So, what are some major milestones or achievements for the EVE Online player? Depending on your play style, they can vary a lot. Some people see mining their first million units of Veldspar as a wonderful goal. Others see obtaining the skills to finally fit those large Tech II guns to their battleship as a major event.
One of my goals was to actually see a Titan in game and yes, die to it’s Doomsday weapon. Saturday night, I finally achieved both and it was epic.
Some background. We were on a “Drunk Op”. Now, a ‘Drunk Op’, for those who do not understand what that means, is a roam, usually into 0.0 space where you are expecting to die a horrible death. You are supposed to be drinking to the point of laughable intoxication along the roam, based on some rules that were agreed upon before the roam actually starts.
We are only a few jumps into 0.0 when out of nowhere, a Chimera lands on the gate. Yes, a Caldari Carrier lands on at a point off the stargate, roughly 30 kilometers. We are all in frigates, Tech I crusiers and a few heavy assault cruisers. This is going to take a while. We say what the heck and we lay into this poor soul. To add insult to injury, a local chancer in system offers to assist with his falcon and neut Domi.
So, for the next 20 minutes, we are laying as much damage as we can put down. We are working very hard, we have broken this guys tank and he is roughly sitting at 50 percent structure when someone calls out “Avatar on scan”. I hit my scanner and sure enough, I see an Avatar. A moment later, I actually see the Avatar, 60 kilometers from me.
AWESOME!!! I have finally seen a Titan in game. What luck? Well, as luck would have it, we were not finished yet. I see a pulse come from the Avatar. No, they are not going to fire off the Doomsday weapon for a bunch of T1 ships, are they? Well, before I can warp out, the whole screen lights up, I am able to warp my pod off and as I do, I see everyone who is still there instantly pop, except the Chimera, he survived. It seems that the Avatar pilot only had the DD weapons skill trained to level 1, or else the Chimera would have fallen. Funny, they brought a Titan to a gate to save a Carrier that was stuck at the same gate? Got to salute the dedication between alliances in that area.
So, yes, I finally saw a Titan and was DD’ed, http://www.nspta.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=64510.
We were all so giddy about the encounter, that one of our directors made a medal and awarded it to all those in our corp who were there.
So, what major milestone have you recently achieved in game?
Tags: 0.0 Roam, Avatar, Discussion, Doomsday, Drunk Op, Titan
