EVE General Discussion

I've been playing EVE on and off for about 2 years and just a couple months ago got back into it again. So soon as i rejoined i had to get accustomed to everything again and refigure out what everything did.

So i felt i was pretty comfortable with my knowledge and i joined a great corp that i am still with. But when i first joined i was asking questions and whatnot about different stuff in the game. Eventually i had saved up enough money to buy my first Dramiel for some pvp roams we did. I got it all fitted nicely with the help of my corp mates. After it was all said and done it cost me about 80 -90 mil. Not a terribly high amount but it was alot for me back then.

So one day we decide to have a small gang lowsec roam in a system about 5 jumps away. I was flying my Dram and two other guys were in Drakes. We get to the system and immediately D-scan and all that buisness and we find a retriever on scan. We start roaming the belts and finally find him. (quick note this is post-Retribution). He is sitting there minding his own buisness and we knew we had him. We go to attack him. I lock on and attempt to warp scram him.

To my confusion my warp scrambler refused to work (remember again Post-Retribution) I keep clicking it and nothing happens. And all this time this guy is still sitting there happily mining away. I finally figured out that my safety was still on so i quickly turned that off. I finally scram him and start firing my autocannons at him. My corp mates had a similar problem and they too figured out it was the safety and started attacking him. We got him down to half armor and then to my surprise i notice i am taking a butt-ton of damage. I think to myself no drones can do that.

Then to my horror i glance up at the system info....SECURITY LEVEL: 0.5..... Then i saw concord warp in and pop all of us whilst the miner continued on his merry way. We hadnt realized we were in the system right before the lowsec one and then proceeded to "Roam Hisec". It definitely gave our other corpies something to laugh about and we still joke about it to this day. I was quite disheartened at my mistake but my corpies said it was cool and we all moved on.

I was still sad about my loss until the next day when i entered a random lottery i found and won a Machariel! (no joke) I was so giddy that day i couldnt believe my great luck. I lost a 80 mil frigate but gained a 1.25 bil ship the next day. My corpmates couldnt believe it as i hopped in my new Machariel and flew outside of the station for all to see. It was truly my best story of EVE and my best day in EVE as well.

Once upon a time, around two weeks(several months) of time ago, I decided I wasn't playing actively enough to enjoy what a good corporation could offer and I wanted to just have fun adventures in EVE. Specifically! I wanted to find out all the ways people would react to a situation they had never encountered before :3

I decided to fit up my super sneaky Tengu with 3 warp core stabilisers, an Interdiction Nullifier, and a Covert Ops Cloaking Device . Already I bet 38 of you are furious! Some at the destruction of a Tengu with 3 stabilisers and some at the thought of how annoying this ship would be in your peaceful 0.0 home! >:] Well fear not! My adventure was not going to asplode anyone, in fact, it would do the opposite!

After fitting my ship I zoomed off to my first 0.0 home, which was located in the NPC nulsec space. You know the one Im talking about! It has Serpentis rats and lots of hot drops and abandoned POSs all over. From there I wandered around until I ended up in Deklein which I think is where I really wanted to be anyways. This is where I began my sneaky hunt, trying to catch unsuspecting or sleepy GoonSwarm pilots in belts or anomalies or floating too far off station! Eventually I did so c: I caught a nice fun hurricane in a belt, and quickly scrambled his warping engine so that he had to stay and play with me. Of course he opened fire on me, but being in a perfect Tengu it did very little damage.

I didn't shoot missiles at his ship, though, as most Tengus like to do. Instead I opened up with a barrage of light shield transporters, while firing my missiles at the rats that were targeting him. I said I was here to assist but for some reason he did not believe me. Eventually (not really far eventually just a few more seconds) his super loyal friends zoomed in and warp disrupted me. The Tengu is the best ship there can be but without the perfect active tank they knew they would surely kill me now. But don't forget! I am an experienced adventurer and quickly warped off, thanks to my triple warp core stabilised Tengu engine, leaving some very confused capsuleers behind.

This was the game I played with them for the next few days, moving from system to system so no one would eventually wise up and decided to fit a triple point frigate to really catch me. This was until I was invited to a system by someone on the forums, the system VFK. ( I was not really invited I was just given a system name and since I was already close I decided to float there) But there I was! The system full of a billion bees. The game I had played with the less populated systems seemed too scary to play here. How could I rep and escape when so many were always everywhere!

I decided I would have to play a new adventure game while I waited for this person to show up in the system he named. I used a blockade runner to move about 40 low priced deadspace mods out to my VFK Tengu. From then on I would drop them one at a time off station, and see how brave the people were for nummy blue prizes. Of course it seems like obvious bait from a cloaked Tengu! To pull people off station and then eat them for sure, but eventually people started to scoop them up, an soon realized I was just an unskilled adventurer who was wasting time.

I feel like I have sort of been wasting time in this story because the event that amazed me the most has not come yet and thats really what I want to say! But the backstory is important. Anyways! I did end up dying once in VFK, so DONT laugh at me! It was not my fault, Team Liquid was attacking and I was going to decloak and drop some prizes for them as well when my internet cut off :[ when I logged back in I was floating in my capsule in the middle of the scariest space in the universe! But being the clever adventurer, and remembering the goal of my adventure, I decided to ask a GS member to bring me a cloaky SB that I had purchased from the station in VFK.

Do not confuse this with being naive! I am not saying I am not naive, but I am not THAT naive! I knew most likely he was either going to just keep it, or even more likely kill me, but that is the fun of it, trying to find the instance of interaction when another player does not do what is easiest, what is expected of them, but instead does the opposite for no good reason at all! Obviously my first adventure test was to see how people responded to that happening to them, but now I wanted it to happen to me!

He killed me.

The next day I was back in VFK with a new Tengu, a prettier one I think, it had less core stabs but also less points so it was sort of a nice balance. Anyways, I continued with my prize dropping game while waiting for someone who I was waiting for but no one really knows who that is. I know it is kind of cheating, dropping prizes definitely might almost sort of affect the way people respond to a neutral in their most prized system but I think it is a fair test still! Because you seeee, I eventually did get what I wanted!

One day as my prizes were running low, I decided I wanted to adventure into wormholes as well (I have different adventure plans for wormholes that are much more far fetched but so much more spectacular they would be worth the loss of any number of pretty Tengus). Anyways I wanted to do the wormholes too, but did not have a probe launcher on my Tengu. I was casually mentioning this to one of the people who had regularly raced to my blue prizes, when he offered to fit my Tengu in the station for me. This was an even BETTER chance for me to achieve my goal. I told him I would accept his deal and that he could meet me in deadspace and I would eject my Tengu. I mostly expected it to be destroyed by a thousand angry missiles, but there is always that hope you know!

It all started the day I learned about the existence of wormholes. The day I learned my true purpose in New Eden. To explore... To be free, unfettered from the claustrophobic stench of K-space... I had never really felt at home in hi-sec.

Once I had learned the sacred art of probe scanning, I knew I was ready to set sail into the unknown abyss; my home which I had never known.

I scanned down signatures in hi-sec, and bingo! Found a wormhole! I had done it! I warped to it, and after many moments of silence sitting in awe, I began my approach in my trusty myrmidon. What would happen? Would I find riches untold? Would I die horribly in a fire? Would the shifting tides of J-space strand me, leaving me cold and lonely, lost and insecure, in a harsh, unforgiving, foreign environment? But it wasn't foreign. It was home, and I somehow knew this before I ever took my first step into J-space. I took a deep breath, and took my first leap out of my comfort zone.

-this wormhole seems to lead into unknown parts of space.-

...

Good.

*vvvvvvrrrraaaWWWWWOOOOOWWWNWWWWNWN*

The wormhole yawned at me in boredom as I entered it's orifice, and there is nothing suggestive about anything I have stated so far.

I had done it... My first foray into J-space had been a success!