A newbies first week

[Galacius]

First ill start by saying if this is the wrong section to post this I apologize.

I had been looking for something to occupy my time, due to various circumstances I havent had much to do this summer and have been climbing the walls out of frustration. Then I stumbled upon this and it seemed good.

I started out as most players have, knowing precisely nothing and finding my way to the mining field behind erie. While back there collecting helium a certain fellow was needing miners for him. I figured this would be good and eagerly signed up, soon after He gave me my cut and I was about to head on my way, when he stopped me and asked me how much money I had. I quickly told him what I was so proud of earning from the mining plus what I had gotten from him (it was truly a paltry amount but it felt truly big at the time). A few seconds later he told me to follow him, where we proceeded to go planet manhattan and he loaned me the money to buy a gull and outfit it. I was truly shocked but the best part was to come. A merc (who I really enjoy being around and have learned a great deal from) was hired and he had me follow him as he did several smuggling and slaving runs. Each time he took a different route to show me which ways to go and where to avoid the patrolls.

Over the next couple days (was about monday of this week) I had paid him back and was generally having a grand time, and he said "hey lets pirate, I used to be a hardcore pirate on a different server" He had previously picked up a gunship and I was to follow him in a humble defender to malta to pick up a corsair gunship since it was white to our faction. This is where things started to go downhill and the rosy dream faded.

Before I go on I must say I had seen the Liberty ships in all their majesty and was furiously trying to make heads and tails of the wiki so I could write up my own rp for a capital ship. Trouble was I had a love for the junker faction, but this will be elaborated more on a few paragraphs down.

But back to the main story at hand. The Pirating was fun at first, but it quickly deteriorated. He was sanctioned repeatedly for simply pirating, and it made no sense, he seemed to be doing it right most of the time, the merchants who took afront at it would mouth off not stop or just simply sit there stalling only to be furious when they were terminated when their time ran up. But I can understand the rage, I have played mmorpgs for years upon years and I know how angry people can get, but you know? When that happens they handle it quite differently.

This story happened in WoW on a rppvp server. Some people on the other side where having an event, me and a friend happened to be doing our rp out on the island while occasionally picking fights with the other side. We met, we anihalated them and they were probably most likely furious. But do you know how they handled it? The called in favors and brought in a merc glad team. To be a merciless gladiator in wow you have to be the top .01% of the arena which is probably the most difficult thing to do (at the time skill has left wow now) in the game besides get world first kills. They came, SLAUGHTERED us and stayed until we were beaten to the point that we went back to a friendly town to lick our wounds, no hard feelings either side besides mild gloating and "UNTIL NEXT TIME" all around.

Coming from this I have been shocked. Me and my mentor have been told "Enjoy it because this will be your last day playing on this server", "Hey that ship isnt legal for you, you better stop if you know whats good" (when I have a great rp story that when finished i will put up (corsair gunboat)) as well as furious anger people coming back to systems they were killed in and much cursing. I was most simply shocked, I really began questioning things at this point and my dream of defending the junker bases in a cruiser if people could get away with this stuff kind of stuff, what would stop some jealous or angry person from making all that money go down the drain.

Though this was pretty horrible not everything was bad, infact some things were excellent! [taz] helped me understand the error of my ways quite nice and civilly (I had developed quite an attraction to the l'ane (almost to the point of obsession you know) and they explained the huge flaws in my rp story after i told it to them why it was and filled me in on a lot of the lore, they even let me bombard them with newbish questions! (though it was not all grand as I was being instructed kindly by them people who were rping (and honestly it was obnoxious rp) were quite rude to me about it untill I explained to them I knew already and was going to fix it). My mentor was another big positive, as well as meeting shagohad and finnegans.wake The rp those two could do and how cool of guys they were (They even put up with a noob bursting at the seems with question). Also all the junkers I met where extremely cool and I had good rp or nice talks with them (im quite fond of escorting junker traders if im in my gunboat). Even the outcasts where interesting when I brought up a load of slaves, it was grand and helped offset how shocked I was at how badly pirating had gone.

The last few days have been more of a rollercoaster, having cool rp or protecting a junker, running goods, getting threatened, snotty tells, or just rule lawyered constantly (the worst is when I went window shopping for possibly cruiser candidates). I honestly am a bit torn I am loving some of the people, the ship designs are amazing and I love seeing them all (ohh gallian ships you call to me like a warm woman and a nice drink, but you have such cursed thorns), the wonderfull people I have met are the most holding factor and the fading dream of having a cruiser and patrolling around a junker base (plus all the rp with it) still hangs with me and keeps me here.

But here lies the rub, I find myself getting irate and quite frustrated with the skinny peacocks that meander about on this server. Stroking their egos and screaming the second you threaten something of theirs (whethere it be their sense of rp through your ship choice, your location or just that you pirate them or stand up to them). The proverbial venom has been wearing me down, and honestly im not well and shouldnt be this frustrated, I need to be taking it easy and getting my strength back for college. One can say though that being frustrated is somewhat of a compliment to this game and the people I have enjoyed, it shows I care enough about them and this game to be frustrated by it and keep coming back even though I want to stop.

Anyways thats really it, my first weak in a nutshell. I ask you please dont mind spelling or grammar errors, Im writing this with many other things on my plate so my attention is....well scattered and I would hope you allow me this feeble excuse.

I love this game so far but some things truly bring this newb down, and I dont know how to avoid it.

Salorn Galacius a junker