In Space no-one can hear you scream

....Or shout out loud 'You cheap bastard!'


Here i am again, 4hrs away from T2 small projectiles and the remnants of an adreneline rush coursing through my veins.
You see, i just returned from another ship loss, not that that bothers me as i did learn another lesson from it which i'll touch on a little later, and i did, after all go looking for a fight. It went like this.......

I got my Rifter fitted out again curtesy of my 3 player donations ( could call it guilt money lol ) and set a random course into low sec. Today i planned on learning to use my D-scanner efficiently to track down a ship to a particular place within an acceptable timeframe. Two or three jumps in and ive found nobody, seriously, the last 3 systems i went through had 2 players in local, one of them being me in each. Eventually though i got myself into a .2 sec system and made myself a few safe spots ( thanks Eve-Wiki ) and broke out my scanner.
This looked promising, 10 in local, 3 of which were only a month or so old, so not that much older than me. D-scan showed me a navy hookbill, a comet and a drake so i went through local and tried my best to match up who the 2 frigs might belong to. I couldn't say for sure ( who could? ) so i tracked the hookbill one of the belts and waited, maybe if he's ratting i could jump him while the npc's are engaging him too and get a slight advantage? Or at the least get to see his name so i could look him up in local before warping off again.

Upon warping to the belt at zero, i was dissapointed, 3 fresh wrecks and zero hookbill :( but this didnt put me off, i warped back to my safe and tried finding him again. I was quite happy with myself when i found him again within 30seconds or so with the D-scan down at 15degs, sitting at the system star, alone. Right at this point, before warping to him, i did another 360deg sweep with the scanner to make sure no other ships had undocked, and also checked local had not gone up +1. All was clear.

At this point i'm going to say in EVE, for me at least upto now, if something seems to be going your way, or even to plan, something innevitably will come along and piss on your fire with vigorous glee before you know whats happened.

So, getting back to the hookbill, i landed at 0 on the star and almost bumped this guy, locked him up, AB on and started orbiting. As soon as he started yellow flashy boxing me i webbed him and got my scam on him followed right away by my ( pretty shitty ) pew pew. All ok so far, took another standings hit ( again ) for being a bad person out for some fun, and started on his shields, i had him down to 60% shields before he hit me with his first salvo, which hurt. A lot.
Even though it looked like i was going to lose again judging by how fast my shields/armor was melting compared to his, it was at this point that the italic part above reared its ugly head.

We had another stranger join the fight, only it wasnt a stranger it was another player from the same corp as the guy i was fighting, and i know for a fact they were not in local right before i warped, so i can only guess at 2 possibilities.

1 - It was his alt that he logged on as soon as i engaged < unlikely given the speed in which our uninvited guest showed up into the fight.

2 - His buddy jumped into local while i was mid warp < Winner? More than likely.

I never asked for a 1v1 for this encounter so was prepared (as much as possible at least ) for anything and everything going wrong, and losing the ship doesnt bother me at all. Its the fact his buddy/alt that joined us was in a FUCKING BLACKBIRD!!
I wouldnt have minded had i been in a damn faction cruiser or something and my opponent needed the help, but it was a 1 on 1 frig fight which i was on my way to losing anyway so he didnt even need the Blackbird. Still, it came, and it jammed me out nicely just how its supposed to. But man, thats some cheap ass ship >:(

Have to say this was the first time Eve has pissed me off, not because of the loss, but because of the cheap as shit way in which it happened. Blegh.

Fair fights are not something i should be looking for, fair fights get you a loss mail and and an ever  deminishing wallet. Fair fights dont exist in New Eden. Fair fights are a myth im beginning to believe in.

As i sit here typing this, still going through the green pulsating hulk mode from that fight, i'm going to announce to you ( whoever you are ) and to myself in a way, that from here on in, im not going to give people the benefit of the doubt, im not going to look for fair fights, im going to head towards what New Eden so very much pushes upon you as a new player, that its a harsh, cold and unforgiving place full of villany, scumbaggery and general douchemongery in every corner. In Eve, if you dont adapt, you die, simple.

* A quick edit to this post*

Having made a killboard to keep track of my kills/losses, it seems the hookbill i fought did die shortly after i was blown up, probably to some oppertunistic player, but still, i almost got half the damage on him!!

A Change

Well here i am New Eden for all to see, adapting just like the thousands before me, adapting after the baptism of fire you give new pilots in the works and way of the PVP universe. Just another sheep churned out from the med facilities of New Eden? No, not this time.
Heres where i'll be different, here's where i'll laugh at your efforts to pound my enthusiasm and destroy my will to fight, here's where i'll be joining that small group of players who took your harsh lessons, screwed them up and threw them back in your face twice as hard, to go on into the universe and be somebody. Somebody who will be known, somebody who'll be making a difference one way or the other. Somebody who'll look to gain every advantage they can on the battlefield to assure victory in whatever it is i choose to do.
Dirty tactics seem the norm in Eve, pilots will always look for that upper hand, so adapt to them, counter them if possible and use them too, or die, its that simple.
 

Remember the name Roxwar pilots of Eden, for it'll be a name you'll be hearing more and more of in the next year or two - bank account permitting ;)

Fly dangerous o/

Rox