EVE General Discussion

As i get close to my big two year birthday, I can't help but think about the people and events that marked my journey among the stars of New Eden. I've had a great time and see no real end in sight. I ask everyone to post their one event. The single event in your entire time with Eve that defined who you are.


Years Playing Eve: 1 year, 10 months
Time spent inactive: 2 months
My Event:
When I was 3 months into eve I was flying my great hero Rifter while I waited for the learning skills I was just taught about to finish training. Can flipping in Bille, I came across a Savatage Industries mining op jetcan mining. I of course, having a very basic understanding of mechanics at the time, can flipped them. Little did I know they would open fire. Leading to the deaths of a Retriever, Catalyst, and a Tristan, before I was put to a swift fiery doom. THE VERY NEXT DAY they were at it again. This time they ran, and I failed to point the hauler used to pick up the ore. I followed the hauler one system over to Atlanins and grabbed his Cormy on the undock. At this point the rest of his corp mates undock a drake, moa, tristan, drake fleet and make to the closest belt.

I follow, in which I am greeted by a barrage of missile fire. Sadly for them, they failed to kill me, and Concord made short work of their ships. For the next 3 months I was chased by a corp they hired to hunt me, along with themselves. I was forced to make friends, work with others, gather intel, prepare pvp skills. I meet some great pilots along the way, and had a blast. It was my sandbox moment if you will.

What was yours?

First low-sec roaming kill.

A friend and I wanted to try the roaming thing. He had a cloaky scout alt and a Rifter. I had a Rifter of my own. His scout found an Arbitrator roaming some asteroid fields alone. He held cloak a few km away and we gated through and warped. I tackled and we began firing. The Arbitrator targeted me with his lasers and released his drones. Immediately I got closer to avoid his medium lasers, and scrambled to target his pursuing drones. At 50% struc on my ship, we finally popped him.

Event: Incursion Live events

Location: Deltole VI

It was my first time doing major FCing after getting access to my command ships. From the RP channel I was a part of, gathered a 65 man fleet and got into the largest PVE event that has ever happened in eve online. With proper organization, we were one of the only fleets not to take any losses. At least none were reported. After this event, I got largely into the RP community and heavily involved in the remaining live events.

To this day, it is still the most fun I have had in eve, even compared to large pvp fights. They had excitement and visual overload without the political fapping, blobbing or powergaming. No rewards, it was all bring it and fight with it. In the end, I lead fleets of over 200 randoms and maintained minimal losses compared to what most other fleets or individuals experienced.

Four Wormholes

The Slave Commander

Markus On Location

Under Heavy Barrage

The Swarm

The following videos are not mine, but they are awesome, a good guy I ran with later on.

The Deltole Invasion Video: Pt. 1
The Deltole Invasion Video: Pt. 2

As a developer, the first Dev Caravan event in Tama. Watching everyone in the office get so excited, getting over initial difficulties with newer/totally new players, worrying that noone would show up, then rocketing the system kills from 56 the day before to 2009 on our day

As a player, I'll always have really fond memories of the first time the corp I was in tried to do organised small gang PvP, got really excited roaming around low looking for some enemies, finding some, and getting HORRIBLY HORRIBLY OWNED by them I think we managed to lose around 10 ships without getting a single one of theirs (though I came close to getting a semi afk Anathema lurking when I went back to POS to get my 2nd (pointless fit) ship!)

Investing in GS, nothing has been the same since.

Taking part in the inital incursion events - ending up in a system as the first PC responder to an incoming wormhole and having a near 5 minutes with myself and an Event Actor fighting an entire wave of incursion ships as the rest of the PC fleet gathered up. Then being told that my name was being put forward for "bravery" still makes me smile.


I'm surprised my Harbinger managed to surivive as long as it did with all the agro it was taking as well..

Earlier in my Eve carrier was scouting some gate before our system POS in low sec:

*1 neut in local for about 4 hours, same than yesterday but don't think this means something else than another AFK alt*

*k, jumping in Astarte need to join high sec for a different fit*

Suddenly something got out of nowhere, pointed the Astarte and opened cyno, I was more like this

*WTF?? -WTF??
-10 black ops 1 Aeon 2 Nyx for an Astarte?? WTH are those dudes?
-ho ok, it's just Ninja Unicorns again dropping dozens as per usual, nice pvp style*

Local: "Elite PVP !! vOv"

At that time didn't knew there are people never undocking if they are not at least 10/1, but rather 20/1, and started to understand why supercaps needed a dam nerf bat or why black ops are more than fine as they are.

Total time in Eve - 61 months.
Total playing time - 12 months

Could not play Eve for a long time, so celebrated my 5th Eve birthday by skilling for, and timing my ability to fly the Enyo a corpie had given me when I first started, for my Eve birthday

Great little ship.

Total Time in EVE: 6 Years 8 Months.
Total Time Inactive: 1 Year 7 Months.

I think my defining moment in EVE came when my original character was a mere 2 weeks old way back at the tail end of 2005. I'd joined a corp that my house mate of the time was in, part of the infamous BoB family. I was trained to use jams and scrams and used as a bait/scout ship, not that I minded, I still remember thinking how cool it was that I had the responsibility of looking out for an entire fleet of ships.

I had been tasked with scouting ahead of our main fleet during a short lived local war, my duty was to check the road ahead and then check the area surrounding where our targets were to look for stragglers or rear guards. My CEO at the time gave me a list of gates to make for, along with the appropriate bookmarks (no WTZ in those days) and then I was set free.

So off I went on my merry way, calling back on coms to alert my corp mates of any potential threats, or just some people they might enjoy blowing up for the lolz. Eventually I arrived at my destination, having gotten lost a couple of times along the way, rubbing my hands with glee that the enemy would have no idea what was about to happen. So, all full of bravado and adrenaline, I start to call out gate names and approximate enemy ship numbers and types, and then happily crowed about how we were going to kick their asses.

Sadly I had forgotten that I was talking in local, so my FC had not seen or heard any of this, the other sad thing was that I had gotten more lost than I had originally thought, and the reason I did not recognise any of the names in local (which had only just dawned on me) was that I had in fact jumped through several wrong gates and ended up in the same system as our targets, whom I had just informed about the fleet headed their way.

I called out on voice coms during a lull in the talking, trying desperately to warn everyone, but over the din all they heard was one single word.

Jump.

So they did, and all 40 odd ships were subsequently destroyed in a hailstorm of cheers and bullets from the enemy. Pods followed shortly thereafter and we all woke up 35 jumps away feeling extremely angry. Or in my case, extremely embarrassed. Needless to say I was the butt of an awful lot of jokes involving GPS, Maps and a man's inability to ask for or follow simple directions.

Yes it was a disaster, yes I was made to look and feel like a complete tool, but god damn was that adrenaline rush worth it.

Years Playing EVE: 8 (FFS, that's most of my adult life!)
Time Spent Inactive: 3 months (inactive account)/2 years (not playing much due to FUBAR computer)

My event:
Back in 2005, I was with Vertigo Coalition and living in Aridia and Fountain after Fountain Alliance crumbled under BoB's assault. BoB's horrible pet alliance Xelas had just moved in not too long ago, and, after a string of initial ganks on unwary Xelas pilots, it was getting harder and harder to find good PvP. At the same time, I was at odds with my corpmates over tactics. As the nail in the coffin, I was going through some rough times IRL.

At that point, due to a number of frustrations, I'd decided I was going to quit EVE, but I was going to at least try to go out in a blaze of glory. I basically told myself I was going to cancel my account after I lost all of my ships in PvP (with the exception of things like bantams, which they used to give out like candy as level 3 mission rewards; I still have several hundred of them). I wasn't going to lose them stupidly, but I wasn't planning on using the same level of caution I normally would.

I grabbed my tempest and headed for Delve (BoB's home), passing through Fountain Core (and not finding anyone to shoot; Xelas pilots were either offline or docked up) in the process. What followed afterwards was one of the most awesome roams of my EVE career. During the course of my 3 to 4 hour rampage in Delve, I got multiple kills, evaded or escaped from multiple gangs of hostiles coming to kill me, and did 60+ jumps, having to return through Period Basis because the way back through Delve was heavily camped thanks to my little escapade. I even Leroyed it into a dead-end station system, ganked a raven in a belt, then escaped out past the enemy response fleet that had formed up on the only exit gate.

What's more? There was no warp to zero at that time, and I didn't have a full set of insta-jump bookmarks for the region(s).

Needless to say, I reconsidered my decision to cancel my account.