About

THE BEGINNING

Lost in Eve is a humble venture started by Jade, a man who fell completely in love with the game EVE Online in 2009 after a long background of playing FPS games and building gaming clans. This past life of the run-and-gun style of gaming became overwhelmingly frustrating due to the  cheat-filled, fickle, and immature nature of FPS games. One day, it was decided to start an EVE corp within the FPS clan in an effort to expand its numbers whilst growing interest in the game itself. A corp was loosely put together with mostly new players but also with a few experienced ones belonging to various corps in the game. It was decided to try and start a clan corp where the initial goal (after several disagreements of directions within the game took place) was to work to acquire our own Player-owned station (POS). In order to fund payment for it, missions and mass mining ops were done (in ospreys and retrievers LOL). Needless to say, it didn’t work out and the CEO changed three times in a very short time. The place was in disarray and the desired directions were as many as there were members.

It was then that two men stood out and decided to take their EVE future into their own hands. They split off from the clan’s corp, left the clan, and started their own corp in EVE. Within a month, a POS was erected, standings were achieved, ISK was flowing in, and heavy investments were made to prepare for the adventure that would kickstart everything…a shift to wormhole living. This sparked the awe and wonder of the game all the more for one man. One man who could literally lose himself in a world that is vast, beautiful, free, and yet so dangerous! It was then that merely playing the game wasn’t enough. The experience needed to be shared, no matter how small the audience might be. This was the start, the start of something that grew into one of EVE Online’s most popular podcasts. The name of course is Lost in Eve, a very fitting title for someone that fell in love so deeply with a game that encompassed all he had been looking for.

THE PROCESS

The podcast community was all but dead and dry as popular casts like Podded Podcast and Missions Collide were coming to a standstill. Lost in Eve was established and pumping out shows more or less on a weekly basis. The show was getting attention quickly with emails of thanks and reviews were being added in iTunes. The one thing that became evident, though, through the feedback was that a co-host would be needed to polish the show from a show of potential to a show of success. This started the search for a co-host in the hope that it would make the show more interesting to listen to and more entertaining for both the listeners and the podcasters themselves. The result? The firefly-crazed Jayne enters the picture!

What an addition he turned out to be and what a dynamic chemistry developed between Jade and Jayne! Together, they pushed out over forty (40) episodes of both Lost in Eve and the increasingly popular Lost in Conversation. The show was growing so fast and the desire to do more was also increasing, Jade felt it would have been good to get an extra host for the show to add more variety to the conversations, spice up some of the creative elements that were being planned,  as well as help take over some shows to provide some relief to some personal scheduling issues Jade was experiencing. The process of finding the host was enjoyable and both Jade and Jayne had such a difficult time choosing that they chose to take on TWO additional hosts. They were the talented and creative Hallan Turrek and Arydanika.

Unfortunately, due to Jade’s real life pressures and commitments as well in game, the podcast was taking continuous time and adding more pressure at the time that needed to be handled. This unfortunately resulted in the show going on a hiatus and losing both new hosts. This was a low moment for the show and some terrible misunderstandings occurred amongst those involved, including from the community. It was very close that Lost in Eve would have closed the doors for good at that point. Thankfully, Jayne was a crucial friend during this time and some personal changes were made in Jade’s life to allow for the both of them to return.  During the initial weeks of the return, Lost in Eve supported Hallan’s and Arydanika’s new podcast show, Voices from the Void for several weeks to help increase their exposure as they started their new show. Their show grew in popularity quickly and Lost in Eve continued on, despite a very unfortunate set of events that resulted in losing two new friends.

TODAY

Lost in Eve continued to publish bi-weekly episodes throughout season 4 until Episode 9 where it became abundantly clear that Jade continued to have personal challenges regarding a EVE / work / life balance. This resulted in what was clearly becoming a near game addiction, something that Jade realized when falling ill with a high fever that kept him in bed for a week. During this time, Jade took the reigns and contacted Jayne, informing that it’s time to stop Lost in Eve AND the game of EVE totally. There it was. The decision to end a story that was for so long a cinderella-like story for Jade and for the EVE community. The end of an era.

Much had been gone through in real life for Jade including a near total burnout from being physically exhausted and an operation that resulted in a lot of ‘downtime.’ It was during this time that many things were thought about and processed. One of the things realized was that Jade had invested (literally) too much into the game of EVE to quit it totally! After several long and hard discussions with his wife, Jade has returned to the game he loves so much on a much reduced scale of operations. This has involved him leaving his old corp that he founded, resulting in leaving wormhole space, activating two of 5 accounts, and also selling off some characters to better take control of activities and time in the game. These turned out to be choices of great benefit as time and interests are much better handled.

WHAT OF LOST IN EVE?

Lost in Eve continues to be close to the heart of the one that founded her! This fact remains. The show WILL go on…BUT…it will have changes. To avoid another burnout from occurring, Jade has taken the decision to continue the show (for now) on his own. Absolutely no drama, back end problems, or hard feelings exist between the once dynamic duo of Jade and Jayne. A hard fact exists in that a  9 hour time difference coupled with the realities of Jade’s real life commitments makes it hard at this time to continue (for now) together. About the future? You never know. Will the dynamic duo of New Eden reunite? Jade hopes so, but if not, it is the hope that there will continue to be people ready and willing to listen and support the show that brought them so much in the past, to help propel it to the future and bring Lost in Eve to the forefront once again.

One thing is for sure, Lost in Eve will continue to Fly Deadly!!