Sometime a few days ago, I passed 20 million SP. Never thought I'd get this far, I remember being a complete noob (still a bit of one now) and chatting with the old timer who had 30 and 40 mill SP, thinking, 'OMG' how will I ever go head to head with these people and win, and the answer is (most of the time) you don't, but I now have lots of skills, 36 of which are at level 5, I can take pain and dish it out. Caldari Frigs 5 finishes in 3 days and then it's cov ops, electronic attack frigs and all the other fun fun t2 frigs. can't wait.
I'm still with the same corp (alliance anyway) that i joined 15 months ago, and doubt I'll ever leave them. We are getting better and better we've divided into specialties, we have training programmes and graduation etc, a great bunch of people and some good leaders.
Eve life goes on, though I really need a kick up the arse to start PvPing, I'm crap at it. Stupid really, it's a game, what can I lose?
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Aaaarrrrrghhhhhh!
I was amazingly calm, I should have been punching myself in the face, I should have been smashing the keyboard over my head and putting my very foul mouth to full use. Instead I slowed my heart beat down, relaxed, got my pod and implants to relative safety and then logged and watched the Alliance Tournament for a while, before logging back on and getting my pod back home to settle into a slightly less expensive ship.
It all started with Mericus in Aspire main chat announcing WH op. Stupidly I thought "why not?" been looking for something more fun than low sec ratting or mission running, here it was.
So loaded the hold with all 4 dmg types of missile....it had been over a year since I was last in a WH, forgot what they tanked etc. so took everything including nanite paste, and mods to swap in / out depending on the circumstance. On the way out to the op start place, I had a bit of low sec to traverse, so fitted a cloak and sisters probes.
We found an occupied C3, but no-one was at home, so we went in (just the 2 of us) and cleared out the 2 anomalies. Not a single nanoribbon in the place :( We then started exploring the other exits, and found a C4 entrance from the first WH. Now....Meri was in a Legion and I was in a Tengu, we knew that trying to do a C4 with just the two of us would be hard, so we called for re-enforcements. Yumirion and Devinaty offered to come in BSs. So we killed time and waited for them to arrive.
Eventually they were at the low sec entrance to the first WH so Meri went off to lead them down the rabbit hole. I waited at the entrance / exit of WH No.2
Now I should explain, AT8 was on, I'd missed the previous days matches and was waiting for the Final days matches to begin, anyway my mind was elsewhere and not really paying attention, as I was watching 2 screens at the same time. I had relaxed spamming the d-scan.
In hindsight....what a ridiculous place to wait. It was like sitting on a nullsec gate with a target on my ship!
I had removed the cloak and probes for more launchers, so wasn't even cloaked up.
Out of the corner of my eye, a flash of orange, Shit! too late, 4 ships had landed at the exit, 2 BSs (I think) and two frigs. Locked in seconds, scrammed and webbed and then as I hit the A/B and Shield booster my ship melted. 550 million isk worth of ship lost in seconds. Why didn't I just jump through? I don't know, I panicked at first and my first thought was get to one of the other BMs I'd made around the sys. Wrong choice! I got my pod and my Implants out of there, back through low sec and to my home.
Gutted, but Mazzy Dark et al, well done, GF. Hope next time I can make life more difficult for you.
Remember folks, be alert, especially in low sec / 0.0, your ship and your life depend upon it.
I suppose I'm grateful I've been put back on my toes.
It all started with Mericus in Aspire main chat announcing WH op. Stupidly I thought "why not?" been looking for something more fun than low sec ratting or mission running, here it was.
So loaded the hold with all 4 dmg types of missile....it had been over a year since I was last in a WH, forgot what they tanked etc. so took everything including nanite paste, and mods to swap in / out depending on the circumstance. On the way out to the op start place, I had a bit of low sec to traverse, so fitted a cloak and sisters probes.
We found an occupied C3, but no-one was at home, so we went in (just the 2 of us) and cleared out the 2 anomalies. Not a single nanoribbon in the place :( We then started exploring the other exits, and found a C4 entrance from the first WH. Now....Meri was in a Legion and I was in a Tengu, we knew that trying to do a C4 with just the two of us would be hard, so we called for re-enforcements. Yumirion and Devinaty offered to come in BSs. So we killed time and waited for them to arrive.
Eventually they were at the low sec entrance to the first WH so Meri went off to lead them down the rabbit hole. I waited at the entrance / exit of WH No.2
Now I should explain, AT8 was on, I'd missed the previous days matches and was waiting for the Final days matches to begin, anyway my mind was elsewhere and not really paying attention, as I was watching 2 screens at the same time. I had relaxed spamming the d-scan.
In hindsight....what a ridiculous place to wait. It was like sitting on a nullsec gate with a target on my ship!
I had removed the cloak and probes for more launchers, so wasn't even cloaked up.
Out of the corner of my eye, a flash of orange, Shit! too late, 4 ships had landed at the exit, 2 BSs (I think) and two frigs. Locked in seconds, scrammed and webbed and then as I hit the A/B and Shield booster my ship melted. 550 million isk worth of ship lost in seconds. Why didn't I just jump through? I don't know, I panicked at first and my first thought was get to one of the other BMs I'd made around the sys. Wrong choice! I got my pod and my Implants out of there, back through low sec and to my home.
Gutted, but Mazzy Dark et al, well done, GF. Hope next time I can make life more difficult for you.
Remember folks, be alert, especially in low sec / 0.0, your ship and your life depend upon it.
I suppose I'm grateful I've been put back on my toes.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Low sec
Have spent the last few weeks ratting and mining in a low sec system. Lovely. Bit more exciting than High sec, but it's 0.4 so the rats aren't that bad, always the possibility of being attacked randomly, so ones eye is always on local and overview.
Have also been practicing my scanning; seriously need to work on my skills though. getting blood raider dens and rally points is as easy as popping out a probe and running one scan. Finding anything else is still proving difficult. I have pinpointed a grav site, with lots of nice ochre and gneiss, but mining in low sec is just nerve wracking without combat support.
I've been using my Tengu and have got comfortable with its capabilities. What an awesome ship! BC damage and BS tank on a cruiser hull. and modular so just a case of popping a subsystem out (with rigs) and putting another in. brilliant.
I got my first chance to look at a POS close up too recently, the PvP arm of our alliance has one in low sec and we ran a corp mining op there. Awesome to see and really impressive. A few screen shots below of the op and our POS.
Have also been practicing my scanning; seriously need to work on my skills though. getting blood raider dens and rally points is as easy as popping out a probe and running one scan. Finding anything else is still proving difficult. I have pinpointed a grav site, with lots of nice ochre and gneiss, but mining in low sec is just nerve wracking without combat support.
I've been using my Tengu and have got comfortable with its capabilities. What an awesome ship! BC damage and BS tank on a cruiser hull. and modular so just a case of popping a subsystem out (with rigs) and putting another in. brilliant.
I got my first chance to look at a POS close up too recently, the PvP arm of our alliance has one in low sec and we ran a corp mining op there. Awesome to see and really impressive. A few screen shots below of the op and our POS.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
alliance mining op and AT8 \o/
So here we are....about to join a mining op with the alliance, and in a little under an hour the second day of the Alliance Tournament 8 kicks off. Should be fun. Here's the boys at the gate earlier.
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