All Quiet on the High Sec Front

So, I think I've been dithering a bit the last few days. Perhaps weeks.

On the one hand, I'm quite eager to jump into pvp, get blown up, and have fun roaming around low sec.

On the other hand, I really hate scrounging for cash, being space poor, and having to spend huge amounts of time awkwardly grinding isk.  I'm in contact with a very cool null sec industry corp and my original plan had been that I would join them, focus on industry, become space rich, and then use the cash to PLEX a second account for pvp and to buy ships/modules.

Yet, I've read advice in multiple places saying that the best way to play EVE is to make sure that you're enjoying yourself now and that there's something fun to do when you log in. I feel as if I'm setting myself up to enjoy the game later (months down the road) and that I'll mostly be twiddling my thumbs and thinking about pvp rather than pvping.

Then I began to think about how much time even a well-oiled industry routine would probably take. I do know that I'd enjoy it and I want to give it a try eventually. Yet, putting in all the time in order to PLEX a second account and pay for ships to blow up ... I can't imagine that it won't take a time commitment.

I've also gotten a hold of a jump clone and some +4 implants. Even with being able to jump between clones, this seems to put a damper on my willingness to go pvp (thus kicking off a 24 hour timer of slower SP). On a side note, I think that any game mechanic that encourages players not to play is a game mechanic that needs to be tweaked. The long and the short is that I'm currently sitting around. Waiting. I log in. Then I log back out. What's up with that?

So, instead, I'm being tempted to the dark side. I realized today that if I bought one PLEX with real world cash, it would provide me with about 100 decently fit punishers (unless my math is way off). Punishers that I could start blowing up and playing right now, freeing up SP to immediately go into my pvp skills. It feels like selling out, yet ... hmm.

For the short term, I think I'm going to slow down my shift to industry/null sec and instead spend ISK and SP on pvp for a while. After I've blown up some ships, I can take stock again of what I want to do and whether I should invest in industry before further committing to pvp.

So, here's the plan:
- Buy 20 punishers
- Pick a region of low sec that looks fun
- Fit the punishers as best I'm able
- Blow up

That will make for better reading, at any rate.