Tengu...more tengu's pleezzzzee.

Well in Eve we have been quite busy in our new corp, and alliance. We have been actively pvping, mining ops (well....only 2-3), and we have only done one WH. Just one. However, running anomalies is much more lucrative. Last night we made about 99mill in about 3 hours. It could have been more but well we did other things as well.

Yogi and I have gotten into building ships, so far we have produced 4 Drakes. Next I will be building some canes. With those we will get on km's. I think for fleet ops, we will use Maelstroms. With the 8 turret slots, we can pack a nasty wallop at range, and of course get on a zillion km's.

Yogi has finally seen light and will be flying a tengu by sunday or next monday at the earliest. She is going to love what a tengu can do. I take battleship NPC's down super easy. The only one real concern about using them in pvp roams...is that they are going to become the enemies gangs main target every time you engage. Which gets really stressful, when your t3 cruiser is worth 10 times what the enemy has. So I will simply not use them for pvp roams unless I warp in last for that final punch when we have a group of them engaged. OR only go if one of us has a logi...which I am a long way off from training.

Ok thats all for now....FCON kicks anus!

/tata

Tengu down.....TENGU DOWN!!!

My stupidity never ceases to amaze me. I had a great run in my first tengu. Ran anoms with ease. So yesterday I a see a t2 cruiser outside of the station in our neck of woods in null sec. He or she engages me. I see a Arcon class carrier undock and launch fighters. My blood gets pumping. You see I was about to just dock up and perhaps switch to my much much cheaper Rupture class cruiser. Instead feeling safe that there was a carrier right next to me......I engaged the t2 cruiser. Boom i notice that 6,7 other ships are warping into the scene. I stop firing and in my panic I try to dock up. To no avail, they bounded that tengu so badly. Lesson to be learned: No one is going to sit around in a t2 cruiser with a huge warp bubble up and not have loads of backup likely from surrounding systems coming to their aid.

So fail on me. I can say one thing about myself, I learn my lessons well. So I went to the Rens solar system, and fitted up a another tengu. This one....will not be blown away. I am going to baby it!

/tata

Eve

We have some a real long way from the last time I posted here. We left our dead corp, and joined a pvp corp. It was fun, but some pvpers have an ego the size of a mountain. One guy lost an extremely costly battleship, that was a largely given as a gift. Instead of maybe going to null sec and ratting, or running some nice plexs to make isk, he goes out to PVP in it. Needless to say he lost it. Poof! Next he goes on to buy another battleship of the same type. This time people in our corp were getting tired of his nonsense (he pked a lot of corp members after he lost he “gift”). So he was hot dropped, and lost billions of isk. The grand total I forgot, but I do know I could have fitting a carrier out very nicely, and still had isk to spare.

In that corp we had people who knew what they were about, our CEO, and many others. We also had people who had no clue as to what they were doing, and would heavily rely on others to help them. It was like holding their hand.

We lived in a WH for about 2 weeks made some isk, then the corp fell apart. Our CEO simply was overwhelmed with real life issues, and managing the corp took too much of his time.

We were given a nice gift of POS structures to help cover losses (my losses to be exact, Yogi made a nice profit in that WH), and with those assets I am slowly getting back on my feet.

Currently my fleet includes drakes, typhoons, numerous cruisers, several frigates, and now 2 mining barges. I had to sell my Orca because when we escaped the WH we were too deep in low sec space to get that slow moving vessel out safely.

So now, we are in Null sec. My dream has come true (EVE dream), that is to truly be able to be apart of events that shape EVE. The other night our alliance teamed up with other alliances forming a massive fleet of 600 ships. I saw a number carriers, supercarriers, dreads, and even titans on the field.

Yogi and I in our tiny little drakes were just two tiny blips in that blob.

I am finding that null sec provides some of the best ways to make isk hands down. In about a 30 minute period just ratting, netted me 10million. Actually it was more like 20 minutes. This is where I want to bring my carrier (well my first carrier). I want to pvp and protect our area of space, while having a solid isk making backup. I mean it would suck to pvp in my carrier only to lose like person I mentioned above.

Wow this post has grown quite long. I would say this to people who want to make isk fast. WH raiding.

But if you raid wh's realize that if there are POS's there, they will know that you are there, and they will defend “their” WH. If you are in a 3 man crew it is possible to rake in about 30-50mill isk, per wh. Two people in bc's (drakes are awesome, but T3's really rule!), and another in a destroyer with tackle rigs (with salvaging to at least level 4!). You will clean up big time. Right now we are still settling in to our Null sec area. I am currently ready to fly a Carrier in about a week and a half. If I get the skill books fighters, capital ships, and minmatar carrier (my basic systems skills are all at level 5), I could be ready to fly in about 2 weeks.

However I realize that I need to reasonable, I need another ship that I can rely on for pvp, worm holing, or even mission running. For that I am training for the tengu. I want to move into a WH, with yogi, in an Orca (she is training for golem), and me in my carrier. I want to see if I get into a C3 and milk it dry.

The only challenge is …...getting the carrier out again. But that is for some time in the future since yogi still needs to train her caldari BS to level 5, so in about 2 months or so, when we have enough assets we will see what our options are.

uh oh...

Ok so I am now in a new corp, that is very pvp intensive, and many people had to move some war assets to low security system. That is all fun and dandy. BUT my POS is lost. Due to my stupidity I did not un-anchor it, it was left in the old corp. When it happened I could not get past the shields. Then I realized my 300mill isk mistake. DAMM! I mean pirates, or a rival corp, or alliance did not even blow it away (which would taken time and effort I DID!)

Oh well at least I found my industrial ship safely sitting there, anyone could have hopped in it and took it. I guess it was not worth the trouble...I mean mammoths are only worth like 700k-1mill isk.

Update on corp activities, and as usual I will be vague. We have successfully relocated some key assets into the new system. Yogita and I will relocate mining assets there as well. Nothing too expensive. Can't till our corp / alliance has achieved its goals!

/tata

Recruitment channel

Its time.....we need more excitement while waiting about 6-8 weeks for our skills to complete. My carrier, yogita a tengu / or marauder. I think a tengu is better. My goals for this year will be to skill up for a carrier / tengu / and a load of manufacturing skills.

I did not list that in order. In order, first some manufacturing skills (reverse engineering sleep stuff from wormholes), then carrier (plus more drone skills!), then tengu, and lastly more manufacturing skills. I should be at 25mill +sp by then, and hopefully in null sec.

I have the recruitment channel up and I am going to actively look for a corp / alliance deep in null sec. That is were the real money is! I think early next year I will train up more mining skills mining in null is ultra sweet!

Well we have an update, there is a corp that wants to take us on board, and they are already in null sec. I think I will run the POS in its current location while, jumping back and forth.

/tata

Hulkageddon......3!!

Ok so here is the low down this is a player driven event. In lineage I have never seen anything like this. Basically all ships related to ore extraction, are being targeted and being blown away. Hulks, Mackinaws, Retrievers, and Covetors for exhumer / mining barge class ships, all haulers seem to be targets as well. Big industrials like Orcas, or maybe even the Rorqual.

Basically Exhumers are tier 2 mining barges. Their extraction yields are quite high, I can pull about 1 million work of highsec ore with a 17k cargo hold. If I use jet can mining I can earn about 10-12mill and hour.....no that is with Yogita, solo it is about half that.

Now Eve wide mining related vessels are being blown away. Even in high security space, so that means the aggressor will get his ship blown up he will do it in the name of this event. Basically miners who do not want to risk losing a 140mill ship (pre-hulkageddon), then end having to a: wait a while for the prices to drop, or b: shell out about 200mill for a new hulk.

I know some people have people protecting them but really, all they get are pirate kill mails, the people they are trying to protect.....will if they are targeted, get blown away.

So Yogita and I we have 2 covetors, 2 hulks, and 1 mack....total value 330 mill. We can cover those loses but really we are not lush with isk. So we have mothballed our mining ships, and our POS has enough fuel to sit out this event with out ice mining.

On a side note I am excited that we might end up in null sec, joining an alliance out there.

Of course the location, and exact details; if we are allowed to join will not be posted here. I will have to be vague at best. Eve is surprisingly hush hush. If I find a nice system with something valuable, it is best to keep it to yourself for as long as possible.

Ok well...signing off.

My new fleet issue 'phoon!

I finally took a big step, and dug into my pockets (about 450mil isk) and bought a fleet issue typhoon. It's tank is truely awesome, and the extra hp, and low slot means I have a lot of room for modifications. I will use this ship for mission running, and the regular typhoon for low sec complexes. Of course the fleet issue would pawn those sites better, but I will not risk a half a billion isk to some random pirate. So until I save up enough isk for a carrier, I will use this current setup.

Sometimes it would nice to use the typhoon for low sec pvp. It is a relatively cheap battleship to use, and oh so nice. I am again thinking about closing down the corp that I am heading. Time will tell. I will post pictures of my new baby soon!!

/tata