EVEpiracy

or.. why a newbie should never go exploring in a battlecruiser

First, let me start off by saying that I’m a young character who started life with merchant skills. In fact, I’ve got more than 50% of my skills still in trade and social, so I’m not a fighter. I can barely fly a battlecruiser, let alone fit it for PvP.

And yet, I thought it would be a good idea to try to take down some Gist camps in .4 space with one. I am pretty sure I would have done just fine, if it weren’t for the Vagabond that showed up and decided that my expensive PvE fit Hurricane looked like a juicy morsel.

And so it was.

I was holding my own for quite some time, but I have autocannon specialization and I’d fitted artillery to try to hit the camp from a distance and not get overwhelmed. I couldn’t even hit the vagabond, and while my drones were doing the best they could while my missiles took out the pirate’s drones, it was just a matter of time.

I had one hell of a passive shield tank set up, and it held for a good long time. Long enough that it scared my opponent, as was revealed in a private conversation after I’d been popped, but not long enough. Of course I tried to run, but warp jammers have a way of stopping you when you’re slower than your opponent.

We had a rather nice conversation after the fact. I imagine most people would be pissed off, I consider it an expensive lesson well learned. I’d spent well over 100M ISK on that hurricane and the fittings, including two faction gyroscopes, and one of them dropped for my opponent. I’m sure that she was happy with that, but it definitely drove the message home for me.
The morale of the story - I’m a trader first and a frigate pilot second - all other things are best left until I get the skills up. I am better served in a well fit Rifter than a poorly fit Hurricane.