EVE Blog Banter #7 – What Do You Want To Do Today?

By mandrill | Published April 30, 2009

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Welcome to the seventh 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 the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here . Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s topic comes to us from CrazyKinux, and he asks: “What 3 things haven’t you done in EVE and why? Would you be willing to try one day? Why so? Why not?”

This is a tricky subject, mainly due to the fact that there is so much to do in EVE that its hard to narrow down what I haven’t done to just three things. Well I might as well start somewhere…

1 – Like a Battleship Virgin.

Unlike many of the people I know and have met through playing EVE, I have never flown a battleship and only in the past few months have I had the skills to do so. When I first started playing in 2004 (yes, it has been that long) I was unfocussed and did not have a specific goal. Everyone I knew and met was training and scraping together the isk to get into a BS and to me it seemed like an awful lot of work for a ship who’s role and capabilities were actually quite limited. The Battleship was the pinnacle of piloting achievement at the time and flying one was seen as more of a status symbol than anything else. This has changed in the intervening years and the BS is now the mainstay of many a blob.

I plan to climb into a BS at some point in the near future but my activites at the moment lend themselves more to cruisers and frigates than the lumbering power of a BS , and if more firepower or tank is called for I can fly a variety of battlecruisers quite effectively. I have the skills for all the Amarr and Gallente Battleships (apart from the tech 2 variants, I’m a while away from those yet) and would welcome any suggestions as to which would make the best general purpose PvP boat.

2 – Manufacturing, Schmanufacturing.

I’ve never really been into the whole economic side of EVE, I understand that it is the heart of the game and that to tap into it with the right skills and knowledge can bring untold wealth, but its never really interested me until recently.

My move from mission runner to pirate has brought home the necessity of being somewhat self sufficient in ships and modules so in setting up my hi-sec hauler alt, I put some thought into giving her the skills necessary to keep me supplied with ships and basic modules. I’ve now reached the point where I’ve got way more ships than I can feasibly fly and am looking into selling them to make a bit of cash so I can move from frigate manufacturing to cruiser construction.

The problem being that EVE’s economy is a complex and somewhat baffling beast and knowing where to sell and at what price is the key to manufacturing success. I’ll figure it out eventually and have ready source of income to keep my main living in the style to which he has become accustomed.

Then there’s invention and research to take into account…

3 – I’ll Never Stop Learning

I’ve never claimed to know all there is to know about the world of EVE, I don’t think anyone can. Its such a huge universe, with fathomless depth and complexity, that no-one can ever learn every facet of its gameplay. There is alot I hope to do in New Eden, I might join one of the big alliances one day and make the move into the intriuge, strategy and politics of the 0.0 wars. I may one day command a fleet as part of a bigger strategic engagement. I may start a corporation of my own and build my own little empire in the depths of low or nul-sec space. There is so much I haven’t done, and so much I would like to do that to try and narrow it down to three things is a preposterous endeavour. I want to do everything one day, but at the moment I’m taking one day at a time and working towards the hallowed depths of -10 security status. Learning alot along the way.

As Microsoft used to ask “Where do you want to go today?”, EVE is constantly asking me “What do you want to do today?” and the beauty of it is that it will never stop asking (fingers crossed), and I can answer differently every time and never do the same thing twice.

Check out the contributions of other participants in this months Blog Banter:

If you want to catch up on previous Banters (some of which I have participated in and some which I haven’t) CrazyKinux has collated links to his contributions here, from there you can get to all the other participant’s contributions.

Till next time, good hunting and watch out for the flashies.

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  • Don't feel bad...I can't fly a BS either, whereas both Lexx and Selena can. I've just redirected skill training time into stuff that I felt was more important. Neither of them can fly a Covert Ops frigate fitted for exploration, for instance...
  • mandrill
    Aw shucks, CrazyKinux, you've gone and made me blush :D

    thx for the compliment.
  • You sir have a talent for great writing! Just love reading your post mate.

    I think your number 3 could be applied to every capsuleer out there. But especially to generalist/socializer like myself. One thing I know, is that I know very little of EVE!
  • I've not been playing anywhere near as long as you but I know what you mean about the lack of need for a battleship. I get plenty of thrills, spills, and kills in my frigates and cruisers and at least have the agility to get out of trouble. A big, hulking battleship would probably be more of a liability than an asset in my hands.

    Good post. I have no idea why I wasn't following your blog but I am now :)
  • I too have been playing for quite a while, but have only recently trained the battleship skill. I am pretty decent at industry, but things have changed so much since I last played actively that I have to learn what to manufacture and sell all over again.

    When I started playing again, I was extremely surprised at how much my skills have improved over that time. In any other game, I would have been far behind my friends. That's one of the reasons you have to appreciate EVE's ability to train skills while you are offline.
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