EVE General Discussion

Last month I was spamming the recruitment channel a bit and talked to dozens of folks only to get a couple of them recruited, you know how this works.

So this little guy in a trial account got interested by mining and I taught him the ropes: what ships to fly, how to properly fit his vessels to resist the rats, and kill them with the appropiate drones, and whatnot.

We made some mining ops

We ran a session of lvl1 and lvl2 missions

I wasted my time and isk doing such poor-man activities just for the nice feeling of helping a new EVE Online player. Finally he subscribed for 6 months. Yay!

It was all nice when suddenly, hey, I got this shiny idea:

How do I introduce this little carebear to PVP? What if I scare him? LOL

So he was trying his brand new Retriever - epic moment as he described it - he worked a reasonable amount of hours mining in Venture to afford it. Well I popped in belt with my Caracal and blasted his shields. Got no response.

I talked in corp channel and fleet channel. I loled. Nothing. AFK?

Suddenly his fatass retriever is moving aligned to station but the miserable was scrambled by myself. Still no response in chat. LMAO...

So as I consider silence as an insult to my intelligence, I decided to excavate the armor. Scary! Now the little guy decided to talk:

"WTF is this? Im placing a huge bounty on your head!!! This is not a joke!!!!!"


I loled a bit more and finally let him go in a perfectly white structure, only after explaining him he should trust no one and that this was only a demonstration of how harsh EVE can be.

Dude docked and dropped from corp, blocked me. I noticed he blocked me because I was offering some ISK to repair his armor... but message couldnt get delivered.

He still in NPC after 1 month. I think he really quited EVE Online. Waste of 70 bucks, LOL!!!I I have mixed feelins about this.

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Or post with your main.

I am ragequitting EVE because of this story.

I thought this was a game for crafting and not PVP

EVE "vet" gets stupid idea, that fails in its execution. Film at 11.

Posting in a stealth Eve is dying thread?

FTFY

You should have just blown up his ship and bought him a new one. I don't blame him for blocking you; I have no time for people who do things half-ass either.

I'd also drop corp if the CEO started shooting me and then tried to claim it was teaching me a lesson. Especially when it's a CEO who was teaching me, but left that very important lesson until after I'd paid for a subscription. Especially if the CEO did this to a shiny new ship that took so long to afford.

If you want to introduce someone to PvP, start by introducing them to fun PvP. Don't just gank them because you felt like it.

In fact, I think you weren't teaching him a lesson. I think you were trying to gank him, failed at it, then made up an excuse to make yourself feel better.

so.. you recruit some kid who wants to play the industrial side of eve (before he finds it's boring on his own) you take him under your wing, give him tips, pointers and fitting/ship tutoring.. then he mines for who knows how long to buy a retriever which is "epic" in his own words., then you try to blow it up?
then you go to GD and brag about what a badass you are? yeah.. kick that kid off his trike.. you are hardcore dude.. the baddest of the bad.

So, instead of profiting off him via corp taxes you decided to... what, exactly?

Hell, even goonswarm recruitment scammers do better (by a lot) and that is actually quite sad.