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Scipio Artelius
The Vendunari End of Life
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Posted - 2015.01.08 01:41:39 -
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I was running a combat anomoly in Syndicate late one night in an Ishtar.
Fell asleep.
Woke up a couple of hours later and there were still rats present. Thought, gee that's funny.
Warped back to station and docked. When my pod popped up on screen, I had a 4 am epiphany.
Come Win At Eve - Join The Vendunari
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Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
5616
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Posted - 2015.01.08 03:12:25 -
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Thor Kerrigan wrote:So the idea is simple: post the most embarrassing, terrible, or secret thing that has happened involving you in EVE. Post with your main (if you dare) or random NPC alt, doesn't matter.
I was a worse person before I started EvE than after 7 years of playing it.
Who else could ever say the same?
Auditing | Collateral holding and insurance | Consulting | PLEX for Good Charity
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Dersen Lowery
Drinking in Station
1415
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Posted - 2015.01.08 03:24:53 -
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I logged in one evening in our wormhole only to be immediately collared by our FC. They were in nullsec, down a short chain, in combat. Armor DPS, now. OK, no problem. I grab something (a Prophecy, IIRC; maybe a VNI) and zip down the chain into nullsec... and the system is totally empty.
"Where are you guys?"
"We're in [some alphanumeric gibberish]. When can you be here?"
"Let me see." I set destination to the specified system. 23 jumps. I took the wrong damn chain.
Back up the chain all the way home, back down another chain, out into the proper exit only 5 jumps away, and... it's over.
I'm bad enough that I don't often get embarrassed playing this game, but this was bad even for me.
Proud founder and member of the Belligerent Desirables.
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Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
5616
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Posted - 2015.01.08 03:37:20 -
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Ah, I have another good one.
In my first days, I spent all my money purchasing T2 small ships (Cheetahs and similar). I could not even fly a cruiser, my best was a T1 Rifter with MAPC aid.
I formed a six fully expanded and rigged Mammoths (large T1 hauler) train to carry them. Of course with my humble newb pilots skills + expanders those took like 1 minute to align .
Loaded to the brim, I merrily passed made 40 jumps with each, including passing from Uedama and whatsnot, destination Jita, where I'd resell them at a good profit.
Incredibly enough, nobody popped them.
Also, for reasons whose "logic" escaped myself, I thought the smartest idea EVER would have been to make those haulers meet at Uedama (yeah I was good at choices like that! ) with a fleet coming from Jita. So the first ones could go back to Minnie space quicker.
And where in the heavens would I think to perform the swap? Since they were my first EvE weeks, all the ganking I knew happened at stations undocks (I had no idea passing through Uedama / Sivala is worse, yet).
So I "smartly" thought: "well, I'll show those gankers my superiority: I am going to warp at 100 off a planet and swap the cargo there".
I ejected EVERY single T2 ship, there was a little "cloud" around me.
...Surprise...
... every ejected T2 ship self assembled in space and became a neutral ship, ready for boarding.
I tried to get them back inside the other haulers but no, it was not possible at all. They wouldn't magically repackage! I could not fly a single ship of those. For 34 days at a minimum (it was still the days of learning books etc. etc.)!
Since apparently I had a keen sense for self inflicting torture, I managed to worsen the situation.
I started spamming Uedama and 4-5 nearby systems (low sec included! ) with desperate requests for help. To get somebody to pilot those now neutral ships for me away from the planet to the nearest station.
Thanks to the cold, harsh, selfish nature of EvE nobody cared to reply. Else I'd have learned what calling people and auto-gifting away T2 ships en masse is like...
At this point... I learned the second EvE Law (the first being: "don't fly what you can't afford to lose"), that is: "the second you undock, consider your ship lost. If you get back in one piece, that's a welcome bonus".
I then proceeded flying my empty haulers back to Minnie space, headbanging IRL walls and calling myself unrepeatable names.
34 days later, I passed back from Uedama. Just for the sake of curiosity, I bothered to fly to the planet where all my ships were abandoned more than 1 month ago, ripe for taking.
And the incredible happened.
Nobody cared to go take them. They were still all there! I still don't understand why, as back at the time ISK was not easy to come by (and PLEX did not exist) and those ships were quite expensive.
But hey, who cares about logic, when the the lack of such logic just saved your ass? Therefore I spent a good time flying all those ships to the nearby station and learned more and more lessons about EvE in the process.
Auditing | Collateral holding and insurance | Consulting | PLEX for Good Charity
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Iyokus Patrouette
No Vacancies
248
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Posted - 2015.01.08 03:46:08 -
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We had just ganked some site runners in a wormhole, The pods got away but I had a bubbler on the high sec constantly bubbling their attempts at an exit.
Constantly these pods warped to the highsec hole at range and warped away again. 'planet 9' one of the other guys said as he watched the pod make it's exit.
I gave chase in my daredevil on my second account. Landing at planet 9 I see nothing. a few minutes pass and the pod comes back and warps off, once again i give chase. . . finding nothing.
Eventually we catch the pod on his warp back to the highsec and kill him. Finally i stop and look at my main sitting by a poco wondering how i never found this pod.
Turns out in my hurry i never jumped into our static and was just bouncing POCOs in my home system.
Fear my awesomeness!
---- Advocate for the initiation of purple coloured wormholes----
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Justin Zaine
114
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Posted - 2015.01.08 06:06:03 -
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I got recruitment scammed for 500 mil by Goonswarm.
I got confused one day about which JC I was in, and self destructed my 1 bil + pod outside the Amarr hub for no apparent reason, probably thinking i was taking the pod express from a blank clone to an implanted one.
I organized a ganking op for my corp. There were 4 or 5 of us. We went to Uedama and ganked a Magnate with 2 plex inside it. Both plex dropped, and nobody got the loot because I forgot to assign someone the task of loot-scooper. We all lost our ships to Concord and some random guy had a very nice day.
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flaming phantom
T.R.I.A.D Ushra'Khan
75
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Posted - 2015.01.08 16:39:29 -
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Lady Areola Fappington wrote:Worst confession ever, related to Eve.
Bailed on an alliance op with a really crappy excuse. Actual reason for bailing was because spouse was feeling frisky. Engaged in marital relations. Forgot that I had teamspeak on at the time, set to voice activation, with laptop sitting on stand next to bed.
Came back to eve later and got quite a few tips and suggestions on coital relations from corpmates.
Wow, utterly epic. That would have been hilarious being on coms during that. I wonder, did none of them ever try to yell out at oyu anything, or were they all just laughing their asses off?
All great men have mustaches
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Horflimathien
Aliastra Gallente Federation
0
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Posted - 2015.01.08 16:50:06 -
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I still can't fire T2 guns.
I've been playing 7years.. |
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters Disturbed Acquaintance
17632
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Posted - 2015.01.08 19:46:37 -
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I gave my cellphone number out to a couple eve players. Turns out that might not have been the best idea I ever had. |
Legetus Shmoof Metallii
Royal Black Watch Highlanders DARKNESS.
50
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Posted - 2015.01.08 20:02:39 -
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Once I tried to make a good profit flipping Myrmidons because there was a 10 or so millions isk difference between them. To my dismay, people kept putting up Myrmidons for the lower, closer to Jita, price. I wound up with 10 or so Myrms I'd have to sell for a loss :(
Happy ending. Our CEO was leaving the game for a while, so he was running special versions of his signature Black Tie Affair (BTA) fleets that he's been running for 6 years (Handsome Millionaire Playboys is/was the corp). For this one, we ran nano curses and Myrmidons, courtesy of myself. You may not think it, but our fleet composition of Curses and Myrmidons was so good nobody wanted to actually engage us and they all ran away...
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Dersen Lowery
Drinking in Station
1416
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Posted - 2015.01.08 21:44:33 -
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So many fails...
I had never played an MMO before EVE, so I knew nothing. Nobody explicitly told me that you had to look at your standings to see what kind of missions you could run, and the Agent Finder didn't exist at the time, so I ran level 1 missions for two months.
I used blaster Catalysts for everything, before either blasters or Catalysts were buffed, because I liked the hull and the fact that you had to dogfight to do anything. Never mind that I was terrible at it. I even used cargo-expanded Catalysts as haulers.
During that time, I also managed to screw up this character for a long time afterward by training everything to 3. And I mean everything. Dersen's terrible at things he's never even tried to do, like industry. Fortunately, he's pretty good at what he does do by now.
We lived in Devoid for a while, when I'd been in the game for about 3 months. I thought sec status was much more important than it actually is, so I dreaded taking my little shopping Catalyst through the big, dark, scary 0.2 system. I much preferred the 0.4 system, which was brighter and made me feel safe because, hey, it's almost high sec! I wondered why comms got silent when I cheerfully explained my reasoning. The 0.4 system was Amamake.
We joined a nullsec coalition which was about 100 different kinds of fail, but I wasn't helping. I flew armor and hybrids. They ordered me into a Drake. I frantically trained the skills until I was a crappy Drake pilot. Then they ordered me into a Megathron. I had never flown a battleship. By the time my ship lumbered clumsily toward our lowsec staging system, I had Gallente Battleship 2 and Large Hybrid Turret 3. I had no business flying that thing. The FC ordered short range BS's. I derped and grabbed my long range BS. Then he changed his mind at the last minute and ordered long range, and I was good to go--which was good, because otherwise it would have been another 8 jumps to get the other one. We roamed around losing ships to gate rats for a while. I started to fall behind because my navigation skills were trained to 3, but I always managed to catch up. We ended up pathetically failing to threaten one single service belonging to an enemy station... in long range battleships, before getting badly trolled by a Thanatos.
Anyway, I get shy around large groups, and I was a high sec carebear, so when I logged in one day and got a fleet invite, I accepted it blindly. You know the rest of the story: Suddenly I'm in warp. Suddenly I'm surrounded by reds. There was nothing to do but say 'Hi!' in Local and then log off, figuring that there was no way I'd survive anyway. I didn't sleep well that night. The next morning, I was quite surprised to find myself back where I was, in my pod, but I didn't want to talk to anyone because oh god that kill mail.
Proud founder and member of the Belligerent Desirables.
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
3309
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Posted - 2015.01.08 21:51:00 -
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Best:
I have an HQ station in lowsec where I keep most of my assets. I broke out a scanning ship to test out a new fit and found a wormhole in my home system. Go in, and see a ton of T3 manufacturing arrays on a large POS. I made bookmarks, and researched the corp that owned it. I found most of the members of that corp on killboards, and added them all as contacts (they were all variations of the same name). I figured this whole thing was being run by one dude, and he'd be slow to react. Maybe I could catch a mining fleet out or something? Anyway, after hours of meta stalking and bookmark making, I was about to wrap it all when they all logged in at once. I put my scanning ship off the POS and saw my target taking out hoarder after hoarder. He had found the lowsec wormhole which would put him one jump from empire. He was doing a loot/supply run. I got into my Onyx and killed a bunch on both sides of the WH when they tried to make their run. I got another trying to come back in with POS parts. I made billions on that hit. I even had a great convo with the guy operating those accounts. (He was rich enough that it was 'cost of doing business' and didn't care too much... apparently...) It was all the time I put into the hunt that made the payoff so sweet. It was a unique EvE experience for me.
Worst:
So at a poorer time in my New Eden life, I decided to take some mods and stuff to our station in Esoteria. How much did I put into my Badger Mk. II (Tyra)? Everything I had, of course. About 1.4 billion rolling through nullsec in an uninsured T1 indy. Yup. Well I made it all the way to Esoteria w/o incident, but ran into some pirates 6 jumps from my destination. Whereas another might hit a planet at 70 and cloak / hide / wait, I got impatient and tried to outrun them. ...because stabs, right? I made it all the way to my destination system, and then lost the ship and pod on the gate. Ouch. It was crushing at the time... but I recovered. ...in time. |
Tonai Kion
Second Battlegroup Nerfed Alliance Go Away
16
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Posted - 2015.01.09 01:57:36 -
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I was part of a HERO coalition fleet flying my shiny new Tengu. I had just spent the past 3 weeks getting the skills up for it and had just gotten enough ISK to purchase it.
However I made the mistake of going into fleet on my laptop instead of my desktop.
About 10 seconds into the battle I noticed I had issues locking and unlocking targets and my guns weren't firing, or they were firing at the wrong target.
Then after about 15 minutes, I notice the enemy fleet starts locking me up and I naturally broadcast for reps.
"Tonai Kion you are too far away from the Logi. Anchor up we can't lock you."
Panic mode starts I notice I'm careening into the enemy fleet with full afterburner. I start taking damage.
"Tonai Anchor back up now! you are going to die."
I'm clicking like a madman trying to get back into fleet.
"WTF is wrong with this guy."
"He's not getting any SRP for being stupid."
I predictably die soon after.
700 mil lost because I chose to use the wrong computer like a scrub.
Final jokes on them though, I don't qualify for Brave SRP anyway, and NAGA doesn't SRP Tengus. |
Jooma Moloko
Native Freshfood Minmatar Republic
0
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Posted - 2015.01.09 09:50:06 -
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I saw my first Cyno appear. "oh nice" I thought - so I warped to zero to investigate. "This looks cool" i thought.... started to orbit the condor that put it there. Suddenly lots of ships appeared. Lots. Then i was yellow boxed by all these battleships. Then I sploded horribly in an instant kinda way.
I spammed warp on pod and got to an outgate to see in local -
"Hi - What have we learnt today?"
I was so full of chagrin I did not reply and made a note that Cyno's are bad m'mkay and went back with my tail between my legs.
This was at the start of my Null sec fun and games but I think I am still ******.... |
Cancel Align NOW
Imperial Shipment Amarr Empire
395
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Posted - 2015.01.09 10:13:30 -
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Through out my eve time I have been a member of numerous trading channels/groups. Back in the days of insurance fraud I managed to talk a player who was getting into building T1 battlecruisers to knock out 100 hurricanes for me at Rens buy -5%. I then proceeded to undock and self destruct each one. Needless to say I was not very subtle and did this on the same alt that purchased them. Whilst I was busy doing this I failed to notice the seller log in. I did notice when Rens local filled up with profanity. From memory my profit from each one was approximately 2.1mil. Would do again. |
A3aaN Shimaya
Interstellar ORE INC. Independent Stars Allied Forces
2
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Posted - 2015.01.09 10:47:42 -
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Just playing EVE for 2 months now and wondering why I haven't started earlier |
Varathius
Blood Fountain Massacre LOADED-DICE
143
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Posted - 2015.01.09 11:37:21 -
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lost a 5 bio isk fitted Nightmare to rats back in the days when they were expensive because I fell asleep due to eve music. |
Crystalline Entity
Outdated Host Productions Talos Coalition
6
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Posted - 2015.01.09 11:46:12 -
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Lost a carrier to a level 5 mission in Nandeza.... One of those ones with masses of frigate sized ships that damp you.
A friend came to save me in a Nyx but he said later because I was so calm on teamspeak he didn't think to bring his triage archon instead!
Was hilarious, still is.. was a couple of years ago now. |
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Lords.Of.Midnight The Devil's Warrior Alliance
1741
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Posted - 2015.01.09 16:05:26 -
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Hubris.
F
Would you like to know more?
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Sol Project
I'm So Meta Even This Acronym
2779
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Posted - 2015.01.09 16:17:52 -
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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote: Still seeing "Insurance fraud" ...
Ladies of New Eden YC 117 by Indahmawar Fazmarai
Warning: NSFW! Barely legal girls in underwear!
Diana Kim > AND THIS IS WHY THE FEDERATION MUST BE DESTROYED!!
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Ramona McCandless
The McCandless Clan
7242
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Posted - 2015.01.09 16:32:08 -
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Best confession: I pushed Billy down the stairs
Worst confession: I think he's Joe Phoenix' long lost son. Making him my relation too.
"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway
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Thanatos Marathon
Phoibe Enterprises
384
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Posted - 2015.01.09 16:34:24 -
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Worst:
Instead of teaching people about API security I used fulled APIs to build a web of more APIs to monitor people that were in Gal Mil and external entities once they left. It was handy but felt dirty. I deleted them all when I retired and informed a few people to start training their members on API security.
Best:
Helping coordinate taking the entire Gal/Cal warzone. That was an absolute blast. |
WaTeR Ubersnol
TURN LEFT The Camel Empire
7
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Posted - 2015.01.09 19:40:30 -
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Mattpat139 Sukarala wrote:Oh, why not I'll post with my main . Here's a wall of text for a long story. So, I had a friend in gal-mil by the name of {redacted} and he was training to become an fc (wasn't half bad for being a CEO as well) after i noticed my corp starting to go downhill, I joined his. It wasn't half bad, 2-5 close knit guys. Over time he began to get down on himself, but got really excited whenever we went wormhole exploring from our corner of lowsec. stopped fcing altogether shortly after . I told him after 2-3 weeks of this "I'll join the big corp in the alliance and you can go do what you want, we'll pass the corp to someones dead alt." . He said "thank you, I'll check with the other guys to make sure they agree". So he left on his journey and we went our seperate ways. About 3 weeks later he invites me to a convo. Apparently Zam Hunter (another FC in galmil) ganked his WH Legion. He wanted revenge and asked me to gather intel on Zam, I initially said "no, give me time to think". I sat and thought for an hour about how I could get paid without backstabbing one of my fellow militiamen and one of our prominent leaders. I decided on feeding false intel. convo with him "accepted". I tell Him "I'll do it for 250 million minimum", one reply "done". I spent the next few hours storming up battleship fits and other shiny things (without fitting importation from eft this wouldn't be possible). I sent him 1 new fitting a week for 4 weeks. I asked the next time I saw he was online "Mind if i ask who's doing the dirty work?". He replied "Camel Empire however, they require 7 billion for a price on this, anything else is split between us". "ok, how much more do you need?" I asked. "500 million". It's at this point I bit my lip to keep from laughing, knowing full well they'll hunt him from Black Rise to Cobalt Edge. With a smile I prepare one last fitting. 1 Gila fit later I had 500 million, had protected Zam Hunter (had told him what happened) and stabbed one of my friends in the back for trying to betray the place he called home for 1 year prior. afaik Camel Empire might be hunting down my ex-CEO for 7 billion now (TL;DR Don't trust people who are loyal to gather your intel)
Confirming we are hunting this dude for 7 bil..........
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Agent Unknown
Night Theifs DamnedNation
2
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Posted - 2015.01.09 20:21:04 -
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First few months of playing I joined a corp, so I stuffed everything I owned into a badger and flew to the system. One jump out, I mistakenly jump into a 0.4 system because I wasn't paying attention (overtired or distracted...). Slowboated 12 km (no AB or MWD..ha) and jumped out with about ~12 in system.
After that first adrenaline rush, I was hooked on Eve. |
Kharaxus
CareBear Initiations The Foundation To Protect Endangered CareBears
80
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Posted - 2015.01.09 20:38:38 -
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WaTeR Ubersnol wrote:Mattpat139 Sukarala wrote:Oh, why not I'll post with my main . Here's a wall of text for a long story. So, I had a friend in gal-mil by the name of {redacted} and he was training to become an fc (wasn't half bad for being a CEO as well) after i noticed my corp starting to go downhill, I joined his. It wasn't half bad, 2-5 close knit guys. Over time he began to get down on himself, but got really excited whenever we went wormhole exploring from our corner of lowsec. stopped fcing altogether shortly after . I told him after 2-3 weeks of this "I'll join the big corp in the alliance and you can go do what you want, we'll pass the corp to someones dead alt." . He said "thank you, I'll check with the other guys to make sure they agree". So he left on his journey and we went our seperate ways. About 3 weeks later he invites me to a convo. Apparently Zam Hunter (another FC in galmil) ganked his WH Legion. He wanted revenge and asked me to gather intel on Zam, I initially said "no, give me time to think". I sat and thought for an hour about how I could get paid without backstabbing one of my fellow militiamen and one of our prominent leaders. I decided on feeding false intel. convo with him "accepted". I tell Him "I'll do it for 250 million minimum", one reply "done". I spent the next few hours storming up battleship fits and other shiny things (without fitting importation from eft this wouldn't be possible). I sent him 1 new fitting a week for 4 weeks. I asked the next time I saw he was online "Mind if i ask who's doing the dirty work?". He replied "Camel Empire however, they require 7 billion for a price on this, anything else is split between us". "ok, how much more do you need?" I asked. "500 million". It's at this point I bit my lip to keep from laughing, knowing full well they'll hunt him from Black Rise to Cobalt Edge. With a smile I prepare one last fitting. 1 Gila fit later I had 500 million, had protected Zam Hunter (had told him what happened) and stabbed one of my friends in the back for trying to betray the place he called home for 1 year prior. afaik Camel Empire might be hunting down my ex-CEO for 7 billion now (TL;DR Don't trust people who are loyal to gather your intel) Confirming we are hunting this dude for 7 bil..........
Kick his butt. |
Jenshae Chiroptera
The Volition Cult
856
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Posted - 2015.02.04 02:57:51 -
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I took a single scimitar to a gang fight and believed at least a scythe would join us.
Helped make a Sleipner and Ishtar run from some miners.
(Short stories, really just a bump because I want more stories from you guys.)
CSM Ten movement for change.
CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids.
Status: Rabid carebear
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Komodo Askold
No Code of Conduct Fluffeh Bunneh Murder Squad
287
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Posted - 2015.02.04 12:20:02 -
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I once lost a Phantasm.
In a L3 mission.
Which was in lowsec, and which I accepted.
I even tried to salvage.
Cue the Loki
The only good thing is that I was using dual LASB's, so it took him quite some time to do the job. I didn't have enough DPS though... |
Leannor
Central Builders Incorporated Northern Associates.
81
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Posted - 2015.02.04 13:07:29 -
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Agent Unknown wrote:First few months of playing I joined a corp, so I stuffed everything I owned into a badger and flew to the system. One jump out, I mistakenly jump into a 0.4 system because I wasn't paying attention (overtired or distracted...). Slow boated 12 km (no AB or MWD..ha) and jumped out with about ~12 in system.
After that first adrenaline rush, I was hooked on Eve.
That will definitely do it.
Once I was (pre warp to zero) travelling through tenerifis to empire with a hold full of Promethium, or simillar. Got about halfway and jumped into a gate that my scout had just been through and cleared. Uncloaked, and set for warp to other gate. While I was taking the usual 'age' to get into warp a gang of around a dozen entered system. "Oh ****" I thought. And the adrenaline started flowing (it would pump later on!). Got in to warp seconds later and arrived at the gate promptly. Turned on the MWD and legged it to the gate praying I'd reach it before they warped in. I was, rightly, assuming they were locals and would have BM's on the gate. I reached the gate and clicked jump, as a cloud of neuts surrounded me. I knew what would be waiting for me the other side of the gate, so I just closed my eyes for a few seconds till the jump sound died away.
I opened my eyes, to find I was not yet decloaked. Ok, so the odds were possibly in my favour there as the random thing spreads us all out. The next challenge was worse. They started decloaking and shunting out drones, orbiting the gate at 20. I had one card to get out safely. The transport I was in had a cloak - for just such un occurrence. Finally I was going to test it - if I could keep my hands steady enough to direct myself manually (no 'align to' back then either), thus decloak, hit the MWD, and hit Cloak. THis I managed to do ... and amazingly I did it quick enough to avoid any targeting, Phew ...
That was the difficult part. Now came the hard part. Knowing that there was total sh*t-all I could do, I sat back and zoomed out and waited. Waited for the ships to come close, and the drones to whizz up to me. Right at the start they re-directed themselves to where I'd briefly appeared. I could see them all making a bee line for the place I'd just left behind. The god's must have been on my side that day, for the closest any then can was 7K from me. How on earth they missed me ... I'll never know. But watching them circle the gate ever further, was nerve wracking.
I waited almost a full hour getting plenty away from the gate (they were still circling the gate etc, not to mention the taunts in local about how I should give up as they'll find me anyway, and the rest), and then decided to align to a Planet. My plan to warp and cloak, then log. Cowardly? Maybe, but my cargo was pricey and I wanted to keep it. Lol. I reckon I must have been around 100K from them when I finally decided that I was correctly aligned to a planet (that would also be one of several planets in a tight group, a minor attempt to confuse them if they decided to track my path). The Adrenalin pumped this time (see, told you) as I prepared to uncloak, in full view, and (probably) within targeting range of at least one or two. Weirdly, I was so nervous and focused on what I was trying to do, that during all this time IGÇÖd not actually checked to see what class of ships there were! I just knew they had guns, and at least one was a big mofo GÇô in a hauler you donGÇÖt need to know more than that. I double checked I was aligned, at max speed allowed under cloak, and held my breath. Hit the uncloak, hit warp GǪand prayed.
The locks happened pretty damn smart. Within milliseconds it seemed I had three or four locked on me GǪ just as warp kicked in and I was gone. Thank god for that!. I eventually logged back on some hours later, they were gone. And I restarted my journey (with alt scout). I had around ten jumps left and the route was clear GÇô until the choke system, obviously. The scout went in. He was expendable so he found the entrance was clear, and for the hell of it went to check the exit into lo-sec. Amazingly, it was clear as well! Amazingly, because the same group of nasty types were in local! I thought I had one shot. This was the quietest IGÇÖd known this area anyway, and I thought GÇ£ok, theyGÇÖre not GÇÿsetupGÇÖ on a camp, so just maybe IGÇÖll catch them mid warp or something and get out. I did, for this particular gate, have a warp to zero BM ready (who wouldnGÇÖt) and so I thought as long as the enterance is clear, I should be ok. So. Low breathing again and I went in. Gate was clear, activate warp to exit gate. The system whizzes past, and I arrive at the gate and GǪ. Nothing. Nothing worked. I stared in amazement as my alt warped in afterwards. He could see my hauler motionless in space. I had succumbed to a damn gate bug thing at the time and I was frozen out. Through my haulers eyes I could see the gang warp in. In seconds they dispatched me. After all that GǪ however I had one more trick.
I knew this was a bug, so I thought IGÇÖd try my luck. Petition filed. They came back quickly saying that they would provide replacement. For some GÇÿbizarreGÇÖ reason they could replace the ship, and anything that didnGÇÖt drop in the can. I mean, seriously, their excuse for doubling up on a couple of mining lasers in the game is a bit GÇÿjobs-worthGÇÖ but hey, GǪ I was just amazed that none of the Moon mins had dropped in the cargo. Lol. CCP dumped it all in a system near the choke point some days later. Which reminds me, IGÇÖve still not been back to collect it GǪ must remember to do that one day.
"Lykouleon wrote:
STOP
TOUCHING
ICONIC
SHIP
PARTS"
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Luna Arindale
Ubuntu Inc. The Fourth District
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Posted - 2015.02.04 17:42:50 -
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I spent a good few months last year making money off of a single retriever pilot. He would die 2-3 times every week and buy my 30 mil isk retrievers. I never taught him how to avoid pirates, I just let him die and make me money. |
Seven Koskanaiken
Brave Newbies Inc. Brave Collective
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Posted - 2015.02.04 18:18:54 -
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In half the corps I been in I would have been happy to spy if anyone asked me to.
Whenever someone says 'be chill it's just a game' I nod and agree but secretly there are people I've come across I would break out the champagne if I heard a misfortune happened to them IRL.
I once lost a battleship in lowsec because I fit an afterburner when trying to cloak+mwd travel.
Lost a 2 bil isk tengu because I went back for 2000 missiles I left in a can at a site.
I've joined corps with the full intention of stealing but didn't do it when I liked the people and they still don't know.
Failed as logi anchor because I was watching pron someone sent but blamed it on cat aggro.
Wasted GM time by filing frivolous petitions.
I once mined because I was bored. |
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