EVE Online - Catch All & new meat check-in

Zaque wrote:
Tkyl wrote:
mr_n00b wrote:

I found that article, and particularly the video replay, astonishing. Mouth agape the entire time, the little kid within hopping up and down with joy. I understand EVE players now, and I want to be one too.

Welcome to EVE. Whenever a new story like this happens, I always want to jump back into the game. But then I remember why I left in the first place. Boing Boing's comment really does apply: EVE WARNING: GAME MORE FUN TO READ ABOUT THAN TO PLAY.

Me too Tkyl, although I do think that game is lots of fun to play, but you really need to be able to sink A LOT of time into it. Or at least I think you do if you want to be part of what is normally written.

The time commitment is the only reason I'm not playing this game. I had fun when I used to play but to move up in the universe you have to put in the hours building up resources. Training isn't an issue which is great... but to buy the ships and the guns and the missles etc... unless you have an extremely well off corporation or friend, it takes time.

manta173 wrote:
Zaque wrote:
Tkyl wrote:
mr_n00b wrote:

I found that article, and particularly the video replay, astonishing. Mouth agape the entire time, the little kid within hopping up and down with joy. I understand EVE players now, and I want to be one too.

Welcome to EVE. Whenever a new story like this happens, I always want to jump back into the game. But then I remember why I left in the first place. Boing Boing's comment really does apply: EVE WARNING: GAME MORE FUN TO READ ABOUT THAN TO PLAY.

Me too Tkyl, although I do think that game is lots of fun to play, but you really need to be able to sink A LOT of time into it. Or at least I think you do if you want to be part of what is normally written.

The time commitment is the only reason I'm not playing this game. I had fun when I used to play but to move up in the universe you have to put in the hours building up resources. Training isn't an issue which is great... but to buy the ships and the guns and the missles etc... unless you have an extremely well off corporation or friend, it takes time.

In my short time with a mid-sized corp I've had some of the most memorable gaming experiences in my life. Whereas other MMO's will cater to a solo experience, EVE really rewards those who break out of their shells and are willing to socialize and coordinate with others to develop that "sandbox" experience. I knew no one going in. I checked out the corp recruitment boards on the EVE forums and hooked up with a mid sized corp, and went out of my way to participate in as many organized events as my schedule allowed.

Sure we didn't have Goon sized epic battles, but we went on exciting roams, maintained steady income with organized PI, and had great camaraderie. But, it does eat up time, and a lot of that can be slow. But that's when we were on vent and chatting about other things, watched the live streams together, talked shop, etc. Unfortunately my real life scheduled started to get booked up and I couldn't spend the time necessary to keep up with the corp so I unsubbed. But even typing all this out has me itching to get back in.

A group of redditors have created a "Come learn with us!" corp for the new to Eve: http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments... Could be good for some guys here if you don't want to deal with the bureaucracy of something like EVE Uni.

I had a pretty fun time last night flying around solo. I joined the Gallente factional warfare and tried my hand at 'plexing' (capturing factional warfare sites for LP, which you can use to buy faction items to sell for ISK).

I went out with a T1 frigate and ended up beating T2 inteceptor in solo combat! Unfortunately his friends came in right at the end and got me before I could escape, but it was a blast!
I estimate I also made around 50m ISK from the factional warfare plexes, not bad for about ~2 hours of gametime.

http://zkillboard.com/detail/28196866/

my paltry fit
http://zkillboard.com/detail/28196872/

Barab wrote:

I went out with a T1 frigate and ended up beating T2 inteceptor in solo combat! Unfortunately his friends came in right at the end and got me before I could escape, but it was a blast!
I estimate I also made around 50m ISK from the factional warfare plexes, not bad for about ~2 hours of gametime.

http://zkillboard.com/detail/28196866/

my paltry fit
http://zkillboard.com/detail/28196872/

Good job :]
T1 rebalancing in action!

Well that was dumb.. I guess I need to re-learn that it's dangerous to fly around with my implants.. oh well.

In highsec and lowsec you should be able to avoid losing your pod 99% of the time. Pods warp instantly, so if you know your ship is about to die you should get ready to warp out your pod. Just select a celestial and spam the warp to button. In empire space the only risk is really smartbombing battleships which you'll only see around Rancer (don't go there) and sometimes around Tama / Onatoh. If you're at war you also need to watch out for warping to a station in a pod and landing 1-1.5km from it, giving someone a chance to pop you, but if that happens you can just warp somewhere else. Generally though people in highsec / lowsec use implants as much as they want. Nullsec is a bit different.

Yeah.. it was just plain stupid

Sorry to hear, Barab.

I've been playing this for a few days now. Not long before I have my mining barge. Got my pals playing as well.

Anyone know where/how to get the advanced cerebral accelerator (+17 for first 7 days) ? I see the prototype CA +9 for 14 days with some of the new bundles and of course the commissioned officer package still comes with the standard CA +3/30 (also available via contract last I checked).

+17 for 7 would be a great boost on a new alt, I know enough about what I'm doing to make pretty good use of that for a week.

They come with certain special editions of the game, but I don't know if that +17 one is actually available anywhere. Sounds a little extreme.

I just re-subb'd to Eve last month. I'm playing a character that I created a few years ago. I joined a corp back then with some friends and had some grand adventures in 0.0, but the corp eventually disbanded and all my friends quit.

I don't really know what pulled me back into Eve, but I've been having fun on my own over the past few weeks. I managed to make some ISK station trading, and bought a few ships. Eventually I'd like to get out to nullsec again or into wormhole space. I'm also interested in factional warfare or whatever the new expansion brings.

The Mittani's news site is putting out a call for writers and other tech work: http://themittani.com/news/april-tmc...

Got into an epic fight last night.

A gang of faction Battleships belonging to an alliance called Blinky Red Brotherhood was out roaming and naturally we wanted to fight them. In our past few engagements with them we've come out on top and we suspected they might be afraid to fight us. We had a couple of cyno characters trailing them and we knew they had scouts watching us. From the way they were acting they didn't seem keen on fighting, for example they docked up in a random station for a while, but then they went to Oulley, which is a lowsec dead end. A seemingly strange choice by them since they were now trapped.

We bridged in our Battleship fleet on the other side and jumped the gate where they were waiting for us. Suspecting that they might escalate we also brought in a group of Pantheon Carriers instead of relying on Guardians. Initially the fight went our way, they jumped in a few capitals but were still taking losses. After a few minutes however local started going up, a lot. Around 90 Lokis and 30 logistics from Razor bridged in and we realized that this was their plan all along. They probably went to Oulley because it is quite close to Cloud Ring and within Titan range.

So at this point we started getting a little worried. We had 11 Carriers on field and were outnumbered almost 4:1. The downside of using Carriers for repping is that their lock time is relatively bad and fleets of Lokis are usually flown with artillery that has a ton of alpha. With enough Lokis it doesn't matter if we could theoretically tank their DPS because people will be dead before we can lock them. Initially though they went for our most shiny targets which were well tanked enough to live, but eventually we started losing Battleships while not being able to kill much in return. With a combination of refitting the Carriers for warp core stabs, as well as shooting / jamming / neuting their HICs we were able to extract 9(!) out of our 11 Carriers, just as 15 Goonswarm Dreadnoughts jumped in.

The final tally ended up being 8 billion ISK lost for 22 billion ISK killed. Considering the circumstances I'm pretty thrilled about that. Here's a killboard link:
http://dog-net.org/brdoc/?brid=17987

One of our guys' very expensive Bhaalgorn: http://puu.sh/2AMAl

In case anyone's interested we also frappsed the whole thing. One edited with a bit of music, and one raw (don't tell anyone!).

kyrieee wrote:

(don't tell anyone!).

I'm confused as to the rational of this, (I haven't watched the video yet). Is there strategizing and info in there that you don't want other clans to know about?

I'm not to fuzzed about that kind of stuff, but a lot of people are. The more someone knows about you the better they can prepare. It could be something you're doing, or it could be something they see that you're not doing, it could be not wanting to reveal certain people being on comms with you, not showing what's being said in your intel channels etc. Maybe you have intel that they didn't know you had, or maybe you had less intel than they thought. People will take advantage of anything they can. In general people get a little more paranoid when it comes to capital ships and even moreso with supercapitals. Being predictable with how you use those is a good way to lose them and you don't want other people to hear your decision making process regarding that stuff. In this case the guy who uploaded the unedited one told me not to link it so that's why I made that remark I don't think many non-GWJers read this thread though.

The Goonswarm Intelligence Agency has their mittens everywhere.

But they're in trouble if neither of them are online.

I'm resubbing, any advice on finding a corp? Last time I never got looped into one and its a rough game w/o one.

If you've not got much experience, I'd try Eve University (E-uni). I'd also recommend joining the GWJ channel (password gwjeve) - there's quite often someone on there who can provide advice.

I here good things about these guys.

http://www.giantbomb.com/eve-online/...

I was just listing to the this week's Giant Bombcast today, and one of the regulars was talking about his experiences playing as a newbie (he's going to Fanfest, and wanted to have some context for the purposes of writing articles). He mentioned the Giant Bomb corp, and they are most definitely open to new players.

EVE University is a very good corp, and back in the day I knew some of their officers. They are specifically geared for teaching new players.

Petriefied wrote:

I'm resubbing, any advice on finding a corp? Last time I never got looped into one and its a rough game w/o one.

I hear good things about BNI, Brave Newbies, Inc. It's a subreddit/TEST corporation for players who are like the reddit community, but don't meet the qualifications to get into dreddit or fweddit. They seem really fun. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bravenewbies/

Just saw this video, a little old but still funny. Some cursing in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUZYw...

Sorry to just be posting a bunch of videos, but my corpmate just put this one together and I think it's alright. If you're bored just skip to 13:45

Keep posting them... I love to see the game world... even though I don't have time to play in it most days.

Wish me luck - tomorrow I shall try my luck on the recruitment channel. And maybe the unemployment channel as well, see what interest my char can drum up. Should be interesting, with 107m SP

You'll not find a lot of serious corps in the in-game recruitment channel. You're better off browsing the recruitment forum on eve-o, and/or making a thread of your own in there.

Good point, but if I try on both them channels and on the forums then hopefully I shall have all bases covered.

Eve Online (specifically the Tranquility server) is down due to a DDOS attack

EVE Online says it has taken down its Tranquility server cluster—housing the MMO itself and companion game Dust 514—because of "a significant and sustained distributed denial-of-service attack." Tranquility has been down for 16 hours. At this time, not even EVE's web site is reachable.

OK, someone is taking PVP a bit too far...