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The noobship challenge
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Caleb Seremshur
Bloodhorn
Patchwork Freelancers
#1 - 2013-09-27 05:53:07 UTC
Premise: my account has been hacked and I now have 0 assets in game.

The challenge: WITHOUT begging for money, I am to use every other legal ingame method to attain as much money as I can using nothing but my ibis, civilian railgun and 1 tritanium.

The timeframe: 1 standard week worth of play time, this means 7 playtime days. Round figure of 14 hours.

The reward: The tangible reward is learning new and more efficient ways to play the game as both self-education and also ways to teach new players who start in basicly the same position.

The intangible reward is determining the feasibility of very low level gameplay from the perspective of a high-SP character using ONLY the tools available to him at the time of starting the challenge.

Day 1 results thus far:

Income generation basicly relies on theft of yellow wrecks in belts. Combat with even frigate NPCs nearly impossible due to pitiful dps/tank. Getting the feeling that theft will become a staple of income generation for myself.

To be continued...
Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#2 - 2013-09-27 05:56:45 UTC
I suggest tutorial missions until you can get yourself a scanning setup and some salvagers, then go ninja salvaging or exploring.

Best of luck to you!

"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."

One of ours, ten of theirs.

Best Meltdown Ever.
Caleb Seremshur
Bloodhorn
Patchwork Freelancers
#3 - 2013-09-27 06:00:24 UTC
I think i will try out ninja-looting and yes salvaging. Currently made about 60k isk and have 2x meta-3 railguns. 1 hour of playtime consumed thus far
Tul Breetai
Impromptu Asset Requisition
#4 - 2013-09-27 07:10:27 UTC
Scam dude.

There's nothing worse than an EVE player, generally considered to be top of the food chain in the MMO world, that cannot smacktalk with wit and coherency.
Caleb Seremshur
Bloodhorn
Patchwork Freelancers
#5 - 2013-09-27 07:21:25 UTC
Scammed someone outta about 1 mil in assets, found a DG frigate and scored some ammo.

So far being a productive day.
Caleb Seremshur
Bloodhorn
Patchwork Freelancers
#6 - 2013-09-29 09:45:59 UTC
UPDATE:

In the past 2 days I have gotten a friend to join the challenge with me. To make a living he moved to nullsec with his ibis and has since made enough money to fly a malediction and has a couple of PVP kills to boot.

I stayed in high/lowsec and ran exploration sites, got some really nice loot and raided a wormhole. So far I've made almost 600 million ISK in assets.

It's really interesting to try this, forcing myself to pursue alternative methods of money making over L4's and FW button orbiting like I used to.

Definitely will keep this thread updated as time passes.
Caliph Muhammed
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-09-29 09:48:47 UTC
Hunt down the "friend" ship. Ask politely for a starting fund. So much easier and much more profitable.
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#8 - 2013-09-29 09:51:58 UTC
How is what you are doing any different to what every new player does when they first start?

User of 'Bumblefck's Luscious & Luminous Mustachio Wax'
Rich Uncle PennyBags
EVE Online Monopoly
#9 - 2013-09-29 09:52:58 UTC
I am guessing that the "Hacked" thing is just a premise for your challenge, but if it's not, "hacking" is against the EULA and if you file a support ticket, CCP will usually look into it and get you your **** back.
Tao Dolcino
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2013-09-29 10:21:32 UTC
Good idea and initiative, but not very realistic : Every new players will follow most of the tutorials and so will start in a much better position than you.
I suggest that you restart your experience in the same normal conditions than most new players.
I'd be really interested by the results.
Mr Pragmatic
#11 - 2013-09-29 10:26:18 UTC
You should record your adventures, a lot more interesting and entertaining to see how people accomplish these feats.

Super cali hella yolo swaga dopeness.  -Yoloswaggins, in the fellowship of the bling.
Turelus
Utassi Security
#12 - 2013-09-29 10:32:33 UTC
Run Hideaway Anomalies, when you get a Faction Spawn maybe you will lucky!

Turelus CEO Utassi Security
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#13 - 2013-09-29 10:55:47 UTC
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
How is what you are doing any different to what every new player does when they first start?

Because he has a large number of SP behind him already. So the new player has basically no skills, no DPS, no Tech 2 fitting capability.
Where as all he is limited by is isk, so as his isk grows he can immediately jump to a better ship in order to accelerate his isk making.
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#14 - 2013-09-29 11:05:24 UTC
Nevyn Auscent wrote:
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
How is what you are doing any different to what every new player does when they first start?

Because he has a large number of SP behind him already. So the new player has basically no skills, no DPS, no Tech 2 fitting capability.
Where as all he is limited by is isk, so as his isk grows he can immediately jump to a better ship in order to accelerate his isk making.



Oh.

So he is documenting the process that all new players have to go through, but without the drawbacks new players have. Such as ship restrictions due to skills and knowledge about game mechanics.

User of 'Bumblefck's Luscious & Luminous Mustachio Wax'
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2013-09-29 11:07:02 UTC
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
Nevyn Auscent wrote:
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
How is what you are doing any different to what every new player does when they first start?

Because he has a large number of SP behind him already. So the new player has basically no skills, no DPS, no Tech 2 fitting capability.
Where as all he is limited by is isk, so as his isk grows he can immediately jump to a better ship in order to accelerate his isk making.

Oh.

So he is documenting the process that all new players have to go through, but without the drawbacks new players have. Such as ship restrictions due to skills and knowledge about game mechanics.

Yeah. So shut up and enjoy it.

Dodixie > Hek
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#16 - 2013-09-29 11:13:33 UTC
ElQuirko wrote:
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
Nevyn Auscent wrote:
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
How is what you are doing any different to what every new player does when they first start?

Because he has a large number of SP behind him already. So the new player has basically no skills, no DPS, no Tech 2 fitting capability.
Where as all he is limited by is isk, so as his isk grows he can immediately jump to a better ship in order to accelerate his isk making.

Oh.

So he is documenting the process that all new players have to go through, but without the drawbacks new players have. Such as ship restrictions due to skills and knowledge about game mechanics.

Yeah. So shut up and enjoy it.

Would it be ok with you if I enjoyed it whilst not shutting up?

User of 'Bumblefck's Luscious & Luminous Mustachio Wax'
Solstice Project's Alt
Doomheim
#17 - 2013-09-29 11:50:34 UTC
I would rather question how it was possible he got "hacked" in the first place ...

Buy Solstice Project for PLEX4GOOD ! https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=301266 (this alt-character will get deleted once the sale is done, on 6th of december)
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#18 - 2013-09-29 11:56:01 UTC
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
I would rather question how it was possible he got "hacked" in the first place ...



He didn't.

He is pretending, so he can write about the new player experience without the difficulties of being a new player.

User of 'Bumblefck's Luscious & Luminous Mustachio Wax'
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#19 - 2013-09-29 12:21:13 UTC
Archibald Thistlewaite III wrote:
Solstice Project's Alt wrote:
I would rather question how it was possible he got "hacked" in the first place ...



He didn't.

He is pretending, so he can write about the new player experience without the difficulties of being a new player.

He's also using his existing knowledge to show how many, potential money, areas of the game are open to a newbie with just a basic Ibis. He's also stated that he will only use the Ibis, with its civilian modules.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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stoicfaux
#20 - 2013-09-29 12:41:44 UTC
Caleb Seremshur wrote:

I stayed in high/lowsec and ran exploration sites, got some really nice loot and raided a wormhole. So far I've made almost 600 million ISK in assets.

It's really interesting to try this, forcing myself to pursue alternative methods of money making over L4's and FW button orbiting like I used to.

Now you can buy a T2 fit Ishtar and blitz/cherry-pick level 3s and generate ~50M isk/hr in assets (i.e. LP.) =)

Quote:
Definitely will keep this thread updated as time passes.

Kudos, and please do.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
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