Aideron Robotics is moving to a new staging area away from the main Gallente Hub of Nennamaila in Black Rise. I had a lot of stuff in Nenna, so threw a lot of it in my alt's Rhea jump freighter, Montezuma's Revenge, and a load of expensive ships in my namesake Chimera carrier, the Ninveah.
I logged my cyno alt into the destination system and had a conversation that went like this.
"Hmmm, its the middle of the day so not a lot of traffic. And I remember moving my Wyvern and Chimera together before... but was that on two machines or triple boxing on one? Oh, who cares, this machine can dual box fine, and its just an easy undock twice, jump twice, and redock... I'll be fine!"
Now, a normal player would say to themselves "Are you sure putting 10 billion ISK worth of capitals and cargo all at once on the stability of your PC is smart here?" but longtime veterans who have not been burned lately can forget that smart voice.
So I undocked the Carrier, lit the cyno, switched back to carrier, hit the jump button, and switched over to my jump freighter and hit undock.
And my computer froze.
And not just dead frozen, but coma frozen. Like I could hear the sound effects of the jump completing and the jump frieghter entering space, but the screen did not change and I could not move my mouse. I was paralyzed with two ships valuable ships in space... in low sec.
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| Oh crap. |
I did the only thing I could do. I pulled the plug. I hard shut downed the computer with prejudice. Screw safe shutdown, OFF NOW!
A few minutes later after I rebooted my PC I logged my characters on one at a time. The Carrier managed to get a docking command during my fevered clicking and alt tabbing and was safe. The jump frieghter was in space, but alive. It warped back to station and I docked it up.
The rest of the asset movement was a lot more careful and very uneventful.
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