This much fire is not good!
April 16th, 2007
Okay, this is not what a space ship is supposed to look like in EVE Online, I was minding my own business on a mission trying to blow stuff up and I made the mistake of nearly getting blown up myself (hence all the fire). How did this come about I hear you ask? Well, I have come to the conclusion that I am not very good at the game yet! EVE is not a quick fix game, from what I can gather it is going to take a long time to learn the in’s and out’s of how to fight and how to defend myself, I am looking forward to it.
Today I was reading a thread on a forum about some of the nasty things people have done in game and it made for an interesting read. It certainly opened my eyes to some things to look out for. I am beginning to learn to trust noone apart from my corp buddies. Here are a couple of devious things that I liked:
Last night when i flew around beeing bored, i found a offline POS…
Warped in to it and popped 3x Mobile laboratories (90m each) with my Impairor, which took less than 20min (i think).
After that i “had” to send a message to the CEO of the corp owning the POS, telling him that he just lost POS equipment worth 270m isk to a rookie ship YARRRR!!
That is quite amusing but this is pure class… excuse the EVE lingo, I will look into translating it for you and adding it to my library of acronyms and abbreviations…
i made a 1man griefing corp and dec’d an ASCN newb training corp. flying round in an uber gank munnin of doom as they flapped about with 3 BS lots of cruisers and frigs in empire, smacking me for not engaging.
I consistantly told them i had a spy in the corp and that for 300mil i would end the war. and for 500mil i would end the war, and reveal the spy. I did this all the time, as simply another method of causing paranoia and hysteria within the corp. this lead to them getting more desperate, and eventually taking the 300mil tag and disbanding.the swinging point was i warped to the station they based out of, and the main fleet was the other side, but as i dropped out i saw an osprey warp to a belt (only thing in that direction) i followed at range, hit him to half armor and he got out. he convo’d me within seconds and started asking how i knew he was there. i obviously replied saying my spy told me etc. Then i get convo from a head honcho saying “hang on…. isk sent, who is the spy?” i checked my wallet and straight from the ASCN main he had sent me 500mil.
I quickly browsed thru ppl online who i had buddylisted and picked out one poor git. who hadnt been there long etc, i said i couldnt provide proof as i was at my GFs for the week, but ill provide when i get back.
get back home a week later and get a convo asking for proof, quickly photoshoped it up, and sent it, the head honcho said “thanks, we felt bad the other night as we podded XXX and he didnt understand on TS, even after we flamed him, he really did sound innocent” i said “well theres the proof” and off i flew 500mil richer
One of the things I find interesting about EVE is it is dog eat dog, there are no scrupals in space! The sheer scale of the game and the amount of things that can and do go on is quite astounding, so what if my ship is on fire and it looks stupid, it’ll happen again and probably hundreds of times.
I am about to go outside and put the fires out, I have my hull repair modules at the ready and makeup ready to cover up the red face and will go out and do it all again, I love this game and I openly invite you all to come join me on my travels. I am in this for the long haul, hopefully I will see you about when my ship isn’t on fire!
Here’s to space travel!