EVE General Discussion

So the other day I was hauling some **** in my jump freighter. As usual I had my 3 other acounts logged in to provide me with (exit)cyno's and scouting of local.

Now there's is a certain corp/alliance in eve that likes to wardec people and try to catch their jump freighters on lowsec -> highsec gates using a pretty standard tactic. They will have an out of corp alt light a covert cyno on the outbound gate in lowsec and once you jump to highsec they will jump in their war targets and try to catch you on the other side.

After almost being a victim of this once I had developed an easy counter to this. I would have an exit cyno active at all times to get the hell out when I saw covert cyno's light up on the gate or any other suspicious activity. This has worked well for me on multiple occassions.

Anyway, today was a different day. Upon jumping through the gate from low to high I was disconnected on the jump. This is not a strange thing in eve but it is when all your other accounts stay logged in.

Ofcourse I find myself tackled by a war target when I log in again and I lose the jump freighter. No biggie, I don't fly anything I can't afford to lose so I immediately replaced it.

However, I still find it strange that simple thing like a disconnect that is entirely out of your control can make you lose something that represents a real world value of around $200 and takes a large amount of time to gather when just playing the game.
I'm also curious if anyone has had similar encounters where disconnects are extremely convenient for the opposing party?

No, but I do know that yesterday, lag was bad. I got DC at least 10 times yesterday.

How is this a "new tactic" unless you're saying someone somehow actually caused it to happen?

You didn't want that Jump Freighter anyway.

Assuming those who know would tell, which they wouldn't.
Furthermore assuming it's easy enough to figure out,
but then we'd know more about it.

Not saying there is something like that, but your logic is flawed.

Either that, or you know about it ... *tinfoil*

Whatever happened to NPC corp hauler alts?

I'd say everything in EvE has real world value for 2 reasons:

1) you buy PLEX with real world money and convert it to ISK
2) you can use ISK to buy PLEX and then use PLEX to buy real world items such as the ticket to the EvE convention, and also a month of game time - both have real world value because they are both available for purchase with real money.

Any denial of these two facts is trolling.

Two things:
1) You do realize that by moving jump freighters through hisec under a wardec, you're giving them exactly what they wanted? Right?

2) If they had a cyno waiting for you, you were being predictable. Don't use the same routes repeatedly. Hit a few other lowsec station systems some distance away before going into highsec. Don't go the direct and predictable route. Don't have a routine.

Confirming that a ballpark RL value of an in-game item such as a JF is easy to deduce in dollars because PLEX is a (mostly) fixed RL price.

back-of-a-napkin calculation assumptions:

PLEX store price for PLEX @ $20.00 USD (rounded up .05)
Jita PLEX Price @ 550mil isk
JF Cost of replacement @ 5.9 billion isk

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$USD = JFC / (JPP / $20)

So, a JF is worth approx $215 of PLEX .

I've had something similar happen a couple of times. The first time, I was in a Venture in low sec trolling some stranger. (He seemed quite unhappy.) I went to mine in belt 1. DC'ed, and my modem was just discombobulated for about 30 minutes. He probed me down, killed the Venture and the pod.

The second time happened a few days later. I was observing a gate in null my bomber. I warped to the gate. For reasons I will not get into, I was not cloaked nor did jump on contact. As soon as I landed at the gate, I disconnected. I was able to reconnect this time, and, lo and behold, combat probes on my dscan and a hostile Loki at the gate.

I asked the GMs to look at the logs on the first one, but their logs showed nothing. I left it at that. I didn't die in the second incident so I didn't pursue it any further.

I've seen enough bad luck to know what it looks like. Those two particular incidents felt a little different, but . . . well, **** happens. I certainly wouldn't put it past people to cheat, but neither would I put it past the complex inter-network of computers that we use to play the game to just hiccup at the wrong time. It's a dice roll and, sooner or later, your number comes up. A famous American football coach is quoted as saying: "I'd rather be lucky than good." I tend to agree with him.