Getting back on track!

Well last week we move to another area of branch, and we were able to make some very nice coin. Well we moved again, and it is even better in the new system we are in.

Something very nice happened yesterday. Yogita got her first solo kill in her ratting carrier. It started out with her panicking and while raising her voice saying we should jump....they tackled her, and she seem kind of taken aback. As if ok...well lets fight this losing fight and hope we can get saved by the standing fleet. Yogita is a fighter, she was a bit rattled having her carrier tackled.

I showed her what I do. I asses the situation rapidly. I noticed that it was an interceptor roam, and the 10 ships in the enemy fleet could not hurt a chimera with her skill set, and having an allied carrier next to her.

So I told her keep locking them and sending drones after them. I noticed that they seemed to stay too close to us to maintain scrams. So our medium drones with speed boosted by a drone navigation computer, and with tracking double boosted could land hits.

She basically launched her drones, at that moment an interceptor pilot locked her and scrammed her. Her drones automatically attacked him, and he insta popped. Basically he was there one second, and in his pod the next. Our MTU looted his wreck, we now have some fittings for interceptors of our own!

Moral of the story? Calm down, you might be able to take a few enemy ships with you. Heck, attacking aggressively can scare some gangs off. Once, I killed a sabre in one gang that was roaming through branch. Unfortunately for that gang it was their only interdictor capable of holding down ships warping through gates and trying to dock up in stations. Since they lost that ship they tried to kill my fleet issue Typhoon, I simply tanked them and docked up. If I had panicked I would have missed out on a nice kill, and making a gang leave branch to possibly reship, or even give up!

/tata

Settling in a new system...

So it has been perhaps 2 weeks since we moved out of our old system. We are currently in a lower sec status system. I find that I like the fact that because of the lower sec status it doesn't get all that much attention as the -1.0 systems where dozens of people, actually hundreds when you look at different time zones, have settled. Fleets of enemy ships often target those systems, and this means we can make isk nonstop during our break, or after work.

We recently sold out jita pile at a nice 6 billion isk, and our new jita pile is already at 900 million isk. I think due to the lower number of people in system we can just farm farm farm. We don't waste time having to leave an anomaly because another person is in it. Also we can farm for escalations that we want. We like to run 8/10's, and 10/10's.

8/10's just go so fast with a pair of high skilled tengus, and even faster with a pair of level 5 marauders. 10/10's are just gravy. It is nice when we have a couple stacked up to run. So this weekend perhaps Saturday evening, and for a long stretch on Sunday I hope we can get more escalations.

So the new system is working out well. We have basically staged 2 carriers with an assortment of ships for pvp, pve, and scanning ships. This allows us to be very flexible and adapt to different situations.

So time to keep on ratting! Oh and we have a nice fresh batch of 40 mobile tractor units that I built over the holiday. I might see how much loot we can get from dropping 59 mtus!!!

/tata

Ice mining!

Well...yogita and I have found another nice little past time in high sec. Ice mining! The isk made is more than we can make mining veld or some other mineral. In fact we find that our alts actually can send about 200mil a week to our main toons each week! I love it!

I am training my alt to to fly the tengu, and Golem with perfect skills. I might even use skill point injectors depending on how much they end up costing. Now the prices are crazy high, as is the case with new tech in eve online. So I will wait until the market settles, and if the price is right shave 3-4 days each week off of my training goals for my alts. For my main...with 120 million skill points...lets just say I have learned patience a long time ago. It sucks that newbies don't get it. When it takes a long time to develop something...it is so satisfying when things come together later. Like when I run anoms in my carrier, or running complexes in my tengu. Or even when mining I notice that my yield is pretty damn nice. Heck I have so many nice skills to level 5 that even in fleets I end up getting top damage, or getting the last hit more often.

Rushing with these skill point injectors....is just instant gratification. I will use to shave time off my goals for my alt. But my main is my masterpiece. I am currently going to train command ships to level 5. I have a feeling that we will be fielding command ship fleets like pandemic legion is doing right now. They are awesome in tanking, firepower, we were in a fleet of Augour navy issues.....we were quiet tanky...yet we could not break those slephs, and we got cut down like a fly swatter killing flies stuck in honey. BUT I do not mind waiting out the 34 days to get to level 5. I will constantly use 3+ implants, and once I have over 100 billion isk I will go up to +4's.

So we will continue see how well ice mining works for us before bringing our alts into null sec.

notable kills!

I got the last hit each of these ships!!


/tata