[EVE] [Large Images] Fleet Battle Pics

[Peacemaker]

One of the most fun things you can do in EVE Online is engage in a gigantic alliance vs alliance fleet battle of Battleships slugging it out for supremacy of space. EVE Online recently upgraded their massive server cluster to some pretty serious yarrrrrware *thats a nick name* and tested it in a seprate server shard which they mirrored from the real EVE Shard. They then took all the safe space and turned it to lawless 0.0 space. The result? A normaly peacefull empire area guarded by cops and naval forces turned into a massive FFA of fleets pounding eachother into dust. A member of my corp took some Screenshots of the battles as they unfolded. I was lucky enough to be the active Fleet Commander during this. It was the most fun I have ever had in any game.

Pics! (Red boxes are the guy covering up his ship setup and secret chat channel names)

1.http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/647/pic001.jpg
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[Peacemaker]

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12.http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2084/pic0121lv.jpg
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[Peacemaker]

20.http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/7899/pic0204xy.jpg
21.http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/6904/pic0218mk.jpg
22.http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/3185/pic0225zl.jpg
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Phew! DAmn pic limit. More Info: Anything named Super "XX" like super vos is a GM who has an uber frig ship that his just fooling around. When our fleet warped in we scared the shit out of them and killed them, as per pic #10

btw our alliance is ASCN. The guy who took the pics is [ASCN] [EOG] Mr. Stargate (Eye of god is EOG)

Im [EOG] ActiveX btw... its one of my alts.

[Derfud]

yeah, they are just thumbnails...

[Hamma]

We need links to larget pics!

[Gryphon]

I can see them just fine, cept when I stand near kryptonite.

[Rbstr]

forgot all the links in the tags there buddy.

Was good fun, hammering the test server. It's made out of 70 of these (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/opteron/ls20/index.html) for the world(keeping track of people and space ect.)and a couple of these (http://www.superssd.com/products/ramsan-400/) for the database.

It kicks any other single shard's game server ass by a long shot I imagine. And is one of the reasons CCP is the best MMO developer/producer ever.

[QuakCow]

damn the thumbnails...


...i need to get another eve gametime card

[Hamma]

They actually gave away their server specs? Usually that's a pretty closely guarded industry secret. :eek:

[Setari]

Yea, but it should be common knowledge in the event that it's a setup that works really well. SOE and Blizzard can keep their secrets. :D

[Hamma]

More than just SOE and Blizz hehe

[Peacemaker]

Ill fix it right away! I dont know how to make them small thumbs that can be enlarged so im just gonna make them larger. If anyone tells me how to change them Ill fix em all.

[Rbstr]

Oh my god If a 56ker happened on this thread the modem would have just commited suicide, with a dull spoon.

CCP even shared how thier servers are set up. How the load ballencers, well, ballance things where the bottlenecks lie ect.

Honestly why keep it a secret? It's not like it prevents hackers(ps, eq, wow have all had them) It tells the comunity that they're serious about fixing lag issues. It build trust, it puts the compay in a place that makes people like me say they're awesome.

[Peacemaker]

Rofl rob. Hamma, plz lable not 56k friendly.

[QuakCow]

hmm...holy shit!? what has happened since the last time i played!?

[Peacemaker]

Uh.... lets see... where to start...
1. We went to war with teddies, kicked their ass
2. We got pwned by an merc alliance
3. We joined ASCN
4. I became a fleet command and pwned
5. I disagreed with something leadership did and my CEO flipped shit and kicked me from alliance. Electro and knight follow
6. I go merc and pwn some noobs who war deced CTRL ALT DEL fan club corp
7. I get invited to an invite only PVP alliance
8. I get invited to another ASCN corp that is much better than my old one
9. FF to now... still a FC... still pwning as you can see... getting a carrier.

[Gryphon]

http://url.to/smallimg.jpg

- the *

[internetn]

Uh.... lets see... where to start...
1. We went to war with teddies, kicked their ass
2. We got pwned by an merc alliance
3. We joined ASCN
4. I became a fleet command and pwned
5. I disagreed with something leadership did and my CEO flipped shit and kicked me from alliance. Electro and knight follow
6. I go merc and pwn some noobs who war deced CTRL ALT DEL fan club corp
7. I get invited to an invite only PVP alliance
8. I get invited to another ASCN corp that is much better than my old one
9. FF to now... still a FC... still pwning as you can see... getting a carrier.

Heh, my career sorta went like this.. (or still is)


1. We went to war with teddies, kicked their ass
2. We got pwned by an merc alliance
3. Floated around in Emp space in a Dest
4. Shot some pirates
5. Floated in Emp space some more
6. Trained about 4.4mill skill points
7. Sit in some Jita Space station for the last month

Grant it, 3 - 7 is largely my fault.. But with that one damed bug it makes it hard to go anywhere to long.

[Rbstr]

4. I became a fleet command and pwned
5. I disagreed with something leadership did and my CEO flipped shit and kicked me from alliance. Electro and knight follow

While it's all :drama: and I'm a :nodrama: kind of guy but I'm sorry Peace, your not the victim you make it sound like.

You wern't made an FC you self-appointed yourself to FC. It gave you a bit of an inflated ego, and that rubbed alot of people the wrong way(that's why most DDC leadership hates you btw. partly seen on sunday with the DDC fleet).

Me, I can easily put up with your character, but quite a few other's can't. That's why you had issues with solst leadership, they're are very easy going, you are not. They play the game "Hurray this is fun!", you play the game "THIS IS FUN PUCK-ASS-MOTHERFUCKER".


but let see, me
Joined XETIC(before the PSDU/Sharks war)
Made some money
Moved to impass when ASCN split from Xetic
killed people up north
had to fall out of game for a few months
back now(hopefully)killing more people up north.
Trying to become a merc with a few others in the near future.

[xmodum]

Uh.... lets see... where to start...
1. We went to war with teddies, kicked their ass
2. We got pwned by an merc alliance
3. We joined ASCN
4. I became a fleet command and pwned
5. I disagreed with something leadership did and my CEO flipped shit and kicked me from alliance. Electro and knight and Xmodum follow
6. I go merc and pwn some noobs who war deced CTRL ALT DEL fan club corp
7. I get invited to an invite only PVP alliance
8. I get invited to another ASCN corp that is much better than my old one
9. FF to now... still a FC... still pwning as you can see... getting a carrier.

Fixed.

[Hamma]

No damn EVE :drama: in this forum please :p
Honestly why keep it a secret? It's not like it prevents hackers(ps, eq, wow have all had them) It tells the comunity that they're serious about fixing lag issues. It build trust, it puts the compay in a place that makes people like me say they're awesome.

Because it's alot of work to perfect these things, giving it away gives away your secrets thus another company can come along and possibly steal said ideas to build an even better server cluster. It's just common business sense hehe - it's like turning over the atom bomb plans to Japan back in the day :lol:

Overall the game looks a bit to confusing to me :p

[Rbstr]

Honestly CCP is the kind of company that would love to share what works well.

Espeicaly if a company wants to sink that kind of money into a MMO of the same calibur.

[Peacemaker]

Rob, frankly I dont care what ya say... I started leading gangs alot. I became recognized as a FC. It didnt rub anyone the wrong way except possibly you and everay. Infact I havnt said one thing on the forums suggesting that I have large ego because of being a FC. You wanna talk about that Everay did the same thing when yall joined xetic. He came prancin into the room and said he was an FC b.c he led a gang of 10 people for an hour. Ive led northern raids, PF-346 raids, and home defence. I say im an FC because I steped up to the plate like cyvok asked people to. You gonna call me a liar or say im using it to inflate my ego? Screw you too. Im doing what comes natural to me. Being a leader. DDC does not hate me, I talk to them alot. CEO Pyrex and I were talkin for a while after the battle on sunday. Nothing went wrong on sunday sept a little communications break down. I didnt make my self to be a victim. I disagreed with what Cyvok did, he basicly said "your on thin ice." and cordy said "Nah Ill boot him." As for the rest of DDC leadership hating me... they hate ANYONE who takes a leadership position b/c they think they should be kings of all. And FYI EOG is a laid back corp, and I fit right in. Lofty goals and a spirit to achive them. I didnt fit in SOLST b/c Solst was like "Eh, its just a game." EOG is like "Its a game where you can be someone!" and I want to be someone. I am quickly climbing up the ladder.

P.S. if ya wanna continue the convo, we can take it to the IG PSU chan

P.S.S. I have an ego. So does MT... so does half the leaders of the alliance... I really dont care if they dont like me. I know ALOT of general ASCN members who do. Cyvok likes me. Extreme my CEO likes me. My new corp mates like me. Thats all that matter.

[Electrofreak]

No damn EVE :drama: in this forum please :p


Because it's alot of work to perfect these things, giving it away gives away your secrets thus another company can come along and possibly steal said ideas to build an even better server cluster. It's just common business sense hehe - it's like turning over the atom bomb plans to Japan back in the day :lol:

Overall the game looks a bit to confusing to me :p
CCP advertises how thier servers are set up partly because they really like to show off how dedicated they are. And, they really are. When people complained about database lag when moving items and such, they spent who knows how much money on solid-state high-speed drives. When people complained about lag in space they bought 70 of these IBM servers with 64-bit AMD processors, and upgraded everything today. All patches and expansions are free, and when the game devs go to fan faires they make a point to get falling-down drunk for their fans and give stuff away. EVE Online even has it's own quarterly magazine now, "EVE-O".

All in all, I've gotta say, CCP is the coolest damn game company ever. The best part is they are their own publisher, there is nobody telling them what to do but the game developers themselves. The game has a pretty good player base right now (over 100,000) and while it's not near WoW proportions by a long shot, they don't need to deal with a publisher pocketing most of the profits.

As for EVE being complicated, that's probably it's main selling point. This game is NOT your kiddie MMO. It tends to attract older, more mature players because of this fact, and in my experience has a more mature community than most. The game doesn't have a clear cut path, it is what you make it. It's a totally freestyle game and thus is pretty amazing as a result. The level of politics and economics and tactics you can get involved in within EVE is mind-staggering. It's also absolutely massive, with at least a thousand unique solar systems forming an actual galaxy that is simply huge.

The game also carries with it a higher level of risk than most other MMOs. While you can insure your ships, the more expensive / better ones tend to have less payout / cost more to insure. It's possible to lose a ship that you spent a week working on building in a matter of seconds in PvP, and while it seems like this would make the game stressful (and perhaps, sometimes it is a bit nerve-wracking) it means that people in general play the game a lot more cautiously and smarter than you'll see in other MMOs, emphasizing the importance of using your head in EVE. The game can be unforgiving at times, and CCP allows crime to be part of that universe. So if you want to be a pirate and blow people away, or even try to be a thief and/or scammer, it's all allowed. This doesn't make EVE a griefers paradise however, as the ability to declare war on enemies, set bounties on enemies, have revenge kill rights contracts, and the protection of NPC police provides players with the ability to protect themselves.

Like I said in another thread, EVE is sorta like chess. A tricky game to play, and certainly not a quick casual game you can sit down and play in a couple minutes, but the satisfaction you get when you achieve a goal (or just blast some guy's battleship into dust) is pretty intense. PvP in EVE is more exciting than a FPS in the way it gets my blood pumping. Perhaps it's the risk involved, the fast pace of most combat scenarios, or seeing your hard work pay off when you succeed that makes it so fun.

Lastly (and yeah, I know I'm making this into a book), it's definately a social game. Half of EVE is finding friends and getting into a good corp that can help support you. It can make or break the game for a new player if he doesn't find a group that is fun and supportive. Playing solo isn't really all that fun IMO, the game is very much based around group play. It integrates it into the game very well, with clans known as "corporations" and essentially being a business in the EVE universe. Each corporation tends to have it's own goal for making cash and gaining its members power and infamy. Whether it's hiring out as mercenaries in wars between other corporations, pirating other players, building weapons and ships, running missions or claiming vast stretches of contested space, you pretty much have your choice.

It's a damn good game. :D

EDIT- and Rob, Peace isn't just blowing it out his ass. He is an official Fleet Commander of the Eye of God Navy, with myself being a Lieutenant Commander. We've literally got billions in funding. When both of us get into Carriers next month, the corp will be providing us with everything we need, from the expensive skills to the ships and fighters themselves, for free. In return we, and our couple-dozen Navy members, have pledged to make EOG an important part of the ASCN combat fleet. With our own outpost being put up soon (along with a second shortly after that) EOG and ASCN will be developing additional assets that will need protection by a dedicated combat force, not just a bunch of people who slap heavy launchers onto their ospreys when word goes out that an invasion force is incoming.

I'm not rippin on ya man, but the elitist attitude that I've been seeing from you and certain other PSU members who started playing EVE really killed some of the respect I've had for you folks. It's easy to forget who taught you how to play from the seat of his Tech 2 frigate, then kill a couple people in PvP and turn around and tell said person that you know more about the game than he does. Frankly, it was offensive to those of us who brought you guys into the game, and has resulted in some bad blood, and your constant critque does little to improve things.

If you don't think we have the experience you do, fine, you're entitled to that opinion, but please keep it to yourself. I know Peace's bragging bothers you, but the rest of us who play alongside him have learned to accept his ego as part of his personality, and also realize that he DOES have some bragging rights. Everyone has their own bragging rights to be honest, and it really doesn't need to end up being a pissing contest. Drama is stupid. If you can't get along with us, play the game your way and we'll play it ours, it's as simple as that.

:nodrama:

[TresheR]

/me was in Ikuchi too. 2 consecutive days. Although the lag got me the mast evening, it was still great fun.

I only have 6,5m sp, but still made some nice kills.
On the second evening we formed a gang to to remove the station gankers, which worked to some extent.

After that we just started to gank everything too. :rolleyes:

Lag was horrible the last time I warped to station. Took forever to load, and I was in my pod when I could finally see something.
That might be due to the massive amounts of cans and drones around, and a lack of RAM on my machine.

http://users.pandora.be/yve/Crazy1.png


And that was just the first day, when the serious fighting still had to start.
The second time was way worse, over 120 people in system at some point, with most of them at that station.

[Electrofreak]

ThresheR, if you're interesed, add the "PSU" channel to your chat bar, thats where the majority of us PSU forumers sit and chat in-game :)

[TresheR]

Ok, i'll check it out.

Just on a trial account though. (on PS that is)

[Hamma]

Unless i can build a death star and lay waste to anything that come's my way I'm out. :lol:

[Peacemaker]

.... then your in. The titan ship has the undenably most intense firepower of anything ever imagined in the eve universe. Capable of unleashing a super weapon that can destroy everything withing 200km (very large area) it is arguebly the most influencial ship in the game to own. No one has any yet.. it takes almost 2 years to fly them. But when you can... its flown by not just you, but by an alliance. Whome ever wins the titan race in eve will gain unparralleled military might, and political power. And my money is on ASCN. We have everything we need, just waiting for a few skill points to finish for the builders to build it...

P.S. It takes a LONG time to train for this ship... but its worth it... and along the way you do learn other ships. They are just prereqs... I strongly suggest anyone who wants a new game to play to try EVE. Having a friend in the biggest alliance in the game isnt a bad thing either.

btw Elec, that comment to rob... QFT man... TY for backing me up a bit. But... did you just say I have bragging rights??? This is a first! /me straps on his anti armageddon suit (no not the ship)

[Electrofreak]

Unless i can build a death star and lay waste to anything that come's my way I'm out. :lol:
They blew up a planet in one of the faction's home world systems the other night. :p

EDIT- and yes, Peace, I did. We all do. We have a kickass corp willing to provide us with whatever we need to succeed, and you get to call most of the shots. I'd say that warrants bragging rights.

[Evilmp]

Aye! My good computer is broke and it took me a good 15 mins to scroll down here to the quick reply and say: thumbs please! :)

Also, even though I used to play EVE, I have no idea what any of it means O.o Looks cool though.

EDIT: Broke..meaning..I'm on a very slow one hehe.

also..I just remembered. The very last day of the beta for EVE, Armageddon. I bought a Titan :P but I was stupid and forgot to get any weapons for it x.X so it got blown up as soon as I undocked by another Titan.

[Lartnev]

ASCN smell :P~

[Setari]

I'm fairly sure that I'm gonna sub to EVE soon. I've played the trial a few times and I've been pretty pleased with it, though there is a bit of frustration from the learning curve. I'll mention it when I get subbed.

[Hamma]

I've tried 4 times to get to the official eve site today and it never loads.

[QuakCow]

mmm...sad to see theres conflict amongst the old group...

i dont think i want to get back into eve anymore...shit, im a fucking goldfish and yall are megaladons

[internetn]

They blew up a planet in one of the faction's home world systems the other night. :p

EDIT- and yes, Peace, I did. We all do. We have a kickass corp willing to provide us with whatever we need to succeed, and you get to call most of the shots. I'd say that warrants bragging rights.

Not me...

Right now EVE is being a bitch and is not letting me log in anymore...

[Peacemaker]

Unfortunatly EVE just had a MASSIVE server upgrade. Thankfully the devs decided to put up the game before the forums and main site. It should be up within a day or two. They always do their homework... and when someting Fs up, they dont sit and wait for the next patch to fix it... they roll back.

P.S. Lartnev what corp / alliance are you in?

Quackcow plz come back. We will be glad to have you! We miss you! Besides you can get some serious isk out here.

Setari I would love to also you have you. Friends from PSU are always welcome. The gang will do our best to help you out.

[internetn]

Unfortunatly EVE just had a MASSIVE server upgrade. Thankfully the devs decided to put up the game before the forums and main site. It should be up within a day or two. They always do their homework... and when someting Fs up, they dont sit and wait for the next patch to fix it... they roll back.

P.S. Lartnev what corp / alliance are you in?

Quackcow plz come back. We will be glad to have you! We miss you! Besides you can get some serious isk out here.

Setari I would love to also you have you. Friends from PSU are always welcome. The gang will do our best to help you out.

Peace you told me to go to Nonni to see about EOG.. I went to Nonni... Didn't find EOG. I did some detective work and now I'm on a 20 jump journey...

[Ivan]

I've tried 4 times to get to the official eve site today and it never loads.
Hamma, if you get into this game I'll be forced to also. :) Sounds like I could have fun playing this game.

[Hamma]

hehe I may consider trying it - is there some kind of trial? Do I have to spend monay? :lol:

[Peacemaker]

There is a 14 day trial...

Intern Sobaseki X Moon 12 Propel Dynamics Factory is the office. Im sorry the Nonni Office was closed when the rent became too expensive and I wasnt informed Channler. www.eyeofgod.nl you have to apply here on their forums first. Make sure you drop my / electro / knights name (Im ActiveX to them not peace) in your forum ap.

Hamma if you play me and Electro will definatly help you out. I have no doubt we will bribe you with some iskies. Maybe take you on a PVP adventure in G Space (germans suck)

[xmodum]

15 Bucks a month and 20 up front if you buy it, or the 14 day free trial.

However you get it, find the Chat button on the left side, and add "PSU" to your chat box, that's where we all hang.

EDIT: I'll give Hamma like 10 mill to stay in the game :D I'v got some free iskies, pleeeease play hamma.


I'm sure the devs would recognize your leetness and hand you over a free titan with the skills for free if you joined.

[Hamma]

:lol:

I don't know if they'd start giving me free stuff - would be hot if they did :p

I found https://secure.eve-online.com/ft/?aid=100972&nogreet=1 but for some odd reason I'm not getting the e-mails from it? Dunno. Will give it another try tomorrow or just wait - time for sleep. I downloaded the client from FilePlanet either way.

Edit: that form must be busted.. I am getting other emails now. I will try it tomorrow..

[Rbstr]

Realy you don't buy the game so much as you buy an account, you can DL the client whenever, and there's no key or anything to activate.

When you pay the $20 for setup you also get a month of game time, so you essentialy buy the game for $5. All content after that is included in the monthly fee, and major content patches/expantions (Exodus, Cold war, Red moon rising, etc.) come out every so often, roughly twice yearly.


They just upgraded the server to that 64bit opteron wtf-pwnage server, known affectionaly as "Yaaaaardware" and eve-online.com is still down, when it get's back up I can get you guys buddy-trial thingies.


edit: oh yeah...
VERY IMPORTANT DO NOT MAKE CHARACTERS WITH HIGH CHARISMA ATTRIBUTES IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SUFFER TRAINING COMBAT SKILLS.

Also If you guys use my buddy trial, and subscribe I'll buy you a collection of all the important basic skills you need, I can win a free mug or something if you do! Hell I'll cover up to 2mil in skills for nearly anyone that subscribes, Everay did it for me, I'll do it for you guys.

[Peacemaker]

I already got it rob. Me and electro were just talkin about it. Yea... anyone who is gonna do a trail... PLEASE contact someone to teach you how to make a good character. Bad characters are detrimental to your game play. If your going to do it your self you want

High Perception + Willpower as high as you can
Intel and Memory should be secondary to them
Charisma is last on the list

[Rbstr]

I'm a fan of ballanced attributes, except charisma, it helps with the learning skills especialy.

Ok eve-o is back up, gime your email and i can send you a trial.

[BUGGER]

Oh my god If a 56ker happened on this thread the modem would have just commited suicide, with a dull spoon.
Woulda been worse if he also had AOL.


Thank god i left that bus 3 months ago:D



On another note, that game looks intense. I think i mistook it for another game. I'm so buying it for like a day.

[Peacemaker]

Hamma already has the link to the free trial rob.

[Lartnev]

*Lartnev sets up gate camp to welcome Hamma :sniper:

[Hamma]

You play too Lart?

[Peacemaker]

1. Lartnev who are you in game?

2. OMFG G/IRON WENT -10 TO ALL OF THE NORTH! THE NORTH SHALL BURN!
http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=297994

Score. This means two things.

1. Easy kills
2. Iron / G will fall. THey cant fight the entire north. Yea baby yea!

[Lartnev]

I do indeed play EvE but since we're probably enemies I won't be telling you who to pick on :D

Edit: I'm not in Iron or G before you ask :)

[Peacemaker]

Oh common lart. I aint gonna go out to kill you. At least just tell me the alliance / corp. If your in an alliance, just the alliance...

[Lartnev]

FREGE :bananasex

[Hamma]

Lart is running Incognito :brow:

[QuakCow]

mmm...maybe ill drop by on a trial to see whats changed since my acount ran

[Ouroboros]

Ugh, maybe I should resubscribe as well? o_O

[Hamma]

:rawr: Ouro

[QuakCow]

scratch that...found it

[Rbstr]

give me an email addy so I can send one, I don't think you can get one otherwise.

[xmodum]

Frege Allaince Lart? I was in that alliance when I first made my current char in Sobe's corp. Left and joined Solst. I thought Frege were dead....

[Peacemaker]

Frege arnt dead... arnt even [-] to us..... just neutral.... Rob, hamma already has an account key... im setting him up now.

[QuakCow]

i gots mah key....now i just need to update my ancient eve client because i dont feel like updating...and rob, as long as i you kill my in my noob ship im fine with it ;)

[Hamma]

Well I tried it out - so far it's pretty cool. They should really start you off with more skills though :eek: I had to wait 2 hours to get in a ship that was useful.

[Peacemaker]

Yea. When ever I get a chance Im going to try and get ahold of a Dev or something on thier IRC server and ask them about that. Also it appears agression timer is bugged a bit. I would hope that it gets fixed... I wouldnt want to lose a raven to that.

Hamma, sorry I didnt show up at 10. I hadnt slept in 2 or three days for more than an hour so I was completly out of it. I will deffinatly beable to help you all night tonight though. Fully recharged. I got stuff to do in empire anyways.... Ill take you on a level 1 or level 2 agent mission and you can try NPCing.

[Hamma]

:lol:

Yea I went back in last night and started training lvl 3 ships (whatever that is called) and I flew around a bit doing the simple training missions in my new whip - I owned up some drone carrying radioactive waste.. this was after I already flew there once and realised I needed to actually have AMMO for my weapons. :lol:

[Lartnev]

:lol:

Just you wait, and this WILL happen, until you're doing an agent mission, fly halfway across the galaxy on a transport cargo mission and then only after docking realise that you've forgotten to transfer the cargo into your hold before departing.

The undock timer just adds insult to injury :D

And yes xmodum, I'm in the FREGE alliance, not the corp :)

[QuakCow]

mmm..well thats lame, im back ingame under the name unit qc562 ...but on my home computer i cant talk to anyone...im playing the worlds largest single player rpg :(

[Rbstr]

Some people have flown out of 0.0 60 jumps to sell thier 70mil-100mil in Zydrine and get podded with in one jump of safe space.

That hurts.

[Hamma]

So I had my first PVP this evening. I was rolling with Peace and Xmodem in 0.4 space and they were using me as bait to get some PVP in (Which I had no problem with was actually kinda fun) I started getting attacked and called in for help - peacemaker shows up just as I die... but Xmodum does not. I think he was at the local strip club or something - because they didn't get the guy that killed me.

Xmodem = banned.

:lol:

[Peacemaker]

bastard wasnt alligned for warp. I got there jamed the maller and saved hammas pod. Xmo, who was the designated scrambler of course didnt align for hammas position and arived just as he left.

Edit: after a long night of testing T2 ammo I tried my eagle with long range T2 ammo

2006.02.25 04:42:40<t><color=0xffff0000>combat<t><color=0xffbbbb00>Your 250mm Railgun II perfectly strikes LorD PhalanX , wrecking for 396.9 damage. Range - 195km

and I can hit out to 233k... just cant target that far

[xmodum]

My Scanner was bugged! It showed him on the other side of the fricken system then I see Peace warping the other way :(

Ban CCP, not me! :D

[Hamma]

:love:

[Peacemaker]

shut up and keep picking up the pieces of hamma's ass scattered all over that belt...

[Electrofreak]

ownzored! hehe, well at least being a noob PVP is easy because you really don't have much to lose. especially when you have leet rich pplz like us to give you ships :p

[Peacemaker]

Sorry I missed ya last night electro. I crashed at around 12:20... was too tired. I didnt get much sleep last night but now Im good. I gotta show you this new eagle setup... I acctualy need to train Long Range Targeting up a few levels so I can target things. So far Ive gotten the range to 233km on the eagle. Max targeting range 222. Ive had to work on my electronics skills for a while. Also Ive got one optimal range gunnery skill level that I missed. Only a 7 day train so thats for this week...

[OneManArmy]

that game just sounds like the biggest time sink hole game ever made... looks cool, but ugh i need more than just play for X amount of hours so you can kick Y amount of ass.

[Hamma]

yea theres alot of variables to it - it's interesting though.

And yes Electro - after i got pwned Peace hooked me up with a new whip :lol:

[Ivan]

Sweet, I'm going to have to give Eve a try again. I was in the beta, but my kick ass Voodoo 3 card couldn't run it very well at the time. :lol:

[Peacemaker]

OMA. TBH its just the opposite. The games time based skill training is active when your logged off. You could do the 14 day trial, find the longest skill available to train (Probably frigate level 5) and train it on the last day of trial. Subscribe to the game with your trail account 30 days later and bam. You have trained one of the lower advanced skills before anyone else that started playing has. Alot of the time Ill let one of my acounts go inactive training a mega skill. And TBH if your talkin about PVP the #1 most valuble players in PVP are tacklers, newbies in frigs flying around a battleships slow tracking guns, keeping it from warping.

[Electrofreak]

yeah EVE is a real good game for those of us with jobs to play... the skill trains when you're offline so your character progression is mostly time based. Since it only takes a couple weeks to fly a single type of ship in PVP well, it's not hard to become a good PVPer even shortly after starting to play the game. It's also easy to become an asset to a group by being a tackler or an electronics warfare platform even only a few days into the game. It's not all about having huge amounts of firepower or every skill in combat to Level 5.

[Peacemaker]

Other than having the basic support skills up the best part about eve is that you can specalize in one type of combat and do better at it than a 2 or 3 year old char could... Like if you spent 3 months training up Navigation skills, rocket skills, and caldari frigate 5, you would have better interceptor skills than me... thats cause I didnt specalise in them, I just trained enough to fly them relativly well in combat, while a spec person could fly them to the max ofthe ships abilities. Specialisation is the key.

[Hamma]

I see a ton of people flying around transport craft too moving assets from one location to another. That appeals to me a bit but it seems it woudl take quite a while to get to that point and you'd be gimped in PVP :lol:

[Setari]

I'm sure they probably have a combat char. Seems like it would be hard to just be a space trucker.

EDIT: Also, I assume most of them are running ore and stuff, while there are some that do courier missions?

[Ivan]

Hamma, we should start a l33t trucker corp! :lol: I might start a trial later this week.

[Setari]

subbed. ^_^

Just need to finish downloading the client and I'll be in-game.

[Rbstr]

I'm sure they probably have a combat char. Seems like it would be hard to just be a space trucker.

EDIT: Also, I assume most of them are running ore and stuff, while there are some that do courier missions?


A trucker is doing one of a number of things, moving manufactured stuff around to sell or stage in a certian system(ships/mods, player made stuff), moving ore for refine, moving Minerals to sell or to a factory, doing courier missions, or doing trade routes.

Trade routes: you buy a bunch of stuff from NPC's then you fly the stuff to another location and hopefully sell it for a higher price, but other factors affect the market.

[Electrofreak]

Hauler pilots usually just move ore or trade commodities. Some of the richer ones will actually move ships and items for profit, sometimes just by buying low somewhere and selling high somewhere else. Those who really get their skills up will buy a freighter, which has the capacity of dozens of haulers, and these often get paid by clients (usually manufacturers) who actually hire them and pay upwards of a million a jump to move a bulk of items.

Sometimes haulers need to move materials through dangerous space for their client, and sometimes will have several others escort them or use a blockade runner hauler to try to make it through alive. This obviously costs even more money. Because of this, more and more manufacturers are training to be haulers themselves, which is making it a harder industry to do as a sole means of income. Most haulers are becoming manufacturers or are PVP players who use their hauling abilities to make money to fund their addiction for losing ships.

The complexity in this game is crazy I'm tellin yah :p

(Oh and a word of advice... don't do player courier missions. They're rarely profitable and some of them are scams where they make you pay a collateral, then find you and kill you to collect it.)

[xmodum]

Wow. Just wow.

Electro, his brother, Peacemaker, and me are all in the in-game alliance "Ascendant Frontier", we just has basicly the largest snowball fight ever. (CCP the game's creators released "snowball launchers", which fired snowballs at people and they exploded when they hit you, causing no damage, just cool effects, last christmas)

So to test the game's new servers, that CCP just got for the game, our alliance got everyone to log on, passed out the thousands of launchers and snowballs we had, and we wanted to test the new servers.

They work perfectly. We had 272 people logged on in the same spot and the only problem was client side lag, no problems fromt he server. We warped from a station to a gate at the same time (If you know how big a Battleship is, think of 250 of those in a tightly-packed circle) and we formed a circle in-warp and landed directly around the gate. bullseye.

I'll be spending the next hour trying to upload the pics I have. It was awesome.

1: Before, meeting up at the station
http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/479/200602261810269la.th.png (http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602261810269la.png)

2: Meeting up at the sun to get gang invites out
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/8080/200602261810352vw.th.png (http://img501.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602261810352vw.png)

3: Waiting at station for Cyvok, our Allaince leader to log on
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5127/200602261810474bt.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602261810474bt.png)

4: Sun again
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7691/200602261811188ib.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602261811188ib.png)

5: A Dreadnought, one of the biggest ships in the game, but not THE biggest.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2357/200602261811317ta.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602261811317ta.png)

6 : A group of Battleships, the biggest mainstream ships out there, and most powerful.
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3493/200602261811425tq.th.png (http://img501.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602261811425tq.png)

7: Line of battleships undocking with newly fitted snowball launchers.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5209/200602261846340qj.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602261846340qj.png)

8: Another shot of a group of Battleships.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7083/200602262000223rf.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602262000223rf.png)

9: Just a big blob of battleships.
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/5086/200602261958249px.th.png (http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602261958249px.png)

10: A picture of Cyvok getting hit with a snowball, as soon as he undocked everyone targeted him and shot snowballs.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2883/200602262006440ns.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602262006440ns.png)

11: Another show of him getting pwned by snowballs.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8361/200602262006547xk.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602262006547xk.png)

[xmodum]

12: A picture of half of the fleet initiating the warp to the other half of the fleet.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/912/200602262013529kv.th.png (http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602262013529kv.png)

13: Our fleet beinginng warp.
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6467/09retry23bj.th.png (http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=09retry23bj.png)

14: A picture of the fleet coming out of warp. Notice the multiple jet trails from the ships, I love that.
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/24/26retry6ek.th.png (http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=26retry6ek.png)

15: Another shot of that.
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/1964/200602262014380dp.th.png (http://img506.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602262014380dp.png)

16: The entire fleet lining up to warp onto a jumpgate.
http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/4278/200602262017142la.th.png (http://img506.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602262017142la.png)

17: Warming up to warp the fleet.
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8250/05retry6eg.th.png (http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=05retry6eg.png)

18: A great shot of the sun in the background, and a carrier (big-ass ship) up front on the bottom right corner.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4278/27retry25me.th.png (http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=27retry25me.png)

19: Shot of the fleet with no tags on, all of us are coming to the end of the warp and we get real-tight packed into a cricle.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6355/200602262019496cp.th.png (http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602262019496cp.png)

20: Another pic of us close together with tags on.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1394/49retry0uv.th.png (http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=49retry0uv.png)

21: The best shot, the engine trails of 272 ships coming off them at the end of the warp.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/5802/53retry4da.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=53retry4da.png)

22: And the bullseye where the gate goes right into the hole we left in-warp.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/446/200602262020007jf.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200602262020007jf.png)

23: And just your usual bumpercar event with 200+ BS's on a gate.
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2439/06retry6cy.th.png (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=06retry6cy.png)

[Hamma]

Holy Crap :lol: Those carriers are big.

Thanks for that insight on truckers Electro ;) It actually does appeal to me quite a bit to move from A to B selling and making money in a massive ship. But I like PVP too - so I will have to just toy around.

I noticed they dont even let you train up in freighters with 14 day trials anyway.

[OneManArmy]

I was about to say, I'd play this poop pile with ya and be your trucker buddy lol. as long as we get to talk in CB lingo and wear funny hats.

[Peacemaker]

No one is gonna stop you... and hamma IDK how the hell you could train frieghters within the 14 day trial... getting Indy to 5 takes almost 20 days as is...

[Hamma]

You cant it wont let trial accounts do it hehe - says in the descript

[Rbstr]

it takes 20days or so to train industrial 5 anyway.

[Hamma]

Yar I'm just going to play with combat/pvp during the trial - if i sub then I will decide where to go from there.

[snowwolfe]

I may consider this game as well, if I do I will post the name I choose, wont be snowwolfe.

[Electrofreak]

Nice pics xmod! A pity I missed that. I can't wait for my carrier! Only a little over a month away. Some day I'll be flying a mothership...

:gets misty look in his eye:

Anyhow, I've got the next 2 days off work so I guess I'll be seein some of you folks in game! :)

[Hamma]

What the hell is a mothership :confused:

[OneManArmy]

ok I got one question.

is there like a missle frigate ship or whatever? you know a ship that uses a barrage of deadly missles to fuck shit up?

if so I might have to be all over this.

[Peacemaker]

Yea, the kesstrel. Thats a frig. Takes some skills to get 4 missle launchers to fit on it though.

The caracal is the cruiser version of the same ship.

The raven is the battleship version of the same ship.

Oh yea. A mother ship is a bigger carrier, nothing more nothing less. Me and electro will be piloting the same Mship. We will both have the skills for it and they are too expensive for two...

[Lartnev]

You forgot the baby Raven, the Ferox :D

[OneManArmy]

what do you mean will take some skills to fit 4 on?

[Hamma]

For some reason the devs made it so you cannot equip all 4 bays with missile turrets - so you have to train up some things in order to do so. :D

[Lartnev]

Missile bays ;)

Probably have to train up engineering or somesuch but my Kestrels can mount 4 with ease. As you will find later on, support skills play an increasingly large part in what you can or can't mount on ships :)

[Hamma]

I prefer to mount my ship with a western style saddle :brow:

[OneManArmy]

ok well ive been convinced enough to give it a try.

any particular server and or faction or whatever i should join.?

[Ivan]

I prefer to mount my ship with a western style saddle :brow:
Hmm that's funny cause that's how Jenny said you like to be mounted too.:eek: :love:

[Rbstr]

OMA pay attention, there is only one server :p

Race does not truley matter on the game, you can train any skill without penalty, just find one that you like the looks of, but fiddle with your character, you want the lowest charisma points possible, and the others need to be ballanced or higher in perception/willpower.

If want to do missles start as Caldari.
Hybrids(rail guns) go gallente
Beam go Amarr
Cannons go Minmatar

You aren't limited to any of those, but they will determin what you start with(traning another weapon type is like a a 15minute skill)

You can easily fit 4 rocket launchers on a kessy, you'll have more fun that way too.

[Ouroboros]

Do a barrel roll!

[OneManArmy]

bah I dont pay attention. I like my information thrown into my face. :p

I want painfully easy and obvious. ;)

[Peacemaker]

Gimme a call on IRC before you start your char. Ill help you set it up.

[Ivan]

bah I dont pay attention. I like my information thrown into my face. :p

I want painfully easy and obvious. ;)
Sorry has to be done...

That's not the only thing you like thrown in your face. :love:

[OneManArmy]

thats my boy!!!

damn i missed you fucker.


and where ya at peace?

[Electrofreak]

we're in the PSU channel in EVE. Click the Join/Create channels button (looks like a little chat bubble) and type in PSU, and thats where we're at. we'll give you free stuff and money. :D

Or... if you aren't in game... uh... I'll get Peace to get his ass into IRC

[OneManArmy]

oh shit yea!! daddy loves free stuff without "favors" :brow:


my boys!

[Electrofreak]

I'll even buy you some missile-spammer frigs :p you can easily fit 4 if you use rocket launchers (short range missiles) and have a lot of fun raining your opponent with a hail of tiny missiles, or with a bit of training, fit 4 longer range launchers that pack more punch

[OneManArmy]

oh fuck yea! you my beverly drinking homie!

I'll buy you a round, hell a case. ;)

[Electrofreak]

I'd rather some Yeunglieng or Labatts but alright :p

[Peacemaker]

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=299970 Basic skills any pilot needs in eve.

[Hamma]

Where the heck is this:
http://www.eve-online.com/screenshots/24112004/04f.jpg

I want to go there :lol:

[OneManArmy]

woo!. I have offically been pimped. thanks electro and crew.

bling bling!!!


and yea i wanna go there too, looks like a fun way to die.

[Peacemaker]

Thats the last place you want to go. Thats one of the most pirate infested areas in all of EVE. Its syndicate.....

[Hamma]

Nice. I could just take my shuttle in for a look around :brow:

[Lartnev]

Is that the Eve gate system?

[Hamma]

I was checking out some screens and threads about the player manufactured outposts - pretty insane. I want to get out into that territory and start helping :p

Still a ways off I guess though in my little noob ship that goes slow as heck :(

[xmodum]

Heh, yea, even in a shuttle, hell, an inty, with insta-jumps to every gate, you'd probly die.

Peace wasn't talking about Pirate's as in NPC's, he means the worst of the worst in EVE that love to pwn noobies.

[Peacemaker]

If you wanna learn to blow up REALLY good thats where to go.

[Hamma]

That's to bad blasted pirates have to infest such a cool looking area :(

[Rbstr]

Heh, yea, even in a shuttle, hell, an inty, with insta-jumps to every gate, you'd probly die.

Peace wasn't talking about Pirate's as in NPC's, he means the worst of the worst in EVE that love to pwn noobies.

If you have instas in either of those ships your invincible, unless you run into bubblecamps/interdictors.

Also, that's not the whole region of Syndicate, it's a 10/10 ranked complex someware in that region, isn't it?

[Peacemaker]

I think thats acctualy the system backround. I have had the unfortunate opportunity to visit syndicate once. It wasnt too fun. Run from pirates. Run from mercs... run from BoB :) :love:

[Rbstr]

I think thats acctualy the system backround. I have had the unfortunate opportunity to visit syndicate once. It wasnt too fun. Run from pirates. Run from mercs... run from BoB :) :love:

I know the picture is from a deadspace, I've been there(that isn't to say that there isn't a system with the back ground). The Sansha's 10/10 has the same kind thing but in red with dust all over.

I've never seen a broken get like that outside of a complex either.

[Peacemaker]

Wow. Smaug just logged on and claimed to have negotiated th end of a war that some how involved bob, Snigg, and the majority of the south in 3 hours. I called bullshit on him under the tense *you dont negotiate with bob*. He smiled and said he did. Then he said "I dont have to validate my self to you" and then logged off.... I find it hilarious... he thinks hes somekind of negotiator, or weapons dealer that is neutral to everyone in eve. Always told him thats not how eve works but... well... he keeps making stuff up about it being true.

[Electrofreak]

Certainly doesn't seem likely.

Doesn't really much matter anyhow. In EVE, I prefer to let my guns do the talking. :D

[jsloan31]

About the screenshot:

Did a quick search of the forums, and found a thread which links to a video of a similar one, the Sanshas 10/10. (As mentioned by Rbstr, it's orange instead of blue.)

Would be great to take images from there for wallpaper :D

EDIT: Erm, might help a little to actually link the thread... Here (http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=295258&page=1) it is.

[TresheR]

Syndicate isn't that bad. You just need good friends. :D

And yes, that is a picture of a 10/10, which could very well be in Syndicate too. Have to ask my corpmates to go do it sometime.


Me is bored by the way, 2 hours to go untill server comes back up.

[Peacemaker]

No other forum whores are as vouracious as EVE player waiting for extended downtime to end :D

[Hamma]

I should have trained a longer skill I guess :p

[xmodum]

C'mon damn you! I'm dying here!

[OneManArmy]

:lol: crack addicts without crack....

/me watches.

[Ouroboros]

Chappelle does it best.

[Greeny]

Hey there, not sure if i should have made a new thread for this but since is EVE thought i'd post it here

I did a 14 day trial of EVE a while back (just before the player owned space stations and mining barges came) and had a bit of fun, by the end i think i ended up with some frigate that looked like an upside-down Y and an Iteron III (sp?) ( i was Gallante btw)

So lately i've been thinking about doing another trial and maybe subbing this time but i would like to know whats the best way to have fun in EVE, by the end of my trial zapping a rock for an hour to fill the hull of my Iteron wasnt something i enjoyed too much.. but theres obviously people here that enjoy the game very much..

So, if i were to get another trial and/or subscribe.. whats the best way to get the most enjoyment out of EVE?

Thanks ^^

[TresheR]

Hmm, that frigate was probably an imicus, one of the cheapest and weakest frigs in the Gallente arsenal. Unless you really want to mine, never ever come near it again. :p

But you have apparently missed the most fun thing to do in EVE, pvp. Get yourself a new trial, and go shoot something!

[Greeny]

Hehe, was loooking at the EVE site and it rejogged my memory a little, i think after the Y shaped one i had a Tristan(?) as well as my Iteron thing.. well, downloading a trial now.. =)

[Lartnev]

No other forum whores are as vouracious as EVE player waiting for extended downtime to end :D

Probably why they take the forums down at the same time ;)

[OneManArmy]

man thanks to electro im having tons of fun fucking shit up in my missle frig. and running some delivery missions too, to mix it up. fuck mining.

[Rbstr]

Probably why they take the forums down at the same time ;)

The forums and game are hosted on the same server.

[Lartnev]

The forums and game are hosted on the same server.

Convenient isn't it? :p

[Peacemaker]

Damn the servers have got a memory bug... Devs are tracking it down... this sux

[Lartnev]

The smoothness of the transition to new hardware really was too good to be true.

[Rbstr]

Good 'ol murphy kicked the dev's in the teeth a week later.

[Peacemaker]

Of course. TBH We all saw it coming. EVE extended down times are ALWAYS extended, and then the period betwen them isnt.

[Hamma]

I got semi burnt out on the game being a newb and all - I have subscribed so I can try out the FULL game for a month (Industrial Transports etc) and I trained in destroyer. I must say I do enjoy the destroyer, lots of guns and cool looking ship. But I am uncertain I will stay subscribed - it seems like alot of waiting and waiting for nothing but to get owned in 2 shots by some guy camping a warp gate. :lol:

[OneManArmy]

thats why im waiting till my trial expires first... then we'll see what happens

[Hamma]

Yea it sucks you can't train Badger on the Trial - so I subbed and played around with it. Kinda slow but man you can fit an assload of minerals and stuff on there.

[Electrofreak]

This new patch is kinda pissin me off... keeps deleting my channels whenever I log back in :(

[Peacemaker]

The best way to play eve is in a group hamma. Like Ive said before if you want to come out to 0.0 just ask. Theres alot more to do out there. Also we are going PVPing for the rest of the month on wensday so If ya wanna join in on that party. We will have to give you a crash corse on scrambling and all that fun stuff... maybe we can get you in a gryphon with ECM. Like weve said before the game is NOT a instant gratification game. It takes months to beable to fly a battleship profiecently and this is where I feel the game looses the most customers who are interested. But, after that inital period, you can make money your self. When that happens you start setting new goals for Skills, T2 ships for combat, Frieghters :) , Collecting rare ships like I do, making a personal fortune, being a builder, being a miner. That is when the game truly starts to shine.

[Hamma]

Takes so long to get there though - they should really work on the new player experience a bit. :D I moved up to the former home of the PSU corp and started hunting pirates there with my shiny new destroyer. Almost done training Frigate 4 (I think its 4)

[Electrofreak]

Yeah, theres no doubt that CCP needs to make it easier for new players to get into group PVP action faster. Wednesday we start an assault though, should be fun. I've got an alternate character I'll let you guys fly if you want to participate.

[Hamma]

On a sidenote I almost got bitchowned on my trip to where I am now - came out of warp to a gate and there were 3 flashing red targets there - i got the hell out of there but not before I got hit once and lost 100% shields and 2% armor. :mad:

I stopped in the middle of nowhere and recharged - then plotted my own safer course :p

[Peacemaker]

Lol Hamma! Ganking is the lamest of grief tactics in the game. But are you guys interested in joining us? It will be alot of fun!

[Hamma]

Dunno I would probably be depressed if I rolled with the big guys. :lol:

[Lartnev]

/me huggles his Interceptor to avoid gankings.

[Peacemaker]

BTW lart... stay FAR FAR away from cloud ring... k?

[Lartnev]

You've made me all curious now :p

[internetn]

Takes so long to get there though - they should really work on the new player experience a bit. :D I moved up to the former home of the PSU corp and started hunting pirates there with my shiny new destroyer. Almost done training Frigate 4 (I think its 4)

The dest sucks... well at least for me it did.. (EDIT: It still does rather)

Hey Peace, I want to PvP some... :(

[Peacemaker]

you need to finish those skills you dont have first, you have all month

[internetn]

Whats hamma have that I don't have though?!

[Hamma]

:lol:

[xmodum]

Skills....obviously. :P

The main point is, you have almost 8mill SP, and still have no clue how to play the game. (Well, at least in the point of skills, you had no idea of which ones you NEEDED.)

But anyways, just get those skills done, won't take ya long.

[internetn]

Skills....obviously. :P

The main point is, you have almost 8mill SP, and still have no clue how to play the game. (Well, at least in the point of skills, you had no idea of which ones you NEEDED.)

But anyways, just get those skills done, won't take ya long.

Its going on 1.5 years... I suppose one more month can't kill me.. :(

[xmodum]

Don't worry, I'v got a month of training to do too. Learning skills

Though I know they will help me greatly in just about everyway.....I havn't found the time to train them, so I'm not training as fast as other people.

I could be training AF weapons and crap, but Peace Ordered me to train the learning first :p

A month isn't that long......unless you get on every single day.

[Hamma]

I've already traied 3 learning skills to lvl 3 :brow:

[Peacemaker]

GJ hamma... how far are you from your first Cruiser? You dont seem to be on as much as I am :-P

[OneManArmy]

just got me a caracal today :D w00t

[Peacemaker]

Grats oma. Get the shield tanking and cap skills up, then some engi / missle / electronics... then I can bring you out to 0.0

[OneManArmy]

well engi and electronics are at 4. I'll work on t3h uber shields next. pretty much following that one guide you posted. getting that primary stuff to 4 first.

[Hamma]

I should have Frigate 4 tonight so I'm probably not far off from a cruiser.

I've been busy with PS stuff and that whole real life thing - still training though :p

[Hamma]

Yea just checked I will be done with Frigate 4 this afternoon - have Spaceship Command 4 as well. So I'll just have to train up 2 levels of Cruiser.

Only problem is I doubt I will have the funds to buy a caracal and outfit it :rofl:

[Peacemaker]

Im sure my wallet is a little too full... some might spill out next time you enter the channel.

[Setari]

*cough* ;)

[Hamma]

:rofl:

Here are my current skills:

http://members.dragonwolves.com/hamma/misc/eveskillz.jpg

[Peacemaker]

Not half Bad for a week and a half. You need two very important skills though... both are under the engineering catagory, Energy Systems Operation and Energy Managment. One increases your Cap by 5% per level, the other increases recharge by 5%. I suggest you do the Cap increase one first as your not as worried about recharge in cruisers and stuff.... you just need more cap. After you get it to 3 or 4 take the recharge one to 3 or 4.

[Hamma]

Will do that next :D

[xmodum]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1771/skills1re.jpg

My skills.......nothing compared to Peacemaker's

He should post his....he'd probly need to use like 3 screenshots though...

EDIT: Oh yea, and my two Tech II Frigates in the background, so proud of those :P Only took me a year and half to get them!

[Rbstr]

Energy Managment 4 lets you use Micro Aux Power Cores.

Those are very important for frigates 10 grid strait up, no percentages.

EDIT: my skills
http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/3289/skills5bi.jpg

[Peacemaker]

I took a screeny for you to look at. Go down my skill list and look for anything Rank 1, 2 , 3, or 4. Check for the skills on market and see if they can do you any good. If they do buy them / make a note of the skill *use notepad in eve, its great*

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9144/skillz5on.jpg

[xmodum]

As you can see, we are teh ub4r.

Peace's has been in the works for over a year. Mine for maybe 4 months, Robs for a year +1-2 months.

After about 2 months it get's really fun, and then you just keep building your char while having fun till you're at Peace's level, where you're not just good with one thing, but like 50. :P

[Peacemaker]

I need to work on Electronics skills REALLY bad. As you can See I did my Armor tanking skills up. When my electronics skills are done, Peacemaker is ready for PVP. (Not that he wasnt before... I just wanted him to be uber ready) Im close to recon sships, All I have to do is train the skill and I get gallente and caldari. Im also close to command ships. Guess I gotta buy those skills soon. Minnie cruiser has to go to 5 soon... then BS to 5 too. Two Battleships to level 5 is gonna be nuts. But it will be worth it.

AX - Minnie / Amarr BS 5
Peace Caldari / Minnie BS 5
PSX Gallente 5

P.S. Im approaching the 2 year mark xmo. Not 1.5 :D Im way past that. I started in July of 04. You guys started in like october of 04.

[xmodum]

Estimating you whore. I don't keep track of everyone's starting dates. :)

[Peacemaker]

Peacemaker was born on 7/7/2004

You were born on 8/01/2005 (2nd number is month)

PSX 7/31/2004 (remember I got you to trial at the time)

[xmodum]

Hmmm, thought I trial'd like 2 months before I subscribed, and I remember subscribing in August....

[Peacemaker]

Thats the day before august you noob

[Infernus]

18: A great shot of the sun in the background, and a carrier (big-ass ship) up front on the bottom right corner.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4278/27retry25me.th.png (http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=27retry25me.png)


Thats my baby!

Archon what what!

[OneManArmy]

now that looks kind of fun, a lot more fun than the boring shit im doing....

[SC385]

you guys got me all intrested so now i'm downloading the client (going to take 4 1/2 hours, WTF?). i'll try to figure out how to get on the PSU channel so you guys can help me choose some skill points.

[Infernus]

The dest sucks... well at least for me it did.. (EDIT: It still does rather)

Hey Peace, I want to PvP some... :(

The destroyer is good at what it's designed for... and thats killing frigates.


That's all its good at. It can take on another destroyer but anything above that is really pushing the limit too far.

[Peacemaker]

They really made dessis very good at what they do... and thats about it. Frial like ceptors, but very powerfull if you use them right, to do the right thing, at the right time, when your in the right place, and have exactaly 300 eggs in the cargo hold, and are sitting on a stool, and you ate chicken for dinner... you get the point.

[Giovanni]

Y'know... all I see when I look at those pics is empty space, one ship and a shitload of red and blue dots. Then again... I never really liked space sims. If it doesnt throw you out in the action and just shows you alot of empty space, ain't worth it in my book.

Nice to see other people can enjoy these types of games thought. I for one... want content now, not after 215615 hyperspace jumps and 12841047 of harvesting ore!

[Peacemaker]

You have obviously never played EVE. Theres contact everywhere you go, and excluding the tut... you dont have to mine at all.

[Lartnev]

Probably never will, EVE doesn't exactly give you instant gratification ;)

[SC385]

i'm starting to get into the game now. not much to do except mine and find pirate drones to kill so i can get money and loot. i only need about 20,000 to get the frigate i want or i may just wait for a destroyer. any opinions?

[Hamma]

Get a frigate hehe - merlin for the win!

[Rbstr]

hamma: Why do you like the merlin exactaly? Everyone loves the ship for some reason(including me). It's weird.

Also if you like the merlin, you may want to try out the Gallente Tristan, It has a hybrid turret Damage bonus, instead of a range bonus, It has one less med, but one more low.

It also goes 30m/s faster and has less mass so AB's and MWD have more effect.

[Hamma]

No particular reason really - it's the first ship I got and I've loved it ever since. I tried out the others but prefer the Merlin - it has a nice mix of weaponry :D

[SC385]

thanks for the input. i have the money... just need to wait 12 hours now for the frigate lvl 3 training to finish

[Hamma]

Yea toss that IBizzle to the curb and roll in a merlin. You won't regret it.. :p

[Ivan]

Hamma's merlin has spinners and Noz.pimp:

[Infernus]

The nice thing about the merlin is that it is a workable weapon's mix... most mixed weapon frigates are.

I can't think of a single mixed weapon cruiser or BS that could say that except the Tempest.


All of my ships on the other hand are rather one track minded.

T2 MegaPulse Laser Armageddon
T2 Tachyon Beam Laser Apocalypse
(soon) T2 Siege Raven


and the best part is - T2 ammo for all!

[SC385]

i'm not really sure where i should go with my skills from here, anyone got any suggestions
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/7637/skills7xc.jpg

[Peacemaker]

You wanna use missles or guns? You wanna fight or build? Depends on what you want to do.

[Rbstr]

You've got a nice start to an offensive character IMO, I already told you some stuff last night. But an amendum:

After you are able to use the shield tank stuff, get a level or too in the gunneryskills. Not the ones that let you use turrets but stuff like motion prediction, controled bursts, ect.

Do the same for missile skills.

Also, pick a long term ship goal, Battleship, Battercruiser, inty, cruiser. And we can help you figure out what you need to pilot it effectivley.

Specialization in a certian ship type or race is the key to getting ahead in this game when your new, after you've got decent skills in one thing you can branch out a bit.