{"id":4787,"date":"2013-04-08T20:13:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T20:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2013-04-08T20:13:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T20:13:18","slug":"life-in-eve-junkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/life-in-eve-junkies\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Eve: Junkies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March was a really, really good month for our corporation. By most any standard, it was the best month the corp has had since it was formed<\/a>, and aside from the dry statistics, there’s the more interesting fact that we had gotten fairly well-known in the warzone.<\/p>\n

“Props to you and your guys, Ty,” said one enemy pilot in local comms. “You guys always bring a fight.”<\/p>\n

April… has not gone so well.<\/p>\n

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Really not a fan of this month.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a sample of our comms this month:<\/p>\n

“Can I take on a Hookbill in this Atron?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Answer: no.<\/p>\n

“There’s a dragoon in the medium complex… can we even fight that?”
\n“Let’s… give it a shot… I guess?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was two guys in slashers. The Dragoon had backup.<\/p>\n

“They only outnumber us by two.”
\n“And they have gang boosts –”
\n“And they have boosts, so really it’s worse than that.”
\n“By a lot –”
\n“By a lot. Yeah. Should we engage?”
\n“…. yeah.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We did. It ended about how you’d expect.<\/p>\n

“It’s horrible odds, but… whatever. We’re only two jumps from Auga to reship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good argument. Then…<\/p>\n

“We’re only three jumps from Auga to reship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which was funny.<\/p>\n

“We’re only four jumps from Auga to reship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still funny.<\/p>\n

“We’re only five jumps from Auga to reship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Less funny.<\/p>\n

“We can always fly back to Auga to reship.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now it’s just grim.<\/p>\n

In fact, in the last couple days, everything is grim. Tone of voice. Topics. The sense of desperation.<\/p>\n

The desperation of a junkie.<\/p>\n

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In April, so far, the Corp has already racked up about a third of the losses we had all through March, and have snagged about one-twentieth<\/em> of \u00a0the kills (my personal ratio is even worse, at least in terms of losses).<\/p>\n

It seemed<\/em> due to the simple fact that there are less fights available: the Amarr have been particularly scarce, especially in groups anywhere close to the size\/composition we can realistically engage, and when we get anything that looks even sort of doable (if you cross your eyes and squint), we go for it.<\/p>\n

Most of the time, though, what we decided was ‘sort of possible’ was really nowhere near that, but we go for it anyway.<\/p>\n

Because March turned us into junkies, and April is making us go cold turkey.<\/p>\n

Consider: in March, I was involved in at least one hundred fifty fights, give or take. Not all of them were recorded, because one side or the other ultimately managed to escape, but that’s a (low) estimate of the number of times a fight loomed. Probably, it was closer to two hundred, so let’s split the difference and call it one hundred eighty.<\/p>\n

That works out to six fights a day, give or take, during March. Every day, six jolts of adrenaline (yes, adrenaline dumps from MMO PvP: an experience — for me — all-but unique to Eve).<\/p>\n

A guy can get kind of addicted to that kind of thing.<\/p>\n

We’ve got guys in the corp who, in February and March, have gotten in more fights than all the rest of their time in Eve, even if you count shooting NPCs<\/em>. \u00a0It’s fun. It’s exciting. There is really nothing else in the game like it.<\/p>\n

Then it just… stops. You are left with only bad opportunities to get your fix. Very<\/em> bad opportunities.<\/p>\n

And we’re taking those chances anyway. Of course. We’re junkies.<\/p>\n

It’s not… good. \u00a0The frustration from not finding fights is bad already, and coupled with the stream of bad fights ending badly…<\/p>\n

Yeah. Not good.<\/p>\n

Time to make some changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  March was a really, really good month for our corporation. By most any standard, it was the best month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actual-play","category-mmos","tag-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}