War is coming....gotta grab those minerals and build capitals!!

Goons have stated that they are going north. Well, we are going to ramp up our mining and ratting. Later we will start building capital hulls. We have to be ready. With my Rorqual and Yogita in her hulk, we can mine quite a bit. Together we do very nicely. We have about 10billion isk worth of ore that needs to be turned into capital ships, battleships, and battlecruisers. This way we can actually replace our lost ships using insurance and building them ourselves. I am hoping for loads of Goonswarm capital killmails.

Eve is nothing without conflict. The leader of Goons doesn't even log in...lets kill so many of his servants that he must. This war of the north will not be lost due to leadership worrying about the killboard.

Yogita and I raise our battle flags we are ready!!

/tata

Update!

Well, we have been going pretty steady building up mineral stockpiles and I am almost 50% of the way to breaking even on the Rorqual. Once I am at about 120billion isk with billions in minerals we will be going on daily PVP roams. Just Yogi and I. I think we can start at the end of summer. I am thinking Yogi in a vagabond and I will fly a command ship. I already have fits both will be kiting fits that brawl as well (with short range ammo). They will be bling as bling is SO cheap these days. We will fit many ships perhaps 15-20 each. The command ships will be expensive because we can not mine moon goo yet. Even so, we will insure each ship before our mini roam and we might even go on twitch. Basically, invest a nice pile of isk, blow through it then build up isk again and go out and die in a ball fire. In time we will get better and will die less as we adapt our strategies will change.

So for now we are still in build up mode. When moon fracking goes live we will be taking advantage of that to lower the cost of building t2 hulls for our pvp.

Ok time for some afk Ishtar ratting!

/Tata

Rorqual time!

Yep I finally did it. I bought a Rorqual and took it out on its first mini mining op. One thing I will likely always do...I will never mine with other people other than really close people I trust. Also I will not let anyone know that I am mining. I used to go fleets in the past and we would gank carriers, and mining fleets. Spies were always used. Spies get paid nicely to provide targets. A Rorqual is like a massive mining station. It actually transforms into a mining station while you mine. Now here is the catch while in this super mining mode (about 2.5 times more yield that the hulk), you can not move.

Each cycle on your industrial core lasts 5 minutes. If you cycle your core once the ship will transform to its normal state losing the super mining ability with its billion per unit drones. So say your mining in a belt with loads of people they can actually time when your next 5 minute cycle will begin...meaning they have 5 minutes to let friends know exactly where you are! My solution is not perfect but I can not help but try my best to stay safe.

I actually love the on the edge of your seat feeling!

/tata

100 billion isk!

So I finally reached 100billion isk in my wallet. Of course this really is pennies when a titan cost about 100 billion for the hull alone. However it means that I am getting close to my goal. To be able to pilot Rorquals lose them and buy more or build more. In eve we have a saying....do not fly what you can not afford to lose. Yogita and I really take this to heart. We did not start regularly using our carriers until we had about 20-30bill backing us up if we lost one.

It is funny because while I crossed the milestone I lost 3 mobile tractor units. We have about 30 of them between us. That is not enough for a long stretch of ratting on the weekend, or on a holiday. So I will build a some more in a couple of days.

Soon yogi and I will be known in venal as the couple who rip things up, or gets torn up. But in order to do that..you need isk...a lot of it. So we can burn through 8-10 billion in ships and then go back to pve mode and make 20 billion isk.

All the while getting better and better at pvp!

I think Yogi has 86 or 87 billion.

Jita pile is at 11 billion isk.

/tata

Long 5 day weekend results...

Well we had a nice long weekend, and we had to cancel our camping plans. So while watching movies, and relaxing at home we tried out our version of the afk Ishtar.

We set it up to only run forsaken rally points which can escalate to 8/10 class DED sites. We made loads of isk doing this! I think I made well over 1.5billion isk off the little ship slaving away in anomaly after anomaly. We also have loads of modules pulled from the wrecked NPC ships. As of right now we have over 1.2 billion in minerals from modules, another 2.4 billion isk worth of minerals. So we did pretty darned good.

Yesterday which was a Monday night we managed to drop about 30 mtus each. We also have 2 8/10 sites to run tonight. Isk is rolling in!


However we did have a bit of pvp we lost our beloved Gnosis class battlecruisers as well as a Hurricane. We managed to kill a few ships as well.


I am now training for Rorqual 5 (Capital Industrial ships level 5), then after that I will train for the P.A.N.I.C module. I will explain what that is in about 6 weeks time.


Fly dangerous!!!

Oh we both lost a core gen implant set....but who cares we have back ups of back ups.

/tata

Gnosis attack part 2!

I am loving my gnosis fit. There I was at work and I decided to semi afk rat in my ishtar when I realized that a 8-9 interceptor gang was in the next star system over. So I hope in my Gnosis which is set up to pull kiters in very close. I smack one guy down then they all start to pull to range. I damp one interceptor down and...well he wanted to hold point on me. Not realizing that I had dual plates....my HAMs and drones made short work of him. My Gnosis now has 4 killmarks!

I really didn't like kiting Interceptors before....now I love em!!!

https://zkillboard.com/kill/61819512/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/61819497/

I got some nice fittings off of them as well.

/tata

Wartime.....

We are being threatened with invasion by a major pvp alliance that has many allies. It seems that we have been holding our own. I was able to get in on my first citadel kill. I THINK we destroyed a POS (player owned starbase) that was protecting a supercapital fleet. I know that we have regular incursions of enemy fleets. Just yesterday an Orca (a command class industrial ship) was destroyed. I wonder how because we heard on intel channels about a large black ops fleet forming and we should safe up. Well other than that I do not feel like we are in a position to really worry. The coalition we are in is really strong, and form large fleets to counter hostiles. It would suck to have to leave branch for the second time but....I do not mind  new areas bring new challenges.


 This is the Orca it is a large ship that takes some time to get into warp if you do not use the mircowarp drive trick.

So if you are using said ship, and you have access to intel channels....PAY ATTENTION.

/tata