Wormholes

Hmmm people looking for fail, well I'm in POSHU, soooo fail is a recurring theme, we have lots of fun, we get a lot of kills (well sometimes) but we also have moments of utter fail on a regular basis.

On Fri 16th Nov, after what had been a pretty disastrous month so far for our KB, we were scanning and rolling as you do, our scouts shout out they had some poss targets doing cap escalations in a site, bloodlust immediately rises to maximum, fleet is called for and scouts told to get eyes on the hostiles.

Fleet is quickly formed, everyone wants to get some green on the KB to make up for our poor month, a bunch of T3's, Proteus, Legion, Loki's, are ready, a bunch of Guardians, HIC's and a Bhaalgorn are all set, so lets get things rolling, where's the hostiles ? J101553 a C6, we have to go through a C6-C4-C4-C6 chain to get to them, off we set, we sit the fleet on the entrance to the hostile hole, scouts are feeding us intel, Noctis and Chimera, at the site, plenty of wrecks that they are busy sweeping up time to spring the trap.

We jump in and warp to scout, get point on the Noctis (full of lovely loot) get a couple of points on the Chimera and start to blap, well we tried to, a Domi warps in with smarties, starts to get rid of our drones, the Chimera goes into triage and starts repping the Noctis, our dps is doing nothing, then a Moros warps in, ok guys, orbit the moros at close range, get under his guns so he can't shoot you, that was the plan, didn't work though.

Bhaal pilot, I'm down, what !! how the F**K, that is quickly followed by a Zealot a Guardian and a HIC, WTF is going on, the call is made to get out (obviously) as we are getting out, another couple of Guardians are lost, shouts are going out on TS WTF happened, how did we lose all that ****, there's something funny going on, exploit is called, then a lone voice says, (something I'm sure the avid readers of this forum will have noticed at the beginning) why did they have a Chimera ? Good question, we then start to look at what type of hole we were in (something we should have done first, but meh bloodlust) a Pulsar !!

Yep we took an armour fleet into a Pulsar, then wondered why we lost, props to the guys in Censored corp who didn't panic and did what they had to do, they probably wet themselves laughing at us all night, hell we laughed at ourselves.

I would normally finish off by saying something like, lessons learned, we won't do that again, next time we'll check, but hey, we'll probably see some targets, jump into our ships and do it all over again, why ? Cos we play to have fun, shooting stuff is fun, win or lose, we live in the best part of Eve, wormhole space, we can make isk to replace stuff, so while we failed we laughed about it, and that's what's it about.


Dax

So here is a good fail that i did recently. It really was mistake after mistake after mistake.

So i read about daytripping with an orca and my alt was 2 days from flying one. So i tried it once but found a c1 and it did not fit ofc but ran some sites in an assault frig and salvaged and moved on. Couple days later I try again and find a wandering into a c3. Im excited to try this orca idea again. into the unknown with the cloak scanner and I decided to run sigs and clear sleepers that way and perhaps some ninja mining.

Mistake 1: 2 pos on d-scan. Occupied. I never see a ship on d-scan and decide it is currently empty, for that is what i want to be. And to make things even more dumb, it was Saturday and there was 10000 more people online in eve than for that time on a weekday. Right, its empty for sure (sarcasm)

So I decide to scan anyway and keep going with the plan. Scan 6 or 7 down.

Mistake 2: During my scans i found that including the wh i came in on there were 8 wh's in total in the system. Yes 8. An obvious sign of high traffic through the system. But still like before, I want this sytem to be empty, so I tell myself it is still empty, everyone will leave me alone, for sure.

Then go get the frig and made the mistake of asking my corp if someone wants to mine a wh grav. And I am the only one who has anything to do with w-space, so its up to me to not be so dumb.

Mistake 3: bringing someone who is more of a noob to w-space than me.

Then I start to clear the site and bring the orca and the other guy with his retriever into w-space. Orca cloaks and I wait while I clear the grav. Site is clear i say warp to me. Orca and other guy warp.

Mistake 4: I stopped spamming the d-scan. No need to explain what is wrong with that here.

Run over to orca with assault frig and online salvager and start salvaging with frig.

Mistake 5: did not cloak orca.

Other guy starts mining jaspet of all things, but keep my mouth shut. Salvage complete run over to orca hop in sneaky covetor. It has a cloak on it so if im paying attention actually i should be safer. Now comes some bad luck and bad timing. Right then is when the Loki and Tengu warp in. And im too close to orca so neither of my ships can cloak. Tell other guy to run and both my ships are warp disrupted. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.

And then I begin to laugh. Looking back right then at all the errors I made I laugh some more. Wow, that was dumb. But there were some silver linings to be had. Retriever pilot got away and between my 2 pods I had 1 cheap scanning implant in it and no others. But the 800 mill killmail ont the orca sucked and the assault frig and cov ops scanner I lost inside it was not fun. Covetor was enough of a loss too, but not real bad. But probably the worst part was that I moved a while ago and I woke up 25 jumps from where I operate now.

Im not even a little bit mad at the Loki and Tengu, for they did exactly what they should have done. It would be nicer if I did not know any better than I do to not make that many mistakes. So, its not even a lesson, for I knew to do those things already. It is just a reminder to perhaps pull my head from my backside once in a while. Hopefully you guys get a few laughs from this. I post it here for I do not know anyone in EVE who wormholes, so they could not understand the full scope of my fail like you guys can.

Ps, Dont worry I will return and I assume you guys can get some more easy kill

Reward it and dump the plates and increase resistance

I absolutely love this thread. At one point I had thought that I had made just about every mistake you could possibly make in w-space (and eve in general). This feeling was so strong that I actually started a blog with the hopes of allowing others to learn from my many, MANY mistakes. It never really took off, but it is perfect for this crowd. If you too enjoy this thread, take a trip over to my old blog, it's a narrative of my own personal failfest.

If any of you like it, let me know and I'll post some of them here for everyone else to laugh at.

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Thanks all and fly safe!

When i collapse WH's I use a fully loaded freighter. Oh yeah, that's how i roll

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15322013

Now watch everyone stare at that KM and try to figure out what the kcuf he was thinking/doing...

This would be more disappointing than funny imo.

can someone explain the PDUs?

That one was fantastic.

sometimes a fail is so massive, it creates a gravitational failfield that pulls in everything around it.