War is on!

We have deployed to pureblind. This time it was to clear out some alliance that was a "threat" to our allies. Actually I think it was just meant to stir up the hornets nest and have some good fights.
Well last month Yogita and basically took ages to actually deploy and when we did we had a nice fight in a ferox fleet racking up about 19 billion isk in kills.

That was november. We then headed back to branch and focused on preparations for the next major patch. I want us to have a nice set up with mining, ratting, and back up capital ships. Perhaps even building 2 super carriers. So this means loads of ratting, looting, the basic grind.

Well now we are in a new month and we need to support our corp. That means spending time on the front lines. We stayed up way too late so Yogi was knocked out. I had a bit of insomnia. I am so glad I did! This happened!

http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&view=kills&plt_id=458641&m=12&y=2015

We ripped apart a black rise low sec faction battleship fleet. The same basic set up that defeated 3 of our allied fleets. The setup was very impressive, 800mm auto cannon macherials, which can project damage quite far for auto cannons. At one point 2 hurricanes (battlecruisers) literally just vanished under a hail of fire from their fleet as we were jumping out of system to reposition ourselves.
I was a bit nervous. Seeing that firepower I realized this would be a very short fight.
So what happened? Well the fc call a macherial primary. I understood the choice their logistics ships where not fully set up so killing a couple of battleships can happen at that stage of the fight. Well next he calls a triage carrier primary. I was not so sure about this choice because carriers in triage don't die quickly. And this thanatos class carrier was hanging in there even though we were breaking him. We lost a 1 or ships in our fleet by the time the carrier was blown apart. Next a series of battleships were called primary and our smaller 720mm cannons blew them away!!! You see with out the carriers massive repairs they simply melted. The logistics ships they brought along where few in number due to the presence of the triage carrier which is a force multiplier. So with the carrier down, those battleships simply melted. We had ewar assistance from a Jackdaw fleet which help with pointing and holding down the enemy fleet. I bagged a Nestor class battleship!

So for the second time.....it pays to stay up!!!

/tata

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

4 days left.... Ratting mania!!

SO only 4 more days left until Yogita and I plex our main accounts. Last post I mentioned how plex prices had climbed to 1.2billion isk. When we started playing in 2008 they were 350-360million isk. Amazing....especially when I know full well that players were able to make 100million isk an hour in null sec.

Well we have been ignoring pings for roams, because it is that time of the month. Right now I have about 615million isk raised towards my plex. So if I can manage 200million today and perhaps another 200 on Friday, that means only 200 million is left which I can easily grind for Saturday, and return to pvp like normal. Yogita and I like ratting, mining, basically those "boring" activities in EVE. It is a nice past time while watching a movie, making plans, or even doing some chores (every now and then both of us are glancing at our screens and watching intel channels).

In Eve nothing stays the same, so sitting on billions worth of minerals, or having a very nice wallet is a good thing. If we decide to go full pirate, I am sure we could do it for year until we were forced back to pve. I love doing crazy risky things, even more so when I know I can replace lost assets easily. So my goal is to set up a pattern of PVE and exposes us to risk (actively ratting when a gang is roaming in specially fit carriers), which brings lots of fun not just for us, but for the "rescue" fleet as well.

With that in mind I am seriously thinking about switching to using my Archon, while training for a Chimera (both when fit right take ages to take out). I just love my nid because while I can fit a so so armor tank, I have loads of mid slots to work with. I can't till a interceptor gets popped because he thinks he can kite drones that travel at 6km/sec with insane tracking!!

/tata

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