Oh brother! I am going to write about Eve early. No doubt this will appear in the Sunday update, but I can't wait. This, I have to get off my chest.
Tonight I did one of the most stupid things I've ever done in Eve online. Instead of waiting for my friend in the carrier to show up. Rather than doing this in a safer system, you know, the kind that doesn't have three other systems connected to it. In lieu of having scouts in the other places to have an early warning. While a smart person might have done those things, the dude writing this could easily be mistaken for a fool, or a goofball, or a doofus, or any number of insulting names.
No, I didn't do any of those smart things. Instead I had my Orca out mining boosting and compressing for ice while multi boxing three other mining characters on one screen. No scouts. Not paying attention to the intel channels. Just hanging out.
It is tempting to rant about how much I hate Deepwater Hooligans. Rage quitting was also an option, and to be sure, once I got my pod back to the station, I logged off. But I am probably not going to stay logged off for the night.
No, instead I learned a beautiful lesson. Actually, I learned several lessons, but one of the biggest is that I can lose a ship that costs over a billion ISK and it didn't ruin my night.
Instead, I can go out and cause problems for other people. Whether that be in faction war, or elsewhere. Maybe I will go find the home of Deepwater Hooligans and cause them some issues? Perhaps revenge is a dish best served cold.
My larger point is that one stupid mistake doesn't have to ruin my whole evening, or weekend, or week. And at the end of the day, if I learned something, it wasn't a mistake.
It was a billion plus ISK lesson in having the guts to do something stupid. I'm going to use this to endeavor to be less afraid. I am going to buy that redeemer, and a mach. I'm also going to get another Orca and get back out there again, eventually.
So don't be afraid to go out and learn something, internet friend. Maybe you can learn something from me and save yourself a billion and a half ISK? Or don't, but either way I hope you have a nice day and a great weekend. Cheers!