I've been playing Eve Online for 3 years.
In all that time I never engaged in any type of combat with another player.
In May I had five active accounts all coming up for renewal in June. I was mining in a system called Anyed in the Genesis region when a catalyst suddenly warped in and in a few seconds my hulk was dead. Previous to this event I had been offline for a few months and during that time a new expansion was added to Eve that upped the power and ability of the destroyer. When I sat in Anyed I had no idea what was in store for me. Up to that point my experience in Eve as a miner was always in dealing with can flippers. I countered this by having my orca to deposit my ore into and no problem.
The game has entirely changed.
Of course my reponse was to get angry and complain on the forums about how unfair it is for a cheapass 10 million isk ship to be able to get a 300 million isk ship. The main reponse i got was WAHHHHHH!!!!!! by the other players. LOL
I laugh about it now, but at the time I was so angry I cancelled all of my accounts.
I sold my orca pilot and another pilot i had created to fly Loki's for Incursions. I had tried Incursions briefly, but it was boring as hell. In fact my main frustration with Eve was I had accomplished all of my main goals in Industry and Trading and I was bored with Eve completely. So when my hulk was ganked that was the kick in the ass to get out completely.
Or so I thought.
With some iskies in my wallet from selling two of my characters, I decided to make a new character and I named him w3asl3. It seemed like an apt name. I had lived in a cabin for a while in upstate New York. I was sitting one day reading a book when i heard this thumping and banging around in the ceiling above me. The noise moved to the wall right next to me and I could hear whatever it was moving down the wall. So I ran outside around to the back of the camp by the woodshed and stood still watching to see what if anything would show itself. In the back of the camp the owners had a pile of metal and lumber saved under the eve overhang. Amongst the metal was an overturned eves trough and out from under it popped a weasel. It was early spring, April I think, so the weasel still had its white coat and black tipped tail. Amazing. I had the best mousers in all of nature living in my attic.
So w3asl3 seemed like an apt name to take for my new character.
we3sl3 is Caldari.
His beginning point was Amsen.
I had decided to make a fresh start in Eve so i parked the iskies I had in another alts wallet and I began w3asle with the 5k iskies we all get to start with. I was flying my mighty Ibis mining veldspar making a million trips to the station when I met another player by the name of Driver Gina who was mining the opposite end of the asteroid belt. He asked me what I was working towards in Eve? I decided to act like a new player and act dumb. It was not meant to scam, but it was to reinforce the premise of beginning anew in Eve and that meant all of my old contacts I deleted and I was making brand new contacts. It was a complete restart to see where the connection of events would lead to for this new character. I was breaking the barrier of boredom I had reached by recreating myself in the game. It was the only way I could see to break that cycle of boredom and start a new adventure.
So I outlined my plans to Gina.
Ibis-->Bantam-->Osprey-->Retriever-->Hulk.
He gave me a gift of 4 mil iskies to buy my Osprey when I had the skills trained to fly it. I felt guilty taking it, but it amazed me at the players generosity. I was just coming off a bad experience in Eve with a hulk getting ganked and then getting slammed on the forums by other players cuz i was whining about it (which i was btw). HTFU or get out of the game. Period.
So to receive this kind of generosity was a shock and gave me a new perspective.
I also found out Driver Gina was a mining/industry/hauler alt for a main character who is a pirate.
I was blessed with many stories of adventures of scams and ganks that Gina's main alt had been on. It was a good way to pass all those hours mining veld. It was also quite inspiring.
About 2 months into my new adventure I had hit that boredom barrier again. My hulk skill sets were trained and I was in the process of training for tech2 mining crystals when I just couldn't take it anymore. I was mining in Amsen because Hulkageddon was on so I was using my Rokh as a mining platform. A Rokh with 8 tech2 mining lasers out produces a Retriever so I was mining with that. It was in that mining operation when a sudden moment of insanity took over and I felt like slamming my head into the monitor and screaming FUCK THIS!!!! Boredom had reached my breaking point.
I parked my Rokh in the hangar and sat in Amsen's hangar spinning my ship around while I thought about what to do.
That's when i decided to become w3asl3 the pirate.
