EVE General Discussion

Sometimes you have stuffed your ship full of over sized modules, already popped in a fitting rig and hardwire ... so you forget about the small neut that you could squeeze into the remaining high slot for less effectiveness of the main purpose of your ship.

... or you are a miner that goes, "Feck it, going to lose it anyway, so let me max the yield and forget about the rest. Lost ship is just part of business costs. *Shrug* "

Often happens in factional warfare defensive plexing.

Real men hull tank.

(Defensive PLEX-ing You have to love how these people make things up out of thin air.
WAIT, that's "emergent game play" and "content creation!")

I'm sure there are lots of perfectly good reasons for it. Some were even outlined here already. But I have to say, I've had the same experience as the OP...I review some killboards and my jaw freaking drops at what I see.

About an hour ago I was perusing Marauder kills...saw a very shiny Paladin kill that had NO tank fitted at all.

Looking up transport ships, I've seen dozens of DST's fitted with no tank or anti-tank. Or dramatically undersized tank (you put WHAT sized shield extender on that?!).

You ever want a really good laugh, you should check out the killboards with transport ships. Anti-tank blockade runners getting ganked out of the gate in hub systems with lots of isky cargo, some DST's loaded up with so much shiny defense modules they become a tank magnet just for that, etc etc. Especially in the DST category I've seen a lot of kills where no tank is being fitted, most slots empty, on a ship carrying a lot of cargo through hostile space.

It's how I make my daily quota of facepalms. If I'm ever deficient, I just browse there until I find something that makes me cry out, "Oh good GOD no!", facepalm, then go about my day. There may be good reasons for some of those things, but it's still fun to look at.

i sometimes fly my unfitted archon around to pick up stuff to fit it

I'm a bit confused as to why something special needs to be done. I've accepted trades and contracts in the past for fitted ships.
How would this stop other players from deliberately flying unfitted or anti-tanked ships?
As for obtaining modules for a new ship, I'll haul them to where the new hull is and fly a fitted ship out.

Depending on region / location - not all places people fly have vibrant markets with items available to everyone. This isn't really an excuse either way, as much as... I can see people trying to get away with partial fits (despite it being a bad idea for obvious reasons)

Mate, don't look at my ibis fit!

some cases there is no need for fit at all.

example some fw isk farming can be done with empty ships, so losing empty ship gives almost no risk situation.