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Your first experience in EVE

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Garbad theWeak
#21 - 2011-10-11 18:47:50 UTC
I undocked and saw a guy attack a cargo hauler. He killed him and then was killed by the police. I saw the wreck there and started wondering...

...so I flew up and saw all this mineral stuff. I figured it had to be worth money so I stole it all and flew it back to station, one ibis load at a time. I cleaned out the entire hauler, then sold it all and earned some crazy profits, like 500k. But I was terrified the people would find me and kill me for stealing, so i deleted the char and made a new one :D
Something Random
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2011-10-11 19:07:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Something Random
I had the Eve wouldnt startup experience...... left it a while.... petitioned.....answer.....disabled audio card..... got in and did the tuts.

OK - not really an experience, so probably my lasting early memory.....

After about 2 weeks of playing i had got into a group of regular players on at my time, we started a corp and began.... mining away heavily. Doing some missions. Stuff.

One day we decided to mine in Ravarin.... IT HAD JASPET !!!!!! shiny.....
5 minutes into the session of about 7 miners and a hauler, our best ship was a thorax and i think i was in a Imicus with shiny tech 2 lasers.

SHIP!!!! - From nowhere!!!! explosions..... lots of explosions..... yelling...... panic...... lots of clicking..... warp...... 15km to gate slow boating......... repeat........ SAFE!!!!!

About 5 minutes later i really thought hard about that. We were a good large group of grown Men and a Woman totally destroyed by one measly ship......

Hooked further.

(edit) Ok, another great moment was finally getting my Thorax and going into Egghelende to get the juicy expensive rats with my 250 rails..... watching my shield and armour get stripped VERY quickly by a kestrel and having Tub0rg boat up in a Scorp and give me the ransom schpeeel.

Salute to the Beer & Kebabs crew o7

"caught on fire a little bit, just a little."

"Delinquents, check, weirdos, check, hippies, check, pillheads, check, freaks, check, potheads, check .....gangs all here!"

I love Science, it gives me a Hadron.
Trainwreck McGee
Doomheim
#23 - 2011-10-11 19:11:24 UTC
Im the kind guy that is stupid and thinks he doesn't need instructions for things

So i spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get anywhere in this ******* game

Then said **** it and started reading the wiki

CCP Trainwreck - Weekend Custodial Engineer / CCP Necrogoats foot stool
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#24 - 2011-10-11 19:50:12 UTC
Trainwreck McGee wrote:
Im the kind guy that is stupid and thinks he doesn't need instructions for things

So i spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get anywhere in this ******* game

Then said **** it and started reading the wiki



I ran a one man corp and refused to read anything about video games, before losing several battleships(see bottom of page one). Eventually I found the forums and made ingame friends. Probably more hard headed than you!

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
Nyssa Litari
Doomheim
#25 - 2011-10-11 19:56:36 UTC
A few years ago, on my first character, I had completed the tutorials and decided to earn money for a cruiser. I was so excited because I had just read about this technique called jetcanning. You mean I don't have to return to the station every time my little Navitas fills up?!? I had an Iteron and that little Navi and I was just going to jetcan a little fortune...

So after raging in local at the can flipper for stealing my ore (I didn't shoot him, I at least knew better than that), I cooled down and apologized. We got to talking about can flipping and I asked a few questions. He taught me about anchoring, secure containers, and mining turn points.

While I've never engaged in the tactic myself, from that experience I came to view can flipping as a legitimate play activity in Eve.
R0ot
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#26 - 2011-10-11 20:38:27 UTC
Getting killed in a kestrel going into low sec because I bought a module without knowing how the market worked and being killed by 2 members of Euphoria Released.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=611523

Good times.
The Apostle
Doomheim
#27 - 2011-10-11 21:31:22 UTC
Undocked in a rookie ship in 1.0 noob space and saw a Hyperion sitting on station for the first time. Yelled out to my son that this must be a Titan.... Look how fn big this thing is....... WOW..... etc.....

Vowed I was gonna get me one of them... oohh... ahhhh....

Been playing 3 years, have 7 chars.

Never flown a Hyperion yet Smile

[i]Take an aspirin. If pain persists consult your local priest. WTB: An Austrian kangaroo![/i]
adopt
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2011-10-11 21:45:45 UTC
The Apostle wrote:
Undocked in a rookie ship in 1.0 noob space and saw a Hyperion sitting on station for the first time. Yelled out to my son that this must be a Titan.... Look how fn big this thing is....... WOW..... etc.....

Vowed I was gonna get me one of them... oohh... ahhhh....

Been playing 3 years, have 7 chars.

Never flown a Hyperion yet Smile


That made me giggle
Cozmik R5
Chez Stan
#29 - 2011-10-11 21:50:21 UTC
Buying one of my first skill books in Bastard-infested Metropolis space and living to tell about it as space was empty. Shout out to Lady Luck !!!

Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.
Theodemir
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#30 - 2011-10-11 22:09:23 UTC
After doing the tutorial, a friend of mine already in the game came along and gave me some skillbooks, implants and a coercer. Not having a clue whats what, went to do a mission and blew up the destroyer. Scramming drones are a *****!

Also some training time later, being super chuffed fitting 7 t2 turrets onto the destroyer, felt epic Roll
Donatella D'Tren
Section 8.
#31 - 2011-10-11 22:39:58 UTC
Garbad theWeak wrote:
I undocked and saw a guy attack a cargo hauler. He killed him and then was killed by the police. I saw the wreck there and started wondering...

...so I flew up and saw all this mineral stuff. I figured it had to be worth money so I stole it all and flew it back to station, one ibis load at a time. I cleaned out the entire hauler, then sold it all and earned some crazy profits, like 500k. But I was terrified the people would find me and kill me for stealing, so i deleted the char and made a new one :D


People are looking at me funny now for laughing, thanks.

My first real experience; I flew a kestrel into Syndicate to see what was so scary about nullsec, got past the 6-CZ gatecamp somehow and flew back into the Groon pocket. I shot a hulk in a belt but his drones nearly nuked me so I ran...then because I couldn't kill any of the rats, I cautiously flew to belts and looted the wrecks of the ratting trash that no one ever takes, flew it to the nearest station and reprocessed/sold it. Thought I was rich because I was making SO MUCH with every full load. Lol Think I did this for like 2 hours, sweating the whole time.
Commander Spurty
#32 - 2011-10-11 22:42:35 UTC
Undocked and was in awe

First time I warped and went "THROUGH" a planet, I think I 'ducked' a little.

Funny


There are good ships,

And wood ships,

And ships that sail the sea

But the best ships are Spaceships

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Raid'En
#33 - 2011-10-11 22:48:20 UTC
adopt wrote:
I undocked, saw some guy flashing red shat bricks, started shooting him, lost my atron, been playing eve for 10 minutes Roll

i tried the first mission, looted all the wrecks around as no one seemed to care, saw a big ship appear, and lost my velator. was playing since 10mn
Sniped117
Frozen Holdings
No Concern
#34 - 2011-10-11 23:03:45 UTC
first 5 minutes warped to a asteroid beltin amsen a noob ship tried to pop me and i warped off Twisted
Hans Jagerblitzen
Ice Fire Warriors
#35 - 2011-10-11 23:09:04 UTC
I was in a rifter, was bored of missions (I had done about 10 of them) and so I decided to do a little touring to another area of space. I set my autopilot up, took note of the route, it was mostly green but I decided one red blip would be easy to skip through, since I was quick.

I jumped into a system that had numbers for its name, and BEHOLD! I saw a giant sparkly bubble of crackling energy - it was soooo beautiful.

Sirens, death, and than I woke up in a strange system..... It was a surreal experience, it took me a little bit to piece together what had happened.



Fast forward a few months, and I'm flying a Hound and learning to LOVE the bubble :) For I had discovered bombs....

CPM0 Chairman / CSM7 Vice Secretary
adopt
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#36 - 2011-10-11 23:17:45 UTC
Please continue to share your stories
Aidan Brooder
Dynasphere Ltd.
#37 - 2011-10-11 23:26:17 UTC
First experience:
Why can't I get off that spaceship when docked? Felt strange after character creation.

Second experience:
"OH chill, I KNEW how to hit those rats AND evade them!" *clicking modules at random*

First kewl experience:
Fighting and losing against the corp that then let me join with my first char.

Blog: http://aidanbrooder.wordpress.com My EVE Playlist on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSNuHY7z8n1q1BdLvW2verIfH8vvWtz_x
Lord Amaterasu
Aves Autem Obumbratio
#38 - 2011-10-12 02:24:12 UTC
On my first trial attempt I created gallente char who somehow after couple days of mission running had ended up to jita in caracal(Don't ask me how. It just happened during Empyrean age). After this I started taking courier contracts for more isk which led me to take a contract that led to the 0.0. After putting most of my isk to that contract I decided that I will get the stuff to the station. Immediately after I entered low-sec I got hit by a gatecamp. Which ofcourse destroyed my caracal. After I was podded (my clone was in jita) I bought a new caracal and went back to get the packet so I could deliver it to its desdination... And got podded again. This repeated 2-3 times after which I had lost all my ISK. Immediately after this I deleted the character and left the game for sometime.

Long live the Empress Catiz of Amarr!!
Lyris Nairn
Perkone
Caldari State
#39 - 2011-10-12 02:44:56 UTC
My very first experience in EVE was logging in as a Vherokior female with this character name, undocking in a pile of rust and deciding right there that Minmatar was terrible; so, I re-rolled as Caldari.

Sky Captain of Your Heart

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Adunh Slavy
#40 - 2011-10-12 03:13:02 UTC
Wandering into low sec on my first day to go kick some ass in my ibis. Ibis suck BTW.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.  - William Pitt
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