EVE Online: A study in internet spaceships and bad posts

Ledneh

If I resubbed with a new character ('cause i don't remember my old credentials or emails) and started training into amarr, with no intent to get into capitals ever ever, would i regret it

space lasers fuck yeah

PiptheFair

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

my username at gmail

done


t ledneh: you can probably figure out your old shit with your email address


also amarr are kinda not a thing somebody unfamiliar with the game should train

caldari and minmitar are both way more friendly to those unfamiliar with the game

Muggins

PiptheFair wrote: »

Veretas wrote: »

Hey so question

Now that the new character creator thingy is out and I resub can I give my character a makeover?

Because goddamn that thing is amazing looking

yes

you can keep making your char over too


also t karl: I just got back from work
send me your email and I'll hook you up

pip why the fuck did you answer my question augh I can't resub no I won't no no no no no no

Papillon

hoodie13 wrote: »

So I've got a Dude who's skilled into Gallente BS, but I see that shield-tanking is preferable and Drakes are awesome. Should I spend the time to skill into Caldari, or just stick with the Gal ships?

Cross train into either minmatar (better for PvP) or Caldari (better for PvE). Gallente is not good at the moment.

PiptheFair

Papillon wrote: »

hoodie13 wrote: »

So I've got a Dude who's skilled into Gallente BS, but I see that shield-tanking is preferable and Drakes are awesome. Should I spend the time to skill into Caldari, or just stick with the Gal ships?

Cross train into either minmatar (better for PvP) or Caldari (better for PvE). Gallente is not good at the moment.

that's disingenuous kinda

gal have arguably the best caps and some ridiculous ratting/mission ships

also the deimos and prot are horrifying pvp rapeboats

Ledneh

bu but

but

space lasers

PiptheFair

I have an amarr char!

but I bought him with space bux as a dedicated alt to get into a navy geddon then bumrush to cap ships

Ledneh

damn you pip you can't take my space lasers from me

Septus

I too, like space lasers.

B U T , space missiles are sweet also.

hoodie13

PiptheFair wrote: »

hoodie13 wrote: »

So I've got a Dude who's skilled into Gallente BS, but I see that shield-tanking is preferable and Drakes are awesome. Should I spend the time to skill into Caldari, or just stick with the Gal ships?

how good are your drone skills

if you have decent sentry skills and can use sentries, then train gallente cruiser 5 and ultimately into HACs

otherwise train caldari cause caldari own

Drones are pretty good. I don't have sentries trained at all though. I guess that can be my next stop.

Der Waffle Mous

In about an hour I'll have all my basic tackling shit trained.

where to next, I wonder?

Muggins

Der Waffle Mous wrote: »

In about an hour I'll have all my basic tackling shit trained.

where to next, I wonder?

X for an op

lock on target

tackle that shit

die

repeat

Pharezon

Veretas buy me an EVE account tia

Muggins

ahaahaha hell naw

I'm trying my hardest not to resub I wouldn't survive going to the eve site

HellaJeff

I, too, am fighting the urge to get in the cockpit

Volucrisus Aedrius

So are missiles still the awkward stepchild of fleet engagements or did they finally fix that shit?

Man of the Waves

No. I will not go back there again.

PiptheFair

Volucrisus Aedrius wrote: »

So are missiles still the awkward stepchild of fleet engagements or did they finally fix that shit?

tengufleet is now a very real and terrifying thing

Volucrisus Aedrius

Sweet jesus, that almost makes me want to resub. All my best kills were with missiles, including the dumbshit interceptor pilot that tried to tackle my omnitanked drake without a nosferatu. Boy I bet his face was red when he realized the only thing keeping him alive was his tight orbit, my missiles giving him a merry chase around my ship, like the mulberry bush of yore. After five solid minutes he gave up and tried to MWD away but my missiles caught him at about 70k out.

Poor little bastard. I think he was in SMUSH.

Muggins

PiptheFair wrote: »

Volucrisus Aedrius wrote: »

So are missiles still the awkward stepchild of fleet engagements or did they finally fix that shit?

tengufleet is now a very real and terrifying thing

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP LALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

Ledneh

Wait why the fuck do I need to sub to EVE to get space lasers

surrender, Belisarius

Ledneh

Also I bet a dollar actually using missiles in fleet fights is still a dumb useless gimmick

Muggins

yeah but no one does fleet fights anyway


none of the cool people anyway :smug:

PiptheFair

Ledneh wrote: »

Also I bet a dollar actually using missiles in fleet fights is still a dumb useless gimmick

tell that to pandemic legion

a tengu has 100k ehp omni tanked
travels 500m/s while burning cap stable
does 600 dps
hits out to 100km
has a sensor strength of 66
sig radius of a cruiser

literally the best ship in eve online

Der Waffle Mous

That's one of those things that always made me kinda wary about this game way back when I first tried it.

There's all these different ship types that sound really cool and interesting, but from the way everyone talked about it, in the end there's only like 2-3 of them that are worthwhile in PvP.

PiptheFair

Der Waffle Mous wrote: »

That's one of those things that always made me kinda wary about this game way back when I first tried it.

There's all these different ship types that sound really cool and interesting, but from the way everyone talked about it, in the end there's only like 2-3 of them that are worthwhile in PvP.

fleet fights and small gang pvp are entirely different

Baidol

The downside is that this is a billion+ isk a ship.

But its PL, so they have that kind of money.

PiptheFair

Baidol wrote: »

The downside is that this is a billion+ isk a ship.

But its PL, so they have that kind of money.

nope

only like 700 mil

Volucrisus Aedrius

Yeah but there's nothing better than that moment when everyone who pigeon-holed their characters to fly certain ships of a certain build ragequit when CCP ruthlessly nerfs them.

artifexite

I like how the skills are presented, as opposed to last time I played. The queue, the new skills you can train list, and certificates are all kind of neat. Well, maybe not certificates, haven't quite figured that out.

marty_0001

All the races receive their buffs and nerfs as time goes by. Some people in my corp told me amarr was a bad choice when I started, but one guy was nice enough to tell me that races tend to have their turn at being on top. Eventually the apoc became the BS of choice 8-)

What's it like now? Around the time I stopped playing it was SPAAAACE DISCOOOO there were so many lasers.

PiptheFair

evoke and tri use abaddons
goonswarm uses maelstroms
pl use tengus/maels
the russians use caps because they're the russians
the NC uses badly fit ships

Avynte

fukken arty abaddons man

:cripes:

The Black Hunter

Recipe for fun in this game:

you plus 2 friends in frigates with idiosyncratic layouts (rocket kestrels etc.)

ratting across the galaxy, running screaming, narrow escapes, amazing rescues

Jasconius

I got a big ass hauler ship from a quest but I can't use it because I have a trial account.

Alright.. you give ships to new players in quests for new players that are unusual by new players.

PiptheFair

Jasconius wrote: »

I got a big ass hauler ship from a quest but I can't use it because I have a trial account.

Alright.. you give ships to new players in quests for new players that are unusual by new players.

they want you to not have a trial account

also, they throw a ton of shit at you now in tutorials

they used to just beat you with an iron rod

Jasconius

yeah I noticed

I have 7 ships now and a blueprint to make like 4 more crappy frigates for very little cost.

im going through the exploration tutorial now. this seems like something I will enjoy. Exploration was my fav part of Earth and Beyond.

What are the practical applications of Exploration?

PiptheFair

Jasconius wrote: »

yeah I noticed

I have 7 ships now and a blueprint to make like 4 more crappy frigates for very little cost.

im going through the exploration tutorial now. this seems like something I will enjoy. Exploration was my fav part of Earth and Beyond.

What are the practical applications of Exploration?

finding deadspace complexes to run/sell to people mostly

essentially everything else you can find is trash, unless you're in a worhmhole corp

but hoo boy, that shit is way over your head right now

Avynte

yeah, exploration in the terms of actually making mad isk is pretty endgame as far as eve could be concerned.

PiptheFair

yeah essentially

you can train for it once you have some way to actually make money

as a base moneymaker it is lacking