While I created this awhile ago, it gets linked nearly every newbro roam that I take out. There's always one person who doesn't know how to link their kill mail.

Staging - (noun or verb) is either the location that a fleet meets at for a fleet, or the act of flying to a location where the fleet is meeting at.

Tags - (noun) the targets, in order, that the fleet should be shooting.

JFC - (noun) a junior fleet commander. The JFC is generally training for a type of fleet so they can take them out on their own.

Backseat - (noun) a FC or trainer who helps train a JFC and make sure that community or corp policy is followed and individuals on the fleet are being taken care of under the JFC.

Jam - (noun or verb) jam can refer to ECM (electronic countermeasures) modules or the act of applying ECM to targets.

Blops - (noun) black ops battleships

GC - (verb) used in incursions, it means "good contest".

Contest - (verb) to contest a site means to try to win the reward. Most often used when competing for the payout in an incursion site, it can also happen in event sites in high sec.

Dropper - (noun) a player who volunteers to drop 255 pieces of lyavite in a can for a certain Vanguard Incursion site.

Logi - (noun) the pilots who fly a logistics ship and repairs damage to other ships in a fleet.

Skill Injector - (noun) item used to inject skill points into a character. Can be bought on the market from other players and has diminishing returns based on how many skill points a character already has.

LSI - (noun) large skill injector.

SSI - (noun) small skill injector.

Skill Extractor - (noun) item used to extract skill points from an Omega character with over 5 million skill points.

Accelerator - (noun) consumable that allows the character to train skills faster. Accelerators come in different strengths and lengths. It's advised to have biology V.

After seeing my husband out in the blue doughnut, not getting to play how he wanted all the time or shoot who he wanted, I was determined to play solo. However, I'd eventually join a NPSI corp that I was flying with a lot (and Kshal has been with ever since).

Here's the thing. Today, there are several open communities. You have all of the NPSI communities putting on pvp fleets for the public to join and then you have Eve Rookies who's putting on every other type of fleet for anyone who wants to join (and of course the Incursion community).

So I'm going to be the non-conformist here and say it's not important to join an in game corporation/alliance. What's important is finding a COMMUNITY to play with. If they have an in game corp for you to join, great. If they don't, you can always look for someone who'll let you join their corp and still play with the community you fall in love with.

For myself, and most people in the Eve Rookies community, boxing is a means to an end. We will always put people before boxes in all of our fleets but we can and do box to get a fleet undocked. This unfortunately has been crucial in getting Headquarter Incursion fleets going.

However, when 1 person boxing is pushing a fleet of multiple people out is where the problem (and bad feelings) start to occur. I can't get anyone to FC Homefront Operations because several boxers are saving sites. We have multiboxers killing their own faction in FW to run competition for the sites off.

Boxing isn't a bad thing inherently. I think we're just at the point where people rather just play by themselves instead of fleeting up.

Before Eve Rookies, I had little appreciation about how much time running a community like this happens outside of the game itself.

When I'm not in game helping one of my 44 FCs (and growing), I'm generally making some sort of page for their fleets on EveRookies.com or adding new doctrines so we can point players to the fleet information.

Whenever something comes up that's worth putting on the website, I'm either making an article or a tutorial video to help the next player out.

Then of course I spend time across the socials pitching Eve Rookies to new players that are posting and looking for something to do. You don't want to know how many Discords I belong to. I feel like having a presence is starting to become a full Eve Offline job in itself.

I'm one of those people that really loves statistics. Whenever someone asks how many fleets we really pull off a month, or how many people really come along, I can tell them. Also, on Jan 1st of this year Eve Rookies started paying its FCs for fleets. So I'm usually dealing with my payroll spreadsheet.

Towards the end of last year we started to become a platform so that other groups who don't have a presence, voice or the know how to get where other known groups are, a presence. We're becoming a platform that allows other groups doing public fleets to connect with the players. So this takes hours of diplo and setting up out of game.

I've got to say, I never imagined I'd be playing a game where I'm sitting in a year end budget meeting (love my industry wing LOL). Eve really is a lifestyle.

When I started playing, I was determined to be a solo player. I had watched my husband in his null corp have to fleet up, then stand down without ever undocking and shooting anything. This didn't sound fun, so I decided I'd stay a solo player.

To be honest, with the NPSI community alone I probably could have achieved this goal. But you know what they say, Eve is Better with Friends. It took about 4 months of flying with the good folks at FUN Inc to finally convince me to just join. And, I've never left. No matter what I'm CEO of or what grand scheme I get convinced to take part in, FUN will always be home.