EVE General Discussion

Both of my best moments will probably dissapoint people cuz they are carebearish.Year or so ago when I was very noobish i ran one of those slave implants worth about 1.6b at the time from cy-zlp to jita in a shuttle.Before that i bought it from a friend for 900m.At the time I wasn't realizing there was things such as gate camps or pvpers who would want to kill me in eve for my cargo(was 3weeks old).I didn't encounter any camps on my way but i warped manual to zero anyway i knew this much:).One year later I realized what I did.Until now I never told anyone about this.

My second best moment was just 2months after that when i had charon and i was bying and selling npc stuff to stations to make some isk while i was trading in region.

Then i noticed there was a fish in a can or something like it that sells for very good profit in high sec in one of the adjancent systems to friggi it was either 0.2 or 0.3 i remember it had some sort of unique pirate npcs at the station.This time I knew i had to scout.The system was home to a pirate corp but they were semi afk with sporadic checks on d-scan and gate.

They saw me few times.I realized this was very dangerous if i was to jump in this turtle and warp to the station to buy the stuff, but the profit on the product was give or take about 40-45m.I was sweating and my greed was growing by the minute, then I scouted few more times and when i saw no one at the gate i switched quick and jumped the Charon.My heart was racing every minute I was alinging to the station I was screaming at the turtle "come on you fat **** warp already".It felt like ages but it finally warped 6sec later cargo is filled and without even scouting im pulling him out and starting warp to 0 again.Im checking local nothing happens pirate noobs keep sleeping or watching tv.I warp!Fuk yea bietch!When I jump I see a cov op unlcloak next to me and I'm like trololol.I then come back in shuttle and I gloat in local for about 30mins i couldn't resist it lol.

Hmm funny had this exact discussion with Alliance the other night.

To give a prelude. When my friend who had got me to test guild wars (what a complete waste of time that was, endless grinding so you could wear purple clothes ) told me about eve

Well lets just say I was a bit dubious about taking his recommendations again. But oh well i figured 14 day free why not try. So back then I played a lot of space sims and had bought myself one hell of a controller. So a Space MMO sounded extremely intruiging.

I remember when I played Elite as a teenager me and a friend used to spend hours imagining what it would like if it was possible to play that game as a massively co-op. I still get shivers when I consider the fact that the founders of CCP probably had the exact same conversation just that they actually brought it to pass (Much love CCP Much love)

Anyhows the magic moment arrived and I undocked and well my joystick didn't do jack poo Then my friend explained that I had to control it with the mouse. "How do I orbit" I enquired and he told me to right click on the object

This wasn't at all what I expected but I'd come this far so why not give it a chance. I spent some time milling about mining shooting red crosses and then I started noticing the EvE News stories and I thought oh how cool that they invent a back story.

But then after a few days something struck me as odd about a particular story and I asked in the help channel if the stories were "true" and not fiction and the answer was that yes the stuff related to the alliances are actual news reports.

I was dumbfounded there was a incredibly rich tapestry of alliances of players fighting it out for control over entire regions. My little corner of 2 or 3 highsec systems was a speck of dust as to everything going on in this game... That was my first moment.

Some time passed me and a few friends started mining in a little LS pocket (basgerin I believe) Where we were haunted by a negative ten pirate who was pretty much stuck in the pocket with no way to leave.

we all managed to band together 3 of us camped him into his clone station for 2 days straight feeling like kings this player was several years old and our hop skotch bands of a dominix player (The flagship of our fleet) and my cruiser and a battlecruiser was keeping him pinned. On the second day he had a friend in local who wasn't flashy red but all the same had identified himself a ally to the pirate.

He undocked and we went wild with frenzy locked him and fired away. In a matter of seconds the station guns had ripped our little camp apart. The low sec pocket was firmly back in the pirates control. No matter the loss we had learned a harsh lesson
and became stronger for it. Having been part of a band that forced that evil creature to amend his ways for 2 days still felt like a win This was my second moment.

A Month later I moved to providence, lost my laser brutix within 1 hours of entering the region, but before I did I had made enough isk to buy another. So I went straight back. This time it took 2 hours before I died. This pattern continued for a while until a friendly soul who occupied the system I had choosen to utilize explained some things like the importance of local and also not dual tanking my ship I had literally had to jump into belt kill one frig then warp away and back again and repeat ad infineum....

After getting to know the locals and the ways of CVA and such I became obsessed with the thought of reaching Catch and the Free Hold station there. (There was a project by one alliance to create free hold neutral stations all over EvE which ultimately failed I forget their name now)

On the third run (still hadn't managed to reach it in one piece) I took a friend with me. We got attacked and only I got away. He screamed for help and I nerves strung out jumped back into the fight. And with heroic mastery of mashing every button I could think of my brutix managed to chase away not One but TWO whole interceptors. I felt a surge of victory pass through me. My friend had lost his battle cruiser but due to my heroic actions kept his pod and together we reached Catch that night .

Once there we found a Nyx camping the dock of the station. This mighty beast made us very wary of approaching the station but he explained he was there to keep the pirates away and so we passed by him. Deep in space and with the most majestic ship we had ever seen protecting us we felt like kings of deep space who had fought our way in. That was my Third moment.

There was many more as my experience grew. My first large fight I witnessed, the first fight I FC'd where we won against superior numbersI 80 BS killed with 60 hacs without loosing a single one. ( Oh vagabond/Nano Ishtars how utterly OP you truly were ) I suppose that was my fourth moment.

Addendum
Actually no I remember my fourth moment.
Me and a friend talked about starting a Norwegian Corp. Not long after starting it we moved to fountain by invite from Celestial Apocalypse who were terrorizing Bob's renter alliance Xelas. We would work with them in harassing Xelas and ultimately BoB.
BOB was the biggest baddest meany alliance we had ever heard of so with naivety and sense of honor at the max we decided they were the worthiest target for us to attack.
Complete noobs as we were we did our best at this and one day we actually managed to bump a BOB carrier of the Y2-Ano station and kill it.
Then later we found out that for our impertinence BOB had set our little corp red. I was completely flabbergasted. The biggest baddest alliance in the game had took time out of their day to set our little 20 man corp of complete noobs red. Quite Frankly I felt totally honored.
Kind of ironic twist of fate that the original Norcorp lineup all ended up being recruited by Sirmolle into BNC

Jumping in a wormhole and warping away before bookmarking it. Doing my first scan and quickly realizing that a) I had forgotten to bookmark the WH entrance and b) the wormhole was occupied.

Spent the next hour frantically scanning down anomalies trying to find an exit while the inhabitants hunted me down. Had to keep my probes constantly moving as they tried to destroy them. Finally found the exit and got the heck out of there.

Afterwards I thought of getting a tattoo of the first rule of WH space so I would never forget, "Bookmark Everything".

While piloting an obelisk across some huge system (there was an escort, this was a big convoy) I managed to run upstairs, pewp, clean up and wash my hands before returning to my computer just as the dumb box had started to decloak on the other side of the next system.

That day, I officially won EVE on hardcore mode.

Jump bridges and titans and jump freighters have made us *all* lazy

Running through Nullsec, (from the outermost edge after exiting a Wormhole), in a Cheetah with a non-combat skilled Science pilot, jumping a few camps and being chased by the pilots there nearly all the way back to Lowsec.

I ended up somewhere in Amarr space, by the shortest route if I recall correctly, and lost them somewhere along the way when I found a good system to planet bounce and exit by more than one gate that eventually landed in Highsec.

That's the most memorable one of the moment anyway, if not necessarily my greatest moment in EVE. You could ask me that tomorrow and I'd probably come up with something different.

I was the FC on a lowsec roam with my corp, and we came across a buffer tanked Maller. We all warped to 0 on the guy and pretty much liquified the guy. Turns out he was a bait-ship, as 10-15 seconds after he died a Hurricane and Drake warped in on top of us. No losses on that awesome roam.

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17346914#lostLoadout

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Another epic moment was when me in a Kestrel, a Slasher, and an Ishkur triggered a lowsec trap. We came across a Mackinaw, and his Tornado escort wasn't around so we engaged. Never thought it would be so good to hear "point!" over coms.

Anyway, half way through the Mackinaw the Tornado uncloaked at 60km from us. Kestrel and Ishkur break off and burn under the 'nado's guns leaving the Slasher to finish off the Mack. The Tornado went down in flames moments after the Mackinaw and probably panicked a bit, considering that he never fired a shot. No implants in the Mackinaw's pod.

That whole battle happened in under 30 seconds, keep in mind.

No! Why!

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Reading about the GHSC scam, but that was before I started playing EVE.

The time I talked two noobs who got ganked in lowsec out of ragequiting and instead we went back to that system and attacked the same pirates.

We didn't win, but a good time was had by all.

Two years ago I decided that I would try to use a megathron for every pvp activity. Yesterday I took her out in a frigate roaming gang and nobody questioned it.