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General Discussion => General Non-RP EVE Discussion => Topic started by: Benjamin Shepherd on 07 Aug 2010, 01:40
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Topic says it all. One thing that happened to you on EVE that you found funny. Could be anything.
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So there I was on the new version of Zag, somewhat inebriated and sleep deprived in Malkalen. Caldari Frigate III had just finished, and I thought to myself:
"Well, time to buy myself a Kestrel."
I had a few convos open and just flicked open the market tab, and since it was set to lowest price first I just bought the closest Kestrel for about 200k. Wallet blink was turned off and I thought nothing of it. Jumped to where it was, got in it, finished the convos and went to bed.
Next day as I log in I notice I'm 200mil lighter than I was previously. I'm wondering where the hell did I shell out on something for 200mil? I sure as hell didn't remember.
Look in transaction logs and there we go. 200mil Kestrel.
Awesome.
Being drunk and tired, I forgot market was set to nearest.
I've decided to turn the damn thing into an RP channel and start fitting it with officer mods. Every act of stupidity has a silver lining right?
Hopefully it at least came with an awsome bodykit, 24 carat gold spinners, velvet interior and a subwoofer liable to cause internal hemorrhaging as organs liquefy.
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Man, I love it when folks do that. >.>
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Well, latest one was when my amarr tradealt sold a Taranis to a guy and when doing a lowsec run about 80 minutes later encountered a Taranis wreck at a gate belonging to the same player. Got some nice salvage, some factionammo and a few TII mods.
If only trading was always that good.....
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Autopiloting my Salvager 'cane across highsec, when suddenly the sounds of pewpew interrupted my mastur... movie watching. I check the client, and a legion's dying right next to me. I lock on the wreck, salvage and let the autopilot go it's merry way.
Easy money, from cleaning up Electus Matari's littering.
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EVE has sound?
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Pretty sounds too, but yeah. I only have them activated when I'm either mostly afk, mining or otherwise doing things that require very little attention. My mining lasers going quiet means I've forgotten to empty my hold into the Orca, or the 'roids being empty. The sounds help me know when my autopilot's finished it's task and so on.
Oh, and when doing some of the L4s. Large ACs aren't so impressive, but 1400s artillery will make that so immensely pleasing sound of '*snip*, and it's coming at terminal velocity'. Besides, some mission music is kind of cool.
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http://ad0pt.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1539031
Says it all really.
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http://ad0pt.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1539031
Says it all really.
Holy hell.
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And they didn't even drop.
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Profitable CCP is profitable.
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http://ad0pt.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1539031
Says it all really.
To quote a comment on the Spacemonkey's alliance (the guys who lost that) KB,
"ChYph3r: 2010-08-08 03:49:17
there is nothing funny about being the laughing stock of fucking eve from this!
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To clarify, this was NOT a suicide gank. They were at war.
StealthEdit:
So, I'm flying through 0.0 in my pilgrim. I jump through a gate, and surprise! A bubble goes up around the gate. I check overview, and it's a lone sabre. I shrug, turn around, and do the MWD-cloak thing to start burning back toward the gate. The sabre realises what I'm doing, and also burns back and jumps through the gate to catch me on the other side.
Without waiting for me to jump.
I pound the "stop ship" button a couple times, blink, check to make sure it's not an epic trap of some kind... and then simply turn around, MWD out of the bubble, and go on my merry way. Just about as I hit the outbound gate, he evidently realised what I'd done and popped back into local.
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ASCN is dead.
KA-TET has recently been formed, allied to Roadkill, another Ex-Stain Alliance faction.
Because we are bored, Ayalen and I decide to head out and join up with a RK gang we know will be sweeping Geminate soon. On the way there we encounter an old ally who also found his way out of SA - Lyspaera.
His Drake, my Taranis and Ayalen's Sabre is out roaming solo until we can catch up with the main RK gang, when we stumble over this guy:
http://norwegianvikings.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=99
We decide he's likely bait as he has 30+ allies in local. We decide to engage anyway, as we are bored.
It would appear that our victim is in a state of panic - he primaries my Taranis, dropping his full rack of nos and neut on me, webbing me, pointing me, and sticking his heavy drones on me... and in 2 seconds my Taranis is dead in the water. Aya's bubbled him and Lys' is fiering away his missiles. My ship re-gain just enough cap to fire my 3 blasters once per sycle, and I'm able to slowly eat up one heavy drone after another as he does not retract them, does not exchange them for lights (did he have them with him?) despite the fact they can't hit an interceptor traveling at the awesome 0m/s...
What's worse, and what keeps our pulses going at max, is his allies in local, the fact we are all in our own bubble, and he keeps yelling for help in local non-stop. He tells them we are only 3, that we have an inty BC and dictor... that he's going down, but slowly, that he wants help... yeah, he must have repeated that one a dozen times.
In the middle of our... gank, a vexor warps in and lands on the edge of the bubble, we all assume ofc that, this was it.
The Vexor, fitted with T2 medium blasters, runs off to the gate and jumps. We laught ourselves silly. By this time the domi's down to no drones and no armour either, so I get a couple pot-shots to his hull. He never changed target, and died in a bubble, to be podded swiftly. his final words in local? "Thanks for the help guys, appreciated."
A Merlin landed on the edge of the bubble a couple seconds later, to die, and we stroll out of the system to go on a murder-trip through the region for the rest of the day.
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Failkessie showed up in the news: http://www.eveonline.com/mb2/news.asp?nid=4032
And not surprisingly, but amusingly, it appears they quit EVE.
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Wait, we were just discussing that kill in this thread.
Maybe they read it; no one would report something from 3 years ago.
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Hmm...
So I'm sitting in Rens and I see a WTB contract for like 60,000 units of Toxic Waste for like 550m. So I go to the market and see that much would only cost like about 330m, so I get all excited. I purchase a 60,000 units of toxic waste and go to accept the contract... but it no longer exists. That motherfucker... now I'm stuck with 330m worth of toxic waste.
Then that *snip* offered to buy it all for 10m and I told him to *snip*.
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...that is an excellent scam.
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Yes I was impressed
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I'm not sure how "funny" this is, but I found it rather entertaining at the time.
So, I'm in Cal FW, a while back, and I'm working on a major plex in an arty cane. Val Erian, of course, being the killjoy that he is for us Cal plexers, decides to come bother me in a Dramiel. Of course, I might have provoked this, seeing as I'd warped into one of "his" plexs and promptly annihilated his alt's Griffin with a single volley.
Anyway, this Dramiel is a bit of a problem for me, seeing as I'm arty fit, and can't hit him worth beans, in addition to "forgetting" to bring a neut. Oops. So I'm busily swatting Gallente NPCs while Val buzzes around me trying to break a shield tank and taking pot-shots at my drones whenever I release them.
Now, I wasn't too worried about my shield tank, but it's only a matter of time before the rest of the FDU shows up, and I'm scrammed. Therefore, I called in Yuri Intaki in his hurricane, who, aside from being fit with ACs, had the good sense to bring a neut. Val bails for the moment. A few seconds later, local spikes with Val's alt and a few other Feddies. Soon, on the gate, we see a Nemesis, Claw, Dramiel, and Ishkur. Probably quite capable of taking out a couple of BCs, provided they pop the drones and orbit close.
Too bad, then, that by that time I was a good 60km or so from the warp-in point.
The first to arrive was the Nemesis. He barely had time to decelerate before a volley of 720mm shells deposited him in his pod. The Ishkur showed up next, with a similar result. Val Erian and the Claw pilot, for reasons I fail to understand, elected to respond to this by attempting to close with Yuri Intaki. Our drones promptly ate the neuted Dramiel for breakfast and then finished with a Claw for dessert.
They were not pleased.
To this day, I hope to repeat that encounter. The expressions derived from annihilating a 20 million ISK frigate in a volley or two are, honestly, priceless. But what I've never understood is why Val would lead a group of frigates into a situation like that, seeing as he'd just lost a frigate the exact same way 15 minutes before.
I suppose we all have our off days.
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But what I've never understood is why Val would lead a group of frigates into a situation like that, seeing as he'd just lost a frigate the exact same way 15 minutes before.
I suppose we all have our off days.
FDU plexing efforts were generally ad-hoc affairs based on escalating engagements around plexes. Co-ordinated fleet efforts generally only materialized when FDU/MDP would roll in for a bunker bust.
So yeah, there was usually a degree of 'fog of war' in regards to plex fights.
My hilarious incident was when I was high-sec raiding and popped an AFK STPRO Bustard in Nonni full of ferrogel. I got my favourite hatemail of all time from that where I was told by the poor chap, "I hope you crap out hedgehogs, get cancer of the anus and die"
So I petitioned the mail for RL threats and a few days later got an angry mail from a new char about how it was my fault that his accounts got banned.
I laughed. :D
I also enjoyed the 24IC Bestower that I popped in Amarr and out dropped six Ferox BPO's and a cargohold full of Tech2 and Meta4 Medium and Large lazors. :lol:
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Heh, that reminds me of this one FDU pilot, Juren Coda or something. Anyway, the guy was a fantastic smack-talker and all around jerk.
So I'm doing a(nother) plex in Harroule, and this guy shows up in a Taranis, with friends. Naturally, I warp out, as he has friends and I have a Hawk. The timer sticks (I still don't know why or how it would sometimes do that) and keeps counting down. He promptly goes off on how I'm an exploiter and how he's petitioning me and I'm going to get banned and yada yada.
Meanwhile, I'm fuming in station as chatgris and friends wait outside. Eventually, they give up, and Juren remains orbiting the button. I undock in my favorite arty cane and warp to the plex. Juren is still orbiting there, undoubtedly feeling quite safe from an auto-cane at 67 km.
*POP*
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was a mission, "recon" it's called.
Anyway, it involved getting to an acceleration gate, which I was doing in a shuttle. I activate the gate, and the npcs score a lucky hit, zapping the shuttle.
I see the "ship is out of control" message, and appear in a capsule, at the gate.
The about to explode shuttle however, is nowhere to be seen. o.0
checking directional scan shows a "louella dougan's amarr shuttle wreck", somewhere off grid.
Come back in a new ship, get through the gate, the wreck of the shuttle isn't on that side either. It is somewhere else.
Which means an unpiloted exploding ship warped somewhere and exploded mid-warp. 0.o
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was a mission, "recon" it's called.
Anyway, it involved getting to an acceleration gate, which I was doing in a shuttle. I activate the gate, and the npcs score a lucky hit, zapping the shuttle.
I see the "ship is out of control" message, and appear in a capsule, at the gate.
The about to explode shuttle however, is nowhere to be seen. o.0
checking directional scan shows a "louella dougan's amarr shuttle wreck", somewhere off grid.
Come back in a new ship, get through the gate, the wreck of the shuttle isn't on that side either. It is somewhere else.
Which means an unpiloted exploding ship warped somewhere and exploded mid-warp. 0.o
Lol.