May 2005 Entries

The newbie game in Eve

A friend has turned up in Eve and so we were giving him a helping hand getting started last night. Of course I didn't have the skills to let him into the corp yet because of his race so I went out to get the ethnic relations skills so hopefully he can join tonight. He turned up at our HQ and we gave him the odd spare ship, but this is where the newbie game really starts to look like it hurts. He couldn't use any of the gear we had because he just didn't have the skills. Forget twinking in...

Two years in Eve

My corporation turned 2 on Saturday, but I've been playing since right after launch. It sure doesn't seem that long, but there you go. We originally set it up using the free cash that we got as a compensation for issues when the game started and we've been going on an off ever since. It's a massive corporation with a current high membership of three people, algthough one of them is my alt. I only started playing again a few weeks ago, but quite a lot had changed since I was last there. I've had to refit my Raven to make...