Isn’t it curious how the littlest change can cause a massive shift in our activities?
I was crusing the other day, slowly training towards Mining Barge Level V so that I can finally drive that big Covetor I bought a couple weeks ago, when I recieved a Corp EveMail. I didn’t expect it to be “eve-shattering” news.
Concord was reporting that another corporation had decided (quite randomly) to declare war upon my corporation. In just under 24 hours, I was going to have to defend myself. We had just been “wardec’d”. (For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it means “War Declaration”).
Now, I thought being at war just meant that I’d have to be on the lookout for others with bigger guns — but it’s a lot worse than it seems.
Here’s the thing: we were lucky enough that the corp that wardec’d us is roughly the same size as ours, and is mostly made up of noobs. Only 2 of their 6 members seem to be really as hard-built as our most hardened and seasoned pilots, which should be ok – if we stick together.
What it also meant was that I was going to shift my loadouts from “production/PvE” mode to “PvP-only” mode. And since I’ve never done any PvP (yeah, I’m a Carebear, so sue me), then I have to switch my way of thinking.
So there goes my Mining Barge training. Now, I have to go towards Energy Emission Systems, Energy Grid Upgrades, Drone control skills, gunnery skills — the works. Just so I can put together a good enough loadout for my Battleship and hold my foot on the line of fire as long as I can. It should make for a very interesting meeting in deep space.
Y’never know who’ll end up on your blog, so I won’t put down my secrets here – no public loadout for you guys today – but let’s just put it this way: with the things I haev in store, they shouldn’t even see me coming. Not even 2 AUs away.
So here’s a recommendation for all of you who are starting out in corporate Eve: be patient. Make sure you train 1 PvP skill for every 1 PvE and every 1 production skill. Because you never know what you’ll end up doing over the next few days. As well, make sure that you brush up on your ship knowledge. You wanna know exactly how to ‘tank’ it. Good resources are out there, just Google them – you’ll find them.
‘[...]The purpose of war is to serve a political end, but the true nature of war is to serve itself.’ – Denzel Washington, as Commander Hunter, Crimson Tide, 1995
