Ubuntu Inc. is awesome so far. I mean, I had my hesitations due to the anti-pirate sentiments. Most of those standings were more due to being part of the CVA roleplaying alliance, but my corpmates; we're out for blood. This comes in many forms; be it from being the dominant corp in a syste to just killing everyone.
Well, we've begun our campaign to be the dominant corp in our home system. This system is roughly 4 jumps from Amarr, has come to the attention of several other mining corps, and has plenty of traffic. We have taken on the first part to establishing ourselves as the boss of this system by getting rid of the other miners. We are ganking their hulks. Seriously, any hulk we see, if we have enough people online with enough dps output, we fleet up and destroy their ship. This has created issues with other corps, obviously, as 200 mISK loss to some gankers is bad. Oh well, it means I can get my low sec on while in high sec and I dont even have to leave home to do it. Awesome!
Now, the downside to this is that we are becoming what we are against, or better to say, the alliance, is against. Sort of. This is where it gets tricky. They dont want to fight and be killing people, but they want to roleplay EVE. Killing and ganking and hi-sec YAR'ing is roleplaying in EVE. So we get to piss off other people and do so with the blessing of our anti-pirate alliance. Another downside is that eventually, we will either clear the system of opponents or we will have so many we wont be able to do anything.
Either way, Im glad to be doing some pvp, whether its high sec, low or null. I think I prefer the solo pvp aspect more, but there is very little solo pvp due to people bringing in or having support alts off grid that fleet combat has become essential and almost required. So Im getting myself some small gang and fleet experience developing alongside other capsuleers who are new-ish to EVE pvp. Works out because it is awesome fun. Awesome fun is ganking hulks. Another awesome fun moment just happened as I logged in, so I missed the full fight. However, the kill and the victims fit made me happy.
Please bear in mind that this victim is a War Target, and was baited into a fight with a Rifter, resulting in the following killmail:
Victim: Sippowitz
Corp: J5 Industries
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Dramiel
System: Ziona
Security: 0.6
Damage Taken: 3028
Involved parties:
Name: Zealot Nagah (laid the final blow)
Security: 0.5
Corp: Ubuntu Inc.
Alliance: Lonely Maple Conglomeration
Faction: NONE
Ship: Rapier
Weapon: 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II
Damage Done: 2070
Name: Nos Sectus
Security: 0.9
Corp: Ubuntu Inc.
Alliance: Lonely Maple Conglomeration
Faction: NONE
Ship: Drake
Weapon: Scourge Heavy Missile
Damage Done: 530
Name: Kitteh Nagah
Security: 0.4
Corp: Ubuntu Inc.
Alliance: Lonely Maple Conglomeration
Faction: NONE
Ship: Drake
Weapon: Scourge Heavy Missile
Damage Done: 428
Destroyed items:
1MN Afterburner I (Cargo)
Corpse (Cargo)
Warrior II, Qty: 3 (Drone Bay)
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Stasis Webifier I (Cargo)
'Limos' Rocket Launcher I (Cargo)
Small Capacitor Control Circuit I
True Sansha Power Diagnostic System
Republic Fleet EMP S, Qty: 1060 (Cargo)
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I (Cargo)
Thorn Rocket, Qty: 41 (Cargo)
Republic Fleet EMP S, Qty: 106
Shadow Serpentis Warp Disruptor
200mm AutoCannon II
Dark Blood Small Nosferatu
Small Polycarbon Engine Housing I
Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 918 (Cargo)
Small Anti-EM Screen Reinforcer I
Dropped items:
Sansha Copper Tag (Cargo)
Warrior II (Drone Bay)
Gistii B-Type 1MN MicroWarpdrive
Damage Control II
Thorn Rocket, Qty: 41 (Cargo)
Republic Fleet EMP S, Qty: 106
200mm AutoCannon II
Warp Scrambler I (Cargo)
Overdrive Injector System I (Cargo)
Gistii B-Type Small Shield Booster
Gistii B-Type 1MN Afterburner
Look at all that faction stuff!! Im sad the Small Nos got destroyed because I would have liked to get that onto one of my fits, but tbh, Im surprised this pilot flew this ship with that fitting. You would think a 2006 player would have the experience required to not be tricked into a trap like he was, especially while at war and without backup corp mates nearby.
Personally, I dont like his fit. Using autocannons, he's fighting in falloff almost the entire time and his nos is not helpful outside of 7.5 km. I thought Dramiels were kiting ships? He has the dual prop, giving him the gtfo ability, but if everything else is short range, why would you use the long point? Other than stopping someone from running away as they see you jump in outside of 30km, which is closer quickly with the mwd. With the high speeds and bonused tracking though, he wont have an issue hitting people as they may have hitting him.
Either way, this guy was baited and trapped and paid a hefty price for being overconfident during a war. Dont worry buddy, Ive been there too. Of course, you didnt have much of a chance with a few battlecruisers dropped on your skull.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The Annoyances of Playing Well with Others
Joining my new corp (Ubuntu) has shown me alot of things. Mainly, that I know alot about EVE and its mechanics. Second, that Im still pretty much a dumbass with alot about EVE and its mechanics. The first part is due to being in a corp with new people. I mean, real new people to EVE. The second, due to a conversation with a Tusker in chat about a Cruor fit that I didnt like. Both of which I enjoyed; as I dont mind sharing what I do know with other people and I also dont mind getting my ass kicked in stuff I dont know.
What both of these experiences has shown me is that I enjoy playing with newbies, because teaching them about the game and getting them hook is fun. Ive also learned that I dont want to be a newbie, as I have been since I started playing without actively realizing it. I say actively, because I already knew Im a huge carebear but didnt see it myself. I mean, look at my kills and losses, those say it all. I am getting the feeling that I used to get when playing EverQuest and EQ2: The drive to be the best. This has both good and bad things.
The Good
The good part of this is that I have a newfound vision of things and how I want them to be. I dont want to be that bug that gets stomped at every engagement anymore. I want to learn the deep and hardcore mechanics of the game and how they interact between the different equipment (ships/mods/ect) that players use. This drive will lead me into the "end-game" that is in any MMO. Its why I was able to do well raiding with world/server wide top guilds in my prior game.
The Bad
This drive requires dedication and focus, neither of which I want to put forth in the amount needed to succeed. I fell into this habit of doing whatever it took to win with EQ2, and when the game changed to where I didnt enjoy it anymore, I got nothing from those years of dedication and loyalty to one game. What happens when or if that occurs in EVE? Id be left with nothing again. It was hard enough to quit playing EQ2, and I still havent entirely stopped playing as I log in to group with my brother once in awhile with the hope that it has gotten better only to be let down.
With this "drive" that wants me to succeed combined with the feelings of not wanting to fall into old habits, its rather difficult to do what I want to do. So for now, Im going to continue my focused my plan of getting into a Legion to provide income from missions and sell my Navy Apoc. Ive snuck in some gunnery and missile skills though, so that Amarr Cruiser 5 is taking a little longer to complete than it should.
I have a limitation of no pirating in my current corp, however, I have chosen to pirate anyways. A recent hulk gank resulted in a threat of a high sec war, which I am sad to report has not occured yet. Its time to adjust my jump clones and implants to turn my focus away from getting myself in situations where I lose my ships or cargo and towards geting kills and getting deep into the mechanics of EVE combat.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Stage 1 - Join, Meet and Learn
After getting invited, thinking about and accepting an offer to join a nice little corp, I am learning people, places, and things. For example, I lead a small mining ops for all of 10 minutes before I had to leave for work, leaving my Orca afk in system to offer bonuses to the fleet. Those didnt last long apparently as my internet had decided to turn itself off after I left. My internet knows not to be AFK in space for long periods of time better than me I suppose.
Next, I registered with the website and forum stuffs. Nifty, a working forum. And a little quest system with sponsors? Hmm...Checking this out, I found out you have to be sponsored by another member to progress the quest chain. Ok, promoting intercorp talking and communication. I like this a lil bit, but the downside is that I have done several of these already. The good thing is that it is training for nullsec and pvp anywhere in EVE. Like how to align and get your pod out safely. Very handy imo. Extra training and practice in things you already know are good things, plus revisiting certain ships is always fun.
I transported several frigate sized vessels (30+) from Amarr to Ziona, our home base. Which by the way works out amazingly. My home is only one jump over, which is only 3 jumps from Amarr. Its like a perfect storm of locations for me, it couldnt get better tbh. After getting situated with a few corpmates and corp hangar roles, I contracted a few Rifters to a person who donated quite a bit to the corp coffers. Alot of these people in corp are new, or as close to new as you can get. Knowing this, I also know funds for them are hard to come by. Me, having funds, donated 20million back to a couple members who I talked with and that I felt would make good use of the funds given. Both players were in shock at having their wallet explode. Not only did I think this was funny (because I used to feel 20misk was alot as well) but I also felt good about helping out some newbs.
And my final adventure of the night ended in helping another corpmate out in a mission he had issues doing in his Merlin, actually losing that ship. After reshipping into a Kestral, he gave me his location, 10 jumps out. Meh, w/e, Ill fly my little ship (Vengeance) to help him out. Its fast, so 10 jumps went by quicker than 4 jumps by my Orca. Warping into the mission were three frigates that were able to web and scram. Interesting, but ok. Targeting and killing all three in a couple volleys, the mission was complete. To much fanfaire in our corp channel, produced by my single fleet/corp mate that I had just assisted, I returned home and headed to bed for the night.
All in all, I think I like this new corp quite a bit. Its organized, has several short term and long term goals for its members, and the most important part is that it has the support from leadership to develope leaders from within the corp. Aside from the anti pirating, I couldnt disagree much at all with my current situation.
Im still going to sneak in some pirating, but shhh!!!
Next, I registered with the website and forum stuffs. Nifty, a working forum. And a little quest system with sponsors? Hmm...Checking this out, I found out you have to be sponsored by another member to progress the quest chain. Ok, promoting intercorp talking and communication. I like this a lil bit, but the downside is that I have done several of these already. The good thing is that it is training for nullsec and pvp anywhere in EVE. Like how to align and get your pod out safely. Very handy imo. Extra training and practice in things you already know are good things, plus revisiting certain ships is always fun.
I transported several frigate sized vessels (30+) from Amarr to Ziona, our home base. Which by the way works out amazingly. My home is only one jump over, which is only 3 jumps from Amarr. Its like a perfect storm of locations for me, it couldnt get better tbh. After getting situated with a few corpmates and corp hangar roles, I contracted a few Rifters to a person who donated quite a bit to the corp coffers. Alot of these people in corp are new, or as close to new as you can get. Knowing this, I also know funds for them are hard to come by. Me, having funds, donated 20million back to a couple members who I talked with and that I felt would make good use of the funds given. Both players were in shock at having their wallet explode. Not only did I think this was funny (because I used to feel 20misk was alot as well) but I also felt good about helping out some newbs.
And my final adventure of the night ended in helping another corpmate out in a mission he had issues doing in his Merlin, actually losing that ship. After reshipping into a Kestral, he gave me his location, 10 jumps out. Meh, w/e, Ill fly my little ship (Vengeance) to help him out. Its fast, so 10 jumps went by quicker than 4 jumps by my Orca. Warping into the mission were three frigates that were able to web and scram. Interesting, but ok. Targeting and killing all three in a couple volleys, the mission was complete. To much fanfaire in our corp channel, produced by my single fleet/corp mate that I had just assisted, I returned home and headed to bed for the night.
All in all, I think I like this new corp quite a bit. Its organized, has several short term and long term goals for its members, and the most important part is that it has the support from leadership to develope leaders from within the corp. Aside from the anti pirating, I couldnt disagree much at all with my current situation.
Im still going to sneak in some pirating, but shhh!!!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Vengeance vs Retribution, et ali
I had just finished a mission, and someone was looking for a 1v1. I asked what class, and he replied that hes flying a Sacrilage. T2 cruisers are a bit out of the range I was looking to fight right now, so I said nevermind. He asked what I was flying and I informed him Vengeance and offered to fight him if he dropped down to a frigate class vessel. To which he did, but it was 7 jumps away, so I had to wait. Well, wait I did!
This pilot, Yungjeff14, is in a player corp. I am in Viziam, an NPC corp. My thought process on this is that if he drops a can that I steal from, his corp can join in. If he steals my can, no one from Viziam can join in. Second thought is that this is highsec, so he may have a booster alt. To make it fair and to make sure he doesnt, fleet up. I learned the fleet up process while in lowsec, where Concorde doesnt rape your face if you attack another pilot, like in high sec where they do. This lead to me dropping a can, fleeting up with this pilot while he took the can. Well, that didnt work, he didnt go red. Oh...Fleet members can take from your can. Ok, unfleet, he dropped can, I took. Wait, shit! The whole point of this was so he took the can!
Well, he soon opened fire, going red to me. I returned fire, double webbing and scramming him. Prior to the engagemet, I warped in at 100km to planet 8 where he chose the locale, he closed in very quickly,at higher than 2km/s; showing me his one midslot was MWD. Also, he knew what ship I was using, but he hadnt known that I was using lasers. Working to my advantage *finally*, this pilot had set his resists up for rocket type damages. My lasers ripped through his shields and chewed quickly through his armor into structure. At this point, I turned off my guns and offered him a ransom, jokingly. Also, sometime during him getting into armor, he hit my armor as well, to which I turned on my repper. I am cap stable with all modules going, and he didnt have a neut or nos, so I was in no way in trouble. I turned off my repper to make him feel like he was not fighting some godlike tank.
This move had worked out ok, until I stopped attacking and asked what his ship was worth to him. I heard the armor alarms going off which snapped me out of my focus, and back into the defensive. Overheating my repper, as well as my guns, I got him deep into structure. My armor shot back up into the safe zone. Then, a second red line appeared on my overview. Well, this is what I didnt want to happen. My opponent was less than 10% structure, and a legion had just shown up as backup. I stopped orbit immediately, aligning to a celestial. I waited for a split second longer before I hit warp, because I know the lock time on a Legion onto my Vengeance is roughly 4.4 seconds with my fit and skills. (go my EFT warrior skills!) Getting out of there, hoping my lasers would finish off the dishonorable opponent as I left.
Sadly, the losers ship did not blow up. What happened afterwards was unexpected for me and I feel lucky to have survived. They chased me. At least 3 of their corpmembers were chasing me. Id jump to planets at 100km, sit for a minute to ridicule them in local for claiming to honor a 1v1, which they did not. Me taunting them for chasing after and unable to catch me probally didnt help much except to piss them off. I dont care though, they stole a killmail that I had finally won.
This is a fight I won; in both combat and afterwards in evading the reinforcements. I didnt have any safes in this system; being my home mission system and in an npc corp, I never felt the need to make any. I did everything in this fight correct except for turning off my repper, especially since Im cap stable and didnt need to do so. The opponent is similar age as me, having been born one month before me as well, so skill wise, we were pretty even. I feel cheated though, as my slump finally comes to an end and I dont get the credit for it.
This pilot, Yungjeff14, is in a player corp. I am in Viziam, an NPC corp. My thought process on this is that if he drops a can that I steal from, his corp can join in. If he steals my can, no one from Viziam can join in. Second thought is that this is highsec, so he may have a booster alt. To make it fair and to make sure he doesnt, fleet up. I learned the fleet up process while in lowsec, where Concorde doesnt rape your face if you attack another pilot, like in high sec where they do. This lead to me dropping a can, fleeting up with this pilot while he took the can. Well, that didnt work, he didnt go red. Oh...Fleet members can take from your can. Ok, unfleet, he dropped can, I took. Wait, shit! The whole point of this was so he took the can!
Well, he soon opened fire, going red to me. I returned fire, double webbing and scramming him. Prior to the engagemet, I warped in at 100km to planet 8 where he chose the locale, he closed in very quickly,at higher than 2km/s; showing me his one midslot was MWD. Also, he knew what ship I was using, but he hadnt known that I was using lasers. Working to my advantage *finally*, this pilot had set his resists up for rocket type damages. My lasers ripped through his shields and chewed quickly through his armor into structure. At this point, I turned off my guns and offered him a ransom, jokingly. Also, sometime during him getting into armor, he hit my armor as well, to which I turned on my repper. I am cap stable with all modules going, and he didnt have a neut or nos, so I was in no way in trouble. I turned off my repper to make him feel like he was not fighting some godlike tank.
This move had worked out ok, until I stopped attacking and asked what his ship was worth to him. I heard the armor alarms going off which snapped me out of my focus, and back into the defensive. Overheating my repper, as well as my guns, I got him deep into structure. My armor shot back up into the safe zone. Then, a second red line appeared on my overview. Well, this is what I didnt want to happen. My opponent was less than 10% structure, and a legion had just shown up as backup. I stopped orbit immediately, aligning to a celestial. I waited for a split second longer before I hit warp, because I know the lock time on a Legion onto my Vengeance is roughly 4.4 seconds with my fit and skills. (go my EFT warrior skills!) Getting out of there, hoping my lasers would finish off the dishonorable opponent as I left.
Sadly, the losers ship did not blow up. What happened afterwards was unexpected for me and I feel lucky to have survived. They chased me. At least 3 of their corpmembers were chasing me. Id jump to planets at 100km, sit for a minute to ridicule them in local for claiming to honor a 1v1, which they did not. Me taunting them for chasing after and unable to catch me probally didnt help much except to piss them off. I dont care though, they stole a killmail that I had finally won.
This is a fight I won; in both combat and afterwards in evading the reinforcements. I didnt have any safes in this system; being my home mission system and in an npc corp, I never felt the need to make any. I did everything in this fight correct except for turning off my repper, especially since Im cap stable and didnt need to do so. The opponent is similar age as me, having been born one month before me as well, so skill wise, we were pretty even. I feel cheated though, as my slump finally comes to an end and I dont get the credit for it.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Interestingly Small World
First, a quick derail out of New Eden into Norrath; which leads into EVE surprisingly.
My brother has finally seduced me back into the world of Norrath. I decided not to pay for a full month and rather, go with the 3 day weekend access for 5 bucks. Total ripoff imo, 1/3 the cost of a full month for 1/10th the total time. Anyhow, I did it anyways. I grouped right away with him and his friends in a guild. Several are former raiders (like myself) from a long time ago in EQ2, so we got along well. I fell into the role of leader by accident (maybe not real leader, but it felt like it) by leading the way into Ward of Elements, one of my favorite zones of the TSO exspansion. Throughout the zone, I lead the way, explaining most of each encounter; my memory sometimes missing details with the passing of time. It felt good to lead competent players again and I thoroughly enjoyed their company deep into the morning (530am EST). Its been a long time since Ive been up that late playing any game tbh.
Through some of our conversations, one of these players happened to play EVE as well; a very exciting event for me to find another capsuleer! And so started my slow bleeding of info from him about his EVE experience. I didnt want to reveal myself right away, in case he was a major player and might come to destroy me. Notice my lack of trust? =P Come to find out, this capsuleer is still pretty new (around 5mSP), similar to me. He likes to mine I found out, so offered the use of my orca if he would like, especially since he's based only 6 jumps from my base. Possible new roaming partner if he's interested in some pvp; which he is! I like this guy!
Anyhow, fast forward to Sunday night; and Im chatting him up in a private convo, learning more about him, sending him to a few useful links (my blog being the first one to lead him to other more experienced pilot blogs). Sometime during our coversation, I get a convo invite from another pilot. I recognized the name from talking to him before, but could not remember anything about this pilot or what I talked to him about. Accepting the invite while loading up his info to jog my memory, I straight told him I dont know who he is =P
Explaining himself and what he wanted with me eventually, I was pretty flattered (if I read what you wanted wrong, plz comment). This pilot is a former nullsec dweller, major pvp'r in a decent alliance, and a great leader apparently. He moved back into Empire space due to the g/f beginning to play EVE, a noble gesture for sure not just tossing her to the wolves of Zero space. His corp deviating from his personal goals in game, he created his own corp with his woman to invite experienced players and newbies alike, with the experienced ones teaching and training the newbies (real newbs btw) in all the various ways of New Eden. Basically, yet another newbie friendly, trainer corporation. Cool right? Well, I thought so also until the very end comment right as we said our good byes for the night:::
By the way, we're going Anti-Pirate
My first personal reaction was "Lol, this guy said he read my blog, why's he want me doesnt he know Im the worst pirate alive?" Well, maybe thats why? Yeah, I was flattered because this guy wants me to join his corp as an experienced pilot. I told him Im far from "king shit" in the knowledge of EVE mechanics, and am still new as well. Oh well, I joined their private channel (by invite only btw) and Ill be staying in offering advice or help as needed or asked for. Maybe Ill join them if they change their views on no pirates, because Im incapable of not pissing people off. Ive become more and more tempted to jump into a nice ship to gank some miners that I keep passing in high sec while doing my missions. Eventually, that temptation is going to override my hesitation to not lose my ship to concorde.
So thats basically my weekend. I have enjoyed grouping with these new people in EQ2, so I may stay if the grouping and possible raiding continues. Definately might stay if I push myelf into a leadership position with them, but my motivation for getting back into scheduled raiding is lacking at this time of my life. That whole family, real life, and better things to do than sit on an MMO things get in the way of my falling back into the addiction that is hardcore raiding.
I didnt mention either pilots names to not put them out there, in case they dont want to be. If either of you want to be named, be my guest to post a comment =)
My brother has finally seduced me back into the world of Norrath. I decided not to pay for a full month and rather, go with the 3 day weekend access for 5 bucks. Total ripoff imo, 1/3 the cost of a full month for 1/10th the total time. Anyhow, I did it anyways. I grouped right away with him and his friends in a guild. Several are former raiders (like myself) from a long time ago in EQ2, so we got along well. I fell into the role of leader by accident (maybe not real leader, but it felt like it) by leading the way into Ward of Elements, one of my favorite zones of the TSO exspansion. Throughout the zone, I lead the way, explaining most of each encounter; my memory sometimes missing details with the passing of time. It felt good to lead competent players again and I thoroughly enjoyed their company deep into the morning (530am EST). Its been a long time since Ive been up that late playing any game tbh.
Through some of our conversations, one of these players happened to play EVE as well; a very exciting event for me to find another capsuleer! And so started my slow bleeding of info from him about his EVE experience. I didnt want to reveal myself right away, in case he was a major player and might come to destroy me. Notice my lack of trust? =P Come to find out, this capsuleer is still pretty new (around 5mSP), similar to me. He likes to mine I found out, so offered the use of my orca if he would like, especially since he's based only 6 jumps from my base. Possible new roaming partner if he's interested in some pvp; which he is! I like this guy!
Anyhow, fast forward to Sunday night; and Im chatting him up in a private convo, learning more about him, sending him to a few useful links (my blog being the first one to lead him to other more experienced pilot blogs). Sometime during our coversation, I get a convo invite from another pilot. I recognized the name from talking to him before, but could not remember anything about this pilot or what I talked to him about. Accepting the invite while loading up his info to jog my memory, I straight told him I dont know who he is =P
Explaining himself and what he wanted with me eventually, I was pretty flattered (if I read what you wanted wrong, plz comment). This pilot is a former nullsec dweller, major pvp'r in a decent alliance, and a great leader apparently. He moved back into Empire space due to the g/f beginning to play EVE, a noble gesture for sure not just tossing her to the wolves of Zero space. His corp deviating from his personal goals in game, he created his own corp with his woman to invite experienced players and newbies alike, with the experienced ones teaching and training the newbies (real newbs btw) in all the various ways of New Eden. Basically, yet another newbie friendly, trainer corporation. Cool right? Well, I thought so also until the very end comment right as we said our good byes for the night:::
By the way, we're going Anti-Pirate
My first personal reaction was "Lol, this guy said he read my blog, why's he want me doesnt he know Im the worst pirate alive?" Well, maybe thats why? Yeah, I was flattered because this guy wants me to join his corp as an experienced pilot. I told him Im far from "king shit" in the knowledge of EVE mechanics, and am still new as well. Oh well, I joined their private channel (by invite only btw) and Ill be staying in offering advice or help as needed or asked for. Maybe Ill join them if they change their views on no pirates, because Im incapable of not pissing people off. Ive become more and more tempted to jump into a nice ship to gank some miners that I keep passing in high sec while doing my missions. Eventually, that temptation is going to override my hesitation to not lose my ship to concorde.
So thats basically my weekend. I have enjoyed grouping with these new people in EQ2, so I may stay if the grouping and possible raiding continues. Definately might stay if I push myelf into a leadership position with them, but my motivation for getting back into scheduled raiding is lacking at this time of my life. That whole family, real life, and better things to do than sit on an MMO things get in the way of my falling back into the addiction that is hardcore raiding.
I didnt mention either pilots names to not put them out there, in case they dont want to be. If either of you want to be named, be my guest to post a comment =)
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Slacking due to RL
Yeah, Ive been slacking on both pvp and pve. I moved into a new home, had to wait a few days for all utilities to get turned on, and also bought a new keyboard that Im not sure fits me well (more options than I need). Anyhow, on to what I did today.
I loaded up a nice Vengeance fit, minus the rockets of course (par for the course for me, eh?) and found a nice little pocket of lowsec a few jumps from Amarr. Learning my lessons of low sec travel before, I scouted ahead slightly, using only my map options. Worked pretty well, but I cant rely on that tool alone too often. It helped that I logged in purposefully during a slow period in this area a few hours before I planned to actually play. First things first in lowsec, make some safes. Luckily, 3 of the 4 systems I was planning on roaming through were empty except me in local. I also had a few safes from when I first started playing; warping to them found me a pos with a cyno alt. Warping in at 100km at just to be cautious, he saw me with plenty of time to run away. Oh well, renamed bm to accurately reflect this new knowledge.
The one system that had people in it happened to be the one I docked at, which I had thought doing so these people would be gone when I returned. However, they werent, and they were still the same people. Probally doing missions. Undocking, aligning and warping to a safe, popping up dscan midwarp, showed me I had forgotten to add a dscan tab for my overview to use. So, while not staying in one spot too long to be safe, I added that useful tab. Dscan now showed me a couple battlecruisers in range, with one neutral person docked up that I saw earlier.
Jumping between safes and celestials, I checked the info on each of these 3 players. No battleclinic info, I forgot about that until just now. Two were corpmates, reinforcing the idea of them being missioners. The third was in an npc corp and a 2011 character. Didnt catch the month, but to be in lowsec, its most likely an alt. I assumed it to be a scanning alt, due to my becoming much more paranoid about other capsuleers in New Eden. With this info, I decided to warp around to the belts. I did this with the hopes they might just be mining in battlecruisers. Not likely, but in lowsec, the unlikely is sometimes likely.
Finally noticing me in local, one of the pilots pipes up with a lil bit of taunting. I ignored it for a moment while checking each belt and planet, and with only one station, I checked it as well every couple jumps. Eventually, I got tired of the taunting and explained I am not silly enough to engage two battlecruisers (Myrmidon and Harbinger). Even if mission fit, I doubt I could break their tank, let alone two of them. I laughed back at them for hunting a frigate with two BC's, with a reply of "We hunt everyone." Laughing again, I let them know I thought they were noobs. Cementing my thoughts, they (I think only one due to the chatter) asked why I kept disappearring from their scanners. Good plan on keep the movement up. I exclaimed to them I wasnt going to let their neutral scanner find me.
By this time, I had stopped using my safes, as the third pilot had undocked. I didnt catch the ship he was using, but I decided to leave the system. Jumping through, the pilot talking to me (I forget her name) convo'd me. Asking what a neutral scanner is, I informed her (hard to believe that line from a 2009 toon, but I was still nice). After stating that wasnt her alt, I just gave the reason of becoming paranoid of everyone lately. I feel it served me well today. I didnt lose my ship, and I didnt engage a battlecruiser who had a corpmate in system. Wouldnt have attacked the Myrm anyhow, maybe the harbinger though.
So after roaming through my small pocket and not finding any fights after an hour or so, I chose to go home. Looking up some Ashimmu fits, I got mine situated pretty good. Not going to use her for a lil bit though while my skills go up a bit more. I hope to bring her out in a fleet op sometime, but we'll see. I also finished skills to assemble my Legion, which I did enthusiastically. Only about a month of training to get Amarr Cruiser 5 finished and Strategic Cruiser to 4, maybe 5. Other than those two skills, I have all the support skills to actually fly it instead of just sitting in it. Go me!
So I may log in again tonight, but its been a pretty rough day; calling for an early bed time perhaps.
I loaded up a nice Vengeance fit, minus the rockets of course (par for the course for me, eh?) and found a nice little pocket of lowsec a few jumps from Amarr. Learning my lessons of low sec travel before, I scouted ahead slightly, using only my map options. Worked pretty well, but I cant rely on that tool alone too often. It helped that I logged in purposefully during a slow period in this area a few hours before I planned to actually play. First things first in lowsec, make some safes. Luckily, 3 of the 4 systems I was planning on roaming through were empty except me in local. I also had a few safes from when I first started playing; warping to them found me a pos with a cyno alt. Warping in at 100km at just to be cautious, he saw me with plenty of time to run away. Oh well, renamed bm to accurately reflect this new knowledge.
The one system that had people in it happened to be the one I docked at, which I had thought doing so these people would be gone when I returned. However, they werent, and they were still the same people. Probally doing missions. Undocking, aligning and warping to a safe, popping up dscan midwarp, showed me I had forgotten to add a dscan tab for my overview to use. So, while not staying in one spot too long to be safe, I added that useful tab. Dscan now showed me a couple battlecruisers in range, with one neutral person docked up that I saw earlier.
Jumping between safes and celestials, I checked the info on each of these 3 players. No battleclinic info, I forgot about that until just now. Two were corpmates, reinforcing the idea of them being missioners. The third was in an npc corp and a 2011 character. Didnt catch the month, but to be in lowsec, its most likely an alt. I assumed it to be a scanning alt, due to my becoming much more paranoid about other capsuleers in New Eden. With this info, I decided to warp around to the belts. I did this with the hopes they might just be mining in battlecruisers. Not likely, but in lowsec, the unlikely is sometimes likely.
Finally noticing me in local, one of the pilots pipes up with a lil bit of taunting. I ignored it for a moment while checking each belt and planet, and with only one station, I checked it as well every couple jumps. Eventually, I got tired of the taunting and explained I am not silly enough to engage two battlecruisers (Myrmidon and Harbinger). Even if mission fit, I doubt I could break their tank, let alone two of them. I laughed back at them for hunting a frigate with two BC's, with a reply of "We hunt everyone." Laughing again, I let them know I thought they were noobs. Cementing my thoughts, they (I think only one due to the chatter) asked why I kept disappearring from their scanners. Good plan on keep the movement up. I exclaimed to them I wasnt going to let their neutral scanner find me.
By this time, I had stopped using my safes, as the third pilot had undocked. I didnt catch the ship he was using, but I decided to leave the system. Jumping through, the pilot talking to me (I forget her name) convo'd me. Asking what a neutral scanner is, I informed her (hard to believe that line from a 2009 toon, but I was still nice). After stating that wasnt her alt, I just gave the reason of becoming paranoid of everyone lately. I feel it served me well today. I didnt lose my ship, and I didnt engage a battlecruiser who had a corpmate in system. Wouldnt have attacked the Myrm anyhow, maybe the harbinger though.
So after roaming through my small pocket and not finding any fights after an hour or so, I chose to go home. Looking up some Ashimmu fits, I got mine situated pretty good. Not going to use her for a lil bit though while my skills go up a bit more. I hope to bring her out in a fleet op sometime, but we'll see. I also finished skills to assemble my Legion, which I did enthusiastically. Only about a month of training to get Amarr Cruiser 5 finished and Strategic Cruiser to 4, maybe 5. Other than those two skills, I have all the support skills to actually fly it instead of just sitting in it. Go me!
So I may log in again tonight, but its been a pretty rough day; calling for an early bed time perhaps.
Monday, August 1, 2011
There Really is No Honor Among Pirates
So I had bought a few plex to supply myself with plenty of pvp equipment. Yes, I got tired of doing missions. Anyhow, I understand Eve is harsh; just look at my lossmails. Ive lost plenty of isk, mostly due to being not smart about where or how I fly. Well, this time, I was extremely cautious. I scouted ahead in a punisher. I checked my maps for pod kills and ships blown up in the last hour. I checked amount of pilots docked and active, jumps made, ect. I took ALL possible pre-travel precautions possible for me.
I will go over my losses in a bit, but first, I was using my travel fit orca. Low cargo space, a dc2, a warp stab just in case, and shield buffer equipment fit. I got my Orca up to 220k hp with modules active. I also put on a cloak and 2 neuts. Good to go, and it proved to be good against the problem I ran into my first jump into low sec on my trip back towards Oddelulf. I ran into a Hurricane pilot.
So I had seen this pilot already yellow as I warped in. You would think I would not have jumped through with my previous bestower lost to a similar situation. Well, I am not in a bestower, now am I? Nope, so I hadnt learned from my previous mistakes. Luckily for me, he was fit with a long point, and lucky again that when I jumped through, I was already closely aligned to the next gate. He had me targeted, scrammed, but not webbed. He ate through roughly 5% of my shields before I warped off. I bet he was like "wtf happened?" I was like, omg, Im safe for now! I made it to the next gate, jumped through. Next one, safe. And the next one. Only one more low sec system to go: Amamake!
This is probally the worst system to travel through. Its a hotspot for young pirates, old pirates, and a bunch of griefing. Its also full of impatient people, as we'll see when I go over my losses. So I jumped through, clicked my cloak immediately, out at 15km from the gate. Only one person was here when I jumped through and I know they saw me. But they were on their way out the other direction. I aligned while cloaked and this is agonizingly slow in an orca. I uncloaked and hit warp to 0 for the next gate. I could jump through on landing, and be safe. Or so I thought.
A mere second or two after uncloaking, 2 or 3 others uncloaked nearby. I didnt catch the name of that hurricane pilot earlier, but I think he relayed some info to other pirates about my escape because these 3 all jammed me. My only hope for escape was to go back to the gate. And that takes a long time in a 67 speedy orca. I made it to 10km before my overview filled up with a few more reds. I hadnt engaged with my neuts or drones because I wasnt planning on fighting. I was running. Now, I wasnt going to go anywhere.
I kept slowboating it to the gate, but I was soon webbed, so I was even slower. When I hit about 50% shields, their FC sent me a convo invite, I accepted and he offerer out an 80 million ransom. Oh my gosh, totally worth it, but I had just spent all my isk on my pvp stuff that is sitting in my corp hangars, which they cant see and wont get a part of if I do die. I tried to quickly explain that I had spent it all, I only had 18million left. I offered a 100 million back if I could dock up and sell some stuff to get the funds, even offering to do so in this system. I got a reply of "Then die like a noob." Hm.
Well, my ship was down to armor by this point, so I started aligning to the next gate out of the system to save my pod. My ship popped, I aligned and my pod got stuck mid warp. Like its warp engines were active, but I wasnt warping out. The speed stayed at roughly 70% full and in the time it took me to see this, hit stop and rewarp, my pod was caught in 3 scrams. I was told 50 million in convo again to save my pod. This guy was seriously fucked in the head as his ADD kicked in and he must have forgotten I said I didnt have it, and now my reply was "I had over 500+misk in my orca that you just lost out on a part of because you didnt let me dock and sell." His reply? "We dont ransom anyways"
Wait, so you offer me a ransom to not pop my ship, then you offer again to keep my pod alive. Yet you dont do ransoms? What the fuck?! Yes, my tears are flowing, not because I lost my ship or supplies, but because of the dumbassness of these pirates. I will from this point forward, not accept ANY ransom from ANY pirate and they can blow my ship to peices along with my pod. I will offer ransoms if I have the oppurtunity and *I* will honor them.
On to what I lost. In list format because its plenty:
Orca x1
Ashimmu x2
Vengeance x5 (2 of which were in ship bay fully fit)
Punisher x15 (one was fully fit in the ship bay)
Magnate x3 (all 3 were fully scanner fit)
12 gatling laser II
12 Scorch
12 INMF
5 or 6 EANM II's
Full slave implant set (4 already installed, the last 2 in corp hangar)
And the 5 hardwirings I had implanted to enhance my small ship skills (small energy weapons, repair and armor amounts)
So thats what, 3 billion isk? If I had been able to dock, I would have just sold one of the Ashimmu's that I was planning on using for some cruiser pvp and given them the isk as I had promised. But no, these little "pirates" blew it all up for a lil bit of salvage and barely anything worth their time. Im on my laptop, so I wont be adding a killmail here, but you might be able to search me on Battleclinic. Im not sure if it auto updates for me, I added my api, but I havent checked to see if it auto uploads my kill and lossmails.
Either way, I lost about 75% of my assests because I had spent it all prior to the travel. Im fine with that, its probally my biggest loss to date. What Im not fine with is the fact I was ransomed, then later told they dont do ransoms anyways. I like to pvp, I really enjoy it when the playfield is level. I hate playing OP classes to get that extra ability that is an easy I win button. This experience I had yesterday was not fun. It wasnt pvp. It wasnt even profitable for the ones who attacked me. So they boosted their killmail with an orca and pod kill. Oh boy! You also missed out on 100misk, possiblely more because Ive been pretty generous this weekend and I was actually willing to make these pirates time worthwhile with giving them all the isk from selling one of my Ashimmu's.
They made a mistake in not trusting me to pay after I docked, which I understand that mistrust. They made a mistake in killing me though as well after I gave my word to pay after selling some stuff. Nobody wins in a situation like this. I lost 2.5-3 bisk in assests, all they got was another industrial kill to pad their mails. Honor among pirates in New Eden has been lost by the majority, which is really sad imo.
Will I quit over this loss? No, but it is really depressing. Its the second time Ive gotten a supply of pvp items blown up during travel. The Black Frog/Red Frog service is looking better to me now. I am really saddened though by the actions of these pirates in Amamake and I will be taking 2 weeks or so off of EVE. I am moving all this week into my new place finally and this loss has just made me jaded towards EVE and the oppurtunity to pvp. I dont want to be killed by blobs, and I dont want to be a part of blobs.
I want pvp, and it may be dieing in EVE for me because thats all I see happening outside of pre-arranged 1v1.
I will go over my losses in a bit, but first, I was using my travel fit orca. Low cargo space, a dc2, a warp stab just in case, and shield buffer equipment fit. I got my Orca up to 220k hp with modules active. I also put on a cloak and 2 neuts. Good to go, and it proved to be good against the problem I ran into my first jump into low sec on my trip back towards Oddelulf. I ran into a Hurricane pilot.
So I had seen this pilot already yellow as I warped in. You would think I would not have jumped through with my previous bestower lost to a similar situation. Well, I am not in a bestower, now am I? Nope, so I hadnt learned from my previous mistakes. Luckily for me, he was fit with a long point, and lucky again that when I jumped through, I was already closely aligned to the next gate. He had me targeted, scrammed, but not webbed. He ate through roughly 5% of my shields before I warped off. I bet he was like "wtf happened?" I was like, omg, Im safe for now! I made it to the next gate, jumped through. Next one, safe. And the next one. Only one more low sec system to go: Amamake!
This is probally the worst system to travel through. Its a hotspot for young pirates, old pirates, and a bunch of griefing. Its also full of impatient people, as we'll see when I go over my losses. So I jumped through, clicked my cloak immediately, out at 15km from the gate. Only one person was here when I jumped through and I know they saw me. But they were on their way out the other direction. I aligned while cloaked and this is agonizingly slow in an orca. I uncloaked and hit warp to 0 for the next gate. I could jump through on landing, and be safe. Or so I thought.
A mere second or two after uncloaking, 2 or 3 others uncloaked nearby. I didnt catch the name of that hurricane pilot earlier, but I think he relayed some info to other pirates about my escape because these 3 all jammed me. My only hope for escape was to go back to the gate. And that takes a long time in a 67 speedy orca. I made it to 10km before my overview filled up with a few more reds. I hadnt engaged with my neuts or drones because I wasnt planning on fighting. I was running. Now, I wasnt going to go anywhere.
I kept slowboating it to the gate, but I was soon webbed, so I was even slower. When I hit about 50% shields, their FC sent me a convo invite, I accepted and he offerer out an 80 million ransom. Oh my gosh, totally worth it, but I had just spent all my isk on my pvp stuff that is sitting in my corp hangars, which they cant see and wont get a part of if I do die. I tried to quickly explain that I had spent it all, I only had 18million left. I offered a 100 million back if I could dock up and sell some stuff to get the funds, even offering to do so in this system. I got a reply of "Then die like a noob." Hm.
Well, my ship was down to armor by this point, so I started aligning to the next gate out of the system to save my pod. My ship popped, I aligned and my pod got stuck mid warp. Like its warp engines were active, but I wasnt warping out. The speed stayed at roughly 70% full and in the time it took me to see this, hit stop and rewarp, my pod was caught in 3 scrams. I was told 50 million in convo again to save my pod. This guy was seriously fucked in the head as his ADD kicked in and he must have forgotten I said I didnt have it, and now my reply was "I had over 500+misk in my orca that you just lost out on a part of because you didnt let me dock and sell." His reply? "We dont ransom anyways"
Wait, so you offer me a ransom to not pop my ship, then you offer again to keep my pod alive. Yet you dont do ransoms? What the fuck?! Yes, my tears are flowing, not because I lost my ship or supplies, but because of the dumbassness of these pirates. I will from this point forward, not accept ANY ransom from ANY pirate and they can blow my ship to peices along with my pod. I will offer ransoms if I have the oppurtunity and *I* will honor them.
On to what I lost. In list format because its plenty:
Orca x1
Ashimmu x2
Vengeance x5 (2 of which were in ship bay fully fit)
Punisher x15 (one was fully fit in the ship bay)
Magnate x3 (all 3 were fully scanner fit)
12 gatling laser II
12 Scorch
12 INMF
5 or 6 EANM II's
Full slave implant set (4 already installed, the last 2 in corp hangar)
And the 5 hardwirings I had implanted to enhance my small ship skills (small energy weapons, repair and armor amounts)
So thats what, 3 billion isk? If I had been able to dock, I would have just sold one of the Ashimmu's that I was planning on using for some cruiser pvp and given them the isk as I had promised. But no, these little "pirates" blew it all up for a lil bit of salvage and barely anything worth their time. Im on my laptop, so I wont be adding a killmail here, but you might be able to search me on Battleclinic. Im not sure if it auto updates for me, I added my api, but I havent checked to see if it auto uploads my kill and lossmails.
Either way, I lost about 75% of my assests because I had spent it all prior to the travel. Im fine with that, its probally my biggest loss to date. What Im not fine with is the fact I was ransomed, then later told they dont do ransoms anyways. I like to pvp, I really enjoy it when the playfield is level. I hate playing OP classes to get that extra ability that is an easy I win button. This experience I had yesterday was not fun. It wasnt pvp. It wasnt even profitable for the ones who attacked me. So they boosted their killmail with an orca and pod kill. Oh boy! You also missed out on 100misk, possiblely more because Ive been pretty generous this weekend and I was actually willing to make these pirates time worthwhile with giving them all the isk from selling one of my Ashimmu's.
They made a mistake in not trusting me to pay after I docked, which I understand that mistrust. They made a mistake in killing me though as well after I gave my word to pay after selling some stuff. Nobody wins in a situation like this. I lost 2.5-3 bisk in assests, all they got was another industrial kill to pad their mails. Honor among pirates in New Eden has been lost by the majority, which is really sad imo.
Will I quit over this loss? No, but it is really depressing. Its the second time Ive gotten a supply of pvp items blown up during travel. The Black Frog/Red Frog service is looking better to me now. I am really saddened though by the actions of these pirates in Amamake and I will be taking 2 weeks or so off of EVE. I am moving all this week into my new place finally and this loss has just made me jaded towards EVE and the oppurtunity to pvp. I dont want to be killed by blobs, and I dont want to be a part of blobs.
I want pvp, and it may be dieing in EVE for me because thats all I see happening outside of pre-arranged 1v1.
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