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Alts and Stuff

Published on 06. Oct, 2008 ... written by Ebonezer Skrewed, Tags: Columns, Ebonezer Skrewed

by Ebonezer Skrewed … So. I’m sure everyone who plays EVE-Online for longer than the trial has at least one alt, where they will go and try out something else. I know a good number of people who have more than one account and have all of the alt slots on their accounts filled! “Mines”, is a simple little Gallente Miner. He’s not the best ‘race’ for mining, nor does he have the best skills. In fact, I think he has the basic set of skills for someone who comes out of character generation with mining on their mind, but he does what he does best, and I’m quite happy to mull about and mine basic Empire for ore as ’something else’ compared to possibly sitting around in station on my main character going ‘Pewpew’ and making silly finger-gun poses at the screen at the other people who are docked in the same station as me.

Anyway, I was flying around inside of Gallente space, minding my own business, idly mining Veldspar and other minor ores that give a quick few ISK to alleviate some boredom, when suddenly … a wild can flipper appeared! Shocked, this can flipper dared to come up to my can where I was putting ore into it, and did as his name said. He flipped my can! He dared to bring himself over to me?! Well. I really couldn’t fault him for it. I’d probably have done the same if I were in a can flipping mood. After all, I was in a small frigate and I appeared to be very lightly armed (if armed at all) and I was just begging for it.

Instead, I opened up a conversation window with the guy. I introduced myself, said hello, I was a bit bored and all. He laughed, going ‘Bored and mining, hmm, what a coincidence!’ or something along those lines. Either way, I soon got talking to my supposed can-flipping aggressor, and he decided to warp off instead of harassing me, saying something about a Brutix and how all their pilots were ‘trigger-happy’. We kept chatting along anyway, and eventually got to talking about can-flipping and PvP in general. We were talking about Amarr and Caldari, and he was polite enough to actually give me hints and tips on how to best make my Caldari Caracal-flying main character more viable for PvP in general! Well. This was a sudden turnaround from what everyone says of can-flippers, that they’re obnoxious and terrible individuals of a vindictive nature. Actually, the can-flipper in question was just bored like I was and was having a laugh for something to do. Strange, isn’t it, that we did it in completely different ways, but still well within the same EVE Online universe? Just goes to show how people play the game differently.

So, my interest in my Caldari main renewed, I took his advice, gave him 20 million ISK just because well, I figured that if he’s going to go flying around in an Amarr ship in Gallente space, picking fights with Brutix’s and anyone else who was silly enough to get in his sights, he best at least make some profit off the whole thing, shouldn’t he? That, and his advice made me feel like logging back onto my main character. So here I am, back in my main character, and I look over my skills and realise … well … he was right, after all! So now I’ve started to train up another skill, knowing that it’ll make me more viable, and maybe, just maybe, I’ll catch that Can-Flipper on his alt or main, and using the tips he’s told me, instead of him killing me, it might be the other way around. Either way, I’d like to bump into that guy again.

So, Amarr Can-Flipper. I will raise a glass of Quafe to you in salute!

Ebonezer Skrewed

Tags: ammarr, can, flipper, mining, quafe