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What am I doing wrong? All I do is die and lose my ships
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Ian The Bane
13th Bomber Squadron
#1 - 2012-07-28 18:23:26 UTC
This is my 3rd time trying to play EVE since 2010.
Other than getting a little bored the first two times at least I made money and completed missions.
Now I cannot do either...No matter what ship I use on level 1 missions, I die...doesnt even matter that I spent 3 million on upgrades....the enemy ships in any mission kill me.
Worst thing is this is a rookie mission requiring rookie ships...
I am at a loss and cancelled my sub.....no other game has made me so frustrated, worse is that the last two times I did well.
Linda Shadowborn
Dark Steel Industries
#2 - 2012-07-28 18:27:54 UTC
link the fit you been using.

and do you check with eve survival to make sure you do the mission correctly?

and what are your skills.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#3 - 2012-07-28 18:48:02 UTC
Ian The Bane wrote:
I am at a loss and cancelled my sub.....no other game has made me so frustrated, worse is that the last two times I did well.

Perhaps you should have come here first, asking for advice.

Should you come back, we'll still be here should you change your mind.

Good luck wherever you land.
Eron Relentless
STARS of BABYLON ALLIANCE
#4 - 2012-07-28 19:28:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Eron Relentless
Nevermind.
Tatyana3033
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2012-07-28 22:32:27 UTC
Make sure to follow the tutorials on screen Smile. Even thought your in a really crappy ship the tutorials tell you how to fly and fit it properly. Each missions is meant to meet your skill level, although a lot of them seem to be harder than others.

Tutorials are meant to be for people with 0 skills, thus all the modules don't require any skills. This still makes it hard to kill the rats and tank them, but if you follow instructions it should be easy! Smile
malaire
#6 - 2012-07-30 06:38:51 UTC
Normal level 1 missions are random and you can get easy or hard missions. Maybe go try level 1 Epic Arc which has fixed set of missions and don't randomly offer harder ones. (There are few harder ones later on in that epic arc.)

That mission chain starts from Sister Alitura in solarsystem Arnon.

Also, if you want more specific help, tell what ship and modules you are using.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-07-30 07:10:39 UTC
Try courier missions and stay the hell out of amamake Big smile

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Khanh'rhh
Sparkle Motion.
#8 - 2012-07-30 10:21:14 UTC
Ian The Bane wrote:
No matter what ship I use on level 1 missions, I die... [.....] this is a rookie mission requiring rookie ships

This is not true, level 1 missions require actual (non rookie) ships. Tutorial missions have no level and the opening missions only can be realistically done in a rookie ship.

What ships did you try? How were you fitting them?

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Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#9 - 2012-07-30 12:39:36 UTC  |  Edited by: Kahega Amielden
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Now I cannot do either...No matter what ship I use on level 1 missions, I die...doesnt even matter that I spent 3 million on upgrades....the enemy ships in any mission kill me.


A ship with officer-level equipment (e.g. billions of ISK in modules) that are just randomly thrown on is going to perform worse than a ship with flat tech 1 equipment carefully considered. If you're just throwing random modules on that you happened to pick up, stop. Figure out what you want to fit and buy it.

If you want more specific help you'll probably need to tell us what ship you were flying.
Sugar Kyle
Middle Ground
#10 - 2012-07-30 15:26:06 UTC
As said OP, if you try again visit us with your ship, your moduals, the mission, and your current skills. This section of the forum will try to help.

Member of CSM9 and CSM10.
Anyanka Funk
Doomheim
#11 - 2012-07-30 19:34:52 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Try courier missions and stay the hell out of amamake Big smile

Unless you have PLEX, it sells for double here in Amamake! Just bring it over in your rookie ship. Blink
Lyric Lahnder
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-07-30 20:28:08 UTC
Guys....

I think hes gone...

Shocked

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#13 - 2012-07-30 21:50:04 UTC
Clearly not cut for EVE Online.

3 tries, no luck. Maybe EVE wasn't the game for the person.

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Sugar Kyle
Middle Ground
#14 - 2012-07-31 00:17:36 UTC
Lyric Lahnder wrote:
Guys....

I think hes gone...

Shocked


The helpful messages are really more for the future readers that may stumble upon...

Member of CSM9 and CSM10.
Perkin Warbeck
Higher Than Everest
#15 - 2012-07-31 01:05:04 UTC
Maybe he's trading plex in Amamake.
Xair Motsu
Militek Industries
#16 - 2012-07-31 18:13:28 UTC
First off, I like you all!
And this thread will help me get better at the pew pew:ing! Recently I lost 2 ships for a couple of Exotic Dancers... Yes...
Good thing I had a friend that helped me with that.

Anyways, a few missions later, I lost another ship... This time it was insured, and that was good. Because I lost another one.
Third time, new ship, new fitting and a bit of aggression, they got what they deserved.

That list will help me! And thank you, hope other rookies also take a look at this!
Jim Era
#17 - 2012-07-31 22:35:48 UTC
probs the tut that makes you splod?

Wat™
Ian The Bane
13th Bomber Squadron
#18 - 2012-08-01 00:10:17 UTC
Thank you for all your replies, as you can tell I was really frustrated when I posted.

The good news is that I figured out what the issue was.
I only took 1 tutorial 2 years ago, with my original character on my first account. Thus, a year after that I created this one and did not take any tutorials. Took the wrong approach to the game this time around as well.

As a result, I took a deep breath and created a 3rd character, and so far have taken 2 different tutorials and plan on taking them all.
I can tell already all the mistakes I made such as taking too difficult a mission, and not researching whats the best fitting for such a mission etc.

Anyway, thanks for the replies, and I am having allot of fun, now and will probably try and transfer all of Ian The Banes' s stuff to my Caldari character Angron Chaos.

Heh, I was really angry when I created his name and avatar (see below).
Angron Chaos
State War Academy
Caldari State
#19 - 2012-08-01 00:11:00 UTC
Do I look angry?
Sugar Kyle
Middle Ground
#20 - 2012-08-01 12:41:05 UTC
Angron Chaos wrote:
Do I look angry?


You'll get wrinkles

Member of CSM9 and CSM10.
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