EVE General Discussion

I decided to make a profit in this fashion:

1. Look on universal market statistics on an out-of-game website to find the lowest price for trit, and the highest buy order for trit.

2. The lowest price was deep in nullsec. No worries! In order to not lose a ship on the way, I flew out to the nullsec station in my pod,

3. And filled the provided rookie ship with trit,

4. And undocked into something dark and scary and drone-belching that I couldn't warp away from. Still don't know what that was..

Can't say that it would've been much of a profitable adventure even if it'd worked out for me, you know?

All players start out in High sec space (it wouldn't be fair to start in null) but he means people who live in High sec space for a long time. This usually means they have good mission agents and also be able to help new players to find their way in EvE

I would gladly post the 4 things I mentioned before on youtube. Every time I think back to those days I laugh about how "stupid" I was. I also like to see that all newbs are making the same mistakes, which means I'm not that special (okay maybe the being ganked with a 2 PLEX in my hold was just plain stupidity)

I didn't know you could turn the shield hardeners "ON"

Shooting a can flipper when I'd just started playing... not the smartest of moves, but I learned my lesson.

spending every last isk I had on items and hauling them out to 0.0 to try and make a quick buck a couple weeks in... in a mammoth... completely untanked and alone, didn't make it far.

the one that I still do on a depressingly regular basis. fly 10+ jumps for a mission only to get there and realize I forgot too hit accept.

fitting out a new ship flying out to where I generally mission while forgetting about this little thing called ammo.

Getting greedy while mining and trying to push things as close as I can to server shutdown and ending up loosing half my haul because I ran out of time to reclaim it.

Getting drunk while mining, passing out in my hulk and waking up in a pod.

EDIT: during the riots was trying to get some footage of the ships shooting at the monument, intended to click on another ship that was orbiting so I could get a different angle and out of habit ended up targetting/autoshooting them... concordokened.

Best noob fail was 3' away from me. Ex's kid was playing with me - wanted to "duel" me like it was WOW or something. Concord blasted his ship right when I was saying "I don't think that would be a goo....".


Lost his Cyclone he just worked hard for and got.


He gets back to station, crying in local about it (while I try not to laugh) and someone gives him ISK to buy a new one.

So he buys one in station, and buys some modules that he needs to go pick up , not knowing about GCC....

Yes, it gets destroyed.


Later he's in his third Cyclone and is autopiloting through Amamake....

When that's over he's jumping up and down screaming "that's it! I'm not playing this game any more!!!!1!!!!!"

(I wonder if those Sniggwaffe boys know of this epic ragequit? - this was back in 2006)


My worst noob error is this, and it's epic:

I operated under the idea that any object for which there was no market demand for was therefore junk, so I either trashed or reprocessed them.
Lots of faction and deadspace modules got trashed. Now they put little icons on the corner of the symbols - great idea.

Made a few mistakes in my early days. Stuff like neutral repping a random buddy in local just when he decides to flip a can besides the Luminaire Titan... found my salvage/RR Catty locked and blown up before I could even wonder why. This was roughly right after the so called neutral RR "fix".

My most costly mistake however came from one tired night mining a belt in a 1.0. Was just given a brand new hulk from my first Corp I joined and was fairly new. With the intention of becoming the head of a mining division at some later point. Got lazy and started jet can mining. Than comes a Rifter and totally flips it. Well I go dock up and stay docked for a little bit. He disappears in local I come back to the belt and finish mining the last roid. I still have cargo space left so I figure what can go wrong from grabbing the rest of it from the can?

Black ops and Stealth bomber said hi. Buddies from his Corp. Was the last time my Corp gave out Exhumers. Lesson learned and set their corp to red.

* "Note to self, use disposable hauler next time!'