Back!!

Took me a little month or two, and here i am , Diamond fury is back and rampaging in Zero space once again! looking forward to the new projects that we are working on as a corp and I'm hoping they go as well as I think they will.

Living in Zero/Low sec now, we have moved into a quiet station on the outskirts of curse, settled in nicely to our new corp model and are cheerfully plucking away at the fresh low hanging fruit that is zero space gate camps... stupid campers.. lol

Short Nap

So I have recently gone over my EXTENSIVE list of unfinished work, projects and activities that I have been working on in the last three years, and have decided that its time to get some of them finished, as a result, i will be taking a step back from eve, taking myself out of control of the corp, and assigning an interim director to ensure everyone is able to access stuff.. and then cut back to just intermitent playing. not leaving eve, still have 5 active accounts, just wont be reliable for a while, at least until my book is done. I wish you all the best, and I will post again when I return.

-Diamond

lookin fer trouble

Pointy stick - my new kestrel frigate fit, took her out lookin' fer trouble in Bosbogger pipe to Amamake, Never seen the Olfeim, Bosbogger, gates so dead. why is it everytime i get geared up to go out I can't find a decent fight.. I find fights, I found a ratting hurricane on a belt,he killed his rats, looted and then started salvage, but I haven't taken 'Pointy Stick' out before and I didn't like my chances.

jumped into a plex and took a shot at the faction drop ... nothing, booted around looking for sub-battleship fights for us.. nothing, went roaming through the belts looking for wayward miners and their jet can flipping ways... nothing.. WTF?

Logged in sadness, looking forward to taking "Red Rider BB Gun" out tonight.

Been trying my hand at Marketing with my God like alt, god like being a '04 character that i have been playing off and on since i first started eve, i started the game with no mentor, no clue, and a powerful anti-human interaction policy , so needless to say my skill training was F**K*D up bad, so i have spent the last year or so sorting him out, the bright side is he is hella old and powerful jedi.. but he is missing essential skills for example he has been in a battleship since 07 but has large guns 3... I know right.. so like i said i spent several months doing research, in about 06 i found out there was skills that raised your stats.. <- like i said i had no clue. So he is almost sorted, reaching the 40mil skill point mark and going strong. but he has skills in every profesion, some of them rockzor skills, and some of them wtf why bother skills, but he can do it all to some extent. He can fly every minmater hull short of caps, including sub-caps (orca, jump freighter and freighter) he can make pretty much anything short of capital ships, he has corp management skills in 5's with leadership skill maxed out, he has decent drone and engineering skills, but I never properly trained him to any end, not until about 08 when I got all my RL friends to play, i gave them what i never had, and discovered battleclinic, evemon, capsuleer and the blog community.. suddenly I knew what i was doing.

I have come a long way from there, its been an interesting ride, Diamond Fury is twice the combatant of my other character, at less than a fifth the age, so that is something to be said. though diamond can barely enter empire space, and my alt has access to lvl 4 and 5 missions. but recently i have been seriously considering the market, I have interacted with it on multiple occasions but never with any real success per say, i have run cargo, and traded commodities, but never actual profiteering and market manipulation, until now.. It takes a lot to really invest in the idea, and then you have to really hawkeye and keep on top of it or you will fail at it, i invested about 600 Mil my first go round, and stand to make about 100 million back in profit. if it work i will do it again, if it fails .. i will be sad, as i have recently discovered that I DONT MAKE ANY MONEY IN EVE... i have brought in a grand total of about 2 Million isk in the last 2 weeks, between corporate share, fleet sharing, ammo costs and corp hold ... i make almost nothing, a lost ship can cost either of my character upwards of 60-100 mil, ( i dont fly BS like.. ever) one of my character is at level 1 mission reputation.. I live like im in 0.0 space without the income, im 100% for the corp, i set the tax to 80% whenever i go out missioning, and dump everything i get into the hangars, meta 4's loot off killed players, faction modules.. all of it ... i make almost nothing... im very very poor... and it makes me sad cause all i want to do is blow stuff up.
I miss 0.0 space.. there is no happy place for me ... here is what I want.

I want to be in 0.0 space, with its lawless nature it has the most 'REAL' feel to it. no concord, no gate guns, just an ever present knowledge that your next jump could be your last. its oddly freeing.
I want Small gang warfare, groups of 5-10 or even smaller, duo's and trio's in frigate and cruiser gangs. I want to be able to find a small group, and kill them , or die trying without gettign a 250man blob in the face.
I cant have what i want, i don't have a gang to live in low sec, and i don't get much small gang action in 0.0 space, Faction warfare left small gangs in the past in exchange for fleet finder blobs of ever rampaging noobs and five year old corps that left 0.0 for more small gang action .. wait Wut?
Wormholes are too isolating, no pvp or too much pvp only.. nothing in the middle.
So what is a guy to do ?
I wish they would fix faction warfare... maybe we could do that ?

Million Dollar Challenge

Well, a new corp, a new area of space.. time to blow each other up right?

The million dollar challenge is an in corp event, where each contestant who wishes to participate gets to spend 1,000,000.00 ISK, in any nearby hub system, (screen shots may be required) and fit any ship they want or can within that budget. a can is placed in dead space, and contestants scatter around a system , to any celestial or sub-celestial they like, and warp into the can at 50 or less, making a maximum play area of 100km in frigates and destroyers. and other cheap ships.

A Free-For-All ensues, with explosions and explosions and some explosions.. the winner (last one standing) is awarded 10Million ISK

This rounds contestants

Diamond Fury - Merlin
Darkness lighter- Thrasher
Broken Muse- Thrasher
Zanahyra- Vigil
Smash NGrab- Kestrel
Aaramon- Thrasher
Fujimoto- Rifter

Play by Play-
On the word, all contestants warped to their favored ranges, hoping to guess accurately, and trying to manipulate the small field as best as possible. Fuji, aaramon, Darkness and Broken all warped to 10 ~ and immediatly opened fire on each other, Diamond warped to 30, and Zanahyra to 20, while smash warped to 50.

Broken locked Fujimoto (last years winner) and ripped into her small rifter with 200mm machine guns, making short work of her. having already locked Aaramon she opened fire on him aswell..

Darkness lighter had been working Aaramons Thrasher already and it popped before her first cycle finished.

Diamond had arrived at 26 from Darkness, locked him and opened up with his Caldari fleet sabertooth missiles. and Zanahyra burned into close range of Broken Muse to take apart her shields with the small calibre guns.

Smash had landed at 50, 20km behind Diamond, locked him and started in with ECM style warefare, and long range bombardment.

Seeing the vigil in trouble against broken and darkness, Diamond activated his ECM modules on both, cycling out their ability to shoot , and giving the vigil some time to repair, it was all for naught when the vigil exploded under their fire.

turning on the ECM that they could see, the pair of destroyers tore into Diamonds Merlin, the ECM worked well against them, but their shields held out against the missiles well.. and Smash continued to disrupt and attack from long range, keeping himself well out of harms way, it was long and gruelling, but the Merlin Popped, and the Pair of destroyers turned on each other, Darkness emerging from the Clash. Facing only Smash and his host of ECM tricks and superior speed. it wasnt long before those tricks finished the job.

Smash NGrab wins.. you son of a ... 10,000,000.00 ISK Congratulations.

Where have all the Blog Posts Gone?

So I regularly peruse the following blogs:
www.mylootyourtears.com, www.ban.myloots.com, http://surfingtheeventhorizons.wordpress.com/, http://kokuryupirate.blogspot.com/, http://podlogs.com/findersandkeepers, http://scopslog.blogspot.com/, AND, more or less every site on their blog rolls, I am a pirate, ninja, blog junkie.

So my question is this... where have all the posts gone? some of these sites are nearing the 20 day mark with no updates or posts.. this wouldn't be a problem except that it is unusual for most of them, most of these sites post regularly, some of them twice a day. I'm bored.. is nothing happening in eve for anyone else either?

I'm going on a frigate roam nightly , I have a pile of Frigates, ima fit them all and go get a zillion billion kills with them. ... im serious.. i am !

I'm going to low sec, I'm going to high sec and grief, I'm going to fit thrashers and gank folk at gates, I'm going to blow up so many times that i don't care anymore ... then maybe i will start having fun looking for fights and setting traps, even when they go bad.

That being said, the new corp is still in the process of getting started, and we have no kill board yet, so lets go get some kills to make it worth our time. yeah?

Million Dollar Challenge is comming up again, I'm thinking for the friday combat op ...

Priorities Sorted! ... I QUIT!

Done and Done...

The staff meeting this month went very well, the Corp in Flux post was the primary topic of conversation and its repair was on the agenda.

Corp repaired, hopefully, we sorted our dates, fixed our hierarchy and everyone quit !

... wut?

Yep .. everyone quit, with the exception of a couple of alts, everyone up and quit in the last 48 hours.

Priorities, With so many people going so many directions we had to sort our priorities, we discussed at length, with little exercises what it is each of us loved and wanted to do in eve.. and for every director, there was of course a different answer, so the only solution to come to us? QUIT! so we did, this brings us to the end of an era, horrible inc is closing its doors, the corp will be maintained by an alt, and auctioned off as a corp name someday in the future.

Whats next for the gang? many discussions where had about that too, once we got through the core problems, we needed to drastically redefine ourselves, get a fresh start, so we talked about joining a 0.0 corp/alliance we talked about just going separate ways and doing what we loved, we talked about wormholes, marketing and of course pvp needs.. and TRASH was born.

Tactical Reclaimation And Salvaging Heuristics -"You didn't need that did you?"

Specializing in Low and Null sec Asset Reclamation and Processing.

Imperial Mission Sanitation and Safety Commission - Mission looting/Salvaging
Alliance Asset Reclamation and Processing Director - Deep Space Salvage
Imperial Space-lane Security Commission Authority- Can flipping, belt looting/salvaging
Department of Internal Resource Acquisition and Allocation- Industrial Wing
Interplanetary Bylaw Services Department - PI Co-Ordinator
And the Department of Security Services- Combat Pilots

Smoking Wreck

So, every Friday night the combat director tries to think of something fun and interesting to do in the pvp arena. its a standing corp event, every Friday at like 2200 server time. We have alot to learn about pvp, and i dont say that lightly. its not how to fly, how to Fc, how to fit or how to find and plan fights that we need to learn, see on the contrary, we are outstanding in most of those departments, we have a brilliant and dashing FC ... that's me :), and im trying to train others to work in that position, we have our pulse on fitting pvp, its pve that confuses us .. "what do you mean neuts don't do anything they are awesome!!" we have 5 stealth bomber pilots in a corp of 17 so we have no shortage of scouts and tactical bookmarks and warp-ins, and we have a studious group of core pvp'ers who have a firm grasp on mechanics and theory craft so that we can effectively create, spot and work around traps and bad combat situations.

Its the other part of pvp that we need training on, Combat awareness, communication, self reliance, and initiative. So we go out every friday traditionally, fully expecting to die, but trying hard not too, as it is Saturday morning when im posting this , i guess you know where this is going. We died... not spectaculary, not going down fighting a horde of angry reds.. just died, quietly, almost in our sleep...

Stealth Bomber Run 1-
Im calling a bomber op 1 because we learned stuff, and we have a deeper knowledge of the finer art of stealth bombers. Vanishing point, one of our bombers was lost when he got greedy, we roamed around a bit, but all the roam we knew we were headed to good pirating waters, Amamake, one of the hottest pvp low sec systems in the game. we gathered at 3-1 where a Titanic battle was taking place, 15 wrecks on the field, and a dozen more ships in the belt duking it out, we were all cloaked and hanging back watching the show. when the opportunity afforded itself, we marked a loot bin, and warped to 0 looted, and warped away, snickering at our dastardly , daredevil attempt while we counted our isk from faction fits, and t2 loot... (Read: exploded in balls of smoking ruin 7 seconds after uncloaking) Not a total loss, one of us didnt attempt, so we kept eyes on the battle, one of us lived through the first run and docked with a hold full of loot, but exploded when he undocked and returned for more. got uncloaked by a warp in.

After a while of working with warp ins for our non cloaky combatants (me for 1) we decided that a good old fashioned gate camp would be in order for the duration of the evening. so we jumped onto a border gate and camped out... it was slow time, Russians logging off, Aussies logging on, midnight to PST zone, and there wasn't alot of action on the gate, however I did manage to pick up a brutix on scan while turning a lazy orbit around the gate. i ordered the warp in and two of us screamed off, in a Drake and Devoter ... heh (an Anti-Primary gang FTW) we landed 13 km off the brutix ratting in a belt and melted him before his drones could get back and attack us. meh loot, but a rewarding kill after the loss of a bomber kill was about on par with the value too, so the kill-board hit wouldn't be too bad (only one bomber was in our corp, the other was a friendly)