Time for an update!

Well, lets see...we have not been mining much. This is due to branch becoming so active with roaming groups. In addition, war is on the horizon again. I should say that one mining op I did get tackled in my Rorqual...I destroyed one of their ships at the start of the engagement. Then I just kept tanking them. Yogita realizing that I was low on heavy water (heavy water is what keeps a Rorqual running in siege mode with the self-rep bonuses, and enhances attack/mining drone performance).

So she brings her Chimera on the field. A Caldari class carrier is not the best in terms of damage output. She shields, on the other hand, are quite powerful. However, the dps from the enemy fleet was quite high and Yogita's carrier started losing shields and dropping into armor. You could see the heavy armor damage on her capital class ship as 30 cruisers poured damage into her.

I started repping her with my own capital shield remote repairer (a faction one too!). I could see Yogita's shields regain strength. Yogita is very aggressive, and together we tried to alpha people off of grid with her fighters aided by my drones. Yogita lost fighter after fighter until...she had none left.

Meanwhile, we had a rescue fleet forming and prepared to save both of us.

Late in the engagement, Yogita's carrier was starting to bleed into structure causing hull ruptures along the 4-kilometer long capital ship. I kept sending aid and the hostile fleet knew they had only seconds to destroy her ship and get out. Too bad! Yogita overheated every shield tanking module she had. In an instance once I light a beacon that would allow other capital ships to come to our aid we were flanked by massive support capital vessels. Yogitas vessel was stabilized and we docked up safe and sound. Now here is the interesting bit. The enemy fleet did not realize that the Rorqual (worth about 5 times the carrier isk wise) was out of heavy water! Had they have switched to me...I would be the one in real hot water.

That was a long time ago. In the summer. Recently, I have been trying to build up our Jita pile to 20+ billion isk and get back to mining.

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Mining and building!

Well, we are now sitting on 13 billion isk of minerals and compressed ore. I have built about 30 canes 10 vexors (which will become ishtars), and 10 support cruisers. The cruisers will be used for home space defence. While the canes will we will use for roaming. We expect to lose them all.

In eve do not fly what you can not afford to lose. Well....30 battlecruisers I guess we can afford to lose a lot.

Last week we ended up having drinks together and played eve only to make isk or mine. So no PVP since the last post.

So we are still building and mining!

/tata

Yogi 100billion isk!!!

Well, actually we hit 2 milestones. I amassed over 12 billion isk in minerals allowing us to build a massive fleet of canes and a support cruiser...about 10 of them. The support cruiser will be used to defend our space against small ships. The canes will be used for larger threats. I want to get my hands on a gnosis bpc or even bpo. We love that ship. We have done really well with it as well. So next good wormhole to highsec I will take it and bring in t2 bpcs and t1 as well. We can build our own pvp ships now...it feels great!!

Yogita has reached 100 billion isk. This milestone is very important as we are our own srp. SRP stands for ship replacement program. In Eve you will lose ships. With a SRP your corp or alliance will replace the ship you lost.

I think this is great for people who do not mind playing the meta. Yogita and I have helped home defence fleets destroy enemy fleets because we fit mods that reduced the enemies locking range.

When you play eve you learn that ships when fit with the right modules can wreck enemy ships. The issue with the meta is that many people learn what your meta is. So they can block it. It reminds of the days when we would use massive drake fleets. The Drake is a battle cruiser that uses missiles. The enemy used smart bombs to blow up our missiles before they could hit the target. Fleet after fleet we saw this. So yogi and i changed our fits we would hit small ships like frigates destroyers and cruisers. We had loads of fun doing this. However SRP works like this: you must use the fits that your alliance leadership has agreed on. Screw that!

Now that Yogi and i both have 100 billion isk we can do what we want!!

/tata

PVP action coming this Saturday!

Yogita and I enjoy watching eve online PVP videos. So we have decided to set up a roam of our own. We will bring a command ship, and a heavy assault ship. Basically, they will be active tanked with resistance to certain ships that drain energy. This will allow us to engage a wider set of targets. Small gangs of 5-7 ships we can wipe them out. Larger fleets we can reduce their numbers and die in a ball of fire and glory.

Blobs that is 20 or more...we will die very fast we want to avoid that if we can. Our plan is to raise isk for this all of this week. Then buy what we need and fit up our ships and head out! I am thinking it would nice to use a low sec wormhole. I will post an after action report here perhaps next Monday.

After work...it is...MAKE ISKIES time!!!

/tata

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