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Tried to get an Orca through a section of dodgy 0.0 systems while the server shutdown countdown was on. Figured people would be logging out, and even if they did get me i could survive until the shutdown happened. I was wrong.

Was flying with a fleet, getting ready to start the roam in Querious when I jumped too soon and found myself in a camp. Killed the ship I targed, turned out the camp was all blue and everybody congrat me for killing a shitfit curse

Stupidest thing: as a new player, avoiding low-sec for months out of irrational fear.

Perhaps my weirdest escapade started in my second month in EVE and lasted for a month. I'd gotten into an Iteron III and trained a couple of anchoring skills, so I was good to go on moon goo. I practiced mining a cheap metal for a few weeks with a small tower that I'd earned from missioning, and that eventually gave me enough to get a medium.

So I started doing a 3-input complex reaction on the medium tower -- Phenolic Composites, having determined that this was the reaction that produced the highest profit going from raws bought off the market.

But wait, I hear you cry - you can't do a 3-input complex reaction on a medium -- they don't have enough CPU. Well, yes: a Caldari medium has 3750 tf CPU. Here was my setup:

Input: Three coupling arrays at 155 tf each: 465 tf
Complex reactor: 3000 tf
Output: One coupling array at 155 tf
Total: 3620 tf -- 130 to spare!

However, there's a catch, which is what made it weird: each hour the reactor produces 2200 Phenolic Composites, at 0.2 m3 each. That's 440 m3 per hour into the 1500 m3 output coupling array. This means that if you don't clear it every three hours you'll lose product. And that's what I did for a month between my low-sec runs back and forth to Jita to buy raws and sell Phenolics. I didn't run it 23/7, quite -- I shut it down before bedtime each night, then fired it up again in the morning.

I was very glad when I'd finally earned enough for my first large tower at the end of the month!

Stupidest: Not checking intel.

Woke up, logged on, jumped Nanopest into 75 strong PL gatecamp (note to self, always check intel channels). Jumped camped gate and bravely ran away to search for fresh underwear.

Still can't figure out how I wasn't insta popped.

Weirdest - Self destructing a jump freighter with a full cargo for no apparent reason, I can't remember what possessed me to do that... I wasn't being attacked or anything.

Stupidest - If not the above event with the jump freighter, the stupidest thing I've done would probably going into a Wormhole without a scanner... I got lost in there for a couple of days.

Ballsiest - Probably one of my old sabotage assignments during the days when I did RP; the task was to fly through a gate guarded by a corporation's security division, gain access to their POS, loot it and then casually stroll on by the security again as I leave with the goods. Sadly the job failed as they had a habit of scanning anyone who left the system.

Stupidest thing I've done in eve- Enabled CQ when it launched, melted the graphics card.


I essentially paid a few hundred bucks for this expansion. Not again.

single-handedly attacked a sixty-ship enemy fleet in a disco scorp with ECM burst.

They ran away

Flew a Hulk through like 10 jumps in hostile low security space with no real tank, thinking warp core stabilizers would protect me. Only met one person, he tried chasing me down, but I was too quick for him. This was when Hulks were still over 400 million. I guess I was lucky. Dunno if you would consider it ballsy, or stupid. I lean toward stupid now that I look back on it.