EVE General Discussion

Newbro here just wanted to share my experience.

I was trying my hand at the starter missions and thougth the gas mining part was pretty neat. So i researched, trained and fitted a basic gas mining ship. I spent half the day painfully learning how to scan.

Before too long I had found my first wormhole and made a tough choice of whether or not to enter. I jumped right in.

My client crashed- (crappy laptop)

I logged back in as fast as I could.......to find myself in a capsule.

I was a bit frustrated at first but wrote it off to learning. Fitted another ship and headed back. As I was undocking, my wallet flashed.

5 mil was donated by the guy who killed me with a tag that said "wormholes are dangerous,"

We private chatted for a bit and I dove right back down the wormhole and proceeded to learn how to find a safe spot.

So many other games I have played are a ton worse in the player base, so a big thank you to each and every oldbro and new. Nice job.

Lefamonster

actually we like to help newbies so that:
- they think they've learn something;
- they will feel more comfortable flying expensive ships.
- we can get more shiny killmails

Yeahhhh no. Eves community is a toxic sociopathic bunch. They just want you for food on their KB

Great story!

Welcome to EVE.

Now get that laptop fixed!

It really depends how many people you're killing.

I gave that amount of money the other day to a new player who claimed to be a Nigirian Space Prince and send me a mail with a business proposal.
Not sure about it, might have been a scam.
So what are the community's experiences with Nigirian Space Princes in general? Are they to be trusted?

I may have given a new player who was actually an alt some isk the other day. No matter, he was entertaining in Hek local, isk well spent. I support Local Entertainer/Busker as a valid sub-profession.

Most of it is bad apples.

EVE is deep. People kill you and then reimburse you to replace your ship. Offer you advice. Take you under their wins and show you how to PVP. You roam together and get a few kills, nice rush, a few more private convoes, and suddenly you are in a chat channel with all the big boys you've been running away from in the local...

It turnsout everyone's cool, and then you are invited to join a corp. And things just take off from there. You are flying together with your corp mates every night, cracking jokes on voice comms, doing silly things, then somone in your corp proposes a grand vision - we're gonna move to null, ha? impossible, but plans are put into work, and somehow, a noob, who just happened to find the right group of guys to hang with, end up in null. Your corp turns into an alliance, and suddenly things start to snowball. You guys are winning sov left and right, your member count is in thousands, now you are no longer a noob, you are FCing every night, winning, and now you know the game inside out, you got a few trillions in your wallet, you and your buddies pull your ISK together for the alliance SRP to encourage the new bros in your allince to participate more in fleet ops without pressure, you invest in building and anchoring keepstars together, it's incredible


and then you get a ping one night. Your friend, the one that gave you that 5m ISK reimbursement to get you started, the one who took you under the wings to show how things are done, the one who brought you into the corp - apparently he ran with all your alliance's assets & ISK. Your alliance is broke now. He ran with trillions it's been said, and the SRP fund has been cleared out. You are in disbelief, and then you get an eve mail,


"Black Picard,

Hey man, by now you should know that I ran with all the assets and the money. It took me long time waiting for this moment, but now I've finally done it. I've groomed you for years and you turned out alright. Don't take it personally, it's just business.

ta-da!"

Then now you are back to zero. With no assets. alliance disbanded. Everything taken away. You are raging, you have to go kill something. This cannot be right.

So you camp a WH entrance, and you see a venture coming in - boom. You kill him. And then send him 5m ISK reimbursement with a nice eve mail. :D

Well, there are certainly amazing people in EVE, but trust no one. ;)

Excellent info.



DMC