User:Caitlyn semah/Journal: Difference between revisions

    Well, I'm documenting some of my journeys through the beginning of E-Uni. Full disclosure, I was here for a year before, and took a "break." Last time I was here, I fell into a trap that I don't intend to fall into this time. I wanted to learn about wormholes but to do that you need the sophomore title. My play style is incompatible with the Sophmore title in general, and as a result, I ended up playing the game a way other than how I wanted to, so I could get the chance to learn what living in wspace is like.

 

    Coming back this time, I still have the same interests. I explore, I fleet once in a while, and I play around in wormhole space. I don't have a lot of time, so scheduled fleets are pretty rare for me. I don't have time to block out 3 hours of time where I can be at the computer and on mumble without stepping away for periods of time. I'm a solo player that takes part in chat, I'm not good enough to teach stuff and don't intend to pretend, I'm extremely casual, and I don't really set goals. I've essentially been told that to get sophmore, I have to do the exact opposite of all of that :) I have no intention of dong that. This is a game I'm supposed to find fun. I'm not going to play a month the way someone else thinks I should play and burn out again.

    I've been given some options:

        Teach - I don't know what I'm doing. The goal is to learn, kind of chicken and egg.

        FC Fleets - I don't have a lot of predictable 3 hour blocks I can set aside. Plus I'm not comfortable with people relying on me to give them even a slight chance of coming back alive :) Testing the waters in HSC, people have not been keen on the advert, "I will probably get you killed"

        Do the explorers shadow on the wiki, and document it - The next titles person I talked to, then told me this didn't count. After I did it. It was still fun, and I recommend it.

        Show killboard activity with other unistas - Maybe eventually I'll have enough. So far I've only been on 4 fleets, which I think is a huge amount for someone with my level of free time. They all take an hour before you can even get started, and are hit and miss if you kill anything at all. I originally wanted to play Logi in fleets, but I will put a hold on that until I have the sophmore title. I can't waste opportunities to get the KB stats the Uni wants by doing something like that. My first logi attempt no one could answer how the FCs add us to the killmails, and no AAR was written, so there was nothing to comment on. I did comment on the kills, though. I'll pick up logi once I've checked the KB stats box. I also participated in a few fleets where we had no kills, unfortunately, so those don't count.

        References - I talk in chat a lot, but I'm shy. Anyone who isn't new is on mumble, and I'm not going to be on mumble if I'm not doing fleets. Not my thing. References are out.

        Write substantial wiki guides - I'd be making stuff up. I don't think that's a good idea, but I'd do it if required.

        Substantive forum posts - Other than asking questions, which I do plenty of, I don't have anything substantive to say.

        Another staff person recommended that I create a log of my solo journey - I don't mind doing that, let's try this one :)

    If you've made it this far, you'll have picked up that I'm a bit grumpy :) I'm extremely shy, and would not normally post a "journal" but it's a last ditch effort, and the only real way for me to do that is to do it without much editing. Otherwise, I'd spend so much time worrying about it, that I'd never finish it. I've spent 6 hours on this one already :)

    The title is used for POS permissions - This is accurate to an extent. The main POS is open to the alliance, and so is access to some of the hangers. The more shiny things are secured behind different pos permissions or a different pos group altogether that is limited to a subset of people who share the password.

    Corp bookmarks are used extensively, which require the title to change those that you didn't create. - You CAN create bookmarks though, which means junior people could participate in scanning efforts without having access to maliciously remove needed bookmarks back, but someone with the trusted sophomore title would have to be the manual check before removal, just as hanger access is secured.

    Location OpSec - You don't even need to be a freshman to see the bookmarks...

    There are other security measures, but none of them are affected by the sophomore title itself.