EVE character - Aryana Orinogu
Your preferred nick/name - Arya; Sara, if you're naughty.
TTI Division (or major occupation if unsure) - Mining is what makes me happy. Building with what I've mined makes me happier. Doing it at my own station bearing the Orinogu name would be even better. Watching as a fleet of ships I've built and mined myself flew off to hold a system? Priceless.
Email Address - ariaorinogu@hotmail.com
Your (approximate) age - 20
Timezone in the world - PDT
Extended Info:
1) What are your unique characteristics that set you apart from most people? (your views, achievements, etc):
I give a damn. I try and make a habit of thinking before I speak. I think.
But seriously:
I think I've made just about every single newbie mistake a person can make. I've shoved millions of ISK down the throats of my lessers and apparently actually shunned them from the game in the process. (Quite the startling revelation to my 'eventually Communist' Corporate Model.) And then I came across Petyr in EBANK Chat and had the nicest conversation I've had in years (he found it refreshing to talk to a Christian who didn't leap out of her head the moment you question her beliefs; I found it refreshing to find an intelligent Objectivist who didn't keep his hand in his pants.) When it comes to achievements in EVE, I suppose I could say "I have enough balls to take a newbie frigate to 'go see the goons'" and that I've done quite a bit of 0.0 exploring that always ended with me mining 1 velator full of crimson arkonor just to say I'd done it. Awful big rats at the galactic wall, oh my. I've spent the entirety of my time in the game studying the hell out of it, and I'm dying to fully master it. I want stations and sovereignty, I want to build Titans and watch as I fuel distant war engines and can control the political makeup of the galaxy simply by refusing to sell to particular alliances. I expect that the best case scenario would some day have me leaving Taggart, having mastered what I am here to learn, and refounding Cordesca, with the intent to gain my own political control in EVE.
I call myself Christian, but before you stone me, realize that I'm here to learn. I'm more than willing to talk about the nature of my beliefs (though I do not claim to be any sort of master, especially contending with the brilliance I've already encountered) which alone sets me apart from all but one other Christian I've ever met. I also don't feel even the least bit threatened by the knowledge that all of you think me a fool for my belief. In fact, I welcome your compassionate arguements and as long as you can be nice I think you'll find a relatively pleasant conversation with me. And don't think I'm saying that without experimenting. I've had a conversation or two with you, and you've cracked some good-natured jokes but you've been kind and you seem to have enjoyed my company.
Except George. He's mean. But that means he likes me.
2) Why are you playing EVE?
I think it's a rather cute story, actually. A girlfriend of mine and I had been playing Age of Empires II for a time, and it had finally gotten to the point where I'd maximized the resource gathering potential and found the right balance of villagers to military units that my war machine was not merely a massive 'endgame charge' but in fact several endgame waves numbering in the eventual thousands that mutilated, after a time, my opponent's resource supplies and troops. But those victories were shallow, as the moment I won, it was all over. I expressed this to her, and we moved to Age of Empires III when it came out. For a time that was amazing fun, all kinds of new things to learn and new combat strategies, troops were too expensive for my earlier tactic but a defensive tactic worked nicely. This was also rather fun for me because in order to build a decent defense you actually get to build what looks like a colonial-age colony! But of course, when the fighting was all over...so was the colony. Expressing my distaste again, we moved on to Sid Meier's Civilization IV, with all the available expansions. I found this much more to my liking, and eventually was not only building societies but actually watching them have culture and do things and watching exemplary people rise and fall and it was great, but eventually, the fighting stopped and I was the winner. And my society wiped from the Earth, again! A mod came with the newest expansion that allowed you to take it 'bigger' than Earth, in fact with a bit of make-believe, you could argue that the biggest society I ever had actually proceeded to go beyond the earth! A few games of that later and my girlfriend mentioned EVE. She is a SomethingAwful goon, and they frequently advertise EVE on their forums looking for new recruits. I played the two week trial. I experienced Total Perspective Vortex when I hit the map key. I mined Veldspar. I mined better than Veldpsar. I took a newbie ship into the heart of Goon territory and left a bookmark in a jetcan claiming that I had "licked ur stuffz" I watched as Goons and Foundation fought for N-DQOD. And that was awesome.
To me, EVE represents the ultimate in escapist gaming. It has a long way to go before it fully realizes its potential - sit me down in a private chat and I'll tell you some of my ideas - but compare it to its competitors. There is no competition. And now that I have finally found it - five years too late in my opinion - I'm going to master it. I want my in-character questions about the Jovians answered. I want my name known. I want power. In the real world I am happy to sit and watch while power-hungry mongrels slay eachother arguing over desert (or dessert!)
3) Why are you applying to Taggart?
Isn't the only correct answer to this question, "to make ISK?" Or perhaps like it is in my case, "to learn how to make ISK?" or perhaps some more flavor is necessary, "to learn how to make so much ISK that I can have starbases and outposts all to myself and my interests, so that I can build capital fleets, so that I can have so much ISK that I can sponsor my own damn battleship tournaments because I like seeing good pilots blow eachother up in good-natured contest?" Or perhaps the real answer is something more sinister: Maybe I'm just tired of playing with idiots. Or, rephrased: Maybe I think its time I played with smart people.
Also George made me.
PS: I like to make jokes
