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First death on eve.
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Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#61 - 2013-02-24 14:00:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Reaver Glitterstim
Joran Dravius wrote:
Arnim Kagori wrote:
So i just had my first death on eve and it feels bad. How do you more excperienced players feel when you die?

Don't fly things you can't afford to replace. Always get platinum insurance. Personally, I tend to think of my ships as already dead as soon as I buy them. I see them more like rental cars.
Only get platinum insurance when you have reason to believe your ship has a greater than 30% chance of being shot down before:
1.) 12 weeks are up
2.) it changes hands
3.) you repackage it
If you buy insurance and don't lose the ship, you lose the insurance. I say 30% chance of being shot down because the actual chance you'll be shot down is always greater than you think it is, and there's also something nice about losing less money when you do lose a ship. But the most financially sound way to buy insurance is to buy it for the 50% most doomed ships you have.

I've learned to rarely buy it, if ever. It's just too difficult to predict a loss. I find a much better solution is to learn to increase my chances of not losing the ship.

I don't remember my first death in EVE. I paid attention to what people told me and flew cheaply. I think it happened in a Navitas, which was a ship I liked very much at the time. But I got over it because I expected it to happen, so it felt like I was a new person. I was a true capsuleer!

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Joran Dravius
Doomheim
#62 - 2013-02-24 16:23:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Joran Dravius
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
Joran Dravius wrote:
Arnim Kagori wrote:
So i just had my first death on eve and it feels bad. How do you more excperienced players feel when you die?

Don't fly things you can't afford to replace. Always get platinum insurance. Personally, I tend to think of my ships as already dead as soon as I buy them. I see them more like rental cars.
Only get platinum insurance when you have reason to believe your ship has a greater than 30% chance of being shot down before:
1.) 12 weeks are up
2.) it changes hands
3.) you repackage it
If you buy insurance and don't lose the ship, you lose the insurance. I say 30% chance of being shot down because the actual chance you'll be shot down is always greater than you think it is, and there's also something nice about losing less money when you do lose a ship. But the most financially sound way to buy insurance is to buy it for the 50% most doomed ships you have.

I've learned to rarely buy it, if ever. It's just too difficult to predict a loss. I find a much better solution is to learn to increase my chances of not losing the ship.

I don't remember my first death in EVE. I paid attention to what people told me and flew cheaply. I think it happened in a Navitas, which was a ship I liked very much at the time. But I got over it because I expected it to happen, so it felt like I was a new person. I was a true capsuleer!

Generally speaking, my ships have a 100% chance of getting blown up in less than 12 weeks unless it's a noctis or something. I'm not going to hide in station for a week if a AFK cloaker shows up so even my PvE ships get killed sometimes, though that's a lot more rare.

Edit: I don't normally live in high sec, but I still think it's a good policy anywhere.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#63 - 2013-02-24 20:17:21 UTC
Arnim Kagori wrote:
How do you more excperienced players feel when you die?

Dunno.

I'll let you know if it ever happens.

Mr Epeen Cool
Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#64 - 2013-02-24 21:14:46 UTC
First:

2013.02.10 03:28:00

Victim: Angelique Duchemin
Corp: School of Applied Knowledge
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Akiainavas
Security: 0,7
Damage Taken: 339

Second:

2013.02.10 04:53:00

Victim: Angelique Duchemin
Corp: School of Applied Knowledge
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Akiainavas
Security: 0,7
Damage Taken: 370

Third:

2013.02.11 04:23:00

Victim: Angelique Duchemin
Corp: Divine Intentions
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Tama
Security: 0,3
Damage Taken: 414


It was an alright time. Had fun.



The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.

Josef Djugashvilis
#65 - 2013-02-24 22:22:01 UTC
Like Lazarus.

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cratais
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#66 - 2013-02-25 00:23:12 UTC
I never been bothered by it then again I am in RvB an alliance where you will die multiple times a day... I have had a few what the hell moments the most recent one was during the last day of the 4th RVB- eve uni war when.
My destroyer got popped the problem was when I got popped I did'nt see anyone locking me and was trying to lock ships in.

My pod for a minute before I realized I was in my pod but found out later on the reason I did'nt see the lock was the ship that popped me was a tornado and I did'nt have it checked so it showed in my overview.
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#67 - 2013-02-25 12:38:01 UTC
The first time I got podded I was on a courier contract in nullsec, 5 days into the game. A friend of mine set up a 'mission' for me which could have only ended in fancy explosions. I didn't feel much after podding, as I was still evaluating things in my head... puzzling together what had actually happened and why, and how I could take steps trying to prevent it. It was a valuable lesson!

I have little to no emotional reaction to pod death, as I'm flying an empty clone (or one with just a few cheap implants) anyway. It's mostly an inconvenience, setting me back in ISK and time while I have to reship. The first few times I still had this adrenaline rush in PvP (of the enjoyable kind, I might add). After a while this 'rush' subsided into a more relaxed form of enthousiasm and giggles.
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#68 - 2013-02-25 12:40:19 UTC
GF

Pod Xpress pls.

BoBwins Law: As a discussion/war between two large nullsec entities grows longer, the probability of one comparing the other to BoB aproaches near certainty.
feihcsiM
THE B0YS
#69 - 2013-02-25 12:52:14 UTC
I miss the pvp shakes Sad /bittervet

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Minty Aroma
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#70 - 2013-02-25 15:16:42 UTC
Angelique Duchemin
Team Evil
#71 - 2013-02-25 16:18:10 UTC
2013.02.25 15:53:00

Victim: Angelique Duchemin
Corp: Divine Intentions
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Maila
Security: 0,4
Damage Taken: 424

Down again. Kind of expected it.

The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted menace and suspense lurked leeringly in those crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shewed concavity after the first shewed convexity.