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Peturabo	Posted - 2007.03.22 07:29:00 - [1] Just thought id start another thread on the topic of making expensive mistakes, seeing that ive just done one. This morning about 40 mins ago i logged into my new character to set a skill running, and decided to buy and train gallente cruiser. So i go to market, right click gallente cruiser and then try to train it. Unfortuneatly due to being half asleep i was unaware that i had just bought the gallente carrier skill book for 450mil and was surprised that i couldnt train it. So in about 5 seconds i had lost 450mil from making a simple mistake, although ive put the skill book back in market for 400mil and hopefully in the next 3 months someone will buy it. So who can beat that? Im sure that isnt the most expensive mistake done in eve (i know about what the ASCN leader did with the Titan :p )
Kazuma Saruwatari	Posted - 2007.03.22 07:31:00 - [2] ouch :/ *
Wulfstan Caldari The Sweeney	Posted - 2007.03.22 08:02:00 - [3] Edited by: Wulfstan on 22/03/2007 07:58:57 Yeah, someone had a much worse day than you! http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=2_12&page=8 Edit: Yes, that's 40 billion. (With credit to Princess Trinity, who posted it last night)
Tearulie White-Noise	Posted - 2007.03.22 08:10:00 - [4] i happen to need that skillbook. I will hold off on purchasing it planned on it today actually for 24 hours. You can get some money back, and i can get my skillbook. Convo me in game, or mail me. This is not an alt.
Peturabo	Posted - 2007.03.22 08:23:00 - [5] Np, thanks for giving me my money back :p
Empire marketslave	Posted - 2007.03.22 08:31:00 - [6] Some nice person sold me a Shaddow Serp Large plasma smartbob for 10 mil today, was a nice treat seeing as i had just sold my other one for 80 mil.
Bangoura Privateers Privateer Alliance	Posted - 2007.03.22 09:03:00 - [7] Telling her I'd make sure she still had her own house if we ever split up
Motorcycle Emptiness	Posted - 2007.03.22 09:09:00 - [8] Originally by: Bangoura Telling her I'd make sure she still had her own house if we ever split up god damn you, i was about to type 'my last girlfriend!' (even though we still get along fantastically and she cost me nothing :P) it must be that time of the morning.
Schultze Caldari Net 7 Brotherhood Of Steel	Posted - 2007.03.22 09:14:00 - [9] HAHA Brilliant you just made my day.. Thanks - atleast your 50 mil loss brought a smile on my face, in Denmark.
AKULA UrQuan Caldari STK Scientific INVICTUS.	Posted - 2007.03.22 09:33:00 - [10] Anyone that bought a faction pimped nanophoon/domi last week.
Peturabo	Posted - 2007.03.22 10:28:00 - [11] Edited by: Peturabo on 22/03/2007 10:24:31 To be honest im not that bothered about the 50 mil, the whole point for putting it in at a lower price to the other skill books in the region, is that it will have a higher chance of being bought, which it did :p It's the 400mil im bothered about :p
Hydraxian Gallente Infinitus Odium	Posted - 2007.03.22 10:30:00 - [12] A corpie bought a Officer 35km web last week for 75m... which he promptly resold for 300m (probably could have gotten more lol) lucky bastard
Crumplecorn Gallente Eve Cluster Explorations	Posted - 2007.03.22 10:44:00 - [13] My biggest unexpected loss came when someone stole and popped my Domi. Total loss 110M. I watched it happen on the scanner. When someone entered local I warped back to the appropriate safespot to grab it and let them find the lesser value ships I had scattered around the system instead, and found that my Domi was actually almost exactly 1M or 1B (some round number) of kilometers away, in a direction where there were no celestial bodies (thus it was impossible for me to get to that point myself). Since I had just logged in, I can only assume that it never warped back to the safespot from the e-warp area, and I didn't notice. I didn't check that it was actually at the safespot, ejected and warped off, and that was it. I learned to always verify the location of my ships before leaving them somewhere. - If you go into your options menu, there's a difficulty slider. Put that all the way over to the easiest setting and you'll be fine.
Avaleric Amarr The Eschatologists	Posted - 2007.03.22 11:21:00 - [14] Fell asleep in 0.0 space at the helm of a Navy Apoc once - COULD have been expensive... - Ignorance is bliss...
Jainyer Caldari	Posted - 2007.03.22 14:22:00 - [15] sold a raven once in lowsec for 116.000.00 when i was very tired & drunk....was a tad gutted.... & felt like a total Tw*t
hydraSlav Synergy Evolved Serenity Fallen	Posted - 2007.03.22 14:23:00 - [16] Was flying to empire through a chokepoint to fit a new Force Recon. On the way down, the system is camped by lots of blue friendlies (around 10ish), i wave and jump through. Fit the Recon complete with the Covert ops cloak. Bought another one for the covert ops frigate, several faction webbers, couple BPOs... in short completely loaded cargo hold Flying back through the same system, not bothered with scouts cause i can just cloak and warp away. Jump in, see the same bunch of blues on the gate, and 1 single flashing red hostile guy. So, in the brief moment of greed, i think "hey, i will get myself a cheap shot on the guy getting an extra killmail". Uncloak, damped him, and wait for his shield/armor to go down as the rest of the friendlies are shooting him.... Wait... the rest of the friendlies are not shooting him.... wait... they aren't "friendlies", they are wrecks of friendlies after they were all killed! At this point, the rest of the hostile gang warps and blows me up... most of my expensive cargo surviving for them It was late and i mistook wrecks of friendlies for friendly ships ... 300mill to learn to pay attention == Above comments are my personal views Oveur >Local shouldn't be a tactical tool, it's for chat
Rawne Karrde Constructive Influence	Posted - 2007.03.22 14:28:00 - [17] New corp mate moving to 0.0 asks me to haul some things out in my carrier for him. I say no prob give me a bit to get fuel moved. he says screw it and puts his whole eve life into a bustard and goes out into delve. Now when i say whole life... i mean like 3-4 bpo's including his ecm - burst II bpo. He lags and crashes on the way out. hostiles probe him and kill him and they get his bpo. He petitions ccp says oh yeah there was a problem here's your ship back but you're responsible for the can contents....
Waut 0utbreak	Posted - 2007.03.22 14:32:00 - [18] Edited by: Waut on 22/03/2007 14:29:07 My latest, not so long ago: Leaving the computer while forgetting I'm busy in the middle of a level 4 mission with my drones agressing every NPC they see. Loss: pimped out Nighthawk In Soviet EVE, roids pop YOU
Znaei Thundercats RAZOR Alliance	Posted - 2007.03.22 15:44:00 - [19] I win you all, hands down. Shortly after R&D was introduced I was lucky enough to get a T2 BPO. It was a lovely Heat Sink II BPO, which I promptly sold for 230 million ISK Not so hard! Air gets in between.
Nicocat Caldari New Age Solutions New Age Solutions Amalgamated	Posted - 2007.03.22 15:55:00 - [20] Originally by: hydraSlav Was flying to empire through a chokepoint to fit a new Force Recon. On the way down, the system is camped by lots of blue friendlies (around 10ish), i wave and jump through. Fit the Recon complete with the Covert ops cloak. Bought another one for the covert ops frigate, several faction webbers, couple BPOs... in short completely loaded cargo hold Flying back through the same system, not bothered with scouts cause i can just cloak and warp away. Jump in, see the same bunch of blues on the gate, and 1 single flashing red hostile guy. So, in the brief moment of greed, i think "hey, i will get myself a cheap shot on the guy getting an extra killmail". Uncloak, damped him, and wait for his shield/armor to go down as the rest of the friendlies are shooting him.... Wait... the rest of the friendlies are not shooting him.... wait... they aren't "friendlies", they are wrecks of friendlies after they were all killed! At this point, the rest of the hostile gang warps and blows me up... most of my expensive cargo surviving for them It was late and i mistook wrecks of friendlies for friendly ships ... 300mill to learn to pay attention Was this in F7C-H0? My corpmate keeps lording a falcon with two cloaks that he got in on killing in that system over me. Originally by: Splagada SEED ME DADDY Down with alts! One character per account per IP!
Princess Jodi Vendetta Underground Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.03.22 15:56:00 - [21] Official Version: "To strike a blow against the economy of our enemies, the Martyr Princess Jodi attempted to detonate a Suicide Freighter on the Taisy gate. The Freighter 'El Whoppo' was packed full of Oxygen Isotopes and Enriched Uranium, intended to make a huge radioactive blast that would cripple the Taisy stargate forever. Unfortunately, the batteries on the detonation device failed, as they were taken from Princess Jodi's over-used vibrator." What Really Happened: I was auto-piloting through empire and chatting on Vent, when a discussion about a system I had scanned came up. Since I couldn't remember the name, I set destination to our 0.0 home so I could find the star system nearby. Then I kinda forgot to reset the destination. About 4 billion isk went boom very fast when I jumped into a gate camp.
Splagada Minmatar Tides of Silence Hydra Alliance	Posted - 2007.03.22 15:57:00 - [22] Originally by: Wulfstan Edited by: Wulfstan on 22/03/2007 07:58:57 Yeah, someone had a much worse day than you! http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=2_12&page=8 Edit: Yes, that's 40 billion. (With credit to Princess Trinity, who posted it last night) OH EM EFF GEEE ------ Relaxed corp recruiting
Oventoasted Caldari Arcana Imperii Ltd. The Cartel.	Posted - 2007.03.22 16:01:00 - [23] dang well i hope you can sell that skill.
Swirler Aftermath Alliance	Posted - 2007.03.22 16:02:00 - [24] My buddy messed up big time. Sold a freighter for 900,000, instead of 900,000,000. What's in a few zeroes?
hydraSlav Synergy Evolved Serenity Fallen	Posted - 2007.03.22 20:29:00 - [25] Originally by: Nicocat Originally by: hydraSlav <story> Was this in F7C-H0? My corpmate keeps lording a falcon with two cloaks that he got in on killing in that system over me. Nah, it was in RQH-MY == Above comments are my personal views Oveur >Local shouldn't be a tactical tool, it's for chat
Eralus	Posted - 2007.03.22 20:44:00 - [26] I've lost 60 million at a time without even leaving the station on market typos. Sure would be nice if the EVE client were fast enough to handle TYPING IN A NUMBER without lagging out. _____ Lifewire is a big, ugly, mean... carebear.
Jollyreaper Gallente Ace Adventure Corp	Posted - 2007.03.22 21:48:00 - [27] As a noob I bought a million isk worth of t2 light missiles, not realizing I had to train a bunch before I could use them. They're still sitting in my hanger and I still don't have the skills. :) An almost mistake was selling one of the nexus chips for 10 million isk. From what I could gather online, it was a fair market value for it but it was something I might have wanted to keep for when I was ready to build the ship it was for. As for the rest of you guys, I am in awe of your losses. I hope I never to you.
Exxt Eternal Silence Ltd.	Posted - 2007.03.23 02:34:00 - [28] here a very recent 'expensive mistake': yesterday someone bought from me a navy mega for 850m and filled imediately a wtb contract @ 1.2m, thinking it was 1.2 b take care this is not the first one that did something like this, i know a lot of ppl that fell for that scam.
Jon Harmon	Posted - 2007.03.23 04:28:00 - [29] This isn't an expensive mistake for anybody who's been playing very long, but for a six-day noob like me, it was... I took a player courier contract to haul a small package on a 25-system jump route. Half the jump was through 0.3 or 0.4 space. OK, so here I am, a newbie, in my Gallente destroyer with four rail^H^H^H^Hpopguns and two mining lasers, none of those gizmos that prevent you from getting de-warped or whatever it is, basically a ship that I use for killing pirates, running missions, and mining. So I stupidly decide, well, OBVIOUSLY I'm a noob, in a destroyer, and therefore not even worth the ammo it takes to blow me to hell, right? No real pirate is gonna pick on me. It'd be like stomping a hamster with a jackboot. I'm not worth the trouble, so I'm going to just cruise on through a crapton of low-sec systems without even knowing that you can check the map to see where people have been killed recently. I think you guys can see where this one's going, right? Three low-sec systems into my little odyssey, I pop out at a gate, and literally before I can find the next gate in my overview and right-click it, I'm dead. Then whoever it was blows away my pod (I didn't save the mail from CONCORD). I'm back on Cistuvaert, with my insurance in the bank. By the time I replaced the ship and fittings, ate the loss of 400,000 ISK collateral, and wrote a letter of apology to whoever I'd contracted with, I was out a million ISK out of the 5 million I had. And that's with platinum insurance. I'm sticking to 0.5 space for now, kthx.
Reptile Minmatar The Raven Warriors	Posted - 2007.03.23 04:53:00 - [30] Had a market order to buy something silly (I think some datacores) for 4mil each, 20 of em. Was going through my market orders (I'm no market *****, maybe something like 3 or 4 orders outstanding at that time), phone rings, I get busy chatting and adjusting my orders, some tard outbid me by .01, so I click to modify the order to outbid my rival by a full 1 ISK! Well order adjusted, I concentrate on discussing the importance of beer and pie, hover with the mouse over my wallet and get a heart attack. I had adjusted the order to read 400mil per item instead of 4 mil. So I purchased datacores worth 80mil for 8 billion that day. Needless to say, I put the phone down these days when playing with my market orders!
Steini OFSI Gallente The Scope	Posted - 2007.03.23 06:12:00 - [31] I made this huge mistake very early in the game, like 3 or 4 days after it launched after playing beta I thought, hey maybe CCP had made use of agents or would within the vicinity of 2 months. You're gonna love this I created a character with maxxed out charisma, played more than healthy with such character dooing extremely poor rewarding agents, then after a long long long time agents were still total flop but my character was flying around in battleships and I wouldn't be arsed to create another main, so I've been stuck in a gorgeous body, with no brain, no willpower and certanly reflexes that would only allow me to walk out of a turtle's way. However I demand the choice of bigger boobs than any other for my full sized avatar
Soporo Caldari	Posted - 2007.03.23 06:14:00 - [32] Edited by: Soporo on 23/03/2007 06:13:19 I HOPE I am not the only one to do this but: I spent so long in 0.0 that I somehow lost all Empire survivability clue and SOMEHOW forgot I was even in Empire. I popped a red (low sec status) shuttle and BAM Concordokken, BLAM Drake fitted with T2 mods and 3 Rigs become dust. Soporo weeps
Steini OFSI Gallente The Scope	Posted - 2007.03.23 06:16:00 - [33] Originally by: Soporo I HOPE I am not the only one to do this but: I spent so long in 0.0 that I somehow lost all Empire survivability clue, I popped a red (low sec status) shuttle and BAM Concordokken, BLAM Drake fitted with T2 and 3 Rigs become dust. Soporo weeps I know how that's like, well not the loss but loosing sences on sec status, I think I only lost an Ares.
Gossef	Posted - 2007.03.23 11:07:00 - [34] Well my mistake wasn't as expensive as yours but for me it was quite nasty. I was doing lvl 3 Blockade mission in my NOS / Drone Myrmidon (my first BC, used every penny I had on it) and had to jump out because of really bad aggroing. I recharge shields, cap, etc and jump back in. The thing is...I jumped to 0m and was alt-tabbed doing something else while I started my jump. I tabbed back to EvE seeing what's going on, I notice that I'm lagging like hell and all my shields and half my armor is already gone (no hardeners or repairers active), I promtly try to active all those but due to the lag they finally activate when hull is at 50%. I allign and just when I'm about to start my warp there's another huge lag and when the lag is gone...so was my ship. Took me some time to get the money to buy a decent ship again:p
Major Stormer Caldari Celestial Apocalypse Insurgency	Posted - 2007.03.23 11:09:00 - [35] Oooo lone tempest, lets kill it. Eh drop a bubble dude :) Oh whats this its dropping a cyno field I wonder why.... Oh wow a Titan how cool :) Why is it getting black?
Caletha Reborn	Posted - 2007.03.23 11:39:00 - [36] Originally by: Hydraxian A corpie bought a Officer 35km web last week for 75m... which he promptly resold for 300m (probably could have gotten more lol) lucky bastard If it was indeed the 35km web instead of the 25km, then he got ... in the ... as that could have gone for 2b easy.
Jain Za Jewel Enterprises	Posted - 2007.03.23 11:42:00 - [37] I trashed a rigged raven one night, i was flying around in a hawk and someone asked for BS support so i dashed back intending to jump into my Raven - right clicked to make active, clicked yes on the annoying popup telling me i had to wait a few more seconds to change ship and then my ship disappeared. "hmm... where did that go"
NightF0x Gallente principle of motion Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate	Posted - 2007.03.23 13:33:00 - [38] Edited by: NightF0x on 23/03/2007 13:31:08 While out ratting in my Domi late one night in 0.0 I nodded off. Well it was more than nodded off, I awoke 45 minutes after I received my destruction mail and it took me about 5 minutes to figure out where I was and what was going on. I was sitting there in space in my pod while I had a triple Dark Lord spawn laughing at me. And to top it off, my insurance had ran out on my ship a couple of days earlier and I didn't realize it.
Jollyreaper Gallente Ace Adventure Corp	Posted - 2007.03.24 05:25:00 - [39] Originally by: Reptile So I purchased datacores worth 80mil for 8 billion that day. Needless to say, I put the phone down these days when playing with my market orders! Yipes. How do you even get 8 billion, is that from playing the market? I can't imagine trying to put all that together just from missioning. Then again, as a noobling I couldn't imagine how anybody could get the scratch together for a battleship.
Jollyreaper Gallente Ace Adventure Corp	Posted - 2007.03.24 05:29:00 - [40] Originally by: Jain Za I trashed a rigged raven one night, i was flying around in a hawk and someone asked for BS support so i dashed back intending to jump into my Raven - right clicked to make active, clicked yes on the annoying popup telling me i had to wait a few more seconds to change ship and then my ship disappeared. "hmm... where did that go" Oh my. I think that has to be the worst one of all I saw here. You didn't even lose the ship in battle but to a misclick. And here I am still having cold chills from almost losing my mega on a stupid mission last night. Whoever thought it would be cute to put scramble friggies in level 4's, bite me.
Torhas Veto.	Posted - 2007.03.24 05:46:00 - [41] I bought 10 Power Couplings on the market for 20mil pop (the rest were going for 26-30mil) and I was gonna go for a quick resell. The next day they dropped down to 5mil a piece, and now they are less than a mil >.< On the other side of the coin, I bought out a Vigilant on contract for 30mil, and resold a DG BCU from 120mil to 250mil. Your signature is inappropriate, please email us to find out why -Sahwoolo ([email protected])
Mortania Minmatar Carbide Industries Apocalyptica.	Posted - 2007.03.24 05:59:00 - [42] Had taken a month or two break from playing, came back when Rev hit, forgot that patches can reset your autopilot settings, ran a full month of BPCs from south to Jita in my cheetah with a covops fitted, with a head full of +4 implants and some other good ons in the other slots. Needless to say when I jumped into Amamake I was smoked by the 8 battleships all running smartbombs all around the gate. 1B down the drain. ---
Hoshi Blackguard Brigade	Posted - 2007.03.24 11:17:00 - [43] Setting the autopilot to Taisy and going to bed. Outbreak made sure to liberate me of my uninsured fully t2 fleet fitted Tempest. At least they left the pod alive. ---------------------------------------- A Guide to Scan Probing in Revelations
Benglada Infinitus Odium	Posted - 2007.03.24 12:10:00 - [44] I was in a system and saw there was a vaga for sale, so i hopped over there in my pod and jumped in it. i un docked and warped to a gate. I then realised an hour prior i had hit -2.1 and promptly lost the 300 million isk vagabond. (on an alt) I didnt play eve for like 3 days. --------------------------- Originally by: Arkanor 0.0 is the Final Frontier. Bring money and friends. Sig nerfz0r - maximum allowed siz0r is 24000 bytz0r. - Devil ([email protected]) Sig By Ortos
Kasak Black The Collective Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2007.03.24 12:20:00 - [45] Not my biggest mistake but a recent one. I was selling an item worth several Billion ISK, I was tired and didn't quite know how many 000's I needed. So I put up 1 unit of Veldspar for the sum I was going to sell the other item for. Alas I actually hit sell and had to pay 60million in brokers fees. Joy!
Kasak Black The Collective Against ALL Authorities	Posted - 2007.03.24 12:25:00 - [46] Originally by: Soporo Edited by: Soporo on 23/03/2007 06:13:19 I HOPE I am not the only one to do this but: I spent so long in 0.0 that I somehow lost all Empire survivability clue and SOMEHOW forgot I was even in Empire. I popped a red (low sec status) shuttle and BAM Concordokken, BLAM Drake fitted with T2 mods and 3 Rigs become dust. Soporo weeps LOL yeah, I've done that one too. Spent ages in 0.0 without going to Empire. I go to Agil to buy a skill book, and freak out at all these reds. Thinking my time was short I focused fire on the easiest ship (Badger) then proceeded to show what a total nublar I am.

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