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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 -
[2]
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 -
[4]
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 -
[5]
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 -
[6]
lol
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I'm so Old I can remember when QQ was TT
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.02.20 07:08:00 -
[7]
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 )
OHGODS BELOW THIS LINE IS MY SIG !!!! SRSLY!
Blane Xero > Lance is at -0.9 sec status with a 1 million bounty. Lance is also amarrian. Thats 3 evil points |
Rakshasa Taisab
Caldari
Sane Industries Inc.
Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2010.02.20 08:59:00 -
[8]
 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 -
[10]
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 -
[11]
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 -
[12]
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 -
[13]
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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Caldari Tritanium: Don't buy that other guy's tritanium, our tritanium helps you express who you are as a person. Buy Caldari Tritanium, because life is too short to be ordinary! |
Hyperforce99
Gallente
GoldTech Mischievous Industrial Logistics Ltd.
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Posted - 2010.02.20 09:57:00 -
[14]
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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Somewhere beyond happyness and sadness, I need to calculate what creates my own madness o/ |
Nina Treml
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Posted - 2010.02.20 10:08:00 -
[15]
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 -
[16]
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 -
[17]
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 -
[18]
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 -
[19]
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 -
[20]
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 -
[21]
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 -
[22]
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 -
[23]
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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I'm so Old I can remember when QQ was TT
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Cozmik R5
Minmatar
Dock 94
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Posted - 2010.02.20 15:22:00 -
[24]
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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u die
Minmatar
Sugarcane Technologies
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Posted - 2010.02.20 15:23:00 -
[25]
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 -
[26]
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 -
[27]
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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Quote:
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 -
[29]
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 -
[30]
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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Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc.
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2010.02.20 21:00:00 -
[31]
I once traveled @35+ jumps in the wrong direction for an op because I spelled the system name wrong and picked one very close to the real one.
Did not pop a cyno when I was told to as I was entering warp to the cyno station, and caused a corp mate to loose their first capital 
Slade
Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker
Please go sit in the corner, and dont forget to don the shame-on-you-hat!
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.02.20 21:58:00 -
[32]
Originally by: Slade Trillgon
I once traveled @35+ jumps in the wrong direction for an op because I spelled the system name wrong and picked one very close to the real one.
Did not pop a cyno when I was told to as I was entering warp to the cyno station, and caused a corp mate to loose their first capital
Slade
That's right, stick to the story
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Kazacy
Caldari
Cugir SA - Arms FACTORY
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Posted - 2010.02.20 22:58:00 -
[33]
Originally by: SeismicForce
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.
Ahhhh ****. I played eve over 3 years and i don't know this  . Thx for the tip anyway.
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justin666
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Posted - 2010.02.20 23:48:00 -
[34]
i remmeber doin a bs rush 10 days into eve and i fitted it sooo bad that even 2 month newbs laughed wen they got the km
raven fit (i took a screenshot of the ship coz bak then i honnestly thought it was proper powerful haha)
[Raven, New Setup 1]
Ballistic Control System I
Heat Sink I
Heat Sink I
[empty low slot]
[empty low slot]
Large C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Large F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
M51 Iterative Shield Regenerator
M51 Iterative Shield Regenerator
250mm Prototype I Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge M
250mm Prototype I Gauss Gun, Antimatter Charge M
720mm Prototype I Siege Cannon, EMP M
720mm Prototype I Siege Cannon, EMP M
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I, Thunderbolt Heavy Missile
[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]
[empty rig slot]
XD
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Waukesha
Amarr
Interstellar eXodus
BricK sQuAD.
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Posted - 2010.02.21 01:41:00 -
[35]
I remember a guy posting once, that his good friend had been playing eve for 18 months before he figured out he could change skills without losing the skill points of that skill he was changing.
The guy would leave his GFs house at 3am to go home and set a new skill when the current ran out.
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Cat o'Ninetails
Rancer Defence League
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Posted - 2010.02.21 02:00:00 -
[36]
i tried to defend rancer lol
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wait that wasn't a mistake... it is my solemn duty
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Alchemist's Alt
Gallente
Hysteria Nexus
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Posted - 2010.02.21 02:04:00 -
[37]
I once fitted an omen with lazers
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Sahriah BloodStone
Caldari
No.Mercy
Gentlemen's Club
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Posted - 2010.02.21 02:25:00 -
[38]
About 3 days after joining my first corp everyone got a mail that X character been involved in a cloning accident and died.
I mistook this for a real person dying and was sad for 2 days
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Sahriah Bloodstone
No.Mercy
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.02.21 02:30:00 -
[39]
Originally by: Sahriah BloodStone
About 3 days after joining my first corp everyone got a mail that X character been involved in a cloning accident and died.
I mistook this for a real person dying and was sad for 2 days
This made me question wtf had happened too, but luckily someone explained it to me.
I didnt understand damage types for a good year or two into the game, and would always omni tank all my mission ships
OHGODS BELOW THIS LINE IS MY SIG !!!! SRSLY!
Blane Xero > Lance is at -0.9 sec status with a 1 million bounty. Lance is also amarrian. Thats 3 evil points |
Apoctasy
Deskira Industries
G String University
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Posted - 2010.02.21 04:54:00 -
[40]
Originally by: Bomberlocks
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.
If that is what you think Eve is about, then lol.
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Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc.
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2010.02.21 06:16:00 -
[41]
Originally by: Malcanis
That's right, stick to the story
You make it sound like it did not happen.
If only 
Slade
Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker
Please go sit in the corner, and dont forget to don the shame-on-you-hat!
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Typhado3
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.02.21 07:41:00 -
[42]
I once got blown up twice too a pos cause it was set to shoot on aggression (2nd time I went out to loot my first wreck without waiting 15 minutes).
also some scanning tricks -> you can select and change multiple probes scan range at once. you can also move all probes at once by clicking shift when you drag.
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DaReaper
Net 7
The Last Brigade
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Posted - 2010.02.21 08:01:00 -
[43]
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
Hell i did not learn that till year 4. And i have been in eve 6 years
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Akita T
Caldari
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2010.02.21 08:11:00 -
[44]
Did you know you can move the locked target pictograms around anywhere on the screen ?
It's just that the "anchor" is usually hidden behind the overview ?
Also, did you know you can right-click the market graph and remove any individual displayed elements on it ?
How about the fact you're invulnerable for 30 seconds after you enter a grid, but only if you don't give any commands whatsoever to your ship ? Not just for undocking and jumping, but warping inside a system too.
Or how about the fact that when your ship is at a perfect standstill, you are considered aligned to all possible points in space, regardless of the direction your ship is "visually facing" ?
Maybe you also didn't know that (for a while now) holding down CTRL freezes your overview, then forces a reset when you release it (so it also clears up any "ghost" items you had on it for any reason).
And last but not least, even if repeatedly mentioned here and there, the fact that an offline module or an EMPTY module slot do exactly the same for rack overheating purposes, except that keeping the rack empty is cheaper since you never have to repair modules that don't exist.
All of the above took me way longer to find out than I would have considered normal for myself, and some I actually forgot for a while then rediscovered them much later.
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Beginner's ISK making guide | Manufacturer's helper | All about reacting
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Neesa Corrinne
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2010.02.21 08:25:00 -
[45]
Originally by: SeismicForce
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.
WHAT??!?!? Are you serious? Almost six years of playing and I never knew this. ffs.
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Agent 42
Gallente
Forged Raptor TECH
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Posted - 2010.02.21 09:52:00 -
[46]
When I first started out I was one of those people that unlocked Battleships way too soon. In particular I unlocked Gallente BS because I thought the Megathron looked cool. In fact that ship is the reason I went Gallente lol. Anyways a corp mate (also a noob at the time) was can flipped by a Merlin and took the bait. I was using my mega strictly to do high sec mining, but I had a junk fit available that I used to do missions with. I decided I was going to help out my buddy so I double checked my fit and headed towards my friends wreck and started targeting the merlin.
First mistake I made was taking a BS to kill a frigate. Second mistake was to have such a lame fit and skills. I think I had less than 40 K effective HP and my dps was even more pathetic I'm sure. But that's not even the really embarrassing part. It took forever to kill his shields but I was winning. The turning point in the fight was when I ran out of ammo. For 15 minutes I sat there like the ****ing dead lice was falling off of my head because I had nothing to hit him with.
You want to know why I ran out of ammo? It wasn't because I used a lot or because I forgot the ammo. I deliberately brought only enough to load my guns because I was unaware you could re-load in space. That is why I'm the biggest dork to ever play the game. A single merlin popped my mega. I believe the that was my second ship loss.
My first one was even funnier, although a bit less stupid. I joined faction warfare without knowing what it was, I can thank CCP for giving out the free pass to faction warfare with the Apocrypha retail box. I was mining with my exequror and decided to venture out of my beginner 1.0 system and do some exploring. I was practically instapopped the second I entered a Caldari system.
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Marlona Sky
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2010.02.21 10:40:00 -
[47]
Originally by: Agent 42
A single merlin popped my mega.
You lost a battleship to a Merlin. I'm not sure there is anything worse to lose a battleship to. Well, actually...
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Noveron
Caldari
Aitnaru
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Posted - 2010.02.21 11:13:00 -
[48]
Same thing happened to me with shield boosters when I started the game.
We're humans! :)
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Steve Celeste
Caldari
Inglorious-Basterds
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Posted - 2010.02.21 11:15:00 -
[49]
Originally by: Akita T
Maybe you also didn't know that (for a while now) holding down CTRL freezes your overview, then forces a reset when you release it (so it also clears up any "ghost" items you had on it for any reason).
I did not know that ctrl also cleared ghost items, thx.
That will help me defeat those wartarget planets and stargates much quicker
And ontopic: I once put skillpoints into Caldari 
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Catrina Denaries
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.21 13:33:00 -
[50]
Originally by: u die
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.
Epic.
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Joe Skellington
Minmatar
JOKAS Industries
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Posted - 2010.02.21 17:25:00 -
[51]
After a year of playing, I was training an alt doing the tutorials and found that you could stop your ship with control + spacebar.
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u die
Minmatar
Sugarcane Technologies
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Posted - 2010.02.21 17:49:00 -
[52]
A couple months ago I was *****ing about the interface to my friend; you know that if you have 8 items in your high slot and weapons aren't grouped the modules will overlap with the drones window and the fleet window.
Then my friend told me to move the ship interface to the right. I have been playing this game since 6 years and I did not know that this is possible.
Hold left and right mouse button on an empty area next to the capacitor circle and drag the whole interface to the left or right.
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Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc.
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2010.02.21 17:50:00 -
[53]
Originally by: Marlona Sky
Originally by: Agent 42
A single merlin popped my mega.
You lost a battleship to a Merlin. I'm not sure there is anything worse to lose a battleship to. Well, actually...
Those should be posted in the mining BS thread to show where they are going
Slade
Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker
Please go sit in the corner, and dont forget to don the shame-on-you-hat!
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Ragedman
The Phoenix Enclave
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Posted - 2010.02.21 20:10:00 -
[54]
I once fitted gang links on my Erebus, then would make a gang with myself and rat in HED-GP local.
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Acrid Acid
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Posted - 2010.02.21 20:44:00 -
[55]
Wait they are not passives?! OMG all this time...
/facepalm
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The AEther
Caldari
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
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Posted - 2010.02.21 21:12:00 -
[56]
My first Gallente and Amarr ships were all shield boosted. Luckily a month into the game I discovered these forums and the joys of armor tanking
I also remember a particular kill of a Drake that had two gyrostabilizers in low slots.
Agony Unleashed - no blues 0.0 pvp, pvp classes |
CyberGh0st
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.21 21:30:00 -
[57]
I recently found out you can do weapon grouping INSIDE a station !
http://www.mmodata.net
Favorite MMO's : DAoC Pre-TOA-NF / SWG Pre-CU-NGE |
Xyfu
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.21 23:52:00 -
[58]
Originally by: u die
A couple months ago I was *****ing about the interface to my friend; you know that if you have 8 items in your high slot and weapons aren't grouped the modules will overlap with the drones window and the fleet window.
Then my friend told me to move the ship interface to the right. I have been playing this game since 6 years and I did not know that this is possible.
Hold left and right mouse button on an empty area next to the capacitor circle and drag the whole interface to the left or right.
Just left click. You can drag the capacitor itself, too, no need for this empty space bull****.
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Mal Lokrano
Gallente
Aliastra
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Posted - 2010.02.22 00:28:00 -
[59]
I once lost a Megathron to a Thorax. It was the first day I could fly BSs too.
In 0.0 I once lost a Stealth Bomber to a 2-3 day old character, so let that be a lesson to new players that pvp is always possible when your new.
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When going to a party with wine, women, and song. Always ascertain the vintage of the first two. |
Scientist2536
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Posted - 2010.02.22 00:47:00 -
[60]
double clicking items in your overview will either make you approach them or if your within 2500m, double clicking will open them (cans, wrecks, structures)
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Sader Rykane
Amarr
Midnight Sentinels
Midnight Space Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.02.22 00:53:00 -
[61]
Originally by: Akita T
Maybe you also didn't know that (for a while now) holding down CTRL freezes your overview, then forces a reset when you release it (so it also clears up any "ghost" items you had on it for any reason).
**** I forgot about that.
Sig Gallery is currently down: Contact me ingame for prices.
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PuncherDavis
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Posted - 2010.02.22 03:40:00 -
[62]
Playing on and off for 7+ years now.. things i learned the hard way.
You can left click on system name in top left corner u can drag it down to a chat box and auto link it
You can left click any player name in local fleet or whatever and drag it to a chat and auto link it.
You can type in the first three letters of any object in eve LEFT click and highlight just those three letters then right click and many options come up.
You can type in a persons name corp etc with the above.
Ever been talking in multiple chat rooms and not paying attention.. Tab to wrong channel see a neutral in chat and warp the whole fleet off.. While in the real local nobody is their but you.
DID not know you could double left click 2500 meter deal or that double click would open it ( shesh)
Ever put a shield amplifier on thinking it was a shield booster.. and cussing and spending an hour trying to figure out why your tank sucks..
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Eric Policky
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Posted - 2010.02.22 04:35:00 -
[63]
This thread should be stickied. Possibly in EVE New Citizens Q&A. Seriously, especially considering how clunky the interface (is)seems. A lot of frustration for new players (even veterans) could be alleviated with some of the things mentioned in this thread. Things that make you headdesk when you learn about them, but that there is no real way to learn them without dumb luck / someone telling you.
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Sprilk
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Posted - 2010.02.22 04:40:00 -
[64]
I have nearly 80M skill points been in since 2004...
2 weeks ago i had to ask some corp mates (much younger in the game then me) to explain guns, tracking, optimal, falloff, all that jaz because i had no clue at all...
Missiles for the win. (has now started training gunnery... because well its about time really.)
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Taedrin
Gallente
The Green Cross
DEFI4NT
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Posted - 2010.02.22 04:42:00 -
[65]
Player since 2005, and I still suck at this game.
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Originally by: Dr Fighter
"how do you know when youve had a repro accident"
Theres modules missing and morphite in your mineral pile.
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Neesa Corrinne
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2010.02.22 07:02:00 -
[66]
Originally by: Sprilk
I have nearly 80M skill points been in since 2004...
2 weeks ago i had to ask some corp mates (much younger in the game then me) to explain guns, tracking, optimal, falloff, all that jaz because i had no clue at all...
Missiles for the win. (has now started training gunnery... because well its about time really.)
Don't feel bad. Cause even if you knew how tracking worked 100% a year ago, it all works completely different now.
Oh for the good old days when tracking was based off of speed instead of signature radius, when the 5% per level speed bonus on my vagabond actually meant something!
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Khors
Amtek Inc
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Posted - 2010.02.22 07:27:00 -
[67]
Originally by: CyberGh0st
I recently found out you can do weapon grouping INSIDE a station !
HOW?!?!?!!?!?!?!
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Marlona Sky
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2010.02.22 07:46:00 -
[68]
Originally by: Khors
Originally by: CyberGh0st
I recently found out you can do weapon grouping INSIDE a station !
HOW?!?!?!!?!?!?!
Open the fitting screen, make sure you don't have ammo loaded, click and drag the guns/launchers onto each other. Just like in space. 
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Ashira Twilight
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Posted - 2010.02.22 08:46:00 -
[69]
Oh god, some of this makes me feel like a noob.
Double click approach? wtf, nobody told me! I have been double clicking in the general direction and right clicking approach
Dragging around the capacitor stuff? oops, forgot about that
Grouping in station? *slaps forehead*
Ctrl refreshes the overview? Well, no more minimizing and maximizing.....
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kano donn
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Posted - 2010.02.22 09:40:00 -
[70]
Here is a great one.
Your orbit is not limited.
Once you click on a ship and at the top right of your screen, you get those buttons with approach, orbit, keep at range... etc.
You can right click orbit and keep at range -> Then enter a number from 500m-150km for orbit, and 0-150 for keep at range.
Now you have a new default.
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loggs
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Posted - 2010.02.22 11:24:00 -
[71]
I only found out that the EW drone skill adds 3km to all drone operation ranges per level after 4 years.
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Morgan Zahadum
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Posted - 2010.02.22 11:33:00 -
[72]
This topic is easily the best I've lurked into trying to work this game out. So much so my first post goes in honour of you guys for helping me not make these same mistakes.
A drink to you all tonight in the pub I think.
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Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc.
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2010.02.22 13:29:00 -
[73]
Originally by: Morgan Zahadum
This topic is easily the best I've lurked into trying to work this game out. So much so my first post goes in honour of you guys for helping me not make these same mistakes.
A drink to you all tonight in the pub I think.
Absorb all the goodies here and when the time comes that some vet says something that you know a shortcut for, they will be enternally gratefull.
Slade
Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker
Please go sit in the corner, and dont forget to don the shame-on-you-hat!
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Baron Agamemnon
Caldari
Holy Grail Construction
Aegis Militia
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Posted - 2010.02.22 13:39:00 -
[74]
Originally by: Nebulous
I once made a Caldari char
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So did I, back when beign Achura actually meant something (hint: low charimsa).
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Essence Praetor
PWNED Factor
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Posted - 2010.02.22 14:26:00 -
[75]
Edited by: Essence Praetor on 22/02/2010 14:25:55
Originally by: Naomi Wildfire
Quote:
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...
This would be awesome. But I just tried it, flew my ship around, jumped through gates, and even self-destructed a shuttle.
On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
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Xyfu
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.22 17:08:00 -
[76]
Originally by: Essence Praetor
Edited by: Essence Praetor on 22/02/2010 14:25:55
Originally by: Naomi Wildfire
Quote:
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...
This would be awesome. But I just tried it, flew my ship around, jumped through gates, and even self-destructed a shuttle.
On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
Top-left.
Quote:
You can right click orbit and keep at range -> Then enter a number from 500m-150km for orbit, and 0-150 for keep at range.
200k, by my last recollection.
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Akita T
Caldari
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2010.02.22 17:53:00 -
[77]
Originally by: Essence Praetor
On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
It's a tiny animated rotating-stylized-flowery thingy on the upper-left-most part of the "space" area of the screen, barely visible at higher resolutions (I think it's something like 12x12 pixels, or very close to that), but at least it has a "pop-up" when you hover over its general area with your mouse cursor.
Hard to describe in words.
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.02.22 18:03:00 -
[78]
Originally by: Akita T
Originally by: Essence Praetor
On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
It's a tiny animated rotating-stylized-flowery thingy on the upper-left-most part of the "space" area of the screen, barely visible at higher resolutions (I think it's something like 12x12 pixels, or very close to that), but at least it has a "pop-up" when you hover over its general area with your mouse cursor.
Hard to describe in words.
its the same rotaty thingie that shows up in the top right of the market and such when it loads
OHGODS BELOW THIS LINE IS MY SIG !!!! SRSLY!
Blane Xero > Lance is at -0.9 sec status with a 1 million bounty. Lance is also amarrian. Thats 3 evil points |
Pius Piramonde
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Posted - 2010.02.22 18:22:00 -
[79]
Edited by: Pius Piramonde on 22/02/2010 18:22:26
I'm only 2 months in, so making gaffes like this almost weekly.
Here's a couple:
- I thought I had completely exhausted all Learning skills, after completing the first handful (analytic mind, etc.) Couldn't understand why my training times were so long...
- I used to always reject Storyline missions, as I found them distracting from whatever else I was doing.
Could not understand why my faction standings were so low...
Heh heh - I'm sure there will be many more like these ahead...
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Last Wolf
Rage For Order
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Posted - 2010.02.22 18:40:00 -
[80]
My first loss with my first character
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=189549
Besides, I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down |
Essence Praetor
PWNED Factor
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Posted - 2010.02.22 19:16:00 -
[81]
I see it. Win 
Man this is gonna come in handy
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Devlyn McKhon
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Posted - 2010.02.22 19:51:00 -
[82]
I'v been playing for about 6 months, give or take, and found some good tips here. thx all.
Here are a few tips for manipulating items in inventoy that I'v learned since playing, can make moving stuff around much easier.
Click an item, scroll down and while holding shift click another item, will select every thing between the two.
Holding ctrl will select only the items you click on.
And i was glad when i learned this one, click the first item and hit ctrl A, that will select every item in the container or bay.
last, station containers are cheap inventory controll, at least till ccp comes up with a workable solutioon.
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Farrellus Cameron
Sturmgrenadier Inc
Gentlemen's Club
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Posted - 2010.02.22 19:52:00 -
[83]
It was a few months into the game before I realized that shift-drag will split stacks. I was creating market orders and then canceling them to split stacks.
I think it was about two or three years before I learned about the ewar drone skill adding 3km to ALL drone ranges.
I was shield tanking my gallente frigates and destroyer in the beginning. It really annoyed me that the catalyst only had two mids because I was fitting a shield booster. So I usually didn't have an afterburner fit and would take forever to fly through the missions.
I had a friend who was pulling missions in a system neighboring low sec. He kept getting sent into the low sec system for missions but didn't have any trouble for like a week. Then one day four flashy pirates in battleships warped into his mission and blew up his caracal. He thought they were NPCs at first. He was visibly upset at losing his caracal, it was very traumatic. This was about 4 years ago.
Also about four years ago I was ratting in low sec at one point and decided it was ok to go AFK in the belt while going to the bathroom. I came back to find a megathron tackling my thorax and I was almost dead. Then the guy in the mega apologized because he had mistaken me for a local pirate he was hunting and gave me like 10 million isk for my trouble. It was a ton of isk to me at the time.
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Sophie Telrunya
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Posted - 2010.02.22 19:58:00 -
[84]
You can activate a Pilot License Extension item from the assets menu, that is you don't have to be in the same station as the item.
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Leneerra
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.22 20:59:00 -
[85]
I guess this compares to taking a filled up freighter into lowsec without scouting ahead, except you know how much you lost much faster that way.
What I did:
When I learned of the theft that occurred in ebank by ricdic, I believed their management at the time that all would be well, and left over 4B isk in my savings account.
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Frecator Dementa
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.22 21:18:00 -
[86]
Edited by: Frecator Dementa on 22/02/2010 21:18:53
Originally by: u die
Hold left and right mouse button on an empty area next to the capacitor circle and drag the whole interface to the left or right.
Originally by: Scientist2536
double clicking items in your overview will either make you approach them or if your within 2500m, double clicking will open them (cans, wrecks, structures)
oh... my... GOD !
Why the hell doesn't the game tell us these things? |
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.02.22 21:27:00 -
[87]
I have learned several interesting things in this thread.
On a side note, I firmly believe that CCP doesn't document EVE not just because they're lazy drunken bums, but also because they like to incentivise the players to talk to each other. And it works.
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Frecator Dementa
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.22 21:28:00 -
[88]
Originally by: Akita T
Originally by: Essence Praetor
On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
It's a tiny animated rotating-stylized-flowery thingy on the upper-left-most part of the "space" area of the screen, barely visible at higher resolutions (I think it's something like 12x12 pixels, or very close to that), but at least it has a "pop-up" when you hover over its general area with your mouse cursor.
Hard to describe in words.
It's disabled by default, you need to go into Menu - General Settings - Show Session-change-something
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Bomberlocks
Minmatar
Tribal Liberation Force
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Posted - 2010.02.22 23:14:00 -
[89]
Originally by: Apoctasy
Originally by: Bomberlocks
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.
If that is what you think Eve is about, then lol.
I think you misread my post. I mean that was when I started learning from corpies what pvp was, what tanking meant, skills, how losec and nullsec worked, how fitting a point is a good idea if you don't want to watch that target warp off, how to avoid a podding etc.
Before then I knew absolutely nothing.
Now, with 23 million SP and one and a half years into the game I know that I still know nothing, but the knowledge that I know nothing sometimes saves me from making too many avoidable mistakes.
The tip about how to avoid being podded was one of the best ones (when you're in deep structure and going down fast, select an overview planet etc and start spamming the warp button. much faster than selecting an object, right clicking and selecting warp to).
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Arvano
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Posted - 2010.02.22 23:20:00 -
[90]
You can CTRL+Left click to lock on to targets?
4 months and I never knew.
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FIliphys
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Posted - 2010.02.23 01:03:00 -
[91]
This thread is getting bookmarked
Can someone explain the grouping in station thing? I tried it and I kept getting the "There is already something in that location" messege
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Eric Policky
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Posted - 2010.02.23 01:10:00 -
[92]
Edited by: Eric Policky on 23/02/2010 01:10:44
A) I believe you can only group guns.
B) unload your guns before you group them.
edit:
C) be sure you hold shift while dragging one gun onto the other
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Lord Obleron
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Posted - 2010.02.23 01:28:00 -
[93]
Wait wait wait.....I just read a post above that mentions spamming a warp button......
You mean there is another way to do it besides right click and warp to?
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Saman Ayan
Minmatar
Lazy.
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Posted - 2010.02.23 01:59:00 -
[94]
Originally by: FIliphys
This thread is getting bookmarked
Can someone explain the grouping in station thing? I tried it and I kept getting the "There is already something in that location" messege
Hold shift while dragging.
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.02.23 02:37:00 -
[95]
Originally by: Lord Obleron
Wait wait wait.....I just read a post above that mentions spamming a warp button......
You mean there is another way to do it besides right click and warp to?
the selected item box above the overview has a warp button
OHGODS BELOW THIS LINE IS MY SIG !!!! SRSLY!
Blane Xero > Lance is at -0.9 sec status with a 1 million bounty. Lance is also amarrian. Thats 3 evil points |
Athena Silk
FW Inc
Don't Panic.
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Posted - 2010.02.23 04:59:00 -
[96]
I played for about 3-4 months before finding out that you could group guns (I was in a BC at the time, mashing F1-F7 every time I want to kill something was annoying).
Only this week I found out that when you're not moving, you have no mass and no inertia, so you can move in any direction instantaneously. I used to orbit gates at 500-1500m, and I always wondered why other pilots beat me to the decloak/point/whatever, even when I was closer and/or slightly faster.
I didn't know that you could double click an item in the overview to approach or open.
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plastastic
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Posted - 2010.02.23 05:17:00 -
[97]
we found out a wt pos pw and warp in with a few smartbombing BS only to find out smart bombs don't work in poses anymore.
and changing the pw no longer ejects ppl and unmanned ships
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Free Folen
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Posted - 2010.02.23 10:57:00 -
[98]
mine is jumping througth 5 JBs to reach a gang at a pos,
then asking what the pos shield password??!?!.
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Fyrkraag
The Knights Templar
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Posted - 2010.02.23 11:48:00 -
[99]
Mine was the session timer. Undocking with a pirate outside thinking that if I just spammed the re-dock I would be ok. Apparently said spamming counted as an action and therefore made me targetable with roughly 30s to go and my outgate align was awful.
Now today I ride the session timer on a razor, sliding past situations that would have the more timid pilots of Eve terrified.
This was a few years ago though...
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Cyndre Valryssian
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Posted - 2010.02.23 16:57:00 -
[100]
A Good 5 years ago just undocking with my spanky new noob shift it took me a few weeks to realise you actually had to put crystals in those shiny new lasers and I'd wondered why killing rats was proving to be so ineffective.
Oh and taking my first Prophecy BC which looked so awesome into a lvl 4 thinking Heavy Anode Pulse Particle Streams and T1 active tank should easily be enough
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Imagonnawhupya
Emergence Inc.
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Posted - 2010.02.23 17:53:00 -
[101]
I learned about jetcan ownership the hard way
I was in my shiny new Burst I got from a tutorial. A guy in a rifter asked me to hold onto something for him. He jettisoned some ammo and I picked it up...
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Lord Helghast
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Posted - 2010.02.23 18:07:00 -
[102]
I found this out when i saw that it says "passive 1% resistence" "Active 15% resistence" :)
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Durkuh Durka
Minmatar
DEEzNUTS-DzN
Fidelas Constans
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Posted - 2010.02.23 18:30:00 -
[103]
Originally by: SeismicForce
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.
Awww, feck. seriously?
Almost a year of ignorance...
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Phantom Slave
Universal Pest Exterminators
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Posted - 2010.02.23 19:33:00 -
[104]
Right clicking a gate on overview and selecting "Add as First Waypoint" sets destination to that system allowing you to hit warp then click Autopilot then do whatever you need to do in-game while you WTZ then autopilot to the next system.
Just a minor convenience I figured out a year ago.
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Manfred Rickenbocker
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Posted - 2010.02.23 22:05:00 -
[105]
Originally by: Fyrkraag
Mine was the session timer. Undocking with a pirate outside thinking that if I just spammed the re-dock I would be ok. Apparently said spamming counted as an action and therefore made me targetable with roughly 30s to go and my outgate align was awful.
Now today I ride the session timer on a razor, sliding past situations that would have the more timid pilots of Eve terrified.
This was a few years ago though...
Another tidbit:
Pressing Ctrl + Space to stop your ship after undocking does not void your invulnerability timer. If you want to redock, do this and pray you dont get bumped before the session timer ends.
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Ntrist
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Posted - 2010.02.24 03:46:00 -
[106]
I have a horribly embarassing one :(
Was looking to buy a Pithum A-Type Medium SB. Only found one with a buyout. 1.25bil, 200mil more than the cheapest auction. Anyway I refused to wait for one of the 13 days remaining contracts to run close enough to the end to bid, so I went ahead and bought the 1.25bil one out.
Day later I find out they're "Item Exchanges", and you can retreive them instantly upon payment.
I hate myself.
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Dreldor
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Posted - 2010.02.24 04:04:00 -
[107]
When I first started playing I asked a friend to tell me the fastest way to get around and he said to get a shuttle. I spent ages looking for the shuttle departure point.
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Aralieus
Amarr
Rising Devils
Chain of Chaos
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Posted - 2010.02.24 04:59:00 -
[108]
I learned that while even being cloaked you can click on your ship in a certain area and get the little square box to pop up so you can use D-Scan, gawd uncloaking clicking your ship then recloaking was really annoying
Fortune favors the bold!!! |
xXThunder StruckXx
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Posted - 2010.02.24 07:09:00 -
[109]
Posting with alt to save someones blushes.
A corpie informed me that she had an alt that was the same age as her main, some 18 months, I asked why I had never seen them both on at the same time and made enquiries as to whether or not her pc was capable of dual boxing.... she stated that she couldn't be bothered to download another client version of eve and yes, she is blonde.
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Susiqueta Muir
NEXUS Industries
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Posted - 2010.02.24 11:00:00 -
[110]
Took me a week or so to realise that you can change direction in space by clicking the way you want to go. Up until then I was only able to fly towards targets. Still do that in combat tbh . :)
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McCreary075
Gallente
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2010.02.24 12:39:00 -
[111]
Originally by: SeismicForce
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.
Haha, I know what you mean. I too didn't figure this out for about two years. Then I felt like the world's largest idiot.
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Shasz
Noir.
Noir. Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2010.02.24 13:06:00 -
[112]
Originally by: Manfred Rickenbocker
Another tidbit:
Pressing Ctrl + Space to stop your ship after undocking does not void your invulnerability timer. If you want to redock, do this and pray you dont get bumped before the session timer ends.
When you're invulnerable like this, you cannot be bumped. Nor can you be targetted or affected by smartbombs or other area effects.
Also, someone mentioned standing still and having no mass or inertia. This is false, you just don't have to overcome any inertia in the wrong direction if you're holding still.
"Passive aligning" is a myth, it doesn't matter what direction your ship model points. If you're holding still, you'll align and warp in any direction equally fast.
However, if you're holding still, its much easier to track you, and any other ship standing still will have perfect tracking on you, and fragile frigates will go boom even to battleship-sized guns. That's why small ships generally orbit a gate.
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Di atos
xtort
Aeternus.
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Posted - 2010.02.24 16:11:00 -
[113]
Edited by: Di atos on 24/02/2010 16:11:24
I do not want to tell you how long I played Eve before I figured out how scanning worked. I am not talking about probing.
You set the distances to 9999999999 and click set active scanner. This shows you all non cloaked ships in a system. You can also narrow the direction in which you scan.
Lets say 10 Degrees. You will scan in a ten degree point from the front of your ship. It takes awhile to get a hang of it. The weird thing is your scan is based on which way your screen is facing. You can press alt and use the little square that represents your self as a quasi targeting system.
It is difficult to explain but it works. Ask someone in your corp for training.
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Xyfu
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.24 16:28:00 -
[114]
Wrong, it only reaches to about 14 AU, anything outside that, and you need to use probes.
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Di atos
xtort
Aeternus.
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Posted - 2010.02.24 16:40:00 -
[115]
Originally by: Xyfu
Wrong, it only reaches to about 14 AU, anything outside that, and you need to use probes.
I should of put that it was limited in distance but I can never remeber the max. So I always put 99999999 just to make sure its maxed.
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ColdChimera
Gallente
JCB Industries
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Posted - 2010.02.24 19:29:00 -
[116]
Edited by: ColdChimera on 24/02/2010 19:29:35
Originally by: Marlona Sky
Originally by: Khors
Originally by: CyberGh0st
I recently found out you can do weapon grouping INSIDE a station !
HOW?!?!?!!?!?!?!
Open the fitting screen, make sure you don't have ammo loaded, click and drag the guns/launchers onto each other. Just like in space.
Are you for serious?! omg /facepalm. Almost a year and a half of playing and I never knew you could group in station....ffs. -.-" Thanks for the info lol
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Originally by: Ahz
The internet:
Where the men are men. The women are men. And the children are FBI.
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Barakkus
Caelestis Iudicium
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Posted - 2010.02.24 19:56:00 -
[117]
Originally by: Akita T
Did you know you can move the locked target pictograms around anywhere on the screen ?
It's just that the "anchor" is usually hidden behind the overview ?
I am not finding this anchor you speak of. I've seen people mention that you can move the locked targets wherever, but never have been able to figure out how. Screenshot of what this thing looks like? I see nothing even after minimizing the overview and the selected item window.
Originally by: CCP Dropbear
rofl
edit: ah crap, dev account. Oh well, official rofl at you sir.
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Thatkidnamedrocky
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.02.24 21:44:00 -
[118]
i found a empty tengu in a wormhole and killed it :( long story on how it got that way lol
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.02.24 22:22:00 -
[119]
Originally by: Barakkus
Originally by: Akita T
Did you know you can move the locked target pictograms around anywhere on the screen ?
It's just that the "anchor" is usually hidden behind the overview ?
I am not finding this anchor you speak of. I've seen people mention that you can move the locked targets wherever, but never have been able to figure out how. Screenshot of what this thing
looks like? I see nothing even after minimizing the overview and the selected item window.
lock a target
look for a faint grey crosshair in the top right of your screen, usually under selected item window
OHGODS BELOW THIS LINE IS MY SIG !!!! SRSLY!
Blane Xero > Lance is at -0.9 sec status with a 1 million bounty. Lance is also amarrian. Thats 3 evil points |
Barakkus
Caelestis Iudicium
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Posted - 2010.02.25 04:20:00 -
[120]
Originally by: Lance Fighter
Originally by: Barakkus
Originally by: Akita T
Did you know you can move the locked target pictograms around anywhere on the screen ?
It's just that the "anchor" is usually hidden behind the overview ?
I am not finding this anchor you speak of. I've seen people mention that you can move the locked targets wherever, but never have been able to figure out how. Screenshot of what this thing
looks like? I see nothing even after minimizing the overview and the selected item window.
lock a target
look for a faint grey crosshair in the top right of your screen, usually under selected item window
Holy ****, I found it, thanx a ton!
Originally by: CCP Dropbear
rofl
edit: ah crap, dev account. Oh well, official rofl at you sir.
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Pater Peccavi
Minmatar
Tribal Liberation Force
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Posted - 2010.02.25 04:56:00 -
[121]
I think I have a problem, I browse the forums just looking for targets.
Boom, headshot.
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Originally by: CCP Zymurgist
You have always had permission to kill anyone in game you see fit to lose a ship!
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Thomasale
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Posted - 2010.02.25 08:36:00 -
[122]
I still laugh when I think of this embarassing noob moment of "glory"
I had just gotten my first shiny Thorax. I fitted it with very expenive weapons that I really couldn't afford but wanted the extra damage. I was just ou flying it around when someone asked for help trying their new shielding system. I was only too happy to oblige. Without realizing there was a method to this in hi sec I locked and unloaded on the ship. First volley brought the explosive response of Concord. End of my shiny new Thorax fully equipped.
Bad enuff right? Wrong, I thought the other ship was responsible for the obliteration and thought for a week I had been duped by a ****. I of course said every bad thing I could think of about the offending party without realizing it was totally my fault!
Freakin noob's
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2010.02.25 11:30:00 -
[123]
Originally by: Aralieus
I learned that while even being cloaked you can click on your ship in a certain area and get the little square box to pop up so you can use D-Scan, gawd uncloaking clicking your ship then recloaking was really annoying
Can you not just click the scan menu button next to the capacitor display?
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Realtef
Caldari
Madhatters Inc.
The Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.02.25 11:56:00 -
[124]
Now I have been playing for awhile (long enough to know better) and fly Capitals. I remember reading the Dev Blog where they introduced fuel bays for carriers but it didn't register. Few months later I was hopping into 0.0, so I planned my route and all that and undocked, mate lit the cyno and I tried to jump...well it wouldn't, not enough fuel to jump with. I quickly checked Dotlan and it said I was within range. So I docked up and unfit a CPR (Chimera FTW) and fit a Cargo Expander moved the fuel from my corp hanger into my cargo and jumped. I didn't think anything of it at the time.
2 days later I told my mate who lit the cyno why I took so long to jump and why I had a cargo expander on and he proceeded to remind me about the fuel bay (then ****ed himself laughing on vent). We had been using the carrier as a mobile base in a 0.0 system in NPC space, so I jumped to the nearest station and refit my carrier and put all my fuel in the fuel bay.
That wasn't early days it was about a month ago.
I remember buying my first frigate (1 week in). I didn't check where the ship was (didn't really understand the difference between lowsec/0.0/empire), just bought the cheapest on market, then set my autopilot and went. Was 3 jumps into lowsec. Lost it on the way out...took me a week mining in an Ibis to buy that thing, Merlins FTL.
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Jommis
Big Shadows
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2010.02.25 12:23:00 -
[125]
I killed a couple of faction spawns right after i started playing.
Got some faction loot, but did not know about contracts.
So when i could not sell it, I reprossed it
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bff Jill
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Posted - 2010.02.25 13:25:00 -
[126]
When HICs first came out i was going around in low sec when i came upon a gate camp. It looked like the hic had a bubble out. I did not know that hics could not bubble empire, i saw the bubble graphics and just assumed i was jammed, so i slow boated it back to the gate and almost made it, but died
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Par Anoia
Minmatar
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Posted - 2010.02.25 13:45:00 -
[127]
My first visit to lowsec -
A corpmate had jumped through a few minutes earlier and reported that the system was all clear. I jump in in my Drake to find a red flashy Raven sat off the gate.
I tell my ship to warp to the next gate and cross my fingers, but before I finish aligning the Raven acquires a target lock, warp scrambles me, and opens up with its torpedoes.
Left with no other choice, I turn around and begin slowboating back to the gate to hisec. And of course, I wasn't going to lose my ship without putting up a fight, so I return fire.
Much to my suprise, I reach the gate with a reasonable amount of shield left, so I'm feeling fairly happy as I click to jump through.
Message box pops up: "Due to recent acts of aggression..."
Huh.
So I turn off my launchers and sit there, trying to jump through, watching my shields then armour then structure disappear.
Pop goes my Drake, through the gate goes my pod.
Lesson learned - if you think you have any chance of reaching the gate, don't shoot back.
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Bucky O'Hair
Minmatar
Tribal Liberation Force
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Posted - 2010.02.25 16:53:00 -
[128]
THIS THREAD FOR THE WIN!
I have learned numerous little tricks from reading this!
I never knew you could move the interface or target icons.
Double clicking overview to open containers..
Here's my contribution to the list..
I was 4 mounths in before I figured out Ctrl R reloads your guns and launchers
11 months in, before I figured out if you right click on your weapons you can change ammo types on the fly, rather than dragging the current ammo to cargo and new ammo to guns
Keep the embarassing moments / types for noobs post coming!
Bucky O'Hair
"If it flys it dies!"
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Chaosmancer
Sons Of 0din
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Posted - 2010.02.25 17:27:00 -
[129]
Originally by: Jommis
I killed a couple of faction spawns right after i started playing.
Got some faction loot, but did not know about contracts.
So when i could not sell it, I reprossed it
Others had faction fitted frigates setup for cheap learning to pvp-session
Not that I know of anyone...
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CyberGh0st
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.25 21:47:00 -
[130]
DOH, just found out you can right click on a container ( or ship ) and choose view contents ... this can be used from your assets window, so you can see inside your containers from anywhere !!!
This must be something new right, RIGHT?
... I am such a noob ...
http://www.mmodata.net
Favorite MMO's : DAoC Pre-TOA-NF / SWG Pre-CU-NGE |
WhiteWolfNL
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Posted - 2010.02.25 22:10:00 -
[131]
Only recently found out how to change settings on your overview :| that was quite stupid ^_^
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Viginti Tres
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Posted - 2010.02.25 22:20:00 -
[132]
I done the exact same thing with DC's. Three months. I didn't use them that much, but still.
Also done the same with tracking computers.
And as many others have said, I went into lowsec and mined jaspet. In a Thrasher.
Ah, good times.
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Karma
Vortex Incorporated
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Posted - 2010.02.26 00:39:00 -
[133]
I had a smartbomb fitted on one of my first ships...
I didn't use it for months, because I thought it was a single-use item... and I was saving it for an "Oh crap!"-moment.
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Challis
Caldari
Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2010.02.26 03:45:00 -
[134]
This is a great thread.
So many things i didnt knew yet, and that after 3 years.
The first two months i was playing i kept everything in my inventory unstacked
didnt knew shift and drag could split stags :)
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Frenden Dax
Dax Acquisitions
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Posted - 2010.02.26 05:50:00 -
[135]
When I started EVE, I didn't know that there were 'starter missions', and thus entered the game with 5k isk, a Reaper, one unit of trit, and a damage control.
The next couple months were spent doing nothing but mining, since that was all I knew how to do in the game. Good times.
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Kyra Felann
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.02.26 06:16:00 -
[136]
Originally by: CyberGh0st
DOH, just found out you can right click on a container ( or ship ) and choose view contents ... this can be used from your assets window, so you can see inside your containers from anywhere !!!
This must be something new right, RIGHT?
... I am such a noob ...
Actually, yes, it is new. I think it was added in Dominion.
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Tiska Drak
Gallente
Dreddit
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Posted - 2010.02.26 06:16:00 -
[137]
Originally by: Bucky O'Hair
THIS THREAD FOR THE WIN!
I was 4 mounths in before I figured out Ctrl R reloads your guns and launchers
What?!
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Alchemist's Alt
Gallente
Hysteria Nexus
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Posted - 2010.02.26 06:20:00 -
[138]
I just found out what a skiff is useful for AND that it has +2 warp str WTF
FIRST!! |
Yarinor
Yarinors Trust Fund
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Posted - 2010.02.26 10:11:00 -
[139]
Originally by: CyberGh0st
DOH, just found out you can right click on a container ( or ship ) and choose view contents ... this can be used from your assets window, so you can see inside your containers from anywhere !!!
This must be something new right, RIGHT?
... I am such a noob ...
I think it came with Dominion, it could possibly have been Apocrypha 1.5, but not earlier than that.
I myself was that noob who started his eve career as a miner thinking that it would be good isk.
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Zofe Stormcaller
Gallente
Shadow Company
Legiunea ROmana
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Posted - 2010.02.26 11:13:00 -
[140]
Edited by: Zofe Stormcaller on 26/02/2010 11:13:57
Just to clarify, dscan seems to work from the angle your camera is not the angle your ship points at. I have been aligned while using it to keep tabs on what ships are in a particular station camp while in the next grid using the 30 degree scan in a tech 1 frig.
I was recently reminded to make sure I check local when resupplying myself with PVP stuff during the rare occasions I go back to empire through a wormhole when we have a wardec running...
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=9472666
At least I was in a disposable ship, I went and got the same stuff from dodixie this time, while being a bit more observant. First time I've been ganked in highsec...
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Bucky O'Hair
Minmatar
Tribal Liberation Force
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Posted - 2010.02.26 19:07:00 -
[141]
Just remembered another one..
Just started watching the pew pew player vids (trying to figure out why I am so Terribad fail), and saw they had mid and low slot items on the top row, no more alt F1 this cntr F1 that bs!
I'm still terribad, but at least my modules are running like they should be..
Cheers
Bucky O'Hair
"If it flys it dies!"
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Gwendion
Gallente
Bladed Moon
One Stop Research
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Posted - 2010.02.26 20:48:00 -
[142]
When I first started playing way back when...
I got a hold of an "Invulnerability Shield". I was so happy, thinking it was the coolest thing ever. Why? Because I thought it made you, "Invulnerable". I got my shiny new, extremely expensive (early 2003 during the beta) Kestrel and put on my Invuln shield. Went to a belt and got my ass handed to me. I had the shield activate, I couldn't figure it out.
I also thought smartbombs were one-use items. I could not, for the life of me figure out why people liked them so much, they were freaking EXPENSIVE, Until someone in my corp mentioned they made a crap-ton of isk overnight by smartbombing a Planet Rat spawn. I spent many a night instead... mining in a Merlin overnight. (Hey.. Industrials were Corporate level assets at this point :P)
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Tornim
Minmatar
Ihatalo Navy
Ihatalo Cartel Navy
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Posted - 2010.02.26 22:26:00 -
[143]
Originally by: Jommis
I killed a couple of faction spawns right after i started playing.
Got some faction loot, but did not know about contracts.
So when i could not sell it, I reprossed it
When i first started out, ratting in low sec in a thrasher(1st mistake).Was lucky and didn't get found/caught. Killed some really tough rats, but didn't even know what faction rats/loot was(2nd mistake). Got a low-grade angel implant (+2) which was better than my +1's so i plugged it in (3rd mistake). And finally destroying it so i could plug in a normal +3(4th mistake).
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Cobalt Valkyrie
Dirt Nap Squad
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Posted - 2010.02.26 23:53:00 -
[144]
Originally by: Gwendion
When I first started playing way back when...
I got a hold of an "Invulnerability Shield". I was so happy, thinking it was the coolest thing ever. Why? Because I thought it made you, "Invulnerable".
Me too! I learned that the invulnerability shield existed *right* after I'd attempted to target someone and got the "Target in invulnerable" message. I assumed that meant that if I had an invulnerability shield, nobody would be able to target me...
Originally by: Karma
I had a smartbomb fitted on one of my first ships...
I didn't use it for months, because I thought it was a single-use item... and I was saving it for an "Oh crap!"-moment.
Holy crap, you mean they're *not* single use? *facepalm*
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Ishtariel Torash
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Posted - 2010.03.16 17:53:00 -
[145]
My first task in Eve was to undock from Chaven and travel to Zaimeth to join a friends corp and be equipped.
Although it's only 6 or 7 jumps, I had all sorts of problems. The main one: system gates didn't show on my overview. It took almost an hour of tinkering before I realised I could set destination by using the map.
Then I proceeded to whirl the ship view around, until I spotted a yellow gate, which i'd warp to by right-clicking.
After flying like this for a good day or so i'd started to memorise my way around the area and started using the gate/system/station options on the top left to get around.
It wasn't until my friend came around 6 months later and took a good look at my overview that I started navigating like a normal person.
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Zofe Stormcaller
Gallente
Shadow Company
Legiunea ROmana
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Posted - 2010.03.16 18:08:00 -
[146]
Originally by: Cobalt Valkyrie
Originally by: Gwendion
When I first started playing way back when...
I got a hold of an "Invulnerability Shield". I was so happy, thinking it was the coolest thing ever. Why? Because I thought it made you, "Invulnerable".
Me too! I learned that the invulnerability shield existed *right* after I'd attempted to target someone and got the "Target in invulnerable" message. I assumed that meant that if I had an invulnerability shield, nobody would be able to target me...
Originally by: Karma
I had a smartbomb fitted on one of my first ships...
I didn't use it for months, because I thought it was a single-use item... and I was saving it for an "Oh crap!"-moment.
Holy crap, you mean they're *not* single use? *facepalm*
They are single use when you use them in Jita ;)
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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2010.03.16 18:33:00 -
[147]
Originally by: Malcanis
I used tracking computers for quite a while before I realised that they were active modules...
Sigh. Yeah they didn't seem to do a whole lot...guess you gotta turn them on.
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Seth Ruin
Minmatar
Ominous Corp
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Posted - 2010.03.16 18:35:00 -
[148]
Originally by: Frecator Dementa
It's disabled by default, you need to go into Menu - General Settings - Show Session-change-something
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Jeneroux
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.03.16 18:37:00 -
[149]
I started in mining then trained the Thorax because I like the look then went to explore 0.0.
I did not think about ammo.
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Arklan1
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Posted - 2010.03.16 18:59:00 -
[150]
i love this thread!
didn't know bout smart bombs... but then, never tried to use them.
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Ana Vyr
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Posted - 2010.03.16 19:53:00 -
[151]
You have to admit, "smartbomb" is a really crappy name for the device.
It's an energy pulse AoE weapon system...
Hmmm, smartbomb does sound better than EPAOEWS though, on second thought.
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36 DD
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Posted - 2010.03.16 21:19:00 -
[152]
I started as minmatar, then went gallente, got a dominix, then trained straight for a moros, then went back and trained for an ishtar after i had my moros :x
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