Zen and the Art of Internet Spaceship Maintenance

Welcome to the sixteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: “Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game, with a ton to learn, so much that you never stop learning. So, the question is; What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?”

For me this is pretty easy.

TRUST NO ONE!

I once made the mistake of lending my jump freighter to a corp mate. Draw your own conclusions. Yeah I really should have known better especially considering how I had been drawn into the game mostly by stories of corp theft and betrayal but having spent about a year flying people I knew from RL almost exclusively had given me a false sense of security and I fell for it. Hopefully others aren’t as trusting as I was.

1. CrazyKinux: The Three Pillars of Wisdom
2. The Elitist: Helping the new guy/gal
3. Hands Off, My Loots: Nothing Needed
4. Rantuket: Blog Banter 16
5. EVE Opportunist: Nooby Cluey
6. Into the Unknown With Gun and Camera: EVE University
7. Zero Kelvin: We’re the young ones!
8. I am Keith Neilson: Set Your Destination
9. Prano’s Journey: Just Like the Very First Time
10. A Merry Life and a Short One: No Seriously
11. Yarrbear Tales: Nublet 101
12. A Mule In EVE: If I only knew
13. The Planet Risk Show: Dared to be Bold
14. Diary of a Space Jockey: WTH did I get myself into?!
15. EVOGANDA: Why?
16. A Memoir From Space: 16th Blog Banter
17. Death’s Sweetest Kiss: Who What When Where Why How??
18. Freebooted: Beyond the Shortcuts
19. Learning to Fly: Noobing
20. Caldari Outcast: My First Blog Banter Post!
21. Zen and The Art of Internet Spaceship Maintenance: Trust No One
22. Roc’s Ramblings: Financial Survival
23. Diary of a Pod Pilot: Free Knowledge Inside
24. Nullsec Carebear: I could’ve been less of an idiot
25. Facepalm’s Ramblings: Something Smells Fishy
26. Kirith Darkblade: Do you wish to know more?
27. Autopilot Disabled: I’m still starting…
28. Finders & Keepers: Relax
29. onfounded Capsuleer: What have you got to loose?
30. Clan Oriana: Sixteen
31. Flashfresh: EVE Blog Banter #16
32. Rettic’s The Chronofile: You Make EVE
33. Diary of a Bored Spaceman: Past Imperfect
34. Chocolate Heaven: Known Unknowns
35. More to come soon…