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Eudoxus
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Posted - 2006.03.13 07:18:00 -
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Eudoxus
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Posted - 2006.03.13 07:19:00 -
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Hi folks,
It took a long time given my trader/hauler tendencies but yesterday was my first true pvp experience in EVE and I have to say it was an enormous rush. I started the game hauling, worked my way up to a covert ops ship to make for easy travel for trading/hauling and then got a stealth bomber for use down in 0.0 (as it was the easiest/fastest thing to train at that point that could do some decent damage).
So yesterday I was joining up with one of my corpÆs gangs û first time I am on AND there is a gang going as I am in an off time zone from my corp mates generally - and was working my way up to their location. I hear on vent some battles and am dying to get there. I get into the system next to them and hear of another approaching enemy from a covops pilot 2 jumps away. I am frantically trying to get through into their system now so I can join up and be ready and waiting with them.
Then, just as I get 15km from the gate (I have not been through this route so donÆt have an insta), I hear they are engaging him on the other side. I am excited but bummed as figure I am missing it. So close! Or am I? I decide to just sit 15km out as I am the only person in the system anyway just on the odd chance the enemy makes it to the gate and jumps in.
Lo and behold, he is in what must be a pretty quick cruiser (Thorax) and does indeed make the gate and jumps. I am hearing screams on vent about getting after him etc etc û I donÆt even think my gangmates realize I am actually sitting on the other side waitingà.in a cruise missile toting stealth bomber no less.
So the beautiful (in this case) to my ears gate activation sound goes and now I know this guy is in the system with me. My heart rate now explodes with a huge rush of adrenaline. All I can think is ædonÆt screw this upÆ, æmake sure you get him targeted and hitÆ and æhope someone comes thru to scramble himÆ or he might just warp away from me faster than I can even lock him (I swapped out a sensor booster on the way up for more damage via a ballistic control unit not expecting to need massively quick locks).
I donÆt quite think about it at the time that I do not even know what kind of ship it is û as I was in such a rush to get there û and that it might be something that could explode me rapidly being in a soft and squishy stealth bomber. I also donÆt think about what I enjoy thinking about now û what the other guy must have been thinking as he came into the system probably ecstatic at getting through to the gate to jumpààà..only to get into the new system and already see a red square waiting. I doubt he would have been taking the time to check out what ship I had but I also enjoy thinking that he did û because I know if I had made it through and then on the other side quickly pulled up what was there waiting for me and saw it was a stealth bomber I would not have been happy! A huge æyes, I made it!Æ followed by æoh, this might not end so wellÆ.
Anyways, so he is now in the system and has not decloaked, seems to be taking a few seconds as he checks the situation û although he must be wanting to just warp to a random planet or something I would think. Fortunately one of our other pilots who was tackling must have been right on the gate as about 2 seconds after his warp in sound there was another from the tackler coming in.
Another second or so passes and he show up in local û clearly the tackler following him in got him to decide to get moving as soon as possible; maybe seeing me there caused him a bit of pause as well. I quickly click on him to target him and watch as the lock countdown starts. A fraction of a second later the tackler also decloaks and is attempting to scramble. He is set for fast tackling so I hear he has a scramble on him a moment before I have a lock. Once I see lock I hit my hot keys for launching some cruise missile goodness at himàààà.only to have the hostile act warning button show up!
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Salacious Kitten
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Posted - 2006.03.13 07:20:00 -
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After a 0.1 second heart-attack I quickly clickÆyesÆ (can you tell I have never actually fired a weapon at another player as of this point?!) and hear the soothing sounds of 2 cruises racing out of the missile bays û normally only ever heard when I was ratting. This time it is infinitely sweeter.
Suffice it to say, I am in heaven now knowing that he is scrambled and that I am definitely going to be hitting this guy as 15kms out is only 3 seconds from me with the cruise missile speeds and with 3 ballistic control units in low slots they are definitely going to leave a mark. My heart rate is now probably heart attack inducing were I an 80 year old person and I can feel blood racing and my head pounding. This is probably the hugest adrenaline rush I think I have experienced. Normally you æexpectÆ your big events so the rush is large and sustained as opposed to huge and all at once. This being an all at once rush was just total wow û biggest wow ever I think let alone playing a æsilly computer gameÆ. Bigger I think or at least as big, going from memory, as the first time I did a skydive from 15,000 feet. The skydive I had time to anticipate û this just came on me all at once.
So anyways, cruise missiles are away and by now I am hearing lots of warp ins and starting to see some nice purple gangmate boxes show up. My cruises are the first thing to hit and the first wave take out half his shields or more. By now the second wave of cruises are away and some of the fast lockers have got some additional ordinance in the air but I think I still hit for the first and second volleys (4 cruises at this point). Shields are gone now and so is a fat chunk of armor. Now everyone is piling on so that armor is going faaaaaaast. Hull does not even have time to show up as a moving bar û it just disappears.
And then, as you all know, there is a beautiful æpoppingÆ sound and the rush is huge. Best of all, moments later I notice my mail box flashing û seems my third volley (or fourth, I have no idea as I lost track in the excitement) got the final blow. So not only do I get my first pvp experience, and live, and be involved in the kill û I get the killmail as well!
I am so proud of it I am tempted to print it and frame it! I am not even sure my gangmates quite realized what happened as I am sure it was all a purple box missile/laser fest but it felt GREAT to be sitting on the other side of that gate knowing I was going to get to be hitting a guy for fat damage as the rest came racing in û with them not even really knowing I was there waiting already. And of course, thinking about the æoh crapÆ the other guy must have been thinking as he got through only to see a lone red box sitting 15km awayà.in a stealth bomber!
So there you have it û first pvp and boy what a day. It really hits home how cool this game is when this kind of thing happens all the time û and I am only just getting started. Granted, this was not a one on one type thing so a purest may not call it pvp but it was close enough for meà..and I will get some one on one eventually I am sure.
Thanks EVE!
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Eudoxus
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Posted - 2006.03.13 07:21:00 -
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Sorry, in my haste to fix an overflow of text I posted with an alt for the second half.
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Skipsta
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Posted - 2006.03.13 07:38:00 -
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I had the hostile warning box come up on me after I cleared my cache. Saw a ebil pirate with a bounty on his head go past me in a shuttle with no insta, but he was saved by the box 
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Herko Kerghans
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Posted - 2006.03.13 07:48:00 -
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Congrats on your first adrenaline high! 
First one is surely the best.
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Brisi
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Posted - 2006.03.13 07:58:00 -
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I remember my first PvP encounter as well, I could barely press the correct buttons as I was so shaken from the experience. I still feel a bit that way, but only in very small amounts 
Anyways, very nice story.
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Mindlles
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Posted - 2006.03.13 08:13:00 -
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funny reading, nice post, and welcome to the fun part off eve =)
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Copine Callmeknau
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Posted - 2006.03.13 08:37:00 -
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Lucky you only had cruise missiles to sort out, the first time I engaged in PvP I forgot to both web and scramble my opponent 
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LordAmarus
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Posted - 2006.03.13 09:05:00 -
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gratz on the kill but ... net time you rly want som·e more distance between you and the nme. if i had been that thorax, the moment i jump trough and see an sber at 15 i would go for it big time why? sbers do huge dmg but r frail. thrax gets mwd bonus so he'll be next to you in mere seconds. if you are popped , he has more of chance to stand up vs other peeps.
tackler was probably an inty wich is also very frail. if the thorax used light drones that inty would have been toast .
but if and if = if
fact remains you popped him
congratz on the kill
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Azeroth Uluntil
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Posted - 2006.03.13 09:46:00 -
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I remember my first pvp battle as well... Condor vs condor. Took half an hour to end(we kept missing due to speeds) but eventually came out as a win.
Don't get an adreneline rush anymore as pvp is part of my daily routine, but it's still fun to get hate mail and watch people whine in local. :D
Unfortunatly, due to the large amount of stabs in the game, I am forced to fly almost strictly with a gang...
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R31D
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Posted - 2006.03.13 09:57:00 -
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That's what keeps most of us playing EVE, that adrenaline rush you get with no other game
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Taeon
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Posted - 2006.03.13 10:12:00 -
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Nice read :)
Good to see that you enjoyed it so much, may you have many more adrenaline pumping encounters ;)
Taeon
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Hinik
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Posted - 2006.03.13 10:30:00 -
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yeah nice read, glad you enjoyed the experience.
I've been PvPing for some time now and when ournumbered I always get the same rush, it's fantastic
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Eudoxus
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Posted - 2006.03.13 11:24:00 -
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Yea, I have my doubts that he actually did check out my ship. I suspect he was thrilled to have made it to the gate to jump into my system and was entirely focused on getting away from the pile of people that were after him.
I would think one would have to be extremely cool under fire to:
1) get through a usually certain death scenario
2) arrive on the other side alive
3) see a ship
4) decide to check out knowing full well there are pile of people behind him
5) figure out what it is
6) ponder ones odds at taking it
7) determine it is a) defeatable and b) defeatable in a very very short amount of time given the hoards coming through after him
8) do the math of his ship 100% certain to be lost ship if he stays versus the value of taking out this other ship
Personally, from the one time I have actually had something hit my ship the only thing I was thinking was WARP WARP WARP YOU SLOW FRIGGIN MAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOTTTTTTHHHHHHHH
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Suladriel
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Posted - 2006.03.13 12:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Eudoxus
Sorry, in my haste to fix an overflow of text I posted with an alt for the second half.
In my haste to read excitedly the continued text, I never even noticed.
LOL
I've never had a rush from any other game like I have with Eve.
I still get the shakes from time to time, but I don't log on as much as I used to so the intervals between the PvP are getting longer.
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Luminara Jedrick
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Posted - 2006.03.13 13:21:00 -
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Congratz on your first pvp exp & DEFFO double sweet getting the killmail on your first encounter Hope you get many more & none of em are me 
I still get the rush from a pvp exp, its what makes this game so sweet
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Dirtball
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Posted - 2006.03.13 14:39:00 -
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eve is the best game ever, aside from zelda 1 which turns 20 this year.
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Azlana
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Posted - 2006.03.13 14:41:00 -
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I would put Eve in joint first place with "Dungeon Master" and "Chaos Strikes Back" on the Atari ST 
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ClawKnight
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Posted - 2006.03.13 16:38:00 -
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Awsome story - the possibility of PvP gets me shaking with a massive adrenaline rush, but after about 3 months of playing I've never killed anyone  I need to get into a pure pvp corp...
Congrats on the kill
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Havelcek
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Posted - 2006.03.13 17:55:00 -
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Great story...thanks for posting.
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Consrul
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Posted - 2006.03.13 20:42:00 -
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welcome to pvp...it's a nice rush..even better when its 1v1.
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crom ralphfao
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Posted - 2006.03.13 21:41:00 -
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haha, loved reading that.
yeah, my experience with eve is becoming a little more interesting as i refuse to mine anymore.
got into a couple systems last night .3 and .4 sec. fly around ratting while trying to be ready for stumbling across players......when all of a sudden there is a ship....lol, i dont know non gallente ships so i didnt even know what class he was flying; i lock on to him, my heart starts thumping.....and he warps off.
suppose i need to decide whether im gonna fit for pirating or defending against....maybe act as a small time bounty hunter until then.
haha, congratulations on your win!
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Rift Scorn
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Posted - 2006.03.13 21:46:00 -
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welcome to the show 
It doesn't get any less exciting each and everytime, i promise you that. You jsut get more used to working properly with the all the adrenaline, missiles, and assoretd fireworks going on around you.
Great read
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mattzz
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Posted - 2006.03.13 21:58:00 -
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/me waves to Eud - nice kill
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IRON Maul
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Posted - 2006.03.14 00:20:00 -
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The urge to kill only get stronger. Don't worry, eventually you won't shake anymore when in that sort of situation. Makes it easier to press the keys that way. |
Velsharoon
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Posted - 2006.03.14 00:28:00 -
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Nice story and welcome to the best part in eve, like my friend hinik says....soon it will pass and you only get it when outnumbered etc
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Dark Eulogy
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Posted - 2006.03.14 01:37:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Eulogy on 14/03/2006 01:39:09
lol ever get in a real fight? adrenaline in these games is def cool and is one reason i play em but its nothing like a real adrenaline rush
also asherons call pvp adren rush > eve.. eve is actually pretty slow paced :/
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Lunas Feelgood
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Posted - 2006.03.14 06:50:00 -
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This is a really nice story... Hope you gonna start killing alot more
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franny
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Posted - 2006.03.14 08:11:00 -
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killmail too!
I didn't get my 1st killmail till my 5th or 6th engagement(a solo AF vs poorly fit cruiser)
grats, the rush is fun
even if I am a carebear  (with fangs)
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Eudoxus
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Posted - 2006.03.14 09:44:00 -
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Glad you people liked it. I am a trader  .... with a cruise missile 
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Madswede
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Posted - 2006.03.14 14:16:00 -
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Ah, the first PvP adrenaline bloodrush. It's insane really.
My first was at the beginning of the Great Northern War in 2004 and I was in 0.0 with no PvP experience, at a small gate camp, supposed to be scrambling in my BB. In jumps a misinformed Scorpion and I manage to lock, scramble and web although my hands are shaking like crazy. Afterwards I get asked on TS if I have any pulse. All I manage to convey is a muffled "gaaaah".
Nowadays the rush is no longer frighteningly close to a heartattack. I only really get my heart racing in some 1v1 and 1vMany situations.
I wonder why there is so much adrenaline, almost everyone seems to experience this in their first few encounters? It must have something to do with the MMORPG setting, harsh death penalties, and personal pride?
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Hardin
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Posted - 2006.03.14 16:23:00 -
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I did my first PvP way back in 2003 in an Omen which had taken me weeks to earn. Cruisers back then took a long time to earn...
It was an RP player created event with the goal to pop this character for what was then a huge bounty - I think it was 3 million isk or so.
Anyway I tracked this individual down and jumped into the system he was hiding. There were two other people in local Drunkenmaster and Viceroy of the then infamous Space Invaders.
Viceroy immediately told me to leave as they were after the bounty themselves and they would shoot if I got in the way.
I decided to risk it. The pod was jumping between planets and moons and we all started scouring them. It was basically a game of Russian roulette and my heart was pounding faster than it has ever pounded before.
Suddenly I landed at a moon and there was the pod. This was so surprising to me that I think it took me a few seconds to lock it - I got about two shots off and it managed to warp... Damn - so close.
Things then got worse. Viceroy jumped in and immediately attacked. I have to say that I almost crapped my pants. I shot back but my noobness meant that his cruiser was eating through my precious Omen's shields faster than a knife through butter and Drunkenmaster then arrived too.
In a state of panic I hit the warp out button and the alignment seemed to take forever. When the warp came up I have never been so relieved in my life. My Omen made it out on about 10% structure... but the adrenaline was amazing.
I decided that I had had enough for one evening and risked a dash for the system gate. Fortunately it was not guarded.
My hands didn't stop shaking for an hour :)
Have done lots of PvP since then and none have matched that original rush - though some have come close. I still however get the adrenaline kick when commanding a fleet and know that a battle is imminient.
When you're at a gate and the enemy fleet jumps the 15 secs till they uncloak and all hell breaks loose is still a fantastic tension builder especially waiting to find out if you have been called primary or not 
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Usul Faust
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Posted - 2006.03.14 17:02:00 -
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well done on the kill matey :)
My first pvp experience, i was a week-and-a-bit old ratting in lowsec with a duramaller. I was engaged by a solo pirate in a flipping blackbird who jammed & disrupted me. The one time i managed to get a lock i tore through his shields, but he rejammed next cycle and kept me jammed. It took what seemed like hours to break my tank - all the floating aimlessly in space, unable to lock or warp, browsing the market for a new ship.
I switched to frigates after that, they're way more fun!
no skills, just luck.
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Kaeten
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Posted - 2006.03.14 17:22:00 -
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Originally by: Velsharoon
soon it will pass and you only get it when outnumbered etc
too true 
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Nato Xemus
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Posted - 2006.03.15 02:41:00 -
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Ahhhh i remember my first pvp experience 2 days old flying in my new shiny merlin jumped into a .4 space and got wtfpwned by a ferox....not much of a experience..second pvp experience was more fun doing a escourt for a freighter into 0.0 got told we were being engaged by a sac so there i went charging at it in my thorax then suddenly rest of escoruts were charging and shooting it aswell so turned into a gank...nnot much fun there... now heres my exciting one joined a alliance and had a war dec was going to pick up a nice new ranis and heard of a gate camp being held on the gate into the system where my ranis was which i didnt like one bit noone keeps me from my ranis! i was told not to engage because it was a 12 man camp with t1 ships and intys... i figure what the hell bought a cheap arbietritor and went in guns blazing against all 12 people and all i could think of was man im gunna get owned! but low and behold b4 i died i got 3 kill mails:D ship went boom i warped to a station and bought a kessie loaded it up with stanard launchers web shield booster and scambler with 2 a bcu and mapc went back in went staright for first thing closet to scrambler range which was a claw and just let my missiles do the work he wasnt firing back his mates didnt even noice me till i had him to 30% armor and then i get 8 ppl locking me and i think oo crap hope i kill this claw b4 i die! then the bloody claw warps off! what the hell is a claw doing with 2 stabs on it in a gate camp!
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Nato Xemus
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Posted - 2006.03.15 02:42:00 -
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Edited by: Nato Xemus on 15/03/2006 02:43:16
yeah i have no grammer!
oh and yeah when the claw warped off i walked away from my pc in disgust and never did get my ranis till the next day
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Sally Ho
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Posted - 2006.03.15 08:11:00 -
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cool story! i'm gonna be starting my 1st pvp/ratting adventure in the next few mins hehe.. wish me luck! ( i really hope another player rat doesnt kill me, what a waste!)
But yes, EvE has deffinately excited me, bum clenchingly lol, even as the victim trying to get through b4 targeting finishes, great rush! Only other game this exciting has been freelancer & 1nsane 4x4
What really puts the atmos down are the griefers who kill u in a fraction of a second(because their ship is uber powerful), usually 'just for the hell of it', but i'm not moaning, i hope to train up and pop those byatches :)
nice story tho.. and remember the best way to get more feelings like this, always go for the challenge not the easy kill!
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spRAYed
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Posted - 2006.03.15 12:03:00 -
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Where else do u get that feeling, from a videogame? I dont tink EvE deserves the name "Videogame" anymore. Its just a unrealistic dream.
Nice story Eudoxus. Welcome to PVP
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Cordt
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Posted - 2006.03.15 12:21:00 -
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Great story. My first PVP experience was just a few weeks ago, when the corp I joined a week before that ended up going to war with three other corporations and I got thrown into it headfirst. We kicked ass and took names, I got my first killmail in my second or third engagement, and it was boatloads of fun, but as much PVP as I've been doing lately, I STILL get that rush.
I'm convinced that every PVPer, with any amount of experience goes through the same moment when they get locked or they lock their enemy. "oh crap oh crap, stuff's about to go down, what do i do?!" and the most successful PVPers are just the ones who get out of that moment faster than their enemy.
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Butter Dog
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Posted - 2006.03.15 12:39:00 -
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Well, that adrenaline rush is what makes the game so great, and so different to anything else.
I get it less in PvP now, but when travelling alone in 0.0 down a pipe my heartrate often goes through the roof... its not what *is* happening, its the expectation that something is *about* to happen.
Especially when you have a cargohold of BPO's :p
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Wrayeth
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Posted - 2006.03.15 13:14:00 -
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Edited by: Wrayeth on 15/03/2006 13:14:57
I still forget my drones sometims.
That's what I get for flying races that don't have large drone bays (typhoon being an exception...except I've never actually flown one).
As for the OP, I see that I no longer need to give my "If you only knew the power of the Dark Side..." speech.
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Heraklitus Nomidzon
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Posted - 2006.03.15 20:38:00 -
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Edited by: Heraklitus Nomidzon on 15/03/2006 20:37:47
Welcome to the best part of the game.
Once you start, you never go back. That rush you describe is why most of us play the game.
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dabster
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Posted - 2006.03.15 20:45:00 -
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wow that was a fun read..welcome to pvp
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Ikvar
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Posted - 2006.03.15 21:03:00 -
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Originally by: Salacious Kitten
it felt GREAT to be sitting on the other side of that gate knowing I was going to get to be hitting a guy for fat damage
Truer words were never spoken, fat damage ftw
Originally by: Avon
I actually enjoy crafting in EQ2.
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Kyguard
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Posted - 2006.03.15 21:39:00 -
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PvP ftw!
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Loban Hamada
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Posted - 2006.03.15 23:21:00 -
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Reminds me of the first time I hunted a Jedi.
God I can't wait to feel that in this game!
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Caeruleus Ardea
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Posted - 2006.03.16 06:39:00 -
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Nice read ;)
Makes me want to log in and go on a friendly patrol through low sec.
Never seen a game that has the same affect on me as EVE's pvp. Nothing as rewarding as a hard fight with a successful kill or ransom at the end of it. Nothing like spending the whole next day thinking about ship setups and strategies after losing a ship. What a great addiction.
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