Eve online - nnnnoooooooooooooooo!!

[Mannginger]

A very good online game:

http://myeve.eve-online.com/download/videos/Defaul...

Can be a life-eater though...

[funkyrobot]

Mannginger said:

A very good online game:

http://myeve.eve-online.com/download/videos/Defaul...

Can be a life-eater though...

And widow maker! And I don't even mean the doomsday weapon!

I was on the phone to a good friend the other night who also plays this. We were talking the old Eve lingo (which I'm still pretty new to) and dropping words like 'shield tanker', 'low sec', 'stabbers', 'webbers (not the driver', 'high slots', 'hardpoints' etc etc. Also got into a moan about skill training.

My fiancee was in the background with her mum and dad whispering 'its so funny because none of it is real!'. How sad lol!

Saying that, i'm still fairly new to the game and some of the lingo baffles me!! Crazy stuff!

[ShadownINja]

john_p said:

I like EvE because I get to join in with things like this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdSjCYK_PI

Just reading the comments... so they keep him in place by not letting him line up to jump? Shame you can't jump randomly, I guess.

[lost in espace]

john_p said:

I like EvE because I get to join in with things like this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdSjCYK_PI

The comment on this youtoob page is interesting

Avatar class titan piloted by Hurley of the Band of Brothers alliance is baited, trapped and destroyed by Goonswarm and Pandemic Legion subcaps in H-ADOC on 4/1/2009

Eh?

Looks like a good way to loose a year. That graph is quality.

[Mannginger]

lost in espace said:

Goonswarm

:spit:

[TheCaseAce]

ShadownINja said:

john_p said:

I like EvE because I get to join in with things like this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdSjCYK_PI

Just reading the comments... so they keep him in place by not letting him line up to jump? Shame you can't jump randomly, I guess.

That's actually quite an exciting vid, despite the yank yelling "BUBBLE IT! BUBBLE IT!" all the time.

Shame you need to bumo (i.e. ram) the ship to stop it aligning. It's a but of a crap way to win... but hey, you lost your Titan har har.




The best and worst thing about Eve is the sense of loss... when you save for AGES and get yourself into (what you think is) an amazing ship... and then someone completely destroys it in 3 microseconds, and you get a pissy insurance payout and have to start from scratch There's no save games, no undo, no try again...

[ShadownINja]

Can't you pay more for your insurance?

[Mannginger]

Apart from external factors (work, SWMBO etc) it was Alliance warfare that eventually did for me - I couldn't commit to the length of time required for some of the extended ops.

I did enjoy being part of a rather awesome BoB fleet shortly after CCP introduced their new StacklessIO technology thingy that meant we had several hundred people/ships engaged in lag free combat - that was exciting but the other ops were real life eaters.

Naguton was always good fun though - hello to all the Galaxy Punks folk!

Edited by Mannginger on Wednesday 7th January 20:13

[escargot]

Never played Eve. WoW for me.

[john_p]

ShadownINja said:

john_p said:

I like EvE because I get to join in with things like this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ymdSjCYK_PI

Just reading the comments... so they keep him in place by not letting him line up to jump? Shame you can't jump randomly, I guess.

Capital ships (like titans) can use their jump drive to "cyno" to other systems, however they need a lot of cap to do it, plus Titans can't use their jump drive for ~10 minutes after using the doomsday weapon. So if they are not ready to warp to somewhere safe, they will get quickly bubbled (by interdictors) or tackled (by ships fitting disruptors). Ships without disruptors can also bump the titan to prevent it aligning, but the titan usually fits smartbombs that go out to 10-12km so frigates will get quickly popped by those

In this case Goons had a 150+ mainly battleship gang two jumps away, and Pandemic Legion got the initial tackles on the ship, so it was only a minute or so before Goons turned up..

What puts it into perspective is that a titan is say ~60Bn ISK (raw material cost plus fittings) .. 60Bn is about 100 timecards, or $3500... (or bounties from about 32000 battleship-level NPCs!)

Edited by john_p on Wednesday 7th January 20:17

Edited by john_p on Wednesday 7th January 20:18

[...Mole...]

Im very tempted to start playing again, i really shouldnt though with honours year uni exams just now. Although the last one is on the 15th so i may jump back in again then.

Cant quite remember my old character name though.

ahh its Kohmelo, took a bit of searching to find that out again.

[Scraggles]

honours is more important than eve, so delay until cleared

[Tonsko]

ShadownINja said:

Can't you pay more for your insurance?

You can, but it will only pay for the cost of the ship. Most of the time if you want to be effective, the fittings will cost two or three times the price of the vessel itself.

[ShadownINja]

Oh. Sod that.

[tank slapper]

Tonsko said:

You can, but it will only pay for the cost of the ship. Most of the time if you want to be effective, the fittings will cost two or three times the price of the vessel itself.

Only for smaller ships really, frigates and cruisers. Battleships often cost less to buy than the highest insurance pays out, so you don't tend to lose all that much as long as it isn't rigged.

T2 ships are pretty much uninsurable though, as the insurance value is pegged to the base mineral cost which is far lower than the cost of invention and productions, meaning that losing them costs a fortune.

Edited by tank slapper on Thursday 8th January 11:19

[Tonsko]

Oh I didn't know that! I can only fly frigates and cruisers so far - assumed that it followed all the way up the tree.

We did kill an SSI carrier the other week though... the killmail is showing a 800Mill credit loss for the ship and 400 mill for the fittings, so I suppose that fits.

[john_p]

^^ actually carriers and dreadnoughts are usually quite reasonable to insure, I think you get about 800m back after insurance.

I fly a Falcon quite a lot.. I think the insurance returns 15 million - where I am you'll probably pay 120 million for the hull alone! Then say 30m in fittings/rigs... it soon adds up.

I do try not to lose them though, helped by the fact you're normally 250km from the action

Edited by john_p on Thursday 8th January 12:52

[Mannginger]

Hyperion FTW - Up close and personal!

[Tonsko]

john_p said:

^^ actually carriers and dreadnoughts are usually quite reasonable to insure, I think you get about 800m back after insurance.

I fly a Falcon quite a lot.. I think the insurance returns 15 million - where I am you'll probably pay 120 million for the hull alone! Then say 30m in fittings/rigs... it soon adds up.

I do try not to lose them though, helped by the fact you're normally 250km from the action

Edited by john_p on Thursday 8th January 12:52

Aye, but this idiot was repping a POS we'd put into reinforce mode the day before, out of the shield bubble. The system did have some of his corp mates arrive (~5), but they had to sit inside the shield and watch as we took the carrier down. We actually gave up at one point, as we couldn't crack his armour tank (he went into triage), but then another 30 or so BSs turned up, and it was all over. Fleet was around 70, no capitals.

[funkyrobot]

Tonsko said:

john_p said:

^^ actually carriers and dreadnoughts are usually quite reasonable to insure, I think you get about 800m back after insurance.

I fly a Falcon quite a lot.. I think the insurance returns 15 million - where I am you'll probably pay 120 million for the hull alone! Then say 30m in fittings/rigs... it soon adds up.

I do try not to lose them though, helped by the fact you're normally 250km from the action

Edited by john_p on Thursday 8th January 12:52

Aye, but this idiot was repping a POS we'd put into reinforce mode the day before, out of the shield bubble. The system did have some of his corp mates arrive (~5), but they had to sit inside the shield and watch as we took the carrier down. We actually gave up at one point, as we couldn't crack his armour tank (he went into triage), but then another 30 or so BSs turned up, and it was all over. Fleet was around 70, no capitals.

Tonsko, which corp you in? It sounds much more fun than the one i'm in at the moment!