So the cruiser refit .. i love my cruiser, i think i will take this opportunity to tell you that, the cruiser is by far my favorite class. It has no form or function to be honest, anything it can do, the battle cruiser can do better , or a frigate can do better, or a hac or a hic, or any number of options..and the cruiser is a sadly left behind fleet option. however that doesn't deter me from my mad quest to get kills in my OMEN. so the OMEN and CARACAL head off to the Roniko Gauntlet just looking for an easy bestower kill or 5, heavy mission running region of low sec. and we sat at our favorite gate.. for a while, eyes on the other side.
Republic fleet firetail.. doesnt stand a chance i say, we lock.. too long he's gone... fine.
Cyno open ... wtf, i move eyes into system, and warp to the cyno, my compliments to the cyno launch, looks like a near perfect launch outside of a POS shield... i suspected so anyway, but i wanted to mention how awsome it is to have a perfect launch, practicallly dropped the ANSHAR inside the shields, took it like 8 seconds to get in ... thats aswome... ! anyway.
Eyes move back into the next system and here come the RFF pilot but in a Cyclone.. he sits at 0 on the gate and locks us both... I take a deep breath and engage. the omen and caracal start in on the shield, drones go out, and he is dropping sloooooow... but we are both heavily tanked and we are dropping slower, he looses his drones and i lock them up, assigning my warrior II's to pop his.
his take breaks, and he starts going down fast, dual medium neuts ftw! i survey the ley of the land, he has a point on me , but his cap is dropping fast.. his shields are crumbling, and his drones are dying..
suddenly ... a few seconds later, i look and his tank ... is back, nearly full again? im out of orbit, and my neuts had powered off, and now he was neuting me, turning off my mods... wth? how did i get out of range... not a rhetorical question im really not sure, but i am, and now im dropping fast, and he isnt, i move back into range and turn on a neut, hoping to break his point.. no such luck though, i pop and warp my pod out.. wth?
I drop him a GF in local but i spent the rest of the night cursing amarr ships, and wondering hth i got out of range ... Combat awareness is THE deciding factor in every single loss mail i have earned myself... This is my weakness, this is what i must make better, i took a simple EASY kill and turned it into an ALARMING loss. This is unacceptable... Every loss has taught me something.. that is the most important thing, but damn I'm sick of losing ships for no reason.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
ZOMG Corp Mandatories!!
Ok so i haven't posted in a few days.. lemme fill you in .. not alot of activity in the last few days, cause it was Monday - corp missioning... blech, but we needed the gear, the isk, and the turnout... Wednesday ... corp mining... omg i tried to take that day off of eve, but i got caught on-line on my alt for like a second.. and had to pull out the orca alt, and help... i showed them by being afk most of the time.. and watching tv.. but i couldn't recover in time for Thursday anyway and took that day off ... which leads us to today .. corp combat night, yay!! the combat director has issued orders for a destroyer fleet to form up at 1930 for a gank roam... if nothing is located to kill, we are going to refit and gank hulks in .5 space for giggles...
I will post the results and AAR afterwards.. im all atingle ..its been almost a week since i blew anything up.. and im jonesing ..
The weekend promises little by way of explosion too, tonight after all the ops are over, i will lead a roam through 0.0 space, and gate camp maybe. but Saturday morning .. moving day... packing up and moving the whole operation to better pirating waters. Saturday evening, RL commitments and all day Sunday moar moving.. hopefully Sunday night we will have everyone put in place.. and a 0.0 roam and gate-camp can be arranged.. i look forward to that.. the dictor squad has been DESPERATE to pull out hic's ... so more later... \o/ yay killing again!!
I will post the results and AAR afterwards.. im all atingle ..its been almost a week since i blew anything up.. and im jonesing ..
The weekend promises little by way of explosion too, tonight after all the ops are over, i will lead a roam through 0.0 space, and gate camp maybe. but Saturday morning .. moving day... packing up and moving the whole operation to better pirating waters. Saturday evening, RL commitments and all day Sunday moar moving.. hopefully Sunday night we will have everyone put in place.. and a 0.0 roam and gate-camp can be arranged.. i look forward to that.. the dictor squad has been DESPERATE to pull out hic's ... so more later... \o/ yay killing again!!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
AAR - Ofage - Bogelek Roam
Assembling on our usual gate for another quiet night of mostly stealth ships passing through our neck of the woods. we ended up with a few more than usual attending our little gate camp. The gate camp being the default position until corp directors get on , and scouts are added to the group.
We decided to head into the Roniko Gauntlet in the Heimatar region. a minor mission route that runs through four-six low sec jumps. the low sec is of little value and so the mission runners move through the missions more or less without interruption, running courier missions from one station to another. Absolutely against that ... Horrible inc. decided to intervene for a while.
After we got into the system and scouted a bit with some cloaked scouts, we picked the most active route and set up shop, a BC Blockade in the station system, waiting for an unsuspecting Bestower, or perhaps a Bestower. But the real fun was having the logistics ship off grid, we would incur the wrath of the gate guns, and warp off grid to get repairs, then lay in wait with scouts, timing our return to the gate with a jump through. But someone scanned down our little logistics hole and decided to try his luck at taking out our logistics ship before we could get back.
A Fun attempt to an otherwise boring bestower roast. that resulted in my first Claw Kill Evar!
We decided to head into the Roniko Gauntlet in the Heimatar region. a minor mission route that runs through four-six low sec jumps. the low sec is of little value and so the mission runners move through the missions more or less without interruption, running courier missions from one station to another. Absolutely against that ... Horrible inc. decided to intervene for a while.
After we got into the system and scouted a bit with some cloaked scouts, we picked the most active route and set up shop, a BC Blockade in the station system, waiting for an unsuspecting Bestower, or perhaps a Bestower. But the real fun was having the logistics ship off grid, we would incur the wrath of the gate guns, and warp off grid to get repairs, then lay in wait with scouts, timing our return to the gate with a jump through. But someone scanned down our little logistics hole and decided to try his luck at taking out our logistics ship before we could get back.
A Fun attempt to an otherwise boring bestower roast. that resulted in my first Claw Kill Evar!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Throwing in my 0.02 Plex
"74?" The blogging world is alive with this conversation... and hell, why not, at the directors meeting yesterday Horrible Inc. Directors stood stoopified staring at the kill mail.. and spent some time talking about "deserve" "stupid" "WTF?" and so forth.
So here is my two isk on the subject.
Alot of people are currently talking about the CCP Morality of the issue of plex and its now destructibility. The who's the why's and the WTF's of it all are enough to make some one rage quit... bye Aystra, i would ask for all your stuff.. but ... well ... lol :)
Buying/trading plex for isk/dollars RL. hell yes i support it, i think that it was not only a fantastic financial decision on CCP's part that has made the game a better place to be, all around (despite a wee bit of broken economy/skill ratio with 3month old accounts with CNR for example) but also a brilliant way to eliminate the stereotypical situation of (i have time and you don't cause you have a job so you suffer..) which has been broken in all games, the best gear, items , skills and so forth always going to the 14 year old who doesn't go to school anymore cause wow is too fun. while the hard working, community building, power behind the subscription base was left to suffer for lack of time to commit to "the grind" .. i love CCP and their move to RL equity in isk.
Making it destructible.. had to, sorry, the reality is that if they could take my money in RL for some in game isk, and let my purchased ship explode... then they had to make the plex in game be able to explode.. to keep the plex indestructible the way it had been... would have cheapened the entire transaction, resulting in a breakdown of the in game equity.
I was waiting for them to do it since the day they introduced it, and i was excited to see the day come.
What i'm left wondering.. what are the odds that of 74 items in a stack, not a single one would survive? Has a PLEX ever survived an explosion? can PLEX survive an explosion? If you want to question the morality of PLEX selling and destructability... it would be wrong if plex doesn't drop.. I will hope that is not the case, but I am keeping my eye open, looking for the killmail that drops one.. if you have seen one, feel free to leave me a link and i will sleep better at night, knowing that.
So here is my two isk on the subject.
Alot of people are currently talking about the CCP Morality of the issue of plex and its now destructibility. The who's the why's and the WTF's of it all are enough to make some one rage quit... bye Aystra, i would ask for all your stuff.. but ... well ... lol :)
Buying/trading plex for isk/dollars RL. hell yes i support it, i think that it was not only a fantastic financial decision on CCP's part that has made the game a better place to be, all around (despite a wee bit of broken economy/skill ratio with 3month old accounts with CNR for example) but also a brilliant way to eliminate the stereotypical situation of (i have time and you don't cause you have a job so you suffer..) which has been broken in all games, the best gear, items , skills and so forth always going to the 14 year old who doesn't go to school anymore cause wow is too fun. while the hard working, community building, power behind the subscription base was left to suffer for lack of time to commit to "the grind" .. i love CCP and their move to RL equity in isk.
Making it destructible.. had to, sorry, the reality is that if they could take my money in RL for some in game isk, and let my purchased ship explode... then they had to make the plex in game be able to explode.. to keep the plex indestructible the way it had been... would have cheapened the entire transaction, resulting in a breakdown of the in game equity.
I was waiting for them to do it since the day they introduced it, and i was excited to see the day come.
What i'm left wondering.. what are the odds that of 74 items in a stack, not a single one would survive? Has a PLEX ever survived an explosion? can PLEX survive an explosion? If you want to question the morality of PLEX selling and destructability... it would be wrong if plex doesn't drop.. I will hope that is not the case, but I am keeping my eye open, looking for the killmail that drops one.. if you have seen one, feel free to leave me a link and i will sleep better at night, knowing that.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Some days are better than others PT 2
So after a short break, the crew was re-shipped into a 5 man gang as we lost hit nrun for the night. prophesy (fit for gate gun tank), cyclone,hurricane,drake,thrasher. and we jumped on our usual hang out gate while we debated our fleet status, roaming or camping after a few slow minutes on our minor pipe gate into low sec, we hopped over to the offikatlin through-way into tabbetzur and points 0.0 beyond.
Our scout reported a 5 man gang in tabbetzur headed our way , onyx, hurricane hurricane, sacrilege, Falcon.
The onyx came through, and jumped to our gate at 0, and held position....
Knowing the odds, I called a no go, and decided to hold position rather than jump.
of course the fleet was edgy and wanted to fight, so i acquiesced, thinking maybe we could take the onyx before the rest arrived, evening out the numbers a little bit.. 5 on 4 would have been ok ( by now i had forgotten that one of us was in a destroyer...)
gateguns? who was thinking about gate guns, as i dipped into deep armor, the gank squad was well on their way by now, and the onyx to our credit was already tank broken, but gate guns.. dammit! i forgot about gate guns, and ordered a withdrawal.. no point on the bait ship WTF ?? lucky day i called and we all warped off, of course we had a Global and couldn't leave system now ... so i ordered a web warp, all 5 of us, warping to 5 different locations in the system then 5 more different locations including safe spots... trying to get everyone organized till we could regroup, i ordered random warps, warp to me (while in warp) and keep moving, they will be scanning for us.
Aaramon... at a safe spot, managed to collect himself some wife aggro... I know right? so he went afk for a few minutes... just long enough, the pack of ships converged on the hurricane, and the cyclone who had just arrived at safe, the drake and prophecy were in warp, and the thrasher, not having a cooldown was long gone through a gate and in station. we decided to sacrifice the hurricane to a bad choice, and continue moving on, but thats not really how the group rolls.. cyclone opened fire with the hurricane, drake landed at optimal and opened fire on primary... all were lost... prophecy landed from warp as the cyclone went down, and decided to save the corp the money, and not warp in for a heroes defense...
The roam ... pretty much ended after that down six ships, no kills and a whole lot of bruised morale.
Our scout reported a 5 man gang in tabbetzur headed our way , onyx, hurricane hurricane, sacrilege, Falcon.
The onyx came through, and jumped to our gate at 0, and held position....
Knowing the odds, I called a no go, and decided to hold position rather than jump.
of course the fleet was edgy and wanted to fight, so i acquiesced, thinking maybe we could take the onyx before the rest arrived, evening out the numbers a little bit.. 5 on 4 would have been ok ( by now i had forgotten that one of us was in a destroyer...)
gateguns? who was thinking about gate guns, as i dipped into deep armor, the gank squad was well on their way by now, and the onyx to our credit was already tank broken, but gate guns.. dammit! i forgot about gate guns, and ordered a withdrawal.. no point on the bait ship WTF ?? lucky day i called and we all warped off, of course we had a Global and couldn't leave system now ... so i ordered a web warp, all 5 of us, warping to 5 different locations in the system then 5 more different locations including safe spots... trying to get everyone organized till we could regroup, i ordered random warps, warp to me (while in warp) and keep moving, they will be scanning for us.
Aaramon... at a safe spot, managed to collect himself some wife aggro... I know right? so he went afk for a few minutes... just long enough, the pack of ships converged on the hurricane, and the cyclone who had just arrived at safe, the drake and prophecy were in warp, and the thrasher, not having a cooldown was long gone through a gate and in station. we decided to sacrifice the hurricane to a bad choice, and continue moving on, but thats not really how the group rolls.. cyclone opened fire with the hurricane, drake landed at optimal and opened fire on primary... all were lost... prophecy landed from warp as the cyclone went down, and decided to save the corp the money, and not warp in for a heroes defense...
The roam ... pretty much ended after that down six ships, no kills and a whole lot of bruised morale.
Some Days are better than others PT 1
So our Combat Director Smash NGrab a true scoundrel at heart, and more of a low down dirty griefer than salty pirate, has weekly combat actions as a Director and this week decided that a AF, Frigate fleet would be in order. Excited by the idea of a fast moving hard hitting gang I jumped into my Malediction and yelled "READY!!"
two wolf's a malediction, a rifter and an imicus flown by our younger pilots, and we had ourselves a little gang, actually, I noticed while we were gathering that we were pretty scary. fast moving, hard hitting, with about a dozen small neuts between us ... we could take quite a few targets... Then smash shows up in his Caracal, 45k ehp, and DPS of a rat fit drake ... 600-650.. damn... someone is gonna burn, we aligned and started our roam out of high sec and into low sec, empty, empty, empty, where the hell is everyone. one person, in four jumps we found one person.. i took off in my inti to go scout around spamming the d-scan and bouncing around, but rats showed up on the gate... we moved the small fleet to the other gate in the system (pipe system) and they landed.. rats on that gate too.. so keeping them from aggro, I ordered them back to the other gate.
and local bumped by two... i took off like a shot, and landed on the out gate, with the rats , then to the other gate with more rats and my fleet waiting patiently, when a drake and sacrilege landed on us all flashy red. it wasnt long before the fleet decided to start fighting, that didn't go well as i'm sure you can quite imagine, though the drake was more or less powerless to do any damage to us, and the sacrilege was neuted into oblivion, he swapped out his ammo and was forced to time his shots for when his booster cycled.. he had more than enough tank to take his time.. two shots the imicus, and two of our neuts, then a wolf and another neut. the group was already bugging out and the scram hit the interceptor.. poor me, I burned to get out of range but the sac had me webbed too and it didn't take much i popped...
Diamond Fury> Damn the luck running into you two.. GF guys
They dropped me a GF in local and went on their way... thankfully they left the wrecks and we looted them on the way out with our 3 ships and 3 pods. but the night wasn't over... oh no.. i needed to kill something now.. the pathetic insurance on an interceptor gives no satisfaction... i must taste blood.
two wolf's a malediction, a rifter and an imicus flown by our younger pilots, and we had ourselves a little gang, actually, I noticed while we were gathering that we were pretty scary. fast moving, hard hitting, with about a dozen small neuts between us ... we could take quite a few targets... Then smash shows up in his Caracal, 45k ehp, and DPS of a rat fit drake ... 600-650.. damn... someone is gonna burn, we aligned and started our roam out of high sec and into low sec, empty, empty, empty, where the hell is everyone. one person, in four jumps we found one person.. i took off in my inti to go scout around spamming the d-scan and bouncing around, but rats showed up on the gate... we moved the small fleet to the other gate in the system (pipe system) and they landed.. rats on that gate too.. so keeping them from aggro, I ordered them back to the other gate.
and local bumped by two... i took off like a shot, and landed on the out gate, with the rats , then to the other gate with more rats and my fleet waiting patiently, when a drake and sacrilege landed on us all flashy red. it wasnt long before the fleet decided to start fighting, that didn't go well as i'm sure you can quite imagine, though the drake was more or less powerless to do any damage to us, and the sacrilege was neuted into oblivion, he swapped out his ammo and was forced to time his shots for when his booster cycled.. he had more than enough tank to take his time.. two shots the imicus, and two of our neuts, then a wolf and another neut. the group was already bugging out and the scram hit the interceptor.. poor me, I burned to get out of range but the sac had me webbed too and it didn't take much i popped...
Diamond Fury> Damn the luck running into you two.. GF guys
They dropped me a GF in local and went on their way... thankfully they left the wrecks and we looted them on the way out with our 3 ships and 3 pods. but the night wasn't over... oh no.. i needed to kill something now.. the pathetic insurance on an interceptor gives no satisfaction... i must taste blood.
All Quiet
Involved in an Empire war at the moment, but logged on late last night to find no war targets around.. not letting that discourage my desire to watch something explode i swapped out my interceptor for my Prophecy (gate gun tank) to go gank some poor sod in a low traffic low sec through way.
Traffic in the area mostly consists of a smattering of pirate corps, and Legion of xXDeathXx minor member corporations logistics. So it can occasionally yield some fun. Hanging on the gate with a Vexxor companion with his pile of drones (vexors last a while at the gates in low sec for all the drones they can spew forth and even if they don't they are cheap enough)
Hurricane jumps into system and arrives at our little gate camp at 0 on the gate... and holds. Hmmm I think, Nano fit Cane vs an all tank 103K effective Prophecy and cruiser ... drones or not, no thanks. I give the order to hold.
Cane locks me up, and holds... I smile to myself , Cane vs prophecy and vexor (nooo) cane vs prophecy and vexor AND gate guns.. hell ya! i wait patiently, and lock the cane.
Er1ck > cmon agro me
Diamond> nah, s'ok im good
Er1ck> 2*1? cmon, take the gate guns
Diamond> no.. im good thanks
The pilot then flew to a planet and announced his location "im at planet 1 cmon 2v1"
I responded Politely, "no we're ok"
The cane warps to 0 and jumps i thought, that was pleasant, i felt good about not fighting that fight, as there was no way to win. even if by some manner of fortune he was fail fit, he would have to be retarded to not get at least one of us, plus gates would kill drones and ... risk versus reward is what eve is all about right?
too risky.
Cane returns in seconds, i assume he checked to ensure we had no nearby friends. as he arrived he locked me up again. "so wut? you guys like mission running or something?" a fair question i thought, not insulted, normally a gate camp involves a gank right... normally. but i replied " no just not stupid, nano cane will take me, slowly maybe, but you will kill the cruiser, and me if i try and fight.
Well I guess he decided that there was a chance, and he red boxed, YAY!
knowing he was burning at me, i knocked on med neuts and blasted his cap into oblivion while Hit Nrun scrammed him up, shutting off his micro warp drive and throwing drones at him, i AB out to range and throw on a web to keep him back while i do, loading scorch and blasting away at his armor (shield was gone in second volley of gate guns) his drone cloud washed over my prophecy and then were mostly gone, he called them back with 2 remaining, gate guns instapop drones when they target them. Don't get me wrong, this guy knew his fits, he was chewing into my armor hard, and took me down to a quarter, before he realized that he wasn't going to take me, the incoming damage was too great, and switched to the vexor, hoping to take a kill home.. unfortunately for him , it was too little too late.
"nice dps, i like your cane"
Traffic in the area mostly consists of a smattering of pirate corps, and Legion of xXDeathXx minor member corporations logistics. So it can occasionally yield some fun. Hanging on the gate with a Vexxor companion with his pile of drones (vexors last a while at the gates in low sec for all the drones they can spew forth and even if they don't they are cheap enough)
Hurricane jumps into system and arrives at our little gate camp at 0 on the gate... and holds. Hmmm I think, Nano fit Cane vs an all tank 103K effective Prophecy and cruiser ... drones or not, no thanks. I give the order to hold.
Cane locks me up, and holds... I smile to myself , Cane vs prophecy and vexor (nooo) cane vs prophecy and vexor AND gate guns.. hell ya! i wait patiently, and lock the cane.
Er1ck > cmon agro me
Diamond> nah, s'ok im good
Er1ck> 2*1? cmon, take the gate guns
Diamond> no.. im good thanks
The pilot then flew to a planet and announced his location "im at planet 1 cmon 2v1"
I responded Politely, "no we're ok"
The cane warps to 0 and jumps i thought, that was pleasant, i felt good about not fighting that fight, as there was no way to win. even if by some manner of fortune he was fail fit, he would have to be retarded to not get at least one of us, plus gates would kill drones and ... risk versus reward is what eve is all about right?
too risky.
Cane returns in seconds, i assume he checked to ensure we had no nearby friends. as he arrived he locked me up again. "so wut? you guys like mission running or something?" a fair question i thought, not insulted, normally a gate camp involves a gank right... normally. but i replied " no just not stupid, nano cane will take me, slowly maybe, but you will kill the cruiser, and me if i try and fight.
Well I guess he decided that there was a chance, and he red boxed, YAY!
knowing he was burning at me, i knocked on med neuts and blasted his cap into oblivion while Hit Nrun scrammed him up, shutting off his micro warp drive and throwing drones at him, i AB out to range and throw on a web to keep him back while i do, loading scorch and blasting away at his armor (shield was gone in second volley of gate guns) his drone cloud washed over my prophecy and then were mostly gone, he called them back with 2 remaining, gate guns instapop drones when they target them. Don't get me wrong, this guy knew his fits, he was chewing into my armor hard, and took me down to a quarter, before he realized that he wasn't going to take me, the incoming damage was too great, and switched to the vexor, hoping to take a kill home.. unfortunately for him , it was too little too late.
"nice dps, i like your cane"
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