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How do YOU react when you've been blown up...?
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Lulu Lunette
Savage Moon Society
#41 - 2016-10-21 14:12:15 UTC
I lost a Stratios to a camp thanks to a bad client and some lag which really made me mad. I've avoided camps like that numerous times but the game wasn't running right at all. At least that Stratios paid for itself numerous times.

I had some guys from a wormhole that wanted a prearranged 1v1, so I took the offer and met at the sun. His corpmates wanted to watch and ofc as soon as the fight started they dishonored the arrangement. I was only a 3 month old noob in the game and he was a 6+ year vet but I felt so cheated and stupid and the lesson apparently was 'welcome to Eve'. Roll

Otherwise, other than the fight shakes, the adrenaline dump, shortness of breath/shallow breathing it's maybe a small fist pump when I win or a dejected 'aww' when I lose. Smile

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Gadget Helmsdottir
Gadget's Workshop
#42 - 2016-10-21 14:18:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Gadget Helmsdottir
Tiberius NoVegas wrote:
Depending on how bad it is. Minor ships losses, ill keep playing on. Bigger ones will promp me to take a break and play a few rounds of DOTA then come back. really big losses, I turn the game off goto sleep and come back to in a day or two when ive calmed down.


This pretty much sums it up for me. Sometimes I know I'm going to lose the ship (ex. RvB), so I'm prepared; however, if it's out of my control (game hang or D/C at the worst possible moment) or totally unexpected (I can take that guy... and his friends... and his friends' friends... well, sh**), then I tend to step away, because playing angry would just make me hate the game and not the situation.

Pop out to a downtown pub and have lunch with an extra cider, then climb back in the saddle.

Since I make most of what I lose, sometimes I don't have an immediate replacement ship ready. That's generally a good thing in my book. Sort of a mandatory cool-down period. That's when I'll switch tracks and do some mining, check my indy, or fly some market runs.

Having options other than losing stuff makes my game play much more robust and fun.

--Gadget

Work smarter, not harder. --Scrooge McDuck, an eminent old-Earth economist

Given an hour to save New Eden, how would respected scientist, Albertus Eisenstein compose his thoughts? "Fifty-five minutes to define the problem; save the galaxy in five."
Terrorfrodo
Interbus Universal
#43 - 2016-10-21 15:14:01 UTC
My usual reaction to being blown up is to buy a new ship and head back to my wormhole base.

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Amonios Zula
Aeon Ascendant
#44 - 2016-10-21 15:19:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Amonios Zula
I got blown up in a needlessly expensive nightmare recently, my very first hotdrop Twisted ofc my first reaction was to destroy the cyno ship then overheat everything and start burning the Panther.
Alas Neuts so that fight was lost, lesson learned.
Tbh it was my fault for getting complacent.

As for reaction, Buy a new ship, and a couple of days later join some locals in a Hotdrop in a bomber Lol

A more comical indcident happened later that had me lose not one but two moas then my pod Pirate
Took a fight with some T3s coming out of a small WH, too small for my Moa and the other pilots who were with me so they splashed whenever in structure, we all blew up, reshipped got more pilots and went back.
shortly afterwards they came out again , but this time with twice the numbers and a logi that we totally missed.
one bubble later, as a camp we killed one flycatcher for the total loss of 5 ships that round + pods <3 bubbles
Piugattuk
Litla Sundlaugin
#45 - 2016-10-21 17:50:22 UTC
Funny thing, I don't really react or feel much of anything best described as being aloof, I know I can replace anything I have easily because I already have another (in fact several), copies of ships, I am up to my arms in ships, but its a good thing, since I build them I have a station container with extra ships standing by to be fitted.

Anyway, aloof best described my feelings/or lack of.
Nicolai Serkanner
Incredible.
Brave Collective
#46 - 2016-10-21 17:56:59 UTC
Lose a ship ... learn ... Lose a ship ... learn ... Lose a ship ... learn ... Lose a ship ... learn ... Lose a ship ... learn ... Lose a ship ... learn ... and find out you need A LOT to learn ... still having fun though.
Gealbhan
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#47 - 2016-10-21 19:58:09 UTC
The problem I have is deciding what to fly next. My ship hangar looks like a parking lot on black friday. Arrow
Jing-mei-kuo Chen
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#48 - 2016-10-21 21:12:14 UTC
i cry

mom love me so

eve is all
Daerrol
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#49 - 2016-10-21 21:35:28 UTC
I was pretty mad last night when I lost my hurricane. I was fighting a Lachesis, Confessor and Macharial at different points. Scared off the Confessor and I think the Mach was not blue with the lach cause it ran away when the mach landed (though I was hammering it semi hard so maybe it wanted to play safe)

Either way I had a brief ~3 seconds where nothing was pointing me. I was aligned to the bottom station the whole time, so naturally I warped to the top station. RIP hurricane. Was a little mad. ~80M loss

Other hand: Jumped my dreadnaught into an insane brawl. Tanked until my shield mods burnt out. Took down 2 enemy dreads. Reshipped to a Bhaalgorn, it neuted till it died. Over 4 billion in losses and some Amarr Strategic Cruiser levels. No regrets, only smiles.

I guess if my ship does well, does epic, and I play it well enough, I'm cool wit hthe loss. When I die to something stupid I should know better of by now (but really don't)? Raaaage
Solonius Rex
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#50 - 2016-10-21 22:04:01 UTC
I lost a jump freighter. I was sad for about a day. Then I bought another one and got over it cause i dont fly what i cant afford to lose.

The only thing i feel is remorse for having 20/20 hindsight. Its like a super power that doesnt quit.

Ive never thrown a tantrum or anything. I do roll my eyes when i see stupidity though.

Honestly, i get more upset playing Dota 2 with stupid russian retards than i do with losing expensive ships.
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