EVE General Discussion

I lost two faction fit Legions in a row. One to the friendly boys in Neg Ten while crossing that 0.4 system they infest in the Caldari COMOS region. Cost me my pod as well since I'm not one for paying ransoms. The second time was when after I got past them and I was inadvertently uncloaked while afk in the complex once I got there.

Lesson learned.

Mr Epeen

Worse loss was a 3bn ISK missioning CNR with CN loadout and Gist XL booster that I'd bought with PLEX to enjoy myself a bit.

Went into worlds collide L4, got hit by lag and in the process managed to agro the entire first room. My connection dropped and I came back to find myself flying a pod.

lost an ishkur in a lvl4 mission.

2nd worst loss was the ship you lose is tutorial mission

no one comes to shoot me in my WH :(

So that was my main with my very first BS -a Megathron. That was like 3 months into EVE. Never had heard of tracking, but i figured that owning a bigger ship with bigger guns made a bigger bang. So I went into my very frist Lvl4 with my very first BS.

Turned out I never had heard about warp disruption.

Turned out I never had heard about "how to tank properly"

Turned out I never had heard of "drones are used on frigates when you fly a BS"

So i was warp scrambled, de-tanked and slowly smashed by a bunch of cruisers/frigates in the worst 50 seconds I ever spent in EVE. I left playing for a few weeks and then Ishtanchuk was born. I've lost other ships and i've lost quite a bit of money, but that experience was by far my worst loss.

Self destructed pod to "get back in the fight" only to be very confused as to why I couldn't pilot my vagabond any more... Dumbest part of eve is skill point loss from death. Don't think I bothered loggin in for the entire time it took to get back the lost skill.

Ships I have hundreds of and when I lose one, just replace it with wallet .. Skill point loss = negative fun

Never undock without medical being up dated now, no matter what is at stake

Prior to Need For Speed, warped into a lvl IV mission in a Rokh, was in a pod before I loaded onto the grid

It happened 5 times before I gave up an went back to lvl IIIs.
I petitioned an got em all back but still

Yeah, gotta say, I can see the point of how missioning risk vs reward is skewed when thats the most money Ive ever lost in a mission

10 billion isk to a "trading partner" who took the money and ran
4 billion isk to curzon dax
A large research POS 2j from Jita (you have no idea how many mercs these things attract)
podded with +5s by a smartbomb camper, and I think I was carrying datacores as well.

My worst loss though, would have to be losing everything I had (700m) to a scam IPO 5 years ago. 700m back then was probably like 5B or so now, so it was a big deal to a noob like me.

Actually, my worst loss might be even earlier, when I was about 2 months into the game. I had recently made a ton of isk (75m, lol) selling snowballs, and I finally had enough isk to give 0.0 a try. I fitted out a brand new Wolf with some T2 parts (which were 10x more expensive back then), bought ammo BPOs and minerals, mapped out my path into syndicate, and took off. I immediately ran into Tiller, who proceeded to kill my badger II filled with my supplies. I had instas and warp core stabs, but tiller locked and killed me while aligning, which I really didn't know was possible at the time. It was christmas eve, and the final words he said before killing me were "merry christmas". That one hurt

Drake and Raven.

My first Drake I was with some corp mates helping with World's Collide. My first time seeing that particular mission, I figured what the heck let's see how well my tank holds on the second room. Don't think it lasted even 10 seconds.

Didn't care though because I'd already bought my first Raven that I fitted up and started flying around.


My first Raven I had just started trying an active tank and saw a mission called "Enemies Abound." Was kind of wary of it after checking Eve Survival, but I figured what the heck. Went ok for a little bit, and then the enemies started pouring in and I aligned to warp out. My ship aligned, I clicked warp, and oh geez, that lil frigate's scramming me. Still some shield left and some cap to run my booster, so I figure I'll be fine. But the drones aren't killing that frigate very quickly, even after I promise to abandon them the second the frig dies, and even perma running my booster can't outdo the incoming DPS. Hurry up drones, come on you can do it! But no, I died when the frig was in structure.

Didn't care though because I'd already bought my second Drake that I fitted up and started flying around. (Found it actually worked pretty well for L4s, although it couldn't run them very quickly.)


So yeah, neither of my "big" losses were really all that significant to me. I generally try to make sure I have enough ISK for a cushion before I buy a new ship. Still pretty new though, so plenty of time to get bitten in the ass.


[EDIT] Actually, thinking about it my biggest loss was when my sub ran out. A friend sent me a buddy trial and then went ahead and subbed my account for me. After that I'd planned to pay my way with PLEX. Got pretty close but didn't quite make it, so I put about 50m in the corp wallet, held onto my remaining 100m (in case I resubbed later) and took a break.

Then about 3 months later I noticed a "welcome back" offer thing in my email for a free 5 days. So waited until I had a week I could devote entirely to EVE, got my 5 days, and have been subbing with PLEX since then. (bought 3 PLEX so far.) So I guess it wasn't a loss so much as a break from Eve.

I've traind Minnie BS 5 twice. Flying drunkis not always the best way to fly.

Blasphemy. Drunk and without pants is the only way to fly.