EVE General Discussion

Oh, ****. Stain. Ofc. Come back to us and make Nennamalia awesome.

I would have to say my greatest moment was a long one (2 years, lol). Back in early 09 I was having a really rough period in life, and video games were my only solace, but not filling the social void. Then I stumbled onto this game called EVE. 2 weeks in, I was recruited by a High Sec corp called The Golden Knights (TGKN, now closed).

I spent 2 full years with some of the best people I have met. In fact, I traveled several times to meet members in RL. My GF even photographed our CEO's wedding!

It was my time in the Knights that helped pull me out of a really bad place, the comradery, the genuine concern for each other, the teamwork - I can honestly say it probably saved my actual life.

I hate to be cliched, but to many of us, EVE IS REAL, in this sense. THat's why I love this game

Sorry for being sappy, lol.





Oh, and posting with my main.

Being apart of the fall of C-J Red alliance fought like hell for that station but then Solars coalition dropped supers and finished off the station:D pretty much the end of the xdeath solar war as Red alliance pulled out

When i susspended my accounts :>

Ok, OP here, it looks like this thread is dying down so I'll throw in my story(s). It's hard to say what my greatest moment was but I'll tell a few.

Early in my eve career I specialized in ninja salvaging which kind of lead my to can flipping. I really enjoyed being a shady character in highsec. It was fun messing with people knowing that there were certain game mechanics in place that protected me. I wasn't very strong just yet and didn't want to pvp in lowsec or null because it intimidated me and every time I tried I immediately died. At the time I was all about the Imicus. Still one of my favorite ships to this day. It can not only probe, it packs a serious punch for such a small package. I tweaked it so that It had just enough tank to survive the onslaught of drones from a hulk and it still put out 140dps or something like that. So I was can flipping in Allamotte. Corpies were near by but I was pretty much soloing. I found a small gang of noobs mining in retrievers and started to mess with them. I stole from them so that I'd turn blinky red and then I started bumping them. I kept stealing all their ore and flipping it to my own container. I made it impossible for them to make any isk without stealing it back from me. Eventually they left and around that time one of my corp mates joined me in a nemesis, he sat cloaked near me. My aggression timer was still counting down as we sat on their belt waiting for them to come back. Eventually one of them showed up, and immediately targeted me. Coms exploded with laughter as my corp mates realized he was flying a Hound. The Hound immediately started shooting at me and did absolutely no damage. I got on top of him and took him down in mere seconds, it was beautiful. Then as the icing on the cake he wined in local and said that he filed a petition to CCP and he claimed that I was "hacking". Here it is: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12467019

My second story is about the time I killed a 5 man fleet all on my own. You see, I was and still am obsessed with solo roaming, granted I haven't done it in a while. Solo is all about the glory. It's not about 1v1 its about 1v5. 1v1 doesn't exist in Eve, but being outnumbered has its advantages, it means you have more ships to kill and the enemy is going to be aggressive in their attempts to kill you. I was soloing in a rupture. I was in K-QWHE and came across a small gatecamp of Coercer, Coercer, Jaguar, Cormorant. I immediately went to town on them overloading my guns and pretty much insta popped the coercers. A few minutes later after some cat and mouse the Jag finally got on top of me and we brawled it out but ultimately my neuts got the best of him and he went down--I got his pod too. I was deep in structure by then so I docked up and repped (the Cormorant was 80km off gate the whole time and he was sniping, I couldn't reach him so for the time being just ignored him). After I repped I figured I was doing well so why not continue? I went back to the gate I just left and the Cormorant was still there. I jumped through the gate because I wanted to jump back in and surprise him. I did just that and when I came back in I was 12 kilometers on the other side of the gate, HIS side of the gate, and he had moved 10 kilometers closer to the gate. This put me about 58km from him. Perfect. I decloaked, overloaded my MWD and burned towards him. He must have panicked cuz all he could think to do was shoot at me. He did poor damage and I got on him and he went down instantly. I hung out there for a bit hoping they'd throw more ships at me and eventually a Caracal jumped through the gate. He burned towards me looking like he wanted to fight so I obliged and just absolutely destroyed him, he did less damage than the 3 destroyers and frigate I'd just destroyed. After this I put my stuff in a station to grab later and went home. All in all one of the best experiences I've had in eve. An entirely successful solo pvp endeavor in which I survived and made isk from. I can only imagine what these guys were saying about me on coms. It felt reallly good.

I have some other stories but those two are pretty much my best.

Well, there's a lot of good stories in this thread so I'll add a couple of mine as well, though I doubt they'll be as good. Sorry for my big wall of text.

My first blood rushing heart pounding white knuckle hand shaking experience was a couple of weeks after I first started playing, over 4 years ago. I was running missions and got the mission - Break Their Will - . Someone in NPC corp chat (older player) had told me to take out the 3 power generators first to make it easier in destroying the Outpost.

I did it and after killing the initial NPC's, destroyed the Outpost when all of a sudden I see a bunch of Reds show up on screen with someone in Local chat saying they were going to hunt me down and chop off my head. Man was I scared. I quickly warped out, docked up and told corp chat some players were after me for destroying that Outpost.

The older corp members asked me what happened, then asked what the text color was in local chat. I told them and they all started laughing, telling me I had nothing to worry about. It was just the NPC's and part of the mission story.

lol, talk about being a noob.

My next big experience happened about 1 year playing and was a combination of both excitement and apprehension.

I had bought a BPC for a Hurricane thinking I would spend a few days mining to build one myself. After seeing the amount of materials needed to build it, I pretty much felt like I had wasted my ISK and was very bummed out. After mentioning it in Corp chat, one of the older players said he could help me get the minerals within 1 day for free but would need a couple of days first to set it up.

He contacts me to meet in a system and have my Hoarder ready to haul Ore. I show up in system and get invited to join fleet, my very first fleet opp. Man I didn't know what to expect. I warped into the belt to see 2 Retrievers and 6 Hulks. After being introduced to fleet members (all from different corps), the pilots then directed me on which cans to collect from.

Fleet chat was very busy, same as I was. No time for me to rest trying to empty out all those cans or to even watch the light show, which by the way was excellent, lol. I even had to ask another newer player in Corp chat to help me do the hauling. He had a Wreathe and also had never been in a fleet opp. It seemed like every time we warped into the belt, NPC's would spawn and start attacking us haulers. Of course the Mining ships would quickly unleash their Drones.

I think the whole opp only lasted a few hours, but it seemed like an eternity to us hauling. One of the Hulk Pilots had very good refining skills and did the refining for me, also told me to sell the excess to buy any minerals I was missing. I will never forget that experience, it was very exciting and new to me, a bunch of players all joined up to help out someone they didn't even know.

Later after that, probably about 6 to 9 months, I had another blood rushing heart pounding white knuckle hand shaking experience.

I had a Rapier and decided to go cloaky travel into low / null security (Great Wildlands) for a while. Going out there was no problem. After I got there, the local population noticed me and it became a problem. Basically I ended up playing cat and mouse with a bunch of Russians for 2 weeks while trying to get back to high sec. I eventually made it back, dodging warp bubbles and gate camps, logging out in safe spots, learning how to plot course and travel in 0.0, not to mention working with Dscan. The whole ordeal was a very nerve racking, constantly being hunted. Eventually they realized I was leading them further and further away from their turf and they left after leaving some Russian text in local chat.

I guess my next biggest experience was more of a WTF? feeling mixed with confusion, bewilderment and fumble syndrome.

That happened about 1 1/2 years ago in my Loki. Was multitasking in a 0.7 system scanning down exploration sites while running a radar site at the same time. Didn't notice local chat spike and due to being in 0.7, didn't really care. Had my target slots filled up with cans and shooting NPC's (plus scanning for other sites) when all of a sudden a 1/2 dozen Battleships hot drop on top of me, unload drones and proceed to attack me.

Of course I was caught offguard and totally surprised, fumbling around trying to find an object to warp to while also trying to return fire. It seemed nothing was working. Of course I forgot my target slots were already filled up plus my screen was in scanning mode. Man, talk about mass confusion. Not to mention Concord spawning and with my Overview set up to show brackets and everything while playing on a 10 year old computer, old man lag hit me hard.

Actually the whole ordeal lasted about a minute or two. Next thing I know I wake up in my Medical clone saying WTF? Turns out I was the victim of an assassination hit, paid for by a known forum troller who had decided to take our forum banter into the game, get my corpse / killmail and post it in C&P trying to extract some rage tears..

No rage tears were ever found since the whole thing happened so fast, also I barely had time to react and probably was still in shock for a couple of days afterwards. Of course my revenge was had later by another player pretending he had proof of "Rage Tears" to sell him, basically scamming him for the cost of my lost implants, a few billion ISK worth. The loss of the ship didn't really bother me since it's to be expected.

Ahhh, memories. That's what makes Eve real.

DMC

1v1 sentry domy vrs torp raven I think in 08 ... Even though his dps was insane he overheated his torpedoes too much... Killed him with 30% structure... Was epic...

one of my best moment was when i was moving a pve maelstrom with a nightmare bpc in the cargohold from sansha 0.0 npc space to high sec i avoided 1 gate camp with sabre and other ships plus some enemy gangs on the way i even remember the fit was some sort of a XL tank with mwd AB 3-4 heavy neuts and WCS in all the lows, i was more afraid of the lol killmail than the value of the ship, somewhere i made it to empire just to find out all mi missioning in 0.0 screwed up all my standings in empire and there was space police all over the place trying to kill me, that was really a fun day.

Ninja looting with a noob alt and finidng a CNR wreck in a mission with 3 bil of loot in it, scooping it with my heron seconds before the owners corpse run drake got to it, happy days.

oh god i remeber about killing a widow in RLL when i was there and i was the rifter that decloaked him and put the first tackle and the situation was pretty much the same do you have the KM somewhere? that would be epic