The title of this post was going to be…
…Day 3 and I still have my Thorax.
Instead, it’s ‘pop, there goes another one’
Interesting night last night and once again more valuable experience gained, not so much in playing the game but definately in understanding the wealth of information thats available and analysing what to do with it.
Had a productive evening ratting in my favourite 0.2 spot but there was an unusual amount of activity of pilots coming through the system. At first, I figured they were pirates on a roam so I kept docking, waiting for the all clear and then heading out again. A quick look at the profile of the pilots showed them to be, on majority, pirates of which there were many big hitters. Playing it safe, as I thought, I would rat, dock, rat etc. After a while I realised that they weren’t on a roam and got a little more comfortable staying out in the belts (aligning to an appropriate object each time someone appeared on local for a quick exit if needed). I figured something big must be happening but they seemed largely indifferent to my being there so clearly I wasn’t an object of their attention. This should have been a warning sign but I didn’t see it.
After boosting my ISK by a few million, I headed back to the station to ascertain the higher value loot to carry back to my home station for selling, loaded up and set off for the small 2 jump back to 0.6 space. Undocked, kicked in the warp drive (to zero for the stargate obviously) and ..
.. jumped straight to a gate camp. This is my first, but I had read a little before hand – I started mashing the jump button and got through. To be caught in the other half of the gate camp on the other side.
Locked in place, I wasn’t going anywhere and resigned myself to death with the hope that I might be able to save my clone.
Pop went the ship. Mash went my finger on the ‘warp the fuck out of here’ button, pop went my pod.
On analysis, I could have at least sent out my drones and attacked the nearest target in the hopes of at least scoring a point for confidence in PVP engagement, but to my dismay I just sat there waiting for the innevitable. Shame really as I had hoped I wouldn’t freeze like this again under attack (there were more flashy red. -9+ pirates here than I had encountered before so was more than a little overwhelmed) and that I would go down fighting. Not on this occasion it would seem.
The shame really isn’t that I’ve lost another Thorax – I’ve built up enough ISK now to not really feel the impact of this, but the loot I was carrying was substantial in it’s worth – roughly 10 mil.
Lesson learned this time? abnormal activity definately requires a quick analysis of the map to look for pod deaths, activity etc for the route home!
Its a long haul, learning the basics of low sec life, but I feel like I’m getting there..
