EVE General Discussion

Think my first losses were in the starter system to Concord. I kept trying to kill other rookies whenever any of the starter missions annoyed me. Luckily they found it entertaining and I quite enjoyed being squished by Concord. Probably why none of my earlier losses are particularly memorable.

The earliest two I rmember was when I'd switched to a mining character so I could spend time reading guides and grind up the ISK for learning skillbooks. Someone can flipped me, so I ended up switching to mining in a Badger. Seriously, I spent about 10 hours the following weekend mining, was ready to quit. Then went and hauled NPC trade goods into null. Ran into a gatecamp and died - and at this point got interested again. I must have turned all effects and sounds on because the explosion was spectacular and made me burst out laughing.

Later ones were all against corpies in highsec, we used to mess about quite a lot (and ran corp tournies). First proper loss was when a corpie went nuts during a tourney and podded a couple of people, so we all went and 1v1'd him. In our mission ships lmao, that was a mistake.

We had a few highsec wars which we fought rather than got ganked in. Lost a fair bit in those but it was a good way to get into PVP and get over the jitters. Once you've lost a few ships you start getting it into perspective (helps if you get a few KMs along the way).

My first pvp experience: "Oh look a wormhole..."























Heron blows up to a missile volley from a Tengu.
Received 5 mils from the guy with the message "Buy a new ship. Stay out of wormholes."
Did that ever since. :D
The money he gave me were actually more than the Heron and I bought skills and modules and stuff. So in a way the dude actually helped me.

My first loss was my brand new iteron IV. I went out and buyed a whole load of tritanium in lowsec because I would get it sooo much cheaper out there than in highsec (around...100k ISK per filled hauler). Got catched by a loki on the last gate.

This isn't mine, but I introduced my wife to the game by suicide ganking her first cruiser. That way she learned the aggression mechanics.

I got sent into low sec by a mission and my ship got absolutely melted by an old school 7 heat sink geddon. I was so awestruck by it that the pilot inspired me to take up pvp and become a pirate and around 2 years later he became my CEO by sheer coincidence. We both had a good laugh about it when I realized who he was.

My first PvP experience was with a different account. I had mined for two weeks in a bantam and desided to cash in my effort. So I took my new badger that I barely could offord and flew to the best price I could find on the market. Like 5 jumps later I enter low sec. Like 5 seconds later I was podded and laughed at. Apparently I was a "f*cking noob". Two years later I come back and start a new account. That was 2 years ago.

My first PvP experience was when a ganker followed me into a mission - me in a cruiser, him in a battleship. He hit me with a swarm of T2 drones, then after blowing up my ship and scramming my pod, offered to release me for 1 ISK and a warning that since I'm a noob and don't know much, THIS time he'll be nice about it.

It's okay. I immediately put him in my contacts with good standings. Every time he logs, I get his picture on my screen. After a few years, I too could use a T2 ship with T2 gear and T2 drones. I tracked him down using locator agents. Found him in a station, then camped it. He came out. He blew up. I gave him 1 ISK, with a message that read: You don't remember me, do you.

I lost my first ship because I tried doing a Sleeper site with a Thrasher (almost alpha'd by one shot from an Orthrus, lol) and ran away to a planet. I hadn't bookmarked the hole back, so while I was probing I hadn't noticed the Loki that had appeared to give me a big hug.

Your first PvP experiences will almost always be a loss. Its what you learn from the losses that counts.

When I was 2 weeks old, I jumped into Rancer to do some PVE.

Yep.

Your first mistake was Rancer.
There is no PvE in Rancer..... there is only sorrow and loss.