Crime & Punishment

I decided to share this because I think it’s somewhat funny, even though the laugh is on me. In my defense I would like to mention that I was really tired – from a long day at work in conjunction with a side effect from my hay fever medication … a poor excuse, I know.


I recently trained into a Tengu for exploration. Because almost everyone seems to claim how good it is for running missions I decided to try it for missions, too.
Ok, for L4s I needed dps … I decided to fit HAMs, BCS and DCU in the lows and despite having doubts I followed some advice and fitted an active tank in the mids. Because of PG issues and to improve performance I switched most mods from T2 to faction and added a Pith C-Type medium shield booster.
To test it, I asked my agent for a random mission which brought me to Irjunen (a 0.5 system). I warped to the mission entry – an accelerator gate – and entered the mission. I was in the second room – fighting red crosses and microsleep – when I noticed some white squares on the overview:


“Strange.”, I thought, “Aren’t NPCs supposed to appear as red crosses on the overview? Besides, I ran this mission several times before and I can’t remember seeing this before.”

I killed one of the small red crosses and opened fire on another. Then I took a closer look at those white squares.

“Ah, Catalysts, two flights of five ships each. But what the heck are other players doing in my mission, it makes no sense?”, I wondered.

I finished off another NPC and while I still wondered why 10 Catalysts appeared in my mission, my mouse hand – acting on its own because my brain was somewhere else – clicked on a celestial that was more or less right in front of my ship and activated warp, which almost instantly moved my ship to (relative) safety.

“Ok, what now?”, I thought. “Hmm… I should really get some sleep. But on the other hand there is this mission here and it’s almost finished. Guess it doesn’t hurt to finish it now and go to sleep after.”

So I turned my ship around and warped back to the mission gate where I found 10 Catalysts waiting for me.

“More Catalysts? Where do all those Catalysts come from? There must be a nest somewhere.” Then it dawned on me. “Wait! Maybe they’re after me. Maybe they’re here to gank me?”, I thought somewhat puzzled.

The Catalysts turned red almost instantly. Yes! They were there to put an end to my misery:

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17580466



Kudos for some nice loot.

Note to self: Don’t fly expensive ships when half asleep or at least get half a brain.

I'm sure I speak for your new friends when I say that we're just proud to be of service, ma'am.

Oh, I wish.

Oh it even hurts to read it.

people do that just to drive the knife deeper in the back by saying "i got killed by THAT?"

Damage selection. Why would anyone shoot blasters at a Tengu?
In addition, I guess these gank alts are not trained to fly a thrasher, so make do with what you got.

That fit deserved to die.

Ha I can relate. My excuse is being just new and rather clueless.

I finally got the BC skill and fitted a new shiny. Off to try it out on some mission. I puttered through a few.


Then....white squares?

Hmm wait where am I? I though I was in a mission. Never seen white squares in one. Wait those are other players. What are these people doing.....


BANG!


I was so slow to realize what was going on that I got podded.

It was hilarious and I had a good laugh with the shooters afterwards.

EVE cracks me up.

fighting sansha with two adaptives no wonder he was getting murdered thats a derp

And to everyone who says you can fight ganking by War Dec'ing the gankers...

ALL OF THEM ARE IN NPC CORPS!

Sucks that that people so willing to fight that they suicide gank can't be bothered to get into a corp and fight ... wait, then there's risk involved ...