EVE General Discussion

Baby steps...

Finishing that (censored) scanning tutorial.

Meeting that player that flips your can, pops your ship, then spends 2 hours in convo giving amazing advice to help you improve in many ways moving forward. You're still in my contacts and I still smile everytime you log in.

Meeting that person that mentors you and gives you a job that makes you feel rich as hell even though looking back it was barely anything. You, too, still make me smile when I see you log in.

That first time I clicked yes on the warning before entering a system with security below 0.5.

Actually clicking jump with the wormhole entrance targetted.

My hulk entering warp at the same time a group of catalysts is landing.

Getting all the stupid (censored) dots moving in the right directions and launching some product from the planet, finally!!!

Assuming the catalyst that snuck up on you is going to win and WTF sending drones to get vengeance...and surviving.

Those folks you still chat with even though they might now be on the other side of the verse, moving in a different direction.

Playing with people I don't know but whom can care about someone they don't know... even if they want with all their heart to blow them up. And want the game to always be getting better. RIP Vile Rat, fly "(input)".

Actually, leaving the WH entrance and wandering around to see what's in there.

Accomplishing something/anything semi-productive in the WH.

The first perfect BPO!!!

That first T2 BPC! Yes, even though your build cost is more than double what you could just buy the silly item for on the market.

Getting wardecced in an indy corp and hearing your FC say "everybody, undock, undock, align...". Win or lose, discovering that it can be fun, (edit: make that a blast).

Blowing something up.

Getting blown up, but at least getting to shoot back

And, remembering to OH so at least you used what you had.

Logging in knowing the next baby step might just be a click away...

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Definitely not the greatest, but definitely memorable:

Just doing my normal thing running mission. Swept through Worlds Collide (Sansha/Angel) and started salvaging. Half way though I opened the can to the Sansha Supervisor: It held 4 True Sasha mods, 1 True Sansha crystal, and a Slave Delta implant.

Probably the luckiest loot table roll I'll ever get.

Definitely the moment we decided to engage in QXW a couple years ago. The fight itself was fun, but the real rush is being in warp to a hostile force which is twice as big as yours with unknown capital assets backing it up and hoping you don't mess up too badly.

Fighting 18 cruisers, a couple dictors, a few frigs in my Vindicator worth 1.7biil, and a 2.5bil clone. Killing around 10-12 ships and leaving quite happily afterwards.

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FCing a fight we once had in Occupational Hazzard outnumbered against Rooks and Kings, which we won after a really, really tough brawl.

Also, a long time ago, solo roaming in a dual rep hyperion (no links, or scout, or implants) and fighting onyx, gila, tempest, tempest, rapier, vaga and killing rapier, tempest, gila, vaga by myself, and getting out alive :)

Also, dual rep myrm fight vs Rook, HAMdrake and Rupture (no links/scout/imps). and killing rook/rupture.

Also, Maelstrom (Single t2 XL booster) with blue pill and crystals. Vs a 10 man BC/BS Camp and killing all but one of them.

Also, jumping in a 20 man Guardian/Faction BS gang against a 40 man FA/FCON fleet, then them doubling their numbers with goons, so jumping in a solo, suicide triage nidhoggur. We all got out alive, apart from the nidhoggur,, around 25 kills, 1 loss.

Some good times, shame they were all years ago and its all bullcrap now :/
-Buhhd

Fighting a gang of 20 frigates solo in my dual rep Dominix down in Providence years ago.

By far the most outnumbered but still fighting that I've ever been solo, got a few kills and still escaped.

Probably not that amazing compared to some stories, but even got a friendly respectful convo from the frigate gang FC offering his respect which made it more special for me.

^^ Nice.

I have enough to write a book tbh.

Probably the best (and most nerve shattering) was whilst evacuating from 0.0 sov space that we had lost to Cry Havoc.

we had immediately after the dominion patch launch like many other small alliances / corps run out and grabbed a small pocked of systems for ourselves, it had been great fun and along the way we had destroyed the Maru Kage' alliance, spent time upgrading the systems and had a huge amount of fun with smallish sized fleet fights and roams into deep 0.0.

All of this ended when some friendly neighbors that we were working with decided to drop an outpost. This immediately made the system highly attractive to the local power of the area Cry Havoc (how I miss them, bastards but good ones). No sooner had the Outpost been put up - without a cyno jammer present (not us again I hasten to remind you), than CH moved in smashing all of the resistance we could muster aside and took the outpost system, this left us trapped down a dead end cluster. We evacuated what we could under guns but needed to move a freighter full of goods out. The value was at least 20bil plus in the freighter, so we decided to do it post downtime and try and sneak it out the door.

Our gang consisted of 1 rapier to web the freighter, a few battle cruisers and a probing rapier and the loot laden freighter. This we knew was a desperate move but it really was move it or lose it, so we took the chance. We had some scouts out that we had available but unfortunately as we jumped the freighter into a particularly long 100 au warp to the out gate CH logged into the system in question. (I say logged in not jumped in although we never really confirmed if that was what happened) but the scouts had not seen the hostiles and all of a sudden there is a 15 man fleet sitting on the out gate to where a loot stuffed freighter is in warp to.

To make matters worse the freighter had been webbed to increase it's align time so was aggressed, this meant that although we had logged it off it would still show in space and sure enough an Arazu dropping probes was seen with the hostile fleet. We were left with a true wtf moment. If we logged on the freighter it would likely land on the outbound gate or get caught during it's ewarp, so we knew we had to kill the probing / tackle ship and try to get it out.

But ofc it was logged off in space so how to warp to it? The answer was to probe it our ourselves, the friendly rapier got it very fast (wolfman13 ftw) and sat waiting for the CH Arazu to land, sure enough it dropped out of warp pointed the Freighter and in turn got tackled, we warped our fleet in, killed the Arazu and re-logged in the freighter and warped it off in time to the outbound gate as the hostile fleet landed, most of us got xploded at that point but the 20 bill freighter made the gate, jumped into low sec and got to a station.

Dominion was an amazing expansion, never had so much fun. sniff.

Be amazing if any of the old CH guys spot this and want to comment.

First real bombing run. Got a bunch of killmails. PvP was never the same afterwards.

Doing a bombing run and getting 60 killmails

Greetings Peter,

yes, I remember those Drake wrecks at top of this POS in Fountain