Askgar

This is a pre-emptive blog post given that sometime soon (within the hour I would imagine) it will show up on the kill boards.

Yes, I lost my second Tengu.

This time I managed it without even getting it to the character that would fly it.

I was hoping that sitting and watching, moving to each gate directly and not going afk would save me from this happening but apparently I was wrong.  Another expensive loss BUT it happens, I’m over it already and the only thing that annoyed me is that more of the loot wasn’t blown up.

I’ll link the kill mail when it shows but again, I’ve learnt and next time I will fly my main TO Jita, buy and fit the Tengu, the fly it BACK to the hole.

And please, noone tell me how I shouldn’t fly that value of cargo around in a ship like that, I know, I’ve explained up above and I don’t need anyone to tell me how stupid I am!

I was hoping to keep this a secret for a but longer but after DotLan ratted me out with a ship loss in our wormhole I had to admit to my corp mate that yes, it was my ship and no, its wasn’t my Drake or Noctis  (the other ships I usually fly in the hole).

So without further ado, I present to you… How (to lose/I lost) a Tengu in 2 hours.

1. Purchase a Tengu and fit it well enough to solo C3 sites, despite living in a C2 wormhole.
2. Fly it back to said wormhole.
3. Fly to the POS to grab some ammo.
4. Scan a site down to test out the Tengu
5. Clear site while thinking, this requires a bit more attention than a Drake to make sure the Shield Booster is only on when needed.
6. Bring in the Noctis to pick up loot.
7. Warp to another site, hoping to repeat steps 5 and 6.
8. Get to the last wave, an Advanced Sleeper Battleship with NOS.
9. Fall asleep for an unknown (short) amount of time.
10. Open eyes to see a pod on screen.
11. Think “Hey, why am I in a pod”
12. Think “Why would a player come in and shoot me but not kill my pod”
13. Notice Sleeper BS.
14. Sudden realization of  what happened.
15. Warp to a safe to log in embarrassment, and hoping no one notices.
16. Realize there is a lot of valuable loot left in the site.
17. Get Drake  to finish clearing site.
18. Get Noctis to salvage the site, slight tear in the eye when I rip apart the Tengu for anything I can salvage from it.
19. Warp back to POS then log, thinking you got away with it because no one said anything.

So where do I go from here? I could simply buy another one, swallow the loss and move on.  However I don’t think that option quite sums up the stupidity of  what I’ve done.  I am currently weighing up between buying another one, BUT repaying myself in the PLEX I’d have to sell to buy it, before I can buy anything else again (except ammo), OR, making myself do sites in a Drake until I can afford another Tengu without spending a PLEX.

However, I have learnt from this.

1. If I’m tired, bring out the Drake, its buffer instead of active so can withstand a lot more punishment when someone isn’t there, or has fallen asleep.
2. DotLan will ALWAYS see what happened, even if its without details.
3. Just don’t play Eve when tired (thanks to @carljohnstone for that one)

I’m glad to say though when I noticed what happened I didn’t get angry, I was a little annoyed at myself for being so stupid, but I’m not going to let it get to me and affect my enjoyment of the game, in fact, its given me a new goal to work towards… repaying the loss to myself!