i was thinking of doing a series of blogs based around my first time experiences in Eve Online. you know, first time i filled my bantam cargo hold full of veld, first time i put up a buy order, first time i destroyed an NPC pirate ship in 0.9 space, that kind of thing. real interesting stuff, no?
ok, maybe something a little more engaging. i’ll start off with the first time i saw my own metal and gears reduced to nothing but space cereal for rogue drones.
the first ship i lost was a caracal. it hurt. i mean, my heart pulled the sky down around me and i felt really uncomfortable and hard done by: a real sense of numbing disbelief and prolonged shock.
the scenario went a-thusly, and i’m sure you’ve all experienced it before:
me: hey man, come through to me i’m making so much money in here. there are cruiser rats…
wingman: ok, i just bought a moa be there soon
me: cool my caracal is ripping through them
wingman: wait, that’s a 0.4 system, we can get shot at
me: it’s cool, people are just ratting in the belts
wingman: ok
[time passes by. i've maybe made a whopping 100k ISK]
stupid bully 1: what are you doing here?
me: (convincingly nonchalant) just passing through…
stupid bully 2: :D
me: ah! return fire!
wingman: my guns are in a loading screen…or something. they don’t work…
me: omg, red stuff! what’s all this red stuff coming out of me!?
wingman: ok, i’ve got a lock, but my guns only shoot 4m now…
me: i think i’m out of petrol, i can’t move…
wingman: goooooose! nooooooooooooooooo!
stupid bully 1: lulnub
i look back on it now and it brings a smile to my face. i was so naive and so blissfully unaware that a large percentage of Eve players spend so much time with the game simply to kill other people. it’s not logical, it’s not rational but it sure does seem like a great way to blow of some steam: as an inter galactic ruffian.
it was disheartening at the time because i had spent a lot of time running level 1 missions to save up for that caracal which was 7 million ISK if memory serves. two years ago it wasn’t so easy to come by ISK as a new pilot…
it did however fuel my curiosity for pew pew which turned into a burning and somewhat sadistic passion for me. every time i would get that killing blow, every time i would insta lock and one volley a pod in my sniper eagle my lips would curl and i would curse the pirates who made me the shell of a pod pilot i am today.
anyone else have some firsts to share? give me a shout over, i’d like to read the other noob horrors of New Eden.
Tarisai Hsaun
May 27th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
I lost my first ship in WH Space. I got stuck there, remained in it for three days trying to probe out an exit wormhole (but failed time after time), and eventually committed suicide by flying my ship into a nest of Sleepers and self-destructing my pod. The shock was not in losing my ship or dying, as I saw it coming, but rather in how dangerous something that looked exciting at first, really was. I never expected that wormhole to collapse… And yet it did. That single event made me clear that, in EVE, bravery and stupidity are not to be confused.