EVE General Discussion

Well written story. Looking at your fitting you were using a warp disruptor so there wouldn't have been much kiting since the other guy would still be able to use his microwarp drive and he was in an interceptor.

You should think about moving your blog to http://podborn.com instead.

You can get paid and get more exposure.

See people, This is the right Attitude. This is an EVE player.

No complaining about unfairness, no calls for CCP to change basic game mechanics to prevent losing a fight. No none of that BS, just fun ending in a 'good fight' in local.

If more gamers were like Captain Soju, I'd be all on the "eve needs more players" bandwagon. But the truth is that most gamers suck and are whiny crybabies trying to escape from a horrible real life and so feel entitled to fool proof victory.

Congratulations! Levelling up is awsome. \o/

Also, nice story.

I don't remember my first PvP loss (and while I remember the first PvE one, it is best left unmentioned… suffice to say that I hadn't figured out ranges and resists yet). I remember my fist PvP attack — as in me being attacked — though, since it kind of coloured my attitude towards ganking ever since.


I was (and everyone sing along now) minding my own business mining in a belt a few jumps away from Jita. I was in my mighty Osprey — that thing sucked rocks like there was no tomorrow at the time. Suddenly, I notice that there's something blinking in local. As I look over, I see that there are now ten of us where there used to be nine and one of them has a blinking red skull on top of his name. That looks ominous — I mean, everyone has heard about the nasty ebil blinky reds, right? So it's obviously a pirate looking for some fresh meat and when I look around, it sure seems like all the fresh meat is right here in the same belt I am. Maybe one or two of the other guys in system weren't there, but still…

This looked like a bad situation so I started to align to my home station. Might as well, since I'd be full in a cycle or two anyway. Right then, the blinky appears in my overview, coming out of warp. Oh well, I'll miss out on those two cycles I suppose, so I click warp and skip off home.

Half-way there, there is a lot of swearing in local chat and the pirate kindly wonders how the hell I got out so fast. I was obviously the weaker target — no-one but a low-skilled n00b mines in a the turkey-cruiser, after all, and never mind my midslots full of tank because he couldn't have known about those — so he had gone for me and while he tried to change plans on the fly and go after one of the other miners in the belt, the popo caught up with him. Poor guy. I just explained that I saw him coming and clicked the warp button. Some more kind words followed and I landed at the station, docked, and counted my precious ore as he left the system or logged off.

This whole pirate menace everyone was talking about seemed rather overblown if it was this easy to avoid…

Hmm I wonder if there is an idea here - Extra skill-points for the first time you loose your ship as a noob to encourage PVP.

Fell for a trap where someone listed an item for a lot cheaper than you could get at the beginner station.
Bought the item and went to pick it up. Surprise it was in low sec space. Continued anyway.
Got to the station and then got ganged up on by 4 or 5 ships (I was in the newbie ship).
Ship blown up and then got podded.

I was annoyed at myself for falling for the trap. Didn't really care about losing the ship since it is free.
Annoyed at being podded as I feel that was unnecessary. Also felt that ganging up on a single newbie ship
shows lack of skill and honor. I niether raged nor conversed.

After having two other ships lost at other times and areas I learned not to bother with PvP as each time it was always
a group of people against one of me.

That being said I am not against PvP (although I don't understand the point of some suicide ganking or targeting unarmed frigates).
I would eventually like to take part in large fleet battles, be they PvP or incursion, but I'm trying to get my skills up
to a useful level (some of the skills take stupidly long to train imho).

I don't remember mine.

I lost my first ship shortly after leaving the starter system. I had purchased a second ship in a nearby system and jumped in my pod to go get it. The problem was I didn't know how the inventory and asset system worked so I didn't know how to find it again. I went on without it.

I do remember my first ship loss, because it was a few days ago (I've only been playing a few weeks). I'd poked my nose into lowsec for the first time properly and was struggling to scan down a relic site in my Magnate next to a planet when a Dramiel turned up and destroyed me while I was trying to warp away. At least my pod escaped. Next time (whenever that might be) I'll try making a bookmark mid warp and scanning there but I know even this isn't infallible.

I kinda mention it down in the article a little ways.

The expanded story:

Brand new, with a bunch of noob Aussies in a noob mining corp they set up (sensing a theme?), we got wardecced by a notorious scammer (who has since ... left... the game) after he awoxed the hell out of the corp. I missed the awoxing part, but I did undock a horribly fit Corm (hey, i was new! fitting a ship sucks when you're new!) to PvP the wardeccer and promptly got melted and podded by him in his Imperial Navy Slicer.

Now, years later I undock INCREDIBLY fit Corms!

And promptly get melted.

7o