This is my Christmas present from Frontier?!

snotface

snotface
Remiel said:
I set up a Hauler for a run with a load of rares I came across the other day, but forgot to put a fuel scoop on it. I was lining up on the pad where I was going to sell them all for a total of ~120K CR (bought the load for ~16K) and I ran out of fuel, completely bone dry, hovering above the pad with the landing noise going 'bing bing bing'. I had remembered to upgrade my life support though, so I got to sit there for ~10 minutes while I googled a solution to my predicament... alas, my LS ran out and I asploded. Not a Cobra loss, granted, but I hope my tale of woe is amusing and embarrassing enough to make a mere crash seem a little more jovial. On another note, I'm an EVE player from way back and kinda used to losing everything so you I do know where you're at.
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Try having a head on with a drop ship just as you going into the docking stations exit. I had 400k's worth of stuff on bord, buy price not sale price. After 3 seconds of no shields due to drop ship impact and impacts everywhere else I went pop. Not bad really, took me 2 hours to get 400k back
 

Hooplah

Hooplah
Experts in life got there because they made many many mistakes before they got it right. You just moved up a notch. Think positive.
 

snotface

snotface
excalibus said:
has nothing to do with open or not... it could have been an NPC that ran into him as often happens ... so many times I have scraped the side of an NPC coming in as I am going out
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I have to agree, it was an NPC ship that got me, but I have hit players ships in open mode, NPCs on solo mode and bounced of many a stations walls. I have only lost 1 T6 but this is like a tank now so I have time to think before I over react.
 

DrugaRunda

DrugaRunda
My Christmas advice to you is to do the following:

- do few quick missions on BB to get upgraded cargo bay, fuel scoop
- locate closest rare station ( here )
- load 6 of them, go 160 LY's away and sell them for 100k profit
- get an Eagle, upgrade to 20 slots, find another station with rares nearby (would help if you targeted it the first time around :D ), preferably one which spawns 20 items
- Load, go back, make another 300k and you are on your merry way back to the Cobra in an evening
 

Armante

Armante
SMEvans said:
After many hours of hard work, I finally managed to buy my Cobra Mk III. About ten minutes later, I bought a hefty cargo load of coffee in Woldridge Terminal and had only about 200 credits remaining. Then, some idiot thought it would be a stellar idea to ram me while I'm taking off. I panicked and accidentally crashed my ship. Because I had just bought my cargo, I couldn't even afford the creditor to re-buy the Cobra itself.

I understand that Frontier is encouraging you to use your brain and plan out your trade routes/pirate raids etc., but it's clearly not my fault that someone else decided not to use their brain and I end up suffering the consequences.
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"clearly not your fault someone else was an idiot."
Is this why you don't have house/health/car insurance either?

Sorry, you don't get to be annoyed because "I understand that Frontier is encouraging you to use your brain" and you clearly didn't :)
Lesson learnt, move along COmmander, and may you fly safely (with your brain engaged) in future.

See you in the black.
 

Foreverowned

F
I think that a small warning/reminder somewhere in the game, or even a loudspeaker announcement in the stations telling you the benefits of insurance should be more added, maybe an advert on the wall for an insurance company, same as they have for the ship manufacturers. Not all players expect to lose everything that way.
 

Traciatim

T
Schlack said:
I Guarantee that everyone in this thread has done the exact same thing!
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I haven't done quite the same, but I was doing a really close trade run and had a fully loaded lakon-6 filled with gold to the tune of a million bucks. I was so used to the route I would just launch and boost out the door... until one time a rather large ship was coming in... and i couldn't stop, just had to watch as I was boosting toward inevitability.
 

Aewarin Jameson

Aewarin Jameson
To be fair to the OP for many newcomers the insurance method in ED is quite backwards.

In real life you pay for insurance up front - its how insurers make their money by assessing the risk, charging a fee, and in all probability not having to pay out ... In ED its the reserse : you are always covered by insurance but only pay the fee in the event of a claim.
 

Sandmann

Sandmann
If it makes you feel any better, you are far from the first person to make this mistake. Hard words but still true - don't fly what you can't afford to lose.
 

Tuzmaal

Tuzmaal
Thats already number 3 of these "I spend all money on the next biggest ship I could affort, lost it right away but its not my fault" posts! Is that the new cool thing to do ?

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khaitom

K
Liqua said:
To be fair to the OP for many newcomers the insurance method in ED is quite backwards.

In real life you pay for insurance up front - its how insurers make their money by assessing the risk, charging a fee, and in all probability not having to pay out ... In ED its the reserse : you are always covered by insurance but only pay the fee in the event of a claim.
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It's the money for the 'insurance excess' you need. The premium is already paid for you by the pilots federation, the only difference from real life insurance is that you have to work out the excess yourself as a percentage of your ship plus module costs rather than being explicitly told the cost of the excess up front because it constantly changes as you alter your ship and loadout.
 
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