I got podded. Finally!

Can’t remember much about it really.  It was a night spent chasing wrecks around low sec again.  I had no joy whatsoever in terms of finding anything worthwhile.  Then I noticed that a place called Rancer looked a bit hot.  So I lined up my salvage frigate and headed down there to see what I could find.

Well you know how it is?  Quiet night, bottle of wine and a few Guinness Export Extra?

I landed on the Rancer gate in Crielere and wow!!  Wrecks.  Through the haze I could see, Caldari noob ship wreck, Battlecruiser wreck.  Before I could get excited there was a flash.  Then I noticed my ship had changed shape.  It took about 10 seconds to realise “err thats my pod.”  Then “pop!” back into a station 27 jumps from my home.  No-one told me to move my clone!  Feck.

2012.02.09 21:41:00

Victim: Moriarity Kanenald
Corp: Pro Synergy
Alliance: ACE WRECKING COMPANY
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Crielere
Security: 0.4
Damage Taken: 1545

Involved parties:

Name: Archer Slate (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.00
Corp: the united
Alliance: Negative Ten.
Faction: None
Ship: Rokh
Weapon: Large YF-12a Smartbomb
Damage Done: 1545

Destroyed items:

Warp Core Stabilizer I, Qty: 2
Small Salvage Tackle I, Qty: 2
Salvager I

Dropped items:

Metal Scraps, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Small Shield Extender II
1MN Afterburner I
Salvager I

Well it wasn’t a huge loss, the implants – my Christmas prezzie from CCP were a bit of a loss.  But they were free so bleh.

But it make you think doesn’t it?

The most interesting about it was that getting podded violently switches your track, it kind of rends you from where you are to somewhere else. Your course in the game changes and it really disrupts your evening.  It  is not hard to see why it can cause so many tears in the game.  It is different to death in other games. You don’t respawn and get back into the action exactly as you had been.  Its not a cartoon style game where you can charge back into action – as though nothing has happened.  Here there is always a loss, but even more there is disorientation and disruption and thats what made the experience interesting.

So this is what the whole game is about, these moments when losses drive you back to the market.  Back to recover what you lost.  There is something I love about that!