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Player Loses Tiny Ship Worth Over $6,000
Kassina
Member UncommonPosts: 29
in EVE Online
As title say, poor guy 
Record breaking lol
Quote:
"Today's kill may be the largest confirmed kill of any ship in EVE's history and could even be the most expensive character death in any MMO to date."
Player Who Lost stewie Zanjoahir:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=14947130
You guys can read here:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/22/eve-online-player-loses-tiny-ship-worth-over-6-000/
Comments
Ahh Shucks, I'll buy him a Beer.
MAGA
Im pretty sure you have lost touch with reality, common sense, priorities, self worth, and the existance of gaming as a recreational hobby all in one statement.
You cant possibly believe its "golden" for a human being to have invested and lost 6k in a computer game. If so then you have solidified my first sentence.
Best gaming memories are made with high highs, or low lows. In this case both the winners and loser of the loot have some pretty vivid memories. Not to mention all future and potential and current players who hear this story. Questioning my morality is harsh.
It wasn't the value of the ship,it was the cargo that was so valuable.
He tried to transport a cargo full of expensive blue prints through null sec using a cheap and fast frigate probably thinking that nobody would consider him valuable therefore having a higher chance to pass.It didn't happen.
It's really no difference then thinking some guy going to Vegas and losing 6k is somehow golden. Pity, and a little bit of compassion for someone who obviously has some self control issues seems a little more in order here. I have to question anyone's wiring who thinks another persons lose is somehow cool.
Aren't there gate camps that will kill you regardless what you fly? Possibly T2 Frig or BS wouldn't have made a difference.
Everyone in EvE would refer to this as "jackpot". No sympathy from that community.
Huh? He didn't spend 6k on the game he lost 213,000,000,000 isk which is estimated to be able to buy about 6k worth of eve plex (gametime). So, I don't really see the morality issue over saying a game is good because you can lose a large chunk of in game currency (that also has some monetary value) if you take the risk of transporting that much value in one trip through a ffa pvp area.
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If someone went to vegas and lost 10k in wow gold (which is basically what happened in the article, he did not lose 6 thousand dollars) then you would be more on par with the analogy.
Any reason he didnt have nano internals or whatever the equivilant T2 version is, so he could align faster?
I mean in a way I understand the Atron, its not as conspicuous as a T2 'cepter...but still.
Ohh yeah....
AHAHAHAHA!!!!
I bet those tears are the sweetest nectar those three have ever tasted.
"I understand that if I hear any more words come pouring out of your **** mouth, Ill have to eat every fucking chicken in this room."
He didnt spend 6k real money on the game, if he did it would have been sad, but this is not the case. He didnt loose real money at all. The real money value was just calculated for the article so that people could understand that this was a big "ingame" loss. If he wanted to, he could have sold those items that he lost for the same amount of ISK that someone could have bought playtime for with real money, but he could in no way shape or form (legally that is) sell those items for real money, so he didnt loose shit.
wow did you read all the stuff in the cargo bay, what kind of idiot carries all that in his cargo bay. Talk abut getting caught with your pants down.
You know what they say in even never fly what you cant replace. I wonder if my death back in october of 2008 got regestered, was in navula killing rats and got jumped by some of the local slime and got poded, and lost a raven in the process not a fun day.
^^^This^^^
He was in zero sec, basically an area where tens of thousands of players battle for control of territory and resourses. Its far from any NPC space stations. There are player stations but if an enemy takes it over you dont have access to anything youve left there.
So my guess is he was trying to get his shit out and got capped at a bubbled gate camp. That is a very fast ship thats hard to target.
It was a good plan, that is till it failed. LOL
Edit.
And those are blueprints. You cant build anything in EVE without one. And you can research that blueprint so you can make the item for less materials and in less time. So the value was probably even higher that what is listed.
Its not like the crafting in most MMO's, its closer to true production.
Edit x2
Maybe I should explaine value a little better.
The first item on the list is an Armageddon "battleship" blueprint, so I'll use that. Im going to use rounded numbers as it simplifies things.
Lets say a built 'Geddon BS (Armageddon battleship) sells for 100M isk. And a player says "I want to make an sell those".
He has to purchase a BP (blueprint), and lets say that costs 800M. So in theory it would take 8 sales to break even. Remember EVE players, this is simplified.
NOT!
Because in reality it will cost 70M in materials, so its closer to 27 sales to just break even.
So a person can research "material effiency" to reduce the amount of materials it takes to produce one 'Geddon BS which raises the 800M base value of that BP.
So in the end Im sure the value of what he lost was actually about 15%-20% higher.
"I understand that if I hear any more words come pouring out of your **** mouth, Ill have to eat every fucking chicken in this room."
Ah it's not the ship itself that was so valuable but rather his cargo.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
You make me like charity