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Joey Bags
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#81 - 2015-04-29 17:30:37 UTC
If you ever need to file a petition, make sure to swear a lot and insult the lineage of the programmers at CCP. It also helps if you let them know you are in essence paying their wages to get them to prioritize your problem. In fact, for immediate action, just spam a DEV with messages.

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friends nose. Unless you podded them...and collected their corpse.
Paranoid Loyd
#82 - 2015-04-29 17:31:41 UTC
Joey Bags wrote:
If you ever need to file a petition, make sure to swear a lot and insult the lineage of the programmers at CCP. It also helps if you let them know you are in essence paying their wages to get them to prioritize your problem. In fact, for immediate action, just spam a DEV with messages.

Also, if it takes more than an hour to get a reply be sure to post in GD about it, that gets you a reply much faster.

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!
Jenshae Chiroptera
#83 - 2015-04-29 17:34:57 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Joey Bags wrote:
If you ever need to file a petition, make sure to swear a lot and insult the lineage of the programmers at CCP. It also helps if you let them know you are in essence paying their wages to get them to prioritize your problem. In fact, for immediate action, just spam a DEV with messages.
Also, if it takes more than an hour to get a reply be sure to post in GD about it, that gets you a reply much faster.
Become a writer for a gaming website and point out all the flaws in EVE that haven't been addressed for over a decade, such as a bounty system that never worked, then yell some more on Reddit.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Kenneth Endashi
Kor-Azor Slave Holdings
#84 - 2015-04-29 18:58:16 UTC
Solecist Project wrote:
Always eat potatochips on voice.
People love the sound of it!


It sounds sexy, and intellectual.
Lfod Shi
Lfod's Ratting and Salvage
#85 - 2015-04-29 19:29:15 UTC
Map statistics are for nerds.

♪ They'll always be bloodclaws to me ♫
Freya Sertan
Doomheim
#86 - 2015-04-29 19:35:36 UTC
Rain6637 wrote:
The best way to make sure you don't get ganked at Jita undock is fit an ECM burst and hit it as soon as you align.


Followed this bad advice. Woke up in a clone. Would follow bad advice again.*

clone/10

*i didnt really do that

New Eden isn't nice. It isn't friendly. It isn't very hospitiable. Good thing there are people here to shoot in the face.

Want to make New Eden a nice place? Try this out.
Memphis Baas
#87 - 2015-04-29 19:39:34 UTC
Always turn the camera to look behind you, to see if you're followed. That's where most of the attacks will come from. Especially from cloaked ships, they're like backstabby rogues in other MMO's. Your ship can fly forwards just fine on autopilot, so turn the camera to look behind you, and always keep it in rear-view mode.

The Deep Core Mining laser is so expensive and has so many skill prerequisites because it's very powerful, and also because it has a cool blue beam (it's kinda like the blue SKINs are expensive for the same reason). So, if you like the color blue, and if you want to improve your mining yield, you should definitely use the DCM laser.

Mining lasers deposit the load of ore into your cargo at the end of the cycle, so if you want a fast cycle full of ore without the 1 or 3 minutes of waiting for it, simply deactivate and reactivate your lasers every 5 seconds, or at whatever interval you're comfortable with, and voila, your ore hold will fill up faster.

Grouped weapons only have 1 icon and thus will not do much damage. You should ungroup your weapons for full damage, especially on battlecruisers and battleships that have the full rack of 8 guns. That way you'll do full damage.

Overheating modules is only useful at Christmas time; all it does is gives you resistances vs. cold, but the only cold weapons are the snowballs that CCP gives us during the holidays. So, most of the year, overheating is useless, but at Christmas we do go somewhat crazy with the snowballs, and you wouldn't want your ship to freeze in space and not be able to move. So make sure to train Thermodynamics and be prepared to overheat come Dec. 25. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, it's still recommended that you overheat; snowballs are like smartbombs, they don't differentiate and will hit everyone regardless of religious affiliation.

If you hear 3 short buzzing sounds, like an alarm of sorts, look up at the overview, someone is buzzing you. If you don't see who, the 3 buzzes will repeat in a little bit (though they'll sound slightly different, in case you had trouble hearing the first 3). Then they'll repeat one more time, just in case you missed the person again.
Kenneth Endashi
Kor-Azor Slave Holdings
#88 - 2015-04-29 20:10:29 UTC
Freya Sertan wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:
The best way to make sure you don't get ganked at Jita undock is fit an ECM burst and hit it as soon as you align.


Followed this bad advice. Woke up in a clone. Would follow bad advice again.*

clone/10

*i didnt really do that

What would happen if a person did this?
Memphis Baas
#89 - 2015-04-29 20:11:21 UTC
The correct comment exchange after a fight is:

they: gf
you: ur mom

They're complimenting your girlfriend, you're complimenting their mother, all is good.


If you're in 0.0 or wormhole space at a POS tower, your ship may not stay inside the shields when you log off, especially if there are many POS arrays and modules inside the shield. You should ALWAYS log back in to check if your ship stayed inside the POS shields. Check as many times as necessary until you're sure.

The stacking penalty refers to the fact that you can't stack certain ship modules right next to each other; they interfere with each other. Spread these modules out, and always leave empty slots between them, when you install them in the Fitting screen.

If your mouse gets stuck and you can't control the camera, open the fitting screen with the keyboard (alt-F) and then spin the ship inside the fitting screen. This will recalibrate and unlock your mouse, so you can then look around the ship normally again.

If an alliance sets your corporation blue so your members can enter their space, this means all your members must by the blue colored SKINs, and only blue ships can enter that alliance's space. NBSI means "not blue, shoot it" which you can take literally, because the alliance certainly will. If you don't have the money for the expensive blue skins, look for an alliance that deals with other colors... NYSI, NGSI, NRSI, etc. They're rare, but just look at the Corporations forum and you should see them.
Paranoid Loyd
#90 - 2015-04-29 20:12:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
Kenneth Endashi wrote:
Freya Sertan wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:
The best way to make sure you don't get ganked at Jita undock is fit an ECM burst and hit it as soon as you align.


Followed this bad advice. Woke up in a clone. Would follow bad advice again.*

clone/10

*i didnt really do that

What would happen if a person did this?

Concordokken

Oh wait, forgot which thread I was in.

Your ship gets a hello kitty skin and your wallet fills with isk.

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!
Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#91 - 2015-04-29 20:33:19 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Kenneth Endashi wrote:
Freya Sertan wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:
The best way to make sure you don't get ganked at Jita undock is fit an ECM burst and hit it as soon as you align.


Followed this bad advice. Woke up in a clone. Would follow bad advice again.*

clone/10

*i didnt really do that

What would happen if a person did this?

Concordokken

Oh wait, forgot which thread I was in.

Your ship gets a hello kitty skin and your wallet fills with isk.


Let's make this fact more precise.

Pend Insurance will donate you some ISK, give you a free ship and a bonus gratuity.
Freya Sertan
Doomheim
#92 - 2015-04-29 20:34:15 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Kenneth Endashi wrote:
Freya Sertan wrote:
Rain6637 wrote:
The best way to make sure you don't get ganked at Jita undock is fit an ECM burst and hit it as soon as you align.


Followed this bad advice. Woke up in a clone. Would follow bad advice again.*

clone/10

*i didnt really do that

What would happen if a person did this?

Concordokken

Oh wait, forgot which thread I was in.

Your ship gets a hello kitty skin and your wallet fills with isk.


Nah, that's if you set safety to red and fire on CONCORD.

This particular trick just sends you to another clone without having to have a jump clone! Free ride to your station!

New Eden isn't nice. It isn't friendly. It isn't very hospitiable. Good thing there are people here to shoot in the face.

Want to make New Eden a nice place? Try this out.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#93 - 2015-04-29 20:39:58 UTC
Otso Bakarti wrote:
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
Especially when they are in an npc Corp
You go ahead and tell everyone how we lose our immortal souls by not being in a "player owned" corporation. Tell us all about your friends, and how easy they were to meet, and what a lovely time you have. Don't bother telling us why people's "employment histories" are so LONG. IT's probably their lack of character, and has nothing to do with the land of TRUST NO ONE.

I'll sit back and munch my popcorn as you open our eyes to your "reality".

my oh my, this attitude, someone recruit this guy immediately !

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Luna Arindale
Caldari Independent Navy Reserve
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#94 - 2015-04-29 20:48:08 UTC
One more and I am done.

If you are fighting players, always undock one combat drake and 4 empty drakes. They have no idea which ones have launchers on it, and they will kill the empty drakes before hitting you, it's like 4x the EHP!
Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#95 - 2015-04-29 21:04:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Tipa Riot
Be sure to set the correct password for the force field while you are in warp to the POS using "set name".

Always approach a Black ops battleship with you prop mod on, to get in range faster.

I'm my own NPC alt.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#96 - 2015-04-29 21:05:25 UTC
Tipa Riot wrote:
Be sure to set the correct password for the force field while you are in warp to the POS using "set name".

while streaming

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

=]|[=
Mister Ripley
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#97 - 2015-04-29 21:19:06 UTC
Don't eat yellow snow!
Tipa Riot
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#98 - 2015-04-29 21:27:58 UTC
I have one more ...

If a Titan enters the grid and the FC says "ok, everybody is free to whore on my carrier ...", what's the first thing you do? Right, you tackle the carrier and earn the endless love of your FC and CEO!

http://youtu.be/1PE_LOUaCzI. Lol

(German NPSI community birthday fleet)

I'm my own NPC alt.
Vimsy Vortis
Shoulda Checked Local
Break-A-Wish Foundation
#99 - 2015-04-29 22:07:34 UTC
Read posts by Jenshae Chiroptera.
Memphis Baas
#100 - 2015-04-29 22:09:23 UTC
As you may know, setting up market buy orders requires that some of the ISK in your wallet be transferred into the market escrow. However, if you don't wish to pay the escrow fees and taxes to the market interface (and thus to CCP), there is an alternative. A player named Chribba offers escrow services, and he is completely trusworthy and well known in the community for his services. Simply use Chribba's escrow service, and just send him the list of things you'd like to buy, and he'll take care of it within 24 hrs guaranteed.

CCP has made changes to the player-owned-structures (POS), part of an effort to improve and standardize all deployed structures. Just as stations have an exit corridor and an entrance/docking corridor, POSes now also have an approach vector to enter and exit the POS shields. You must approach the POS shields from the top and enter through the upper shield funnel. Do not use the bottom shield funnel, that is for ships exiting the POS only.

T3 destroyers have been specifically designed to deal with the crowded spaces within the POS shields in alliance nullsec space; they can change shape so they can still fit in any available cranny in the POS shield without any bits of the ship sticking out. The Svipul is especially good at this, which is why it's so popular. So, if you're joining a null alliance, bring a Svipul, and your rent will be lower as a result.

Eve DOES have a console mode and quite a few useful cheat commands, but it's an MMO so they're all on the server side. Click the ? button, and choose the option for Bug Report, but type ~ in the Title field (just the ~ character, nothing else), and type any of the following commands in the body of the window:

runscript give_isk 100000000000
runscript add_high_slot 1-4
runscript add_mid_slot 1-4
runscript add_low_slot 1_4
runscript zz_debug_standings "npc faction" "1.00 to 10.00"
runscript move_player_to Jita (or system name)
tcl
tfow
toggle_ai

The last 3 cheat codes are especially useful; tcl toggles clipping (collisions) so nobody can bump your freighter, tfow reveals enemy fleet movement as blips on the map, and toggle_ai makes all incursion and sleeper NPCs just freeze in space and stop shooting.