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Iratus Caelestis
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:06:00 -
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After 5 weeks in the game I'm getting a nice track record of noobish mistakes now, I've paid 30 Million for a Photon Scatterer. Millions for a Shuttle (On the Market as well not escrow) and now a couple of days ago I lost my first Raven.
It goes like this.
So you're flying along, your approaching the stargate and a Gurista locks onto you. Now ordinarilly you'd ignore it as it can't scratch you but today is different, you've not had your sugar fix and you want to kill something so you think to heck with it.
Locking onto him you decide to test out your recently changed missile configuration. Hitting the F1 key, you realise in the same instant 'that's a bit big for a heavy missile' and hang on, what's that glued to the front of my ship.
Oh ok it's an Ibis.
Next thing you know....
Torpedo goes whoosh, Rookie Ship goes booooooom. Concord goes grrrrrrrrrrrrr, Iratus goes 'craaaaaaaaaaaaaap' Bobs your uncle, *****s your aunt you've got 108M isk in your Wallet.
Iratus has now learned his lesson, is going back to Frigates and Cruisers and has bought implants in the hope that he can train.
Clue (Rank5) Level 1
Lessons learned.
Iratus is an idiot.
Rookie ships need a neon sign to help negate lesson 1.
2k Gurista's are not worth it.
Insurance is excellent,
Sentries don't do much damage....... Concord does though.
You can still laugh about lesson 1.
What's the stupidest thing you've done to lose a ship?
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Lazarus Longinus
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:09:00 -
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Helping a corp mate on a kill mission in my merlin....
85K Merc Commander didn't like it when I popped out of warp first, lol
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I'm the root of all thats evil yeah, but you can call me Cooki3
Some people couldn't get a clue, if they were in the middle of a clue field, in the middle of clue mating season, doused in clue pheromones, in a clue suit, shouting "Clooo! Clooo!" whilst beating themselves with a clue stick |
sutty
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:09:00 -
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Was shooting flatliner in a blackbird with torps, I got to close to his hull torps splash killed my blackbird and my pod.
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Viceroy
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:11:00 -
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We were fighting CoC back in EC-P8R. I went to get some corpses that were 20 km from the gate with my moa. The CoC squad warped in on me at that moment... Damn my passion for corpses 
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SkrittaK
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:15:00 -
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Sitting around in 1.0 in a gang, waiting go go off and hunt. We're all messing around locking each other and stuff...then i scramble someone not in the corp....100 concord ships raping me up the arse later - 1 dead ship
Semper Fidelis
Legion boys, we are here, shag your women and drink your beer! :) |
Miso
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:30:00 -
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I used to lose ships to being AFK.
Lost a tempest that way, and have lost countless frigates and cruisers too. I get distracted easily. I hear people with low intelligence do 
Miso x
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Telk Behm'shai
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:31:00 -
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I just want to say that description of you losing the Raven was hilarious Iratus.
Sorry for your loss though.
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:34:00 -
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My most noob mistake was leaving gang at the end of an op, and turning on my afterburners to dock at the nearby station.
Only problem with this was that I acidentally turned my my smartbomb instead, and damaged the ship next to me.
You can guess the rest 
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Agent Shield
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:35:00 -
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I flew in front of Lord Zap a few days after release; my corp description was 'bounty hunters', I guess he didn't like that.
Little did I know bounty hunters don't have any tools to use to make a living, and that someone like Lord Zap would take offense to someone calling themself a bounty hunter when at the time; he had the largest bounty on him of any player in the game by far.
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Sochin
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:35:00 -
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Edited by: Sochin on 19/05/2004 08:38:41
Several VOTF members (Including the Darklord himself) lost battleships yesterday when the server crashed while we were busy killing Seraphim spawns. Prehaps the silliest was when the server came back online and the survivors rushed back to the belt to assist corpmates stuck there but not destroyed, only to have the server crash AGAIN (this is where Xirt lost his BS).
Fortunantly, the GMs were very helpful and restored the ships within an hour of the incident. The new ships even came fitted with the mods that were destroyed.
Nemo me impune lacessit
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eddie valvetino
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:44:00 -
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So it goes like this!!!
My corp buddies is mining, i'm hauling for him in a 0.5 system. As i'm on my way, 1 jump out, he says
Buddy "have you got your guns on"
Eddie "No... I'm in my 'Go-Slower'... no guns"
Buddy "Get guns before you warp in... Rats"
Cool thinks I, I'll grab me Kes' (as it was in the system i was in)
Two mins later I'm in system... So gang warp in hoping to find some action.
As a drop out of warp...
Buddy "PK Run"
Eddie "What's a PK?"
Buddy "Just run"
So I hit Auto pilot (forgot to set couse home) Clicks on... and then dis-engages
then I take my fist hit... not sure what it was but it wipes out my sheilds. I select a jump gate to warp to, Frig starts to line up for warp when a cruise takes out all but 25% of my hull and knocks me for course again.
Not sure what happens next but suddenly i'm in pod. While I'm laughing about this and try to work out what to do. the PK pods me!
Lessons learnt?
1. Always have insurance
2. Never Warp right on top of a fight
3. Always and I'm Always check local and see who's in.
4. Forget CONCORD unless you're in 0.8
5. Eddie is an Idiot
6. Being Podded is the best way home if you have no implants
And the worse thing is, as I was on my way back in the system with my hauler i meet this PK at the gate, in his pod. and now his has a sec rate of -5.5, so he's KOS. So what have a got on my hauler? a Miner II...
Priceless
7. Always run withs guns, unless you're mining
8. eddie is an Idiot
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Pychian Vanervi
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:47:00 -
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Happily flying my Moa across a few systems to go play in 0.0. On my way through Kisogo I happen upon 2 smack talking fools. I say nothing and fly past on my way watching local chat as they try to incite someone in to a smack fest.
After realising I have left my ammo back in station I have come from I decide to go and pick up, only 4 jumps so no big deal. Again jump into system and the local is alive with the smack fools.
I approach the gate which they have called home
(the next part was hard for me to write knowing all the rules of engagement, except for the one about engaging your brain before making said mistake)
I got to within 5k of the gate and thought I would pop off a few rounds just to leave an impression.
Well the impression I made was the gate locked up and the sentry guns fragged my ass
So in escence these guys dragged me down to their level and in the process I lost my ship, lesson learned.
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It's all about the fortune and glory, fortune and glory!
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Gerome Doutrande
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:51:00 -
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friend of mine was flying his 2 accounts around in a frig and an indy, got bored and decided to fire a bit at his 2nd account (indy) while they were both approaching a gate. result: he accidentally killed his indy because he had cruise in his launchers and didn't notice, and concord ganked his frig cause his 2nd account was in a newbie corp.
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eddie valvetino
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:52:00 -
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 Originally by: Gerome Doutrande
friend of mine was flying his 2 accounts around in a frig and an indy, got bored and decided to fire a bit at his 2nd account (indy) while they were both approaching a gate. result: he accidentally killed his indy because he had cruise in his launchers and didn't notice, and concord ganked his frig cause his 2nd account was in a newbie corp.
a "friend" of yours? of course it was
I think i would say that if I had been the silly
Priceless!!!!
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Arcticblue2
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:55:00 -
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Have my share of silly ways to loose ships 
One time I was mining in a 0.7 system and in local a noob asked for help against some pirates (NPC rats), as the friendly neighbourhood spider I am I react and warp in to his belt armed with ogres.
My Thorax must have looked like a mighty sight to that noob guy trying to fend of rats with his small drones....
So I let my dogs out and start locking targets, I knew there was 4 npc rats there and started locking.
And release my helldogs... in the confusion I don't notice that I lock one of his small drones and even that my helldogs stopp attacking (as there was no enemy targets left) I send them attacking the drone!!!!
Next thing I notice is that Concord is coming and web me and shoot me to pieces... 
I make an appology for shooting the drone to the noob and he kindly picks up the 4 miner 2's and 4 co-processors I's I had lost.
And even joined our corp as gratitude to my kindness
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Lufio II
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Posted - 2004.05.19 08:55:00 -
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Now I have something, too:
My alt was in noob frig, and because he was the first one in list when they scattered those jove parts around, he got them. well, brought those to my main char. so far nothing special.
Then I thought: hey, let's see how my new maller does against player rookie frigs. So I parked that velator somewhere in front of Station in a .4 sector I was in back then, ejected and relogged into my main. Started, locked, and shot. I think I was able to fire about 3 times or so. Then those 2 sentries got me, the Velator survived at all :P, gladly I had enough security status already not to drop below 0.
Lessons learned:
-even if it's your alt, that makes him still a completely unrelated person to your main
-Sentry-guns do hurt cruisers, even when there are only 2 of them
-do experiments in belts or with corp mates
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Expert Newbie
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Posted - 2004.05.19 09:02:00 -
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While trying to activate my afterburners my finger missed the alt key and I ended up activating a railgun and brought up the targeting reticle. No problem, I thought. I'll just click on the jump gate to get rid of it. Dunno what I was thinking that night but I totally expected the sentry gun assault after I realized what I did.
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Iratus Caelestis
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Posted - 2004.05.19 09:05:00 -
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Also, just want to add that my first though when my Raven blew up was "I hope to god no-one saw that"
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KIAEddZ
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Posted - 2004.05.19 09:06:00 -
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A member of our corp, after a battle engagement, warped to a safe spot, then ejected from his ship, to go look at gate in his pod. Unfortunately, his skills were the only thing holding his 100 mill isk Battleship together. Boom.
Much source of amusement for a very long time now for the rest of us.
http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=176347
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Eugene Spencer
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Posted - 2004.05.19 09:08:00 -
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i'm sitting in 3L3 at the north gate with one or two other Xetic buddies. I log and go have some dinner. Log back in and think 'hell, theirs alot of peeps in local'
My scorp is just aligning to warp back to its previous position before i logged
right click, show info on a few peeps in local
'ahh, whos this, em, hang a sec... M0o? EVOL? WTF?'
right click > stop ship
'cannot navigate while in warp'
I was met by 20 or so battleships at the gate
so tip... either 1. Warp to a planet, THEN log or 2. Never eat
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eddie valvetino
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Posted - 2004.05.19 09:16:00 -
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Originally by: Iratus Caelestis
Also, just want to add that my first though when my Raven blew up was "I hope to god no-one saw that"
lol
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tigress
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Posted - 2004.05.19 10:24:00 -
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Was out scouting the jk-fix region (now querious) in my brand new megathron. I was one of the first down there in a lvl2 bship, on the way home I met a corpmate (in a hauler) at the kaira(0.3) gate to ashmarir, he locked me.
Me feeling feisty activated my nosferatu on him.
- You have initiated agression against blahaha,
Sentries start to shoot me, I warp to sun with 20% hull or something (was damn slow).
Autopilot is on... I warp back in panic - and die :).
Corp-agression was a *****!
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ErrorS
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Posted - 2004.05.19 10:44:00 -
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Edited by: ErrorS on 19/05/2004 10:46:17
I was in Yulai. I had just bought 3 Giant Secure containers and had them loaded up in my badger (with some equip in the containers. named cargo expanders on the ship, etc). I undocked from a station and went afk for some reason. Some idiot in a scorp had killed me. He said he was attacking someone he was at war with and I purposely blocked his missles with my badger to keep him from killing the person he was aiming for.
i lost about 5M worth of equip.. :( i was sorta newb at the time so it hurt.
honestly, the reason I posted this was so I could publicly make fun of him. The idiot lost his scorp so it was worth it.. but why would anyone fire a volley of cruise missles so near a station (i was sitting outside the station, maybe 2KM from it)? and then think i could somehow position a BADGER Between two people to block shots?
ok so.. i guess i posted a story for someone else who made a stupid mistake :)
worst thing I've done(pretty boring). I went after some 45k rats with a corpmate in my moa. some Caracals, Kestrels, etc. I was set on taking down this group of NPCs at all costs (no idea why). There was one Caracal left like 5km from me, I couldn't keep any distance between me and the Caracal for my defenders. Just one shot after another I couldnt' do anything about. There were also a few smaller rats circling me from the same distance, probably kestrels doing a good amount of damage. Anyways, I knew I was going to lose the fight, I could've ran before it was too late but didn't and died. My corp-mate told me to run and I responded "I CAN TAKE THEM" with soemthing like 20% structure left.
sorta related. Last night I left two harvester drones at a mining site :( went to get a hauler to haul some ore, came back and they were gone.
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"The grass is always greener on the other side" - Maybe they're not as uber as you think?
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2004.05.19 10:48:00 -
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10 LET destination = (middle of Syndicate)
20 PROCmakebattleshipactive
30 LET mapchecking = 0
20 LET autopilot = 1
40 GOTO afk
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Dante Firefox
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Posted - 2004.05.19 10:51:00 -
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started agent missions in my shiny new MOA
went to kill a NPC and seen some drones next to it.
For some stupid & idotic reason (Prob lack of sleep) i thought the NPC's now had drones. Opps!!!
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Zaxx
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Posted - 2004.05.19 10:58:00 -
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I'm impatient and like to MWD out of stations on undocking.
Except for the time I missed the alt key and let off my smartbomb and got stuck on the station before I could run from the sentries
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Frank Horrigan
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Posted - 2004.05.19 11:07:00 -
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Edited by: Frank Horrigan on 19/05/2004 11:10:38
4 days ago
Apoc to a npc spawn at time of death there were 2x8.5k rats and 4 heavy crusiers
its funny those 5 km smartbombs you think go 5km to kill a rat orbiting the frig jamming you at 4.7km...
 THEY DONT GO 5 KM
so now i wait in empire till i can fly my tempest
(12 hours on mimnitar frig lvl 4 atm)
Originally by: Oveur
Originally by: Bhaal
What has turned out better than expected?
Everything. Remember, we're from Iceland.
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Finitos
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Posted - 2004.05.19 11:09:00 -
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About half a year ago i flew afk through PF-346 in an uninsured Armageddon without a clone
Alcohol and EVE dont mix
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. |
ActiveX
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Posted - 2004.05.19 11:55:00 -
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I lost a Stabber to Serpentis, got a new Stabber and did some mining. In Local a fellow noob corpie needed help so here I am in my second ever Cruiser. I lock the lil rat and fire. Watching the lil speck of light streak toward another spec of light that had no box around it din seem all that important.
It hit, the CONCORD came and pwned me...
Most expansive Bloodclaw I ever owned...
And this all happened 4 hours after I lost the first one...
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Tophereon
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Posted - 2004.05.19 12:01:00 -
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My friends first day on eve, so I travel 15 jumps to meet him in my thorax to show him a nice shiny cruiser and get him instantly addicted! :)
We're hanging outside a station and he locks me. Now cause he's been in the game ten mins, he's got nothing to loose, so I thought it would be funny if I didn't warn him about concord.
Well he shoots, concord shoots, he discovers he has a pod.........
Then...... I realise concords shooting me too?? I'm in a pod....
Its a noob system, so noobs everywhere are looting my cans, so i quickly dock and get a ship, undock and I'm in a pod again..... 
Lost my ship, 8 Ogres, 5 miner IIs and rest of mods!! lol
But CCP refunded everything in a couple of days!! Nice.
Then I lost my thorax again for real becuase I got angry and shot an ore thief!! Doh!
Toph.
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