Wednesday 25 August 2010
Friday 20 August 2010
Wednesday 18 August 2010
Fail.....i think.
Had some good fights last night, I’d repost KB links but there pretty messed up to due to them happening in the same system.
Ok on to the fail.
In the second engagement I was asked to fly my Scorpion (EWAR BS for those that don’t know) and play on the station, the rest of the fleet where a bit behind but moving into position, enemy took the bait, Mpk undocked he’s carrier as secondary bait and to rep me up the plan being I would then Cyno Diamond in.
The massed horde kicked my teeth in, I redocked repaired ready to undock as our fleet came tearing in, the evil enemy fled and regrouped on a gate, the order was given to chase and see if they would engage. They did.
Then the fail, even though it’s a battleship the scorp can be brittle and is best used at range, I didn’t, I warped to zero and so did Goose in his scorp, as a force multiplier they are high profile and get primaried and removed from the battle ASAP.
We went down like Thai hookers, luckily I was tanked and managed to jam out 7 ships before popping, if I had warped in at 100k I would have had a bigger impact and possibly saved a lot of our guys from getting biffed.
Lesson learned I hope, now to buy me a new scorp or two, it’s a ship I enjoy flying, yeah it will never top killmails but the difference it can make to a fights outcome
Before I forget, we won the fight and held the field and I enjoyed the fight massively, but if the ewar pilots were a bit smarter it would have been a more convincing win.
LD
Ok on to the fail.
In the second engagement I was asked to fly my Scorpion (EWAR BS for those that don’t know) and play on the station, the rest of the fleet where a bit behind but moving into position, enemy took the bait, Mpk undocked he’s carrier as secondary bait and to rep me up the plan being I would then Cyno Diamond in.
The massed horde kicked my teeth in, I redocked repaired ready to undock as our fleet came tearing in, the evil enemy fled and regrouped on a gate, the order was given to chase and see if they would engage. They did.
Then the fail, even though it’s a battleship the scorp can be brittle and is best used at range, I didn’t, I warped to zero and so did Goose in his scorp, as a force multiplier they are high profile and get primaried and removed from the battle ASAP.
We went down like Thai hookers, luckily I was tanked and managed to jam out 7 ships before popping, if I had warped in at 100k I would have had a bigger impact and possibly saved a lot of our guys from getting biffed.
Lesson learned I hope, now to buy me a new scorp or two, it’s a ship I enjoy flying, yeah it will never top killmails but the difference it can make to a fights outcome
Before I forget, we won the fight and held the field and I enjoyed the fight massively, but if the ewar pilots were a bit smarter it would have been a more convincing win.
LD
Saturday 14 August 2010
Jealous Little Boy
Sorry not the KB post I have waffled on about, this is about EvE’s equivalent of Penis envy, ie ship envy, I have due to character sales, trained up and played all races bar Caldari and flown most ships. my main love has always been minmatar ships it's where I started and where ill end.
At the moment I’m training for Command ships, but technically they really are just fancy pants BC’s, one that packs an incredible punch and one that will bring nice bonuses to the fleet.
Mostly for the main part I'm really happy with all the ships I fly and what they do with in their given roll, and never find myself looking at others and saying, I wish I could do that, that changed earlier today,
http://rpsh.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7361141
Zekk pulled the rabbit out of the hat for this fight no disservice to the T3 on the field, I too myself can and have flown T3 in pvp, but the Black op’s jumping in was something they were in no way prepared for, they really didn’t know what to do, they probably were shocked to find a beastly proteus ripping them up, possibly annoyed by my rapier forcing them to engage by limiting their movement.
But the redeemer pure fucked there shit up.
I have seen carriers drop’s, I have taken part in evil ganks with T3 and FC’ed a 40+ man rampage of syndicate, but the effect that BS had on the fight was brilliant, all involved got the shakes, we started out manned, no idea if this would work and certainly on the verge of losing a lot of isk, but work it did, best fight I have taken part in in ages, we all played our roles perfectly, the only fly in the ointment being my rapier loss.
And for the first time in a hell of a long time, I'm jealous.
Black op’s, do want.
Also mad props to Rogues Dual boxin mad skill.
At the moment I’m training for Command ships, but technically they really are just fancy pants BC’s, one that packs an incredible punch and one that will bring nice bonuses to the fleet.
Mostly for the main part I'm really happy with all the ships I fly and what they do with in their given roll, and never find myself looking at others and saying, I wish I could do that, that changed earlier today,
http://rpsh.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7361141
Zekk pulled the rabbit out of the hat for this fight no disservice to the T3 on the field, I too myself can and have flown T3 in pvp, but the Black op’s jumping in was something they were in no way prepared for, they really didn’t know what to do, they probably were shocked to find a beastly proteus ripping them up, possibly annoyed by my rapier forcing them to engage by limiting their movement.
But the redeemer pure fucked there shit up.
I have seen carriers drop’s, I have taken part in evil ganks with T3 and FC’ed a 40+ man rampage of syndicate, but the effect that BS had on the fight was brilliant, all involved got the shakes, we started out manned, no idea if this would work and certainly on the verge of losing a lot of isk, but work it did, best fight I have taken part in in ages, we all played our roles perfectly, the only fly in the ointment being my rapier loss.
And for the first time in a hell of a long time, I'm jealous.
Black op’s, do want.
Also mad props to Rogues Dual boxin mad skill.
Friday 13 August 2010
Obvious bait is obvious
a mini battle report.
Obvious bait is obvious
If a Hurricane (see blog pic) comes into your home system, jumps into your gang it’s a good bet he is not alone, definitely when there’s 21 people in system, even more so when he casually starts shooting up everything in sight.
What you shouldn’t do in this situation is shoot back, ignore the idiot and dock.
Or you can do this –
http://rpsh.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7347299
You can aggress, and then when it all goes wrong call on your buddy who was ratting and a bit dim, you can watch your little support gang of 3 frigates 1 moa and a zealot run away.
And you can die.
If you chose this path please don’t bitch and whine in local, you failed and you paid for it.
As an aside i enjoyed the armour cane, only really ever used shield fits (shield 4 life dawg) but it also means i should pull my finger out and get Hull upgrades V done.
LD
Obvious bait is obvious
If a Hurricane (see blog pic) comes into your home system, jumps into your gang it’s a good bet he is not alone, definitely when there’s 21 people in system, even more so when he casually starts shooting up everything in sight.
What you shouldn’t do in this situation is shoot back, ignore the idiot and dock.
Or you can do this –
http://rpsh.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7347299
You can aggress, and then when it all goes wrong call on your buddy who was ratting and a bit dim, you can watch your little support gang of 3 frigates 1 moa and a zealot run away.
And you can die.
If you chose this path please don’t bitch and whine in local, you failed and you paid for it.
As an aside i enjoyed the armour cane, only really ever used shield fits (shield 4 life dawg) but it also means i should pull my finger out and get Hull upgrades V done.
LD
Wednesday 11 August 2010
MORE EVE!
Just Quit my Job, for a job which basically pays the same.
How is this a good thing you ask?
Rather than a 40min (1hour 20mins there and back) its a ten min round trip, saving about £180 a month on fuel alone.
also im not walking in blind i have worked their before in a non IT role, so i know the place and people who work there.
Majorly - No shift work and little to no weekend work.
so yeah more eve.
How is this a good thing you ask?
Rather than a 40min (1hour 20mins there and back) its a ten min round trip, saving about £180 a month on fuel alone.
also im not walking in blind i have worked their before in a non IT role, so i know the place and people who work there.
Majorly - No shift work and little to no weekend work.
so yeah more eve.
SPY SAPPING MY FLEET
Sometimes you have to play them at their own game via misinformation and downright trickery, make friends with the suspected, be helpful but misinform in subtle way, build rapport but be objective then ultimately because not everyone’s cut out for it Guilt trip them.
It’s a long process but the spying game has seeped into every level of the game from the galaxy spanning empires down to little corps like ours.
We are watching you watch us.
Tuesday 10 August 2010
The Fear 2
Fleet Commander
Ace title, terrible job, just when you think you have a handle on things you have scouted hundreds of operations, acting as a one man vanguard providing info for the fleet, trying to catch enemies out while trying not to develop a horrid K/d ratio. (As an aside everyone says Kill boards don’t matter, deep down they really do, but that’s another subject)
You have worked out ship fits that work for you and you are in my case a fairly vocal (gobby) member of your corp, you reach a point where people start telling you to FC. Most shy away, the stupid and the brave agree.
I’m stupid.
I started Fc’ing during our Time in Stain, where on a daily basis stain empire soundly beat us up and Leaguia Romana blobed the shit out of us, I started with small gang work roaming about rather timidly, it’s one of the things you learn as you play ideally through scouting, learning to second Guess your Fc’s was a part of this for me, but I suspect other will have learned in their own way.
I had the luck of have played with and am still playing with some great FC’s
It’s also what I call “the Fear 2” first fear is losing your own ships, second one is losing other peoples. You also find yourself trying to balance what will be fun for the fleet and not being a reckless dick that fights for fighting sake but at the same time not just scoring easy ganks, I like to think Rpsh prefers good fights over kerb stomps, I know I do.
So far I have ridden my luck and not had a crushing defeat….yet*, syndicate is a far more genteel place to learn both as a FC and probably as a new player.
Mind you I have gotten good at running away.
*forgot about a lovely hotdrop more here through the eyes of one of our newer players –
http://www.gamingdaily.co.uk/2010/eve-online-carrier-drops/
Ace title, terrible job, just when you think you have a handle on things you have scouted hundreds of operations, acting as a one man vanguard providing info for the fleet, trying to catch enemies out while trying not to develop a horrid K/d ratio. (As an aside everyone says Kill boards don’t matter, deep down they really do, but that’s another subject)
You have worked out ship fits that work for you and you are in my case a fairly vocal (gobby) member of your corp, you reach a point where people start telling you to FC. Most shy away, the stupid and the brave agree.
I’m stupid.
I started Fc’ing during our Time in Stain, where on a daily basis stain empire soundly beat us up and Leaguia Romana blobed the shit out of us, I started with small gang work roaming about rather timidly, it’s one of the things you learn as you play ideally through scouting, learning to second Guess your Fc’s was a part of this for me, but I suspect other will have learned in their own way.
I had the luck of have played with and am still playing with some great FC’s
It’s also what I call “the Fear 2” first fear is losing your own ships, second one is losing other peoples. You also find yourself trying to balance what will be fun for the fleet and not being a reckless dick that fights for fighting sake but at the same time not just scoring easy ganks, I like to think Rpsh prefers good fights over kerb stomps, I know I do.
So far I have ridden my luck and not had a crushing defeat….yet*, syndicate is a far more genteel place to learn both as a FC and probably as a new player.
Mind you I have gotten good at running away.
*forgot about a lovely hotdrop more here through the eyes of one of our newer players –
http://www.gamingdaily.co.uk/2010/eve-online-carrier-drops/
The possibilites are there.
Training plans. I hate them.
Just when i think i know where I’m taking my skills a quick tinker with Evemon or EFT and i end doing something different.
Currently there were 2 plans on the cards and i almost ditched one for the other, one is for fully linked CS the other being for better drone skills and tech2 Mid Lasers of doom.
In the end i have mashed them together and am trying to follow up on the plan but by the end i should have -
It’s a long ass plan but it’s a good one that will benefit in the long run.
*do CS come above or below BS?
Just when i think i know where I’m taking my skills a quick tinker with Evemon or EFT and i end doing something different.
Currently there were 2 plans on the cards and i almost ditched one for the other, one is for fully linked CS the other being for better drone skills and tech2 Mid Lasers of doom.
In the end i have mashed them together and am trying to follow up on the plan but by the end i should have -
- Fully skilled for gang links (not mind links)
- Tech 2 Medium lasers
- All Ships CS* and below for Armarr and Minnie.
It’s a long ass plan but it’s a good one that will benefit in the long run.
*do CS come above or below BS?
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