tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43584283007853450242024-03-13T12:07:38.738+10:00The Flying TargetThe trials and tribulations of a stealth bomber pilot in Eve OnlineHavlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-71684869814746143062017-07-06T14:50:00.000+10:002017-07-06T19:28:27.135+10:00Real Men Hull Tank<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Long time no post. Short story is I had a break from Eve, but managed to convince my brother to play Eve again when the Ascension update came through. We decided we didn't like being Alphas and started roaming wormholes with Omega clones. We killed a guy in an Astero, who was really cool and gave us docking rights at his Fortizar (Hi Flo!!!) and we eventually joined his alliance and are now renting out the Fortizar in a C2 with a B274 and Z647 statics.</div>
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I've skilled up into interdictors and I really like being able to warp around at 8AU a second and bubble things. I've tried Proteus Smartbombing (fun!), PI in wormhole space and even had an alt join a Nullsec alliance for dank VNI ticks. </div>
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We had a few active connections the other night, including a frigate hole to nullsec. We were in the process of trying to catch a Bustard that we had seen jump into highsec. I was cloaked up in my Heretic on a C2 connection, Aj was on the high sec hole in his Stratios. The plan was pop a bubble on the C2 when the highsec connection flashed and hope that the Bustard would warp straight to the hole without checking. Turns out the Bustard was watching and burnt back to the hole, which was a shame. </div>
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However, there was a Heron that was busy scanning in the hole at the time we tried to spring the trap. I narrowed the Heron down to a planet and thought what the hell, I'll warp to it at a random range and see if I can't catch it. I landed 30km off the Heron and started burning towards it, but it warped off, so I warped to the high sec connection and bubbled the hole to hopefully catch him if he panic warped back to highsec. Nothing happened, so I reloaded my interdiction sphere launcher.</div>
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At this point, an Atron appeared on dscan. Ok, that's cool. Hang on, the Atron is landing at my bubble here at the high sec hole. I was a little concerned on how my Heretic would fare against a combat fit Atron, but Aj was on his way in the Strat. I burnt towards him, takes forever to start locking and I can't launch another bubble because the launcher isn't quite done reloading, so the Atron is able to warp off, to the sun. So I follow and land next to the frigate just as my interdiction sphere launcher allows me to launch my bubbly goodness. I kill the frigate, and Aj is able to get in on the pod. </div>
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It's when I loot the Atron wreck that this kill becomes a bit unusual. I believe my words on comms were along the lines of "Holy Shit I have 1.1 billion in loot":</div>
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/63326006/" target="_blank">Unfit Transport Atron</a> and <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/63326014/" target="_blank">Pod</a>, cause hull tanking your expensive loot is the best way to go.<br />
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And to top it off we killed the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/63326046/" target="_blank">Heron</a> and <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/63326053/" target="_blank">Pod</a> not long after.<br />
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All in all a good night :)Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-34079926150505818602015-07-16T12:26:00.002+10:002015-07-16T12:26:31.189+10:00Venturing into Mobile Warp DisruptionI have managed to find some time to play my main after things have settled down a bit at work and on my travels along the winding ways of wormhole space I stumbled into a C1 and started scanning down all of the signatures. I had two signatures to go when a local logs in at the tower I'm perched at. I quickly pull my probes and find the locals have put out something that piques my interest.<br />
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Very interesting. A quick check on the local corporation shows it's only 4 man strong and with a short history of losing mining ships on Zkillboard - it appears the corp has only been established in June of this year. I decide this may be the perfect spot to set up camp, so I watchlist all of the corp members and settle in to see what they do. <br />
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The Covetor logs and in it's place a Stratios under a different character logs in. It becomes apparent that these two characters must be on the same account, as one logs off, the other logs in - they are never online at the same time.<br />
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The Stratios warps over to a gas site and starts clearing the sleepers that are present. I make a perch but I'm not hopeful of getting any action, as a Stratios doing sites usually carries salvaging drones, and this proves to be the case here. However, the pilot leaves a couple of cargo containers it the site and warps off to their tower before the notification chimes that the Stratios is no longer online. A second notification chimes - the Covetor pilot is back on line. I perch up on the tower and watch the Covetor swapped for a Venture. <br />
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Thankfully there is an outside planet well off Dscan range that I can refit to my Venture killing fit with dual scrams so I warp off to get myself equipped. Once tooled up, I warp back to the tower and try to re-acquire this Venture. After a bit of swinging Dscan around I finally narrow the Venture down to one of the outer planets that is around 20AU from the tower, but here's the rub - I hadn't been able to scan the two signatures around this planet before the locals logged in. Ok, I drop probes off Dscan range and do my best to narrow down the signature via Dscan before activating the probes. Once they have finished scanning I pull them immediately, but it appears my use of Dsan isn't up to scratch, as I don't get a hit. I move back out of range and drop probes again, this time getting a weak hit on the site. But it appears that the Venture pilot was paying attention as I see them warping back the tower. The Venture logs, the Stratios logs in and disappears, throwing core probes into the ether.<br />
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Around 15 minutes later the characters swap again and the Venture heads back to the same gas site. I try again with the core probes, but it takes two efforts to get a warp in and again my probes were spotted. The Venture warps back to their tower and probably getting the feeling that there is someone close by with not the best of intentions they log for the night.<br />
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Well that's pretty frustrating, but it does give me time to reflect on my process. So I know where this Venture returns to, and from what direction - I've been going about this all arse-backwards. How about instead of trying to find the grid the Venture is on, why don't I let the Venture come to me? With that in mind I finish scanning the signatures and work my way 450 kilometres behind the POS and roughly in line with the two gas signatures at the outer planet. I drop a bookmark before logging out for the night.<br />
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Next morning I log my trading alt in and add Min Juni as a watchlist contact. I leave the client running all day and check in on it now and then. Early evening a notification chimes - Min Juni is back online. I swap accounts and scope out whats going on and sure enough the Venture is back at the same gas site. I get in position and prepare my trap.<br />
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The Venture lands on the very edge of the bubble and as you can see above I've been orbiting the mobile disruptor at 7500 metres - unfortunately my orbit has taken me outside of scram range. I get a lock and send a volley of torpedoes at the Venture, hoping beyond hope that I can MWD close enough to land point but alas the Venture spools up their warp drive and blinks back to the tower. Well that's frustrating, but a great learning experience. Next time I'll remember that frigates don't usually go too far into the bubble when they are caught, so I'll be waiting at the front edge of the bubble in future. I've also handily found the shortcut keys to overheat the mid slot rack so my process is now to overheat my mids whenever I jump into a system. Next time I'll do better.<br />
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<br />Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-86862071141739278672015-07-14T17:17:00.000+10:002015-07-14T21:51:29.928+10:00Eve by the NumbersSo I've been pretty busy in real life over the last week or so that has really restricted my play time on my main. However, I have been able to address something that was nagging me for a while since I came back to playing - what would I do when I ran out of ISK?<br />
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I returned to Eve with the princely sum of 400 million ISK that I cleaned out of my alt corporation, but I'm losing stealth bombers at a rate of 2 a month. At 45 million or so a pop, it's pretty easy to see that those maths would soon equal a negative balance and I would have to do something to bankroll my current lifestyle. Originally my plan revolved around the other alt on my main account. He was trained up to be a spotter/warpin for some highsec ganking I did in a previous life. Not much use by himself, but he does have a mostly fitted Astero with the obligatory covert ops cloak. The plan was to contract the Astero over to my main and go and do some exploration to get a pool of ISK together so I could fund myself for another X months before doing it all again.<br />
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The downsides to this is that I would be doing data and relic sites again and while I don't really have a problem doing that it's nowhere near as exciting as hunting. It would also present a pretty high risk in terms of me flying my very last ship - the absolute worst case scenario would be jumping into the Astero and getting killed without getting any loot back to the market. The idea of exploration in a tech 1 exploration frigate really doesn't appeal.<br />
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The ideal situation would be to just hunt on my main and have a mostly passive income on the alt. With that I mind, I got to thinking about starting market trading again. I had previously done regional trading with limited success and I thought why not? I can move my trade goods in the Astero in relative safety with the covert ops cloak, time wise it's not an issue as I can do the runs in the background while doing other things, same thing with updating my orders, that wouldn't be too much of a time sink. The pros are that I can make ISK without terribly affecting my playtime on the main, it's ongoing income and it can be one of the easiest ways to make ISK in the game.<br />
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So I did it - I invested 120 million ISK from my main to my (now) trading alt and splashed out to activate a second training queue so I could get some trade skills up to reduce the broker fees & sales tax all without compromising my mains level 5 skill training queues. I'm not going to bother trying to grind faction standings, as even though reduced fees would be great, I'm just not interested in grinding level 1 mission, etc. And so I hit the pavement, doing the loop between Rens->Jita->Amarr, mainly focusing on T3 subsystems at this point for high margins and relatively low volume items. If I ever find myself trying to carry more than can fit in the Astero's hold (haven't yet) I'll use a courier service - that way I'm limiting my potential losses on the off chance I do get ganked.<br />
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And so far it's going well. From my initial investment of 120 million ISK I'm on track to reach 1 Billion ISK in cash and sell orders hopefully sometime next week:<br />
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Hopefully work & real life will settle down a bit over the next week or so and I can get back to my normal adventures. But it's nice knowing that I can go out and lose a ship without needing to change my play style. I might even be able to plex my account, which would be nice. The other intriguing option for further down the track might be to switch from a bomber to something with a bit larger engagement profile, like say a neut Stratios - but the fit I'm thinking of would probably be in the order of 700 million ISK, so having a money making alt would enable that as well.<br />
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I'm planning to do a monthly update on my trading along with some spreadsheets. I like spreadsheets, a lot. I'll tinker with sheets for hours on end coming up with cool stuff. Maybe that's why I like spreadsheets in space so much.<br />
<br />Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-27776643581041122252015-07-08T01:12:00.000+10:002015-07-08T01:20:54.777+10:00Am I a bully???A shoutout to Judu Hekki for a comment on <a href="http://flyingtarget.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/pvp-in-eve-is-lot-like-public-speaking.html" target="_blank">one of my other posts</a> for the idea behind this post. Essentially Judu and his corp killed a Prospect in their hole that they managed to catch mining and subsequently the ganked pilot accused him and his corp of being bullies. The gankee linked <a href="http://gankingisbullying.blogspot.de/" target="_blank">Ganking is Bullying</a> as a kind of rational for that accusation. Judu was wondering on my take on this, as what I do would fall under the category of 'bullying' according to the gankee in question. So am I a bully that just kills poor, defenceless ships?<br />
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First of all, Ganking in Bullying defines ganking and bullying as essentially the same thing:<br />
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<i>Repeated aggressive activity by one person or group of people against another specific person or group or class of people over a period of time, </i><br />
<i>With the intention of causing them physical, mental, and/or emotional harm, and</i><br />
<i>Involving a real or perceived imbalance of power between aggressor and aggressed, in favor of the former.</i><br />
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<i>Repeated aggressive activity by one person or group of people (e.g. gankers) against a specific person or group or class of people (e.g. miners) over a period of time, </i><br />
<i>With the intention of causing harm (e.g. loss of in-game assets), and</i><br />
<i>Involving a real or perceived imbalance of power between aggressor and aggressed, in favor of the former.</i><br />
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And further clarifies that Ganking in their view is not an acceptable form of PvP:<br />
<i>Ganking is PvP in the sense that all active spaceships are valid hostile targets to each other, but it is not PvP in the sense of consensual combat between two willing players. It is the latter sense that is morally relevant to the concept of bullying.</i><br />
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So, it appears that the author over at Ganking is Bullying has an issue with pilots shooting at pilots that don't really want to be shot at. Furthermore, where there is a real or perceived imbalance of power in favour of the aggressor, this constitutes bullying. Ok, for a practical example let's take a look at Rooks and Kings engaging in the despicable bullying of a Brave fleet at 2m 15sec in the video below.<br />
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That Brave fleet certainly didn't consent to being pipe bombed, and Rooks and Kings had a definite power advantage in the form of a cloaked cyno HIC and smartbombing battleships that wiped the Brave fleet in no time flat. Totally unacceptable form of PvP that, must be bullying, seems pretty clear cut.<br />
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But no, the video is a promotional video (and one of the best made by CCP so far I must say) released by CCP to advertise the game - fleet combat is a cornerstone of how CCP markets the game to the wider public, and to not call that an acceptable form of PvP is a bit of a stretch. I also take particular issue with the use of 'consensual combat' as a delineation between what is considered to be an 'acceptable' form of PvP. A definition such as this defines every PvP encounter I've had thus far on this blog as 'unacceptable' because I am usually cloaked and my targets that don't know that I'm there. I can choose what I engage and usually the engagement proceeds on my terms and therefore there is a real power imbalance in my favour. But that is just utilising the strengths of the ship I'm flying - covert ops cloak, nil sensor recalibration and high DPS vs larger targets. Should I not utilise my strengths? Maybe I should convo the next Noctis I get on grid with and ask permission to engage them, I wonder what response I'll get?<br />
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I'm willing to bet that the rationale for Ganking is Bullying is driven by Highsec miner ganking. But here's the thing - the moment you undock your ship is the moment you become fair game to each and every other player out there. A lot people operate on the false assumption that Highsec should be 100% safe. That's just simply not true, anyone can and should be able to attack anyone at any time, it's just that in highsec Concord will come and kill the aggressor after a set amount of time dependent on the security status of the system. This mechanic allows for suicide ganking and the associated danger that brings to Highsec - all working as intended. But CODE is bad, suicide ganking defenceless mining ships, something should be done to stop/limit/counter gankers etc.<br />
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And this highlights the issue I have with most opinions that ganking is bad - the lack of responsibility they assume for the victim. 'My yield fit Retriever got ganked by CODE. Bad CODE.!!!' Maybe if you actually put a shred of tank on your mining barge and weren't AFK you would have noticed the warp in ship they moved within 2000m of you, and maybe if you had pinged dscan few times you would have seen the Catalyst inbound and been able to warp out in time. "You killed my Prospect at an Ore site in wormhole space - you shouldn't have done that and you're a bully because you did". Ah, I'm sorry, missed that dev blog where wormhole space was now a no fire zone. Perhaps if you had properly scouted out the system you might have realised that the people living there were online and decided that it may not be the best idea to engage in one of the most dangerous activities you can do in wormhole space. "Havlac is a bully because he ganked my poor defenseless Mammoth in his stealth bomber".<br />
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I'd like to take a moment to relate the story of my latest kill that I believe ties nicely into this discussion. I had found a likely C1 to stalk out as the locals appeared to be relatively active in my time zone, but things were quiet so I went for a bit of a wander down the chain. I happened upon a C3 and dscan showed some promise with wrecks on scan, but also combat probes.<br />
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Ok, looks like I was spotted coming into the system. Thats alright, I'll fully reconnoiter the hole and do some research on the locals. It turns out it's only a 4 man corp and there are 2 of them currently online. While I'm doing this the Legion logs off. I'm beginning to suspect that the online player has eyes on the wormhole I came through, so I'll try going back through the wormhole and jumping back through when I'm not polarised to see if I can't catch something. The moment I jump out the legion logs back in. Right, if they want to play silly buggers with me I'll hang around and see if I can't catch them with their pants down. I jump back into the hole and logoff at a safe for the night.<br />
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Next morning I scan the hole out when the locals aren't online. I get stuck into my play time later that afternoon and poke a C5 frigate hole where I find a Prospect at a gas site. While I'm trying to get in position to try for the Prospect, a notification chimes - the pilot I suspect was sitting on the hole last night has logged in. I get a point on the Prospect but he warps off, probably stabbed but I may not have managed range properly. Oh well, back to the C3. I warp to the local tower in time to see a Buzzard swapped for a Mammoth.<br />
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A quick check of Zkillboard shows this pilot has previously been killed in losec in an untanked Mammoth. I think I know where she is going, as the single static for this hole is a U210 losec connection. But then Kottavai throws me a curve ball when she warps off to nothing I have a bookmark for. Maybe bouncing from a safe to the hole? I warp to the U210 at 20km and start pinging dscan. Nothing, nothing - Mammoth. Reduce to 10AU, she's still coming, 5AU still there, 1AU, she'll be here shortly. The industrial lands 10km from the hole. I was going wait for her on the return trip back to the tower but as she's at least 5km from the wormhole activation range this will do. It's a rush job with the screenshot, but I think it looks pretty dramatic.<br />
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The Mammoth <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47718336/" target="_blank">pops after one volley.</a> I'm such a bully for killing such a poor defenceless ship, right?<br />
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Well no. As you can see from the fit above, there isn't a single defensive mod or rig on the ship. It's maxed out for cargo capacity. I had a quick play with Pyfa and came up with a reasonable setup that would have evaded me due to fitted stabs, has 11K EHP and still has a 13,300m2 cargo capacity.<br />
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The Mammoth I killed wasn't defenceless, the pilot flying it made the choice to make it defenceless. Everything from the ship type, fittings and the decision where she flew the ship ultimately contributed to it being killed. If she had the above setup or something similar, it wouldn't have been ganked.<br />
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Not to let the cat out of the bag, but if you reasonably tank your Noctis (ala Judu's <a href="http://flyingtarget.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/when-it-rains-it-pours.html" target="_blank">22700 EHP Noctis </a>) and put out 5 Warrior 1's (yes, a Noctis has a 25 m2 drone bay, which will fit 5 Warrior Is. I had to look that up because I have never seen a Noctis launch drones), you will kill me in my stealth bomber before I kill you. If you fit half a rack of autocannons to a salvaging destroyer instead of 8 salvagers and I don't know, maybe fit some kind of tank to your ship, you will kill me before I kill you - that's the funny thing about Destroyers, they're designed to kill frigates. Prospects need to be locked before they cloak (pay attention and no one will be able to catch you), Ventures need 4 points of warp disruption to be reliably caught and both ORE frigates can sport a couple of drones that can cause a stealth bomber problems plus a reasonable tank vs torpedos. Explorers can and often do fit stabs & most of the typical exploration frigates can sport drones. But I'm a bully because I kill players who don't do any of the above. Yeah, right.<br />
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Part of the appeal to me about Eve is that it is a harsh, cruel world. It doesn't hold your hand and doesn't holds back any punches. I have once (a long time ago) lost literally everything I owned in game down to my last ISK to a gate camp. Did I hold a grudge against the campers? Did I whinge about how it wasn't fair? No, I got pissed off at myself for doing something as stupid as flying a T1 industrial down a pipe to a dead end system without scouting it out first. My loss, my responsibility. <br />
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I play Eve in the style I current do because it's fun. I enjoy stalking through the winding ways of wormhole space, finding players, targets, watching, thinking, anticipating, acting. I try to kill other players because it is a challenge, trying to anticipate what the other guy is doing and getting into a position to execute a gank. Decloaking is exciting, never really knowing if something nasty is going to decloak next to you. Do I feel bad after a kill? Rarely - this is a game after all. I do remember a particular instance where I killed the same explorer in the same relic site half an hour apart. I convoed him and had a chat about what happened and pointed him in the direction of my old stomping grounds back when I started exploring (a little quieter than the FW system we were in), as well as reimbursing him the cost of his Cheetah. That's probably the only time I felt bad making a kill. But overall I have never felt remorse for shooting a ship, because at the end of the day PvP is what Eve is all about - the moment you undock your ship you consent to the risk of non consensual PvP. What you do and the choices you make determines whether you will survive.Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-17912789622245225252015-07-03T21:12:00.001+10:002015-07-06T13:45:38.688+10:00Right place, right timeIt's funny that I fly around in a stealth bomber, but I never have a bomb launcher equipped. Bombs are too situational, take up too much fitting space and in the space I tend to operate in they can't probe down a wormhole exit. For me it's much more effective to have 3 torpedo launchers, cloak and core probe launcher, but that doesn't mean I'm not willing to try things out and to that end when I last exploded my ship I swapped the standard mobile warp disruptor for a bomb launcher and a concussion bomb. Bombs are quite large, coming in at 75m2 so I didn't have a lot of room left in my cargo bay, but it was there should the situation arose that a large dumb fire, area of effect weapon was required.<br />
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I had wandered around a little looking for some action and happened to jump into a new system with a bunch of ships on dscan but no wrecks and no force field at the moon I narrowed them down to. I had stumbled into a structure bash with 4 Oracles and a Jackdaw huffing and puffing away trying to pull down the dead defences. Very interesting, I'll be setting up a perch and watching what happens here.<br />
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I did some research while I waited and found out that these same guys had all been killed in the same ships the day before, presumably bashing the same POS. This could get really interesting, especially when combat and core probes appear on dscan.<br />
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I move closer to allow myself to be in range when the expected Sabre drops in, but after a while of nothing happening I conclude that either the prober is really, really, bad at probing or the probes belong to friends of the POS bashers, presumably to act as a deterrent to anyone in system or provide a quasi early warning system that something was on it's way. That's a shame, but gets me thinking about how I could maximise my damage should these guys receive some unwanted attention, and decide that a bomb into the middle of a fight would be spectacularly fun to do and might get some kills. Better to be prepared than be caught without the wrong tool, so I move back over a system to get to a safe and refit to the bomb launcher. It's a bitch to fit, I basically have to offline most of my mid slots to get the thing online, which really sucks. But whatever, this will be a one shot jaunt anyways. As I jump back through I check the damage on the bomb launcher - this system is a Red Giant with the associated bonus damage to bombs, so my damage jumps to an impressive looking number.<br />
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I might be in with a shot at causing some real damage here. I should really waiting for if and when these guys get jumped, but the nearly 16 and a half K damage compared with the around 7500 damage these Oracles took when they were killed last night makes me think I might be a chance to kill a couple of them by myself. Stuff it, I get aligned up, choosing an Oracle that's has another 2 Oracles within the 15km blast radius. Deep breath, de-cloak.<br />
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In hindsight I probably shouldn't have warped off given the damage I did with the first hit. If I'd had my target painter online instead of the MWD, stayed on the grid & locked up my target Oracle, the target painter would have increased the damage from the bomb by a bit and one or two volleys of my torpedoes hopefully would have done the trick. The Jackdaw was probably my biggest threat and he was over 60km away, plus I was already aligned so it wouldn't have taken long to get out of dodge. Note to self, analyse this stuff before you engage, you might get a better result.<br />
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In the end these guys aren't too worried by a lone bomber and all I managed to get from them in terms of a response is they are no longer sitting still. It turns out I only helped them at their task, getting in on a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47467106/" target="_blank">sensor dampening battery </a> and a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47467171/" target="_blank">medium pulse laser battery</a> killmail.<br />
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I move on, refitting back to the normal setup and trying to find some more targets. I end up in a C5 and I know there is a bubble at a particular tower, but there isn't any cargo containers, so I warp over and land in amongst all the POS guns. And then I <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47567357/" target="_blank">die to a tower again.</a> Bloody towers. I have resolved to ignore towers with bubbles in future, and I'm aiming to make July a "Losing ships to towers free month". Bloody towers.<br />
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The next week or so is a bit of hard work, lots of scanning without much reward. I eventually find a Vexor Navy doing a data site after working my way 5 holes deep down a particular chain, which is probably the deepest I've scanned out a chain while looking for players to interact with. The problem is that I haven't scanned this hole out, so I'll need to use dscan to narrow down where this Vexor is and then drop probes hopefully on top of it. I decide that for something different I'll use combat probes, so I drop a depot outside of dscan range, refit and position the probes. I'll be using a tip that Zosius has <a href="http://cloakybastard.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/content-delivery-business.html" target="_blank">graciously imparted </a>, where I pull the probes as soon as the scan cycle has completed to avoid having the probes visible for too long - if I need to rescan I can warp back out of dscan range of the target, redrop the probes and reposition them as needed, rinse and repeat. It appears I'm not the best at this as it takes 5 goes to finally get a warpin on the Vexor, but they appear oblivious to my attempts at finding them.<br />
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I settle in to wait. It takes a while, but the site is finally cleared and the Vexor warps home, hopefully for something like a Noctis given they haven't dropped a MTU. They don't appear to be local, as they are gone for a while before warping back to the site in a.......<br />
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WTF? I can only reason that they were going to try and hack the site, but it despawned while Geniva swapped ships. The Helios buzzes around looting the field but not salvaging the wrecks. In frustration I try and nab it on the last wreck, but it's already aligning out & warps out before I can lock it. Very frustrating, Maybe I'm just trying too hard, trying to force things.<br />
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For something different one afternoon after work I have a few minutes while the wife heads out to pick one of the kids up from daycare. I'll login and see what's happening in the system I logged off in last night. Wrecks on scan along with a Rattlesnake. Curious, but not really hopeful of getting a kill due to the time frames I have available, I resolve the anomaly they are at and warp over to have a look.<br />
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This shows promise. He doesn't have a MTU out at this point so I'm liking the chances that there will be a salvager along at some point. However, he is taking a really, really long time to clear the site. It's a C4 anomaly & he only halfway through the first wave, with several battleships in waves 2 and 3 - it's going to be a while before he's finished, much longer than I have available. However, I might be able to make this work.<br />
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I leave Eve running and start folding washing. I'm about halfway through the basket when the wife gets home, and I say hello to the family before putting the clothes away, surreptitiously checking on the Rattler to see how he's progressing. I also wash the dishes up. All very good house husbandly things to do. Eventually I ask the wife, can I pretty please play Eve for 5 minutes? I remember telling her" You see this guy here, once he's finished killing these red things I'm going to have a chance at killing him". Eve explained in 25 words or less, very informative and inspirational. Needless to say, the wife isn't terribly impressed, but says she won't stop me, as long as it's only 5 minutes. Hooray!!! <br />
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As a tradeoff I also let the wife use the computer so she can enrol in her next semester Uni courses. As she's finishing up with that I check Eve and the Rattler only has a couple of Sleeper cruisers left. Show time, start the clock. While I haven't been watching a MTU has been deployed so the wrecks are nicely compressed into a ball. I warp in at 30km and watch the Rattler warp off to the local tower. What will he bring back I wonder.<br />
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It's a little ironic that when I'm not really trying to kill something a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47615679/" target="_blank">Noctis drops in my lap</a>, with a little bit of help from a caring, understanding wife.Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-61247059002216706822015-06-27T23:36:00.000+10:002015-06-28T22:13:32.560+10:00I may not get you, but I will get your AltI've found a new C2 to hang out in, the reasons for my stay are threefold. 1. It appears that the locals are reasonably active in my timezone 2. I couldn't be arsed logging off in another system and have to rescan everything and 3. There is a particular ship buzzing around the system that I hope to have a chance at landing on grid with and hopefully squashing:<br />
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I don't have any luck with the Epithal for a couple of days, and the locals don't appear to be doing much else that I can interfere with. This changes when I have a half hour after work where the rest of the family is out of the house. I login to have a look around and see if anything new is happening.<br />
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Interesting. I become even more interested when the Procurer warps to an ore anomaly. I follow and land on grid and set about creating a tactical perch that I can GTFO to if needed. It takes a little while to work out how I can get close to the Procurer without getting decloaked, but I finally work out if I warp to this particular rock at 30km I should remain cloaked. Done, I'm around 40km to the target with nothing of concern either on dscan or in terms of my approach path to the ship. However, there is a potential problem.<br />
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I don't see any mining lasers active, so we have a miner just warping to an anomaly and just going AFK, or a potential bait ship. I haven't done any scanning this afternoon so the chances I was spotting when I logged in are pretty slim. But I'm a bit concerned given a Procurer can sport a pretty heavy tank for a mining barge, so if it is bait I most likely won't be able to kill it before the cloaky(ies) waiting nearby will kill me. But what the hell, I'll decloak aligned to my perch and if there is a Proteus lurking nearby I'll (hopefully) warp off before they can lock me. I start moving into position, but my plans are dashed when the family arrives home. Farewell, potential bait Procurer, I will never know your true nature.<br />
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It's not cloaking up. Swinging dscan around I quickly determine it's over at the Losec static in this system and warp over to see if it's still hanging around. I land on grid to find the Cheetah about 115km away from me. At this point I want to point out how much I love the sensor overlay with the bookmarks showing in space. It makes aligning things such as bubbles a hell of a lot easier to do and it's a tremendous aid in situations such as I have here, as there is a bookmark hanging in space for the C2 static roughly inline with this Cheetah. I'll warp to the C2 hole and warp back to the Losec hole at 100km, it will be a thousand times quicker than trying to slowboat towards it and I should land pretty close. A bit under 10km in fact.<br />
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I orbit at 15km, preselect the torps, painters and disruptor, decloak and get everything that needs to be heated. Pretty straightforward, except there are no Torpedoes streaking to my target. Speaking of which I don't have a target - I haven't locked him up when I decloaked. *Sigh*. I try locking the Cheetah but my delay has given Xrebelion enough time to react, and the ship disappears in a cloud of shimmering hexagons. I half heartedly light my microwarp drive and steer in the general direction of where the Cheetah was in a vain attempt to decloak him, but he's gone. The game is up, the locals know I'm here and what I'm flying, it might be time to move on. I jump back to "Home" (I'm going to call my main stalking site "Kimbo" from now on) and just manage to get cloaked up before Xrebelion and another pilot I didn't get the name of land on the hole in a pair of T3 destroyers. I can see that my presence is not welcome here, and rapidly warp off to find greener pastures.<br />
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I'll poke a highsec connection first, with the aim of finding another wormhole to jump into. A quick scan reveals the connection I came through is the only wormhole in system. I'll go poke another known space connection, as I'm not feeling inclined to jump gates and I might find something in the chain as I go from K space connection to K space connection. Before I leave though, something catches my eye on Dscan and with my interest piqued I get on grid.<br />
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I had in fact read up on the Eve Cemetery only earlier that day while looking up trading in corpses (I have a project I'm working on that will require a few frozen corpses, but given my lack of podding lately I'm all out. And no, I'm not in any way related to those pesky drifters, certainly involved with nothing illegal, but it could be construed as of slightly questionable taste. I will reveal all at a later date). The Eve Cemetery is basically a place where you can drop of the corpse of your vanquished foes or your previous clone if you so wish and the owners of the POS will organise a burial & internment in a secure cargo container so the "grave" is on display. As you can see from the screenshots above there's certainly a lot of graves there. Feeling slightly humbled, I decide to head back to Kimbo as it's nearly time for bed and I couldn't be bothered getting set up in another hole.<br />
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Nothing doing on the way back to Kimbo, but when I do arrive I see a new Confessor with a ship name that I haven't seen before on dscan. I warp over to one of the local's towers and find my friend Xrebelion the Cheetah pilot now sitting in the Confessor along with a buddy in a Svipul. As I watch the Svipul is swapped for a Catalyst - these guys sure like their destroyers. It dawns on me that I should be saying this guy and not the plural given the similarity of the names.<br />
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Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-39674650486584401122015-06-23T00:39:00.000+10:002015-06-23T16:38:51.620+10:00PvP in EVE is a lot like public speaking.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PvP in Eve is a lot like public speaking. Interesting premise to start with I know, so let's quickly examine the two. Both have a ton of guides out there on the internet to help you speak/PvP better, easier, fun-er. Both involve communicating with an audience (I use both terms loosely) in a public setting, although the exact medium of communication differs with one involving verbal communication, the other shooting live munitions in your audience's face. To become better at both requires practice, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexmcclafferty/2015/01/12/fear-of-public-speaking/3/" target="_blank">around the 10th time you speak in public</a> you'll be fully confident and enjoy the experience, likewise the <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Newbie_PVP_guide" target="_blank">Eve Wiki</a> newbie PVP guide recommends that you go out and sacrifice 20 frigates to the PvP gods to get started. A bad public speaking experience can condition someone to never engage in public speaking again while a bad PvP experience in Eve can lead to a rage quit. Both scenarios entail a certain element of risk - on the one hand you may find yourself publically ridiculed, ostracized and banned from speaking at any future family gatherings while on the other you can lose a fictional bunch of pixels in an internet spaceships game. Ok, maybe they're not the same, with the exception being if you end up as an ALOD.</div>
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The fear of public speaking is known as Glossophobia, which is derived from Greek and means tongue and fear or dread. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexmcclafferty/2015/01/12/fear-of-public-speaking/" target="_blank">Common symptoms of Glossophobia include:</a></div>
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I reckon when I know I'm about to have a fight in Eve I experience numbers 2, 5, 6 (excluding anything my wife says to me), 7, 9, 10 and both 11 and 12 (pending lab results). 8 of 10 symptoms - that's a pretty close match. When I'm getting in position to execute a gank I tend to get a little bit light headed, my heart rate noticeably increases and I pretty sure my face gets flushed. Physically I experienced the same thing when prepared to give me best man's speech at my mates wedding, or when speaking to an angry customer over phone at work. My ability to manage all the information that the Eve client is displaying also tends to decrease and the focus of my attention narrows quite a bit, I tend to lose what little situational awareness I may have. To illustrate I have previously lost a ship while trying to ambush an explorer and only realised there was a Loki on grid when I looked at the kill mail. I've also noted on various other blogs that a lot of people get the "Shakes" when PvP'ing and I know first hand that I've caused such a physical reaction on an intended victim. Back when I was living in my wormhole I ambushed an Astero at a Data site, but unfortunately I had swapped my prop mod out for a 3rd scramber as I'd been having trouble catching people with stabs. He was afterburner fit, burned out of scram range and warped out. I convoed him afterwards to congratulate him on getting away and the first thing he said was:</div>
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<i>John Hexis> Dude, heart was RACING, that was fun as hell</i><br />
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Adrenaline kicks in, fight or flight, kill or be killed. It's interesting to me that fictional Internet Spaceships can generate such a response from me (and others it seems). I haven't yet played a game that can provoke anywhere near the same kind of reaction and I fully believe the mechanics of the game world promote this. For me, losing a ship in Eve matters, I'm not space rich and only have a limited pool of ISK to replace my losses before I will be forced towards ISK generating activities which are time consuming, an order of magnitude less fun and for the most part PvE. The fear of losing my ship that I have sunk time and effort into obtaining creates a tangible physical reaction.<br />
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It's often said that Eve has a steep learning curve, but I think that once you get past the initial mechanics of exactly how to do things it's not that bad - there is plenty of information out there if you are willing to look for it. What truly differentiates Eve from other games is that it punishes your mistakes in a tangible way, so when you stuff up, you really know about it. This leads on to my latest adventures. I have had a bit of a frustrating week in terms of actually finding someone to shoot at. On the other hand I been able to do some sightseeing. It's pretty much a given that when you see non sisters core probes on dscan that there's probably a tech 1 probing frigate somewhere in system, and so it was in a C2 that I was hanging out in. However, after around 10 seconds of a Minmatar Probe being on dscan it occurred to me that this guy may have forgotten to cloak up after firing off probes. I quickly worked out that this guy is at the Highsec static and warped over at 30 to have a look. There he is, sitting right on the wormhole. Smart boy, if something jumps him he'll enter the wormhole and be safe. I figure I'll wait until he finds one of the 2 data sites in this system and then I'll try to gank his ganker as I know there has been a Hound flying around this system recently and the odds are high that he will get jumped mid hack. In the meantime I get a nice shot with the wormhole in the background.<br />
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The Probe jumps through the wormhole as expected, the Hound disappears and the Thrasher sits there, hoping to catch the Probe jumping back through and possibly polarising itself. But he's not coming back, and I take the time to take a couple of artistic shots for you all.<br />
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I move on and eventually find a massive C3, it's probably around 120 AU across. I find a Loki sitting at the only tower in system and get to work scanning all the signatures outside dscan range of the tower. I complete the first 3 sigs before moving onto a couple that are a little bit closer to the active tower, so I decide to warp to the tower to keep tabs on the Loki pilot. He hasn't moved, chirp chirp chirp, move the probes. A damage notification flashes up on my screen, and my heart sinks. I try to align out but I already know that I'm stuffed. A couple more shots and <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47365645/" target="_blank">I'm in my pod.</a> I know there are no decloaking hazards this far away from the tower and I rapidly deduce that I've made the little, tiny, fatal mistake of forgetting to cloak back up after launching probes. Several expletives later I get my pod away from the tower and start the self destruct on my pod - there is no way I'm going to leg it back to Rens from where I am and I have a new Manticore waiting for me there. Man I hate towers, most of my losses in bombers have been to towers due to stupid shit exactly like this. I'm pretty pissed off at myself by this stage and I logout for the day just as my new clone awakens.<br />
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When I return I make my way back to Rens to grab a new Manticore, stealthily named "Mobile Depot" and resolve myself to always double check my cloak after dropping probes. We'll see how long that keeps me out of trouble. Eve must be sensing my frustration and provides me with the following on Dscan in the first C1 that I jump into.<br />
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I'm concerned that the Prospect might be at a gas site which would need scanning down, but no, it's at an ore site and best of all the Jackdaw is not present.<br />
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Now the issue with this Prospect is getting a lock on it before it cloaks up. I'm also concerned on the whereabouts of this Jackdaw on dscan, but a 1AU scan shows it's nowhere near me. I warp to a convenient rock at 20km which puts me 30km above the Prospect. The crowd quietens and the spotlight goes on as I nervously approach the pulpit. To settle myself I orbit at 15 before decloaking and clearing my throat. Every eye is upon me and I'm buzzing when I realise I have the audience fully locked and disrupted. I begin slinging torpedo anecdotes, each more boisterous and amusing as the last and my audience is enraptured - they are fully captivated by the experience, or AFK. I have a small hiccup when I try to take a screenshot - the screen capture software I've been experimenting with to record my experiences helpfully puts a full screen dialog box over the Eve client when I hit ALT PRNT SCRN, momentarily throwing my off my train of thought but I recover with a rip roaring joke about how I walk away from explosions, not because it looks cool, but to decrease my sig radius. The Prospect collapses in a fit of <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47398148/" target="_blank">side splitting, atmospheric venting explosions. </a><br />
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A Garmur in the crowd rises to it's feet in applause as the pod warps off and I destroy the Prospect wreck. I respectfully decline signing any autographs, as I have another gathering to attend but I do wave appreciatively at the Garmur while making my way off the stage, cloaking up as I go and warping off.</div>
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I'm not the biggest fan of C5s. Once you get caught in one it becomes a rolling highway of C5's with very few connections to lower class space. This would be ok if those C5's weren't empty and lacking in content, but the majority that I come across don't have much happening. So my adventure tonight begins with the uneventful login to a deserted C5. I throw probes at the new signatures that are present, hoping to find a C4 or something. Aha - a EOL frigate hole to null sec - that will do.</div>
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I emerge from session change and do the normal things, bookmark the hole, dscan, recloak back up, but no hurry, local is empty but for myself. A quick look at the system designation has me doing a double take and a quick search to make sure - yes it is the same system.</div>
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B-R, where a little over a year and a half ago over 7,000 capsuleers participated in the destruction of over $300,000 USD worth of Internet Spaceships in a battle lasting over 21 hours, all over an unpaid sov bill. It's just a smidge quieter now, but the presence of the Titan graveyard is awesome and indicative of just how special New Eden is - there is no other game out there that I know of that player actions can have a lasting effect on the game environment in such a way as you can in Eve.<br />
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I've discovered that having local makes you lazy. I mosey about getting my selfie screenshot of the Titan graveyard, refit to my dual painter setup and lazily dump probes to scan down the other signatures, all safe in the knowledge that there isn't anyone sneaking up to gank me. As luck would have it we have another wormhole so I grab the mobile depot and head over to more dangerous space. Ok, back to business, I find myself a C3 and a lonesome MTU. Littering in W space, tsk tsk. I quickly ensure that the natural order of things is <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47253397/" target="_blank">restored</a>.</div>
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Feeling slightly less soiled I push on, hoping to find some real content to keep me entertained. Onwards to another C3 where I find a Gila and Cyanbal sitting in their POS. I watch for a while before getting probes out and scanning everything down. I take my time a bit bookmarking all the sites after scanning and the lack of activity after my probes are recalled seems to assure the locals that I'm gone - dscan shows wrecks on scan. I quickly determine which combat anomaly the residents are running and warp in at 100km to have a look.</div>
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They appear to be having trouble with the two webbing battleships at the end of the anomaly as they keep warping off, but I don't mind all that much as it gives me time to make a nice tactical perch. The fact they keep coming back reassures me they will also finish the site, and when they do something will be sure to come along for the salvaging and that's when I'll get my shot. They eventually finish killing sleepers and the Gila warps off to their tower. The Cynabal stays in the site. Hmmmnnn, this could mess things up for me. If he stays in the site I can pretty much guarantee I'll be in a pod if I have a crack at the Thrasher that warps back into the site. I warp down from my perch 30km out and start moving into position to execute the gank while making sure that the Thrasher is in fact equipped with salvagers and not something nasty like autocannons all the while keeping a close eye on the Cynabal. <br />
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My potential headache removes itself when the Cyanbal warps back to it's POS just as the Thrasher starts salvaging. I orbit the Minnie destroyer and wait until he's on the last wreck before decloaking and letting fly. He doesn't <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47254805/" target="_blank">last long</a> but unfortunately the pod gets clear.</div>
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Not bad. I'll take it. But the night is still young. Not really, it is way past my bedtime, but I'll keep going. There is a Highsec hole in this system, I'll jump to K space to sell my ill gotten loot from the MTU I popped earlier and maybe see if there is another wormhole I can quickly dive into, as the C3 chain I'm in has hit a dead end. I sell my loot and make a few jumps over before I find another wormhole. It's a C2 and dscan again lights up my night.</div>
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This time we have a Legion and an Eagle running the site, and due to it being a C2 they are completing it with ease. I don't have much time so I go about setting up my perch while keeping an eye on these guys at work. I haven't had a chance to scope out the rest of the system as I warped straight to this anomaly so there is a bit of fog of war about what else might be at the outer planets, but I don't really want to move off until I have my perch set. However, sweeping dscan around while I wait does shows me something intriguing:</div>
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Surely they won't will they? I don't understand why people would use a Noctis when a MTU and cheap dessie will do the job just fine and for a fraction of the co.... ahhh... I retract the previous statement, everyone in wormhole space should ditch their MTU's and just use a Noctis. They are way more efficient, look much cooler and are definitely NOT a target I would try to gank at every opportunity.</div>
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Wow, this night just got really exciting. I move myself into position while the Legion and Eagle warp off to their POS. I'm setting up for a drive by, starting 20km from the Noctis just inside point range with my bomber aligned to my perch so my trajectory will take me within a couple of kilometers from the Noctis, but keeping me aligned for when he friends come to save him. By starting at the edge of point range I also give maximum time for the gank to be completed, as my ship will need to cover 40km before my target is back out of point range on the other side. I wait until the Noctis starts on the final set of wrecks, align to the perch, declock, lock, overload everything and then keep an eye on dscan.</div>
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The Noctis is deep into structure when the Legion and Eagle finally land on grid and time seems to stretch out while I'm waiting for my next volley of torps to fly. It seems to take an eternity for the reload cycle to complete, all the while I'm keeping a close eye out for impending doom of my ship via the flashing yellow targeting box. Yellow boxes on the overview - discretion takes the better part of valour and I warp to my perch. So, so so close. I quickly warp back down to my warp in point hoping to decloak, get 1 or 2 volleys off again but the Noctis is aligning out and warps before I can get in position.<br />
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Oh the sights I've seen travelling around unknown space, the insights that I've gained into the lives of my fellow capsuleers. For example, I note that we immortals tend to be a particularly bloodthirsty lot.</div>
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I warp in to my perch and there is my mark, close to a asteroid. I warp to a nearby rock at 30 and begin the approach. However, there is something wrong. I'm not seeing any mining lasers active. Is this an elaborate bait? Are you just happy to see me or is that a gank Proteus in your ore bay? I don't think I've shown myself since I scanned all the signatures down yesterday, so they shouldn't know I'm here. Is he just AFK?</div>
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This situation is a crystal clear example of non consensual PVP bringing people <i>together.</i> I would never have spoken to Sigvard had I not enacted violence upon his mining barge, nor would Sigvard felt the need to reach out to me. We ended the conversion with a o7 and a feeling of a thing done right settled over me. Right, time to go try and kill some of Sigvard's mates.</div>
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I have found a new C3 that I plan to stalk out for a while. I quickly find the lone active tower in the system, set my bookmarks up and have a poke around. As a general rule of thumb whenever I see dead towers I always flick to my colliders overview tab to see if there is anything of value I can have a go at and upon doing so in the general direction of a dead tower I see something that catches my eye. I find the dead tower and confirm that I might get a pay day here.</div>
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I do have further concerns in that I know that there are at least 2 wormholes in system, being the K162 I came through and the losec static this wormhole has. I don't know if there are any more because I haven't scanned out the system yet. I toss up whether to sit on this until the the system just has it's static as I've got some play time tomorrow that I can use to crack those structures open with a slightly greater degree of safety. It will only take 3 or 4 minutes to crack each structure and I will be aligned, so it should be relatively safe. Stuff it, I'll just do the smash and grab and won't bother scanning everything out. What could go wrong?</div>
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So after my little bubble camp adventure I again reship at Rens. For those of you keeping score, I've named my new Manticore "The Flying Target" in an effort to outwit anyone who spots me on dscan. There's 1 sig in Rens so I figure what the hell, I'll throw probes at it and see it what sticks and lo and behold we have an EOL K162 to C1 space. What are the odds??? Excellent, I'll take that thank you very much.</div>
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Now in my experience most people in wormholes usually only get transport ships out of the hangar when they are going to be moving stuff and given this wormhole has a high sec static, I'm reasonably confident I know where that Tayra is going to be headed along with when - just after downtime when there aren't as many players logged in. My problem is that I didn't scan down all the wormholes when I jumped into this C2 earlier that day, so finding the highsec exit is my first priority. The second priority is if and when that Tayra goes to that high sec hole, how do I catch it? </div>
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I can't really try and nab it on the highsec hole because it can just jump back through to highsec and I don't particularly feel like engaging in ritual concordukken. That seriously limits my options, but I have an idea in mind that stems from factional warfare and warp core stabilisers - a bit random I know, but bear with me.</div>
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<a href="http://eveoganda.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Rixx</span></a> and <a href="http://www.ninveah.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Kirith</span></a> have had some back and forth recently over the use of Warp Core Stabilizer by factional warfare plex farmers. Without going too deeply into the issue my own general view is that FW plexing is inherently a PVE activity that takes place inside a free for all PVP zone (limited by ship sizes due to acceleration gates obviously). This in itself isn't an issue, and a general comparison can be made with Sleeper anomalies in wormhole space. Both FW plexes and Sleeper sites provide rewards that can be converted to ISK for players completing PVE content - for the Plexer it's flipping the timer, for the sleeper anom it's destroying, looting and salvaging sleepers. However, the reason we don't see stabbed Tengus running sleeper sites is that there is a minimum DPS benchmarks for tank and damage in order to complete the site. Stabbing a Tengu would seriously inhibit its performance via reduced targeting range and DPS (BCU, Gyros and MFS or armour tank modules) which would a) increase the time taken to complete the site (increased risk) or b) prevent the site from being completed altogether.</div>
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A FW farmer has no such requirement - all they need to do is orbit a beacon. This lack of combat benchmark requirements to complete the content means that the low slots aren't needed for gank or tank DPS and enables those who don't want to PVP to fill their empty low slots with as many WCS as they can fit. </div>
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In wormholes, you would typically see only see WCS on a couple of occasions - explorers running exploration sites and on industrials such as the infamous 4 WCS Epithal PI runner. Explorers I have no issue with, it's pretty much a given that explorers use stabs so I normally hunt explorers in a dual scram Astero. The time it takes for the hacking minigame to be completed allows a hunter to get close enough to make a MWD bump and land tackle. The typical exploration frigates also don't usually have 4 low slots, and putting 4 stabs on an Astero seriously compromises it's armour tank. To contrast this, I found a killmail from way back when when I used to run Radar explorer sites (which became the current data sites) in losec pre Odyssey when there were rats guarding the cans - once you get past that it's a Drake, you will notice a distinct lack of anything resembling stabs - you needed BCU's to up your DPS to take out the rats - fitting stabs wasn't an option.</div>
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Epithals on the other hand are typically at a POCO to pick up PI goods for the time it takes to align back to the POS and are pretty hard to catch at the best of times, not even considering whether they are stabbed or not. I remember a particular quote from Penny (sadly no longer posting) over at Tiger Ears on the issue of WCS:</div>
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<a href="http://www.tigerears.org/2014/04/14/falling-foul-of-a-standard-fitting/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: yellow;">I turn to try to shunt the Epithal properly, but only succeed in watching the hauler warp clear from my super-advanced death-machine, guns delivering 110%, expensive faction warp scrambler the best ISK can buy. It's disappointing how a basic, tin-can hauler can be easily and cheaply fit to survive and evade a dedicated combat vessel without even needing to compromise its hauling capacity or ability.</span></i></a></div>
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We do have tools available to use that can overcome stabs, but they are often <a href="https://eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=15893" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">ridiculously expensive</span></a> or you have to compromise on your overall effectiveness - a 4 WCS Epithal would need two scrams and a long point to be caught - that's 3 mid slots for tackle. However, there is another option that has caught my eye, and though it is extremely situational I want to try it out</div>
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I've been carrying a Mobile Small Warp Disruptor around since I came back to the game, but haven't thought about using it until now. However, on pondering WCS, I resolved to try this out and see if I can't get it to work. My thinking was to find someone who does PI regularly, work out which POCO they go to and set the bubble up, preferably off dscan range, and hopefully catch or drag them out of warp and give them a serve of torps - a bubble negates WCS completely and combined with the low speed of the industrial, there would be little chance of escape. The other situation I thought it might work was camping a high sec hole, so fortuitously I might get a chance to try this now.</div>
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I'm the 13th player (don't ask me how I know) to log back in after downtime and quickly get probes out to find the highsec static. I'm just about done when Poonury logs back in. I quickly try and finish so my probes aren't spotted but muff the scans so I need two passes - the high sec hole is within a couple of AU of the tower so they must have been spotted. I'm probably right, as nothing happens for around 10 minutes. But my patience is rewarded when the Astero is swapped for the Tayra, shield hardeners are activated, and the Tayra warps to the high sec hole.</div>
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Ok, time to set up my trap. I warp to the highsec hole, make sure that the Tayra transits the wormhole and then align back to the Tayra's tower. I'm aiming to set the bubble around 130 to 150km away from the hole so it's not so obvious when the Tayra jumps back in that there is a bubble and after a bit of fiddling about trying to work out how to launch it I drop the disrupter, orbit it at 10km and settle in to wait.</div>
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The bubble has a anchoring time of 2 minutes, so I keep a close eye on the time hoping I can get this set up before the Tayra jumps back in. I'm on edge with nervous energy which only increases as the time ticks past 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 4 minutes. WTF is going on? I get onto google and look up "how to launch mobile warp disruptors" - ohhhh, I need to right click on them once launched and anchor them, just like a POS. The web page also note that they <b>only affect ships if they are on the same grid as the ship's destination</b>. Shit, this looks like a bust, my idea of setting it up like I have won't work at all. A little deflated, I scoop the disruptor and warp back to the POS. While thinking about what I should do I happen to switch to my colliders overview tab.</div>
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Awesome!!! We are back in business!!! I'm 100km from the POS and in line with the highsec exit, so I decloak, align back to the highsec hole and MWD for a cycle before dropping the mobile disruptor, anchoring it, orbit at 10km and cloak.</div>
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So now all there is to do is wait. So I wait. And I wait. And then I wait some more. I wait so long that I decide I'll actually do some real paid work instead of hitting dscan over and over and over. I set myself up 100km from the highsec wormhole aligned to my bubble. I then do some of my real life work with my headphones on, listening for the telltale sound of a wormhole activation. There are a couple of scares, like when my daughter needs to be settled back to bed and another when my bladder reaches a critical point and I have to answer the call of nature (I did consider an empty milk bottle close by, but didn't think that would go down too well with my significant other). But each time I return there is no Tayra on dscan, nothing new.</div>
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50 minutes later, I hear the wormhole activate. I switch back to Eve and the Tayra is at the highsec hole.</div>
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Once I finish laughing, I warp back to my bubble, orbit the disruptor and get ready. The rest is pretty self explanatory.</div>
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47034888/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">Tayra</span></a> and because it was bubbled, the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/47034891/" target="_blank"><span style="color: yellow;">pod as well</span></a>. </div>
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I'm extremely satisfied with that. My plan worked a treat, once I actually figured out how to use a bubble properly. I forsee future applications as well even with POS's with guns, as I know how to extend the grids around the POS so the bubble can be set safely out of range of any defences.</div>
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Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-9667865558573117022015-06-04T01:15:00.000+10:002015-06-11T15:41:44.590+10:00Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere<div style="text-align: justify;">
After the success of the my previous outing I log out for the night and most of the next day before logging in back in to check on the locals. To my surprise (but not really given how much ISK C5 esclations can generate) I found another Noctis parked in the same POS forcefield. I considered staying for a little while to see if I could repeat the treatment, but ended up trying to jump that pesky Badger doing PI at one of the POCOs. This time I landed at zero on the POCO, but was still over 10km from the Badger, who was already aligning out. I managed to get one volley of torps away and was perilously close to getting a bump which may have sent the second volley on it's way when the Badger warps back to the POS. So close - I believe the second round of torps would have popped the little transport - WCS saved the day. I figure I've messed enough with the locals so I'll move on. They may have the willie's for a few days yet wondering if I'm still there - glad to be of service. </div>
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Wrecks on scan. I quickly work out which combat anomaly the wrecks are at and warp over, but to my disappointment there are no ships present, just wrecks, and looted ones at that. There is a Talos and a Navy Vexor on scan which then becomes a Talos and Maelstrom sitting inside their POS shield at the local tower when I warp over to it. I figure I'll hang around and see if they will look to salvage those wrecks, but to my disappointment the both log.</div>
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<b>Havlac Agalder: Ok don't panic. I'm a bit over 1.2km from the activation zone to go back through the wormhole. But if I go back through the hole, they just jump through and bubble the hole again, and I'm stuffed. Ok, I'm going to try and make my way out of the bubble and avoid all those ships.</b></div>
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<i>Hindsight: Hmmnn... Could you point me to the dev blog where they changed it so bubbles can be used in losec? Must have missed that one. You do know that you could just burn back to the hole with your MWD, jump the hole and then try and warp off? They'd need to jump the hole and then have something with nearly instalocking to get you. Maybe that might be a better option? No? Ok, just don't forget the MWD/cloak trick. Good luck.</i></div>
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<b>Havlac Agalder: Ok move towards the edge of the bubble, cloak. Quick change of direction, I'm going to go perpendicular upwards to my initial movement to hopefully throw these guys off.</b></div>
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<b>Havlac Agalder; Oh shit, they are getting close. Ah crap, I'm decloaked, shit. Target something and start shooting.</b></div>
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<b>Havlac Agalder: Ah crap, scrammed. I'm stuffed. I'll type "Good job boys" in local</b></div>
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So I lost my <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/46974566/" target="_blank">my ship</a> and the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/46974581/" target="_blank">pod.</a> Really glad I didn't plug in those implants.</div>
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Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-40916794344306958572015-05-30T23:21:00.000+10:002015-06-11T15:41:51.780+10:00My Eleanor - Part 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<i>After stalking out a particular wormhole for 4 days after spotting my Eleanor, a Noctis floating in a POS shield, Eleanor's pilot finally logs in....</i></div>
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I quickly check whether the Noctis is piloted but it appears to be pilotless at this point. What I do notice is a couple of pilots warping out to combat anomalies in a pod and a Zephyr, which turns out to be an exploration ship which sleepers won't lock up. The pod and the Zephyr take turns warping in and out, making tactical bookmarks at a guess. I do the same in the couple of anomalies that I watch them doing this in the hope that this is a precusor for the locals to run those sites a bit later on, which in turn will hopefully mean my Eleanor ventures out of the safety of the POS shield.</div>
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My attention switches away from the pod and Zephyr duo when my watch list chimes announcing a few more of the locals are logging in and a couple of battleships appear on Dscan. This wormhole currently only has the C5 static (I scanned all the new sigs earlier that night) and I correctly assume that the locals are going to roll the hole to run the sites in relative safety:</div>
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This is part of the appeal of wormhole space to me - the lack of local means you never know who might be sitting cloaked not far off you watching your every move. I've always been of the lone wolf kind of guy when it comes to playing Eve, so being able to find and watch people go about their business and choosing the perfect moment to strike really appeals to me. I watch the locals go a couple of passes through with battleships before it the hole becomes mass critical. I expect a HIC to come through and finish the job, but instead a Wreath transport ship lands on the hole. This is a bit unexpected, but it becomes clear what the locals are intending when the Wreath poops out a couple of mobile large warp disruptors either side of the hole, before warping back to it's POS.</div>
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They must be worried about the hole collapsing behind them and locking a pilot out, or they don't know about using a double bubble HIC outwards and a oversized afterburner back through. It's an interesting idea though to just bubble the hole, as this won't stop anything from coming through, but I suppose that if they have eyes/ears on the hole as a warning the bubbles allows enough time for the capitals they will be using on the field to bug out back to their POS. It's also pretty a pretty expensive way to do it, with the large versions of the mobile warp disruptor going for about 10 million ISK a pop. There's not a lot else doing at this point that I can see, so I decide to wait out the 8 minute anchoring time of the bubbles so I can get a screenshot. This looks like it is actually going to happen, my days of stalking might actually generate a payoff.</div>
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My spirits are dashed when about halfway through anchoring period the wormhole activation sound throws my whole attempt at Eleanor into jeopardy. An Astero sheds its session change cloak and warps off. It's not a local and assuming the hole is watched this has probably blown the whole opportunity. If the locals know there is another pilot in system with them it's unlikely they will risk running capitals through a combat anom. However, the bubbles finally go up and I see battleships being swapped for Archons at the POS - can it be the locals didn't have eyes on the hole?</div>
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It looks that way, the locals have a Damnation orbiting their POS providing links and a Moros and a couple of Archons warp away towards combat sites. Most importantly though - Eleanor is now piloted. I was worried they might just use MTU and cheap destroyers to do the cleanup, but it appears this corp likes to use a Noctis.</div>
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I follow the Moros to a combat anom at the outer planet and find it merrily slaying sleepers. The value of killing sleepers is in the blue loot drops and the salvage - there's no bounty payments for sleeper kills so I know that Eleanor will eventually be coming this way. I set myself up with a high perch above the solar plan at 150km so I can warp to the mobile depot I have bookmarked, before settling in to wait.</div>
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The locals end up putting a couple of Archons on the field which triggers an escalation. However, the capitals make short work of the sleepers and the mystery of all the ECM drones at unfinished combat anoms in this wormhole is revealed. The capital ships purge all of the sleepers until there is a single frigate remaining, at which point the Archons dump a flight of ECM drones. The drones break the lock of the sleeper frigate and draw aggro and the capitals warp out back their POS, crossing paths with Eleanor who warps in and starts cleaning the field. It's not how I would have run it, but I suppose the sleeper frigate does complicate the gank in that it's an extra ship that can possibly pop anyone trying to get the Noctis. Do I think at any point about aborting the gank attempt? Not on your nellie.</div>
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I warp to my bookmarked mobile depot at 30km to make sure I'm not decloaked by any wrecks that might be tractored my way and on landing safely start to slow boat into position to launch my attack, pausing at one point to settle my daughter who is teething at the moment. I get inside 10km and remember the best time to strike a Noctis is just as it's salvaging the last wreck, so I take a few deep breaths and get myself ready to go. However, my hand is forced when Ozz Burtus in the Astero I saw jumping in at the C5 static suddenly decloaks < 10 km off Eleanor's starboard bow and locks her up. There is no point waiting now, I need to get in on the kill before the locals can react, so I align to my perch, decloak and get everything active and overloaded.</div>
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I tried warping off to my perch, but of course I was inside 150km at that point having been aligned to it the whole engagement (note to self - 250km perches next time). I struggled to find a celestial or bookmark close to my direction of travel and thankfully found my probe drop bookmark was nearly dead on. I mashed the warp button and had an 'Oh Shit' moment when I realised that I was warp disrupted. I let out a slight sigh of relief when I confirmed it was the sleeper frigate that had me only pointed and not scrammed before punching the MWD and overheating it, hoping to pull enough range to drop the disruptor and warp out. After what seemed like an eternity the warp disrupt icon disappeared and I warped out and cloaked up.</div>
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A few deep breaths later, I took stock of my situation. My shields were nearly gone, but thankfully I didn't get into armour. All of my modules had significant heat damage, with my MWD at 86% damage. Luckily I didn't need to pull range for much longer else I would have burnt the drive out and been a sitting duck. But I had a half a billion ISK kill as per Zkillboard had my merry way with my Eleanor, exactly as I had hoped I would when I first spotted her floating in that POS shield all those days ago.</div>
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I warped back to the site and there are 3 wrecks and one bemused sleeper frigate still buzzing around killing drones.</div>
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It looks like the Astero was hero tackle for a couple of stealth bombers and a Rifter (WTF is a Rifter doing there) that showed up on the field, and in hindsight I probably wouldn't have got the kill if the Astero wasn't there for tackle because Eleanor was stabbed. The locals bought a Comet to save the Noctis which <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/46856281/" target="_blank">killed the Astero</a>, and I believe the sleeper frigate killed the Comet before the Astero's friends <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/46856304/" target="_blank">podded the Comet pilot for his trouble.</a></div>
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I got convoed by one of the gang that jumped in not too much later:</div>
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<i>Gunner GzR > o/</i></div>
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<i>Havlac Agalder > I was just after the noctis</i></div>
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<i>Gunner GzR > that noctis was doomed</i></div>
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My dear friends, I have recently spent inumerous hours traversing uncounted wormholes in my pursuit of worthy prey (i.e. something I can gank) and upon reaching the Anoiki known as J115727 I stumbled across perhaps the single most delicious target I have come across. May I present to you my enigmatic holy grail, My Eleanor:</div>
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Ain't she a beauty??? All 14 million tons of industrial tractor beaming, multiple salvaging loot pinata goodness. I believe I'm actually quivering as I type this....</div>
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Yes, I have my Eleanor, parked safely behind someone else's POS shield. But will that stop me? Not likely. This is the first Noctis I have seen in J space and I must have it. I therefore commenced stalking out this particular Anoikis seeking an opportunity to grace this work of industrial art with my glorious Caldari Navy Scourge Torpedoes.</div>
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For 3 or 4 days I've hung out in this particular wormhole and watched the comings and goings of the locals. I find all the POS's and work out that one of them has a nasty decloak trap which I manage to avoid by coming into the tower from a bounce safe I made near one of the outer planets (see -> Learning!). I add all 35 members of the local corp as bad standings contacts and put them all on my watch list. I create elaborate spai notes to keep track of their comings and goings.</div>
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During my stalk there doesn't appear to be much going on, with only a few pilots logged in. It does appear that the locals are a Russian corp and a check of killboard stats shows they are most active way way late into my timezone. The closet I get to action during this time is getting on grid a couple of times with a guy in a Badger at a couple of POCOs but each time I'm too far away when I land and he was already aligning out so I don't decloak and give away the game. I also consider ambushing the same guy in a Bustard doing runs back to K space on the C4 static but in hindsight I was glad I got bored and left it given I didn't realise Bustard's have a natural 2 point warp core strength and I only have a long point on my current fit.</div>
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During this time Eleanor remains floating at the POS, no pilot on board.</div>
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I notice a few weird things in the system, there is a crap load of drones and even a few carrier bourne fighters that have been left by the locals at various combat anoms in the system. When I check them out I usually find 5 or 6 ECM drones and a single sleeper ship plugging away killing those drones. It's weird, I have no idea why they have left drones in a site and haven't fully cleared it. Oh well, that's a mystery for another day. In the meantime I wait patiently for the moment to strike, hidden and dangerous:</div>
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One night I decide to stay up late and work on my blog. I log into Eve to keep an eye on things and while sorting out the background options on the front page of the blog my notification chimes - Eleanor's pilot has just logged in!!!</div>
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Next time on <b><i>The Flying Target</i></b> - Will Eleanor be mine?? Or will the elusive industrial slip through my grasp??</div>
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My brand new clone awakes in Abudan, a jump out of Rens. I warp over to the trade hub to grab a new Manticore and kit it out. Now my funds are fairly limited at the moment so while it was tempting to look at polarised torpedo launchers I'm not going to put a launcher worth more than the ship itself let alone 3 of them on a ship I'm reasonably certain I will lose in the near future. Having said that, I have previously put a faction scram on an Astero that was worth about 50 million ISK more than the ship and fittings combined and promptly lost that, but that's another story.</div>
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Anyways, here's the Manticore fit I'm currently running with:</div>
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Overheated 533 DPS with a volley of 4206 using Caldari Navy Scourge Torpedoes to take advantage of the Manticore's natural 15% bonus to kinetic damage. I won't go too much into the fit, suffice to say that most of my targets will be not be the most speediest of ships so I'm not too worried about reducing the impact of my targets speed vs the explosion speed of my torps. I'm more looking to a) reduce my explosion radius on the torpedos themselves via skills and the Rigor Catalyst II rig and b) increasing the signature radius of my targets via a pair of target painters. With both painters running we should be getting towards applying close to full damage against some cruiser hulls substantially increasing the potential engagement profile of my bomber.</div>
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I named my new bomber "Return" to you know, mark my return to New Eden. I don't know what it is but jeez it felt good to be back in the saddle of a covert, sexy weapon of mass destruction. I straight away headed out and found a wormhole a couple of jumps from Rens and began searching for prey.</div>
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A few wormholes down the chain I found a Retriever at an ore anomaly. I was dumbstruck, I have never, ever seen someone mining in a wormhole. But I am not one to complain, so I slow boated my way carefully down past all the asteroids and into position to launch an attack. I aligned out to a safe just in case this was some kind of elaborate bait, took a deep breathe and decloaked, targeted, torps, painter, painter, point, overload everything. I pinged dscan a couple of times but I didn't see any response from the local tower, but just as the Retriever entered armour he warped back to his tower. I knew from checking the Retriever pilots kill board that he had previously lost a Retriever that had a warp stabiliser fit, so I wasn't 100% surprised. I convoed him and asked as much, to which he replied he didn't have any stabs on that ship which confused me a bit as he was still within my overheated point range. I'm guessing that I accidentally turned off my point when I tried to overheat it - sigh.</div>
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Onwards I go, until I find a new wormhole with a couple of pilots online but sitting nice and comfy within their POS shield. Oddly enough there is an Epithal on scan but not here at the tower. Quick working of my Dscan confirms that the PI hauler is not at one of the systems POCOs and it doesn't appear to be at a POS - it's out in space somewhere. Working Dscan a bit further I'm able to narrow the Epithal's position down to within 3 AU of one of the inner planets at an angle upwards from the horizontal plane. Now given I have a core probe launcher currently equipped I'm not going to be able to scan the ship down unless I get myself refit with the spare expanded probe launcher I have in my cargo bay. I warp out to the outer planet which is thankfully out of Dscan range of the occupied tower and drop my mobile depot that I keep on hand for just such occasions. Once the depot is active I swap the extended probe launcher with the core probe launcher - I pretty much have to offline everything to get the extended probe launcher to fit due to the CPU requirements. I launch a set of combat probes and throw them out of the system to avoid them being seen before warping back to the inner planet to set up my combat probe scan.</div>
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Once I'm back at the inner planet I position the combat probes with a 1AU scan range around where I think the Epithal is and take a deep breath before hitting scan. The combat probes flash into action, repositioning themselves as instructed and begin scanning the area. I ping dscan the whole time the probes are doing their thing before quickly recovering them after they produce a 100% warpin on the Epithal - the probes were on dscan for about 4 seconds. I'm feeling pretty happy with myself about this, until I see a Proteus on dscan over at the occupied tower. Looks like they were paying attention over there. I quickly warp back to my depot, refit to my normal fit and scoop the depot before warping directly to the Epithal. There it is, 20km away, un piloted. Dscan doesn't show that Proteus anymore, which could be a problem but if I get it set up right I should be ok even if that Proteus is lurking nearby. I get myself a little bit closer, align to a safe, decloak, torps, painter, pa.... POP!!! The Epithal pops after a single volley, so I warp off to the safe.</div>
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Havlac Agalderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16819653657102113810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358428300785345024.post-52134169619467284402015-05-26T00:57:00.000+10:002015-06-11T15:42:35.493+10:00Return<div style="text-align: justify;">
So here I am back playing Eve. I suppose I never really left as I enjoy checking the blogosphere to che<span style="text-align: left;">ck in on what is going on, which I really shouldn't be doing as all it basically does is remind me of the cool stuff I could be doing. The biggest drawback to Eve is the time I invest into the game, much to the chagrin of my wife. I tend to allow myself to get absorbed with what I'm doing often to the detriment of say, folding the washing. Unfortunately stating that I'm about to get on grid with a Retriever doesn't tend to wash all that well with my significant other, who is probably as much an antithesis to a gamer as you can get. But it's ok, I'll manage my time appropriately, it won't be a problem. I'm even taking the time to wr</span>ite a blog about the time I've wasted playing that stupid game. It's all good.</div>
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My previous foray into Eve saw me living solo in a C2 wormhole which a bunch of my alts. It was always a goal for me to live in wormhole space and it was fun, albeit a bit difficult time wise to manage as occupation in a wormhole means (in my case) an orca with small POS. As anyone who has ever run a POS would know they need fuel and fuel costs iskies. The difficulty I ran into was finding the time to run the sleeper sites which I needed to keep the forcefield up. I was using a HML Drake so it would take upwards of half an hour to complete a C2 site and while the rewards were a bit more generous due to the C2 loot tweaks that came through around that time it was still a became a bit of a chore. It got to the point that I seriously could nearly tell my wife that I'm just going to log in to my second job for an hour or so - Eve was taking up a significant part of my time and in the end I let the POS go dormant along with my subs. The wife was happy.</div>
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Fast forward a couple of months and the embryo of an idea started in my head. What if I played Eve again, but ditched the POS and just roamed around J space looking for ships to gank? I wouldn't be tied down to a system and have to scan it out before doing anything, I wouldn't need to make any ISK to keep my POS fueled, I could just do the fun-er parts of playing Eve. The catalyst came with a day off work during which I listened to Chance Ravinne delivering a talk to Eve Uni about stealth bombers. I've always loved bombers and had my main train into a Manticore before I moved into my wormhole, and after listening Chance speak about bombers I just went, stuff it, I'm going to play again.</div>
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I resubbed my main account back in and was pleasantly surprised to see that while my sub was running out my training queue was still running and had completed Astrometric Rangefinding V (28 day train...) so the only things currently not at level V in my scanning skill tree is Hacking and Survey.</div>
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So I log back in to find my tower with no forcefield and the Mammoth I had parked in the forcefield is gone. Yeah, that was expected. What wasn't expected was the corp that had taken up residence on one of the inner planets is gone along with their tower and POS modules, There also appears to be a new tower at a different moon, I'll have a warp over to this new POS and have a look in my fully tricked-out-to-scan Buzzard. I'm in the system map view so I don't see the bubble when I land but I hear the distinctive sound and realise that I might be in trouble. The overview is all still all messed up as I haven't configured it properly after logging back in but worst of all my ship starts to decloak.</div>
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Needless to say the tower promptly <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/46591295/">obliterates my Buzzard.</a> Decloak traps and towers are the bane of my existence. As I sit there in my pod I finally work my overview to show containers and sure enough there are several THOUSAND of the little yellow diamonds of death all around me. </div>
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And do you know the worst thing is, I didn't even use my tricked out scanning boat to scan my way out, so I'm now trapped in my pod in my old wormhole with no way out. *facepalm*. I'm forced to self destruct the pod get out back to highsec so I can buy a new ship.</div>
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God I love this game.</div>
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