EVE General Discussion

Well infact I've only been in 1 or 2 PvP fights before this venture from what I remember and that was when I played for a couple of weeks early last year, building skills and learning fittings etc, but I just didn't have the time to put into the game at that point so I stopped playing. The other day I just had an itch to try EVE out again, thus here I am.

So I logged back on again, slowly remembered where I left off and got to grips with the interface again, reading guides again as I plodded along. Done a bit of mining so I could make Rifters with the blueprint I had, so of course I don't have to worry about buying them when I lose them, which is inevitable. Done some PvE in my cruiser, not fun for me personally, very boring infact lol.

So there I was dabbling around, sorting skills out, planning for the future, when I just looked at my Rifter and thought "What the heck, let's go and get into a fight". Warped into the local 0.4 sector and scanned with the directional scanner, I think it was a "Procurer" that showed up, ( I think that's the name, I knew it was a mining ship though ). I think I physically smiled at that point and I began I warping around the asteroid belts, it wasn't long before I found him, the adrenaline already started kicking in.

I wasn't close enough to tackle him so I whacked my afterburners on and closed the distance hoping he is too occupied elsewhere to notice me, which he didn't, atleast until it was too late. Got him locked, scrambled his warp, webbed him, started draining his energy and began blasting into his hull as I orbited around him. Bam, he released 5 drones that quickly began eating my shields, the damage they were doing to me was quite alot and I instantly thought "Damn, this could be game over already". ( my Rifter is also only using all tech 1 gear ).

By this point I could feel myself physically shaking, though I did my best to keep my mind clear, I switched on my small armour repairer, switched to my Drones tab and began shooting down his drones 1 by 1, lucky for me they could not do enough damage to surpass my armour repairing, stayed near full armour the whole time.

It dawned on me he had not fired anything at me from his ship, I realised now his drones were gone he was defenseless, so I began blasting him apart. I watched his shields drop and as they got real low something came into my mind, something I had been reading in the previous days from various guides "Offer ransom fee!". So, looking at the market value of his ship showed around 8 mil in the region, with his fittings and cargo I'd just assume toward 10 mil, maybe even more. I opened a private chat with him and simply demanded "5 mil and I'll let you go", I felt 5mil was a very fair offer, for all I know I could have let him off lightly.

First of all he reponds with "How do I know you will?" I say "You don't, but I'm going to blow you up if you don't send me 5mil". He doesn't respond so quickly, as my Rifter is slowly eating through his ship and is approaching Hull and I am beginning to think his ship is just going to be debris shortly. He then types "2.5 mil now and 2.5mil after you let me warp out" Heh, no way I thought, I'm not about to let my first victim fool me, "No, 5mil now and I'll leave you alone for a month, or your ship is going to be blown apart", I did think to myself after the fight "a month? maybe too long" but he is after all only one fish in a sea of plenty, plus also my first piracy victim!. ( I am going to abide by my own rules btw, I may be pirating right now but I'm still a gentleman and I'll leave him alone for a month lol )

DING, my wallet recieved 5mil, instantly I stopped shooting him before I blew him to pieces, disengaged all my offensive modules and watched him fly away. As I warped to the sun to hide for a few minutes I was excited, I felt overjoyed that I had just actually successfully solo pirated and earned myself a tidy and humble sum of 5mil in a very short amount of time, doing something I had alot of fun doing, not a massive earner, though 5mil is better than a kick in the teeth.

But you know what, I couldn't have done it without the countless guides I had read, all the information experienced players had put online for guys like me to learn from, my fittings, my tactics, my reactions, my first ever piracy attempt and also my first success, all down to the guys that take their own time to write these guides. I would like to say a BIG thank you to all of the people that do take time out of their own day to help other players learn the game, I had a massive amount of fun and adrenaline for the first time in a long time of gaming and especially MMORPGs and it wouldn't have happened without these guys.

If you even made it this far into my massive amount of text, I wish you a good day, good luck and see you in space perhaps :).

as an occasional miner i am offended at this lack of tank and waste of drones

Congratulations !

Keep it up !

Well done to you sir! I look forward to seeing more like you in space

Very nice read, and that's exactly how I started pirating, this makes me want to just sell up and move to lowsec with a few prints for frigates etc, and just go roaming for victims again.

i feel sorry for you

You honoured the ransom. You might make it far.

Welcome to eve, your doing it right.

It sound's like my first PVP experience, Oh so many memories!

/Princess

This is a cool little story and I hope it gets more people to try out PvP, even if you're just ganking miners. Maybe one day you'll even come out to nullsec.