Colwyn
06-13-2006, 10:37 AM
Trepidation Restored on darniaq (http://www.darniaq.com/wordpress/2006/06/mmo-live/eve-and-trepidation/)
Still a relative newb in a ship that'd just barely pass effectiveness solo-ratting in 0.0 space, sitting at the staging point with most of the stuff I'd ever accrued on my Trader alt there too, staring into the abyss.
And the abyss stared back.
...
This was really the same sort of feeling I had so many years ago on the forest edge. Like then, I could lose all of my stuff. Like then, I really needed other people. Like then, this is based partly on design. There's an intense satisfaction I get when I enter a system with a proper name to it. The outlands of space still go by what amounts to astronomical survey numbers. The populated systems all have real names. Going from the former to the latter, I feel the safety of just knowing there's civilization somewhere. Plus in this particular space, the numerical systems are rendered with a heavy red overtone while the named systems have a blue-ish one.
Still a relative newb in a ship that'd just barely pass effectiveness solo-ratting in 0.0 space, sitting at the staging point with most of the stuff I'd ever accrued on my Trader alt there too, staring into the abyss.
And the abyss stared back.
...
This was really the same sort of feeling I had so many years ago on the forest edge. Like then, I could lose all of my stuff. Like then, I really needed other people. Like then, this is based partly on design. There's an intense satisfaction I get when I enter a system with a proper name to it. The outlands of space still go by what amounts to astronomical survey numbers. The populated systems all have real names. Going from the former to the latter, I feel the safety of just knowing there's civilization somewhere. Plus in this particular space, the numerical systems are rendered with a heavy red overtone while the named systems have a blue-ish one.