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Although it sounds like they set up another corp pretty well. If the story is true, the haulers we ganked last night had a spy in the same corp as the haulers. This spy happened to be the scout for that group. The scout never reported us or the Huzzah fleet and logged shortly after they all died. Then his alt was seen with Huzzah distributing the loot.
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Cuda said:
Man....I thought eve was a "simple" game...I just log on and fight with skills, like tribes....
spies??? wtf...this is getting to be like james bond movies?
there's some crazy, crazy shit that goes on in here.Blitzkrieg said:
There was a thread (more than 6mos ago) posted in GD about this corp that had slowly accumulated members over about 3-6mos, and was charging forth to new activities.
The ceo had pissed one guy off, and he paid an assassin group to kill her. He didn't want any of the corp's assets, just her corpse. He paid in excess of several hundred million I believe.
The ceo was in a small ship, flying under battleship escort of her most trusted corp member and some others. They jumped into a system, and were confronted by a pirate. The trusted corp members with her turned and shot her, then podded her. This 'most trusted corp member', who was her 2nd in command, was the leader of the assassin gang. Agents of this assassin gang had been worked into the corp and were placed in every system that the corp had offices.
Then this 2nd in command emptied the corp's wallet, and uttered 1 word. With that codeword, the agents emptied every single corp hangar. They had each been given enough access to do this.
The man got his corpse. The assassin gang got an incredible amount of money and an even richer bounty of bpos and minerals. The ceo of that corporation got shafted.
esgato and I were fully prepared to pop those cans if someone came back looking for their loot.
Sucks for the guy that lost billions because he got stabbed in the back. We totally just hapened to be at the right lace at the right time.
And to think that inept huzzah fleet esgato and I started out the night harassing ended up popping that 3rd hauler....
Sucks for the guy that lost billions because he got stabbed in the back. We totally just hapened to be at the right lace at the right time.
And to think that inept huzzah fleet esgato and I started out the night harassing ended up popping that 3rd hauler....
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Chikaze said:
I hoep you're joking....
This is a game...well..I'm saying that now..maybe I'll change later but at least for now...this is a freaking game
That all happened. That's what makes this game so freakin cool. It's so open that you can do anything you want and it usually comes out as some people commend you for it, some people hate you for it. The game isn't just about mining and killing. You've got people that play the market, scammers, pirates, spies, mercs etc. that make that game very interesting.
Well PC Mag UK dressed it up a good deal to dramatize it, but the fundamental facts are all true. They did partake in a multi-month plan to rob the corp, the CEO was backstabbed, and they made off with billions in stuff.Stihl said:I also heard that story was grossly exaggerated
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http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=172529
^Thats the original press release.
http://eve.klaki.net/heist/
^Thats the PC gamer article.
Nowadays the damage and goods stolen is worth about 8,000 USD and 5000 USD respectively.
And there's a whole hell of a lot of scams, some people just play EVE to scam. There's guys that just rob corps of money after being with them for two months, make another alt, skill him up for a month, join another corp and two months later rob them and repeat the process. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
^Thats the original press release.
http://eve.klaki.net/heist/
^Thats the PC gamer article.
Nowadays the damage and goods stolen is worth about 8,000 USD and 5000 USD respectively.
And there's a whole hell of a lot of scams, some people just play EVE to scam. There's guys that just rob corps of money after being with them for two months, make another alt, skill him up for a month, join another corp and two months later rob them and repeat the process. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
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man.....
When I left UO, I left keep, castle, houses, loot, shitload of gold to my friends, not to mention pre-1998 items, prior to all the nerfs, etc. That favor was returned later when I got diablo2 stuff for free such as SoJ, etc.
I mean..gimme a break...I've never paid virtual game item nor sold any...it's a freaking game..jesus...
I haven't played much MMO due to real life time problems. That's why eve is so attractive to me, I can just set a skill to train, take care of my real life, login when the skill's done and switch to another one. Much more nicer and relaxed way of playing. The downside is since I start so late, t2 bpo is gone, my character will never catch up to older character in SP due to skill training in real time, etc.
When I left UO, I left keep, castle, houses, loot, shitload of gold to my friends, not to mention pre-1998 items, prior to all the nerfs, etc. That favor was returned later when I got diablo2 stuff for free such as SoJ, etc.
I mean..gimme a break...I've never paid virtual game item nor sold any...it's a freaking game..jesus...
I haven't played much MMO due to real life time problems. That's why eve is so attractive to me, I can just set a skill to train, take care of my real life, login when the skill's done and switch to another one. Much more nicer and relaxed way of playing. The downside is since I start so late, t2 bpo is gone, my character will never catch up to older character in SP due to skill training in real time, etc.
Blitzkrieg said:
blitz not sure where the rant from the start of your post came from, but for this part I will say this:
I too felt the same way when I started eve... but then you realize that even a 25 millions killpoint character can lose to someone who has 4m. The thing is, that skillpoints do not always = skill for the ship they are flying. Plus, there is a drop off where once base skills for the ship you are flying are maxed, you will be just as good as someone else who has the same skills maxed but has 15m more skill points then you mixed in other things.
Thats the best thing about eve for me, is that no matter who you are, how many sp's you have, people still can fuck up and and its still possible to take down someone who has been playing for years with the right tactics and training.
not to mention that like in my situation, my wife is finishing school in SD, I am in Phoenix working and she will be in town for two weeks while we look for a house. I wont be on at all during that two weeks but yet I can still log in for 2 minutes set a skill and even though I will not be progressing with wealth, my character will still be growing. Thats something I could never do in eq/eq2/ or daoc.
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Shadow13 said:
Yeah, honestly, skills define what you do and how well you do it, but the right setup and the right opening moves you can win a fight against someone with 10-20x your SP. I've done it many times as has just about everyone else. Honestly, when you get that high up there in SP you can get diminishing returns anyway.
The SP for a skill 0-4 fits into the same skill 4-5 about five times for anywhere from a 2-10% bonus (Usually anyway, there's several exceptions like drone interfacing.) IE at attribute 20 20 (low) to go from 0-4 in a 4x skill is about three days to go from 4-5 for that small bonus is about 15 days. The places where this breaks apart are things like t2 items, where people do have a substantial advantage, but it's not like if someone has a t2 item they've got an iwin button, a player with named with the right setup can still easily spank them.
And I agree about being about to be offline and still be gaining at least something in EVE. Every time I've gone on vacation, been to busy with work, or the like I've come back to a nice little skill to level 5, which is pretty cool.
I also remember playing other MMOs (WoW, Daoc, EQ) and if you're playing with friends, you all have to start grinding together or people go ahead or others fall behind. In EVE that doesn't happen and even a new player at 700k sp can be a very competent tackler for a 30 mill sp guy in a HAC or tech 2ed out BS.