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I was a worse person before I started EvE than after 7 years of playing it.


Who else could ever say the same?

Ah, I have another good one.

In my first days, I spent all my money purchasing T2 small ships (Cheetahs and similar). I could not even fly a cruiser, my best was a T1 Rifter with MAPC aid.

I formed a six fully expanded and rigged Mammoths (large T1 hauler) train to carry them. Of course with my humble newb pilots skills + expanders those took like 1 minute to align .

Loaded to the brim, I merrily made 40 jumps with each, including passing from Uedama and whatsnot, destination Jita, where I'd resell them at a good profit.

Incredibly enough, nobody popped them.

Also, for reasons whose "logic" escaped myself, I thought the smartest idea EVER would have been to make those haulers meet at Uedama (yeah I was good at choices like that! ) with a fleet coming from Jita. So the first ones could go back to Minnie space quicker.

And where in the heavens would I think to perform the swap? Since they were my first EvE weeks, all the ganking I knew happened at stations undocks (I had no idea passing through Uedama / Sivala is worse, yet).

So I "smartly" thought: "well, I'll show those gankers my superiority: I am going to warp at 100 off a planet and swap the cargo there".

I ejected EVERY single T2 ship, there was a little "cloud" around me.

...Surprise...

... every ejected T2 ship self assembled in space and became a neutral ship, ready for boarding.


I tried to get them back inside the other haulers but no, it was not possible at all. They wouldn't magically repackage!
I could not fly a single ship of those. For 34 days at a minimum (it was still the days of learning books etc. etc.)!


Since apparently I had a keen sense for self inflicting torture, I managed to worsen the situation.

I started spamming Uedama and 4-5 nearby systems (low sec included! ) with desperate requests for help. To get somebody to pilot those now neutral ships for me away from the planet to the nearest station.

Thanks to the cold, harsh, selfish nature of EvE nobody cared to reply. Else I'd have learned what calling people and auto-gifting away T2 ships en masse is like...

At this point... I learned the second EvE Law (the first being: "don't fly what you can't afford to lose"), that is: "the second you undock, consider your ship lost. If you get back in one piece, that's a welcome bonus".

I then proceeded flying my empty haulers back to Minnie space, headbanging IRL walls and calling myself unrepeatable names.

34 days later, I passed back from Uedama. Just for the sake of curiosity, I bothered to fly to the planet where all my ships were abandoned more than 1 month ago, ripe for taking.

And the incredible happened.

Nobody cared to go take them. They were still all there! I still don't understand why, as back at the time ISK was not easy to come by (and PLEX did not exist) and those ships were quite expensive.

But hey, who cares about logic, when the the lack of such logic just saved your ass?
Therefore I spent a good time flying all those ships to the nearby station and learned more and more lessons about EvE in the process.

I got recruitment scammed for 500 mil by Goonswarm.

I got confused one day about which JC I was in, and self destructed my 1 bil + pod outside the Amarr hub for no apparent reason, probably thinking i was taking the pod express from a blank clone to an implanted one.

I organized a ganking op for my corp. There were 4 or 5 of us. We went to Uedama and ganked a Magnate with 2 plex inside it. Both plex dropped, and nobody got the loot because I forgot to assign someone the task of loot-scooper. We all lost our ships to Concord and some random guy had a very nice day.

I still can't fire T2 guns.


I've been playing 7years..

Once I tried to make a good profit flipping Myrmidons because there was a 10 or so millions isk difference between them. To my dismay, people kept putting up Myrmidons for the lower, closer to Jita, price. I wound up with 10 or so Myrms I'd have to sell for a loss :(

Happy ending. Our CEO was leaving the game for a while, so he was running special versions of his signature Black Tie Affair (BTA) fleets that he's been running for 6 years (Handsome Millionaire Playboys is/was the corp). For this one, we ran nano curses and Myrmidons, courtesy of myself. You may not think it, but our fleet composition of Curses and Myrmidons was so good nobody wanted to actually engage us and they all ran away...

Best:

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I have an HQ station in lowsec where I keep most of my assets. I broke out a scanning ship to test out a new fit and found a wormhole in my home system. Go in, and see a ton of T3 manufacturing arrays on a large POS. I made bookmarks, and researched the corp that owned it. I found most of the members of that corp on killboards, and added them all as contacts (they were all variations of the same name). I figured this whole thing was being run by one dude, and he'd be slow to react. Maybe I could catch a mining fleet out or something? Anyway, after hours of meta stalking and bookmark making, I was about to wrap it all when they all logged in at once. I put my scanning ship off the POS and saw my target taking out hoarder after hoarder. He had found the lowsec wormhole which would put him one jump from empire. He was doing a loot/supply run. I got into my Onyx and killed a bunch on both sides of the WH when they tried to make their run. I got another trying to come back in with POS parts. I made billions on that hit. I even had a great convo with the guy operating those accounts. (He was rich enough that it was 'cost of doing business' and didn't care too much... apparently...) It was all the time I put into the hunt that made the payoff so sweet. It was a unique EvE experience for me.


Worst:

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So at a poorer time in my New Eden life, I decided to take some mods and stuff to our station in Esoteria. How much did I put into my Badger Mk. II (Tyra)? Everything I had, of course. About 1.4 billion rolling through nullsec in an uninsured T1 indy. Yup. Well I made it all the way to Esoteria w/o incident, but ran into some pirates 6 jumps from my destination. Whereas another might hit a planet at 70 and cloak / hide / wait, I got impatient and tried to outrun them. ...because stabs, right? I made it all the way to my destination system, and then lost the ship and pod on the gate. Ouch. It was crushing at the time... but I recovered. ...in time.

I saw my first Cyno appear. "oh nice" I thought - so I warped to zero to investigate. "This looks cool" i thought.... started to orbit the condor that put it there. Suddenly lots of ships appeared. Lots. Then i was yellow boxed by all these battleships. Then I sploded horribly in an instant kinda way.

I spammed warp on pod and got to an outgate to see in local -

"Hi - What have we learnt today?"

I was so full of chagrin I did not reply and made a note that Cyno's are bad m'mkay and went back with my tail between my legs.

This was at the start of my Null sec fun and games but I think I am still ******....

Just playing EVE for 2 months now and wondering why I haven't started earlier

Lost a carrier to a level 5 mission in Nandeza.... One of those ones with masses of frigate sized ships that damp you.

A friend came to save me in a Nyx but he said later because I was so calm on teamspeak he didn't think to bring his triage archon instead!

Was hilarious, still is.. was a couple of years ago now.

Still seeing "Insurance fraud" ...