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<\/a><\/p>\nWe do a lot (and I mean a LOT) of reading and research when we’re offline, trying to get a handle on everything we need to know to keep from immediately getting squished. Some of those \u00a0include:<\/p>\n
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- A Guide to Player-Owned Structures<\/a>. As hard as our first night setting up the Tower was, it would have been a hundred times worse without this (and several other) guides explaining how everything should be done for best effect.<\/li>\n
- Living in a Wormhole<\/a>, from the Eve University Wiki. I’ll always be loyal to my Online University of Celestial Hardship crew, but Eve Uni has had a long and respectable life as a corporation dedicated to teaching new players everything they can about everything there is to know within EVE. Doesn’t matter if it’s trading, industry, PvP, or mission running — they’re training material is top notch, and I say that as someone who gets paid to design training material for online consumption. This page covers the basics, and covers them quite well.<\/li>\n
- Killing in the Hole, a Guide to wormhole PvP<\/a>. A more recent find, perhaps most valuable to us for knowing what sorts of things visiting predators will try, but it’s also got a lot of good information on the basic mechanics of how wormholes work and how not to paint yourself into a corner when the time comes to heat the guns up.<\/li>\n
- Tiger Ears<\/a> – an online journal of a pilot in wormhole space. Penny is much less an industrialist and more of a PvP enthusiast, but nevertheless I find the posts incredibly educational, entertaining, and interesting. Sometimes, the post shows me something I need to watch out for when dealing with potential predators in our wormhole; sometimes they give me an idea about something I can try when it comes time to blow up a vagrant in our system; and sometimes they’re yet another tip about how to improve my scanning skills. In all cases, they’re a bright spot in my GReader stream.<\/li>\n
- Dude, where’s my wormhole?<\/a> – A post by Penny’s “fearless leader”, Finn, on how to manually and purposefully collapse a wormhole you’d rather not have in your system. Situational, but no less valuable for that.<\/li>\n
- Finally, I do a lot of exploring and mapping as I scan down our new wormhole exits, and when I’m in the midst of those celestial peregrinations, I made heavy use of the Wormhole Systems Database<\/a> to tell me\u00a0about whatever system I find myself, Dotlan<\/a> to give me an idea of the level of recent activity in both our wormhole and any connecting systems (it helps to know if there’s been a lot of violence in a system I’m about to explore), and Wormnav<\/a> to tell me what I should be looking for in a system before I launch my probes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That said, the best teacher is experience, and not everyone can figure out how someone works by reading about it — they have to suffer though their own personal learning curve to finally figure something out.<\/p>\n
Case in point: I ask CB and Gor whether the scanning videos I put together helped them out at all. CB says that he’s never been able to learn anything from watching videos, and Gor said he thought they were good, but they didn’t help him at all.<\/p>\n
Gor goes on to explain the method he’s using to get successful hits on his system scanning, but the pain it inflicts on me causes a ringing in my ears that drowns out the last half of the explanation. I comfort myself in the knowledge that, if pressed, they could both find their way back to known space.<\/p>\n
And that I’ll never need to watch them doing it.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, that’s the best you get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apparently, one of the things that happened while I was putting together how-to scanning videos was CB’s triumphant return to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmos","tag-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12362,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Living in a Wormhole<\/a>, from the Eve University Wiki. I’ll always be loyal to my Online University of Celestial Hardship crew, but Eve Uni has had a long and respectable life as a corporation dedicated to teaching new players everything they can about everything there is to know within EVE. Doesn’t matter if it’s trading, industry, PvP, or mission running — they’re training material is top notch, and I say that as someone who gets paid to design training material for online consumption. This page covers the basics, and covers them quite well.<\/li>\n