Overcoming Risk Aversion with More Fights

Miura Bull was describing the R1FTA School of Hard Knocks and it reminded Starwalker of what seemed to have been forgotten: expect every ship to have a fiery death. The only questions are when and how.

Flying the ship was more important than looking at it. Fighting in the ship to a fiery death was why Starwalker was in New Eden. So what had happened? It seemed that this truth had been lost and risk aversion had become more dominant than fighting spirit.

Starwalker realized that this risk aversion was being fed by:

• Killboard – and perceived efficiency or getting more kills than losses
• Target selection – and wishing to find easy kills
• Sense of Loss – losing ships and/or pod and its financial impact

To a much lesser extent the risk aversion was also being fed by the lack of confidence (and skill) to engage small groups with the intent of divide and conquer.

Starwalker felt like he had just pushed through a barrier, that he could fly and fight in New Eden with a renewed sense of purpose and enthusiasm. That enthusiasm had almost disappeared with the many long hunts and few short fights.

Starwalker looked towards the space dock and smiled as the ship looked shiny and new – time to see if tonight could be fiery death for that ship or preferably the target ship. Either way Starwalker was looking for a fight, same class or above class.

Perhaps this attitude would result in being too aggressive and silly losses but that would be better than few or no fights. Without fights, without losses Starwalker would never become a better pilot.

Starwalker had a new credo - fly fast, shoot first, do or die. He reached for his black jacket and walked towards the shiny new ship, smiling.