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Ella C'Tronix
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Posted - 2010.02.20 05:14:00 -
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So, i've flown plenty o' ships with damage control units and i've been playing for somewhere between 8 months and a year.
My past in MMOs and gaming in general involved a fair bit of serious playing, mathematics, spreadsheet, the whole "min-maxing" thing...
Not generally a clueless player of games.
Anyway,
While undocking today, I accidentally clicked on my damage control II on a newly fitted cruiser. Much to my surprise, it activated the unit!
Apparently all this time, I thought damage controls were passive units, and they did absolutely nothing for any of the dozens of ships I've had them on all this time. I've died probably when I haven't needed to and wasted a lot of ISK on these units that were I guess just taking up space.
Terribly embarrassing, but i'm glad I figured it out so I can laugh at myself now and move on to slightly greater success.
The end.
Anyone else have similar stories from their early days or whatever?
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SupaKudoRio
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Posted - 2010.02.20 05:19:00 -
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Waaaay back, I didn't read the patch notes. I was surprised when my dual MWDs didn't work. 
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Slade Hoo
Amarr
24th Imperial Crusade
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Posted - 2010.02.20 05:26:00 -
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You should have used the "hide passive modules"-option in HUD. That's how i figured out that damage control is an active module 
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Ryhss
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.20 05:40:00 -
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I always reprocessed the DCV I got in the tutorial. I figured if it was free, it was crap....
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Jerid Verges
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Posted - 2010.02.20 06:00:00 -
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I know. It took a long time for me to figure out as well.
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Cipher Jones
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.02.20 06:09:00 -
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lol
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.02.20 07:08:00 -
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I thought WCS were an active mod once upon a time, does that count?
(and no, i never liked the 'hide passive' stuff, it made my screen feel too empty :p )
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Rakshasa Taisab
Caldari
Sane Industries Inc.
Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2010.02.20 08:59:00 -
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 Originally by: Slade Hoo
You should have used the "hide passive modules"-option in HUD. That's how i figured out that damage control is an active module
Using 'hide passive modules' is a nice way to end up flying with offlined modules, which have a tendency to end up in that state after clone jumps, etc, with tight fits.
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Khaitethe Meramad
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Posted - 2010.02.20 09:02:00 -
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That is so hilarias :D
My story is about locking on target, i didnt know that we can hold control and left click to lock a target until the 2nd month.
After i knew that, i was like xD
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Xeross155
Minmatar
Fusion Death Inc.
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2010.02.20 09:10:00 -
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I think my first damage control was a Civilian one I got through the tutorial missions, somehow I knew it was an active module.
Originally by: Khaitethe Meramad
That is so hilarias :D
My story is about locking on target, i didnt know that we can hold control and left click to lock a target until the 2nd month.
After i knew that, i was like xD
Did also take a while for me to figure out.
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Dusica
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Posted - 2010.02.20 09:19:00 -
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yesterday i was sposed to anchor bubble but i didnt and bubble was just standing in space and tengu gone trought it ( he didnt had interdiction nulifier ) missed tengu because i forgot to anchor after that i died like idiot in ceptor after i jumped trought gate and reaproached and started to spam jump back but i forgot hiden sesion timer -.- ... just idiot
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.02.20 09:27:00 -
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I used tracking computers for quite a while before I realised that they were active modules... 
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Halcyon Ingenium
Caldari
Caldari Tritanium
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Posted - 2010.02.20 09:42:00 -
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Edited by: Halcyon Ingenium on 20/02/2010 09:44:15
Edited by: Halcyon Ingenium on 20/02/2010 09:43:23
Originally by: Khaitethe Meramad
That is so hilarias :D
My story is about locking on target, i didnt know that we can hold control and left click to lock a target until the 2nd month.
After i knew that, i was like xD
Wait, what?
Looks like I picked a whole bouquet of oopsie daisies.
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Hyperforce99
Gallente
GoldTech Mischievous Industrial Logistics Ltd.
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Posted - 2010.02.20 09:57:00 -
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if I'm not sure i just click the module, see if it works.
never presume things are the way they are, especially in games. You'll miss the coolest aspects of games at times that way.
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Nina Treml
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Posted - 2010.02.20 10:08:00 -
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Originally by: Ella C'Tronix
My past in MMOs and gaming in general involved a fair bit of serious playing, mathematics, spreadsheet, the whole "min-maxing" thing...
oh yeah? and you never learned to read?
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Kyra Felann
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.02.20 12:08:00 -
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Originally by: Slade Hoo
You should have used the "hide passive modules"-option in HUD. That's how i figured out that damage control is an active module
This. If it shows up on my HUD, it's active.
I'm assuming you don't know how to do this--click the little triangle to the bottom left of your main HUD with your capacitor and speedometer. Click 'hide passive modules'.
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Abrazzar
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Posted - 2010.02.20 12:25:00 -
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I once went into lowsec to mine Jaspet.
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Demolishar
Uncle BoB on Crack
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Posted - 2010.02.20 13:23:00 -
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Took me a couple months to find out about weapon grouping.
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Napro
Caldari
Buccaneers of New Eden
death from above..
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Posted - 2010.02.20 13:32:00 -
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haha.lol
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Deviana Sevidon
Gallente
Panta-Rhei
Butterfly Effect Alliance
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Posted - 2010.02.20 13:43:00 -
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More then 4 years of EVE and I can still not understand POS. I look at them, I see the spreadsheets and then I have feeling as if my mind is sucked into an abyss and my mind being pierced with sharp metal spikes.
I cannot stand POS anymore. Make it stop hurting me so bad! *sob*
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Disclaimer: All mentioned above contains my opinion and is therefore an absolute truth (for me anyway, my universe, muhahaha.....ok, done
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My Postman
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Posted - 2010.02.20 14:20:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar
I once went into lowsec to mine Jaspet.
This made me lol very hard!
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Xyfu
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.20 14:28:00 -
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Originally by: Abrazzar
I once went into lowsec to mine Jaspet.
I probed sigs out with more than 4 probes.
I thought grouping turrets had a detrimental effect, due to wrecking hit calulations.
I had consentual sex in the missionary position.
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Cipher Jones
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.02.20 15:07:00 -
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Originally by: Xyfu
Originally by: Abrazzar
I once went into lowsec to mine Jaspet.
I probed sigs out with more than 4 probes.
I thought grouping turrets had a detrimental effect, due to wrecking hit calulations.
I had consentual sex in the missionary position.
Thats right, stick to the story.
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Cozmik R5
Minmatar
Dock 94
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Posted - 2010.02.20 15:22:00 -
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I once held the box of a new game published by Simon & Schuster called EVE Online... and put it back on the shelf. 
I can only imagine the amount of SP I'd have if I had taken it home.
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Minmatar
Sugarcane Technologies
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Posted - 2010.02.20 15:23:00 -
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Some years ago, before Castor, one of my friends has flown a Thorax, fitted with railguns. He has not been very satisfied with the damage output, so he fitted a damage mod. Later he told us, that now his ship rocks, she (the ship) kills pirates faster than ever before.
Months later he noticed, that heat sink does not boost hybrid weapons at all. We lol'd.
Always read the module description.
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Nebulous
Minmatar
Salvage Junkies
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Posted - 2010.02.20 15:27:00 -
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I once made a Caldari char
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Bomberlocks
Minmatar
Tribal Liberation Force
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Posted - 2010.02.20 15:31:00 -
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My story is that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing when I started off in eve. I didn't realise how important skill training was and thus I spent my first month in eve flying around in first a slasher and then a rifter ratting in hisec belts wondering how on earth other people were flying battleships and other shiny stuff and how they could afford them. I didn't do any missions because, in my very first non-training mission, I got the level 1 break their will mission and got my noob ship killed by the very first npc (angel highjacker lol). That traumatised me enough to think that all missions were hard no matter what you flew. Then, after that first month I started doing missions again but for any agent who would speak to me, meaning that my standings with the various npc corps hardly rose at all.
It was only after I joined my first corp that I started realising what eve is all about.
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Naomi Wildfire
Amarr
Stardust Heavy Industries
Majesta Empire
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Posted - 2010.02.20 16:46:00 -
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but i forgot hiden sesion timer -.-
Its not hidden, you can make it watchable -> ESC -> General Settings -> Show Session Change Timer
Now you can see it in the left top corner ... i found it after 3 or 4 years...
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Helmh0ltz
Blue Republic
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Posted - 2010.02.20 18:14:00 -
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Edited by: Helmh0ltz on 20/02/2010 18:15:34
None of you people have any idea how much useful information I have found in this thread. XD
Edit: Edited for grammarz.
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SeismicForce
Terra Incognita
Systematic-Chaos
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Posted - 2010.02.20 18:14:00 -
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I recently found out that you can also right-click on your capacitor to show the menu you get when you right click your ship in space.
Years of zooming on, clicking 5 times before I get the right spot and get the menu to open, then zooming out again have gone by before this little tip came along.
Originally by: Allisie
In a recent interview, a dev mentioned that ships and skills cause lag and will be removed in EVE 2.
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