EVE Online player loses ship and cargo valued over $6,400
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[QUOTE=DarkMonkey;38155025]For more detail, said monocle cost about 70 USD.
The other articles of clothing were around $20.
Remember, you can only walk around in your own room, it's not multiplayer.
And a company newsletter touting how microtransactions were the future was leaked.
Pretty much a perfect shitstorm situation.[/QUOTE]
In CCP's defence, the "Greed is Good" memo-thing wasn't an official statement, it was a suggestion about how the company could go, and the community immediately assumed it was what it looked like.
That said, maybe CCP has said that story was BS since I last heard about it.
Where is that one story where a man placed a hit on somebody else and a group accepted it?
By that I mean when the order was given, all ships docked stole everything from the storage areas and then all fighter ships destroyed the ship the person was in.
Then after that the then destroyed the life pod and then destroyed the rest of the company.
It even got a PC Gamer article.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;38155625]In CCP's defence, the "Greed is Good" memo-thing wasn't an official statement, it was a suggestion about how the company could go, and the community immediately assumed it was what it looked like.
That said, maybe CCP has said that story was BS since I last heard about it.[/QUOTE]
Oh I know, but that was a very heated week or two and a lot of conclusions were jumped to
CCP was pretty cool about the whole thing though. They didn't get mad, and instead 'encouraged' the players to do it. Most of the fire was targeted at the Jita Memorial, and the devs later changed the model to
[img]http://evetravel.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/2010-02-17-05-10-25.jpg[/img]
to show the effects of "Burn Jita" as it was called. Also for all those who don't know anything about Jita, it wasn't a place that the devs said "Hey this is a trading hub." It just happened. The topography of the regions was just right. Jita is the junction of 3 regions, and two jumps away from a fourth, meaning you can buy shit in one region, jump to jita, sell it in another. (A region is a grouping of star systems, and the market is region-wide). It is really cool how it just happened that way. Also, everything in eve has some backstory. Not that it needs to, but it is all there. I would have to say it is the coolest lore ever. The elder scrolls lore is pretty good too, but I like internet spaceships over iron swords :v:.
Burn Jita and the Jita Riots were two separate occasions that weren't linked in any way other than being on jita and involving players.
That garrysmod machinima is what made EVE look really cool. But when I played it, I was completely lost.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;38156301]Burn Jita and the Jita Riots were two separate occasions that weren't linked in any way other than being on jita and involving players.[/QUOTE]
Ah my bad, you are correct. It was changed for the riots not burn Jita. My bad. It's been a while.
These EVE stories are pretty kickass. Probably the biggest adrenaline rush I've gotten from the game is when I was first starting out on the demo.
It started when I was still doing the training missions and I thought mining was actually going to be a good source of money. (It isn't, unless you spend all day mining)
So I warp out to a low security system in my frigate fitted for mining, knowing the better ores are out there. I find a nice asteroid belt and start mining some ore. (Not as rare as I thought. Mined it all the time in a corp I joined. :v:)
So I orbit this asteroid casually and start shooting my newbie mining laser at it. It takes a while to mine but whatever.
Suddenly, an orange square appears on my screen. I'm smart enough to know that orange=bad. Sadly, I realize it to late and he has me warp jammed. Now this guy has a Rifter, a frigate designed for combat. I had a frigate that wasn't even really suited for mining either. All I had for defense was a standard railgun.
So yeah, I'm pretty fucked. I stop mining and start moving away from him, in as desperate attempt to escape his warp scrambler. Flames start spewing out of my ship. Barely started playing and already being gunned down by players.
And then a miracle happens. Somehow I manage to escape his warp jammer and warp away to the station. I pay for my repairs and get the fuck out of there.
Today I am pretty good at gunning down NPCs, but I have yet to actually engage in PVP again. This is the kind of stuff that makes the boring parts of EVE worth it. When you engage in combat and are on the verge of losing you ship and your life. It gives you this adrenaline rush that you can't get in other games where you just respawn and get your stuff back. Eve has loss. It puts a whole reality in the game that you will never get in any other game. You may ragequit when your ship gets blown up, but the best part of the game is rebuilding what you had. That's why I love EVE.
I want to hear more stories from Scout.
Speaking of space MMO's, is Infinity still alive?
-snip, stupid-
Ugh... I've tried EVE 3 times, It just doesn't seem to be my kind of game, I want to love it though.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;38149742]Ha, fair fights, why fight fair when you can lose?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Rents;38149912]The best kind of fight to start is the one I can't lose and the best kind of money to spend is someone else's.[/QUOTE]
Hehe, I didn't state that [I]I[/I] actually fight fair. Maybe you didn't read my previous post, because the most PvP I have done has been jumping people after ninja salvaging or ore flipping, flying a stealth bomber or jumping people in wormholes with other mates.
[QUOTE=borisvdb;38156428]That garrysmod machinima is what made EVE look really cool. But when I played it, I was completely lost.[/QUOTE]
If you mean Clear Skies, that was Source SDK, not GMod. Still incredible, though. [url=http://www.clearskiesthemovie.com/intro.htm] I firmly believe every EVE player should watch the trilogy at least once.[/url]
[i]"FIRE UP THE FOURTEEN HUNDREDS, CHARLIE!"[/i]
[QUOTE=tepholman;38176374]If you mean Clear Skies, that was Source SDK, not GMod. Still incredible, though. [url=http://www.clearskiesthemovie.com/intro.htm] I firmly believe every EVE player should watch the trilogy at least once.[/url]
[i]"FIRE UP THE FOURTEEN HUNDREDS, CHARLIE!"[/i][/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJn2i6jJiaU[/media]
Another must-watch eve machinima.
[QUOTE=tepholman;38176374]If you mean Clear Skies, that was Source SDK, not GMod. Still incredible, though. [url=http://www.clearskiesthemovie.com/intro.htm] I firmly believe every EVE player should watch the trilogy at least once.[/url]
[i]"FIRE UP THE FOURTEEN HUNDREDS, CHARLIE!"[/i][/QUOTE]
I didn't like Clear Skies as much as everyone else seems to.
Sure it's good by machinima standards, but I found the entire thing to totally bland.
The acting wasn't great, the animations felt clunky, the story seemed contrived.
I still watched all three, but I'd never re-watch it.
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