My Null alt has been doing the same and updating market orders. His time in null is still being hampered by the large amount of reds and neuts in systems. The alliance despite it's pvp nature could only manage token resistance and a half arsed mail sayin
g go mine/rat in other systems not experiencing so much "attention". Charming.
I'll not be reseating myself. I've got PI chains that I'll not be able to shift. I'll wait things out (again) and get the PI done when I can.
Most of my Eve time was taken up with a new trial alt. And my wife created her's! I was surprised. Very surprised.Her mmo background, less the facebook games is Wow, Rift some Guild Wars 2 and more Wow. Did I mention Wow. Yea she is a big Wow'er.
The transition from Wow to Eve was an interesting one. Her desire to play Eve was not borne of a lust to see internet spaceships, but because I wanted her to "try it out", so perhaps a little curiosity mixed with a bit of "better do it to shut him up about it".
I dont' think that Eve itself will have any great draw on her playing or maintaining an interest in the game. Wow has such an accessible gravitational pull I'd be surprised if she play's past a week. I'd be exceptionally surprised if she played it on her own.
Day one was last Saturday, late afternoon after a break from a wow session she tried it, she clicked the link I had sent a while ago for a 21 day trial. we both created a character at the same time.
She liked the character creation screen a lot, the features and the look and feel were a great start to the Eve introduction. As was the starting movie, heavy in content and idea's but a good start.
Her pc is not a mean gaming beast and it took a moment to load the game, while waiting we talked about the captains quarter's, the button for hanger was clicked and the quarter's were never seen. Pity as I'd say if she saw her character walk about her quarter's it would have drawn her in more. I'd say a lot of people are like that. I do hope the future holds an extension to the "walking in stations" mode.
We went through the Aura starter missions. The large amount of text on screen for the help/explanation's was quickly ignored or clicked through without reading in favour of as she put it "you can tell me what to do", so I did. This lead to me trying to not use words and phrasing that are common to any Eve player, comical on my part, frustrating on hers when I did start to get "technical", especially while in npc combat where there was a sense of urgency even with no imminent danger.
From there we did the first 5 of the combat career agent. Progression and learning as she went was good. In my view the biggest problem for her was the concept of only using the mouse and a few keys on the keyboard. I could see her hand instinctively float over the WASD keys. I also found my bad practise's in eve highlighted to me even more so now. I am a mouse clicker. I rarely use the F keys or shortcut keys. I "may" need to do better but this old dog and that trick is a hard thing to change.
Day two on Sunday evening saw no real recap, just a few words to remind what to do. Some more career agent missions were done. The military agent was completed on her own and I suggested the business agent next, which she also started into and completed. I think she enjoyed those missions better then the pure combat. She saw and learned more about what happens in Eve and gained more isk, loot, skill books and did a lot more skill queue planning.
The next stage is to see how the week goes and see how she gets on with the other agents. I'm sure she will be fine but if there is no real hook then it wont' keep her past the free 21 day's dabble.
I've been pleasantly surprised so far. She knows the next step after the career agents is a thing called the Sisters of Eve Epic arc. I'll team up with her to get through that and try to share knowledge and fun as much possible.
Other than that all I can do is try to point her towards the area's of eve that are similar to area's in Wow. She likes the auction house, I'll introduce her to the market properly in Eve. She likes to gather items and use them, salvage, loot and asteroids beware.
The big hook would be to see if there is an active corp that she can get into that is like her own in Wow, that will not be easy. If that were to happen I'd take my new trial alt and ruin a players day by being a ninja looter MTU destroying wad. Let the good times roll.
I might see if she will put a few typed words together and I'll share them here.....
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