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EllianoraEllianora Member Posts: 5
in EVE Online
After reading all the comment and looking at the game I decided to try this game. I found the tutorial very infomrative, and was in the middle of reading the data when I was ganked by some player who blew me and my mangy frigate away in two shots in the tutorial zone when I was trying to read, guess thats a real trial by fire. Anyway needless to say it totally screwed up the tutorial I ended up in a pod and in general ended in such a mess a shame since I find the game interesting but it would be nice to learn at least the basics since it pretty much broke the string

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  • KarakazKarakaz Member Posts: 12

    F12 opens a help. Here you can open any tutorials, so you can proceed with the subject where you where left of.

  • DrkreaperDrkreaper Member Posts: 76
    in high sec the offender was wacked by concored... the guy was an azz and in not a good example of the gamming community in eve whitch is hands down the best in any mmo ....keep going  eve might not be 4 you but it is a good game with helpfull player base ....a bit on the obessive side but very helpfull
  • EllianoraEllianora Member Posts: 5
    Thanks for the responses I posted more out of frustration then anything, drifting in a pod a told to pick up cargo and unable to do so. I did continue both there and made a new character and found the entire world fascinating even in the tutorail I can see much potential.

  • PegasusJFPegasusJF Member Posts: 268

    I'm very sorry that happened. PVP and piracy has it's place in EVE, but not in high sec systems and definitely not in the new player systems.

    I hope that doesn't happen again, and I hope you find fulfillment in the potential you see in this game. Feel free to ask questions here if you need further help. ::::01::

    God Bless

  • JelloB2000JelloB2000 Member CommonPosts: 1,848

    Originally posted by Ellianora
    Thanks for the responses I posted more out of frustration then anything, drifting in a pod a told to pick up cargo and unable to do so. I did continue both there and made a new character and found the entire world fascinating even in the tutorail I can see much potential.
    You picked up something from a container that wasnt yours & thereby flagging you as a thief so that the owner could shoot you (you probably saw an aggression timer in the upper left corner of screen).
    iirc when you steal something from a container you flash red to the owner, that could have been a newbie also who just happened to think you are a rat (=npc pirate).

    But I have also seen some use these tactics for shooting newbies in the starting regions (not old characters though according to their ingame history-tab) so that they can loot them/kill for fun.

    A pod is just your body in a small shell, if you would have docked at a station you would find a new newbie ship there. What you start with isnt much, its replaced after 30m-1h depending on if you need to wait for tutorial named-pirate spawns immidietly.

  • ValharanValharan Member Posts: 190
    Thats about how my first 30 minutes in the Eve universe went as well. Sorry to hear it, if you need any help or advice send a private message to Inowen I'll do what I can to make any new players first few days good ones and keep them around.

  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077
    Yep, before I came back I popped a free trial to make sure I was serious about it.  I noticed a LOT of player owned containers named "container" floating around in newb sectors.  Every now and then you'd hear an explosion and hear a newbie going "WTF Happened?"

    Personally I think that crap is pretty lame and I wish people wouldn't do it.

    Tip to new players:
    If it's yellow on the overview, don't touch it.
    If it has a player picture and name on the 'info' screen when you click on it.  Don't touch it.
    Otherwise loot at will.

    Also:  Do NOT ignore the warning message!

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  • ssstupidossstupido Member Posts: 253

    Originally posted by Elnator

    Tip to new players:
    If it's yellow on the overview, don't touch it.
    If it has a player picture and name on the 'info' screen when you click on it.  Don't touch it.
    Otherwise loot at will.

    Also:  Do NOT ignore the warning message!

    i think it is sad that you have to warn new players about those things. these last years games are for dumb people. i am sure 10 years ago nobody would have taken a yellow container or ignored a warning message. we knew better than that. we had to battle through bad designed interfaces and poor translations, but we were able to overcome all those difficulties and succeed at games that now would be considered somewhere between hardcore and extremely dificult and thick.

    now it seems that when people turn on their computer they at the same time turn off their brain.

    come on!!! right click, show info, upss its someone else's can, upppsss warning message ----> leave can alone...........is not that difficult is it?

  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077

    Originally posted by ssstupido

    Originally posted by Elnator

    Tip to new players:
    If it's yellow on the overview, don't touch it.
    If it has a player picture and name on the 'info' screen when you click on it.  Don't touch it.
    Otherwise loot at will.

    Also:  Do NOT ignore the warning message!

    i think it is sad that you have to warn new players about those things. these last years games are for dumb people. i am sure 10 years ago nobody would have taken a yellow container or ignored a warning message. we knew better than that. we had to battle through bad designed interfaces and poor translations, but we were able to overcome all those difficulties and succeed at games that now would be considered somewhere between hardcore and extremely dificult and thick.

    now it seems that when people turn on their computer they at the same time turn off their brain.

    come on!!! right click, show info, upss its someone else's can, upppsss warning message ----> leave can alone...........is not that difficult is it?


    Ohhhh... I dunno... there's always been a fair ammount of stupid people in MMORPG's.  I scammed newbies out of thousands of gold when EQ1 first started up by making a character named "Teller" and standing in an emtpy bank window in town :)  By the end of the day I had full chain armor on my ranger and combine weapons from the tunnel ;) 

    In UO I can't tell you how many blank scrolls I sold at one point ;)

    I have no problem scamming newbies out of money... I draw the line at pking them needlessly though.  It's not like you get anything worth a damn from 'em :)

    Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
    Sig image Pending
    Still in: A couple Betas

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