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[Stormwaltz]

Vader: "All too easy..."

[tgr]

Oh god. I've been talking about that avatar being the "imma chargin' mah lazorz" for so long, and I forgot it here? and thought of "om nom nom"? 

I will perform seppuku now.

[sanctuary]

Application is in.

Edit: posting this from ingame browser 

[Sir T]

Lies. NOTHING displays on the ingame browser (bar furry comics...)

[Amarr HM]

Vader: "All too easy..."

Yes haha

Not sure if anything can top that.

[Viin]

The new sovereignty map is sweet. I'd post a screenshot but it might melt your face.

[Trigona]

Any one thinking of taking up on this offer - stop thinking now!!!!

You get the opportunity to get with possibly the strongest alliance in Eve, with a great group of players, many of them F13 posters.  The goons are childish and ADHD but always amusing and you have the opportunity to get into 0-0 space and be looked after.  It doesn't get better than this. 

It's the chance to get into an end game 'guild' and be mentored - this is a very special deal, offered afaik to no-one else on this little planet.

[Xanthippe]

I'll try it if Signe will.

(It's sort of like going to the ladies room - I don't want to go alone).

Edited to add:  I tried downloading the demo through Steam, but I'm having this problem:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=12331610

Verification Failure

Makes it hard to demo!

[Kovacs]

Room for one more?  No, I'm not a long time poster so yes I'm a spy.  

In my defense my Eve resume may just win the saddest sack ever award so if goons don't take me seriously who would?   And it's not like I don't have the proper experience.  I jumped right into 0.0 space by joining Sylph after only 2 years  in my rookie corp.  I know, but a few of they guys I'd come up with had already left and with the president of the Applied Sciences division retiring Sylph made me an offer I couldn't refuse, and remember this was back when Catch was Awesome!

After I'd been in 0.0 for about 10 minutes my corp decided it was not satisfied to be just a little bad and jumped ship for IRC, just beating the goons to the Drone Regions by oh... a day.  Yeah, wish I were lying...

So anyway, in empire again and undeterred I managed to catch on with Haladas mining corp.  My first professional corp and wow what a difference.  Of course that was only my first impression because 2 weeks later I woke up to a post-it note in my mailbox saying that I wasn't LSJV material as I'd "Exceeded the maximum allowable ship deaths per month due to non-PvP combat."  I had in fact doubled it, and in half the time.  Since I don't remember autorunning off a cliff pretty much ever, I think they mean non-fleet actions.  Yeah, when they told me about that policy at first I pretty much thought they were kidding.  Apparently not.

The humiliating 39 jumps back to empire were more than my Eve account could bear at the time but wtih dominion I was thinking about making a comeback.

Yes it's too snarky and yes I'm trying too hard.  But c'mon.

[Lum]

Hi, I'll try Eve again. I'm pretty sure I'm not a spy. Can I kill people?

[palmer_eldritch]

You can, Lum.

You certainly can.

[Viin]

Yes it's too snarky and yes I'm trying too hard.  But c'mon.

Hey, I got a laugh out of it. Careful with those mining macros! 

[Lum]

Well, the tutorial got better!

[Sir T]

Well to be fair, that was not exactly hard to do.

[Xanthippe]

I could not get the Steam Demo to work, but I could get the regular demo downloaded and installed.  I really hated the UI and graphics when I tried it the first time, but it seems much improved.  Now, if I can just keep better track of my objectives and stop forgetting to put things into my cargo hold, I'm sure my game will go more smoothly!

[kondratti]

The tutorials are excellent and the first Epic Arc gives loads of isk while going through the long story.  Really enjoying Eve thise time, and I subbed.  Is a slick well done game now.  Combat is still on the slow side, but is strategic and am enjoying it.

[Kageru]

Probably would have given it a try if steam had discounted Eve before fallen Earth... always been curious.

[Gets]

I could not get the Steam Demo to work, but I could get the regular demo downloaded and installed.  I really hated the UI and graphics when I tried it the first time, but it seems much improved.  Now, if I can just keep better track of my objectives and stop forgetting to put things into my cargo hold, I'm sure my game will go more smoothly!

There is no "Steam Demo". There is no reason to use Steam to install the client at all. You can get the 21-day Steam trial however by using the link in the Properties window of the game. We've pretty much all been in the "forgetting you have a cargo hold" phase. The "not knowing there's a station hangar" phase is less common, but more comical.

[Xanthippe]

I could not get the Steam Demo to work, but I could get the regular demo downloaded and installed.  I really hated the UI and graphics when I tried it the first time, but it seems much improved.  Now, if I can just keep better track of my objectives and stop forgetting to put things into my cargo hold, I'm sure my game will go more smoothly!

There is no "Steam Demo". There is no reason to use Steam to install the client at all. You can get the 21-day Steam trial however by using the link in the Properties window of the game. We've pretty much all been in the "forgetting you have a cargo hold" phase. The "not knowing there's a station hangar" phase is less common, but more comical.

Right you are - Trial, not Demo.  Sorry about that.  Is there a point to using the Steam Trial rather than the regular trial?  I guess 7 extra days... I think the regular trial is 14 days.  That ought to be enough for me to decide if I'll sub.

[Slayerik]

Standard deal to f13ers that join, I'll give you 10 million if you start playing.

20 to Lum, just because.

[IainC]

If you're going to get a trial then get one of the current players to send you a buddy invite. You get a 3 week trial and if you subscribe then your sponsor gets a free month. The 'Steam trial' refers to the fact that you can get Eve for $15 on Steam which comes with 2 months of subscription time and still counts for the purposes of giving your sponsor their free month for referring you.

[Xanthippe]

If you're going to get a trial then get one of the current players to send you a buddy invite. You get a 3 week trial and if you subscribe then your sponsor gets a free month. The 'Steam trial' refers to the fact that you can get Eve for $15 on Steam which comes with 2 months of subscription time and still counts for the purposes of giving your sponsor their free month for referring you.

Whoops.  I didn't do this.  Is it too late to do this?

[Gets]

Not really. Can always reroll.

[Slayerik]

Pick me pick me! I'll give you loot !

[Lum]

Well, I tried moving out to Delve, but I kept getting my frigates shot out from under me. Which is a pain in the ass even when insured because there's no centralized place to actually pick up new equipment, at least for rank newbs.

Maybe I'll reroll and dork around hi-sec space for a while getting my cruiser legs first. Because getting podded just trying to go to buy new blasters without being able to do anything about it, and then looking at about a half an hour of jumping everywhere just to re-equip? Not that fun.

[Murgos]

Goonfleet has, or had, a free frigate policy for newbee's.  If you ask in the corp channel someone will either give you a couple (fully fitted out) or point you in the right direction.

[Reg]

Are you in LOVEU yet Lum? I'm pretty sure that once you're in you can set your clone to one of their stations and then podkill yourself to travel there instantly.

[Thrawn]

Well, I tried moving out to Delve, but I kept getting my frigates shot out from under me. Which is a pain in the ass even when insured because there's no centralized place to actually pick up new equipment, at least for rank newbs.

Maybe I'll reroll and dork around hi-sec space for a while getting my cruiser legs first. Because getting podded just trying to go to buy new blasters without being able to do anything about it, and then looking at about a half an hour of jumping everywhere just to re-equip? Not that fun.

I'm tempted to re-sub just to remedy that problem and likely make a bunch of isk in the process. 

[palmer_eldritch]

Well, I tried moving out to Delve, but I kept getting my frigates shot out from under me. Which is a pain in the ass even when insured because there's no centralized place to actually pick up new equipment, at least for rank newbs.

Maybe I'll reroll and dork around hi-sec space for a while getting my cruiser legs first. Because getting podded just trying to go to buy new blasters without being able to do anything about it, and then looking at about a half an hour of jumping everywhere just to re-equip? Not that fun.

You can re-equip in Delve easily enough - the main industry hub is four jumps from our home station. The trick is to use the jump bridges, which let you jump long distances in one go.

Next time you are on, I will show you, or anyone who is online will do it.

Once you know how jump bridges work, life in 0.0 becomes a lot easier. There's a network spread throughout our region.

[IainC]

I gave Apparaat a bunch of fitted frigates yesterday. If I'd known you were hurting for stuff too I'd have brought a few more down with me.

[Endie]

Well, I tried moving out to Delve, but I kept getting my frigates shot out from under me. Which is a pain in the ass even when insured because there's no centralized place to actually pick up new equipment, at least for rank newbs.

Maybe I'll reroll and dork around hi-sec space for a while getting my cruiser legs first. Because getting podded just trying to go to buy new blasters without being able to do anything about it, and then looking at about a half an hour of jumping everywhere just to re-equip? Not that fun.

This is my fault.  I left a second post below the OP meaning to put instructions for people who get accepted, but I am a very lazy person who deserves nothing but opprobrium.

Do not hang around in highsec.  Dock in a station with medical facilities (as in F13 and someone with access to the Goonswarm mapping application will tell you the nearest one, or try two or three stations and you'll hit one).  Set your clone location to what I think is currently called "C6Y Not A Martini" from the list that follows, leave your ship, undock in a pod, warp to a planet, right-click on your pod and choose self-desctruct.  A couple of minutes later you will be in Delve in a pod.  Get some free ships.

I'll write this up properly with screenshots and stuff but anyone who is not a newbie should ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOUR CLONE COVERS YOUR SKILL POINTS and ALWAYS UPDATE YOUR CLONE AFTER PODDING.

If you really want to you can start hanging out and making money but far better would be to check the War Room for fleet ops and, failing that, ask in corp if there are any gangs or fleets running around or use the fleet finder to see if any fleets are running nearby.  If you do that then you'll not be very bored and leave.

Did you ask how to get to Delve in the F13 channel, btw?  Because if nobody told you this then they are even worthless than I thought.  If you didn't ask then it's you.  You're the worthless one.  Sorry.

[IainC]

He got to Delve. I think Lum's problems came from flying around Delve without any knowledge of the JB network or the various intel channels.

[Soln]

and prolly how you set a jump clone 

[Endie]

Get your ass to Delve.

[Endie]

This lengthy history of the great war was a lengthy monologue more suited to my blog, so I moved it there: http://www.endie.net/wordpress/?p=6