Welcome to the sixteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!
The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: "Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game, with a ton to learn, so much that you never stop learning. So, the question is; What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?"
298 days ago, we set foot inside wormhole space for the first time. Back then it was a group of 8 friends, most of us with less than 10M SPs at that time, that had absolutely no idea about wormholes, no idea about PVP (some say we still don’t have a clue), and had turned all the ISK in our wallets into a Medium POS, some supplies and fuel to last about two weeks.
We dared to venture into the unknown, dared to be bold and embraced the sandbox of the EVE Universe. In EVE – YOU – control your own destiny.
During that time, we managed:
…to make and burn more than 50 billion ISK
…to act as a fleet supporting each other instead of being a band of solo players
…to build capital ships
…to ride capital ships
…to self-destruct capital ships (damn you R&K!)
…to master the art of t3 production and make a fortune out of it
…to easily farm C6 plexes
…to have a show, podcast and blog related to w-space that acts as one of the definitive sources of information for EVE players
…to have played a major role into the CSM elections by hosting a series of interviews with Candidates
…to relay Alliance Tournament 7 for two weekends and commentate on the fights afterwards
…to fight alongside seasoned pilots
…to be considered celebrities and widely identified & to fight against (and win) against famous celebrities in planned deathmatches
…to organize our very own PVP tournament
…to lose ships due to friendly fire
…to strip belts out for vast amounts of minerals
…to mine mercoxit
…to keep losing ships and still have the "oh well.. no real harm done" mindset
…to manipulating wormholes and w-space as if we were the ones who designed it
…to see ships in directional and instead of cowering, head over to take them down
…to have a single monthly corporate meeting 
…to kill a Rorqual 5 days into the w-space colonization effort
…to successfully ransom a ship for 1 billion ISK
…to take down and destroy a defenseless POS
…to take down and destroy a defended POS that someone else erected into our own back yard
…to participate into large capital fleet warfare
…to help destroy the ego of a large alliance such as the R&K
…to spend Valentine’s day fighting our most epic fight defending our home
…to spend Steak & BJ day self-destructing our assets and evacuating our Class 6 wormhole
…to grow our corp with valuable and trustworthy members
…to have the creator of EVE-HQ in our corp fighting and having fun alongside us
…to get QP’s brother to join EVE
…to make so many friends in the game
…to exploit what w-space has to offer us to the point that we’d grow tired of it
…to lose multiple billions in assets, ships, pride and not /emoragequit
…to make a lengthy post on how much we have achieved during the previous year
None of this would have happened if we haven’t dared to be bold!
This is our message to all new capsuleers:
Dare to be bold pilot!
Luminus Aardokay & Quivering Palm
List of Participants:
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CrazyKinux: The Three Pillars of Wisdom
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The Elitist: Helping the new guy/gal
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Hands Off, My Loots: Nothing Needed
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Rantuket: Blog Banter 16
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EVE Opportunist: Nooby Cluey
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Into the Unknown With Gun and Camera: EVE University
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Zero Kelvin: We’re the young ones!
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I am Keith Neilson: Set Your Destination
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Prano’s Journey: Just Like the Very First Time
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A Merry Life and a Short One: No Seriously
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Yarrbear Tales: Nublet 101
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A Mule In EVE: If I only knew
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Diary of a Space Jockey: WTH did I get myself into?!
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EVOGANDA: Why?
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A Memoir From Space: 16th Blog Banter
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Death’s Sweetest Kiss: Who What When Where Why How??
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Freebooted: Beyond the Shortcuts
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Learning to Fly: Noobing
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Caldari Outcast: My First Blog Banter Post!
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Roc’s Ramblings: Financial Survival
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Diary of a Pod Pilot: Free Knowledge Inside
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Nullsec Carebear: I could’ve been less of an idiot
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Facepalm’s Ramblings: Something Smells Fishy
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Kirith Darkblade: Do you wish to know more?
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Autopilot Disabled: I’m still starting…
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Finders & Keepers: Relax
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Confounded Capsuleer: What have you got to loose?
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Clan Oriana: Sixteen
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Flashfresh: EVE Blog Banter #16
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Rettic’s The Chronofile: You Make EVE
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Diary of a Bored Spaceman: Past Imperfect
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Chocolate Heaven: Known Unknowns
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Zen and the Art of Internet Spaceship Maintenance Trust No One!
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More to come soon…
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#1 by Pitoufr on March 15, 2010 - 14:49
Eve is sometimes a cruel world and this is also why it is so attractive : your losses and your wins have an impact and the way you manage them decides of your future.
You seem to have fun in this game and so do we. With your friends you gave us a lot of thinking about the next round. Thanks you for that. We were expecting an epic fight this time and we were ready for that. Unfortunatly it did not happened.
So I wish you good luck and good will to recover and go on with your wh adventures, or any adventures you decide to go for.
Kind regards,
Pitoufr (R&K – Guillotine Therapy)
#2 by Rieger VaunBraun on March 15, 2010 - 14:56
I was in the Hellcat pub channel last night and I heard TeaDaze mention that you had some trouble in your wormhole. Nasty stuff. I am really happy to see that you guys are bouncing back, great job.
I do have one question for you though, knowing what you know now about the capital fleet that was coming to get you, is there anything you would have done differently?
#3 by Quivering Palm on March 15, 2010 - 17:32
EDIT: w0w that’s a big reply – I even managed to surprise myself here :-p Here goes:
To be honest I wasn’t expecting a reply from R&K – what a nice surprise Pitoufr
Having said that I am glad we moved passed smacktalk in local and I might suggest once more that you join us in our next episode (not sure when that will be — RL depending) to talk about the first big capital fight in Wormhole Space.
I am sure lots of folks would like to hear how you managed to pull this off – twice!!
Now, I have to be honest – half of us wanted to stay and fight to the death. The other half wanted to cut our losses short and move on. It was painful for all and for some dishonorable to self destruct everything and abandon our base.
However up to the last moment we had a feeling that you where holding back.
We even had NOIR. sitting 2 jumps away and they wanted blood as well
We decided not to go through with this however, cause it would give you the satisfaction of an epic fight you so clearly desired.
Seeing your 7 capitals (OMG!) I am glad we didn’t bite
Let’s be honest for a moment here. As far as I know, R&K are famed Cap pilots and PVPers. The moment we saw you for the first time in local we expected to lose everything. We never cared about losing em all – it is 0.0 after all and this is EVE as you say. We didn’t call our system Planet Risk for nothing
However most of us are carebears. The rest have evolved into nubs (some more nubs than others). Alone we could never have a hope of saving our POS the first time and here came our dear friends like NOIR., CCRES, TeaDaze, Mynxee – and others that where on standby.
We (a bunch of carebears) managed to strike a nasty blow on such experienced players. We felt like hobbits fighting with the Nasgul King. Most of us didn’t expect you coming back – but we all knew that if you would ever come back – we would probably start packing.
So, last Friday, when we saw you again we knew you came to finish this off and reclaim your honor and the system. You where – simply put – more determined and more focused to get this system, than us holding it – and we salute you for that.
Call it our dormant carebear instincts or self-preservation or whatever – we decided to blow up everything and flee than give you the satisfaction of a payback and die in a blaze of glory.
My only regret is the loss of the Orca with all those BPOs – These alone should cover your loses from our first fight and I am sure with what we left behind you got more that double back.
I hope you enjoy this Class 6 and that it treats you better than it did for us.
@ Rieger: Knowing what we know now, yeah I can think of quite a few things. Lots of lessons learned. I am either going to blog about them sometime soon or talk about them on our next podcast – or both. Sharing both our victories and our defeats has always been the core of this blog and podcast so that others might learn from our mistakes.
So stay tuned!
QP
#4 by Merinid Dormer on March 16, 2010 - 02:44
” …to mine mercoxit ” Amen Brother
#5 by Mynxee on March 16, 2010 - 11:20
What a great list of accomplishments–I think the next time I hear someone whining about being bored in EVE, I will point them to this post. Honestly, there is no excuse for being bored in this game unless you are a lazy fuck. Look at everything you guys did, and tried, and risked. Awesome. THAT is how this game is supposed to be played.
I am really sorry how it turned out with your WH presence but as you say, that’s EVE–and at least it makes for a good story! There are no good stories when people play nice and play safe. I hope R&K does agree to join your show to talk about the attack on Planet Risk, because it’d be great to hear their side of it over a (virtual) beer.
♥ you guys
#6 by Estar Tarns on March 16, 2010 - 14:41
“Hey guys, we lost our towers in Planet Risk, who’s up for pizza?”
It has been fun, boring, exciting, awesome, special, stupid and most of all, we learned alot.
Now, we’re looking forward for the next challenge, but in the meantime, who’s up for pizza? (:
#7 by Luminus Aardokay on March 16, 2010 - 19:22
We really need to upload the photographic evidence of our hands-on tutorial on how to bring a carrier and a tower down =P
Keldron.. I’m looking at you.. The Roman Orgy Carrier, and the Flamenco tower =)