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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#21 - 2014-02-07 18:51:34 UTC
Went into battle with a catalyst with guns unloaded and a cargohold full of projectile ammo.




Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Mario Putzo
#22 - 2014-02-07 19:02:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Mario Putzo
Didn't learn about upgrading clones until I joined a player corp. I lost numerous amounts of SP and thought nothing of it. Coming from FFXI losing EXP on death was a normal thing so I just took it in stride. I trained learning skills to level 5 6 or 7 times before I vowed to never go to lowsec again. When I was asked why I said because I was tired of losing SP and having to retrain old skills.

Then I was told that I could just upgrade my clone and I would keep my SP. The more you know.

This paved the way for a successful can flipping career while I caught up on ship skills that I didn't train because I spent to much time relearning lost skills.

Now I am just a bad ass who gives no fucks about anybody or anything. If its not purple shoot it.
hydraSlav
Synergy Evolved
#23 - 2014-02-07 19:18:10 UTC
Me and a buddy calculated that we would be better off selling the ore directly to a buy order at some station, than refining and selling the minerals (to buy orders, as we didn't know how to make sell orders).

Proud of ourselves, we went ahead with our "efficient" business of mining in frigates, into cargo hold, and flying 2 jumps to that station to dump the ore.
I Love Boobies
All Hail Boobies
#24 - 2014-02-07 20:02:58 UTC  |  Edited by: I Love Boobies
I was thinking about this the other day... and remembered a couple of things.

The first was... I put on warp core stabilizers because I thought they would make my ship stop shaking while I am warping because the shaking ship always annoyed me. Eventually found the option in settings to stop the camera shake. Lol

Second was... I loaded my thrasher's low slots with overdrives and then added a afterburner, thought I was cool because I got it up above 1km/s. I didn't realize there was a thing called microwarpdrives at the time. Blink
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#25 - 2014-02-07 20:11:31 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Went into battle with a catalyst with guns unloaded and a cargohold full of projectile ammo.






Glad it wasn't just me lol. I went into a faction warfare fight years ago flying a Catalyst with small blasers and large blaster ammo in the hold. I was like "WTF, why won't my ammo load!!!!111 grr ccp" lol.

It only gets worse with age. I move a ship and some mods across high sec last week to the low sec system (was gonna try the ship out in a 10/10 plex. Get into the low sec system, dock up, jump in my carrier and 3 cynos later I'm in null...


The ship and mods i just did 22 jumps to pick up were still in low sec though...... CCP should let me train Alzheimer's resistance to 5.
george harries
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#26 - 2014-02-07 20:14:46 UTC
Didn't use the tutorial, set some skills and saw this 'remap' button.....clicked it...didn't notice anything so distributed the attributes to be all about equal and clicked it again....needless to say my skill training was a little slower than it should have been...What?
unidenify
Deaf Armada
#27 - 2014-02-07 20:15:26 UTC
I lost my Drake in L3

I still not know how it happen.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#28 - 2014-02-07 20:17:50 UTC
Recently, someone who is probably not me, did end up fitting the wrong t2 rigs to his Kronos. He then wondered why his DPS didn't increase...until he saw the Large T2 Projectile rig fitted....

Even a vet can do some noobish things at times.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#29 - 2014-02-07 20:34:47 UTC
Oh boy this will be fun...

Mining in a badger 2, before I realzed can mining was a thing.

Got a currier mission(old NPE tutorials) had to take the item 10 jumps away. Got in my ibis and flew the 10 jumps, docked and went to finish the mission, only to be told that the item was not there. Relaized I never put the item in my hold. Had to fly back and get it.

Shot a can in high sec, got killed by concord.

Got tricked into shooting someone in high sec (its an old trick, he locked me and I panicked)

Gave everyone who joined my new corp director roles....

After that, gave out starbase config role to everyone (this did not bite me in the butt for a few years, I was in null sec and lost sov of a system cause someone offlined a tower took me 20 min to figure out what I did wrong)

None noobish:

sold 50 t3 subsystems (at the time worth 63m each) for 63k

bought a 10m isk moduel.. that actually cost 10k

mistyped and donated 20m to the wrong person.

I still do this and need to knock it off: Flew to a gate in 0.0 and alt tabbed, got into a new story or facebook and alt tabbed back to clone vat. Sigh...

Ratted in a carrier without small drones, was warp scrambled by an NPC, fighters could not kill it, war targets came into system and promptly killed me.

Warped a Nyx to a a gate to help in a gate camp.... yea... good times.i'm officially banned from a titan lol.

did a mission, and realized I forgot ammo as my guns were reloading... and i'm warp scrambled..

Went to pvp was just about to decloak and attack someone, when I decided to check my cargo.. and oops no ammo.

ok that's good.

OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!

Eve For life.
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#30 - 2014-02-07 20:41:07 UTC
Mario Putzo wrote:
Didn't learn about upgrading clones until I joined a player corp. I lost numerous amounts of SP and thought nothing of it. Coming from FFXI losing EXP on death was a normal thing so I just took it in stride. I trained learning skills to level 5 6 or 7 times before I vowed to never go to lowsec again. When I was asked why I said because I was tired of losing SP and having to retrain old skills.

Then I was told that I could just upgrade my clone and I would keep my SP. The more you know.


This hurts me on the inside.

"**CCP is changing policy, and has asked that we discontinue the bonus credit program after November 7th. So until then, enjoy a super-bonus of 1B Blink Credit for each 60-day GTC you buy!"**

Never forget.
EvEa Deva
Doomheim
#31 - 2014-02-07 20:47:35 UTC
Fell for a can flip once.
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#32 - 2014-02-07 20:57:02 UTC
EvEa Deva wrote:
Fell for a can flip once.


me too lol

OMG Comet Mining idea!!! Comet Mining!

Eve For life.
Ronny Hugo
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#33 - 2014-02-07 21:02:54 UTC
On my brand new Navy Geddon my entire tank was:
3x Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II.
1x Large Armor Repairer II.
As a result I lost a Navy Geddon in an L4 mission.
Luckily I sold plex to get the geddon so it didn't hurt as much as it perhaps should have hurt.
Kharaxus
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#34 - 2014-02-07 21:34:57 UTC
Shot a customs office recently because it belongs to Goonwaffe - didn't realize you still have to be in low/null sec.
Zappity
New Eden Tank Testing Services
#35 - 2014-02-07 22:00:41 UTC
Oh boy, hard to remember ALL the stupid things but I distinctly remember reaching the cliff after the tutorials. I scanned down a wormhole in my Probe and jumped in. Ooh, a shiny anomaly! I warped to it and watched in horror as the Sleepers alpha. Oh well, at least they didn't pod me so I still have my implants. All I have to do is warp back to the wormhole...which I didn't bookmark. It took me ten minutes to start the self destruct.

Zappity's Adventures for a taste of lowsec and nullsec.
SpoonRECKLESS
Beach Boys
The Minions.
#36 - 2014-02-07 22:20:35 UTC
Orin Wright wrote:
Deadonstick Puppyseeker wrote:
Mining veldspar in what was then known as a Badger Mark II.


I've used a Condor to mine Veldspar.



Why would you be so mean to yourself?

Blue
getyourgun
The Crazy Red Chicken
#37 - 2014-02-07 22:28:59 UTC
Two that spring to mind
- deciding to train shield repair drones so i could repair my own shields when running missions.
- fitting an ECM to my new cruiser and trying it out whilst sitting on a gate in Hi-sec.
Billy McCandless
Zacharia Explorations Group
#38 - 2014-02-07 22:31:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Billy McCandless
wen she wuz a newb mi mummy went on a dayte wif Jo Fenix (b 4 i wuz borned)

troo storie

"Thread locked for being deemed a total loss." - ISD Ezwal
Gobtcha
Savannah Logistics
Out of the Blue.
#39 - 2014-02-07 22:33:37 UTC
hmm still a noob, although I have made mistakes fell for scams etc.

Contract for a blueprint, did not check if it was a copy so I threw 100 mill at it. Then used it to lose around 20 mill at the end.
The classic double your isk with a provided api.

Flew through low and null to a null station with a fleet enjoyed it. Then I used the pod to go through null and low back to high, came across two bubbles at a gate and some offline sentry drones. Made it back safely though.

remapped my attribute twice and the final setup is to train Gunnery skills with efficiency, while enjoying mining and indy. Still waiting to remap again.

Undocked in a poorly fitted Gnosis during a war, to go down through structure right as I dock

All in all survivable mistakes still learning from many others.

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flakeys
Doomheim
#40 - 2014-02-07 22:44:02 UTC
Can't even count the things i accidently trashed or reprocced by accident in my first years in eve Blink

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.