This Saturday at 18:00 EVE Time, CCP will be running a New Player Training Session mining fleet. As opposed to our previous fleets (which involved going out into low and null sec to PVP and flying into a wormhole to sing songs), this fleet will naturally be far more laid back. We’re going to find some asteroids and mine them out. We’ll be chilling out on voice comms during the event, answering questions, chatting, and maybe having one or two adult beverages. It will be an easy going time that will hopefully lead to some fun!
Here are the rules and regulations for the fleet:
Come to Josameto III – Expert Distribution Retail Center. We will be forming up around 18:00 and aiming to depart by 18:30 EVE Time (that’s UTC).
We will be handing out free T1 fit Ventures, though you are free to bring your own ship if you wish.
The fleet will likely run for an hour or so. After we finish the mining, we’ll likely go out and see if we can’t ninja-mine some wormhole gas, though we will NOT be providing the Gas Harvesters or the skill to use them.
CCP Devs will collect the ore and we will split it evenly at the end of the fleet.
Do not bring a ship you cannot afford to lose! Though this is CCP-sponsored (or perhaps because it is!), it’s likely we’ll run into more than a few people who will want to mess with us through suicide ganking, smartbombing, or otherwise being disruptive! We will teach people how to deal with such things, but we won’t be reimbursing anyone for any losses or preventing anyone from doing this, so a few people ARE likely to die.
Despite us allowing some normal interaction with the fleet, excessive attempts to disrupt or harass what is primarily a rookie-aimed training fleet will not be allowed.
Voice comms information and the actual location we will mine in will be revealed when the fleet is ready to head out.
Here is a time converter for those interested:
On a related note, I just love how the Dev stresses the possibility of things going awry…
– R
