The need for speed(ish)

Spent last night trying to make 2 caldari frigs go as fast as possible. Fitted both a Merlin and a Kestrel with an MWD, 2 t2 overdrives and speed rigs. The result roughly the same= 4300(ish) m/s overheated mid. Didn't try overheating lows, not sure it would have any effect. With the alliance frig race approaching I may I have to quickly cross train for minmatar frigs, the vigil in particular. I'll let you know how it goes :~>










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What's in your hangar

A few months back now the rest of the blog crowd posted this, so as usual, fashionably late, not so much jumping on the bandwagon, but falling of the back of it, here's what's in mine.

Bahut Shakti - Raven (name means very powerful / much power) used for lvl4 mishes.

Tandava - Drake (The dance of destruction as danced by Shiva at the end of each cycle), the chuck norris of the Eve world.

Ganesh III - Badger MkII ( the 3rd of these I've owned hence the name, Ganesh is the 2nd son of Shiva, and has an elephant's head.Nig of a fat little bugger, that's why my badger takes his name)

Om Namah Shivaya - Tengu (All is Shiva, the first of the gods, Brahma and Vishnu coming from his left and right side)

Aloo Gobhi Shakti - Cormorant (potato & cauliflower curry power! my ratting corm)

Garuda - Merlin (Garuda being Vishnu's vehicle and looks like a gryphon (the mythical creature).

I own about 40 shuttles spread out across the Eve universe, all called Nip2

There are others but without loggin on (it's DT so I'm killin time) I couldn't tell you what. I think there's a cruiser or two, but rarely fly them, left over from level 2 mish days.

I have a Scorpion, but that will get a new name in a few days as it will be transformed into a thing of beauty by the new release 'Tyrannis'.

So after the sad loss of my never flown Tengu, I ground my teeth for a while and eventually stopped feeling sick. Ran level fours for a while, sold some plex and had the money to buy something shiny. I had been training for the Tengu for the last month or so, so bit the bullet and flew to Amarr, Jita and it's contracts and suicide gankers can go to hell. I flew over, bought the shell and the subsystems separately, taking corp mates advice on fitting etc. and here she is. Flown home this time, fully fitted and rigged. 540 million or there abouts, for everything, bar the dread Guristas booster waiting at the home station that was due to go in.

Her name is 'Om Namah Shivaya', all my ship are named after Indian deities or have Indian themes. More on this later.
I'm not telling you the subs and mods, if you know about T3 ships, you can work it out.

A Tengu dies at birth

EVESo, finally 20 days of training cruisers 5 came to an end, popped strategic cruisers in for lvl 1, 2 and 3. Had a good think, how to get 500mill of ship out of Jita? How to get there? Pod over? Or buy a disposible frig and slap a mwd in, for that super fast, semi-concentrating AP, with occassional MWD stabs to keep it intersting, trip to jita. But... It's my first T3 ship, never fitted subsystems, have seven waiting in Jita, which to fit? Which mods? Then try them out in Jita? Jita!!? I think not. So I need to get it somewhere I can experiment without drawing every suicide ganker from every toilet bowl in the area. I'll haul it out in my badger II, yes I thought I'd out fox them, shitty little t1 hauler that anyone a few days old can fly, nothing to see here, move along, just hauling my shitty worthless loot about.
So into my lovely little badger I slid, ECM across the board in mids ( I know, I know!) WCS in low, I thought I'd be safe as houses. Some tedious, but growing in excitement as I neared jita, jumps later. I arrived at the monstrous place, noting the swarms of oranges around the gates, and the occassional red. Docked up and quickly grabbed my precious cargo, 1 shining Tengu and 7 subsytems, into the hold, set course for sehmosh, and got the hell out of there. Cleared the first gate, and as I initiated warp to Urlen gate someone started to target me, I warped after about 1 sec, so it was no prob, I didn't get chance to see who it was, overview shimmered as usual in and around jita due to sheer numbers. I noticed a few orange dudes jump through as I jumped on contact. The grid loaded slowly, as soon as possible I initiated warp, the further from jita, the faster, the better. Then, before I could even see who was doing it, I was being targeted, I didn't panic, cos I had time, didn't I? As soon as he locked, id slap on the ECM and be out of there. Sadly, he instapopped me, one volley ready to melt me upon lock, good tip, activate guns before lock! That was it, heading spinning, afloat in my pod! Get the pod and the implants contained in the soft squishy thing inside, out of there! That done, the nausea kicks in, and the depression, I tell my Corp mates who are a mix of sorry and incredulous at my stupidity. I log off.



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Welcome to my blog

Welcome,

 I used to include stuff about Eve over on my other general blog (fruit60.blogspot.com), but as I quite often get my students to visit my blog, and I've started getting the urge to blog about Eve more frequently, I've moved the old posts over here and will be using this exclusively from now to blog about the game.

Hope I can maintain the momentum, I'm entering a new phase of gaming, thing are about to get a lot more interesting I hope. I have money and can afford to replace ships and fittings, this means I'm will to start taking a lot more risks and therefore probably have a lot more fun; we'll see.
I noticed that some of the posts didn't come across (pics especially) very well, I'll try to sort out those glitches ASAP.

Fly recklessly

Reli

State of play

Well, here I am, a little over 1yr and 1 month old, with a little short of 16 mill skill points. I had a few months complete downtime while my marriage fell apart and new people came into my life, and now manage to play a few times a week. In 7 days time I'll be sliding into a T3 Tengu, and am very excited after seeing a Corp m8 (NGResonance) tank a mighty difficult lvl4 in one and not go past about 10% shield dmg. Awesome, dps is a bit of an issue. I was all set to go for a marauder (golem) but have been side tracked. The marauder is a week or two away, once I decide to go for it. I have 620mill in the bank and a tengu and seven subsystems waiting in Jita for next week, that I got relatively cheap via a contract. All subsystem skills are already at lvl3, cruisers 5 finishes in 7 days, then strategic cruisers to at least 3 and I'm ready to rock.
Btw, joining my Corp (Aspire)  was the best thing I ever did in eve, I may not agree with everyone all the time, but I'm still here, knowing what I know, thanks to all of them, we get harder and less of an easy target by the day.
my Drake (Bahut Shakti)

Harry's Abaddon and my Raven

Harry an me just waiting for the next wave