In-Game Events and Gatherings

As long as some jackass isn't targeting a specific newbie again and again, that's not griefing. Or is your definition of griefing now "getting shot at"?

Also, as it was mentioned several times already: Nothing prevents newbies from taking out their ships to go on a Venture-hunt, too. That's the reason Venture are the target: They're the weakest mining ship and the only one a brand new player could easily gank themselves.

There is some really weird cognitive dissonance going on in this thread were newbies could only possibly the victim, not the ganker. This is weird, how can someone think newbies would want to mine that badly? And of course I'm not even mentioning cases like experienced players using Ventures for gas mining in W-Space. By the logic of some in this thread, flying a T1-frigate automatically makes you a newbie.

Apparently you do not know what cognitive dissonance means, since you just fell victim to it and ignored my entire argument. Don't you think it would be pointless of me to answer you if you ignore what I'm saying?

First to clearify something you stated earlier, there are many young characters flying frigates killing ventures.

gimme isk!

Was playing devil's advocate there chief. For the most part I agree with you. However, if you are at war with a corporation, you want to make it a priorority to find their production center and hit it hard and repeatedly.

With this contest, it's basically a bunch of pussies who can't hack it in the lower security sections of the game preferring to prey on easy kills, namely ventures. When given a chance to fight ships that could shoot back in the alliance tournament, they wimped out and didn't show up, thus forfeiting.

Now if a team fielded a fleet of Ventures and Retrievers, they'd be all over that. ;)

Being one of these new players, I feel rather compelled to weigh in on this whole thing as it was this very contest that actually drew me to sub in the first place. I have tried EvE on numerous occasions, but nothing ever truly held my interest for longer than the trial. Soon, what I'd found was I loved the ~idea~ of EvE. But the implementation was a rather different story.

In my brief experience, gameplay boils down to one of two things. Totally safe and unimaginably boring with no clear cut goal-driven direction; or a light-show sponsored by your unintentionally donated ship depending which section of space you decided to point your asymmetrical soon-to-be scrap medal in. That being said, hear me out.

While sitting at work, I was browsing the forums since more often than not, they're more entertaining for the outsider looking in, than the game itself. Low and behold, I brushed passed this topic and thought, 'wow, this actually sounds interesting enough to check out.' This was a chance to see some of this so-called compelling gameplay that didn't end 5-seconds later with anti-matter rounds rammed so far up your ass you can see the stamped serial number.

This was a chance to feel a little less safe because as I said at the start, there are 2 forms of EvE. Totally safe, or suicidal. With this, now there is a mild chance of a ruined day with a possibility of tale-telling survival. A good intermediary for someone who wants the excitement EvE promises that doesn't devolve into farming in space, or something resembling ramming your head squarely against a brick wall.

So, I plunk down some $, reactivate my 7 year old trial account, and beeline for that free venture through the tutorial missions. That’s right; I'm not here to shoot ships. I'm here to be one of these poor venture pilots that should be coddled and protected until I’m fat, juicy and ripe for picking 3 months later.

Got my venture, great! Slap on my trusty civilian rock blaster, and shove my ship out to the noobie kill-fest that is apparently EvE. Know what I found when I got there? Rocks, Bots, and no smoking barrels.

Now, I’m not exactly sure what I was hoping to find, but I certainly expected someone to try and blap my lowly unfitted, sub-500k piloted little stone gobbler, but I even spent a day phsssshing rocks in a couple low security regions without so much as a poorly worded phrase of intimidation! I mean, it was just quiet, and empty (like space!)

So, here I sit again excitmentless, and unsure what I should be doing. I considered going shark and trying to eat the little venture minnows myself, but I don’t know how to properly fit a vessel, nor what I need to be focusing on as far as skill-downloading. I’m not saying EvE should be the noobie-feast it’s made out to be, but I definitely would like that feeling of not 100% safe, or even 90%.

My point with all of this? We’re not being splat like little gnats though that would be more interesting, but getting a few rockets rammed down our throats is as likely to keep players like me as drive away someone.

(That said, where do I go for friends, mindless fun and explosions? Evemails welcome!)

There's a good deal of advice on the minerbumping website (www.minerbumping.com).

If I remember, I'll contract you three or four gank-fit Catalysts when I get home from work tonight.

Does it count if we kill a different ship while using a venture?

I would guess this would count as zero Venture kills, so in a way, yes it counts.

Can I donate 300 gank fit catalysts as the prize for the most ganked venture pilot?
I figure they might be looking at a profession change after this.