User:Captain mercator

About Me

I've been playing EVE for more than a year now. Started out following the limited story line that EVE offers, grinding every kind of mission and learning the basics of EVE. Being the kind of person that hasn't interacted with others in online games and hearing of the scams/tricks in EVE, I was mostly a loner in that time. Got a PM from another capsuleer and decided to join a player corp.

Within no time I was realizing that I have a lot to learn before I master this game. I found myself enjoying mining the most at that time, partly because it seemed easy to learn and partly because the first people in the corp that I talked to were miners. I seemed to pick up on the mining pretty quickly and before long I was pretty much leading the mining Ops for the corp. The corp was mostly a wormhole corp at that time so a lot of the miners were new players that weren't allowed in the wormholes yet. We were pretty generous and gave every fleet member an equal cut without factoring in mining quantities, which was an attractive offer for new players and easy money. Most players didn't stick to mining which made productive Ops difficult. I was starting to get a little bored of mining...

My first combat experience came when our corp decided to take another wormhole over. We had a good size fleet with more than 60 people (the corp has 140 members and many are alts). Even though I was very limited on combat skills and was just one of the many small ships guarding the wormhole entrance, my adrenaline was pumping and it was a huge rush. The opposing corp couldn't do anything to stop us and didn't even try to stop us. I now had a new objective in the world of EVE. I started training combat and moved into the wormholes. I ran sites with the corp and tried to assist with PvP and defense. I wasn't helping as much as I would like and felt like I needed to learn things that others didn't have time to teach (though they taught me a ton and were very helpful like the Uni). A few of my corpmates (including the CEO) told me about E-Uni and how they would recommend it to anyone. So I decided to check it out.

The time ticked by slowly as I waited for my interview. Seemed like I waited forever, but in hindsight it wasn't too bad. I learned a lot while I was waiting (listening to past lectures, reading the wiki, and trying things out). Finally...I'm in. Must have been 100 welcomes on chat.e-uni. But alas, real life prevents me from having the time to enjoy my new corp to the fullest. Again the recorded lectures play a part, as they allow me to learn without being in game (or on a computer). I got to a few classes and on a few fleets, but it seems that the faildecs are more annoying than I would've expected. I got a little more time to be on just as No-WSOP month starts up and wow we have one war after the other. The fleets were a blast and made me want some more.

No-WSOP ends and here I am feeling more confident in my knowledge but still feeling like there is so much more to learn.....

Pages I have found useful

This is the Uni Class Library which has recordings of past classes and has been my #1 resource for learning:

• EVE University Class Library

This is a guide to repair Faction Standing/Security Status. It is also the best guide I've found for increasing faction standing and being able to increase all main factions:

• Faction Standing Repair Plan

Classes that I have attended

• Guide to Making ISK, Part 1
• Guide to Making ISK, Part 3
• Armor Tanking 101
• Amarr Ships 101
• Ewar 101
• Ewar 102
• ...I'm sure many more, just can't remember

Recordings I have listened to

• Guide to Making ISK, Part 2
• Guide to Making ISK, Part 4
• Tackling 101
• Hauling 101
• Trading 101
• How to Survive EVE video series - Old Skool
• Wiki 101
• ...again, more but didn't keep track

Classes/Recordings, but not sure which

• Fleets 101 - Intro to Fleets
• Fleets 102 - Fleet Comms
• Fleets 103 - Fleet Combat