EVE General Discussion

True dat. The fight gets so intense you lose your senses- lots of people tend to ramble on about "How they would have done this, or that" but the bottom line is when you're in the thick of battle and the adrenaline starts pumping, you're really at the whim of the situation. Reaction timing gets better with experience- but even then you're not truly going to "win" every time.

Oh so many stupid things in my first year, reprocessing instead of repackaging (I still do that sometimes and the items get more and more expensive too), barely training anything at all, mining in an untanked hulk one jump from Jita (it actually survived those three kestrels somehow). After that last gank attempt I decided to move back to Gallente space. I loaded all of my worldly possessions into a Badger I, including a PLEX, and flew through Uedama. I learned what an alpha Tempest was that day.

i came to eve as a trader and within a month i had amassed 3 million zydrine spread out over a region of losec stations. i trained up for a bestower and set off collecting it from the stations, having never played eve or talked to anyone in eve i set off oblivious of what the different coloured boxes with names i could not say meant. i managed to get round 4 stations and collect just over a million zydrine in the last station, when undocking i found 5 big ships in my way, my pc lagged out and i was back at my home station. as i sat wondering what had happened i got a mail from some very happy pirates wanting to know if their services were upto speck, they enclosed 30 questions that i filled in and sent back. i got an invite to a chat channel where i explained about the other 2 million zydrine sitting in the station and they said come on back we wont pop you.............

anyone remember canflipping ? i do

RIP iteron MK III

It was my primary source of PVP for a while. Suprising how many people would play along. Bagged a Falcon can flipping....worth it!

Good read so far. For me it was getting can flipped while mining in my Exequror, it was only a little frigate, thought my drones could take him lol. Podded myself back to empire, forgot to update my clone, took a shortcut through lowsec and lost mining barge 5 to a disco hyperion. Then I retrained mining barge 5. At one point I also took my duel tanked thorax with mixed guns into lowsec for a little belt ratting, naturally that didn't end well. That was all in the first months.

In the years since then, I've gotten really drunk and engaged a mega on a gate in lowsec while in my hurricane (stupid, but I did get the kill, lost the cane though). Challenged a wartarget to a duel, my lolfit drake v his mega. Challenged another guy to a duel while in my lolfit duel tanked xl-asb myrmidon. Challenged a guy to a duel, burned out the launchers on my cyclone and lost a faction bc kill, then challenged him to a duel again while in the same fit without noticing it was him and that he was in a ship that could easily take mine. I'm sure there's more I've forgotten.

One of the funniest things I've seen other newbs do was bring a small mining fleet into Oulley (a pipe system between a regional high sec hub and the gallente/caldari warzone) complete with Orca, 2 procurers and a mega and kestrel for defense. They parked themselves in a belt at zero with a -10 pirate in local. Called in some blues to help and one of my blue buddies was freaking out that it was bait and that the orca was going to pop a couple of t3's or light a cyno or something. The orca and mega died in fire, the procurers got out and the kestrel burned out and kept shooting my proteus till I left grid lol.

When I was still new I never knew you can warp to zero on gates. I always autopiloted myself all throughout highsec since I thought it was the only way to jump through gates. I did that for the entire SoE Arc without even AFK'ing while travelling around.

When I got my first Vengence, I flew it into lowsec.

I decided to take a lunch break and left my ship at a wormhole, while I made a sandwich.

I came back half an hour later to find myself in Amarr, wondering how I had got there, and why I was missing my Vengeance.

I have two personal friends who joined Eve this week. I've been helping them out to learn the basics and to find everything they need. The usual stuff like finding things for sale on Eve-Central, guidelines for setting up an overview and whatnot.

Today, they both decided, 2nd week in game, that they wanted to build a station in Nullsec. Both of them being very sure that is what they wanted to focus on. They looked on their map for a system that didn't have a lot of pod kills or ships destroyed, and I helped them come up with a flight plan to minimize running into gatecamps.

The first fellow, flew right into a system with a gate camping fleet. Not knowing what to do when being targeted, I heard him spout about 20 seconds of profanity before he realized his pod was being targed. The second, he came in anyway in a T1 Cruiser to try and fight a Battlecruiser with T2 weapons.

I checked with them:
-No warp core stabilizer
-They were popped in a system that had a marker for podkills in the previous hour
-No MicroWarpDrive in case they needed to scram back to the gate
-No podsaver tactics practiced.

It's when they learned that there are pilots who will pod you just for existing, which has bummed them a lot. Yes, some tears have been shed, but that is needed to become hardened.

I used a Coercer to mine, for two weeks! I was so proud for mining 50M worth of ores... sigh.