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Brian McVity
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2014.02.11 20:40:00 -
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Was pissed at myself for a day but I know I'll look back on this and laugh at how I thought it was such a good "ship" in about 6 months.
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Lilliana Stelles
1114
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Posted - 2014.02.11 20:48:00 -
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Don't fly what you can't afford to lose.
In the case of a new pilot like yourself, almost everything you can fly is affordable, so just stick with it.
Welcome to Eve, and stick with the positive attitude.
Not a forum alt.-á |
Joy-Tear Starseeker
Briscoe and Boris Enterprises
6
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Posted - 2014.02.11 21:12:00 -
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+1 OP for the positive attitude.
I lost 5 destroyers, 2 cruisers and 3 battlecruisers and a battleship, and I'm just getting started. Lol
Joy
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Ovv Topik
The Tuskers
625
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Posted - 2014.02.11 21:57:00 -
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It's a bit of a right of passage. It's so different from any other game that it hurts til you get used to it.
My first was a Cormorant in the infamous 'Damsel in Distress' mission.
Ah I remember it well. I'd been flying frigs up until then, and this thing felt like a battleship in comparison. I was so full of myself I aggrowed the main dude and triggered the extra waves.
I was furious at losing that beloved ship! Think I rage quit for a whole day.
Pretty soon bro, you'll be buying the hulls 10 at a time!
Open question: Do you remember your first loss?
"Jita 4 4 Spaceport. You will not find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious!" |
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
16213
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Posted - 2014.02.11 22:35:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:Open question: Do you remember your first loss? Yep I lost a really terribly fit Rifter in a 0.2 to some lowsec pirate types in my first week of playing. Dual tanking is bad mmkay.
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Sabriz Adoudel
Mission BLITZ
2025
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Posted - 2014.02.11 22:49:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:
Open question: Do you remember your first loss?
(Other than the training mission where you lose a rookie ship) I lost a Destroyer to a level 2 mission. That would be my only loss for some time - after a while I'd upgraded my Myrmidron to a Dominix, and thought 'eh, let's go looking for trouble in the old Myrm'. Scanned down a wormhole, ran three sites in it, and then lost the Myrm to a three-person gang. Gave a 'gf' and got my pod out.
Biggest loss (which wasn't all that big at all) was an Ishtar when I went out to see the sights in nullsec.
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J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
3653
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Posted - 2014.02.11 22:53:00 -
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Brian McVity wrote:Was pissed at myself for a day but I know I'll look back on this and laugh at how I thought it was such a good "ship" in about 6 months.
OP just won EVE by making it to end game that some vets haven't reached yet.
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J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
3653
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Posted - 2014.02.11 22:55:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:Open question: Do you remember your first loss?
You mean plural right?
AKA, my first 7 or 8 losses were all to the same 3 people. I joined a corp, we got wardecced and as I was new and nobody explained to me what that meant, I kept feeding them kill after kill after kill...up to the point where the attacker actually contacted me and explained it all and donated some ISK back so I wouldn't quit the game.
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Miriya Zakalwe
Rifterlings
Point Blank Alliance
68
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Posted - 2014.02.11 23:42:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:
Open question: Do you remember your first loss?
Not without looking. I'm... not attached to my ships, let's just say. |
Bertrand Butler
Cras es Noster
183
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Posted - 2014.02.11 23:52:00 -
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My first and only (so far) PvE loss was a derpy Corax in the "Tracking the Queen (Part 3)" SoE arc mission. I cried to sleep that night, mainly due to the fact I kept all my newbie belonging in the ships hold at the time it popped.
Quote:2013.01.24 18:54:00
Victim: Bertrand Butler
Corp: Science and Trade Institute
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Corax
System: Arnon
Security: 0.6
Damage Taken: 6688
Involved parties:
Name: Mordus Bounty Hunter / Unknown (laid the final blow)
Damage Done: 6688
Destroyed items:
Scorched Telemetry Processor, Qty: 13 (Cargo)
Nova Light Missile, Qty: 1856 (Cargo)
Burned Logic Circuit, Qty: 26 (Cargo)
Light Missile Specialization (Cargo)
Smashed Trigger Unit, Qty: 5 (Cargo)
Scourge Light Missile, Qty: 614 (Cargo)
Defective Current Pump, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
Damaged Artificial Neural Network, Qty: 4 (Cargo)
Pyerite, Qty: 232 (Cargo)
Photonic CPU Enhancer I (Cargo)
Contaminated Lorentz Fluid, Qty: 12 (Cargo)
Ward Console, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
Small C5-L Emergency Shield Overload I
Small Ancillary Current Router I
Relic Analyzer I (Cargo)
Experimental TE-2100 Light Missile Launcher (Cargo)
Malfunctioning Shield Emitter, Qty: 12 (Cargo)
Adaptive Invulnerability Field I
Small Hydraulic Bay Thrusters I Blueprint (Cargo)
Tripped Power Circuit, Qty: 25 (Cargo)
Fried Interface Circuit, Qty: 31 (Cargo)
Small F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Dropped items:
Experimental 10MN Afterburner I
Core Scanner Probe I, Qty: 10 (Cargo)
Metal Scraps, Qty: 6 (Cargo)
Data Analyzer I (Cargo)
XeCl Drilling Beam I (Cargo)
Ballistic Control System I (Cargo)
Mexallon, Qty: 86 (Cargo)
Armor Plates, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
Salvager I (Cargo)
Drone Tracking Data (Cargo)
Dread Guristas Copper Tag (Cargo)
Mjolnir Light Missile, Qty: 1650 (Cargo)
Contaminated Nanite Compound, Qty: 11 (Cargo)
Tritanium, Qty: 1221 (Cargo)
Charred Micro Circuit, Qty: 27 (Cargo)
Warhead Upgrades (Cargo)
Conductive Polymer, Qty: 13 (Cargo)
Nocxium, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Experimental 1MN Afterburner I (Cargo)
Scourge Light Missile, Qty: 166 (Cargo)
Alloyed Tritanium Bar, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
F-90 Positional Sensor Subroutines (Cargo)
Pyerite, Qty: 146 (Cargo)
'Shade' White Noise ECM (Cargo)
Core Probe Launcher I (Cargo)
Broken Drone Transceiver, Qty: 17 (Cargo)
Launcher Rigging (Cargo)
Experimental TE-2100 Light Missile Launcher, Qty: 5 (Cargo)
Upgraded 1MN Microwarpdrive I (Cargo)
Tangled Power Conduit, Qty: 7 (Cargo)
EP-S Gaussian Excavation Pulse (Cargo)
Local Hull Conversion Overdrive Injector I
Isogen, Qty: 47 (Cargo)
The next day I bought another one and finished the arc. |
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
4168
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Posted - 2014.02.12 00:45:00 -
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My first loss of any consequence was a faction fit Vigilant worth probably 700m at the time.
The embarrassing part was that I was trying to teach a nublet how easy it was to farm COSMOS sites. He learned something alright.
Mr Epeen 
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Corthon
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
6
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Posted - 2014.02.12 00:52:00 -
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Ahhhh, losing your first ship, what a beautiful event. I remember my first ship destroyed was a mammoth whilst mining, got suicide ganked. Keep up the positive attitude man! Lose plenty more and take some people down with you every time! |
Yve Mountbatten
EVE University
Ivy League
6
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Posted - 2014.02.12 01:00:00 -
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Lost my first ship (Cormorant) while on SoE arc because I fell asleep.
Rage quit and contemplated biomassing for a few hours.
Love the positive attitude though.
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Dak Dallocort
The Graduates
RAZOR Alliance
39
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Posted - 2014.02.12 01:00:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:Open question: Do you remember your first loss?
If I remember correctly, the fiirst ship I lost was an Incursus doing the SoE arc. My first pvp loss was a Tristan in Old Man Star, where I also got on my first killmail (a Drake). |
J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
3655
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Posted - 2014.02.12 01:09:00 -
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Mr Epeen wrote:My first loss of any consequence was a faction fit Vigilant worth probably 700m at the time. The embarrassing part was that I was trying to teach a nublet how easy it was to farm COSMOS sites. He learned something alright. Mr Epeen
Ooh, if we mean "stupid" losses, then one of my alt's losses tops it all.
I lived in null-sec and thus got used to "let's web that guy you are with to make him get in warp faster in his big ship".
Then a friend joined EVE and clone jumped to assist him in the SoE arc, in which at one point I thought, let's make him instantly warp to the station by putting 4 webs on him.
I liked the idea, too bad CONCORD didn't. He did get a nice introduction though to what CONCORD does to offenders...bye bye fun-fitted apocalypse (fitted to assist him with Dagan: Reps in high-slot, webs in mids to slow Dagan, capacitor enhancing in low).
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Haedonism Bot
Revolutionary Front
846
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Posted - 2014.02.12 01:21:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:
Open question: Do you remember your first loss?
I was maybe 3 days into the game. I had recently finished the tutorial, such as it was, and was out jetcan mining in my starter system in a Bantam. A canflipper soon turned up and flipped my can. Being the good newbie that I was, I had already read up on canflippers and I knew that I had the right to shoot at him in highsec.
So I did a quick "show info" on the Punisher he was flying, and discovered that it was a frigate. I thought to myself, "wait, I have a destroyer back in the station. Destroyers are bigger than frigates." So I went and got my Thrasher and hopped from belt to belt until I found the guy, then attacked him. The fight was short and decisive. I can still remember the way the other newbies in the belt were freaking out in local.
I still have that canflipper in my watch list. He logs in sometimes. One day when he least expects it, there I'll be.
everevolutionaryfront.blogspot.com |
Thomas Builder
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
411
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Posted - 2014.02.12 01:25:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:Open question: Do you remember your first loss? I didn't. Or, more precisely, I remember the loss, but totally forgot that it was my first one.
I was travelling in a Shuttle, AFK, with the autopilot running. (Already a bad idea.) When I came back to my keyboard, I was at my destination, but in a pod. I was really surprised that someone would blow it up. I was also confused that my pod had continued the route. I lost a +2 implant that I was carrying in said Shuttle to sell somewhere else.
Only a bit later, when I learned more about the game and how to read kill mails did I realized that I was killed by gate-camping NPCs in a low-sec system. I must have had used the 'shortest path' option. Oops. Even worse idea, when combined with AFK flying.
In my defence, I was 3 days old.
My next loss was also a Shuttle, in null-sec, but that time I fully expected to lose it. I was taking a stroll, looking how long I could last. (Answer: surprisingly long, no one was there, after roaming for over an hour, I lost it on my way out, on the gate to low-sec.) |
Keno Skir
Vectis Covert Solutions
661
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Posted - 2014.02.12 02:11:00 -
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The Assault is also a sketchy mission sometimes for newer players. My first major loss was an epicly badly fit hurricane with several kinds of gun on it :)
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Veritaal
Veri-Tech Tax Haven
43
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Posted - 2014.02.12 08:19:00 -
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First loss was a shuttle + pod. I was autopiloting afk thru lowsec, and got smartbombed to death by a Nyx pilot who was apparently kinda well known. Derp.
First PvP loss was similarly dumb. Took my coercer belt ratting in a .02 system, where someone in a Vagabond promptly sent me running home in a pod.
First loss that hurt. I spent every ISK I had on an Armageddon. Fit was atrocious, as were my support skills. But battleships are big! Surely this baby will fly through these missions like crazy! It blew up in its very first mission : Angel Extravaganza.
Ahhh, fun times! |
Noxisia Arkana
Deadspace Knights
148
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Posted - 2014.02.12 15:16:00 -
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I think I lasted two weeks before my first ship loss. It was a Tristan. The Tristan is still my favorite ship to just screw around in. Nostalgia.
OP: As a member of a corp with their killboard about as deep red as you can get I will say: You can lose ships all the time, still make money, and still enjoy the game. Plus some ship losses make great stories. |
J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
3659
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Posted - 2014.02.12 17:05:00 -
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Noxisia Arkana wrote:I think I lasted two weeks before my first ship loss. It was a Tristan. The Tristan is still my favorite ship to just screw around in. Nostalgia.
OP: As a member of a corp with their killboard about as deep red as you can get I will say: You can lose ships all the time, still make money, and still enjoy the game. Plus some ship losses make great stories.
If you/your corp/your alliance takes killboard stats so serious that it must be green...you/they should get a life and should not take EVE so serious.
It is a game. Play it to have fun, no matter what the underlying consequences are as long as you are having fun you are doing it right.
I do love that at the end of a night / roam I can claim victory by a green killboard but it is not my priority. I rather have fun and more losses then kills then the other way around.
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Ovv Topik
The Tuskers
627
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Posted - 2014.02.12 17:21:00 -
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Agreed.
I think the key is to set yourself 'personal' goals and targets, and avoid setting them in comparison to anyone else.
I'm happy with my stats in comparison to how far i've progressed, yet if I were to compare them to some guy who sits outside Jita pressing F1 18 hrs a day I'd look useless.
"Jita 4 4 Spaceport. You will not find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious!" |
Gabriel Horn
Dynatron Inc.
The Volition Cult
1
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Posted - 2014.02.13 12:19:00 -
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When I lost my first couple of ships, I got so scared of losing more, that every time I got into a battle i would get so nervous I couldn`t think. This of course led to more ship losses. I finally made a decision to fly the cheapest ships into the most hairy situations until losing ships became routine and I didn`t give it a second thought. The ability to keep your cool under any circumstance makes all the difference in the world.
Of course i still get a little anxious taking a 3 bill ship into battle, but I can still keep my cool now. I cry about the loss later :) . |
Amonios Zula
Aeon Ascendant
8
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Posted - 2014.02.13 13:17:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:Open question: Do you remember your first loss?
My first Loss was http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=20845607 was in a lowsec mission room with some friends just shooting stuff and bearly having the dps to kill heh.
Got jumped by the team shown in my lossmail, was a long fight but my ship & the logi that was with us both capped out due to a Curse and its neuts.
My most memorable loss was in Hisec due to me being a total idiot 
I was with a few friends and was doing kinda a turret tracking exersise, I was flying an Oracle which was the target of said exersise.
Locked up one of the frigates, accepted the duel then fired.
*Pop!* . wtf i shouldn't have even hit it with my large guns, woah hang on what do ya mean my security status ! ? ! ?. whoops.
CONCORDOKKEN!
I fired on the wrong frigate and blapped it and concord didn't like it 
Lesson learned, reset safety to yellow when leaving lowsec. |
Cara Forelli
Darkstorm Corporation
282
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Posted - 2014.02.13 15:42:00 -
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First memorable loss was to sleepers. I found an ore site with Arkonor in it! The info tab says it's the rarest in the game! Better tell my friends so we can all go mine it in our ventures!
Second memorable loss was also in wormhole space. This guy just showed up out of nowhere in a purifier! How can he do that?
And that's when I fell in love with the unknown.
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J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
3663
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Posted - 2014.02.13 15:54:00 -
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Amonios Zula wrote:Ovv Topik wrote:Open question: Do you remember your first loss? My first Loss was http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=20845607 was in a lowsec mission room with some friends just shooting stuff and bearly having the dps to kill heh. Got jumped by the team shown in my lossmail, was a long fight but my ship & the logi that was with us both capped out due to a Curse and its neuts. My most memorable loss was in Hisec due to me being a total idiot I was with a few friends and was doing kinda a turret tracking exersise, I was flying an Oracle which was the target of said exersise. Locked up one of the frigates, accepted the duel then fired. *Pop!* . wtf i shouldn't have even hit it with my large guns, woah hang on what do ya mean my security status ! ? ! ?. whoops. CONCORDOKKEN!I fired on the wrong frigate and blapped it and concord didn't like it Lesson learned, reset safety to yellow when leaving lowsec.
Quick heads up....
Linking any form of killmail is forbidden on the forums, this includes your own kills/losses.
There is one exception in a dedicated thread in C&P.
Suggest you take the link away before your friendly forum moderator does it for you.
EDIT:
And damn I'm getting old.
First memorable losses in Oracles and Ventures. They are new ships added after I started, already had a load of losses by the time the designers initially put them on paper.
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Gizznitt Malikite
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
3521
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Posted - 2014.02.13 17:39:00 -
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Is linking killmails really forbidden? I've never seen such a rule.... (and don't want to!).
My first loss was a catalyst I took into lowsec to shoot BS rats in the belts. I was caught and killed by a brutix.
I'm working on losing ship # 728 at the moment, not including my 153 capsule losses.
My losses exceed 29b isk worth of assets.. youch that number always makes me cringe! |
Jori McKie
Friends Of Harassment
117
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Posted - 2014.02.14 10:52:00 -
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My first loss was a not needed PvE fitted Harbinger in PvP combat on 2009/11/05 18:23 hrs. Our scout reported a lone Dominix approaching the gate, yeah easy target...... Well it turned out he had a friend in a Maelstrom and they both together blown us to pieces.
Btw. being blown up by NPCs = you are bad at EVE :D
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Brink Albosa
Black Rebel Rifter Club
The Devil's Tattoo
15
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Posted - 2014.02.14 14:20:00 -
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First ship I lost was a Vigil fitted for ninja looting and I learned why it's not good to be taking stuff while going 0 m/s
Instapop! |
J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
3673
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Posted - 2014.02.14 14:36:00 -
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Gizznitt Malikite wrote:Is linking killmails really forbidden? I've never seen such a rule.... (and don't want to!).
My first loss was a catalyst I took into lowsec to shoot BS rats in the belts. I was caught and killed by a brutix.
I'm working on losing ship # 728 at the moment, not including my 153 capsule losses.
My losses exceed 29b isk worth of assets.. youch that number always makes me cringe!
Yes it is;
Quote:34. Posting of kill reports outside of the Crime & Punishment forum channel is prohibited.
More often than not, posts of this nature are made with inflammatory intent and are designed to promote trolling and flaming. Therefore, the posting of links to kill reports from any third party site, or the direct copy-pasting of kill reports from in game is prohibited on all forum channels of the EVE Online Forums, with the exception of the Crime & Punishment Channel.
Specific rules regarding the omission of pilot names apply in this instance. Further details can be found in the rules stickies in the Crime & Punishment forum channel.
Dont get me wrong. I think it is weird you cant link a loss of your own ship if that is used as an example. By linking a personal loss you are already agreeing that it might bebtrolled otherwise you shouldnt post it.
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Amonios Zula
Aeon Ascendant
8
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Posted - 2014.02.14 17:20:00 -
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You still have my lossmail in your quote , |
J'Poll
CDG Playgrounds
3675
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Posted - 2014.02.14 17:27:00 -
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Amonios Zula wrote:You still have my lossmail in your quote ,
Fixed it.
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Thaddeus Brutor
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
1
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Posted - 2014.02.14 18:39:00 -
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My first ship loss ever was a Rifter in the L2 mission Human Cattle, when I was on a quest to finish every L2 mission with a Rifter.
My first PVP loss was technically a Punisher that I flew down deep into nullsec because I wanted to look around--but I went there expecting to die.
My first PVP real PVP loss was a Retribution, ratting in Providence one day when a Pilgrim showed up. SLURP. No cap. No tank. Dead.
My biggest PVE loss was a L4 fit Abaddon in Worlds Collide, and my biggest PVP loss was a Bestower crammed full of minerals and 100k+ value ratting loot I was hauling up to hi-sec to sell. I meant to hit APPROACH on the regional gate, not warp to. I just wanted to d-scan, dammit. I cussed a lot that day.
Love to hate this game. |
Shadow Brook
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
0
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Posted - 2014.02.14 21:37:00 -
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Ovv Topik wrote:Open question: Do you remember your first loss? An Ibis on the way to that tourist destination B-R5.. whatever it is. I think I managed about 6 jumps before being blown out of the sky. That was last week. |
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