EVE Online

[Berkut]

Kicking myself.

Why Eve is the best PvP in MMO gaming:

So the IRC home system is camped most of the time these days. Last night, we were trying to get a HD fleet going, but not having much luck. I was sitting in the shields of a safe POS waiting around in my Zealot, and mightily bored.

THe FC mentioned that there was a frigate and dictor on one of the gates alone, with the main Goon camp fleet at the Diz station - could I fly into the gate at 0, kill the dictor and frigate, then get back to the Pos before the station fleet responded?

Well, that is a good question. I guess there is only one way to find out, right?

Answer: No, I cannot. Killed the two ships quickly, but then fumbled the align and warp back, and got gang-raped. Right as I was about to enter warp, literally pizels away from hitting speed, a bubble goes up and I am trapped. I manage to MW out of the bubble, but am pointed and demolished by a dozen Goons.

Here is the real kicker: I warped to ZERO on the gate! I could have just jumped through the damn thing and escaped that way!

Talk about facepalm.

Everytime I lose a ship in Eve, I think of at least 1 or two things I could have done to avoid it, but never at the time it is happening. I think I just suck at the game.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Here is the real kicker: I warped to ZERO on the gate! I could have just jumped through the damn thing and escaped that way!

After you shot the frigate and dictor, you'd have to wait out the aggression timer before you could jump through.

[Berkut]

Here is the real kicker: I warped to ZERO on the gate! I could have just jumped through the damn thing and escaped that way!

After you shot the frigate and dictor, you'd have to wait out the aggression timer before you could jump through.

Oh, well then I feel better. I was doomed once I finger-flubbed the warp back.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Oh, well then I feel better. I was doomed once I finger-flubbed the warp back.

Yep.  Sounds like you came really close to a nice drive by though. 

[Berkut]

Oh, well then I feel better. I was doomed once I finger-flubbed the warp back.

Yep.  Sounds like you came really close to a nice drive by though. 

I was too keyed up and excited. I am mostly involved in fleet camping and sniping, the small scale stuff I am not comfortable enough with to stay calm.

I sure hope wherever we end up has more small scale PvP, and less POS warfare. POS warfare sucks.

[MadBurgerMaker]

POS warfare sucks.

This can't be said enough.  Supposedly there's a change coming with the winter expansion though, thank god.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Regime change in GoonSwarm.  Zapawork came back from vacation and decided that being the leader of a bunch of retards wasn't any fun.

So he resigned and made Kartoon, founder and leader of JihadSwarm, the CEO.  Good times.

[Syt]

A friend had an extra Steam code, so I'm going through the tutorials. Hod, I'm useless. I've gone through the business tutorials and am now doing the exploration tutorials.

Finally got the hang of probing, approach the gate . . . fuck, forgot to put the pass for jump gate from the station storage into my cargo hold, so let's retry this . . .

And I had to re-start a few tutorials because of this.

[Alcibiades]

Hah nice, hope you enjoy the game.  If you ever want to try out low sec(urity) space and blowing people up let me know, get you out here and try.  I've failed in trying to get CDM out here.   

[CountDeMoney]

 

That corp wasn't my gig, man.  I like my missions and mining.  Nice, quiet, productive.

Been messing around with DUST 514, too.  I may write a review of the beta in the near future, it's got some pluses and minuses to it.

[Syt]

Hah nice, hope you enjoy the game.  If you ever want to try out low sec(urity) space and blowing people up let me know, get you out here and try.  I've failed in trying to get CDM out here.   

I'm less for blowing stuff up, more for trading and possibly manufacturing.

I do look at moonlighting as explorer, though.

[Alcibiades]

Alright alright....


I know you were scared seedy it's all good.   


And I'd be interested in reading the review, i picked it up twice back in May but haven't bothered turning it on since, they probably even wiped my character by now.   

[Syt]

So for now I'm trading on Dodixie (less hectic than Jita, so I don't have to constantly monitor stuff) while levelling up exploration skills and such and doing some mining/exploration to get the hang of things. And I'm slowly getting the hang of drones. Once my archaeology/hacking skills have grown I might actually manage to make some bucks off it.

[CountDeMoney]

I know you were scared seedy it's all good.   


And I'd be interested in reading the review, i picked it up twice back in May but haven't bothered turning it on since, they probably even wiped my character by now.   

  Goddamned right I was.  Stuff that gets blown up costs money.

I'm still tinkering with it, but yeah, I think I'll pop down some thoughts later today or Tuesday.

[Syt]

So I've been mostly station trading, mining and slapping the occasional pirate. So far I like it; feels a lot like X3 in an MMO environment.

But the player characters . . . holy uncanny valley!