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I undocked yesterday

For those who don't know, Zagdul was a character given to me... Here's how I spent my first month.

I made a Billion Isk in my First Month

This is absolutely true and my corp has been begging me to write about it so I figured I'd put it here. I'm no english major and I suck at telling stories... so deal with it.

First off, I am new to EVE. My main is now two months old and I pay for two accounts now with GTC's which I pay ISK for. I bought my second account when Steam offered the $5 special.

I fly Gallente, so this is how I did it in Gallente's ships and I can't offer advice or how to do it in other's because I still don't know enough about the other races. I would imagine that from what I hear about the strengths and weaknesses of the other race's ships, that this would be completely feasible, if not easier with other races (see: Caldari Drake).

Week 1/2.

I got enough skills to where I could salvage, fly a destroyer and equip T2 cargo expanders and apped to a 0.0 corp who ran level 4 missions and explored complexes. The deal was that whatever I salvaged, I split with everyone in the fleet. I did this for my entire first week and well into my 2nd. During this time I got enough skills to get myself into a cruiser and did learning skills.

My corp did all the hauling of the salvage for me and I didn't even know the worth of the things I was picking up at this time. I was just excited to be in 0.0 space and om nom nom all the wrecks that these guys in super battle ships were blowing up. These guys were happy they didn't have to salvage.

On my first day of doing this, I made about 10 mil in bounty's. I didn't make much because I was normally a room behind my corp mates. However, the next day after the contracted salvage (oh, lol... I had to learn how to use a contract this night) to one of my corp officers, he took it to High sec and sold it all of depositing 65 million in my Wallet (GASP!!!). I'm hooked....

Week 2/3.

More learning skills, but now can fly a Vexor. Vexors are great drone boats for a noob as I was... am. They're also awesome ratting ships. I lost a couple of these this week, luckly they're cheap and awesome to learn with. I listened to my corp mates, the rookie help channel and asked loads of questions. This week was spent learning how to chain belts and rat effectively against damage types. If you can learn anything early on, it's how damage types and resistances to those work. You may not be a powerhouse in terms of DPS and PvP, however, you will be able to indefinitely tank a battleship in a cruiser if you understand the guys you're going against. I asked in Rookie Help what kind of pirates do what type of damage and what they are weak against. The ISD provided me with a link to a very nice chart.

Now, I lost a few of these ships because, well.. 1. I sucked.. and 2. I was in low sec space, sucking, when assault ships would tear me up. I was a victim of many kill mails. Luckily the rats I was killing were high bounty's for my level of skills... 500k > 1+ mil. I did this on the early hours of the evening while I'd go out plexing with my corp mates at night and salvage some more for them.

(I'm now around 100+ mil in my wallet)

Week 3

I trained up more learning skills and continued with belt ratting. At this point I'm almost in a Battlecruiser and completely self sufficient. This week was pretty lackluster and I basically continued what I did the previous week as I waited for skills to complete.

By the end of this week, I'm looking at around 300 mil and almost ready to buy a Plex, however, I read the noobguide and it said not to fly anything you couldn't afford. I was about to get into battle cruisers and got a tip to use faction fittings in order to skip some training. These mods are very expensive.

Thats the kind of stuff im looking, everyone who plays this game has stories to tell so share

This is my favorite story: http://eve-search.com/thread/1473396-0/page/1

Because I was there (yes, I was PieRat Scummm)

Despite the pages of people picking apart my story and trying to come up with reasons why it was 'not possible', it happened, exactly as described.. Only the names were changed, and a hint of dramatic flair added. .. It happened on what was probably the 3rd of 4th day of my PVP career in EVE.. So it really blew my hair back :)

Don't biomass, give it away to somebody who could use it!


(me)

I remenber when drones were useful for mission running.

I remember when people complained in 2004 about changes for months after the new expansion .....


.... mm some things never change.

The forums were fun, than monocles happened. A monument was shot. Sunscriptions were canceled. An insincere letter was written. Secret police were unleashed. Nerfs were more common than Goon titans. No one lived happily ever after. The end.

Not my story but its great anyway: The Great Scam

http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=450249

i miss the old days