Plex time

Well its that time again. Plex prices are now at 1.2billion isk.
That means that if we rat at a leisurely pace perhaps 100million isk a day we need only 12 days for one account. But we have 2 accounts each. So 24 days of ratting means basically nonstoo ratting.

It is a good thing that we usually make about a billion a week ratting. Usually 2 or 3 days a week we make 200-300million isk. On top of that is usually what we call our jita pile. This consists of deadspace drops from escalations, or sites we scan down. The last pile brought us 5billion isk each. Currently we have about 1.8 -2billion isk in our jita pile right now.

I think these plex prices are going to drive more people to turn to plex to fund purchases in eveonline. For yogita and I it means that should we have to relocate it is better to drop 100 bucks and make sure we 3-4 months subbed on each account. At current prices though we have to regularly grind for isk a few days a week.

Oh while ratting over the weekend I was tackled by an interceptor and an interdictor. Yogita got carrier free and sounded the siren for me.

As help arrived this happened

https://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=30893768

As well as this

https://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=30893756

The sabre pilot surely didn't count on such aggressive action. Thanks to Yogita this happened, and my carrier was saved. Carrier ratting can be exciting when this happens. Other ship classes just cant tank well enough for help to arrive.

/Tata

ARRGHH

No this isn't a post about a ship that got ganked, or me losing another Golem. This is about a post I made a while back about players that beg from other players. This guy asked Yogi and I for 600million isk (a plex players license extension basically 30 days playtime item goes for 1 billion isk). He said that he would pay it back in 2 days. 2 DAYS. Now in null sec especially space like ours where you can easily make very good money running anomalies 600million isk isn't a massive sum if you have loads of time to play, and you have the skills to actually complete these sites, and you can sell the escalations for extra isk on the side. OR you can run them and like we did make about 100million isk in 20 minutes. I got mad and quickly included yogita in the conversation. We both basically told of the many ways he can make isk. He basically gave us excuses as to why he could not do that. So I told him that I have only known him for a short time. Then he left eve, and now that he is back, the same habits begging for isk, have come back with him.

In the past when I ran into this parasite he would rat with yogita and I. We were both in Carriers doing about 3200 dps with sentries. If we had decided to go fighters the dps would have gone up to 4800. This guy...in his tengu.....500 dps? So we were doing most of the work. In addition if we got an escalation he wanted equal share. Of course we didn't do that. I am glad we didn't. A short time later, perhaps a week, he found an officer spawn. Now these npcs are the rarest you will find. The modules they drop can be valued at 400k to 20billion isk! He made I think 2-3billion isk off of that spawn. 2 weeks later he was begging me for isk...it was then that he quit eve.

So this ARRRRGHHH post is about that guy. I will basically tell him to never beg from me again. In Eve that is how the biggest scams start. They beg you for 300million isk. You give it to them, they pay back. They ask for increasingly larger sums, always paying you back sometimes late, sometimes on time. In time they start asking for access to your POS, or if you can let them borrow very expensive ships. In the end you lose 10's of billions and when you try to convo him you get a smile emoticon.

I remember one corp Yogita I was in the CEO his name was Krescac or something like that. He invited this elite pvper into the corp. Right away Yogita and I didn't like him.
We had decided to move into a c3 wormhole. We had 3 POS's (Player Owned structure, think "starbase") set up. Well this asshat asks Yogita and I for our codes. With the codes he could bypass our POS's shield and steal anything even the POS itself. I told him heck no. The next day billions were stolen, and destroyed. Only our POS remained untouched. Stupid CEO, but Yogita and I learned....keep your inter stellar kredits close to you.

Next time I have to tell this guy off I will post the logs.

/tata

Heading back to branch for a bit..

So we are back in branch, it was fun err well a lot of the action went down either when we were working about about to go to bed. Timezones have always been an issue. Yogita and I would stay up very very late so that we would be at the top of the killboard. We have gotten with in the top 10 in our alliance. After doing that for a few years we realized, its just not worth staying up so late. What we want is fun content. The battle that I mentioned in the previous post was ALL the fun we had.

So after spending about a billion isk on ships and implants this week, I will recoup most of that. Next week I should be on the road to paying for plexes again. We lost 4 mtu's which sucks but....what can you do? BUILD MORE!

Burn providence wasn't really epic. Now large coalitions can roll over space more quickly. I do not understand how rich carebears don't band together and make life hell for null sec dwellers. (Actually it would be a blast!). Basically, they form a large group of say 5000 players who are very active in pvp. A group that large who can actually put up many fleets in the 50-100's could do amazing things, not to mention it would be plenty of fun. Who knows that 5000 could become 15000, split into smaller fleets wrecking mayhem across null sec!

/tata

Providence will burn!

....Um yeah so as the title states the Providence region will be purged. With Fozzie Sov that means it can be done in a few days. I really hope someone invades Tenal, Branch, and Dek that would be so much fun to head back to defend our own "castle" while another one is being burned!

We had 2 fun engagements in this conflict. We caught a command ship (Vulture Class) and I was able to loot, and successfully get 120mil in mods back to our staging system. We actually logged off in space with the loot in my hold...

Then two days later we engaged a medium sized fleet and bagged I think 5 or 6 more kills. It was nice, I looted only t2 mods this time. 

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&view=kills&plt_id=458641&m=8&y=2015

My killboard shows 5 kills, I think we got another logistics ship. 

So we are finally getting some action. I splurged and spent about 1.4billion on ships and implants. I seems that a lot more ratting will be coming up!

We almost have 1 of our warehouse cans filled up (the capacity is 250km3) it has about 230k in it now. So I think a couple of months of ratting should fill up the second can.

Also our jita pile adding up.....5billion isk! 

/tata

Time to create our own content...

I miss the days of ninja, lumbo, yogita, and I going on roams. I really miss our one command ship roam. Shot down so many ships....until we can got owned. All in all it was so much fun. I am really thinking about using our stash of ore to build battleships and roam through venal. Maybe get some kills, likely get killed ourselves. That is at the core of EVE. Lumbo is looking into market trading, make some big bucks....actually that is the number 1 way to earn lots of isk in EVE. The second is high end wormholes, while ratting/plexing is third. That is what yogi and I do. We rat use MTU's, and probe from time to time. Right now our jita loot is hoovering in the 5billion isk range...our ore we have about 4billion in ore stockpiled from killing npc pirates (rats). 

I mean it is enough to build a small fleet of typhoons, or tempests, and pew pew pew till we die. Then do it all over again. Perhaps dusting off our hulks and using our alts, who are pretty good miners too. 

I miss having those guys close. Yogita is still figuring things pvp related out. In a previous post I brought this up. The idea was to have fast reation ships at the ready. The problem with that is sometimes our anomaly just isn't finished yet.....I know we are greedy....LOL

Time to get out there and pew and fill this blog with the killmails!!

Parasitic Eve players

Ugh, sometimes it just doesn't pay to nice to some people. In  Eve you need team work to get ahead and make things happen. This is what occurs most of the time. Yogi and I met a player in our home system. Nice guy didn't know how to make money from anomalies. Tanking was his major issue, in addition to low dps it was taking him way too long. So yogi and I gave him some pointers. We let him tag along with us as we ratted in our carriers. We clear sanctums in under 10 minutes, and combined we do about 45-50mill a tick. Now with this dude joining us we knew he would cut into our earnings. 

Yet unlike most people, this guy started begging. For isk, to tag along with us ALL OF THE TIME. On top of all of this he actually got an officer spawn!!! So isk wise things were looking up. NOT. The begging continued. I got annoyed and then decided I will teach him how to make isk from probing. Then he could do his own thing. We could team up for the harder complexes. Well he would probe then expect us to run the sites for him while we split the loot....50/50 not in thirds. WTF?!?!

Turns out this guy is a RMTer he sells the in game currency for hard cash!!!! Right there I cut off the relationship. He soon "quit eve" after that. Now, he is back! If the begging starts I will send a letter to his CEO, if he mentions RMT activities I will report him. I had no proof the first time he mentioned it. I think he got scared and didn't want his account perma banned, or temp banned.

Eve it emulates real life in so many ways. I will not post his name here, but I will let his CEO know. 

MMO's can bring out the best in us, and the worse...

/tata

Summer heat slow down

This usually happens every year expect when we were working with Jay. Yogi and I slow waay down in the summer. It is just too damn hot. Even with an air conditioner its too expensive to just let your ac run all night or all weekend.

The result? We dropped just 1 mtu each yesterday. Then we headed to bed read for some time then off to la la la land. On the weekends I takes me ALL day to drop 12-14 cans. Usually I can do that in a 2-3 hour stretch. Rest, or go do something else and in the evening do it again. Sometimes to prevent burn out we split it up Saturday 12-14 mtus (24-28 total), and repeat on Sunday. This helps out the wallet in a huge way, and we end up filling our haulers every 2-2.5 weeks. Our haulers have a combined storage of 70,000 m3.

So I think it will take 4 weeks until we are ready to empty the haulers. This heat is crazy. I think I just might log on in a pvp ship in our HD staging system and wait for gangs. Leave heavy ratting for the weekends. At the moment we a are doing ok, but I have yet to buy more pvp ships for home defense fleets. I have 400 million set aside for it. I can buy a few cruisers, and one heavy attack cruiser. That ought to hold me over....

On a side note plex prices are closing in on a billion isk a pop. It sucks but not that much. Yogi and I can make a billion ratting if we spend at least 2-2.5 hours a day during the week days. We can do that in one week. However, we have alts so that stretches to 2 weeks.

People are speculating that when the citadels come to eve online plex prices will drop because people will flood the market with them (plexs) in order to build them fast.
I hope this happens too...

/tata