just-logo

Submissions (7)

orik Kado's avatar
orik Kado3/5/2024

$3

Interestingly, I have many anecdotes about collaborations with completely new players. I usually have a lot of contact with new pilots thanks to content creation. However, if we look at the last collaboration, it ended up with a new member joining my corporation. Basically, it was a new player seeking guidance regarding the FW system. He occasionally offered blueprints and modules he obtained through his activities, and sometimes we went out together to find something to kill. One day, he simply said he was bored of doing the same content and that he would like to join my corporation and try out new activities. So now we continue playing as a team but with the rest of our friends, making it much more enjoyable.

Kane Carnifex's avatar
Kane Carnifex3/5/2024

$3

Pancakes, Pancakes everywhere

Recently we left the turner lands to join the wormhole life. A minute later we were in an OP to evict another hole. Because Friends of our Friends calling or got we invited?

If something is under siege its kind of crazy how stuff works and that i didn´t took part in this for a long long time. Also this is my first bigger WH evitction so lot of new stuff. (Honestly this is how it should work, fuck of asset safty)

Here you see random Barghest creating little garmurs. So it is not about the fleet stuff, the op, the structure grind, the holecontrol itself or the holding the doorstep.

Hole Control

Structure Bashing in Style

PEW PEW PEW, PEW PEW PEW

Ups?!

So after you shoot your stuff, looted everything you start thinking how you get home again? Super easy you get a Barg Buddy and another Buddy with a COVOP Ship.

The COVOP Bro brings you, with scouting, safe through the chain. Once you land back in K-Space you filament into POCH. Here you cloak up again and wait out your timer ... and then HIGHSEC EXIT.

Now i am sitting in K-Space waiting for another chain to my new home, my new friends, a new familiy. I just need to get them known :P

Fly Safe & Blood for the Blood God.

Bubba_EvE's avatar
Bubba_EvE3/3/2024

$3

Roaming through LowSec as a newbie pirate, I found myself fighting against a much better player than I was in a 1v1 fight. The battle was intense, with lasers and missiles flying back and forth as our ships tried to outmaneuver each other, but I was no match for my opponent and my ship was rapidly turned into a fireball

Despite blowing my ship up, that fellow pirate decided to pay me back the price of my ship and shared some good tips on how to get better at 1v1 fights

After that he took me under his wing and we toghether began to look for fights. Some times we lost, but others our combined efforts paid off as we emerged triumphant, our ships battered but still flying proudly.

We are still friends to this day and fly toghether when our paths cross and we find each other. It was a thrilling experience, and one that highlighted the unique camaraderie and teamwork that can be found in the world of EvE Online, even with players you've never met before.

FirestormGamingTeam's avatar
FirestormGamingTeam3/2/2024

$3

I am going to answer this with a story, because it embodies this bounty and the long-term effects of how meeting a stranger, can turn into a lifelong friendship.

Around 7 years ago, I was running a corporation called Evil Monkey Asylum. We lived in a system called Samanuni, which is a 0.7-sec system, and our HQ, our corporation specializes in new player recruitment, using our tutorials to teach new players Eve Online.

One aspect of our corporation was T1 frigate roams, we would buy/create T1-fitted frigates, standard ships, etc, our stockpile was massive, and our goal was to take as many new players into low sec for PvP, to get them over the fear of "ship loss".

A few jumps away from our HQ was a level 3 agent. This is where our story begins.

One such roam was a fleet of 50+ new players and existing experienced players, we had been out for some time and had headed back at around 10 PM UK TZ, as we approached our home system and roam end, we jumped into a system called Ikoskio. A forward scout piped up on comms "I have an Apocalypse navy issue on scan, do you want me to pinpoint" I said yes, go ahead, I held my fleet on the outgate waiting for intel, after about 3 minutes our scout said "not sure if this is a site or mission but I'm on his gate" I told him to hold.

I warped the fleet to the gate and instructed squad 1-2 to focus on his drones and the rest to fire on the ship, I said fleet activate and we went in, he was literally on the war in point shooting NPC's, instantly the fleet followed orders and within a few minutes we had him in structure, a member piped up "FC read local please, he seems genuinely distressed"

I read the local chat and ordered everyone to stop firing, what he said wasn't important but, he had been saving for months for this ship and its fit, and essentially, he screwed up in thinking low sec was safe when in a mission. I told the fleet to hold and directly convoed him. After a few minutes chatting as he was in the NPC corp, I sent him a corporation invite, ordered my fleet off-field and to return home, and had him take his battleship back to High Sec.

That player's name was DemonGateUK, after we disbanded the fleet I put him into a private comms and educated him on the dangers of low sec, even when in missions and sites, he had no idea that you can be scanned down. It turns out that he lives less than 45 minutes from me.

After a few weeks, he told me he was going to be in the closest city to me on business and that I wanted to meet up. I said yes, of course, so we met up in Starbucks and chatted for a good four hours.

This man is now one of my IRL best friends, he is my D&D dungeon master, and our newest baby, baby Charlie who is now 5 months old, his middle name is my friend's first name as a way to honor that friendship. He is also the god parent of my daughter Sofia. When COVID hit, I lost my job, I did not know what to do, he called me and said "I need an assistant, easy work, good pay, you're it" and that I could work from home.

Eve Online is a special game to me, this is simply one of the reasons why. This man, is an amazing human, an amazing and loyal friend, and thanks to a chance encounter, I now have this amazing person in my life.

Sturmer's avatar
Sturmer3/2/2024

$3

I absolutely love this topic! I've had discussions with CCP Games’ expert on the Friendship Machine, Tryggvi Hjaltason, who even developed a formula to measure meaningful social connections within a game. One of my most memorable experiences in EVE Online really illustrates this.

In the game, there are various communities operating solely through in-game chat. I'm part of one such group, with around 150 members from different corporations and alliances. We've never met in person within the game.

One member of this community is a notorious hisec ganker – a pirate known for hunting expensive loot and sometimes targeting pilots from our own community. Our interactions were limited to chat until one day, I found myself caught in an unfavorable PvP situation. With no immediate help available, I sent out a distress call in the chat, not expecting much.

To my surprise, 'the ganker', who was tracking a target nearby, responded and offered to help. He arrived promptly with his fleet of suicide catalysts and saved me. He didn’t ask for anything in return, even refusing the ISKs I sent as a reward.

This experience showed me that even the most feared pirates can exhibit kindness, and that even simple chat interactions can build trust strong enough to prompt immediate action in aid of a stranger.