EVE New Citizens Q&A

I read about the game and watch a lot gameplay vids. I knew what I was getting into.

The one thing I was clear on....don't trust anyone, getting screwed is part of the game.

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Hi guys, Its been great contributing to this forum, like i like to do in most game forums. But my Trial, Runs out today, and I have decided, That For An Old gamer like myself, The mechanics of this game Is to much to remmember, having had to Buy a folder, and type out all the differant objects I have in both my charactors ships, Plus mountains of info and waypoints i wrote down maually, because i kept getting lost, trying to get back to my system.

But my main reason for quiting, is based on what i thought was an unbalanced mission, impossible for The "Punisher", even fully stacked. Punisher Frigate is The highest level i can use at momment.

Please tell me, if you think I havent tried this mission right:

Mission was to engage some smugglers out of Azban, along with two Cargo freighters, and Loot the cargo of ,I think some mercenrys or bad guys inside. This mission was just a level 1 secutiry job.

Ok, ship was fully fitted wiith 3 turrets With multifrequancy ammo, plus a "ghoul" device which either drains the enemy capacitor or slows them down. I had two Shield, But Wanted a muvh larger one, but ship said my engine capacitor had only 60 of the 120 units left to use it. At the bottom I had an after burner, and a reinforced Fibre Hull Module.

Approaching the 8 escorts and the Cargo Ships, I was a bit disturbed , that they began firing on me at 20km away, taking damage before i was in any of the ranges of my Hybrids which was 9000Metres. The "Ghoul" would only work at 6000M.

At approacing at 9km i had already used half of my capacater, using the repairer and the shields, by the time i was at 1km, i was already getting the alarm sounding. I litterally had enough time to fire a few shots and warp out again. After 1 hour managed to down two of them, but the next half hour, the cargo Ships also fired on me, and in a few seconds My ship was lost. (but 100% insured)

I returned to base and Just had enough money for another one, and to buy all the equipment again, setting off, i was quite angry to see, all the ships were back, all the damaged ones, had been returned to NO damage status, meaning the red damage, had gone, After 3 hours of trying to take 10 ships out, My remaining ship, couldnt support the rate of capacitor discharge and I lost that ship as well.

So. Point is, Why does a level 1 agent send you on a mission, knowing, you have only a small type of craft, to defeat 10 Enemys?? Also, It all the more annoying, that each time I backed away to repair my ship, All the ships I had previoulsy damaged a few minutes ago, were now back at 100%, meaning in reality, I was in a No win scenario

I feel the balance was extremely poor, and now Im left with only 23300IDKs, its not really worth me going on and spending money on a sub, when the mission level, does not seem to linked to the abilty of the pilot or the Ship he was able to fly.

The Punisher is top of the Frigate range, but fitting a missile turret, i wasted 500,000IDK on,because , when i tried to fit it, even though i have small missile skills. The Ships told me. there are no places to put a missile battery, either because You dont have enough slots, or the ship can not be fitted with them. I took out all the other hi power weapons out of there slots, and tried fitting the missile launcher, again it refused to fit it, so i had to sell it. So, now i buy A higher powerd laser, (medium) another 200,000IDK, Imagine my annoyance again, when it refused to fit, saying my capacitor cant Run that Module.

In the end after nearly 4 hours, I had to cancel the mission, as lost 3 ships, and got disheartened, I done my very best, to finish this level 1 mission, but all was weighted against me, and sadly, Its put me off totally from continuing and upgrading the trial.

Thanks so much for all the help, comments, and what seems to be a a good community, but for me, at my Age, perhaps its more suited to more nimbled minded people who arent drawing there pension yet.

bye and of course "Live Long And Prosper"

Mike

Just a little correction: Medium Pulse Laser I is a small laser, but the most cpu/powergrid hungry.

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Yes abuse this newbie some more and make him feel terrible. That'll convince him that EVE is awesome and that it's his loss.

Tip, don't train 2 characters on 1 account that early. Better to get 1 up and running before branching out into multiple.

Also your race doesn't mean you have to fly that race ships.

I have a Minmatar toon who flies Gallente
I have a Minmatar toon who flies Amarr
And an Amarr one who flies minmatar.

EVE is open to you, do what you like, there are only couple of boundaries (no botting, no RMT, no new-player griefing, no exploits)

And there is the point. EVE isn't handheld, by joining a corp you take a risk of being shot at.

As for people joining a corp just to kill people, if they can, then the security of the corporation is to blame. They should have did some research on the new recruit.

You are asking CCP to change high-sec in handheld themepark. That isn't EVE, want arranged fights, there are other MMO's for that.

Don't want to be shot by fellow corp mates. Join a proper corp, do some research before you join OR stay in NPC corp.

The OP joined a corp who has a killboard filled with griefing kills + there was a 2nd post on New Citizens Q&A about same corp with same tactic (killing a new player who had no clue what he was doing) on the front page. A little bit of research would have stopped it from happening. But I'm happy it is actually against rules (see ISD post) what that corp is doing as it falls under New player griefing.