Joining Soldiers of Solitude

Our small band of misfits has joined a small alliance of misfits. The alliance is a mix of mission runners and pvpers. I have already led a few bands into lowsec against Dark Solar Empire. I'm not sure why but it seems none of them ever want to fight. Not a good attitude to have if you live in lowsec....

Anyhow, night 1 was useless. We roamed Mai area in Retribution, Incursus, Merlin, and Rifter. We were obviously asking to get popped and even then we couldn't get a fight. Aside from my Retribution, we had crap dps.

Night 2 was much more successful. With the same crew, we went to Saikkamon area and after an hour of not being able to goad any Dark Solar folks out, we caught a 15 day old character in an ice belt with his Vexor. He was able to warp out before Brandkuiken could lock him down. Bummed, we hung around the belt for a bit and lo and behold, he came back! Apparently he had actually been looking for a fight and was already mid warp when we first warped in. The fight started and the Vexor focused his drones and fire on Brand in his "Hero Rifter" as we have come to call it. The Vex was sporting some major armor for a ship in his class and I had to pop on weapon overload to finish him quickly.

The damage to my weapons and energy transfer came out to about 138k isk. The funny thing is, the loot the Vex dropped came out out a cut of 140k isk for me haha. Looks like I am 2k richer and 1 more kill. Probly not worth the big security drop but still fun. Last night was supposed to be Dessy raid night but I was pooped and went to bed at 9:00. Hopefully tonight we can catch some more folks off guard.
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On the Road Again....errr Warpath Rather

I haven't posted in a while. Mainly because I figured nobody reads these but apparently they do!

To summarize the past month or 2, myself and a few other friends reformed the Gorgonites. Just like in the old days, we were back to griefing corps and wardeccing others much larger than ourselves. For about a month, we were doing fairly well with about 3 billion in damages and only a few hundred million in losses. As Battlecruiser 5 rolled around, I was looking at 20+ days of training so I wasn't in game as much and we bled off most of our members minus the original 2 founders. I don't blame them I suppose. The leader has to be the most hardcore and preasent member and I was not.

Either way, that hasnt stopped us from more Schinanigans (wow I spelled it right the first time without the spell checker getting on my case). Today beginds a war vs a 20 man and 12 man corp vs our 3. We are fielding me in a Baddon, Cj in his RR Domi, and Brand in his little "Hero" rifter. We call it that because he withstood 3 drakes and 3 ravens in that little thing. Anyhow, I will be posting more soon as the fights continue.

Going For The Ultimate Gank

Well, all I am missing for a good gank is weapon overloading. I'm training energy mangement to 5 now (13 days bleh). Once I finish that, I can work my way to Thermodynamics 4 thus allowing me to complete a good pvp baddon setup. Once I can use overload, Ill move on to finishing out T2 large lasers and more damage skills like controleld bursts. Ahhh EVE is a game for the patient man.

Yay Heavy Dictors!

I got heavy interdictors finally today. I am days from interceptors and logistic ships but sadly I am going to have to put a week of training into torpedoes thanks to a new update by ccp that gives torpedo bonuses to stealth bombers rather than cruise missiles. I'm not too bummed though as Stealth Bombers are great ships for wormhole space. Fast, powerful, and stealthy.

Missioning in my Baddon

Oh what has the world come to. I am wasting a beautiful Abaddon on missions. Oh well, I fitted it with trimarks in case we ever get some pvp action. Until then, it serves as a great hp mission tank. Back to running missions in Amarr space. I could use the standings as could many of my corp members. The money isn't half bad either :)

Let the Yarr End.

Well, the past few months was spent in the Privateers. I have nothing but respect for them. Contrary to what many may think, they are actually great guys just lookin for good pvp without the gate gun problem. I racked up many hundreds of millions in kills and lost some ships. It's safe to say I have been effectively "battle hardened" from the experience.

After a 1 month break to catch up on some skill training, I returned and joined a comfy mid sized indy corp. I figured helping some miners cause alot of damage against being picked on by 5 man asshat corps would be a nice change of pace. For now I will make back some of the money I lost until im at a healthy 5 billion.

Let the YARRR Begin

We joined the Privateers as of yesterday. This means a whole lot of targets and a whole lot of aggro. Our first night was pretty eventless. We roamed between Amarr and Caldari space with a 5 man mixed gang. No contacts sadly. We saw some war targets in local but nobody wanted ot come out to play.

Today however was quite different. The Crimson Federation was up to their usual crap and had an 11 man gang in Inaro jumping everyone who came in system. I was time to show these asshats a battle of equal numbers with pirates used to going up against incredible odds. Within an hour we had a 14 man BS/HAC/cruiser gang ready and heading into enemy territory. Sure enough, when we arrived, the cowards hid in station. A few came out to see what we had including an Ish and onyx. We quickly dropped the onyx's shield and he redocked in station. After about 15 minutes of no action, we decided to leave them and just make sure alliance members knew not to go through there.

Later on Teyla and roale were attempting to make their way back through inaro. I warned against it but they decided to give it a try. Sure enough, teyla was popped in his megathron by a 10 man BS gang on the gate. It's sad Crimson only fight when they have way too many. They know that in an even fight they are screwed. Pathetic.

Hopefully we can catch some action tonight.

The War Ends

The war will officially end in about 24 hours with Orgasmotech. We were hoping to get a bounty out of them but what we got instead were 2 (possibly 3) good pilots with abilities to fly any ships under capital class. This is a good thing too because our next target is a corp with almost all heavy ship pilots. I'm talkin lots of Ravens and Megathrons. It should be quite the war. We are outnumbered 2 to 1 in size and 10 to 1 in total weight class.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Popped

Well I deserve it. Myself, Teyla, Roele and insaniac were getting a bit bored with hunting our war targets. They had been hiding in station all day and refused to come out to play. We happened to be camping one of them in Piekura and decided to pay a visit to Mara.

As our little crew of 2 frigates, a battlecruiser, and me in my Heavy Assault Cruiser arrived, we spotted a Megathron jumping to Mara. "Meh what the hell", I said. "Let's do this". I had been meaning ot test my Sacrilege out on gate guns anyways to test the tank. Oh and it turns out, with the right fit, this thing can tank an incredible amount of DPS....including EASILY tanking gate guns and a Megathron at the same time.

Well the fight started. I was relying on our Thorax pilot for the DPS as my setup was tank fit. Sure enough, his DPS was brilliant and we had the mega to 3/4 armor in no time. Unfortunately the gate guns had other plans. After quickly dispatching our frigs, they went to work on the Thorax. He popped before he could even think about escape. Now it was me. Yes all alone with gate guns and a mega with way too much armor. I could have sat there and tanked it forever but I decided to book it out of there instead of waiting for another opportunistic rat. Just then, his buddy in ANOTHER Megathron uncloaked. I was boned. I held them off for another minute. Enough time to make sure everyone could escape and then I popped. There goes 130 mil :(.

On the bright side, that was the first real test on my tank fit. Quite successful if you ask me. Myself and Teyla will be sticking with HACs most of the time most likely.

Oh on a side note, our 2 month old trainee Gibbons went up against a domi today in a Drake hahaha. She was packing lots of Neuts. Obviously she had heard of Teyla and myself. However, Caldari are good for one thing; passive tanking. Her dps was shameful and his missiles began to eat her up so she docked and relayed to him how impressed she was at such a new character doing so well. Good job gibbs!

DOH!

I forget to hand over corp shares to myself so the vote for our war declarations didn't pass. Silly me. This time I did it right and it looks like Sunday afternoon I should see plenty of flashy reds to hunt and destroy.

In other news, my corp members are great guys. First of all, they are British which is a plus and second, everyone has a real laid back attitude when it comes to getting popped. A good start for future pirates :)

I have 2 more members of my old corp I am trying to bring in but one of them is more interested in faction warfare. I wouldn't mind it a bit myself but I am much happier in high sec where the reds are known and you can gate camp safely.

The Past Few Months

I took a break from can flipping to join my friend's corp recently. Hoping that he would follow through on his promise of wardecs and some real pvp action, I helped him recruit and grow the corp. The corp grew to a comfy 35 people but was going in the direction of joining a 0.0 alliance. I thought that was quite comical as all but 3 corp members were under 5 mil skillpoints. I tried to talk to the CEO about the ridiculousness of joining a 0.0 alliance with nothing to offer. He wouldn't listen. Thankfully, when things began to get boring, we were wardecced by a 12 man griefer corp. I for one was excited and although we lost 2 members, most of our guys were eager to get in some pvp action. And action we got!

Within 30 minutes of the beginning of the war, myself and my fleet of noobs in frigates and 1 jammer came in contact with the first target. She was flying a Deimos; a Gallente Heavy Assault Cruiser and boy did it pack a punch. In order to save my corpmates for too much damage, I stayed parked outside our HQ in my pvp battleship to draw her fire. The guise worked and after 15 minutes of fighting, the real reinforcements arrived. My good buddy Termour arrived in his Hurricane and together with a swarm of frigs and our jammer he took her down. Turns out we needed neutralizers.

After that, our roaming fleet got a few more recon ship kills. While I was offline, our fleet was ambushed in lowsec by a carrier and we lost a navy raven. Our corp leader decided to pay off the enemy corp in order to end the war. Well I was none too happy. We were on top of this war. One could say we were winning. Why stop?

Turns out that this was the beginning of the end. I eventually decided to go back to the life of griefing and informed my corp leader and corpmates that I was leaving to go be a 1 man wardec corp. Well 2 of our guys wanted to join me and also handed in their resignations. This seemed to be what pushed our CEO over the edge. Immediately after, he decided he was sick of leading and was closing the corp.

This brings us to now. I now have a 3 man wardec corp with 2 good pvpers and 1 aspiring pvper. Its nothing amazing but it's a start. Let's see what comes of this.