Out of Pod Experience

I've been in game 3 months. This character does nothing but station trade (I refuse to mine and mission running is ******* boring). I seeded my trade account with PLEX. After the first month in game I typoed a buy order and ****** myself out of the whole first months worth of profits (more than 400 mil) and got a ****** email from the guy who got the stack of 42 mil on 4.2 mil items saying "he'd like to do more business" with me... I lost another 100 mil to a typo and got fatalistic with the SCL tournament betting and losing 400 mil and then winning it back.

I also got scammed by Somer Blink for 50 mil and lost another about 150 mil after I got greedy with the "Free Frigate" games in local in a trade hub (I won something like 2 dozen but of course that's still a huge red balance) where the object is to get you to click then hit enter 2x fast without fulling reading the contract so the 7.7k frigate becomes 77.7 mil.

I put the remaining money back on my PvP main who does nothing with the market where it's reasonably safe leaving myself only 150 mil to start back up again. Here it is about month and a half later, and I have over a billion in assets in my hangar, another 1.5 billion in escrow + sell orders and a 1.6 bil wallet.

The moral of the story is learn, and persist. EVE has no hand holding. FW PvP once TEST joined the squids, and I'm actually allowed in fleets because of my corp tag instead of everyone assuming I'm a spy, is the most fun I've had in game.

PS, FROGS 4 LIFE!!

I had a situation like this on christmas eve last year. Ended up getting 1.4bil and a bhaal for free. Not everything is a scam, go figure.

Its not even clear from your OP weather you were scammed or not. You very clearly got excited by the prospect of profit, and took a risk with your wallet on something you poorly understood. Maybe you were scammed,So what? you still have your character, your gametime, you're smarter than you were before. You found something you enjoyed doing in FW. You lost 350m isk, but really, that's the least valuable of your possessions in EVE. Keep searching for a good FW corp. They are out there. Once you get one, they'll keep you in pvp frigs and help you get on your feet again. An enthusiastic rookie capable of taking initiative and following instructions is actually a valuable asset, providing ships for one is pretty standard really.

I've had losses. Bad ones. Most I chalk up to my own stupidity. You feel like you want to just get away from the game for a bit. Give it a day or two, then suck it up, and keep having fun. In another month this will just be a distant memory from your noob days. And everyone has those stories of getting scammed or being dumb. Its just part of the journey.

Share the markettrade bot please.

Did your parents not teach you 1 of the basic rules of life?

When somthing is too good to be true. It probably is.

I'm all for scams, but posts like this are ridiculous. The OP was new to the game and apparently missed the "everything in eve is a scam" memo, have a little more empathy. (And yes I realize this is a troll post, but it just isn't funny, there is no in game way for a new player to distinguish scams like this from legit sales other than doing significant market research before every sale).

To the OP: Part of the draw of eve for a lot of people is the fact that no one is trustworthy. If that is an issue it probably isn't the game for you. If you do decide to come back, I hope you can learn to better protect your assets from people both in and out of combat.

**** bots. I do it when I'm bored at work then I get paid to play =)

every time i log into eve, i'm reminded of that poster that hangs on mulder's wall. you know, the one that reads "trust no one". welcome to eve.

And my dad thought I was the most bull headed person on the planet.

Sounds like he had the best of all worlds in EVE, advice and monetary support from an experienced friend. I did the same thing you did, but for a random person in a mining system under very similar circumstances. Cooled him down, gave advice, etc. He's been my best EVE online friend from half way around the world for years now.

Maybe once he cools off and realizes that, while he did get set upon pretty brutally at first, he loaded the final shots in the chambers himself and should give EVE another spin now that the rose colored glasses have been smashed off him.

I agree about your conclusion that this game is amazing, but the player base is terrible. I dont play so much any more, mostly because I didnt read the subtext in the EvE tag line: Do whatever you want.....(as long as other players let you)