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17 Feb 2006, 23:51
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I like Red
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: USA
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Your biggest Crash!
After crashing my fleet last night, I thought it would be soothing to hear other peoples' "Worst Crash" stories.
Basically, you know when you send out half of your fleet to a target and then fall asleep before scanning at eta 5, and only wake up 1 tick after landing to find your fleet destroyed? I know this has happened to us all, maybe not the sleep but something got in the way (drunk, girl, party, etc.).
Anyway, post what you got and make a laugh out of your stupid mistakes!
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17 Feb 2006, 23:58
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 34
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Earlier in the round I had a good one.
I was expecting fairly heavy incomings overnight so I prelaunched my fleet to 1:1:1, +11 prelaunch. I knew I was up early for a 9am lecture and a full day in uni so I get up, check PA, discover I don't have incomings, head off for my day.
I get back at 7pm, log in and I find new news and a combat report where I'd lost a substantial amount of my defensive fleet. Eventually I realise I'd forgotten to cancel the prelaunch and had ended up at 1:1:1 defending at the same time an attack had landed, with the unfortunate luck that the attack contained enough ships to make a serious dent in my fleet.
Boy did I feel stupid, and Kal didn't even offer so much as a thank you for me having his back
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18 Feb 2006, 00:03
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I like Red
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: USA
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
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Originally Posted by TSP
Earlier in the round I had a good one.
I was expecting fairly heavy incomings overnight so I prelaunched my fleet to 1:1:1, +11 prelaunch. I knew I was up early for a 9am lecture and a full day in uni so I get up, check PA, discover I don't have incomings, head off for my day.
I get back at 7pm, log in and I find new news and a combat report where I'd lost a substantial amount of my defensive fleet. Eventually I realise I'd forgotten to cancel the prelaunch and had ended up at 1:1:1 defending at the same time an attack had landed, with the unfortunate luck that the attack contained enough ships to make a serious dent in my fleet.
Boy did I feel stupid, and Kal didn't even offer so much as a thank you for me having his back
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lol oh man thats pretty bad lol
Sorry but I found that really funny See, you can laugh at loses sometimes
anyone else?
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18 Feb 2006, 00:36
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I see you!
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I crashed my fleet into some roids... Works nice for me
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18 Feb 2006, 00:46
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: London, UK
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
i came home drunk and drove my fleet off to the wrong coords, where they crashed and burned.
moral of the story kids
don't drink and drive!
god, that was an awful joke ;(
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18 Feb 2006, 01:47
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Dirte
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,573
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Last round, when I for the first time played value (as a zik), I crashed both my attack fleets the last week due to oversleeping into defense, and my def fleet to days after that when I overslept the "recall its worthless" messages. So I could have ended up at a decent rank 250-300ish but instead ended up 600ish.
I will never ever play zik again. Who wants to be a chav anyways
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19 Feb 2006, 00:32
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InSomniac
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Durham, England
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
just today ive witnessed a cathaar crash 200 cruisers and a terran crash 270 destroyers...the world is crraaazzzyy
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19 Feb 2006, 01:34
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i havent a mind
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
i crash about 20 ironclads a day, lose em all but I get about 25 roids for an easy attack on a zik where I dont have to scan or plan or do anything, its good if I have 5 minutes, I look up some poor zik chap (the ones that are complaining in the thread below this one, 'a bit pathetic') in a pretty bad gal and get me some roids in 9 ticks. Its good for roid recovery after you lose a motherload of roids in an attack
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23 Feb 2006, 07:50
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Behe
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Arizona
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I think Alki has about 30 horrible crash stories, hopefully hell share his worst.
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23 Feb 2006, 14:40
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mokes
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: uk
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
A few days ago I had incs and put all my cr and co in another fleet to run them. Then forgot to click launch and lost them all
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23 Feb 2006, 15:48
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Hibernating
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Team Kesha
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
2 rounds ago i had big incs and forgot to send my fi fleet away, i thought i'd set it to prelaunch but seems like i forgot it, dropped about a mil in value caus of that 2 weeks before the round ended. But thanks to some donations from my gal i got back up
Or alternativly, 3 rounds ago me and a couple of other caths crashed all our cr on a huge xan who had build an enormous amount of anti-cr to come out of production the tick we landed. Tof lost like 3-4 mil caus of our fleetcrash
Those are the 2 worst i can remember
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24 Feb 2006, 14:10
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Drink is Good
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
i cant really remember most my crashes, i tend to block them out so i can carry on playing this game. Think the best was coming in after a night out trying to login to check attack. Getting the login question wrong to many times, thinking ah **** it, waking in the morning to 10 ships returning(i was xan). Annoying thing was i could of used that fleet to run some ships at base, so they got owned aswell.
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26 Feb 2006, 14:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Germany
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
In crasehd 650 cr the last week, because of a stupid misscalc :/
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4 Mar 2006, 21:36
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
This night I sent my attack fleet on a counterattack. The guy didnt recall but I saw on the newsscreen a defense fleet with speed eta 9. That didnt worry me, cause i thaught eta 9 cant be no bs, so no pirates get my frigs. But then I forgot alliance eta = -1 so there were lots of pirates killing me off. I still got all the roids though..
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17 Mar 2006, 21:11
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Unknown Destiny
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 176
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Round 13. Whatever Co I get to steal, they just die from a Xan attacking. I remember once stealing around 6k arrows and 5k fireblades, I was happy, but doh, I do prefair sleeping on PA. So I lost them the next day, not too much value lost, just around 700k.. Not that I cared lol.. (They wouldn't have made use in alliance defence, because I just didn't realise they were their, like a call for anti-FR is open, but I don't notice that I have 6k arrows that can help :P )
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19 Mar 2006, 07:58
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ND Ninja!
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: London, England
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Attempted a value steal on an inactive player, who sandsman said was idle 100+ ticks.. ofc by the time i land he's come back and spent all his idle res on a sick amount of broadswords twatting all my pirates:/ So instead of gaining 600k value, i lost 500k value. Kinda tragic, happened afew days ago :P Wasnt please!
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19 Mar 2006, 09:47
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Noruega
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Ive had a couple.
Last round i lostmy whole FI\CO on a fleetcatch since i went to the movies without recalling, only to get angry phonecalls while i the cinema.
*hugs smasher*
Ive had a couple of incidents this round too, like LukeyLove running into res savers prodding obscene amounts of broadsswords and i forgot to pull my clippers one time i had incs, 400 clippers down the drain early round sucks
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19 Mar 2006, 12:26
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Norway
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
What, wtf happened. Why did i loose my frigs. Ouch, seems like my target buildt 12k vshar. Maybe i should have planetscanned my target:/
Worste i hadin this round though, were while having incs i recalled an attack, so lots of vshar returning on the same tick as me weren't good news to me. And just to make matters even worse, i recalled my fr-attack when i were eta 4 away from home. So acutally i managed to screw up so bad, that even galm8's couldn't help
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19 Mar 2006, 14:00
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InSomniac
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Durham, England
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
i have crashed 500 de and 166 BS so far this round
never full recovered tbh
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19 Mar 2006, 15:14
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Non directed and witty
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: #ascendancy
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
pfft ive crashed more than that amount of terran bs and im a zik fs.
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20 Mar 2006, 21:28
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Unknown Destiny
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 176
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
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Originally Posted by x-dANGEr
Round 13. Whatever Co I get to steal, they just die from a Xan attacking. I remember once stealing around 6k arrows and 5k fireblades, I was happy, but doh, I do prefair sleeping on PA. So I lost them the next day, not too much value lost, just around 700k.. Not that I cared lol.. (They wouldn't have made use in alliance defence, because I just didn't realise they were their, like a call for anti-FR is open, but I don't notice that I have 6k arrows that can help :P )
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For whoever said that netiher arrows or fireblades target FR, ARROWS DID TARGET FR IN R13.. Just a little note.
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20 Mar 2006, 23:23
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
the worst thing is when you have insane number of ships incoming, you plan to send your fleet away, but fall asleep before you get a free fleetslot - believe me in that...
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21 Mar 2006, 01:27
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Aberrant Shadows
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: United States
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
The only crash as of recent would be losing half of my FR fleet on an attack. But that's nothing compared to some of these (650 Terran BS for example...).
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21 Mar 2006, 01:35
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Avenger of Calamari
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Alberta, Canada
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I crashed at my own planet. Talented eh?
I correctly guessed a fake on me to be Co. I built a nice amount of phoenix and pegasus to cover the xan co that looked like fr. I was quite proud of myself for having outwitted my attacker.
Then I went to bed, woke up to see his co completely dead, and my harpies too.
I forgot to run my harpies.
Dang.
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21 Mar 2006, 07:45
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Kwaak
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 296
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
With three fleets out(don't worry, one defending) I was happy with myself and went to bed, only to wake up to an attack. Not to worry I think, I can recall the defence anyway since that attacker recalled. The problem was, I couldn't make the ETA --> 120000 vsh down the drain... Painfull when you're halfway into the round and every frigate fleet finds his way to you planet. (only for me to build another 10k and kill all of them )
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21 Mar 2006, 07:59
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: London, UK
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Quote:
Originally Posted by LukeyLove
Attempted a value steal on an inactive player, who sandsman said was idle 100+ ticks..
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I think the idle thing just means they haven't spent any resources or landed any attacks. IE: their score is just going up by a steady amount based on what they get from their roids.
That did mean he hadn't built any constructions for 100 ticks though, which seems a bit silly
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21 Mar 2006, 18:03
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I dont remember my fleet combo, however i was a xan in r13 (or was it 14? doesnt matter tho). I was proud to have a really nice fleet and being ranked 1300. (I was a free planet) Then i set an attack and went off. At eta1 i got a jgp of a galmate and saw i had to recall as there was defense. I had 30min to recall left, so it wasnt a problem. but for some reason my internet crashed and when i could log in back i just saw i dropped ~650 ranks in 1 tick.
Two days later i planned to attack to get some roids again, but I forgot to check if i need to recall or not. DANG -~450 ranks. so in total I managed to loose more than 1100 ranks in 2 days.
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21 Mar 2006, 18:12
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thinking, that's all.
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I saw a pretty impressive crash last night, some guy LT'd on a t10 planet he didn't have a chance of scanning, with a fleet that could never land. 1985 CR of which 1971 was stolen.
He attacked at midday. A real genuine attempt at roiding for sure.
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21 Mar 2006, 18:14
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Non directed and witty
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: #ascendancy
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Quote:
Originally Posted by bwtmc
I saw a pretty impressive crash last night, some guy LT'd on a t10 planet he didn't have a chance of scanning, with a fleet that could never land. 1985 CR of which 1971 was stolen.
He attacked at midday. A real genuine attempt at roiding for sure.
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He may of got the ship stats wrong thinking that tarantulas freeze de? or thought he launched his fr fleet cause the planet had little anti fr.
oh wait? tarantulas and lack of anti fr? oh i get it!
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24 Mar 2006, 09:04
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
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24 Mar 2006, 11:16
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Registered Awesome Person
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,676
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I crashed most of my FR today, overslept for the first time all round to find 17k vsh in defence. Wonderful.
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24 Mar 2006, 17:31
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Aberrant Shadows
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: United States
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I lost a bunch of FR too, but no oversleeping here. Just good ol' fun.
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24 Mar 2006, 23:00
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Idle Git
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Wandering
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I crash better than anyone. I am a professional. I've been doing it since round 4, on average crashing my entire fleet at least 3-4 times per round. This round I've been better, but I've also been inactive.
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24 Mar 2006, 23:01
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Idle Git
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Wandering
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Oh, and I usually do it through sleeping through alarm clocks, being at the pub (I've hurled abuse at several people who've phoned me up at the pub and expected me to recall a fleet), lying in bed and just deciding I can't be arsed to get out and walk the 2 metres from my bed to my computer, and sheer stupidity.
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25 Mar 2006, 06:24
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NewDawn
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Stavanger, Norway
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
i managed to crash 780 pirates this round
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25 Mar 2006, 10:59
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Join Date: May 2005
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
last round i sent 950 zik bs at a target, he got def in but i was sure it was fake, so i landed and i then had a free fleet
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25 Mar 2006, 11:23
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I see you!
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: In any girl
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I just lost 550 CR. I can't believe my target built 800 rogues instead of buccaneers so he could steal it. Talking about noobing it up
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25 Mar 2006, 17:55
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
I was 1.3m value and somewhere 1400 roidish at 1/3 of the round, had a big asss fleet oh lucky me..one sweet morning i woke up and had 3 incomings, Ter-Cat/Zik-Zik.
After scanning and bcalcing i thought no problemo. ofc i would lose roid, but cap most of the attacks fleet, a profitable trade right? So i went to work(too busy at work to login), keeping in mind that ill be all fine...so you might understand my reaction (OMFG!! WTF!! MOTHAF..!!GODDAM..!!NOOOO!!!SHITT!!! etc etc..) when i noticed that i only had 40 arrows + sum privates left.
The thing was, the Ter fleet containend 90% of wyverns which poonend all my DE!!! No need to tell that The rest of my incs noobed the left overs of my once so sexy fleet...and as final touch, i lost my whole FI fleet cuzz i was to freaked out i forgot i had also an attack launchend.
'You Sir Are A *****!!!'
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31 Mar 2006, 00:55
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
As an Ex Lemming, I used to crash on a daily basis. As for some of the biggest crashes, I wish I had kept some old end of round hirr "lemming runs".
That was crashing on a grand scale......
Long Live hirr!!!!
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31 Mar 2006, 01:11
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Aberrant Shadows
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: United States
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Re: Your biggest Crash!
Some Zik. sent 145K ships at my today. Wiped them all out. Sad enough they didn't planet scan me to see my 25mil. of each resource, but they didn't catch the 130K defense sent aswell. Poor guy. Though I give him kudos for living upto his fleet name of not pulling.
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