EVE General Discussion

Hello GD! I have a super spectacular story to tell you (reposted because my EVE is not real). It is most certainly the best instance that has ever happened to me in EVE, which may or may not disappoint you!

Once upon a time, around two weeks of time ago, I decided I wasn't playing actively enough to enjoy what a good corporation could offer and I wanted to just have fun adventures in EVE. Specifically! I wanted to find out all the ways people would react to a situation they had never encountered before :3

I decided to fit up my super sneaky Tengu with 3 warp core stabilisers, an Interdiction Nullifier, and a Covert Ops Cloaking Device . Already I bet 38 of you are furious! Some at the destruction of a Tengu with 3 stabilisers and some at the thought of how annoying this ship would be in your peaceful 0.0 home! >:] Well fear not! My adventure was not going to asplode anyone, in fact, it would do the opposite!

After fitting my ship I zoomed off to my first 0.0 home, which was located in the NPC nulsec space. You know the one Im talking about! It has Serpentis rats and lots of hot drops and abandoned POSs all over. From there I wandered around until I ended up in Deklein which I think is where I really wanted to be anyways. This is where I began my sneaky hunt, trying to catch unsuspecting or sleepy GoonSwarm pilots in belts or anomalies or floating too far off station! Eventually I did so c: I caught a nice fun hurricane in a belt, and quickly scrambled his warping engine so that he had to stay and play with me. Of course he opened fire on me, but being in a perfect Tengu it did very little damage.

I didn't shoot missiles at his ship, though, as most Tengus like to do. Instead I opened up with a barrage of light shield transporters, while firing my missiles at the rats that were targeting him. I said I was here to assist but for some reason he did not believe me. Eventually (not really far eventually just a few more seconds) his super loyal friends zoomed in and warp disrupted me. The Tengu is the best ship there can be but without the perfect active tank they knew they would surely kill me now. But don't forget! I am an experienced adventurer and quickly warped off, thanks to my triple warp core stabilised Tengu engine, leaving some very confused capsuleers behind.

This was the game I played with them for the next few days, moving from system to system so no one would eventually wise up and decided to fit a triple point frigate to really catch me. This was until I was invited to a system by someone on the forums, the system VFK. ( I was not really invited I was just given a system name and since I was already close I decided to float there) But there I was! The system full of a billion bees. The game I had played with the less populated systems seemed too scary to play here. How could I rep and escape when so many were always everywhere!

I decided I would have to play a new adventure game while I waited for this person to show up in the system he named. I used a blockade runner to move about 40 low priced deadspace mods out to my VFK Tengu. From then on I would drop them one at a time off station, and see how brave the people were for nummy blue prizes. Of course it seems like obvious bait from a cloaked Tengu! To pull people off station and then eat them for sure, but eventually people started to scoop them up, an soon realized I was just an unskilled adventurer who was wasting time.

I feel like I have sort of been wasting time in this story because the event that amazed me the most has not come yet and thats really what I want to say! But the backstory is important. Anyways! I did end up dying once in VFK, so DONT laugh at me! It was not my fault, Team Liquid was attacking and I was going to decloak and drop some prizes for them as well when my internet cut off :[ when I logged back in I was floating in my capsule in the middle of the scariest space in the universe! But being the clever adventurer, and remembering the goal of my adventure, I decided to ask a GS member to bring me a cloaky SB that I had purchased from the station in VFK.

Do not confuse this with being naive! I am not saying I am not naive, but I am not THAT naive! I knew most likely he was either going to just keep it, or even more likely kill me, but that is the fun of it, trying to find the instance of interaction when another player does not do what is easiest, what is expected of them, but instead does the opposite for no good reason at all! Obviously my first adventure test was to see how people responded to that happening to them, but now I wanted it to happen to me!

He killed me.

The next day I was back in VFK with a new Tengu, a prettier one I think, it had less core stabs but also less points so it was sort of a nice balance. Anyways, I continued with my prize dropping game while waiting for someone who I was waiting for but no one really knows who that is. I know it is kind of cheating, dropping prizes definitely might almost sort of affect the way people respond to a neutral in their most prized system but I think it is a fair test still! Because you seeee, I eventually did get what I wanted!

One day as my prizes were running low, I decided I wanted to adventure into wormholes as well (I have different adventure plans for wormholes that are much more far fetched but so much more spectacular they would be worth the loss of any number of pretty Tengus). Anyways I wanted to do the wormholes too, but did not have a probe launcher on my Tengu. I was casually mentioning this to one of the people who had regularly raced to my blue prizes, when he offered to fit my Tengu in the station for me. This was an even BETTER chance for me to achieve my goal. I told him I would accept his deal and that he could meet me in deadspace and I would eject my Tengu. I mostly expected it to be destroyed by a thousand angry missiles, but there is always that hope you know!

Mercy killing for that tengu. Ship abuse like that won't be tolerated..

I too believe in random acts of kindness... in fact they are so random, one hasn't happened yet.

This reads a lot like a child's story book. Just make it rhyme more, throw in some colorful pictures, and you'll have something worth publishing. Call it "Tengu's Little Bee Adventure". I bet we can get toddlers hooked on Eve with this. Its an untapped market. Make this happen!

My own story:

I heard about the Jita burning back when Mittens was banned. I knew it was coming. But when DaOpa's live stream of it popped up I couldn't help but think "wow that looks like a fun mess, let's go poke it".

Based on the other reports I heard from various channels I figured all I had to do was to not use a popular gate like the Perimeter gate to get into Jita safely.

Sure enough the New Caldari gate was almost completely devoid of people and I got into the system without a hitch.

I then proceeded to undock in a bhaalgorn fitted for a light show, much to the delight of all the viewers of the live stream :D I continued my fun for a few hours until graphic glitches and unresponsiveness of the client set in. And i stopped for a bit. But then again on Saturday I ran back out there and had moar light show-y fun!

I even got a convo from a polite goon asking of bhaalgorn fittings. I knew exactly what I was doing and how reckless it was and so immediately assumed that they were out to figure out what my fitting was so that they might be able to better judge how to suicide me. But instead the goon simply wanted advice on how to fit a PVP bhaalgorn and had little interest for my light show fitting. I discussed the basics, 1600mm plates, neuts, webs, T2 mega pulse leasers, et cetera. The goon thanked me and was on her way. (Yes I know it was prob a guy, I'm more comfortable calling female characters girls until I know them better.)

I continued my light show happily.

I totally did die in a fire after the Nyx showed up but damnit that's not the point. The point is good things do happen! :D

Had fun anyway.

P.S.
No you can't harass me for having a failfit bhaalgorn. I already knew this. I just threw a big buffer on it and fitted the rest for the light show. I know full well to never fit both armor and shield in normal circumstances.

P.P.S.
I want a machariel now.

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Again.

Like a ma'am!

-_q



I love lightshow fits.

Fyi, best lightshow ship, you put dual heavy pulses on an armageddon with heatsinks and burt aerator rigs. I would love to see 100 of them undock and start letting lose on something.

Personally, the way I lightshow is have canisters or friends in ships orbitting well outside possible to hit range, and then you get nice 100km laser effect.

I experienced something similar.

I went to Jita to watch the event on friday. Thinking I was safe in my trusty little Atron, I evetually fell to slumber. When I woke up, I noticed a Goonswarm Thrasher-class ship had destroyed my poor little frigate, so I composed a polite evemail asking for a reimbursement as I was now poor as a churchmouse and they were after rich frighters and shiny stuff, so it must have been an accident.

The pilot didn't respond to this date - maybe he spent all his money on Thrashers .

So I needed to make some isk, and started selling my sparse belongings on contracts, advertising them in the Systems local channel. Lots of the systems residents made discourteous remarks for no reason, but at one point, a request for a conversation opened up.

I looked up who he was and it turned out it was a Goonswarm pilot. Expecting him to be intersted in one of my rare and cheap commodities, I accepted the request.

As it turned out, however, he wasn't interested in buying anything but asked me nicely to initiate a converstaion with a friend of his who who apparently was a little shy but highly enamoured. That was sooo cute .

I opened up a conversation with his friend and it turned out it was a very handsome and polite young lad who soon confessed his love for me after a little hemming and hawing. I wont go into detail as I believe such things will be ridiculed on these forums, but he was really cute and it was a pleasant experience.

The nicest people I've met in Jita for this whole weekend were Goonswarm Pilots.

Cool Story Bro.

This one time, in Low Sec, a pilot asked to buy my planet port. We agreed on a price, and then he paid me up front. After that, I transfered the planet port to his ownership.

The End.

OH LAWDY OP U R SO AWESOME.

Srsly, people think they have free will but they are generally as instinctive as ants. Their massive number of neural connections sometimes allows for a wave-form anomaly that manifests as behaviour counter to or divergent from pre-programmed patterns. Neutral as this may be in a strict cost-benefit analysis, it proves to be a relative evolutionary success as it provides leeway for adaptability and unpredictability.

No, no tldr for the livestock. Mooo. MOOOooooOOOoo.