EVE!

[JSt0rm]

They come to see the eve gate, they go home in a pod or wake up in a station somewhere.

The smart ones come in nano frigates

 

[Martimus]

Oh, since I promised to post a fight where I lost, but had a lot of fun anyway once my killboard was back up, I will post this one:

http://nawti.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_related&kll_id=1596393

We took out all of their dreads, but lost pretty much all of our carriers, so we were lacking the logistics to survive their BS and Carrier Fleet. At least that was the way I remember it, it was a few months back. Still I had a bunch of fun, and I even lost 3 ships in that one fight.

 

[TheVrolok]

The nano Abaddon was my favorite. We weren't really camping the gate, just scouting the other side, and had a HIC there to hold him when he jumped through. Guess he didn't think that more than two points would be on him before he could warp.

I thought for sure it was bait, since it was an Abaddon jumping alone into low-sec. Nothing screams bait more than that. As it turned out, the pilot had just eaten a lot of paint chips as a child.

As a primarily Amarr pilot, I died a little on the inside when I saw that Baddon fit. It's not even a POS bashing fit.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Well, I have sent a petition about the new portrait creator. I saved one for my main character, and it is correct on the login screen, but incorrect once you get into the game. I made screenshots and sent them in with the petition. Basically, I have a hood over his head which has his eyes just peering out under the shadow of the hood in the image that I saved for the shot, but what is in-game doesn't have the hood (everything else is correct though).

 

[Kadarin]

Well, I have sent a petition about the new portrait creator. I saved one for my main character, and it is correct on the login screen, but incorrect once you get into the game. I made screenshots and sent them in with the petition. Basically, I have a hood over his head which has his eyes just peering out under the shadow of the hood in the image that I saved for the shot, but what is in-game doesn't have the hood (everything else is correct though).

Similar thing here; one of mine blinked as I clicked the save button so her eyes are closed.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Similar thing here; one of mine blinked as I clicked the save button so her eyes are closed.

Not quite the same. It is literally missing the hood. I'll post the pics here to show what I mean when I get home. It is as though it saved/used a different picture in-game verse what I saved and am shown on the character select screen.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Ok, so we were some real dicks last night

We took out/down some small corp's medium POS last night. It was a research tower (had 7 labs in it).

There was also some guy in local yapping away asking for someone to group with him because he just came back to playing EVE and now has a -2billion isk wallet and can't do anything, but he has a deadspace fit cruiser and would love to join a corp/mission with someone to make some isk. So we, added him to our corp, went and popped a badger II war target we had previously scanned down, and then popped, podded, looted, and booted the isk buyer.

We are waiting to see if the isk buyer rage quits, since he now can't buy a new ship, and can't even upgrade his clone (we thought about running a locator on him and podding him again before we booted him, but figured that would just be too mean with the -10% skill point loss he would have).

As for what dropped off his "deadspace" cruiser, I will have to lookup the killmail. I know there were a few sansha medium crystals, and I believe a pith booster/rep (forget which).

 

[Acanthus]

Oh man, that poor isk buying noob.... wait


I don't feel bad for cheaters.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Oh man, that poor isk buying noob.... wait


I don't feel bad for cheaters.

Our thoughts exactly

 

[JSt0rm]

Last night a ecm burst 1 saved my prowler out in stain

 

[Fallen Kell]

Last night a ecm burst 1 saved my prowler out in stain

hehee... That is admitting failure to scout

So I guess it got just enough of the gate campers to let you warp... or were you able to cloak and then warp cloaked?

 

[JSt0rm]

naw. No gate camp can get me. I was in my final system and a vega just so happened to be at the undock when I docked.

My mistakes were these

1. Forgot to give my alt a instant undock from this station

2. Contracted my alt a station container thinking it was a giant secure container.

Because of number 2 I had to buy a giant container 2 jumps out. I undocked to go get it and of course the vega was waiting for me. I have a insane align time in this prowler so I said fuck it i'm gonna try it. He pointed me Hit me once with his artillery (30% shields) and came in for the bump. I wacked him with the ecm burst and warped to a planet.

I think someone would need a 6000 scan resolution to grab me on a gate. And my hauler goes 2300 m/s with the mwd/cloak trick so bubbles wont work either.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Posting the killmail from earlier

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8637970

 

[Martimus]

Posting the killmail from earlier

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8637970

That was far from faction fit, but at least it was a faction cruiser. Never seen a mission Ashimu before though. Lots of them for PvP, but never for missioning. Then again, I haven't run a mission in almost 2 years.

 

[Michael]

The last Incursions test in Promised Land was good for us:

http://nawti.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_related&kll_id=1691688

They reported us as 30+ gate camping. We were no where near that much.

Michael

 

[Fallen Kell]

That was far from faction fit, but at least it was a faction cruiser. Never seen a mission Ashimu before though. Lots of them for PvP, but never for missioning. Then again, I haven't run a mission in almost 2 years.

Yeah, that was what we said after we blew it up (also the reason why I put quotes around the "faction" fit in my original description). I swore there was a pith something rep on it that blew up when we popped the ship, but I was mistaken (in anycase it was a pretty fail fit if you ask me).

Well our killboard is looking more and more like the high-sec griefers that we are. Since the corps we are war deccing don't come out to fight, we blow up their POS... Have another one already lined up and we will probably be blowing it in a day or three. I don't understand how these guys think they can put up a POS with next to no defence on it and think they will be keeping their stuff.... This next one should be a gold mine, with 4 mobile labs, 4 advanced mobile labs, 4 equipment assembly arrays, 4 component assembly arrays, and 2 ammo arrays. And it is protected by a web, a warp disrupter, and 3 citadel torp launchers.

I mean, seriously, citadel torp launchers in high sec? I guess they are expecting dreads to somehow pop on top of them? They will be lucky to get 1/2 damage out of those torps against BS's. Even then, at worst case scenario, even if we take full damage of the torp with bonuses, it is 15000 raw damage from all three hitting one target. Add in resists of >70% and that is a whole 4500 damage, and they only fire every 18 seconds (with bonuses), so a whopping 250dps... What a joke, and again that isn't even taking into account the 30m/s explosion velocity or 2000m explosion radius, with most BS's being able to move 3-4x that speed and most with an at worst signature radius of 700m.....

 

[Ross Ridge]

I don't understand how these guys think they can put up a POS with next to no defence on it and think they will be keeping their stuff.... This next one should be a gold mine, with 4 mobile labs, 4 advanced mobile labs, 4 equipment assembly arrays, 4 component assembly arrays, and 2 ammo arrays. And it is protected by a web, a warp disrupter, and 3 citadel torp launchers.

Well, if they were smart they'd have no defences at all and just take it down whenever they get wardec'd. Optionally then disband the corporation, reform it and put it back up.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Well, if they were smart they'd have no defences at all and just take it down whenever they get wardec'd. Optionally then disband the corporation, reform it and put it back up.

Unfortunately, I don't think any of these guys are that smart or even active enough. Heck one of the corps we hit hadn't even logged in to simply ENABLE the guns they had placed on their POS, let alone take it down.

 

[Martimus]

I managed to kill my first Loki on Tuesday, then my first Legion yesterday.

The Loki was just chilling on a moon while his friends were about to set up a POS. I probed him out, and warped to him in an Arazu, then pointed him. My friends came in and mopped him up. There was a Domi there with him, but he was 60 km away, and I wanted to make sure that the Loki was pointed and let the Domi go.

http://nawti.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1700317

Yesterday, I heard about a small 5 man gang a few jumps away, and since I had just led a small gang to kill a few ships down the chain, I had the active members warp to the gate with me. I wanted to get there quickly, so I jumped us in unscouted, while my scout was still in warp to the gate (he was going to scout the target system). As it turned out the intel was bad, and the gang was already in system with us. I told the gang to burn back to the gate, and I checked d-scan. There were 4 T3's and a Guardian on scan. I had us jump back into Antem, and reapproach the gate, and the 5 ships jumped through at the same time. At that time, we only had 4-5 ships on the gate, so I primaried the Guardian, and made sure that he wasn't able to burn out of range. I also grabbed one of the T3's (a Legion). Surprisingly, the other 3 T3's warped off. I was expecting them to fight, but it turned out they were mission fit. Either way the Legion had a huge buffer, and by the time he died, the 4 of us shooting at him turned into 11 and he went down.

http://nawti.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1701456

It was a nice 24 hour period, with 2B ISK worth of Strategic Cruisers killed. I just wish I had made sure the 4 of us spread our points better, but I was much more worried about getting that guardian than catching the rest of them, since the T3 resists make the T3 ships nearly invulnerable with logistics support.

 

[mephiston5]

Would I be nuts to get into the game at this point? I am currently in the 14-day evaluation period, so far enjoying it...but man it seems like I would need to invest 100's of hours of play to even reach a minimal level of achievement, relative to other players.

 

[Drift3r]

Would I be nuts to get into the game at this point? I am currently in the 14-day evaluation period, so far enjoying it...but man it seems like I would need to invest 100's of hours of play to even reach a minimal level of achievement, relative to other players.

Specialization is the key to the game.

Do not try to be a jack of all trades or try to "catch up to vets" because doing so is plain stupid. Focus on one ship type you enjoy flying and/or can afford to loose in PVP (Tackle FRIGSFTW!) and slowly move up to larger ships if you want too. In all honestly I hate battleships because they are slow and you need a nice gang to support you and other battleships. Most solo or small gang gank ships are cruiser size or below when roaming. Battleships are good for larger fleet fights, defensive fights and are great if someone hot drops capitals or jump freighters at pos with no ammo.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwxfPU0hog


The same goes for PVE. If you want to do other things like industry, research, etc.. I'd suggest getting a 2nd, 3rd, etc account like most players who are into the game. That is of course after you've decided on whether or not you want to continue playing this game.

 

[Martimus]

I agree with Drifter about specialization. However I disagree with specializing in frigates for fights. At least in low-sec, you need at least a battlecruiser to survive since you need to be able to tank the gateguns along with the enemy. That said, it doesn't take long to train a battlecruiser, and have sufficient skills to fit it with T2 defense (armor or shields) and T2 offense (Guns, lasers, or missiles).

You can be very proficient at PvP with only 5 million Skill Points. (About 2 1/2 months of work) You need to specialize though, and you can't go train a little bit of everything. It is best to stay small to begin with though, and maybe train skills to run missions. Those skills translate well to PvP, since they are offensive skills, and you will have something to do while you are getting trained up to fly BCs against other players.

One piece of advice is to only fly a ship in PvP if you can fit it with T2 guns and T2 armor/shields. If you cannot use those, then you probably can't quite fly it properly yet, and are likely to lose it anyway.

What races ships are you planning on flying? I can give you some pretty good fits to train for if you want.

 

[Kadarin]

Would I be nuts to get into the game at this point? I am currently in the 14-day evaluation period, so far enjoying it...but man it seems like I would need to invest 100's of hours of play to even reach a minimal level of achievement, relative to other players.

Most of the time invested in training is in getting various skills to lvl 5. While this gives older players a definite edge, it's by no means decisive. Your personal experience plus cooperation with others matters equally or more, especially with regard to pvp. A case in point: Several years ago Goonfleet (now Goonswarm Federation or whatever they're calling themselves) came from essentially nowhere and managed to unseat the then premier alliance Band of Brothers, which was composed of mostly older players.

 

[Martimus]

I am pretty sure Eve just went down. Luckily I had just finished the engagement, and the other fleet was either blown up or warped away by the time the node went down. I think it is actually some sort of internet problem in that area though, since our vent went down too at the same time. (Our server is based in London I think)

 

[TheVrolok]

I am pretty sure Eve just went down. Luckily I had just finished the engagement, and the other fleet was either blown up or warped away by the time the node went down. I think it is actually some sort of internet problem in that area though, since our vent went down too at the same time. (Our server is based in London I think)

Comcast subscriber? We had a bunch of Comcast guys DC at the same time. I never lost connection though, and I'm also a Comcast guy.