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BayneNothos
United Electro-Magnetic Federation
Business Alliance of Manufacturers and Miners
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Posted - 2013.12.11 03:18:00 -
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I remember when I first came out to W-Space with the corp I'd just joined. I was straight from HS mission running and all my PVP experience was a hostile wardec that nobody fought in. I was so scared of logging off out in space (Even inside the POS) that I logged back in 10 minutes later and asked my corp mates to confirm that my ship did actually disappear. |
AtomYcX
Hard Knocks Inc.
Kill It With Fire
44
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Posted - 2013.12.11 07:09:00 -
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Spent a year with a C2 mining corp, which was cool at the start, learning all the basics of wormholes and stuff. They didn't ever explore the chain and kept the statics closed for a typical carebear sense of security though. One day I decided enough was enough and applied to a corp in Transmission Lost called Cold Moon Destruction. That was when I REALLY started to learn about wormholes. And the rest as they say, is history  |
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ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
612
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Posted - 2013.12.11 13:42:00 -
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I have removed some rule breaking posts and those quoting them. Please people, keep it on topic and above all civil!
The rules:
4. Personal attacks are prohibited.
Commonly known as flaming, personal attacks are posts that are designed to personally berate or insult another forum user. Posts of this nature are not beneficial to the community spirit that CCP promote and as such they will not be tolerated.
5. Trolling is prohibited.
Trolling is a defined as a post that is deliberately designed for the purpose of angering and insulting other players in an attempt to incite retaliation or an emotional response. Posts of this nature are disruptive, often abusive and do not contribute to the sense of community that CCP promote.
Having said that, my first time ever in -W-space went exactly like this: Scan down wormhole from hs > jump through wormhole > load grid just in time to see Pod hanging beside wreck of own ship > wake up in fresh clone......
Several weeks later I found myself living in a C1. Ah, the memories of days gone by....
ISD Ezwal
Commander
Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)
Interstellar Services Department |
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Remy Nolen
Sama Guild
0
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Posted - 2013.12.12 04:09:00 -
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Was a newbie to eve back then. Couldn't even do lvl 4 missions. A corpmate mentioned a quick way to get isk mining wh gas. I'd already bought a few plex and decided to buy the gas harveting skillbook. Jumped on a dessie and went out to mine some gas. Didn't even have scanning skills, learned how to make a bookmark & always bookmark the exit, got violenced by some sleepers, learned how to spam dscan, etc etc. Ended up making like 10m isk for a short amount of time involved. It didn't take long before I really looked into WH's & moved into one. Started in a C1 after watching how to setup a tower on youtube.
Lived in WH's ever since & I find K-space wierd. |
Bibosikus
End-of-Line
163
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Posted - 2013.12.12 15:51:00 -
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My old Corp did a lot of research on Sisi before Apocrypha. The day it went live, we scanned down a c2 with c3 static and set up a faction death star that is still standing to this day, nearly five years on.
We ran nothing but C3 anoms with blinged Kronos. W-space was empty in those days. We never lost one except to Corp theft. We made embarrassing amounts of isk because the Corp got into t3 production as well.. Great days. All a bit different now...
The box said "Requires Windows-á2000 or better", so I installed Linux. |
WInter Borne
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
96
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Posted - 2013.12.12 20:23:00 -
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Scanned down a C3 in a buzzard, came back to run the sites in a drake.
Friend logged in some time later and decided to tag along with me. After two hours of killing sleepers we warp back to the wormhole and found it had despawned. Ended up self destructing my drake, my friend's megathron, and almost 300 mil in sleeper loot first time out.
Decided we'd live in wspace from that point forward. |
ktown Hekard
Royal Development Institute
14
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Posted - 2013.12.26 09:17:00 -
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Amazing stuff folks, Please keep the stories coming this is sooo fun to read. Some the stories gave me goosebumps.
TY everybody for sharing your experiences
Merry X-Mas and happy holidays to everybody, may you have a safe and fruitful 2014 |
bubble trout
Sky Fighters
161
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Posted - 2013.12.26 14:14:00 -
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Yeah this thread delivers. |
Demica Diaz
The Scope
Gallente Federation
112
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Posted - 2013.12.26 14:52:00 -
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I was exploring Great Wildlands and creating bookmarks in my trusty Proteus. It was unusually bad day for me because from countless systems I managed to find only wormholes. When yet another wormhole showed up on my scanners I frowned and opened my fourth beer can to drown my frustration. Then it clicked, I am not sure was it alcohol or just sheer curiosity but I decided to check that wormhole out. I checked my wallet and made sure that I could afford secound Proteus and that I could... just barely.
First thing I noticed after entering though wormhole was that my ships repair ammount was lowered but it didnt worried me since I wasnt planning to engage in combat. After admiring beautiful scene I cloaked up and started to warp around creating safe spots and reading web about system I was in. C5 and nothing on my D-scan. I explored everything I could and found nothing but old customs offices. I wondered if owner of POCO's was still around and checked corporation kill boards and perhaps activity of their members but shortly found out that last time anyone did anything in that corporation was two years ago. According to killboard, they had some major fights and seemd to lost. RPer in my kicked in, perhaps because fourth beer was taking in effect and fifth was getting opened, I started to wonder the story behind that corp and its members. Its glory days of settling wormholes and eventually being brushed away by others.
Since I was already in wormhole, I decided to continue and scanned down another wormhole entrance. This time it was dark and gloomy. It seems I arrived to C5 Magnetar wormhole and my D-scan showed that it was thriving with life and man made structures. One of wormhole residents greeted me and curiouslly asked of my reasons to be in the system. I did not wanted to look like newbie and wave hand just to get it shot off, instead I pretended to be wormhole shark, old timer who roams in Proteus and slay its unsuspected victims. So I did not say anything. I warped around creating bookmarks and secretly stalking its residents for good time and discovered POS with Moros in it. What a sight! It was first time I ever seen Moros in space. Despite flying in null all the time, I never gave thought to see dreadnought. My imagination kicked in and I saw myself cruising in space in Moros, smoking cigar while adjusting my aviator shades and making eveyone jelous. Then someone tackling me and swarm of lesser ships buzzing around me, slowly eating up my armor... I warped to my safe spot and scanned down another wormhole.
Overall, I spent four weeks in wormholes. I didnt do any combat since my ship was exploration fit but had great time learning about wormholes and meeting its residents and important of all... I survived.  |
ktown Hekard
Royal Development Institute
39
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Posted - 2013.12.28 21:46:00 -
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Bumping for more stories :) |
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Rhainya Del'Arth
The Eidolon Foundation
0
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Posted - 2013.12.28 23:04:00 -
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Joined a C5/C5 WH corp, got all my crap in (Not much at that time. I was running cap sites in a T1 gun Apocalypse... and my goto PvP ship was a Harbinger/NOmen.)
.. Halfway through my first cap esc.. "New sig guys".
Not one minute later "GUYS, Starbridge have a massive RR Tengu fleet".
Orca was already in warp.. We lost it, but managed to fight them off and go back to farming. \o/ |
Lloyd Roses
Blue-Fire
459
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Posted - 2013.12.28 23:33:00 -
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First contact with wormholes has been during my second month of eve. Since missions are fun for around 2days into the game, and the officers of my corp (I G) those days just made an introduction to wormholes for us rookies, decided to just hook up with a friend and dive into the firstbest wh we could find.
Shortly afterwards, I found myself in an oracle, together with him in a myrmidon running sites. During those sites, a drake warped to us att 100k... We have been really confused and our two wh-mentors back in the day (aquila and dem) told us to shoot them. So I did.
The drake warped off, and we decide to investigate in local... Stating we're just here for those anoms - and got told that since we're rookies, we'd be free to do so.
Around a week afterwards, a mail was sent out asking who wanted to join the corp-wh-communoty, so I joined them \-ñ/
Those former IG officers formed blue-fire shortly afterwards, haven't left wormholes ever since.
Also, been playing with a dedicated scanner from day 1, always wondering how people manage without one.
"I honestly thought I was in lowsec" |
stup idity
50
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Posted - 2013.12.28 23:38:00 -
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It was deadly - within 30 minutes of me moving in:
I wanted to do something and went mining in my Prophecy. Hit D-Scan like I was told to, nevertheless got caught, bubbled and sent back to a new clone.
I was only three months in the game back then and it was over three years ago. Still haven't even considered moving out of WH space.
I am the Herald of all beings that are me. |
Imadude Orti
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
1
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Posted - 2013.12.29 03:19:00 -
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This was my first WH experience.
This is what made it priceless.
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Oblivious Aubaris
Falling Skies Syndicate
Panda Cave
1
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Posted - 2013.12.29 06:53:00 -
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I am looking to get back into wormholes and I saw this thread. I thought I would share my first experience in a wormhole, as it was also my first PVP experience. I had met a friend through a friend that at the time was running a C2 wormhole alone. He had invited us to come and check it out. I was only maybe 3 months old at the time. My skills were crap and I had basically just gotten into a myrmidon. There were three of us online this day and my buddy(also in a myrmidon) said hey lets go run a site together. So we jumped in our shiny myrmidon's fresh from carebear land and started running a site. As we were running the site my friend says WARP OUT........ in the corp window(we didn't have any comms setup during the time) I'm looking around like WHAT????? Next thing I know my friend has warped off and left me on grid with two other battlecruisers that were locking me up. I immediately went into panic mode.......SCRAMMED...........taking heavy damage. The "owner" of the C2 says burn for the structure and try to get them hung up on it and burn away as fast as you can...................WHAT????? At this point my repper is just barely keeping me alive. The repper would pulse and they would knock it down again plus a small chunk of hull. This went on for what seemed like 5 minutes and was probably only a minute. I hadn't said anything in chat for a while, but my friends were asking me what was going on. Finally the "owner" said if your alive just hit X. So I slammed a X in chat! At this point my ship was blowing flames out of it and I just knew it was going to be over soon. Then like an angel in the sky the owner of the C2 shows up in a falcon and permma jams them. I was able to warp out and back to the POS. My ship was in flames, my nerves were shot, my muscles ached, and I knew then that wormholes were fun! I told my friend in true "Top Gun" style................................."NEVER, EVER Leave your wingman" ;) |
Oska Rus
Free Ice Cream People
132
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Posted - 2013.12.29 16:22:00 -
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I had nothing fancy. I decided to go wormhole because isk. Read all the stuff about wormholes. Did a few peacefull daytrips and started to go deeper and more permanent. |
Quintaine
CCCP Industry
9
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Posted - 2013.12.30 01:05:00 -
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Went in, died. Went back in, died again.
Didn't go back in. |
ktown Hekard
Royal Development Institute
46
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Posted - 2013.12.31 00:00:00 -
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Really great stories  don't stop here, keep them coming, good or bad, lets share, LOL |
Auduin Samson
Do not disturb
Sanctuary Pact
153
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Posted - 2013.12.31 06:31:00 -
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I was a VERY new player and thought this whole wormhole thing sounded pretty cool. I stuck a scanner on a Punisher, fit it up with some armor and lasers JUST IN CASE, and went in. Didn't know what D-scan was, didn't know how to bookmark things. Just went in and warped to a planet, figuring nobody would find me if I didn't say anything in local.
My punisher was down before I realized I was taking fire (Was busy looking at my probe scanner) and I was podded before I could react. |
ktown Hekard
Royal Development Institute
47
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Posted - 2013.12.31 15:49:00 -
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ISD Ezwal wrote:I have removed some rule breaking posts and those quoting them. Please people, keep it on topic and above all civil! The rules:4. Personal attacks are prohibited.
Commonly known as flaming, personal attacks are posts that are designed to personally berate or insult another forum user. Posts of this nature are not beneficial to the community spirit that CCP promote and as such they will not be tolerated.5. Trolling is prohibited.
Trolling is a defined as a post that is deliberately designed for the purpose of angering and insulting other players in an attempt to incite retaliation or an emotional response. Posts of this nature are disruptive, often abusive and do not contribute to the sense of community that CCP promote.Having said that, my first time ever in -W-space went exactly like this: Scan down wormhole from hs > jump through wormhole > load grid just in time to see Pod hanging beside wreck of own ship > wake up in fresh clone...... Several weeks later I found myself living in a C1. Ah, the memories of days gone by....
Just wanted to add a ty to the ISD for keeping this thread to the point, ty sir. |
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Serrberus
Forever Winter
1
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Posted - 2014.01.04 01:32:00 -
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My first experience in a Wormhole was amazing, a friend of mine and I had been trying to get into eve for awhile and decided after several trials trying everything from mining to missioning to pirating that we would try exploration. From my time in a missioning and wardec corp I had some combat experience and some skills sufficient to fly a drake.
We entered the WH with my friend acting as a scout with a tier 1 frigate with minimal skills no cloak and a probe launcher and I in a basic fitted poorly skilled caracal >.> . We were having fun just messing around found a c1 sleeper site and did the entire complex. My buddy salvaged the site and thats when we found it.
Nanoribbons, WOW we were rich! Within 15 minutes of shooting things we made 30m isk! We were so ecstatic about our discovery that we had finally found our niche in Eve. We went back and sold away and split everything down the middle. We returned to another C1 thinking this would be just as succesful, unfortunately we were very wrong. We were dropped on by a t3 looking for a fight. We immediately jumped, I wasn't even familiar with the name of the ship (when I was missioning I dont even think t3 were out yet). Using the skills I had learned from wardec we used safe spots and rapid jumps to stay away from the handful of ships with combat probes. We had no cloaks and no way to avoid confrontation except just to keep jumping and making safespots. We chatted them up in local as we dodged, they were nice guys but very intent on ending our little trip. We then made a sudden realization, we had never bookmarked our entrance xD, in desperation we scanned out another wormhole and ended up even deeper in WH space, being pursued by this fleet. There was little we could do except keep trying to rapidly jump and escape, eventually we got caught.
They popped my friends ship, I evaded for a little while longer, but gave up knowing it was futile and my fit wasnt worth more then 50m. They were impressed with our evasion in the fun chase and liked our attitude that we had kept in local with them. They had so much fun messing with us, they offered for us to join the corp, payed for our losses and gave us a free trip back to hi sec (they podded us :P). I promptly accepted and have been playing in WH space when I've been active ever since.
The best experience in EVE for me to this day, I think thats something worth making a Sandbox story about :) |
ktown Hekard
Royal Development Institute
56
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Posted - 2014.01.07 03:39:00 -
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bumping for MOOOOOOREEEE |
ktown Hekard
Royal Development Institute
60
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Posted - 2014.01.22 17:55:00 -
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Come on folks, i love hearing your stories, keep it coming.
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Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
78
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Posted - 2014.01.22 19:15:00 -
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Just after wh first came out I had my first experience. Repo was a decent merc corp back in those days. We had chased someone into a low sec dead end system as part of a contract. Tbh I don't know if we got the guy or not. To the point: as our fleet (10 or so guys in misc ships) started home we realized we were camped into the pocket w/ no way out. I don't recall who had us hemmed in, all I recall was that getting out would not happen. There was some smack back and forth in local. They had us for sure. One of the guys in fleet (again don't recall who) had a probe launcher. Under the cover of good natured local discussion he went back a system and probed out a wh. From that wh he found another wh back to k-space. We took the fleet in and back out the other way and avoided assured destruction.
We did all that with zero knowledge of mass limits, timers nothing. It could have collapsed or whatever. So that was cool.
A few days later we had a contract to bash a wh pos. A route was given and we went in and took it out. That was somewhat unnerving as beyond how to take down a pos we had zero clue how the wh thing worked. On the way out from the pos bash me and Hans stopped at a site and killed the sleepers. Was probably a C1 but who knows. Knowing nothing of salvaging sleepers and what not we finished the waves of frigates and sat in the site for a bit. After a while I asked Hans on comms what we were supposed to do next. "I think we're supposed to mine??" was his answer/question. One of us said it was stupid and we left.
A few months later we put Repo dormant for what has turned out to be years. I wondered a bit and ended up with a character in SPLU and things got from there to here. Not that exciting I suppose, but more of a reluctant journey. I wouldn't change it as I had a lot of fun getting from there to here. |
Tajic Kaundur
Brave Newbies Inc.
Brave Collective
4
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Posted - 2014.01.22 21:08:00 -
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So, I don't live in wormholes at all. Only recently started using them, in fact.
I unlocked CovOps ships a few days ago, and fitted up an Anathema while I finish training for bombers. I'm in need of ISK, so I start trying to scan down DED sites. Nothing at all in the nearby systems. I figure "Well, I found a wormhole one jump away from here, maybe I can use it as a tunnel to get somewhere else, see if there's sites out there...?"
I scan down that hole, and bounce in. A C5 hole. I warp to a random planet and make a safe mid-warp. According to DScan, it's not uninhabited. Guess I won't be trying to ferry my Dominix through here. I jump back into lowsec, and there's an Iteron V jumping into the hole. Interesting. I don't have any guns on this Anathema though (what's the point when I have a cloak and warp stabs fit), so I just sit around and watch it enter the hole. A few seconds later, a Badger does the same thing.
Alright, they're either moving in or out of this hole.
I head the 3 jumps home and jump into a NOmen and run back to the hole, hoping to be able to gank an indie full of WH loot. That could be even better than the DED site I was hoping to find.
An Iteron V hops out of the hole. Lock it up... 3 shots and it's dead. Run to the wreck... nothing. It had a cloaking device and 2 expanded cargo IIs. Guess they're moving in, not out. Unlucky guess. Right as I loot the wreck, a Badger warps to the hole from a station. Awesome, this one's going the right direction. Try to lock it up... he gets through the hole while I'm mid-lock. Damn. A few seconds later, a handful of Ishkurs come through, probably to kill me.
I jump into the hole, knowing I probably won't be able to get away, and warp to the safe I made earlier, and I'm fully aware I have no cloak, an aggression timer, and they almost certainly have probes. I keep bouncing around celestials, hoping that'll stop them from scanning me down- I've never tried to scan down a ship before, only sites, I have no idea how it works!- and every time I land on the planet closest to the hole, I DScan it. I know I need to get through soon or they might try to shut down the hole and lock me in, I've got no probes on this NOmen.
After running a lap around the system three or four times, I jump back through the hole. There's a single Ishkur on the lowsec side.
I dunno if he was AFK or what, but he didn't lock me up and I managed to get back home with my hard earned... uh... cloaking device.
I'm gonna start using WHes to get around more often  |
Dmitry Wizard
THE AESIR.
Ragnarok.
167
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Posted - 2014.01.22 22:00:00 -
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Tried to solo a c2 wolf rayet site in a fed navy comet.... I died in a fire. Sleepers scared me
"Wormhole corps are like a bunch of homeschooled kids" |
Desmond Strickler
End-of-Line
268
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Posted - 2014.01.22 22:14:00 -
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Everything was throbbing, but I was exhilarated! Only downside is that I feel next time won't be as special. 10/10 would do it again.
The Black Prince of Wormholes-á
Part-Time Moon Bear and Full-Time Black Guy
"My other dread is a Swaglafar" |
Maxxor Brutor
Imperial Collective
18
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Posted - 2014.01.22 23:24:00 -
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Living in Lonetrek hisec, doing level 3s and other ratting. Got a Probe, went around scanning for Gurista sites. Found this beauuutiful thing that lead into the Unknown.
Jumped in to check it out, saved the exit, warped to random planet and dropped probes. There were so many strange things to see that I just sat there trying to narrow signatures down for ages it seemed until suddenly I heard the shield warning sound. Closed the probing map to find that a Tengu was hurling missiles at me! Luckily he didn't bother pointing me so I just ran back to hisec. Convoed him apologizing for disturbing his wormhole and the guy was nice enough to give me some advice and 200 mil isk!
Lots of daytripping experiences later I now live in a C5 :K
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Owen Levanth
Federated Deep Space Explorations
70
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Posted - 2014.01.23 13:53:00 -
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ktown Hekard wrote:I trained and saved what I could as a miner, and having never pvp'ed I thought what would be the fastest way to learn wh fundamentals, and pvp. I was going to apply to one of the big WH-corps, but honestly who would want a miner. I waited to hear from a few top wh corps never expecting anybody to want a noob. I scanned a c1 that was empty, lived there a month got killed a few times. lost pos, ships, and all assets.
So after a few more months training I scanned a c2, moved in, long story short lost everything (AGAIN), but I allowed any noob who wanted to be in a wh to join me to make some isk, learn basics with me, while I did my best to make sure there experience in the wh was a positive one, not a money sink.
I was not always successful at saving them all but I am told I made it accessible, fun and sometimes profitable experience for them, which was all I wanted in a WH corp.
To this day I still have a ****-eating grin from the fun I had. Even though I barely understood anything about wh's, and lost everything.
So I figure, 3'rd times a charm, looking for a new WH to call home for me and a couple friends, am I stubborn, maybe. Have I learned anything about wh's, pvp, ect..? u better dam believe I did.
So my what was your first WH experience like?,
I just randomly took my Heron into one just to take a look around. After scanning several wormholes since my exit had collapsed behind me, I had a run-in with pair of T2 cruisers camping a HighSec-exit. It was kind of fun slowboating with my cloaked Heron around a Heavy Interdictor and a HAC until I reached the heavily bubbled wormhole right behind them and bugged out.
Since then I started using wormholes as a easy way to transport myself around the map. Especially to enter and leave NullSec at will. Or when I'm exploring and have no clear goal in mind. |
Erufen Rito
The Dark Space Initiative
Scary Wormhole People
114
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Posted - 2014.01.23 16:33:00 -
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Boy....this takes me back.
My first experience was with my very first corp. There was about 5 of us or so on shield tanked BCs, plus my noctis alt with a probe launcher and cloak. We were in a C4, and our plan was simple. Let the noctis do the scanning while the fleet was cloaked somewhere else. Once the site was cleared, warp noctis in, salvage, scan cloak, rinse and repeat. Well, it just so happened that my noctis had T1 tackles, and salvaging III, with IV in queue. Once we cleared the first site, I couldn't salvage the good wrecks for at least 40 minutes, so that was funny and somewhat lucky.
That went very well, we cleared the hole, and made a nice chunk of isk out of it.
Weeks later, we returned, and did the exact same thing, on a different C4. When we finished, everyone was tired and itching to log off. One of my corpmates somehow understood that everyone would log off in the hole, and so he did too. On the next day, when I log in, he is very mad and yelling at me for leaving him stranded. I told him to scan his way out, and he said he didn't fit a launcher on his drake, because of the cloak. I had to burn back to the entry system, which by some sort of miracle, the hole was still open, and fish him out.
Maybe half a year later, one of our blue corps asked us to help them set up camp in a C3 that had been reported as empty. Once the tower was anchored and in the process of onlining, a Gilla and something else came in and blew up our transport with the rest of the POS modules. We were not prepared for this engagement, and my Talos died, along with the rest of our fleet and POS.
A while later, I was soloing a C3 on an artycane with my noctis alt coming in and out of the hole with salvage. By now, i knew better, so i had D-scan up. I spotted a drake, and I warped to a site I had previously cleared, then burned off at range. Once the drake landed, he was greeted with delicious alpha. Since he was all ressist no buffer, he quickly dropped into armor, and warped off as my 2nd barrage landed. I left the hole, and got a private convo, asking me to join their corp. I joined and 3 days later left because no one was active.
Yup, that's my WH tale up until TDSIN.
This is as nice as I get.
Best quote ever
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