right well... recent developments...
Got blown up ferrying about 3,000 units of Zydrine out of Alliance space so I could sell it in Empire space. the guy who stole my minerals was a member of a corp we'd only recently stopped being at war with, and he was camping a gate in a 0.0 system. All's fair, but that Zydrine was worth about 15 million, so I ain't happy.
In response to this, I have created a purely PvP alternate character. Amarrian. The aim is to become the ultimate tech 2 badass at each level of gun size, which means the character will be flying assault frigates and using tech 2 small lasers before moving on to cruisers. Look out for "Niala Tarn" sometime.
This will, however, take a while to accomplish...
The war was a result of my corp's being friendly with the Forsaken Empire Alliance... a status which meant we were attracting player aggression, but didn't have the right to call on the FE to back us up. In response to this, the corp is presently voting on wether or not to join the Forsaken Empire full-time. If that were to happen, we would probably become part of FE's official mining and production wing, and my Alt, when ready, would be transferred across to join HUN corp or something where I could stretch my PvP wings. Greater responsibility, greater risk, even BIGGER payoff. It'd probably also mean that the corp would grow considerably.
My only problem is that I don't presently have the means (ie: a visa, mastercard or American express card) to open a second account to move my alt character onto, which means that while I'm training the Niala character up, I'm completely unable to train Stitcher.
luckily, there are now apparently EVE time cards available from game stores, which should make my life simpler.
Life in EVE is rarely boring, once you're past a certain point...