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.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
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.
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.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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!
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!
Friday, January 9, 2009
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.
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.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Day 1 - Let the Slaying Begin
Before I begin, Ill have you know that while I am now a pirate, my personality hasn't quite followed yet. I am still a nice guy and anyone I kill, I give advice to in order to help them mature out of their carebearness. And here we go.
Day 1 - I eyed my star chart looking for a good region of 0.6-0.5 space. I recalled a time earlier in my career in which I was a miner and was can flipped often in the region of space known as "The Bleak Lands". This area is filled with mostly 0.5 systems and many belts. A large variety of industrial corps and noobs come to this area to rat and mine. I think this is due to the fact that 0.5 is the closest you can get to low sec without being there. It is also home to many high sec corp's POS's (Player Owned Structures/Starbase).
In my newly PvP fitted Sacrelidge, I headed for The Bleak Lands.
5 Jumps later, I reached my destination system of Sassieko (I think that is how it is spelled). I jumped to the first belt.
BINGO a full can of luminous and firey kernite. Strange, nobody was there. I checked local and found the player who owned the can. He was about a year old and the only one from his corp of 8 in system. As this was my first official theft, I foolishly grabbed as much as could fit into my cargo hold (about 500m3) and headed for the station. After dropping off the ore, I returned and grabbed a second load. As I was warping out, the owner spotted me. Too late for me to stop and see if he wanted a fight.
After dropping the next load off, I returned to the belt. Unfortunately the owner was not in the fighting mood without a combat ready corpmate. He sat in station waiting for me to get bored of him. I had no desire to play cat and mouse with a coward and unfortunately I didn't have a Bestower to grab the can so I decided to head next door and buy me a hauler.
20 Minutes later I had my hauler equipped with 4 cargo expander IIs. Luckily he took the rest of the loot before my return. I decided to head next door into Netsalaka. There was only one person in system. He was mining of course in the first belt so I decided "why the hell not" I brought in the bestower. Warping to him, I saw I had warped 25km from him and his can. I bookmarked the can and warped out. Why take an hour to fly to it when I can warp right on it right? As I prepped my warp drive to return, he came over local, "That is a bad idea Walker". "Why's that?", I asked......no response. Meh what is a 500k indy ship if I lose it? I warped right on his can. As soon as he saw me, he whipped out his 5 Hobgoblin 1s. Oh boy what an ameteur.
I proceeded to steal a full load from his 26,000m3 can (my hold fits a bit over 13,000m3) and began to align to sassieko gate. As expected, his drones went to work on me. Sadly for him, they were poorly inadequite for the job and I escaped with a full hold and 5% armor damage. I gave him some advice as I left about fitting a warp scram for mean haulers. He thanksed me and wasa very good sport about his loss. I left half his loot in the can and told him, he could have it. His lesson was learned. Wisely, he did not leave station to see if I was an honest pirate (although in my case, I am).
Upon returning to station, I refined my spoils and collected the 500k for it. Now it was combat time. No more petty theft with no action. I hopped in my Sacrelidge and headed back.
Upon my return, the miner was still hiding in station but there was another player in system. I started my standard search pattern of jumping belt to belt. Sure enough, he was ratting some 10k frigates in the second belt. I sat there in waiting, looking as innocent as can be with my 3.0 security rating. After the first rat popped, I went and looted the wreck. Rat 2, rat 3, both wrecks were looted as soon as he popped them. Hehe. He was none too happy about this and his Cormorant opened up on me. Now, even an experienced PvPer would be foolish to go up against a half fitted HAC, let alone a pirate in one. This poor noob was going to have to learn his lesson about fighting what you can't take.
Allowing him to get a quarter into my shields, I locked onto him (slowly which is one of the flaws of my fitting a cloaking device). Circling at point blank 3000m I let loose with all 5 of my Heavy Assault Missile Launchers. My Hellfire missiles tore his shield off in 5 seconds and his armor was dispached even faster. Within 20 seconds, his ship was blown to bits. This was my first solo pvp where I was the agressor so my heart was pumping hard. Wow what a rush. Even better, almost none of his fittings were destroyed so I kept them all. Bam another 500k in reprocessed loot.
I gave the much more belligerant noob some advince on attacking a large pirate. He angrily accepted it and was also a pretty good sport. He won't be doing that again :)
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An hour later, after doing some things, I returned to EVE. When I logged in, I noticed that the same miner I had looted earlier was still looting the can I left him. Bad move. His barge was flashy red so I quickly dispatched it and took his drones. He had taken my advice on the warp scrambler but why would someone want to warp scram a HAC in a barge?? Second lesson learned. He wasn't as happy about this loss. It was a 25mil isk fitted barge. I sent him 1 mil to help him toward his next barge and gave him some more advice about not using a hauler to take the loot when I left.
Well that was day 1. 2 Wins and no losses. It will take some more wins to fix my killboard from my devastating Abbadon loss in CVA space earlier this year. Looks like some more noobs need to be popped.
Day 1 - I eyed my star chart looking for a good region of 0.6-0.5 space. I recalled a time earlier in my career in which I was a miner and was can flipped often in the region of space known as "The Bleak Lands". This area is filled with mostly 0.5 systems and many belts. A large variety of industrial corps and noobs come to this area to rat and mine. I think this is due to the fact that 0.5 is the closest you can get to low sec without being there. It is also home to many high sec corp's POS's (Player Owned Structures/Starbase).
In my newly PvP fitted Sacrelidge, I headed for The Bleak Lands.
5 Jumps later, I reached my destination system of Sassieko (I think that is how it is spelled). I jumped to the first belt.
BINGO a full can of luminous and firey kernite. Strange, nobody was there. I checked local and found the player who owned the can. He was about a year old and the only one from his corp of 8 in system. As this was my first official theft, I foolishly grabbed as much as could fit into my cargo hold (about 500m3) and headed for the station. After dropping off the ore, I returned and grabbed a second load. As I was warping out, the owner spotted me. Too late for me to stop and see if he wanted a fight.
After dropping the next load off, I returned to the belt. Unfortunately the owner was not in the fighting mood without a combat ready corpmate. He sat in station waiting for me to get bored of him. I had no desire to play cat and mouse with a coward and unfortunately I didn't have a Bestower to grab the can so I decided to head next door and buy me a hauler.
20 Minutes later I had my hauler equipped with 4 cargo expander IIs. Luckily he took the rest of the loot before my return. I decided to head next door into Netsalaka. There was only one person in system. He was mining of course in the first belt so I decided "why the hell not" I brought in the bestower. Warping to him, I saw I had warped 25km from him and his can. I bookmarked the can and warped out. Why take an hour to fly to it when I can warp right on it right? As I prepped my warp drive to return, he came over local, "That is a bad idea Walker". "Why's that?", I asked......no response. Meh what is a 500k indy ship if I lose it? I warped right on his can. As soon as he saw me, he whipped out his 5 Hobgoblin 1s. Oh boy what an ameteur.
I proceeded to steal a full load from his 26,000m3 can (my hold fits a bit over 13,000m3) and began to align to sassieko gate. As expected, his drones went to work on me. Sadly for him, they were poorly inadequite for the job and I escaped with a full hold and 5% armor damage. I gave him some advice as I left about fitting a warp scram for mean haulers. He thanksed me and wasa very good sport about his loss. I left half his loot in the can and told him, he could have it. His lesson was learned. Wisely, he did not leave station to see if I was an honest pirate (although in my case, I am).
Upon returning to station, I refined my spoils and collected the 500k for it. Now it was combat time. No more petty theft with no action. I hopped in my Sacrelidge and headed back.
Upon my return, the miner was still hiding in station but there was another player in system. I started my standard search pattern of jumping belt to belt. Sure enough, he was ratting some 10k frigates in the second belt. I sat there in waiting, looking as innocent as can be with my 3.0 security rating. After the first rat popped, I went and looted the wreck. Rat 2, rat 3, both wrecks were looted as soon as he popped them. Hehe. He was none too happy about this and his Cormorant opened up on me. Now, even an experienced PvPer would be foolish to go up against a half fitted HAC, let alone a pirate in one. This poor noob was going to have to learn his lesson about fighting what you can't take.
Allowing him to get a quarter into my shields, I locked onto him (slowly which is one of the flaws of my fitting a cloaking device). Circling at point blank 3000m I let loose with all 5 of my Heavy Assault Missile Launchers. My Hellfire missiles tore his shield off in 5 seconds and his armor was dispached even faster. Within 20 seconds, his ship was blown to bits. This was my first solo pvp where I was the agressor so my heart was pumping hard. Wow what a rush. Even better, almost none of his fittings were destroyed so I kept them all. Bam another 500k in reprocessed loot.
I gave the much more belligerant noob some advince on attacking a large pirate. He angrily accepted it and was also a pretty good sport. He won't be doing that again :)
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An hour later, after doing some things, I returned to EVE. When I logged in, I noticed that the same miner I had looted earlier was still looting the can I left him. Bad move. His barge was flashy red so I quickly dispatched it and took his drones. He had taken my advice on the warp scrambler but why would someone want to warp scram a HAC in a barge?? Second lesson learned. He wasn't as happy about this loss. It was a 25mil isk fitted barge. I sent him 1 mil to help him toward his next barge and gave him some more advice about not using a hauler to take the loot when I left.
Well that was day 1. 2 Wins and no losses. It will take some more wins to fix my killboard from my devastating Abbadon loss in CVA space earlier this year. Looks like some more noobs need to be popped.
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