You were moving something illegal and got caught by Customs. What's the problem? The game doesn't stop just because you lost connection.

I was under the impression that you dont loose your ship if by mistake you carry something illegal. That its just a matter of a small fine. Please correct me if I am wrong.

We need to get rid of customs ships and allow faction warriors to police, scan, and legally destroy ships with contraband.

They are supposed to fine you and take the illegal goods. They will shoot if you refuse to surrender said goods.

faction warrior gives 1 day old noob drugs, saying they're like the best weapon in game, noob takes drugs, faction warrior alphas noob.

You're wrong. If you don't pay the fine, they open up your cargohold with their turrets and take the offending materials from your possession by force. Since you were offline, it seems you didn't pay the fine, and thus they destroyed your ship.

Thank you.
That is why I support that it was not pilot's error but a glitch in game's mechanics. I was not there to pay the tiny fine.

No activity in eve is completely safe, even station trading isn't quite 100% safe. It will eventually happen again on a much larger scale. Just get your income up and eventually it won't matter as much.

Gotta roll with the punches and learn not to get hit.

not a glitch. it worked correctly

Okay, I'm a little confused.

If you lose connection, you emergency warp to a safe-spot and the log out timer starts.

It's been my experience that customs only dings you when you gate jump, so how did this guy get blown up?

Mr Epeen

You are right, it's not the correct description. A rare occasion that was not predicted by the design would be a little better.

Okay, I'm a little confused.

If you lose connection, you emergency warp to a safe-spot and the log out timer starts.

It's been my experience that customs only dings you when you gate jump, so how did this guy get blown up?

Mr Epeen

What makes you think this isn't working as intended? You logged off, a NPC pointed you (in this case, because you were hauling contraband) before you could e-warp, and the NPCs killed you. Logoff timers working as intended.

If it were otherwise, logoffski would be the new way to evade customs.
10: Warp to gate
20: IF Customs Hassling you GOTO 40, ELSE 30
30: GOTO 10
40: Logoffski
50: Log on, GOTO 10

I agree with your arguments, with a few points. I did not log off. I lost connection. I was not trying to evade anything,
I did not even know I was carrying illegal things.
I am saying that developers did not expect an instance were you lose your ship this way. The system is trying to avoid getting you killed if you are not in combat and get disconnected.

The designed consequence of my mistake was a fine of 20.000.

Again reading a lot about the mechanics, and ruIes, I insist that this case was not expected to happen or predicted.
But ofcource you have to take my word for it, as the kill log does not proove that I did not open fire or try to escape in a way.

What makes you think this isn't working as intended? You logged off, a NPC pointed you (in this case, because you were hauling contraband) before you could e-warp, and the NPCs killed you. Logoff timers working as intended.

If it were otherwise, logoffski would be the new way to evade customs.
10: Warp to gate
20: IF Customs Hassling you GOTO 40, ELSE 30
30: GOTO 10
40: Logoffski
50: Log on, GOTO 10

My Noctis was in a warp to a gate when I lost my internet conection.

When I logged back in again, I found my ship destoyed. The kill log said it was a Customs ship that did it.
From what I can presume, when arriving at the gate, Customs found some illegal drugs I had forgot to jettison from the loot of a mission. But why the ship was destoyed is a mystery to me.
Could it be that the ship auto warped out due to the loss of conection and Customs saw that as an act of aggression?
Beeing stoped at the gate happened to me before and it was just a case of a small fine.

I filed a petition for reimbursement describing the event along with the kill log, and made a bug report to help fix this, because in my humble opinion, this was not a resolt of my actions, but a tiny fault of game mecanics, under rare circumstances. And its not in line with the, safety of your ship if you are away from battle and you happen to have a sudden internet problem, policy.

The petition, was kindly refused and the loss was not reimbursed.

Although I understand that I can not prove that this was not due to some other kind of action in my part, the resolt is a bit of frustration, along with some loss of intrest for devoting time in EVE, in fear that something like this can happen again, on a greater scale.

I am confident that people working on those sort of issues are intrested on making sure they find and solve those problems when they occur, that is why I am posting the event, along with my bug report.

Thank you for taking the time to read.

or just don't carry drugs in Empire

or just stop flying stuff you can't afford to lose

or just transfer all your ISK and assets to some random noob that willingly PvP's, because (unlike you) I actually validate his existence, and want him to keep playing.

There is no need to be rude. I'm here asking people their opinion and explanation of game mechanics. I am still learning to play, and still have a lot to learn. That's why I picked up things that caused all this.

If you validate my existence and want me to keep playing, help me understand, like so many kind people already have.