A Beginning.

Hello.

Just saying that in Eve Online would seem strange unless it was on a voice comms to friends, corpmates or allies. Its not something you would think of typing into Local at the best of times.
But yes,

Hello to you and welcome to my blog.

I will begin by making no promises that if you have stumbled across this that I will be regular in posting or will indeed even keep it up. If it disappears within a couple of months you'll know that its because I just haven't stuck at it.
I'm also not promising to get everything right or factually correct. I ramble, I remember odd things and never the sources (I will be making a special attempt however to include these as much as possible, going down the rabbit hole of links on the internet is after all a past time I'm sure nearly anyone who is reading this will have indulged in).

Further to this I think its important that I state that the tone and writing style of each post will in all likelihood change from post to post for the first few as I get the hang of it. The visual style will also likely be changing as well till I'm happy with it. Unfortunately I'm no graphic artist or web designer so don't expect any shock and awe impressive stuff, words and writing is closer to my forte. 

It would probably be best to explain a little about myself and what I hope to achieve, document and comment on in the future to give you some idea of where I'm coming from and where I'm going.

Me. - No personal details here sorry. Though I will say I'm yet another guy. Not an elusive hot chick on the internet as my first guild thought I was till they heard me speak on voice comms for the first time, it was a little anti climatic for them.

I've been playing games and MMO's for the best part of a decade, which makes me feel very old, when it shouldn't.
My gaming history which might be interesting to know is this;

These are grouped to platform and then to something close to the chronology I played them.

Playstation; Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot 2 the Vortex Strikes Back, Collin McRea Rally, Grand Tourismo, Command and Conquer Red Alert (yes it was on the Playstation and it was pretty good!) and some football game I never played.

Playstation 2; Killzone, Timesplitters 2 & 3, Dead or Alive 2.

Curtesy of  of friends - Playstation 3; Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood, Killzone 2 & 3, Call of Duty Black Ops, Battlefield 3, Dust 514 Beta

PC; Dune 2000 (first RTS I played, and played for days on end.), Warhammer 40,000 Final Liberation, Dawn of War series, Age of Empires, Half-Life 1 & 2, Call of Duty 2, Unreal Turnament, Rainbow Six Las Vegas 1 & 2, Deus Ex Human Revolution, The Elder Scrolls Oblivion and Skyrim, Mass Effect 1, 2 & 3, Minecraft.

I'm listing PC MMO's seperately as I feel they're quite different to other games.

PC MMO's;  Runescape, Anarchy Online, Lord of the Rings Online, Star Wars The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, Battlefield 3, Planet Side 2, Eve Online.

Your probably wondering why I felt it important to list all of that. Well in my humble opinion what games you have played and experienced before, shape what you expect of current and future games, what ideas you have and what you find fun and what keeps your attention.

Well now that's my gaming history out of the way its possible to move on to my goal of what I'm hoping to achieve with this.

Simply put, to add my own experiences of Eve to those of others, and to hopefully engage in the dialogue which continues across the internet about this game in all its aspects, be warned I am still interested in Nullsec politics even if I'm not a line member in one of the massive coalitions anymore.

There will likely be posts that have nothing to do with Eve Online, but I make no apologies for that, skip them if you want. I'm not forcing you to read any of this, but if you want I could come round to your house and smash your face repeatedly into the computer monitor if you like.

One final thing that ought to be covered before I dive head first in, why the name Casual Void?
The last time I played Eve it very nearly took over far too much of my life, this time I want to attempt to see if a more casual play style is possible, hopefully this will mean that I wont be burnt out as I was last time. So that's where the Casual comes from. Void, well that is what space is, an unfilled void. It is a nothingness, with barely anything passing through it. Eve Online may have 7500 star systems and even more Planets, moons and stations and ships zipping around between it all, but just think how many (insert crazy big number here of your choice and times it by a billion a couple of times) square kilometers of empty unused space there is. So to me, Void feels far more accurate than say the word Space which when we think of we think in far smaller terrestrial terms or of planets moons and stars, but never really the void between.

Hopefully all of this wasn't too painful to read, and if you have made it this far, thank you for sticking with me and I hope you check back for other posts.
Next up will likely be some post explaining the reasons why I have come back to this terrible game.
I will also promise some pictures to alleviate the wall of text.