
eleuthereus
Gallente Celestial Horizon Corp. Ascendant Frontier
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Posted - 2006.08.09 20:11:00 -
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Ok,
Here's a tale of woe:
I was a noob flying an exequeror, not long in Federal Navy Academy and out of tutorial. I was doing lvl 1 missions (told you I was a noob) and I had to make a quick delivery into low sec OLD MAN STAR system. I successfully made the delivery and on my way there and back I saw a flashing red pirate camping the gate with a 5-10 million bounty, I think, or thereabouts. So, I get back into safe space and let some of my noob friends in FNA chat know about this guy and I suggest that maybe about 4-5 of us should go out there to try and nab him so we can split the bounty. That was a LOT of money to us back then (LOL).
Little did I know, that this guy's flunky pirate corp -- i.e., RED ALERT CORP -- had actually taken the trouble to put spies in the noob corp channel of FNA. And under the guise of being a fellow noob in our corp, encouraged all of us to "go for it," then alerted his prat pals that we were coming. (the sissy prat pilots were Enjoi, Luthair Stonedog, Flyer11)
This made little sense to me then, and even less sense to me now that I have been playing for about 8-9 months. We had nothing of any worth. Our ships were stupid little noob set ups, cheap, and with low-end tech 1 mods. None of us had any ISK with which to pay any ransom. This is about the state of nobs still hanging in corp chat. But the prat corp seemed to take the trouble to put spies in FNA noob corp to simply deal costly damage to noobs getting started.
We warped into OLD MAN STAR -- our numbers, tactics, and precise moment of jump all known by the guy we thought was our friend and fellow noob. Our ships consisted of my funny exequeror, a celestis, I think, a caracal, and two more stupid little noob ships. We jumped and the immediately were set upon by 4 attack ship gankers. It was a joke and all over within maybe 3 seconds. All 5 of our ships were lost and I believe 4 of us podded, which resulted in us noobs losing precious implants and ships (at least to us). It was my first PvP experience. My first death. My first ship lost. It was a terrible night and I felt horribly guilty for leading so many others to their deaths as well. And then, to make it worse, the prat spies revealed themselves in noob corp chat and smack talked us.
Pirating for ISK, valuable ships, mods, and other commodities in haulers is one thing, but sticking spies in a noob channel to simply be able to gank noobs seems, in my opinion, rather pathetic. Then, to smack talk like what had happened was anything of great accomplishment, is just sad. Even afterward it seemed to provide no end of amusement to the prats who proceeded to post on the eve-pirate pages their fun-filled account of kiling a bunch of noobs (see http://www.eve-pirate.com/index.php?/authors/18-Spathi). It was like an adult beating up a child. As one of the prats said, "Well there were only 4 of us, even though 1 of us could have taken them all out."
I can only wonder how such slobs would fair in a real battle against real pilots in half way decent ships. Ah well, Eve is made up of all kinds, some rather pathetic.
That's my story.
eleuthereus
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