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Vyvica
Happy Hooligans Burning Spear.
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Posted - 2011.10.18 21:00:00 -
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I'm very new to playing Eve. All the stuff I've heard in the last month sounded like jibberish and I'm thinking. "I can not believe people can get into a game like this!" here I am...One of the first how many thousand people to log on at the minute of server reboot. Trying to get my fix. Yes, I am now one of those people whom I couldn't understand. BUT, It's been about a month and I still don't know what you guys are talking about. I'm rummeging through the forums, asking questions and I have learned some things totally irrelevent. I started out confused with a flooded public chat eatting my screen. Rookie chat! So that's where I started my questions. "TROLL!", "press F13", I know your tricks now. ;)
So, I was talking to people in my corp trying to get some answers (which is something I hate doing. I'm so shy I get embarassed and physically jump and scurry away from my laptop.) I had/have a level 1 mission that I could not get past. The Npcs were impossible for me to overcome alone. So my experienced, kind corp mates fleet up to help me conquer this mission! some of they traveled as far as 30 jumps away at the drop of a penny to help me with this an hour before the servers shut down. We get into the mission and it's going by like a breeze! Next thing I know I see the long awaited cargo container floating off in space. (I'm going click crazy with my ammo and mouse) I kill my cargo. Fail!
My embarassing noob experiences go beyond this but I was hoping that other people could share their noob fails and embarassing experiences. It makes it less discouraging for people like me to continue asking tons of questions and being called a troll in the process..etc. ^ ^ |
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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire
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Posted - 2011.10.18 21:04:00 -
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Well your post was a good start imo, even talking about it. Keep up the flying and good luck!
/c
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mogwai
Sparks of Insanity
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Posted - 2011.10.18 21:11:00 -
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Eve Online - live it, learn it
i've been playing since 2003, and wasn't so long back i jumped into a combat situation i could have easily won.... but forgot to load the guns and fit drones
sounds like OP has found a good corp though and will go far
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Dradius Calvantia
Creative Cookie Procuring Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2011.10.18 21:30:00 -
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Agreed, OP sounds like some one who could end up sticking around in EVE for a long time to come.
Just stop running missions as soon as possible. They will crush your will to live fairly quickly. |
Zoe Alarhun
The Proactive Reappropriation Corporation
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Posted - 2011.10.18 21:30:00 -
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I jumped into a group of T3 ships on a gate in low sec. I turned around and started going back to gate with my micro warp drive and would have easily made it. However I decided to be clever, released my ECM drones - they jammed the person webbing me. Hooray! Wait, what's this - I can't jump because I aggressed someone!?
......
Such a silly loss just because I was so eager to try out ECM drones for the first time. hehehee. |
Nerdy Deadshot
In The Goo EVE Trade Alliance
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Posted - 2011.10.18 21:31:00 -
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Lol welcome to eve. Might want to look into joining a corp with older high sec members in it... No lvl 1 should take multiple people except maybe the SOE epic arc.
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Ammzi
Imperial Guardians Blazing Angels Alliance
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Posted - 2011.10.18 21:39:00 -
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Best noob moment follows below:
My corporation lived in a C1 wormhole and while I was at the POS my CEO was about to bubble up the wormhole, but he is having difficulties because he maneuver his ship to the right position. I ask him confused "Well, why not?" He explains "There's no damn celestials I can align, to are there?!" I quietly say "Well have you tried perhaps double clicking?" and he goes "oooooh .... I didn't know you could do that!"
That's him ... after 1 year and 6 months of playing EVE, he didn't know that double clicking in space would move your ship. If that isn't a noob incident, I dunno what is.
Oh btw, I am linking this for corp chat now quote CCP Spitfire
"Hello Im Blue,"
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Iosue
Black Sky Hipsters
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Posted - 2011.10.18 21:43:00 -
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Zoe Alarhun wrote:I jumped into a group of T3 ships on a gate in low sec. I turned around and started going back to gate with my micro warp drive and would have easily made it. However I decided to be clever, released my ECM drones - they jammed the person webbing me. Hooray! Wait, what's this - I can't jump because I aggressed someone!?
......
Such a silly loss just because I was so eager to try out ECM drones for the first time. hehehee.
i did something like that once with the ECM Burst I had fitted on my blockade runner.
won't make that mistake again. |
Hershman
G-Weezy
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Posted - 2011.10.18 23:07:00 -
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Quote:I was talking to people in my corp trying to get some answers (which is something I hate doing. I'm so shy I get embarassed and physically jump and scurry away from my laptop.)
Maybe you should find a different hobby |
Vyvica
Happy Hooligans Burning Spear.
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Posted - 2011.10.18 23:57:00 -
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I appreciate all the little stories people were brave enough to post. I'm hoping to read more of them too.
Being brand new makes asking questions and seeking your answered out of perfect strangers so difficult when you're being teased and not taken seriously. But it really does make you laugh to read some of the stuff people say, and work a little harder at finding new ways to learn.
Maybe you should find a different hobby [/quote] ^^^
You kind of missed the point sir! But good idea you wanted to share with us otherwise^ ^ |
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T' Elk
Clearly Compensating The Dark Triad
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Posted - 2011.10.19 00:07:00 -
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Welp, I might as well post something.
TL;DR: Tried to steal a couple faction poses way back in the day, derped and left corp after I had offlined them. I forgot to unanchor them, so uh... Yeah.
Full Story: TL;NGW <3 Zymurgist Thread locked for no content.
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Alara IonStorm
Caldari State
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Posted - 2011.10.19 00:13:00 -
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I died in Low Sec like 5 times when I started with a bunch of different weapons sizes and no tank. I did not even know other people were the ones killing me. About a month in is when I learned about missions which was good because I was sick of ratting Hi sec Belts. I used to always loose ships to Low Sec Battleship NPC's between getting killed by players.
On my first Low Sec Roam when I was more experienced I was like wait guys stop for a min. I pull my Cane into a Belt find a Battleship and off it. I was like YES F@#% You I finally got one of you bastards. Everyone thought I was crazy(er).
Now days I understand this game like the back of my hand. I still make stupid mistakes. I was running L4's to pay for my next RvB Splurge when I tabbed over to watch Scrubs after sitting comfortably in an area where I can not catch aggro. 10 Min later I decide to start the mission by firing on one of the NPC's not realizing I made that decision just 10 minutes ago as well and forgot. Lucky it was Blood Raiders who have short range and are slow cause god if I didn't Tab in at 5% Shield HP.
My Maelstrom was saved because those touchy moments between JD an Elliot are boring.
Don't fret because you are gonna screw up big time at least 1 or 2 Gazillion times in your EVE Career. But with perseverance and a little luck you will win more then you loose. |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2011.10.19 01:08:00 -
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I lost a Cyclone to Concord after finding an Ibis sitting in space in what I thought was lowsec. The Ibis was empty on top of everything else |
Vyvica
Happy Hooligans Burning Spear.
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Posted - 2011.10.19 01:29:00 -
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I love this one!!! ^ This is something that would happen to me. Thank you for sharing! |
gfldex
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Posted - 2011.10.19 01:38:00 -
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I did some mining in Ami. That's 2 fails in a very short sentence. |
Peri Simone
Steel Dawn Inc.
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Posted - 2011.10.19 01:38:00 -
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Vyvica wrote:We get into the mission and it's going by like a breeze! Next thing I know I see the long awaited cargo container floating off in space. (I'm going click crazy with my ammo and mouse) I kill my cargo. Fail!
I... er... did more or less the same thing a couple of weeks ago. I've been playing for a year and two months.
Missions are infinitely more fun if you can find someone of a similar game age to do them with, and you'll learn from each other's experiences. If your corp has any other newbs it might be worth asking around. Fly safe!
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J'Poll
IMPERIAL LEGI0N
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Posted - 2011.10.31 22:41:00 -
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Which of my many noob mistakes do you want to hear. I can actually list the 4 most 'stupid'
1.) Was just new to EVE and joined a player corp. But never saw the notification we were at war after a couple of days. So there I was, just 2 weeks old, eager to do stuff and hitted the undock. Next thing I know was a big explosion and me back in the station. Jumped in a new ship, undocked, explosion, me in station again. This continued for like another 5/6 times, after that a war target opened conversation to explain me how war mechanics worked and refunded all my losses.
2.) My first encounter with can-flippers wasn't that good eighter. Didn't knew that shooting a can flipper after stealing my ores I mined for a long time in my Bantam wasn't that good when you only have your civilian laser on your ship. The next thing I saw was him targetting me and Boom, I was in a station again in my Pod.
3.) The most stupid of all my noob mistakes. Buying something in a station more then 10 jumps away (in Jita). Flying there on Autopilot and dock up, local got my attention so I opened my items but forget to load the items. I undocked and warped all the way back just to find out my hold was empty. Here I went again to Jita just to forget it once again, this time I luckely found out on ly 2 jumps on my way back.
4.) The most important stuff I learned in my time, ALWAYS redeem PLEX in the station you need them or sell them / insert time in the station you are atm. NEVER fly them in your cargo, I did fund about 60 days of game time to the guy who suicide ganked me.
Hope this was of some help. J'Poll Director / Recruiter - Borealis Mining Concern Recruiter - Imperial Legi0n
As a finishing touch, God created the Dutch |
Millur
Blue Beret UFO Retrieval Team
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Posted - 2011.10.31 22:46:00 -
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My funniest one is my first venture out in lowsec, got jumped by a stabber and freak out. Targeted a astroid instead of the stabber... took some time before I noticed the blunder lol
Did get the bastard do, to fast for him ^^ You cant arrange them by *****... |
Gealla
Capital Storm. Bloodbound.
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Posted - 2011.10.31 22:50:00 -
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Me and some friends were farming the comet in Deltole, there was so many wrecks, cans and players in there my PC was having a fit. I didn't know any other way to target other than right click > lock target (didn't know about overview options either lol) accidentally targeted another players ship and shot him....
Was sitting there wondering why i was in a pod and all these white crosses were around me ..... |
baltec1
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Posted - 2011.10.31 22:50:00 -
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When I was but a nubbins I took part in my first 0.0 roam with my corp. The FC told me to go get tackle on an apocoplipse and being the fantastic owner of a shiny new intercepter I charged after my target safe in the knolage that it could not harm me.
Seconds later I was in a pod. Turned out that tachyons could track rather well if you are burning towards them at range |
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MeestaPenni
Mercantile and Stuff
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Posted - 2011.10.31 22:50:00 -
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Iosue wrote:i did something like that once with the ECM Burst I had fitted on my blockade runner. won't make that mistake again.
I did it right outside the station in Aunia once.............................................once.
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Demon View
24th Imperial Crusade Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2011.10.31 22:52:00 -
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I decided to make a profit in this fashion:
1. Look on universal market statistics on an out-of-game website to find the lowest price for trit, and the highest buy order for trit.
2. The lowest price was deep in nullsec. No worries! In order to not lose a ship on the way, I flew out to the nullsec station in my pod,
3. And filled the provided rookie ship with trit,
4. And undocked into something dark and scary and drone-belching that I couldn't warp away from. Still don't know what that was..
Can't say that it would've been much of a profitable adventure even if it'd worked out for me, you know? |
Vyvica
Happy Hooligans Burning Spear.
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Posted - 2011.10.31 22:57:00 -
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Nerdy Deadshot wrote:Lol welcome to eve. Might want to look into joining a corp with older high sec members in it... No lvl 1 should take multiple people except maybe the SOE epic arc.
What's older high sec members? Does that mean people who are from high sec space? |
J'Poll
IMPERIAL LEGI0N
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Posted - 2011.10.31 23:00:00 -
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Vyvica wrote:Nerdy Deadshot wrote:Lol welcome to eve. Might want to look into joining a corp with older high sec members in it... No lvl 1 should take multiple people except maybe the SOE epic arc.
What's older high sec members? Does that mean people who are from high sec space?
All players start out in High sec space (it wouldn't be fair to start in null) but he means people who live in High sec space for a long time. This usually means they have good mission agents and also be able to help new players to find their way in EvE J'Poll Director / Recruiter - Borealis Mining Concern Recruiter - Imperial Legi0n
As a finishing touch, God created the Dutch |
Gealla
Capital Storm. Bloodbound.
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Posted - 2011.10.31 23:01:00 -
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Pity we don't have all these on video, then we could do a "eve is real - bloopers" page ... |
J'Poll
IMPERIAL LEGI0N
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Posted - 2011.10.31 23:03:00 -
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Gealla wrote:Pity we don't have all these on video, then we could do a "eve is real - bloopers" page ...
I would gladly post the 4 things I mentioned before on youtube. Every time I think back to those days I laugh about how "stupid" I was. I also like to see that all newbs are making the same mistakes, which means I'm not that special (okay maybe the being ganked with a 2 PLEX in my hold was just plain stupidity) J'Poll Director / Recruiter - Borealis Mining Concern Recruiter - Imperial Legi0n
As a finishing touch, God created the Dutch |
Karn Dulake
Souls Must Be Trampled The.Alliance
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Posted - 2011.10.31 23:38:00 -
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i forgot to turn on my shields in a mission once and i was reading for forums at the same time. when i realised what was happening i was at about 50% hull. The hull alone costs 1.1 billion isk
Noob central |
Sabola Atar
Negative Balance Planetary Intercourse Recovery
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Posted - 2011.10.31 23:58:00 -
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I didn't know you could turn the shield hardeners "ON" |
Paragon Renegade
The Multinational Company.
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Posted - 2011.11.01 00:05:00 -
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Lowsec
DEAD OF NIGHT
Grizzled vet in an Apocalypse, Two guys in Hurricanes & me in a Rifter against a Megathron, Myrmidon, Tengu, Burst & Cyclone
We murdered a few of them
ten minutes later, the same guys come back in new ships. I panick, and click the closest "Red square" and warp jam him & scram him....... it turns out to be the guy in the Apocalypse on my team.
Because of that, he can't escape, he dies, my other two friends are gutted by the Tengu, and I make off like a bandit.
Good times "Man, you aren't actually trying to do this, right? Nobody is that stupid right?"
"How wrong you are" |
Daemeon Fyral
Kinda'Shujaa
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Posted - 2011.11.01 00:09:00 -
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Shooting a can flipper when I'd just started playing... not the smartest of moves, but I learned my lesson.
spending every last isk I had on items and hauling them out to 0.0 to try and make a quick buck a couple weeks in... in a mammoth... completely untanked and alone, didn't make it far.
the one that I still do on a depressingly regular basis. fly 10+ jumps for a mission only to get there and realize I forgot too hit accept.
fitting out a new ship flying out to where I generally mission while forgetting about this little thing called ammo.
Getting greedy while mining and trying to push things as close as I can to server shutdown and ending up loosing half my haul because I ran out of time to reclaim it.
Getting drunk while mining, passing out in my hulk and waking up in a pod.
EDIT: during the riots was trying to get some footage of the ships shooting at the monument, intended to click on another ship that was orbiting so I could get a different angle and out of habit ended up targetting/autoshooting them... concordokened. |
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