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Otolia
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r.Evo
Germany14079 Posts
On March 04 2012 08:32 DefMatrixUltra wrote: So today, DefMatrix Ultra marks the end of his 1st year in Hatchery. My activity in terms of playing EVE has been irregular. I'd say that about 4 months of those 12 months, I had basically no activity. Despite that, I've done a lot of shit - so much that it's even hard to remember it all. Seems like years of my life happened in this game. --EVE EVE is a strange experience. If you come into it alone, with only yourself and the game, you won't get it. It's a sandbox, and you run out of guidance very quickly. In fact, I'd say that most people that have played EVE don't even understand where the game is, what to actually do to get at the meat of the game. EVE is not your traditional MMO experience. EVE chews up and spits out traditional MMO audiences like a meat grinder. You'll find no warm, sunny beach with palm trees here. No rolling meadows with rabbits or whatever the fuck running around. In EVE, people are out for your blood. Nowhere is safe. Someone will find you buried in your hiding place, pummel you nearly to death. The next day they'll log onto their trade alt and scam you out of every penny you own. Many many people have ragequit this game, some with years of playtime behind them. --Hatchery Hatchery is very much the best corp in EVE. Like EVE, it is a meat grinder. But unlike EVE, it has a will and direction and a reason. Many do not make it far in EVE, even with the help of Hatchery. If you can't make it past the gauntlet of trolling, if you can't shoulder unreasonable responsibility, if you can't own up to mistakes you couldn't possibly comprehend fully - then you are just one of the unfortunate many. But Hatchery pulls its members from the TL community. And this community is about as badass and battle-hardened as you can get. So man up and stick with it. The rewards are uncountable. The Hatchery philosophy is all about being the best. Besides being the best pvp corp in game, Hatchery has experts in every field of the game. Any facet of industry, market, pve, pvp, game mechanics - someone in Hatchery is the undisputed expert on the subject. That's what happens when you take in TL membership and you hammer them with responsibility and knowledge that no Random Joe can sustain - once the flames have died down, a Hatchery member steps from the smouldering ashes. When I first joined up, I was clueless and poor. I made most of my ISK off pvp since Hatchery collected and sold loot and distributed prize ISK to the top ten pilots. But there is this awesome guy named Pufftrees who seemingly printed ISK at will. He did stuff with contracts and was nice enough to loan me 1b (1,000,000,000.00 ISK) for my first "serious" month of contracts. I paid him back easily and was very successful with contracts. I eventually went on to obsessively dip my hands in all kinds of cashflow all throughout EVE. Thanks to individuals like Pufftrees, Motbob, and KwarK and thanks to the Hatchery philosophy in general, I am obscenely wealthy in game today. In 1 year, I've made more than dozens of random EVE players will make in their entire EVE career. Similarly, while I'm not the best in the game at pvp, I am steadily climbing my way up there. Through intensive study and with Hatchery-instilled mechanics and philosophy, I will one day be among the best pvpers in the game's history. Make a note. --DefMatrix Ultra I wouldn't call my career illustrious or any other such word. I'm a Hatchery member, so excellence is par for the course. I've had a lot of fun in pvp. My first few months, I flew nothing but Rifters and loved the shit out of it. There's really nothing like zooming around at 5 kilometers a second only to land the real killing blow on your enemy - the tackle. When you're zipping from victim to victim with 50 combat drones painting a target on your head, you feel truly alive. In a time where everyone was training Drake or Hurricane, I decided that I disliked BCs, and to this day I have Battlecruiser II trained. I trained to a ship that I thought was unimaginably cool - an Imperial Navy Slicer. Within a few months, I had a nearly maxed Slicer, and I still love the ship to death today. I've done a ton of solo pvp (more than most Hatchery members) in my trusty Slicer. I could post a bunch of killmails, but solo pvp is so much more than just mails. You learn a lot of stuff about the game when you're all alone with no intel, no safety net, and a bit of bloodlust. But I will post some cool fleet mails. + Show Spoiler [Mails, Baby, Mails] + In EVE, killmails are publicly available records of fights. On each individual mail is the fit of the person that died, all the people that attacked that person, and how much damage each attacker did (and other info like the loot dropped etc.). If you look at a bunch of mails all together, you can link many of them to the same event. If one guy dies and was killed by 20 other people, then you know that the 1 guy and the 20 other people were both there. Many times, people are on each other's mails and you can start to work out who all was involved in the battle. Thankfully killboards do this automatically in the form of battle reports (disclaimer, sometimes the software gets it wrong). + Show Spoiler [Fleet Battles] + These are some of the cool fleet battles I've been in. Keep in mind, not only is this not every larger battle I've been in, it's not even close to every battle that Hatchery has been in. My activity was very much on/off depending on my RL situation at the time. At one point, I basically stopped playing the game for 3 months - logging in only to update skill queues. Keep in mind that these range from my very beginnings up to now. In some of these battles, I have over 20m skillpoints, and others I'm a complete, utter noobie. http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9455209 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9504307 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9608131 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9846213 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=10075976 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12052780 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12081492 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12370464 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12371130 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12427117 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12479133 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12479819 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12566814 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12567488 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12567490 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12607988 http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12609564 + Show Spoiler [Random Notable Kills] + --- http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9529271 This was Hatchery's first carrier kill. It was a neat event as a noobie rifter pilot (my 2nd month playing the game). http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9529271 <- Battle Report --- http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9897948 This guy is a complete douchebag. He is in an incredibly expensive and (at the time) overpowered ship and challenged our friend Emdar (Marvlyn) to a 1v1. Marvlyn is in a cheap-ass T1 non-combat ship. This fucker is basically going around preying on noobs and getting cheap kills with no risk to himself or his expensive ship. We set up a trap where they would 1v1 at a planet. This planet was very close to a gate to another system. In that system - on the other side of the gate - was everyone else was waiting patiently. ShoreTay was on the planet watching the duel happen in a cloaked ship, waiting to decloak and lock down the target. Everything went well, and the guy got trapped and didn't even manage to kill the crappy non-combat ship. As a bonus, we podded him too ( http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9897952 ) back in a time when pods did not show implant losses. --- http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=10134074 This massive clusterfuck of a fight started with a friendly Thanatos missioning as bait. He was attacked and had 5 carriers dropped on him. We took the opportunity to batphone in as much help as possible. All in all, I believe this fight took about 2 hours. We first landed on the field in a few BCs just to hold point while reinforcements arrived. --- http://teamliquid.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12062527 This was a guy we jumped in Delve. He was ratting but not being careful enough. This one is notable to me as this guy died in under 4 minutes instead of the 20-40 I was used to for killing a carrier. Hatchery used to be just a bunch of guys in BCs and Rifters, but we are fielding more serious hardware with each passing day. --In Closing Hatchery Life. + Show Spoiler + Some bros come and go. But Hatchery are bros for life. Every loss is a shared loss, and every victory a shared victory. When one of us makes a mistake, we're all pissed, and when we pull incredible shit off we know it was all of us. Specifically, I'd like to mention: Michael Harari (aka DiracMonopole) - This guy was my mentor since 1 year ago. He gets shit done. Pufftrees - Contract extroardinaire and Hatchery's bravest Harbinger pilot by far. KwarK - Fearless and calculating FC and consummate Drake pilot. Tofu - Don't know what to say, honestly, but Hatchery just wouldn't work without you. Jed - Sexy voice bros since '73. Mandini - You've had your own journey similar to mine and have grown into the badass you are today. Emdar - Haven't seen you around much, but we were blood brothers in Curse. Aeth - We have different philosophies and goals when it comes to flying, but we are m8s 4 lief. Body Shield - Aside from being a solid pilot of any ship you're in, you're also the best shitposter since BBQ. Caelum - You're a massive quebeccer faggot (and don't even know it), but we are true m8s. VoV - I shudder to think how the Hatchery would be if someone weren't there to keep these motherfuckers in line. Karah - So incredibly German. Ueberlisk - Your one-man terror campaign against an entire region is inspiring and a model to all Hatchery members. Firebolt - You are way too nice. Like secret serial killer nice. Lee - You were almost entirely responsible for the (somewhat) ethical treatment of new members and the organization of the new-member-experience. Motbob - Your continued brilliance and success is a large part of what made Hatchery so successful today. Cool to read a post like this for them lurking bittervets out there. tbh I never thought the day would come where Kwark would stand for high quality pvp. <3 I'm totally expecting a big ass baller post for 1k pages in this thread. | ||
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Zavior
Finland753 Posts
I vaguely remember flying with you once in a bc gang heading to 00.. And then my net crashed before we got any action :D | ||
Firebolt145
Lalalaland34483 Posts
On March 04 2012 21:20 r.Evo wrote: I'm totally expecting a big ass baller post for 1k pages in this thread. My bet is that BBQ snatches the 1k page honour with a shitpost. Either that or Body with some random reddit gif. | ||
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419
Russian Federation3631 Posts
But, pretend for a second that Nou's jaguar didn't have guns. Because he didn't use them. There's an alternative explanation. Nou's lossmail indicates that he made 13 shots before he died, which I thought was an awfully long time to survive in armor on an MSE jaguar. There are two reasonable explanations for this -- A) didn't reload from an earlier engagement, B) was indeed shooting the harpy the entire time. "But wait, Sir BBQ, wouldn't a harpy be well lower than 90% shields if the proud Jaguar-war-vessel had been firing for a significant period of time? I think you're just being retarded," you may ask. Here we learn that the guns contain the mity phased plasma ammunition, which do majority therm damage, which the harpy just so conveniently has a base resist of 86.25% to. And the damage that isn't therm is kinetic, which the harpy also has rather high resists toward. It really sucks that Minmatar weapon systems don't have selectable types, yes? Like it would be really awesome if there was a high EM damage projectile ammo, cause those would have been really nice vs Caldari t2 resists. I'm pretty sure the only thing that explains all of this is that our enyos were over running their reppers and not turning their blasters back on... I don't think any misplays are required to explain this (well, besides the warping in random shit one by one) -- in any 2v1 situation its not like the enyos could have gotten into damage range while double webbed and presumbly scrammed by the higher-tank harpy. Doesn't hurt that both had CN AM. PS pizza rolls and peaches and grapes is the dinner of kings, or whatever you call that meal you eat at 4 in the morning | ||
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Inzek
Chile802 Posts
On March 04 2012 21:40 419 wrote: There's an alternative explanation. Nou's lossmail indicates that he made 13 shots before he died, which I thought was an awfully long time to survive in armor on an MSE jaguar. There are two reasonable explanations for this -- A) didn't reload from an earlier engagement, B) was indeed shooting the harpy the entire time. "But wait, Sir BBQ, wouldn't a harpy be well lower than 90% shields if the proud Jaguar-war-vessel had been firing for a significant period of time? I think you're just being retarded," you may ask. Here we learn that the guns contain the mity phased plasma ammunition, which do majority therm damage, which the harpy just so conveniently has a base resist of 86.25% to. And the damage that isn't therm is kinetic, which the harpy also has rather high resists toward. It really sucks that Minmatar weapon systems don't have selectable types, yes? Like it would be really awesome if there was a high EM damage projectile ammo, cause those would have been really nice vs Caldari t2 resists. probably i would have changed ammo if i was thinking in shooting (probably no excuse, since i should have changed ammo as soon i saw the harpies)... i was pretty decided to just jump, but i didnt when Aeth said he was jumping to me (he wouldnt have jumped, had i told him my exact status). So i pretty much started scrammed/webbed and at zero with the harpy, with not full shield (around 50% i think), and with rats aggro. Not to say i didnt like my fit, was made from scrap parts i had around, and rigs so it fits :S. So it was all my fault (well at least Aeth death was also my fault). 13 shots? didnt count them so i guess thast was the "diagress". Funny thing for me, is that every second i knew i shouldnt agress, even when i did. | ||
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Hardigan
Switzerland1297 Posts
1. When I get the 21 free days account, can I use the ships, i coudn't with the trial account (industrial, battleships, etc.)? 2. Do I have to give up my current trail account for that and also everything on it (trades are impossible?)? 3. Is there a possibility to be a mentor myself or is this only for subscribed players? Is there a possibility to play Eve without playing once (I heard that you can ingame buy +1month time, but it's impossible hard to get as a beginner (400-500kk))? | ||
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Warri
Germany3208 Posts
2. you dont need to but you will want to 3a. you have no clue about the game, how do you expect ot teach others? 3b. its possible, but its hard and takes a fair bit of playing time during the first 21 days. | ||
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Ueberlisk
Finland455 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://fi2.eu.apcdn.com/full/58230.jpg) | ||
tofucake
Hyrule18968 Posts
Despite how it appears, that is a page, not an image | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
On March 05 2012 01:49 tofucake wrote: Despite how it appears, that is a page, not an image fix'd + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://de3.eu.apcdn.com/full/58230.jpg) | ||
motbob
United States12546 Posts
SERIOUSLY?? + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/dF4UW.jpg) | ||
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s0Li
United States406 Posts
Also random bhalgorn is random. edit: I really wanted my birthday cake to appear but TL time is stupid and set to korea. | ||
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OnCoke
Romania49 Posts
On March 04 2012 21:20 r.Evo wrote: tbh I never thought the day would come where Kwark would stand for high quality pvp. <3 Maybe not really my place to "judge" on this, but I keep reading the thread and I had the intention of posting a "do you guys remember back then, when Kwark was falling asleep during missions?". A bit amazed and very happy to see him evolve this much, both as play-style as well as the skills on the char. Just that maybe, just maybe, he should not be so harsh on the guys in the fleet/corp when they make mistakes? At least that's how I see it from the sideline, from the posts around here. So, before the 1k mark, congrats on the great work and the results, to the entire team! | ||
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DiracMonopole
United States1555 Posts
"do you guys remember back then, when Kwark was falling asleep during missions?" He still does that, it just now costs him vargurs instead of drakes. | ||
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SilentchiLL
Germany1405 Posts
It worked when I posted it :0 | ||
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KwarK
United States41938 Posts
On March 05 2012 03:41 DiracMonopole wrote: He still does that, it just now costs him vargurs instead of drakes. I've not done a mission in quite a while. | ||
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Dbars
United States273 Posts
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tofucake
Hyrule18968 Posts
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34483 Posts
[23:48:41] Suntzu88 > ignebaener first ice belt [23:48:51] Suntzu88 > 2 macks He claims to be there every day. Hfhf, I'll pay you for each killmail. | ||
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