EVE General Discussion

In one of those systems with red numbers, flying a Nemesis and a Rapier (Multiboxer) with a Prospect laying off waiting for the rat cleaning before moving in to harvest the Hemo whatever. Not that many rats but they all had big red pointy icons. Normally I'd brought something bigger but all my big stuff was history, blown to pieces either by rude people with bigger stuff or by me when I was trapped in a collapsed worm hole.

But the rats were tough and every time I killed one it seemed another took it's place, and of the two ships the Nemesis was taking a beating while the Rapier was showing just a tiny bit of shield loss. Then the alarms kicked in and I knew if I remained in harms way I was gonna lose the Nemesis to a gang of rats so I executed what I call a tactical withdrawal (Those less charitable might call it running like a scared rabbit), not even stopping at the safe spots but jumping out for home, try this thing another day.

No big sermon nor even a question, but this was the first time I'd attempted to deal with big rats deep in the badlands with nothing but a Nemesis and a Rapier. Might just have to do that hi-sec mining thing until I can field something a bit more fearsome than a couple scout ships.

How would you know what's out there in Provi? Heard stories? You sure weren't there yourself, since that would mean entering an actual PvP zone.

You're not the smartest cookie, are you?

I was able to warp the Nemesis out, an afterburner wouldn't have made any difference. As far as the new friends thing goes I didn't come here to make friends, I came here to blow stuff up, at least initially. In my world view everybody here is a bad guy except my alts, and sometimes I wonder about them. Yeah, and the blowing stuff up: I soon discovered that One: I was the usually the one getting blown up and Two: There's a whole lot more to do here than just go around shooting people.

Check www.minerbumping.com on how to have fun while blowing stuff up.

I used a neutral scanner to run a lot of relic sites in Providence. Salvage is small so you can export a lot of it in an interceptor. The locals are fairly serious about that NRDS stuff. You can even settle in a system and run anomalies without complaints.

@ Blade Darth:
The Rapier is one of my favorite ships to fly, if you had actually read the post, and more importantly, if you had actually comprehended the post, you would have understood that one, the Rapier was doing fine, killing rats, dousing them with neuts an scrams, all that. It was the Nemesis that was about to blow. Tutorials are nice and occasionally even useful, but I don't know which one I was supposed to complete before I could fly my Rapier. With multiple characters, all kinds of different ships and operating in several different modes I've probably missed a tut or two but I usually figure it out, either before I get blown to pieces or after, hopefully before.

With respect: Doomed Philosophy.

Allies maybe, friends, no.

1) ab on the bomber
2) rapier takes months to get into, by that time one could assume pilot knows the basics. It's also a pvp boat with little to no use in pve
3) not sure if troll or a genuine newbro

Not much use neuting and scramming rats.

About the rapier/tutorial comment, I believe he meant if you can fly a rapier you should know that an AB fitted stealth bomber will help with its survival by speed/sig tanking.