Sorry I haven't been in this thread like, at all. Kristof in Eve. And pretty much everybody on vent knows this, but I'm Terralis in there.
I'd be worried about getting podded just because eve likes to spaz out on me at times, like when my ship blows up. A few seconds of forced inactivity pretty much destroy my comfort zone. On the other hand, I'd like some practical experience in pvp, even if it's not want I want to do full time.
I'm kinda torn because being cautious saves us ships, time, and money, but it's not as exciting. Like the other day when somebody came through from another hole and said we could help them out or just close the hole. Helping them could have meant a chance to meet new people, have some fun, and make some money. But it could have also meant taking a bunch of our ships out into an ambush and getting destroyed. I tend to be more trusting, because I usually think it's better for them if we work together, but I know that at least some people who play EVE enjoy making strangers miserable. And others do it because hey, there's money in stealing somebody else's stuff when they don't protect it well enough. So I guess it's good that I defer to the people in the corp who are worried about those practices.
Oh, but I guess the other example would be canceling a mining operation when pirates show up instead of trying to chase them out.
Money is no longer an issue to me, to the point that the game has become boring. I'm going to take a break for a week or so, and then maybe join a PVP corp or something.
Nilik's guide to making money in EVE:
1. Learn to fly a battlecruiser (any race)
2. Learn to use T2 armor repairers, or T2 shield hardeners and rechargers. Have a good tank is what I'm getting at.
3. Find unstable wormhole
4. Jump into womrhole (BOOKMARK THE EXIT FROM BOTH SIDES! DO IT NOW! RIGHT NOW!)
5. Check
www.womrnav.com to see when the occupying corp is online (there WILL be an occupying corp), and what class wormhole you have.
6. If class 1 or 2, goto 7, else goto 3.
7. Fly around the system for a bit and use dscan to check for other ships. If there's no ships on scan, you're probably ok.
8. Start clearing the combat anomolies, salvaging as you go. This is quicker with a salvaging buddy, and can be done in a cheap disposible destroyer, preferrably with a cloak. You are looking for melted nanoribbons; they sell for 6.5M a pop. Drops are completely random so you can never be quite sure what you're going to get, but I typically get 8-12 from a few hours wormholing.
8A. Spam dscan like a motherfucker. If you see a nasty looking ship or combat probe on the scanner, GET OUT OF THERE but in all probability you won't be interrupted.
9. Sell your phat lewt
10. PROFIT!!!
I typically make about 100M per trip this way. I have more money than I will ever spend without deliberately throwing expensive ships into PVP.
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