EVE General Discussion

I think I have been playing for about 6 weeks now and decided to go down the exploration route. I have made about 6 trips into worm holes/null sector space. The highlight was my tourist trip to visit the titan grave site from that big battle. All of those trips I spent hiding/running from other players. So I have made enough for an Aestero and last night I buy one and pack my clone's head full of implants. I have about half my total wealth packed into this ship so I am a bit apprehensive.

I scan down a wormhole and start hacking down a data site. Someone types into local (which I didnt know you could do in wormhole space) asking if there was someone in system and that he had lost his probes and couldnt get out and had been stuck for 3 hours. He wants to buy probes off me or to know if I came from highsec. I am pretty suspicious and am sitting in my sexy new ship thinking I dont want to lose it. So I tell him that I am not going to sell him my expensive new SOE probes and that if he uncloaks and proves he is in an imicus I will help him out. I ask him how much he has onboard and he says 115 million. He uncloaks and is an imicus.

I try to copy the worm hole location into local for him but couldn't figure out how. So I invited him to join a fleet. I warp to him and have him sitting in my sites wondering if I should take him down, but then decided I didnt want to be a prick. So warped to the exit and tell him to warp to my location.

I message him later on and he had got out and sold the goods. He told me he had made a donation and aplogised it couldnt be more but he was saving for a plex. In the event he gave me 10 miilion which is quite a bit for a noob like me.

I dont know if I would have made more killing him and looting his smoking corpse, but I think I still did the right thing by a fellow explorer.

I know it wasnt PvP in a traditional combat sense but I loved the interaction and think it is what MMO is all about.

I was wondering if anyone else would have helped him, or what I did was strange in the dark universe that is Eve?

I have liberated several new players from their wormhole prisons. It can be fun to give people a hand. Here's an example.

PS you can't copy a location into local, but you can drag it into your cargo (shift+drag to copy) and then jettison it for them.

Well I for one applaud you for being nice to another new player and helping them out.

*Grabs Menamanama for a big hug and squishes her head against her giant boobs*

That was one of my favourite threads of the year, cheers for lilinking it.

And op, nice work.
Not everyone has mean intentions, last night we spent a couple of hours ripping the amarr station suspect baiters apart,
you know,
cos we're nice like that

I would have glanced at his employment history and depending on the age of the character I would have helped him leave (catch and release) or Killed him outright for losing probes in this age of scanning where i honestly thought it was now impossible to lose them.

Of course I see someone asking for help in local in wormholes my eyebrows raise in suspicion and i make damned sure i have a response to the potential bait. my impulsive nature has had a habit of landing me in some less than favourable situations :)

But overall i think you did the right thing. Maybe if he was in something REALLY shiny i would have said "nnnooo you should have popped him!"

Incorrect.

It is the general assumption because it is only stories that get reported on in EVE. It is actually very small percentage of people that scam people and cause general mayhem. Majority of EVE is pretty much good naturedand more interested in community building and peace.

I mean.... who really wants to hear about people helping each other when there is a story about somebody screwing somebody over for Billions. Makes for much more interesting news, just like RL. Bad news sells.

That's possibly the most incredible portrait ever. Semi-skimmed too. Mmm.