Losing my first battleship

Slayfoe made the jump from battle-cruisers (BC) to battleships (BS) in the last week and promptly got it blown up. It was a shiny new Dominix, the standard of Gallente Drone missioning and it managed 3 L4 missions before KABOOM!

I had moved everything to Auvergne and the Q18L4 FIO agent in the one and only station in the system. With great excitement I took my first mission which turned out to be against drones. It was a real adrenaline thrill which, when approached carefully was quite manageable, so I promptly took a second which was also fine – nice standing gains and nice payouts.

The third mission was a shock that I escaped from and asked for help with. Mono and Jorgi volunteered to help out. This was when the trouble started, I was main tank and feeling quite nervous about them losing their ships, the first room complete we jumped to the second and Jorgi aggroed a group I wasn’t fighting. He took the heat as long as he could before jumping out, I got the aggro and before I knew it, was in need of jumping. I called out to Mono to run for it and lined myself up. Nothing happened. I can only guess that the frigates in the second group had scrammed me in the excitement and I hadn’t noticed.

Jorgi very generously contracted me a brand new Domi for free. It is safely parked in Auvergne until I have better skills. The insurance payout was for 60m so I went and got myself a new Myrmidon that I felt safer and more capable of flying competently.

I have since only helped out in other peoples L4 missions. I now realise how carefully balanced the game is. The difference between standard modules and tech II versions or even named versions is quite high. I have since fitted out my new ships with capacitor rechargers II and armour repairers II, next up are the armour hardeners II and with this new improved tank I should be able to get back into the new Domi safely.