EVE General Discussion

I still get pretty hefty shivers in solo fights and in small, personal gangs. I have to run a trip around the block or do pushups to get it out of my system afterwards, which would otherwise be quite out of character for me.

However, in more impersonal fleet fights, the FC makes the decisions and everything else is just so much SRP.

LUUUUULzZzzzzz

I get a rush each time I post something.

You learn to love it. It's like blow.
Not that I would know about doing blow.

I always blame it on the booze...but then I go to the meetings, drink a gallon of free coffee and share my pain.

My most recent PVP loss really gave me the shakes.

I'd been working on fixing my security status, mostly by blitzing L4 missions in an Ishtar that was PVP fitted (but active tanked). Given that I have public killrights available against me most of the time, I treat highsec as similar to lowsec and exercise quick precautions. I D-scan pretty often, looking for both probes and ships.

Anyway, before I've even been probed down, I derp, shoot the wrong trigger and am forced to warp off from rats at 10% armor and next to no cap. Being in a one-station system I repair my armor in space and get cap to 20% or so, then warp back to a very well laid trap on the in-gate to the mission. A suspect Vexor buys my cheapest killright (flagging me suspect) and scrams and webs me. Three Ogre IIs start to work on me.

I quickly establish that the opponent is armor buffer tanked (you never know with a Vexor) and make a decision that was in hindsight wrong - I choose to attack the hull, not the drones. I'm managing what little cap I have, rationing it, alternating my local repper between off, on and overheated, balancing capacitor and thinking I will pull it off. I'm ready to overheat all four blasters as soon as they are in structure.

It's not to be - the trap the opponent had set ensured that they caught me with full cap while I had next to none, and on an active tanked ship, cap is life. I pop and get my pod out, and give a GF in local.


I think that's my biggest loss so far (I fly very cheap ships). ~350m ISK isn't much to me at all, but having even that amount on the line just made the encounter so much more exciting.

TL;DR

Sometimes. Like a few days ago, one of my alts attacked a miner in an ice belt out in 0.0. I felt the rush, my hands were shaking, heart pounding, etc. It was awesome

Then today that same alt got jumped while in a Stratios vs a pilgrim. I had the initial "OH ****!" moment, but after a few i calmed down.. it was actually a very boring fight. i was out of cap after getting him to 1/4 shield and had to seriously wait 4 min before his buddy came in to finish me off. I was seriously like 'HTFU and kill me'

If i know i am dying, i don;t get that feeling usually a small rush that passes once i get fired and realize i am dead.

I'm an '08 player, and I'll see soon enough if I get that feeling again. I stopped playing for a while when the game lost meaning for me. There were other things to do. Don't remember my log in info for the other Character and thought, it'd be fun to start all over again.

In fleets, not so much.

Solo, oh hell yes. One of the reasons I don't PvP as much as I plan to. Fun though.

The weird thing is I only get the shakes when our scout calls that he has a juicy target on D-scan.
During the actual fight I'm dead calm.

Anticipation of a fight gives me more shakes than fighting too, my heart races more when im engaging in PvE in nullsec, hostile enters the system and appears on overview. OSH IT moment.