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Looktu
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:29:00 -
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 First of all, yes I am posting with an alt. Why? Because I haven't told my corp that I just lost everything we owned between us, I'd rather not tell them via a forum post. If you do figure it out guys, I'm so sorry
I started EVE online a few months ago, and like any newbie I learnt that ANY sec status does not mean you are safe. I guess that if you are reading this, here is your warning: Don't forget those early newbie lessons!!
I started off as a miner and slowly moved onto production joining a nice little corp full of people of similar intrests as myself. We mined together, produced together, and generally had a great time. Until our first corp theif who took 200m in minerals and ships. That hurt, but we're not a group to fall at the first hurdle, we gathered ourself, and went about REbuilding our little empire. Sub-Empire. Anyway after a couple of weeks our CEO decided to leave and handed over CEO-Ship to me. Upsetting but it was due to real life stuff.
Hooray!
Or so I thought. Around 5 weeks ago, we got war declared on. Damn. Another hurdle, or at least what we thought would be another hurdle. A small corporation of just 4 people had seemingly war declared us, But we never saw them. Ever. We didn't see this corporation ONCE for the next 8 weeks. Whats going on?
This pirate corporation had seemingly made a war declaration and never acted upon it. Infact, the Pirates CEO logged on only twice within a long period of time, woo hoo maybe this was not such a bad turn of events and just a random declaration from pirates looking for an easy shot.
Anyways, we found ourselves a small niche market in mining ice, dark glitter infact and ended up making our corp quite profitable, its long since dry, but it was great whilst it lasted. . Infact I would go so far as to say our little corp wallet was fairly impressive for a bunch of players who had played for such a short time. We scraped around 400m and invested it into blueprints. Sure it was only cruisers, but it felt quite an achievement to consider we now had an inventoryof blueprints!.
Anyways, we decided that in order to maximise our production of these cruisers we would need to move to Lagsulaert, the nearest hub to us (I Mean Oursulaert oh please don't ban me!!) in order to actually make ends meet. A couple of us may have been a bit aprehensive setting up so far from a hub and charging 7.5m for a Thorax ;) but we're a fairly fun group and wanted to try and carve out our own place, but it hadn't worked.
No big deal. On to Oursulaert!
Transport Ships I! Hooray! Finally I'm flying around in an armored elongated (and strangely phallic shaped!) Occator. Time to start phase 2....Our market operations place! Woo hoo!.
By now its 3am. My second account is soothing my ears with the SWoOoOsh....SwoOosh of ice mining, and I'm cramming all our blueprints and remaining minerals into the occator for the fairly long journey to our new  base of operations!. Phew, its all in there. Perhaps half a billion or so of stuff!
Setting autopilot was a breeze. Not a single low sec system on the way there to bother me and my precious transport ship. Bring it on, pirates, no haulers for you to pop today! I set my ship off, sitting infront of the monitor and munching on a sandwich, switching back and forth between my ice mining and my jumping hauler.
Remember what I said about remembering those first lessons? Yeah, remember those. YOU ARE NEVER SAFE IN SPACE. Trundling along in my hauler approaching the second to last gate on my uneventful journey.....
Flashing red........FLASHING RED...........FLASHING. RED.
Crap. Yeah, those guys. The guys we had not seen for a LONG LONG TIME had picked the best time ever to be online and active and presumably heading off to some low sec to blow up the nearest hauler. But they ran into me. Their only war target online.
 The one with everything our corp owned stuff. All 500m of it.
Crap
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duffmantt
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:39:00 -
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ouch m8, really unlucky. dont give up though - you can earn it all back. its just an annoying setback :)
"If you dont take the risk you wont earn the Isk" |
DaMiGe
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:40:00 -
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Damn, that's quite some bad luck
Try to get even on them
And dont give up, becouse quitting is for quitters 
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Zafriel
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:40:00 -
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Id be more looking at who in your corp proposed the move, its a pretty good trick and used before to war dec your own corp when you fail to get access to corp hangars to steal.
Good luck on explaining it all to your corp, but Im sure you will get over it
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Looktu
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:41:00 -
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Thanks guys. :). It was actually a joint decision about the move, and only I picked the time to do it as my skills just finished really and I was prepared to take everything on a trip to the new place.
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Looktu
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:42:00 -
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Oh and getting even? Can I ram people to death?
Hehe
I am online now on this alt ****ING myself about logging on my main.
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Usul Faust
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:47:00 -
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have you considered becoming an Emo?
that'll probably help.
no skills, just luck.
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duffmantt
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:49:00 -
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LOL.
"If you dont take the risk you wont earn the Isk" |
Yarek Balear
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:51:00 -
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It might just be me and this isn't a reflection on who you really are (obviously I have no idea), but the foundations are also set for you to have stolen this from your own corp - nice little alt-post on forums etc... Your corp mates are likely to want to see the kill-mail and want to talk to the guys that popped your ship and even then will still have that thought in the back of their head about whether it really happened the way you described.... Happy dreams 
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Nero Scuro
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:54:00 -
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How Do You Tell Your Corp You Lost Everything?
"Hey guys, guess what I got with our 500 mil - magic beans!"
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Looktu
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:57:00 -
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Originally by: Nero Scuro
Quote:
How Do You Tell Your Corp You Lost Everything?
"Hey guys, guess what I got with our 500 mil - magic beans!"
It just might work!
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Looktu
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:58:00 -
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Edited by: Looktu on 07/03/2006 12:58:25
+ 1 post of accidental.
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Looktu
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Posted - 2006.03.07 12:58:00 -
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Originally by: Yarek Balear
It might just be me and this isn't a reflection on who you really are (obviously I have no idea), but the foundations are also set for you to have stolen this from your own corp - nice little alt-post on forums etc... Your corp mates are likely to want to see the kill-mail and want to talk to the guys that popped your ship and even then will still have that thought in the back of their head about whether it really happened the way you described.... Happy dreams
I appreciate what you are saying. However the people in my corp would KNOW I am not this kind of person. Infact we're a pretty close group and I cannot imagine any of them doing this, and I know I certainly would not.
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Khabok
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Posted - 2006.03.07 13:36:00 -
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If you didn't have a guilty conscience, you wouldn't be on the forums looking for some kind of . . . what? justification?
And if they're the type of people that "know" you're not the kind of person to rip them off, then why are you here again?
Call my a cynic . . . <shrug>
Khabok
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Eternal Fury
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Posted - 2006.03.07 13:48:00 -
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All I can say is, if you are transporting something that expensive, you should have done it with EVERY ONE of your corp mates with you in their combat ship.
Sorry for your loss, but that's the truth.
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H.L. Mencken.
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Ras Blumin
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Posted - 2006.03.07 14:04:00 -
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Quote:
How Do You Tell Your Corp You Lost Everything?
"Hey corp. I lost everything." Should give them a pretty good idea about your situation.
(didn't bother reading your post, sorry)
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Antoinette Civari
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Posted - 2006.03.07 14:24:00 -
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You screwed up, now you need to take responsibility for it. EVE's a harsh world. :\
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Irashi
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Posted - 2006.03.07 14:26:00 -
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That's quite a painful and expensive lesson. All you can do is pick up the pieces, and maybe use instas next time you're at war while carrying half a bil worth of stuff. actually, might want to do that anyway, suicide gankers might have had a pop at you with all that stuff in your hold.
Good luck
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Jaddor
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Posted - 2006.03.07 14:33:00 -
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#1 - If there was more than one war target, odds are you were maybe unlucky but quite possibly ratted out.
#2 - blueprints belong in a very fast MWD frigate if you don't have instants.
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Hans Roaming
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Posted - 2006.03.07 14:37:00 -
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Ow although to be fair next time you will have an escort to go through space. Hey Eve isn't about the stuff you have it's the experience, chalk this up to learning and move on.
BTW Make Thorax's in low sec, much more money.
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Darpz
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Posted - 2006.03.07 14:59:00 -
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sounds like the corp that war deced you had a spy in your corp, that timming is just to good
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Weebear
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Posted - 2006.03.07 15:00:00 -
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500mil isn't that difficult to make back, start grinding out missions on one account and mining on the other account and you can replace the 500 mil of assets before the end of the week I bet!
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Deja Thoris
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Posted - 2006.03.07 15:29:00 -
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This screams SPY SPY SPY
If the above was not clear enough SPY SPY SPY SPY SPY!!!!
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Avon
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Posted - 2006.03.07 15:32:00 -
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Originally by: Khabok
If you didn't have a guilty conscience, you wouldn't be on the forums looking for some kind of . . . what? justification?
And if they're the type of people that "know" you're not the kind of person to rip them off, then why are you here again?
Call my a cynic . . . <shrug>
Khabok
I thought the same thing tbh.
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Stogee
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Posted - 2006.03.07 15:41:00 -
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Does sound all just a bit convenient I must say.
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0ss0
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Posted - 2006.03.07 16:06:00 -
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hmmm You said there were 5 guys in the corp who made war.....I assume all 5 were in your corp as well. Welcome to EVE.
Look for the guys who leave.
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Sloppy Hole
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Posted - 2006.03.07 16:20:00 -
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SPY, no doubt in my mind.
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Sassinak
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Posted - 2006.03.07 17:07:00 -
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Edited by: Sassinak on 07/03/2006 17:08:36
lol
whoops.
I think the phrase, "never put all your eggs in one basket" applies here.
PS:
LMAO, Irashi, your sig is awesome
Sass
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.03.07 17:20:00 -
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One word.
SPY.
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Tavor Jeager
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Posted - 2006.03.07 17:31:00 -
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of course if you are one to use alts it may have been an idea to use Mr.Alt in a mwding/instaing frig to transport such valuable items particularly if you are at war.
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