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OK worst loss for me, was my first Scorpion that I lost after mining for ages... this was back when a Scorpion was wrath a lot and nothing T2 was available in game as it was 2003 (Late on Sept or so in I remember) and Scorp BPO's had not long been available
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Sad thing was I'd made my first run though into Amarrian space and shot someone in a 0.6.. gate guns tore through me


Oh and I had dual Tachyons fitted, as they were the best fit at the time

I did the pod jump thing with 3 toons. I did the upgrade clone thing with 2.

My worst loss ever was after two weeks mining in a venture. I saved enough money, got a great deal on a retriever which sat in my hangar for a week while I got the skills for mining barges.

Took it out for some mining late that night (Mining Barge 1 just finished)

Mine a bit, nod off.

Destroyed by two suicide gankers less than an hour after getting it.

I've flown only procs since then.

Exploring low sec in a drake and telling two gate campers to get stuffed after they destroyed my drake and then demanded 50 mill ransom or they pod me........which was a bad mistake as i forgot to use my pvp clone and was in my clone with all +4/5 implants and such........facepalm moment when I realized!

*TL;DR hobbles in on his walker and pulls up a chair*

Greetings noobins, and eve children, let good old uncle reaper tell you about his worst lost isk wise, and his worst loss... ah.. noob tears wise.

Some mild back ground. I am on my 10 year of eve, so that will tell ya something.

6 years ago, give or take a few months, my then alliance was holding the area of Providence known as the 'Kari Pipe' This was right after UK lost the area and CVA was gobbling it up. Anyway, my alliance was in a war with a group called ENH (i can;t spell the corp name) We suffered heavy loses but meh. So i had just bought a new carrier, a thany. My very first one. I spent pretty much every isk i had on it, and i fitted it uber fail. As i said i was broke. I was sitting in.. D-6 i think and was ratting. Stupid me did not have any normal drones, just fighters. An npc frig warp scrambled me, and i was like 'ok np. i'll kill this bs them kill it' The NPC BS pops and i sick my fighters on the frig... 2... 5...9 min later nothing, the fighters keep missing it. Crap i think. So i send a small ping out to alliance asking for assitance, and get a reply form a dude in jita. I hit up corp, no one is near. So i'm about to log in my alt, to come kill the frig when a red star enters system. "**** me!" is my thought. But i go, maybe he will move on... he quickly warps to me ratting, and i think crap. He sits there for a second and just looks, and i go 'hey um.. a little help maybe?" he replies "whats the issue? cna;t kill the frig?" and i go "yup" he goes "oh.. sucks to be you" targets me and starts firing. 1 min later local fills with red stars, and for the first, only, and last time, i begged in local and shead MANY carebear tears for them to spare me. They didn't. Pop. So they go 'we will let the pod go for xxx' and ofc i'm broke so tell them just to kill me. Pop! End of story and down 2b isk.

This one was on the news, so you can look it up, no i'm not gonna link it. In 2010, i saved up money again, and sold a lot of crap i had lying around. I bought my dream ship, a fully fit Nyx! We were living in wicked creek at the time, and i was happily ratting and shooting random structures in the area. Well one day, one of my alliance mates gets this brillant idea to go gate camp (not the brillant part..) and ask me if i want to bring the nyx cause it will be leet. Me being in an odd mood go, sure what the hell. Sit a gate, small group comes in, i attack... they get pas my buds and burn towards me. I donlt remember if they have a dictor, or i just paniced for a second, but befor ei know it a bubble goes up and i can;t run. Local fills up with guys, all sub caps (system was cyno jammed) and they proced to bound on me. There three guardians are keeping my drones, fighters, and bombers form doing anything. My guys that ar eon keep doing bombing runs to try and pop bubbles so i can run. The thought crosses my mind to log off as i'm dead anyway and maybe i'll get lucky, but i shove that aside. So i'm chilling, trying to cordinate a freedom, utalizing fighters etc, when i hear one of my alliances russian guys jump on TS. Hes asking if i need help, and i go 'yea' his next words.. "ok, i'm warping my mom to you" oh **** me... i quickly scream no stop warp do not come, hostile do not... and second mom lands on grid. I'm ignored for a min as i'm not really going anywhere, and try to get closer. They lock him down and start pounding him. Now i have been holding my tank for 12 min at this point (log off MIGHT of saved me) i locked the russians mom and watch his tank MELT in a matter of 5 min. (if you look this up, he wa snot fit very well and i think he paniced) being russian, there was a language issue and i coudl not cordinate with him to attack x. So i watch him pop. and then wait the next 10 min for me to pop. So i lose 20b, the alliance has a whole loses 40. Then we get scammed a week later out of 25b. nice huh?

Moral of the story, my long time eve buddies have FORBIDDEN me form EVER flying titan. Cause i'll lose it in an hour lol.

My worst loss, and also the most frustrating one, was my mission Navy Domi.

I was playing Eve full-screen on a laptop with windows 8 with a cordless mouse.

When suddenly the mouse died. I was in the early stage of the mission.
My armor tank was working.
My drones were on aggressive and cheerfully chipping a way at the enemy.
You always read about people complaining about AFK mission drone boats.
And I wasn't even AFK. I was still at the keyboard.
So nothing to get overly conserned about.

But I noticed quickly that I didn't know all the keyboard-commands by heart since I relied for certain things always on the mouse.
So I decided quickly to change the batteries in my mouse.
Unfortunately this one seemed to be designed by someone who has never had to replace a battery in his life.
The stupid thing just wouldn't open.

In the mean time my drones were now killing the trigger for the next wave.

So more drastic measures where required : I took out the USB that regulates the connection with the mouse, so I would fall back on the Touchpad of the laptop. Well...that didn't work. The stupid mouse pointer just froze on the screen.

And surprise, surprise : the drones were going for the next trigger without killing the rest first.
The situation got a bit more serious.

So I quickly dived into a stack of old computer material in another room to get a mouse with cord.
I plugged it in and....

Windows 8 found it necessary to completely minimize all programs and give me a pop-up about the mouse.
Seems plug-and-play ain't what it used to be.

I then came to the conclusion that I did even know less about the keyboard-commands in Windows 8 then I did in Eve.
I couldn't get Eve back to the front.
Some heavy cursing on Microsoft for removing the taskbar/start-menu was done.
In the background I still heard the sounds of Eve....and those 'beep' thingies weren't very reassuring.

To end this long story : when I got back to Eve, my domi was a pile of scrapmetal.

But to end on a positive note : 10 minutes later I did get my mouse open.

Dual logged and decently fit titans in B-R5RB?

300 bn in one fight + pods was a bit much even for me.

The Aeon moonwalked out at least so didn't get purged from relevant channels.

Luckily the PL reimbursement side is without equal.

PS: Still hold the 2nd and 3rd most expensive titan losses in Eve..... vaguely mad so rather proud of it.

Check my Bio :P

Some people think eve is special fun coz you can lose something. Maybe goonbears should try that one too some time.

Either this mail link

or when i was a noob and i shot at a ninja salvager in my fresh navy raven which id had like 4 hours and he came back in a neut domi and i thought i could kill him, none insured and id just spent every isk i had to buy and fit it.