It’s amazing what perspective some time off from a game can bring. I dropped EVE a couple months back to focus on my RL career a bit, but in the past week hit a wall and needed some distraction – voila, dusted off the old EVE account to relieve some stress.
As my main, Furious, had never left his solo corp in the Amarr Militia, I had a ready supply of random PVP awaiting right from login. I have to say, factional warfare is more fun now than when I first tried it out last year, and with the coming addition of more and more ex-0.0 PVP heavy corps, and general tower-grind fatigue, I think we’ll see more good fights with better ships on a daily basis across the Bleak Lands.
Until this week, my last PVP kill was a YEAR ago, so to say I am a bit rusty is a raging understatement. Nevertheless, I had a ready supply of far too expensively fit ships and a general need for destruction, so I undocked from my adopted home station in Huola, fired up Militia chat, and looked for someone to shoot at me.
To my delight, I didn’t have to wait long. In a quick 40 minutes in space, I got in on 5 kills – and lost my cherished Dark Wing Duck 1 (a Vengeance). The beauty of the night was getting in the final blow against the guy who held the same killmail position on my own loss, just a short while later. It also gave me a chance to stretch the legs of my Sacrilege heavy assault cruiser. Brutally expensive to replace, but hell, since I own it already it’s a sunk cost. May as well go use it.
The second night was less successful. Lost an Arbitrator, not more than 10 minutes after I bought it, to a gate blob, helped kill a pirate Maller, then promptly lost a Crusader to my own stupidity while trying to escape a gate camp.
Furious’ compadre, Daniella, also back in action earning some passive ISK income after a long break, cashed out a quick 300 million ISK worth of datacores to refill Furious’ coffers.
All in all, a fun way to jump back into EVE for a couple nights. Next up, starting to use (and no doubt lose) my favorite ship of all time, the Harbinger. Two are already fitted out and waiting.
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Yes for the Amarr Militia! Good luck with you fighting in the war and playing again!