I was watching Chloroken but he has been going on extreemist political rants, and I'm not watching EVE content to be lectured. I've been looking to others to watch but its been more difficult than I've imagined.
Anyway who are your favorites and what platform are they on?
Alright, let's get started. If you happened to come into 1.5t ISK recently, how would you go about spending that money and, for example, building a foundation to grow it? What would you treat yourself to? Are you going to buy some Plex or Skill Extractors? I'm interested in your thoughts
How?? How Caldari State losing their most important Tradehub??
Funny or sad stories about this topic into the comments please :).
Playing EVE today. Winding down for the day. I was just mining Veldspar on a month old alt in a 0.5 hisec belt while I ran security missions on my main. I hear lock sounds and look over to my second monitor expecting to see the normal 2-4 lowly belt rats. Instead I see what looks like about 8-10 frigate and destroyer belt rats along with one named NPC locking my Pioneer. Wtf.exe. Start rapidly taking damage, but manage to warp off.
Decide to hop on my other account that is in that system with OK combat stats and investigate. (~37m SP, but mostly industry focused) .Hop in my trusty Phantasm. Surely this will be more than capable of the task. Warp to the belt at 50km, hoping they are still there and I can snipe them one by one for some nice bounties. Sure enough, there they are. And theres that named NPC...
Yellow box.
Red box.
I get two shots off with my lasers before it's on my Phantasm and under my guns, orbiting fast. Switch to t2 close range ammo. Still cant track. Script my tracking enhancer. Still not tracking. Toss my two Hornet IIs out as I begin to accept I have fucked up.
"WHY DONT I HAVE A WEB?".
I am now damped. Warp disrupted. Webbed. ECM from the support wing breaks my lock. Im being neuted on an active shield fit. Great. Im beginning to DEEPLY regret my curiosity. This Phantasm is the most expensive ship I own. Only blessing is I have a faction battery fit to make it BARELY cap stable and those bonuses against neuts give me some comfort, but Im now on the clock. My Pithum B-type shield booster is slowly being overwhelmed. I overheat my hardeners and my belief.
Time to feed this 750m Phantasm because I cant track this guy, and the drones arent doing enough.
The rest of the rats are within damage range now and things are looking bad for me.
Hail Mary: I un-dock in my t1 fit Vexor on the month old miner alt. Fleet myself. Warp to myself at 50k. Launch my lowly Caldari Navy Hornets, mostly hoping it would switch aggro and kill my Vexor. IT WORKS. The NPC aggros the Vexor and takes off to attack it, and for the first time I see its name: Panola Pataama. Now I am sure this is something different. Something special. I have never seen that name before.
My lasers start tracking.
Panola Paatama is in half armor. My shields on the Phantasm are recovering from about 20% without that dps. Turn off the heat on the hardeners. Im still panicking and trying to multibox (which im new to) and engage the other ewar threats that are part of the entourage with my Vexor, while keeping as much damage on Panola as I can. Good news is I am actually hitting with the Phantasm now. Suddenly, it disappears. Last I saw, it was about 10% hull but 40% shields.
Ok whatever I think. Maybe it warped off when i lost track of it for a minute. Ive seen rats do that on occasion. Lets focus on whats left on the field. Start popping the rest of the frigates and destroyers to break the other tackle. Get finished with that and add wrecks to my overview. "Oh shit there it is, it died"! I imediately burn over to check the wreck. Its an officer wreck. In high sec. I always thought that officers only spawned in 0.0 space.
I open it.
One beautiful purple rocket launcher and several other Dread Guristas modules, as well as a worm BPC. Total loot says 152m. Im like hey thats awesome! Maybe wasnt really worth risking my Phantasm for but hey, it was a cool experience. Loot and salvage the wrecks and dock up both characters while I let the adrenaline wear off. I inspect the loot now. Theres no price shown for the officer launcher. Ok, that makes sense, im in BFE, where theres obviously no local buy orders. Hop over to my jita alt.
Its 7.5 billion.
More isk than either of these characters have ever made combined.
I still cant believe A) I happened to be in the right place at the right time to see an officer spawn. B) RETURN with the second character to still find them in the belt. And C) survive to reap the rewards in two, unoptomized cheapish ships with mediocre combat skills.
Without a doubt one of the coolest experiences I've ever had in EVE.
Thanks for reading. Fly safe!
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I hope the horse is not dead yet.
Tranquility died slowly. A service that was being used went offline. Nothing on forums yet, please post if there is an ETA for it coming back.
1310 UTC: Manually check for game client update, download, and you can log back in. I'm in the game now.
Per the title.
RvB is an old-time classic that eventually died out. I think it could be popular again. I am willing to bankroll this and make it go. The difficulty now is that in order to maintain a war dec you have to have a structure, which wasn't a requirement before. You'd have to have both corps holding a structure that wouldn't just get nuked for the sake of it. This would require some folks in high places to be willing to help in addition to RvB participants to make sure that didn't happen.
But similar to the old RvB you have to accept an abundance of completely dumb war decs in addition to the standard engagement war. These extraneous wars are effectively content, it just sucks if the structures get nuked to turn off the war between the two. In "Ye Olde Days" the two would just go Purple, recruit each other as allies in the war, and go to town.
I think it could be fun, just wondering if people would be into it, or have alts to throw in there for the gud fites.
Got baited into quick fleet 3jumps away, ended up shooting ratting alts for 4h.
FC the area is very unhealthy. When you kill 30 th battleship with the same name just different number, just to see next to you few more fleets in the same format, you just want to logout when you realize that this is 1 guy multiboxing those fleets each day for insane isk faucet.
Yet no one in FC cares.
Region need a rework, if not from reward perspective then from connectivity perspective or even better.
At this point include it as part of your newbie area and adjust content there based on this.
All will be better than what is happening there now.
To be clear about the issue. We have a dozen of people, in disconnected region that generate huge faucet.
Area have bubbles and all possible mechanics that in normal area would limit or prohibit fleet level multi boxing. Yet because how unappealing this area is for other players, this kind of behaviour is the best approach there.
Something need to change asap
You’ve to be an idiot to get caught in hs with a covert ops ship.
https://zkillboard.com/kill/135404056/
We need to take Pochven back from the multiboxers running 20 accounts at once. The loot they haul is worth trillions of ISK because those items can be sold directly to NPC buy orders for guaranteed profit. As long as they control the sites, they will print money and devalue ISK if nobody pushes back against it. If we organize properly, we can contest their fleets, disrupt their farming, and claim a share of that income ourselves.
In the lore they said that each station contain millions of peoples.
I'm feeling culpit now.
Snuffed continue to menace lowsec with their big toys.
The acronym FC is way too overloaded in this game. Thank you, that is all.
It's the only area of space I've never lived in but have been hearing some wild shit including
- SRP for every destroyed ship, not just organized fleets
- Markets at half the cost of Jita price
- PLEX rewards for posting on Reddit
- Omega in exchange for hitting mining quotas
Surely that can't be for real...right?
On the other hand I've also heard horror stories so I have no idea what to make of it
edit: I'm getting a lot of both yes and no answers from people claiming to be from the same alliance/corp so I assume it's due to policy changes in the past compared to now, so for the sake of practicallity the questions are regarding the current state