Yet another great weekend. I stared it by getting a hanger full of alloys with two triple BS spawns, logged for lunch and then signed back in.
As soon as I’d loaded my corp chat exploded, “grab a ship, any ship!” WTF??
It turns out that one of our allies was under attack by another alliance that wanted to move into 0.0 space. We didn’t want this to happen so mounted up to help defend their space. 23 pilots left out home system and headed the 20+ jumps to assist.
Once we arrived we realised just how well defended they were the main gate had well over 140 ships sat on it, all with drones out and organised into groups depending on the ship role, the tacklers were orbiting the gate tightly, the snipers were sitting 150-200 KM from the gate (with BC & Frig support), and the damage dealers were scattered around with drones deployed so that no-one would get past.
The systems that we had come to defend were a bottle neck, with one way in and one way out. The aggressors were inside, being harassed by friendly gangs and unable to leave due to the gate blockade. No more re-enforcements could get through, unless they were on our side, and with constant gangs roaming to kill scouts the chance of a capital fleet jumping on us was remote at best.
After 10 minutes of sitting at the gate, waiting for a target to shoot the word came that they wanted to negotiate for terms. They had lost over 60 ships, and killed just three.
We’re not sure how it panned out, or what the terms were as we were thanked for the help and sent on our way home. It was then we decided to go for a roam around our space to keep the locals in check. Unfortunately no-one seemed to be out and we were left flying with no targets at all.
The fleet operation was very good practice though, and a lot of fun.
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Monday, 2 July 2007
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
One ship down, Hundreds to go.
I’m back to eve now after a short break in order to go to a very muddy music festival in the south of England. First day back I spent over 12 hours ratting, with hanger full of alloys I couldn’t decide what to do with it. I had three choices, sell it for 75% of empire value, refine it and sell it myself, or refine it and make stuff to sell. I went for the thirst option and I’m now the proud owner of over 1000 E-War drones of various sizes.
I’m hoping the demand for these if high, as no-one else seems to be selling them within 20 jumps. If they don’t I can always use them myself I guess…
Whilst I was waiting them to build I decided on to go for a roam. The first place I set as my destination was a collection of systems that are regularly frequented by macro’s in very full haulers. Unfortunately it must be a Chinese holiday as no-one was around so I headed on over to space belonging to Stella Polar, an alliance that for some reason or other are set to red with us, so shoot on sight.
Three jumps from their home system the map showed five pilots active in space, considering I was in a frigate I wasn’t overly confident about my chances but carried on regardless.
Jumping into the system I hit the scan button, nothing showed. Moving to the other star gate I scanned again, and got a command ship and a raven, with no POS on scan. I managed to scan them down to one of two belts and warped in, just in time to see then run away from me. Not sure why, I was in a frigate and unless ravens have received a serious nerf he should have been able to tank my damage.
Oh well, no fight so I headed home.
Three jumps from my home base I saw a shuttle slow boating it towards a gate, I followed and got a lock. Only to see it jump. Following the thought dawned on me that it could be bait for a gate camp on the other side. Unfortunately I was already going through.
An ship was sat on the other side and had me locked b4 I had seen him. Hitting all the buttons on my HUD I waited for the ransom demand, none came. Awesome, a good old fashioned fight. We had each other scrambled and webbed so neither was getting out until it was over. Unfortunately my NOS and two rocket launchers didn’t hold out against his 200mm cannons for very long and although I got him well into armour I died a valiant death trying to protect my little ship.
Luckily my pod escaped, as my clone was set back to empire, I’ve changed that now.
Back to the grind stone, going to buy myself some more BP’s and carry on building up the collection, only have 200 so far.
I’m hoping the demand for these if high, as no-one else seems to be selling them within 20 jumps. If they don’t I can always use them myself I guess…
Whilst I was waiting them to build I decided on to go for a roam. The first place I set as my destination was a collection of systems that are regularly frequented by macro’s in very full haulers. Unfortunately it must be a Chinese holiday as no-one was around so I headed on over to space belonging to Stella Polar, an alliance that for some reason or other are set to red with us, so shoot on sight.
Three jumps from their home system the map showed five pilots active in space, considering I was in a frigate I wasn’t overly confident about my chances but carried on regardless.
Jumping into the system I hit the scan button, nothing showed. Moving to the other star gate I scanned again, and got a command ship and a raven, with no POS on scan. I managed to scan them down to one of two belts and warped in, just in time to see then run away from me. Not sure why, I was in a frigate and unless ravens have received a serious nerf he should have been able to tank my damage.
Oh well, no fight so I headed home.
Three jumps from my home base I saw a shuttle slow boating it towards a gate, I followed and got a lock. Only to see it jump. Following the thought dawned on me that it could be bait for a gate camp on the other side. Unfortunately I was already going through.
An ship was sat on the other side and had me locked b4 I had seen him. Hitting all the buttons on my HUD I waited for the ransom demand, none came. Awesome, a good old fashioned fight. We had each other scrambled and webbed so neither was getting out until it was over. Unfortunately my NOS and two rocket launchers didn’t hold out against his 200mm cannons for very long and although I got him well into armour I died a valiant death trying to protect my little ship.
Luckily my pod escaped, as my clone was set back to empire, I’ve changed that now.
Back to the grind stone, going to buy myself some more BP’s and carry on building up the collection, only have 200 so far.
Monday, 4 June 2007
Low Sec Stupidity
Just a few hours after posting the previous post I had an accident. Out of pure stupidity I got my nice shiny ship all blown up.
I was wondering back into empire space to put my ship to sleep for the night when I saw a kestrel sitting next to a gate all alone and with no pilot. Thinking that it was a bit weird I slowed to a stop and clicked the “Info” button, mistake.
Seconds later my shields began taking a pounding as two (yes two) ships de cloaked and shot me. Since I was in jump range I went through.
Safe on the other side I sat cloaked for a moment to see if they would follow, they did, I locked them both and started firing, only due to the late hour and several beers I had consumed I had (somehow) managed to lock the star gate. Concord didn’t seem to like this so they blew my ship apart in several well aimed volleys.
I can only imagine the look on my pursuers face when they lost the kill, but gained the loot (all T1, nothing to shout about).
Luckily the whole set up cost me less than 5 mil, I’m not that cut up about the loss, just the massive hole in my ego.
On other news, this weekend has been a busy little time for our alliance. The short story is that some people came spoiling for a fight, and we showed them the door, and got them to replace equipment lost during the fighting. Bless.
I may elaborate on this more during the week, depends what mood I’m in.
The plan for this week is to get back to empire and get some more of this skill finished. I may even see if I can organise some of the empire based alliance members into a low sec gang for a few hours, I’de love to get some FC experience, and I’m not sure 0.0 is the right place to start given the current climate, and the inability of my computer to handle more than 50 ships in the same grid.
Fly safe, see you on the beach…
I was wondering back into empire space to put my ship to sleep for the night when I saw a kestrel sitting next to a gate all alone and with no pilot. Thinking that it was a bit weird I slowed to a stop and clicked the “Info” button, mistake.
Seconds later my shields began taking a pounding as two (yes two) ships de cloaked and shot me. Since I was in jump range I went through.
Safe on the other side I sat cloaked for a moment to see if they would follow, they did, I locked them both and started firing, only due to the late hour and several beers I had consumed I had (somehow) managed to lock the star gate. Concord didn’t seem to like this so they blew my ship apart in several well aimed volleys.
I can only imagine the look on my pursuers face when they lost the kill, but gained the loot (all T1, nothing to shout about).
Luckily the whole set up cost me less than 5 mil, I’m not that cut up about the loss, just the massive hole in my ego.
On other news, this weekend has been a busy little time for our alliance. The short story is that some people came spoiling for a fight, and we showed them the door, and got them to replace equipment lost during the fighting. Bless.
I may elaborate on this more during the week, depends what mood I’m in.
The plan for this week is to get back to empire and get some more of this skill finished. I may even see if I can organise some of the empire based alliance members into a low sec gang for a few hours, I’de love to get some FC experience, and I’m not sure 0.0 is the right place to start given the current climate, and the inability of my computer to handle more than 50 ships in the same grid.
Fly safe, see you on the beach…
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