The OMGWTFBBQ post

Several things to cover here, so I'll get the smaller ones out of the way quickly;

First of all, new ganking technique that's pretty cool. (Atleast it's new to me)

Linky.

My hat off to you dude. Ingenuity like this is what makes EVE awesome. I hope this doesn't get smashed with the nerf bat, but we all know what CCP is like with Carebear rage. It's not technically exploiting game mechanics, but it goes against the "E-Honour" idea that you should only get one kill per suicide gank ship.


Second of all, Rifter vs Orca in Highsec. Kinda obvious who won, but it's a pretty cool solo kill.
Kill here
E-Peen bashing here

Nice kill, I'm just surprised the Orca didn't cry in his corp chat for back-up. Apparently it took about half an hour to grind down his tank, so I have no idea what he was doing in that time. Maybe he was expecting the Rifter to get bored.



But I saved the best until last. How many of you remember this guy?

Dead Iteron Mark IV Quafe Ultra Edition

Well even if you hadn't seen that killmail, it's enough to make most industrialists weep. Here's the thing. That guy is only just a little more than three months old. (We quickly found out he bought PLEXs to fund this, though I have no idea what he was doing with four Scorpion blueprints)

Oh and he's considering joining our corp.
Yes you read that right.

Quick background, we have a channel in EVE where potential recruits can come and chill with the corp and chat about random things (Mundens Bar if you're interested in joining us :P). So I sign in and see our usual guys having a semi-formal interview with him (just asking him about the game) and seeing how he was doing already. His fittings that he had were nothing short of horrific, but he was new and people can learn. He seemed like the typical noob, finding his feet and looking for a good starter corp. The only thing that was raising some alarm bells was what the fits were on. Most of them were Navy Issue ships, and therefore stupidly expensive for a new player.

Because I didn't have much else to do besides update my skills, I decided to help out the interviewers by running some background checks on him with a couple of other corpies. The usual SPAI CHECK !!!ONE!!ELEVEN!!! routine. (I like to think we're fairly thorough). Nobody yet had checked his killboards, so I decided to do it myself.

So anyway I hit him up on BattleClinic, expecting to see a few random losses after he stumbled into LowSec or got flipped while mining. You know, standard new guy mistakes, completely forgiveable. Instead his losses column had a great big glaring red 5.94 Billion loss. At about this time he mentioned in Munden's that he had lost about 800mil in Jita the other week.

Munden's Bar

Gemedet Audeles > that's good
Gemedet Audeles > i lost 800mil in Jita last week
Mittre Cobolas > when in doubt push all the buttons?!
Sarayu Wisdom > How?!


My thoughts were already pretty similar to the reactions of my corpmates...

How the hell he had afforded the cargo at three months I had no idea (at the time anyway, like I said we found out later he had been buying PLEX like some sort of drug). As I had already found the offending kill (Link above if you ignored the shiney orange text), I quickly got on Teamspeak and posted the kill in corp chat. "Holy fucks" were said all round. Obviously he was already being grilled about it, because we weren't quite sure how the hell he had managed it. Here's some edited snippets from the general conversation:

Munden's Bar

Sarayu Wisdom > [Link to Quafe Kill]  (Which I posted in corp chat like a good spai not ten seconds before)
Sarayu Wisdom > care to explain?
Gemedet Audeles > one moment
Mittre Cobolas > holy shit...
Seraph Minayin > lolwtf dude

Gemedet Audeles > thats it
Gemedet Audeles > i would prefer not to speak of it
Sarayu Wisdom > I would :)       (If you can't tell, Wisdom is as subtle as a brick to the face)
Gemedet Audeles > i was careless and paid the price lol
Gemedet Audeles > well
Gemedet Audeles > to be honest
Gemedet Audeles > the whole situatin is fucked
Gemedet Audeles > guy should have never been in high sec
Seraph Minayin > eh
Sarayu Wisdom > How come?
Gemedet Audeles > well he was all red and the message came up from Ammatar saying he better get out of here
Gemedet Audeles > BOOM
Gemedet Audeles > fortunately, that Quafe was free    (Well actually it's worth nearly half a bil...)
Seraph Minayin > the cargo wasn't
Mittre Cobolas > ^^
Gemedet Audeles > no
Seraph Minayin > :P
Gemedet Audeles > it certainly wasnt
Sarayu Wisdom > Put it this way
Sarayu Wisdom > In the future...if u need high value stuff moved...let me know...

-Snip- (Five minutes later)

Sarayu Wisdom > That loss mail is insane
Gemedet Audeles > i know. :(
Seraph Minayin > i'm still trying not to cry a little
Gemedet Audeles > i'm just trying to forget it lol
Mittre Cobolas > i like chips.   (lol...?)
Gemedet Audeles > shit happens
Mittre Cobolas > shit happens yeah, that is more like "nuclear explosions happen"
Gemedet Audeles > lol
Gemedet Audeles > i'm sure it's not a record
Gemedet Audeles > though it might be for a toon of my age
Gemedet Audeles > lol
Mittre Cobolas > lol but it aint a good one to have
Sarayu Wisdom > Maybe
Gemedet Audeles > no it isnt
Gemedet Audeles > but i have not forgotten who did
Gemedet Audeles > did it*
Gemedet Audeles > perhaps one day i will at least get a bit of revenge
Gemedet Audeles > but that incident is part of why i'm trying to get into PvP

-Snip- (Talk moves on to his bio, which is filled with... failfits if I'm honest)

Mittre Cobolas > and we need to talk about fitting -.-
Gemedet Audeles > lol

-Snip- (We get onto ganking mechanics and why CONCORD were chillin' at the doughnut shop when he got pew pewed)


Gemedet Audeles > so this guy killed me simply because i had all that cargo huh
Seraph Minayin > no
Seraph Minayin > he probably killed you for the ship
Seraph Minayin > the cargo was just gravy
Gemedet Audeles > the ship?
Seraph Minayin > really, really good gravy
Seraph Minayin > yeah the ship
Seraph Minayin > i assume you went to fanfest...?
Gemedet Audeles > no, bought a PLEX off account management and got HD stream access
Seraph Minayin > oh ok      (I don't actually have a clue what he means)
Seraph Minayin > well anyway
Seraph Minayin > the ship itself was worth quite alot
Seraph Minayin > mainly because its limited edition
Gemedet Audeles > that is true
Gemedet Audeles > makes sense
Gemedet Audeles > they go for like 400mil on the market.
Sarayu Wisdom > Long term would have been worth billions
Gemedet Audeles > had to buy my second one
Seraph Minayin > your second one
Seraph Minayin > whut
Gemedet Audeles > yah
Seraph Minayin > you bought another?     (I know right?)



Gemedet Audeles > i did


-Snip-


Clearly we have alot of work to do here...

But of course now, we're not quite sure what to do with with him. Getting him in corp could end badly for our killboard, but then again, if he can afford to buy that much PLEX, we'd quite happily have him finance half our Corp. Choices...

Anyway, I'll let you know how it goes down. Maybe we'll have a rich new corpmate within a few days. Maybe our CEO will have a heart attack after seeing Gemedet's killboard. Either way, it should be entertaining.

Fly smart   0.o