The move was not fun-towing my car whilst driving a large truck with my motorcycle inside over the Rocky Mountains is a pain-the wind just wants to push you off the road and the truck and trailer aren't exactly low-profiile.
But, I made it to destination and have been fairly active the last couple weeks with EVE.
-A- made a push in Tenerifis and Feythabolis to ease pressure of the Northern Coalition (I have mixed feelings on that) and to more importantly prevent the rise of a Hegemon with mixed morals.
I've gotten plenty of good fights around the area during USTZ. Yesterday we took a fight with Jagged Alliance, and due to Scimitars on our side being awesome and Scimitars on their side being terrible, we managed to annihilate their gang with less numbers.
Basically Easley jumped into Hemin from RMOC- in a Drake, while I held in a Tempest in RMOC-. Gang was held 2 away in K-Q as their were neutral eyes in RMOC, which we assumed were Mikes Cleanup Crew (~irony~).
He was scouting them out as I jumped into RMOC- and reapproached. I noticed an Arazu on the gate at 0, who must have arrived after Easley warped to station. I locked him up and... he pointed me?
Easley was in warp back to me when local bumped- lots. Easleys calculation (he keeps a careful watch on local counts) was 28. We had about 20.
He lands and we blow up the Arazu as their gang lands. I counted 3-4 Scimitars on their side, and had called gang into RMOC- the moment local bumped. About 5 seconds after the Jagged gang had landed ours bumped local and the fight was one.
I was immediate primary but got great reps from Scimitars. I instructed all ECM drones on one Scimi, neuted the second and primaried the third. First Scimi down, then we primaried Tengu. He was getting good reps so we cycled on command back to second scimi. He dropped fast and back to Tengu, who went down.
Reps were given out very well, they had a Falcon and some other ships get away (ones that seemed to never aggress, and instead jumped straight into RMOC-) but battle report is here http://www.a-kills.com/?a=kill_related&kll_id=463125
Almost got their Falcon, and the battle report is a bit misleading as they only killed 2 of our ships, so a good portion of their fleet never made it :)
Mikes cleanup crew warped in with battlestars in the middle of the fight, but instead of taking advantage of either party they warped off and hid in their POS in Hemin.
Typical.
I'm honestly tired of those guys-they quote blob when we bring 15 interceptors for their 10 battlecruisers-or when we have even numbers its still a blob. The only time its a ~good fight~ is when they have overwhelming numbers...
Jagged on the other hand-good fight dudes. I remember as the gang landed and the fight started Easley said "dude we have to get out of here". We were in it thick already and I just said "no we're taking this fight".
A few minutes later the fleet was ecstatic as we had mopped up what could have been a disaster.
In hindsight the Scimitars made a difference-huge difference-for both sides. But the few scared pilots on the Jagged side who chose to never aggress and retain the option to jump the gate into RMOC- also made a difference. That extra firepower was sorely needed, and the pilots on our side had no such misgivings, instead trusting the FC to lead them to victory. You MUST have that attitude in a fight or you will screw your side royally.
We ran into Garmins alt (one of the top killers ever) and he took us for an Onyx and Stiletto that tried to lock his Machariel down... but I guess if you're gonna get killed it might as well be from someone great and not someone terrible.
CVA has been pretty active-I logged off in Yong yesterday morning and upon leaving got ganked by gate campers in X-R3. Unfortunate but it was only a Hurricane, and we've been farming them pretty heavily.
I was recently called out on Kugu-which made me laugh as the two faggots who did were terrible anyways, bitter test and bitter ex MVN turned CVA pet. Dunn Idaho used to be an officer in MVN and tried to scoop a ship that was ejected from in Yong with someones jump freighter.
Yes I know-you can't scoop ships from space into a jump freighter... but he didn't know. So it got tackled and died and instead of taking a temporary demotion for being an idiot Dunn Idaho emo rage quit and eventually joined Amarr militia corp CORIM so he could be a pet to the very people he jeered at in local while in MVN.
~Irony Overload~
So now he hates MVN-oh well
Props to CVA for the 3 supercarrier kills-too bad they don't have the firepower (yet) to take them down solo but having friends nearby is always a good idea for any coalition. I'm sure given another few months we will see CVA rise again, and that should be fun!
May 28, 2011
April 21, 2011
Isk
Easley linked me this thread
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1500297&page=1
So I posted to see what would happen. The guy gave me 50 mill in isk. It was actually legit.
Nice to see some people are still out there not scamming!
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1500297&page=1
So I posted to see what would happen. The guy gave me 50 mill in isk. It was actually legit.
Nice to see some people are still out there not scamming!
-A- hits White Noise
So, for anyone who follows null sec politics, its old news now that -A- has opened up a southern front with White Noise. So far as I'm aware there is no "hiring" or "payment" for this action. Its simply repaying an old debt.
Not that I think many in -A- would need any excuse to hit White Noise. There has been a profund sense of bitterness due to the recent PL/DRF steamroll of Atlas and -A- and many were waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
Its fairly clear that the NC in its current state of operation is failing. Apathy is reigning amongst the NC alliances and that combined with poor decision making from mediocre FCs has led to a general drop in overall morale in the NC. Perhaps that would explain the supers a half dozen jumps away shooting low sec Amarr militia pos' instead of fighting DRF/PL.
As a sort of gentlemans agreement (as no official blue standings have been sorted with any NC entity) -A- intitated attacks on White Noise CSAAs and logistics infrastructure two days ago. By all counts and intel 2 baby supercarriers and a baby titan are down. No response as of yet-but this cannot last long before some type of response will be provoked.
The question is, what will the "DC" choose to do at this time? So far they have only participated in a limited fashion, and there have always been rumours of restting the NC proper. At this point they can make or break the conflict raging in the north depending on which side they choose to back. My money is on them (eventually) backing the NC. The Mittani is comfortable on his throne and being part of the biggest NAPfest in EVE history guarantees that ongoing power of supercap production and isk flow.
Word on the street is that Molle is back in some fashion, lurking in Delve. I find it amusing that people still say that IT was burned to the ground and Molle's picking up the pieces. I think a better image is a fortress abandoned and crumbling in disrepair. Not a single system in Delve was taken until after IT fail cascaded.
I would say the Null sec politics are getting interesting again-and as far as NC vs DRF goes, I am always interested in pro longing that conflict :)
Not that I think many in -A- would need any excuse to hit White Noise. There has been a profund sense of bitterness due to the recent PL/DRF steamroll of Atlas and -A- and many were waiting for an opportunity to strike back.
Its fairly clear that the NC in its current state of operation is failing. Apathy is reigning amongst the NC alliances and that combined with poor decision making from mediocre FCs has led to a general drop in overall morale in the NC. Perhaps that would explain the supers a half dozen jumps away shooting low sec Amarr militia pos' instead of fighting DRF/PL.
As a sort of gentlemans agreement (as no official blue standings have been sorted with any NC entity) -A- intitated attacks on White Noise CSAAs and logistics infrastructure two days ago. By all counts and intel 2 baby supercarriers and a baby titan are down. No response as of yet-but this cannot last long before some type of response will be provoked.
The question is, what will the "DC" choose to do at this time? So far they have only participated in a limited fashion, and there have always been rumours of restting the NC proper. At this point they can make or break the conflict raging in the north depending on which side they choose to back. My money is on them (eventually) backing the NC. The Mittani is comfortable on his throne and being part of the biggest NAPfest in EVE history guarantees that ongoing power of supercap production and isk flow.
Word on the street is that Molle is back in some fashion, lurking in Delve. I find it amusing that people still say that IT was burned to the ground and Molle's picking up the pieces. I think a better image is a fortress abandoned and crumbling in disrepair. Not a single system in Delve was taken until after IT fail cascaded.
I would say the Null sec politics are getting interesting again-and as far as NC vs DRF goes, I am always interested in pro longing that conflict :)
Who wants to kill an Aeon?
So if you follow "I Could Have Taken It Solo" you may already know this story-its a week and a half old now but as I mentioned RL is beating me senseless. I'm in fact moving back to Minneapolis next week, should be interesting.
So, for a couple weeks -MVN- moved into Tash Murkon/Domain low-sec area for some pirating and low sec fun. We were roaming and had even brought some large toys up for possible drops.
A corp named Benovelence had moved into Yong-they were GCCing carriers on station, smacking the hell out of local and forming up 5-6 man gangs. Easley and I played around but due to lack of numbers we didn't go toe-to-toe.
I continued playing the lone pirate role in preperation for some drops when one night Easley and I jumped into Yong from a venture in Kor-Azor and saw two supercarriers on scan in Yong.
Interesting...
Only one NC. in local (they use Yong as a transit point), Puppet Masters, who had been rumoured to be leaving NC.
Local count showed the typical 4-5 Benovelence and... 2 Macabre Votum.
Innnnnteresting...
We had scouted the POS's in system earlier, including one coming out of reinforce in a few hours. A quick scan showed the supers location and in I went with a cloaked Rapier whilst pinging for supercarriers.
Sure enough, they were hitting another POS in system, aligned fully to a celestial. They were hitting it along with Benovolence, with quite a bit of banter going on in local as if no one else would be reading. Checking history's, Benovelence was ex-Looney Toons. One of their members had Macabre history as well. So that was the link, and I guess the fight for Geminate/Vale was just not enough excitement for the supercaps (?) and here they were in Providence low sec.
I snuggled up 10k above the Wyvern, who was leading the Aeon by about 5km on their align point. We had caught them as the POS' was entering reinforce, and they were currently incapping the mods. Time was running short and the active supers were low or in 49-.
Last mod was incapped and off the supers went, to a Benovelence pos in system. They stayed online until aggro timers were up and logged off. On a hunch I told everyone to plan on being online in 2 hours when the small pos in system came out of reinforce-but Maka and Bip went on some rant about potential spies and a counter drop.
Not feeling like arguing I said eff it and stood down.
2 hours later I checked in and guess what? Both supers logged in and shooting said pos.
Derp.
The next morning POS came out and Nihilist (CVA roleplayers) came and repped it with a small skirmish resulting in a dead Navy Geddon from Benovelence (that I whored on!). No supers.
For 3 more days I afk'd in system and stalked the supercarrier pilots. On the third day I said eff it, lets take off the gloves and start hot dropping people-I had up to that point kept our big toys off the radar in the hope of a drop.
So here I was, trolling around with a cyno ready to go on my Geddon when I see both supers log in.
Jackpot
With a decent fleet sitting on my tit, including 2 hictors, I humped back to Yong and switched out to Rapier. Herc was on and was beating the hell out of alliance to drum up supers-midpoints were arranged from Querious and more supers were on the way.
I was in space watching the supers and arranging travel arrangements with Maka and Herc when the supercarriers dissapeared from local.
Damn.
But wait... they were still online! They had cyno'd out of local-and were going to come back inevitably, as they had been parking in the Benovelence pos for days.
Supers were now ready to go, I had probes ready to go and Benovolence online in local. We now had 4 hictors ready to go on the titan along with a sizeable RRBS fleet.
I was figuring on a 1-2 hour wait, assuming they were hitting a pos somewhere else in the region when cyno went up in local.
I had moved cursor, right clicked on cyno icon when the two super pilots appeared in local.
Go time.
I initiated warp whilst screaming "we are committing!". I landed right next to both supers, just moving up from 0 speed towards a celestial. I dropped cloak popped cyno opened bridge.
"take bridge take bridge supers jump jump jump primary wyvern primary wyvern call focus points hictors!"
I looked back at my Rapier screen expecting to be dead/dying and was astounded to see me just sitting there while local popped and my grid filled with my fleet. Wyvern started going down, points were called and things seemed to be going well when...
wtf? Wyvern warped off. Logs later showed Wafer with a point on him, then him going invulnerable 1 minute later and warping. Still no answer from CCP.
Aeon was called primary and after 2 minutes he logged off. Smarties still running along with hardeners. Carriers dropped with neuts, and we slowly whittled it down.
About 6 minutes before his 15 minute timer was up the Aeon went boom. I was excited about the kill, rather sad the Wyvern got away.
Word was the pilot was selling his Avatar to buy a new Aeon and then quitting the game.
I think Herc best summed it up:
herculetz: 2011-04-13 04:39:52
Question is. wtf is he doing here?
So, for a couple weeks -MVN- moved into Tash Murkon/Domain low-sec area for some pirating and low sec fun. We were roaming and had even brought some large toys up for possible drops.
A corp named Benovelence had moved into Yong-they were GCCing carriers on station, smacking the hell out of local and forming up 5-6 man gangs. Easley and I played around but due to lack of numbers we didn't go toe-to-toe.
I continued playing the lone pirate role in preperation for some drops when one night Easley and I jumped into Yong from a venture in Kor-Azor and saw two supercarriers on scan in Yong.
Interesting...
Only one NC. in local (they use Yong as a transit point), Puppet Masters, who had been rumoured to be leaving NC.
Local count showed the typical 4-5 Benovelence and... 2 Macabre Votum.
Innnnnteresting...
We had scouted the POS's in system earlier, including one coming out of reinforce in a few hours. A quick scan showed the supers location and in I went with a cloaked Rapier whilst pinging for supercarriers.
Sure enough, they were hitting another POS in system, aligned fully to a celestial. They were hitting it along with Benovolence, with quite a bit of banter going on in local as if no one else would be reading. Checking history's, Benovelence was ex-Looney Toons. One of their members had Macabre history as well. So that was the link, and I guess the fight for Geminate/Vale was just not enough excitement for the supercaps (?) and here they were in Providence low sec.
I snuggled up 10k above the Wyvern, who was leading the Aeon by about 5km on their align point. We had caught them as the POS' was entering reinforce, and they were currently incapping the mods. Time was running short and the active supers were low or in 49-.
Last mod was incapped and off the supers went, to a Benovelence pos in system. They stayed online until aggro timers were up and logged off. On a hunch I told everyone to plan on being online in 2 hours when the small pos in system came out of reinforce-but Maka and Bip went on some rant about potential spies and a counter drop.
Not feeling like arguing I said eff it and stood down.
2 hours later I checked in and guess what? Both supers logged in and shooting said pos.
Derp.
The next morning POS came out and Nihilist (CVA roleplayers) came and repped it with a small skirmish resulting in a dead Navy Geddon from Benovelence (that I whored on!). No supers.
For 3 more days I afk'd in system and stalked the supercarrier pilots. On the third day I said eff it, lets take off the gloves and start hot dropping people-I had up to that point kept our big toys off the radar in the hope of a drop.
So here I was, trolling around with a cyno ready to go on my Geddon when I see both supers log in.
Jackpot
With a decent fleet sitting on my tit, including 2 hictors, I humped back to Yong and switched out to Rapier. Herc was on and was beating the hell out of alliance to drum up supers-midpoints were arranged from Querious and more supers were on the way.
I was in space watching the supers and arranging travel arrangements with Maka and Herc when the supercarriers dissapeared from local.
Damn.
But wait... they were still online! They had cyno'd out of local-and were going to come back inevitably, as they had been parking in the Benovelence pos for days.
Supers were now ready to go, I had probes ready to go and Benovolence online in local. We now had 4 hictors ready to go on the titan along with a sizeable RRBS fleet.
I was figuring on a 1-2 hour wait, assuming they were hitting a pos somewhere else in the region when cyno went up in local.
I had moved cursor, right clicked on cyno icon when the two super pilots appeared in local.
Go time.
I initiated warp whilst screaming "we are committing!". I landed right next to both supers, just moving up from 0 speed towards a celestial. I dropped cloak popped cyno opened bridge.
"take bridge take bridge supers jump jump jump primary wyvern primary wyvern call focus points hictors!"
I looked back at my Rapier screen expecting to be dead/dying and was astounded to see me just sitting there while local popped and my grid filled with my fleet. Wyvern started going down, points were called and things seemed to be going well when...
wtf? Wyvern warped off. Logs later showed Wafer with a point on him, then him going invulnerable 1 minute later and warping. Still no answer from CCP.
Aeon was called primary and after 2 minutes he logged off. Smarties still running along with hardeners. Carriers dropped with neuts, and we slowly whittled it down.
About 6 minutes before his 15 minute timer was up the Aeon went boom. I was excited about the kill, rather sad the Wyvern got away.
Word was the pilot was selling his Avatar to buy a new Aeon and then quitting the game.
I think Herc best summed it up:
herculetz: 2011-04-13 04:39:52
Question is. wtf is he doing here?
April 9, 2011
What the hell do we do now?
With PL up north on contract Delve is suddenly very... empty.
No more giant Drake massacres-no more sov warfare. What will we do for ~good fights~ now?
For the moment there are no plans for anything big-roams will continue to be run and maybe some small corp deployments. Options are being explored for a larger scale deployment but where to go, what to do?
For now I'm going to keep rolling my gangs to a system near you for some pew. CCP killed the system I was running Sanctums in (screw you CCP) but I was getting pretty exasperated with the carebearing anyways.
So hopefully some more battlereports!
No more giant Drake massacres-no more sov warfare. What will we do for ~good fights~ now?
For the moment there are no plans for anything big-roams will continue to be run and maybe some small corp deployments. Options are being explored for a larger scale deployment but where to go, what to do?
For now I'm going to keep rolling my gangs to a system near you for some pew. CCP killed the system I was running Sanctums in (screw you CCP) but I was getting pretty exasperated with the carebearing anyways.
So hopefully some more battlereports!
April 7, 2011
Carebearing. Necessary Evil...
To pay for my new toy I've had to resort to extreme carebearing. Passive market income is enough to pay for the occasional PVP loss but doesn't provide the billions upon billions of isk needed for supercapitals.
That being said, I've still managed to get bits of PVP in.
Last night we bridged onto a CVA gang reinforcing an EVOKE pos in R3- in Providence, only netting the Dominix that was pointed as all other targets on field were aligned off.
A BUSA gang found an aggressing carrier last night-dropped the hammer and watched as the DD started and the carrier warped off.
fail.
Apparently the tackling Cane got neuted and no secondary points allowed for him to warp to a planet where he was promtly tackled but self destructed at 15% armor.
Welp.
So, for the next few weeks you can find PK carebearing in a system near you!
That being said, I've still managed to get bits of PVP in.
Last night we bridged onto a CVA gang reinforcing an EVOKE pos in R3- in Providence, only netting the Dominix that was pointed as all other targets on field were aligned off.
A BUSA gang found an aggressing carrier last night-dropped the hammer and watched as the DD started and the carrier warped off.
fail.
Apparently the tackling Cane got neuted and no secondary points allowed for him to warp to a planet where he was promtly tackled but self destructed at 15% armor.
Welp.
So, for the next few weeks you can find PK carebearing in a system near you!
April 4, 2011
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