Tengu down.....TENGU DOWN!!!

My stupidity never ceases to amaze me. I had a great run in my first tengu. Ran anoms with ease. So yesterday I a see a t2 cruiser outside of the station in our neck of woods in null sec. He or she engages me. I see a Arcon class carrier undock and launch fighters. My blood gets pumping. You see I was about to just dock up and perhaps switch to my much much cheaper Rupture class cruiser. Instead feeling safe that there was a carrier right next to me......I engaged the t2 cruiser. Boom i notice that 6,7 other ships are warping into the scene. I stop firing and in my panic I try to dock up. To no avail, they bounded that tengu so badly. Lesson to be learned: No one is going to sit around in a t2 cruiser with a huge warp bubble up and not have loads of backup likely from surrounding systems coming to their aid.

So fail on me. I can say one thing about myself, I learn my lessons well. So I went to the Rens solar system, and fitted up a another tengu. This one....will not be blown away. I am going to baby it!

/tata

Eve

We have some a real long way from the last time I posted here. We left our dead corp, and joined a pvp corp. It was fun, but some pvpers have an ego the size of a mountain. One guy lost an extremely costly battleship, that was a largely given as a gift. Instead of maybe going to null sec and ratting, or running some nice plexs to make isk, he goes out to PVP in it. Needless to say he lost it. Poof! Next he goes on to buy another battleship of the same type. This time people in our corp were getting tired of his nonsense (he pked a lot of corp members after he lost he “gift”). So he was hot dropped, and lost billions of isk. The grand total I forgot, but I do know I could have fitting a carrier out very nicely, and still had isk to spare.

In that corp we had people who knew what they were about, our CEO, and many others. We also had people who had no clue as to what they were doing, and would heavily rely on others to help them. It was like holding their hand.

We lived in a WH for about 2 weeks made some isk, then the corp fell apart. Our CEO simply was overwhelmed with real life issues, and managing the corp took too much of his time.

We were given a nice gift of POS structures to help cover losses (my losses to be exact, Yogi made a nice profit in that WH), and with those assets I am slowly getting back on my feet.

Currently my fleet includes drakes, typhoons, numerous cruisers, several frigates, and now 2 mining barges. I had to sell my Orca because when we escaped the WH we were too deep in low sec space to get that slow moving vessel out safely.

So now, we are in Null sec. My dream has come true (EVE dream), that is to truly be able to be apart of events that shape EVE. The other night our alliance teamed up with other alliances forming a massive fleet of 600 ships. I saw a number carriers, supercarriers, dreads, and even titans on the field.

Yogi and I in our tiny little drakes were just two tiny blips in that blob.

I am finding that null sec provides some of the best ways to make isk hands down. In about a 30 minute period just ratting, netted me 10million. Actually it was more like 20 minutes. This is where I want to bring my carrier (well my first carrier). I want to pvp and protect our area of space, while having a solid isk making backup. I mean it would suck to pvp in my carrier only to lose like person I mentioned above.

Wow this post has grown quite long. I would say this to people who want to make isk fast. WH raiding.

But if you raid wh's realize that if there are POS's there, they will know that you are there, and they will defend “their” WH. If you are in a 3 man crew it is possible to rake in about 30-50mill isk, per wh. Two people in bc's (drakes are awesome, but T3's really rule!), and another in a destroyer with tackle rigs (with salvaging to at least level 4!). You will clean up big time. Right now we are still settling in to our Null sec area. I am currently ready to fly a Carrier in about a week and a half. If I get the skill books fighters, capital ships, and minmatar carrier (my basic systems skills are all at level 5), I could be ready to fly in about 2 weeks.

However I realize that I need to reasonable, I need another ship that I can rely on for pvp, worm holing, or even mission running. For that I am training for the tengu. I want to move into a WH, with yogi, in an Orca (she is training for golem), and me in my carrier. I want to see if I get into a C3 and milk it dry.

The only challenge is …...getting the carrier out again. But that is for some time in the future since yogi still needs to train her caldari BS to level 5, so in about 2 months or so, when we have enough assets we will see what our options are.