Boywonder03

The Smartest Player In Eve

Back in Syndicate, almost 2 years ago now, Kite Co members were taking down an enemy structure in our space.

Kite Co members had taken out their highest dps, lightest tanked ships in order to speed up the miserably dull process of shooting an enemy building that doesn't shoot back. The goal was to remove all these buildings to make our space safer and more profitable.

Everything was going as expected in our lightly tanked, low health ships UNTIL an enemy bomber started warping in and harassing the weak Kite Co Ships.
The enemy bomber would do the same thing each time: Warp In, Drop a Bomb on our structure bashing ships, warp away, cloak up.

This was slowing down our destruction of the space building long enough to be annoying, while not really endangering our ships unless we made a terrible mistake.
Me, being new to training bombers and still pretty new to the game, came up with the most fundamentally basic of plans to stop the enemy bomber: I would wait to where he had warped in the last 3 times in MY OWN cloaked bomber and hopefully catch him as he released his bomb. (The window of time here is actually pretty small as you can cloak up almost immediately after dropping your bomb and warp away). I had fit guns on my bomber instead of bombs and a warp disruption module to stop the enemy bomber from warping away if I caught him.

I wait like an invisible crocodile, hiding in the water, waiting to snatch another invisible crocodile (yeah this metaphor fell apart here)?

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A few minutes go by.
"Maybe he gave up," begins to cross my tired, slightly inebriated mind.
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A few more minuets go by.
I sit determined to protect my fellow Kite Co Members as they continue to fire at the enemy building.
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I wait still, now mostly just avoiding changing ships to help take down the enemy building.
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Boom!
The enemy bomber shows up.
He appears almost directly beside my cloaked bomber to drop is next bomb on the Kite Co Fleet.
"I GOT HIM" I shout over comms over-excitedly
"I'm the Smartest Player" I say on Mumble while filled with the elation of my stupid trap actually working.

The enemy bomber is destroyed in of "poof" of anti-climatic space dust.

To this day, when I say something stupid in eve, Kite Co members remind me of that time I called myself the smartest player.

@mrbubbles: You should finish the tutorial stuff before applying to a corp just to get used to the game.

Once you get all settled, apply to Kite Co. Space Trucking in game or join the chat channel "giantbombing" and someone will help you get sorted out and hanging with us. I believe we have ships and stuff to give new players to blow up and not worry about isk and such.

@slyspider: You can join the giantbombing in game chat channel and our duders will be more than happy to answer your questions.

Also a lot of the newbie chats in game are super helpful!

@jd_delgado: The podcast linked by @jakob187 may be better at explaining everything but that news is kinda dated now as the ousted leader has been re-instated.

@weebs: Sorry just saw this post was a few days old but yeah we are pretty active and in the BRAVE alliance along with Brave Newbies Inc (the largest new player corp in the game).

We are super open to new duders playing some EVE and all that awesome stuff.

In what could be a considered a drastic response to Pandemic Legions seizure of its player owned space, BRAVE Newbies announced after closed door meetings that a secret vote was held to remove previously appointed CEO Lychton Kondur last night.
The CNM (Council of Newbie Management) as appointed FC and Veteran Member Malanek to take over duties as acting CEO of BRAVE.

Lychton was appointed by the previous BRAVE founder Matias Otero.

Pandemic Legion's Post-Catch After Action Report can be found on reddit.com/r/eve which documents and hypothesizes issues in BRAVE leadership and middle and upper management.

Kite Co's own CEO Jester Royal was involved in the Secret vote - Which was probably felt really cool to do.

I go and do dishes and this is what I miss. Worst luck ever.

I cannot believe I missed this.

I want to say yes, but my heart says no. A set of working guild features would 180 that decision.

Just came here to say how hype this trailer made me for EVE. Those BNI and HERO clips were pretty great.