EVE General Discussion

There are so many bad moments I had in Eve : paying 10 Billion for a kill right, going after a carrier with just 1 Napoc in wh space when I just started, being scammed by Goonies a few years ago, getting concorded on Hek station in a legion, etc etc...

Best : Stealing 15-20B in cap BPO's from a war target, killing CCP members in a war.

But if you cant laugh about these things, you re doing it wrong.

I was there, it was real !

Does having mining trained to IV count? Because I have mining trained to IV. I think I mined once in my first week in EVE, back when the Navitas and the Tormentor had mining bonuses, and haven't mined since.

Honor PvP at its finest.

As for me? I have way too many to list. However, one of my most recent losses comes to mind. I was playing station games on what I now suspect to be some sort of Eve-Uni staging station. I forgot that bastion gives you weapons timer.

Of course, this was after I had survived actually roaming with this thing a couple days earlier.

I caused a 2008-era Triumvirate renter alliance to collapse by selling a Myrmidon.

Sigh, I said this once before but i'll do it again.

Back in, I think it was 07, I'm too lazy to look up the kill, I had spent every cent I had, plus a few I borrowed on a carrier. It was the first one I ever owned and I was excited. My alliance, Brotherhood Of Steel, was living in the Kari pipe in prov at the time (we were UK allies) and we were currently at war with ENH (I so can not to this spell the corp name, former executive corp of Cry Havoc. [Hi Mistress Suffering!]) So having just got my first carrier I was happily ratting in the second system in the Kari pipe (B-D I think... its been years) my fit was **** poor, and I mean **** poor, and I was using fighters to kill off belt rats. Well, I was fighting a bs spawn and was planning on chaining, then I noticed the last frig npc had me warp scramd. So I put my fighters on him.. and well.. yea they missed...and missed... and... you get the picture. So after five min I ask for help in alliance, but no one was around. My alt was over in Shin, justa few jumps away, so I logged him in and was was getting ready to come t my aid, when I noticed a red star in local. My first thought was 'please just pass through' (this makes me suspect they had spies, but meh) a few seconds later, he warped to my asteroid belt. He paused, and went 'what are you doing?' so I sighed and told him. (I think it never accured to me to try and jump out, and I'm still not sure that would of worked but meh) anyway in local I see "...." so I asked him "um.. any chance you can not kill me and help me out? I just bought this thing..." He locked me, disrupted me, killed the npc, then local flooded with red stars. 5 min or me begging, yes I said it, begging, in local for them not to kill me, I pop.

From that day farward, no other kills mattered to me, I now pretty much laugh at tell people who try to ransom me to just kill me. It was the most embarising situation of my eve time, but in the end I learned two valuable lessons:

1) ALWAYS have small drones if you rat in a ******* carrier, ALWAYS.

2) Its a game, I can't lose anything bigger so meh...

That leads me to...

Back in 2008, I worked as a director for a corporation called Heretic Logistics (LOAF.), an industrial offshoot of Heretic Army (ANTI) meant to serve its ship and module needs. Both corporations were members of The Covenant Alliance (TCA), a renter alliance of TRI living out in Deklein, and if anyone remembers these names - congratulations! You have an excellent memory. CEO of Heretic Logistics at that time was a man by the name of Fat Edd/Vader. We thought this guy was okay. We were wrong.

I had a friend in EVE, Sahaquiel Faust, who had followed me from corporation to corporation across the game since mid-2007, and he wanted a Myrmidon. The corp had the minerals, I had the BPC, and I had permission from Fat Edd to make the Myrmidon for Sahaquiel. I then sold it to him for 30m ISK (man, those were the days - when a Myrmidon cost only 30m. I miss those days). The ISK went into my wallet, and I went offline for a nap and a shower. Scant hours later, the alliance Ventrilo explodes with Fat Edd swearing and making implications about my parentage. Turns out I "had no right" to sell the Myrmidon to Sahaquiel (despite the fact that I had been given permission to do so) and that by not immediately putting all the money into the corporation wallet (despite the fact that given the close-knit nature of ANTI and LOAF, members of Heretic Logistics often just took payment personally and then tithed a share to the corp wallet) I was showing blatant disrespect for everyone in the alliance and I was a duplicitous thief.

I attempted to appease him to no avail. When other people stepped into the argument on my behalf, he removed almost every role from everyone in the corporation and announced his intent to take everything belonging to the corp and leave. This accomplished only one thing - it meant that no-one could refuel our corporation's large tower (that he had paid for) that had, due to the argument taking up so much of our time, gotten critically low on fuel, so it went offline. Rare Faction, who were operating in the area at the time, blew it up. I then noticed that he had only removed my director roles, not my specially-customised corp hangar access roles - so I took everything in every corp hangar and put it in my own, so he couldn't steal it. His stillborn corp theft having failed, he announced that he intended to stagnate the corp by leaving it without any directors, at which point the CEO of ANTI, MirrorGod, said "hahaha no, I have majority share ownership in LOAF" and instated me as CEO.

Fat Edd/Vader then teamed up with ANTI's long-time rivals, Misfits Enterprises, led by notorious troll Outlaw Jenner, and announced his intent to join a different corp in TCA, starting what he called an "in-alliance wardec" to "kick us out." Amazingly, the corp he chose, which also happened to be the executor corp, actually allowed him to join and start work on this. We called TCA's head honchos out on this ridiculous state of affairs, and received as a response what amounted to a shrugging of shoulders and a "meh." At this point, blue-on-blue fighting was actually occuring in O-2RNZ and surrounding systems and because Fat Edd/Vader and Outlaw Jenner were never particularly intelligent individuals, not all of the people getting lit up were actually even members of ANTI or LOAF (in fact, they mostly weren't). This did not assist alliance cohesion.

Eventually we peaced out and went to join Destiny. alliance, who lived further north in Deklein, but not before filing a complaint with Triumvirate itself saying "TCA has allowed a corp thief with a grudge to join its executor corp and bring mercenaries into Deklein for the purposes of starting a blue-on-blue war." Needless to say, Triumvirate was not amused. TCA eventually kicked Fat Edd out of the alliance but by that point, the damage was done, confidence in its leaders was shattered and the alliance crumbled.

Although he doesn't actually play the game at the moment, Sahaquiel Faust, through the many years since that point, has kept the Myrmidon that inspired this whole preposterous affair in his hangar in Dodixie. We call it the Blamethrower.

Encountered a dude in a Navy Raven scrammed by npcs in lowsec (cosmos npcs I think). Contemplated shooting him for the fat km, but he seemed so totally clueless I killed the rat and let him go... Into the next lowsec system where he was promptly murdered on the gate.

And one more mildly dumb thing.

At one point, I think in 2008, at the height of BoB being around, someone gifted me a single share of.. it was either Rikou(sp?) or Evolution, I'm 90% sure it was evolution. And I gave it to someone else because "I'm sick and tired of these lock and unlock mails' I kinda wish I kept it.

I was that guy. The Drake guy.

In Nov of 2012 I followed my friends out to Null. We lived in Malpais with Black Core Alliance under Solar Fleet. On one of my very first big null ops I flew my drake to the staging point and asked, on comms, if I could use it in fleet. I couldn't use the doctrine ships of that time because up till then I was a mining and missioning carebear. Rightfully they laughed at me on comms with a hundred plus people. Told me to grab a slasher from the market. "I don't care what you do with it, rookie. Make it useful and try not to die."

It turned out glorious. I couldn't even use projectile weapons at the time. But I heard our enemy was going to use tornados. So I fit it with speed and minmatar jams. Had a blast jamming and tackling battlecruisers with my shitfit little slasher!

The end of that ship.

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