EVE General Discussion

I'm just using cheap Rifters to practice PvP, sure I probably wont win much unless facing down another noob, but the idea is just to get to grips with how all of the mechanics work and the kind of tactics people use along with getting better myself before I start trying to fly more expensive ships I have no idea about.

Btw, I'm not going anywhere

Great read ! Thanks.

Nice read,mate! The next one should be about how you lost your right eye! :D

A good read sir. Your story was the initial reason I started on EvE, to become a pirate but I've been mining for.....well too long perhaps. I think you may have inspired me l

Sorry for double post just updating on my adventures, maybe some other new players might learn from my own mistakes too :).

Well anyhow last time I was online I went hunting, again I managed to find a system with a Procurer in, I noticed a few other people in local and also another ship in the system, a cruiser.

Was the other ship another pirate, a bigger, nastier and far more dangerous pilot than myself? maybe, but I'm never going to learn anything or gain anything if I don't take chances. So I began warping to each asteroid belt until I finally found the Procurer and the same as last time I quickly closed in on him, scrambled his warp drives, webbed and began draining energy, I started orbiting him, he seemed to be afk, his drones did nothing as I began blasting away at his shields.

So there I sat, slowly working my way into his shields, low and behold a pilot, an outlaw to be exact, warps into the belt. I paused for a couple of seconds, I instantly thought about warping to a stargate, but something inside me to just stay put, carry on and see what this guy actually does. A large part of me kind of knew he would probably blow me to pieces, he was in a cruiser I can't remember the name of, but I really just wanted to see his reaction.

So yeah, in a matter of seconds he used a MWD to close the distance and attacked me, oh well, I didn't stand much of a chance as his guns tore my fragile little Rifter apart fairly quickly, I couldn't put enough distance or traverse to make his guns struggle to hit me so my ship was space dust soon after. I never really enjoy losing a ship but it doesn't bother me, I was more thinking about what had really happened.

I thought about the fact that he could have been just a pirate like me, looking for ships to blow up or miners to ransom, but then it dawned upon me that he could have been the miner I was attacking, hell he could have even set up the miner just as bait and not even cared less about the actual mining. He could have also just been a friend of the miner.

I guess it's helped me to start thinking out of the box, to think more about alts and to in future just follow my first instincts and warp out when an Outlaw cruiser jumps into the belt I'm in , guess I got unlucky that time.

So yeah.. I've lost 4 rifters so far and been podded twice, but in all I've not really lost much ISK, infact I'm still in the profit on ISK where my 5mil ransom is concerned, I made all 4 of the Rifters myself, the 300k odd ISK I profit from the insurance covers for most of the fittings. My clones don't cost me much at all either seeing as my SP are so low, maybe like 65k a clone? peanuts. Even when I do start falling out of profit, I still think it will be worth it, with every engagement I am learning something, getting wiser you could say.

Thread actually going places. Well played!