EVE General Discussion

Let me tell you my story.

I've been playing since 2004. I loved the game, the people, but most of all, the possibilities. By 2008, I had found myself in a major nullsec holding alliance. Life was good. The ISK was rolling in, the people were great... but there just wasn't enough action for my taste. I needed something new. That's when I heard about people creating alt accounts to infiltrate corporations, gain trust, and rob them blind in the end. I decided to give it a go.

I rolled a Gallente character and decided to noob it up for a little while. It was refreshing, having a clean slate and no ties to anything, seemingly limitless freedom. I knew from my experience, however, that without other people, I would be fighting an uphill battle against the universe. I decided to do a little mining as some income while I looked for a target corporation.
Soon enough, the opportunity came. I started chatting with some guys running a little mining operation out of the Center for Advanced Studies. It was just 3 guys. Two Retrievers jetcanning and an Iteron hauling. Got to chatting with them, and they seemed like good guys. Just a little too trusting. Perfect.

The leader, we'll call him DQ, talked about his plans to start a corp of his own so we could put up a high-sec tower, research some blueprints, and start producing and selling our wares. I was already training for Exhumers and an Itty 5 with plans of attaching myself to them. It paid off - I was invited to join them.

First order of business was to move out of Gallente space. High-sec botting was getting ridiculous and the belts were frequently picked over, if there was anything left at all. After a little while of DQ scouting around, he found what sounded like paradise to a high-sec miner. He spoke of a region where botters hadn't touched, the asteroids were huge and plentiful, and the place was nigh deserted. We were moving to a small region in Amarr space.

Over the coming months, we got in with mission agents for a hard grind, eventually getting the corporation's standings with the region's holders high enough for us to plant a large tower. We set up labs for researching, most of us were in Hulks by that time and business was good. It wouldn't last.

It wasn't long before we caught the attention of high-sec wardec corps. I knew I needed another alt, one specialized in warfare. We'll call him V. My original alt we'll call J. Our corporation was up to 15 people, excluding alts, but we were still heavily outnumbered and outgunned. We had to play it low-key, hiding in stations until they got bored. It was no problem for DQ, who knew the market game and had jumpclones all over the trade hubs of New Eden, but for the rest of us, it meant we might as well not play Eve at all.

Soon after the war corp finally dropped its declaration, Apocrypha came out. We found a Class 3 wormhole and went in with the corp's new Orca, dropped a tower and started setting up for running sites. As you all will know, however, Eve is not that easy.

For a time, it was insanely profitable. It was a Pulsar system, giving bonuses to shields. We were outfit in Drakes and Tengus when we got skilled for them and when we could afford them. Turning a profit was not difficult at all. Then another corp found our wormhole and moved in with the intent of forcing us out. We were fed up with being pushed around and weren't going to give up the biggest cash cow we've ever had without a fight. But, once again, we were faced with the issue of being outnumbered, and outgunned. But this time it was different. We were in wormhole space. Thanks to dedicated scouting and a playerbase pretty evenly split between the US and England, we were able to get a lock on their numbers at about 25 members, US timezone heavy.

We got into the practice of scouting the exits, waiting for one of them to leave, and collapsing the hole behind them. Using this strategy, we were able to shut out a decent portion of them. Then, late one night, as I was scouting the high-sec static exit, somebody came in.

wow... and what response was that?

this thread stinks of plagiarism

Honestly, its like i have to tell my teenager...

"if you spend 3 hours getting out of a 30 minute homework assignment, you lost 2 1/2 hours of your life trying to beat the system".

applied to this scenario...

"If you spend months doing mining and missioning to make several billion ISK, it is you who have been conned".

I doubt the story is actually true but this EVE. Somebody may have been at this point before.


I have been in multiple corps where I was showered with roles. Even having to ask for many of them to be removed.

To say I could have made off with enough assets to start a grand new EVE life in eve would be an understatement. Unless my memory is crap one time someone even left a damn mom right in front of me unpiloted for some mins.

Yet that would affect me greatly. This is not WoW people put serious time into their achievements and robbing them of that may give some perverse pleasure but for me I would be sad.

And worse many of these robberies cause people to leave the game. That means less money for CCP just so someone can have his laughs. We all pay the price for that one.

LOL 2 years to maybe con a "few" billion isk...self pwned.