Vaerah Vahrokha
Vahrokh Consulting
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Posted - 2015.01.08 03:37:20 -
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Ah, I have another good one.
In my first days, I spent all my money purchasing T2 small ships (Cheetahs and similar). I could not even fly a cruiser, my best was a T1 Rifter with MAPC aid.
I formed a six fully expanded and rigged Mammoths (large T1 hauler) train to carry them. Of course with my humble newb pilots skills + expanders those took like 1 minute to align  .
Loaded to the brim, I merrily passed made 40 jumps with each, including passing from Uedama and whatsnot, destination Jita, where I'd resell them at a good profit.
Incredibly enough, nobody popped them.
Also, for reasons whose "logic" escaped myself, I thought the smartest idea EVER would have been to make those haulers meet at Uedama (yeah I was good at choices like that!  ) with a fleet coming from Jita. So the first ones could go back to Minnie space quicker.
And where in the heavens would I think to perform the swap? Since they were my first EvE weeks, all the ganking I knew happened at stations undocks (I had no idea passing through Uedama / Sivala is worse, yet).
So I "smartly" thought: "well, I'll show those gankers my superiority: I am going to warp at 100 off a planet and swap the cargo there".
I ejected EVERY single T2 ship, there was a little "cloud" around me.
...Surprise...
... every ejected T2 ship self assembled in space and became a neutral ship, ready for boarding.
I tried to get them back inside the other haulers but no, it was not possible at all. They wouldn't magically repackage!
I could not fly a single ship of those. For 34 days at a minimum (it was still the days of learning books etc. etc.)!
Since apparently I had a keen sense for self inflicting torture, I managed to worsen the situation.
I started spamming Uedama and 4-5 nearby systems (low sec included!  ) with desperate requests for help. To get somebody to pilot those now neutral ships for me away from the planet to the nearest station.
Thanks to the cold, harsh, selfish nature of EvE  nobody cared to reply. Else I'd have learned what calling people and auto-gifting away T2 ships en masse is like...
At this point... I learned the second EvE Law (the first being: "don't fly what you can't afford to lose"), that is: "the second you undock, consider your ship lost. If you get back in one piece, that's a welcome bonus".
I then proceeded flying my empty haulers back to Minnie space, headbanging IRL walls and calling myself unrepeatable names.
34 days later, I passed back from Uedama. Just for the sake of curiosity, I bothered to fly to the planet where all my ships were abandoned more than 1 month ago, ripe for taking.
And the incredible happened.
Nobody cared to go take them. They were still all there! I still don't understand why, as back at the time ISK was not easy to come by (and PLEX did not exist) and those ships were quite expensive.
But hey, who cares about logic, when the the lack of such logic just saved your ass?
Therefore I spent a good time flying all those ships to the nearby station and learned more and more lessons about EvE in the process.
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