Qui Shon
Capital Construction Research
Pioneer Alliance
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Posted - 2012.05.08 20:38:00 -
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Rexorol wrote:I should have asked this before, but is it worth the risk? I've never been good about spamming Dscan, usually avoid PVP like the plague, and found faction warfare frustrating and lost way too many stealth bombers and cruisers when I tried it.
I've skimmed some of the wormhole guides and know I can make tons of isk, but if I throw all my assets into one basket literally to try to pull this off, how likely will it be I get podded and lose all 3 ships and everything I've spent building up the last year in preparation? Do the risks outweigh the rewards? Am I just asking to get frustrated and lose everything if I try to jump in solo and teach myself to shift gears from high-sec life to wormhole life without a corp or POS or anything to back me up?
I started by joining a corp, but this was before anyone knew anything about wormholes. Today, with such multitudes of guides ruining the "unknown" factor of unknown space, I might well go at it alone if I started now. At least for a while.
My first solo venture in May 2009 (Apocrypha release date March 2009), was a C6 with C3 exit (J104921), where I mined, yes, mined  , harvested gas and did the C3 anoms and plexes through the exit. I had two combat pilots and an Orca/miner, later another miner.
There's no need to pimp anything, it just makes you that much sweeter a target. But if you want to then go ahead.
I used T1 battleships for both PvE and PvP, although at the time I tried to avoid most pvp, given how vulnerable I was.
So anyway, one evening this "Czech PvP corp" opened up to me, and later when I tried to close their wh with Orca + two bs, they noticed and ships started showing up. As I rushed my (then) expensive Riverbarge of an Orca back, an inty jumped through to my side and got point on it before it could warp. The ensuing fight was my NeutDomi and PulseBaddon vs their two Recons, HIC, Inty, and some other ship, where I was desperately trying to free my Orca before more of them showed up. At this point I had all my isk in the venture, and no extra scanning alts yet, so if they podded all three of my chars there and then, I would lose everything, including the pos and everything in it.
Somehow I managed to kill one of their recons and drive the other ships away, and got all my ships away and to the safety of my pos shields, just moments before they brought more and bigger ships to kill me. And let me tell you, this was one of the greatest feelings I've had in Eve. Not because the fight was spectacular by itself, the kb record looks like a simple gank of one recon. It was precisely because I had all my eggs in one basket, because I could NOT afford to lose what I flew, because I saw myself as the underdog and extremely vulnerable one at that, and because I would lose *everything* if I lost that one fight.
I've since risked some 13-16bn setups (multiple ships + pods) in single gang fights, I've lost bn isk ships, killed multiple 4-7bn isk enemy ships, including one capital with officer mods, but I have never felt as good as those early days when I had everything I owned on the line, with no backup, no help to call for, just luck, my wits and by todays standards, cheap as chips T2 fit T1 ships.
So I say go for it. You can't win (=great experience) big unless you risk big. And if things don't go well, I hope I'm the one who gets you :P |