days of absent mind

Hi Folks !

Yesterday was a bad day for me ! I trashed two fully Tech2 equipped Thoraxes by sheer stupidity and worst kind of failed micromanagement on my behalf.

Because of some troubles with Sisi (EVE Testserver), Training was cancelled and the trainer decided to go for a roaming with cruisers and frigs instead. So I joined that fleet when I entered the game and burned my Thorax through half of the Lowsec to reach them.
Girlfriends can be really nasty, so my friend left and suddenly I found myself leading the bunch.
We found two pirate gangs. One was a little bit too strong for us and the other seemed to be just the size we wanted to fight with. Only trouble was they were not too far apart from each other. I took the risk and tried to avoid the first and sent in some victim for the second. Our scout got aggressed and so our bunch went into the battleground. While killing the first 'Cane I was so absorbed fiddling with Overheating and Micromanagement, I forgot to have at least someone check the incoming. Soon we were surrounded by a superior enemy fleet and I gave command to evacuate.
Unfortunately I called for ECM too late, aligned too late, burned my MWD through too late and so I just managed to save my pod. Well ECM went down as well, as that pilot had his own troubles and tried to save himself too late as well.
Those who didn't loose a ship went straight back home. Those who did bought replacements in Rens or Hek whatever they preferred.
I chose to buy myself a brand new Thorax in Rens equally equipped as the one I had before.
I burnt it through to Amo and went for my home.
In TeamSpeak I heard about a blinky roaming gang of battleships and the like in Egmar.
Noone told anything in TS about that gang leaving Egmar and I forgot to check the Intel-Channel as well.
When I entered Klogori I saw the whole lot of them surrounding me and stupid mishaps on my behalf followed. Instead of nearing the gate immediately I gave a warp command to the next gate. Half a second before entering warp I got tackled. Then I decided to burn through to the gate, but instead of clicking the gate I brainlessly klicked at a station. When I finally realized my error I tried to correct, but it was too late. Too many webbers on me, too much damage on my not so hefty tanked thorax and dead soon. I safed my pod the second time and enjoyed cursing to myself for a while. being docked in a nearby station.

Things didn't go very well for me recently in EVE. Overloaded with work in Real Life I hardly found time to play it. Then I forgot to upgrade my clone after a suicide-run in 0.0 and lost nearly 1'000'000 Skillpoints and my beloved Battleship V Skill with it at the next run about two hours later. (Be lucky you didn't hear my curses, then - especially because I instructed my fellow comrades not to forget that at the same moment I forgot it for myself).

PvP is an intensive Sport and it requires you, at least if you want to win/survive, to be mentally fit or to field an invincible blob outnumbering any enemy by at least 2 or 3:1.
If you however want to fight Battleships with Cruisers, T2 ships with T1 Junk, you have to be clever, your fleet has to be well balanced and your pilots have to be well trained and skilled.
Taking such risks means your kill:loss ratio will drop but you will and you must learn.
Learn about those damned Curses, those Vagabonds, those Hurricanes, those Blackbirds and all other dangerous ships. You must learn, how to use your ship optimally, how to fight and how to flee at the right moment.
It's definitely not easy and you shouldn't take such risks when you are overworked and tired and thus not mentally fit at all, as I did.

Now I'll buy myself another brand new Thorax.
I'll see how long it'll last this time.

Have a nice day and thanks for reading !

Humpfgrunz