tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13339042370842168152024-02-07T10:55:48.511-08:00Flying RustUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-47454430101748156032014-12-10T03:48:00.000-08:002014-12-10T03:52:44.184-08:00Growing and expandingTitle is more about Bastards alliance than myself although to a certain degree I am also growing and expanding in EVE.<br />
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Firstly The Bastards have grown, we have joined forces with old pirate corporation The Black Rabbits. Our numbers almost doubled and we have now bunch of guys able not only fly frigates rather well but also project <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24239769">greater</a> <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24188019">force</a>. Our day to day job still involves mainly hunting frigates and smaller targets.<br />
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My personal growth in EVE was of a slightly different nature. I established new manufacturing business in my new home and slowly tricking my products onto new market. Fortunately for me Ishimilken is only 8 jumps from Jita, which means there is always a place where one can liquidate some assets and restock ships and modules quickly.<br />
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Couple of weeks ago I have finished Gallente Cruisers 5 and immediately purchased new shiny Ishtar. I fitted it for brawling with medium neuts and sets of medium and light drones. My plan was to purchase set of crystal implants and not to undock it until I have full set - ship, implants and pills. Opportunity came knocking on the door sooner than I expected.<br />
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I was spinning my new ship in station when Tanner on comms announced 2 Scythe Fleet Issue jumping into Ishomilken and asked if anyone wants to fight them, I looked at my new purchase and though what the hell... We checked pilots killboards and they didn't look particularly frightening, I undocked Ishtar and chase was on. Tanner was flying fast and tanky Wolf and followed Scythes next door to Nikkishina.<br />
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I undocked my Ishtar and warped to the gate, Tanner reported one Scythe in medium plex other one was not on scan. Obvious bait is obvious and we wouldn't be worthy The Bastards tag if we didn't take it, Tanner jumped into plex and I jumped into Nikkishina. While warping to the plex smy scanner was sweeping surrounding and unsurprisingly detected second Scythe, it landed on plex gate second behind me. We both were committed and there was no doubt in anyone mind that there is no way back, we will have explosions and someone will be going back home in pod.<br />
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Upon arrival I have found Tanner to be deep in armour but both ships very close to me. I quickly neuted Scythe hoping it will release Tanner from it's scram but I was couple of seconds <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24230890">too late</a>. I remember vividly right clicking Gecko in my drone bay and choosing launch, followed by launching group of Valkyries. Now I had to deal with 2 Scythe Fleet Issue and I needed every drop of DPS I could squeeze from my drones. To my utter disappointment it took alot longer than I expected to finish off first Scythe. He had a massive amount of shield and my drones very slowly nibbled it bit by bit. On top of that both enemies put all their neuts on me and were dishing scary amount of damage.<br />
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My overheated shield booster was no match for combined assault of those two ships and I was in armour when finally first Scythe <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24230804">yielded</a> to my drones assault. Even before that I knew I am in trouble, second Scythe was untouched and I was out of cap, and out of shield, something was wrong with this fight. my cap booster was reloading slowly and I had healthy supply of them but I could not afford to neut my opponent and he had autocannons which do not use cap anyways.<br />
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DPS race was on, can he break me before my drones strip him off his massive shield or will I be able to hold up. Again to my desperation and disappointment my drones had little impact on his shield, my shield booster was repping like crazy but combined force of his drones and autocannons was chipping away bits of my armour in between shield booster cycles. What kind of shield he has I was thinking why is he taking so little damage and then I noticed it... My Gecko, which I though I launched after landing in plex, was still sitting comfortably in my drone bay!<br />
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Suddenly my low damage was completely understandable, I immediately recalled Vespas frantically trying to keep my ship intact but it was <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24230891">too late</a>. Before they even made it back to drone bay my newly purchased Ishtar reached it's final destination. To make this loss even more painful both B-Type shield boosted and Gecko dropped as a loot. GF were exchanged in local and this sore looser went back home.<br />
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You learn alot from every fight but probably you learn more from loss than from victory. Few things come to my mind when I think about this fight:<br />
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<li>My Gecko didn't launch most likely because I tried to launch it before I have exited from warp and I didn't check if it launched afterwards.</li>
<li>I bought supply of Blue Pills specifically for this ship and obviously forgot to take them, they were left at the station</li>
<li>Finally probably most embarrassing admition - I am pretty certain I was stationary in this fight. What can I say, like a complete newbie I was paralysed with excitement and I forgot to move!</li>
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If it wasn't for those 3 issues I am certain we would have won that fight, I really like that Ishtar and despite my clear incompetence it was holding up very well in this fight, I have already purchased 2 more and waiting for next opportunity to put them to better use.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-91454941283373885952014-11-12T08:53:00.000-08:002014-11-12T08:54:46.147-08:00New home, same old BastardsBastards alliance has eventually permanently relocated to Ishomilken. Our new home is a bit more lively than quiet corner of universe that is Auner. There is a few pirate corps in our neighbourhood and alot more passers by. This move certainly reinvigorated our alliance and we have started branching out and reaching for new challenges ahead. In addition to our usual small gang frigate roams, which we continue >>> open roams every Monday 19:00 game time, join DBastards channel in game <<< shameless plug right here, we had a session of training in stealth bombers and few good scraps in larger ships.<br />
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We have had few decent fights with a guy calling himself Blood ofGODS. He has a POS in Ishomilken and likes to fly flash ships on multiple alts. He also seems to be keen to escalate fights and is not afraid to pull out an odd capital ship.<br />
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Fight kicked off after we have <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24052083">caught</a> Blood alt in Rapier on Large PLEX in Ishomilken. After some cat and mouse play Blood warped in Archon and Moros on the field to defend his Hurricane. Despite advantage of initially having numbers Bastards situation was not that great. We knew Blood called for reinforcements, and his setup of Moros, Archon and webbing Hurricane was deadly for our ships. Our capital pilots werent online so Nash called to Shadow Cartel reinforcements. SC had some Ishtars about 13 jumps from Ishomilken and decided to take it easy and go through gates.<br />
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It took us forever to kill his <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24052342">Hurricane</a>, Bastards were bleeding ships and to our despair Blood reinforcement in form of Fearless Empire kitchen sink fleet arrived on the field. At some point it looked like our efforts to keep Moros and Archon tackled were all in vein.<br />
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Fortunately for us Blood had his Archon in siege mode and with SC Ishtar fleet 3 jumps away from Ishomilken Bastards made last ditch effort to stop him from warping away to safety. When Ishtars landed both Archon and Moros were still tackled in Large PLEX. Blood support quickly vanished when they saw 20 Ishtars with logi backup landing in the middle of the battle. For a while we kept Moros tackled but due to lack of consistent comunication between us and SC he managed to slip up from our grasp. There was no saving for Archon, left alone on the field made for a small <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=24052273">supernova</a> and left pretty wreck.<br />
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Despite clearly winning ISK war we have in fact lost more ships including Maelstorm, 2 Hurricanes, my Scythe Fleet Issue and a number of frigates. But on the positive note we had a good fight and looted the field which offset some of the loses.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-59770279547669277392014-10-08T13:01:00.001-07:002014-10-08T23:49:13.339-07:00I like scanningFew days ago I found myself sitting a bit bored and alone in Auner. Most of the Bastards already relocated for long holiday to Ishomilken but being sentimental fool I didn't want to leave our home just yet. Nothing improves morale more than a bit of involuntary PVP so I jumped in my trusty Cheetah and decided to check out what I can scan out in Auner and neighbouring systems.<br />
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There were 3 wormholes opened in Auner, all 3 were C3 and inhabited, scary looking large towers with active fore fields ruled out solo action so I digged deeper. After about an hour of scanning all 3, I have found entrance to null sec space, deep in the Immensea region. I have to admit, before that day I didn't even know such region exists in EVE.<br />
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In days when I was in wormhole corp, old guns were telling stories about deep null spaces full of incompetent carebears in ill fit Battleships. Since our wormhole had static to 0.0, for many days we were jumping in fast frigates looking for targets with very little to show, closest I have been to one of those legendary creatures was this poor <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=22613728">miner</a>.<br />
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Now in front of me was an entrance to really deep null sector, I should probably jump in empty clone but being smug and full of myself bastard, I decided to risk it with head full of chips. My frigate of choice for this expedition was to be Jaguar with passive shield tank, MWD, lots of guns and extra ammo.<br />
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There are various potential targets that can be found in deep null systems that can be unwilling participants in PVP shenanigans. Obvious ones are miners but there are also plexers, belt ratters etc. Due to changes in NPC aggro patterns attacking someone who is fighting NPC can be tricky but with a bit of luck fast hard hitting frigate can still take down battleship or battlecruiser without much problem, this is what I was hoping for. Doing deep null invasion solo has some pluses and some minuses. Pluses are that you are just one person and there is a chance that potential target won't notice you entering the system, minuses are by the time you check all plexes in large systems, targets are safely docked or wrapped in protective force fields of POS.<br />
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With cautious hope I entered the FYI-49 system and began my search. After searching few dead end pockets I was on my way back to FYI-49 and I was just about to jump to EA-HSA when I spotted Hyperion on scan.<br />
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He was in pocket with some asteroid belts so instead of jumping through to EA-HSA I warped back to check where he might be. Just as my Jag warp drive lit up I saw a flash and Hyperion landed on the gate. Jag has done swift 180 degree turn on asteroid belt and chase was on. After jump to EA-HSA my ship landed 30km away from him, his engines were on but I noticed he doesn't have intention of leaving and is shooting at NPCs on the gate.<br />
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Engaging this Hyperion in this situation seemed a bit desperate for many reasons, he can easily jump back through the gate without agressing me, There were NPC 3 BS and 3 Frigates, combined with his drones they can do some serious damage to my little ship. Always count on stupid as they say so without worrying about those small inconveniences I engaged my MWD and Hyperion was promptly scrammed, webbed and my 200mm auto cannons started plucking his enormous shield. Initially guns were loaded with EMP ammo to chew through his shield I intended to switch to plasma once I get through to his armour.<br />
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To my content pilot did not turn around towards the gate, but was going at steady speed of 70ms in unknown direction. He tried to shot me with 1400mm artys, since I was orbiting him in frigate at 500m I knew I have nothing to fear from his guns. I realised this is the creature of legends, clueless pilot in huge ill fitted ship.<br />
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My only concern was drones and NPCs. Hyperion had one Gecko and 2 Valkyries out and he recalled his drones, who were sent to kill NPC BS and directed them at me. This worried me a bit since I have lost couple of frigates to Geckos in the past, this time however I was in AF not T1 frig and I could only see one Gecko. This hard hitting tough drone was slowly ground down and removed from the field. As I was finishing Gecko NPCs decided to switch target and 3 BS and 3 Frigates directed their fire at my ship. Valkyries followed Gecko to the space scrapyard and it was time to deal with NPCs, My passive shield was all gone and they were chewing through my flimsy armour. Battleships were not able to hit me so frigates were the only concern. They annoyingly were orbiting me at 12km, Barrage was the only option, guns reloaded and frigates were quickly dispatched.<br />
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Combined assault of drones and NPC frigates decimated my shield and armour and I was about to hit structure when last NPC frigate disappeared from my overview, I knew I was on home run then. I reloaded to EMP and watched Hyperion shield slowly shrinking one red sliver at a time. When Hyperion shield disappeated, he sent 5 armor repair drones in hopeless attempt to extend life of his ship. Eventually all that left on the field was 2 ships, one was huge and helpless like beached whale other one was me. Now only thing that could safe him from inevitable doom was help from some third party that never came. Hyperion pilot was sober enough to warp off his pod immediately after his ship exploded.<br />
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That was my first successful solo trip to null sec, Admittedly pilot was not prepared for PVP, specially not ready for bloodthirsty pirate in small nimble frigate but hey this is exactly the target I was looking for. I will be back to 0.0 for more of the same for sure.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-66989259345444444262014-09-17T03:26:00.002-07:002014-09-17T03:26:45.234-07:00Still FlyingYes, after couple of years of inactivity I decided to get back to blogging. I have some spare time at work so hopefully this won't be just one of entry.<br />
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For those who expect more tales about me spanking greedy carebears in their shiny battleships bad news is I not longer pursue ninja career. There is a good news too, I still like to blow up ships, now happily in low sec. My sec status for quite some time is -9.9 and I am quite confident to wear my -10 badge within next couple of weeks.<br />
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In other words I am now a bloodthirsty lowsec pirate, a noble one for that matter since nowadays my ransoms are honoured. It was hard to accept that change after long time I spent exploiting naivety of my hisec victims but in the end it really does not matter that much, in my new life ransoms are far and few in between.<br />
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So how did I get here. After my shenanigans in high sec I went afk for about a year. I came back in August last year and joined small mercenary outfit living in lowsec security space. It was fun new experience my enemies were shooting back and I was losing ships. In addition I had to balance my sec status above -2 since we were running some high sec ops. I have met some cool people and some very skilled pilots. Lowsec was rough and scary place at first but I learned to like it.<br />
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Our small corp fell apart after couple of months, people went on to do different things. I had no intentions to go back to "ninjaing" missions, compared to living in low sec it felt like slaughter of babies. I very briefly joined low sec corp called Easily Excited but after learning that 90% of their "pvp" consists of sitting on the gate with logi and smart bombing BS I was on the lookout for a new home.<br />
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I came across pvp wormhole corp living in C2 called "Zabijaki i Pijaki" (transl. Killers and Drunkers). Wormhole was a great yet frustrating experience for me, there were weeks when we went to null sec roams every day, I was mainly flying interceptors and we had some fun fights lost lots of ships and killed even more but there were days when I spent 2 hours scanning and scanning and then logging out. After about 4 months I decided that PI and scanning is getting boring and went back to Hek.<br />
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Without a doubt, most fun I had was when I lived in lowsec and I made up my mind, lowsec piracy was my EVE destiny. I was on lookout for fairly relaxed but active corp with skilled players from whom I could learn and improve. Without rushing into things I prowled recruitment forums and channels for couple of weeks and eventually approached "The Bastards".<br />
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I still remember when I joined comms for the first time and introduced myself, Johny Twelvebore (CEO) commented that since I have found access to their comms, I must be "not that stupid" and my application to their feeding corp "Meathshield Bastards" was immediately accepted.<br />
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6 months and couple of hundred kills later I am now part of this respected and well known outfit. Check out our website here<br />
<a href="http://www.the-bastards.net/">www.the-bastards.net</a><br />
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our recruitment thread on eve forums<br />
<a href="https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5020946#post5020946">https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5020946#post5020946</a><br />
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and our in-game channel<br />
<b>DBastards</b>Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-71350799303750906322011-04-01T09:02:00.000-07:002011-04-01T16:18:23.142-07:00Killer WhaleFinally after months of training my alt took comfortable sit in her brand new Orca!<br />
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I had buy order up on the market for last month but eventually I had to just buy it from a sell order for 420 mln. Anyway after dragging her 18 jumps from Torrinos I loaded he cargo maintenance ship with my rusty boats and took her for a spin. Not having any experience with cargo maintenance bay, I parked Orca in safe spot and will be using her for a few days as a remote station and not warping her into missions just yet.<br />
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First victim of my new setup was one brave missioner in a Prophecy. He didn't even try to run from my Hurricane, but charged me instead. He was quickly put in his <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12914357">place</a> and I even managed to save small group of Gallente Marines whom he tried to imprison.<br />
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It was getting late and my last scan of the evening revealed Abaddon whose pilot clearly had too much money and not enough brains. He promptly shot my Vigil and waited patiently for my return, I wasn't going to disappoint him and returned few seconds later in Hurricane. His cap was quickly drained, drones killed and when I made sure his lasers are unable to hit me, I opened convo.<br />
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He was rich and he was greedy and he shot me first so I wasnt going to let him go anyway but I wanted a ransom. Unfortunately it took me few seconds too long to kill all NPC's and his <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12914355">Abaddon</a> popped like a firecracker. Opening his wreck was a real pleasure, dropped loot paid for my newly acquired Orca and there was still small change left!<br />
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I have to admit, there are small problems like not being able to dock your ship if you have a cargo in cargo bay so you have to store it in corp hangar or jettison it before swapping ships but those are really minor issues and benefits of having Orca are undeniably great.Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-61855166921320177782011-03-31T06:27:00.000-07:002011-03-31T06:27:37.265-07:00Back to Amarr<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In Pator I scored 2 <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12813339">more</a> <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12815609">Hurricanes</a> and moved my operations back to Amarr space, my Orca alt is nearing completition of his training and I wanted to find a cosy spot with unsuspecting targets for my enterprise.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Star map analysis revealed high density of mission runners in Domain in Orkashu system, I liked this spot from the moment I warped through the gate. Firstly it has only one station, secondly only 2 gates, thirdly is relatively small and most importantly is buzzing with mission runners comming here from neighbouring systems.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Despite the fact that I was identified as a ninja and mentioned numerous times in local chat on the day of my arrival, <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12843874">Apocalypse</a> and <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12845431">Raven</a> pilots fell to my guns. Pilots were instructed not to shot thiefs in the future but no valuable tears were collected on that day except for that one drop.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><blockquote>Timmer702lv > why are you in my mission taking my loot</blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I was just about to answer when this happened</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><blockquote>(combat) Warrior II belonging to Timmer702lv hits you, doing 16.5 damage.</blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I had no choice but to defend myself</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><blockquote>(notify) You have started trying to warp scramble Timmer702lv [R.W.R]&lt;PMA&gt;(Raven).<br />
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(notify) Warp Disruptor II deactivates as Timmer702lv's Raven begins to explode.</blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I think that answered his question, I really had no chance to clarify my position before he ragelogged.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Next encounter was very interesting one, I scanned Dominix, he just finished a mission and was about to take off as I arrived. I started cleaing up the mess he made and seconds later Cormorant arrived on the grid, it looked unrelated to mission runner and I also started salvaging and looting wrecks, I filled up my cargo and left one can with my loot as a bait for Cormorant. Back to station I changed my Salvaging Vigil to Mighty Vigil and came back to the mission grid, Cormorant ignored my can and I was loosing hope when directional blinked with Crow. Interceptor, now that looked interesting, no doubt he has backup so only question is can I kill him before cavalry arrives or not, he landed on top of me and targeted me immediately I returned lock and he turned red. He had MWD on and my scram held him in place firmly, my overheated guns and drone tore him apart in seconds, I'd love to see his face when he realised what he got himself into. Upon closer inspection this turned out this was very old <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12852753">ship</a>, it still had large rigs fitted. Unfortunately his faction MWD was destroyed but it was very satisfying kill nonetheless.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Moments after Crow exploded Gila arrived on the grid, looked unrelated to Crow pilot and I started heading towards my bait can planted there for the purpose of catching Cormorant. I knew there was no point trying to charge Gila in my Vigil so I warped back to station to reconsider my options. Gila pilot and Crow pilot were from 2 different corps, I knew Crow tried to stall but was he waiting for Gila (?) that seemed unlikely. I really had an itch and it needed to be scratched, I jumped inn my Hurricane, checked supplies of ammo and cap boosters and hit undock.<br />
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Gila was parked at the station waiting for me, Crow pilot was nowhere to be seen. Every common sense in my brain was screaming "TRAP" but every emotion was screaming "HIT HIM", so I did. He had shields lots of it and hardeners, as My drones and my guns were nibbling slowly his shields, he slowly started grinding my armour plates, I was clearly winning, he was at 1/4 of his shields and I have lost only about a quarter of my armour. I was about to start my victory dance when Crow pilot appeared at station in Rokh! I checked timers, there was still 2 minutes on my aggro, he left me in no doubt about his intentions, suddenly tables have turned and I've found myself surrounded by 10 Hammerheads II and fired upon by a bloody Battleship. They made a quick work of me and my second "ninja cane" went up in <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12852751">flames</a>.<br />
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We had a good chat and I've learned there is a small group of them in the area, doing some extortions, mercenary assignments and high sec wars. They told me to call them if I ever need some RR and we parted our ways.<br />
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2 days later I had a hilarious encounter with a missioner who despite being warned by other pilots in local chat about nature of my enterprise decided to shot my Bait Vigil. To make it worse he then waited for me and tried to shot my Mighty Vigil. Needless to say everyone in local had a good laugh after his Destroyer <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12867826">assploded</a>. I continued my hunt and the same day my long wait was finally rewarded with a great catch.<br />
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Since downing TFI I am always on the lookout for faction Battleships and my probes soon returned with some good news. There was Apocalypse Navy Issue harassing local Sansha population. I'm no fan of Sansha but when opportunity calls .... In seconds I was sitting in my Bait Vigil setting up directional scan and keeping my fingers cautiously crossed. He must have finished mission just before my arrival, I speeded to nearest wreck to make sure I blink red to him before he warps off. ANI pilot wasn't in a hurry, he was looking at me waiting to see what this small ship is doing in his mission. As soon as I looted first wreck he targeted me and fired, I am alway on a move so he missed me completely. I decided to check him out before warping away, findings were good, expensive fit but complete failure, shield booster, armour hardeners, perfect target for me. If I had Orca this would be very simple, he couldn't hit me and appeared to have no drones (or forgot them) but at the time my alt was still 5 days away from being able to fly it and I had to swap ships in station.<br />
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In my infinite optimism I undocked my Hurricane and swiped area with directional, he wasnt in the mission anymore but scanner quickly detected him at gate. It was going almost too easy, he returned fire instead of jumping so either he was overconfident or stupid. I remembered trap from couple of days ago but what did I have to lose. After making quick work of his drones my guns scratched his structure and I opened convo with demand of 100 mln isk - now I think I was cheap, should have asked for 200 mln.<br />
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First without a word he paid 100k, then after another volley hit his hull and he paid 100 mln! In a classic ninja move <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12864835">Apocalypse Navy Issue</a> exploded seconds later. Sadly he wasn't going to share his tears with me and ragelogged immediately. I had to be really quick collecting loot, his wreck was empty looted and salvaged within seconds. Imperial Navy Heat Sink netted me cool 61 mln on contract and other bits were put away for later use or sell if the need be. That one kill covered all my loses since start of my ninja experiment and more, really pleased with myself I logged and decided to have a couple of days rest from EVE.</div>Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-46110506053061626032011-03-26T12:02:00.000-07:002011-03-26T12:59:58.602-07:00First faction battleshipThose 3 words summarise my recent enterprise pretty well. Feeling smug after dropping Maelstrom day earlier I pinpointed Hurricane in a mission, he shot and warped out. As I settled in his mission preparing for extension, directional blinked with another Hurricane, he was back. I haven't done my research and it seems he had EM hardeners on his boat so while I was fiddling with my ammo his guns and drones were drilling holes in my armour plate, it was very close fight, we have raced through structures together and unfortunately for me he was <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12773153">faster</a>. I congratulated him and let him pod me to Rens where my new cane was waiting for me already.<br />
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Next few days was rather uneventful, scans mostly came back with nothing and those that detected potential customers did not resulted in any decent baits. Star map map revealed increased carebear activity in Pator and I decided to move my operations there for a few days. Initial scans did not look very promising and I settled on a Cyclone. I must really not be a very charismatic because my ransom request was ignored and I had no choice but free this narrow minded individual from his rather badly fitted <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12804847">ship</a>.<br />
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Following day looked very promising from the start, my eyes almost started bleeding when I saw fit on this <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12806992">Dominix</a>, I really did not expected anyone flying this badly fitted ship to have any money so I dispatched him quickly without eve offering ransom and moved on looking for more valuable targets.<br />
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So far I limited myself to Battlecruisers and T1 Battleships, those seemed easier than Marauders and Faction Battleships, that was until my probes detected Typhoon Fleet Issue doing T3 mission. Quick ship scan revealed complete failure of fitting department and battleclinic check confirmed this potential victim to be completely clueless carebear. He hasn't lost any ships in high sec yet and was in NPC corp, chances were he would take a bait and stay in mission. My assumptions were 100% correct, TFI opened fire almost immediately. With shaking hands and pounding heart I swapped to Hurricane and undocked with one though in my mind - "is he still there?". Not entirely surprisingly he was still in his mission sitting still on landing, his defense was very anemic and in panic he must have forgotten about his drones, when my guns tore through his armour and hit his structure I recalled drones and opened convo.<br />
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<blockquote>Qintes > 200 mln you have 30 sec</blockquote><br />
I decide to give him really good deal and don't drag it too long, this looked almost too easy and I really didn't want to risk any RR arriving.<br />
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<blockquote>Qintes > 15<br />
WOLF SKAR > ok<br />
Qintes > 5<br />
WOLF SKAR > you win </blockquote><br />
What a genius, I have no idea what he meant perhaps he though I am going to thank him for good fight and let him go :P. My first Faction Battleship swiftly became a <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12813340">space dust</a>, I was hoping for some tears but all I got was ragelog, well you can't have it all all the time.Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-40665269098375186712011-03-13T05:19:00.000-07:002011-03-13T05:21:41.229-07:00Anti-missioningI fell asleep and almost died running lvl 4 mission trying to fix my security status. After warping out in 50% of hull I gave up and decided that mission running is unbearably boring.. Another option was to go to 0.0 and try ratting there but from my previous experiences I knew how mind numbing that can be so I quickly discarded that option. I needed a solution, my goal was to have fun in this game and blow up stuff without being exposed to boredoom of killing npc, not being forced to participate in blob fights and at the same time not loosing a security status so I can have access to trade hubs. There is a factional warfare which is pretty cool and I am interested in exploring this aspect of the game in the future.<br />
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For the time being I moved my operations to Heimatar region and quickly made some interesting <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12661000">acquaintances</a>, to add to hilarity he came back a minute later wanting a revenge in this failfitted <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12660999">Rifter</a>. One of the students from EVE University was clearly falling behind in his study and I had to give him a <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12722676">private tuition</a> ungrateful sod hasn't spilled any tears and quietly warped away in pod . Lustrevik has proven to be overflowing with ill fitted ships flown by aggressive and trigger happy carebears and I had to <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12737343">move</a> <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12739414">swiftly</a>. My apetite grew with every fallen battlecruiser so in search for a bigger targets I jumped next door to Isendeldik. First scan revealed a Maelstrom slaughtering group of Angels, my completely peaceful intentions were met with this angry response<br />
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<blockquote>[ 2011.03.12 22:18:07 ] (notify) You successfully salvage from the Angel Large Wreck.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:18:09 ] Malekif > if you want to die quintes go ahead and try</blockquote><br />
I spotted wreck with some loot and decided to check what's in it, nothing of an importance but any loot is a good loot as far as I am concerned so I picked up whetever was in the wreck and moved on.<br />
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<blockquote>[ 2011.03.12 22:18:18 ] 800mm Heavy 'Scout' Repeating Artillery I belonging to Malekif barely scratches you, causing 258.9 damage.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:18:23 ] Valkyrie I belonging to Malekif lightly hits you, doing 16.0 damage.</blockquote><br />
Now that's very uncalled for. My Orca alt is still in training so I have to swap ships in station. Sitting in my Hurricane I was wondering whether it is worth going back, he probably warped away, docked and is going to wait out his aggro, I braced myself for long aggro extension session and undocked. I sat for a moment in a safe spot near the mission thinking what do do, maybe just forget it and scan another mission but this bear really was asking for it.<br />
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<blockquote>[ 2011.03.12 22:26:09 ] Malekif > btw guys we have a ninjasalvager in the system name is Quintes<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:26:16 ] Malekif > he also likes to steal stuff</blockquote><br />
Now I have been called worse than ninjasalvager in this game but insult is an insult and had to be punished. Directional spotted Maelstrom back in mission 5 minuted before aggro expired. Warp engine lighten up and medium rack modules were overloaded before landing. I landed 16 km from him, he must have felt very confident in his big scary battleship and didn't even try to run.<br />
<blockquote>[ 2011.03.12 22:29:15 ] (notify) You have started trying to warp scramble Malekif [WECH](Maelstrom).<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:29:18 ] Your group of 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II lightly hits Malekif [WECH](Maelstrom), doing 384.1 damage.</blockquote>Web held him in place and NPC did most of the job, that was one of my <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12768340">fastest kills</a>.<br />
<blockquote>[ 2011.03.12 22:30:33 ] (notify) Warp Disruptor II deactivates as Malekifs Maelstrom begins to explode.</blockquote>I think that made him rather angry, I am cutting some local spam below.<br />
<blockquote>[ 2011.03.12 22:31:05 ] Malekif > fucking asshole<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:31:11 ] GazzCrawford > who ?<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:31:21 ] Qintes > \o/<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:31:25 ] Malekif > quintes<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:31:29 ] Malekif > is gonna die now^^<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:31:32 ] GazzCrawford > dude the guys making cash<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:31:44 ] GazzCrawford > he's laughing at you<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:31:54 ] Malekif > I dont care<br />
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[ 2011.03.12 22:32:29 ] Malekif > well he didnt make anything<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:32:41 ] GazzCrawford > he did<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:32:45 ] Malekif > nah<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:32:46 ] GazzCrawford > he;s made you angry<br />
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[ 2011.03.12 22:37:43 ] Qintes > so melekif are you going to keel me with your mighty vigil now?<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:38:15 ] Malekif > I dont care I have enough money to pump missionship after missionship out^^<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:38:20 ] Qintes > cmon mate im tanking 5 bs here<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:38:36 ] Malekif > losses like this are calculated, and you make maybe 5 million out of the pissy mods :D<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:38:50 ] Malekif > youre not even there<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:39:14 ] Qintes > course i am i have to pick up stuff i jettisoned to loot your crap</blockquote>I was in his mission at the time to pick up cap boosters I jettisoned to make room for his loot.<br />
<blockquote>[ 2011.03.12 22:39:32 ] Malekif > youre just a coward thats all<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:40:07 ] Qintes > couldnt put it better myself, i leave heroic deaths to losers like youreself<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:40:52 ] Malekif > maybe next time youre not so lucky eh<br />
[ 2011.03.12 22:41:35 ] Qintes > im good at lottery man, im the best<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:13:54 ] Malekif > someones afraid lol<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:14:04 ] Malekif > pussy :P<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:15:57 ] Malekif > well youre afraid to die<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:17:08 ] Malekif > ahh are we afraid to lose the implants when I pod you yes? so bad</blockquote>I changed back to Vigil and salvaged all his wrecks while he followed me in RF Firetail. Damn if I only knew he wants to pod me in high sec! Only 2 days ago I installed set of implants if I only knew :P.<br />
<blockquote>[ 2011.03.12 23:24:40 ] Malekif > cmon take somthing you looser<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:25:27 ] Vicious Warslut > lol<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:25:51 ] Malekif > I knew hes just talking<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:25:53 ] Qintes > you seem upset Malekif, holding a grudge or something?<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:26:04 ] Malekif > well im waiting you promised<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:26:14 ] Malekif > and now you do nothing<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:26:25 ] Malekif > gotta mean something you know<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:26:36 ] Qintes > on the contrary i salvage your mission you tailing me god knows why<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:27:18 ] Malekif > yeah you salvage all the little shit I left for poor people to pick up<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:28:06 ] Malekif > hes salvaging all the small wrecks for real XD<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:28:16 ] Qintes > every little helps my friend, its the difference between smart and dumb, some people are willing to throw away maelstrom on a whim, i will just pick up the pieces<br />
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[ 2011.03.12 23:32:36 ] Malekif > of course hes a noob<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:33:02 ] Qintes > yep im a nob and you are experienced, lost mael to my cane :P<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:33:20 ] Malekif > I dont care youre a fuckin coward^^<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:33:26 ] Malekif > whata mael lol<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:33:50 ] Vicious Warslut > rofl<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:34:01 ] Vicious Warslut > so sad :p<br />
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[ 2011.03.12 23:34:53 ] Malekif > to bad you have to rely on your prick skills to make a living lol<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:35:23 ] Malekif > he made like 8 million from my wreck maybe even less<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:35:43 ] Malekif > quite some isk for over an hour of work<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:35:48 ] Malekif > wohooo lol<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:35:53 ] Qintes > *hangs head in shame* yes i did, but its your fault for having shit fit<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:03 ] Malekif > I dont need more<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:17 ] Malekif > why would I fit expensive shit if theres no difference<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:27 ] Vicious Warslut > ur too poor to fit more :p<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:34 ] Qintes > and he calls me a noob *rolls eyes*<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:42 ] Lia Suchong > sigh.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:45 ] Lia Suchong > smacktalk.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:50 ] Malekif > erm dmg is the same sufficient tank all I need<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:54 ] Qintes > its great isnt it :P<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:36:56 ] Lia Suchong > so nice to see in local on a boring day....<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:37:05 ] Malekif > I dont need expensive 40 million mods to run effective :P<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:37:07 ] Qintes > saturdays are always fun<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:37:24 ] Malekif > because some noob like you tries to take it away and I laugh XD<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:37:50 ] Qintes > always happy to provide entertainment for a pro like you<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:37:56 ] Malekif > yep thank you<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:38:16 ] Malekif > wonder how much money you got 50 million?<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:38:35 ] Malekif > I mean you killed me with a cane lol you dont even have money for a T2 ship<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:39:02 ] Qintes > yep im poor, want to donate to my t2 fund so i can stop stealing from you?<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:39:12 ] Qintes > and become decent member of eve society?<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:39:26 ] Malekif > look and you didnt even do much damage because you rely on npcs to make dmg how sad is that^^<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:39:40 ] Qintes > i cant afford expensive ammo<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:39:58 ] Malekif > see 9 million what you made this mission alone gave me 40 million so far<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:40:03 ] Malekif > youre pisspoor lol<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:40:36 ] Qintes > i broke man, give me a 5 mln if you made 40, ill buy a decent ship and go missioning like all good people<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:40:48 ] Vicious Warslut > malekiff, ur actually an idiot for attacking him while under fire of npc's :p<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:41:13 ] Malekif > nah he was sneaky he came with a vigil, and I shot him while he stole stuff^^<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:41:33 ] Malekif > and I wasnt quick enough to warp out when he was back so I dont care :P<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:41:51 ] Malekif > my next mission ship will have a scrambler and then ppl like him are toast<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:42:04 ] Qintes > yeah it only tok me about 11 minutes to come back in cane, it wass like a lightning<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:42:24 ] Vicious Warslut > lol<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:42:30 ] Malekif > well you were lucky to warp in that close to me thats all<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:42:34 ] Jake McCord > blah, blah, blah.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:42:36 ] Malekif > I was already aligned<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:42:40 ] Malekif > nooby<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:42:47 ] Malekif > you were very very lucky :P<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:42:57 ] Qintes > yeah i told you im a pro in lottery<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:43:10 ] Lia Suchong > hm. smacktalk. counter smacktalk. all leading to one thing: more tears and boredom.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:43:25 ] Qintes > tears are good, dont dis it<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:43:27 ] Malekif > Im just wondering what drives him^^<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:43:34 ] Malekif > look at the km he made 9 million<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:43:38 ] Malekif > lol<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:43:51 ] Jake McCord > nothing more boring than smacktalk.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:44:33 ] Malekif > he probably hoped for some shit with faction mods or whatever<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:44:36 ] Lia Suchong > the ship was worth 122 million.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:44:45 ] Malekif > but he didnt get it<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:44:51 ] Lia Suchong > in truith he made somming more valuable than a measly drop.<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:44:51 ] Jake McCord > drop in the bucket<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:45:20 ] Malekif > quint you should go to jita and scam that makes more money<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:45:30 ] Qintes > my alt does that<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:45:33 ] Lia Suchong > bah<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:45:38 ] Lia Suchong > worthless waste of breath<br />
[ 2011.03.12 23:45:52 ] Malekif > see hes a prick lol</blockquote><br />
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What an angry young men, he left system after that. Now to put things right I dont have an alt who scams people in Jita, not yet anyway :P.Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-75968385561503984782011-02-23T06:28:00.000-08:002011-02-23T08:41:02.145-08:00T1 vs T2Friday evening looked busy, local channels were swarmed with weekend warriors like me so I decided to look for trouble in new area. After spending most of my working day on Friday studying maps of low sec sectors I set best speed to Essence Region. With my security status now under -2.0 and no real desire to improve it I was going to look for a nice spot somewhere in low/null area to settle permanently and pirate my heart out.<br />
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In Akila I met a friend (who shot me down few days ago) who invited me for some training in frigates. Firstly my Rifter was set up against his Sentinel. Despite it's innocent looks Sentinel is a nasty piece of work, I managed to shot couple of his Warriors II but while fiddling with his drones he slowly drain my cap and got out of my web/scram range. Without AB and Armour Repair system working his drones started quickly chipping bits of my armour. To make matters worse I somehow lost drones from my overview setting and had to target little buggers manually. Thankfully it was just a training and at about 50% of my structure we stopped. Later I though that possibly better strategy would be just to ignore drones and focus fire on the ship, it is clearly a "trick" ship and as <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12300600">some examples</a> show can be overpowered with sheer force of Minmatar cannons. After short recess he brought Punisher just to see how my Rifter will perform against T1 frigate and this time I had him in structure in no time with very little damage to myself.<br />
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We parted after that exercise and went our ways. Sinq Laison was very busy, I played with local pirate alliance in Raeghoscon for about an hour. At some point there was swarm of Sister Combat Probes in the system trying to pin me down but combination of random safe spots and staying in constant move kept me out of harms ways. Bored with that cat and mouse play I jumped to Essence looking for more suitable targets and the one I could actually engage with at least minimal chance of success.<br />
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I really like systems without stations, at least you know everyone in local will be somewhere in space, they might be at POS, cloaked or at safe spot but at least you know they are not docked at station. Onne looked promising and as soon as I jumped there I knew I am going to get a fight. There were 3 guys in local, all with low sec status, directional identified ships as Rifter, Ishtar and Republic Fleet Firetail. Ishtar was out of the equation and jumped out soon after my arrival, Rifter and Firetail looked a bit like me, clearly looking for some action. I quickly set up few observation points and started following Rifter, he also was using safe spots and I changed to Firetail.<br />
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Rifter left the system soon after I changed my focus to Firetail pilot. I checked his killboard, he knew his stuff, record showed him almost always flying solo and there was a number of Rifters destroyed on his account. It looked a good challenge and I wouldn't have a problem loosing my ship to this guy. He was ratting on the belt and I noticed 3 NPC wrecks, I wanted to give myself maximum chances and I waited for him to jump to new belt, some help from NPC would be welcome in those circumstances. He probably noticed me on his scanner and waited for few minutes before confidently jumping to next belt. This was a moment I was waiting for, I delayed by few seconds to give rats a chance to acquire aggro on Firetail and engaged my warp drive.<br />
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As I landed on the belt he was just finishing 2nd rat, there was nothing left and we immediately locked each other. He was very quick, I was scramed and webbed in seconds and his 150s started spewing bullets into my ship. I expected him sporting large shield buffer and my overheated 200mm autocannons immediately replied with volley of RF EMPs into his direction. My shields went down very quickly but that didn't worry me much, I engaged armour repair system and I knew I can stand up to 150s for some time. What was much more worrying was the fact that despite my opponent being webbed, my guns and rockets made little impression on his shields. Exchange of fire was going on for some time and soon it became apparent that my armour repairer was loosing the battle with my opponent guns, my armour was disappearing faster than my opponent shields. I was already well in structure when I finally punched hole in his shields and red sliver appeared on his armor status, unfortunately it was all too late. I still had EMP loaded and thanks to native EMP resistance of armour I knew I wont be able to win this encounter. Rifter lasted few more seconds and <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12570971">exploded</a>, after initially catching me in scram and trying ransom, he let me go.<br />
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We have exchanged gf had a quick chat afterwards and he confirmed that he had large shield buffer with EM and Thermal rigs on his ship. I plugged his fit into EFT just to check how it compares with Rifter and it is clear I had no chance, he would have to mess things up pretty badly in order to lose this fight. His Firetail is faster and has alot more of EHP than my ship. My 5th Rifter was lost but I only just started enjoyin this new EVE experience and decided to extend this experiment by another 50 or so Rifters :).Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-66932493439335205692011-02-18T06:52:00.000-08:002011-02-18T07:49:28.220-08:00Patience is a Virtue<div>I have a cat, his name is Angelo, hes a gorgeous 3yr old black furball. Anyone who has/had a cats and played with them knows that cats like to play 3 different games. There is a chasing game, everyone has seen cat chasing a paper ball or a laser light, there is a wrestling game, that game often leaves scratch marks on your hands, and then there is a "watching" game. Cat can sit for a long time without moving a muscle in his body and just watch his prey waiting for this perfect moment to catch it. I really can not figure out when is that perfect moment for Angelo but I had 2 of those moments not long ago in Genesis.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Undeniably piloting skills, knowledge of ones ship and it's abilities are some of the most important aspects of PvP in EVE, there are however other aspects that are not often spoken about. Research, preparation and patience play a big role and will often make a difference between coming back home with couple of corpses in your cargo or coming back in a pod.</div><div><br />
</div><div>While researching few pirate corporations which I knew are settled in my neighbouring low systems I was looking for where they hunt, where they score solo kills, what targets can be found in different systems. One small low sec pocket Between Zarer and Hesarid caught my eye in Genesis system. I haven't been there before and some pilots reported solo kills in that area, targets were always soft and I noted 5 recent solo kills between 2 guys from local pirate corp.</div><div><br />
</div><div>My Rifter was loaded with supplies for the evening and I instructed ship computer to set best speed to Sibe. I have met some familiar faces on the way to my new playground but nothing worth mentioning happen. My usual routine in new area is to prepare observation spots on all celestials. After making some bookmarks I familiarised myself with inhabitants of this place. Literally all of them had high sec status, and BattleClinic killboards showed mostly loses with just a couple of kills in large fleets.</div><div><br />
</div><div>In Hesarid one pilot was parked at POS and I was about to go back to Toon which was more lively with about 10 pilots docked in station when 2 more ships jumped through the gate. Usually when carebears see someone with low sec status in the system they just dock or hide in safety of a tower shield, but those guys were all from the same corp and it seems they were called as a support for the guy sitting at POS. Three of them threaten me in local and asked me to leave or they will shot me down, I answered that I claim this system and either they leave or I will shot them down to which I didn't get any answer.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Ishkur and Myrmidon showed on directional, my Rifter was not a match for those 2 together. As they had amost zero PVP experience I was tempted to go after them, shot their drones really quick and try to do some damage but in the end I figured that would be pushing my luck waaay too far, all they needed is any kind of point and neutraliser to take me down. They probably thought themselves very smart parking at anomaly above my, sadly they stayed together all the time and there was not much I could have done to split them. POS pilot was in Cormorant and didn't want to come out to play at all. I was patient, I had all evening and dedicated those 4 systems to be my hunting ground for the evening so I sat on my observation spot and watched and waited, after about 15 minutes 3 of them gave up and left the system.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Slightly disappointed I jumped back to Toon. There were only 3 guys there, all docked, again I decided to sit quietly and dont look threatening (hehe). After couple of more hours with nothing to report, directional in Toon blinked with one target. Moa undocked from station and headed somewhere, directional started searching space for her destination and to my surprise found her on local plex. Looked like my patience was about to be rewarded with big fat slow prey. I landed about 20 km from her and overheated mediums, in seconds warp scrambler disabled her propulsion system and 200mm Autocanons crackled sending volley after volley into her soft underbelly.</div><div><br />
</div><div>After extracting pilot capsule from her intestines I tried to catch pilot for some ransom but he was switched on and instantly warped away to the safety of a station. Moa had disappointingly <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12548843">bad fit</a> and apart from kill satisfaction I didn't get anything of a value from her. </div><div><br />
</div><div>During the fight I noticed that Cormorant pilot I saw earlier in Hesarid showed in local for few seconds and disappear. Aftaer loosing my GCC I made my way to Hesarid again hoping I may catch him there. You can always count on a noob, he came back and was ratting happily on a belt nearest to gate exit. Pilot of the Cormorant only managed to say "You again..." before his ship exploded and I delivered him safely to his cloning bay. Cormorant fit was just as bad as Moa but <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12548842">slightly more expensive</a> and after long waiting whole evening turned out to be rather good. With full cargo hold, 2 kills and significant dent on my security status I headed home without any further interruptions.</div>Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-80199191093065915252011-02-17T03:17:00.000-08:002011-02-17T07:55:56.436-08:00Hunter huntedIt's not National Geographic people nor is it a game from 90's, rather is a short story how I managed to fell into 2 traps one after another. <div><br />
</div><div>As usual I went looking for trouble to Genesis region, one lucky industrial in Dom-Aphis who was onlining POS defenses managed to escape into safety of the tower shield in structure, slightly frustrated I left the system heading north.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Most of the inhabitants of the area was sitting in stations, only in Assez which is often more busy system in this pipe couple of BC was camping exit to high sec in Serren. I noticed on the map single low sec system called Ahbazon and decided to check it out. To my surprise it had 12 people in local and directional started spitting potential targets. Most of the reported ships was of course parked at POSes but I noticed an Omen in one of the belts. 400mm fitted Rifter is in my opinion not an ideal fit for Ammarian Cruiser but after assessing locals I decided to give it a try anyway, chances are he is PvE fitted and if shit hits the fan I can always fly away. </div><div><br />
</div><div>As I landed on the belt, cruiser was just warping off, I followed him to few celestials but eventually he managed to shake me off. While I was rather annoyed with this turn of events my confidence grew. I analysed situation, all pilots in the system were from different corps, this guy was ratting solo and run away from me, conclusion was - I am only bad apple in this basket. I went back to directional and spotted Wolf in a belt right next to me, Wolf does not have a web and worst case scenario I will just run away from him, my decision was an instant and Rifter warp drive spatted bright burst of flames. </div><div><br />
</div><div>I engaged Wolf overheating all my systems instantly, he replied with fire and disruptor, I should have read a warning sign better and gtfo from there but my confidence was high and adrenaline rush held me in place. My plate was holding pretty well against this AF, our armor was going down at similar rate and I was pretty sure it will be a very close race into a structure for both of us. I kept close distance knowing that Wolf has better faloff than my Rifter, about half way through the armor 2 more ships landed on the belt, the same Omen who was earlier running away from me and a Crusader. For a split second I hoped they may help me but <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12496827">it turned out not to be</a>, I didnt even try to escape and kept firing at Wolf but very quickly I was heading to the station in my pod. </div><div><br />
</div><div>We had a chat afterwards and they said it was a trap. I still don't know why Omen was running away from me but really it doesn't matter, shame we couldn't finish duel with Wolf, it would be interesting to see how my Rifter stands up to this more advanced ship.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Next day I aimed for a different low sec pipe starting in Kador ending in Domain, after checking it out few days earlier I wanted to explore the area a bit more. Few familiar names with low sec status flying cruisers and battlecruisers was on the main route and I expected this trip to be short and uneventful. In Bersyrim directional detected a lone Harpy on celestial, quite excited with prospect of fighting another AF I warped to the planet he was sitting just a split second too late, we started playing this cat and mouse game for a few minutes, I am getting better at this and I followed him exactly and not loosing him even for a moment but every time he managed to escape before I landed a point on him. </div><div><br />
</div><div>My frustration with this slimy character grew with every unsuccessful attempt at pointing him him. I noticed a local pirate entering the system, I knew he was flying Rapier as I have seen him en route here. I decided to catch this Harpy and fight it at any cost however and kept my chase. He headed for a sun and I followed again without loosing him out of my directional, as we landed at 0 and finally my scrambler was locked on his ship and held him in a place. </div><div><br />
</div><div>At the same time pirate in Rapier decloaked 10 km away. He released swarm of Hammerhead II and pointed me, I think he was also shooting but with AB running I was too quick for his guns and drones, he did not neutralised my cap and I though I have a fighting chance. Harpy was going down and was going down fast, my victory was almost certain, my armour was holding firm while his was falling apart under my overheated guns and rockets. Maybe 15 more seconds of that and he would be heading to the station in a pod but as I started relaxing Zealot landed on top of Rapier and in 2 volleys I was out of armour. To make matter worse Rapier neuted me and now without AB his drones started chipping away my structure, <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12516514">my end</a> was inevitable.</div><div><br />
</div><div>We had a long chat after that, turned out there was a larger fleet in the area spread across many systems and my faith was predetermined long before I realised that. Harpy pilot was a trainee in a local pirate corp and he wanted to show his mates how he can kill Rifter, we had a chuckle about that and they admitted that without support from Rapier and Zealot he instead of me would be now heading home in a pod. Despite loosing my 2nd Rifter without one kill to my side I was rather pleased with my performance.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Hunter became a hunted twice in a row, such is life of a lone hunter, sometimes you bite more than you can chew. Rapier pilot asked me to join his corp, they have a trainee spot open and said they will be happy to take me on. I am still considering this offer but there is a certain romantic charm in going on a solo hunt and I get more buzz from not knowing what's behind next gate than from relative security granted by corporation intel. </div>Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-38833063908462656642011-02-15T07:08:00.000-08:002011-02-17T07:55:56.436-08:00Flying a dual rep RifterI have found this fit somewhere and decided to give it a try, dual armour rep on frigate is a tricky business but hey its a learning exercise so why not.<br />
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Next day after scoring 2 good kills I went again my now well known route. To my surprise, in Cheneya system which is usually empty was 6 pilots, turned out one of my previous day victims was there with his corp. We have exchanged greetings and I started assessing situation.<br />
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After checking all guys in the system and confirming them to be bunch of harmless carebears I proceeded with scanning the system to find out what they are flying. Apart of usual ships which I have known to be parked in the POSes I noticed 1 Maelstrom, 2 Drakes, 2 Caracals, Manticore. Charging on them in lone Rifter is probably not a smartest of the moves but I figured if I can catch Manticore alone, I could probably pop it and dissapear long before reinforcements arrive.<br />
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They were moving from one celestial to another, I followed Manticore staying on my observation spots in the system. Eventually Manticore and Maelstrom ended together up on a belt with rest of the group out of scanner range, that was the moment I was waiting for. All systems of my Rifter were overloaded on landing, I came out of warp 5km from Manticore and Maelstrom, it was very quick fight, Manticore was hitting the armour when Maelstrom sent 5 Warriors II on me. 4 more ships appeared on directional as I engaged my warp systems but when they arrived there was only frustrated Maelstrom pilot and a <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12489661">pile of rubble</a> which used to be fancy stealth bomber. Not wanting to risk facing rest of that crew I left wreck without looting it.<br />
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My appetite grew after this initial kill and I resumed that cat and mouse play trying to catch one of the Caracals solo. Working hard on my directional I have noticed them trying to set a trap on me, they left one of the Caracals on the belt and stationed rest of the group on nearest planet. Just a moment later local ticked up by one notch, a pirate from a corp to which I lost my first Rifter came in Vaga and quickly found single Caracal parked between asteroids. I decided to snatch the killmail even risking loosing Rifter should Vaga pilot turn on me before finishing Caracal. He either decided me to be friendly or unworthy his attention and without even locking my Rifter let me warp off soon after Caracal <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12490519">went up in flames</a>.<br />
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After that loss their little group decided that is enough PVP for the day and went their merry way. It seems they forgot to loot Manticore wreck and I picked up few nice bits for sale from its wreck. Warmed up and in a good mood I have set course for Genesis.<br />
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I went up all the way to Gonditsa where my directional spotted low sec gate camp, there was 3 wrecks on the gate and 5 ships BC and BS with GCC so I turned back and set best speed to my home in Dresi. In Iaokit on the gate Solo Pilgrim targeted my Rifter, instead of immediately burning back to the gate I was being very noosy and wanted to check out this character that targeted me. Before I realised what is happening I was out of cap and 5 Warriors 2 were tearing my ship apart I popped cap booster in and aimed at gate but it was too late. My Rifter <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12489659">exploded</a> seconds later and now only in capsule I returned home.<br />
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I don't think I will be flying dual rep Rifter much, it seemed very fragile and required more attention than heavy plated one, I had identical one already fitted so there was no harm trying again but I knew already this is not a fit for me, not at that stage of my pirating career.<br />
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Just want to mention that this blog was added to EVE Online blog pack at <a href="http://www.crazykinux.com/">CrazyKinux's Musing</a>!Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-51041682589981989252011-02-12T05:03:00.000-08:002011-02-12T06:02:59.438-08:00First StepsDay after loosing Rifter No 1 I headed for Genesis region again. Bordan and neighbouring systems were disappointingly empty and quiet and I quickly jumped to Dom-Aphis. There was only 2 other pilots in the system, both with high sec status, I checked killboards and they appeared to be harmless with only few kills from 0.0 blob fights. One of the pilots in Caracal was few kilometers from gate, he locked my Rifter but I ignored him knowing that shooting me here would be his suicide.<br />
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My Ship was slowly orbiting gate as I gathered info on those 2 pilots, suddenly red blinking light on console waked me up. Caracal pilot send volley of his rockets in my direction, gate cannons responded immediately and I had just a couple of seconds to stop this criminal from escaping. Luckily he was only about 5km away from me, almost instinctively my fingers landed on console and engaged warp scrambler, at the same time afterburner roared with full power sending my Rifter on tight orbit around now almost certainly doomed Caracal pilot.<br />
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Memories of my previous unfortunate encounter on this gate were somewhere at the back of my mind but this was completely different set of circumstances. Caracal was alone and he was much weaker than Rapier, my only worry was that this Rifter had active dual armour rep rep fit and if this Caracal has neutraliser he can mess up with my plans. His doom was inevitable, combination of my weapons and gate cannons was ripping through his shields, he didn't have neutraliser and soon met his inevitable <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12481539">end</a>. Pilot warped out in capsule in general direction of the sun and I proceeded with stripping Caracal wreck from remaining valuables.<br />
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Towards the end of that quick encounter second pilot in the system landed on gate in a <a href="http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Hawk">Hawk</a> and looked like he was trying to help me too but as soon as Caracal became a pile of rubble he warped off. My security status was at that point still positive so there was no harm in trying to catch Caracal capsule and convince him to donate some ISK in exchange for not sending him express to cloning bay.<br />
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Directional detected Hawk and Capsule in the system, Hawk was more risky but potentially better for my killboard than capsule. He was sitting on a planet and looked rather surprised when I landed on top of him and instantly scrammed and webbed his ship. After meeting little resistance his boat <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12481673">exploded</a>, this time I was quick and held his capsule in my scram. He wasn't interested in funding my pirating fun and was instantly delivered to his clone bay courtesy of yours truly.<br />
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First steps were made, for the first time my security status dropped below 0 and I have now officially joined ranks of outlaws of New Eden.Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-46037768361641154072011-02-11T02:11:00.001-08:002011-02-12T05:58:11.747-08:00On choosing targetsFor my first 5 Rifters I pretty much decided not to choose and pick targets but attack anything that stands on my way if I have at least slim chance of having a fight, Fighting large gate camps and CONCORD falls outside of this rule. <br />
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</div><div>This approach has both advantages and inevitable drawabacks. Main drawback is that you going to loose ships, first few days into my venture to lowsec costed me 3 well fitted and rigged Rifters. There is sometimes also an element of frustration when you realise than you have bitten more than you can chew or when you learn that your chosen target is a bait and has few buddies who just waiting for you to take a bite. Those minor problems are however quickly overshadowed by satisfaction you get from good fight and some nice killmails.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Genesis region looked inviting again, after checking map for recent kills that may indicate low sec gate camp I jumped to Dom-Aphis. On exit was one Rapier who quickly targeted me, local chat indicated he has corp mate in the system. I blame that on my eagerness for fight and inexperience when I decided to take him on if he aggros, sporting 400 plate on my Rifter I though my web and scram should keep him long enough for gate guns to finish him off. He slowly approached me I targeted him back and he opened fire. AB on and after a moment of hesitation my guns returned fire and Rifter set tight orbit around my agressor. </div><div><br />
</div><div>Almost instantly Pilgrim appeared about 10km from gate, turns out his buddy was there all the time, sitting cloaked waiting for someone to take a bait. Rapier lost his shields almost instantly and his armour quickly started crumbling, mine wasn't looking too rosy either but I still had him on 1.5km webbed and scrammed and I though there is still a chance to trade my Rifter for a killmail of that Rapier. Weapons systems glowed from overheating and almost at the same time I realised how badly I misjudged situation. Pilgrim took a couple of seconds to acquire target and then neuted me to the oblivion and back, I lost web and scram on Rapier, lost my AB and my ship was also webbed and scrammed now. I could only watch them finishing the <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12475255">job</a> with Rapier getting away close to the structure. We have exchanged "gf" and had a brief conversation afterwards, they even invited me to their corp but since leaving one not long ago and wanting to do some stuff solo I declined.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Lessons learned, when there is 2 guys from same corp with low sec status in the system and one of them is attacking you on the gate, it's a trap and you should gtfo. Anyway it was a good experience, limitations of my frigate became more apparent to me, in particular importance of capacitor even for projectile weapon boat can not be underestimated. Damage was also rather underwhelming, my expectations were higher when fighting cruiser sized boat, perhaps I need to experiment with ammo, I wasn't really sure really what to load when, EMP or Barrage? </div><div><br />
</div><div>Despite that setback my plans remain unchanged, anything that stands on my way will be attacked and more than likely only one of us is gonna make it out in one piece.</div>Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-16800779084694485322011-02-10T02:14:00.000-08:002011-02-12T05:58:54.158-08:00Change of directionLet me start by saying that 0.0 is good, in it's own way it can be also fun. I have lived in Fade for last few months and for the most part it was enjoyable experience. Isk is good, I got to the point where I could easily buy new Maelstrom from corp every week and fit it. My KB stats have significantly improved since I started participating in fleet battles and CTA. <br />
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</div><div>Despite those positives more and more often I have found myself sitting in the station spinning ships rather than having fun, something wasn't right. I came to realisation that my living in Fade was a bit like having secure, well paid employment. Since I have a fairly secure and reasonably well paid employment outside the game I wasn't necessary looking for one in the game, it was time for me to move on.</div><div><br />
</div><div>So I started considering my options. My play style doesn't really fit well in corp/alliance 0.0 life, I tend to go afk suddenly and for long periods often without warning, sometimes I don't log in for days. While hunting in small fleets or large scale CTA are often fun, nothing gives me as much buzz as going solo. </div><div><br />
</div><div>In my last days I ignored CTA and fleet ops and mainly went out solo wandering in Fountain, while I didn't score any kills it was more enjoyable than sitting for an hour on the POS waiting for bridge. Decision was made, I am moving out of 0.0. Still without clear direction as of what I will be doing in EVE I started moving my assets to Torrinos. I managed to move about 15 ships and 4 Hoarders filled with various crap, whole operation took me about a week and I made it without a scratch. It really is surprising how people are able to die to a gate camp in Torrinos, someone even lost Orca warping directly from station and landing in a bubble gate, I just sat in my Hoarder out of the grid shaking my head in disbelief, camp was even announced on local intel channel.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I left my corp, thanked guys for fun times and wished them all the best. For few days I was even thinking about selling my character, my skills are all over the place, I am a Jack of all trades but I decided to focus on one thing. I did put myself on character Bazaar, there was couple of offers, money earned from sale would allowed me to train new char to reasonable skill levels for free but in the end I decided not to sell.</div><div><br />
</div><div>I ended up building 5 rifters with my industrial alt and have drawn rough plan to go to local low sec and attack anything that comes my way. I started in small low sec pocket few jumps away from my new home in Dresi. 5 people in local all from the same corp and nothing on directional, almost certainly corp of industrial alts. As I scouted neighbouring systems I stumped upon this <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=12453366">Bestower</a> who was too slow picking PI goods from a planet.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Feeling very smug that I killed defenseless industrial I went ahead sightseeing neighbouring low sec systems, in Dehrokh 3 Hulks warped off the belt as I landed on it, I need to be quicked with scanning next time. I went towards Genesis region more to get the feel of the place than to fight, its a quiet place but I have seen couple of ships disappearing from directional soon after my arrival, there is a definitely a chance to catch something here, Ill be back for that.</div><div><br />
</div>Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-28908960145914413272010-12-21T01:44:00.000-08:002011-02-13T03:23:39.901-08:00Accidental afterpartyUpon logging yesterday, I asked about CTA earlier on and was told that CTA is over and I can carebear all I want. Rather disappointed I opened fleet browser looking for some action. Turned out there was a fleet forming to help Goons rep their tower in Venal, Jackal lead train to UMI, we were told we could see PL as they like shooting Goons. <br />
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</div><div>Whole op was looking like a bit of anticlimax, 100+ PL pilots were sitting 2 jumps away and didn't really wanted to engage us as we were over 300 men strong in 2 fleets. After uneventful tower repping we went back to UMI and waited for Goons to get back to Tribute. Goons passed by our tower waved and flew away, few minutes later fleet was called down and we have reformed for return to Fade. As soon as return fleet formed, comms exploded with shouts that Goons were jumped by PL in X47L-Q. </div><div><br />
</div><div>We have reformed fleet on the way to the battle under Goon FC. Amazing how quickly over 100 people gathered on the gate to X47, when we jumped in Goons were down about 10 BS. Unlike last time I was prepared, my shields were up, I had no repeats on launcher and as per orders I was orbiting FC at 5K. PL Abaddons started dropping really quickly our FC said he was rather suprised how disciplined we were compared to Goons who are so obsessed with KB scores that they shot everything in range heheh. After about 15 minutes they started warping out, we managed to get points on 2 carriers and those were 2 cherries on this rather juicy cake. <a href="http://kb.eve-42.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=185313">http://kb.eve-42.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=185313</a></div><div><br />
</div><div>It turned out to be not such a bad evening in the end (not so bad for me anyway), Goons went back home, probably pissed off with their loss of aprox 15 BS. </div><div><br />
</div><div>My training for Core Capacitor Standard should be over soon, I have to start gathering money for BS and fittings so no PVP for me today. Still can't decide whether I should go for Mael, Tempest or maybe try to bring my Typhoon from Torrinos, I have few more days to decide. I should really wind down my PI operations in Heimatar and probably plant some extractors locally in Fade, so many things to do so little time, roll on Xmas....</div><div><br />
</div>Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1333904237084216815.post-59604035529076381702010-12-19T13:52:00.001-08:002011-02-12T03:28:10.808-08:00CTA 19/12/10<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I was almost late for that one, logged in at 5pm when fleet was about to set off from P-2. Jumped in my Drake and gave it full speed through 2 jump bridges to join 100man strong fleet.<br />
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FC ordered best speed to J5A and told us that Goons and WI are also on the way. Rumors were we are expected and should be expecting strong resistance. Train to J5A was rather uneventful scouts reported few neuts on the way, someone managed to grab a neut drake on the way but it popped before I managed to lock him, now he knows what's it like to fall under running train.<br />
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From J5A to PNQ we have moved in tight group, local intel must have warned everyone that large fleets operate in the area and all locals were either in CTA or docked safely out of harms way. Without any resistance we have parked 50km below station in PNQ and almost immediately 2 defense fleets landed on the grid. Comms cleared, brackets off, shields and weapons armed, everyone was awaiting for first contact. Eventually it happend, fleets warped towards station and first targets were called.<br />
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Initial lag was as expected horrible, after fight started I realised my missiles are on auto-repeat. I tough "What a noob I am", took me couple of minutes to switch auto-repeat off and I eventually could start shooting. Without brackets I didn't see where I am in relation to rest of the fleet, so when I hit keep at range to FC, it turned out I drifted almost 40km away, MWD on and burn back to safety of my bloob. During fight FC pased command to his 2nd as he had some friends arriving at the door, talk about timing lol. Anyway, 2nd took command, called targets and we proceeded dismantling enemy defences. Fight was going on for about 20-30 min, and enemy fleets started thinning noticeably, eventually rest of them warped off. I switched on brackets and there it was, sea of juicy loot. Auto-repeat back on, missiles went towards targeted station and I proceeded to scavenging wrecks of defenders. Cargo filled quickly, station went back into reinforcement and FC called alignment to enemy POS.<br />
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Warp to POS there they were, like rats in the cage, 2 enemy fleets sitting in safety of a POS. While they were clearly not interested in engaging us we have incapacitated couple of missile batteries and at that point command decided that is enough for today. Aligned to 9-V gate and off we went, WI slightly ahead of us with Goons at the back of the train. Upon jumping gate we were told that possibly defenders will want to jump on Goons during retreat, quickly re-approached gate we waited for signal to jump back in. Signal came in seconds later and we jumped back. That was much shorter fight, after loosing few logis, enemy decided it is not worth it and they warped off. Way back was pretty uneventful, one unfortunate neut who was at wrong gate at wrong time ended up in a clone.</span><br />
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">So my 2nd CTA with MH was much more exciting, I have scored few kills came back with cargo filled with enemy belongings and I was accepted into PXIN Navy at the same time, go me!</span></div>Qinteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15468669438775474745noreply@blogger.com0