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.

Originally posted by Krashner
That's the kind of thing that would make me uninstall the game, go outside, and cry.

^^^This^^^

Originally posted by adam_nox
how's it even possible to have that that much worth?   and why transport it?  I don't play eve so this probably sounds noobish.

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.

Originally posted by VideoJockey
No sympathy. What did he think would happen? If the value of the ship was that important, why didn't he sell it?

Ah it's not the ship itself that was so valuable but rather his cargo.

"If all the village idiots... left their villages... and formed their own
village... OF IDIOTS... in that village... YOU would be the village
idiot."

ROFLMAO!!!!!  Perfect.

Originally posted by asmkm22
The player has claimed on the forums the he got all of his stuff back, due to his account having been hacked.  Take that for what it's worth, but it would make sense why "he" would have run  through nullsec with a crap ship and a ton of blueprints.

Nope, dont believe it for a second.

CCP is just as merciless as its players.

Originally posted by erictlewis

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.

 

 

If someone posted your kill to a kill board and that board is still active, then yes.

I found one of my deaths from around late 2004, I think it was.

Brought back some memories. Its was from when I helped nut stomp FA (Fountain Alliance) and lost my Scorp to a gate camp on the way back. Thats when losing a BS hurt, my tears tasted bitter that day. LOL

Originally posted by Loke666
Noone can accuse Eve of being mainstream at least...

Originally posted by Kenze

Originally posted by Loke666
Noone can accuse Eve of being mainstream at least...

 

mainstream for a penal colony, maybe

true dat.

Originally posted by Kenze
these Eve things pop up every few weeks.. i think they are just elaborate PR stunts used to garner attention and keep people talking about Eve..

No unfortunately some people just take risks that either through circumstances or maybe just plain stupidity, they wouldnt normally do, personally i wouldnt have undocked with that in cargo unless i was in a carrier and the destination cyno was already lit, and even then i'd be worried about the few seconds after undock before i could jump.. i don't know what the guys circumstances were but they must have been pretty bad. And if you think this is just some PR stunt, then you really don't know Eve..  but your not alone, if there is a harder game to play out there than Eve, i've not seen it.

Originally posted by Hokie

Originally posted by asmkm22
The player has claimed on the forums the he got all of his stuff back, due to his account having been hacked.  Take that for what it's worth, but it would make sense why "he" would have run  through nullsec with a crap ship and a ton of blueprints.

Nope, dont believe it for a second.

CCP is just as merciless as its players.

They really are.

In any case they only give back the stuff that was destroyed, never the stuff that dropped.

Remember that thread about two weeks ago? How tough is EVE? 

This tough.

Originally posted by snapfusion

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.

its still hard to wrap my head around how in game items can be worth so much..

I still cant get over Entropia Universe and how that  guy made $300K selling is in game land.