Lunar New Year Update

 As of now Yogita and I have been keeping our characters leveling up in Eve online. Basically keeping that omega status and updating our skill training cues. We have also been mining here than there in high security space. 

We will be returning to null sec. Tonight we will figure out where we want to live. Eve is massive. There are areas of the game where we have fought, but never actually lived there. So I hope to enjoy a new area, new ships. Perhaps this time we will use Amarr ships, and Sisters of Eve vessels. 

There was a recent war that introduced new factions in EVE. This resulted in some high sec systems getting a major buff to mining. So I think perhaps we will base our high sec mining fleet there, while start anew in null security space. 

This means getting back into our carriers, t3 cruisers, and an array of pvp ships. One new thing for us is that we will be using black ops battleships. It is time for us to become the hunters!

So yeah we will be back....very soon! 

T1 cruiser after action report....

 Wow. We had a lot of fun. We got 3 kills (one team was a cheating team I'll explain later).

Most fights we encountered people were kiting us. We failed miserably the first engagement. I set up a spider tank in which Yogita and I repped each other while applying DPS to the enemy. The issue...it was just too cap intensive. Cruisers are not really meant to last that long on the field. So hats off to the baddies they spanked us. Second and third matches we got one kill but we lost. We noticed our fits were getting better, we were lasting longer. When we had a brawling team basically very high DPS and little tank rush us....we destroyed one of their ships. Our tanks were too weak well mine was very strong but Yogita's was not. We won 1 and lost 5 matches. We are game to try again tonight. It was so much fun that even losing was ok. I have so many ideas. We the isk to spend and so many skills we can fly any cruiser at a very good skill level. 

Now the one match we won was basically how some cheaters stay at the top of the kill chart to get the nice rewards at the end of the event. Basically, they have alt characters that fly in ships with no weapons no tank. They only have a propulsion mod. So if they get lucky and they do, they have these alts fly out of the arena and they get a quick win.

Our record is 2 wins and 7 losses. I will try some different setups tonight. Yogita had some great ideas and inputs of her own. It was awesome! We will finish some basic things in Archeage and get our PVP on in Eve-online. 

Fly dangerous! 

Actually, this might be a good way to introduce this game to my boss. Just show the PVP and how some mechanics work.

2 vs 2 t1 cruiser abyssal!

 Yogita and I are going to put 500 to 700 million isk (maybe even 1b billion isk) into fitting up some t1 cruisers for the instanced PVP event running right now. 

We hope to hone our skills in PVP as we will mostly PVP together. So coming up with fits that can complement our playstyles will be key. Also, we need to combat the current meta of kiting. This is when a ship focuses on its ability to stay at range moving very quickly to avoid "brawling" where even the most sturdy tank will get tested. 

More players are using dampeners to force kiters in closer. The dampeners reduce targeting range. I will use a set up like this. 

The rewards are ok...25 to 30 million isk if you win and being able to loot the enemy ships.

So, first I will come up with some fits, have Yogi go over it, and give her input. Tweak it a bit more and try it out. If it works I'll fit 20 more ships and blow em up hopefully getting some kills in along the way. 

Might make this a regular Sunday thing....maybe...

/tata

This is going to be a mega multipart update...

 So yeah we have been very quiet on this blog...FOR years. Going back to the last post, Yogita and I both got Rorquals. We earned BILLIONS in selling it. We used loads of it build our t1 battlecruisers and t1 cruisers. Then...war came. We stopped mining and went into PVE / PVP mode.

This means we had our alts as lookouts. Instead of using them for even more PvE isk making (although some nights we did the results were very nice!) they provided eyes for us while we made very nice money in our carriers. When a ping would go up we would help finish each other's sites, and clone jump to our staging system with a full lineup of the needed pvp ships. We even had logi. Our alts depending on the fleet would also tag along. If we were hitting a structure we would bring the whole 4 member family. It was great. We did not win per se but the Goons back off. We were in deklein at the time. This period lasted for about two years 2015 to 2017.

Leadership wanted to move to greener pastures we were introduced to Drone lands. This was exciting for us but we were also joining a new faction a Russian this time and they had issues with their neighbors. So Rorquals took a LONG break, and carriers /tengus even battleships got a pve work out. PVP when waaaay down for us. We started to just log in play for a bit then log off. Our piles of Isk paid for our gaming time at this point.

This lasted for a year. Then we moved to the catch area of null. The NPC's that live there are angels. So we had to redo our fits and strategies, a Tengu or 2 was lost in 10/10 escalations. This time we started pvping again as war started to heat up. We were members of a large Chinese led coalition. Eventually, we lost the war and had to head back to drone lands. We have to evac carriers. Unfortunately, we left our Rorquals behind. This would be late 2018 to early 2019 we heard of changes to null sec mining fields. 

Our corp was removed from Razor a few months ago. Since then we have been in high sec mining and stockpiling ore. There are yet more changes to ore distribution meaning that building ships is going to become more expensive. Right now no matter where you live you can get all ore types. In high-security space there random ore anomalies that contain low security, and null security ore. The new change will limit trit to high sec, some mid-range ores to low sec, and high end to null-sec. Wormholes will be unaffected. Mining in wormholes is so risky that the output from that activity will be very low. Even if people increase mining activities in wormhole space the losses they will incur will keep that activity low. 

So now that we have a 5 day holiday and about 2 weeks before these changes arrive. Yogita and I are on a mission to MINING LIKE HELL. We are going to aggressively mine the rare ore anomalies that can be found in high sec. In addition, we are going to skill up on all of our toons mining frigates. These can help us with building ships. We can sneak into systems such as low or null-sec. Fill our hangars with specific ore needed to complete builds. We will go back to mission running for LP and loot to meltdown. In addition, we will run Enemies abound until our sec status gets low. Then we will run an epic arc to bring them back in good standings. We do not plan to return to null for the time being. We might even make our own corp and recruit members. 

Ok Update done. Time for EVE ONLINE. 

On a side note, we have been playing Archeage. A nice sandbox game but we have reached the end game. So a couple hours a night or a few days a week of grinding or participating in events will keep our Characters going. 

/tata

Rebuilding our ore stock

I have not mined in a long while. So now I have decided to rebuild our ore stocks. We made several billion isk over the summer months. It paid for plex and a small fleet of pvp ships. Of those pvp ships....several have been lost.

So it is time to rebuild our ore stocks and sell them. Use the isk to rebuild our pvp force.

Yogita is skilling up to use a Rorqual so it will be nice to have 2 capital class mining ships on field.

Over the weekend I did something I have not done in a long while. I insured one of my carriers. This carrier is ONLY used for closing wormholes. I decided it is time to insure it because soon I am going to get caught sooner or later.

Usually, I take a scanner ship in and see if there are ships active in the system. If it is clear I quickly grab my carrier and go and out of the wormhole to reduce the mass of the wormhole. This is the riskiest time. You have to burn about 12 km in a carrier that goes perhaps 250ms with the fit I use.

Now If I get caught I will get about enough isk to replace the carrier easily.

/tata

6/10 Hunting.

This has been our bread and butter for a while. Basically, I use a Gila a cruiser with bonuses to shield resists, and drone hitpoints and damage to run rally points. You see rally point yield very low isk per site. I think I make 150 million isk in A week! However, I do this hoping to get the best drop you can get in guristas null sec the pithum a type invulnerability field. This module is worth about 1.1 billion isk. So far I have 4 of them. I am hunting for number 5.

Some people in the Eve community will say I am nuts for using such an expensive ship. It is worth about 200 million isk. However, we never buy this ships. We simply use our store of minerals from mining to build them when we find blueprints running ...6/10 complexes.

In Eve complexes are rated based on difficulty and in some ways the value of the items you can get running the sites.

So a 1/10 is very easy and the drops basically suck. However, the best for high-security space in Eve Online seems to be the 4/10. It can drop an item worth 200mill or 250 million.

In Null security space, you find 6/10 through 10/10 complexes. Basically, the 10/10 is supposed to have the best drops. Well, Eve is a special game. Players make up the economy. We decide what is valuable based on basic market principles of supply and demand. So because the 10/10 found in our region is SOOO easy to run the items that you get are not worth so much. In the past....the 10/10 was KING. Tanking for the final room in the complex was so difficult. Due to this the modules that dropped were high in value. Very few could the site called "The Maze". Yogita and I were one of the few able to run it. We made billions doing it. Now...it is so easy to deal with the heavy dps the last room can dish out. So many people run the site and modules you can get from it have dropped in price.

Actually, even at that time the 6/10 still dropped the best item ever. So now we are farming 6/10's to fund our pvp!!

/tata

Time for an update!

Well, lets see...we have not been mining much. This is due to branch becoming so active with roaming groups. In addition, war is on the horizon again. I should say that one mining op I did get tackled in my Rorqual...I destroyed one of their ships at the start of the engagement. Then I just kept tanking them. Yogita realizing that I was low on heavy water (heavy water is what keeps a Rorqual running in siege mode with the self-rep bonuses, and enhances attack/mining drone performance).

So she brings her Chimera on the field. A Caldari class carrier is not the best in terms of damage output. She shields, on the other hand, are quite powerful. However, the dps from the enemy fleet was quite high and Yogita's carrier started losing shields and dropping into armor. You could see the heavy armor damage on her capital class ship as 30 cruisers poured damage into her.

I started repping her with my own capital shield remote repairer (a faction one too!). I could see Yogita's shields regain strength. Yogita is very aggressive, and together we tried to alpha people off of grid with her fighters aided by my drones. Yogita lost fighter after fighter until...she had none left.

Meanwhile, we had a rescue fleet forming and prepared to save both of us.

Late in the engagement, Yogita's carrier was starting to bleed into structure causing hull ruptures along the 4-kilometer long capital ship. I kept sending aid and the hostile fleet knew they had only seconds to destroy her ship and get out. Too bad! Yogita overheated every shield tanking module she had. In an instance once I light a beacon that would allow other capital ships to come to our aid we were flanked by massive support capital vessels. Yogitas vessel was stabilized and we docked up safe and sound. Now here is the interesting bit. The enemy fleet did not realize that the Rorqual (worth about 5 times the carrier isk wise) was out of heavy water! Had they have switched to me...I would be the one in real hot water.

That was a long time ago. In the summer. Recently, I have been trying to build up our Jita pile to 20+ billion isk and get back to mining.

/tata