EVE is a cruel game. A single misclick of the mouse can have truly aweful consequences. Forget to upgrade your clone? Hello again, Advanced Weapon Upgrades V. Forget to opt out of fleet warp? Hello point blank range in a sniper fit ship.
Of all the ways a capsuleer can misclick, perhaps none is as soul-destroying as a Titan pilot that clicks "Jump" instead of "Bridge". They suddenly find themselves somewhere they shouldn't be, often with other people taking advantage of the mistake to pick up an easy titan kill.
So it was that Missin Uitra became the latest Titan pilot to fall victim to what Rooks and Kings have appropriately coined "pink elephant" syndrome, sounding the death knell of his 108b ISK deadspace- and faction-fit Erebus.
Circle of Two was busy doing their thing when they caught the eye of Out of Sight, who promptly decided to bridge a fleet in and join in the fun. Missin misclicked his bridge and jumped his Erebus into the fray on a BORA structure instead. Seeing this tasty elephant arrive on-field, CO2 and BORA immediately tackled him. Out Of Sight rallied to save their stricken Titan and managed to clear tackle, allowing the Erebus escape to his home system of N5Y-4N in NPC Venal as more HICS arrived in system.
Sadly for this Missin, his exit cyno was spotted by a CFC scout who promptly lit his own Cyno to call in the cavalry. Goonswarm Federation, along with Fidelas Constans, CO2, and Tactical Narcotics Squad, rained into system with over 30 dreads and 30 assorted carriers and supercarriers to put an end to this Erebus' adventures.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
Nyx's get nixed.
In a rather unfortunate turn of events, two spuercaps died within hours of each other. Mostly due to poor tactical choices by their respective pilots. One BL Nyx was downed by a bomber run in Nakis.
The travel fit Nyx was hit by a mixed groups of stealth bombers in Nakis on Oct 30th. The most embarrassing thing about this kill is the complete lack of any substantive tackle on the attacking fleet's side. Which leads one to wonder how this even happened.
To quote the apparent owner of the ship:
And just to pour some salt in the wound. . .
Nyx 2 was even stranger. A Nyx was sitting on a POS in GE- apparently with no FF on the POS, and even though the Nyx was fit for combat, it lacked any serious protection in the form of bombers, drones, or subcap support. And was just happily camping out assigning fighters. Not that any of that matters when you get dropped on by a dozen titans of various makes. It seems PL wanted to exploit a golden opportunity to cause some chaos in one the most infamous systems in Catch for lulz.
The travel fit Nyx was hit by a mixed groups of stealth bombers in Nakis on Oct 30th. The most embarrassing thing about this kill is the complete lack of any substantive tackle on the attacking fleet's side. Which leads one to wonder how this even happened.
To quote the apparent owner of the ship:
And just to pour some salt in the wound. . .
Nyx 2 was even stranger. A Nyx was sitting on a POS in GE- apparently with no FF on the POS, and even though the Nyx was fit for combat, it lacked any serious protection in the form of bombers, drones, or subcap support. And was just happily camping out assigning fighters. Not that any of that matters when you get dropped on by a dozen titans of various makes. It seems PL wanted to exploit a golden opportunity to cause some chaos in one the most infamous systems in Catch for lulz.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
KIllFails 1: MLU Thanatos
Around 1830 EvE time on the 23rd October 2014, a Thanatos Carrier belonging to Thorncord, CEO of the BOX of PANDORA, was destroyed in wormhole space by a small group of mining ships, including 2 Coveters, 15 Ventures and a couple of industrials.
As you can see, the Thanatos is not exactly fit to what we would call ‘correct’ specifications. I’m not quite sure what the Mining Laser Upgrade I’s were meant to accomplish with no mining lasers on the ship. Maybe he thought they would affect his 20 mining drones? The only drones he happened to be carrying.
Strangely AXIOS., the alliance that managed to snag this kill in what is undoubtedly a solely PVP fit ‘mining fleet’ also declined to comment. However the fact that they were grinding POS structures in the same wormhole just hours before points to the fact that this Thanatos may have been caught on log in to a previously friendly, and now missing, POS.
Here is what is going on in my imagination when trying to figure out how this kill happened.
An AXIOS hauler may have been scooping POS modules and happened to have a PVP fit, maybe a scram and tank. When the Thanatos landed, the hauler pilot got tackle and called in his friends, telling them he was in a hauler with a tackle on a carrier.
The FC decided, for comedic value, to get the rest of his fleet to ship into battle ventures and a couple of coveters. He then jumped them in and killed the Thanatos. Considering it was totally unable to tank or defend itself, why not? This is all pure conjecture of course so take it with a whole lick of salt.
I don’t think it was a planned roam due to the fact that no other kills, or indeed losses were noted. Also as mentioned above, the AXIOS group were attacking POS in the system mere hours earlier.
Whatever happened, it has made for a very entertaining kill mail.
As you can see, the Thanatos is not exactly fit to what we would call ‘correct’ specifications. I’m not quite sure what the Mining Laser Upgrade I’s were meant to accomplish with no mining lasers on the ship. Maybe he thought they would affect his 20 mining drones? The only drones he happened to be carrying.
Strangely AXIOS., the alliance that managed to snag this kill in what is undoubtedly a solely PVP fit ‘mining fleet’ also declined to comment. However the fact that they were grinding POS structures in the same wormhole just hours before points to the fact that this Thanatos may have been caught on log in to a previously friendly, and now missing, POS.
Here is what is going on in my imagination when trying to figure out how this kill happened.
An AXIOS hauler may have been scooping POS modules and happened to have a PVP fit, maybe a scram and tank. When the Thanatos landed, the hauler pilot got tackle and called in his friends, telling them he was in a hauler with a tackle on a carrier.
The FC decided, for comedic value, to get the rest of his fleet to ship into battle ventures and a couple of coveters. He then jumped them in and killed the Thanatos. Considering it was totally unable to tank or defend itself, why not? This is all pure conjecture of course so take it with a whole lick of salt.
I don’t think it was a planned roam due to the fact that no other kills, or indeed losses were noted. Also as mentioned above, the AXIOS group were attacking POS in the system mere hours earlier.
Whatever happened, it has made for a very entertaining kill mail.
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