A crazy few months in Eve

So where to start: wow what a few months.

Last post I'd been bumming about in low sec, running anoms and generally making decent isk and not losing too many ships.

After a 'we're recruiting' blog post by Rixx Javix of Evoganda and Lucifer's Hammer fame, I decided to throw in an application, knowing that my 8 kills and 33 losses over the last 2 years were not gonna stand in my favour. Amazingly they accepted me and I was suddenly living the life of a low sec pirate. Quite a different life than anything I'd done before obviously. Ships are now all cheapish fits, I only really fly frigs, cruisers and BCs as my main PvP boats, given that I'm a Caldari pilot through and through, this causes some ridicule, apart from the stalwart drake, which nobody laughs at unless they are a bit mad. I've lost about 6 drakes, 1 tengu, 1 dramiel and a maller I bought for giggles. More importantly I suppose, my kills now stand at 145 kills for 46 losses; so things look a lot better: oh.....and I have a "-10" sec status! Get In! never thought I'd be at this end of the criminal system in Eve. I used to hate pirates!

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=religiosa

Lucifer's hammer went into melt down because Rixx had RL issues that were more important than running a corp and alliance in Eve, and I jumped across to our other alliance corp "Black Sail Anarchists" and havebeen there for the last 3 or 4 weeks. Things are going well, I think. We have a new alliance 'Yarr Collective' with the Sinners, we do lots of gate camping and the occasional roam. The most fun roam so far was a frig roam where we caught this fella in a belt http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=13669954 and best 1v1 so far has to be this one http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=13721469

Apart from my own activities of course, Eve has undergone a very stormy few weeks. Incarna arrived, pitchforks and torches came out, people started quitting the game left right and centre, Perpetuum got a massive (temporary) boost from all the disgruntled Eve players. The NEX store started selling monocles for 1.5 billion isk, pilots started foaming at the mouth. A certain CCP news-letter did the rounds and pilots started sacrificing children to the gods of games to bring down wrath on all CCP employees, various CCP people then made a very poor attempt at addressing the mob's concerns. Huge gangs of people camped trade hubs and spent days shooting an invulnerable statue in Jita. The forums were filled with vitriol and anger on an hourly basis. And.....through all of this, I carried on playing the game, I carried on ganking noobs and getting into fights around our home system. I played with Captain's quarters for half an hour, then turned it off to save time on docking and changing ships etc. The door 'screenshot' is an insult in this day and age, I'll say no more.
I'm loving playing Eve atm, I look forward to signing in and seeing who's online, what's happening in our neighbourhood and I look forward to undocking and going at it with others.
Religiosa update: 40+ million SP, about 1bill isk in the bank, no steady income atm, PI a mess a 18 jumps away, research agent 20 jumps away in Hi-Sec! Had to sell most of my ships in hi-sec as i couldn't get them out and into low-sec once my sec status went west. Oh and the slightly modified 'new' me below:

Fly deadly

Reli

Living in low sec

So, after grinding some level 4s in caldari hi sec for a while I got utterly bored ( especially with the totally broken guristas ability to jam, nothing like being perm jammed for minutes at a time to piss one off, especially if the ship your in has a gimped tank and eccm mods fitted to avoid it; sort it out CCP ffs!).
Anyway I went and found me a nice bit of low sec (0.3) and moved my tengu, crane and buzzard out there. Left all my
Other ships in hi-sec; not needed! Brought a dramiel to join the fleet later, some fuckers just need killing, dramiel's the ship for the job! Have been running exploration sites and making stupid amounts of isk ever since. In one week I got a couple of faction drops and just 2 of the mods were worth close to a billion. I dance round a few
Wormholes when I find class
2 n 3 with no pilots, and I try to keep the belts chained so there's a BS in each one. I occasionally clear them for the faction spawns, which sometimes are nice to me and drop cool stuff. The tengu is now pimped out and can take insane amounts off damage, recently ran a 6/10 and never even got past 5% shield dmg, with 20 BS and assorted other ships shooting the shit outta me. Awesome. I occasionally try to engage others in PvP but nobody wants to play, I don't care that much as the isk keeps rolling in.
I've set up a couple of planets in low sec to produce rocket fuel so I can continue the T2 missile production which keeps me in furies and makes a tidy profit. I've also been buying BPCs of dramiel's and knocking them out for 10-15 mill profit each. Basically Eve life is very good and I'm currently content.


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Moving sideways

Well my time in provi was quite short, I'm now back in hi-sec caldari space (back to my roots), it's almost 2 years since I last flew in these parts and I'm quickly realising why I left. Have been running lots of level 4s but rather than saving up loyalty points as intended I blew them all on a few implants and a couple of single run hookbill bpcs. Lost one in a duel already; to another hookbill. C'est la vie.
Trimmed down lots of assets before leaving provi, and the bank balance shot back up for a time. I've been doing a fair bit of reasonably profitable manufacturing using just melted down loot from the lvl4s, and building rigs from the salvage, which I'll probably keep in stock for personal use. Have got the missile stocks back up to ridiculous levels and the excess is going to decent low sec markets. Have bought a handful of boos that will hopefully produce the construction components I need to produce t2 missiles. I'm still using majority t1 for pve, reserving t2 for pvp. I'm weighing up options atm, it's either faction warfare for the caldari militia or a new Corp operating in null sec, they fly predominantly Amarr tho, and while I can, my skills (especially lasers) are quite poor. What do you reckon? The Corp will wait an the offer is good for the foreseeable future, so I may go with FW here in C space, as I really hate moving and seriously
Want to get better at pvp.
Reli out, for now

The New Look Me

So, it's been a while...

I've been playing, just not posting...very lazy.

I have an excuse; wanna hear it?

I've moved country, 3 times since my last post (China, England and now Borneo)

What's happened...well Incursion came along. Meh...can't be arsed with incursions, if I wanted to do missions I would, doing missions with lots of people you don't know.. a good number of whom are gonna be ninjas, gankers and scammers..nah. Go ahead do them, enjoy yourself, but you won't see me there.

We got new portraits... here's my main's new visage.

As near as i could get him to the real me. Though my crows feet aren't that bad.

I've also moved corps but not my playing area. I moved out to the low sec entry to Providence some time ago, thinking the rest of my corp were coming with me; a handful did, the rest just joined the Industrial arm or stayed in Hi-sec.
So I'm now UTC +8 and very few of my corpies were ever on, and if they were they were somewhere in Hi-Sec running missions or mining.

Got chatting to an Ex corp mate and we talked about the possibility of me joining his corp and after a few days, it became reality.

So Amarr Border Defense Consortium is my new home, based on the border of of Provi. Got my first EVER real kill the same night, which I took as a good omen.

I have something like 33 million SP, can fly all Caldari t2 frigs and cruisers. and am generally very happy. Need to improve my PvP skills, but that  will come with trying, and at the moment I really am trying.

Reli out, Fly Dangerous ppl

BTW if you don't read Kane Rizzel's 'A Pirates Perspective' you really should, it's one of my fave blogs, along with many more in fact. If I can't play Eve...travelling, working etc...I read about other ppl playing it. Some of my faves are down the right side of the page, but they are sadly out of date...I'll put that right soon...promise.

Hiatus

Well having moved everything to my new low sec home next door to 0.0, i'm now wondering why.

A change in copr/alliance structure seems to have made things a bit weird. I joined the PvP arm of my alliance to get some experience (i'm a PvP noob!) only to have it closed down before seeing any action.

I wanted to do things with my corp, but have only joined roams and fleets with other corps, what to do?

I'm about to move in RL again....this time to Borneo. So I'll be away from the game for a while again. If my corp hasn't got it's act together by then, then I may look around the region for a more active group.


Any ideas?

Reli

And another one down....

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=11891891#lostLoadout

Yup, yet another Tengu and 37k SPs down the crapper thanks to the lovely Northern Coalition boys. Then they sent me on the podless express back to hi-sec, minus a set of +4 implants. Joy!

Liquidated lots of assetts, sold a few ships (4), and have replaced the ship and the implants.

Joined my first 2V pocket defence fleet, looking forward to lots more in the near future.

Hopefully keep this Tengu a little longer.

Kali

Here she is, 1.5 years in the longing for, dreaming off... the age of Kali the destroyer has come.....tremble....run....nothing will save you now... the darkness is upon  you....

Widow...Black ops battleship...fitting...fuck off, I'm not telling you