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Did you get help from other players when you first started?
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Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#81 - 2014-04-30 14:24:00 UTC
Faenir Antollare wrote:
Ramona McCandless wrote:
Faenir Antollare wrote:
a Human soul


a what?

Hehe..I was alluding to the fact that there is in fact a real person behind that there avatar, "Human Soul" was a poor description and one that did me few favors xD


Ah ok lol

Gotcha

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Malcolm Shinhwa
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#82 - 2014-04-30 15:46:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Malcolm Shinhwa
I came on a buddy invite. The guy gave me 500m isk for subscribing.

My first corp, Suns of Korhal, helped me by letting me fly a fail arty hurricane on L4 missions with them just to share in the rat bounties. They didn't bother salvaging any of them, so I did that as well and they never asked for a cut. When we were wardec'd they offered me free ships. Great guys, especially Gulmint. Hope they are still doing well.

The guy I quote in my bio helped me too. But he helped me by blowing up my Venture and the free Genolution implant I got for subscribing. He showed me what an awesome game Eve is.

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BrundleMeth
State War Academy
Caldari State
#83 - 2014-04-30 15:52:48 UTC
2 Billion ISK my 3rd day in. Given to me... Hee Hee...
Doireen Kaundur
Doomheim
#84 - 2014-04-30 20:10:07 UTC
I got podded repeatedly. That taught me plenty.

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Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#85 - 2014-04-30 22:27:55 UTC
My first "help" was someone taking a look at my ships fitting and setting it right (you know, basic things like "don´t dual-tank", "don´t mix guns", "fit a DCU").
And while I later got money donations as well, this simple advice was definitely more worth than the money.

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Schminto
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#86 - 2014-05-01 10:14:33 UTC
I'm pretty new to the game myself, i've had a few people offer their assistance a few times which include:

Teaching me NOT to jump gate to gate in Nullsec.. FU bubble

Teaching me NOT to put up Transport contracts with the collateral value actually consistant with whats inside. FU guy that looks for low collateral contracts then just sits on them so they expire wasting my time.

Teaching me NOT to actually "help fund" any part of someone elses Corp. FU guy that talked me out of 500m and never logged in again.

Etc,etc,etc

Just a few helpful people that made me a smarter player.
Farsiris Arbosa
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#87 - 2014-05-02 04:28:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Farsiris Arbosa
I'm the biggest IDIOT you will ever meet in your EVE career.

So for the first time ever, I accepted charity two days ago. 100 mil donation, I promised to pay it back with interest even though he said it wasn't necessary. It was more money than I had ever had, since in the five months I've played I haven't even made it to 100 mil in my wallet (No, I'm not joking). I spend my new money on a pretty Hurricane, and mission grind a little bit with it. After two days, the BRILLIANT idea to try ratting again, even though I had lost more ships than I can name to the activity in the past.


I lose the ship to three frigates.

After pouting like a little ***** for a bit, I run back to my friend like the codependent piece of **** that I and have him donate another 50 mil so that I can get another one.

Oh, but don't worry! I yielded a whole 300k from the rats! It'll be alright.

Am I worse than most people are at this game?

Anyway, in the mean time, enjoy a raised self-esteem knowing that useless people like me exist. You're welcome.

Look at my sig, my sig is amazing