This time last year....

I had a look back at some old info that I had dating back between the 15-Nov-2012 & the 20-Dec-2012.

There are a number of things that were happening.

--My Minmatar alt was in a tempest and was apparently doing well, but lacked a dps punch to finish some missions off. Leaves me wondering why almost a year later I still had her in a tempest, perhaps I should have started to really play the character to see that she wasn't able for it. But I think the indecision of what to do with her and a lack of further training lead to a lot of faffing about that delayed my final decisions.

--The hi-sec POS was in full swing and PI was paying well for the fuel/stockpile of fuel. Tho it seemed to have gotten a few visitors doing flyby's, no war-decs came tho.

It looks like I also consolidated my PI setup to be able to better maintain them and the POS.

--I commented on my routine "Usual again… it’s a nightly thing… POS / PI/ Skills q’s" 

Some things never change all that much. More about that lower down.

--The pre patch changes to my skill q's for ship changes due in that winter patch was well under way.

Essential skills to get before hand were:

Racial Frigs to III ( IV better )

Racial cruisers to IV

Destroyer to IV ( V better )

BC to V 

A quote I noted from back then was from Jesters Trek:

 First: to those of you who think I forgot the whole "need Cruiser III" thing.  No, I didn't.  But let's cover it briefly:

• To get free Racial Destroyer skill points for each race, you're going to need to have Racial Frigate III for each race, taken separately.
• To get free Racial Battlecruiser skill points for each race, you're going to need to have Racial Cruiser III for each race, taken separately.

So, if you have Amarr Frigate III, Gallente Frigate III, Minmatar Cruiser IV, Caldari Cruiser IV, Destroyers IV, and Battlecruiser V, you will receive:

• all four racial destroyers at IV;
• Minmatar and Caldari Battlecruiser V; and,
• Amarr and Gallente Battlecruiser skills will be untrained.

Really though, this is mostly going to affect new EVE players, not existing EVE players too much.  Still, if you have characters that you want to pick up more SP for per my Recommendation post, keep what's above in mind.

--I seem to have been talking about getting an alt to a wormhole corp..... guess it never happened. I'd say it was due to wanting to skill up that char before the move... more plan then action last year. At least the action is on now with skills in training and the move should follow in teh new year.

--I also seemed to have had a lot of problems with screen shots. They would only show a black screen. I recall this happening again this year but it was due to running two clients and taking screen shots in hi-res settings. Fixed by taking "normal" screenshots.

 

--Perhaps the most interesting thing I had written was:

"In reflection I am sure I am really not playing the game… I’m maintaining characters …. The few POS / PI and skill q changes are all a daily maintenance thing… housekeeping… unlike wow, in eve I don’t’ go and  do dungeons…. I don’t pvp ….  And anything you do in eve takes so long its either a huge waste of time and resources or an ass hat in game wastes you in 4 seconds…. " I think something must have peeved me off. Interesting.

--Again my RL friend came back to eve "with lots of plans and what if’s" But as per usual nothing stuck in game or better to say that nothing came from the plans.

--Apparently I was :   

"Was a little stunned to read that Space noob has made his 1^st Billion!! And setup a POS

4 or 5 months into the game!!   I think I was lucky to have a raven for lvl 4’s  months in!!! Never mind the rep that’s needed for a hi-sec POS setup…. I only just did that with my main and I'm now years in…!!!!"

--And:

"The patch went off great … ships were gotten, drones and skills purchased, the only thing I paid over the odds for was the BPO for the venture I put that into the POS fast for research and plan to do copies and making some etc.. skills on characters was also sorted fast."

--Finally, my Amarr alts corp was working and attempting to recruit hi-sec carebears. 

I don't think I was too bad at all as a low level overlord of the universe.

 

So all in all an interesting few blasts from the past. 

Those compared to today, obviously there are some parallels, it is the same game after all.

Eve really does suck you in with the micromanagement of skills, stuff and characters in general. It may be dark and foreboding but everyone makes the game their own, or more along the lines of Eve gives you the tools and you dig the hole your in.

Skill - always the same, new ones come out and you train em, changes to ships mean you need to change the q's and setup new priorities for the order of skills to be trained.

PI - has ended

POS - has ended

Character's - Mains - are pretty much as they were back then, more skills and more assets but less activity I think.

Character's - Alts - are pretty much the same as well, but more refined in skills and assets. Some have a bit more training and one has a lot more training. All alts have been played more. And will be played more as time goes on. 

I'll have to wait and see how my planning goes into action to know for sure.