Freezehunter Rage Quit

So this guy called Freezehunter lost a T1 hauler near a gate full of expensive stuff, about 1.2 billion ISK of expensive stuff, and then bitches about it on the forums.

I'll link the loss mail (the loot fairies were NOT kind to the ganker) and his rant below.

First lets explore what he did wrong.

He assumed high security space was safe.

He carried a large amount of high value ISK items in a low tanking ship.

He assumed his tank would be able to withstand an attack.

He bitched about it on the forums.

Finally he confused the general Eve Online forum population with people who would give a damn.

How could he have done it better?

A tanked Orca would have been a vast improvement, failing that a freighter.  If possible fly the ship to the destination rather (this looked like a courier contract though) than carry it as cargo.  Don't go via known ganking routes.  Use a second account to scout the way.

At the end of the day his loss is 95% his fault.

Loss mail > http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=19901119#ixzz2X5W5JNyg

Forum post > https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=251808&find=unread

Forum post text is below:

I quit the game over this death, permanently, been playing since 2007.

I was doing a 2 billion collateral, 3.5 million ISK reward, 5 EMPIRE jump courier contract because I was bored out of my mind and decided to have a nice evening playing Eve and doing couriers to help people and make a little money too, because it's been my main chillout game since 2007.

I got scanned as I started aligning and when I landed on the gate AT ZERO, I got instapopped by a Tornado BEFORE I GOT TO JUMP, that is less than 2 ******* seconds.

I lost over 2 billion ISK instantly in a 1.0 system, while transporting cargo in a TANKED cargo ship with a supposed 21000 HP buffer/semiactive tank and level 5 tanking skills in all tanking types.

To me this is an absolute load of bullshit and because of this I have decided to give all my remaining assets (about 800 mil worth and ISK (2.76 billion) to Chribba and gave Freezehunter to a RL friend, as it is my only character.

I planned to give Freeze to Chribba at first because deleting a 87 million SP char is kind of a waste but he said no.

When you lose 2 billion to an instalocking instakilling ship that costs about 80 million fitted, in a 1.0 system, you know it is about ******* time to finally quit the game you've been wasting money on since 2007.

So long and thanks for all the bullshit, meanwhile, I have pledged over 400 dollars to Star Citizen and I am glad to finally kick the habit of paying for a second job.

Let the circlejerk commence.

This account expired a few days ago and my friend has not played yet, I am using Hours for PLEX to write this.

Feel free to ban me. And also **** You. If you don't believe me, just ask Chribba.

Edit: I almost forgot to mention, a big **** YOU to all the morons that didn't believe me when I said Dust would be an epic failure and a waste of money a year ago, it has less than 5000 players and the next console gen is about to come out. Congratulations on failing in an epic way CCP.

Edit2: Another big **** you to any moron that says that I didn't take proper precautions and that I expected 100% safety, learn to ******* read, I HAD AN ACTIVATED 21000 HP TANK AND STILL GOT INSTAKILLEDD EVEN THOUGH I WAS FLYING MANUALLY AND WARPED TO ZERO.

Edit3: the "lel" and ridicule posts in this thread are a perfect example of why this community has always sucked massive **** and why I will be having actual fun playing Star Citizen in 2 years, while your numbers here dwindle more and more and CCP makes another **** up and goes bankrupt ,enjoy this bullshit while it lasts, personally I still think that having less than 400k total accounts after 10 years is an epic failure.

You are the most **** community I have ever seen in online gaming, and I have been playing online games since 1994, it is as if Eve has all the sociopaths and junk that the other MMOS have banned and filtered out, enjoy your circle jerk and gate camping and blob **** fests while they still last...

Edit4: LOL, apparently I fail miserably at Eve because I only had 5 billion ISK because that is what games are all about, right, jewing it up... **** off.

Also, yes, I was hauling in a normal, TANKED hauler because I only had to do FIVE ******* JUMPS THROUGH HIGH SEC. Don't try to tell me I am a bad player or other bullshit just because i didn't spend 300 million on a blockade runner to move **** through HIGH SEC, I had a reasonable expectation of SAFETY when I tanked the ******* thing up to 21000 EHP for a normal HIGH SEC run.

I've done way more dangerous runs through low sec, null and wormholes in blockade runners perfectly fine, and survived no problem. Do don't ******* try to blame this bullshit on me, it's a game mechanic problem when a ship that is worth ******* nothing can kill 2+ billion worth of **** in under 2 seconds. **** off with trying to justify this bullshit. Haulers are crap and T3 BCs are broken as **** and do way more than they should for their price, but CCP has started on the path to making this game totally noob friendly 2 years ago, so that any tard that started the game 2 months ago can instakill someone that has 87 million SP and has paid for and played the game since 200 ******* 7. You keep defending this bullshit, meanwhile someone else is going to get a lot of money from me for making a way more fun and superior game because I've had it up to HERE with this unbalanced crap.

I am not one to ***** and moan about ship losses as i've lost PLENTY of **** since 2007, it's just that losing so much money in such a ******** way to such a young alt in such a cheap but OP as **** ship/ship type pisses me the **** off.

And I don't give a **** what anyone says, 21000 HP should not just ******* melt to ONE volley from ONE instalocking, gatecamping ship.

Last edit, I'm off to have some actual fun in ARMA 3.

OK, for real now, last edit: Star Citizen can not fail within the next 2 years because that is when it will launch and considering it is crowd funded and already has almost 11 million dollars and it is not even out yet, I am pretty sure you are wrong. I spent over 400 dollars on it for a reason and I usually never make bad calls when it comes to money. Except for in games with **** balancing and game mechanics of course, and we all know which game I am talking about.

Raving and Drooling

It is a Murder of Crows.

A Parliament of Owls.

I couldn't care less.

Not, "I could care less".

When did that statement come into common use?

I want to find the little fucktard that first said "I could care less" and nuke that person and everybody around it in a five mile radius.

Yeah I said it.

So today I bumped some ice miners, gathered some tears and Support Ticket creation opportunities.

Good Times!

Tried some PVP with RvB, almost had my arse handed to me by three red dudes who were a bit trigger happy.  What happened to the love guys?  The LOVE?  Oh yeah they were red and I was blue, fine.

Even though my RvB character, icon, player, avatar, WOFTAM, is in an expendable ship I don't like losing them.  It's probably a hold over from the null security days, which seem like many days ago now.

It's really cold here at the moment, well for us it is.  I reach for a jumper if it drops below twenty Celsius.  The last few nights we've had single figures overnight.  That's right people it dropped to nine degrees!  I'm all rugged up as I'm fairly far north in the land of XXXX and the house has no heater, doesn't need one.  Wish it had one now.

On the plus side with the rooms so cool the computer is operating really well...touch wood.

I've jinxed it haven't I?

New System Requirements For Eve

CCP have updated the minimum required computer specifications for Eve Online.

This obviously doesn't mean your computer that works today will not work tomorrow.  What it actually does is steer people in a direction with their computer and parts purchases to hopefully improve their Eve Online experience.

One of the items mentioned is official support for Windows 8.  I've been using Eve Online on a 32bit Windows 8 installation for quite a while now with no issues at all, but I knew it wasn't officially supported.  Happily I'm able to support myself but it's nice knowing the CCP support will now be there should I ever need it.

NEW SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR EVE

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NEW SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR EVE
19.06.2013 16:58 By CCP Zorba | Comments

TL;DR: As of July 10, 2013, we’re changing the minimum and recommended system specifications for EVE Online and adding official Windows 8 support. On Windows, minimum system is now a AMD X2600 or NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GPU, and a dual core CPU @ 2.0 GHz. Recommended system is an AMD Radeon 6790 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 GPU, and a quad core CPU @ 2.0 GHz. The specifications are somewhat higher on the Mac.

In order to make EVE Online's second decade even more beautiful than its first, we need to update the minimum and recommended system specifications. You can check out the exact specs here, and read on for more information. We've completed extensive performance testing of the new specs to ensure a good user experience.

There are three important reasons for these changes:
First, some of the old hardware is or will soon be unsupported. For example, as of the R310 driver update NVIDIA’s minimum supported hardware will be the GeForce 8 series.
Second, the old hardware is difficult to find. If we cannot find the hardware to test our game, we cannot guarantee a smooth player experience.
Finally, EVE looks better than it did when we last updated these specifications, and some amount of that is due to more complex graphics. We cannot release more shiny and keep our performance the same in all cases. Note however that Windows min spec has changed relatively little; we make these graphical updates optional where possible.

And two specific call-outs:
Mac users: Because the Mac's drivers are not well tuned, and our Mac client is not a native client, the minimum and recommend specs are beefier than Windows. As you Mac players know, this update has been a long time coming, and the game should run more reliably on the specified hardware.
AMD users: For a long time, the minimum/recommended AMD cards were not matched to their NVIDIA counterparts. They are equivalent now.

Our numbers tell us these changes will affect a small number of people, and we'd also like to stress that you can still try and run the game with unsupported hardware, we just can't guarantee a good experience.

And in the spirit of not only saying goodbye to the old but also saying hello to the new, we're officially supporting Windows 8. If you play on Windows 8 and experience any client problems, we really want to know about them!

CCP Zorba, CCP Explorer, and CCP Vertex

War Dec Round Up

Recently I was a bit bored in high security space and also pissed off at the hordes of mining bots I was seeing.

A deadly combination...for them!

The first war dec was against Qvestworld (QVW) who I'd spotted as a botting ice mining operation.  I managed eighteen kills against mining barges and frigates for no loss.  I must have hit him between times he checked what was going on and they didn't react to the war dec, didn't react to ships of the same corp dying right next to them, didn't warp off pods, and finally, didn't drop all pilots from the corp at the same time.

Eventually he must have come online and was aghast at the devastation I'd wrought for he then placed a bounty against me personally and also against the corp.  Bless him.

Total kill value:   515 Million ISK
Total bounty:      130 Million ISK
Total target ISK lost: 645 Million ISK 


Total WGP loss value:  0 Million ISK
Total WGP bounty and loot gained:  approx 100 Million ISK

QVW's member roster is below, some are yet to re-join the corporation but they are slowly.

The second war dec was against Artturii Industries.  Zero ISK was lost on either side as they just logged off for the duration, and I've yet to see many login again after the Odyssey expansion.  Draw your own conclusions.

The third war dec was against Advanced Solution, again zero ISK was lost but for a different reason.  Some of their corp jumped into starter corps, but most didn't.  Then I started receiving eve mails from various parties in other corps trying to make the war dec go away.  Way to give valuable intel guys!  Finally I let the dec expire as not much was happening.  Since then, again post Odyssey, not many of them have logged in, again you can draw your own conclusions.

One thing I forgot about was the increased war dec cost against corporations, minimum of 50 million ISK compared to the old 4 million ISK, it was a surprise but not a critical one.

Odyssey seems to have stumped the ice mining bot runners for now, what will be interesting is for how long this situation remains.

Considering MintChip

Next to where I have my computers I have an outside area which has a semi transparent roof.  On this roof, most afternoons lately, it has become a pigeon shagging destination.  For something else that I do I sometimes have to record voice audio, and it's hard when they're banging away like the end of the world is soon.

Which for a pigeon it probably is.

In a strange way this brings me to the MintChip saga of the last few days.  As written here and literally viewed by SOME people, I linked to various bits of the outrage, the outrage her hiring has caused.

I've been thinking about the reasons for this outrage.  Is it because she is female?  Is it because she has shown the fleshy parts of her body we would not normally be able to see?  Is it because she plays Eve Online and has some knowledge about the subject?

Ideally if you outlined all those points, attached them to a random female image from the internet, one who hasn't hit every branch of the ugly tree, you'd probably have the description of an ideal partner.

Is she not female enough?  Is she not pretty enough?  Is the knowledge inadequate?

It seems very disingenuous to be complaining about the first two, not that this would have stopped people in the past.  So is it the third option?

DUST514, for that's what she has been hired for, is a much more recent creation than Eve Online so the history is not nearly as detailed.  However it does exist in the Eve Online universe so some knowledge of the history of Eve would be required.  Does she lack that?

It's difficult to know where all the forum rage is coming from, we must not forget the fact that the vast percentage of people playing Eve Online don't post on the forums or even view them.

At the end of the day we have to put a certain level of trust in CCP, we essentially do already as they have control over the game we enjoy, and assume they've seen something of use (to the game) in MintChip, and like any other employee if she doesn't work out they'll turf her into the nearest volcano.

Or just politely show her the door.

You never can tell with the Icelanders.