing me back. I wonder if that is the same reason others return time and again, the game hasn't really changed that drastically over the years yet I constantly see people on the corporation recruitment forums announcing they are returned after long episodes away seeking corp's to join. I must not be the only one... there are others out there just like me.
It has taken me this last month to get my bearings, get my feet under me so to speak. I had to get a handle around why I bought a 12 mil sp manufacturing/science/research char just before I left last time. What was my plan, how did I hope to use this alt to improve my online stable of characters? It seems that I had delusions of mass production and earning zillions of iskies somehow.
I will note that he has max slots for both science and manufacturing so he is pretty useful, just missing a few individual skills needed to make some particular ship types etc. First thing I did was get him invited to an industry type corp with a base in Hi-sec that has tons of BPO's they were nice enough to give me access to for copying purposes, very very handy for me. Even after a month I'm still coming to grips with this alt and how to make him truly useful, generally he just pops a few T1 BPO's in the oven for copies, or BPC's for invention to play the RNG game for T2's. He really hasn't manufactured much as my miner alt on my second account isn't really very good at mining yet, need to work on him some, perhaps a multi-character training cert in the future.
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