"Some say a man's home is his castle. For others it is wherever they lay their hat. The concept is just as nebulous in the New Eden sandbox. In EVE Online, what does the concept of "home" mean to you?"
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Home.
Home is Pelille in Placid region where I went in my second week of playing Eve to join my friends from my Warhammer club. I remember flying my little Merlin with every possession I had through low sec for the first time, and later joining my friends in a belt to marvel over one of them and their new first battleship, a Megathron that dwarfed my frigate. I was in awe.
Home.
Home is 9GYL in Syndicate region where we ratted our wallets fat and I learned the fine art of hunting Serpentis battleship rats in a Caracal cruiser, perfecting the art of the circling approach.
Home.
Home is Teonusude and Gulfonodi in Molden Heath where we based out of while roaming the wilds of low sec, and where I ran up my status with the Republic Fleet and was running level four missions in a rail-Rokh, and where I lost my first Rokh in an Attack of the Drones mission where I killed all of the initial drones to trigger all four waves at once, including warp scrambling drones, and my tech 1 Vespas could not save me.
Home.
Home is Amarr in Domain region where I worked my industrial alts doing invention of Invulnerability Fields and Covert Ops Cloaking devices and making obscene amounts of money off the cloaks for months before the rest of the herd caught up and brought prices down.
Home.
Home is Teshkat in Sukanan constellation in Task-Murkon region where m3 Corp based out of for a long time, protecting the low sec pocket from roaming hostiles and venturing into Providence to tangle with Ushra Khan.
Home.
Home is D-GTMI and 2-TEG in Providence where Paxton Federation stood their ground as CVA folder like a tent under the assault of AAA and friends.
Home.
Home is Heydieles in Essence region where I grab a ship and head out to find Caldari militia or pirates or anyone else to shoot at.
Home.
EVE is home.
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We certainly have hung our hats in a lot of strange corners. And we've shared some of those homes together. New Eden is, in many ways, a real place when you've put forth so much effort, poured time and energy into something and it becomes a part of your own history. That cannot be ignored.
ReplyDeleteHome is Dodixie, where my RL friend's first corp was. Where I learned to trade and made my first billion ISK off the market. Where I bought my first battleship, a Hyperion. It's still there.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been there for 3 years now, yet I intend to log off there when EVE shuts down or I ever quit this game.