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AndromacheDarkstar
Fiscal Fisting Inc. Imperial Protectorate
260
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Posted - 2012.12.07 09:31:00 -
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Hey everyone, the ten year anniversary is approaching fast and i would like to gather some stories, i would love ot hear your best EVE stories no matter what they involve be it industry or PVP. Tell me what inspired you to keep playing nad what sticks in your mind. Fiscal Fisting Inc.-áAmarr Militia Corp Recruiting EU TZ PVP pilots now Also Looking for EU PVP corps to join-áa growing-áAmarr-áFW-áalliance
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St Mio
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
1020
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Posted - 2012.12.07 09:31:00 -
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I undocked yesterday |
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CCP Navigator
C C P C C P Alliance
1617
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Posted - 2012.12.07 11:01:00 -
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This is my favorite story of all time.
INNOMINATE NIGHTMARE, never forget. CCP Navigator -Community Manager |
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Zagdul
Clan Shadow Wolf Fatal Ascension
1150
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Posted - 2012.12.07 11:12:00 -
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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. Dual Pane idea: Click!
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Zagdul
Clan Shadow Wolf Fatal Ascension
1150
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Posted - 2012.12.07 11:12:00 -
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Week 4/5 > trial time ran out...
I'm now in a battle cruiser... funny story. I got owned in my first Brutix belt ratting with heat sinks on. Anyone in my corp reading this is most likely snickering at me. I guess that's one of those mistakes you make once :p, especially considering the flack I got from my alliance members. They were rather upset I wasn't in vent so they could hear my tears as I lost my first Brutix. They quickly showed me how to use a kill mail, then proceeded to bash me relentlessly for equipping heat sinks on a gun boat.
I spent my entire fourth week training for drones. This was also around the time when Dominion was launched and the tutorials were upgraded. I took the time to roll an alt account and do some of the new tutorials and learned all about exploration. This taught me what anomolies are and how to find them. I quickly referred back to the guide which the ISD gave me explaining the rat damage types and got myself into a myrmadon.
I sat in 0.0 space, in a Myrmadon ratting the high end anomolys. I could successfully tank 4 battleships (Cap stable) as well as a few frigs/cruisers. Each anomoly would yield roughly 20-30 mil in bountys and woudld take me about 3-4 hours to complete depending on how many waves there were. On ones which had 7+, it would take me roughly 4 hours, anything less I could mop up pretty quickly while my drones did all my damage for me. If any had spawns of 5 or more battleships, I'd need to speed kite and hit them with long range weapons slowly nibbling away at them.
I did this for the remainder of my trial time as well as my first 30 days. I got a couple faction spawns which gave me some great ISK. Much of my final 700 mil was spent doing anomolies. I would do plexes with my corp mates and did a couple wormholes as well.
Well, that's my story... By the end of my trial I had made and spent well over a Billion ISK. I purchased a 60day GTC for 510 Mil off the forurms and had a fully faction fitted Myrmadon worth well over 200 mil ISK. Dual Pane idea: Click!
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AndromacheDarkstar
Fiscal Fisting Inc. Imperial Protectorate
260
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Posted - 2012.12.07 14:39:00 -
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Zagdul wrote:Week 4/5 > trial time ran out...
I'm now in a battle cruiser... funny story. I got owned in my first Brutix belt ratting with heat sinks on. Anyone in my corp reading this is most likely snickering at me. I guess that's one of those mistakes you make once :p, especially considering the flack I got from my alliance members. They were rather upset I wasn't in vent so they could hear my tears as I lost my first Brutix. They quickly showed me how to use a kill mail, then proceeded to bash me relentlessly for equipping heat sinks on a gun boat.
I spent my entire fourth week training for drones. This was also around the time when Dominion was launched and the tutorials were upgraded. I took the time to roll an alt account and do some of the new tutorials and learned all about exploration. This taught me what anomolies are and how to find them. I quickly referred back to the guide which the ISD gave me explaining the rat damage types and got myself into a myrmadon.
I sat in 0.0 space, in a Myrmadon ratting the high end anomolys. I could successfully tank 4 battleships (Cap stable) as well as a few frigs/cruisers. Each anomoly would yield roughly 20-30 mil in bountys and woudld take me about 3-4 hours to complete depending on how many waves there were. On ones which had 7+, it would take me roughly 4 hours, anything less I could mop up pretty quickly while my drones did all my damage for me. If any had spawns of 5 or more battleships, I'd need to speed kite and hit them with long range weapons slowly nibbling away at them.
I did this for the remainder of my trial time as well as my first 30 days. I got a couple faction spawns which gave me some great ISK. Much of my final 700 mil was spent doing anomolies. I would do plexes with my corp mates and did a couple wormholes as well.
Well, that's my story... By the end of my trial I had made and spent well over a Billion ISK. I purchased a 60day GTC for 510 Mil off the forurms and had a fully faction fitted Myrmadon worth well over 200 mil ISK.
Thats the kind of stuff im looking, everyone who plays this game has stories to tell so share Fiscal Fisting Inc.-áAmarr Militia Corp Recruiting EU TZ PVP pilots now Also Looking for EU PVP corps to join-áa growing-áAmarr-áFW-áalliance
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Darwins Hammer
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
1
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Posted - 2012.12.07 15:32:00 -
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Im biomassing my main in 2 hours. 57 million SP
Why
Because i only play this game and dont do anything else |
Chandaris
Immortalis Inc. Shadow Cartel
127
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Posted - 2012.12.07 15:32:00 -
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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, exectly as described.. Only the names were changed. |
Mr Pragmatic
125
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Posted - 2012.12.07 15:38:00 -
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My best story is when I was drunk off my ass, in the first months of playing Eve. I started in industrial naturally so I was flying a retriever (before it was cool). While mining I drunkingly said to my mining partner. "I hash to take a pishh." So I proceed to the bathroom to drain the ol' snake, upon completion of this duty I sat down at my computer chair to find my self floating in a pod. (Yes I didn't wash my hands) I hear my buddy on team speak laughing his butt off. And I am staring at my pod in pure confusion, mind you I have never been in a pod in open space. My buddy explained to be I was ganked. and I was at a lost of words because I just didn't understand why someone would do that. And he responded...
"For the lulz and tears." Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -Aldous Huxley ( -í-¦ -£-û -í-¦) - "What are your modules like?"
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Gangname Style
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
41
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Posted - 2012.12.07 15:59:00 -
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Darwins Hammer wrote:Im biomassing my main in 2 hours. 57 million SP
Why
Because i only play this game and dont do anything else
Don't biomass, give it away to somebody who could use it!
(me) |
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Chandaris
Immortalis Inc. Shadow Cartel
127
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Posted - 2012.12.07 16:02:00 -
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Darwins Hammer wrote:Im biomassing my main in 2 hours. 57 million SP
Why
Because i only play this game and dont do anything else
Can I have your stuff? |
Josef Djugashvilis
Acme Mining Corporation
788
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Posted - 2012.12.07 16:19:00 -
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I remenber when drones were useful for mission running. This is not a signature. |
Rordan D'Kherr
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
237
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Posted - 2012.12.07 16:24:00 -
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Josef Djugashvilis wrote:I remenber when drones were useful for mission running.
And your story is...?
_______________________________________ Don't be scared, because being afk is not a crime. |
flakeys
Angels of Anarchy AL3XAND3R.
441
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Posted - 2012.12.07 16:33:00 -
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Josef Djugashvilis wrote: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. There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.-á
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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Tho'mas
Alpha Strategy In Umbra Mortis
0
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Posted - 2012.12.07 18:03:00 -
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Story #1: I was flying a Claw (intercepter) and ran into a Malediction (intercepter) and Retribution (Assault Ship) in null sec, who were part of the same corp, looking for fights. I won. And the pod of the malediction was worth 150 million.
Story #2: Watched a pvp video of eve on youtube, where a pilot was highlighting several fights he had. Then noticing one of the fights was his Bellicose (cruiser) blowing me up in my usual Claw (intercepter) ship. |
CARB0N FIBER
Derailleurs
64
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Posted - 2012.12.07 18:33:00 -
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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. |
AndromacheDarkstar
Fiscal Fisting Inc. Imperial Protectorate
262
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Posted - 2012.12.07 18:55:00 -
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Darwins Hammer wrote:Im biomassing my main in 2 hours. 57 million SP
Why
Because i only play this game and dont do anything else
im sorry to have to do this, can i have your stuff Fiscal Fisting Inc.-áAmarr Militia Corp Recruiting EU TZ PVP pilots now Also Looking for EU PVP corps to join-áa growing-áAmarr-áFW-áalliance
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bbb2020
Carebears with Attitude
19
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Posted - 2012.12.07 19:51:00 -
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Not my story but its great anyway: The Great Scam |
Cannibal Kane
Praetorian Cannibals
809
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Posted - 2012.12.07 20:15:00 -
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My Stories are in the Pirate Thread in C/P... The things I do and post there is why I play EVE. I'm not a Pirate, I'm a Terrorist.
The Crazy Space Poor South African.
*Hair done by LGÇÖOr+¬al, because I'm worth it. |
Hairtrigger
Sanguine Legion
10
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Posted - 2012.12.09 00:55:00 -
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http://community.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=450249
i miss the old days |
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mechtech
Ice Liberation Army
198
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Posted - 2012.12.09 03:22:00 -
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Back in '06 (?) I happened to be flying an industrial in Oursulaert (when it was a huge hub) when a dev entered the system. It was Christmas, and he dropped off tons of snowballs and launchers in a can. He told everybody to take a few and have fun.
I promptly pulled up to the can and took an entire cargo expanded industrial full of christmas gear, leaving nothing for everyone else. I returned to the station, and filled all of the outstanding escrow orders for snowballs (people thought they were rare collectible items).
And that's how I could afford my first BPO!
Story 2: I bought 100 million guidance systems at 500 isk per unit after running through my pre PI speculation spreadsheet. Do the math |
Kagumichan
Deorbit Burners Session Change In Progress Alliance
25
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Posted - 2012.12.09 03:34:00 -
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Was actually talking in alliance chat about an hour ago about 'the good old days'.
Can't say I have an interesting story to tell, but I always remember back when I was a little podling in trinity, flying a rifter with 2 auto-cannons and an artillery using 3 different types of ammo, with a shield booster, hull repair and armour rep all fitted 'cos i didn't understand the idea behind cap stability, optimal range and falloff or resistances. Or grinding level 2 missions in a Crusader, speed tanking everything and saving up every penny to buy a Prophecy, only to lose it to a gate camp just 10 minutes later. buying a plex and selling to buy an Abaddon in Jita, fitting it to fight Gurista and then attempting to jump it through 5 low sec systems into null, resulting in it being gate camped by Hydra Reloaded, some pilot in the alliance I was in back then took pity on me and gave me another abaddon, which I then lost in high sec to a fleet of ECM Gurista with warp scramble frigates...
The only unusual tale I can tell is one of a ship named Lucky Star. Every Omen I owned has been named Lucky Star, and somehow this developed into a curse, because it was guaranteed that within 2 months of the ship being named that, it would be blown up in some of the less common occurences where one would lose a ship, like getting stuck bumping against objects that simply aren't there whilst the tank was breaking, getting blown up by things that aren't in the overview during a mission, or exploding so fast after going through a jump gate that you simply have no time whatsoever to even realise that you're under attack. No other ship in my repotoire has suffered as much as poor old Lucky star, and that is why my current Lucky Star, in all it's golden glory, is safely docked, and will never see the bleakness of space again... unless I get bored and feel like blowing up. |
Selw kotsidakia
Three Deep Cuts
6
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Posted - 2012.12.09 06:45:00 -
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Once upon a time my alliance was in a null coalition war. One afternoon i was bored and since no pewpew was going one, i decided to take my loyal ceptor and go make some bookmarks deep into enemy territory. It seemed a quite peaceful afternoon, as after doing in hostile territory 12 jumps and passing from 2 staging systems i have yet to see enemies in overview. While initiating warp to the next gate, i lost my shields and some of my armor. Upon entering the warp i looked the gate and activated all brackets(or whater alt+z does) in order to check what shooted at me. Well it turns out the route was not so peaceful, the rat was actualy a red player battlecruiser and that i had friendly overview on while traveling. Well gave me and my corpm8s some good lolz. |
Zimmy Zeta
Paramount Commerce
3350
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Posted - 2012.12.09 09:12:00 -
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This one time, at gate camp, I stuck a Rokh in my ***** For best results and enhanced forum experience, please read my posts in Snooki's voice |
Aztec Sam-Ong
Republic University Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2012.12.09 21:33:00 -
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Quote:I made a Billion Isk in my First Month
Pfffffffft.
That's nothing. I've played the trial a couple of times but when EVE went cheap on steam 3 days ago I took the dive and have played a mere 7 hours a day.
.... I have managed to make 350 million ISK in 3 days from sitting in Jita, Amarr and Rens with 3 characters station trading.
As a complete noob, I think it's impressive.
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zeluk
ONE1EIGHTY7
0
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Posted - 2012.12.09 23:11:00 -
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My story:
It was about 1am and I was quite drunk after getting home. I've logged on to EVE and I was either PVP or PVE'ing when this happened;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Lincolnshire_earthquake
"The 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake struck Lincolnshire, in the United Kingdom, on 27 February 2008 at 00:56:47.8s GMT. According to the British Geological Survey, the quake registered a reading of 5.2 on the Richter scale"
My house shook for about 10 seconds, plates smashing etc.
I genuinely thought it was my missiles in the game causing the ground, walls and windows to move...I was in shock for about a minute, staring at my screen, thinking "WTFH", until I realized it was an earthquake.
Don't drink and EVE. |
Frostys Virpio
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
103
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Posted - 2012.12.09 23:21:00 -
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That one time I hit jump on the wrong gate and ended in low sec in my retriever. This day confirmed that not all gates to low sec are camped. |
Red Teufel
Blackened Skies Nulli Secunda
112
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Posted - 2012.12.09 23:45:00 -
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after several months in 0.0 sov. I have confirmed sov sucks. |
Kalenn Istarion
Northstar Cabal Fatal Ascension
2
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Posted - 2013.01.14 18:01:00 -
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CCP Navigator wrote:This is my favorite story of all time. INNOMINATE NIGHTMARE, never forget.
Thread necro FTW - wish we knew what happened to Innominate Nightmare. Sad that his story stopped the way it did
Try Harder. |
Kaiirii
Mong's Marauders Spaceships in Space
15
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Posted - 2013.01.14 18:51:00 -
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My best EvE story?
The countless times I've tricked and scammed derps into giving me Isk and ships.
I think so far my personal favorite is convincing this lovely chap to hand me 400mil to get "blue" status so he could mine, then continue to explode him and his corp mates as they came into the system.
Fun times... |
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