Bot down!!

Wow what a far cry from lineage, I saw a bot I decided to kill it I would be sent to hell. In lineage every death was painful. It took hours to grind and grind to level up.

In eve....we write the script. Especially in null security space.

So yogita and I are ratting trying to clear a haven real quick then we were going to chill and watch some tv. While we are ratting what do we see? A navy vexor warps to our anom. This player had been harassing other players in the same system. Basically he warps in even though the other player has engaged the npc ships and is in the process of killing them. Basically the anom is theirs. It is a rule null alliances live by when trying to make some isk.

So the Vexor warps in and well Yogita and I go to town on it. I was in my vargur armed with a battery of 4 1400mm arty cannons (with the vargurs bonus that goes up to 8 guns). I figured I could one shot him. You see botters when they grind for isk, we call it ratting in eve, they ignore other players. Well that is one thing they do. That guy we killed basically broke rules and did not communicate at all...basically like  a robot. We tried private convos to no avail. SO I figured I would try to kill him with my vargur. The problem was we didn't have ewar with us, so no webs (to slow him down so that my guns could track him more easily), or a warp scrambler to keep him from warping away. The basic ratting ishtar set up allows for it to use oversized propulsion modules. Basically a battleship sized afterburner. He was traveling to fast for my large guns to track, and even Yogita's heavy missiles where having little effect. Speed effects missile damage as well.

Well It was time for my carrier. I developed a simple fit that would not only allow drones to race to their target, but have the tracking to hit it hard and take it out. I designed the fit to counter fast moving interceptors. I had to apply the same fit but this time to heavy drones.

The result?

Bot down!!!

Thanks for mods...next time don't bot in system with a large number of vigilant players!!!


/tata

Time to plex...with a twist

Usually when our characters are about to run out of game time, we rat up a storm. This time however, we decided to scan down complexes, and rely on loot from escalations. Many anomalies in eve can be easily found in space. Just open up your scanner. Some of them can randomly escalate to sites we call complexes, sort of like Eve's version of a dungeon. However, your "dungeon" can be scanned down, and the prize loot can be stolen. It is isn't common with sites that escalate, but it can happen.

Usually Yogita and I split our game assets into 4 categories. Isk in our wallet, minerals, faction and deadspace loot (usually worth a pretty penny), and finally loot from anomalies that we run. An earlier post gives information about the mobile tractor unit. It does not salvage, it simply pulls wrecks to itself, and loots them.

Right now we have about 4+ billion isk in minerals, almost 4 billion isk in deadspace, and faction loot, and about 900million in loot taken by our mtus. So we should be able to buy 4 plexs spending 400 million from our main wallets, allowing the deadspace loot to cover the bulk of the expense.

This should allow us to build up to a situation where our characters "build" game time.
I am hoping by the time we get to the Citadel release we have over a 100 days of accumulated game time. We will have to see....


/tata

240million isk Gotta love Incursions

Well lets go back to yesterday night. It was at the end of the day and an incursion fleet went up. I decided well why not it has been awhile since I ran one. I am so glad that I did. In just 2hrs we made 240million isk. Truly incursions are awesome sources of isk. I did not want to fly DPS because...it gets boring. Besides my logi skills are really nice.

So I am well ahead of my billion for the week mark.

We are very excited about the major release coming next year. I want to prepare for it by having billions in minerals, and PI materials. So that means it will be time to bring our alts back into null security space. 4 hulks and mine alot of ore, so I figure 2 mining ops a week, perhaps we will have enough minerals to build 2 super carriers next spring. Hopefully our wallets are at 120billion isk each by that time.

So in the next release Super capitals will be able to dock in the massive citadel structures. They make Titans look like small lawn ornaments. Carriers and battleships look like flies on a cows ass!
Seriously these new structures are the size of moons! I CANT WAIT!! In the time being I will be training fighter bombers to level 5. In addition more drone skills need to taken to higher level.

I have decided I want to fly the arazu, or lachesis in small gang warfare. In about 8 hours I will have recon ships level 5!

So the mood about EVE for us....super excited!! We are in preparation mode!

/tata