EVE New Citizens Q&A

Very fun roam and quite well executed. Eve Voice held up well and worked fine for an event such as this. Thanks to the ISD guys who came out, they were excellent at explaining the basics when required. Please do more of these events in the future

Amazing fun

So glad that the guys in my fleet had fun, and we scored a couple of decent kills including a Domi and Cynabal before we welped

Great to see things went well and that everyone enjoyed <3<3<3

Had an enjoyable evening on the Caldari fleet.

Managed to avoid a disco 'phoon before getting some ewar onto a couple of ships.... a Gallente cruiser and a Cynabal.

Then left station and we engaged a Domi and a few other ships. Got some ewar onto the Domi and I believe it was a thrasher that decided to eat my ship, managed to get away from that with about 1% structure..

1% structure

could be mistaken about the thrasher actually. Got a bit confusing unfortunately!!

About 20 minutes later we reformed and found another frigate fleet in system, we found them at Planet 4 and I proceeded to die pretty swiftly after landing.

Thanks CCP + ISD folks! Thanks to (low se)c folk who appeared as well ;)

That was us in the Agony PvP-U fleet - we were having a different fight when we were supposed to be fighting you because you were running late or something. Then you were having a different fight when we arrived. Then we met.

Zero-range frigate brawls are pretty rapid at the start - you can try doing broadcasts if you want but its pretty futile. I dunno about anyone else but all I'm doing at the start is locking up the max number of targets ship can handle sorted by range. Then start taking down the first while the rest lock/die whatever. I've done this before (lots) and you guys haven't.

Frigate fighting is about as close to "twitch gaming" as Eve gets so probably while you guys are still deciding what to lock we were onto the second or third target.

That's just experience and knowing that fastest finger first often wins frigate fights.

I lost two frigates later on, proving my "experience" is very very rusty indeed.

Go on the Agony classes is my advice. I did and so have over 10,000 other pilots in Eve. Even if you decide you hate PvP you'll never say "jump" again unless you're the FC

Chief Cat Herder would be a more accurate title

Edit - public fleets are often compared to herding cats in terms of difficulties for the FC.

I joined the Minnie fleet, trailed the FC through several systems, joined the group in kicking some other capsuleers (...while they where down...) and died horribly in the end. No T-Shirt.


But seriously - it was a fun and well enjoyed event. First getting some basic lessons in fleet maneuvering - having read all about it in uniwiki and the various handbooks out there just isn't the same - with a fleet that was cozy enough not to be distracting was a good start. Besides knowing that most of the other guys around me are as inexperienced as me, makes it alot easier to ask questions when I simply didn't get it when it was explained the first time around .

Then after the third or fourth system when we aquirred a loving fellowship that just wanted to enrich our starting PvP experience by showing us the light - literally - and our trusty cat herder... ehhhm I mean FC, developed the slightest hitch in his voice ("JUMP JUMP JUMP. NOW.") it got even more interesting.

Ohh and let me tell you about my personal enlightenment when we turned around and kicked our pursuers butts and I finally understood people telling me that in Eve every ship is valuable - even a cheap fitted frigate. Sure we lost some of ours in that fight but in the end we went on... and our adversaries didn't. Counts, doesn't it?


And then there was the final part. After someone nicely sacrificing their Myrmidon so we can have a little target practice - and the fireworks was a nice touch there - RvB showed up, which ended the event for me in a series of hectic and highly hilarious moments ("cool - target rich environment! lets sort this overview list. now where's this Mangala ship we're supposed to fire on... there. not in target range? mwd on! not good - red on the hp bar so i'm getting fired on... wait it's gone? uhh... whoa you're an ugly corpse, but what do you want to tell me... wait, that's me? drek! i didn't even get to fire on someone! gaahhhhh").


As said before, it was a most enjoyable event and truly. So a big thanks from me to organizers and everyone who participated, but especially CCP Eterne for starting this shinding, CCP Gargant for herding us through the systems and being allaround patient, ISD CraftyPoint for leading us into glorious battle (and throwing in the funny reference to the other space related product we're not gonna name here), RvB for giving us a good fight, and last but not least my fellow minnies who I was proud to have died alongside - may we all rest in pieces!

I remember seeing this and laughed so much, great advertisement for Amamake. I used to live down that way way before it became the hot spot it is today. Was based out of Gulmorogod running missions in my youth. I may have cause to revisit.

Up at 3am for this one (AEST time), fleet chatter about what everyone was drinking...Beer, Tequila etc.. I made myself a nice hot cup of tea...., settled back and enjoyed how our FC @CCP Gargant managed to organise a rag tag of noob capsulers (self included) into a semi sufficient war machine

This was my first combat fleet ops and my first assisted kill - hoorah...was defiantly worth the early start. Thanks for organising. had a ball

Question: When we warped away from the Tempest (I thing it was the tempest, before we killed it).. how did it manage to track us down so quickly...we warped to a gate and it seemed to be only seconds behind us...would he have just dscanned each gate at 5 degrees - he just seemed to track us down super fast.

Can someone also post some of the FC terms we used in the OP with their meaning, e.g. gate is red, the one for not de-cloaking, mods on etc

Thanks again for organising
Cheers

Our fighting group consisted of Alumni from our PvP courses.

If you were part of the caldari fleet we slaughtered, post "I was there" in the feedback thread and I'll have you scholarshipped into a future PvP-Basic class.

This should be posted up and used in future classes. E-UNI have fantastic resources and CCP should (if they don't already) tap into that knowledge.