Whenever I tell my player story, I always have to talk about the legendary lady Greygal as well. I don't think that I'd be where I am or accomplished what I have in 4 short years if I hadn't ran smack into an interview she did with Jin'taan about a month after I started playing.
My husband, who followed Jin'taan sent me the link. I listened to the interview and I think Greygal was doing her newbro roam either that Sunday or the next. I was intrigued so when the time came I flew out to Berta, was handed a Suicide Catalyst and told to undock. Then in true Eve fashion, information was dumped on all of us starry eyed newbros.
Then she had us align and in a few jumps we were in Nullsec where we quickly came across a Praxis. We were given the orders to tackle it (I had NO idea wth tackle was but I think I got it locked..). Except it was a smart bombing Praxis and it disintegrated most of us.
Cackling about the destruction, we reshipped and went at it again. This was how I spent one Sunday a month for about a year? Maybe a year and a half? Meanwhile I would go out on Redemption Road's sunday fleet and eventually started going to FUN Inc.
During the height of the pandemic, it was clear that an NPSI newbro roam only once a month wasn't cutting it. There was quite a bit of demand for a more frequent newbro roam. So a friend, whom I met via Greygal's fleets, and I decided to start doing our own newbro roams. At first we were doing them weekly but as the pandemic died down and people got to real life we found out the sweet spot was every other week. Our newbro roams also includes a pvp 101 which was directly inspired by Greygal. We've been running these nearly every other Wed for 3.5 years without fail and it's coined the FUNny Newbro Roam.
The way I operate the open community Eve Rookies is also heavily inspired by Greygal. This is a lady who enjoys seeing her fledgling players learn and grow and gives them that room. Because of her, I got to try scouting at only 2 months in the game and I was FCing Redemption Road fleets at 8 months. She made sure the opportunities were there for any of us who wanted to grab them. And this is why anyone, no matter what their experience is, can try any role on any of my fleets including FCing. People do amazing things when you give them the tools to learn and grow.
I wish she still FC'd because flying with her is a blast. This is a video I made from a fleet where she let our dictor pilot convince a Raven that we were just passing through. If you wait till the end, you can hear her talking about psychological warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VVFZiqR6qw
