A big F Y to CCP for this, I finally just got blown up by the Triglavian Collective right after entering Hirtamon (1.0), coming from Aokannitoh (1.0), on my way to Ikuchi (1.0). One single pirate ship was not enough, they were about 10 of them in cruisers and stuff. All while Concord and the Navy were drinking beer watching the show of a little Badger getting a beating for absolutely no reason.
Imagine a mob of Crips or Bloods beating an honnest man or woman to death for no reason on the street of Manhattan in plain day light, in front of the NYPD and a couple of FBI agents having their donoughts as they watch the scene. I already see some stup** people trying to convince me it all make sense… yes please, tell me, show me what’s left in your brain…
Anyway… after a scene of me naked and floating in space, I woke up in Kisogo in a pod. I boarded a shiny new corvette and made my way to the crime scene right away. It wasn’t 5 minutes later, certainly less. There were no more Trigs in sight. No Trig wrecks either, they really faced no obstruction from any authority, and left apparently without looting anything (or not much?) from my own wrecks. Destruction for zero purpose.
In the end, I lost a Badger, a 1-1.1m ISK value ship I actually got for free from doing the career agents missions. I even got a spare Badger that I also gor for free from another career agents missions, which I used to loot the content of my dead Badger. I was able to recover 7 out of the 12 items I had in the cargo hold, and 9 out of the 10 fitting equipment I had on the ship. Since I’m not going to take the Badger’s value into account, I have lost about 260k ISK worth of materials in this gratuitous attack. Oh wait, I also received a payout of 619235 ISK from the insurance (“default payout for an uninsured ship”, apparently). I did, however, lost all my +3 implants, a 50m ISK value. No more implants for me, not worth it, with this kind of random event happening in high sec’s militarised zones like star gates. For me, with less than 30 days of playing and what I can do at this stage, 50M ISK is 2 full weekend days worth of grind playtime (mining) thrown in the sewers of CCP. Grind is not fun, we do it out of necessity when we want to reach a goal. This is 2 days of my real life thrown in the sewers, for no reason.
If at least I got some fun in the process. Take PvP for instance, it this was my fun thing to do in EVE, and if I had lost my ship and fitings during a fight. I could congratulate the other human being sitting in front of his/her computer 5 or 15000 km away from my home for winning the fight.
Nope. No fun. No Vaseline either. Just a random, gratuitous attack from an AI in Cruisers and Battlecruisers gang banging a rookie industrial ship. I can’t wait for the morrons to tell me there is a gaming lesson to this, and that next time I should pilot my Badger that way and do this and that super trick to escape the Trigs with ease.
The only lesson is, I’m a person of my words. I said I would stop my Omega when it occurs. So it is.
Farewell,
P-S : here is me, looking at my frozen corpse from my Heron when I came back to salvage my own wreck. There was no option to “loot” / “scoop” the body My frozen corpse floating in space