A happy ending to my "High Cost of Mistakes" post. The Support team reviewed the situation and today I received this email in game...
2008.01.30 05:31
Dear <removed>,
A salvage operation recently recovered your "Catalyst" class ship from a debris field in "Luminaire". You should be able to retrieve your ship at "Algogille XIII - Federation Navy Testing Facilities". The salvage team could not find any items that were ejected from your ship prior to its apparent destruction so if you were not able to retrieve the cargo canisters there is sadly nothing we can do. Law requires us to notify your friendly insurance company and they have deducted any financial payout from your account.
Sincerely,
Your friendly neighbourhood CONCORD police squad.
Sweet deal. Now I have a ship that I can use for PVP focused activity while I'm learning the ropes.
Good to hear :) They're normally pretty good at reimbursing PvE losses.
Don't want to flood you with info (this is common playing Eve!) but when you go try out PvP if your ship is going down you can spam "warp to" a planet or other body; that way when your ship pops your pod should warp instantly away before anything in lowsec can catch it. This might take a little practice, but as long as you avoid the dreaded lag monster you should be able to pvp in insured ships for little loss this way.
Posted by: Sav | January 31, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Hey again! I had commented on one of your previous EVE Online posts about wanting to try it out. And after reading the problems you had in your old Corporation I was very leery about doing so. But decided to go ahead and give it a shot. So yesterday I downloaded and installed it. I'm about half way through the tutorial right now, and it seems kinda of interesting. So who knows, perhaps I'll remain interested and get into it even further.
Thanks again for your very detailed and insightful posts!
Posted by: Iggep | February 01, 2008 at 07:38 PM
Glad you're giving it a try. With a free trial you certainly have nothing to lose. EO is a huge and refreshing change from the standard fantasy MMO. I don't think it that it could ever become my only game but I enjoy the diversion.
Posted by: Saylah | February 03, 2008 at 08:49 PM