EVE General Discussion

Maybe not greatest, but most satisfying.
I had finally gotten into a Maelstrom, was running Level 4's, and starting to make my money back (I'd spent almost every cent on the ship and fit, like a moron). Every wreck and piece of salvage was desperately needed. I've only ever played EvE solo, so there's just my income to keep me playing. I was in a huge mission, spread all to hell and back because I was running arties and had to keep running from the rats to keep them at range (n00b).

I'm wrapping up with the last few rats, and a ninja salvager in a Probe jumps in at the entry point, far side of the mission space. This pilot had been scraping my wreck fields for a few days, and I was so unbelievably pissed at her. She wouldn't loot, just took my salvage. Salvage at that time was around half my income, and every trit bar was a treasure. I knew I couldn't shoot her down. She knew I couldn't shoot her down, and had been taunting me for days over local to that effect. I had spun my wheels in anger, but come up with no way to get back at her.

And then it hit me: she can't salvage a wreck that isn't there. I let the drones continue mopping up the rats while I soaked the damage, and I turned my guns around. I locked on to each wreck in her vicinity up to my max. She finished up with the wreck she was on and started to jet toward the next. I was patient. I even let her start her cycle. Then I sent a 1200mm artillery shell through the hull of the wreck.

She just sat there for a moment, clearly confused. Maybe she thought I was bluffing. Then she moved on to the next wreck. Cycle. Boom. She was usually very chatty in local, needling me for being such a rube, secure in her superior skills as a vulture and her protection under the law. She wasn't saying anything now. I let her get within lock range of the third wreck and blew it up before she could even cycle the Salvager. Then, in one thundering barrage, I laid waste to every other wreck within 50 km of her.

Then she lost her **** in Local. She called me insane, and told me that I was destroying my own loot in the process. Which of course I knew. I told her she wasn't going to profit off my work anymore. That I'd blow up every single wreck she tried to take from me, and damn the expense. That I was still making (admittedly ******) money off the agent bonus, and she couldn't steal that from me. So net profit for me.

She jumped out of the mission, and spent the next half hour bitching to the others in local about what a helpless plebe I was, too stupid to realize she was just taking the (according to her) worthless salvage, that good mod drops would net me plenty to make up for it. And sure, she was right in a sense. I still could have profited off anything that was in the hulls.

But the little harpy never scraped my wrecks again. I won.

I've been on both ends of this scenario :)

Getting scanned by MoO for the first time in Passari

Well done sir.

Nice!

It seems that the bigger and more expensive ships I fly the less fun I have.

Funnily enough, the vagabond is about the only "elite" ship I can think of which captures the feel of flying in cheap frigs (although with slightly higher inhibitions cos of the cost involved).

Maybe I should just join RvB and head out in a Wolf. I could afford to lose 50 of them these days.

Joining up in a specialist stealth bomber group also looks like a tremendous laugh.

Yeah, a T3 cruiser looks like it could be the most fun one can have while fully clothed.

Unfortunately I couldn't relax in a ship that represents over half my available liquid isk. Perhaps a Tengu for wormhole exploration since it can potentially pay for itself, but I'd be jumpy as hell.

For me "Elite" stops at T2. I class the top end faction and T3 ships in a theoretical "Elite +" group in my head. Still, it's always good to have something to aim for

When i first jumped into null and managed to escape a gatecamp.

My also is General Goat, he kills so many I feel great love. I only new but so much fun in Eve Online. Paperknife do so many us nice fight we having great fun.

Who does think that a new corp of honourable warfighters can make big corp at 8% efficient? Papers pilots some are smacktalk and no pride but some many give us talks on how to better kill like Etymon, advice me on better blackbird flying. Now I take new skills against his pilot so we can more fun than ever.

There are some awesome stories in this thread.

FCing a carrier kill. With a cruiser fleet.