A couple of nights ago I was out doing missions and was getting pounded on by all ships in every sector.
First off, I am a Captain, in a T4 cruiser very well geared, I have pretty ideal BO skills, increased them all to 9 and have a solid grasp of the game mechanics.
When I was having trouble in Beta Ursae with the DS9 missions, I decided to do some of the extremely low level quests I had (LC2) in Psi Velorum and such. Still got pounded on. The strange thing is that even though the enemy ships showed a -9 on them, they cut through my shields for thousands of damage within seconds.
Some possibilities:
-A group of 5 players were hopping from area to area doing quests and when I got in there all of the ships, despite their level difference had scaled up to a group of 5 and I had to deal with them myself.
-A RA was running someone through stuff and the same effect as above was the result.
-I was simply bugged. Some of my ship stats weren't being calculated, my level was mistaken by the server when entering instances, etc etc etc.
What it wasn't:
-LTP Noob. While I am no gosu killing machine top of the food chain god from Korea, I far from suck at this game or any other MMO that I have played.
-A Bad Server. I tried changing server instances several times. No change.
-Lag on my side. Everything responded quickly, I was just getting hit for a ton of damage.
Since that day things have been back to normal. I kill as fast as I should and take the amount of damage that I should. Women fall at my feet, entire stars move from my path and aliens from primitive cultures sings songs of my omnipotence in their villages.

Has anyone experienced this as well?
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