Mixed Griefer Fleet Suicide Ganks 30B+ BearBoat
Congrats to our newest Jerk, Schmetterflug, for being part of a seven-ship fleet that suicide-ganked an officer-fit Paladin on a gate in hisec. The ship is conservatively valued at 30 billion ISK, but there's no way to know for sure with officer mods until they sell, which can take weeks. Even with only a 1/7th cut of the loot, it's a huge wad of cash for Schmett. Also, he just took the Jerks Battleclinic kill total from 50B to 80B.
Here's Arden's blog post on the kill.
There's an awful lot of silly-fit carebears that should be re-examining their priorities right about now. Expect copycat kills any day.
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total value is estimated around 38 billion, with a 19+ billion drop
that'll teach him :)
congratz to all involved
That will teach him to what? Not fly expensive ships in High-sec? Where else is he supposed to fly them?
I just read the chat-logs, and you guys come across like you had some personal vendetta towards him or something. He's a lot more chilled out, and not raging at all.
I'm sure he knows the risk of flying an expensive ship like that, he's been playing EVE for 7 years. Props to him for actually flying it and enjoying himself, not just station spinning crap.
Hurr, i know how way to play ze Eve. Evryone has to learn the same!
Actually he seems to know quite good what he is doing and the whole circumstances of his death make him look a lot better than those who killed him and felt super-superior afterwards.
I have nothing against suiciding, dont get me wrong, its part of the game. I myself fly faction fit in Lowsec.
But this whole bragging about it annoys me. Not everybody has to play Eve exactly the way you do it. If they know what they are doing and know in which game they are doing it, why not fly officer mods in a mission. I mean he doesnt even complain about loosing them (at least not more than everybody tends to complain when getting blopped in an unfavorable moment) so in my book its all fair game.
Actually, him being in the game for 7 years just makes the matter worse for him.
What lesson does it teach? Fit your ship for the job maybe? Does it really require a full officer-fit ship in order to blitz lvl4 missions? A officer-fit Marauder is just fractionally better than, say, a faction-fit marauder. Flying such a expensive space pinata is clearly a case of more money than sense.
Where are you supposed to put officer-modules you ask me? The answer is clear and simple: Mothership and Titans. Those ships are expensive to start-with and put 20bil worth of modules on them dosent add much cost yet increases their survivability by a whole lot. Putting them on for the sole purpose of mission-grinding is dumber than a bag of hammers, and believe me, I'm being really unfair to the hammers when I said that.
I'd seen that kill already.
Still, hot damn. What a kill.
Hey,
I'm not against suicide ganking either, it's part of the game.
But those guys really made fools of themselves.
First in local, and then in the blog you linked.
There was a chatlog postet,but people started to post comments, like how ninjas lost smack talk and likewise.
Then the blogger removed the chatlog, and I made a comment, that this looks like he admits his failure.
now all the comments on his Blog are gone :D
Sorry, but thhis makes the whole gank look totally fail, no matter how much ISK you blew up and got dropped.
Shame to be a ninja these days :(
You have to remember that at the time, these guys just killed a *30 BILLION* ISK ship and got very rich very quickly. Their over-the-top reaction is understandable.
Sure I can somehow understand the over-the-top reaction, but still you have to admit, the carebear kind of won the local part, and, if you argument this way, kept a very goodattitude after regarding his loss.
However, the guy in the Blog you linked just started to delete/alter parts of his blog because he was ashamed or wants to make it look better.
I think you should stand your ground, because thats not a lame ehonour thing, but RL honor. They got the kill, but spoiled it, can't change it.
Imagine you would censor your blog, I think that would make many people loose respect in your entertaining work.
By doing so, this guy did a crapload of damage to all griefers.
Tear extraction is part of the job (or fun) and look, where most of the tears are shed now...
You have to remember that at the time, that guy just lost a "30 BILLION" ISK ship and lost a lot of money very quickly. His level-headed reaction is understandable.
For all the grandstanding you guys do about EVE just being a game, it would seem appropriate for you to commend the missioner on handling the situation calmly. Oh well. I suppose hanging out online with 18-year-olds will do that to you.
Well, he didn't rage in local, but I always look at rage as a bonus; lack of it is sadly normal these days.
I have trouble sympathizing with the MR, dude lost a huge bit of ISK, and it's going to sting even if it is, after all, a game.
Whatever you do, you do it wrong, so what? =P
And word @ Khalia.
I was the guy starting all the local smack, which wasn't that smart :)
But it was a 30b kill and we all were a bit excited tho the feelings pushed me a bit :)
Props for saying that.
Thats how you handle such a situation!
Deleting stuff on your blog to make something look good?
Needless to comment on that...
Skilluuhh is not Arden.
Nice kill though I hear his got his ship back via a petition, CCP are strange at times.
Where did you hear that?! Gimme a link to that!
I believe he might be lying.
Actually im quite sure he is making fun of griefer tears here ^^
Expect copycat kills? Lol this has been going on for a LONG time. Its how alot of people make isk =)