EVE General Discussion

I'm still new, but now that I upgraded from trial and can post in this part of the forums, I figured why not make one of these threads?

Simple, just share the things you've done as a newb.

I shall start:


One time, I had a Caldari Navy Small Shield Extender. No idea how I got it but I figured I'd fit it to my Merlin. Well, I was told to sell it instead of using it due to the fact it cost more than what I was Pilot. I planned on doing so but it slipped my mind. Well, I do a Mission and my Merlin is destroyed. I realized still had the Caldari Navy Shield Extender fitted after I couldn't find it in my assets, I was planning to sell it to replace my Merlin.

A few people donated a lot of ISK to me, it totalled 145mil ISK from all the donations. First thing I did was train into Cruisers and get a Caracal. Now I'm terrified to undock it, so I use Destroyers instead. Only I don't get to pilot them often, so I still mostly pilot Frigates. Now I wonder why I even trained into Destroyers and Cruisers in the first place.

One time I piloted a Comorant into Low-Sec and saw an Ibis so I engaged, thus flagging me and giving me a -0.1 Suspect Level. The Ibis was a trap. I then got Podded on my way back into Caldari Space.

Bestower for me.

The old mining upgrade line for Caldari went something like this:

Ibis -> Bantam -> Badger -> Badger II -> Osprey -> Actual Mining Barge

Those were the days, when you actually had to think about what you can make into a half-decent mining ship. Now we just get spoiled with Ventures :P.

When more of a newbie than I am now, I never really paid attention to the mission details and I unknowingly accepted a mission in low-sec. I freaked when I got the warning message before entering the system in my rupture - I had no idea to check local, let alone d-scan for pirates. I went anyway and was thrilled when there was no one at the gate and I ran the mission successfully.

Of course I got greedy and was promptly blown to bits along my pod when i went back with my salvaging destroyer. And my clone was 30 jumps away because I didn't know you were supposed to move it.

Back when you cuold get shot in HiSec without Concord resopnse... Parking my cruiser in a belt for a bio break, then grabbing a beer, finally sitting down just in time to see the guy in the n00bship finishing off my first cruiser hull.

Driving my shiny new Drake though a camped gate, and getting jumped by two Cruisers, piloted by n00bs who could barely fit them. First major kill to me. :)

oh and I remember the first ship I ever lost. Tormentor with hybrid's (Blasters I think) on it. The rats that destroyed it were doing me a HUGE favor that day.

woops double post

Solo Bestower from Lonetrek to Fountain @ warp to 15 before bookmarks were a thing. 4.5 hours later, op success.

+1 scouting in an Armageddon for corp move to Catch. I knew it was wrong. Did it anyways. I miss that Geddon.

For about the first two weeks in the game I was like "wtf is SKILLS". I got plenty of skills. Don't need no trainin'.

Pirates of the Carribean had just come out and I was determined to become a rat. I set out to Mara, maybe, in the Merlin of horror. Few jumps later, through the next gate, a fat flashy red Moa lands close enough to see the rivets in its hull. Never targets me. It was one of those eternal moments where all the past logins and undocks, mining ops and such flash through your mind. I wonder if that Moa is still out there, somewhere, waiting to finish that moment.

And then, just recently, I witness a Hulk slowboating through about 65k of bubbles in null. I'm like, itsbeautiful.jpg :'D

As a new player before the new player tutorials I joined a nullsec corp. One of the other members suggested I pod myself out to nullsec and he'd donate ships and fits to get me started. So I moved my clone and self destructed. I woke up in the nullsec station. The corpmate was good to his word and immediately opened a trade window and gave me a drake and fits. Along with a couple of frigates. I was so excited to get out and make some isk!

A week later I made the long trip to empire again to meet with another player. His plans changed and I decided to save myself the long trip back to null and pod myself. I woke up in empire space in the starter system with a notification mail that said due to not having my clone updated I had just lost the equivelant SP of 15 days training in cruisers V. I was pretty pissed and very disappointed.

Lesson learned.
Always double check your clone status before podding yourself. Update your clone...always!