Back to ratting!

The time has come to stop blobbing and rebuild my wallet. I'm not broke by any means but EVE is a game where the unexpected can happen at anytime. For example in our alliance we have a really good FC who is at times a bit eccentric. However, he has spend almost 2 years in our alliance, defending our space, training new pilots, and giving people the opportunity PVP. We have a newer person who has risen in the ranks rather quickly (not a diffuclt thing to do as most leadership roles can be tedious in EVE), and he pretty much belittled the pilot who had 2 years of experience. That being said you never know when your position in an alliance can be taken, and suddenly you are booted from your corp. and your access to billions in ships and modules is lost. My solution to this possible evenuality? Have more isk than your ships are worth. If I get kicked out of branch, I can set up anywhere in game even though I have carriers, and dozens bc's exhumers, and tech 2 cruisers. The total estimated value is something like 5-6billion. Thats nothing because I have multiples of that already. Ok so i'm going back to ratting because 1.5billion has been invested in this war and I need to recoup that. I think I'm not the only person who feels this way. A ping came up last night (using jabber), and so few people showed up in fleet. I think people are becoming jaded with this conflict, in which the higher ups basically make loads of isk. so back to ratting! /tata

Sov warfare the real deal

Wow it has been some time since I have posted on this blog. Actually in EVE things have been quite eventful for the past several months. Firstly in the North the CFC have secured branch, tenal, and burned venal. We went on two other deployments in which yogi and I really got loads of pvp. We did so well that if you took our combined efforts away our corp would not have been at the top of alliance ship kills. This has led me to think more deeply about sov warfare. In Eve tech. which is a moon product (mined off of moons). Has driven the economy for the past 2 years or so. Even now with some recent changes to eve it is still important. Basically when systems are being taken, the real people who make a real profit are the ones in leadership positions (this includes people behind the scenes). They are the people who really make loads of isk off of sov taking. I am sure that they do this. The former head of our alliance made off with 30-40billion isk. So I am tired of leading the killboard charts, or being in the top 3 just to basically help those waaaay at the top make even more billions of isk. In Eve war is good for business. Some even in our corp have argued that srp (ship replacement program) is why we should join the massive blobs. I disagree. First while it is fun, in the end you have little too no isk. Your wallet might have 100's of millions in it but ships like battleships, and elite cruisers can eat that up really fast. Now of course those ships will be replaced. BUT what if suddenly your alliance is booted out of null sec. Maybe you have to find another means to make isk, with no srp to help you out. Now the higher ups can take advantage of such a situation and end up billions of isk in the black. Yogi Deci, and I have made our isk, and we will keep on doing so. I fly ships the way I WANT. I dont like going solely by the standard fits so I never apply for srp. BUT I get on loads of kills. I remember one tengu op where i modified my fit (interdiction null.) The FC a cocky dude make a stupid mistake....we got bubbled.....but yogi and I made it out. In other fights I have been able to target pain targets up to 100km away and get on nice frigate killmails. So for now I making the system work for us. But the moment someone tells me that can get us kicked out of the alliance...is the day we return to empire or another null region. /tata

Rebuilding the battle chest

Well we tore the southern alliance apart. One large alliance left and the remaining fools lost many ships to us. I have say that on some occasions they did fight well. I have 301 kills for month so far, yogi has 207. We will celebrate this coming weekend and give our crews much needed r&r. But now that we are home.....it is time to add isk to our war chest. For me I will simply get richer because I did not lose one vessel during our deployment. Yogi lost a couple of ships....insurance payouts well ships are expensive. Today I reckon we pull in 400-500million isk as a result of our ratting. Fly safe!

What a way to go!!

Talk about going out with a BANG and in a very positive way........the deployment is over and we r heading back home... Some of us (myself included) are already back and some of us r still making our way back... The journey is long and full of dangers lurking around the corner...but that is not the story I'm here to tell u today... As I sit in my comfortable captains quarters with a nice fire blazing in the fire place sipping on my drink and remembering our journey back home.... It was not at all what we had expected...I and my crew r unscathed but many other pilots and there crew got a few new scars from the skirmish yesterday..... We were all ready to go back home.... Our capitals and super caps loaded and ready to go .....when suddenly the enemy decided to camp us in and kills us.....but we truly showed them... We fought bravely( not me so much) and we spanked the enemy fleet.... They kept sending waves upon waves but our well seasoned brave pilots handled them.... I was dicking around fruitlessly so I got NADA but Jem got on a whole bunch of enemy kills with his Nid and some with top damage ... Anyways, now we r back home and the saga continues

miles to go before i sleep.......

So figured out that the saying 'there is no rest for the weary' is pretty true.....we redeployed after a short break since our last deployment....I'm not gonna lie, it's nice to be out and about...rolling out in our pimped out ships plus bringing a whole bunch of fun ships to play around with....we do be the SUPER COOL kids on the block...lol....the fun part is we r NOT in the majority but rather a part of a (stealing Jem's expression) 'Large Minority'. Finally set up with mumble and jabber...ships in the staging area....medical clones in order and a promise to get ALOT more pew pew in the euro time zone..we r ready to rock 'n' roll baby!!!!! Bring it on.......

Pop goes the Tengu

So this is what happens when u get a whole new engineering crew and new ensigns who are not seasoned to the battlefield and all their knowledge of battle comes from the hours they jammed in running simulations in the Holodeck. So we were in this dead space pocket fighting the notorious Guristas pirates while tanking the siege rail gun batteries when their leader decided to show up. Needless to say we kicked his ass and Jem got excited to go and open up the can that he dropped....he went too close...his crew was too green for the battle and instead of taking evasive manuvers they should have, they PANICKED.....I was right there on the field beside 'guristas scourge'(Jem's tengu)...my crew and I were trying to take some of those vicious frigates off of 'guristas scourge'....it was chaos, 100 different orders being given and carried out, hundred different people all speaking at the same time....the ship computer giving out warnings about eminent danger....and among it all I heard someone shouting that 'one' thing that I dreaded the most..TENGU DOWN, TENGU DOWN....and as I looked at my screen with the tengu exploding in a ball of fire I was hoping to see that command pod...tiny...but yet still there...I knew all was not lost...we fought bravely and won the battle....got some good bounties and a faction shield boost amplifier....we headed back home...my ship escorting the command capsule and at the nearest friendly outpost Jem could hop into another ship... And so ended yet another day of adventure for the two Jeyo warriors in the massive Eve universe...it's a big and scary world out there and u NEED friends and allies to survive... 1 ship down in the long list of loosing and killing, winning and surviving.....the saga continues........

Heading home....

Our deployment is now over...I will it because I learned a lot more about low sec pvp and I can understand why it is so fun. Also I was able to pad my killboard with eve university members. So with a nice month so far pvp wise and leading the charts for the 3rd time, i'm heading back to branch to prepare my carrier for the journey to bring back my recently purchased pvp ships...namely 2 hurricane class battle cruisers, and Drake (same class), along with a logistics cruiser as well. i hope to make it in one round trip. Null sec. is so much better isk wise......can't wait till I fatten my wallet to new heights! LOL /fly safe!