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Posted - 2006.11.16 11:04:00 -
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 Originally by: Polinus
Repeated gankage
What happened to you is rather unfortunate. EVE, however, is a harsh game, and you're either going to have to stick to safe space for a while (missions are still very lucrative) or become much better at adaptation.
You need to learn from this. EVE is a dog-eat-dog world.
1) Be nice to people and try to make a range of friends. Some will hopefully be reasonably powerful and competent.
2) Never put all your eggs in one basket.
3) Learn the game mechanics by practicing in safe space, by reading the forums and by asking other players.
There are actually a lot of things you could have done in this situation, and I wish I'd known about it. HACs and battleships do suffer from sentry fire, and can only tank for so long. If only you'd had competent friends in battleships or so there those elite-uber ships could have been webbed and scrammed under the gate guns, and their cans looted multiplying your wealth by many times.
Where was this system, by the way? Which part of lowsec has such uber defenders? I'm not sure I even believe your story. If they had so many people with such good stuff holding static positions, chances are sooner or later someone would come along to try to kill them and take their stuff. Please tell me where it was, I'm interested now 
"WTH was a Machariel pilot doing killing noobs in 0.4?" I don't know this as well. You're sure they weren't unusually effective carebears who mistook your corp for pies? You're sure one of your corpmates didn't do something to **** them off?
If only you'd had powerful allies to explain the situation to you would have been able to get people there... admittedly to use you as bait... to pop the vaga and macha and take their stuff, which was no doubt worth tens of times the contents of your wallet.
You could have tried to convo them and pay for safe passage.
You obviously had a decent amount of game time to get so much ISK. Your best bet is to use some of that time chatting with people, browsing the forums etc to learn stuff about the game, the players, the culture and so on.
Also, if you'd had instas you'd have been fine. Why didn't you?
Become a bit less weak and people will start to see you as potential allies instead of victims.
I'm not giving you isk, advice is far more valuable and there is plenty to be had.
EVE can be plenty pleasurable for noobs. Get a frigate gang and zerg those guys when someone eventually pops their HAC/BS and they try a bit of cruiser piracy. Go to lowsec in frigates and practice on the local pirates; that's what they're there for.
Sorry for your loss.
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