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Arestes
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:06:00 -
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Edited by: Arestes on 28/08/2004 16:27:37
This game can be pretty addictive in itself. So much to see, so much to do. People to meet. Well, you probably know what I am talking about.
Pirating in my experience makes the game even more addictive. Each belt scanned may contain an apocalypse paying a forty million ransom or a well-setup trap. Each gate fire might bring a hostile fleet or a 250 million ISK indy. This story is about one of those indies. I actually stopped believing they existed a short while ago. Now, I am a believer once more 
Four from our corp (Pap3r, TinUK and Synaig0 and me) decided to do a little late night hunting in Syndicate region with just some frigates and cruisers. In the start we only encountered some multi-battleship groups and as we did not stand a chance against them we moved towards the NORAD headquarters system (4c-b7x) in the hope to cath some traffic coming down. As it was getting late (almost 2 o'clock at night for me), our capacitors were bugged and we did not come across any traffic I decided to log in the next system we entered. Just as we were playing around a bit with a dodgy Punisher in E9G- the gate fired and a Dreamscape (NORAD) Iteron V uncloaked...
All our tacklers were more then 40 km out, so the indy was able to warp out to the next gate before we could warpscramble it. We set pursuit of the indy without much hope convinced that it was an instajumping indy packed with warp core stabilizers. So my amazement was enormous when I dropped out of warp and saw the indy slowly approaching 20km from the gate. I got a warpscrambler on it and opened fire, still expecting it to warp out any second, enable multple afterburners or something else that would get the indy out. But none of that happened and after asking for help in local chat the indy pilot logged as Tinuk's thorax arrived to help me out. The logging off did not help as the Iteron was destroyed and with it some of its minerals were lost.
Type: Mexallon (Cargo)
Quantity: 914091
Type: Nocxium (Cargo)
Quantity: 54246
Exerpt from chatlog:
[ 2004.08.27 23:53:14 ] DarkXeRoX > lol where did u guys come from ehe
[ 2004.08.27 23:53:38 ] Miss Miner > help
[ 2004.08.27 23:53:42 ] Synaig0 > outer space
[ 2004.08.27 23:54:05 ] Pap3r > help coming
[ 2004.08.27 23:54:12 ] Pap3r > hold on
[ 2004.08.27 23:54:15 ] DarkXeRoX > lolz
[ 2004.08.27 23:54:23 ] Pap3r > =)
[ 2004.08.27 23:55:30 ] DarkXeRoX > wow cans
Three cans dropped out of the indy though and as I turned down the volume on my headset (I found out that people tend to talk real loud when looking at large quantities of minerals, myself included  ) we discovered the cans held 6386 Megacyte, 44373 Zydrine, 151k Isogen and 0.94M Mexalon. After we calmed down a little (with help from DezzyBoy, thanks for that) we decided to take as much as possible to a safespot and take it down to a highway system before downtime the next day (today) to sell it. Happy as little boys we even made a screenshot of the 257 million worth of minerals: http://files.kabl.org/indy/indy.jpg
Anyway, the point I want to make is (besides telling the indy story): don't log off.
1. Logging off when under heavy attack by players or npcs is a very lame thing to do. If you cannot handle losing in a game you should not be playing it. In the last few weeks a very large number of ships I attacked logged off and it only once saved someones ship. Furthermore, people that have used logging off as a tactic are causing people that have genuine ctds to lose their ships every day from now on. Shame on you. I hereby make a solemn vow that after the patch arrives (the pod stays in space after the player logs) I will pod every logged player I can get my warpscramblers on.
2. Logging off might cause you to miss that one oppurtunity for profit / fame / griefing, whetever keeps you going in the game. I am sure the restored belief in multimillion ISK indies flying around will keep me going for some time and maybe some of the other golddiggers out there also. It is events like this that make EvE one of the best and most addictive games out there. I, for one, will have a damn hard time logging off after that indy crossed my path.
Sorry for the lengthy read, YAARRRR and all that,
Arestes
[Edit: Spelling]
XpoHoc > and i also found out, that it doesnt matter what you do and what you archieve... you end up talking to yourself |
Arestes
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:06:00 -
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Edited by: Arestes on 28/08/2004 16:27:37
This game can be pretty addictive in itself. So much to see, so much to do. People to meet. Well, you probably know what I am talking about.
Pirating in my experience makes the game even more addictive. Each belt scanned may contain an apocalypse paying a forty million ransom or a well-setup trap. Each gate fire might bring a hostile fleet or a 250 million ISK indy. This story is about one of those indies. I actually stopped believing they existed a short while ago. Now, I am a believer once more
Four from our corp (Pap3r, TinUK and Synaig0 and me) decided to do a little late night hunting in Syndicate region with just some frigates and cruisers. In the start we only encountered some multi-battleship groups and as we did not stand a chance against them we moved towards the NORAD headquarters system (4c-b7x) in the hope to cath some traffic coming down. As it was getting late (almost 2 o'clock at night for me), our capacitors were bugged and we did not come across any traffic I decided to log in the next system we entered. Just as we were playing around a bit with a dodgy Punisher in E9G- the gate fired and a Dreamscape (NORAD) Iteron V uncloaked...
All our tacklers were more then 40 km out, so the indy was able to warp out to the next gate before we could warpscramble it. We set pursuit of the indy without much hope convinced that it was an instajumping indy packed with warp core stabilizers. So my amazement was enormous when I dropped out of warp and saw the indy slowly approaching 20km from the gate. I got a warpscrambler on it and opened fire, still expecting it to warp out any second, enable multple afterburners or something else that would get the indy out. But none of that happened and after asking for help in local chat the indy pilot logged as Tinuk's thorax arrived to help me out. The logging off did not help as the Iteron was destroyed and with it some of its minerals were lost.
Type: Mexallon (Cargo)
Quantity: 914091
Type: Nocxium (Cargo)
Quantity: 54246
Exerpt from chatlog:
[ 2004.08.27 23:53:14 ] DarkXeRoX > lol where did u guys come from ehe
[ 2004.08.27 23:53:38 ] Miss Miner > help
[ 2004.08.27 23:53:42 ] Synaig0 > outer space
[ 2004.08.27 23:54:05 ] Pap3r > help coming
[ 2004.08.27 23:54:12 ] Pap3r > hold on
[ 2004.08.27 23:54:15 ] DarkXeRoX > lolz
[ 2004.08.27 23:54:23 ] Pap3r > =)
[ 2004.08.27 23:55:30 ] DarkXeRoX > wow cans
Three cans dropped out of the indy though and as I turned down the volume on my headset (I found out that people tend to talk real loud when looking at large quantities of minerals, myself included ) we discovered the cans held 6386 Megacyte, 44373 Zydrine, 151k Isogen and 0.94M Mexalon. After we calmed down a little (with help from DezzyBoy, thanks for that) we decided to take as much as possible to a safespot and take it down to a highway system before downtime the next day (today) to sell it. Happy as little boys we even made a screenshot of the 257 million worth of minerals: http://files.kabl.org/indy/indy.jpg
Anyway, the point I want to make is (besides telling the indy story): don't log off.
1. Logging off when under heavy attack by players or npcs is a very lame thing to do. If you cannot handle losing in a game you should not be playing it. In the last few weeks a very large number of ships I attacked logged off and it only once saved someones ship. Furthermore, people that have used logging off as a tactic are causing people that have genuine ctds to lose their ships every day from now on. Shame on you. I hereby make a solemn vow that after the patch arrives (the pod stays in space after the player logs) I will pod every logged player I can get my warpscramblers on.
2. Logging off might cause you to miss that one oppurtunity for profit / fame / griefing, whetever keeps you going in the game. I am sure the restored belief in multimillion ISK indies flying around will keep me going for some time and maybe some of the other golddiggers out there also. It is events like this that make EvE one of the best and most addictive games out there. I, for one, will have a damn hard time logging off after that indy crossed my path.
Sorry for the lengthy read, YAARRRR and all that,
Arestes
[Edit: Spelling]
XpoHoc > and i also found out, that it doesnt matter what you do and what you archieve... you end up talking to yourself |
ActiveX
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:15:00 -
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Sex / Rank 9 / SP: 1280 of 2304000 
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ActiveX
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:15:00 -
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Sex / Rank 9 / SP: 1280 of 2304000
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Jemba'k Ko'cha
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:18:00 -
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one has to wonder why a ship with 250 millions worth of cargo was allowed to fly un escorted tbh
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Knowledge is the bomb |
Jemba'k Ko'cha
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:18:00 -
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one has to wonder why a ship with 250 millions worth of cargo was allowed to fly un escorted tbh
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Knowledge is the bomb |
Turyleon Caddarn
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:22:00 -
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 Originally by: Arestes
we discovered the cans held 6386 Megacyte, 44373 Zydrine, 151k Isogen and 0.94M Mexalon.
nice plunder!
"I know this game, it's called Cat and Mouse. There's only one way to win......... Don't be the mouse." |
Turyleon Caddarn
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:22:00 -
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Originally by: Arestes
we discovered the cans held 6386 Megacyte, 44373 Zydrine, 151k Isogen and 0.94M Mexalon.
nice plunder!
"I know this game, it's called Cat and Mouse. There's only one way to win......... Don't be the mouse." |
Jarjar
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:43:00 -
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Originally by: Jemba'k Ko'cha
one has to wonder why a ship with 250 millions worth of cargo was allowed to fly un escorted tbh
A ship would IMHO never have cargo worth that much... Ever.
Unless of course, it's a single item worth that much, pretty hard to split it up then!
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Jarjar
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:43:00 -
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Originally by: Jemba'k Ko'cha
one has to wonder why a ship with 250 millions worth of cargo was allowed to fly un escorted tbh
A ship would IMHO never have cargo worth that much... Ever.
Unless of course, it's a single item worth that much, pretty hard to split it up then!
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XpoHoc
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:46:00 -
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You still didn't break the corp record that lifewire and me are holding :)
Nice work.
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XpoHoc
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Posted - 2004.08.28 15:46:00 -
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You still didn't break the corp record that lifewire and me are holding :)
Nice work.
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Tenacha Kahn
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:05:00 -
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Nice one 
Xpo, ya know what we were talking about last nite when i kept crashing...well it seems it actually happened...but only on the forums
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Tenacha Kahn
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:05:00 -
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Nice one
Xpo, ya know what we were talking about last nite when i kept crashing...well it seems it actually happened...but only on the forums
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XpoHoc
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:25:00 -
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Tenacha, I said I will do it ;)
Well actually it wasn't me.
You're a bad boy!
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XpoHoc
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:25:00 -
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Tenacha, I said I will do it ;)
Well actually it wasn't me.
You're a bad boy!
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Corvus Dove
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:33:00 -
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There are two kinds of pirate posts.
THe first kind are the kind I hate. They're the ones that involve little more than "OMG I WTFPWNORZED j00!!!!111111111!!!" and a short tale involving twenty frigates ganking an industrial.
The second one is this kind, where the post isn't about the act of piracy but the abject stupidity of the victim. I love those.
"You Griefer!!!" = "You Doodyhead!!!" |
Corvus Dove
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:33:00 -
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There are two kinds of pirate posts.
THe first kind are the kind I hate. They're the ones that involve little more than "OMG I WTFPWNORZED j00!!!!111111111!!!" and a short tale involving twenty frigates ganking an industrial.
The second one is this kind, where the post isn't about the act of piracy but the abject stupidity of the victim. I love those.
"You Griefer!!!" = "You Doodyhead!!!" |
Pap3r
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:34:00 -
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we're doing our best xpo =)
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Pap3r
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:34:00 -
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we're doing our best xpo =)
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www.tundragon.com |
Vegeta
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:52:00 -
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Originally by: Jarjar
Originally by: Jemba'k Ko'cha
one has to wonder why a ship with 250 millions worth of cargo was allowed to fly un escorted tbh
A ship would IMHO never have cargo worth that much... Ever.
Unless of course, it's a single item worth that much, pretty hard to split it up then!
You could refine it 
2005.04.25 16:40:42 combat Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II perfectly strikes LawrenceNewton [WARAG], wrecking for 2706.9 damage.
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Vegeta
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Posted - 2004.08.28 16:52:00 -
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Originally by: Jarjar
Originally by: Jemba'k Ko'cha
one has to wonder why a ship with 250 millions worth of cargo was allowed to fly un escorted tbh
A ship would IMHO never have cargo worth that much... Ever.
Unless of course, it's a single item worth that much, pretty hard to split it up then!
You could refine it
2005.04.25 16:40:42 combat Your 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II perfectly strikes LawrenceNewton [WARAG], wrecking for 2706.9 damage.
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Synaig0
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Posted - 2004.08.28 17:04:00 -
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Just like christmas
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I'm the guy with the sleepy look...
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Synaig0
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Posted - 2004.08.28 17:04:00 -
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Just like christmas
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I'm the guy with the sleepy look...
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Dezzyb0y
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Posted - 2004.08.28 17:15:00 -
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everyone else in tundragon posted on here so here i go WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
/end immaturity
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K4rls 1400mm Howitzer Artillery I perfectly strikes Republic Fleet Testing Facilities, wrecking for 1395.9 damage
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Dezzyb0y
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Posted - 2004.08.28 17:15:00 -
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everyone else in tundragon posted on here so here i go WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
/end immaturity
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K4rls 1400mm Howitzer Artillery I perfectly strikes Republic Fleet Testing Facilities, wrecking for 1395.9 damage
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Nafri
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Posted - 2004.08.28 19:01:00 -
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bah you guys sucks!
how can you do such things without me??
Wanna fly with me?
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Nafri
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Posted - 2004.08.28 19:01:00 -
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bah you guys sucks!
how can you do such things without me??
Wanna fly with me?
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Van'Helsing
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Posted - 2004.08.28 22:03:00 -
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When will peeps learn to put their millions of isk worth of mins in BS to haul around... ?!? LOL |
Van'Helsing
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Posted - 2004.08.28 22:03:00 -
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When will peeps learn to put their millions of isk worth of mins in BS to haul around... ?!? LOL |
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