EVE General Discussion

My first roam. The fleet was a mish mash of three interceptors and two assault frigates, and we spotted prey. I was so nervous that I made a wrong call to the roam leader and sent most of the ships to the belt I had just checked rather than saying it was clear. I arrived on top of a hurricane and a destroyer, shooting the only other guy who figured I made a bad call. I turned the destroyer into a can and made headwork on the hurricane before people warped in. The other guy chewed me out afterwards for not taking out drones - the things that were hurting him. I got both pod mails. I understood finally why people send others on the podexpress.

First time I went BS 1v1 in hi sec many moons ago during a war.

They undocked, I opened fire, they returned the favour and we duked it out.

In a Megathron too. I loved every minute of the ship-melting wonder :)

My Top 3 Personal:

1)
Soloing a raven while being webbed in a Taranis after sbombing 17 or so of his salvos before they removed missile collision detection.

And the countless Cruise Crows & Kestrels that watched their dps go poof in similar fashion seconds before they met the wrong end of my ion blasters.



2)
Using a dual MWD Domi (back in THOSE days) to bump a low sec gate sniping Apocalypse in sentry gun range, he never got to align in time.


3)
Organizing and executing a trap (Hot drop was not yet coined as a term) to kill some Russian caps coming to finish a RISE or AXE (i forget) POS. We were expecting a decent ammount of dreads, instead only some carriers showed up. With a feeling of dissapointment i sprang the trap.

Our Titan was 2 Jump legs away, to make sure that they'd feel secure if they used locators on him. He bridged the caps and they insta jumped to my cyno char. I was about to call the first carrier target when i noticed there were 2 more ships in... and one of them had a 3 letter ship type .... NYX is in! And he just got bumped on the others!!! "PUT EVERYTHING ON HIM BEFORE HE RECHARGES CAP".

2nd Mothership Kill in the History of EVE.

By far the best one for me was when I undocked in my first battleship (megathron) and headed off to Yulai to buy fittings back in July 2004. I had like 700k SP and had mined in a thorax for over a month to get the minerals. It was insane how much harder the game was back then.

ISD posting in a thread I started and it was to participate and not a lock

The first day I headed into low-sec to live there permanently, I had a 4.0 sec status. The coallition we had joined reported that there were a couple of pirates hopping around the systems we laid claim to, so we headed out to fight. I think I was in a harbinger.

We never even ended up getting up to those guys. We landed on the gate two systems out, and some people jumped in, so of course we engaged. We fought them, and won in a decent fight, and then warped off to a point 200km off the gate to wait out our timers.

More people jumped in, so we jumped on top of them. This group was unrelated to the first group. As we were fighting them, a third group jumped in on the fight. I can't even tell you how long it went on, because everything just kept going.

Without killing any pods, by the end of that series of fights, I was down to 0.1 sec status. I haven't looked back at my sec status since.

Not epic compared to most of these, but made me shake in my little newbie boots.

I was just a little nublet, had joined the game because my friend played and it looked interesting. Got into his corp/alliance and went out into 0.0; I couldn't fly anything bigger than a cruiser. Could barely even rat in the thing, would kill one rat and have to jump out.

Anyway, this took place right after the expansion that rolled out Invention, I think. I would scan down profession sites and recruit other people to clear 'em, because no way in hell I could do it in the shitfit cruiser I was flying at the time. Spent ages scanning down one particular site (anyone miss the old scanning system? Click scan and read a book for five minutes), finally pinned the thing after ages (I think it took something like five hours for me). Ask around for someone to clear the thing for me, and have one taker: the corp *******. Not only does he want to run the site in his dread (God knows why), he wants half the take for his 5 minutes of time. Any port in a storm, I accept his offer.

We get to the site, he pewpews while I float around uselessly in a Probe. A few crappy cans with nothing much to report. I open up the next-to-last can, and there's an Esoteric Ship Data Interface 4-run BPC staring back at me. Here I am, nub that doesn't even have Battlecruisers trained, and I'm staring at a blueprint that gives me a profit of ~900 million. My jaw hits the floor.

I told him the can was empty.

Later that day, I decide to fly the thing to hisec myself in my lil' Slasher. Obviously the best idea ever, carrying a bil in loot in a T1 frig in null. I nearly crapped myself when I ran that little Proto-cloak fit Slasher into a gatecamp, but I made it out alive. Barely. Docking up in hisec never felt so good.

Being one of the hero HIC tackles on this:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15776388

Back in 2008, my corp was fighting a bunch of cocky hotshots in a corporation called NQX Innovations. They thought they could ransom our corporation, and demanded 500 million ISK or they'd wardec our ass. I told them that I would not pay the ransom, and so they wardecced us. They proceeded to engage us inexpertly. We inflicted a few cruiser losses on each other, but nothing particularly interesting occured.

Then, one night, myself and two of my corpmates discovered an NQX Hyperion undocking in Villore. I was in my Maelstrom, my 2IC Sahaquiel Faust was in his Myrmidon and one of our newer Finnish pilots, Vincent Pryce, was in his Blackbird. I knew for a fact that a Hyperion wouldn't risk an engagement against a battlecruiser and a battleship with ECM on the field, so I told Vince to hold off and stay off of D-scan. I had Faust warp in and engage the Hyperion alone, knowing that assuming Faust kept transversal, it would be impossible for the Hyperion to deal enough DPS to break Faust's tank before I got on field as well. The Hyperion took the bait and engaged, but as soon as he saw my Maelstrom warp in and two-volley his remaining shields and 10% of his armour, he started running both reppers and deaggressed.

"Damnit," I said on Ventrilo. "This bastard's gonna dock up before we can kill him."

There was a moment of silence.

Suddenly, I see this in local:

Vincent Pryce > JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Suddenly, a Blackbird drops out of warp, bounces off my top wingy bit and guns its MWD right into the Hyperion. Local fills up with Finnish swearwords as Vince starts repeatedly ramming the Hyperion - and the Hyperion takes the bait. Vince has intentionally not engaged any of his ECM, and the Hyperion starts shooting at him. Being a Blackbird, his shields and armour crumple like paper, but the Hyperion's re-aggressed.

Faust and I had terrible Thermodynamics skills at that point so we burnt out our entire hi-racks in the process, but we killed the Hyperion, and all for the cost of a single badfit Blackbird.

Someday I want to meet that Hyperion pilot again and ask him if it was worth it.

In a previous incarnation, just after the ORCA had been released, I would "liberate" them from less-deserving owners.

ORCA pilots (some, at least) in those days were still either unsure or conveniently dense on the issue of getting out of their ORCA to unhitch their HULK and then go solo mining.

The obvious details obviously eluded some of these clever individuals. Specifically, the matter of if they could get out OUT of their Orca then someone else could get IN.

Five or six Orca later, each bucket of tears and nastygram was as juicy and glorious as the first.