So living out in null sec has been kind of boring to me. Most of the CTAs are called when Im at work, and the ones that do get called when I am home are so late in the evening, Id have to bail 30 minutes in to head to bed for work in the morning. I know, Iknow! These are just excuses to not participate in alliance ops to some people. Except that I want to pvp. So I decided to go back to the basics of what I know can provide that fun pvp for myself.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Long Time Update
Wow! Its been a long, long time since I last posted. Not intended, I just have been lazy and not in the mood to write. However, today, I shall write a small bit of an update.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Invasion!
As some of you may have noticed, I have been rather inactive lately. Real life really kicked me in the balls with 60-70 hour work weeks and it has just now started slowing down enough to the point where I wasnt so beat every day I just showed and went straight to bed soon as I got home. Anyhow, to deal with this, Ive been living in a wormhole away from the light of highsec, the deep space of null and even havent dipped much into the new low sec of faction wars. Wormhole space has been my home for a few months now; and Im really enjoying it.
I havent gone full carebear, as I setup fittings for my partner who has more time than I to go PvP lately and he gets kills with my fittings, so in a way, I get to PvP. Well, in the same way as the industrialist who sold him the ship and mods, right?! Ok, so maybe I have gone a bit carebear, but this bear is a grizzly and I make people all FUBAR'd in their ships. Or they do me, either way, stuff explodes usually. Like this past weekend, for example, but first a small bit of backstory.
I havent gone full carebear, as I setup fittings for my partner who has more time than I to go PvP lately and he gets kills with my fittings, so in a way, I get to PvP. Well, in the same way as the industrialist who sold him the ship and mods, right?! Ok, so maybe I have gone a bit carebear, but this bear is a grizzly and I make people all FUBAR'd in their ships. Or they do me, either way, stuff explodes usually. Like this past weekend, for example, but first a small bit of backstory.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Consensual PvP in EvE?
So I was browsing reddit because its a pretty good source of info about anything you can think of. As I was going through /r/EvE, I stumbled across a blog I inconsistantly keep track of, MinerBumping. In that linked post, James315 references Ripard Teg's post about "ganking not being pvp". Except it is, and Id like to toss my opinion on the subject out there as well.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
December CSM Minutes
There's a whole 113 pages of stuff in the recently released CSM Minutes. I've just finished reading all of it and as a whole it looks good. Just doing a quick summary for myself as many other bloggers will cover this soon*. I mostly only care about the ship balancing section.
Monday, January 7, 2013
An About Me Post
This post is more for my own self-evaluation than your pleasure, really, but feel free to comment as well, Ive got thick skin!
So Ive been blogging on and off for almost two whole years. I started out blogging about my first forays into PvP combat. Time has seriously flown by, I hadnt realized its been so long! Reading that very first post of mine, I was pretty surprised by myself. I have really grown quite a bit as a pilot since that time, I feel much more knowledgeable about EvE mechanics, ship fittings, and ship statistics. Im far from the knowledge levels of people like Miura Bull, Ashirka, Taurean, Truen1ght, and many, many other pilots in EvE, however, I feel I could go toe-to-toe with a couple of them for several rounds before being knocked out by their sheer skill and knowledge of this game we all play.
So Ive been blogging on and off for almost two whole years. I started out blogging about my first forays into PvP combat. Time has seriously flown by, I hadnt realized its been so long! Reading that very first post of mine, I was pretty surprised by myself. I have really grown quite a bit as a pilot since that time, I feel much more knowledgeable about EvE mechanics, ship fittings, and ship statistics. Im far from the knowledge levels of people like Miura Bull, Ashirka, Taurean, Truen1ght, and many, many other pilots in EvE, however, I feel I could go toe-to-toe with a couple of them for several rounds before being knocked out by their sheer skill and knowledge of this game we all play.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Vigilant vs Loki and Cynabal
This isnt a fight that I was in, but I suggested the fitting for the Vigilant. And it performed above and beyond what I expected it could do. Thanks to my buddy Ashirka for taking it out for a spin and testing it =) On a side note, Ashirka is a 2003, mostly industrialist player. His knowledge of EvE is rather vast and Im confident he didnt need my help in fitting the ship. Its just nice he did use it and Im pretty glad it performed!
The story is that they were chasing a Cynabal (who was harassing ratters with his small gang earlier), Ashirka and Dave, in their Vigilant and Thorax. Dave jumped through the gate, Cynabal wasnt on grid but his friend in a Loki was. Dave's Thorax served as a meatshield while Ashirka fought to break the buffer shield tank of the Loki. Once Ash got past that shield regen point, he claims to have shot 2 vollies and popped the Loki. At some point during this, the Cynabal landed on grid to help his Loki friend.
With Dave already dead, he was of no use fighting the Cynabal once the Loki died. Ash was running low into armor, but Gallentian ships have a nice hull buffer. He took advantage of that, overheated his webs to catch the enemy, and the Cynbal pilot exclaimed a surprised "Oh shit" in local. Oh shit, indeed, because with dual 90% webs on you, even your MWD wont be of much help. And when Ash got into Void range, rather quickly actually, the Cynabal's buffer shield tank didnt last long either.
Talking with Ashirka after the fight, he was also surprised at how well his ship held up, especially when the Cynabal landed and he became consigned that his ship was going to explode and not the enemy. However, he lived, and the entire fight he had not overheated his guns! "Probally a good thing, since you would have burnt your guns out!"; I say because Ashirka never overheats his guns and is forgetful sometimes.
Ah well, he and Dave just got about one billion isk in kills.
The story is that they were chasing a Cynabal (who was harassing ratters with his small gang earlier), Ashirka and Dave, in their Vigilant and Thorax. Dave jumped through the gate, Cynabal wasnt on grid but his friend in a Loki was. Dave's Thorax served as a meatshield while Ashirka fought to break the buffer shield tank of the Loki. Once Ash got past that shield regen point, he claims to have shot 2 vollies and popped the Loki. At some point during this, the Cynabal landed on grid to help his Loki friend.
With Dave already dead, he was of no use fighting the Cynabal once the Loki died. Ash was running low into armor, but Gallentian ships have a nice hull buffer. He took advantage of that, overheated his webs to catch the enemy, and the Cynbal pilot exclaimed a surprised "Oh shit" in local. Oh shit, indeed, because with dual 90% webs on you, even your MWD wont be of much help. And when Ash got into Void range, rather quickly actually, the Cynabal's buffer shield tank didnt last long either.
Talking with Ashirka after the fight, he was also surprised at how well his ship held up, especially when the Cynabal landed and he became consigned that his ship was going to explode and not the enemy. However, he lived, and the entire fight he had not overheated his guns! "Probally a good thing, since you would have burnt your guns out!"; I say because Ashirka never overheats his guns and is forgetful sometimes.
Ah well, he and Dave just got about one billion isk in kills.
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