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Sputnik Tsygan
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Posted - 2008.12.31 10:47:00 -
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In light of our corp having many chuckles over the creation of "The Darwin Award, for extreme stupidity resulting in death" I thought it would be interesting to open a topic in the forums where people can post their very own tales of terminal idiocy.
So if you're like me and do stuff like go for dinner in a red system and forget to turn on your cloak, or chase after a 3 man HAC gang in a bellicose..............or accidentally lock and shoot an NPC station in the middle of a fight you know you can win.......or try to find your lighter while sitting at a gate in 0.0 then please post here for our amusement.
So crash test dummies of the world here is your opportunity to speak out! You have nothing to lose but your dignity and self respect!
If this topic has already been covered then feel free to crucify me. And yes I know my sentence structure is horrible.
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Dasquirrel715
Gallente Justified Hedonism And Dualism
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Posted - 2008.12.31 11:09:00 -
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Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:11:12 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:10:19 I was multi-clienting, my alt had a t2 fitted thorax shooting my poor tristan in highsec, I had him tackled was afterburner-orbiting at 1km, and I alt tab before turning on my small armor repair (which I can run for a few minutes on autorepeat with my AB and guns) and tried to warp in my RR + cruiserkiller Megathron ready to roll, at 0 seconds remaining to lock my tristan and RR it, my tristan pops, and the rax runs from my mega. The small armor repair would have given me MORE than enough time to get my two LRAR's on it to keep it alive forever, while I slowly eat away at the capacitor (and therefore the tank) of the rax, and if it ever hit my mega, well...you know.
There goes my t2 loot because I forgot to turn on one module/don't own two computers.
And for a bit of showing-off, I can run two clients at 53 FPS on fullscreen and max premium settings....on my 1,500$ laptop :) Also, I hate the signatures that make you think it's part of their post, only to tell you it's their sig after reading the entire thing. |
Harrent
Caldari The Leathernecks
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Posted - 2008.12.31 13:50:00 -
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Originally by: Dasquirrel715 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:11:12 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:10:19
And for a bit of showing-off, I can run two clients at 53 FPS on fullscreen and max premium settings....on my 1,500$ laptop :)
>.> that must be Euros or Pounds becuase USD only allow me like 40. =----------=
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Zakarazor
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Posted - 2008.12.31 15:07:00 -
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Edited by: Zakarazor on 31/12/2008 15:07:52 i warped into a mission and lost a 300mil isk fitted apoc to 2 cruisers and 3 BCs.
was distracted and had to leave the comp mid warp. forgot to turn on the tank
got back just in turn to see a bright blue flash on my screen.
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Louis deGuerre
Gallente Public Funded War Targets
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Posted - 2008.12.31 15:56:00 -
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Edited by: Louis deGuerre on 31/12/2008 15:57:50 1. Putting all my isk in a new ship, taking a lowsec shortcut of 1 system to save 10 highsec jumps, right into a camp, ship lost and podded with all my implants. Had to do L1s for a week to buy and fit a new Cruiser.
2. Managing to escape from a battle with only hull remaining and selecting "keep at range" which I thought was set at 100km instead of 1km
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oodin
SniggWaffe
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Posted - 2008.12.31 17:13:00 -
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camping a station alone in 0.0 when we was sieging them..suddenly my kid fell down the stairs so i had to run.. came back after 20 min and i still sat there camping it
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Commander Yassir
The Seven Sins
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Posted - 2008.12.31 18:12:00 -
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clicked self destruct by accident when trying to change ship name, coulden't figure out how to stop it ~ The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. |
Kinroi Alari
Gallente Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters Ocularis Inferno
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Posted - 2008.12.31 19:08:00 -
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For a giggle, was flying a Taranis inty tackler with some alliance mates in a mission (we ran several, and I flew a different ship for each mission, from a Velator to a battleship).
In the final mission I was paying attention to the NPCs, wasn't paying attention to the damage to the NPC pleasure hub from our torp-mounting Golem, and the NPC pleasure hub went boom before I expected it to die... The mission was "Damsel in Distress." Where the NPC pleasure hub blows up for 3000 damage or so. It suddenly felt quite drafty as I found myself sitting there in a pod! ^_^
-- Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere... |
Wreck X
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Posted - 2008.12.31 19:11:00 -
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Edited by: Wreck X on 31/12/2008 19:13:34 Was roaming with a gang in 0.0 in my bait drake.... I then proceded to get so drunk that I fell asleep in my computer chair. I woke up in a highsec station with a pretty Ibis. Turns out I fell asleep in an asteroid belt. Good times.
Even better.... I was suicide clone jumping back to empire (self-destructing my pod) in order to ferry my ships out to Syndicate. I didn't fully understand the fact that podding myself was just like being podded by someone else. I lost Electronics Upgrades 5 and a few other skills.... took me 3 weeks to recover since I wasn't re-upgrading my clone each time. I actually podded myself 3 times with the basic clone.
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Elora Danzik
Caldari Ward-Tech Industries
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Posted - 2008.12.31 21:01:00 -
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I once was in a LvL 4 mission in a techII fitted and rigged Drake. Set missles on a BS and went to the john. Came back and.....you guessed it in a pod.
The tank was holding till with what I had I just forgot and triggered the rest of the room.
oops.
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Draku Rykenen
Gallente SniggWaffe
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Posted - 2009.01.01 02:32:00 -
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I was observing a gate in low sec when a skirmish broke out between some corp mates and a small gang near the gate. I warped in to join the fray and hopefully tilt the battle in our favor.
I landed and slapped a point on a Myrm and then moved to engage his heavy drones (I was in an speedy little Enyo).
Suddenly my shield was gone and my armor was melting away like butter.
Gate guns have amazing tracking on them which I had neglected to account for. So, my speed tank was useless and within ten seconds I was frantically warping away in my pod.
Spanked like a red headed stepchild.
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Dasquirrel715
Gallente Justified Hedonism And Dualism
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Posted - 2009.01.02 10:52:00 -
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Originally by: Harrent
Originally by: Dasquirrel715 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:11:12 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:10:19
And for a bit of showing-off, I can run two clients at 53 FPS on fullscreen and max premium settings....on my 1,500$ laptop :)
>.> that must be Euros or Pounds becuase USD only allow me like 40.
USD my friend. Google newegg, then search Asus laptop :) Also, I hate the signatures that make you think it's part of their post, only to tell you it's their sig after reading the entire thing. |
Raimo
Gallente Wrath of Fenris
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Posted - 2009.01.02 11:14:00 -
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I still do stupid moves all the time but the funniest are of course when I heard of lowsec as a nooblet and decided to try PVP... Highlights include taking my very poorly fitted Thorax (I had just got in to it and had no clue about fitting ships) in to a lowsec gate, attacking a random target and reading up on sentry guns later... I then decided that I had to train some skills before PVPing again, a while later I took a tanky Hyperion to lowsec and gave VETO a nice ransom.
(Read up more after that, started flying the Incursus and started even getting some sensible fights) ---
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Sillas Cov
22nd Black Rise Defensive Unit
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Posted - 2009.01.02 17:00:00 -
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Cool Thread and great reading!!
Okay so I too have engaged in more than a little natural selection myself!!
I was flying a load of trade goods out in low sec in my Mark V, fitted with no WCStabs, minimal tank... cargo is loaded with shuttles and a bit of ammo....
I jump into a system and while aligning to next gate local loads up with piwates.
Hmmm... okay so I divert to a belt and just jump in at say, zero I guess.
Fail! as I watch local and realign I am scrambled by belt rats!!
Um... okay then. Local empties to but 2 pilots and I yell for help to kill the rats who are but pesky, buggers to any ship but a Iteron hauler... and as my tank is eaten away by the rats I am thinking wtf?? How could you??
The pilot I ask for help from laughs at me and thinks I bait him of course.... I go down and and poped into shamage!!
I shake may head and wonder about the need for vigilance in this harsh game of EVE
Onward
Silas
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Daoi Sith
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Posted - 2009.01.02 18:06:00 -
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Originally by: oodin camping a station alone in 0.0 when we was sieging them..suddenly my kid fell down the stairs so i had to run.. came back after 20 min and i still sat there camping it
i hope s/he was ok. i have had a few of these myself.
the important thing is you ran to your kid first and worried about eve later
/props
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Darth Praxus
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Posted - 2009.01.03 01:30:00 -
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Officially I would consider getting your pod destroyed in a stupid fashion a Darwin Equivalent...but this is kind of fun...so here is some honourable mentions: No. 1 Was in my Stealth Bomber in low sec..0.4 system and found a lone rifter in the belt ratting. I warp to 100 and cloak. Look up the toon...2 days old...So for fun I uncloak. He does not leave. I lock him. He does not leave. I shoot 1 volley...3 cruise. Hes dead. I convo him and tell him no hard feelings. To show I mean it I give him 1 mil isk for his losses. Then not thinking about the global I warp to a gate. Needless to say....expensive loss... No. 2 Just bought a new HAC. I was so excited I decided to christen it at a low sec gate camp. Got in on a kill before I called it a night. No one owned up to the KM so after I warped to the gate I scoured a few KBs. Come back a few mins later to find my new shiny HAC in pieces. Damn glogal again... No. 3 (No gloabl this time...LOL) Alt and I were working a WC mish. Wanted to farm it a bit so I BM a wreck since it was my alts mish but only main can tank it. Next day I get home from work and warp main to the wreck. I then Alt-Tab over to the alt account to get it ready to warp in. Few mins later back over to main. No more BS. Not thinking the BM was right in the middle of the Sansha group at first gate. No. 4 (Actually a true Darwin Equivalent) Loaded up my mammy with some low sec loot. Undocked from a low sec station. Proceed to go to take a shower. Come back to the computer in my med station and thinking WTF??? Check kill mail and think real hard. ****e....Station was a spitter. Pirate just had to wait for me to get out of gun range.
Have fun with those!!!
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Mickey Simon
Noir.
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Posted - 2009.01.03 01:34:00 -
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Was doing some scouting for targets one night in CVA 0.0 space. We're red to them for some reason or another. Anyway, I'm in an inty (not that that entered my mind at all) and jump through to check the other side of a gate. Nothing, so I reapproach the gate.
A battleship warps in at 200km or so, and I go "Hrm, must be checking the gate. Either way I should be fine, if he aggresses I'll just jump through"
Wrong.
1 alpha later and I'm in my pod -_- Meanwhile, on the other side of town . . . |
Lucas Delombrio
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Posted - 2009.01.03 06:31:00 -
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I blindly went into a rather rough mission with a Velator, which i still am clueless how i activated it...
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Jeesa
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Posted - 2009.01.03 15:38:00 -
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Edited by: Jeesa on 03/01/2009 15:41:14 I was exploring in low sec with my old arbi. Got into a drone plex and was just hapily salvaging the wrecks when a pvp fitted pilgrim uncloaked behind me and started neuting and scraming me.
I thought it is game over for me and pressed the self destruct button.Still trying to fight i've launched my dronies and started killing his.
The guy was a wannabe pirate probably because he continued neuting me long after i hadn't cap left, so he ran out of cap too and lost his scram on me.His dronies was gone and i was eating his armor.At this moment his friend with a vexor finally answered to his cries and show up, heading toward us.
Now coming the sucky part - i didnt knew how to turn off my self destruction . Clicked like 10 times "self destruct" yes or no - "NO" - nothing happened and finally my ship exploded just when starting to warp out of the plex.
Needless to say the guy was pretty much embarassed that he was loosing the fight against an exploring T1 cruiser and a few months old pilot so he spammed a few times my "attempt to self desctruct" message in local followed by lolz. But it only made me feel better .
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Araviel
Gallente Epic.
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Posted - 2009.01.03 16:09:00 -
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i used to hunt m0o and BE gangs solo, needless to say i died alot but it was all fun
MAXSuicide> Araviels bat is even more powerful than the nerf bat.
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Ayden Pride
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Posted - 2009.01.03 20:15:00 -
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1. Testing my hulks passive tank for rats and anything else I unload on my Alt in a deimos tank was "appearing" to hold.... Tv show came back on immeditly sucked into and came back Alt in a pod : /....
2. Attacked a caldari ship at lumi Titan unaware that its bugged n not one of 7 people there had no agro pulled whole room and insta popped my recon...
many more but prob my best
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Roymundo
Caldari Perkone
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Posted - 2009.01.04 06:14:00 -
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ratting in 0.0 for the first time i killed my ratts and then went for dinner. i came back to my pod. i really had no prior experience of ratts and respawning. i thought it was like mission space. once dead they stay dead till i leave.....
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Roymundo
Caldari Perkone
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Posted - 2009.01.04 06:17:00 -
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Originally by: Dasquirrel715
Originally by: Harrent
Originally by: Dasquirrel715 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:11:12 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:10:19
And for a bit of showing-off, I can run two clients at 53 FPS on fullscreen and max premium settings....on my 1,500$ laptop :)
>.> that must be Euros or Pounds becuase USD only allow me like 40.
USD my friend. Google newegg, then search Asus laptop :)
holy crap thats a lot of machine for only 1500!
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ThaDollaGenerale
The Illuminati. Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.01.04 09:56:00 -
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-2.1 sec status, flying back from a trade hub with a newly fitted and rigged falcon and I jump into the 1.0 on the way back. Fail.
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Elle D
The Taco Stand
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Posted - 2009.01.04 13:02:00 -
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Originally by: Roymundo
Originally by: Dasquirrel715
Originally by: Harrent
Originally by: Dasquirrel715 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:11:12 Edited by: Dasquirrel715 on 31/12/2008 11:10:19
And for a bit of showing-off, I can run two clients at 53 FPS on fullscreen and max premium settings....on my 1,500$ laptop :)
>.> that must be Euros or Pounds becuase USD only allow me like 40.
USD my friend. Google newegg, then search Asus laptop :)
holy crap thats a lot of machine for only 1500!
You should see what kind of a desktop one can make with that budget.
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Bob Random
Shadow's Hunters Prismatic Refraction
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Posted - 2009.01.04 18:37:00 -
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You know Falcons have amazing targetting and jamming range?
I had flown to the defense of a corpie in my Falcon, to save the day, as any Falcon pilot would. I had all racial jammers to jam the 3 ships that had engaged him, it was looking good.
I warped to him at zero, yep, that's right, at zero.
To this day I have no idea why.
The Blaster Mega and Domi had a good time :) Have a good one... |
Aerin Cloudfayr
the evil ones Burning Horizons
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Posted - 2009.01.05 05:20:00 -
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warped my battleship in at 0 to a hostile POS and forcefield; got catapulted straight out at incredulous speed and lost it to the station guns :(
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Toshiro GreyHawk
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Posted - 2009.01.05 06:40:00 -
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Edited by: Toshiro GreyHawk on 05/01/2009 06:45:29 Eh ... I've gotten a few ships killed learning the game ... "Why's that guy flashing red ... wonder what that means ..." but that was just learning the game so I don't blame myself to much.
The one thing I did ... with a ship ... that was really stupid was when I created my second account. I'd found this .8 system I'd mined before with my Navitas and had it there mining away while I was fitting out a ship for my new second account. I was sitting right there ... just looking at the other monitor as I tried different things I'd looted to see what I could fit. After a bit ... I noticed that there were some unfamiliar sounds besides those of my laser and looked up to find myself under attack by a rat. Shields were gone, armor was going. I put on some speed, turned on my Shield boster and started shooting back (I had a gun fitted on that Navitas ...) but didn't want to get killed ... so I ejected ... watched my Navitas sail off without me rat in pursuit until it blew. The thing was ... I thought I'd die when the ship blew up ... like in a flight sim ... so I had ejected ... I probably could have saved that ship ... *shrug* Oh well ... at 20k ... that was a fairly cheap mistake by the standards of this thread.
The worst mistake I ever made though was to set myself up in a base without checking the yield on refining. I operated out of that base for MONTHS and it had a base rate of 30% ... so I spent all that time getting about 75% of what I could have refined. Now THAT was a screw up.
Faction Schools Orbiting vs. Kiting |
mr passie
Minmatar Purgatorial Janitors Inc.
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Posted - 2009.01.05 12:12:00 -
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the other day I logged in my alt and switched back to my main account, as he was at a gate in low sec with a -8.6 sec he wad dead pretty quick...
but my most epic loss was in a mission I had my alt salvaging while there were still rats and he got tatgetted and warp scrambled. I send in drones on the rats with my main. Then to check on my alts ship I targetted him instead of switching accounts. I had autofire on and got concordonokkened with my main and my alt got popped by the rats...
I'm a reversed paranoid schizophrenic. I have voices in my head I just think I don't hear them |
AlexeiShtukov
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Posted - 2009.01.05 13:36:00 -
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While running a mission my mate called me and stated that he has scanned out a drake in a 0.4 system doing Angel Extravaganza. Logged on my alt along with few friends and went to the location. When we got to the last room we noticed that drake pilot has finished the mission and left the room. Doh... We decided to stay in the room planning our next move. In the mean time drake pilot came back in a CNR to do a bonus room. Landed on top of harb, rook, zealot. Fail.
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