Its been a few days since I posted and its mostly due to me reflecting on why Ive lost all the punishers and vengeances that I have. Now, I know I am lacking some skills. They arent all 5s, but most that I need are 4. The only thing I can think of why I am losing is that the people Im fighting are all so much older characters than me or if they are younger, just entirely focused on their pvp skills.
At risk of providing too much info about myself, I am providing my API for analisys and advice on wtf my issue has been, if it isnt my fighting higher focused sp pilots; because I seriously do not know why I am losing. I keep tranversals/speed within tracking range, I am within optimals usually, and nothing is wrong with my fit that I know of (outside using ECM lately instead of an AB)
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Three days until Motion Prediction 5 is complete, then I think Ill go assault ships 5 to slightly increase resists, or Hull Upgrades 5 to fit an EANM2 finally.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Flying Bricks and Other Things
Yay, Ive finally acquired enough funds to get two Vengeances with a nifty fit. I also have enough left over to fit a few punishers if I need to fall back on those. I chose to finally leave H.UNG. Several reasons why can be attributed to this choice. Things like my gameplay style basically going pure pvp now. I dont want to mine unless I really need to. Making my own riggings, ships and modules is pretty handy, so mining wont be eliminated from my gameplay entirely, just hopefully reduced.
Now, on the to the exciting stuff! I fought a Dramiel. I get really bored of looking for people to fight, scanning them down and such after 3 or 4 hours of roaming unsuccessfully. So I tend to ask in local if anyone wants to fight. So far, its worked out better than roaming. However, one thing that bothers me with doing this is that the opponent knows what ship Im flying and basically that Im armor tanked. They know how to prepare for how to beat me. With surprising an opponent, they dont and cant counter on the fly. So I am going to attempt in the future to be more persistant in my roaming and figure out some ways to lure people to me that I want to fight.
So with my Dramiel fight, I had shouted in local. Got an offer for a 1v1 and accepted. We fleeted up and met at a safe. After looking at this opponents history, I knew he would have a great advantage over me with skill points, being an early 2007 character. Also, being a Dramiel, I already had the attitude that Id lose against a ship like that. Fitting my best stuff in hopes of pulling something out of a hat, we began our duel.
When I warped in, I warped to zero to attempt to set range throughout the fight. Scramming and webbing immediately, I turned on my guns and nos. The Dramiel quickly chewed through my shields as expected. He hit my armor, I started my repper. My Navy crystals werent doing much to him, so I set my range to about 2k instead of the 1300. I hoped a wider arc would help. It did, but not enough to help me. So I aligned, preparing to lose my first Vengeance. Then, I popped my secret weapon that no opponent thus far has expected on my fit: ECM.
It scrambled the Dramiel's targeting on the first cycle, turning off his guns AND warp scram on me. It took me a second to notice, as my armor came back from structure, but once I did, I was quickly hitting the warp to shortcut key. Yeah, about this new UI..... If the overview isnt the focus, then shortcut keys like warp to and align to DO NOT WORK. Fun little bug, yes? Well, in the heat of combat, it wasnt. Luckily, I had clicked a stargate and with it as my select action window focus, hit the button to warp out. Also luckily, the Dramiel pilot was like "wtf, how did you get away?" in fleet chat.
Apparently, ECM is an unconvential setup and even an experienced pilot can get thrown off track. I was in structure, and Im sure he thought he was lagging when his guns stopped shooting and his target was cleared. So, ECM is a great tool, at the loss of an AB, I didnt mind.
My rifter fight was against a similar aged opponent, but he had just got back from a small gang killing a drake, so I offered to only fight to structure as he was fit for webbing and logistical stuff I spose. Anyhow, I only went ahead to fight this guy because I wanted to see if I could tank a rifters dps, and I was definately able to tank this Rifters, even though he wasnt setup for it. I popped him to structure and turned off my lasers. With lasers off, nos, web, scram, dc, and repper going, I was somewhat cap stable around 40-50%. I dont have the missile skills to take advantage of the weapon bonus of a Vengeance, but the cap stability made me feel good about my fit and will only improve as I increase my support skills.
So I quickly learned today that support skills are a massive help. The Dramiel pilot said afterwards he had maxed all gunnery skills, explaining how he deftly defeated my armor. In this fight though, I was able to control and set the range, very good for the gatling lasers, as I did not go over my optimal and into falloff range. My rifter fight was more of a confidence boosting fight after getting handidly defeated by the Dramiel, with nothing to learn here except that I need to invest some time towards increasing cap stability skills.
Great past couple days in my opinion.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Outage
Ive had some issues with my country connection to the web explaining why I missed a post on Friday.
When able, Ive just been missioning and mining to get my standings up a bit more and to rebuild funds lost. Not much going on atm except carebearing it up. During my time doing this, Ive thought about getting 4 more accounts trained up to hulk pilots. Six hulks and an orca pilot will bring in some nice funds to fund my pvp and big losses that inevitably occur. From new toon, training some essential support and drone skills, will take about 90 days. With this in mind, I will most likely activate both my hulk pilots, dust off my high sec Orca, and mine with my three accounts until each of the other four are able to fly a retriever with strip miners.
With six hulks eventually, I should be able to fill an orca every 24 minutes. Not as quick as Id like, but I also dont feel like paying a lot of money to double the amount of hulks. I should be good to go with my 7 accounts to fund a plex for each one each month as well as fund my pvp. Once each alt has a hulk, I can train their support skills more, eventually selling them on the character bazaar, but Im not sure on that idea.
So yeah, nothing much going on right now.
When able, Ive just been missioning and mining to get my standings up a bit more and to rebuild funds lost. Not much going on atm except carebearing it up. During my time doing this, Ive thought about getting 4 more accounts trained up to hulk pilots. Six hulks and an orca pilot will bring in some nice funds to fund my pvp and big losses that inevitably occur. From new toon, training some essential support and drone skills, will take about 90 days. With this in mind, I will most likely activate both my hulk pilots, dust off my high sec Orca, and mine with my three accounts until each of the other four are able to fly a retriever with strip miners.
With six hulks eventually, I should be able to fill an orca every 24 minutes. Not as quick as Id like, but I also dont feel like paying a lot of money to double the amount of hulks. I should be good to go with my 7 accounts to fund a plex for each one each month as well as fund my pvp. Once each alt has a hulk, I can train their support skills more, eventually selling them on the character bazaar, but Im not sure on that idea.
So yeah, nothing much going on right now.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Massive Losses
Due to the outages yesterday, I didnt get much accomplished. I started out in nullsec, flying my last ship, a Slicer, into high security space. Well, that ship didnt last too long as I lost it to a group of 3 or people in interdictors and such. I had jumped and tried to wait out my session timer, hoping they'd move on and hadnt noticed me. Didnt work out as planned.
Slicer Loss
This goes to show that even old friends can quickly become enemies, showing no indifference to old alliances.
I escaped with my pod and docked up, getting a rookie ship to finish my journey out of 0.0 space. I spent a day or so in Jita stocking up on new implants and adding new ones. Ive only got a day left in training, so I bought three Vengeances and an A-type small repper. I figure I would have tried to fight that rifter with a higher quality one and might be able to get him down. As chance would have it, I made it all the way from Jita to Gelfiven, where I unloaded my new bpo's, implants and random accessories. I decided to bring my 3 ships and repper to Oddelulf where I have setup my staging point.
I chose this spot on the low sec side of the gate to avoid having to go back to high sec to reship when I lose one and avoid any gate camps there might be. Well this is one time where I should have been more cautious, because as I jumped to the Oddelulf gate, I saw a yellow hurricane. Stupid bastards, I should not have jumped through the gate as I lagged instantly with my session timer and by the time I caught up, my ship had blown up. I made it out with my pod in tact, barely, and proceeded to cry like a baby.
Hauler Loss
This was an exspensive loss for me, nearly 100 million in assests. Time to mine, because this was a huge loss. Damn gate campers.
Slicer Loss
This goes to show that even old friends can quickly become enemies, showing no indifference to old alliances.
I escaped with my pod and docked up, getting a rookie ship to finish my journey out of 0.0 space. I spent a day or so in Jita stocking up on new implants and adding new ones. Ive only got a day left in training, so I bought three Vengeances and an A-type small repper. I figure I would have tried to fight that rifter with a higher quality one and might be able to get him down. As chance would have it, I made it all the way from Jita to Gelfiven, where I unloaded my new bpo's, implants and random accessories. I decided to bring my 3 ships and repper to Oddelulf where I have setup my staging point.
I chose this spot on the low sec side of the gate to avoid having to go back to high sec to reship when I lose one and avoid any gate camps there might be. Well this is one time where I should have been more cautious, because as I jumped to the Oddelulf gate, I saw a yellow hurricane. Stupid bastards, I should not have jumped through the gate as I lagged instantly with my session timer and by the time I caught up, my ship had blown up. I made it out with my pod in tact, barely, and proceeded to cry like a baby.
Hauler Loss
This was an exspensive loss for me, nearly 100 million in assests. Time to mine, because this was a huge loss. Damn gate campers.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Reorganization
After the eventfull weekend I had, Ive decided to only post on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My single posts get rather large in story and I need to learn to trim it down some so its not so much a wall of text. I feel limiting the days I post combined with how much activity Ive had recently (if I can keep it up) will provide plenty of posts and help me in learning to cut the fat out.
For a quick addition, I was asked to help out in Branch to destroy an SBU the Russians had placed. We destroyed two of them in EQi, and there were other fleets taking down some as well I heard. After I ran out of ammo (because I didnt have any extras, I never use up a set of crystals) I got sent to scout while the rest of the fleet took down the SBU. Not like my Slicer was helping much anyways, compared to the carriers and Abaddons. Either way, it was a fun quick experience and I felt like I helped, no matter how little.
For a quick addition, I was asked to help out in Branch to destroy an SBU the Russians had placed. We destroyed two of them in EQi, and there were other fleets taking down some as well I heard. After I ran out of ammo (because I didnt have any extras, I never use up a set of crystals) I got sent to scout while the rest of the fleet took down the SBU. Not like my Slicer was helping much anyways, compared to the carriers and Abaddons. Either way, it was a fun quick experience and I felt like I helped, no matter how little.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Close, but no Cigar!
So I forgot to grab my armor reppers again, and I just didnt feel like jumping all over the place. I saw Aeth in local, and I wanted to fight him again. Yet you cant continue going to each fight with the same fit every time and expect to win. You gotta toss in that curve ball once in awhile. So thats what I did, by fitting a Ladar Jammer. I left the reppers out, dropped my web and added the jammer + an extra plate. This worked out well for me, as when Aeth warped in on me, I was already moving at full speed, ready to get orbiting.
Starting out with scorch, our range was extended for a few seconds making them worthwhile. Quickly enough though, he got closer. For the first time, I was paying more attention to my speed and his transversal in my overview, noticing he was close to my cap at .34. So I slowed myself down and tighted the orbit, hoping his tracking wouldnt be as good. Well, with missiles and autocannons, thats nigh impossible.
As the fight chugged on, my jammer was making a very signifcant difference in the fight. It would jam every other cycle, with it getting lucky and jamming two cycles in a row one time. I beat down his shields quickly, and as I started into his armor, he was getting into mine also. Slow and steady wins the battle, unless your opponent is a Rifter and he flies out of point range. Even overheating my guns and the scram didnt make enough of a difference as I saw our range number expanding. And poof, he was gone.
Now I didnt get the kill this time, but I also did not lose my ship. Go me! Baby steps and small improvements right? Well, I need a web or an AB to keep up so that this doesnt happen again. Which means I need that 3rd mid slot. Vengence is lookin pretty damn good at this point in time, once I have the skills to fly it that is. GF'ing Aeth, he claimed to be training for a wolf or jaguar in the next week-ish. Works out well, as I should be able to fly a Vengence by then also, so we agreed we should fight then again to see how my ecm fit will work out.
Afterwards, another Hatchery player had wanted to fight me. This guy wanted to use his Thrasher, a T1 destroyer. Well, ok, I need some above class fights even though the idea of losing a ship wasnt sitting too well with me. I didnt change fits, just docked and repaired, warping out to meet him. I broke through his shields, but I was already low in armor by that time. Scroch crystals came in handy with their range, but the dessie was able to set range at about 10km, slightly outside my optimal, affecting damage. I should have stayed out at the 10km instead of trying to get closer, because as I got lower in ehp, I got close enough to get in scram range. Which of course, caused me not to be able to get back out of range before my ship blew up and I got out with my pod in tact.
Take Away Things
So I just had two very good fights, imo. I learned that if you dont have a repper handy, an ecm is almost as good. I was cap stable throughout the rifter fight and I even broke his armor tanking. He only got away due to my punisher being a brick in space and his higher speed. As he warped out, I think he was at half structure. Lucky, cuz one more volley woulda got him.
As for the Thrasher fight, well, not much to say that I learned other than stay out of scram range. I had broke his shield tanking with my scorch at 10km-ish. I think if I would have had my repper, I may have gotten him at least into structure. Also, he had been in fleet as Aeth and I were talking about my ecm fit, so he had planned accordingly with an ECCM, causing my jammer to be useless. That in itself is something to take away; pre-emptive knowledge of the fight is extremely useful and can definately be used to your advantage.
http://wialliance.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9914751
2011.06.12 04:47:00
Victim: AxaziaCorp: Hysterically Unforgiving
Alliance: Wildly Inappropriate.
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Oddelulf
Security: 0.4
Damage Taken: 4019
Involved parties:
Name: Michael Harari (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Corp: The Hatchery
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Ship: Thrasher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon II
Damage Done: 2443
Name: Aeth GemulusSecurity: -10.0
Corp: The Hatchery
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Rifter
Damage Done: 1576
Destroyed items:
Damage Control II
Small Energy Collision Accelerator I
Enfeebling Phase Inversion ECM I
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Imperial Navy Multifrequency S, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Small Trimark Armor Pump I
Small Energy Metastasis Adjuster I
Fleeting Progressive Warp Scrambler I
Dropped items:
Gatling Pulse Laser II, Qty: 3
Small Diminishing Power System Drain I
200mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Imperial Navy Multifrequency S (Cargo)
Scorch S, Qty: 3
Starting out with scorch, our range was extended for a few seconds making them worthwhile. Quickly enough though, he got closer. For the first time, I was paying more attention to my speed and his transversal in my overview, noticing he was close to my cap at .34. So I slowed myself down and tighted the orbit, hoping his tracking wouldnt be as good. Well, with missiles and autocannons, thats nigh impossible.
As the fight chugged on, my jammer was making a very signifcant difference in the fight. It would jam every other cycle, with it getting lucky and jamming two cycles in a row one time. I beat down his shields quickly, and as I started into his armor, he was getting into mine also. Slow and steady wins the battle, unless your opponent is a Rifter and he flies out of point range. Even overheating my guns and the scram didnt make enough of a difference as I saw our range number expanding. And poof, he was gone.
Now I didnt get the kill this time, but I also did not lose my ship. Go me! Baby steps and small improvements right? Well, I need a web or an AB to keep up so that this doesnt happen again. Which means I need that 3rd mid slot. Vengence is lookin pretty damn good at this point in time, once I have the skills to fly it that is. GF'ing Aeth, he claimed to be training for a wolf or jaguar in the next week-ish. Works out well, as I should be able to fly a Vengence by then also, so we agreed we should fight then again to see how my ecm fit will work out.
Afterwards, another Hatchery player had wanted to fight me. This guy wanted to use his Thrasher, a T1 destroyer. Well, ok, I need some above class fights even though the idea of losing a ship wasnt sitting too well with me. I didnt change fits, just docked and repaired, warping out to meet him. I broke through his shields, but I was already low in armor by that time. Scroch crystals came in handy with their range, but the dessie was able to set range at about 10km, slightly outside my optimal, affecting damage. I should have stayed out at the 10km instead of trying to get closer, because as I got lower in ehp, I got close enough to get in scram range. Which of course, caused me not to be able to get back out of range before my ship blew up and I got out with my pod in tact.
Take Away Things
So I just had two very good fights, imo. I learned that if you dont have a repper handy, an ecm is almost as good. I was cap stable throughout the rifter fight and I even broke his armor tanking. He only got away due to my punisher being a brick in space and his higher speed. As he warped out, I think he was at half structure. Lucky, cuz one more volley woulda got him.
As for the Thrasher fight, well, not much to say that I learned other than stay out of scram range. I had broke his shield tanking with my scorch at 10km-ish. I think if I would have had my repper, I may have gotten him at least into structure. Also, he had been in fleet as Aeth and I were talking about my ecm fit, so he had planned accordingly with an ECCM, causing my jammer to be useless. That in itself is something to take away; pre-emptive knowledge of the fight is extremely useful and can definately be used to your advantage.
http://wialliance.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9914751
2011.06.12 04:47:00
Victim: AxaziaCorp: Hysterically Unforgiving
Alliance: Wildly Inappropriate.
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Oddelulf
Security: 0.4
Damage Taken: 4019
Involved parties:
Name: Michael Harari (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.9
Corp: The Hatchery
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Ship: Thrasher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon II
Damage Done: 2443
Name: Aeth GemulusSecurity: -10.0
Corp: The Hatchery
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Rifter
Damage Done: 1576
Destroyed items:
Damage Control II
Small Energy Collision Accelerator I
Enfeebling Phase Inversion ECM I
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Imperial Navy Multifrequency S, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Small Trimark Armor Pump I
Small Energy Metastasis Adjuster I
Fleeting Progressive Warp Scrambler I
Dropped items:
Gatling Pulse Laser II, Qty: 3
Small Diminishing Power System Drain I
200mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Adaptive Nano Plating II
Imperial Navy Multifrequency S (Cargo)
Scorch S, Qty: 3
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Punisher vs Rifter, Again....
So Ive been pretty active posting all my fights. I dont like saving my posts for certain days but the thought on doing so has been tempting; if only to condense the less exciting parts. Anyhow, I decided to log in and get situated with a few things today. I got my 5 Punishers built, buying enough supplies to fit all of them. Tossed it all in my awesome Bestower and went out to Oddelulf, home of "The Hatchery." Id had a few nice comments back and forth with a few of them, so Ive decided to stay in this area for awhile.
After getting my stuff setup, I decided to probe down some people. It wasnt working in my favor as they were moving around too much and too quick for me to get a 100% lock on. I switched out to my Punisher, and asked in local if anyone was up for a 1v1. A person new to EVE accepted after some hesitation, due to being so new. I convinced him I was flying a t1 frig as well and am still not very good at pvp, losing several ships in the process. So we fleeted up, I undocked, and warped to a safe while he got ready. I had forgotten to even show info on this pilot in my glee of excitement at another fight.
Well, it took him a minute or two to get out, guess he was repairing or something. Either way, I wasnt really paying attention and was talking to him in a private convo. I wished him gl, claiming I might need it more than him with my recent luck, laughing it off together. He warped in, I spammed my lock and orbit buttons, starting out at about 10km with Scorch crystals. With a web and a scram, I was a floating brick once he webbed me, and range quickly closed into the 1500-2km range. He was apparently armor tanked as I ripped his shields apart in these few seconds.
In these few seconds, Tlweken had been probing me down. I had been sitting in the same safe waiting for my challenger to arrive. The slicer popped in, and quickly destroyed my shields. With both a rifter and a slicer webbing and scramming me, I wasnt going anywhere. With this being a 1v1 challenge, and my knowledge of The Hatchery honoring them, I lol'd in local saying thats not nice. Quickly enough, Tlweken realized he had jumped in on a fight and apologized, warping out. I redocked, repaired and came back out to finish the rifter, who had full shields again. (I suppose he docked up as well for a refresh)
Switching to INMF faction crystals this time, I attempted to get orbit set at a range and speed suitable for my new setup. With trading out one of my trimark rigs for a tracking enhancement one, my tracking was boosted a nice 15% more. Trading a second trimark rig for an energy weapon damage increasing rig (10% boost) I was setup pretty good this round to deal a fast moving armor tanked Rifter. Soon enough, his shields were gone again and I hit his armor, slowly chewing into it. Once or twice, I saw it boost back up from his repper, but my Nos put an end to that quick. As he reached structure, I hit armor. I was excited by this as I might win finally!
As my opponent got lower in structure, I stopped my ship, preparing to make an attempt at catching his pod. His ship blew up, showing his pod. I quickly locked and pointed it. Setting orbit, I decided to web also just in case he tried to fly out of range of the scram. Being in a private convo already, I asked what his pod was worth to him. Unfortuneately for me, it was worthless due to him being podded shortly prior to our match by a gate camp. I exlaimed in ally chat that I had a pod locked and if I should let it go due to being worthless or pop it. Many people claimed the pilot could be lieing, others said just blow it. I chose to take this pod kill, being my first one. He gf'd and I docked up for a few mins to make notes.
Afterwards, the pilot was quiet in our private convo, so I apologized and donated 25misk to his funds to buy new implants due to his pod loss at a gate camp. Ive died to those before and felt bad for podding him this time, even though he lost nothing except a new clone. He thanked me and I logged off to make it to the birthday party on time.
Take Away Things
The most important thing I learned from this fight was that even in a fairly safe spot, I need to keep moving or not undock until I am read for a 1v1 setup fight. That slicer pilot could have easily been someone else outside the Hatchery who could have gotten 2 kills. I appreciate the fact there is still some honor in the pirates of New Eden, but I certainly will not expect this kind of respect from everyone, or even all Hatchery members every time.
Second, I really like the improvement in tracking and damage the different rigs provide, yet I am uncomfortable about the amount of ehp I lose in trading out the trimarks. The fit I used for this fight also did not have a repper, as I had forgotten to buy those earlier in the day getting supplied. The extra plate helped negate some of the lost ehp, which made me feel somewhat better, but I dont feel it will save me in the future, so a repper will be needed. I also looked into autocannons and I just dont like them. I dont like getting thousands of ammo compared to buying a few crystals that last just as long.
I feel I kind of cheated by fighting such a new player, but I hope HE learned something from the fight as well. All in all, a kill is a kill; so in the end it doesnt matter how I got it.
After getting my stuff setup, I decided to probe down some people. It wasnt working in my favor as they were moving around too much and too quick for me to get a 100% lock on. I switched out to my Punisher, and asked in local if anyone was up for a 1v1. A person new to EVE accepted after some hesitation, due to being so new. I convinced him I was flying a t1 frig as well and am still not very good at pvp, losing several ships in the process. So we fleeted up, I undocked, and warped to a safe while he got ready. I had forgotten to even show info on this pilot in my glee of excitement at another fight.
Well, it took him a minute or two to get out, guess he was repairing or something. Either way, I wasnt really paying attention and was talking to him in a private convo. I wished him gl, claiming I might need it more than him with my recent luck, laughing it off together. He warped in, I spammed my lock and orbit buttons, starting out at about 10km with Scorch crystals. With a web and a scram, I was a floating brick once he webbed me, and range quickly closed into the 1500-2km range. He was apparently armor tanked as I ripped his shields apart in these few seconds.
In these few seconds, Tlweken had been probing me down. I had been sitting in the same safe waiting for my challenger to arrive. The slicer popped in, and quickly destroyed my shields. With both a rifter and a slicer webbing and scramming me, I wasnt going anywhere. With this being a 1v1 challenge, and my knowledge of The Hatchery honoring them, I lol'd in local saying thats not nice. Quickly enough, Tlweken realized he had jumped in on a fight and apologized, warping out. I redocked, repaired and came back out to finish the rifter, who had full shields again. (I suppose he docked up as well for a refresh)
Switching to INMF faction crystals this time, I attempted to get orbit set at a range and speed suitable for my new setup. With trading out one of my trimark rigs for a tracking enhancement one, my tracking was boosted a nice 15% more. Trading a second trimark rig for an energy weapon damage increasing rig (10% boost) I was setup pretty good this round to deal a fast moving armor tanked Rifter. Soon enough, his shields were gone again and I hit his armor, slowly chewing into it. Once or twice, I saw it boost back up from his repper, but my Nos put an end to that quick. As he reached structure, I hit armor. I was excited by this as I might win finally!
As my opponent got lower in structure, I stopped my ship, preparing to make an attempt at catching his pod. His ship blew up, showing his pod. I quickly locked and pointed it. Setting orbit, I decided to web also just in case he tried to fly out of range of the scram. Being in a private convo already, I asked what his pod was worth to him. Unfortuneately for me, it was worthless due to him being podded shortly prior to our match by a gate camp. I exlaimed in ally chat that I had a pod locked and if I should let it go due to being worthless or pop it. Many people claimed the pilot could be lieing, others said just blow it. I chose to take this pod kill, being my first one. He gf'd and I docked up for a few mins to make notes.
Afterwards, the pilot was quiet in our private convo, so I apologized and donated 25misk to his funds to buy new implants due to his pod loss at a gate camp. Ive died to those before and felt bad for podding him this time, even though he lost nothing except a new clone. He thanked me and I logged off to make it to the birthday party on time.
Take Away Things
The most important thing I learned from this fight was that even in a fairly safe spot, I need to keep moving or not undock until I am read for a 1v1 setup fight. That slicer pilot could have easily been someone else outside the Hatchery who could have gotten 2 kills. I appreciate the fact there is still some honor in the pirates of New Eden, but I certainly will not expect this kind of respect from everyone, or even all Hatchery members every time.
Second, I really like the improvement in tracking and damage the different rigs provide, yet I am uncomfortable about the amount of ehp I lose in trading out the trimarks. The fit I used for this fight also did not have a repper, as I had forgotten to buy those earlier in the day getting supplied. The extra plate helped negate some of the lost ehp, which made me feel somewhat better, but I dont feel it will save me in the future, so a repper will be needed. I also looked into autocannons and I just dont like them. I dont like getting thousands of ammo compared to buying a few crystals that last just as long.
I feel I kind of cheated by fighting such a new player, but I hope HE learned something from the fight as well. All in all, a kill is a kill; so in the end it doesnt matter how I got it.
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