EVE General Discussion

I've had a few so it's hard to pick just one.

I'd say the most profound was after running the first couple of tutorials (if you could call them that back then) and opening the map for the first time. Seeing the thousands of tiny dots on the screen and knowing that almost every one of them was another star system I could visit and explore was incredible to me. It's what initially hooked me on EVE at first. It blew my mind knowing there was thousands of untold possibilities out there. I had no idea how deep the rabbit hole really went.

The second came after I joined my first corp a small indy group. I joined our vent server one day after work and as I was loading up the client I was told our corp had been war decced. This was something new to all of us. We knew enough to know that there was a single war target camping the only highsec exit from our home system and a group of unaffiliated pirates were camping the other side of the lo-sec exit. The majority of the corp were trapped in system. I had logged off in my old home system and was not camped in. I quickly threw together a cruiser of such laughable fit it embarrases me to think I had actually undocked in it. I convinced a couple of my corp mates to throw together a couple of ships with guns and wait in the station until I got to the other side of the gate to see what was there. After getting 1 jump out of our home system and not seeing any war targets in local I jumped in and sprung the trap. He agressed, and my corpies were already in route to the gate. I activated every module on my ship and prayed for the best. We came out victorious, but looking back on it now had I not tossed a couple of E-WAR modules on my ship, and one of our guys had fit a warp scrambler, he would have torn us apart or escaped. Our 1 light missile cruiser and 2 frigate gang took out a Drake and we were so stoked about it. None of us knew how to properly fit a ship for PVP and none of us knew anything about Kill Mails. It was a pure "We accomplished something as a team" feeling and that memory of the initial adrenaline rush that kept us on a high for a few days. It turned out to be the CEO of the war deccing corp. He was not too happy about it.

The next one and probably the most awe inspiring was when I first moved out to 0.0. I had quit my first corp and at the suggestion of a friend joined a corp that lived in 0.0. They were part of AXE (Axiom Alliance). After logging onto the corps vent server and chatting with them, they set up a meeting point in highsec to escort me to their home system. After meeting them and getting a crash course in fleet movements and scouting I was on my way to 0.0 for the first time. During the trip out they explained the 0.0 life and how to live there. After arriving at the nearest station with cloning facilities they explained how to set up a jump clone there and then we were off again to our home systems. Shortly after docking there my new CEO told me to undock from the station and sit outside and wait. I did, and he came out in a frigate. he burned about 20K from the undock and said "Watch this.". I saw a small orange vortex appear off his ship and what happened next still gives me the chills. A fleet of carriers began appearing all around me. Huge, hulking, behemoth ships, riding a lightning storm in space were suddenly appearing everywhere. I was amazed. I have never seen anything like it to this day in the game and I'll always remember the lightning storm effect with fond memories. Seeing 30 or more Capital ships jump into and out of a system, "Riding the lightning", is something that every EVE player should experience at least once. CCP should never have changed that effect. I was sadly dissapointed by the change when they made it. It was one of the greatest moments I've ever had in EVE. I haven't seen the latest itteration of the cyno effect since the little bubble/wormhole effect. I'm hoping they have changed it to something just as awesome as the lightning storm. If not they need to get on it asap. That whole wormhole bubble thing was just sad.

Too hard to say. There's been so many great moments. I've been privy to actions most people won't ever get to commit in their Eve lifetime. Hijacked supercaps, stole a fortune, created Eve lore on many occasions...

Greatest moment? Too many to count. So many good friends come and gone and some I found again whom I fly with now. Eve to me is an experience I can never let go something that I can honestly say to CCP thank you. If I had to place a defining moment it would be the first time I undocked in a blaster fit Brutix and headed to low sec.

No corp, no idea what I was doing but I yearned for a good fight. I actually came across a Myrm in a belt. My heart was racing. For one split second I knew once I locked up that ship and fired my whole Eve life would change. In that moment the thrill and rush of combat pulsed through my veins as I preyed upon the weak pilot.

No CONCORD. No help. No backup. No remorse. Just the cold void of space and both of us. I locked and pointed. With jittery hands and heart racing I gunned my ship at him MWD screaming as I opened fire and let my drones loose. The pilot had to be new yet it still didn't end my heart racing as I kept eyeing local, a frantic mess as his ship slowly lurched and caught fire.

I stopped and recalled my drones. Again us in the void of space except his ship was in a smoking heap. I opened up comms with him and curtly said I'd let him go if he paid a ransom. The pilot agreed and we settled on a monumental sum of 30 million isk. Mind you this was my first bounty and as I saw my wallet flash I became addicted.

A sinster grin began to form on my lips. My heart burned for more. Lusted for excess. The thrill of battle and the rewards of culling the weak danced in my mind. As the Myrm warped away I swore to always keep my word with ransoms no matter who or what. To me it was a display of power. Power to unleash horror and power to show restraint.

It was in that moment that I got my first taste of the unknown. In that moment I became a Pirate. Today you'll see me with over 70 kills in under 3 days, billions in liquid isk, and a tenacity to take whomever and whatever to hell and back with me. You can have veiled safety in numbers. You can form pitiful alliances and hope to protect yourself. It won't do you a bit of good.

Because I'll Hoist The Colors till death and beyond. The Jolly Rodger shall fly. And you my prey shall wish you never saw the likes of me...

Meeting a female EVE player.

Flying my freighter for the first time :P

Being in a fleet with coms for the first time.

Answer to my fan evemail to CCP dev

Flying my freighter with very expensive and dangerous cargo for haul. Happened only one time so far and I survived

A few days ago, warped in a chimera for the first time into a fight we were down 5 ships to 0, in a 5v10+ engagement in our c4 wh. After reshipping we managed to kill one of their lokis, worth more than all 5 ships we lost, and getting everything out after the triage cycle. They had 5 logis on their side making it impossible for us to break reps after that.

http://www.own3d.tv/CCPGames/video/908255

Unrepeatable moment in my eve-life.

So glad this thread has been revived!