120-billion-ISK AT ship downed and reimbursed

INN: So you’ve been hunting for some time in this frigate now. You had about 169 kill marks, am I right?

TehEbil1: The count’s still at 169, yeah.

INN: And when entering the site, did you notice you were in one of these new locations?

TehEbil1: I noticed I was in one of the new ones. I had read the news item mentioning sleepers, so had added all the sleeper NPC’s to my overview beforehand, but nothing showed on overview or even in space, as they did not even show brackets.

INN: So you decided to aggress because you were in range or decloacked?

TehEbil1: Well, the target I was going for was a Caracal on a seemingly empty grid. I checked his launchers quickly and noticed he was using HMLs, so I just went for the chance.

INN: You said that he managed to warp out, but you had a disruptor. How did you lose your point on him and let him get away?

TehEbil1: Those sites have pretty heavy neuting, which caused me to drop a disruptor cycle, allowing him to warp. I also was pretty much in fight-or-flight mode after noticing the neuts and webs coming from seemingly nowhere.

INN: And about your reimbursement: that was very quick. Did CCP send you any more information you might share with our readers?

TehEbil1: Not really. I got the blanket “we can make an exception at this time” reply.

INN: One last question: how did you react when seeing damage, neuts and warp scrams/disrupts coming from nowhere? Did you try to fight back, or did you get instapopped?

TehEbil1: At that point started looking around a bit, noticed actual moving hulls with no brackets, and started control dragging em. I noticed that they were rats so started trying to drop them.
Unfortunately locked the battleship of the group and added it to overview once I got the lock. I didn’t have the time to drop it and tunnelvisioned pretty heavily on it while trying to take range. Must have had the frigs orbiting me, which of course were not on the overview because they are not under the same overview entity as the battleships.

INN: Stress being an enemy, as per usual. Well, thank you for your answers, any word or tip you would like me to relay to our readers?

TehEbil1: Don’t undock on patch days, or at least don’t go all-in on a new site during said patch day. Although in hindsight those issues were probably also the reason CCP did make a ruling that was favorable for me; the lack of brackets and failed overview naming was a pretty clear indication of something being wrong. I probably wouldn’t have bothered petitioning the loss had it not been a pretty clear case of the sites having some unintended issues.

INN: Yes those were indeed good indicators! Thank you again, fly safe (or dangerous, the way you prefer it!).

TehEbil1: No worries, always happy to reply to questions. Will do! o/)