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Pteranodon	Posted - 2008.07.17 15:42:00 - [1] What's the most expensive noob mistake you have ever made? Try these.....went for a pee-obviously afk-came back to a pod got drunk when mining in 0.0-got blown up by a Triumvirate nano gang....billion isk hulk tank gone. Wrecks raided by a caracal in high sec. fired on it....in a Kronos (don't know why) got concorded...another billion ISK gone When I think back the list is embarrassingly long....that's 3 Billion ISK gone already with just 3 memories. Share your stories because I don't reckon anybody is more stupid tham me when it comes to loosing ISK.
SlayerDrake	Posted - 2008.07.17 16:15:00 - [2] i once got shot in lowsec and lost a rifter man thats so embarrassing
Delrik Johanian	Posted - 2008.07.17 16:18:00 - [3] Trying out the "Forums" button on the left panel of the eve-online.com website, then venturing into the CAOD section was my worst newbie mistake by far
Ashen Angel Minmatar AA Mining	Posted - 2008.07.17 16:19:00 - [4] .. signed up for the trial...
Kuar Z'thain Destructive Influence Band of Brothers	Posted - 2008.07.17 16:19:00 - [5] Hauling half a bill in goods to Amarr only to get blown up by CONCORD because I was drunk and -2.6 and Amarr is 1.0.
LaVista Vista	Posted - 2008.07.17 16:19:00 - [6] I went to the forums
Jastra Gallente Black Thorne Corporation	Posted - 2008.07.17 16:25:00 - [7] attempting to live solo in 0.0
Jim McGregor	Posted - 2008.07.17 16:31:00 - [8] Originally by: LaVista Vista I went to the forums It starts out feeling that way. Then it becomes a habit. Next is addiction. After that... nobody can save you. --- Originally by: Roguehalo Can you nano Titans?
Heartstone Jericho Fraction The Star Fraction	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:02:00 - [9] I sold my BPCs via. Escrow as normal. Then I noticed I couldn't find my BPO anywhere. I had successfully sold my ME:50 Apoc BPO for 1m isk. The real pain was I couldn't even ransom it back as the person buying it has used a recycle alt to buy it so I couldn't trace it =( This was before well researched Battleship BPOs were commonplace as well so research was worth a bit in those days =/ Learned to check my Escrow more carefully after that ;) ---
Roc Wieler Tribal Liberation Force	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:06:00 - [10] Flew 26 jumps on my first day to the Presidential HQ to join their corp. /sigh "Never start a fight you can win." - Roc Wieler
LaVista Vista	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:06:00 - [11] Originally by: Heartstone I sold my BPCs via. Escrow as normal. Then I noticed I couldn't find my BPO anywhere. I had successfully sold my ME:50 Apoc BPO for 1m isk. The real pain was I couldn't even ransom it back as the person buying it has used a recycle alt to buy it so I couldn't trace it =( This was before well researched Battleship BPOs were commonplace as well so research was worth a bit in those days =/ Learned to check my Escrow more carefully after that ;) I made that fault on contracts too, but that was a hyperion bpo.
Abrazzar	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:10:00 - [12] Caught too much aggro in a mission with my Phantasm and them humped an asteroid when I tried to warp out. POP goes the Phantasm (and some faction stuff). -------- Ideas for: Mining
mentalmonkey Gallente Mixed Metaphor	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:20:00 - [13] Accidentally hit 'enter' instead of 'backspace' when modifying a buy order, as you can guess I was trying to delete and extra 9, so ended up paying 10X the price of the goods which was around the 125m mark : S
Neth'Rae Gallente Decorum Inc Tygris Alliance	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:25:00 - [14] Edited by: Neth''Rae on 17/07/2008 17:25:47 I was warping around alone in a blaster ranis in lowsec looking for targets, located two ships at a moon, warped there and saw a pos 100km away, I stayed there for quite a while until one of the sentry guns suddenly locked and oneshotted me, I wasn't even moving.. Another one is when I was hauling two taranis and a enyo afk, because I friend said "meh it's only like 30mil? who'd want to suicide gank you for that?" later I come back and realize I'm in a pod :P Luckily everything blew up, otherwise it would have been even more embarassing. Request signatures at EVE-GFX
Roc Wieler Tribal Liberation Force	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:40:00 - [15] Neth'Rae just reminded me of another serious noob mistake I made. Hired Neth'Rae to make me a kick ass signature, which he did, then totally forgot to pay him for it until this very moment! I know what I'll be doing first next time I login. "Never start a fight you can win." - Roc Wieler

Chribba Otherworld Enterprises Otherworld Empire	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:41:00 - [16] Misstakes!? What kind of pilots are you? Noobs?! Secure 3rd party service ■ Do you Veldspar?

Jim McGregor	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:48:00 - [17] Edited by: Jim McGregor on 17/07/2008 17:48:42 Originally by: Chribba Misstakes!? /me ponders if this was intentional... --- Originally by: Roguehalo Can you nano Titans?
Veldspar Bait	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:50:00 - [18] Deleted a character w/o checking to make sure ALL it's assets were cleared up. Loaded my other character and went looking for my Vagabonds.... then realized I had just deleted 4 vagas. And no, I didn't petition the mistake, it was my own damn fault for not checking so I ate the loss and have never done it since. Veldspar Bait
Jaggeh Thundercats RAZOR Alliance	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:52:00 - [19] played while drunk and lost 6 faction fitted faction cruisers. spensive mistake. how? thought i was in lowsec when i fired.
Ghengis Tia Amarr	Posted - 2008.07.17 17:59:00 - [20] Went to lo-sec in Harbinger, picked a fight and got log-in ambushed w/ 75M isk in implants. Still in a state of shock after I replaced the implants, went to pick up some cargo containers in a bestower and without realizing it they were in a 0.4 system. Got podded again w/75M in implants. All on Christmas Day......
Korran Minare Gallente Spaced Cowboys	Posted - 2008.07.17 18:04:00 - [21] Originally by: Ghengis Tia Went to lo-sec in Harbinger, picked a fight and got log-in ambushed w/ 75M isk in implants. Still in a state of shock after I replaced the implants, went to pick up some cargo containers in a bestower and without realizing it they were in a 0.4 system. Got podded again w/75M in implants. All on Christmas Day...... ouch Originally by: Korran Minare what would you put on space pizza anyway???? Support Flagships
Dosgar Caldari Rude Boys Pirate Coalition	Posted - 2008.07.17 18:29:00 - [22] Concordokken. It stings the first time, any time after that the shame is more painful ---
Crumplecorn Gallente Eve Cluster Explorations	Posted - 2008.07.17 18:33:00 - [23] Didn't set a long skill when I quit because "I wouldn't be back". - DesuSigs
adriaans Amarr The Movement	Posted - 2008.07.17 18:38:00 - [24] forgot i was in my frigate when i engaged a caracal outside a station in low sec, needless to say the sentries took care of my frig very fast i think thats my most embarrasing loss :P -sig- Support the introduction of Blaze M crystals for Amarr!
Qanael Radlari Caldari Kinetic Vector	Posted - 2008.07.17 18:47:00 - [25] Lost a fully rigged T2 Drake in a mission due to AFKing and thinking the tank would hold. ...4 times.
Take Enemy Amarr Armada.	Posted - 2008.07.17 19:03:00 - [26] Originally by: Delrik Johanian Trying out the "Forums" button on the left panel of the eve-online.com website, then venturing into the CAOD section was my worst newbie mistake by far I lolled.
Straight Chillen Gallente Solar Wind Ministry Of Amarrian Secret Service	Posted - 2008.07.17 19:09:00 - [27] A bowl of cereal is some how involved in all of my eve related blunders, I nolonger eat cereal when play eve, even if im docked up in a station
Missile Bait Minmatar Republic Military School	Posted - 2008.07.17 19:37:00 - [28] Originally by: Straight Chillen A bowl of cereal is some how involved in all of my eve related blunders, I nolonger eat cereal when play eve, even if im docked up in a station o..0 please don't say you spilt your Captain Crunch on your keyboard..... ~MB I'll see your Cruise Missiles and raise you a whimper!
Niccolado Starwalker Shadow Templars	Posted - 2008.07.17 19:48:00 - [29] Originally by: Jim McGregor Originally by: LaVista Vista I went to the forums It starts out feeling that way. Then it becomes a habit. Next is addiction. After that... nobody can save you. Some even become CSM after spending some time on the forums! Originally by: Dianabolic Your tears are absolutely divine, like a fine fine wine, rolling down your cheeks until they flow down the river of LOL
Guillight BLue Gallente Secret Society	Posted - 2008.07.17 19:55:00 - [30] Edited by: Guillight BLue on 17/07/2008 19:55:13 I went for a tease run against some station campers with my Domi when war decced about 2 years ago, but forgot to replace my cargo expanders with warpcore stabs, before undocking and flying to the first bookmark. outch (to explain what those cargo expanders were doing there in the first place. Back then everyone mined in the Domi in low sec, before the new ORE ships were introduced)
Siberys	Posted - 2008.07.17 19:58:00 - [31] Getting scammed out of 100 mil after I made a point of making sure the guy wasn't a scammer... I sent a TON of hate mail that day.
Dantes Revenge Caldari	Posted - 2008.07.17 20:06:00 - [32] Flying a Prophecy into a lvl3 mission and realising way too late that those red crosses on the overview look a bit big to be cruisers. Checking again while I returned in my pod to find I was talking to a lvl4 agent instead of a lvl3. Scratch one rigged and T2 fitted Prophecy. -- There's a simple difference between kinky and perverted. Kinky is using a feather to get her in the mood. Perverted is using the whole chicken.
Finrai	Posted - 2008.07.17 20:29:00 - [33] Edited by: Finrai on 17/07/2008 20:29:40 As a newbie falling asleep while in 0.0 and getting killed and podded - 50 mil gone Buying GTCs from a guy, turned out it was a ISK farmer scamming with codes - about 2 billion gone Falling for the regular ship selling as navy ship scam - 150 million gone (at least i didn't buy it out) Various mistakes done while trading or with contracts - 20-100 million each amounting to another bil probably In my defense all i can say is that i made way more ISK on mistakes of others than i lost with my own mistakes
Bunnyslayer Minmatar Hostile In Local	Posted - 2008.07.17 21:13:00 - [34] I've warp scrambled so many gates in empire it's not funny anymore. It's hard to be a bad ass when you can't even target the red blinky thing.
Ven Li The Devil's Mafia Brotherhood of the Spider	Posted - 2008.07.18 11:07:00 - [35] losing a ferox in a lvl 2 mission cause i armour tanked it YouÆre basically killing each other to see whoÆs got the better imaginary friend. Richard Je
Lily Cole	Posted - 2008.07.18 11:54:00 - [36] Paid for a 60 day GTC.
Highwind Cid	Posted - 2008.07.18 17:26:00 - [37] Originally by: Ghengis Tia Went to lo-sec in Harbinger, picked a fight and got log-in ambushed w/ 75M isk in implants. Still in a state of shock after I replaced the implants, went to pick up some cargo containers in a bestower and without realizing it they were in a 0.4 system. Got podded again w/75M in implants. All on Christmas Day...... I bet you wished you actually enjoyed the holiday....you don't have rickets do you?
Arvald Caldari Ninjas N Pirates	Posted - 2008.07.18 17:47:00 - [38] flipped a can belonging to the sex panthers in my t2 rigged full dark blood faction fit ashimmu......it did not end well to say the least Originally by: Siddy APERANTLY GEED PEE VEE PEE PLAYAS!!111 im in your forums, derailing your threads
Geriant Dubois	Posted - 2008.07.18 17:50:00 - [39] waiting 2 years to train learning skills
rerun	Posted - 2008.07.18 18:18:00 - [40] I bought a couple of launchers for my new, and first, Raven in a .4 system. Then I flew to that system in my unfitted Raven, stuffed the new launchers into the cargo hold, along with other equipment I picked up along the way, and headed to the closest gate leading to a high sec system....using autopilot. As soon as I got to the gate I was locked by a Megathron and what did I do? That's right I panicked and logged out. Thank you om'gawd for sparing my pod. Of course not quite feeling stupid enough yet. a week later I buy a new Raven, and a couple more launchers in the same system. Off I went in my new unfitted Raven to pick the stuff up. This time I was smart though. Instead of putting it all in my cargo hold, I fitted it to my ship. Well when I got to the same gate, using autopilot of course, I was locked by the same guy. Oh well, at least I fired back this time....I just know that if my second round of missiles from my 3 launchers hit him, that I woulda podded him.
Zinras Caldari Order of draugr	Posted - 2008.07.18 18:53:00 - [41] Lost a couple of ships because "you can totally shoot people in your gang in high sec with no consequences, right?".. Apparently, you can't That was a long time ago, though, but still funny and I'll never forget how much they laughed at me on vent Originally by: CCP Greyscale moderated - mother abuse - Mitnal Originally by: Jenny Spitfire That si a fact comming out from my bran.
Gealbhan Caldari Infernal Syndicate	Posted - 2008.07.18 19:09:00 - [42] I love how a few of these stories are "I was drunk" yeah, right
Eran Laude Gallente Strix Armaments and Defence	Posted - 2008.07.18 19:33:00 - [43] Attacking a POS in low-sec Amarr space after seeing it only had one defence turret and a guy inside the shield who was "afk". I lost a 50-60Mil Myrm Oh the humanity.
Sergeant Spot Black Eclipse Corp Band of Brothers	Posted - 2008.07.18 20:59:00 - [44] Concordokken Play nice while you butcher each other.
Hannobaal Gallente The Scope	Posted - 2008.07.18 21:41:00 - [45] Originally by: Jastra attempting to live solo in 0.0 That's not a mistake (unless you do it when you're new). --------------- I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
Malen Nenokal Eden Federal Recon	Posted - 2008.07.18 21:42:00 - [46] I wasn't aware that lvl 4s disrupted you. Lost a Domi. Eden Federal Recon
Masaris	Posted - 2008.07.18 23:59:00 - [47] Yeah... just started playing again, saw the new contract console, thought "Wow! Now I can SEE what they are selling! scammers are screwed now!" And bought ONE piece of salvage that was labeled as 500ish... poof, 40 mil gone. And I used to warn all the noobs in chat to LOOK at what was being sold... Heh. Remade the isk in a couple hours, but that was DAMN annoying.
Yevgeny Bazarov Caldari Perkone	Posted - 2008.07.19 00:12:00 - [48] Got my standings up to the point where I could do level 3 missions, got a drake, realized that at 2m sp it was still rather hard to do those missions, got 3 core defence field purgers with the 36 million isk I had left... ...and then put the rigs on my salvaging cormorant, instead of the drake. Since that just happened an hour ago, right now, I'm banging my head against the wall and preparing for a two week grind to get enough isk to get new rigs
DubanFP Caldari Four Rings Souls of Vengeance	Posted - 2008.07.19 00:47:00 - [49] I can't recall any really big newb mistakes i've ever made. I've made some expensive ones, but it's usually the small things that get me killed. No single really bad thing(s) _______________ CCP Atropos > I pod people because there's money to be made in selling tears.
Soporo Caldari	Posted - 2008.07.19 01:36:00 - [50] Spending months in 0.0 then cj'ing to Empire for a break. Went into a friends mission and was jacking around and targeted a can of his. Concordokened, 30 mil loss.
5pinDizzy Amarr Ministry of War	Posted - 2008.07.19 02:50:00 - [51] Sure, I have loads of these. 1. Got my neutral corp alt flattened by an xDeathx Alliance member who I had previously talked to on main (who is dark blue with) and told them my route, what I was carrying, what my fittings were etc and not to shoot me and maybe provide escort as noone else was around... Got killed and looted by him and a friend for about 400 mill that day. Sent tons of hatemail for a bit, hope you go to hell, stuff like that. Quit eve for few months, came back carried on as usual. :) 2. Alliance got beaten to death, station lost, never understood how mechanics worked of station takeovers, around another 300 million of unpackagable assets which had to be desolved. 3. Lost a faction fitted marauder one late night when I was real tired, got really lazy in my mission strategy, set too many spawns off early, managed to just break my tank, and I died before I could kill the 6 or 7 frigates scrambling me. 4a. Attacked some guy in lowsec in a belt, in a punisher frigate with afterburner and scrambler, guy microwarped away and escaped just as he took hull damage. 4b. Warped to gate to see what happens when criminally flagged. Nothing fires at me, cool I thought... I open map to plan my route to nearest place to buy a webber only for the gate guns to decide to open fire just at that point. 5. Me and three friends attacking a -10 sec nano vagabond at a gate all in tech 1 cruisers, on taking too much damage I had to microwarp away from his drones, friends were taking damager to from his main ship, so we all head to the gate. Just as we get there, I go to jump... The stargate denies you permission to jump for your recent acts of agression. mashes key The stargate denies you permis... The star....The star...??? "WHY, he was -10 and flashy red!?!?!" I cry, at a time when I didn't understand the game mechanics very well. drones behind me catch up BOOM** Needless to say we all died to the vagabond.
Saint Lazarus C R Y O	Posted - 2008.07.19 02:58:00 - [52] Originally by: Lily Cole Paid for a 60 day GTC. lawl, we have a winner -----------------

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