My heart... It Beats!!!

The transition from killing mission NPCs in my drake to the active fights of low-sec was a rough one for me. I was accustomed to warping in, locking 6 NPCs targets and unleashing heavy missile fury until there was nothing but wrecks. You can see how I grew tired of this after a few months. The high-sec blues had their toll on me.

Well no more. I was in low-sec, my seatbelt was on, I had half a can of Coke left and a twitchy trigger finger. I had paid my 10 bucks for some plastic surgery. My EvE lifestyle was changing so I changed my portrait to match my transformation.

I scouted the systems learning the scanner as I went. Speed and accuracy were definitely not my forte. I eventually learned how to use that little scanner and the amount of targets really opened up to me.

There were some quick lessons learned in those first few days and weeks.

My first solo encounter never even resulted in a kill or a loss. I forgot to use the warp scrambler and he bolted once he was into armor. My heart was pounding nonetheless. That was the first exhilarating experience I had in EvE. I'm several kills into my pirate life now but my heart always jumps a few beats when the engagement begins. I love it!

I had two hard lessons learned with thermodynamics and over-heating. The first was the most painful. I had a harbinger (that's correct... in a rifter) to within inches of his life when he warped off. I actually thought I killed him. It wasn't until the search for his wreck that I realized what happened. The over-heating caused my scrambler to burn out. It stopped working and he bailed. Gah!!! that would've been a great kill for my Tusker application.

The second was when I docked to repair and never put the scrambler back online. A second escape had me screaming at my monitor.

I have been put in my pod a few times by concord. I had a lot of learning to do with criminal countdowns and such.

I've shot and destroyed wrecks that I was about to loot. I sure hope it was T1 junk. I don't even look at those killmails because I don't want it to hurt more than it already does.

I'm finding the learning experiences are coming much less frequently which must be a good sign. I jumped face-first into this pirate thing so it has been a wild and sometimes bumpy ride.

Many of my corpmates are grizzled veterans with a lot of experience. I'm glad that they are down to earth enough to answer many of my less-than-intelligent questions. I really see myself becoming a better pilot with each day in game.