Reply With QuoteChinese people are friendly. A Chinese dude just gave me 500million isk. Which is a lot.
Kugu deffo wins worst eve forum award. Test has a terrible general section on the forum where spergbergers like DurrHurrDurr reveal their inner fuckwad, but the rest is a well organized ponyland. Plus our auth system is less fucking miserable than the Goon one, so there's that.
@jon: create a minmatar character, for the love of all that is holy. They're the best, and will get you on the road to most of the best ships in eve.
Next, do the tutorial missions. Cannot stress this enough. You will need an intro to most of the systems in game, and this is a good place to get it.
Focus on a deep skill plan rather than a broad one; that means become the best you can with rifters and their support skills before moving up to cruisers. It might seem silly to ignore all those other ships, but you're already in the best ship ever and the skills you train up to fly it well will serve as the base for the skills you'll need for the next really awesome Minnie ship, the hurricane. This is one of the most versatile ships in the game. Fast, tanky, cheap, a hard hitter, amazing in pvp and a decent choice for pve.
In the mean time focus on saving your money, and only lay out cash for skills or cheap implants unless you can't help it and need something else. You want to have nothing you can't stick in or on your rifter, as you will be moving a lot doing the tutorial stuff, and you do not want to be hauling a ton of crap around.
Once you've got the tutorial arcs done (don't hesitate to hit up aeonthepiglet in game if you have questions, although seeing as I'm hunted in hisec I won't be much help for fights), hunt up an alliance. A Test corp is the most likely place you'll be able to go for 0.0, but the other DekCo alliances or cva and the holders in provi would probably take you on even with low sp.
You can also do a hisec corp, but finding a good one is a nontrivial undertaking.
You can also go indy, but the margins are razor thin and mining isn't much better. Wormholes will be frustrating at low sp as they're brutal and require a lot of prep and experience. Think 0.0 but way more challenging rats.
Red versus Blue is good low level pvp, and while faction warfare is a hole it's another good spot to pick up basic pvp in hisec. Most of the hisec corps are carebears, so ignore them when they tell you about pvp because they are invariably wrong in some pretty hilarious ways. Many of them think you need a battleship to be useful, which is just lol.
Eve can be a little overwhelming at first, but it's not really that hard to figure out.
Chinese people are friendly. A Chinese dude just gave me 500million isk. Which is a lot.
Bruce, thanks for the clarification! Keep us posted on your chinaland adventures.
I love some sci fi, and I played a month trial in 2008, but I was still into WoW then, I guess I will have to figure out my account by then. Probably will just restart fresh.
Today's Helpful Advice:
If you are going to run a mission in your Carrier in LowSec, don't do it in a Pirate home system.
TEST pilots love using their carriers to rat belts. It is so pr0.Originally Posted by Dave Weinstein
It also gives us tons of opportunities to form up a defense gang if we're feeling nice, and to shoot a blue if we're not. I one hundred percent approve.
I've been following the progresses of the "invasion" on FHC, amazing stuff.
Shame that's what it takes to get people interested in/excited about Eve again though. Sometimes think a full server reset with generation of a new galaxy would be the best solution.
Aeon, I think you've managed to get me interested in Eve again, what's It take to join up with test? I'm looking for a good 0.0 corp
This sounds like something I want to do. How hard would it be for a 31m SP hi-sec carebear to abandon my pimp Tengu and CNR on weekends to get blown up repeatedly in rifters when I find time to log in*?
*The last 10m SP have been EVE Offline mostly.
So started playing Eve again. Joined this random small corp, in less than 24 hours they get war declared on them. I log in the next day, and I'm CEO now. Every member with no roles is gone, the old Ceo and his officers are being hunted down and killed by mercs. I just wanted to know who they pissed off to made someone spend the isk to kill these 7 chuckleheads and old leader starts going off on me in chat. How maybe it's me behind the war so I can get control of his corp, and how dare I say he caused this war. He loves this corp so much he gave control to a 30 hour old member. MMO players.
Loot what's left of the corporation, and bail.
Problem solved.
/signed
Besides the idiocy of the previous leaders, too bad they left that opportunity go to waste. Even if you are hopelessly outmatched, small corps should just jump into frigates and have at it at least for a while, might just kill something expensive and even if not, get some pvp experience out of it.
One of the players from the other corp chatted with me last night, not a nice fellow. I really need the learn the pvp side of things, anyone know where I can find a good pvp hurricane fit? And what would it take to beat a curse and two Bc's which is all that opposed us?
Iīd say donīt try their fight. They probably have a special thing going on with their setup.
If you and your guys donīt have pvp experience at all, or the skills, you all might just want to get into frigates:
1. They will have trouble catching your frigs with Battlecruisers and a Curse. Their lock time is long enough for your frigs to just get out and warp to safety.
2. Make an "insta" warp spot outside your home base, that way you can more or less warp to that spot even faster after undocking.
3. Make that spot very far away, that is, off grid.
4. Make them hunt you around in their big ships if they want to, will never catch you.
So yeah, if there is no chance to end the war via diplomacy, try to make them ship down into something more manageable. If they come at you in cruisers they will STILL have trouble catching you, and if they ship down even further you could go for it and try to destroy one of their ships. If you do, chances are it will be fitted well enough to be worth at least 10 of your little t1 frigates.
There is a catch: One of the changes on EVE I HATED with all my heart before leaving the game, was the introduction of the uber frigates. Used to be you could have a good fight in, say, a minor plex, where everyone was forced to go into the battle in frigs and destroyers.
But with the new frigates, a couple of them could just sit there and destroy everything else that came trough, even Assault frigates are to slow for, say, a Dramiel.
So if they get into Dramiels and such.. then not sure really. They showed up in the final months of my Eve time and I am not sure we ever came up with small gang small ships counters for them.
Edit to add: with frigates you can kill interceptors, destroyers, cruisers, and battlecruisers. In my old Qcat days we used to kill anything up to battleships with just frigate gangs. But to learn how to do it you will be destroyed a lot, and thatīs alright mate, pixels in space are lost, big meh. Go at it and have some fun, at the very least you will be learning a lot about the PVP side of things.
JUAN RAYO IS ALIVE!
CCP has stated that the dramiel needs to get hit with the nerf bat but who knows when that will be.
edit: if you can get a few people into rifter's with tracking disruptors you should be able to get a few of those BCs (if they dont use missiles)
I will log in a few hours over the next couple of days too, got a 5 day trial to toy with. Go Sister Calistas!
So does anyone have any advice for Solo PVP? I really want to mess around with it but I really have no idea what ship I should even pick. Anyone have any advice?
Well it depends, what can you fly?
Ruptures are fun solo, and I have just resubbed and am using my brilliant throwaway incursus to remember how to PvP again.
http://gallente.eve-kill.net/?a=kill...kll_id=9033118 Lose one? O no! I lost 1 mil isk(rigs are 30K a pop, and you can use T1 guns or even a T1 damage control to bring the entire ship down under 500K). They work great if you have one or two buddies, and can take on some terribly fit cruisers as well as quite a few regular frigates.
Pretty much everything.
Well the best solo stuff right now is the pirate ships, Daredevil/Dramiel and Cynabals but that is pretty expensive. For the normal stuff you have the Rifter which is pretty awesome as Juan proved a number of times, if you want bigger then the Drake (nano with heavy missiles) is a nice choice.
The problem with solo PvP is the usual blobs that hang around in low sec trying to bait people looking for solo fights or getting destroyed by a random gate camp but you can generally get away from those in a frigate.
Hmm that will give me some fat to chew on for a bit. I really just want to blow shit up at this point and I feel like I am putting my 52 million SP to waste.
speaking of pvp i'm probably going to be joining an underdog corp that is currently in war, so should be interesting. being on the underdog side is always more fun. are bs useful at all in pvp? i have only done pve so far so i am slightly clueless.
BS's are very useful, but they need to be supported. They can get tied down very easily, and can't tie down the enemy at all. But when you need damage or utility, a BS is where it is at. BS's also project power, which makes the enemy deal with you.
Just don't get caught solo, cause you are dead to an enemy gang if they tackle you.
~C~
What Cougar said. BSīs used to be the backbone of every fleet (nowadays people move around with 90 supercapital or such nonsense) but they need to be supported.
I would say that anyone looking to get into Pvp should expect to get blown up a lot while they get the hang of it (and later too haha) so Frigates make for a reasonable way to start pew pew, you can lose scores of the little things and it wonīt put any stress on your wallet.
6b isk and 45,000 research points built up. I really should log in and go on some kind of rampage.
You could buy me a vindicator and I will rampage it through exactly one gate then get blown up by 20 drakes and 5 scimis.
Also yes you should rampage in gallente low sec space, in BCs. i'd help you tackle as a cruiser.
Thorn, how's the new faction warfare mission rewards now?
Just look through test member corps in the alliance and hop into the recruit channels. I'm in IXDS myself, but there are tons of other recruiting corps in there. B0rt requires you to be a Reddit poster, the rest don't care.
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