So yesterday I lost not just one but two hulks. Even at today's reduced markets that's 280M ISK that is now at best some tangled wires and perhaps a armor plate. So what exactly was I doing to loose 2 hulks?!See I am moving my P.I. farm to a nice little pocket of 0.5 space that is tucked away behind a few 0.4 systems. So far I've moved 50% of my P.I. farm and I and making 25% more stuff. Happy times. The only downer is I need to fly all my badger MK1's through there. Sounds like a pain in the ass. I know why not just move my un-loved hulk and some BPO's over there and mine me up some rocks to make a small fleet of badgers. The first light bulb should have went off right here. Lets risk a 150M ISK ship that takes 20 second to align and warp so I can use it to build a fleet of ships worth 2-3M ISK. Back story done. /facepalm
OK so I grabbed a retriever fitted for ice mining. I scouted in a shuttle with my alt and made it through the 2 LowSec systems with no other pilots in local. Time was short so I shuttled back with my main and started on my way through with my hulk. First gate into LowSec I JUST get pointed by a drake. When I say JUST, he must have been sitting there for about 15 seconds before he decided to lock me. Literally as I aligned and built speed and was at 1/2 speed he started to lock and just got the scram on literally as the speed bar was hitting 3/4. Nuff said. All right so I have a tank on the hulk and some T2 drones. Might as well try and get back to the gate and see how my drones do (yeah I was done, but hey might as well make them work for it). So I reproach the gate, activate the tank and launch my 5 Hobgoblin IIs. So lets just say this I lasted 12 volleys from said Drake before I was liberated to my fast pod. He did good bumping me off the gate and my drones did get him down to half Shields. I typed a ":)" in local as I warped out and my wallet flashed for a HUGE 32M ISK insurance. Yeap SOB, you are dumb! Moving on.
So I warped back over to my new pocket and for grins looked to see if there were any hulks for sale. Yeap, 1 hop in highsec from where I was trying to get there was a hulk for sale for 138M ISK. After banging my head on the desk for about 5 mins it was time to start work. I bought the hulk and logged off.
OK flash forward a work day. It's 5:30PM and the last few hours of work have been slow. So I close down the work stuff and log in to EVE for a bit. I grab my Covert Ops (Yeah I know, Scout first you ass) and fly out to my main corp. Office and then Jita to get the replacement fit for the new Hulk. Out there and back no incident. Click warp too, MWD, Cloak. Happy times. I get to my new pocket office. Jump in the pod, get the hulk. OK back at the new office ready to fit. I fit from saved and add a nice new flight of hobgoblin II's. Spiffy and clean. I un-dock to go survey the local rock belts for stuff to mine. Mid warp the cell goes off. It's work and on answering there is a server fire that needs me. At this point I was lost in the situation and forgot about my 150M ISK hulks landing in belt whatever planet who the f**k cares. Anyhow, flash forward 45 mins and I wiggle the mouse on my gaming rig to see my pod floating next to a wreck with the name of my new hulk. It took a while to register what had happened, but 0.5 belt rats with thorn rockets had killed my hulk, which landed with it's active tank off. I was not mad at this point in time. It was just a stellar reminder why EVE is not an AFK sport and requires some focus. It also set a firm message that I should NOT be mining. I had not turned on a mining laser in the last 3 months why should I start now to build 2 badgers.
Anyhow after 260M ISK lost in exhumers in a day. I bought 5 badger MK1's and 2 Iteron I's and flew them through the short LowSec pipe with out a single sight of another ship. I even flew one filled with Advanced Command centers while I scouted with my Covert Ops with out incident.
It will be a long cold day in hell before I see another asteroid belt in a mining ship.
Cheers
EVE SOB
P.S. I welcome all the flames and dumbass comments.
The Happy Times Monster is blowing up your hulks so you come for a visit.
ReplyDeleteI can remember a time when taking a 100M ISK hit would have been a hard blow. 200M ISK would have been a case of rocking back and fourth in a corner. Thanks to the Happy Times Monster I had enough ISK to shrug it off and redeploy 15 P.I. planets. I'll have the ISK back soon enough. I really don't plan to buy another hulk at this point. Honestly it was a big fat string of Stupid on my part and EVE reminding me to be smart.
ReplyDeleteCheers
EVE SOB
While I'm still not as independently wealthy (in-game) as I'd like to be (sadly, not out of game either), at least I don't get the numb feeling from losing a Kestrel with meta 3 launchers anymore; it was "pimped out" as much as I could at the time and I thought I'd never save up another 5 mil to do it again.
ReplyDeleteTimes do change.
No flames, but I obviously can't do much about the dumbass nature of my potential comments. Now or in the future, or past sadly.
ReplyDeleteAll I can really think to say is, Dude! Seriously, Dude!
Well it sounds like you learnt your lesson and won't be doing that again anytime soon.
LOL! When I look back on it all. It is clear I was not firing right. I've moved a ton of stuff in Badger Mk1 back and fourth through the same pipe. Of course now I scout with my Helios and set up mid warp points. The Hilarity is that I flew a badger full of command centers and BPOs worth ~500M ISK and a retriver throguh the same pipe 10mins before I lost hulk #1. Hulk #2 was just a comical merge of RL and warping.
ReplyDeleteActually I think I might buy a 3rd HULK and fly it through Provi for grins.
Cheers
EVE SOB