Blog Banter: 2010
The first banter of 2010 comes to us from CrazyKinux himself, who asks the following: As we begin another year in New Eden, ask yourselves, “What Now?” What will I attempt next? What haven’t I done so far in EVE? Was it out of fear, funds, or knowledge? What steps and objectives will I set myself to accomplish in order to reach my ultimate goal for this year? EVE is what you make of it. So, what is it going to be for you?
My experience as a first year New Edener can be more or less summarized as being one long tutorial. I know a pilot never stops learning in EVE, but that’s practically all I was doing for the past 8 months—sometimes at the detriment of simply playing and enjoying the game. I made all the rookie mistakes, had the late satisfaction of my first kills, experienced being podded twice, made ISK, lost ISK, did high-sec, low-sec, and null-sec. On top of that, I’d say over half of my experience with EVE this year was actually spent doing research online. (EVElopedia, I love you.)
For 2010, I just want to actually play the game. Imagine that. My hope is that this will be the year all my research and learning pays off and I finally start putting some knowledge and skill to use—to the benefit of my corp and my own enjoyment of the life as a pilot. More specifically, I want to become a healthy asset in corp PVP ops. This will finally be realized in a few days when frigate V is finished training and I can fly my first Tech 2 ships. I really can’t wait to dig into interceptors and interdictors. I want to know both roles like the back of my hand.
Outside of life in the game, I have plenty of goals and project surrounding the EVE community that I want to see completed this year. Many are design related (one big one that’s in the works right now), a few are blog and writing related, and some are a bit more experimental on my part. I also want to return to completing some of the design favors I owe some of you, so don’t think I’ve forgotten.
That’s about all I’ve got for now. Nothing groundbreaking, but the few things that may be bigger are better left in the dark for now. More on those later.
