Mrs Javix' Journal

Inspired by our recent trip to Iceland, and Eve Fanfest, my wife recently subbed her first account and began her journey to becoming an ebil pirate. Every so often she'll stop by and let us know how she is doing.


Last week I lost my first ship. I'd become rather bored with the small bounties and the easy kills of the rats in High-Sec. I've spent the last few weeks waiting for my skills to train. One after the other, slowly, my newb modules were being replaced by T2 modules. So I yelled over to Rixx, what do you think about level .4? Isn't that Low Sec? He told me to go ahead, but you're just gonna get blown up. I figured I would just be careful and it would be okay. I was feeling pretty confident in my flying abilities. I did get blown up. However, I learned a lot from that first experience and it was rather exciting.

I had ventured out to the asteroid belts in Carrou, killed some higher bounty rats, bounced out sold stuff then went back and forth, only kind of paying attention to local and d-scan. Had I realized it, I would have noticed that the same folks were popping in and out, yet one person was always staying behind. I was feeling pretty good in my Merlin with my tech 1 guns (hahaha), I had made some big bounties, repaired my ship and went back for more in a belt where I had killed all but one or two rats. And I foolishly stopped paying attention to local and the dscan (duh). I was in the belt trying to take on a Defender when 4 folks popped up in the belt with me. I didn't think too much about it at first, I was having enough problems killing that damn defender, and then I noticed these people were shooting at me, and then I saw the swirly pretty lights and I couldn't warp anywhere. WTF is that???

And just like that my ship was blowed up. Rixx came running in, get your pod out of there, you don't want to get podded! Wait what?!? I got my little pod out and went to a station and thought about what had just happened. Their little spy hung out in the station while I was there, but I already knew enough at that point to wait until the next day to get out.

About a minute went by and I was like REALLY? Four people (five if you count their spy) and a rat to kill one Merlin with tech 1 guns, are you kidding me?!? The ridiculousness of it all was a bit laughable, but I enjoyed it.  Since then, I have been paying a lot more attention to local and the dscan - I am more aware of who is there not just at a glance, and I am now fitted with tech 2 guns (a modest improvement). But I am still gonna publicly mock a group of players who gang up and attack a newb in a Merlin. Seriously, shouldn't you be out there trying to blow up Rixx or something?



Comments

Zosius said…
hehe, good story. Next trip should be to wormholes.
Unknown said…
Nice story! Please keep them coming as you might, might get my wife to start playing (a nice break for myself).
Unknown said…
Wow, that gang was a bit overkill. Likely they saw you are a SF pilot and figured you were baiting? Not sure - but then again looking at their corps zKillboard they tend to bring Sacriledge, Enyo's, Loki's, Nemesis', etc. - so likely they just can't handle a real fight and have to either alpha or run.

They also tend to kill a LOT of non-combat oriented ships unless they are in a blob. O.o I mean look at this poor Merlin's blob. https://zkillboard.com/kill/46354811/

Keep undocking - soon you'll pwn those guys!!

Good Hunting

- Mal

P.S.
Yeah, Rixx . . . I saw the ABA pilot on there too. LOL >.< Doh!
Xavi Bastanold said…
And so it begins. You'd be surprised, Mrs. Javix, the games that go around tracking potential kills. The ones who killed you probably were certain you were bait for something much more ominous. It was too good to be true. That might explain the numbers. Then again, sheer dumb luck has been the main component of more than a few kills on EVE. Enjoy your time as a pirate. Nothing quite as 'free' as being a pirate, I have to say.
Omega Minus said…
If it helps convince some one else to try it then I will certainly keep posting. I only have an hour or so here and there to play, but it is a nice break from life! Especially on those bad days at work!
Starfire Dai said…
Oh, please keep posting. It's been so much fun to follow you.