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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Grayeagle on January 14, 2013, 07:04:33 AM
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Grayy Eagle, starship pilot:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/20130114061720_zps2b883ecf.png)
'I'll be yer Huckleberry'
In game screenshot, taken at a Federal Navy Station with my ship in the bay behind me.
Bein a 'spacer' type, I figure he would have a deep tan and tried to match his features to
my own from decades ago ...ya .. my hair was jet black when I was younger due primarily to
Cherokee ancestry ..got my first white hairs when I was 17 and had that whole 'distinguished gentleman'
silver sideburns thing happenin by the time I was in my late 20's ..fooled a lot of people into thinkin I was
far more mature than I was :)
Anyway ...
Very epical space based game ;)
Pretty cool graphics .. it's a 'sandbox' game .. devs provide the toys, what you do with 'em is your affair
altho I hear you can get banned for being a total jerk like any other MMO online.
I only just downloaded it last nite and workin thru the tutorial missions atm.
The tutorials are pretty well done, you gain skills, funds, and even ships/ship equipment as you go thru them.
At first it felt a bit clunky not being able to directly control my ship ..
(you are Kirk, not the helmsman/tactical officer/weapons officer, etc), you give the orders and the ship does it.
Combat can be a bit hectical while learnin the interface
..locking up four fast movers intent on shooting holes in your ship is a bit of fun :)
Yes ..things go much better if you lock your weapons onto a hostile target *then* pull the trigger :)
So . . I am off to learn more 'stuff' an get more 'stuff' ..so far just workin with rail guns
'go ahead, make my Day' ..yaa baby.
=Frank aka GE
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Nice! EVE is a lot of fun for sure. Just never fly anything you can't afford to lose ;)
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I've tried twice to "get into" EVE. I think it's a great game but it never kept my attention for more than a week or so. I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that I was running alone and not with friends/a corp, though.
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I've tried twice to "get into" EVE. I think it's a great game but it never kept my attention for more than a week or so. I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that I was running alone and not with friends/a corp, though.
I didn't have the patience for it. Tupac want big ship now.
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tried it a little last summer. It's an interesting game for sure, with a big problem. If you go it alone, all you can do is hisec stuff for an unbearable amount of time. this game is a capitalist game (financially motivated) not a bad thing, other than it takes way too long to have enough funds to compete with players who have the money to buy and build ships that are invulnerable to the lone poor miner trying to make an honest living just minding his own business. Hisec is extremely boring and has no valuable minerals, so you need to venture out into losec for the better stuff and then you inevitably are destroyed by pirates and have to start all over again.
way too much time involved to be interesting for me. probably would by OK if you work with other people to protect you and learn from. just a steep learning curve going at it alone.
68valu
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I didn't have the patience for it. Tupac want big ship now.
:lol
it does require a lot of that patience stuff.
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I have been on and off the game for 7 years now, currently I am back on.
If you want someone in game to bounce ideas off of (advice, corp stuff, combat, set-ups, etc), I am glad to help. Send me a PM and we'll get in touch in game.
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I posted awhile back but no one responded in terms of this. Sony has released a new game that is going to be completely intertwined into the EVE online real time game. It is called DUST 514 and I believe it is still in beta. I tried it out, its actually very interesting game. It has a battlefield feel to it in terms of classes but each item is completely able to be modified and upgraded with money earned from the battles. The players are hired by the EVE pilots, etc. Its an interesting concept and hopefully it doesnt get screwed up as I think it is promising.
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Played a bit of eve with some of my old squaddies. Fun game. If I could I'd play both, but the time and money I can't commit right now. Definitely one of the best graphics and interface of any MMO IMHO.
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DUST is up an runnin .. I am nowhere near proficient enough in the game to know very much about it except the little I have read so far.
Workin thru exploration tutorial atm .. finished the basic military, advanced military, and mining tutorials.
They give you a ship and toys for each by the time you finish 'em and you make a bit of coin to boot.
I like that the combat is not first person twitch shooter stuff
.. it feels more like Picard sayin to Worf 'Tactical on Viewer Mr. Worf'
...'lock 125mm railgun battery' ..'Fire at will!'
(poor will get's toasted)
-adjusts tunic-
'Well done everyone ..time for sammich!'
Or some such.
-Frank aka GE
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DUST is up an runnin .. I am nowhere near proficient enough in the game to know very much about it except the little I have read so far.
Workin thru exploration tutorial atm .. finished the basic military, advanced military, and mining tutorials.
They give you a ship and toys for each by the time you finish 'em and you make a bit of coin to boot.
I like that the combat is not first person twitch shooter stuff
.. it feels more like Picard sayin to Worf 'Tactical on Viewer Mr. Worf'
...'lock 125mm railgun battery' ..'Fire at will!'
(poor will get's toasted)
-adjusts tunic-
'Well done everyone ..time for sammich!'
Or some such.
-Frank aka GE
I really enjoyed the combat in that game actually.
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DUST is up an runnin .. I am nowhere near proficient enough in the game to know very much about it except the little I have read so far.
Workin thru exploration tutorial atm .. finished the basic military, advanced military, and mining tutorials.
They give you a ship and toys for each by the time you finish 'em and you make a bit of coin to boot.
I like that the combat is not first person twitch shooter stuff
.. it feels more like Picard sayin to Worf 'Tactical on Viewer Mr. Worf'
...'lock 125mm railgun battery' ..'Fire at will!'
(poor will get's toasted)
-adjusts tunic-
'Well done everyone ..time for sammich!'
Or some such.
-Frank aka GE
Oh yeah, once you do all the tutorials you'll end up with a packed hangar, or do like I did and sell them all and buy a better ship! :aok
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Oh god.... EvE took about 4yrs of my life. I still have a char and account but its not active atm. I got a bit burned out in null sec with all the little Hitlers and their daily "call to arms" BS. I probably left about 5bil in assets at that station and have no idea if we even still own it. I think I handed out 13bil isk the day I logged out.
http://eveboard.com/pilot/SweetPickles
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Nice Acid .. I am a dweeb and I know it.
Right now I am enjoyin the 'new' .. got a lot of readin to catch up on
..gameplay feels a lot like EQ1 in the early days to me ..
lot of new places to explore, things to do ..throwin skills on the barbie to cook up ..
..ya ..it looks like I'll be here awhile.
Already hookin up with some good people havin a bit of fun here n there.
-Frank aka GE
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If it wasn't for aces high I'd be playing EVE online, but this game is like a job and requires 100% free time attention
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Played it off and on also, great game, hated the gate camps which I relate to the GV spawn camps here, corps hanging out at a low sec gate, chatting the night away; wait here comes another one .........besides that plenty of interesting stuff to dive into, like the fact they keep your bio and rank for long periods of time so you don't have to start over when you return.
HL
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I tried this game a long time ago. Was fun, but I wasn't in a corp so things were slow and PvP hopeless at my skill and state in the game.
But these days I am looking for new games to try, so I may re-try Eve. It does help casual players a bit that the toons keep gaining skills even when you are not logged in.
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What is the bbs system like for eve online? Does it have a good set of docs for reading up on how the game works, and not just tutorials?
I've been considering making the jump to eve from AH for a while now. Financially, it's a joke, both prices are very good, it's just the time factor involved and I can only really invest time in one or the other.
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In a lot of ways gameplay reminds me of EQ1.
Yes ..there's jerks and some hunt in packs.
Low security areas are just that .. don't take somethin you can't afford to lose.
Now and then there are hunting parties that go out just to break gate camps ..
..not for the new player due to time it takes to gain the skills just to fly a ship capable of breaking webs and dealing enough damage..and surviving the initial break in.
Sort of like a Hate raid in early EQ :) ..except the mobs are players.
When you first start in EVE you're in an NPC corporation ..
Just monitorin text in corp chat is a great way to pick up info on what is what.
Now an then a group (Fleet) will setup and go hunt gate campers or greifers
..fun to 'listen' to altho I am still learning just the acronyms .. much less what capabilities there are out there.
The more I learn the more I find out I need to learn.
It can be a casual game ..just drop in, mine a bit or do a mission, return to station.
It can also take over your life building a career runnin like yer hair is on fire.
I am goin at my own pace .. goof off a lot, kinda focusing on mining initially because it's ..well .. easy.
Pretty much.
Altho even my mining barge has hobgoblin drones for the pesky rats that show up now an then.
And I always keep Home up as next destination ..so if things get hairy I can just punch warp and scream outta there.
-Frank aka GE
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My main is Rip Rap .. I abandoned Grayy Eagle ..was good to learn the interface and such but e's a bit screwed up :)
Decided if ima focus on mining I may as well min-max a character for it ..Rip Rap is it.
Turns out you can change attributes once a year after your initial two free tries at it.
So ..miner is primary memory, secondary intelligence ..some of his mining skills are learned now at 4x multiplier rate :)
He is ssssmokin ..altho when I drive a Destroyer with him, it kinda wallows around like a '60's Cadillac :)
But the boy can burn a rock!
-Frank aka GE
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Awesome Gray, I added you to friends.
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cool Narsus :)
I will add you also.
Was a bit surpsised when I dropped in as Rip Rap the first time ..
.. landed in a different starter corporation .. different station..
..whole different crowd of people and feel.
I joined the Eagle Burst Security corp ..first invite I got that didn't feel like an outright scam.
Based out of Slays star system.. kinda neat to have pretty decent asteroid belt systems right outside the front door :)
-Frank aka Rip Rap :)
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My toon is now 3 days old. Still doing all the profession tutorials to see what I like. Didn't even know you could modify the stats of a character. Now I need to find what stats a fighter/explorer needs.
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My toon is now 3 days old. Still doing all the profession tutorials to see what I like. Didn't even know you could modify the stats of a character. Now I need to find what stats a fighter/explorer needs.
Exploring/using probes tutorial gave me a hard time when I tried playing a few years back. If you run into any issues there's some great youtube videos on it.
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Seems like it might be interesting. Wonder how much it costs to play?
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EVE costs 15/mo
... I signed up for their 1 month deal for 10 and they let me have a Destroyer
..had to choose one of four they offered.
The destroyers are empire based ...may take longer to learn to fly one that isn't from your chars empire.
on planning a character:
There is a 3rd party app called EVEmon that is invaluable at planning a character out.
To the point that I am deleting Grayy Eagle and goin with Rip Rap as my main.
Read about a group of thugs callin themselves the 'New Order' ..
..they charge miners 10million a year to be allowed to mine in any high security area in the game.
They call it a 'license' and you must swear loyalty to them in your bio in game .. ROFL.
A protection racket ..LOL .. right out of Chicago in the '30's ..nothing new and will end up the same.
Very self-righteous bunch of thugs.
Of course they have nowhere near the numbers to actually enforce every high security zone in the game.
If I am lucky perhaps I will be skilled enough to be part of the fleet that hunts them for laffs :)
-Frank aka GE
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Why delete a character? Skills increase is just time based, so starting a new toon is like selecting new skills to the training queue of your current character, except in the latter you get to keep everything you trained so far. No?
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Why delete a character? Skills increase is just time based, so starting a new toon is like selecting new skills to the training queue of your current character, except in the latter you get to keep everything you trained so far. No?
Because I am a dweeb .. of course :)
I probably should have just jammed with that character
..the reason I didn't was EVEmon showed me by re-distributing my attributes
it would actually save me *days* in real time to train the skills I need
.. if that doesn't fit the definition of nerdy geek dweeb type I don't know what does :)
And yes .. my first char had about 10million isk and buncha 'stuff' already
..it was stupid to just feed him to the bio-mass processor ..
..but the sound byte as he was 'reprocessed' was funny :)
What can I say .. I am easily amused :)
-Frank ak GE
(Rip Rap in EVE)
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(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/20130206164903_zpsd9ac4893.png)
The good ship 'Rock Star' based out of Jarizza, mining deep in the Gelham system.
She's a Retriever class mining barge running strip mining turrets and turns about 4 million per run profit.
Good times :)
-Frank aka GE
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Nice!
I'm a mission runner mostly for farming ISK. L4 missions get me and average of 30-50 mil per run. Really good ones can net me more than 100 mill with salvage. I'm soloing L4's in my Rattlesnake. Pretty expensive ship (a billion+ with modules), but it had paid for itself after a few evenings.
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Skilling up my character now. I'm planing to deal drugs (mining gas and making boosters) in order to finance my frigate PvP :)
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Been playing since Aug 2004. Just passed 150M Skill Points!! :) Currently living in NULL sec in the Syndicate Region. Lots of PvP and high end complex running. Terror Debian is my character name. CEO of my corp for over 7 years!! :)
Drop me a note!! Come on out to Syndicate and join in the fun!!
http://eveboard.com/pilot/Terror_DeBiaN (http://eveboard.com/pilot/Terror_DeBiaN)
T
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I might take you up on that. :)
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Rip Rap is about 10 days old ..so far ...
..got aways to go to run a combat ship effectively in PvP :)
I joined a buncha guys who call themselves 'the sp00n'
..because they like to stir stuff up :)
They run PvP gate camp breaker raids, null sec fleet ops, this n that
..the majority are miners tho.
Over 100 players and pretty laid back
.. we setup a lo-sec mining op this Sunday that should be fun.
Apparantly they bought a solar system out at the end of nowhere to play in
..45 jumps to get to, ..and the last 20 or so are all red systems
(.3 or less security standings)
..got my jump clone setup nearby today..
..fun drive to get there, got wayy dead at one gate, never seen so many reds (hostile tagged bandits)
..ship and pod were dead before graphics caught up it seemed .. LOL.
-Frank aka GE
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Its a beautiful looking game. I just wish it had a different premise, and, I dont have the time for such an involved world.
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[Skilling up my character now. I'm planing to deal drugs
LOL now that funny :D
HL
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Been playing since last May and I AM HOOKED.... more so than i ever was with AH.
EVE has made me lose all interest in AH :(
But it made up for it in the epic PEWPEWPEW!!! :x :x :x :x :banana:
Shamus O'Reilly in EVE. CEO of Gungnirs' Point of I Know Right alliance. Message me in game :aok
For anyone who has been iffy about trying the game i can help you out <S> and even better o/ :cheers:
(P.S. if you fall for the Jita scammers... you deserved it :rolleyes: )
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What is the bbs system like for eve online? Does it have a good set of docs for reading up on how the game works, and not just tutorials?
I've been considering making the jump to eve from AH for a while now. Financially, it's a joke, both prices are very good, it's just the time factor involved and I can only really invest time in one or the other.
The EVE forums are very helpful (unless you go to GD then you just get a ****ton of mass trolling :ahand ) if the forums cant help, google can, if google can't then message me in game and i can help o/ (Shamus O'Reilly)
My toon is now 3 days old. Still doing all the profession tutorials to see what I like. Didn't even know you could modify the stats of a character. Now I need to find what stats a fighter/explorer needs.
bozon a huge thing about EVE just so you know. There is no specific role for characters, just the amount of time and efficiency you wish to delve into a certain profession skillwise. a PVP character can easily be a miner/indie also. It all depends on how long you wanna take training.
As for PVP :t hit me up. My alliance is a huge PVP group. But we also understand and gladly take indie/miners also :aokEVE costs 15/mo
... I signed up for their 1 month deal for 10 and they let me have a Destroyer
..had to choose one of four they offered.
The destroyers are empire based ...may take longer to learn to fly one that isn't from your chars empire.
on planning a character:
There is a 3rd party app called EVEmon that is invaluable at planning a character out.
To the point that I am deleting Grayy Eagle and goin with Rip Rap as my main.
Read about a group of thugs callin themselves the 'New Order' ..
..they charge miners 10million a year to be allowed to mine in any high security area in the game.
They call it a 'license' and you must swear loyalty to them in your bio in game .. ROFL.
A protection racket ..LOL .. right out of Chicago in the '30's ..nothing new and will end up the same.
Very self-righteous bunch of thugs.
Of course they have nowhere near the numbers to actually enforce every high security zone in the game.
If I am lucky perhaps I will be skilled enough to be part of the fleet that hunts them for laffs :)
-Frank aka GE
You think the New Order RPers are thugs? :rofl theyre just a bunch of hisec idiots who can't stand toe to toe with the lowsec pirates or PVPers :rofl :rofl James315 can kiss my big heinie
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Rip Rap is about 10 days old ..so far ...
..got aways to go to run a combat ship effectively in PvP :)
I joined a buncha guys who call themselves 'the sp00n'
..because they like to stir stuff up :)
They run PvP gate camp breaker raids, null sec fleet ops, this n that
..the majority are miners tho.
Over 100 players and pretty laid back
.. we setup a lo-sec mining op this Sunday that should be fun.
Apparantly they bought a solar system out at the end of nowhere to play in
..45 jumps to get to, ..and the last 20 or so are all red systems
(.3 or less security standings)
..got my jump clone setup nearby today..
..fun drive to get there, got wayy dead at one gate, never seen so many reds (hostile tagged bandits)
..ship and pod were dead before graphics caught up it seemed .. LOL.
-Frank aka GE
just a few edits mate. (.4) to .1 is lowsec 0.0 down to -1.0 is nullsec. nullsec is the only area where you can gain soverignty so they may be a renter alliance? though you said corp so im assuming they paid off lowsec locals to allow access.
Once you start getting into the big isk youll be having much more fun :cool: when i made my first billion it just felt good! it made me laugh looking back thinking how much 10million used to seem to me. since then you get a new feel for the game. you also get a HUGE realization what isk means to a player also. Investments into larger ships make alot of headway. when my freighter alt first rode the lightning in a Nomad a huge tingling sensation went down my spine! Things like that just make EVE what it is i swear
Can you guys tell im an EVE fanatic? :lol :neener:
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Double Post :(
I'm too excited about talking about EVE :rofl
Edit: Might as well make use of this post
Want a good video of EVE? heres a couple that i love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5LdPf2J_hs EVE Never Fades. Such an old video but still so good
And Rooks and Kings' Clarion Call 3. It delves into Wspace well while still allowing outsiders to understand the concept. P.S. Wspace PVP best PVP... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrYe_4vHzgE
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321bar:
Dood .. I know what lo-sec is.
What I said was 'the last 20 jumps are .3 sec or lower' ..which they are.
It was a scary trip down, but I got my jump clone installed in a neighbor system owned by the alliance.. and looks like we will be doin mining ops in our system for awhile. 40 some-odd barges an such, battleship escorts, an all.
A warmup and fun was had by all:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/20130210200735_zpsfde519f5.png)
All those lasers are mining lasers ..we cleaned out a few asteroid belts.
Char is comin up on 30 days .. on a good day I bring in about 50million just runnin my retriever ..12 runs or so burnin rocks :)
Man I love the toys .. soo many cool toys!
-GE aka Frank
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321bar:
Dood .. I know what lo-sec is.
What I said was 'the last 20 jumps are .3 sec or lower' ..which they are.
It was a scary trip down, but I got my jump clone installed in a neighbor system owned by the alliance.. and looks like we will be doin mining ops in our system for awhile. 40 some-odd barges an such, battleship escorts, an all.
A warmup and fun was had by all:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/20130210200735_zpsfde519f5.png)
All those lasers are mining lasers ..we cleaned out a few asteroid belts.
-GE aka Frank
When in doubt mine!
I just started playing again and I forgot how great the game is.
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Probably would have loved it when I was younger. Makes my head spin now listening to you guys :) have fun
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Finally got my Freddie Mercury lookalike toon to do some exploration. Found a good archaeological site filled with pirates. Unfortunately, I mounted Howitzers instead of autocannons on my ship and found out those things can hit **** even with almost no angular velocity. Took me forever to kite the rats. Next time I come with missiles. Those things never miss and I can happily kite the rats outside their range till they die. I also read someone suggesting to tank up and just take the damage white analyzing the containers, grab the loot, and warp away.
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Might just have to try it out. Seems like ya'll are talking in some other language sometimes. I can see getting heavily involved.
Maybe fun entertainment for a 48 year old?
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Might just have to try it out. Seems like ya'll are talking in some other language sometimes. I can see getting heavily involved.
Maybe fun entertainment for a 48 year old?
Fun for all ages Rog. Not a lot of the XBOX live type attitudes in the game.
Although people will rip you off given the chance so watch your back.
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321bar:
Dood .. I know what lo-sec is.
What I said was 'the last 20 jumps are .3 sec or lower' ..which they are.
It was a scary trip down, but I got my jump clone installed in a neighbor system owned by the alliance.. and looks like we will be doin mining ops in our system for awhile. 40 some-odd barges an such, battleship escorts, an all.
A warmup and fun was had by all:
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/1grayeagle/games/20130210200735_zpsfde519f5.png)
All those lasers are mining lasers ..we cleaned out a few asteroid belts.
Char is comin up on 30 days .. on a good day I bring in about 50million just runnin my retriever ..12 runs or so burnin rocks :)
Man I love the toys .. soo many cool toys!
-GE aka Frank
Can i please know of where this is happening? :angel: My WH goes to Ammatar all the time :t
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Also Feb 19th for Retribution 1.1. Alot of changes coming including all Tier 1 and Tier 2 Battlecruisers being revamped. Drake and Cane get minor nerfs. cyclone becomes a missile demon. prophecy.... becomes an Amarrian droneboat? :confused:
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Comin up on 2mil skill points already .. beginnin to be a decent miner type :)
Seems like the Drake actually does more DPS with the rework, with one less launcher even.
.. for ops ... ops-sec is a legitimate concern in EVE.
People will show up just to bust an op if they can.
Rogwar: I'm 62 yrs old.. mixin it up with the young whippersnappers :)
Depth of play is pretty good .. lotta guides out there on you tube on this an that.
Can 'build' a fighter pilot type or miner or bidness-man or <insert what floats yer boat>
Since I am only runnin one character, he is miner first (easy to make a bit of coin) ..
..and buildin his fighting skills at the battlecruiser-missile launcher level way second.
..and I just bought an interceptor to skill up to for running errands in ..it's *fast*
.. but a Drake with a battleship class microwarp drive is nothin to sneeze at either :)
-Frank aka GE
(Rip Rap in Eve)
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Comin up on 2mil skill points already .. beginnin to be a decent miner type :)
Seems like the Drake actually does more DPS with the rework, with one less launcher even.
.. for ops ... ops-sec is a legitimate concern in EVE.
People will show up just to bust an op if they can.
Rogwar: I'm 62 yrs old.. mixin it up with the young whippersnappers :)
Depth of play is pretty good .. lotta guides out there on you tube on this an that.
Can 'build' a fighter pilot type or miner or bidness-man or <insert what floats yer boat>
Since I am only runnin one character, he is miner first (easy to make a bit of coin) ..
..and buildin his fighting skills at the battlecruiser-missile launcher level way second.
..and I just bought an interceptor to skill up to for running errands in ..it's *fast*
.. but a Drake with a battleship class microwarp drive is nothin to sneeze at either :)
-Frank aka GE
(Rip Rap in Eve)
you mean a 10MN correct? yeah the drake is deadly after the rebalance. Less overall HP and slower a tad, but dishes out just as much damage if not more. some of my alliance members are liking it again since the HML nerf in december.
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been playing 3 years now .it takes a lot time but if you can get though hi sec boring crap you'll be fine . need to get in to 0.0
oh and as far as making isk "tinyminer"never rat again
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321bar:
No ..
..I meant the 100m aka 'battleship class' microwarp drive or even the 100m afterburner
(of course the MWD gives the drake a *huge* signature = easy to target .. but ..it'll run at over 2k/m sec, cap stable with the right setup -evil grin-)
(and there are bits you can add to reduce targeting efforts of an enemy = ECM :)
The afterburner will let it run at just over 800m/sec without the signature hit, cap stable ..no more led sled feelin :)
Imagine a drake as fast tackle with 40k+ hit points for defense and a bit over 200dps w/salvo damage at just under 1500 a pop :)
... very do-able in a drake and still has enough slots to make it viable to focus on defense, pvp, or offense.
Played around in EFT
..a nice lil executable that lets you try out different ship fittings
with direct readouts on what the effects will be
..so you can setup a 'best' fit for your skill levels, or a dream ship to work towards
..without spending a fortune to find out 'well, that won't work!' :)
-just sayin
-Frank aka GE
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Eve is brilliant i played it for about 4 years got over 40mill sp, riding around in a 1 billon isk marauder (Paladin) :rock i let my sub run out tho so i could return to my number 1 love aces high 2 :aok
Its nice to hear they are nerfing the Drake it was too good of a ship compaired to all the other factions battlecruisers, could run lvl 4 missions in a drake if tanked properly no other faction battlcruiser seemed to have this capability.
If your a mission runner dont forget to use "Eve survival" its a very important website is that.
If your into trying different setups you can also try out the test server its a bit of a pain to get it up and running but it allows you to waste all your cash and even die/lose your pod without any consequences as it is a seperate server.
Rogwar it is a pretty grown up game its to slow paced for typicle xbox kids and to complex for the other ones try it its great :aok
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Eve is my #1 game of all time. Been playing it for 8 years now. Done pretty much everything there is todo and yet it never bores me.
Mainchar: Viperius
Currently hanging around Syndicate.
Anyone going to Fanfest this Year? :D Shout me a PM if ya do :rock :salute
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Hello Vip nice to see ya :salute
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While I liked EVE, I un-subscribed for now. The game is a huge time sink and I don't have that much time. In particular, PvP and low/null-sec requires long periods of uninterrupted time.
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321bar:
No ..
..I meant the 100m aka 'battleship class' microwarp drive or even the 100m afterburner
(of course the MWD gives the drake a *huge* signature = easy to target .. but ..it'll run at over 2k/m sec, cap stable with the right setup -evil grin-)
(and there are bits you can add to reduce targeting efforts of an enemy = ECM :)
The afterburner will let it run at just over 800m/sec without the signature hit, cap stable ..no more led sled feelin :)
Imagine a drake as fast tackle with 40k+ hit points for defense and a bit over 200dps w/salvo damage at just under 1500 a pop :)
... very do-able in a drake and still has enough slots to make it viable to focus on defense, pvp, or offense.
Played around in EFT
..a nice lil executable that lets you try out different ship fittings
with direct readouts on what the effects will be
..so you can setup a 'best' fit for your skill levels, or a dream ship to work towards
..without spending a fortune to find out 'well, that won't work!' :)
-just sayin
-Frank aka GE
Yeah the 100MN Tengu but.... 100MN Drake just seems overboard :confused:
Please say youre not using officer mods on a Drake.... Please for the love of god no officer or deadspace...
(Yes it took me this long to reply)
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Well . . I built the 100 class microwarp drive Drake
.. then tried out the 100 class Afterburner build .. umm ..yes .. they can be fast ..
..but agility is pretty much not their event, they turn like trucks :)
If you turn you drop speed faster than a D9 in a climbing turn.
So now its a shield regen Drake ..when I feel the need to shoot missiles :)
(shot 9 *thousand* missiles into a player owned station (POS) as part of a fleet op
..we took it down along with a buncha other bits in that system..
..I was the smallest boat there.
We had war declared on us by a buncha greifer types
..checkin 'em out they have declared war on 66 different corporations.
We fleeted up a few drakes and played wack-a-mole with two of 'em in Rens..
..made em dock up and wacked one of 'em that got too far away from safety :)
Fun to listen to the them rant about how 'cowardly' we were while they were docked.
Greifers hate to fight in any game it seems.
Comin up on 4mil skill points ..becomin a decent miner, still a year or so away from havin decent PvP skillset.
-Rip Rap aka Frank
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Mainchar: Viperius
Currently hanging around Syndicate.
I am spending a lot of time in Syndicate. I spend most my time in the 97X/Y9G pocket. Look me up!
Char: Terror DeBian
Aaron
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Well . . I built the 100 class microwarp drive Drake
.. then tried out the 100 class Afterburner build .. umm ..yes .. they can be fast ..
..but agility is pretty much not their event, they turn like trucks :)
If you turn you drop speed faster than a D9 in a climbing turn.
So now its a shield regen Drake ..when I feel the need to shoot missiles :)
(shot 9 *thousand* missiles into a player owned station (POS) as part of a fleet op
..we took it down along with a buncha other bits in that system..
..I was the smallest boat there.
We had war declared on us by a buncha greifer types
..checkin 'em out they have declared war on 66 different corporations.
We fleeted up a few drakes and played wack-a-mole with two of 'em in Rens..
..made em dock up and wacked one of 'em that got too far away from safety :)
Fun to listen to the them rant about how 'cowardly' we were while they were docked.
Greifers hate to fight in any game it seems.
Comin up on 4mil skill points ..becomin a decent miner, still a year or so away from havin decent PvP skillset.
-Rip Rap aka Frank
If you focus on PVP skills solely (assuming youre caldari) you can be in TII weapon BS and smaller by 10 months including some TII cruisers/frigates. It's the station games that made me leave hisec entirely. Been taking a break from EVE and playing CoH for a while and some Civ IV. but by the time i plan on getting back in ill have a logi lvl 5 scimi and training for the guardian :D got my logisitcs character going JFC 5 now and then JF 5. Gotta love the JFs. Makes lowsec so much more easy