Hello there!
I found your advertisement on /r/evejobs and I liked what I saw; been perusing the public forums for a bit to see how you interact and respond to people. I’m interested in applying and see how I can fit in your area.
I’ll start with a little about me – I’m 36 years old and have been a gamer most of my life. I frequently play various co-op games with my wife and younger brother as well as a group of online friends. We get on to play several times a week. I’m fairly competitive and like PVP, but I really like playing with a group on cooperative endeavors. Translating that to Eve means I like PVPing in fleets but don’t do a whole lot solo in that regard. I’m a software engineer working at a large retailer on their Point of Sale (POS) system. Outside of gaming my wife and I both play poker and we can usually be found at the local casinos or a friends’ home game a few times a month with a trip once or twice a year to Vegas.
I tried Eve quite a few years ago, but I was playing WoW at the time (I know I know), and couldn’t be bothered with another MMO, especially one that required the focus as Eve does. Fast forward a few years later and I’ve been spoiled by sandbox games and ones that feature dynamic content (Terraria, Payday 2, Minecraft, etc.) to the point where “scripted” games, even MMOs, are ruined for me. So I re-introduced myself to Eve about two years ago. Fell in love with it and even when life dictates I take a short break I maintain my subs to skill.
I have three characters in Eve: a combat/logi pilot with aspirations of a dread or FAX someday, an industrialist who flies a freighter and does research things, and an in-training booster that may not be viable anymore after the off-grid boosting changes come out. I’ve tried just about everything except extended low-sec living and null. I started as a high-sec carebear and gradually explored paths in life such as incursions, attempting to take and hold a low sec region with a HS alliance that wanted to move there, HS ganking (not my cup of tea), wormholes, and getting exploded in small gang fleets. The largest fleet I’ve flown with next to an Assault incursion fleet are Spectre fleets. My combat character began as a dedicated logi pilot but he has the skills to bite back if need be. He began training some capital skills from the direction of a previous corp that collapsed but he still needs a few months to become halfway viable in a dread. My main has 65mil-ish SP after some injectors, and my other two have 45mil and 43mil.
My corporation experience has been fairly varied. My very first corp started as a HS mercenary-wannabe corp that didn’t make it too far. My wife was also playing Eve at the time, and strangely enough having a female on comms provoked some strange conversations that told me they were young and couldn’t handle that – we left after a short stay. Our next corp was one that was one my best experiences I’ve had in this game so far and it was a HS corp specializing in industry. My booster character became a perfect Orca booster and we spent most nights mining and building things, which while not the sexiest thing to do was fairly awesome with the engaging comms and personalities in corp. We broke up the mining monotony with occasional incursion corp runs or a frigate roam in to LS while we tried to learn to fight. My wife and I forged several friendships that we still maintain on Steam and in person when we went to Eve Vegas last year. My wife and I both became directors in time and helped run things when the CEO had to stop the game due to RL issues. The corp folded after a bad merger with an alliance focused on taking a low sec region, ganking miners, and making kneejerk reactions with no clear plans on the future. Unfortunately, a lot of drama unfolded over the last few months it existed and the alliance and corps inside folded. My wife and I take some responsibility in that as we worked really hard to make a toxic situation work out and that exposure crushed our loved corporation; we should have seen the signs and voted to leave the alliance when things got bad instead of trying to stick it out and conform. Shortly after that I took a break from the game both due to RL pressures at work and feeling disheartened after the collapse of a corp that had been together for nearly two years.
I’ve come back to the game a couple months ago and have joined up with a wormhole group. They are nice and laid back and I’ve enjoyed interacting with them, but they are a little *too* laid back and non-engaging. Nothing much happens except for a handful of guys going on a public NPSI roam on the weekends. Nothing wrong personality wise, but it’s a little too sleepy for me. And public NPSI fleets are not really my idea of a corp establishing its own identity as a PVP entity (nothing wrong with them, but if that’s all you do…). I’m just not a solo person.
So, that’s my brutally honest introduction. I prefer to put everything out on the table and let the chips fall. in conclusion, I’m looking for an established group that is active and enjoys some quality group work. I want to learn to PVP effectively and become an asset for a fleet. I want to engage in the social experiment that is this game and see what all it has to offer. I’m central USTZ. Btw, I have no experience living in NS yet.
