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Dean XIII
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Posted - 2011.06.11 06:14:00 -
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I just recently lost my tengu in nullsec. Due to my own stubbornness and stupidity. I deserved the lost 100%.
Pls post your lost and the category it belongs.
Categories are:
1. Lazyness 2. Knew the risk but did it anyway. 3. Afk 4. Barely awake.
or make your own category. And BTW my total lost was around 600m.
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Nadrick
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Posted - 2011.06.11 06:22:00 -
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Edited by: Nadrick on 11/06/2011 06:22:09 Catagory: Barely Awake Loss:i accidentally abandoned a nyx due to lack of sleep :( Total Loss: 22 Bil wth is a signature? |
Har Harrison
Amarrian Retribution
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Posted - 2011.06.11 06:30:00 -
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You forgot "drunk" as category 5!!!
Just saying...
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Loraine Gess
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Posted - 2011.06.11 08:13:00 -
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"My nightmare will surely tank these frigates in a level 1 (with just its passive recharge) as I... lay down, yeah. Lay down."
Two hours later, I was a little bit upset. ------------------------------- When I mitigate risks in business, they call me financially sound. When I mitigate risk in PVP, they call me a coward.
I'm still rich, and they're still dead. |
foksieloy
Minmatar Rockets ponies and rainbows
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Posted - 2011.06.11 08:52:00 -
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Forgetting i am in lowsec and loosing a covert loki to station guns and a smart rupture. ~800 mil. _______________________ The best thing in EvE is Barrage M. |
Mystical Might
Amarr The Imperial Fedaykin
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Posted - 2011.06.11 12:25:00 -
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2bil Tengu Knew the risks, but did it anyway, for da lulz.
Who knew... Can't break rapiers shield tank while its being repped by a scimitar.
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ELECTR0FREAK
Eye of God
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Posted - 2011.06.11 17:29:00 -
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Edited by: ELECTR0FREAK on 11/06/2011 17:38:31
None of mine are particularly impressive. I've managed to do a pretty good job of hanging onto my more expensive ships. Guess I'll just post a few of the dumb losses I recall.
Loss: Raven (~2004) Reason: Not paying attention Aggressor: CONCORD. Some guy popped my buddy in the low sec system next door, I jumped in guns blazing, chased him around, he jumped out to high sec, I followed. Learned a valuable lesson about aggression timers.
Loss: Cerberus (~2004) Reason: AFK due to a horny girlfriend Aggressor: A static planet spawn (these dont exist anymore) of 4 or 5 Guristas Terrorist cruisers. The sex was good though.
Loss: Raptor filled with ~300m worth of faction gear (2005) Reason: Used the wrong set of insta-bookmarks (before Warp to 0). Aggressor: A fleet of gate campers in HED-GP. I should have been paying attention to where I was going.
Loss: Eagle (2006 or 2007) Reason: Poor forethought + bad luck. Aggressor: Death star POS in EC-P8R. My alliance had locked down EC-P8R and destroyed all but 1 hostile POS in system. We were camping the gate with about 100 ships. I was a sniper Eagle, decided I could get better shots from another vantage point, warped to a random moon out of dozens in-system... it happened to be where the sole POS was sitting.
Loss: Scorpion (2008) Reason: Overconfident Aggressor: Some random war-dec corp. I tried to jam a few targets simultaneously, missed some cycles. I'd had this ship since 2004, had used it in a few high-sec wars and never lost it.
Loss: Ishtar (April 2011) Reason: AFK, phone call, ganked. Aggressor: Veteran pilot from 2003 in a Dramiel. Was passive tanking a Sanctum out in null, got a call that my fiancee's grandfather was in the hospital dying, forgot about EVE. 30 minutes later I end the call and get back to my PC to find a Dramiel had just managed cut through my armor. By the time I got drones out, I was done. Nice fellow though. He went and killed a Tengu after I paid him the ransom for my pod.
Discoverer of the Original Missile Damage Formula |
Twostroke McGurk
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Posted - 2011.06.11 19:22:00 -
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Hulk with full T2 fittings and arkonor crystals. Due to wife demanding my attention over a pointless issue that could have waited, while a Hawk and Retribution snuck up on d-scan and slammed me. About 150 mill, I guess, so not too bad.
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Pomeroy Wyrd
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Posted - 2011.06.11 20:56:00 -
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Not me but a friend of mine..
1.3 bill factionfitted nightmare, high-sec war. WT undocks, he locks and engages the station.
We made him a medal
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nickersonm
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Posted - 2011.06.11 21:35:00 -
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Category 1: Laziness/noobiness
For some reason I decided to haul 820k units of Zydrine in a Badger II. Lost it in Jita to a suicide gank, 780k of it dropped.
My second highest loss would be my full +5 implant set lost while transiting Rancer in a shuttle. Facepalm when I realized what system I was in - I was just autopiloting on a new install that didn't have Rancer on avoid. |
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FU22
The 8th Order
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Posted - 2011.06.11 21:51:00 -
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Lost a zealot due to a surprising result
Was chasing a war target navy thron around with my gang (about 8-9 of us, mostly hacs/recons).
Caught the navy thron and we were mwd'ing around it and slowly killing it on the gate after chasing it a few jumps. A neutral dominix appears and starts gunning for me, I'm thinking "lol what". All of a sudden even though I'm 30k away from both I'm heavily webbed and before I know it the Domi + Navythron are at zero on me beating the **** out of me, I try and get back to the gate with help from a friendly Scimi but alas I pop.
Turns out there was a single low sec between the 13 jumps we were traveling and who knew people actually use heavy webbing drones!
Domi died and Navy thron was ganked later in the week so :revenge:
Not a very expensive loss but I never buy expensive things
Originally by: Millie Clode Dear santa, for christmas I would like an endless supply of noobs to march across my screen so I can pretend I'm playing duck hunt
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Louis DelaBlanche
An Outlying Variable
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Posted - 2011.06.11 23:23:00 -
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Lost a viator with several months worth of datacores because I was watching Wall-E
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Randy Taylor
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Posted - 2011.06.12 00:36:00 -
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My main got lazy and lost a Vargur on a mish. Confused it with another one, shot the wrong trigger, got blobbed--you know the story. Warped off my pod in disgust and failed the mission... Then I realized I hadn't bookmarked the wreck! And of course all three faction gyros dropped... I switched to exploration for a while after that. All told, probably 800-900M lost (180M of which I could have gotten back if I'd BM'd before failing the mission...).
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Dirk Magnum
Blue Republic RvB - BLUE Republic
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Posted - 2011.06.12 01:38:00 -
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Billion ISK in rigged ships stolen by a crooked freighter pilot from my previous corp. Corp was relocating to another region and :welp: The loss constituted about 90% of my assets, ISK-wise. Made the most of it though. It was kind of fun starting over with a nearly empty hangar and barely 100 mil. I developed a more streamlined perspective on asset ownership.
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FT Diomedes
Gallente Factio Paucorum
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Posted - 2011.06.12 02:59:00 -
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Edited by: FT Diomedes on 12/06/2011 03:02:09 I once messed up the POS fuel in my ratting system. I went out of town for a training and came back to find the Corp hangar and SMB destroyed. I lost a faction fitted Paladin and half a dozen T2 ships. Probably 2 billion in ships, mods, and drone alloys.
I also got ganked in Delve flying a faction fitted Vargur. I got a phone call from my GF and got distracted. I looked back to see an Arazu tackling me. An alliance mate came to help with a Blackbird, but warped out because he was afraid of losing his ship! I tanked them for a while before a Curse showed up. --- This doesn't even seem to be a regular case of rats fleeing the sinking ship. Seems more like the rats are on fire, the ship is on fire, and the sea is full of drunk Russians. - Jacob Etienne |
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
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Posted - 2011.06.12 03:27:00 -
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Edited by: ShahFluffers on 12/06/2011 03:31:16
Here is one I posted before. Not a loss for me (it was close call) but for my friend instead.
I have a friend who, despite his 'enthusiasm' for internet spaceships, is a bit on the 'green' side (bordering on 'dangerously fail') when it comes to logistics and 'strategy.'
Over the course of a few weeks he complained about how no one in his corp wanted to PvP and that targets were slim to nil in low-sec. The only solution I could think of was for him to join up in Faction Warfare. He hesitated saying, "i have a lot of ships an stuff and its gonna be hard to move it all across the map." So I sweetened to idea by offering to moving all his ships and stuff using my carrier.
Fast forward 2 weeks.
My friend has run into some issues and will be cutting down in his EvE time. He asks me if I can move all his stuff to a new location. I think, 'fine, no biggie.' I get his stuff via contract, stuff it into my carrier, fire up my cyno alt, and plug in the destination.
MISTAKE #1: To get to the destination would require me to make 2 jumps with my carrier. Not wanting to spend a godawful amount of time waiting for my alt's cyno to end and then move her some 27 odd systems to the final destination I ask my friend to do it.
Friend: "kay you need me to use a covert cyno or a normal cyno?" This alone should have sent up enough red flags to make me consider another course of action. Sadly, I'm lazy and in a rush. Me: "No, use a normal cyno on a cheap frigate." (there is emphasis on that last part for a reason, keep reading) Friend: "okay i know there is a special trick to lighting one, run me through this" Again, another red flag. But my laziness will not be deterred.
MISTAKE #2 The second Incursion patch had come out just days before. Reading the patch notes I interpreted the "new" cyno mechanics around POSs as applying to ALL structures, including stations. In other words, I'm adding an additional 10km to the 'drop zone' for the cyno.
MISTAKE #3 I fleet up my friend, tell him to undock, and to slowboat away from the station until he has about 15km clearance.
What I SHOULD HAVE SAID was to slowboat away from the STRUCTURE of the station until he has about 15km clearance FROM THE STRUCTURE.
MISTAKE #4 I get news from my friend (and his friend who is with him) that there is a neutral Hurricane acting aggressively next to them. I tell them let the Hurricane go. They tell me that the neutral is just docking and redocking. Ten minutes pass. Same thing. I'm beginning to get a bit ****ed off because I'm telling my friend to ignore the Hurricane and I KNOW that he isn't (for whatever reason). At this point I should have called off the whole op. I didn't.
MISTAKE #5 I get word that the Hurricane has docked again. Alright, good. Let's get this over with. Pop the damn cyno. Cyno up, I jump in.
THE RESULT
So... to run down the list... - I am a lazy, lazy, lazy person who chose a risky option against my better judgment - my friend has never lit a cyno before and my directions on how to do it were not specific enough (not to mention not entirely correct) - my friend and his friend(s) have just spent the last 10 or so minutes trash talking a pirate in local - no one has scouted any of the surrounding systems (even though I had asked them to look around and keep an eye out for hostile gangs) - a 1.3 billion ISK carrier with over 750mil worth of ships and equipment has just jumped into all this
I appear in system and immediately try to get my bearings. My first reaction is... 'where's the station?' I zoom out to maximum distance. Oh look, there's the station... and I'm 10 GODDAMN KILOMETERS FROM DOCKING RANGE (it's one of those large Caldari stations). Apparently my friend had lit the cyno 15km away from the docking range of the station. In retrospect, I was lucky I didn't land farther away.
[continued] _______________________
"Just because I seem like an idiot doesn't mean I am one." ~Unknown |
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
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Posted - 2011.06.12 03:30:00 -
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Local begins to spike. A stream of profanity can now be heard on comms coming from me. My friend then speaks up. "What about my Falcon?" he whimpers.
I look back and lo and behold... next to the cyno ball my friend is sitting there... in a Falcon (now remember, I had told him earlier to use a cheap frigate). Me: "Are you shield or armor tanked???" Friend: "uhhhhhh... I fitted with ECM to take some of the DPS off of me!"
At this point I'm seriously considering popping him myself. But this is a side issue. Right now I am furiously clicking the 'Approach' button in a vain attempt to get my carrier to slowboat faster. I should also mention that I'm reading the distance amounts out loud to myself. ... 8340... 8210... 8090...
The pirate gang warps in. Two Hurricanes, Harbinger, Stilleto, and three or four assorted cruisers. I'm still 4000 meters away from station and my mouse is developing cracks from the stress.
I breathe a sigh of relief when the pirate gang decides to focus not on me, but my friend.
... 3000... 2800...
At this point, I decide to be a good person and lock up my friend. I put all 3 of my capital armor reps on him along with a swarm of heavy shield bots.
...2501... 2273... 2000...
My face is so close to the screen... it's unreal.
... 1283... 1125... 1031... 750...
DOCKING RANGE!!!! With no immediate threat of 'bumpage,' I focus on my friend, overloading my RR mods accordingly.
In the end it wasn't enough. With no discernible tank on his ship, my friend died a very firey, expensive, and needless death. I quickly docked up.
For the next few minutes comms are dead silent. Everyone knows they screwed up. Everyone knows that I'm ****ed. And my friend is now afraid that he won't be getting back any his stuff. Contract up. Friend: "you want one isk for all my stuff?" Me: "Yes. It's a transportation fee." Friend: "one isk?" Me: "Should I raise it to two?????" Friend: "isk sent."
At this point we all begin to laugh and give each other our apologies. After that, I logged for the night and proceeded to go out barhopping with some friends. _______________________
"Just because I seem like an idiot doesn't mean I am one." ~Unknown |
joshua boston
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Posted - 2011.06.12 07:29:00 -
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Category: Drunkeness Loss: Low Sec roam with fw friends. Teammate got jumped by pirate gang in a t1 bc of some type... I charged my fail fit tengu into the mix to take the head and cover his escape... internet heroics worked, but only for the teammate. lost the tengu... and threw my beer.
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Concubinia Scarlett
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Posted - 2011.06.12 22:48:00 -
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I lost my very first sleipnir to a station without undocking...
I'd fitted it (after saving up for ages) with a Kaikka's XL booster, Cal Navy boost amp and the rest a full T2 fit. It was 1.30AM, I was tired and accidentally selected 'reprocess' from the station menu then hit enter in irritation at the stupid box in my way.
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SC0T1SH WARRIOR
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Posted - 2011.06.13 03:15:00 -
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I was outside a station in Auga and I put 1 Trit in a can and someone stole it when I went to look at the sun.
When i went back. it was gone.
Worst day of my life.
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Aralyn Cormallen
Wraith.Wing Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2011.06.13 12:06:00 -
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Edited by: Aralyn Cormallen on 13/06/2011 12:08:56 Loss due to: Carelessness/Impatience/Anger
One friday night got in a small (50ish a side) ruck in Fountain against an IT fleet. We jumped the gate, and the IT boys must have been primarying by alphabet. I lasted 5 seconds before my Battlecruiser melted, pod swiftly followed
But that wasn't the loss...
I was going away that weekend, so upon rematerialing in the clone bay, I clonejumped into my full +5 implants clone, then ragelogged at my swift death.
Back from the weekend, I log on, and theres a fleet up, and I quickly jump into another battlecruiser and off we go. No idea if it was the same *bleep*ing IT FC, but again they are primarying by alphabet, and I get about two shots off before my ships toast, and again, pod quickly follows. My annoyance at my swift death is very swiftly trumped by the sudden realisation, not only was I in my +5 clone, but in my annoyance the previous day, I hadn't updated my clone after my first death...
Total loss: 2 x 50m Battlecruisers, full set of +5 Implants, Advance Weapon Upgades 5
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Aloe Cloveris
The Greater Goon
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Posted - 2011.06.13 13:41:00 -
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Category 7: ****ty canadian internet
Lost a Curse to our one of our cableco's boxes croaking up the street, cutting off internet to our neighborhood. This happened ten seconds before a bunch of dudes jumped into us and our bubble had just been deployed, so I didn't e-warp on d/c. I'm still super duper mad about that.
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Merrik Talorra
Northstar Cabal Important Internet Spaceship League
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Posted - 2011.06.13 15:09:00 -
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It wasn't a huge loss, but... fleet fit Abaddon. It goes under "2. Knew the risk but did it anyway."
This was a few months ago when those big capital/supercapital fights were going on in O2O (Geminate). I'm USTZ so I missed most of the good stuff, but one of the fights ended up running over for a while and I thought I had a good chance of making it home from work in time and getting into fleet.
Got home in time. Got into fleet. Best speed to O2O. Gatecamp three systems out.
*facedesk*
Ah well, lesson learned
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Diamaht Nevain
Gallente Avatar Union
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Posted - 2011.06.13 15:37:00 -
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Edited by: Diamaht Nevain on 13/06/2011 15:39:58 Edited by: Diamaht Nevain on 13/06/2011 15:37:49 Navy Mega, 700 mil.
A combination of cat 1 and 2. Was moving it through high sec back when I was doing faction warfare. Got jumped of course.
I would like to add category #7: Stupidity
#Edits# for bad spelling =============================== Two words: Internet Spaceships |
Oltham
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Posted - 2011.06.13 16:09:00 -
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This was one of my friends who no longer plays but he was a bit part player anyway. Never had any iskies and sold shuttles @ a few k profit a time thinking he was making decent money.
Anyways he was in a rush so decided to autopilot home in his faction fitted tempest. Little did he realise he had forgotten to change his autopilot settings and melted in lowsec afk. He got so much stick in the corp for that but that was him through and through! So bit of 1 bit of 2 and alot of 6!!!!
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Darcy D'Spledide
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Posted - 2011.06.13 19:08:00 -
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I'd just splashed a lot of my decryptor money on a Sisters Core Probe Launcher, then I scanned down a lowsec RADAR. Sisters Launchers give you +10% scan strength and a hidden immunity to all autocannon fire, don't they?
Really?
Not even NPC autocannons?
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Lando Storm
Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2011.06.13 23:56:00 -
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was only a few months into playing EVE.
Got into an live event fighting off sansha. figured i would take my brand new super noob fit Hyperion with Meta 4 everything and faction ammo thinking im gona kick some ass. we killed off the sansha the rest of the fleet whent off to fight the Mothership and i stayed behind to loot the wrecks... took some stuff that didnt belong to me just as they came back. they destroyed the ship (rightfully so). made it back to my home station got into my noctis thinking i should go back and get some salvage. and undocked befor the GCC timer ran out i remember as i hit undock thinking i wonder what that timer is for??????
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Scott Ryder
Amarr Ministry of War
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Posted - 2011.06.14 12:50:00 -
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Paladin 2 centum eanms 1 centus x rep 4 draclira tachyons 3 draclira heatsinks t2 aux nano pumps
Fell asleep due to some white widow Forgot to turn on repper Woke up, 20b isk less rich.
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Gypsio III
Dirty Filthy Perverts
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Posted - 2011.06.14 13:13:00 -
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Dualboxing Proteus and Fleet Typhoon, roaming WHs for carebearing pimpmobiles.
1. Jump Proteus into WH. 2. Stealthily probe out Legion at safespot. 3. Tackle Legion. Legion tackles back. 4. Jump Fleet Typhoon into WH. Realise I've jumped it into the wrong WH. Jump back out and warp to right WH and jump in. 5. Fleet Typhoon lands on Legion just as Legion's mates also arrive. 6. ??? 7. Warp pods out, 2.6 bill down.
I don't think it was a deliberate trap - if it was they'd have brought their gang in sooner, or had recons/T3s cloaked around the Legion - just a case of general competence on their part and sloppy scouting on mine.
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Enik3
Crimson Empire. Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2011.06.15 02:42:00 -
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I was trashed and waiting out a jump clone timer, so I decided to pass some time doing a level 4 mission. I got the brilliant idea to use a PVP fit HAM Cerberus (with 2 x sebo and a warp disruptor consuming three of the five mids). Anyway, within a couple of minutes I was swarmed, pointed and popped.
I wasn't even considering that my ship could actually be destroyed by NPCs
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