"I'm a retard" and other stories

[Calantus]

This isn't quite retarded but I just moved my mission runner into Motsu to see if the lag was as bad as everybody says it is, and if not, whether the market and quality was worth it. Since I still can't log him in 1.5 hours after downtime (with a skill ending as of 30 minutes ago) I'd say it's probably not worth the move.

[Reg]

Oh I don't know. Purposely moving your character somewhere you've been told is horrible seems fairly retarded to me. :)

[Gets]

Downtime took a while longer today. My skill was well finished during that time too.

[Hakeldaima]

I learned that lesson the hard way after logging off in Jita.

[Jayce]

What is fairly retarded to me is that CCP is working on station walking and some probably retarded lowsec battlegrounds system when clownshoes like this exists.

It's not like massive concurrency is an unsolvable problem, hard as it may be.

[harmonicker]

Welp, I finally did it.  I got myself concorded n in embarrassing manner as well.

I was on a pew pew op lead by wildcard for.....  forever.  Hours upon hours of chasing reds.  Shooting them with no gameplan n watching them get away time after time.  About 6 hours in, I'd just about totally checked out.  Our last target was a nano gang we'd followed into hed. We sat on a gate for about 20min scanning for cruisers n titans(wildcards orders.)  The # of reds in local spiked n we got the order to run.  We all jump into the next system.

As soon as I load the next grid, I spot two reds within 15km on my pvp overview!  Target lock! Launch drones! Tracking disrupters to maximum!  Attack, drones! Attack!  All of a sudden I hear 3 people in vent go, "who the fuck aggressed?!?"  What?  Omg, I'm 'sploding....  BOOM!!~  after 7 hours in 0.0.  We finally hopped into high sec, n I fucking deaded myself.....

"Welp, that's my cue to go to sleep" I hear across the board.  Everyone autopilots back home, in their ships... cept me.  My fully fitted arbi had been vaporized.  Although, I did find an empty gallente frig along the way....  o_O??  Jacked it, n went on my merry way home.

One day.....  one day.....  I'll stop doing dumb shit.

[Grand Design]

Although, I did find an empty gallente frig along the way....  o_O??  Jacked it, n went on my merry way home.

That was the best part.  Grand Theft Frigate.

[eldaec]

2008.06.03 21:18:00

Victim: Deldrac
Alliance: Aegis Militia
Corp: Bat Country
Destroyed: Dominix
System: Nuken
Security: 0.8
Damage Taken: 34952

Involved parties:

Name: Defeater Alvatis / Unknown (laid the final blow)
Damage Done: 34952

Fecking neut drones.

[Morat20]

2008.06.03 21:18:00

Victim: Deldrac
Alliance: Aegis Militia
Corp: Bat Country
Destroyed: Dominix
System: Nuken
Security: 0.8
Damage Taken: 34952

Involved parties:

Name: Defeater Alvatis / Unknown (laid the final blow)
Damage Done: 34952

Fecking neut drones.

They neuted down your tank? What were your drones doing?

[eldaec]

The pocket has you warp in out of drone range, web you from a bunch of towers, and start neuting you from another bunch of towers.

All the towers are too far away to sic my drones, so I'm switching to long range ammo to try to take out some statis towers. Eventually I get in range, and at about the same time the cap runs dry, I send the Ogres off to do their thing, but they aren't fast about flying anywhere, and I got lazy and figured a small fucking drone would never be able to eat through amour and structure, even without my hardeners or tank......

Turns out that I suck at internet spaceships 

[Morat20]

The pocket has you warp in out of drone range, web you from a bunch of towers, and start neuting you from another bunch of towers.

All the towers are too far away to sic my drones, so I'm switching to long range ammo to try to take out some statis towers. Eventually I get in range, and at about the same time the cap runs dry, I send the Ogres off to do their thing, but they aren't fast about flying anywhere, and I got lazy and figured a small fucking drone would never be able to eat through amour and structure, even without my hardeners or tank......

Turns out that I suck at internet spaceships 

How far is "too far"? I'm kind of surprised they can neut you from outside your drone range -- in a Domi, you should be able to send drones 60 to 85k.

I actually think I've done that mission. I dropped Wardens and ate the towers.

[eldaec]

One short trip to Jita later, a very similar Dominix melted the towers straight away using sentry drones as you suggest.

But I don't have EW drone interfacing yet, and hadn't fitted a link extender thing - so my range is 40k, towers were at 50k, and 10k is a long way at 10 metres per second. 

[IainC]

One short trip to Jita later, a very similar Dominix melted the towers straight away using sentry drones as you suggest.

But I don't have EW drone interfacing yet, and hadn't fitted a link extender thing - so my range is 40k, towers were at 50k, and 10k is a long way at 10 metres per second. 

PvE Domi without a Drone Link Augmenter is ... bizarre. What were you fitting instead?

[Morat20]

One short trip to Jita later, a very similar Dominix melted the towers straight away using sentry drones as you suggest.

But I don't have EW drone interfacing yet, and hadn't fitted a link extender thing - so my range is 40k, towers were at 50k, and 10k is a long way at 10 metres per second. 

Even without EW drone interfacing, Drone Navigation (or is scout drone operation?) should extend your range past 40k.

Still, any PvE Domi should have a drone link augmentor. "Which drones to use" is sort of iffy. I use Wardens on anything between 25k and 70k, unless they're clustered together (say, chasing me as I run in the opposite direction) in which case I use size appropriate ones.

Mediums I'll happily send out to 20k, and if I'm chasing anything smaller than a battlecruiser I'll think nothing of sending lights out to 40k or beyond. Mostly I use Wardens for distant targets because I'm shooting BCs and BS's at range, and mediums take too long to kill them.

[IainC]

One short trip to Jita later, a very similar Dominix melted the towers straight away using sentry drones as you suggest.

But I don't have EW drone interfacing yet, and hadn't fitted a link extender thing - so my range is 40k, towers were at 50k, and 10k is a long way at 10 metres per second. 

Even without EW drone interfacing, Drone Navigation (or is scout drone operation?) should extend your range past 40k.

Still, any PvE Domi should have a drone link augmentor. "Which drones to use" is sort of iffy. I use Wardens on anything between 25k and 70k, unless they're clustered together (say, chasing me as I run in the opposite direction) in which case I use size appropriate ones.

Mediums I'll happily send out to 20k, and if I'm chasing anything smaller than a battlecruiser I'll think nothing of sending lights out to 40k or beyond. Mostly I use Wardens for distant targets because I'm shooting BCs and BS's at range, and mediums take too long to kill them.

I use Ogre IIs on everything except very fast stuff at close range (Spider Drones, inties etc). At long range I can pop even AFs with my guns (Navy 350mm Rails) and with decent skills heavy drones can hit small stuff as long as the radial isn't too extreme. Hammerhead IIs will instapop anything that's too fast for the Ogres to catch. Sentries are nice for a static camp but if you are mobile they can cramp your style a bit.

I engage at 130km, get full aggro and send the drones off to kill anything that still alive at 80km in. Depending on the mission I can often get full stage aggro and not take any damage at all due to killing everything before it gets to effective weapons range.

[Phildo]

bearing in mind that a drone tracking computer will give you a boost to your sentries' optimal range, making bouncers or even curators useful at 50-75km as well for sniping.

[eldaec]

One short trip to Jita later, a very similar Dominix melted the towers straight away using sentry drones as you suggest.

But I don't have EW drone interfacing yet, and hadn't fitted a link extender thing - so my range is 40k, towers were at 50k, and 10k is a long way at 10 metres per second. 

PvE Domi without a Drone Link Augmenter is ... bizarre. What were you fitting instead?

I'm using this to mission grind on level3s atm, and it has been very rare that any bad guys are outside of the 40k range for more than a minute or so at warp in.

If I were doing level 4s or ratting with drones and needed to use range tanking maybe things would be different, but as it stands I feel I get more time saved filling the highs with guns, tractors, and salvagers.

More drone range is on the vague list of things to train at some point, but this is the first time lack of control range ever caused a problem tbh.

[DKGafgar]

I registered here specifically to post in this topic for a reason.

So. I hear about the 24 hour downtime for EA deployment. Being the dumb Texan that I am, I decide to train a 2 hour skill really quick, then get a 24+ hour one going during the downtime.

If you're thinking this sounds like a similar story earlier in this topic, you're right. I forgot to account for EVEtime NOT being the same as Texas time. By my calculations my skill finished training less than ten minutes after the downtime started.

[Jayce]

First post in the "I"m a retard" section shows unparalleled humility and perspective.  I applaud you sir!

[DKGafgar]

Many thanks. Did I tell you about the time I flew a Bestower headlong into a gate camp because I thought my Warp Core Stabilizer (note the singular form) would protect me?

[bhodi]

I needed to get a new skillbook so I podded myself to empire and back down to 0.0.

I forgot to upgrade my clone before I podded back.

I lost 4 days of training on WUV :/

[ajax34i]

On Saturday:  Ok cool, train this 1 day 22 hour skill, then I can train that other 5 day skill and be good for downtime plus whatever delays they may have.

On Monday at 6 PM, after work:  Ok well my skill still has 1 hr to go, but I should log in, read the news, check the market...  WTF!  They started the patch already!?!  Wait, when was that supposed to start...  oh, 2 AM their time, which was about an hour ago.  Doh! 

[nurtsi]

I wish I could afford to PVP with ships like this

http://omgloler.com/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1185 

[Thrawn]

I wish I could afford to PVP with ships like this

http://omgloler.com/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1185 

  indeed, I'm gonna have to set that thing up on EFT when I get home and peek at the stats.

Imagine being the one to open his wreck.

[IainC]

I wish I could afford to PVP with ships like this

http://omgloler.com/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1185 

No drones in bay and the only thing with a point on him was a frigate - he deserved to die.

[Amarr HM]

If he died with his drones undocked they won't show on a killmail and also wouldn't show who had point and who didn't, I'd imagine nearly all the ships had a point on him in the end.

[Thrawn]

So a real-life friend of mine started playing EvE a few months ago after I showed him the game.  I tried to push him to us but I just couldn't convince him to get out of empire.  He is so far much more into industry/trading and joined up with a industrial corp.  So I dropped him a bunch of isk to get started and gave him tips whenever he seemed to need em.  My last chat with him last week or so he had a lot of complaints about his corp and of course I started spewing to him all the upsides of the corp I'm running in but in the end he stayed where he is.

Then yesterday I looked him up on the Battleclinic killboard...he had one loss of a frigate and the fitting was horrifying to say the least.  I'm talking 2 missile launcher, 1 arty, 2 autocannons, shield booster, armor repairer, warp stab.  So I'm thinking "WTF is this corp teaching this poor guy."

I peek at the corp losses and most of the fittings are almost as bad, such as -

http://www.battleclinic.com/eve_online/pk/view.php?type=corp&name=X+Phoenix+X&id=3490615&page=2&filter=losses#fitting
http://www.battleclinic.com/eve_online/pk/view.php?type=corp&name=X+Phoenix+X&id=3381350&page=1&filter=losses#fitting

I will definitely be giving my buddy a call tonight.

[Grand Design]

This thread needs a bump, and a semi-retarded story.

I just logged into Eve.  At the character selection screen, I notice that I'm several systems away from where I logged off last night.  Odd.  Then I notice that I'm about 100 million short in ISK.  Ok, wtf - database rollback?  I go to log in and bitch, but it tells me Mista is loading and to wait!

/faceslap

I need to label my Singularity icon more clearly.  It took me two solid panicky minutes to realize what I had done.

[Amarr HM]

This thread needs a bump, and a semi-retarded story.

I just logged into Eve....

Hah I also did that once good story.

[Endie]

More "He's a retard".  In GF, like many alliances, we don't put up with the sort of alliance-email sprawl that AM did, mainly because we use the alliance forums so much.  New players pick this up 99.9% of the time.  But the other 0.1%?  This was in alliance email this morning.

2008.08.13 05:35

still getting situated here when you mean alliance you mean non goon swarm right?

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2008.07.16 02:11
New rule. You send an alliance mail or respond to an alliance mail, you owe GoonFleet 100m isk. You don't pay it within 24 hours, you're out. Period.

Who uses alliance email to ask for clarification on getting thrown out for sending alliance emails?  He's a newbie, so he'd better be hella :shobon: ("awww... cute newbie") to raise 100m.

[Endie]

I got my carrier blown up XD  By Ushra Khan of all people.

They appeared in system when the tower had a few minutes left, so I cloaked, then ctrl-Qed to log-offski.  Then I logged back in, cloaked at a safe and waited to see if they would return.  This was dumb.  They did return, and I logged off, but i will still have been aggroed from the minute when they were shooting at me before.  So I died.  Doh.  I should have stayed logged in and cloaked at my very good safespot.  Or I should not have logged in at all: if it had been my own tower I wouldn't have vOv.

I'm not, I have to say, that worked up about it: I'm only out by about 350 million since I thought I would lose it in the next couple of weeks and insured it anyway. The most annoying thing is that I'll have to post it to the alliiance killboard, which on top of our less than stellar ops attendance so far doesn't make us look good.  This was the very last load after six days of constant bloody hauling though - 90 cynos with a full load for half of them -  and pretty much tops off the shittiest week of Eve evah 

[Grand Design]

Damn.  Condolences.  This would probably be a good time to mention that I'm grateful for all you've been doing, especially this past week.  I'm sure that goes for the rest of the corp as well.



So ... names?   

[Viin]

Doh!

Were you taking the tower down?

[Endie]

Doh!

Were you taking the tower down?

Yep. the very last trip 

[Ninja Sportz]

well atleast now you dont have to worry about making anymore more carrier runs...