Return of the Pleb

This first post is to announce my return to the game of Eve Online.  This really isn't news to anyone except myself and maybe one other person.  I'm sure the rest of you don't really care.  I plan to use this blog to voice my thoughts on a number of subjects, but Eve will be a subject that will help provide some daily (no promises on updates yet) focus.  Who is this blog written for?  No clue.  Let us enjoy the ride either way though.  Fair warning:  There will be many of typos and errors.  I simply don't have the time to heavily think out and rewrite entries.  Maybe with time, I'll get better at it.  Don't that expect that to happen anytime soon unless I find an English Lit implant.

As soon as I started playing again I did two things.  First I found my old corp on my original character.  While they have been through quite a bit, they are more or less in the same spot as where I left them.  The only difference is that it is not full of the carebears it once was.  Although small, they live out in low sec.  

This change to low sec was very exciting to me.  I spent a lot of time trying to drag folks out into low sec.  Not by force.  Just offering to bring people along on runs and looking for small skirmishes.  It amazed me the number of people that would be afraid to lose even a T1 frig.  Even with minimal investment, there is such a stigma against risk and lose for many Eve players.  The cowardly pirates are the proverbial boogie-man for these players.  While sitting in the depths of low sec, it is easy to forget just how many people really do prefer the comforts of CONCORD.  Especially when you consider how much of the news in Eve is driven by the actions in low sec space.

The second thing I did was start up an alt character on second account.  I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with this character.  A research rat?  An industrial puppet?  The pewpew ganker?  When I couldn't decide so I balanced out the stats and will just hope for the best.  Right now I don't see him joining my corp.  I think I want to take him off and meet new folks.  

For the time being he is just a carebear.  He is going through the Learning skills grind.  It is amazing how much as changed while I was gone and how little.  Hopefully no one is telling noobs to grind out 30+ days of Learning skills first thing.  There is plenty of shouting about whether the skills should be in the game.  My opinion on the matter is of no worth.  That aside...

The Learning skills seem to perfectly reflect the risk/reward nature of Eve and how players on a whole react to it.  This take a longer to start, but pays off in the long run.  What is funny is how players react.  They closely calculate the best risk/reward ratio and take it to the grave.  It reminds me of the folks that only move in low sec with a fleet or gang.  As if the loss of a single ship or skill point would be the end of the world.  It seems to me that the folks that have the most fun are the ones that understand the rules and still willingly hang it on the line.  Damn the calculators.  It is suppose to be a game!  Ok feel free to ignore all of this babbling if you have two accounts...