EVE General Discussion

I'm very new to playing Eve. All the stuff I've heard in the last month sounded like jibberish and I'm thinking. "I can not believe people can get into a game like this!" here I am...One of the first how many thousand people to log on at the minute of server reboot. Trying to get my fix. Yes, I am now one of those people whom I couldn't understand. BUT, It's been about a month and I still don't know what you guys are talking about. I'm rummeging through the forums, asking questions and I have learned some things totally irrelevent. I started out confused with a flooded public chat eatting my screen. Rookie chat! So that's where I started my questions. "TROLL!", "press F13", I know your tricks now. ;)

So, I was talking to people in my corp trying to get some answers (which is something I hate doing. I'm so shy I get embarassed and physically jump and scurry away from my laptop.) I had/have a level 1 mission that I could not get past. The Npcs were impossible for me to overcome alone. So my experienced, kind corp mates fleet up to help me conquer this mission! some of they traveled as far as 30 jumps away at the drop of a penny to help me with this an hour before the servers shut down. We get into the mission and it's going by like a breeze! Next thing I know I see the long awaited cargo container floating off in space. (I'm going click crazy with my ammo and mouse) I kill my cargo. Fail!

My embarassing noob experiences go beyond this but I was hoping that other people could share their noob fails and embarassing experiences. It makes it less discouraging for people like me to continue asking tons of questions and being called a troll in the process..etc. ^ ^

Eve Online - live it, learn it

i've been playing since 2003, and wasn't so long back i jumped into a combat situation i could have easily won.... but forgot to load the guns and fit drones

sounds like OP has found a good corp though and will go far

I jumped into a group of T3 ships on a gate in low sec. I turned around and started going back to gate with my micro warp drive and would have easily made it. However I decided to be clever, released my ECM drones - they jammed the person webbing me. Hooray! Wait, what's this - I can't jump because I aggressed someone!?

......

Such a silly loss just because I was so eager to try out ECM drones for the first time. hehehee.

Best noob moment follows below:

My corporation lived in a C1 wormhole and while I was at the POS my CEO was about to bubble up the wormhole, but he is having difficulties maneuvering his ship to the right position.
I ask him confused "Well, what's the problem?"
He explains "There's no damn celestials I can align to, are there?!"
I quietly say "Well have you tried perhaps double clicking?"
and he goes "oooooh .... I didn't know you could do that!"

That's him ... after 1 year and 6 months of playing EVE, he didn't know that double clicking in space would move your ship.
If that isn't a noob incident, I dunno what is.

Oh btw, I am linking this for corp chat now



edit: I am likely to be kicked now

Maybe you should find a different hobby

Welp, I might as well post something.

TL;DR: Tried to steal a couple faction poses way back in the day, derped and left corp after I had offlined them. I forgot to unanchor them, so uh... Yeah.

Full Story: TL;NGW

I lost a Cyclone to Concord after finding an Ibis sitting in space in what I thought was lowsec. The Ibis was empty on top of everything else

I did some mining in Ami. That's 2 fails in a very short sentence.

Which of my many noob mistakes do you want to hear. I can actually list the 4 most 'stupid'

1.)
Was just new to EVE and joined a player corp. But never saw the notification we were at war after a couple of days.
So there I was, just 2 weeks old, eager to do stuff and hitted the undock. Next thing I know was a big explosion and me back in the station. Jumped in a new ship, undocked, explosion, me in station again. This continued for like another 5/6 times, after that a war target opened conversation to explain me how war mechanics worked and refunded all my losses.

2.)
My first encounter with can-flippers wasn't that good eighter. Didn't knew that shooting a can flipper after stealing my ores I mined for a long time in my Bantam wasn't that good when you only have your civilian laser on your ship. The next thing I saw was him targetting me and Boom, I was in a station again in my Pod.

3.)
The most stupid of all my noob mistakes. Buying something in a station more then 10 jumps away (in Jita). Flying there on Autopilot and dock up, local got my attention so I opened my items but forget to load the items. I undocked and warped all the way back just to find out my hold was empty. Here I went again to Jita just to forget it once again, this time I luckely found out on ly 2 jumps on my way back.

4.)
The most important stuff I learned in my time, ALWAYS redeem PLEX in the station you need them or sell them / insert time in the station you are atm. NEVER fly them in your cargo, I did fund about 60 days of game time to the guy who suicide ganked me.

Hope this was of some help.

Me and some friends were farming the comet in Deltole, there was so many wrecks, cans and players in there my PC was having a fit. I didn't know any other way to target other than right click > lock target (didn't know about overview options either lol) accidentally targeted another players ship and shot him....

Was sitting there wondering why i was in a pod and all these white crosses were around me .....