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EVE Online | Chronicles of a New Eden - Bringing Down the House | MMORPG
SBFord
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EVE Online | Chronicles of a New Eden - Bringing Down the House | MMORPG
Grath Telkin has a bit of a reputation. In the null-sec space of EVE Online, he is easily one of the most recognizable names, known for yelling at people and leading some of the most cutthroat players in the game. Pandemic Legion is a wrecking ball swinging from one fragile null-sec empire to the next, and their reputation for crushing their foes is, at this point, pretty well solidified.
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Classic example of EVE player douchebaggery and cowardice. EVE:O : A griefer's paradise where players can be the villian and get rewarded for it...There's nothing a EVE player enjoys more than an easy kill.
EH? I guess you don't understand what EVE is. They have entire regions that are under protection from griefing and if you don't like the warfare then that is where you should stay. Everything else is controlled by corporations and aliances and they are constantly at war with each other. That is what EVE is.
Well, not really serious, but it *would* make a good study i'd say.
I'll wait to the day's end when the moon is high
And then I'll rise with the tide with a lust for life, I'll
Amass an army, and we'll harness a horde
And then we'll limp across the land until we stand at the shore
I also provided mining boosts in one of our alliance systems and we had a good crowd of ratters and miners on TS with a lot of laughs.
Home defense team caught 3 or 4 roamers and the roam group killed about 4.
Not nearly as exciting as the story in the OP, but more in line with the average EVE player.
Not everyone is a sociopath.
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
EVE is 100% about getting the easiest kill possible. It seems to me that what people find enjoyable about that is all of the different ways you can try to make it easier for yourself - teaming up with numbers, finding the best gate to camp, spewing smart bombs at a gate, spying on the people you want to kill, setting up alluring trading opportunities to lure a transport out of station, invading some carebear's wormhole, or even just ganking transports.
As much as I enjoyed my time with the game, it is absolutely a griefer's paradise. New players are just expected to eat their losses from scams and gankers, and eventually learn to avoid them.
The whole point of Eve Online is to accumulate wealth, and make ships explode (whether you make other ships explode, or other people make you explode). And then you have a laugh about it, and do it over again tomorrow.
Some people do this with Cruisers, some with Battlecruisers/Battleships, and some people do it with Titans (if they lose a Titan, they buy another one and start PvP'ing again). People fly what they can afford to lose. Otherwise they rage at their peril because of their own bad judgement - you don't drive a Ferrari when you only have $250,000 in the bank.
I can understand why Grath was getting a kick out of destroying HTA. First of all HTA was a sh it alliance, they were on the same level as a renter alliance. They are the kind of people that you see on killmails with ridiculous sh itfits.
And they also take it too seriously. When they got destroyed, instead of acknowledging their noobishness, they imploded.
The whole point of Eve Online: Make Isk, Buy Ship, Destroy other ships, Lose Ship, have fun, repeat.
People amaze me today.
I was playing Hearthstone today and this griefer beat me, boohooo... fkin griefer paradise.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
They only do one thing - to attack other alliances. That's what all their efforts are focused on. They don't focus their efforts on holding Sov, renting and protecting space themselves.
This article also mistakenly portrays Pandemic Legion as some sort of immortal epic alliance - they are a force multiplier on the battlefield to the people who hire them.
A few years ago, Pandemic Legion use to control space - they were in Fountain. When Band of Brothers (KenZoku.) got back together, they evicted Pandemic Legion from their space within a matter of a week. In one fight, Pandemic Legion lost around 5 - 6 Titans to KenZoku.
So basically, the time when Pandemic Legion try to control sov space, they got annihilated.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
For new players EVE is easy after drop experience what earned playing others mmo's ,EVE is different !
I've thought about playing the game for probably 2 years now, but I'm constantly put off by the idea that it's just too late as people who've been playing it for ever are effectively playing a different game entirely, and you'll never be able to be part of that.
You can, it's definitely not too late to start. The game is a sandbox, and if you play smart, you can catch up and be greater than the people who started playing years before you.
If you need tips on what to do let me know your character name, I'll give you some ISK to start out and also give you a few pointers on how to make ISK, and be able to PvP in battleships and lose them like it's no big deal.
I don't mind losing ships in pvp combat, but not nearly so much when its my Skiffs.
But like you said, only what I'm willing to lose.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
If you are in an NPC corp than you can't get much enjoyment out of the game - this is not a solo friendly game. At least you won't get wardecs.
Even then, if you want to transport anything worth over 40 mil to any of the major trade posts you basically expect to be ganked. Players are bored and waiting for any chance to get a kill, even if it just means a small loss after looting and salvage.
The only way I could imagine that you are so unfamiliar with how dangerous hisec is, is that you are very new to the game. If you are still flying ships worth under 5m, then yeah, you probably are not going to be getting ganked. A good ganking ship will come out to 40m, and the gankers would rather not be throwing all their money away. Of course, if you are flying ships worth less than 5m, you are not going to be getting much of anything done.
All this is assuming there isn't a a "player event" happening, like Burn Jita or Hulkageddon, then your chances are even worse.
There is no point in lying about EVE. MMO vets are all aware of the type of game it is. It still gets recommended because it does offer a sandbox to play and it is incredibly in depth, but nobody that knows what they are talking about will describe hisec as safe. It is a pretty good game with terrible combat and a community that spends every moment of consciousness trying to think of a new way to get a free kill or scam some isk. They will backstab their friends, abuse bugs, kill random players because they are bored and tell them to HTFU. That is all fine, it gives the game a 'wild west in space' feel. The same community will tell you how to avoid the scam after they trick you, tell you what was wrong with your build after they gank you, and tell you "good fight" after catching you in a gate camp. It really isn't all that bad.
But it is NOT safe.