EVE General Discussion

Ok, so mere moments ago I suffered the worst loss of my EVE career. Not because it was the most costly (though it might have been), but because this is one the one loss I shouldn't have taken because I KNEW BETTER! My other losses were mostly because I was simply still learning. But THIS time ... this time I knew better but was just BEGGING to get blown up.

I was doing a little bit of exploring down in Stain, had arrived by wormhole and had never been in the area before. Hit a sweet relic spot real soon, about 60 million from one site; had never happened to me before. Then the trouble started. In the next system I ran into an organized group, barely escaped a drag bubble and got chased through the next gate and clearly they were on to me. I got myself in a safe spot and decided to wait them out. I left the computer, watched a little tv but wondering how things were drew me back in way too short a time. D-scan shows an interdicter sitting off the gate I was going to go through to continue on my way. Well, maybe I should just call it a good run after that sweet pull in the single relic site, the wormhole's only a few jumps back the other way. So I start heading back. The next jump before the system I could go to my wormhole I see that 3 signatures had spawned since I had been through there only an hour or so before. System's empty. Out go the probes. I find another relic site, sweet! In jumps one of the guys that had been in the other system, but it's not the interceptor. Now I KNEW that these guys were probably from this area of space but I told myself as long as I hit d-scan every few seconds everything would be fine. I KNEW that if they'd already scanned down the site and bookmarked it then I wouldn't see any probes on d-scan anyway. I KNEW that but I started hacking the cans anyway. And almost immediately an astero pops on my overview. I've got two warp core stabilizers but not enough. I couldn't quite get to warp before I'm pointed and that's all she wrote. I DID have the presence of mind to start spamming jump so that my pod went to instawarp and I continued back to the wormhole and back out of null at least without being podded.

But WHY did I have to be so stupid!? So moral of the story is: don't be stupid. Don't be reckless. Don't be greedy. When you know the fecal matter is poised above the fan, don't flip the fan's power on yourself.

But this brings me to a question: How do YOU react when you get blown up, whether like me it is your own fault or something outside your immediate control. Do you walk away from the computer and take a breather? Do you switch activities for a while or do you jump right back into it?

For me, my first inclination was to quit exploring for a while and try something else. But having gotten my pod back to a trade hub, I think the best thing to do would be to get myself in a helios instead of an astero and maybe put a core probe launcher II on it instead of a sisters probe launcher so that future losses won't hurt so much and just get right back out there. After I do take a breather, of course . . .

So, how do YOU react? Do you rant, scream, wail? Is there gnashing of teeth and great weeping? Do you want to throw your monitor out the window or go into a session of extreme self berating? Do you get right back to it or change your focus for a bit? Or do you shrug your shoulders and keep on keeping on?

Inquiring minds want to know!

It's always CONCORD, and it's never MY fault. I'm sticking to my story.

How much of the other guy's loot dropped?

The vast majority of losses I suffer I can attribute to things I know I could/should have done differently OR are due to simply saying F it, and going out blazing. The only times I really get annoyed enough to log to calm down are when we're talking 1b + isk and knowing it was because I was an idiot.

Recently I lost close to 6 billion within 30 minutes on 2 different accounts, in 2 different systems for 2 totally different reasons (the odds of it happening were absolutely astronomically poor but it did) but what they both had in common was complacency. Just not paying attention and being over confident. In those cases I get mad enough at myself to log off and step away from the PC before I break something. Usually though I just try to take what happened in stride and try to make mental notes (sometimes even physical ones on yellow stickies) of what to do, not to do and not to forget.

If it was a legit GF then I might spend a couple days brainstorming and being a pyfa scrublord trying to figure out things that would have changed the outcome. Golden rule is adapt or die. If you don't learn from your mistakes in EvE then you'll end up breaking your keyboard in half out of frustration and canceling your sub.

It is interesting how you're still-in-the-situation reaction changes over time. Yes, I was gutted after the loss, but when I saw that innocuous looking little white triangle pop up on my overview, a couple thoughts calmly (believe it or not) came into my head:

#1- crap, I'm done for
#2- shut up and spam to warp, idiot

But it was calm, my actions almost mechanical. I didn't panic so that I couldn't do anything at all as has happened in the past. And like I mentioned, I was able to save my pod. So that's progress, but about 120 million in total value down the drain still hurts afterward. May not be much to some, but when your total assets come to less than 1 billion, it's significant.

i'm usually laughing like an idiot

I think a lot of people have the completely common reactions:

1. Ohshit!
2. Welp, that's that.

I would go aw s.h.i.t got blown up again.

And laugh a bit and then go to build another ship or buy another ship from the market.

Or Go Meh whatever

If I die I'm having fun. =P I enjoy it. I don't actually die a lot so when I do its generally a **** IMMA GOING IN type of moment and I'm laughing the entire time.