Homeless Gamers

So yesterday I was out doing my thing. Killing rats, raising sec status, and docking faster than you can say “Local up” anytime a roving gang moved through system. I started to realize, unless I wanted to haul with my main, I was going to need to throw in some buy orders. I was still a few days out from getting a cruiser… but in low sec it might take a week or more for those pesky buy orders to get filled, assuming of course anyone is even willing.I placed the buy order for some cap boosters I needed and were hard to find locally and went about my business. Towards the end of the night, the system had almost completely died down, and I was getting rather lazy on watching local, which anyone who lives in low sec will tell you is a good way to get raped. Any ways, I happened to look up and see someone was in system, panicked as I had no idea how long they had been there and immidiately headed to the station. I arrived about the same time as a badger was pulling in, and I must have scared the hell out of him cause he disapeared quick.

The iron of the whole situation cracked me up. Here I was running like hell from a percieved threat, that turned out to just be a silly hauler who was probably more scared of me than I was of him. I ended up convoing him, and set up a couple more contracts to get my cruisers moved down. Headed off to bed, and was pleasantly surprised to see them waiting on me in the morning.

Its simple mechanics like this that make me love this game. Something so small as buy and sell orders, lets a whole new level of interaction go on. I gave a job to someone who otherwise wouldnt have had one, who had to risk coming to low sec, giving a pirate a job who other wise had one, all to save me a little bit of time due to my own laziness.

Anyways, after talking to the hauler today, found out he is a fairly new player as well, and was looking for a corp to join. Apparently on the last trip out from dropping my cruisers off a battleship had been waiting on his badger and vaporized it. He brought over his Kessie and we spent the evening making some cash and farming some sec status.

Not to bad a night.