Does a graduation from Eve Uni count for much in other corps?
TGRAD, yes.
Anybody else?
Almost definitely no.
Can only give my own perspective but yes, it’s worth something. Certainly far more than a stint in a mining corp for example. You should be able to listen to, understand and execute pvp fleet orders. This is the biggest issue many people have moving from starter corps to more organised pvp. Quite frequently the fleet commander will not tell you why you’re doing something, he/she just expects you to do it, now. This is a huge culture shock for many people.
Oh, and just because I think it’s pretty. Here’s a picture of the alliance formerly known as Bob’s major staging station in delve. Aka what I’ve just spent 8 hours looking at.
That’s a lot of bubbles.
Edit: but damn, you really need to alter your overview settings if it was you that took that pic. Brackets alone in a fleet fight will cause you significant module lag.
You do have a point Wolf, but any PvP outfit will give you the same benefit. EUNI isn’t particularly exceptional in that respect. And it’s certainly not the equal of some other corps. Given a choice, for instance, between recruiting from MDK’s old talent pool and EUNI… I wouldn’t even need to think hard.
And I say that with all due respect having been a member of TGRAD.
Most of them completely unnecessary, but it looks like a bunch of grapes now. The bubble animation was giving most of us headaches though.
I have other overview settings available (some goon found out how to export em to other characters so I have the corp approved setup), having brackets on wasn’t causing me any issues so I kept em on. flicking them off takes 2 secs.
By all means, but eve uni’s recruiting policy makes it an easier place to get into. The comparison I meant was between say an empire mining corp and Eve uni. not between Eve uni and other pvp outfits ( I don’t know MDK at all so I’m unsure of their recruitment policy, I’ve spent my entire evelife in the swarm, who unsurprisingly have a fairly positive view of Eve Uni given their anti high-SP elitist stance).
Fair enough. My rig is old and brackets kill performance.
Oh, and, how the hell do you export settings?
MDK doesn’t exist anymore I’m afraid. They were a fairly elite pirate/mercenary group lead by Xaeon (who is apparently now in TRI). A bunch of folks who could fight well above their numbers and still come out victorious. They were the first corp to create a “poor man’s titan”, earned massive numbers of killmails against SmashKill during its war with FREGE, and so on. Great, great bunch of people. I’d happily have any MDKer on my wing any day of the week.
I broke down and signed up again, WoW was just way to different than from what I remembered.
Anyway, is it me or is veldspar really rare now (in Lonetrek)? I haven’t seen one rock of it in 1.0 - .7 space since I rejoined.
Macro motherfucking miners.
Yeah, sucks to try and get started as a miner in empire I’d imagine with some of the belt hoovering operations I’ve heard tell of. If only one were able to jihad them still 
. Although frankly I dunno how anyone puts up with high sec at all.
Also check your PMs Finn.
Oh, speaking of macro fuckers, I recently conducted a Lincoln Douglas esque debate with one.
Might be interesting for some to see how these cheaters rationalize ruining the game for other people.
I was always a fan of macros, actually. Back in my Ultima Online days, I had a quite complex macro written that would make my character fish, move the boat occasionally, cast fireballs at any monsters that came on screen, and trigger a response whenever a gamemaster came on screen that would say “Greetings sir! How are you today?” wait for a reply, then say “Yes yes. Work on this all day I do. Have a good one!”
Kept casual observers from thinking I was macroing. For anyone who ever fished in UO, you know how integral it was to do this. At the time it would take hundreds of hours of fishing just to hit Master, let alone Grandmaster.
Not sure how macroing could be done in EVE though. Seems it would be quite complex. I somehow think it probably takes more than timing out where the mouse should click on the screen at certain triggers.
Eh, finding places to mine really isn’t that hard, just seek out a belt in some podunk backwater. 0.5 is the best mining anyway. I don’t know about Macro mining, but Orca fleets have really done a number on belts. Spam L1 combat missions, kill all the enemies and then bring your mining ship in if it has roids. Oftentimes missions have roids the size of moons.
For anybody that’s interested, the Tribune scored an interview with Haargoth that we’ll be publishing this Monday. Nothing really major, but it’s interesting to see inside the mind of the guy who disbanded BoB.
Link it here when it happens.
Sir yes sir!
I’d rather be playing Eve right now.
Heh … Im the mining director, andI spend my days in an orca … a few weeks ago my gang and I were mining in bucket 19 in Altrinur. We had a guy in a newb frig mining, and I politely let him know that my gang was mining that belt and he probably would be better off in a different belt … and he got defensice and asked if I was ordering him out of the belt … where some random guy in the system told him that it was not ordering him out … he then spent like 15 minutes hanging out in the belt chatting and asking innocent sounding questions about the orca and trying to get me to take some nannite paste out of his can … then a pair of rats showed up. I killed one, he killed one … and right after I had locked onto my wreck to pull it over to loot and salvage, he looted it and went flashy to me. He knew he did something because he said in local something like i hope you dont mind me looting your wreck. I told him I did mind and then asked him to leave the belt and stop harassing me. He had 3 other corpies somewhere in the system and it was obviously a setup to try and gank us [not us specifically, though a merc that our corp leader knows contacted him because someone wanted to pay him to wardec us and asassinate me and my orca specifically…]
What in the name of gods do they think any sensible person in a mining fleet of a billion and a half ISK is going to do, flip someone elses can and get ganked? All we had to do was ensure that we didnt touch him in response and there was nothing his fleet could do to me. Granted, I had a few newbies with us, and Bam made sure that everybody pulled back into the station [Dragon and Power both wanted to fight. That would have been disasterous] but I stayed in the belt discussing the issues in local chat. After it had been pointed out he was actually ganged up and he had corpie members in system, and in a fit of exhasperation I told him to his [virtual] face there was nothing he could do to get me to touch his wreck or one of his cans, and I had the right to kill him personally and unless I did attack him, if he and his buddies tried attacking me first COncord would kill him as it would take enough time for them to get there before he and his group could get my shields and armor down… an orca has an obscene amount of shields, armor and hull. I have had angel raiders pounding on me for 3 or 4 minutes and they have not managed to get my shields down …
Not that I was willing to risk my orca … but it would have been hysterical to watch concord bend them over =)
Though I have wondered about turning an orca into a q-ship … they are apparently used to transport low faction pilots past concord without destroying the rigss in the ships…
Hey, my mining fleet take exception to that … 
and if you want to play in a mining fleet, get with me in game, i use aruvqan there also=)
Logging onto EVE now =)
/me starts to sing …
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s off to mine I go …
Consider that EUNI is a noobcorp, though. They’re not being elitist by being anti high-SP. On the contrary, high-SP toons are certainly welcome if they’d like to be instructors. Seriously, there’s a severe lack of formal instructors. Consider what you didn’t know when you were completely new. Classes on anything are always welcome, and you’ll have lots of eager students.
On the other hand, it’s not an elite PVP corp. You’ll get most of your PVP during war in blobs, although there’re opportunities for covops and such. Supposedly the LSA (low-sec apprenticeship) is starting again, which should fulfill small gang PVP ambitions.
My EUNI toon is a low SP toon, and he’s there to (1) teach and (2) learn how to do invention and such (also an excellent market alt). My other main left to join a new PVP training corp led by alts of some pretty famous (in the game world) pilots. It is definitely fun in a different way than the Uni! It’s also fun to be on the aggro side of a wardec. 