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Eternal Montage
Frontier Explorer's League Sadistica Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:23:00 -
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Eve is all about moments and the events that build up to them. Everyone has a defining moment. A moment where their heart was beating out of their chest and their hands were shaking and everything hung on a split second decision. What was yours? I'll tell mine in a bit so that it doesn't seem like this thread was just an excuse for me to show off. I just want to hear your stories. Post kill mails if you can (if your story involves kill mails that is). |
TheBreadMuncher
Boxxed Up Industries EPIC Alliance
382
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:27:00 -
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Dropping a 1.2bil carrier on VFK-IV. Solo. No regrets. "We will create the introduction thread if that is requested by the community. Also, we will have an ISD Seminar about the CCL team in the coming weeks in which you can ask your questions about the CCL team and provide some constructive feedback to us." - Countless pages of locked threads and numerous permabanned accounts later, change is coming. |
Clystan
Binaerie Heavy Industries
58
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:27:00 -
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Eternal Montage wrote:Eve is all about moments and the events that build up to them. Everyone has a defining moment. A moment where their heart was beating out of their chest and their hands were shaking and everything hung on a split second decision. What was yours? I'll tell mine in a bit so that it doesn't seem like this thread was just an excuse for me to show off. I just want to hear your stories. Post kill mails if you can (if your story involves kill mails that is).
Bubble running with precious cargo. I have always loved Tom and Jerry - Jerry more than Tom :)
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Beekeeper Bob
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
276
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:30:00 -
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Y-2. The day PL tested CCP's latest lag code, and found it lacking. It was like shooting **** in a barrel....
"CCP, is a cutting edge developer, they have found a way to sell lag to their customers, and make them believe it's a feature." |
Mikael Izra'il
University of Caille Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:36:00 -
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I know it's not too impressive, but I downed a 100m fit hurricane on a squad of rifter, rifter, griffin with some mates. We had roughly 300k skillpoints each back then.
Then he coughed up 50m ransom.
Good times... We still talk about it and it's been four years! |
Gaellia Bonaventure
Royal Amarr Institute Amarr Empire
893
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:38:00 -
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Spinning my internet spaceship for the first time. Bring your possibles. |
Lipbite
Express Hauler
205
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:39:00 -
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Still waiting for one - for few years already. |
Eternal Montage
Frontier Explorer's League Sadistica Alliance
16
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:50:00 -
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Lipbite wrote:Still waiting for one - for few years already.
You had to have had at least one. Why continue playing otherwise? |
MadMuppet
Three Fish In A Box
585
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:52:00 -
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As a hauler, my experiences are not as grand as some, but as an early pod-pilot I went off to 0.0 to work for an Alliance. Corp politics happened and I found myself in my Hoarder in the middle of the all blue gate protection fleet suddenly in a sea of red ships with a note in local that I would get a 1 minute head start as we were kicked out of the Alliance. 30 jumps , some bubbled, to race back to high-sec (didn't know where else to go) with a small trailing fleet on my tail. Near the end we all hit a gate camp together and I lucked out as not being 'the most noteworthy' target and was able to escape. I probably made closer to 60 jumps during that time as I made wrong turns and panic warps on top of things (which probably saved me to be honest).
Since then I have had far more expensive adventures than a null run in 2million isk industrial and things that would probably make a better story, but that new player panic run back to high-sec from a failed alliance will always stick with me. If I tried to make a type of coffee that made all of you happy, and you rated it, the group score for it would be about 60 out of 100. Break into 3 or 4 coffee clusters, and made coffee just for each cluster, the scores would go from 60 to 78. The difference between coffee at 60 and coffee at 78 is a difference between coffee that makes you wince or makes you happy. |
Eternal Montage
Frontier Explorer's League Sadistica Alliance
16
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:54:00 -
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MadMuppet wrote:As a hauler, my experiences are not as grand as some, but as an early pod-pilot I went off to 0.0 to work for an Alliance. Corp politics happened and I found myself in my Hoarder in the middle of the all blue gate protection fleet suddenly in a sea of red ships with a note in local that I would get a 1 minute head start as we were kicked out of the Alliance. 30 jumps , some bubbled, to race back to high-sec (didn't know where else to go) with a small trailing fleet on my tail. Near the end we all hit a gate camp together and I lucked out as not being 'the most noteworthy' target and was able to escape. I probably made closer to 60 jumps during that time as I made wrong turns and panic warps on top of things (which probably saved me to be honest).
Since then I have had far more expensive adventures than a null run in 2million isk industrial and things that would probably make a better story, but that new player panic run back to high-sec from a failed alliance will always stick with me.
Awesome. |
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Den Arius
Viziam Amarr Empire
25
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:57:00 -
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Joining Goonwaffe for the first time. It ended as soon as I got kicked out. ----- Proud supporter of James 315's New Order of High Sec | Shareholder and Agent ---- http://i.imgur.com/HCpHT.jpg | http://www.minerbumping.com/ |
Kehro Urgus
Ab Obice Saevior
501
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:57:00 -
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I got an internet spaceship like by someone whose hulk a friend and I ganked once. I don't always troll, but when I do I do it on EVE Online forums.
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Karn Dulake
Sad Flutes
945
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Posted - 2012.11.05 20:59:00 -
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taking out a Pilgrim with a few friends. none of us were older than 3 months.
Apart form that nothing. not a single ******* thing.
Hope that helps I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion. |
Bob Petit
Content Providing
0
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:03:00 -
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I don't know if it's my greatest moment, but it was the most unexpected "win" moment I've had--
I went to war with a corp that had a pos. Just an opportunistic takedown of what appeared to be an abandoned POS and corp (2 weeks or more offline pos and no corp activity or logons for the same period). The war went live, I shot up the arrays and such and took what little stuff there was (you always hope it's a super pinata, but it never is), leaving the control tower alone. It took less than fifteen minutes and I logged for the evening. The next day I logged on in the same system and... there was the other CEO. I did a quick recon of the POS site and sent someone to find which station he was in. And there it was, a POS with an unanchor time under 10 minutes. My corpmate reported he'd found him and immediately undocked. The ceo undocked too in an indy, saw the flashy, and docked. My corpmate docked at another station, grabbed an indy, and warped to me. At the exact same time the CEO warped to me, just coincidentally within 30km. While I frantically mashed my point and AB to close the distance he warped away... with 3 minutes on the timer. Our indy warped in and I took up overwatch. I saw him warping around on d-scan, but as the clock wound down, he gave it up and docked. We scooped the POS. Delicious. Totally unexpected and a total coincidence of timing, position, and everything else. |
Sointu Luonnotar
Science and Trade Institute Caldari State
4
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:10:00 -
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A deep stroll in 0.0, solo, while not belonging in to any alliance. I think I traveled from Great Wildlands to Feythabolis, Esoteria, Stain, Period Basis, Delve and then to Querious, from there I went to see the EVE Gate and then back to homebase in Metropolis. While there I ratted a few times, ran in to a few people and killed them altough mostly thanks to them being overeager to pop my ship they left themselves vulnerable to a purely PvE fitted ship (no web, no scram). Ended up killing enough ships worth my battlecruiser couple of times over. The whole thing took a few hours. Good times.
Might not sound much to many, but there is just this something about going around the big universe by yourself and not being kicked in the teeth while doing it. |
Anslo
BHEI Galactic Construction The Unforgiven Alliance
502
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:13:00 -
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TheBreadMuncher wrote:Dropping a 1.2bil carrier on VFK-IV. Solo. No regrets.
This but a bit different. A few blue bears where on a gate and got jumped by a neut HAC fleet. No one else seemed to care. I welped and warped to 0 on the gate...in an Archon. I apparently was able to act like a bowling ball and knocked a bunch of HACs out of the way before they could kill the bears. Bears jumped...then I got boned. Four other carriers from my alliance warped in to try to rep me and fight, but I got popped. Carrier crew cleaned up though.
Totally worth the loss.
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Coreola
Reasonable People Of Sound Mind
0
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:24:00 -
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While in my first corp/alliance and very early in my Eve career, I traveled out to wormhole space where about a dozen alliance-mates had a couple POS's. I (in my Abaddon) joined about 8 other battleships with one Archon carrier to do a couple very tough plex sigs. I remember being completely enamored by the carrier (first & only cap ship I saw in my first couple Eve years). It was a lot of fun having all the Abaddons in a cool drag formation following behind the carrier while armor-repping whoever was getting boxed and slaughtering the mission. Then to see the ISK reward afterward....makes me wonder why I ever left WH space... Ah yes, I remember...the near-complete isolation.
I guess it'd be that or my first null-sec roam with Of Sound Mind shortly after I joined the alliance. I brought a poorly-fit Prophecy (apparently can't be well fit anyway, but sure do look cool!) and had a blast. Racked up more pvp kills in one evening than in the 2+ years of Eve play before that. How I lived in high-sec for two years is unknown to me. |
Anosha de'Cavemann
Tranquility Quality Control
9
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:31:00 -
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When I realized there was an entire meta-game to EVE that is as fun as the pew-pew's themselves.
EvE, it's all about tear managment. |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
3441
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:33:00 -
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I undocked an unfitted niddy from the Tama station (kick out station) and it lived "Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff-á |
Romvex
118
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:41:00 -
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some guy in an NPC corp chat posted a pic of himself and damn was he purty. The trolling that ensued brought a tear to my eye. Post with your main |
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Esrevid Nekkeg
Justified and Ancient
116
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:54:00 -
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When I was fairly new to W-space, I didn't always pay enough attention to D-scan. So of course, wile running a site in a neighbouring C3, I got jumped. Two Loki's and a Raptor, against my Legion. (And some very lively Sleepers against all) Not very apt at PvP, I was sure I was going to die. But those things happen in EvE so what the heck, at least I was going to try and take one with me in the Pod-express home! I did try, I honestly did. Didn't work of course, even with every module overheated I lost HP quicker than I could apply them. Got into deep structure... And then, for some reason, the point dropped. Luck? Mistake? Mercy? Till this day I still don't know. I didn't kill him, that's for sure.
I got away! yay! Only at our own Pos in our 'own' system I noticed: Two burned out armor reps and 3 HP structure left.....
For me, at that time, it was intense. I had to peel the fingers of my right hand of the mouse with my left hand......... Here I used to have a sig of our old Camper in space. Now it is disregarded as being the wrong format. Looking out the window I see one thing: Nothing wrong with the format of our Camper! Silly CCP......
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Lolar55
Titan Core
4
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Posted - 2012.11.05 21:58:00 -
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Both of my best moments will probably dissapoint people cuz they are carebearish.Year or so ago when I was very noobish i ran one of those slave implants worth about 1.6b at the time from cy-zlp to jita in a shuttle.Before that i bought it from a friend for 900m.At the time I wasn't realizing there was things such as gate camps or pvpers who would want to kill me in eve for my cargo(was 3weeks old).I didn't encounter any camps on my way but i warped manual to zero anyway i knew this much:).One year later I realized what I did.Until now I never told anyone about this.
My second best moment was just 2months after that when i had charon and i was bying and selling npc stuff to stations to make some isk while i was trading in region.
Then i noticed there was a fish in a can or something like it that sells for very good profit in high sec in one of the adjancent systems to friggi it was either 0.2 or 0.3 i remember it had some sort of unique pirate npcs at the station.This time I knew i had to scout.The system was home to a pirate corp but they were semi afk with sporadic checks on d-scan and gate.
They saw me few times.I realized this was very dangerous if i was to jump in this turtle and warp to the station to buy the stuff, but the profit on the product was give or take about 40-45m.I was sweating and my greed was growing by the minute, then I scouted few more times and when i saw no one at the gate i switched quick and jumped the Charon.My heart was racing every minute I was alinging to the station I was screaming at the turtle "come on you fat **** warp already".It felt like ages but it finally warped 6sec later cargo is filled and without even scouting im pulling him out and starting warp to 0 again.Im checking local nothing happens pirate noobs keep sleeping or watching tv.I warp!Fuk yea bietch!When I jump I see a cov op unlcloak next to me and I'm like trololol.I then come back in shuttle and I gloat in local for about 30mins i couldn't resist it lol. |
Singoth
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
125
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Posted - 2012.11.05 22:23:00 -
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Hmm, several great moments.
That time when I was just 1-2 weeks old, just got myself into a Thorax, I was trying to gain standings with missions. Then I met a guy who was running level 4 missions. Back then, missions felt great to me, expanded on the EVE storyline. They also felt like true RPG missions, as you actually had the ability to "speak" to your agent. But, anyway... we were in a fleet of 4 guys, me included. And that was my first moment, EVER, of cooperation. I was shy, didn't talk on comms, but still it felt great to play together towards a single goal. First time I ever did that in a game.
They helped me get the standings needed for my own level 3/4 missions. With their guidance, I was in a Domi capable of running level 4s after just a couple weeks. I led my own cooperative missions with other corp members who were just like me and needed fast standings and cash. Felt great being the FC of that :D
I had fun for a long time... and then, we were wardecced.
Never having had PvP experience, but thinking it couldn't have been much different than PvE like I used to do, I jumped in on a small hostile gang with a PvE fit Dominix. How little did I know what I was up to. Seriously, I don't know my fit, but it was utter crap. Nothing was T2, most of it was T1 meta stuff, not faction or deadspace stuff though. Anyway, me being in a Dominix with double meta reppers, and getting harassed by frigates and cruisers, I could tank their damage, but only slightly. So I called in support while my drones were ripping the enemy frigs apart. At least that wasn't so much different. My support got in just as I was tanking the last 25% of my armor or something, and they killed the rest of the hostile fleet. Later my squad thanked me on being the juicy bait and congratulated on surviving... I was like "wut? bait?". Then I found out the support was actually already on the way, one of my corp members was cloaked at the gate and was watching the fight. xD
Now, I doubt the corp that wardecced us was any kind of pro-pvp corp, and I was just extremely lucky to have survived, any other gang would've killed me in seconds... and I was shocked: how on earth could my ship withstand 40-like NPCs shooting at me, of which several of them would be battleships, in PvE... and then I could not even handle a handful of frigs and cruisers in PvP?
Anyway, learned a lot that day, and I had fun. I was shaking, I tell you! xD Less yappin', more zappin'! |
Sandslinger
NorCorp Enterprise No Holes Barred
17
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Posted - 2012.11.05 23:36:00 -
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Hmm funny had this exact discussion with Alliance the other night.
To give a prelude. When my friend who had got me to test guild wars (what a complete waste of time that was, endless grinding so you could wear purple clothes )
So lets just say I was a bit dubious about taking his recommendations again. But oh well i figured 14 day free why not try. So back then I played a lot of space sims and had bought myself one hell of a controller. So a Space MMO sounded extremely intruiging.
I remember when I played Elite as a teenager me and a friend used to spend hours imagining what it would like if it was possible to play that game as a massively co-op. I still get shivers when I consider the fact that the founders of CCP probably had the exact same conversation just that they actually brought it to pass (Much love CCP Much love)
Anyhows the magic moment arrived and I undocked and well my joystick didn't do jack poo Then my friend explained that I had to control it with the mouse. "How do I orbit" I enquired and he told me to right click on the object
This wasn't at all what I expected but I'd come this far so why not give it a chance. I spent some time milling about mining shooting red crosses and then I started noticing the EvE News stories and I thought oh how cool that they invent a back story.
But then after a few days something struck me as odd about a particular story and I asked in the help channel if the stories were "true" and not fiction and the answer was that yes the stuff related to the alliances are actual news reports.
I was dumbfounded there was a incredibly rich tapestry of alliances of players fighting it out for control over entire regions. My little corner of 2 or 3 highsec systems was a speck of dust as to everything going on in this game... That was my first moment.
Some time passed me and a few friends started mining in a little LS pocket (basgerin I believe) Where we were haunted by a negative ten pirate who was pretty much stuck in the pocket with no way to leave.
we all managed to band together 3 of us camped him into his clone station for 2 days straight feeling like kings this player was several years old and our hop skotch bands of a dominix player (The flagship of our fleet) and my cruiser and a battlecruiser was keeping him pinned. On the second day he had a friend in local who wasn't flashy red but all the same had identified himself a ally to the pirate.
He undocked and we went wild with frenzy locked him and fired away. In a matter of seconds the station guns had ripped our little camp apart. The low sec pocket was firmly back in the pirates control. No matter the loss we had learned a harsh lesson and became stronger for it. Having been part of a band that forced that evil creature to amend his ways for 2 days still felt like a win This was my second moment.
A Month later I moved to providence, lost my laser brutix within 1 hours of entering the region, but before I did I had made enough isk to buy another. So I went straight back. This time it took 2 hours before I died. This pattern continued for a while until a friendly soul who occupied the system I had choosen to utilize explained some things like the importance of local and also not dual tanking my ship I had literally had to jump into belt kill one frig then warp away and back again and repeat ad infineum....
After getting to know the locals and the ways of CVA and such I became obsessed with the thought of reaching Catch and the Free Hold station there. (There was a project by one alliance to create free hold neutral stations all over EvE which ultimately failed I forget their name now)
On the third run (still hadn't managed to reach it in one piece) I took a friend with me. We got attacked and only I got away. He screamed for help and I nerves strung out jumped back into the fight. And with heroic mastery of mashing every button I could think of my brutix managed to chase away not One but TWO whole interceptors. I felt a surge of victory pass through me. My friend had lost his battle cruiser but due to my heroic actions kept his pod and together we reached Catch that night .
Once there we found a Nyx camping the dock of the station. This mighty beast made us very wary of approaching the station but he explained he was there to keep the pirates away and so we passed by him. Deep in space and with the most majestic ship we had ever seen protecting us we felt like kings of deep space who had fought our way in. That was my Third moment.
There was many more as my experience grew. My first large fight I witnessed, the first fight I FC'd where we won against superior numbersI 80 BS killed with 60 hacs without loosing a single one. ( Oh vagabond/Nano Ishtars how utterly OP you truly were ) I suppose that was my fourth moment. |
EvEa Deva
State War Academy Caldari State
128
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Posted - 2012.11.05 23:42:00 -
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Killing 20 vs our 10, not our fault they didnt bring logi or ecm |
Nexus Day
Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic
90
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Posted - 2012.11.05 23:57:00 -
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Jumping in a wormhole and warping away before bookmarking it. Doing my first scan and quickly realizing that a) I had forgotten to bookmark the WH entrance and b) the wormhole was occupied.
Spent the next hour frantically scanning down anomalies trying to find an exit while the inhabitants hunted me down. Had to keep my probes constantly moving as they tried to destroy them. Finally found the exit and got the heck out of there.
Afterwards I thought of getting a tattoo of the first rule of WH space so I would never forget, "Bookmark Everything". |
Sara XIII
The Carnifex Corp
111
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Posted - 2012.11.05 23:59:00 -
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My time in RvB.
Between Ignorance and Wisdom |
Spurty
V0LTA Verge of Collapse
551
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Posted - 2012.11.06 00:11:00 -
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While piloting an obelisk across some huge system (there was an escort, this was a big convoy) I managed to run upstairs, pewp, clean up and wash my hands before returning to my computer just as the dumb box had started to decloak on the other side of the next system.
That day, I officially won EVE on hardcore mode.
Jump bridges and titans and jump freighters have made us *all* lazy
---- CONCORD arrested two n00bs yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. |
Johan Civire
Dirty Curse inc.
181
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Posted - 2012.11.06 00:17:00 -
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My greatest moment in eve was the first time a pirat corps got me. I was to lazy to see behind that gate if there are campers. So those lucky basterd got me. Afther that you know the drill. the second was the first time i see a titan in action afther that i wake up in a station. Lost some memory`s there. |
Mars Theran
Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic
382
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Posted - 2012.11.06 03:00:00 -
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Running through Nullsec, (from the outermost edge after exiting a Wormhole), in a Cheetah with a non-combat skilled Science pilot, jumping a few camps and being chased by the pilots there nearly all the way back to Lowsec.
I ended up somewhere in Amarr space, by the shortest route if I recall correctly, and lost them somewhere along the way when I found a good system to planet bounce and exit by more than one gate that eventually landed in Highsec.
That's the most memorable one of the moment anyway, if not necessarily my greatest moment in EVE. You could ask me that tomorrow and I'd probably come up with something different. zubzubzubzubzubzubzubzub |
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