Morons of the week

I neglected the killboard outside of my own. This was a mistake. Idiotism should not be ignored. Watch, how our fellow human beings, who managed to collect billions of ISK displayed zero understanding of the game.

This report covers the October 14 – 20 week and I hopefully don’t forget to do it again next week. I created 3 groups for them. The first is suicide ganked morons. They simply put way too much value into their ship for its tank and got ganked. No, a freighter isn’t too tanked and not able to protect more than a billion. No, shield booster is not considered tank. Neither shield boost amplifier.

• 6B, missioning Nightmare.
• T1 industrial, 6B cargo, killed by one Tornado. In Jita.
• 4.5B cargo in a freighter.
• 6.5B cargo in a freighter.
• 17B cargo in a freighter. Loot fairy gave the gankers the finger.
• 7B missioner.
• 6B in a freighter.
• 4B cargo in a freighter.
• 5B missioner. His fit is stupid even if we ignore the lack of buffer, which a bunch of tornadoes didn’t.
• 7B missioner.
• 4.5B cargo in a freighter.
• 11B in a freighter.
• 5B thing. I can’t figure out what he wanted.
• 6.5B Missioner
• 7B cargo freighter.
• 4.5B cargo freighter.
• 6B cargo freighter.
• 4B cargo freighter.
• 9B cargo freighter with a nice loot.
• 4B cargo freighter.
• 8B cargo freighter.
• 6.5B cargo freighter.
• 7B cargo freighter.
• 5.5B cargo freighter.
• 10.5B T1 industrial

The second group is even dumber. They flown something expensive in highsec under wardec. Usually a jump freighter. So their death didn’t need an organized gank group, just a few pilots. Because if you own a 6B ship, you can’t afford a second pilot who is in the NPC corp and takes over the JF in a lowsec mindpoint.

• Empty JF. Since the hull is 6B, “empty” is a relative term.
• Another empty one.
• 4.5B cargo + the JF.
• Almost empty JF.
• 1.3B Paladinwith a 6.5B pod.
• Empty JF.
• 5B transport Tengu. At least it was cap stable.
• 5.5B in a freighter. Under wardec.
• One more empty JF.

All together 246B. In a week. Approximately 1T/month. That’s a high price for being a moron in EVE Online. Counting with $13/PLEX and 600M/Plex, it’s $22000/month. It would have paid for basic education. Please also note that the gank losses of overpriced morons are already in the magnitude of the kills of the largest nullsec alliances.

The last group is stupid beyond imagination. I mean the previous ones are bad enough, but they could at least get lucky and pass unnoticed. However these idiots put a few PvP modules, typically a point or scram to their otherwise completely badly fit and stupidly expensive ships. So it’s likely that they were actively looking for being killed. In which they succeeded. Oh wait, they might just wanted to impress Ripard Teg.

• 14B something. I failed to figure out what he wanted, but surely not showing up here.
• 12B something. It’s like the previous one, except having gateguns on the kill and being in lowsec.
• 5B Loki in Uedama. It had a long point, which complements the autocannons, and webs well. Oh wait, it doesn’t.

Finally, let me share a personally found idiot(s). This one has a story, unlike just a kill report and a one-line summary. So, I was ganking ice Macks. Found one with interesting fit: 3 empty midslots and a 400M faction invulnerability field. Ganked him. Got the pod too, 2.2B. OK, losing an expensive but dumbly fit ship and a stupidly expensive pod is bad enough, but the story is far from being finished. After docking up the flashy red pods, I went to loot the faction invulnerability field which dropped. Except it wasn't there. Easy come, easy go, I guess. So I found another Mack and ganked it. Another 600M kill. How? It wasn't expensively fit! Then I checked the cargo: he took the invulnerability of the wreck of his corpmate, and kept mining. His pod was 2.3B. Since the loot fairy loves those who cleanse New Eden from idiots, the faction invulnerability field dropped again and this time I looted it.


PS: a piece of great news by Sugar from EVE Vegas: “Are they done with mining changes? No. They want to do another pass of the barges. The Procurer and Skiff are not as useful as they want. The Retriever and the Mackinaw are too strong with being good in two out of three areas.” The three areas are tank, yield and ore hold. Since Rets and Macks are meant to have the best ore hold, it means that they will either get a tank nerf or a yield nerf, both are welcome changes.

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