Just so everyone knows, these YOLO burns tend to happen when a ship reaches the point where you "HIT ENTER TO RETREAT", they retreat, start burning out, and then hit something that deflects their course, like a friendly ship or asteroid. The retreat burn never stops, so they just keep on YOLO burning to their oblivion. Most often happens with frigates.
Asteroid/wreck impacts are indeed a verified cause.
However, the probability of 3 asteroid impacts all occurring in the same battle, at the same time, and deflecting all 3 ships in roughly the same direction? That seems vanishingly unlikely.
As manoeuvring thrusters seem to feature in a large proportion of the observed cases, it seems probable that there's another cause that's perhaps more likely than the asteroid collision theory.
Nice rez by the way.
Down scaled screenshots to save space
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By that, I mean the last post was in June of 2015.
Oh right,
resurrection not
resolution Seemed pertinent to reuse the old thread to keep all evidence in the same place.
There is I believe 1 other thread on this issue, from even earlier...but I'm unable to find it