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The VC's
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#21 - 2012-10-10 22:33:19 UTC
1. See target ship
2. Overheat on and burn towards target.
3. Open cargohold
4. Right-click combat booster
5. Jettison combat booster.
Tharbad Antollare
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#22 - 2012-10-10 22:56:53 UTC
Well, I'm very new, so plenty of time to make bigger mistakes ;-)

Worst so far was doing a plex with my (very expensive at the time) Vexor, and when I was almost in hull decided to go to a belt to restore my cap and repair the armor.

Was so tired that literally felt asleep on the keyboard, only to wake up a later on my pod surrounded by a couple of NPC frigs.
Nyla Skin
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#23 - 2012-10-10 22:59:18 UTC
I started my main as gallente and flew exclusively gallente ships for a long while.

In after the lock :P   - CCP Falcon www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies
Il Feytid
State War Academy
Caldari State
#24 - 2012-10-10 23:19:22 UTC
CCP Tuxford wrote:
I don't remember ever making a stupid mistake

I remember that day. Ahh, good times.

Would you care to tell us the story again on your um, how that day came to be?
Touval Lysander
Zero Wine
#25 - 2012-10-11 01:44:33 UTC
energypills wrote:
Many broker accounts like ETrade have specific buyer protection automatically setup so that when you buy something you don't make a mistake.

It is amazing that this is one of the MAJOR things that CCP knows needs to be fixed and doesn't. They need to at least allow you to set your own threshold or limit when purchasing an item. So you don't end up ripping yourself off.

Especially with the text so small - the option to make it larger doesn't work because in some menus the text is so large that it cuts off the entire menu and does not branch off ( like your windows start button menu ). This is also a fail CCP needs to fix.

Use a corp and put small amounts in your buy wallets. Problem solved.

OT.

On another char, jumped a carrier in, solo, to take out 2 triage, a dread and 50 odd subs.

Warped to guns and SB'd as many as I could before getting taken out by my own guns.

local transcript

>> wtf? u crazee?!
>> lolz. gf.

They were NOT having my tower cheaply. NO.

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
Lyskal Oskold
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#26 - 2012-10-11 01:51:09 UTC
Was moving my stuff once and got ganked with a plex in the cargo bay. QQ

"Love is just a chemical, no matter the origin. We give it meaning by choice." - Eleanor Lamb
Mars Theran
Foreign Interloper
#27 - 2012-10-11 02:16:29 UTC
Decided to try out my Osprey for mining in PF-346




P.S. Those latest losses on the toons KB are definitely not mine, if you check them out. I was some time before that. My last fight was with Major Thrasher on that toon.




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MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#28 - 2012-10-11 04:23:39 UTC
Getting mad at the inventory log thing of station containers that won't let you repackage them and just trashing them.. while forgetting all the packaged ships that you left them. About 500mil isk of wisdom g ained.

Fitting a C5 shield booster to a Macharial and running off to do a L4 mission with jamming and scram frigates only to find out that the C5 shield booster comes in all sizes and discovering that you had fit a medium one.

This message brought to you by Experience(tm). When common sense fails you, experience will come to the rescue. Experience(tm) from the makers of CONCORD.

"If you are part of the problem, you will be nerfed." -MadMuppet
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#29 - 2012-10-11 05:10:26 UTC
Letting someone who has never used a cyno before (or dealt with capital logistics in any way) light one for my carrier with billions worth of ships and mods in it.

Thank god the pirates he was antagonizing were hiding a long warp away... and that my carrier didn't land so far from the undock radius.

How did you Veterans start?
ugh zug
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#30 - 2012-10-11 05:12:54 UTC
lawl yay for bouncing carriers.

Want me to shut up? Remove content from my post,1B. Remove my content from a thread I have started 2B.
Mina Sebiestar
Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate
#31 - 2012-10-11 05:21:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Mina Sebiestar
Paid 130$ for year sub on least played char and was like wait da minute i rly don't think il stick around for that much...too late.

You choke behind a smile a fake behind the fear

Because >>I is too hard
Conrad Makbure
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#32 - 2012-10-11 05:22:35 UTC
Sold a couple of plex cards for 618M ISK per unit a couple of days ago. They went in minutes....I was kicking myself for that one.
Ranger 1
Ranger Corp
Vae. Victis.
#33 - 2012-10-11 05:24:21 UTC
CCP Tuxford wrote:
I don't remember ever making a stupid mistake

Big smile
Classic!

(Or perhaps my "getting this" means I've been here for far too long.)

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Ocih
Space Mermaids
#34 - 2012-10-11 06:52:15 UTC
CCP Tuxford wrote:
I don't remember ever making a stupid mistake


I don't remember ever making a smart mistake.
Colonel Xaven
Perkone
Caldari State
#35 - 2012-10-11 08:29:42 UTC
Sold a faction mod for ~40,000 ISK instead of 40,000,000 ISK.

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Julien Brellier
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#36 - 2012-10-11 10:52:07 UTC
Spent too long ordering pizza delivery on the IGB, forgot I wasn't docked, got a nice clone express ride back home. Fail. Evil

But still, I had pizza!
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#37 - 2012-10-11 11:25:34 UTC
Mau Uamredel wrote:
What's the stupidest thing you've ever done in EvE?



Open threads like this one and actually all those ganker tears threads too.

brb
Hypercake Mix
#38 - 2012-10-11 11:28:47 UTC
Warped into a mission pocket to attempt to save a corpie. Corpie popped before I finished warping in. The rats that were tackling him tackled me before I could GTFO. -1 Ishtar.

I used to mine with carebears thinking they knew what they were doing.

I trained Gallente first because I wanted to fly something complicated.
Lord Ryan
True Xero
#39 - 2012-10-11 12:57:04 UTC
Drunken fleet. Set clone to hot system. Get podded, reship with the qickness. Get podded. Train Cyber 5 again. Next weekend drunken fleet. Set clone to hot system. Get podded, reship with the qickness. Get podded. Train BC 5 again. Yeah twice that I can remember.

Do not assume anything above this line was typed by me. Nerf the Truth, it's inconvenient.
Sharon Eskolde
Madz Crusaders
#40 - 2012-10-11 18:46:34 UTC
Felt rich, went on a mad skillbook-buying spree, didn't bother checking the locations of the cheapest sellers, and spent the next hour or so running around the region picking up books.

Always check the location...

Ganking: an essential part of everyone's EVE experience.