The Self-destruct Button and You

 Let's be honest here. When you buy a super large, expensive ship, you have to come to terms with the fact that since you have gotten into it, at some point you are going to lose it. I'm not trying to be mean or scare people, it's the truth. Getting into a ship in eve and taking it into space means that it will explode at some point. Doubly so if said ship can't be docked at a station.

Let's say you build a carrier in a class 1 wormhole, for example. Accept the fact that that carrier is going to explode violently. It can't leave that wormhole, it can't dock anywhere, that ship is as good as gone the instant it is created.

This leaves us with two options. You can lose the ship gloriously in combat, or you can take the pathetic way out. Or as anyone in null/low sec also calls it, self destructing like a little bitch.

You see, ships of capital size and larger can take a long time to grind down if you don't have sufficient forces to bear against it. However, that doesn't mean you can't be annoying as all hell if you manage to capture one of the beasties doing something stupid, like repping up a POCO with only two carriers and sparse (Read: Not with the carriers) support. So let's say you engage and remove all the carrier's offense abilities while the rest of your fleet is coming in. You get it all the way through shields and then you get the dreaded message, "Target has initiated self-destruct. Ship will self-destruct in 120 seconds".

Shit.

Bar them turning the process off, there's a good chance you won't be able to kill it before it kills itself. Not only does it annoy the fleet trying to kill it, it pays you the default insurance on that bad boy. Although you do have to live with the fact that you had to self destruct a large ship because there was a tiny fleet pestering your large ship.

But really, there's no reason to press the self destruct button unless you're doing it to piss people off. Or trolling them. That's about it. If you're going to lose your large, shiny ship, take it like a man. Let them get that killing blow on you. People are going to be insulting you anyways. Just don't friggin' do it.

Blue probes out.