For over two weeks we have been receiving reports of the exploits of Brave Newbies Inc. corporation, which claim to “own” the Hek solar system. The interesting thing is how quickly this group has apparently appeared out of nowhere. What’s also worth noting is the low entry requirements they ask from new members and the cheap ships they normally jump into.
This has gained them recognition from the community (they were featured in the last Community Spotlight by CCP Phantom) and alleged support from several sources, who praise their initiative, commend them for their will to engage and overcome their enemies with numbers and their determination to make themselves noticed in New Eden.
This is their first nullsec roam…and their first nullsec victim:
To have people a week into the game board their cheap, disposable combat vessels and deciding to go hunting in 0.0 is nothing short of commendable.
Of course, some entities have mobilized to see that they get a real education, and have been actively trying to kill them, like smile jedimind from BLOOM. [BL00M] who finally lost his Armageddon after slaughtering more than 30 enemy ships:
The Brave Newbies stand their ground, though, happily throwing themselves at valuable ships and pushing everybody back eventually. It’s a matter of numbers and, frankly, caring about fighting and not killboard stats.
At first many corps attacked us seeking easy kills. Last night a gang of 20 Thrashers forced a Machariel, a Drake, and a Tengu to flee when they realized that while we were perfectly happy to die they were not so eager. Tonight saw us truly dominating Hek. We faced off against a Typhoon, two Tengu’s, two Tornado’s, and several smaller ships. Under the command of our brilliant FC, Tsukasa3, we killed one of the Tengu’s and the Typhoon with a fleet of about 75 frigates, destroyers, and the odd cruiser. We baited them into aggressing us after undock, as we swarmed around the Typhoon someone warned of smart bombs. The last time a fleet I was part of encountered a smart bombing battleship half of us died to take him down. This time we knew how to set orbits and avoided his smart bombs while pounding him to death. The Tengu died the same way. Baited into aggressing so he could not run back into the station to hide we killed him in under 40 seconds through numbers. If nothing else we prove the old Chinese proverb “Quantity has a quality all its own.” Previously sniping Tornado’s had been a big problem for us but we drove these two off and killed any other ship that attempted to snipe us. While this battle might seem small, we are a corp that can regularly assemble fleets of 150 pilots. Today saw several pilots deploy Ruptures for the first time as our newbies train into them. Our enemies are getting the hek out of Hek so we will be looking to travel in search of the fun fights we love.
7o
Here are the Tengu and the smartbombing Typhoon.
A corporation of relatively new and inexperienced players being so bold as to say that a system is “theirs” because they say so, and are eager to fight for it, is living testament to the spirit of EvE Online: player interaction moves the world, and everybody can change it and shape it around them if they have the will and the friends to do so.
We can’t help but notice how older players have been jumping aboard, too. Players as old as 2006 are flocking to Matias Otero‘s ranks, perhaps attracted by the promises of crazy fights and being part of an interesting project out of scratch.
We wish Brave Newbies Inc. all the best.
-Darius
test or goons alts anyone?
Well, the CEO was in TEST, and some old pilots (2006, 2009) in fully T2 battleships have been fighting in their ranks. It could be.
If that's the case, I like the idea of starting over as a real newbie and see what you can smash with like-minded players. If they're having fun, it's perfect in my book.
could be, still nice to see more newbie friendly / no shits given groups in EVE…
^ Fuck yea. Get them into the fun of PvP right away. I hope they get hundreds of newbies to go roam around in. Its just a game afterall, and supposed to be fun, not tedious and boring.
Well, according to EvE gate they are well past 1.000 members. Even with the media coverage everyone is giving them, that's a HELL of a lot.
I can picture many people deciding to make an alt just to start over in a new group and have fun blobbing things in cheap ships
Good for these guys. Being new in EVE isn't easy. Most noobs seem to end un being high-sec miners, so it's great ro see these guys shooting people and getting shot. Frigate roams in null-sec are always a laugh.
It's EVE at it's best.
riv, where is the "daily sov map" please?
I am adding it this weekend.
FUCK YES THANK YOU!
neither, these guys give no fucks and are not risk adverse cunts.
Tears much?
Can deny it all you want, but how does a new corp come out of the blue with a thousand members?
Could this be Shadoo's plan for content?
> we have been receiving reports of the exploits of Brave Newbies Inc. corpotation, which claim to “own” the Hek solar system
Mispelled "corporation." Also, never seen anybody from BNI make such a claim, but BNI _will_ fight off anybody who tries to drive us out of Hek.
That smartbombing from smile jedimind was excellent. The blob was parked at a safe spot while the FC was figuring something else out. Suddenly a neutral battleship comes out of _nowhere_, and half of us are podded back to station.
No, I did not. That was a figment of your imagination.
I never mispelled anything, nor I quickly edited the article two seconds before posting this.
Good luck to Brave Newbies Inc. I'm all for any alliance or corp that gathers low skilled/young players (apart from the blobbers) and give them an adventure.
Keep it up, have fun and fly dangerous. o7
Unless they are brave enough to fight us they are insignificant, don't you think?
No one cares about you or the Goons dude, get over it.
Who are Goons?
If you promise to drop something really cool like a titan or w/e on us we'd be there everyday. Pandemic Legion Dropped a couple Nyxs and some other big stuff on us, our comms Exploded with cheers, until we were all dead, then we laughed and bragged about it in Corp Chat, Was AWESOME. I'll pay the price of a Rifter or Thrasher anyday for that kinda fun.
i agree
Where are they getting all these numbers from
reddit, and i'm sure they are doing some recruiting.
Honestly, We're about 90% SPAIS. 7o
Fun and creative idea, good to see newbies finding a niche right when they enter the game as there is usually a wait before they can do any significant pvping. However, while it is a great idea for NEWBS to get involved and have fun, I hope it doesnt morph into a full scale blobbing entity with aging characters that have no other pvp experience of value, there is already enough of that in this game..
Brave Newbies, keep it fun, keep it young and keep it light. o7. You dont want to grow up and be like the big blue blob.
7o
Although I prefer shooting at structures, and think it's the highest from of pvp, I fully approve of Brave Newbies
Keep up the good work
Blobbers with low SP count and really cheap ships are still blobbers.
At least there is no broken sov system or moon goo in highsec.
good job.
if you are looking for fights the east has a lot of activity atm
Good luck to them.
A great idea with a great set of balls.
I've gotten about 50 kills on these guys in the past week. They're like little guppies swarming around bcf it's hilarious to watch. They far from "own hek" though.
In fairness, I doubt they were sincere about such claims. From what I've noticed, they've been fighting the usual Hek merc/griefer corporations, who have always loudly proclaimed to "own" Hek or Rens or wherever else they are operating. This strikes me as more of a response to that silliness than a claim of sovereignty
Yep, these are brand new players to the game.
For sure.
BLOB WARFARE NOW IN HIGHSEC
No but serious is this like a new version of e-uni or RvB?
Isnt this what Flying Dangerous alliance has been doing for 5+ years? Giving new players a place to do nullsec pvp?
A few ywars ago, there was a new group who used to do the same thing. They would go out with t1 ships and blob more expensive ship. Thet woukd die a lot but win tge isk war. Sometimes tgey used newb ships
People vilified them, called them newbs and all sorts of names.
Today that group is called Goonswarm federation.
Funny how hypocrite the EVE community can be.
The difference being, that Brave Newbies don't appear to be a bunch of cheating sociopathic neckbeard cunts.
The simple fact that you decide to make your name 'Goonsrvirgins' shows a level of obsession that is quite disturbing. Maybe you should turn off the computer for a while.
No, I just despise you wankers, so does everyone else.
You also used to be fun, played to have fun, and gave no fucks. Now you hide behind a wall of pets and tell everyone how terrible it would be to have a massive war in a spaceship game.
Keep it up – but don't be too successful or you might end up as popular as the last group to deploy such tactics.
Awsome job, come to providence region, only nul sec not owned by blobbers, and a heaven dor small skill pvp, cruisergangs, its all there
Not for long.
implying?
Hmmm, sounds more like old timers making new toons if u ask me.
riv what happened to the "daily sov map" linik at the top of the site? My life is not complete without it.
LOL this is a fake newb corp. Obvious fleet skills are obvious. The group in the video know what they are doing. They know eve, all the terminology and are/ were not newbs at all.
Test Noobies Inc
PS. That FC sounds familiar too.
Could it be RvB …gone mad?
Could it be?
A future Nullsec power in the making?
I can see either TEST or GOONS contacting this corp very soon to try and lure them in as allies.
All i want to say is there self proclamed owning of hek is a false one my alliance has lived there for awile a former coalition of friends that turned into an alliance Unicorn Rape Train now ccp changed it to Eve Alliance 8969876 we wardecced them at first because we got blobbed my them while playing crimnal games in hek at first it was boring playing station games here and there then came the blob and we were outnumbered 10:1 on a slow day. So we stratagized Utilized snipers and super tanked BS going head to head with the blob and forcing them to dock and scream for Panda Caves help. There help arived and we still didnt back down forced them all to dock again and got intel they had to wait for more BSs from Panda Cave thus picking off straglers in and around hek
Just saying
the '.' key is missing much with this one.
Apparently he couldn't find the "shut the fuck up" key either.
"every rifter counts friend"
SOME ENTITIES AKA NOT TEST ALLIANCE AKA VOC
God damnit, please learn how to write news reports or STOP IT
IT WAS BLOOM CORP FFS
This is a refreshing article i like it. Hats off to brave newbies, good to see they can muster enough players to pull this off. Is EVE-Uni threatened??
I think the brave newbies are more of a learn by dying crowd than E-Uni
I got misty eyed watching that. At 98mil sp I wish I was back to that stage at times. The heart pumping adrenaline fueled moments.
you can still have it. pick a ship that can perform more different things then F1, mwd off/on and warp and do some solo pvp.
a while ago i built myself a curse. armor tanked with tons of neuts, trackingdisruptors, speed, drone dmg and a honor tank (800mm plate + dmg control).
then i went in to enemy space and set up some bubbles and 2 scouts in a system. after some ganks a hurricane warped in my bubble – nothing that could do anything to my curse. and then a rupture as well and while the hurricane eploded and i started to kill the rupture suddenly lots of stuff came from everywhere. a bomber decloaked, some frig sized ships and a tornado and something else all together. i managed to neut those frigs empty and burnt for range, while tracking disrupting all the bigger turret ships and sending drones after the bomber (who killed like 30% armor with every volley )
that fight went like 10 minutes 8 vs my 10k ehp curse. i lost my curse but hell i didnt had so much adrinaline for a long time and there was even the chance to get out if i werent so damn slow :<
The best thing you can do is get used to dying at the start, and expect it. Then you will be surprised at how well you do when u aren't thinking about an exit strategy etc.
Lol cheap security for fountain re-population? This looks like fun regardless.
"commend them for their will to engage and overcome their enemies with numbers and their determination to make themselves noticed in New Eden."
-So what makes them so different from goons -.- minus the scamming.
Goons are helpless. They blob what they can't Blue, and their subcap fleets are roughly equal to NPC rats. Most small gang groups out there farm them actively.
Now, of course, you can bring 57 Titans to a fight and claim you win at EvE because of sov and pacts.
Large alliance. All the isk a large alliance will ever need. Lots of blues. Experience in game. Do you need more?
Its all about numbers, nothing new or exciting.
GTFO of Hek
An article actually worth reading. Nice! BNI is the kind of thing that commands respect as long as they remain an honorable corp. Reminds me of Pilipino Corp. That's how we started except for we did not have the numbers then. To BNI Corporation, even though you guys are neutral to us, I would fly with you anyday.
I bought a nice 2×4 yesterday for my new foyer
Interesting group. I am curious if they are planning to go nullsec. Lets hope they will not be consumed by HBC or CFC, it would make them just another group of newbies, not different from any other in those coalitions.
However, if they chose Nexus, or started completely other way, it could be quite interesting change in evemap.
if we go to low sec we will stir the hornets nest and change the landscape forever
I am really happy to see new guys having fun and enjoy the game in anyway they can.
Well done Brave Newbies Inc. and welcome to New Eden.
I will gladly help this guys just to stay in game as long as possible.
dont worry. They soon enough will find out, how stale the end game is, and that nothing changes. It is always the same bosses, who RMT the Tech and wealth of their big coalitions since many years.
too bad he wasnt a tripple rep myrm… would have probly killed them all…
Wow only 26:1 on that Myrmidon kill. This is certainly worthy of EvE-news. All hail these new elite pvpers.
www.sev3rance.com/kb/?a=kill_related&k…
I encourage more of this. They create content for us <3 xoxoxo
loved that fight go to do it again sometime
Trust me, spend more than ten minutes in mumble chat you will realise that no one really has a clue or experience.
The fleet that tried to take out a POS and got hot dropped by a capital fleet of around thirty was being run by a guy who was elected as he had FC a group of ten pilots in the past.
There are players who have been playing for years (including myself) but we equally have no idea have spent our Eve career doing other stuff like Minng, PVE, and PI.