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My Two Week Review of EVE
Shadow1994
Member Posts: 2
This is my saga of one trial account called Shadow, It all started when I wanted to try my hand at the on-line world called MMORPG. My research was based on the desire to one day create my own on-line game. I decided that I was not into the fanesy or magicail realm of play, but more or the "I want my own spaceship"
So I did a few days of research on this website, EVE sound like the best way to go. So I found the link and entered my pod. The trial was long and worth the few hours to finish. My bank account was cash poor but I had my brand new newbie ship. I did what every cash poor newbie did... mining rocks to sell on the market. I spent my first two days flying around the local system still in 1.0 space looking for ore to mine and sell. Somewhere by luck i fell into some omber ore that created a waterfall of ISK. I sold a few cargoholds of it and bought my first weapons of war. Enter the Tristan. A low level ride but with major improvments over the newbie ship. I slapped a couple of 125 mm carbide railguns on the side, bulked up the cargoholds, shields and even had the armor repair unit on standby if needed. I was ready to enter the World of EVE.
I am the guy who seeks adventure but who has a smart head on his shoulders. So my first tour of duty was to bulk up the now bone dry ISK. When only 100,000 to my name I headed out into the unknown. I found my way into a sector of space that had non-players pirates who did gave me some practice in PvP portion of the game. I gathered some items in the hold and headed to the nearest station. In about 2 hours, I had made about 300,000 ISK. Not bad for a newbie. I cashed in, bought more ammo and went out again. I was feeling happy and a little greedy so I begain to be inbolden in my qwest. I took on the player mission that where to be had at the station thru out the sector I was in. Those were harder than I thought, but enjoyable. After a few day of those, I became wantin for more action. I decided to become a theif.
Shadow the newbie, became Shadow the pickpocket. I hopped around many a system in search of unsecured cargo containers. Wow, what a gold mine that was. I was empting dozens of them before I saw that I was in trouble with other people in the many corpirtions. I saw mnay people who could kill me gathering at the top of my screen. oops. was I in trouble. I was a grand thief who was out for profit only and had no a care in the world. I was zooming from system to system careful not stay in the same one or use the same station. Fate entered my way when the the many many people I had stolen from showed up at my door. I was on my way with a cargohold full of about 20 million ISK when I entered the wrong system. My very upset victims showed up and where waiting for me at the local station. I went out from warp and saw about 20 ships just hovering around the station. I thought... how strange to see so many ships hmmmm. I last moments was of trying to; One run to the station, Two that did not work, so let up warp out of here. I lasted all of about 8 seconds. I was killed. Good news was I was insured for alot. Bad news was I lost my cargo.
When I recovered my ship, I decided to do it all over again. See the above paragraph for the outcome. My 14 day trial ended with a bang. I will one day create a new accout when my writing days are over. I have found that EVE lived up to the hipe and delivered the goods. Way to go CCP !!
Comments
LOL
Nice Post. Ore thieves do get popped quickly if I can find them
Although I never popped you.
The cargo cans and alot of ore, however about 90% of them was very high-ISK items that I was not skilled enough to use. So I would sell them. Items like; missiles, ship upgrades, other weapons. There was one item that i sold for about 1.5 million in ISK. I had alot of enjoyment doing this.
The sandbox that is EVE can make the player do wantever their heart desires.
nice story but it sounds totally made up and has more factual holes than a cheese grater. entertaining though.
Yup, it sounds like a very corny story.
However, i once created an Alt just to see if i could make money with nothing but a shuttle. My plan was to block people in 1.0 systems, and asked them to pay me if they wanted to get past. My targets were haulers, i hate hauling myself and i knew how slow and boring it was to be in those ships.
So, acting as a "noob" i'd bump these ships until i got a response, typically it would be "get the fuck out of my way!!1" then i'd ask them for 200k to be left alone. Most people just laughed, used their brains and logged off for a few. However, some people actually paid me! After about 30 minutes just before i got bored and was about to give up, one guy refused to pay and didn't think to log... after 5 minutes his ship was suddenly turned into dust, and his cans were floating in space. Obviously i was rofl'ing as he set off a smartbomb to try and take me out, in a 1.0 system!! So the police popped his hauler and i took a look in his cans, his secure cans were empty, but his cargo can had left me the best named cargo expander in the game, and a couple of the not so good named ones. I scooped the best one, and ran to the station to drop it off and went back for the others, then told local that there was a couple of free secure cans by the gate.
I became 20mil richer for about 30 mins of messing around, in nothing but a shuttle... I never found out why he set off his smartbomb, as he ignored my messages then he finally logged.
-iCeh
Probably pressed the wrong button. The real question tho is why did he have a smartbomb to begine with
-iCeh