[EVE] Any EVE boxers out there?

[Los]

that close to your hulk? this fast? hmm nice

already have mine on my second account :P

[Gurblash]

Yea I'll have the Hulk in 12 days if I plow for it and don't miss a skill completion timer. Time to start setting alarms for 2 and 3am to change skills... oi lol.

[Morganti]

No reason to set your alarm, just switch skills to short timered ones when you're playing and long timered ones when you arent. You dont lose you place in training a skill by switching to another. You'll still end up with the same amount of time being played and the same skills. The pain in the butt parts are when you are leaving the computer for 8 hours and your skill only takes 6 to complete and theres no other great options to switch to.

[Bradster]

If you guys are interested in 0.0 living, contact me in game “Chimay” and I’ll get you in contact with our recruiter. He’s a great guy I normally spend most of my time in fleet with him killing someone or some thing. . Doesn’t matter what time you play there are always ton’s of people on. Heck I log in all hours of the night and I was in a 90 man fleet the other day. Keep in mind the 90man fleet was created within 15mins ready for attack from those who were just in the area.

0.0 living is fun! You can make around 64m an hour mining out here (with T2 Crystals) Even so without them, still a ton. You can also make that ratting. Last night my friend got a faction drop worth over 300m (Dread Invul Field). Just in the short time I’ve been with them it’s changed the entire game for me. I never had this much fun in EVE before.

Here’s some of the things I accomplished thus far with the new corp. I have my own personal POS, I use it to mine a rare moon. Not only got to go on the Journey, but had to tank THEE hardest Exploration Plex in the game. (I have part of it recorded if you’d like me to upload it). I’ve made tons of isk compared to empire no matter what the heck I do. Been apart of large fleet battles. Had the satisfaction of chasing away over 150 reds outta our system due to team work. Most of all I’m actually starting to move up on the kill board compared to before being solo.

I really just can’t explain it, it’s just something you have to see for yourself. Take the BLUE pill and let’s go hunting, yarrr.

Right now I have 5 guys.
2 in the Alliance
3 in their on private corp. I ice mine on 2, and haul with the 3rd.

Main almost finished Advanced Drone Interfacing 5 (18D skill!)
Then going to work on Warfare Drone skills, then continue to work on gun skills. Right now his gun skills are only 2m but my Thorax still does 532DPS. That’s not a typo. My lolrox setup only cost 16m total as well. I have a clip of me raping a Hauler with that setup if you’re interested in seeing the damage output.

Alt in the Corp will be completely done learning skills in 12D (Advanced 4). He was my old main with 6m SP. Next step is Exploration/Ship probe skills. That’s about 50D to max it to make it perfect. Then on to Logistics (10D) so I can solo those hard 0.0 Plexs I find. That last one we did I tanked over 30 Battle Ships, ton of Frigates and tons of cruisers and Battle cruisers, along with Sent guns and Seiage guns that hit for 500. Mind you this was all at once. If that doesn’t make your heart rate go up I don’t know what will! That’s a preview of 0.0 life!

2 miners both drive Hulks/Machs
Both finished Ice mining 5 today, working on Mining 5 Then off to T2 Crystals.

Last alt, finishing off learning skills, then training for Freighter then Jump Freighter, ETA 43D just for the Freighter.

I normally have a skill plan laid out for the next 40D and make a new one once I completed them all. When you have 5 guys, with the exception of learning skills they go by pretty fast. I have a laptop with EVE installed here at work just to keep up with the training. Speaking of which I need to do that now.

Before I go I should make it clear, that although my post is filled with wonderful great experiences, this is after all 0.0. We are currently with war with three other Alliances, which the normal is only 1. One is always to be expected but not 3. But were excited, more targets! Some times things are quite, others you have to put down the miner lasers and go out there and show them how it’s done. Really think about if you can sit there and mine for days with out getting bored to the next week having local fill up with over a 100 REDS and camp you inside for the rest of the day. These things happen and will! When I’m trapped with my pants down I simply logon to my alts and start mining. Wouldn’t recommend putting all of your guys in 0.0 space for your own sanity when you get camped in or out of 0.0.

[TEEJ]

i used to play more than i do now, mostly i play wow at the moment. i still log on my eve toon (Theteej) to train a new skill when i learn one. and he has like 270 million isk. i fly a drake decently, and a mining barge decently. currently i'm finishing up maxing the tier 2 learning skills. memory and int tier 1 and 2 are all at 5, per/will are tier 1 all 5, tier 2 4 and 5, charisma is like tier 1 at 4 tier 2 at 3. another few weeks and i can either work toward exhumer or get better at flying drake. i still mine occasionally but i don't have refining skill yet, so i just stockpile the ore. i wana kill stuff in my drake but i don't have faction enough to get even level 2 missions yet lol.i used to play in a pvp corp but i work too much to be active.

[Bradster]

This thought occurred to me last night.

Let’s pretend there is a Mouse Multiplexer out there in existence and you currently have it. It’s still not going to work very well. The reason why is the over view.

In a perfect world if you were to take on a single target, that happened to be in a roid belt. Then yes the only target at the top of the overview (properly setup) would be in that said ship. So you could focus fire. However in a most cases like a Gate, station etc you will have many targets lurking about. Because you are randomly placed upon jump the distances would differ. Player A, B, C and D would have different ships in the overview, only if sorted by distance the targets would differ.

Thinking about it more, I think it could still be possible but you would have to setup the overview to sort by Name, or perhaps ship type. The question I’m unable to test right now is, IF you can sort by those perimeters. I don’t think you can, but I’m unable to test right now.

[Bradster]

There is a lack of target assist, however! With the broadcast window, you could broad cast who to target. Assuming you have a mouse Multiplexer you could then click on the broadcast window and target that way. At which point during the locking phase you can click orbit on all of them at the same time and start spamming f1 – f9 for a great time :thumbsup:

[Morganti]

I've been debating exactly what we CAN do in EVE and these are my thoughts thus far:

Key broadcast your attack keys across all guys (as soon as you gain a target you'll start firing)
Key broadcast your drones across all guys (there are drone shortcuts you can bind)

You wouldn't want to broadcast your active tanking modules, as you would burn needless cap on a lot of guys.

With a G-15 or nostromo you could one button fire your entire fleet, and could at that point worry about targeting/movement individually.

I know you could use AutoIt to move your mouse to a certain spot and click, but I'm not sure how legit that would be. That's the closest idea I can come to an assist in EVE.

[zashi]

Have a coupla accounts. Between the two of them, I can fly carriers, freighters, covops/cruisers, t2 cruisers, exhumers (mmm, gistii hulk), and have a bunch of good refine skills (been playing since 04)

Last time I really played, ISS was still together. Reading this is getting that itch itching again, bah!

I'd be interested in some kind of close knit corp: empire pvp, shifting goods around, or just being a nuisance. Not really too excited about mining or ratting out in 0sec anymore, the monotony of that killed the game for me. Add that to the fact that ore prices have plummeted...

[Bradster]

Morganti

Your right you can broadcast using the key board multiplexer (and perhaps software like Keyclone?)

I wasn’t aware you could bind your drone attack. That’s interesting.

However without some way to use a mouse across all the clients I don’t see how it’s possible to acquire the target. Unless there is some Mouse Multiplexer out there with a perfect Sync I don’t think it would be possible.

On a good note I did discover you can sort the over view alphabetically. So if and when find a way to have a perfect mouse sync it would be possible to target the same thing at the same time. To be honest I haven’t put forth much effort in to researching what is out there, mainly because I have no desire to 5 box pvp here. I enjoy the mmo aspect of fighting in fleet vs. fleet and have no desire to change that.


Zashi

I know what you mean. I more or less enjoy a tightly knit group myself. Even being apart of a large alliance I have a group of people I normally hang out with. We click and enjoy the company. A typical night includes about 6-10 of us doing small gangs. Doing plexs, pirating or ganking other alliances war targets. Two weeks ago we all went to our enemy’s space in Stealth Bombers. We’d uncloak and insta pop anyone that came in. Was pretty funny. That’s just a random idea one of us had. Something is always going on that’s fun at least.

Mining still has it’s value, Can still make a good 50-60M an hour, which is pretty decent, and note this is per toon of course if you box. As for living out in 0.0 I hear many people
Have different experiences with it, my very first experience was pretty bad with my first choice. However this 2nd choice is pretty amazing. Only thing it cost’s me is 10% tax, which I’d pay that in empire anyway.


I’ve been trying to get my irl friend to play EVE for a while now, he created a new account and has been skilling towards Battle Cruiser, but already he’s bored waiting. Thankfully he is almost done skilling for it and can move in to 0.0 this week and he can see the game for what it really is. I wanted to give him a preview so I tossed together a small video of just Saturday.

We decided to do an interceptor gang with a single Black bird, just messing around. Well it was pretty effective, even managed a battle ship with just interceptor dps, we couldn’t stop laughing. These clips are pretty much all from 1 day just in a random roaming gang, with the exception of the Caracal and BC fight. http://files.filefront.com/evepvpdiv.../fileinfo.html

That’s just one day, lately I’ve been gate camping. Finally decided to drop the isk and Buy a Heavy Assault Ship. A lot more fun then the slow going Negatron.