The First of Many

This day, last year, I joined EVE Online. This is the day that Poetic Stanziel emerged from podgoo for the first time. My only disappointment is not having discovered EVE Online years ago. But, better late than never.

Today is also a certificate milestone. By design. A couple months ago, I was redoing my skill queue, and realized that I could have the highest level of Core Competency within my first year of playing. Rearranging my skill queue, I set it up so that I would get Core Competency (Elite) on the anniversary of my first year of play.

Milestone-on-milestone action.

My only regret for this first year is not making a serious effort to get to Fanfest 2012. There is always Fanfest X in 2013, but this most recent Fanfest had a certain appeal after all was said and done. Fanfest 2012 may be the last of its kind.

It's been a pretty good year in EVE. Here is a list of some highlights throughout the year:

• Joined the EVE University nest; learned the fundamentals of the game. EVE University do the fundamentals well.
• Started Poetic Discourse.
• Was given a shove out of the nest, after I bitched about the state of the nest.
• Had a bunch of fun trolling EVE University drama and ineptitude on the blog, Twitter, and EVE Online forums.
• Discovered Sindel's legs.
• Wrote some fiction.
• Circumnavigated New Eden through null security space only.
• Joined the EVENews24 blogger team.
• Ganked my first exhumer in high security space.
• Created my alt, Scottish Play.
• Moved out to null security space; played the solo game.
• Bookmarked all of Stain; sold seven sets of those bookmarks.
• Was added to the EVE Blog Pack.
• Core Competency (Elite) certificate acquired.
• 18.8M skill points.

There's a lot more to look forward to throughout the next year playing this game.