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Virgil Travis
GWA Corp
90
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:03:00 -
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evereplicant wrote:to the op, sadly mate you are going to get trolled by the idiots.. However yes this is the problem with eve, and thats why eve isnt for everyone, thats why it will never really grow to its full potential becuase of stuff like this. I have quit a couple of times on the same reasons, but perservered, and learnt from the mistakes. and there lies the solution, you have to basically learn from mistakes and try not do them again. Like next time, i bet you dont autopilot? But there again being alphad be a cheap ship, with very little condesequences, which i think is very very wrong.
Sadly eve will continue to lose new players like yourself until they do something about helping new players actually learn the game. They dont, they just throw them to the sharks and say get on with it.
Your post is the first idiot troll to be honest. I've been helping new players learn the game so as other have, so take your uninformed opinion and leave. Roses are red. Bacon is also red. Poems are hard. Bacon. |
Josefius
13th Tribe of Kobol Expeditionary
59
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:05:00 -
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This game is unforgiving of lazy ADHD people, find your mistake a fix it. No one will ******* hold your hand. My advice is to join Eve University, they can help you.
EDIT Why do I get the feeling I've been trolled by the OP? You have enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill |
Kessiaan
Greater Order Of Destruction Happy Endings
152
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:06:00 -
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Spacebar Chelien wrote:Liang Nuren wrote:Take a deep breath. Relax. Log in tomorrow. :)
-Liang I have nothing left. I got my remaining ships blown up and shipped off my last isk. I wish I could have kept playing this game because the actual PvP where you fight against other people who actually want to PvP was fun. But I am not willing to spend another two weeks saving up isk just to get it blown up again.
I can't think of anyone that I fly with on a regular basis who hasn't lost most or all of their assets at some point.
Hell, I remember my first trip out to nullsec way back, I lost everything - quit my corp, went back to highsec with barely enough isk to buy a retriever and a hauler (I was miner in those days...), spent two weeks getting back on my feet.
Actually thinking of going back to mining for the first time in years, have you seen the mineral markets recently? My killboard - http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Kessiaan |
BBJ Shepard
Thunderwaffe Goonswarm Federation
237
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:08:00 -
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Spacebar Chelien wrote:So today after playing for about 2 months I have deiced to quit Eve. I didn't really want to but I couldn't bring myself to keep playing this game. Where to start?
I love PvP. Its why I play video games, and its what drew me to this game. Unfortunately, PvP is also expensive, especially for new players. So in order to make enough isk to buy myself some ships to get blown up I picked up trading. Just simple buy low, sell high stuff. I was making pretty decent isk doing it too, and after a couple weeks I had made about 300 million. Today I found a pretty good trade from Dodixie to Jita and decided to buy up 300 million worth of stuffs to haul. Yes, I spent almost all my isk. Was that stupid? In hindsight, yes. However I had run trades like this dozens of times without running into any problems whatsever.
Anyways about halfway through my route (I was not auto-piloting), I tabbed out to pick a new song and check my email quickly. When I tabbed back in, I was sitting in my pod. Turns out some guy in a tornado popped me within seconds in high sec. Just like that, I lost weeks of work.
I have quite an extensive history playing online games. I used to play a lot of WoW, I play tons of Dota and LoL, and am a top-level SC2 player. In all my years, I have never seen a more pathetic excuse for PvP than what I saw today. All I wanted to do was have some fun peacefully trading some goods between systems so that I could make enough isk to go do some actual PvP. On a good day I'll maybe make a tiny fraction as much as those farming bots that I see in null sec all the time. Instead I lost pretty much everything I had. Two weeks of work, and all somebody has to do is press a couple of buttons while I'm tabbed out and it's gone. PvP is supposed to be about out-smarting and out-playing your opponent. Whatever happened today, I don't know what to call that.
So I hopped into my battleship, flew it into null sec, and got it blown up. Then I quit. :): ?(: |
Sidrun
Life sucks then you die Ltd.
4
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:20:00 -
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heh, he got popped trying to cash in on the zydrine speculating.
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=15919102 |
Keno Skir
110
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:22:00 -
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Contact me, i'll buy u a ship and we can pvp like your talkin about. As for the ship you lost, the person who killed you didn't do it to show off his pvp skills most likely. He probably did it cus you had a bunch of money he wanted in a paper bad dangling on a string from your pocket. The Apostle : I want a kangeroo Captain Kirk : Silly Austrians Sarmatiko : Let me guess: you're from US? Captain Kirk : Yeah Riverside IA - why? |
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient Electus Matari
218
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:23:00 -
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Spacebar Chelien wrote:Liang Nuren wrote:Take a deep breath. Relax. Log in tomorrow. :)
-Liang I have nothing left. I got my remaining ships blown up and shipped off my last isk. I wish I could have kept playing this game because the actual PvP where you fight against other people who actually want to PvP was fun. But I am not willing to spend another two weeks saving up isk just to get it blown up again. Frankly, if you keep at playing you will spend a lot more time in the future making money because stuff got blown up. In the end, that's what EVE is about: blowing stuff up and making new stuff to replace the old stuff that blew up. ;)
Also: - never fly what you cannot afford to lose, and that includes your cargo; - never put all of your eggs in the same basket.
Hope you continue playing. Yes, you can do it. The next 300 million will come faster now that you know what you are doing. |
Peter Powers
FinFleet Raiden.
77
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:27:00 -
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Spacebar Chelien wrote:I lost pretty much everything I had. Two weeks of work, and all somebody has to do is press a couple of buttons while I'm tabbed out and it's gone. PvP is supposed to be about out-smarting and out-playing your opponent.
tabbing out with a cargohold full of stuff being worth more than the ship thats needed to kill yours i'd say you got outsmarted and outplayed. |
Richard Aiel
Caldari Provisions Caldari State
120
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:31:00 -
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Vetorept Fera wrote:Something sandboxy happened in the sandbox.
This game is not for you op, move on back to WoW Ravan Hekki: "Well done CCP. Banned tears the best sort of tears." especially Goon tears
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Naga Elohim
Golden Shellbacks Surely You're Joking
15
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:34:00 -
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I have lost "everything" twice in Niarja over a span of five years. Do you know what I have learned during that time? TANK YOUR HAULER!!!!
Yeah, those cargo expanders come in handy, but they do you no good when a tornado or thrasher alphawtfpwns you.
I'll usually fly a bestower with shield extenders, armor plates and inertia stabilizers. Haven't been suicide ganked since!
HTFU, dust yourself off and keep playing! This is EVE and you will lose. Once you have come to terms with that reality, you will have the best experience of your gaming life! |
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Henry Haphorn
Aliastra Gallente Federation
289
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:34:00 -
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Not too long ago, I passed through Niarja in my Orca Alt when I saw a massive fleet of sensor-boosted Tornadoes parked on one of the gates. Thankfully, I jump out in time. Those systems are to be avoided at all costs.
Anyways, as others have said, you're biggest mistake:
You put all your eggs in one basket and took absolutely no measures to protect yourself. Well, I'm assuming you were in a freighter loaded with everything, correct? What ship did you use to haul with really? Also, did you use secure containers in this?
I usually rely on the Orca due to the many advantages it has over any other hauler.
1. Players are not able to scan into your ship bay, corp hangar bay, and the ore hold. Only Faction police have that privilege when it comes to smuggling boosters or illegal tags. This leaves only the standard cargohold to be scannable.
2. If your Orca blows up, any and all items stored in any of the bays other than the cargohold are lost 100% and they never appear in the aggressor's killmail. This makes it easy to sneak loads of expensive stuff. Just make sure that you only fill the standard cargohold will useless junk.
3. Serious tank. On its own, without mods, the Orca is as fragile as a freighter. But with enough trained skills, a careful eye, and proper T2 mods, the Orca's EHP total can go beyond 260,000 which is a lot to eat through. It would take no less than 10-15 max-alpha Tornadoes to kill it and even then the cost of losing that many Tornadoes for measly space mods and no chance of getting anything from the non-standard bays makes it not worth it to gank a F--kOff Orca.
4. Regardless of the advantages an Orca has over a freighter, it is way cheaper than the freighter at about 1/4 the cost. Welcome to Eve Online. Don't expect people to be nice to you. |
Obsidian Dagger
Nitrus Nine
59
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:39:00 -
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But you have to have been autopiloting. Either that or looking away from your screen for longer than 30 seconds + lock time + breaking through your tank time.
The only way you can seriously be caught like that on a gate these days is if you were on autopilot (stupid STUPID STUPID), or had decloaked on the other side of a gate which iirc takes 30 seconds. No-one with an ounce of brain matter uses the warp-to-zero button for travelling now because it's pointless, the auto-jump saves clicking and eliminates the chance of you getting popped.
So logically, either you were on full autopilot, and afk, or, you were alt-tabbed a LOT longer than a few seconds.
Also whatever possesed you to fly your only remaining ship into nullsec? Yeah okay, go looking for PVP fine but at least break the battleship up and sell the minerals, or just sell it outright, and buy 20 rifters or whatever and go PVP in those. |
Dbars Grinding
Garoun Investment Bank Gallente Federation
422
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:45:00 -
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9/10 hidden begging for isk thread pls lock. I have more space likes than you.-á |
masternerdguy
Inner Shadow NightSong Directorate
94
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Posted - 2012.04.05 13:59:00 -
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HTFU. Everything dies. Things are only impossible until they are not. |
2bhammered
Perkone Caldari State
78
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Posted - 2012.04.05 14:36:00 -
[135] - Quote
300mill ISK? The right to ***** starts at 1 billion ISK minimum. |
Pod Potato
WARLOCKS SCUM.
18
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Posted - 2012.04.05 17:47:00 -
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Well... theres always Perpetuum. It's a sandbox MMO, it has PvP and PvE areas. But, the PvE areas there don't have any 'surprise' PvP like what happened to you. Also, Perpetuum has a better training over time model. No clones, no implants, etc. and that means no fear in losing too much in PvP. And, just like that I contributed nothing to this thread. |
Spacebar Chelien
Southern Cross Empire Flying Dangerous
2
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Posted - 2012.04.05 18:04:00 -
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To everyone saying I'm a troll, I most definitely am not. I don't see how highlighting my corp history shows that I am.
And to everyone that says I'm a hypocrite for ganking in null-sec, I don't follow that line of reasoning. As far as I knew, null-sec was the pvp zone, high sec was a safe place, and low sec was somewhere in-between. If you go into null-sec to mine/trade/pve you are taking a risk that you get ganked but are also going to make a lot more money. There were a lot of trades that I could have made in low sec that I avoided because I knew it wouldn't be worth the risk, and when I flew into low-sec and got my indy blown up I didn't complain. But apparently this isn't the case. |
Hamshoe
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
9
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Posted - 2012.04.05 18:59:00 -
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Meryl SinGarda wrote:Hamshoe wrote:Amity Lane wrote:... that's what makes EvE unique. It's like real life. I've used this analogy before, but I think it's a pretty good one: You wouldn't go to Glasgow and wave fistfuls of cash above your head and expect nothing to happen. Why would you here?
The 'real life" thing has to die (pardon the pun). There are no real repercussions. In "real life" when we give a mass murderer the drip (or when the mob kills the bully, for those of you living in non-DP jurisdictions), he doesn't re-spawn with his bank account and possessions intact. When you wreck your car in the commission of a crime, the insurance company doesn't reimburse you. Those are real repercussions. This is a game, and the analogy is crap. So, in real life, instead of being put to death for murder, the government just empties your bank account and blows up your car. ZING.
And the concept of "suicide ganking" as a career maps equally well. Getting other people to do it for you, now there's a career.
But it only works in EVE precisely because there are no real repercussions. |
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient Electus Matari
220
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Posted - 2012.04.05 19:03:00 -
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Quote:As far as I knew, null-sec was the pvp zone, high sec was a safe place, and low sec was somewhere in-between. Well, you knew wrong. High-sec is intended to be safer than other places, but it was not intended to be a completely safe place.
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sukee tsayah
Southern Cross Trilogy Flying Dangerous
16
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Posted - 2012.04.05 19:03:00 -
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Guys, everyone stop casting accusations and making judgements about something you know nothing about. Spacebar is not a troll. If he was, we wouldn't have killed his Mega in Syndicate yesterday.
Spacebar-
You did great in our PvP ops. In the short time you were with us you got more kills than some of the people in this forum get in a whole year (or their whole EVE career for that matter).
We have a wealth of information for you in our forums and we make ourselves available and accessible through our Alliance channels. You know (and you can't deny this) that I've gone way out of my way to teach new guys like you how to do well in Eve. I've written countless guides for new pilots on how to make isk to PVP with, and how to not lose that isk subsequently. I've FC'ed fleets with 30 pilots where half of them had never PVP'ed before.
As you stated, in one of our ops you got to kill a Thanatos with nothing but a t1 cruiser. One of those in our fleet had been playing Eve for THREE HOURS and he got a carrier kill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCpFCk6xurY
Now think about it for a second. We had to jump through a wormhole that took us from Syndicate to carebear land in Fountain in order to catch this Thanatos with his pants down. The only reason this guy was caught was because we leapfrogged over his "eyes" that were watching the systems next door by using that wormhole to catch him. Do you think he consented to PVP? Do you think he thought it was fair that we tackled him with a Stabber and then dropped 30 other t1 cruisers on top of him?
It's how the game works man. PVP exists in every region of EVE, no matter the security level of the system. There is plenty more for you to learn but you have to be patient. Yesterday, before you stormed out and decided to suicide your battleship into the most active PVP region in the EVE universe, I gave you links to show you that this has happened to all of us. All of us had to learn the hard way. Hell, when I was a newb I took a suicide gank loss like yours too. Except I lost a lot more isk than you did. Did I quit? No. I learned from it and never did it again. That's how this game works.
Finally, I think you're onto something when you mention that you enjoyed our fleet fights a lot more than our ganks. Naturally. That's the most fun part of EVE. I would much rather get in a huge fleet fight than gank a sole ship. With that said, killing carriers with t1 fitted cruisers is also a great hobby of mine. I enjoy it because of how rare and hard it is to do. You may think it's not PVP but it's actually exactly how EVE's PVP is supposed to work. Eve's PVP is intelligent. It involves a lot more than point and shoot. You need to think on your feet, you need to have intel, and you need to know enough about the game to make quick decisions that will likely cost you your ship and most likely your whole fleet (hence why I love to FC). Just as easily as we ganked that Thanny, he could have had a fleet of battleships next door that could have decimated our cruiser fleet. If that would have happened, you wouldn't have heard any of us talking about how unfair that is. It's the game.
I'm really bummed that you decided to do what you did. Did I enjoy blowing up your Mega? No. Did I want another alliance in Syndicate to blow it up instead? Hell no. That's why I gave everyone the order to blow up your ship.
As a parting shot I would recommend that you think twice about quitting. I saw that you sent me the rest of your isk. I appreciate the thought and I think you did it because you appreciate the time I took to teach new players like you how to play the game, but again: I don't need it. If you tell me right now that you'll reconsider, that isk will be sent right back to you (and then some), and I promise to spend as much time as you need in order for me to go over some of the other nuances in EVE, such as the experience you just went through.
That's as much as I'm willing to say here, except for one thing: Jayarr...shut the f&%$ up.
www.figl-alliance.com |
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xHxHxAOD
Southern Cross Trilogy Flying Dangerous
0
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Posted - 2012.04.05 20:09:00 -
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it was a great and quite fun bc it got us more pvp but im an @ss so im fine with |
Kemonia
Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State
4
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Posted - 2012.04.05 20:13:00 -
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sukee tsayah wrote:Guys, everyone stop casting accusations and making judgements about something you know nothing about. Spacebar is not a troll. If he was, we wouldn't have killed his Mega in Syndicate yesterday. Spacebar- You did great in our PvP ops. In the short time you were with us you got more kills than some of the people in this forum get in a whole year (or their whole EVE career for that matter). We have a wealth of information for you in our forums and we make ourselves available and accessible through our Alliance channels. You know (and you can't deny this) that I've gone way out of my way to teach new guys like you how to do well in Eve. I've written countless guides for new pilots on how to make isk to PVP with, and how to not lose that isk subsequently. I've FC'ed fleets with 30 pilots where half of them had never PVP'ed before. As you stated, in one of our ops you got to kill a Thanatos with nothing but a t1 cruiser. One of those in our fleet had been playing Eve for THREE HOURS and he got a carrier kill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCpFCk6xurYNow think about it for a second. We had to jump through a wormhole that took us from Syndicate to carebear land in Fountain in order to catch this Thanatos with his pants down. The only reason this guy was caught was because we leapfrogged over his "eyes" that were watching the systems next door by using that wormhole to catch him. Do you think he consented to PVP? Do you think he thought it was fair that we tackled him with a Stabber and then dropped 30 other t1 cruisers on top of him? It's how the game works man. PVP exists in every region of EVE, no matter the security level of the system. There is plenty more for you to learn but you have to be patient. Yesterday, before you stormed out and decided to suicide your battleship into the most active PVP region in the EVE universe, I gave you links to show you that this has happened to all of us. All of us had to learn the hard way. Hell, when I was a newb I took a suicide gank loss like yours too. Except I lost a lot more isk than you did. Did I quit? No. I learned from it and never did it again. That's how this game works. Finally, I think you're onto something when you mention that you enjoyed our fleet fights a lot more than our ganks. Naturally. That's the most fun part of EVE. I would much rather get in a huge fleet fight than gank a sole ship. With that said, killing carriers with t1 fitted cruisers is also a great hobby of mine. I enjoy it because of how rare and hard it is to do. You may think it's not PVP but it's actually exactly how EVE's PVP is supposed to work. Eve's PVP is intelligent. It involves a lot more than point and shoot. You need to think on your feet, you need to have intel, and you need to know enough about the game to make quick decisions that will likely cost you your ship and most likely your whole fleet (hence why I love to FC). Just as easily as we ganked that Thanny, he could have had a fleet of battleships next door that could have decimated our cruiser fleet. If that would have happened, you wouldn't have heard any of us talking about how unfair that is. It's the game. I'm really bummed that you decided to do what you did. Did I enjoy blowing up your Mega? No. Did I want another alliance in Syndicate to blow it up instead? Hell no. That's why I gave everyone the order to blow up your ship. As a parting shot I would recommend that you think twice about quitting. I saw that you sent me the rest of your isk. I appreciate the thought and I think you did it because you appreciate the time I took to teach new players like you how to play the game, but again: I don't need it. If you tell me right now that you'll reconsider, that isk will be sent right back to you (and then some), and I promise to spend as much time as you need in order for me to go over some of the other nuances in EVE, such as the experience you just went through. That's as much as I'm willing to say here, except for one thing: Jayarr...shut the f&%$ up. www.figl-alliance.com
Well said.
Re-join them Spacebar, they seem a good alliance with a good leader |
FloppieTheBanjoClown
The Skunkworks
1280
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Posted - 2012.04.05 20:21:00 -
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My first two months of playing Eve were a series of me finding stupid ways to lose ships I could barely afford. I was tagging along on L4 missions with friends, and flying cruisers to do it. Then we figured out salvaging was decent money (by our standards) and I flew a salvage Catalyst and lost several of those salvaging in live mission rooms. It became a running gag that I couldn't go a week without seeing my ship blow up at least once, and that I'd never see a nine-digit wallet.
I'm about seven weeks from my two-year anniversary in this game. I plex three accounts every month and have cash left over to buy the expensive ships I like to fly. It gets better and easier. It's time to put an end to CCP's war on piracy. Fight your own battles and stop asking CCP to do it for you. |
adopt
Brutor Tribe Minmatar Republic
375
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Posted - 2012.04.05 22:59:00 -
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You learned EVE's harshest lesson first. A few years ago now I joined a nullsec alliance, I was completely new, had 120million isk to my name and a drake. I didn't know what jump bridges or anything like that was, I jumped straight into a gate camp and lost my drake, and foolishly paid the ransom for my pod. I had 1 million isk, and no ships. I literally nearly quit EVE.
What changed my mind? EVE is a game. Pixels can be remade. I now have 11 accounts, an 11 digit bank balance and plenty of spaceships to die in. EVE is hard, you live and you learn. Shadoo > Always remember to fit Cynosural Field Generator I, have 450 Liquid Ozone in your cargo and convo a friendly Pandemic Legion member if you have a capital or super capital ship tackled.
FREE XOLVE ~ THE HERO TEST NEEDS |
Tear Miner
Republic University Minmatar Republic
115
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Posted - 2012.04.06 02:03:00 -
[145] - Quote
This thread is not in GD? How... what do? |
Jhagiti Tyran
Muppet Ninja's Ninja Unicorns with Huge Horns
243
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Posted - 2012.04.06 02:27:00 -
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Spacebar Chelien wrote:. All I wanted to do was have some fun peacefully trading some goods between systems so that I could make enough isk to go do some actual PvP. On a good day I'll maybe make a tiny fraction as much as those farming bots that I see in null sec all the time. Instead I lost pretty much everything I had. Two weeks of work, and all somebody has to do is press a couple of buttons while I'm tabbed out and it's gone. PvP is supposed to be about out-smarting and out-playing your opponent. Whatever happened today, I don't know what to call that..
The problem is you made yourself a target, you might think you can trade peacefully but that doesn't exist in EVE. You have goals you want to achieve and that's great but you forget the other players around you have their own goals. Whoever killed you obviously wanted your cargo. You made two mistakes, firstly you where naive and believed you could "trade peacefully" and forgot other people would see a space pi+Ĥata. Your second mistake was not preparing and taking precautions. Travelling a watched route in a flimsy ship and then going AFK was simply suicide.
I know its a hard lesson, many of us had that lesson to. What happens now is up to you, you can learn from it and pick yourself up and carry on. Do you want to be defeated and routed over some cargo? Dusting yourself and carrying on will make you stronger, you had your lesson and it was harsh but you will know better in the future.
You may want to quit but you can start again, you earned your ISK and learned trading skills and you can do it again and you will be more experienced. You might even make more ISK faster, you will also know you have to ensure your own safety and security.
Do not quit, try again and use the skills you learned and be even more successful in the future.
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Spacebar Chelien
The Scope Gallente Federation
2
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Posted - 2012.04.06 03:27:00 -
[147] - Quote
Well looking back at the lessons I've learned from this it just makes me realize that this game just probably isn't for me.
Never haul shiny stuff inside less shiny stuf -Ok, great. But doing this was the only way I found of making a reasonable amount of isk without making me want to shoot myself
Never look away from your screen -Good lesson. All I have to do is live my life in fear of that one time when I'm doing something the least bit risky and I have to answer the door
Don't put all your eggs in one basket -Ok, but again doing this was the only way I found to make isk. I want to fly shiny stuff. Nothing too fancy, but I don't want to be flying around in a tier 1 frigate for months doing the dirty work for people in much nicer ships
So maybe I could get back into it. I'm thinking about it, the responses in this thread have been very positive and its shown that the community is a lot better than I thought. But then again for all I know I could find out in a few weeks time that |
Jhagiti Tyran
Muppet Ninja's Ninja Unicorns with Huge Horns
243
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Posted - 2012.04.06 04:05:00 -
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Spacebar Chelien wrote:I'm thinking about it, the responses in this thread have been very positive and its shown that the community is a lot better than I thought.
Most people have been positive because you didn't whine, in your post it was obvious you where disappointed but you didn't cry or whine. The players sympathise because they have been there themselves at some point.
Even when you have bucket loads of ISK and SP things can go wrong, ships can die, "friends" can scam you, cap ships can get bounced off a station because of a badly placed cyno.
EVE is like real life, you have to accept the ups and downs and live with the uncertainty. Check your contracts btw. |
Elsebeth Rhiannon
Gradient Electus Matari
225
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Posted - 2012.04.06 07:42:00 -
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Spacebar Chelien wrote:Well looking back at the lessons I've learned from this it just makes me realize that this game just probably isn't for me.
Never haul shiny stuff inside less shiny stuf -Ok, great. But doing this was the only way I found of making a reasonable amount of isk without making me want to shoot myself Don't put all your eggs in one basket -Ok, but again doing this was the only way I found to make isk. I want to fly shiny stuff. Nothing too fancy, but I don't want to be flying around in a tier 1 frigate for months doing the dirty work for people in much nicer ships You can make money from trade say by hauling the same stuff in three goes, instead of one. It will take you a little longer, but not months, lessens the chances of you being ganked tremendously, and means that even if you lose one of the cargoes, you can still go on.
Quote:Never look away from your screen -Good lesson. All I have to do is live my life in fear of that one time when I'm doing something the least bit risky and I have to answer the door If you need to get up in an emergency, first hit "dock" on some random station and see your ship starting to warp. That will take less than 20 seconds and unless the house is actually burning down or a child choking on a peanut, you have the 20 seconds. And if it is a real emergency, you should not care of the ship. And it's not "never". You can look away to your mails while in warp, say. Play in fixed window mode, so you can see when the warp ends from behind your email program.
Also, one thing you need to learn to be successful in EVE is to not live in the fear of a loss. Only fly what you can afford to lose. That is not just good advice, it is absolutely crucial for EVE to be playable. You cannot fly very well if every time you undock you are terrified of losing your ship. You have to get used to losses and develop a place inside your mind where you do not care about exploding (or not care very much). |
Brisco County
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Only flying what you can afford to lose is a bs cliche. Fly whatever you want. Worst case scenario you have to take your insurance payout and run a few missions in a cruiser to make some isk back. |
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