Stupid Mistakes
Following the attack on my account, I had very few assets anywhere.
The only ships I had in 0.0 was 4 Rifters and an Orca the thief couldn’t manage to sell because nobody had a buy order up that time. Thank goodness.
Anyways, so the end of last weekend I decided to get the Orca out of Catch and into the tradehubs to restock.
On Friday night when I decided I had gotten everything I needed, I prepped my Orca to go and warped into Keberz.
That night was also the night when a lot of my industrial jobs in the State space would come out from the factories and the labs. I thought about jumping back to clean them up and list the sell orders, but my OCD needed me to finish my business down in the South first. It would take at least 24 hours to be able to jump back down again, so I decided against from cloning to Lonetrek.
Well Friday night was a bust, a ProviBlock gang camped the Keberz to HED-GP gate the entire night. I regretted not going back to the State and logged out.
So on Saturday night, I logged back into Keberz and waited for another attempt to get into null sec. HED was reportedly to be fluctuating in terms of reds coming in and out so I debated some more about jumping back North. Instead, I waited another couple of hours until the intel channel reported that it was fairly calm.
Note, at this point I have not discovered that an earlier incident where a Fenrir was lost at the same place due to the same circumstances and situation.
As I warped to the Keberz gate, the intel channel kept reporting a clear gate. Upon landing on the gate it was clear of neutral scouts another other ships, as well as the report in the intel channel stated that it was still clear.
I pressed jump and landed in the bright starsystem. The gate had two blues on it, so I thought I was pretty much homefree until when the ProviBlob began to land on the gate. The cloak was already entering warp and with the lag I couldn’t stop the ship (EVE won’t let me set the CTRL + Space as a shortcut for stop ship) to get the cloak activated.
Their interceptors burned towards me and I knew I was finished.
The fact that I lost half a billion didn’t sadden me as much as I knew that I wanted to jump back to the State to do other things. My need to finish one task led to my downfall, and I have also learned a lesson, the poor man always loses.
I hope I will be back next weekend to fly another Orca down and attempt again, but until then I will be flying the remaining 3 Rifters remaining in null sec.
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Ouch, that’s gotta sting. I notice some m3 members on the killmail… I think I’ll watch my back a little more closely for a while…. ;)
You need anything to get you back on your feet, let me know. Email. :)
Only way to get killed in HED by the lame provi blob is by not using a scout, you know this first hand now despite me telling you ages ago :p
Use a scout :)
Provi only gets easy kills, everyone knows this, don’t give them a chance again.
Actually I have an idea :D Buy more ships and don’t buy another Orca!
I got you beat. This evening I finally got Cloaking trained up so I could use the CovOps Cloaking Device, and that meant I could actually take the Hound I researched and built myself out for some fun, and see what siege launchers and cruise missiles could do (turns out, not a whole lot more than what my Rupture can do, at least in lowsec and with my skillset).
So I’m in lowsec, and headed towards my little lowsec base of operations, and I see a Badger Mk II about 80km out from the station. Now, I’m not much of a PvPer, but I thought I might try the pirate life a bit, so I went out and circled it, locked it, paged it in local… No response. Okay, I’ll shoot it. Yes, I realize it’s an aggressive act. I wasn’t planning on popping it, just ransoming it. I wasn’t even equipped with a scrambler.
But I had totally forgotten that stations, not just gates, have sentry guns in lowsec that deal with that sort of thing. Pop, there goes my expensive Hound (not a half bil, but then, I’ve never managed to accumulate more than 250mil at a time, so this was a good chunk of my assets). Didn’t even pop the Badger.
Okay, stupid enough. Here’s where it gets worse. I haul my sorry pod butt back to the base, figure I’ll grab my salvage ship and at least try to get some junk off my heap, and grab whatever I dropped (hoping for the cloaking device, at the least). It takes a while, SO comes home with dinner, I’m worried about making it back to base, I go bring in food from car. I get back, I’m docked, I change to my salvage ship and undock. “You’re in combat” it warns, but the ship was long gone, so I undock anyway. Oh yeah, I’m in combat *with the station*. Pop. Another ship lost to stupidity (at least it was just a Probe). Pod drive back to dock in shame…
Finally realize I need to wait out this global aggro flag, so I go get some dinner, fit a salvager (thankfully still had one in stores) to my Rupture, go out, and grab what I can from my mistakes. Don’t get the CovOps cloaking device… Didn’t get much of anything. Sigh.
Stupid mistakes… For sure.
Haha, the first time I went out in my Ishkur for PvP in low sec I did the same thing on a gate :\@Ashireka
Their exist also something called “the poor mans scout”, i.e. before you go through a gate/take a dangerous route, that might be dangerous for your expensive ship, first put yourself in a inexpensive/fast ship, i.e. f.e. a t1 frig or a t2 frig and “scout the fate/route” out for yourself.
If everything looks fine, then fly back and switch to the expensive ship. It will take more time and there is still a risk that you might loose the expensive ship, if youre unlucky, but at least you will not be depending, a routes judgement, on unreliabable intel channels…
@Kirith Kodachi
Thanks for the offer, but after your help I think I can hang onto my own feet for a while. And hopefully you won’t think of it much that you missed out on this :P
@Biomassed/Hitch
LOL I will just fly Rifters. They are fun.
The JF though may help. Its just I can replace a Rifter lose with the selling of one GSC in V2!
@Ashireka
Haha that’s alright. Things happen (as we both demonstrated)!
@Zaneyard
And again as well, doh!
@jedi2005
I got you what you are saying. Yes that is a much better option to what I did :P
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