EVE General Discussion

Win or lose, every fight is worth it.

If you had fun then it's worth it. If you had no fun then it wasn't.

Simple as that, really.

I've lost ship after ship without a kill before, but was screaming and laughing my ass off the whole time (worth it). On the other hand, I've done structure bashes where I killed a big thing and lost no ship, yet was so ******* bored I was ready to quit the game (not worth it).

Mr Epeen

yesterday I killed two Mackinaws and lost two Catalyst. It was totally worth it.

Some of the best fights I have had I lost, well worth it.

My favorite of all time was a flip against a brutix who turned out to have buddies who were also missioning in system.
Next thing I know my incursus is going up against two brutixes... and then an augorer as well.
Of course I died in a fire, but it took a surprisingly long time...
If only they could have heard me cackling like a maniac the whole time.
Best part was their glee at having won, coupled with the fact that it was a three week old newbro who landed the killshot.
I can only hope I piqued their interest in the joys of exploding other people.

I fought the Goons and the Goons won... and it was lots of fun.
Participated in a gank, couple of days later quickly discovered a killright against me... that was entertaining trying to dodge being shot... and failing.
Quick trips home are fun too. :)

It's all about the fun

Don't answer the OP, you'll only encourage her.

It used to be the number of kills in any engagement that determined the winner, then it started to turn over the years to where isk destroyed not the number of kills was the winning tally but for me now I want my kills or deaths to mean something but I find that that doesnt happen. After 12 years its just a slower WoTs to me in that regard which is a shame imo on a personal level rather than its the games fault.
So I guess not much is worth it anymore to me which is probably why I sit in station for the most part and chat with people I have met over the years.


That being said over the years looking back what was worth it were the stories the kills or losses generated. That held meaning for the future and at the time didnt even know it yet. I could care less about my killboard, but those stories I find I revisit more often in my mind these days as Im not finding them so much these days at all anymore.

Some months ago a corp mate and I were messing around with MWD long point beam executioners he'd theory crafted. We had been practicing manual piloting for about an hour and decided to pop through a null sec WH near our home. Couple jumps in we find a PVE Ishtar and engage. We were doing the whole double click to maneuver thing for a minute or two (felt like an hour) and finally I derpped and got scram-ed and dead. The Ishtar pilot was having trouble though since he didn't seem to have a flight of light drones. I head home to reship.

My buddy had to disengage to stay alive, but the fight continued as he ended up following my buddy back through the WH, by which time I was on grid with another corpy in a Stabber. This time I do a better job of double click fu and don't die right away. The Stabber however died in a fire to the Ishtar's sentries. While our two Execs kept pecking, the ishtar pilot mosied on over to the Stabber's Warriors, picked em up and sic-ed em on us. Big WTF from the both of us as we died (didn't notice soon enough). I reship to a Slicer this time (bad choice, believe me I know) and die again another minute or two later. Corpy died again as well. All of us dead and w/o any fit ships left to throw at this Ishtar we retire and salute the pilot for a fantastic fight.

As embarrassing as it was, we had a blast and my buddy ended up talking to our opponent for a little while after. Apparently he was pretty near death at that point since he had burned out both his Shield extenders.

TL; DR

Sometimes spankings are fun for the spankee. As the others have said, if it's fun and you get a cool story out of it it's worth it.

like somepeople in here say, win or loose it worth it. Now the question is do you understand what happend in the fight. Like if you loose try to answer the following question:

Why did I loose?
Why did I engage in this combat ?
What should i done differently ?
Was my enemy brawling or kitting ?
Was my enemy neuting or dpsing ?

try to understand what happen in the fight. Don't get frustrated all fight worth it.