Nursultan's Pirate Blag

Overused Meme

2012-01-25T21:07:00.002+06:00

Who Needs Points?

2012-01-25T14:13:00.001+06:00

Props to Neonend for a hilarious Dramiel kill.

CSM Meeting Minutes Review

2012-01-19T14:40:00.003+06:00

The text can be found here. I'l just comment on what I see relevant to myself.

Veterans/Loyalty programme and master accounts (one login for all your accounts): as a relatively long-time player with multiple accounts, I like the idea.

"...apparently if a user has been subscribed to EVE for three years or more, that user is very unlikely to leave EVE."

I guess I'm done for.

FW changes: whatever brings more action into lowsec is good.

"The discussion turned towards clone costs, which were widely agreed to be too high for high SP characters, which discourages high SP players from going on random suicide Rifter roams."

Totally agree.

Game balance stuff:

"Frigates and Cruisers: CCP wants to boost tech one Frigates and Cruisers so that they are viable options for new players, rather than the current system where new players are often told to skip over them towards tier two Battlecruiser or even tech two ships. CCP noted that Cruisers should generally be more mobile than a Battlecruiser, but that this is not currently always the case. Furthermore, CCP added that the higher velocity of Cruisers was not often viewed as being worth the loss of EHP and slots. The CSM agreed and was pleased, noting that there are a large number of ships in these classes that have long needed iteration."

Yes, yes and yes.

"Battlecruisers: CCP wants to do a balancing pass on tier one Battlecruisers, which are problem hulls. The CSM agreed that these needed examination."

Depends on what the actual balancing is.

"Electronic Warfare: CCP and the CSM agreed that remote sensor dampeners have been rendered useless and need rebalancing. CCP wants to look into this, as well as the damping ships themselves. The CSM also discussed the merits (or lack thereof) of ECM."

Sad to see no intentions on CCP's part to balance (read nerf) ECM.

"The Drake: The CSM and CCP both acknowledged the need to rebalance the Drake, which ‘does everything too well’. CCP is considering giving it a more offensive role like a Raven or Caracal where it would lose the shield resistance bonus and the 5% Kinetic damage bonus and instead gain a rate of fire bonus and a missile velocity bonus. The CSM vehemently approved of this idea. CCP and the CSM also agreed that this possible change to the Drake would help add more uniqueness to the Nighthawk, which is presently overshadowed entirely by the Drake."

On the one hand, I like flying the Drake as it is now. On the other hand, I hate seeing them in opposing gangs because it means I can't kite them without taking significant damage. However, the proposed changes are making Drakes even better at long-distance damage projection. Not sure this is a good idea.

"Command Ships and Warfare Links: CCP suggested that Command Ships should have their attributes looked into and have their utility expanded by adding two races of leadership bonus to each hull, instead of one; for example, the Eos might offer both bonuses to Information Warfare and Armor Warfare. The CSM was excited by this idea. CCP and the CSM discussed the power of Strategic Cruisers vis a vis Command Ships; both CCP and CSM agreed that the Strategic Cruisers are overshadowing Command Ships in terms of their link bonuses. CCP suggested, and the CSM agreed, that Strategic Cruisers should have a lesser but more versatile bonus to Warfare Links than Command Ships, as versatility is a core concept for Tech 3 ships.

For example, Strategic Cruisers presently offer a 5% bonus to a single leadership bonus, where Command Ships offer a 3% bonus; under the discussed system, Strategic Cruisers might offer a lesser leadership bonus, but that bonus could apply to multiple (or all) types of leadership.

CCP also acknowledged that some Command Ships are in need of some love, the Eos for example. The Command Ships in whole will be receiving a rebalance in the near future."

I like the idea of buffing command ships and giving T3's more versatility, but weakening T3 bonuses makes me sad. They work very well for solo multiboxing and small-gang PvP.

"Nosferatu: CCP and the CSM discussed methods of making Nosferatu more viable, having again begun with the problem of the Pilgrim. The CSM suggested that one of the reasons Nosferatu are not broadly viable is that their drain is all-or-nothing; it shuts off entirely if the aggressor has more capacitor than the victim. The CSM proposed a ‘trickle mode’ instead, where Nosferatu continue to drain capacitor from the victim even if the aggressor has more cap, but at a reduced rate."

Interesting.

"Another thing brought up in connection to lowsec was contraband. It's a pain in the ass, can it just be removed? It makes contracting difficult -- you can't contract Plutonium or Prostitutes! It furthermore removes the usage of boosters in highsec, thus decreasing the overall demand for it. CCP replied that it wants to make it enforced by players, but then we have the issue of catching people in Empire. CSM’s response was to encourage CCP to kill the current system, then add player enforcement when CCP has the time."

Good.

"CSM continued to the point of how does risk versus reward scale? "Badly" (followed by laughter) was the response from some of the people in the meeting. The CSM suggested that rebalancing prices of modules so that average cost of modules versus cost of hull would be reasonably constant. Right now looting a frigate wreck gives you a good fraction of the value of the ship (because most of the value is in the modules), vs. larger ships where this isn't true. Right now T2 is so cheap that it's a no brainer, if you can use T2, you use T2. Following this train of thought, the CSM said it's hard to make money by PVP'ing, most people now grind money so they can PVP. By adjusting somehow the drops from PvP, it could be possible to make it viable to only PvP, ISK vice. PvP-ing in a frigate means that you only need to kill a few ships to break even, flying in a Vagabond means that a player needs to kill 100 (in the ballpark at least) to pay for that ship. One CSM member pointed out that that buying a ship to fight in is not an investment in making more ISK (like when a player invests in his mission running ship), it is an investment in fun. CCP asked in turn whether it wasn’t a bit depressing to have to run content in the game that a player doesn’t necessarily wants to run, in order to be able to have fun. The CSM responded that all activity added to the game, there wouldn’t be ganking of helpless miners if there was no one mining.

Another possibility is more passive income. Or some sort of income generated by conflict (alliances get moons, for example, but what about smaller groups and individuals)? CCP liked the sentiment, but price balancing of things related to this would be a nightmare. Maybe a solution would be to allow the killer to get a cut of the insurance payout his victim gets? CSM liked this idea, perhaps a payout to 10 or 20%? One CSM comment was that if a player gets shot down by Concord, he shouldn't get a cut of the payout from the poor guy he just ganked. The CSM was not unanimous in that sentiment."

Making PvP profitable? I'm all for it but I have a feeling these changes won't be fast.

Permajammed

2012-01-16T15:51:00.007+06:00

So, yesterday my corpmate Xerses0 came online for a few hours and there were some gangs roaming in our area, it looked like we could get a fight or two.

First, Xerses spotted a few battlecruisers, including obvious bait ships such as Drake and Prophecy, in Kurn. I boarded my dualrep Domi and warped to the sun where the Prophecy sat, screaming "HEY EVERYONE I'M JUST A BAIT FOR A FLEET SITTING ON A GATE NEXT DOOR!".

We tackled each other and local spiked as expected. Xerses boarded a Domi of his own with remote rep mods to help me. But as soon as their fleet landed, it was clear we stood no chance. Not because of DPS - I could tank their several battlecruisers for a while - but because it included two Falcons and a damp Celestis.

All I could do was pop an Exile pill and control my reps and cap injectors to stay alive for as long as possible. Eventually, I remembered one of my associates had an ECM ship of his own in Kurn, a Scorpion, so I had him come in and try to jam the jammers.

But a single Scorp was no match for their ECM boats and the boring game of "only one side shoots" went on until a couple friends from Sepco warped to us, scaring the hostile gang which disengaged. Meh.

Some time later, another battlecruiser gang showed up in Kurn: three Drakes, a Ferox and a Hurricane. We set for active-tanked Myrmidon and Hyperion and engaged them in a belt. Rather quickly, the three of their ships that were not tackled warped off, unable to break my tank. Most frustratingly, then, the two tackled ships jammed both of us with ECM drones and warped off as well. Meeeeeeeeeeh.

I guess I'll try fitting a smartbomb next time to deal with scumbag weekend warriors.

Slow Times

2012-01-12T15:22:00.003+06:00

It's been a long time since I've last updated this journal. After a great summer spent flying with both pirate (mostly Shadow Cartel) and anti-pirate (Matari Exodus) gangs, me and my associates went into a sort of hibernation, occasionally engaging in PVE activities such as missions and exploration to raise ISK and improve my security status.

Yes, I am no longer flashy and can travel in hisec which should help me join Matari Exodus gangs when I'm active again. Those guys are simply awesome and I've learnt a lot about solo and small-gang PVP from them. My associates even appear in one or two videos they've released (linked here).

My new security status means I have to be more selective about what I engage in Empire space and W-space provides an excellent alternative for piracy.

Yesterday, a quick scan of my home system showed two wormholes one of which had a miner and a hauler on scan. They even let me probe them out after which I quickly returned in a Broadsword and pinned down the Retriever whose Iteron buddy had left the Gravimetric site by that time.

With the bubble up, I contacted the pilot and asked him for a 10 million ISK ransom. One volley from my autocannons which stripped his shield and a half of his armour seemed to have sped up the negotiations and seconds later I was warping back to the wormhole 10 million isk richer. Nothing to boast about, but a pleasant return to piracy after a long break.

So what next? I guess I will continue building up my sec status buffer while looking for occasional PVP opportunities. But most of the time you see me in comms channels, I'm safe asleep in my pod or captain's quarters.

Sine Wave Yo

2011-07-19T19:07:00.005+06:00

Hey Wensley, I can draw graphs, too!

"I'm at my POS, what could happen to me?"

2011-06-01T21:16:00.003+06:00

Yesterday Bozo spotted a missioning Apocalypse in Sosan. As our prober moved into the system, though, an Apoc pilot's corpmate spotted him and the battleship left the mission, hiding at a POS.

Still, our prober decided to linger and find Apoc's POS to see where he goes from there. Now, warping to the moon didn't help (lol nice patch) so he used probes and was soon warping to the battleship at 100km.

Well guess what? The Apoc was hugging an offline tower!

This was quickly dealt with and a lot of laughter was had on Vent.

What do you mean I can be attacked?

The Boring Thrasher vs The Daredevil Daredevil

2011-06-01T16:21:00.002+06:00

Not so long ago I said my Boring Thrasher needed a real challenge in the face of a Dramiel or a Daredevil.

I've bagged a Dramiel kill since although it was not much of a challenge.

Yesterday, it was time for a duel with a Daredevil.

I spotted him next door, in Saidusairos, and moved to Kurn to leave my Hurricane and get into the Thrasher. As I was undocking, aligning and loading Republic Fleet Fusion, Inspector Burnside of the infamous Gunpoint Diplomacy appeared in Kurn local.

He had not showed up on d-scan by the time I hit the Saidusairos gate so I was sure he was holding cloak nearby and decided to simply wait.

Indeed, the Daredevil decloaked in a few seconds and started approaching me. With both of us being red flashy, we could shoot at will but I wanted him to aggress first to make sure he does not jump back into Said.

It didn't take him long to redbox me and the fight was on. With the two ships 300-400 metres from each other, our overheated guns were hitting for maximum damage. It was a primitive brutal fight to the death: forget piloting tricks, just fire and hope the enemy's next blow doesn't finish you.

When the smoke cleared, I was sitting there at 82 percent structure next to the Daredevil's wreck.

Scooping the loot (which included a Dark Blood web) and exchanging gf's with Inspector Burnside, I headed back to the station for repairs, my head still dizzy from the quick encounter.

It was that sort of a fight where outcome is determined by your pre-fight actions rather than piloting tactics.

Having analysed it now, it's clear to me that I won because I had jumped to the gate. Burnside had Null loaded and did not waste time on switching ammo before engaging me, which reduced his DPS by about 20 percent.

OK OK, I also had Slaves :) but they wouldn't have saved me if he had CN Antimatter loaded. Although not expecting slaves is what might have caused not to switch ammo. Ah, screw that analysis-shmanalysis, GF Inspector Burnside!

Drag Queen Federation Pwned

2011-05-31T14:27:00.005+06:00

What do you do when you have two fleets approaching your pipe system from the opposite directions? Well, of course you make sure they collide.

VJ was in Oyonata when Heavster, a known ally of the Sahtogas-based Dragoon Federation, started aggressing his Tempest at a station with a Drake. Obvious bait was obvious so VJ just docked. Of course a group of Drags and their other allies ARETR soon moved to the Kurniainen gate to camp him there.

At the same time, our friendly scout reported a biggish Russian fleet in Saidusairos.

Bozo went to scout the Oyo gate in something fast and agile and Drags - a Myrm, a Curse and a Drake - aggressed him so he warped off.

The Russian scout was already in Kurn so I convoed him and told him about the group at the gate. Sure enough, the Russian fleet quickly moved in and annihilated the four Drags/friends who were still unable to jump back into Oyo (although I'm not sure how the Anathema managed to die).

As a bonus, Bozo whored on the Curse killmail (check out the pr0 fit).

Drag Queen Federation - as long as it's fun (their real motto)

In other news, I finally bagged a Dramiel kill with my Thrasher of Boredom.

Thrashers Suck!

2011-05-25T20:19:00.002+06:00

Really, I haven't flown a ship more boring than Thrasher. I've been trying to do some small-ship solo work with it to record a video but realised it's not worth it.

You just find a faction or T2 frigate, wait for them to eagerly engage you, scram, web, neut and watch them die within mere seconds.

Not only does their support fail to arrive in time, your own buddies fail to make it onto the killmail. Jags, Slicers, Comets, Firetails, Taranii, stuff just melts. My only hope right now is meeting some challenge in the form of a Dramiel or a Daredevil.

YAAAAAWN

I've Got the Tower!

2011-03-28T15:08:00.003+06:00

My mate was on his routine patrol of nearby wormholes when he spotted an Amarr Control Tower on his directional scanner. We have a habit of visually establishing the location of every tower we find because there's a slim chance it will be unanchoring or will have run out fuel, making modules like corp hangars vulnerable to attacks.
Upon warping to that tower, my mate saw that it was unanchored! There was also an industrial ship dropping fuel in cans next to the tower, accompanied by a Harbinger and a Legion, all of them apparently coming in through a different wormhole.
My associate VJ, who has recently acquired a cloaky hauler, was called in. Embarrasingly, though, when he tried to scoop the tower we realised his cargohold was too small due to the absense of rigs. Time for plan B!
VJ scooped the fuel and rushed back to switch to a combat ship. The owners of the tower were nowhere to be seen.
In a few minutes me, VJ and our associate in a Mammoth were back in the wormhole system. Just as Mammoth was aligning to warp out with the tower in his trunk, the three other pilots, all from the Revival of the Talocan Empire alliance, showed up on the d-scan. Their Harbinger landed next to where the tower had been but failed to scramble the hauler, telling him to return the loot in local instead.
VJ's Tempest was there as well by that time and pointed the Harbinger while I sent my Mega into warp. The Harbinger was joined by a Legion and then warped off, apparently stabbed. The Legion wasn't stabbed though and stayed to fight for some reason despite being fit for PVE. Needless to say, it didn't end well for him.
No reinforcements showed up and we returned home, approximately 500 million ISK richer.

Pirate Pack 2.0

2011-03-21T14:38:00.002+06:00

Since Jager has quit Eve, I've decided to take over the Pirate Pack he had created - a bundle of blogs by Eve pirates. The new version of the pack can be found here. If you want to suggest that I add or remove something, please get in touch.

Go go good countrymen

2011-03-18T01:34:00.002+06:00

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Beating My Chest Like King Kong

2011-03-03T19:36:00.007+06:00

"We're gangstas and thugs, we embrace with love

And beat the hell outta anybody that £$%^ with us"
Eminem/Trick Trick

It's been a nice couple of weeks since my last update.

LOWSEC CONCORD

First, I made a glorious contribution to Hulkageddon IV without leaving lowsec (after screwing up on my first attempt and killing a retriever ONE MINUTE before the start of the campaign). One of my associates was minding his own business in Tannakan when he spotted a Mackinaw in an ice field. A Drake was also present on scan but not on grid. I quickly undocked my Cynabal and made my way to the warp-in spot kindly provided by a cloaked fleetmate.

Just as I finished off that abomination of a ship, the Drake warped in. I loaded EMP and settled into a 20 kilometre orbit while he sat still, tanking my DPS quite well. Bored and willing to kill him quicker, I closed distance and that was when the Drake ignited his own engine and sarted burning in my direction at full speed. This allowed him to shut down my MWD with a scram and start pounding my shields really hard. To make matters even worse, a Huginn warped in and put a web (or probably a couple) on me.

Tackled!

After repeating "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT" in my head at least a dozen times I tried the only trick that could save me and put my medium neut on the Drake, which, according to my overview, was neuting me as well, most likely with a small device. That was his mistake which cancelled out my mistake: as I got into armor, his point dropped and I was free to warp to a celestial to which I had already aligned. The Huginn never came closer than 30 kilometres and his webs only helped me get into warp faster. Phew, humiliating loss avoided.

I did manage to screw up even worse a bit later, losing a Drake and then a Dramiel to a well-piloted arty cane. The Dramiel loss was especially stupid since I undocked with a neut instead of a nos and simply got neuted. That's what happens when you get mad and want to retaliate immediately. I should really make other people behave like that instead of doing it myself. Props to my opponent for flying solo and doing it well.

I healed my ego a little bit by stealing a Zealot kill from an unlucky Pen Island pilot shortly afterwards.

COMET ME BRO

On the following day, my associate VJ was more lucky when a gang of three Navy Comets, one Rifter and a Heron engaged his Cyclone in the nearby system of Sosan. The Cyclone, its fit shamelessly stolen from the Genos killboard, tanked the frigs easily and neuted and killed them one by one.

His success must have caued me to underestimate Comets and later engage one in a Rifter, which resulted in a tense fight but a convincing victory for the faction frigate. I guess the MSE gank fit was not the right one there but at the moment I thought: if it works against a Taranis, it should work against a Comet. Most importantly, he had a nos which allowed him to keep shooting and repping despite my neuting.

GANGING UP

Later on the same day, I joined a Shadow Cartel-led roam, taking part in my biggest fleet to date. This was a very interesting experience, being part of a 30-strong gang of battlecruisers, battleships, recons and logistics ships. Doing dozens of jumps nonstop is stressing though or maybe it's just something I haven't got used to. Unfortunately, I joined the fleet late and only got on one kill, although it was quite juicy: a Heretic faction-fit smartbombing Typhoon Fleet Issue.

Finally, yesterday, I was finally able to join my first Wensley's Wednesday roam. I acted like a bit of a scumbag, being mute on voice comms, arriving in Egbinger in my pod and asking Wensley for a ship. Our gang was to be made up mostly of battlecruisers and logistics but Wensley wanted to have some light tackle and I gladly hopped into an Ares. Nevermind that I could not use it's Tech 2 railguns or anchor the bubble Wensley had put into its cargohold (at least I bought blasters somewhere along the way).

Just like the previous roam, this was something completely new to me - roaming nullsec in the company of celebrities like Laedy. Of course, I screwed up a few times, for example by failing to notice that the gang went in a different direction than the one suggested by our autopilots.

I will not go into the details of the roam as Wensley will surely explain this much better from an FC perspective but it was quite productive in terms of kills and I think most of the gang (me not included) made it out in their ships as well. We snatched a few DEMON HUNTERS by camping their station, got into a few other small engagements and tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to bite something off a BC/recon/T3 R.A.G.E. gang.

Being a mute interceptor pilot, I was only good for tackling and challenged myself to try and point stuff faster than fellow gang member Dian Lung who was flying a Stiletto. Unfortunately, I was on par with her at best and probably even slower taking into account the natural "lag" between the pointing and its announcement on voice comms. So much for my PVP veteran image. Also, dying to the R.A.G.E. gang was completely unnecessary.

I think I should get some ships of my own ready in Egbinger by next Wednesday as I'm definitely looking forward to flying with Wensley again.

I had only done really small gangs before

Farming PWNAGE

2011-02-21T18:55:00.006+06:00

Grab your glocks when you see 2pac
Call the cops when you see 2pac

In late January, we moved from Placid to Bleak Lands to try taking on some locals.
We set up shop in Kurniainen, a nice pipe system and home to our ally bozoKaido and his mates.
Kurn is just eight jumps away from my old home of Amamake and is part of the Amarr-Minmatar war zone. It is also connected with Gallente lowsec so there's always somewhere to go when one is looking for fights.

Very often though all you need to get a kill is undock and check your overview: FW mission runners never stop visiting and we have already killed eight stealth bombers here.

Then there are regular mission runners and ratters who of course are forced to pay for polluting our system with wrecks. Sometimes they reply with juicy tears and hatemail.

And, finally, there are naughty neighbours who are seeking fights themselves.

Zen, who has only recently joined Pyrotechnics, scored a nice kill a couple of weeks ago when his Thrasher faced an Incursus and a Dramiel. It was funny because just before that I was telling him how only an incompetent Dramiel pilot would die to his Thrasher. Here's how Zen himself described the engagement:

I encountered these 2 at a gate, they immediatly warped to a nearby planet. So i followed, i immediatly landed on top of the incurses which fell in 4-5 volleys. but the dramiel liked to orbit at about 13km just outside my range. Even though he was faster i ran from him. at about 20km he started catching up so i swung around and bumped him at full speed. turning on my scrambler which shut off his speed and he began to melt. idk how he did it but he managed to launch himself back out to 9km but it didnt matter he suddenly popped :)

ended the fight with 70% structure.

they aggressed me, no kill rights, no sec status loss as bonus :)

Sormani > was damn fun
good guy the dramiel pilot was.

but what they did wrong... neither one of them deployed their drones. :)

A few days later, we were chilling in Kurn when our scout reported that a Rapier was in the system, piloted by an experienced pirate. One of our mates was out "ratting" in a Myrmidon while I switched to a Rupture to provide another soft target for the recon ship.

Before long, our Myrm pilot reported being tackled by the Rapier. Bozo and me warped to him and quickly dispatched the Tech 2 cruiser. His mate warped in twice in a Thorax only to warp out immediately. I needed to abandon my ship after that and thus paid little attention to the killmail.

It was hours later when I had a good look at the report and realised the Rapier had sported very expensive faction modules. Then I remembered the Thorax warping in twice and realised he was trying to salvage the loot. Frantically, I started asking my partners if they had been able to get to the wreck first. A flash of my wallet was the reply.

Then it was Zen's turn again to introduce us to the neighbours by killing an Amarrian Retribution Firetail and, together with our partner St3r1on, a Drake piloted by a member of SOAPY alliance (mostly notable for their frequent camping of the Ala-Gratesier stargate).

Later on the same day, I was (battle-?) cruising in my nano Drake when I noticed a Broadsword in a belt, an obvious bait most likely set up by another neighbour, the Dragoon Federation alliance. Having just been heard about how terrible they are, I decided to spring the trap by tackling the heavy dictor and orbitin it at 20 kilometres.

Sure enough, a Harbinger soon warped in. I quickly sent my ship flying upwards, a direction where enemy reinforcement were unlikely to come from, and switched point and fire to the Harb. It gave chase, despite being considerably slower than me and I had to slow down to keep him in the disruptor range. Soon, a Pilgrim also showed up but both the recon and the Broadsword appeared to be slower than the Harbinger. I don't know why but the Harb pilot never stopped chasing me even as he went into structure. By the time he exploded, both of his mates had abandoned him.

Fast forward a few days, and we spot a Sleipnir running a mission in Kurn. Now this requires a serious approach. A lot of mission runner ganks fail at the probing stage, especially since probes have been added to overview filters. In order to minimise the chances of this happening, our prober moved out of d-scan range before deploying a set of combats. He scooped them up and redeployed them immediately after getting the initial hit. This technique requires the target to refresh his scanner less than every 10 seconds (or get lucky with its scanning cycle) to spot the probes - something that I think would drive most people out of their minds.

With the target located, the goal was get it tackled. This is another part of the gank that often fails due to people being aligned or just moving out of point range. Come Arazu, a ship that can disrupt the target's warp drives from over 57 kilometres with just a Tech 2 point. Together with an armor Tempest, the recon warped towards the Sleipnir's last known location.

The choice of tackler proved to be right since the mighty (and expensive) command ship was about 40 kilometres away. Both pirate ships engaged their microwarp drives and the Tempest soon had the Sleipnir (which was slower due to using an afterburner) pointed and webbed, allowing the fragile Arazu to leave the battlefield.

The Sleip was not going down without a fight and got our battleship into structure before its tank failed under heavy fire and neuting. A well-planned and perfectly executed gank - such a rare occasion in the life of Pyrotechnics!

Finally, last night me and Bozo were checking out the 'hood in our Cynabals when I spotted a fresh FW mission beacon in Kurn and immediately warped to it, alerting Bozo. My directional scanner registered three stealth bombers: a Hound, a Nemesis and a Purifier. However, just after I passed an acceleration gate, a Rapier uncloaked next to me and quickly put a point and two webs on my Cynabal.

Stealth bombers, which initially cloaked, started decloaking and pounding me with torpedoes. They were each between 30 and 50 kilometres away from me but what is 50 kilometres to a Cynabal? Click-click-boom! Click-click-boom! Click-click-boom! Six rounds, three dead bombers.

By this time I was down to about 25 percent shields but the Rapier started disengaging once I turned my guns to it. Fortunately, Bozo had already arrived and together we finished off the recon which, I think, was sitting there to gank incoming pirates or pilots of the opposing faction. Gank report is here (warning: a lot of PWNAGE).

I Put Him Into Structure

2011-02-09T14:51:00.003+06:00

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

Joseph Goebbels

What do you do when you lose a ship but don't want to look like a loser?
What do you tell your mates when you engage someone but dock up after realising his gang has more firepower than you?
What do you say when you lose point on an opponent?
What's the best excuse for many other failures?
"I put [insert player/ship name] into structure."
It's not like someone will be able to check, right?
Bonus points if you say that about a Taranis.

Some Day

2011-01-24T15:22:00.004+06:00

"A Wolf on scan," reported my scout, "Close to Iges V."
Looking at the local chat, it appeared most likely the ship belonged to someone from The Bastards pirate corporation or its associates. With potential escalation in mind, I chose to undock a trusty Hurricane battlecruiser and warped straight to planet V's only belt, which turned out to be empty.
"Probe it down, must be safespotted."
Less than a minute later, the scout sent me into warp towards the target's location. It was indeed a member of The Bastards' feeder corp who appeared to be aligned but did not warp off for some reason and quickly melted under my guns' fire.
Soon after I had looted the wreck and docked, though, another Hurricane appeared on scan. A quick check revealed it to be the same pilot, at the same location!
A battlecruiser with likely support - time for some Hyperion action. The scout set up a warp-in while my battleship was leaving the station, allowing it to land about 15 km from the Cane which was already joined by a Drake.
I burned towards them and the Cane closed distance as well, apparently planning to brawl. Scram, web, guns, neut, drones on the Cane. Reinforcements arrive in the form of a Brutix and a Dramiel while the Drake moves out to 20 km away.
My ships starts to take a pounding but two large reppers are patching it up quickly enough.
Shield tanked (bad idea for a brawl) Cane goes do wn and I switch to the Brutix which, naturally, got very close to me. The Brutix, having no tank at all, explodes much faster and the Drake leaves.
I try to hit the Dramiel but even with neuts, scram and web on him neigher my large blasters nor my Ogres can hit the damn frig so I just leave and do the victory dance:

A second fight for my new battleship and a very satisfying one, especially compared with a terrible loss we suffered in a fight against Jack Coutu and his mates the night before.
"Some day we will get this Nursultan," says one of The Bastards in local.
That applies to you as well, Jack!

New Yarrrrrrrrrrr

2011-01-04T18:22:00.005+06:00

Happy New Year and Merry Xmas everyone!
There's nothing like taking someone new to piracy on a killing roam, is there?
LoC11 took his missioning Rattlesnake loss quite well last week and soon after the fight asked me if he could join our pirate operations, to which I agreed.
So, on Sunday night, EVE's prime time, we began scouting our corner of Placid in search for targets.
There was a small mining operation going on in Grispire but the barges warped off before we arrived and I only got to kill their hauler.
At the same time, though, another pilot in a Dominix decided to run a Serpentis plex and quicly got probed out by our accomplices. He left the plex some time after seeing the probes but quickly returned and died to my Hurricane even before LoC had arrived.
Fortunately, he finally got on the next kill, a ratting Arbitrator in Pelille, by cleverly warping to a belt where the cruiser was expected next.
After that, LoC went afk for a bit in Dastryns while my scout moved on to Uphallant where a battleship fleet had been spotted by fellow pirates from Muppet Ninjas, probably intent on taking down a POS. Except it turned out they were not bashing a POS, they were running a mission!
My scout probed down the fleet while ninja warlord Gaiden rallied his troops. Me and LoC joined their fleet and soon landed on top of the mission runners. We killed everything but two Domies which managed to warp off. Sometimes I just coudn't switch fire to the primary fast enough before it died. Needless to say, LoC appeared very excited.
I haven't spoken to him since that evening but I really hope this experience sends him on the path of piracy.

P.S. Everybody subscribe to the awesome Pirate Pack!

P.P.S. What's wrong with all those people in shiny battleships who refuse to pay ransom?

Just a Little Bit

2010-10-25T19:09:00.004+06:00

After putting my criminal activities on hold for some time due to factors that include major female Achura aggro I was able to roam the New Eden once again for a bit.
First, I spotted a missioning Drake in Iges which my wingmate quicly tackled in his Arazu. I warped in a Drake of my own but soon realised I was not going to break his multi-SPR tank. So I docked and got an Ishtar instead which worked much better. As the Drake hit armour, the pilot offered a ransom of 50 million in local chat which I was going to accept -- but it was too late as the Caldari battlecruiser popped. I explained the situation to the pilot as I was checking out his wreck and quickly realised why he was being so generous. There were two low-grade Crystal implants in his cargo hold worth about 90 million in total, both of which dropped.
Later on the same day I spotted a missioning Deimos in Uphallant. Unfortunately, he had finished his mission by the time I got to the site so I killed his salvaging Exequror instead. The pilot, who was very polite and understanding, opened up a private chat and offered a frig duel saying he'd bring a Rifter. Sure enough, soon (but not only after I killed a mining/baiting Blood Money Scythe together with my corpmate xerses0) I was back there in my own Rifter, of the Medium Shield Extender variety. The duel was quick and predictable due to my opponent being inexperienced and having Tech I guns.
I docked in the same system afterwards and soon spotted a Wolf in an asteroid belt. Now that would be a good chance to test my Rifter's power! Warp, load Barrage, change my mind, load RF Fusion, approach, overload, orbit at 500m, outtrack the poor assault frigate, pop him while staying at about 30 percent armour, exchange gf's. FUCK YEAH!
Turns out the pilot was from the same Fendahlian Collective alliance I mentioned in my last log, and belonged to the properly named theL337 Corp.
That's EVE the way I like it!
By the way, to improve your Rifter-fu make sure you read Wensley's awesome Rifter guide.

COMMUNISM WILL PREVAIL

2010-06-22T02:13:00.005+06:00

It all started when I spotted a few ships on a POS in Uphallant belonging to the glorious Fendahlian Collective. There was just one module there, an unanchored corporate hangar array. I informed the guys from Krazny Oktyabr Revolutsiya about it and a few cloaked ships started watching the tower. Not surprisingly, soon the hangar was removed and a one-hour unanchoring timer on the tower started ticking.
KOR jumped in and killed the few ships that "guarded" the tower. I was a bit late and only whored myself onto a pod killmail. The rest is best described by those chat logs:

[ 2010.06.20 20:19:20 ] CyberJax > Hiya, this is your chance to not have an alliance on your asses for a month or more :)
[ 2010.06.20 20:19:39 ] CyberJax > this is being recorded
[ 2010.06.20 20:20:03 ] CyberJax > and there are 7 corp CEO online right now, I got to be the lucky diplomat
[ 2010.06.20 20:20:39 ] Nursultan > YOUR POS HAS BEEN CLAIMED IN THE NAME OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
[ 2010.06.20 20:20:45 ] Nursultan > РОССИЯ ВПЕРЕД!!!
[ 2010.06.20 20:21:02 ] CyberJax > Good night gentlemen

[ 2010.06.20 20:22:03 ] Nursultan > ЗДРАВСТВУЙТЕ ТОВАРИЩ CyberJax
[ 2010.06.20 20:22:07 ] Nursultan > ДОБРО ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ
[ 2010.06.20 20:22:28 ] Ask Unbeatable > CYBERJAX WHY ARE YOU SO BAD AT THIS GAME
[ 2010.06.20 20:23:05 ] Quasi Vader > IT WAS A WELL FITTED ALLROUND ARBITRATOR YOU GOT THERE
[ 2010.06.20 20:23:10 ] Nursultan > ЭТО ЖОРОШО
[ 2010.06.20 20:23:16 ] Avar Davola > feel free to come pickup the tower
[ 2010.06.20 20:23:20 ] Avar Davola > we dont own haulers
[ 2010.06.20 20:23:41 ] Nursultan > ТОВАРИЩИ, ЕСЛИ ОН РАЗОЗЛИТСЯ, НАМ ПИЗДЕЦ
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:25 ] Drellia > o/
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:29 ] IRLBurly > hey
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:30 ] Krotch Roket > o/
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:36 ] Quasi Vader > o/
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:40 ] Ask Unbeatable > MORE TERRIBLE PLAYERS
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:44 ] Quasi Vader > hello lemmings
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:45 ] Drellia > what's this channel for?
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:48 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOU ARE THE WORST EVE PLAYERS IN THE WORLD
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:52 ] Ask Unbeatable > LIKE
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:53 ] Marxam > whats this crap channel for?
[ 2010.06.20 20:24:53 ] Vossten Vader > OMFG CHANNEL HOTDROP
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:01 ] Ask Unbeatable > WORSE THAN A PERSON WITH NO HANDS
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:05 ] Pual Muad'Dib > hello
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:13 ] Nursultan > ВЫ ПОПАЛИ НА БАБЛО
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:21 ] Ask Unbeatable > I AM LITERALLY THROWING UP BECAUSE YOU ARE SO BAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:25 ] IRLBurly > how far from Balg is Uphallant ?
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:25 ] Ask Unbeatable > FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:28 ] Ask Unbeatable > MY KEYBOARD
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:31 ] Quasi Vader > youre bringing us some spaceships to shoot at?????
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:31 ] Marxam > ah russian fuk faces i c
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:38 ] Nursultan > ОБЪЯВЛЯЮ ЭТОТ КАНАЛ СУВЕРЕННОЙ ТЕРРИТОРИЕЙ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ!!!
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:42 ] Marxam > bringing some to shouve up ur ass
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:47 ] Ask Unbeatable > HEY GUYS DO YOU WANT YOUR POS BACK?
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:51 ] Avar Davola > hello
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:54 ] Ask Unbeatable > OH WAIT YOU SUCK YOU CANT
[ 2010.06.20 20:25:56 ] Nursultan > ПЛАН ПУТИНА - БУДУЩЕЕ РОССИИ
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:00 ] Avar Davola > I am the offical Diplomat of the russian Federation
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:04 ] Pual Muad'Dib > wtf is this?
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:08 ] Avar Davola > we would like to invite you to pick your tower up
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:11 ] Ask Unbeatable > OOOOOH MAN YOU ARE BAD AT THIS GAME
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:25 ] Quasi Vader > Ваш альянс так плохо, может быть, даже худшем я когда-либо видел
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:31 ] Nursultan > СМЕРТЬ БУРЖУЯМ!!!
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:36 ] Ask Unbeatable > HEY GUYS
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:37 ] IRLBurly > anyone can st up an ambush , tovarich
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:37 ] Ask Unbeatable > GUYS
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:41 ] Ask Unbeatable > THIS ONE TIME
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:43 ] Norrec Vizjerei > learn to talk and not to use the caps lock and say this again
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:45 ] Ask Unbeatable > I MET THESE GUYS
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:50 ] TraaVadar > if you cant write it in english then your a coward
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:52 ] Ask Unbeatable > WHO WERE REALLY BAD AT INTERNET SPACESHIPS
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:55 ] Ask Unbeatable > IT WAS YOU
[ 2010.06.20 20:26:55 ] Nursultan > ТАМБОВСКИЙ ВОЛК ТЕБЕ ТОВАРИЩ!!!
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:05 ] Marxam > lol
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:08 ] Quasi Vader > i just said your alliance is propably the worst ive ever seen
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:12 ] Avar Davola > yeah
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:16 ] Avar Davola > feel free to dec us
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:23 ] Avar Davola > with your 39 % effciency
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:23 ] Nursultan > I CAN WRITE ENGLISH ALMOST AS GOOD COMRADE
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:24 ] Ask Unbeatable > LIKE REALLY. YOU ARE THE WORST.
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:24 ] Quasi Vader > yes we even insist on it
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:42 ] Nursultan > CAPITALISTS MUST DIE
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:47 ] TraaVadar > good then use it if you want to talk to us
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:56 ] CyberJax > if your wemon were worth taking form the war spoils we might
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:57 ] Avar Davola > it is pretty simple really
[ 2010.06.20 20:27:59 ] Ask Unbeatable > WHY WOULD HE WANT TO TALK TO SUCH AWFUL PLAYERS
[ 2010.06.20 20:28:00 ] TraaVadar > you stupid ass communist
[ 2010.06.20 20:28:15 ] Ask Unbeatable > GET IT? I AM IMPLYING YOU ARE TERRIBLE, TRAAVADAR
[ 2010.06.20 20:28:15 ] Pirhk > and what is all this about?
[ 2010.06.20 20:28:16 ] Avar Davola > if you dont want to either wardec us or give us free isk
[ 2010.06.20 20:28:20 ] Avar Davola > then you are not welcome
[ 2010.06.20 20:28:25 ] Avar Davola > sorry
[ 2010.06.20 20:28:33 ] Marxam > lol wardec
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:04 ] Pual Muad'Dib > who are you?
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:08 ] CyberJax > it's funny, you can taunt and stand in lines for toilet paper, but you can't speak english, don't try
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:28 ] Ask Unbeatable > I INTEND TO HAVE SECUAL INTERCOURSE WITH YOUR INTERNET SPACESHIPS
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:31 ] Ask Unbeatable > OH WAIT, I ALREADY HAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:35 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOU ARE TERRIBLE
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:38 ] Avar Davola > now that all of you are here, why dont you go ahead and threaten us or something
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:40 ] Marxam > all i read is some pussies that cant play this game for shit
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:50 ] Ask Unbeatable > PROVE IT
[ 2010.06.20 20:29:54 ] Ask Unbeatable > GET YOUR TOWER
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:09 ] Pirhk > oh noes, he found the ultimate caps
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:14 ] Marxam > i just did bitch, boom cant even talk straight sucka foo
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:24 ] Pirhk > now turn it off and behave a bit civiliced
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:29 ] Avar Davola > u mad at us bro ?
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:36 ] Ask Unbeatable > HEY PIRHK
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:39 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOU ARE FAT
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:43 ] Ask Unbeatable > HAHAHAHA
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:46 ] Pirhk > I know, so what? :P
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:46 ] Marxam > fuk that these poor foos cant do nuttin
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:56 ] Avar Davola > why
[ 2010.06.20 20:30:58 ] Avar Davola > you are the ones
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:00 ] Avar Davola > not coming back
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:02 ] Avar Davola > to defend your tower
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:07 ] Avar Davola > with GREAT HONOUR
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:09 ] CyberJax > he goes, you are fat, boy, got any momma jokes now?
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:17 ] Pirhk > haha
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:26 ] Norrec Vizjerei > lol
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:36 ] TraaVadar > 32 min left guys and 2 people at the pos
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:44 ] Avar Davola > ok
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:48 ] CyberJax > really, you have 24 hours to hand the POS over in a contract, ttyl Fends lets go
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:48 ] Avar Davola > thanks for the heads up
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:54 ] Avar Davola > haha
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:56 ] Avar Davola > no way mate
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:57 ] Quasi Vader > we wont
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:58 ] Vossten Vader > we can
[ 2010.06.20 20:31:59 ] Ask Unbeatable > HAHAHAHAHAHA
[ 2010.06.20 20:32:01 ] Vossten Vader > do that contract
[ 2010.06.20 20:32:04 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOU ARE SO TERRIBLE
[ 2010.06.20 20:32:06 ] Ask Unbeatable > LIKE
[ 2010.06.20 20:32:11 ] Vossten Vader > but it says "You receive: 400mil"
[ 2010.06.20 20:32:12 ] Vossten Vader > ,< [ 2010.06.20 20:32:46 ] Doc Banshee > yay... ganksquad failed
[ 2010.06.20 20:32:57 ] Vj Gunter > but.... what if they wardec us???
[ 2010.06.20 20:33:10 ] Vj Gunter > i'm scared tbh
[ 2010.06.20 20:33:26 ] Ask Unbeatable > MAYBE WE SHOULD GIVE THEM THE TOWER GUYS
[ 2010.06.20 20:33:31 ] Ask Unbeatable > (HAHAHAHAHAHA)
[ 2010.06.20 20:33:37 ] Pirhk > oh please, stop the simple mindgames
[ 2010.06.20 20:33:49 ] Avar Davola > ok then mate
[ 2010.06.20 20:33:51 ] Avar Davola > just go ahead
[ 2010.06.20 20:33:59 ] Ask Unbeatable > HERE'S A MINDGAME FOR YOU, FATTY. YOU ARE BAD AT EVE ONLINE.
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:00 ] Avar Davola > and do something about us stealing your tower
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:02 ] Avar Davola > otherwise
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:03 ] Avar Davola > gtfo
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:05 ] Avar Davola > :/
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:21 ] Marxam > lol look at him callin you a fatty tryin to play his insecurities on some one else
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:26 ] Pirhk > so you want us to either wardec you guys or pay for the tower?=
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:33 ] Norrec Vizjerei > hehe
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:35 ] Marxam > thats cute fool
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:43 ] Pirhk > does that mean you can't even afford a wardec?
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:49 ] Vossten Vader > well its not like we will use that tower to set up the research POS we always dreamed off
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:52 ] Avar Davola > no we cant
[ 2010.06.20 20:34:54 ] Avar Davola > we are all poor
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:02 ] Ask Unbeatable > SHIT SON
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:07 ] Avar Davola > but with that tower of yours
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:08 ] Quasi Vader > now that weve got a tower well grow strong
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:11 ] Vossten Vader > we dont even have a corp office
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:12 ] Vj Gunter > OUR FAMILIES ARE STARVING
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:12 ] Avar Davola > we will be able to build a space empire
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:17 ] Quasi Vader > hahah
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:18 ] Ask Unbeatable > I FELL OFF MY CHAIR BECUASE YOU ARE SO BAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:24 ] IRLBurly > i can make your real life miserable you loser backwoods third world piss poor excuse for a nation
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:25 ] Vossten Vader > its a real financial injection to our corp
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:27 ] IRLBurly > fuk you
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:38 ] Vj Gunter > what?
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:41 ] Vj Gunter > how can you?
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:44 ] IRLBurly > i was part of the last team to bother killing real life russians on russian soil
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:46 ] Avar Davola > u mad bro ?
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:47 ] Cartheron Crust > MY CHILDREN IS CLOSE TO DIE
[ 2010.06.20 20:35:48 ] IRLBurly > fuk you
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:02 ] IRLBurly > :(=
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:04 ] Vj Gunter > what team?
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:07 ] Ask Unbeatable > IS THIS SUM RL THREATS IN THIS CHANNEL?
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:13 ] Ask Unbeatable > SOMEONE'S GOING DOWN SON
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:15 ] Vj Gunter > can you kill me?
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:16 ] Cartheron Crust > FUEL WILL COOK FOOD FOR MANY YEARS TOCOME
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:20 ] Cartheron Crust > THX
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:32 ] IRLBurly > just letting you knnow i can reach you thru your dreams
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:37 ] Avar Davola > ok mate
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:42 ] Avar Davola > looking forward to it
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:44 ] IRLBurly > and i'm serious about the cross border op
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:46 ] Ask Unbeatable > "HEY MY NAME IS IRLBUDDY I AM SO BAD AT EVE THAT I HAVE TO KILL PEOPLE IRL. BECAUSE I AM IRLBURDDY"
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:49 ] Cartheron Crust > LEONARDO DI CAPRIO FILM REFERENCE ARE BAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:36:50 ] Vj Gunter > are you freddie kruger?
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:08 ] IRLBurly > :)
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:11 ] Pirhk > God, the comedians in here are worth the 500mill alone :P
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:27 ] IRLBurly > i killed real ppl in my youth to stop the idiots that populate your country
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:29 ] IRLBurly > we won
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:38 ] Ask Unbeatable > IT WOULD BE FUNNY IF YOU WEREN'T SO BAD AT INTERNET SPACESHIPS
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:41 ] IRLBurly > your are wats left of a failed system
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:44 ] Ask Unbeatable > THIS IS JUST SAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:52 ] Cartheron Crust > YOU KILL REAL PEOPLE
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:53 ] Vj Gunter > so what can you do now?
[ 2010.06.20 20:37:57 ] Cartheron Crust > COOL STORY
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:00 ] IRLBurly > still have to hoard sugar ?
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:11 ] Avar Davola > Вечной Славы может быть достигнуто только через смерть.
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:13 ] Avar Davola > Вечной Славы может быть достигнуто только через смерть.Вечной Славы может быть достигнуто только через смерть.
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:14 ] Avar Davola > Вечной Славы может быть достигнуто только через смерть.
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:18 ] IRLBurly > or has captilaism freed your mother from such crying behavior
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:34 ] Ask Unbeatable > IRLBUMBUDDY
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:41 ] TraaVadar > another coward
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:47 ] Quasi Vader > im scared to death
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:51 ] Quasi Vader > gonna log off for a while
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:54 ] Quasi Vader > =((
[ 2010.06.20 20:38:57 ] TraaVadar > afraid for us to see what ur sayin
[ 2010.06.20 20:39:05 ] Cartheron Crust > I CAN SEE
[ 2010.06.20 20:39:10 ] Ask Unbeatable > COME GET YOUR POS IRLBUMBUDDY
[ 2010.06.20 20:39:14 ] Avar Davola > bad people like you never cease to prodive entainment during an otherwise dull evening
[ 2010.06.20 20:39:29 ] Quasi Vader > yes please try to reclaim your property
[ 2010.06.20 20:39:31 ] Ask Unbeatable > WHAT AVAR IS TRYING TO SAY IS THAT YOU ARE TERRIBLE
[ 2010.06.20 20:39:36 ] IRLBurly > its sad when a no rate group like Chechnia can clean your clocks and boot you out of a country
[ 2010.06.20 20:39:46 ] IRLBurly > you havent had a good day since Berlin
[ 2010.06.20 20:39:52 ] IRLBurly > :)=
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:00 ] Vj Gunter > VIETNAM FTW!!!
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:02 ] Ask Unbeatable > I HAD A GOOD DAY WITH A CERTAIN SOMEONE'S MOTHER
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:03 ] Cartheron Crust > EVERYDAY IS GOOD DAY IN RUS
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:15 ] Avar Davola > IN SOVIET RUSSIA POS STEALS YOU
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:20 ] IRLBurly > thats the rampant alchoholism talking
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:34 ] Vj Gunter > VODKA IS KING!!!
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:35 ] Quasi Vader > MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:39 ] Ask Unbeatable > IRLBUMBUDDY TRUE AMERICAN HERO SLASH CRAZY HILLBILLY
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:46 ] Cartheron Crust > I DONT AFFORD ALCOHOL
[ 2010.06.20 20:40:52 ] Cartheron Crust > :< [ 2010.06.20 20:40:52 ] IRLBurly > pwn yu again ivan
[ 2010.06.20 20:41:04 ] Vj Gunter > BUT FERMENTED HORSE URINE EVEN BETTER
[ 2010.06.20 20:41:18 ] Vj Gunter > КОТАКБАС!!!
[ 2010.06.20 20:41:34 ] IRLBurly > english ya fukin noob, speak english
[ 2010.06.20 20:41:43 ] Cartheron Crust > I AM SPEAK IT
[ 2010.06.20 20:41:53 ] Ask Unbeatable > IRLBUMBUDDY COME GET YOUR POS
[ 2010.06.20 20:42:13 ] Quasi Vader > TRAAVADAR YOU DARE COMING CLOSE TO THE POS?
[ 2010.06.20 20:42:24 ] Quasi Vader > intruder
[ 2010.06.20 20:42:24 ] Vj Gunter > HE"S TOO BUSY WANKING TO SARA PALIN POSTER
[ 2010.06.20 20:42:51 ] IRLBurly > she can see you from her house
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:11 ] Ask Unbeatable > HAHAHAHA
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:16 ] Ask Unbeatable > DID YOU JUST GET CAUGHT AGAIN
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:22 ] TraaVadar > so
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:24 ] Ask Unbeatable > OH MY GOD JESUS CHRIST IN HEAVEN YOU ARE BAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:28 ] Quasi Vader > RASON 5BIL
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:31 ] TraaVadar > see the shpo im in
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:31 ] Quasi Vader > RANSOM*
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:36 ] Vossten Vader > we dont care
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:45 ] Vossten Vader > your velator is now claimed under the flag of the russian federation
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:52 ] TraaVadar > good
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:54 ] Ask Unbeatable > SO THIS ONE TIME
[ 2010.06.20 20:43:57 ] Ask Unbeatable > TRAAVADAR WAS TERRIBLE
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:03 ] Ask Unbeatable > HE STILL IS.
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:12 ] Marxam > lol u wish wed pay ransom to u fail suckas
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:21 ] Avar Davola > Tritanium
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:23 ] Marxam > aint gunna happen
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:26 ] Avar Davola > OMGTHE LOOT GOOD IS WITH ME TODAY
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:40 ] Pirhk > it's God, not good
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:41 ] Cartheron Crust > IT BUY MANY POTATO
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:43 ] TraaVadar > loot off that ship lol
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:44 ] Quasi Vader > gonna go post the killmail
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:47 ] Quasi Vader > im just awesome
[ 2010.06.20 20:44:49 ] Pirhk > potatos not potato
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:00 ] Cartheron Crust > WHAT?
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:09 ] Pirhk > one potato, many potatos
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:11 ] Ask Unbeatable > POTATO MEANS FRENCH FRIES FOR YOU PIHRK
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:13 ] IRLBurly > communist engineer at the keyboard
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:18 ] Ask Unbeatable > GET IT I AM IMPLYING YOU ARE FAT AGAIN
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:27 ] IRLBurly > cant figure out why he's the only one typing in caps
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:29 ] Ask Unbeatable > BECAUSE YOU ARE
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:33 ] Pirhk > that's a fact not a insult
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:35 ] Lee Thrace > he must do drugs
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:46 ] Vj Gunter > COMMUNISM WILL PREVAIL
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:47 ] Lee Thrace > *be doing
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:48 ] Vossten Vader > its rage
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:54 ] Vossten Vader > russian rage!
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:55 ] Marxam > cause he's special
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:57 ] IRLBurly > not in Russia, they are too drunk to import anything
[ 2010.06.20 20:45:59 ] Cartheron Crust > IT IS TO MAKE UNDERSTANDING FOR CAPITALIST PIGDOGS
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:06 ] Cartheron Crust > AHAHAHAHAHA I MAEK JOEK
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:08 ] Ask Unbeatable > I THREW UP OF LAUGHTER INTO MY KEYBOARD AND THE KEY STUCK
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:15 ] Ask Unbeatable > SO IT'S YOUR FAULT
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:17 ] Ask Unbeatable > FOR BEING BAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:20 ] Ask Unbeatable > AT THE GAME
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:40 ] IRLBurly > we will camp you into a starbase
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:47 ] IRLBurly > you know it , we know it
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:49 ] Quasi Vader > go ahead mate
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:52 ] Ask Unbeatable > HOW ABOUT YOU TRAVEL TO GLORIOUS NATION
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:53 ] Pirhk > you know, your attitude in game, reflects your personality in real life. realy pitty you
[ 2010.06.20 20:46:58 ] Marxam > RETARDED UNFUNNY COMENT HERE
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:00 ] IRLBurly > you'll dock and log off for a week
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:02 ] Ask Unbeatable > AT LEAST IM NOT FAT
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:08 ] Lee Thrace > i heard of a mirror wank this morning
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:10 ] Pirhk > better fat then stupid
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:19 ] Ask Unbeatable > THAN* HAHAHAHAHAHA
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:21 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOU ARE BOTH
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:21 ] Pirhk > fat is something I can get rid of, stupidity has no cure
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:31 ] Quasi Vader > please come and camp us
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:36 ] Marxam > OK
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:36 ] Vossten Vader > even if we would do that, you know we're not fat so we can actually go outside without ppl pointing fingers at us and dring vodka in public while enjoying our lives.
[ 2010.06.20 20:47:45 ] Marxam > SOUNDS GOOD DAWG
[ 2010.06.20 20:48:05 ] Marxam > ILL CAMP TILL UR MOMA PULLS ME AWAY FROM SCREEN FOR MORE SEX
[ 2010.06.20 20:48:13 ] Marxam > SHE CANT GET ENOUGH
[ 2010.06.20 20:48:31 ] Ask Unbeatable > THAT IS HIGHLY OFFENSIVE
[ 2010.06.20 20:48:34 ] Marxam > OF THIS AMERICAN GRADE A SWEETNESS
[ 2010.06.20 20:48:39 ] Ask Unbeatable > MY MOTHER IS DEAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:48:40 ] Marxam > WOOT
[ 2010.06.20 20:48:40 ] Vj Gunter > /emote cries
[ 2010.06.20 20:48:50 ] Marxam > THEN I WASNT TALKIN TO U WAS I?
[ 2010.06.20 20:49:04 ] Marxam > HOW CAN UR MOM BE FUKIN ME IF SHE'S DEAD
[ 2010.06.20 20:49:08 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOU HAVE A GLORIOUS NAME
[ 2010.06.20 20:49:10 ] Ask Unbeatable > CARL MARX
[ 2010.06.20 20:49:12 ] Ask Unbeatable > HERO
[ 2010.06.20 20:49:30 ] Marxam > SRY DONT KNOW
[ 2010.06.20 20:49:38 ] Marxam > OF THAT PERSON
[ 2010.06.20 20:49:40 ] Vj Gunter > I"M SURE HIS NAME IS DERIVED FROM SKID MARX
[ 2010.06.20 20:49:41 ] Ask Unbeatable > THEN YOU ARE JUST A BAD INTERNET SPACESHIPS PILOT
[ 2010.06.20 20:50:04 ] IRLBurly > hahahaha hey shitheads, meet Marxam
[ 2010.06.20 20:50:10 ] TraaVadar > hey fuk faces
[ 2010.06.20 20:50:28 ] Vossten Vader > hi maet
[ 2010.06.20 20:50:34 ] IRLBurly > they just want us to arrive so they can dock and log off
[ 2010.06.20 20:50:42 ] IRLBurly > gotta get up early to get in bread line
[ 2010.06.20 20:50:42 ] Lee Thrace > yes please
[ 2010.06.20 20:50:58 ] Ask Unbeatable > WHY DON'T YOU LOSE ANOTHER SHIP ABOUT IT TRAAVADAR
[ 2010.06.20 20:51:10 ] IRLBurly > cept for teh ones waiting for prostiture mother to bring home food for drunken father
[ 2010.06.20 20:51:34 ] IRLBurly > go to amsterdam, screw a russian woman
[ 2010.06.20 20:51:49 ] IRLBurly > biggest job opertunity in former ussr
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:10 ] IRLBurly > now third rate piss hole getting ases kicked my mountain arabs with goats to ride
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:18 ] IRLBurly > sry excuse for a society
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:21 ] Ask Unbeatable > SO TELL ME ABOUT GLORIOUS AMERICA
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:27 ] Ask Unbeatable > I HEAR YOU HAVE GOOD ECONOMY
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:30 ] IRLBurly > fuk u
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:31 ] Ask Unbeatable > AND A NICE OCEAN
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:36 ] Ask Unbeatable > CLEAN OCEAN.
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:47 ] Ask Unbeatable > AND NOT A LOT OF ILLEGALS
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:50 ] IRLBurly > ?
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:51 ] Ask Unbeatable > MEXICANS
[ 2010.06.20 20:52:57 ] IRLBurly > we are one ppl
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:00 ] Ask Unbeatable > YES AMERICA IS GREAT COUNTRY
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:05 ] IRLBurly > one day you will be forced to join us
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:07 ] Ask Unbeatable > NOT A LOT OF HOMELESS
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:11 ] Ask Unbeatable > AT ALL
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:12 ] IRLBurly > iron curtain rusted apart
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:21 ] Ask Unbeatable > MUCH LIKE THE AMERICAN ECONOMY
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:24 ] IRLBurly > smart ussr former members join rest of world
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:41 ] IRLBurly > asshats cling to old gloryWWII is long over bonehead
[ 2010.06.20 20:53:56 ] Ask Unbeatable > ANYWAY I AM BORED OF YOUR STUPID HILLBILLY TALK
[ 2010.06.20 20:54:05 ] Ask Unbeatable > HAVE FUN BEING A BAD PLAYER
[ 2010.06.20 20:54:06 ] Ask Unbeatable > BYE
[ 2010.06.20 20:54:20 ] IRLBurly > erudition FTW !! \0/
[ 2010.06.20 20:55:01 ] Marxam > I LIKE AMERICAN ECONOMY
[ 2010.06.20 20:55:08 ] Marxam > ITS THE BEST
[ 2010.06.20 20:55:14 ] Marxam > AMERICA FTW
[ 2010.06.20 20:55:29 ] Vj Gunter > OBAMA IS COMMUNIST HAHAHA
[ 2010.06.20 20:55:37 ] Marxam > I ALSO GET EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO ALL YOUR MOM'S
[ 2010.06.20 20:55:49 ] Marxam > CEWL
[ 2010.06.20 20:55:55 ] Marxam > HE WONT BE PRESIDENT ANYMORE
[ 2010.06.20 20:57:37 ] Nursultan > TEABAGGERS WILL FAIL
[ 2010.06.20 20:57:48 ] Marxam > FUK TEABAGGERS
[ 2010.06.20 20:57:56 ] Marxam > THEY FAGS JUST LIKE YOU
[ 2010.06.20 21:01:46 ] TraaVadar > bbuy fuk heads
[ 2010.06.20 21:01:50 ] IRLBurly > so they'er logging off before we even get tehr
[ 2010.06.20 21:02:09 ] TraaVadar > FUKN PUSSIES
[ 2010.06.20 21:04:23 ] IRLBurly > in case you didnt get my first post, i'm not the least bit impressed with a russian
[ 2010.06.20 21:04:40 ] Pirhk > Russians are good for one thing, making vodka
[ 2010.06.20 21:05:06 ] IRLBurly > its actually swedish but, yeah, they have over the years stoen alot of stuff
[ 2010.06.20 21:05:25 ] Pirhk > stil, russian vodka is good
[ 2010.06.20 21:05:38 ] Pirhk > don't care if they stole the recipe or not :P
[ 2010.06.20 21:06:04 ] Pirhk > other then that, their country is a failure and their womens are whores
[ 2010.06.20 21:06:37 ] Pirhk > it's the only thign cheaper then vodka
[ 2010.06.20 21:09:25 ] yingduan > hi guys.....
[ 2010.06.20 21:09:29 ] yingduan > what channel is this for?
[ 2010.06.20 21:09:43 ] Marxam > trash talking
[ 2010.06.20 21:10:02 ] yingduan > oh
[ 2010.06.20 21:10:04 ] yingduan > against who?
[ 2010.06.20 21:10:12 ] yingduan > i trash talk pretty well =D
[ 2010.06.20 21:10:23 ] Pirhk > they suddenly shut up :P
[ 2010.06.20 21:10:56 ] IRLBurly > russians are the italians of the 21st century
[ 2010.06.20 21:11:25 ] IRLBurly > used to be's and almost was'
[ 2010.06.20 21:11:27 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOU ARE SO BAD
[ 2010.06.20 21:11:32 ] Ask Unbeatable > LOST ALL YOUR SHIPS?
[ 2010.06.20 21:11:45 ] Pirhk > oh, he's back
[ 2010.06.20 21:11:53 ] IRLBurly > but we managed to get them to use the internet
[ 2010.06.20 21:11:58 ] Ask Unbeatable > SO
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:01 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOUR FLEET IS DEAD
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:03 ] Ask Unbeatable > AND WE HAVE YOUR TOWER
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:04 ] IRLBurly > just a matter of tiem till we civilize their children
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:04 ] Ask Unbeatable > HAHAHA
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:11 ] Avar Davola > gfs
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:12 ] Avar Davola > gfs
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:13 ] Avar Davola > gfs
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:20 ] Darius Avalon > holy sec hit batman ;(
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:21 ] Pirhk > and that means?
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:25 ] Quasi Vader > well done
[ 2010.06.20 21:12:57 ] Vossten Vader > gg dudes, didnt really think you would show up
[ 2010.06.20 21:13:58 ] Ask Unbeatable > WE HAVE PROVEN THAT WE ARE BETTER THAN YOU
[ 2010.06.20 21:14:01 ] Ask Unbeatable > GET OUT OF MY CHANNEL
[ 2010.06.20 21:14:12 ] IRLBurly > anyone can attack a random player dude
[ 2010.06.20 21:14:16 ] Pirhk > don't see your name on it
[ 2010.06.20 21:14:21 ] IRLBurly > see how you feel after staying docked for two weeks
[ 2010.06.20 21:14:39 ] Cartheron Crust > WE DOCK FOR A LIVING
[ 2010.06.20 21:14:55 ] Pirhk > you just admitted your scared
[ 2010.06.20 21:15:17 ] Ask Unbeatable > WE JUST KILLED YOUR ENTIRE FLEET WITH NO LOSSES
[ 2010.06.20 21:15:18 ] Vossten Vader > if you field more T1 cruiser fleets were not staying docked dude
[ 2010.06.20 21:15:20 ] Ask Unbeatable > HOW ARE WE SCARED
[ 2010.06.20 21:15:29 ] IRLBurly > in russian it translates as' best we can do '
[ 2010.06.20 21:15:38 ] Pirhk > true
[ 2010.06.20 21:15:53 ] yingduan > lol
[ 2010.06.20 21:16:28 ] Pirhk > "We dock for a living" carebear statement of the day
[ 2010.06.20 21:16:58 ] Ask Unbeatable > http://kor.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=6930136
[ 2010.06.20 21:17:02 ] Ask Unbeatable > CAREBEARS?
[ 2010.06.20 21:17:13 ] Cartheron Crust > IT IS KRASNY RECRUITMENT TO STAY DOCK
[ 2010.06.20 21:17:19 ] Cartheron Crust > PLZ CHECK RECRUIT THREAD
[ 2010.06.20 21:17:40 ] Darius Avalon > there was a cerb o.O
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:02 ] yingduan > what are u guys talking about? o.o
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:16 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOUR DEAD FLEET
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:18 ] Ask Unbeatable > HAHA
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:33 ] yingduan > my dead fleet?
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:35 ] yingduan > what u mean?
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:38 ] Ask Unbeatable > http://kor.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=6930136
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:39 ] Ask Unbeatable > http://kor.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=6930136
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:40 ] Ask Unbeatable > http://kor.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=6930136
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:52 ] Doc Banshee > back
[ 2010.06.20 21:19:55 ] Ask Unbeatable > OH AND THANKS FOR THE TOWER AND FUEL
[ 2010.06.20 21:20:52 ] yingduan > ohhhh
[ 2010.06.20 21:20:54 ] yingduan > u guys are tuskers?
[ 2010.06.20 21:21:05 ] Ask Unbeatable > WHAR
[ 2010.06.20 21:21:13 ] Ask Unbeatable > IF TUSKERS MEANS "BETTER THAN FEND" THEN YES
[ 2010.06.20 21:21:17 ] Ask Unbeatable > BECAUSE YOU RE TERRIBLE
[ 2010.06.20 21:21:42 ] yingduan > i can't really say im very good so yeah i guess lol
[ 2010.06.20 21:21:47 ] yingduan > im a noob at pvp
[ 2010.06.20 21:21:51 ] yingduan > i just went on that roam to learn how
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:02 ] yingduan > i don't remember seeing u there yesterday
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:10 ] Ask Unbeatable > well
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:14 ] Ask Unbeatable > GET OUT OF MY CHANNEL
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:18 ] Ask Unbeatable > YOU ARE TERRIBLE
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:20 ] Pirhk > stil don't see your name on it
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:25 ] Doc Banshee > avar: hows the time?
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:32 ] Cartheron Crust > FUCK LOOK IN FLEET CHANNEL ASK YUO INSOLENT PILOT
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:45 ] Avar Davola > still looting the field
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:45 ] Cartheron Crust > :D
[ 2010.06.20 21:22:46 ] Avar Davola > heh
[ 2010.06.20 21:23:16 ] yingduan > so....who are u guys again? lol
[ 2010.06.20 21:23:16 ] Doc Banshee > well,, get to work. and lets have sexy time
[ 2010.06.20 21:23:29 ] Cartheron Crust > WE ARE RUSSIAN
[ 2010.06.20 21:23:50 ] Cartheron Crust > PLZ BE LEAVING
[ 2010.06.20 21:23:50 ] Pirhk > cheap, drunk and stupid?
[ 2010.06.20 21:23:53 ] Vossten Vader > Civilian Shield Booster I
[ 2010.06.20 21:23:54 ] Vossten Vader > ROFL
[ 2010.06.20 21:23:56 ] Vossten Vader > youre serious?
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:03 ] Avar Davola > we are bitter vets that spin ships in station
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:05 ] Avar Davola > pretty much
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:10 ] Pirhk > you realy think we brought our main ships to a trap?
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:17 ] Vossten Vader > A TRAP?
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:18 ] Cartheron Crust > WAT TRAP
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:24 ] Cartheron Crust > YOU SEE ALL OUR SHIP
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:24 ] Quasi Vader > OMFG ITS ATRAP
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:24 ] Avar Davola > we sat there at 0
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:26 ] Vossten Vader > IT A TARP
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:26 ] Avar Davola > all of us
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:29 ] Cartheron Crust > AND KNOW WHERE WE ARE
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:34 ] Cartheron Crust > IS GGOD TRAP
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:37 ] Cartheron Crust > IMO
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:50 ] Quasi Vader > awesome ambush
[ 2010.06.20 21:24:52 ] Quasi Vader > thanks mates
[ 2010.06.20 21:25:19 ] Vossten Vader > next time bring T2 drones
[ 2010.06.20 21:25:22 ] Vossten Vader > we need moneys
[ 2010.06.20 21:25:44 ] Pirhk > then make money :P
[ 2010.06.20 21:26:16 ] Vossten Vader > with ratting or what? :< [ 2010.06.20 21:26:41 ] Pirhk > I make 50mill a day on PI, 5mins work
[ 2010.06.20 21:26:51 ] Pirhk > but I guess it's to complicated

Kills are here.
No need to say the tower was stolen from them in the end.

Hate Or Love It

2010-03-26T15:54:00.003+06:00

Skye's written up a very nice collection of things he loves and hates about Eve and being the copycat that I am I've decided to do something similar.

I hate Eve...

When I spend hours trying to find a target that isn't part of a blob and fail.

I love Eve...

When I manage to get a decent 1v1 and win it.

I hate Eve...

When a ship I've been training for gets nerfed right before I can actually fly it.

I love Eve...

When I catch a Navy Dominix, kill his two buddies in stealth bombers and ransom the battleship for 500 million.

I hate Eve...

When everyone around sits in a BC/BS hugging a station.

I love Eve...

When I catch a Prophecy in a belt, kill it as Dominix and Rifter arrive to help, neut the tackling frig and get out.

I hate Eve...

When I warp myself and a fleetmate to three BCs and realise it's a deadspace so we land on top of them and can't use MWDs, the guy loses his ship and emorages at me.

I love Eve...

Most of the time.

How To Save Your Ship From Probers

2010-03-03T14:47:00.004+06:00

Was browsing the Genos killboard this morning, looking for interesting fits as usual, when I spotted a discussion following a Claymore loss with a link to this EVE-O thread on how to make a command ship unprobable.
So I thought I should write about a trick that works in a similar way anywhere where you have deadspace pockets with acceleration gates such as missions and combat plexes. This rules out wormholes and 0.0 to a certain extent, I guess, but on the other hand does not force you to gimp your fit with ECCM or use expensive implants.
The trick: a command ship warps to the acceleration gate, MWDs out of grid and then just slowboats in a random direction (preferably away from any celestials).
Now, anyone who probes out the ship lands at the gate in an otherwise empty grid and, as far as I understand, there's no way they can catch the command ship unless they know exactly in which direction it went.
Should be pretty easy to do in any Empire system with agents.
All ISK saved by using this trick should be sent to me.

How To Run A 6/10 In A Cynabal

2010-02-18T14:10:00.006+06:00

That's right guys, I'm going to tell you how to run a combat plex.
First, probe out the plex, preferably right after downtime. Bookmark it and google its name to find something like this which will give you an idea of how many pockets there are and what it takes to run it.
According to forums, that particular plex requires a battleship, preferably two. Now, if you're a guy like me who can't fly battleships or just don't want to take such a slow and expensive toy to lowsec, there's no way you can do it on your own. So what do we do?
We wait for someone else to do the boring dirty job, for example a couple of guys in a Raven and an Armageddon. We have our covops wingmate watch them cloaked as they clean up room after room.
As they are about to clear the penultimate stage of the plex, we take out our shiny Cynabal and start catching up with them. The guys have never seen scan probes on their directional so they go on shooting rats and don't bother aligning for a warp-out or moving away from the warp-in point.
Then - BOOM - the last NPC goes pop, battleships start moving towards the acceleration gate to the final stage and our Cynabal warps in on top of them.
There's no point trying to dodge Raven's cruise missiles so I figure I'm better off orbiting the 'geddon at 20 kilometres in case it packs a point. My guns start spraying it with RF Fusion (for Cynabal, all ammo is like Barrage), assisted by a pack of Valkyrie II's and I watch grinning as the battleship's armour, tanked against Thermal and EM damage, melts like butter.
The two plex runners can't hit me for shit but the Raven slowly approaches and activates an energy neutraliser to drain my cap. It takes him a couple of cycles by which time the 'geddon is in structure. My warp disruptor goes off and I start spamming the button to reactivate it as soon as there's enough cap.
Fortunately for me, the 'geddon fails to flee in the few seconds when he's not pointed and soon explodes, but not before his mate warps off realising fully well he'll die just as quickly otherwise.
The rest is pretty simple: enter the final room, kite the overseer until you're out of sentry gun range, kill him for bounty and loot.

P.S. And yes, Cynabal is an awesome ship which I've just started flying and inaugurated in a fight against a French gang of HACs and battlecruisers who had earlier killed my Hurricane. Warped to the gate where a few of them sat at 100 kilometres, Vagabond gave chase and died as the rest of the gang was warping in over 100 kilometres away from us.
Thank you, CCP, for the awesomeness that pirate ships are!

P.P.S. Someone should organise a Geddongeddon just because it sounds so silly.

Notorius Thugs

2010-01-15T15:38:00.007+06:00

After Helicity tweeted about being called the Tyler Durden of EVE I thought I'd share my impressions of a few other pirates I've met (based on nothing but my subjective opinion):

SPECTRE

Evil and funny, commands an army of henchmen, likes grandiose plans (like the assassination of Ken Plante). Don't know if he laughs manically on Vent though.

KEN PLANTE

Nasty, scary and foul-mouthed. (Are those Mirkheim and Jyren's next to him?)

WENSLEY

Deadly and gentlemanly. And British.

DEAD TERRORISTS, F1NAL, WOLFY AND OTHERS

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187 On A M*******cking Cap

2010-01-05T17:15:00.006+06:00

It was a usual night in the Amamake area, Amamake itself was too blobby so my prober mate was scanning neighbouring systems in search of wormholes. After checking out a few empty ones, he found a hole in Siseide that led to "dangerous unknown space", meaning a high-class w-space system.
Jump in, hit the directional, WHAT? A Moros, a Thanatos and a Damnation on scan. It's not often that you see capitals in w-space, especially dreadnoughts, ships created with POS siege in mind.
My mate quickly jumped cloaked to a nearby planet and started narrowing down my scan to find the POS where those ships sat. But there were only Thanatos and Damnation there! THE MOROS WAS RUNNING A PLEX!
My prober jumped to a planet out of D-scan range and deployed core probes to pin down the Moros. There it was, killing Sleepers at a magnetometric plex, its enormous tank boosted even further by the Damnation at the POS (Thanatos was empty).
My wingmate bookmarked the plex and jumped back to Siseide while trying to arrange a gang in the Python public channel. He jumped into his rapier while I undocked my Hurricane, the shield tank variety which has more DPS than other fits. I didn't think tanking Moros would be much of a problem as even battleship turrets have problems tracking me.
In the meantime, my old partner in crime Jyren's Rage said he was game for it and started rallying more forces. My mate, sitting cloaked next to Moros, said he was finishing the plex so me and Jyren's jumped in to point the capital ship.
Jyren's was in a Curse and together we started eating away at Moros' cap while pounding it with turrets and drones. Our reinforcements started to trickle in: Armageddon, Megathron, Hyperion, another Curse. I think we had another battleship at some point which the Moros managed to kill with just a couple volleys.
Together, we were slowly breaking the dreadnought's tank, forcing him to go into siege mode to repair. He was releasing and recalling some drones but could not do any significant damage after everyone had assumed safe orbits.
This was taking a while: I had time for a trip to Amamake to get more ammo, other pilots even changed ships. Every time the dread entered siege we thought it was the last one but he then managed to do it again.
No one showed up at the field to help him as his mate apparently couldn't fly the Thanatos or didn't want to risk it.
Finally, the behemoth entered structure and its pilot accepted a convo request, starting ransom negotiations. When his structure integrity indicator dipped past 25 percent, we halted fire, awaiting a payment.
This was when his rescue team arrived: Apocalypse, Raven, Dominix, Scorpion, two Drakes, Harbinger, Hurricane, Phobos and a couple Loki. We reactivated out turrets and made sure the Moros died in a huge explosion.
We tried to fight back then but it was clear the field would be theirs. We nailed down a Loki before our ships either died (including my Cane) or managed to warp out.
Despite the losses, that was one hell of a good gank. Congratulations to myself on the first capital kill.

Get Rich Or Die Trying'

2009-11-20T14:45:00.004+06:00

Wormholes, wormholes, wormholes...
The places with no blobs, no local chat, juicy targets and unpredictable exits. I've been visiting them quite often in the last few months when lowsec became too blobby or empty.
After scoring kills like this, this and this in unknown space I've decided to share some tips on wormhole piracy with my readers.
So, what do you need to kill stuff in those weird places? First, of course, you have to find those wormholes. If you are new to probing, check out this great guide by pirate-turned-merc Hallan Turrek.
Is it possible to use the same ship for probing and killing? I'd say yes if it's a force recon, I've used a Rapier to both scan down holes and then kill smallish stuff inside. But probing becomes longer and the Rapier's firepower and tank are insufficient to kill a battlecruiser or a battleship under Sleeper fire so my favourite approach is to fly with a wingmate in a covops.
Now that you found a nice-looking wormhole, read its info (00sage00 has some nice resources here), bookmark it adding a date (you don't want to end up with dozens of identical bookmarks) and get in. If you are a scout for someone else, it might be convenient to have them warp to the 'hole and bookmark it as well to make a potential incursion easier.
Once inside, look around for bubbles (this is 0.0 after all) and check your directional scanner for targets. If it returns any targets, try warping cloaked to a planet outside of scan range and lay your probes there. Don't forget to bookmark the wormhole again before leaving it: you don't want to waste your time reprobing it.
Your targets could be miners, plex runners or other explorers like yourself. Killing miners is fairly easy (you might want to equip several scrams/disrputors), but you need to be well tanked to take on w-space plex runners. Apparently, as soon as you scram, web and neut/nos them, Sleepers will see you as a major threat and will switch fire onto you.
Another important thing is to bookmark the inner side of the hole with your killer ship to avoid getting stuck in case something happens to your prober. Also, if the prober is switching into a combat ship, make sure the hole is not going to collapse shortly ot you have at least one other wormhole probed out.
Unfortunately, more often than not you will find empty systems, occasionally with people sitting at a POS. Don't hesitate to go deeper by scanning 8AUs around every planet. Also, return to empty wormholes later to see if their inhabitants come out of their caves. The Orca kill linked above followed several hours of spying on a mining group during which I bookmarked their belt but made them aware of my presence. When I returned later, though, I was able to make a surprise landing on top of them.
To sum it up, patience and proper preparation is your best friend when dealing with 'holes. And those patient and prepared will be rewarded.

[OOC] With My Mind On My Money And My Money On My Mind

2009-11-04T11:03:00.007+06:00

"Money over power, power over money, beeyatch!"
Warren G

Aspiring pirates are often concerned with the issue of financing their activities: they are afraid of losing more isk than they make and want to have alternative income sources. And experienced pilots have different viewpoints on how to finance their PVP habits. Some try to live by what they earn through ransom and loot, flying cheap insurable hulls, while others say it's more fun to fly expensive ships and add isk to their accounts by other means such as selling time codes, running missions and complexes, trading or research.
I myself have tried many options. In the beginning of my pirate career, I had tried to maintain a high enough security status to run missions in hisec: that was enough to finance my Rifter losses for quite some time.
But then missions started giving much less of a security status boost and I decided to try nullsec ratting instead. It didn't take me long to fail at it and lose a Raven to an Arazu and a Falcon. Screw it, I thought, and decided to train up alts for mission running and hauling while letting Nursultan's sec status drop.
Now, training a new character to fly battleships takes time and I started selling time codes to support my PVP losses in the meantime. As I moved on from Rifters to Wolves and Jaguars, I had to sell more and more GTCs to finance my losses. Fortunately, at about that time I managed to acquire (for free) another character which was very easy to train for a prober. This has greatly increased the range of targets available to me and allowed me to have better intel before engaging in combat.
However, I still needed isk and continued selling time codes. Finally, in late May, once I skilled up to fly Tech 1 cruisers, I decided I'd try to finance myself without real life cash. I started picking fights more carefully, ransomed as much as possible and also began running 2/10 plexes (which themselves often provided opportunities to kill stuff).
Slowly but steadily my wealth started building up. After this kill, my isk balance jumped to about 1.5 billion - up from about 400 million I had at the moment I decided to stop selling GTCs.
With so much money, I once again started engaging in riskier fights using more expensive ships and, after the loss of a couple Vagabonds and my alt's Rapier, my overal wealth dipped below the 1 billion mark.
Once again I restricted myself to flying insurable Tech 1 hulls, cutting losses to a minimum and looking for ways to replenish my balance. I also doubled my wormhole exploration efforts, diving deeper into unknown space in search of targets or exits into other pockets of low- or nullsec.
Yesterday, I scanned down a wormhole in Siseide, which was empty but small making further probing convenient. Soon, I found an exit into a lowsec system, Ohkunen. The system was empty save for a few people who were either docked or inside a 2/10 Guristas plex. I jumped to the neighbouring system, Obe, which had a nullsec entrance gate. With nothing on scan in Obe, I decided to scout P3EN-E and stumbled upon a Dread Guristas cruiser in one of the belts.
I quickly brought Nursultan over in a Jaguar, killed the cruiser and picked up a Low-Grade Crystal Epsilon implant worth 125 million in Jita.
Not bad, I thought, making my way back through Ohkunen, when another Jaguar appeared on scan. I warped to the plex hoping to find it there but activated the gate just as it appeared in front of me. Still, there was a chance the pilot would follow so I sat at the warp-in point waiting. The Jag did jump and was game for a duel. Unfortunately for him, my setup proved to be better suited for the fight (he had an anti-Guristas tank). This is even better, I thought, scooping up the loot which included a Dread Guristas Warp Scrambler.
Hours later, I decided to check the same wormhole system again. A readout from my directional scanner contained just one line: Vargur. OMGWTFBBQ11111111, I thought as my launcher spat out four combat scanner probes. Check the scanner again, it's still here. Nurs, board something that can break his tank! 8AU, 4AU, 2AU, 100%! Let's get it.
I landed 30 kilometres away from the Minmatar marauder, a Tech 2 battleship designed to withstand heavy fire and loot the dead enemies on the spot. Overloading my midslots, I rushed towards the Vargur and pointed it. Activating my guns, I started a private conversation with its pilot and asked for 1 billion in ransom. "I don't have that much," he replied. Bad luck (for him).
But the fight was not an easy one. Although Vargur's large artillery cannons could not track my battlecruiser, bloody Sleepers had decided I was also a threat (haven't killed a single Sleeper in my whole life, honestly). My shield and armour were being destroyed almost at the same rate as Vargur's shield. I overloaded my guns when his shield approached 30 percent and successfully broke through the top regeneration point but my own armour was approaching zero.
Somewhere at about that time, the Vargur pilot said "Please let me go for 400 million". Sorry mate, too late, I thought - can't wait for the payment under Sleeper fire. Plus 400 million is really not enough for a ship whose hull alone costs twice as much.
Finally, as my hull integrity dropped below 10 percent, the Vargur blew up. I let the panic take over me and warped out without scooping the loot. However, as I brought my prober to the wreck it got decloaked and barely managed to escape heavy Sleeper fire. One last time, I told my beaten up Hurricane, sending it back to the site. Just in time - a Helios covert ops frigate was approaching the juicy wreck but left as soon as I started targeting it. I grabbed the loot and warped to the exit.
Only then did I look at my cargohold and the killmail and realised the Vargur had dropped a 500-million isk (don't believe killboards) Pith A-Type X-Large shield booster.
Phew, I think I have some isk to spend now.

Trading War Stories

2009-09-27T23:27:00.003+06:00

A minute after I have destroyed a Wolf ratting in Amamake's III-1, I get a convo from its pilot.
Nursultan > 0/
Ryddic > give me 60 milion o i declar war you
Ryddic > i and me alleans declar war you
Ryddic > 60 milion
Ryddic > have 5 minut time
Nursultan > hahaha
Ryddic > wtf you ahahah mother b---
Nursultan > i'm at war with all eve
Ryddic > ???
Ryddic > you us a noo
Ryddic > and your corp is dead
Ryddic > 60 milion
Nursultan > please go ahead
Ryddic > ???
Ryddic > no pleas no
Nursultan > wardec me
Ryddic > you give me 60 milion o your noob corp is dead you no undestand
Ryddic > ok
Ryddic > ahahahahahah
Ryddic > 3 player
Ryddic > huhuhuhuh
Ryddic > 60 milion
Ryddic > o you is dead lol
Ryddic > onorata societa (corp link)
Ryddic > is cor for me friend
Ryddic > and declar war your corp
Ryddic > +
Ryddic > me corp
Ryddic > +
Ryddic > hikage (corp link)
Ryddic > you undestand
Ryddic > ??
Ryddic > 50 milion
Ryddic > 30 ship
Ryddic > 20 fitting and rig
Ryddic > camon
Nursultan > Ryddic, I will not pay
Ryddic > no pay...in isk...ok pay in pod and ship....
Ryddic > for me is no problem
Ryddic > you dead no me
Ryddic > o
Ryddic > 50 milion
Ryddic > o clos your corp
Damien Korrybane > ?
Nursultan > i'm waiting for your wardec
Nursultan > bye

Staring At The World Through My Overview

2009-09-15T17:14:00.003+06:00

Aaaaaand, I'm back!
I haven't posted for a while due to playing too much and missed the first anniversary of me going rogue, a nice opportunity to look at what I have achieved. Yes, just over a year ago, inspired by Ka Jolo and Wensley's blogs, I bought a few Rifters and some mixed T1 and T2 modules, established a base in the Sujarento solar system and started my pirate career.
On August 31, I spotted a Kestrel in a belt and engaged it. I'll never forget the adrenaline rush of that first fight: my hands were shaking as I typed "gf" into local chat after getting beaten by the Caldari frigate. The loss did not frighten me and less than an hour later I scored my first kill, a Tristan class frigate. Ever since, I knew what my career in Eve would be.
Since that day, according to statistics, I have destroyed 740 ships worth 17.3 billion isk and lost 234 ships worth 4.1 billion isk.
A lot of things have changed within that year. I improved my skills and learned to fly assault ships, cruisers, battlecruisers and heavy assaults. I have moved to Amamake. I have joined and left Starbridge, a corporation where I had learnt a lot about various aspects of Eve. I then joined Pyrotechnics, a once active young pirate corporation which has since become much smaller. I have met and parted with a number of other pirates, joining forces for great kills and fun roams. I have acquired a wingmate skilled at the art of probing out ships in space. My security status has dropped to -10.0.
But some things remain the same. I still enjoy a good fight above anything. I still feel a wave of excitement as my ships comes out of warp next to a target. And I still think piracy is my job in Eve.

Your Bark Was Loud, But Your Bite Wasn't Vicious

2009-08-25T13:22:00.002+06:00

Yesterday I came across a couple of Brutix class battlecruisers whose pilots had gone offline with aggression timers on. Sure enough, I destroyed both.
The first one was TwiceDAsiZe of the Python Cartel and Spectre asked me in local chat to pop his pod for letting that happen.
The second was DonHel from House of Houses. I couldn't find their killboard so I don't know what his mates' reaction to that was.
But DonHel himself was apparently furious when I met him in Olfeim today:

EVE System > Channel changed to Olfeim Local Channel
DonHel > you lil fucker
DonHel > how the duck did u do it?
DonHel > i must know
DonHel > killing an offline brutix
Nursultan > no need to be rude
Vladimir Nabokov > sup
DonHel > \o
Vladimir Nabokov > so what are you guys up to in this dead end system
Cirridan > where up to no good
DonHel > wondering how nurultan killed an offline ship
Cirridan > i think he used guns :) but that is just a theory
DonHel > want to 1 vs 1 nurs now that i'm online?
Vladimir Nabokov > oh you can probe out an offline player if you get him within 1 minute i think
DonHel > only if they have agression flags
...
DonHel > good question
Nursultan > DonHel, free tip: it's 1 minute WITHOUT aggression flags and 15 MINUTES WITH THEM
DonHel > so 1 vs 1 now?
DonHel > or do i need to log?
Nursultan > what ship class?
DonHel > BC, BS, HAC i dont care
Nursultan > i have none of that here
DonHel > AF?
Nursultan > t1 frig?
...
DonHel > k, i got a rifter nurs
DonHel > where u want to meet?
Nursultan > undocking in a sec
Nursultan > accept fleet and warp to me
Cirridan > may i watch?
Cirridan > or do you feal to threatned
Nursultan > why not
Cirridan > by my awesomeness :P
Nursultan > btw drop the scpa charge
DonHel > who?
Nursultan > cirr
Nursultan > don, you coming?
DonHel > i dont realy have a rifter
Nursultan > drop your current fleet
DonHel > havnt seen your ship on scan yet either
Cirridan > i can lend u 1 donhel
Cirridan > if you lose my baby i will me mad :P
Cirridan > my ships are my children
Nursultan > ugh, why did yoou have to lie to get me undock?
Nursultan > and then come out in a jag?
DonHel > i dont fly crap
Nursultan > and i don't have an af here
Nursultan > so sorry dude
Sen Palpatine > someone loan him a rifter :)
Sen Palpatine > nigh olf
Cirridan > i can sell u nurs an AF
Nursultan > i dont need it here and now, thanks. it's don who wanted a fight

I don't think this needs any comments.

Heart Beating Fast, Time To Die

2009-08-20T12:31:00.004+06:00

OK, let's point that Ishkur, done, open up with Barrage rounds, ugh what? He's too close, I'm scrammed! Not to worry, my ECM drones should jam him in no time. Damn, his drones are killing them! Arrgh, a Vengeance has arrived to help him! They've killed my mate's Rifter! My drones are now gone! BEEEEYAAAAAATCH!!!
This is how I lost my first shiny Vagabond, a Tech 2 cruiser that has become my favourite toy lately. I made so many mistakes it makes me cringe: going after an Ishkur with a nos fitted instead of a neut, losing control of range, failing to check intel... I really deserved to be punished for that.
Fortunately, that Vagabond (rigged for speed before the nano nerf) had had a good run before dying, killing a couple of expensive battleships and lots of smaller stuff. And a replacement will probably be cheaper thanks to the introduction of smaller rigs.
I really need to learn a lot of things about flying it properly though: what distances to orbit at, how to manage my cap, how to engage some tougher targets.
Now, please, CCP, let it be a quick server update!!!

Trigger Hippie

2009-08-05T10:59:00.004+06:00

I've podded people too much lately. It has become an instinct to lock a pod after a ship goes boom. But I really should think more about what I do after that.
The first case was a young Drake pilot running a mission in Siseide. Oblivious to scan probes, he let my mate pinpoint is location to which I then jumped in my Hurricane. I landed a bit too far away so the Drake warped out but soon he returned to the mission site and I got him. We were the only pilots in the system at the moment. I destroyed the Drake, managed to catch the pilot's pod and started negotiating a ransom. My victim was a bit slow with his replies, probably contemplating my offer, and finally said something like "bleh k". At that point I noticed local spike and, being a paranoid that I am, decided a rescue mission may be on its way. I one-volleyed the pod just as its pilot was typing, "wait a sec, I'll transfer the money". Argh!
I felt really bad about the whole thing and sent some money to the guy along with apologies.
The second case took place in Olfeim, a lowsec dead-end frequented by carebears. I spotted a Thrasher in a deadspace complex and went after it in my Wolf. As I engaged the destroyer, a Hawk assault frigate jumped in and started locking me. I quickly finished off the Thrasher, podded its pilot and overloaded my midslots to catch the Hawk. It was a long fight as he kept moving away and I was using short-range ammo, but in the end he died too. With adrenaline rush preventing my brains from working properly I quickly podded the Hawk pilot as well. WHY?!!! I should at least have tried to ransom!!!
Finally, I had a fight with Venom Orchid of the notorious Hellcats. I spotted her Rifter in Amamake's III-1 and started approaching in a Rifter of my own. She accepted the implicit duel offer and we were soon circling each other, shooting and repping. I won the fight (Venom said she was a bit slow with overloading her guns and actovating the repper) and again instinctively locked the pod. I didn't really want to pod Venom and started looting her wreck while thinking about my options. I mean, it's not every day that you get to have a sexy pirate chick next to you, scrambled and defenceless... Oooh the perverted fantasies!
"GET OUT!" a warning from my fleetmate, Leeloo Malaquin of Genos Occidere, brought me back to reality as a Pilgrim recon ship showed up next to us, probably after warping to Venom's wreck. I warped to a safespot as he was locking me, saved by the fact that he went after Venom first. Again, I felt like a dumbass for letting some random guy pod Venom, although she didn't seem to be upset with that.
WTB podding management courses.

Hi Kids, Do You Like Violence?

2009-07-16T12:23:00.001+06:00

Tuesday brought some good fights but it's only today that I've got time to describe them.

Not so sassy
First I fought Sassy B in a Rifter duel. He used a shield tank setup with a neut while I stuck to the traditional armor tank with a rocket launcher in the fourth high slot. With Barrage loaded, I chose the usual 7.5 km orbit.
Sassy B was hitting me pretty hard but I was ahead in the damage race thanks to having bigger guns - 200mm vs 125mm - and the rockets. I overloaded my midslots as he entered structure to make sure he does not escape but then switched the rack overloading off to avoid burning them out. That was a mistake: burning out his afterburner, Sassy B managed to escape, just like Leeloo Malaquin did in our recent Rifter duel.
We exchanged compliments and discussed pros and cons of different setups. Sassy B said he'd only got one neut cycle on me before our orbits stabilised. It looks like neuts on Rifters are all the rage these days. I might give them a try.

'Nixed
Some time later, I was in Bosboger, a scanner's nightmare due to the myriad of ships parked at numerous player-owned structures. Still, I managed to spot a Dominix in a belt with Ogre I's out, ratting apparently. I was still in a Rifter so I decided to call in guys from the Python Cartel whom I had seen next door.
I convoed Lanissum while warping to the Dominix and tackling it. Unfortunately, the Pythons had moved by that time and were taking a while to get back and change ships. Things were going well with the Dominix at first as his Ogres struggled to track me. But then he recalled them and unleashed a pack of Hobgoblin II's. Cursing, I started targeting, webbing and shooting them but it was a fight I could not win. Maybe Gneeznow's cap booster setup would have worked here but somehow whenever I use that one I don't encounter drone boats.
Surprisingly, after finishing off my Rifter the Dominix did not leave and the Pythons got him in the end.

Rat Tackle
Finally, while scanning around in Amamake a bit later, I spotted a missioning Cyclone owned by a young pilot. My prober mate quickly pinned him down while I was thinking what ship to fly. I knew for sure I'd kill him in my Jaguar so I chose a Rifter to see if I could pull it off in a Tech 1 frigate.
As I landed in his mission site I saw the Cyclone was about 50 kilometres away. Damn, that will give him enough time to spot me and warp out, I thought. But then I saw a message saying the poor guy had been scrambled by a rat! Afterburner overloaded, I quickly approached my target to scram and web it (in case he was speedtanking those battleship rats).
I did not expect him to be able to hit me but my systems were registering some damage. WTF? A smartbomb! Fortunately, there was just one and my armour repairer could deal with it, patching the holes just as quickly as they appeared.
The Cyclone, on the other hand, was slowly going down. I overloaded my weapons to break through its shield regeneration peak and then it was just a matter of time before the ship was blasted into pieces.
I then made a stupid mistake which allowed the pod to leave, but that did not matter much after my first solo battlecruiser kill in a Rifter (hey, rats don't count, ok?).

They Took My Rings, They Took My Rolex

2009-07-10T16:53:00.003+06:00

I like to think of myself as a rather competent Rifter pilot. This means I take it very seriously when someone else beats me in a Rifter duel. Fortunately, there haven't been many such cases recently and I can only remember three pilots who did that: my corpmate Arquebie, Amamake resident Drek Grapper and, most recently, Brick0Joe, a member of The Python Cartel.
Our first encounter took place in Amamake, right after I had killed and podded some poor chap in an Incursus. I only suffered shield damage and so decided not to leave when Brick0Joe's Rifter started approaching me. Once in scram range, we both employed the same tactics of staying rather far away and shooting with Barrage ammo. But my armour was dropping alarmingly fast while my opponent was still holding quite well. Also, he was faster than me and I overloaded my afterburner too late to get away.
As my Rifter went down, I typed a sincere "gf" and tried to figure out why I had lost. There could be several reasons why I was overpowered: skills (I haven't yet got some of those lengthy level V gunnery ones), modules (I did find out, for example, that Brick0Joe fits Arbalest rocket launchers whereas I usually prefer cheaper ones) or implants (I only had a cheap one giving +3% to small turrets' damage).
I decided to eliminate the difference in modules and try again, this time also without leftover damage from an earlier fight. I got the modules hauled and requested a duel with Brick0Joe who kindly agreed. I warped to Gulmogorod, chose a safespot and waited for my opponent who soon showed up.
This fight went a little bit better: I got him into structure but then went down. After exchanging gf's I asked Brick about implants and he said he was using some without elaborating. So, I guess, a combined difference in skills (I did not ask but suspect his are maxed out) and implants, made him far more lethal than me.
Fortunately, this means I will be able to catch up eventually. In the meantime, I know which fights to avoid.

Fuck The Police!

2009-07-08T09:15:00.004+06:00

Coming straight from my mailbox:

2009.07.07 17:56
Dear Sir/Madan,

Electus Matari has placed your corporation on its valid targets list (please see http://www.electusmatari.com/standings.cgi for the full list), due to your crimes in Republic space (namely, piracy).

The -5 standing means that our combat pilots are authorized to fire on ships of your organization without warning. It does not usually mean they will hunt you down.

If you need more information, or feel there has been a mistake, please feel free to contact me at any time.

Elsebeth Rhiannon
Electus Matari
Alliance diplomat

We Do Love Them Holes

2009-07-02T11:38:00.003+06:00

Egghelende was slow this morning so my prober mate decided to look for wormholes and soon found one leading to w-space. The entrance was clear on both sides so he warped closer to the main cluster of celestials and started scanning. There were a number of mining and industrial ships on scan as well as a few combat ships and several POS towers.
He dropped probes and started looking for ships that were not at towers. Pretty soon he located a couple of hulks and a retriever at a gravimetric site. He warped to them at a safe distance and started approaching while I was making my way to the system. Unfortunately, his covert ops ship got decloaked by an asteroid and the miners quickly left.
They also decided to protect the entrance the intruder had used and sent a Broadsword class heavy interdictor there.
My mate stayed to see if the miners would come back, probing out other signatures in the system in the meantime. The miners did not return, but the Broadsword was replaced by a large bubble and a Navy Issue Raven! Unfortunately, it disappeared before I could figure out how to deal with it -- and potential support -- on my own.
Just about that time Jyren's Rage brought a gang of corpmates to Egghelende and invited me to join. A few minutes later, I saw the CNR pilot's name in the local comms channel and alerted the fleet. He disappeared from he local quickly but only to show up on the other side of the wormhole where my invisible prober mate was still sitting.
I boarded my Jaguar and warped to the wormhole entrance and waited for others. Just when Jyren's and two of his mates landed, the CNR jumped back into Egghelende and fired a round at me before reentering the wormhole. My fleetmates quickly followed him and Jyren's reported a point.
Two cruisers and two assault ships started circling the Raven tearing its shields with drones, blasters and autocannons. I expected him to call for support (saw a Vagabond and a Drake in that system earlier) but there was none. It quickly became clear that the faction battleship was losing this battle and an explosion soon followed.
I was already pretty excited by the juicy kill when Jyren's, who had grabbed the loot, said "He had Caldari Navy Invulnerability Fields. And a Ballistic Control".
ZOMGWTBBQ!!!
While heading back, we calculated that our loot was worth about 900 million, or 225 million for each of us. Gotta make sure it reaches the market safely.

Runnin' **** As If I Was A Mayor

2009-06-30T15:38:00.003+06:00

Last weekend, a month after joining Pyrotechnics Inc., I became its CEO.
Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with my outstanding charisma and leadership skills.
The real reason for my promotion was that most Pyro pilots have either left or quit or become inactive.
BiggerGuns started Pyrotechnics as a pirate corporation for newer pilots, the place where someone could get those kills required by corporations like the Tuskers, he told me. So he recruited a lot of new pilots and a few experienced pirates including Romeo Blakstorm. Things were going pretty well in the beginning as 'Guns and Romeo taught them the ropes of piracy.
But then the newer players started going inactive or leaving, probably tired of piracy.
And then Romeo left and 'Guns first stepped down as CEO and eventually quit the game for good.
Kaoticar, who succeeded BiggerGuns, soon also decided to pursue a different career and passed the CEO title to one of the players who at least showed up online from time to time.
I could not take over at the time due to the lack of skills but started training them. Unfortunately, our interim CEO quickly tranferred the title to another player before I asked him to wait for me. This weekend my predecessor finally logged on and, after seeing my message and talking to Ashnazg, passed the reins to me.
So what have I inherited? A corporation with 14 members but only one active pilot besides myself - Arquebie. Now he is a great pirate and I'm glad he's still with Pyro.
What's the plan? I have asked everyone else to state if they are committed to piracy or be kicked in a month. I will not recruit very actively and will seek mature, self-sufficient pilots who'll be able to fly solo or with other people when no one else is around - just like me and Arquebie do.
I also need to do some organisational stuff like setting up a new forum (already set up a new killboard here).
Now, if anyone would be interested in joining us, please visit our public channel "pyrotechnics" or contact me ingame. I still want the corporation to grow, just not at the cost of quality.

Life Aint Nothing But Spaceships and Money

2009-06-26T09:45:00.004+06:00

Apparently, the pilot of the Megathron I killed the other day has added 60 million isk to my bounty.
Needless to say, in the nearest future I'm going to jump into a clone with no implants and have myself podded by an alt or a mate.
Thank you, dear sir, for helping a poor pirate earn his living!

Megagank

2009-06-25T11:56:00.003+06:00

After spending the previous week away from New Eden, I have returned to piracy, undocking for about an hour a day to get a quick kill. The first two were a missioning Myrmidon and a Stabber that engaged Mashashige's Rupture in a belt.
But yesterday brought a juicier target.
As usual, I was scanning different areas in Egghelende when I saw a Megathron on scan. A quick directional scanner check showed it was not at any celestial object so my prober mate got to work.
It did not take him long to pinpoint the Gallente battleship and confirm it was running a mission.
Excited, I grabbed my Rupture (forgetting to switch the MWD for an AB and ECM drones for combat ones) and warped to the site. As the gate catapulted me into the deadspace pocket, my heart sank: the Megathron was about 50 kilometres away which meant it would have plenty of time to spot me and warp out. Still, I ordered my Rupture to close distance, which it started to do, painfully slowly of course.
At the same time I checked the Mega pilot's background: a member of University of Caille for 22 days. What? A three-week old pilot in a battleship? In lowsec? Not moving? Not scooping his Tech 1 Wasp-class heavy drones? Even as I'm 37... 34... 32 (start targeting)... 28 (activate overheated disruptor) kilometres away?
He did wake up as I was trying to get closer to my guns' optimal range. The Megathron's railguns quickly destroyed my shields, but as they started to bit into structure I settled into a tight orbit around the target where his tracking was insufficient to hit me.
The Mega pilot then sent his drones, previously scooped, after me. They took out half of my armor by the time I webbed and sho them down one by one, but after that the battleship was completely unable to scratch me.
My guns, on the other hand, were doing quite a good job as the Megathron's defences melted quickly. Finally, its hull integrity was breahed completely and an explosion lit Egghelende's dark sky for a few moments.
I tried catching the escape capsule of the hapless pilot but it, umm, well, escaped, which did not spoil the satisfaction brought by my first solo battleship kill (yes, I know, it was a very poorly set up battleship).

Log2Blog

2009-06-10T23:11:00.003+06:00

Corpse Collection Point public comms channel:
[ 2009.06.09 12:15:59 ] Nursultan's assistant > damn, there's a guy ratting in geddon here
[ 2009.06.09 12:16:03 ] Ashnazg's assistant > woot?
[ 2009.06.09 12:16:05 ] Ashnazg's assistant > eggh?
[ 2009.06.09 12:16:09 ] Nursultan's assistant > yeah
[ 2009.06.09 12:16:18 ] Nursultan's assistant > Jifftoolabahh
[ 2009.06.09 12:16:25 ] Ashnazg's assistant > oh
[ 2009.06.09 12:16:35 ] Ashnazg's assistant > ash is loggin in :D
[ 2009.06.09 12:17:01 ] Nursultan's assistant > we tried killing him with jyren's once but his friends came and killed us
[ 2009.06.09 12:17:45 ] Ashnazg > well, we'll have to kill his friends as well then
[ 2009.06.09 12:17:53 ] Ashnazg > underrun the lasers range.
[ 2009.06.09 12:17:56 ] Ashnazg > primary drones
[ 2009.06.09 12:18:09 ] Nursultan's alt > V-2
[ 2009.06.09 12:18:47 ] Ashnazg > warping
[ 2009.06.09 12:19:09 ] Ashnazg > one friend in local
[ 2009.06.09 12:19:16 ] Nursultan > who?
[ 2009.06.09 12:19:24 ] Ashnazg > delarth
[ 2009.06.09 12:19:33 ] Nursultan > k
[ 2009.06.09 12:20:06 ] Ashnazg > topbekt
[ 2009.06.09 12:20:08 ] Ashnazg > *l
[ 2009.06.09 12:20:10 ] Ashnazg > I 1
[ 2009.06.09 12:20:13 ] Nursultan > 3-1
[ 2009.06.09 12:20:27 ] Ashnazg > ^yeah
[ 2009.06.09 12:20:28 ] Ashnazg > ^^
[ 2009.06.09 12:20:57 ] Ashnazg > primary is the rifter if its shooting you
[ 2009.06.09 12:22:07 ] Ashnazg > get him
[ 2009.06.09 12:22:27 ] Nursultan > losing point
[ 2009.06.09 12:22:29 ] Nursultan > neuts
[ 2009.06.09 12:22:46 ] Ashnazg > have him pointed as well
[ 2009.06.09 12:24:13 ] Ashnazg > now go down already ^^
[ 2009.06.09 12:25:02 ] Ashnazg > NICE :D
[ 2009.06.09 12:26:22 ] Nursultan > woot
Solar system-wide comms channel, immediately after:
[ 2009.06.09 12:23:47 ] Jifftoolabahh > lol
[ 2009.06.09 12:25:27 ] Ashnazg > gf.
[ 2009.06.09 12:25:32 ] Nursultan > gf
[ 2009.06.09 12:25:34 ] Jifftoolabahh > lol not really
[ 2009.06.09 12:25:35 ] Jifftoolabahh > :)
[ 2009.06.09 12:25:39 ] Jifftoolabahh > was fun though
[ 2009.06.09 12:26:54 ] Dekarth Manic > lol
[ 2009.06.09 12:27:03 ] Dekarth Manic > next time .. we'll get u lol
[ 2009.06.09 12:27:22 ] Ashnazg > ofc
Concord report.

...Coming Straight From the Underground

2009-06-04T12:40:00.008+06:00

Going purely after mission runners makes your brains soft. I've realised that after failing to kill a Taranis in a belt last week due to my afterburner burning out.
Sure, finding and destroying carebears is fun, especially when you have strong competitors like the Eternal Perseverance. Together with Ashnazg, Nalshee, Jyren's Rage and his corpmates we've had some juicy kills within the last week including a Dominix, an Ishtar, an Apocalypse (I wish we did that without a Falcon) and a number of battlecruisers and smaller ships.
But sometimes, I've decided, I must jump into a Rifter, forget about my probing mate and do things the "old school" way, relying only on my directional scanner.
That was what I did this morning, leaving Egghelende with a short roam on my mind. I didn't need to go further than Siseide, it turned out.
Upon entering this POS-infested system I noticed Mashashige in local chat. I had seen him in a Rifter in Egg a minute earlier and immediately requested a conversation, offering a duel. Mashashige suggested instead that we gang up on a Worm, an expensive Guristas faction frigate which I had just noticed on scan.
In a few seconds I had it narrowed down to a belt and sent my ship in its direction, informing Mashashige. I landed about 30 kilometres away from the Worm and was sure it would warp out. But as I approached the Worm, midslots overheated for maximum speed and tackling range, I was informed that one of the Angel pirates he was shooting started warp scrambling him. I guess that was why I managed to tackle the Guristas ship and quickly destroy it without taking any damage.
Mashashige, who arrived at the belt after me, didn't make it to the Worm in time. Instead, he targeted me, as did the Angel Cartel pirates. I did not return the lock, waiting to see if this was just a misclick or we were going to fight. And then, there it was, a red box and a message informing me of his aggression.
I quickly targeted him back, activated the tackling gear and guns and ordered my ship to settle into a 7.5 kilometre orbit. We entered armour at about the same time and I overloaded my guns to maximise their damage. The fight was close and slow as we stayed in falloff range and used our armour repairers to full effect. Mashashige entered structure a bit earlier than I did and it became clear he would lose. A few rounds later his Rifter gave up and Mashashige quickly evacuated his pod.
With 62 percent structure left, I quickly scooped up the loot from both ships and moved to a safespot, exchanging gf's with Mashashige.
I then asked him why he had attacked. He said that since I hadn't taken any damage from the Worm he considered it fair to accept my earlier duel invitation. I think that was fair play (we weren't even in a fleet) although I personally would have given my opponent a warning.
We chatted a bit more and agreed to blow up stuff together some day.

Click Click Boom, Just As Soon As We Hit the Room

2009-05-29T11:25:00.003+06:00

If you are worried about losing ships, don't fly with Jyren's Rage. But if you want to have fun (as in lots of fighting) he's one of the best guys around.
We ganged up yesterday night and started looking for targets in Siseide and Egghelende.
The opportunity soon presented itself when a group of guys from Broski Enterprises, including a Harbinger and an Ishkur, engaged Jaster Arcturus' Myrmidon in Egghelende's top belt. The Myrmidon killed the Ishkur and, as I warped in, was finishing off the Harbinger. I shot a few rounds at it before the Amarr battlecuiser exploded and then warped out.
"The Myrm is almost dead!" Jyren's Rage said, knowing how to provoke me into reckless acts of violence. I warped back but it was gone -- only to reappear soon. I placed the tackle on the battered ship, but it destroyed my Rifter with just a few rounds of medium autocannons - an interesting choice of weapons for a Gallente ship.
But this was just the beginning. Lured by all the loot left at the belt, ships were coming back there.
I undocked my Rupture and headed to the belt as well, to be met by a Thorax. We pointed each other and opened fire. As I tried to get into a wider orbit around my opponent, I realised my first mistake: I had an afterburner equipped due to chasing mission runners earlier. Cursing, I overloaded my weapons and turned my attention to the Ishkur which had also joined us at the belt. I sent my ECM drones after him and turned back to the Thorax. Which was comfortably sitting there in structure, but not taking any more damage from me since my guns had burnt out. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!
Jyren's Rage was shooting the Thorax too in his experimental sniper Maller, but it lived to kill me. I warped out and docked up. In the meantime, the Ishkur killed the Thorax.
I jumped into my Jaguar and warped straight to the top belt. The Ishkur was there and I quickly scrammed and webbed it, setting into a 7.5km orbit where his blasters wouldn't reach me. Rage was shooting the guy from distance while his drones tried in vain to dent my passive tank.
The Ishkur, still holding some loot from my Rupture, soon fell to our combined assault.
Satisfied with that, I called it a night. Fortunately, I will be able to buy a new Rupture with the money from ransoms and loot accumulated over the last week.

Call Me Pyromaniac

2009-05-27T10:20:00.002+06:00

As hinted in the previous post, tonight, after dropping all th roles in my current corporation, I plan to join Pyrotechnics Inc, a young pirate corporation operating in the Amamake area. I have met its founder BiggerGuns through Brutus Severus months ago, even before he joined the Tuskers. 'Guns has been inviting me to join ever since establishing Pyro and I've finally decided it would be the right thing to do.
One of the reasons behind this decision was a chat with Ashnazg who asked me why I was still with Starbridge. Starbridge is an executor corporation of an alliance uniting mostly Russian-speaking players. What I liked about it was the freedom to do anything I wanted to do. The problem was I ended up doing it alone since most of Starbridge pilots either rarely engage in PVP at all or prefer bigger ships and different tactics such as gatecamps.
Pyrotechnics, on the other hand, favour the same approach as me: frigate- and cruiser-sized ships, quick raids, relatively small fleets, piracy above carebearing. Plus they are based in Amamake, the area where I usually operate.
In fact, while I haven't recruited anyone for Starbridge whiile being a recruitment officer, it was through me that Arquebie, a fantastic pirate, met the guys from Pyrotechnics after which he joined their corporation.
Hopefully, I will contribute to the rise of my new corporation and one day we'll be in the same league as the Bastards and the Tuskers.
If any other pirates reading this blog are looking for a new home, Pyrotechnics might be the place for you.

To Be Explained

2009-05-26T19:05:00.003+06:00

Don't Mess With Ashnazg

2009-05-25T12:52:00.004+06:00

The past weekend has been good. I've killed a few cruisers on my own, then me and my friend caught a couple of Brutix class battlecruisers one by one when they were doing their missions. The pilots paid us a total of 45 million isk in ransom for their pods.
And, on top of it, yesterday I probed out a Dominix battleship at a mission site. I immediately alerted the guys in the Pyrotechnics channel and Ashnazg (who runs his own corporation) said he would be in Egghelende soon. In the meantime, I warped my Jaguar to the spot and put the tackle on the huge ship.
His drones did not bother me at first so I concentrated on the Dominix itself, but all my attempts to breach his defences were futile. Moreover, light drones started denting my passive tank and I switched my attention to them while inviting Ashnazg to join the party.
The Dominix pilot was spamming the local chat, calling me a twat and telling me to leave him alone since I wouldn't be able to destroy his ship. "My capacitor is stable," he boasted.
Things changed when Ash showed up in his Vexor. He quickly picked off the light drones that were bothering me and started working on the battleship. But even our combined assault wasn't enough. That is, until Ash turned on his neutralisers. "Cap stable?" he taunted the pilot in local.
With its cap drained, the Dominix could no longer tank us and soon exploded. The pilot was smart enough to warp out his pod quickly, but we were still happy as the loot drop appeared to be quite generous.
I'm really impressed by how efficiently Ash dealt with that ship and really happy we're on the same side. I must try to do the same with my Rupture but I'm afraid the Vexor is just stronger. And so is Ash.

UPD: Ash has provided a detailed account of the Dominix kill from his perspective here.

Mission Busting Tips

2009-05-22T13:20:00.002+06:00

I thought I should share some of the lessons I've learnt while hunting down mission runners in Egghelende so there you go:
DO make sure your prober is cloaked at all times. His own probes can decloak him and when he warps to a mission deadspace he usually hits the acceleration gate which decloaks him as well.
DO NOT jump into mission sites with your prober unless his ship is also fit for tackling. Clouds present at many sites will decloak him.
DO scan mission sites before jumping there. Other pirates might have discovered them before you.
DO NOT jump into mission sites with all your gang at the same time. The fastest ship should go in and tackle the target as one ship has more chances to stay unnoticed.
DO remember that microwarp drives do not work inside mission deadspaces. So a traditional interceptor will not be a tackler of choice there.
DO NOT give up if your target warps out. Return to the mission gate and wait. Many pilots return to those sites within a few minutes.
DO a background check on your target before engaging. His mates might be nearby and aa skilled pilot might be able to dispatch you on his own.
DO NOT be greedy. Call for support when you see a tough target.
DO form a fleet with your prober before undocking so that you don't waste time or risk losing your ship.
DO NOT linger at safespots with your killer ship while probing. It's quite annoying to get probed out while probing out someone else.

Should I move to egghelende.blogspot.com?

2009-05-21T10:17:00.003+06:00

Somehow I spend most of my time in Egghelende these days, although I do visit Amamake quite often to resupply or kill a ratter. Egg' seems to have fewer blobs and more carebears, although it's still a tough place for a solo pirate, a fact I've learnt the hard way.
So, for the the last month I've mostly flown in gangs that usually consisted of pilots from Pyrotechnics Inc, Mayhem Brothers (mostly Jyren's Rage) and Corpse Collection Point (namely Ashnazg). This has been a great experience and we've had lots of good fights. But now I'm back home with my family which means less playing time, very limited voice comms usage and going afk quite often.
In the last few days I've done some solo piracy, probing out and killing mission runners in Egg', like these guys in a Thorax and a Celestis. My Rupture seems to be the best ship for such kills as my favourite assault frigates are often not allowed through mission gates.
The problem is that any ship bigger than a cruiser usually draws attention of other pirates, especially the guys from Eternal Perseverance who often use battleships, HACs and other expensive ships. Yesterday, for example, I probed out a Rokh only to find it already warp scrambled by an EP Sleipnir.
I'm wondering if some day we could get together a fleet strong enough to take on those guys.

A 100 million isk Thorax

2009-05-06T11:33:00.004+06:00

How do you lose 100 million isk?
Buy a Thorax, equip it with expensive modules, fill in all three rig slots, accept a mission in low security space, go to the deadspace and sit there comfortably tanking the NPCs, completely oblivious to what's going on around you. Don't pay attention to scan probes - they're such a pain to scan for. You can even remove everything but NPCs from your overview - you don't want to be distracted.
But don't complain when pirates probe you out, fly more than 50 kilometres to you in the deadspace, tackle and destroy your ship and then also snatch your pod.
That's the story of the Thorax I mentioned in the previous post. I was really surprised when I finally found the killmail for it yesterday.
Also, yesterday Jyren's Rage, Coco Pennywise and me killed a Harbinger in one of Egghelende's belts. The guys got a quick tackle on him and the battlecruiser's drones weren't enough to deal with us although Coco had to warp his Stiletto out at one point. We then ransomed the pod for 40 million.
Later, we tried to take on a group made up of a Zealot heavy assault ship and two Drake battlecruisers who were running a mission. I tackled the Zealot and flagged it as outp primary target. But Soon my Jag was webbed and started taking heavy damage so I told everyone to get out. Unfortunately, we lost one Celestis that could not escape quickly enough.
Finally, we probed out a group of several T1/T2 frigates and a cruiser at a safespot and tried to take on them, but they managed to escape. One of our fleetmates stayed there cloaked and soon told us the group had returned. We jumped again but only managed to kill a Kestrel and its pilot's pod.
Still, not a bad evening.

Go Go Vent!

2009-05-05T11:28:00.003+06:00

Ran the first small fleet operation yesterday using my vent server where almost all fleet members were present.
That made a huge difference: Jyren's Rage, flying a nimble interceptor, was feeding intel to me all the time, checking out belts and planets, and other guys were aware of what we were up to - without the need to type all the time in two languages.
I'm not saying this is purely due to voice comms, but we suffered no losses yesterday despite getting into a couple of unsuccessful engagements.
We killed a Thorax that Rage had tackled in a belt and a Vexor I had probed out at a mission site and then another Thorax which was also running a mission (a killmail for that one is missing at the moment). Got the pods from all three as well since they refused to pay ransom.
At one moment we were trying to kill a Raven doing work for one of Empire's agents. A Myrmidon came to his help and we had to keep warping out and in to repair. Then a Chimera carrier showed up, followed by a Scorpion ECM battleship.
We chose to retreat but then saw a large Drunk Gang fleet warp to our opponents and destroy the carrier. Damn, should have fired a round at him!

A Long Overdue Update

2009-05-04T14:13:00.004+06:00

It's been a long time. My apologies, dear readers, for not writing: I have a habit of blogging at work and I've spent the last three weeks at a different office doing a bit more work.
But this also means I had more time to spend in New Eden on evenings and weekends, which I devoted to roaming with Pyrotechnics guys, Jyren's Rage and his Mayhem Brothers corpmates and a group of Russian players including Nart Apsua, Andrik R, Wolfed and others. Between these groups who in some occasions joined up in one fleet we had some really good kills including a Dominix, a number of battlecruisers and lots of smaller ships.
I have also scored a number solo kills, mainly mission-runners that I had probed out.
But I must say I really enjoy our small (and sometimes not so small) fleet operations. The only problem is we're all too reckless sometimes and I often lose rather expensive ships such as Wolves and Jaguars.
Another problem is comms: first, we don't have a voice facility that our mixed fleet can use; second, it's often made up of players who don't speak either English or Russian. I think I need my own vent server as it's easier to repeat voice commands in two languages than to type twice while also fighting.
That's it for now, I hope to be able to return to at least weekly updates from now on.

UPDATE: Got myself a Vent server now.

A Short Explanation

2009-04-23T10:24:00.003+06:00

Haven't posted for a while - I'm in a foreign country at the moment. I do log in quite often (although playing on a laptop with a 1024*768 screen is a pain) and joined guys from Pyrotechnics on several occasions. Will report more in the coming days.

A Deadly Duo

2009-04-08T15:36:00.003+06:00

Shortly after entering Siseide, a system adjacent to my sweet home Amamake, I saw a Drake on scan, piloted by a relatively inexperienced capsuleer. As I narrowed down my search to a single belt, I saw there were also a Brutix and a Malediction there. I decided to have a look from a safe distance, but the two battlectuisers warped out as I arrived.
Malediction pilot Jyren's Rage, who had negative security status and a bounty on his head, opened a convo and offered to deal with the two battlecruisers together. 'Sure,' I replied and accepted his fleet invitation. I scanned a random couple of belts and there they were, sitting at one of them. I gave the coordinates to Jyren's Rage while warping and quickly tackled the Drake after landing on top of it.
The Brutix disappeared shortly after my partner in crime arrived and together we quickly broke the Drake's shield tank. Its heavy missiles were no good against my Rifter and its neutralizer wasn't much of a problem because I had a capacitor booster equipped - stole the setup from Gneeznow after watching one of his fantastic Getsu Fune videos. As the battlecruiser entered structure, Jyren's Rage left to find the Brutix while I finished off the Drake. He suggested that I grab the loot.
Shortly after, he had the Brutix pointed and helpless with its railguns unable to hit our quick and nimble ships. It didn't last longer than the Drake and this time the final blow and the loot went to Jyren's Rage.
So, within less than ten minutes we destroyed two larger ships worth a total of 75 million isk - way to go for pirate cooperation!
I docked up as we exchaged compliments and agreed to commit more crimes together.

Clickity-clank. Clickity-clank. The money goes into my piggy bank

2009-04-06T09:42:00.003+06:00

Amamake's busy as usual with about 50 pilots in the system. Most are concentrated at a couple of spots indicating relatively large gangs. But my attention is drawn to a Typhoon class battleship which is sitting alone at a belt, its inexperienced pilot's name visible on the scanner screen.
I warped to the belt, settled into a tight orbit and opened fire on the huge battleship. It activated a warp disruptor and sent a pack of Tech 1 drones after me which I soon destroyed one by one. But my armour kept dropping, mostly due to missile hits I guess. I overloaded my afterburner, aligned to a random celestial and soon was free to dock up, repair and get some more ammunition.
When I was back in space, a quick scan showed the Typhoon had not gone anywhere, but had been joined by another Rifter. Andrik R was also circling the battleship and spraying it with bullets. Together, we were dealing enough damage to break its tank and when the Typhoon exploded I quickly locked the pod and sent its pilot into the clone vat.
Among the debris, there were a couple of intact Harvester Mining Drones which I scooped up. I sent Andrik R 75 million isk after checking out their market value.
This was my first battleship kill and my biggest loot drop so far. Should help offset later losses of two Rifters, one of which was completely avoidable - I warped to a safespot which had earlier been busted by the Drunk Gang. Oh well, at least they brought a couple Taranises, an Arazu, a Falcon and a Vexor to kill me.

Slice Like a Ninja, Cut Like a Razor Blade

2009-04-02T10:42:00.005+06:00

Yesterday morning was great and the evening was just as good.
I scanned down a couple of Rifters ratting at a belt in Siseide and warped to them. Targeting the one that was closer, I settled into the usual 7.5km orbit and activated my tackling gear and guns. The second Rifter reacted slowly but eventually targeted me and started helping his mate.
I could deal with two of them, but then the third one warped in and joined the party. My overheated armour repairer could not catch up with the damage they were dealing and the lack of capacitor charge forced me to start pulsing it instead of running the module nonstop. Fortunately for me, my first target soon exploded, after which I quickly moved the tackle onto another frigate and moved away from it into an orbit where my Barrage ammunition would give me distance advantage.
I kept my guns overloaded and continued pulsing the repper, but was already taking hull damage resulting in the familiar flame and smoke. About halfway into structure, I managed to get rid of the second Rifter.
When I faced the last opponent, I had virtually no armour and no cap left. Suppressing the urge to try and run away, I once again ordered my ship to widen the orbit and, as soon as cap regenerated a little, activated the afterburner, the web and the scrambler. That helped me reduce incoming damage and start repairing my armour bit by bit. The third Rifter turned out to be the weakest one, but just as his armour was giving up, a flashy red Maller showed up at the belt and sped towards us, releasing a pack of Tech 2 drones.
Seeing no chances to survive a fight against the cruiser, I aligned to another belt and overheated my midslots. I did not expect to get away quickly, but suddenly my warp drive was free from disruption and I was in the safety of a warp tunnel. Turned out I finished off the last Rifter while trying to flee. Checking out my ship stats I noticed I had 19 percent structure left.
Extremely satisfied, I docked my own Rifter for the night as soon as my criminal timer expired.

Good Morning!

2009-04-01T13:07:00.003+06:00

This morning, before getting my cup of coffee, I decided to see what was going on in Amamake.
I quickly scanned down a Stabber at a faction warfare plex and rushed to it. It was at the acceleration gate entrance and I went through the usual tackling routine. Suddenly, my cap was gone - damn, a neutraliser! Rho Jones made quick work of my cap-drained Rifter and I warped out in a pod. Those Stabbers are a coin toss really: you either beat them easily or die quickly.
As usual, I had another Rifter ready at a station and soon undocked again, looking for targets. Belts were empty, but there were a Thrasher and a Punisher moving between safespots. They lingered for too long at one of those giving my friend in a covert ops ship enough time to define their exact location.
I warped in, but the Thrasher quickly disappeared from the grid. I bookmarked the location and returned to my own observation spot. Soon, the pair were back and I was on my way. By the time I arrived, the Punisher had disappeared, but the Trasher was there and was up for a fight this time.
Despite being a relatively young pilot, Cowardly Sniper was hitting me hard, stripping my shield off in a couple rounds. I overloaded my guns and repair systems, settling into a tight orbit and spitting out EMP shells. When the Thrasher's shield - its primary defence level - was gone, his mate in a Punisher showed up. Will my armour hold under the assault or will it crumble? Read the next paragraph to find out!
I went on shooting the Thrasher and finally it exploded, but not before making several holes in my Rifter's hull which started letting out a trace of grey smoke clearly visible against the pitch black sky. Still, my overheated armour repairer was patching up the broken plates when I focused my attention on the Punisher.
Scram, web, orbit at 7.5km, switch to Barrage, keep pulsing the repper, laugh manically, choke with smoke, overheat guns again to break the armour at its peak regeneration level, job done.
I exchanged compliments with Cowardly Sniper and Cloudnebula while I scooped the loot.
The morning looked much better now, but there was more. I waited out my GCC, docked to repair and unload the loot and rushed back into open space. There was a Claw not far from the station, but it did not respond to my baiting attempts. However, a bit later I saw the same Claw at a belt to which I immediately jumped. Luck was definitely on my side as I landed right on top of the interceptor and had a quick tackle. Marlbor0 Man fought well, but Claw's tank is no match for Rifter's.
Satisfied, I docked up and went for my cup of coffee.

Straight Outta Clone Vat

2009-03-24T10:04:00.006+06:00

Kill & loss statistics since the last report:
- killed eight frigates, five destroyers, four cruisers, an interceptor, an assault ship, an industrial ship and five pods;
- lost five Rifters, two Wolves, one Rupture and a pod.

Ah, another week full of good fights. I'll mention just a few that have been the most interesting.
There have been a couple of good Rifter duels -- I lost the one against Arquebie and won against Switch 4. Then there was a great Wolf duel with Pax Sex. I was ahead in the damage race, but my guns were reaching critical heat levels so I toggled rack overloading. Unfortunately, this way I also overloaded my neutralizer which burnt my guns in just one cycle, allowing Pax Sex to finish me.

I also had my first fight in a Rupture last week after taking it to Egghelende. I jumped to a planet after spotting some frigate there, but it quickly warped off while another frigate, a Punisher, showed up, soon joined by a Firetail and a Rifter. I sent my ECM drones after the Firetail while focusing fire on the Punisher which soon exploded, its capacitor emptied by my neutralizer. Just when I switched fire to the Firetail, a Thorax joined the party. I refocused my fire on the cruiser, seeing it as the biggest threat, and sent the drones after him as well. My armour was melting under the combined assault of the three ships, but before going down I managed to kill the Thorax. I then tried to kill the Firetail as well and missed the chance to save my pod. Well, that just meant I made it back to Amamake a bit faster.

Another good fight was against two Ghost Festival pilots: my Rifter was able to tank and kill their Incursus class ships, both in proper PVP setups. Staying at a 7.5 kilometre orbit has helped me dodge blaster fire. Finally, there was a fight with Zombiedeadhead's Claw. He attacked me at a gate from Siseide to Amamake and I was unable to get within scram/web range so I jumped. Of course, then I just burned back towards the gate and jumped again. This time, for some reason (maybe due to bumping into the gate), he allowed me to get in close after which the Claw was doomed.

Somehow, I'm much more efficient with Rifters than with Wolves: lost the second one in a week yesterday after jumping a Harbinger which was quickly joined by a Vexor. Must be more careful with these expensive toys.

Not Blue? SHOOT IT!!!

2009-03-19T10:51:00.003+06:00

No more asking myself "can I shoot it?"
No more helplessly watching Amarr militia do their business.
No more NRDS.
(In Zach de la Rocha's voice:) Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!

The Bloody Saturday

2009-03-17T09:31:00.011+06:00

Here's what I've done within the last three days:
- killed 10 frigs, 3 destroyers, 4 cruisers, 1 interceptor, 1 covert ops ship and 7 pods
- lost five Rifters.
I think I've also set my personal record for kills within 24 hours - 19 ships and pods.

It all started on Friday night. I undocked in Amamake and began checking nearby solar systems for targets. It didn't take long: Herbatrix's Caracal was dealing with a battleship rat in a belt in Dal and quickly died under my Rifter's fire. I snatched and killed the pod too. My next target was Axebearer in his Thrasher in Amamake. He also failed to save his pod.
About an hour later I scanned down and destroyed Flash StingeR's Osprey in Egghelende where he apparently planned to mine peacefully. He sent me a funny message in Russian in which he called me a "slit-eyed hydrococksucker". Thanks, man, that totally made my day!
I stayed in Egghelende for a while and soon caught The FaIIen's Rifter in a belt and then destroyed Midla's Catalyst that drifted too far away from a station. Podded him too. I then decided to have some sleep and docked up for the night.
I started the next morning by killing GunRo Chin's Probe in Auga and podding him. Gotta love the new scanning mechanic that makes pilots completely oblivious to what's going on around them. Got a message from him as well, asking if that kill had made me satisfied. Yes, thank you sir.
Back in Amamake, I attacked Omegadeity's Rifter in a belt, but by the time I finished it, a couple of guys from the Drunk Gang arrived and destroyed my ship as well. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. I jumped into another Rifter and went on searching for targets.
I found Aiya Kiko's Crusader in a belt in Siseide and she apparently decided to fight me, closing the distance quickly. Her DPS was good, but my tank was better. She was cool about it, unlike some of my previous opponents.
Half an hour later, I was in Amamake again. VarWar RUS was up for a Rifter duel after I arrived at his belt and we went for it. I ordered my ship to stay at the 7.5 kilometre orbit and shot from afar with Barrage. It turned out VarWar had Hail loaded and was thus unable to hit me from that distance. We chatted for a while after the kill and I explained my tactics to him. VarWar soon came back in a new Rifter and tried it out in a "no killing" fight with me. We then ganged up on Kacmop and destroyed his Rifter. Before that, however, I managed to lose my own Rifter while trying to kill a Maller together with Krrak in his Thorax. Everything went well until Snakefartz arrived in his Rapier and helped the Maller kill both of us.
Another hour later, I was in Egghelende killing Royalhunter's Punisher. This place is truly a gem, bordering on so many high-security systems and always full of targets. Just eight minutes later I scanned down an Incursus and a Punisher in a belt there, both transmitting their novice pilots' names openly. Seeing this as an invitation, I warped to the belt.
It wasn't as easy as one could have expected because the guys seemed to be well prepared: they both tackled me and the Punisher activated his energy neutraliser, quickly draining my cap. I overloaded my high and low slots and focused my fire on the Incursus which I managed to take down. I then turned to the Punisher, my cap at zero by that time, and was gaining the upper hand when he warped out. Stupid me, forgot to activate the scrambler when cap started to regenerate.
After a bit of rest I decided to bring some violence to the Olfeim system - an isolated lowsec pocket not far from Amamake. I got a Rifter hauled there and started scanning the belts. Pretty soon I spotted a Rupture and Thrasher who seemed to be ratting together, once again their rookie pilots' names visible to everyone. I decided to take out the Rupture first and settled into a tight orbit around it. The cruiser sent its Tech I drones afer me which a started to dispatch one by one when suddenly my speed dropped to zero - must have hit a bloody asteroid. The Trasher closed distance by that time and together they made short work of my Rifter.
I decided to raise the stakes and got a Wolf hauled to Olfeim. Immediately after undocking I found a Stabber in the same belt where my Rifter had died. I warped in and landed on top of him which meant quick death to the cruiser that relies on speed and distance. And its pilot's pod.
A bit later I also killed a Merlin in the same system which belonged to the same corporation as the Rupture that had killed me before. Ah, sweet revenge.
That was it for my Saturday killing spree. I spent much less time in space on Sunday, killing Euripades' Stabber and pod in a belt in Dal and Original Me's Cormorant in Egghelende. Lost two Rifters as well - one when trying to kill Euripades' Rifter (got jumped by a Dominix, a Punisher and a Manticore) and another in a duel with Drek Grapper (I always bump into him when he's got the low-grade Slave set).
I continued on Monday night and killed Cpt Kunaaii's Punisher in a belt in Siseide. Just a few minutes later, I scanned down Psykeu's Helios at a planet and destroyed it as well, snatching the pod. I love Apocrypha!
Finally, this morning I took a quick roam around my hunting grounds and Kazaji, seeing my ship, offered a Rifter duel. He employed a tracking disruptor, but still could not hit me from 7.5 kilometres while I ate away at his shield and armour. Gf's were exchanged.
Now, next time I'll probably try employing a prober to get a taste of w-space. I hear it's fun.

Olfeim local chat

2009-03-15T00:55:00.002+06:00

Mister Marram > that guy is back
Mister Marram > he is dying
Mister Marram > fuckhead
Mister Marram > bb
Mister Marram > close
Mister Marram > nice fight
Flores Negras > who won?
Mister Marram > him
Mister Marram > he is in the 2/10 plex
Mister Marram > clever bugger
Mister Marram > neuting

Just a few comments: I jumped on Marram's Ishkur in my Wolf some time last weekend. He managed to escape having taken some structural damage.

To the Forge and Back

2009-03-10T21:45:00.004+06:00

Bored with Amamake blobs, I decided to travel a bit last week and set the Forge lowsec as my destination. I chose a Wolf for this journey as it would allow me to take on bigger targets (and of course some Bastards(TM) then caught me cheating on my Rifter).
I was surprised by the number of shuttles, noob ships and industrial ships moving through systems like Ingunn and Gusandall. While they did no interest me as potential targets, it later turned out they were still useful.
My first engagement in the journey wasn't successful: I attacked a Jaguar in a belt in Bogelek but it was soon joined by a Sacrilege and a Zealot and my ship went down. I got a Rifter and a new Wolf hauled to a nearby system and roamed around in a Rifter for a while. I scanned down another Rifter in a plex in Gusandall and warped to it. ManTan LNJ was up for a fight, but my Rifter turned out to be stronger.
I eventually reached Akora where DirgeMon, who was hanging around next to a station in his Kestrel, responded to my lock by opening fire and died quickly.
I then turned back, making a stop in Wiskeber. There was a Ferox class battlecruiser in a belt and a quick background check showed its pilot was unlikely to have neutralisers - the biggest threat to my assault frigate. I warped in and activated my guns keeping a tight orbit. The bigger ship's guns could not hurt me and its destruction was only a matter of time. When the Ferox was about to die, a Stabber cruiser warped in. I was going to tackle it when a Raven also showed up and then my overview was full of ships. I quickly warped out and waited. The blob disappeared soon and I was even able to pick up the loot.
I docked up in Wiskeber to get some sleep and undocked a few hours later to find a Drake on my scanner. I quickly pinned it down to a station, warped in for a check and saw that the battlecruiser was taking sentry fire while killing industrial ships. What could be better? I quickly warped back to the station, tackled the Drake and let my guns spit out EMP rounds. Smith44 sent his drones after me, but I quickly dispatched them with the help of sentry guns. The Drake got popped quickly under heavy fire, leaving some nice loot.
The rest of my journey back was uneventful, save for an encounter with the Bastards' gang that included Hallan Turrek and Flashfresh. I docked up just to be on the safe side and had a good laugh watching Hallan pretend to be a noob. I think he also said they sometimes wear adult diapers while roaming.

Me and My Rifter

2009-03-03T12:07:00.004+06:00

Inspired by Hallan Turrek's Karaoke Corner posts.

The song is Me and My Girlfriend

Look for me. Lost in the whirlwind, 2009 Bonnie and Clyde
Me and my Rifter making 'bears cry when we ride,
Trapped in this world of sin
Born for the PVP
Raised in this whirlwind

Our childhood years recall the fears
Used to run missions
Making ISK, training for shieldtank, battleships, missiles
Me and my Rifter
musta fell in love with the struggle
Hands on the steering wheel
Blush, while she bail out bustin
Scram 'em all, watch 'em fall, screaming
Autocannon gunfire, exorcising all demons
Mafia's on my side
My complication high,
ready to die
We bail out to take the jail back, pirates united
Our first date, couldn't wait to see you naked
Touch you in every secret place
I can hardly wait to bust freely
Got you red hot, you so happy to see me
Made the frontpage, primetime live on 'clinic
Hey man, my Rifter,
may be down to hull but she still live
One shot making victims' heartbeats stop

My Rifter, flying under darkest skies
When targets call support she got the heart to fight
Oh yeah, my Rifter
Though we separated at times
I know deep inside baby girl'll always be mine
Picked you up and you was fine
Started out my life of crime with you
Bought you some Barrage when your guns turned "II"
It's true, nothing compares to the satisfaction
that I feel when we out mashing
Me and my Rifter

Chorus:
All I need in this life of sin,
Is me and my Rifter
Down to ride to the bloody end
Just me and my Rifter
(repeat 2X)

I was too immature to understand your ways
Inexperienced back in the days
Caused so many arguments and strays
Now I realize how to treat cha, the secret to keep ya.
Being faithful 'cuz now cheating's lethal
We closer than the hands of time
Deeper than the drive of mankind.
I trust you dearly, I shoot blind
In time I clock figures
Droppin cruisers as we rise
We all soldiers in God's eyes
Now it's time for war
Never leave me baby, I'm paranoid
Sleeping next to you loaded in my hangar, know you're
Jealous when I hang with your fellas
You wait patiently alone, anticipatin'
for the moment I come home
You're the one I call my own, this is true love, I can feel it.
I've had a lot of ships in my career
But you da realest
If you ever need me, call
I'll be there through it all
You're the reason I can stand tall
Me and my Rifter

Chorus

I love overheating you.
All of a sudden I'm hearin thunder
when you bust a nut
Targets be duckin
Or taking numbers
Love to watch you at a 'roid belt beggin for drama
While unleashin on the old timas
That's on my mama
I would trade my life for yours
Behind closed doors, the only girl that I adore
Everything I'm askin for
Talkin to me, beggin me to just take you around
Lowsec space, you just wanna be down
Starting warp when I notice a target,
you moving fast, busting rounds, ducking enemy fire.
That's why I love you so
no control, down to roll
Unleash, after a hit, you break apart,
then back to one piece again
Much love to my one and only Rifter
The world is ours
Just hold me down, baby witness the power
Never leave a pirate alone
I love you in a gang or alone
Turn this house into a happy home
Me and my Rifter

Chorus

Lost in the whirlwind, 2009 Bonnie and Clyde
Me and my Rifter making 'bears cry when we ride,
Trapped in this world of sin
Born for the PVP
Raised in this whirlwind
Look for me
(repeats 4X)
Me and my Rifter!

Stupid Losses, Juicy Kill

2009-03-02T10:04:00.005+06:00

Kills and losses:
- killed six cruisers, three frigates, six pods and one interceptor;
- lost a Wolf, a Jaguar, a Rifter and a pod.

I
It's been an interesting week (eight days to be exact). Last Sunday, I scanned down a ratting Rupture in Bosboger. I warped to the belt, but it warped out in time to avoid my tackle. I returned to my safespot and soon saw it in another belt, to which I immediately sent my Wolf. This time I caught the cruiser and opened fire. When it was halfway into armour, the pilot opened a convo with me and pleaded for mercy. I halted fire and decided to try ransoming him, but then realised the rats would kill him anyway and activated my guns once again.
The Rupture's pilot, apparently new to New Eden and its low-security area laws, complained about spending a lot of money on his ship. Now, that wasn't the first time I saw such complaints, but, unlike many others, the guy did not insult or threaten me. So, in a gesture not typical of me, I gave him the money he said he had spent on his ship and then briefly instructed him about the dangers of lowsec. Please don't expect me to do that again, guys.

II
I did not get much action until Thursday, the day that started rather well with a Stabber kill. I went on roaming the Amamake area and spotted a Thrasher at a gate. I ordered my Wolf to orbit it, awaiting aggression from his side. He started locking me and when I thought I saw him blinking red in my overview, I activated my tackling gear and guns. I made a mistake: I attacked him first and was destroyed by sentry guns. The Thrasher pilot also made it into the killmail and then squished my pod.
Things like this make me mad with myself and also provoke an uncontrollable rush to even out the score, so I quickly got back to Amamake and boarded a Jaguar. I then moved to Siseide and started scanning belts. When I was sure I identified a target in one of them, I hit warp, but landed next to another ship instead. It was a Moa class cruiser and I, keen to get a kill, decided to engage. Sure enough, his corpmate soon showed up in a Thorax and together they blasted my Jag.
Cursing myself for being such a stupid bait-taking idiot, I docked up for the night and decided (for a hundredth time probably) to be more cautious in future, especially when flying relatively expensive ships.

III
So, come Saturday, I was in the mood to kill as many ships as I could while losing as little as possible. This meant, of course, that I would be flying a Rifter.
My first victim was MEIRIYAHHALOM who was ratting in Siseide in her Stabber that could not put up much of a fight against my Rifter. I snatched the pod and blasted it too.
Half an hour later I killed an Imicus in neighbouring Egghelende - not much of a fight either. But then things got more interesting: I spotted a Nemesis stealth bomber in a belt. I warped to it, the bomber cloaked and I sent my ship back to the safespot. Just when I was warping out, a Claw interceptor landed close to me which meant he warped to the belt at zero - a bad habit for an interceptor pilot. I could not stop the warp, but started watching the Claw move between the belts, apparently also chasing the elusive Nemesis.
I tried to catch either of them a few times, but both seemed to be quite fast. Finally, as I was spamming the scan button while approaching a belt, I saw the Claw was still there and overloaded my tackling systems to make sure it does not escape.
Indeed, the Claw was there, less than 4 kilometres away from me. I started locking him and activated the tackling gear while also trying to close distance between us. The Claw must have activated his microwarp drive for a short while before my scrambler kicked in because he managed to get as far as 11 kilometres away. But the overheated web was still holding him and I quickly reapplied the scramble.
After that, the fight was really short since the interceptor's defences were pretty weak and his artillery cannons could not track me. I scooped the loot and docked to have a look at it - the Claw pilot was a criminal, just like me, so attacking him had not caused sentry guns to shoot at me. Mmm, Domination Overdrive...
I guess I was still in a bit of euphoria an hour and a half later when I engaged Dec Apilatour's Rifter in a belt in the same system. I must have clicked on him too early or clicked in the wrong place so he was already shooting me while I was staring at the screen like an idiot. I realised my mistake too late and was punished for it.
Still, that didn't spoil my good mood after the Claw kill annd I quickly assembled a new Rifter to kill another noob frig in Egghelende as well as its pilot's pod.
A bit later my mate joined me in his own Rifter and we roamed the area for a while. We found a Rifter at a belt in Auga who escaped us but then showed up at a planet. We warped there and started chasing him which took quite a long time. I have no idea why he did not run away, but as we got close, he himself initiated the fight which of course he had very little chances to win. We killed the pod too.

IV
Sunday night was about killing cruisers. I killed MEIRIYAHHALOM's Stabbers twice that night, and snatched the pod on both occasions.
My final engagement for the night was with Heavans Soldier in a Caracal who put up a good fight but still died to my Rifter. He was cool about it and I hope to meet him again, maybe in my gang next time.

Role Model

2009-02-23T13:56:00.002+06:00

"I get a brand new Rifter and go on a killing spree
You probably wanna grow up to be just like me!"

How does a carebear turn into a pirate? Here's my path step-by-step:
1) I'm running missions and I'm happy, but getting a bit bored.
2) Tried some lowsec piracy and liked it. Still, my security status allows me to run missions in hisec and I'm going to do it to earn isk.
3) My security status is in a dangerous zone now - must rat and run missions more to improve it otherwise 1.0 systems will be closed to me.
4) OK, I can still fly to Rens - it's 0.9.
5) Now I can't. OK, I'll get a hauler alt for now and improve my ss later. At least I can still run missions in lowsec.
6) Run missions in lowsec? Watching the scanner all the time and being afraid of pirates? No way. At least I have an alt training for Raven who can make isk in hisec.
7) To hell with Ravens! Alt, go train for Blackbird and then Falcon!

Gangsta Trippin'

2009-02-22T03:30:00.003+06:00

My first Taranis

I was hanging around in Hadozeko with a corpmate when we saw a Taranis on the scanner. I warped to a planet in my Wolf to scan through its belts, but then the Taranis jumped to me itself. I haven't been attacked by anyone for quite a long time now and got used to the role of aggressor so much that I was a bit lost. Still, I told my mate to warp to me, tackled the Taranis and engaged my weapons. My armour was melting quickly, but the overheated repper was doing its best and I killed the Taranis with 13 percent structure left. My mate arrived when the fight was over and helped me scoop the loot and drones which I had ignored. It was only after the fight that I realised I had RF EMP ammo loaded because I had been chasing a Thrasher earlier. That mistake could have cost me the fight, but now I know the time spent on learning Hull Upgrades V was worth it.

Roxxorz Your Vexorz

A day later, me and the same corpmate, Art Kz, were in Siseide looking for targets. I scanned down a Caracal and warped to it, but then its pilot told me we had a positive standing with his corporation so I disengaged. A few minutes later, I saw the same Caracal in another belt joined by a Rupture and a Vexor. With ten drones flying about, it was obvious they were fighting. We decided to help the Caracal pilot and sent our assault ships to the belt. The Vexor which had engaged the Caracal and his friend in a Rupture was already low on hit points, but so was the Rupture. We finished off the gallente cruiser, allowing the Rupture to warp out to safety.
A bit later we were joined by another corpmate, Azgor Khan, who brought a Vengeance class assault ship. We moved to Vard by that time and eventually scanned down a Vexor which could be in one of two nearby belts. I jumped to one belt and Art and Azgor rushed to the second one. Suddenly, just upon arriving to an empty belt, I was disconnected from the server. When I logged back in I saw my mates fighting the Vexor in their belt - one of them had already lost his Harpy. I warped to them, locked the cruiser and activated my autocannons. That's when I got disconnected again. Logging back in, I was expecting to find myself in an escape pod, but it turned out the Vexor had been destroyed. To make things more funny, I had dealt the final blow despite not being able to see it and the pilot of the Vexor was Kachak, the same guy we had ganked earlier in Siseide.
It looked like he got a bit angry with us - while passing through Vard later in another Vexor he asked me why I was helping noobs and advised me to be more careful about who I fly with. To this I say:
- Don't take it personally, I'd be just as happy to be in a gang with you,
- But if I'm already in a gang with someone I will help them and fight together with them until we agree to go our separate ways.

Gate Fights Are for Good Boys

After that Azgor left our gang, but two more guys joined us, adding a Retribution assault ship and a Manticore stealth bomber to the fleet. We travelled all the way to Hadozeko without a single kill, spending a lot of tiime chasing elusive targets. We finally found a target in Resbroko - a lonely Thrasher ratting in belt. I pointed it and told others to owarp to me so we would share the killmail. We also managed to get the pod.
We then headed for Amamake, but stumbled upon a fight on the Ardar side of Hadozeko-Ardar gate. I remember that a Typhoon, A Zealot, a Drake and a Myrmidon were involved. We targeted the Myrmidon since that would not have triggered sentry fire and it went down quickly.
Unfortunately, by that time the Typhoon switched its attention to me and the rest of the gang could not engage him due to my criminal status. Very soon I was tackled, my cap drained and angry drones were swarming around me. My Wolf exploded and I warped out in a pod. A stupid loss that could and should have been avoided. At least I should remember the lesson.

Strategy-Shmategy

2009-02-20T10:26:00.003+06:00

Sometimes, usually after relatively long winning streaks, I put my common sense offline and overheat the part of my brain that seeks violence above anything else.
That was the case the other day when, after killing 10 ships without a single loss, I took my Rifter to Gulmogorod where I stumbled upon a Caracal sitting in a belt. Its pilot, Norst, had a nice track record on Battleclinic and it was obvious he was baiting me.
Well, that was not going to stop me from engaging the Caldari cruiser. I laughed manically in my head as I warped to the belt, tackled the target and unleashed the fury of my overloaded guns. Pretty soon I started pulsing my armour repairer to try and stay alive as his missiles were hitting me hard. His shield broke when I entered structure, but a couple rounds later my Rifter blew up.
I warped out and exchanged "gf"s with Norst. And I meant it: that fight was more fun than the ten previous engagements which I had won. I know for sure that I would have killed him in my Wolf, although I doubt he would have sought a fight in that case.
There were also a couple of interesting engagements that ended without killmails. The first was a Hurricane I attacked at a station in my Wolf: after I killed a few of his drones, he stopped attacking me and docked in 30 seconds. The second was a ratting Rupture which managed to escape from me because it had an Afterburner fit instead of a Microwarp Drive. I actually caught up with it while it was aligning, but failed to notice my scrambler was off by that time.
Anyway, I guess I'm back in cautious mode, looking for more kills to improve my stats.

'Grats to 'Guns and Brutus

2009-02-09T13:26:00.003+06:00

Kill & loss statement:
- Killed five frigates;
- Lost one frigate;

This has not been an exciting week. Four of five kills were absolute noobs who barely had time to target me back after I caught them ratting or salvaging in asteroid belts.
One kill, Ryan Pathfinder's Punisher, was a Pyrrhic victory, because shortly after I had tackled him, his friend's Stiletto warped in. It wasn't really doing much damage with its autocannons, staying out of scrambler range, and I started diving between the rocks to throw it off the orbit, but then a "socket was closed" message popped up on my screen. Sure enough, I logged back in just in time to have my pod warp back to the belt to follow my Rifter's fate.

Meanwhile, my fellow pirate BiggerGuns joined the mighty Tuskers - a pirate corporation set up by Ka Jolo. Another mate of ours, long-time Amamake area resident Brutus Severus, scored a 200th kill and reached the coveted -10 security status.
Congratulations and YARR's go to both of them!

More Outlaws

2009-02-02T15:45:00.003+06:00

A quick summary of kills and losses since my last post:

Killed a Rupture and a Rifter solo, a Jaguar and an Arbitrator together with a corpmate.
Lost a Wolf to another Jaguar, another corpmate lost a Probe in the same fight.

Now, to details.

A BAD IDEA
I've made my first kill in a Crow class interceptor after hours of fruitless roaming around Heimatar and Metropolis the other day. I arrived at a gate in Eszur and saw a Rifter hanging around. I decided to provoke its pilot to start attacking me by settling into a 20 kilometre orbit and targeting it. The trick worked: the Rifter started blinking red in my overview and I engaged my warp disruptor and missile turrets. The frigate was unable to scratch me and died quickly. I then found out it was set up to maximise speed at the expense of defence so I guess the pilot thought he had a chance to outrun me.

JAGGED
A day later, I was cruising around Gulmogorod in my Wolf and spotted a Rupture in a belt. Its pilot had made a mistake of not renaming his ship which allowed me to quickly check his background and identify him as a potential target. I warped to the belt and started my usual routine while chatting to my corpmate who was also keen to do a bit of shooting. Everything looked fine until Cactuz III entered the system and quickly scanned us down. His Jaguar started doing some serious damage to my ship and I asked my corpmate for help. Unfortunately, he was in a Probe frigate set up for scanning with just one autocannon and our combined firepower was not enough to break the Jaguar's tank. Cactuz dispatched both of us.
Of course, it was a mistake to bring in the Probe since it really made no difference. An even bigger, and more fundamental, mistake was trying to do something in a fleet without voice comms. Fortunately, I was able to arrange a better small fleet operation the following day.

DYNAMIC DUO
I was just warming up when a corpmate (another one) asked in the corporate channel whether our alliance was running small-ship operations for inexperienced pilots. I invited him to Amamake area and he soon arrived in a brand new Harpy assault ship. Having arranged proper voice comms this time, we sat at a safespot in Auga scanning belts when I spotted a Jaguar and rushed to it. The Jaguar escaped and commented in local that he was not interested in a fight he'd likely lose.
Well, we made him fight by catching his ship in another belt some 10 minutes later and destroying it easily.
Just eight minutes later, we caught an Arbitrator in the same belt cluster. He sent his drones after me and I concentrated on the pesky litle creatures while my mate was tearing down the cruiser's defences. The drones were hitting me pretty hard and the Arbitrator pilot did a smart trick of activating a tracking disruptor on me, so in the end I switched my fire onto the cruiser and we killed it just in time to save my ship from the drone assault.
I then took my mate on a roam around the area, but unfortunately no other targets came our way. We did scare a ratting battleship, though, which served to boost our confidence.
I think I should do more small-ship small-fleet ops.

I'm cooking BC's like a pound of bacon

2009-01-28T12:11:00.000+06:00

EVE System > Channel changed to Hadozeko Local Channel
EIDREICH HUMA > ocatvian
EIDREICH HUMA > help me
EIDREICH HUMA > warp to me
Nursultan > gf

I jumped into Hadozeko solar system in my Wolf and warped to one of my safespots to see if there were any targets. A-ha, looks like there's a Harbinger class battlecruiser in a belt. Making things even better, there were just two of us in that corner of Metropolis and a quick check showed EIDREICH HUMA, the Harbinger pilot, was someone I had a chance of taking on. I jumped to a planet to pin him down in a tight cluster of belts.
With that done I initiated warp and checked if I had the correct ammunition loaded into my 200 mm autocannons. Luck was definitely on my side that night as I came out of warp some 7 kilometres away from the target. Lock, scram, nos, fire. His Vespa II drones were already out dealing with rats, but instead of sending them after me Eidreich recalled the drones. That could be bad news: does he plan to release a pack of ECM drones? Hmm, looks like he doesn't. The same Vespas came out a bit later only to melt under my guns' fire. I was orbiting him at a comfortable tight range, completely evading the Heavy Beam lasers' fire.
The Harbringer's shield and armour dropped steadily despite his attempts to repair. When the battlecruiser's armour was below 50%, a third player, OctavianUK if I recall correctly, appeared in local. I quickly hit the scanner to see if he was a threat, but found out he was flying a Buzzard covert ops ship not designed for combat. It was at that moment when Heidreich started desperately asking Octavian for help. Octavian did not respond and soon disappeared from Hadozeko, although that could mean he'd be coming back in a fighting ship. I overloaded my guns to make things quicker.
When my target was well into structure, I ran out of Republic Fleet Fusion ammo which I prefer to use against armour tankers. I loaded Barrage and continued my assault.
Suddenly, the local channel showed several new arrivals. They did not belong to the same corporation or alliance as my victim, but I began to scan the surrounding area frequently to see if someone could interrupt us. Sure enough, two battleships soon showed first on the scanner and then at our belt. Should I retreat? No way! Heidreich's ship had about 10 percent structure left and I focused my attention on him. A few sloooow seconds later, the Harbinger exploded.
Both battleships were locking me already as I aligned for warp. One lock even resolved before I left the belt, but that did not stop me from warping out. Were they carebears or ratters with no tackling gear? Guess I'll never find out.
I was happy with the kill and didn't mind losing the loot. But while I was still waiting out my global criminal countdown the system became empty again and I was able to check the wreck. Thank you, guys! All the loot, worth about 20 million isk was there! I scooped it up and docked as soon as the red timer disappeared, my hands still shaking slightly from excitement.

Wolf Week

2009-01-26T17:03:00.000+06:00

I have been mostly flying Wolf class assault frigates for the last couple of weeks and here's what I've learnt the hard way, having lost seven of them:
- A cruiser/battlecruiser with ECM drones will kill you;
- A cruiser/battlecruiser with energy neutralisers will kill you;
- A fast frigate/cruiser with long-range weapons (including autocannons loaded with Barrage) will kill you;
- An Ishkur with two webs and blasters sitting at the undock point will kill you.
An especially stupid couple of losses happened when I tried to kill Cirock in his Stabber cruiser. I had killed him earlier on that when he allowed me to get close, but in our second fight he stayed about 17 kilometres away and shot me with Barrage rounds. I had a second Wolf ready and decided that together with BiggerGuns in his Rifter we'd be able to win.
I engaged first and, when Cirock once again settled into his preferred orbit, told BiggerGuns to warp to me at 20 kilometres. Of course, things rarely work the way you plan: 'Guns' Rifter appeared too far away and he could not approach Cirock in time. I lost a second Wolf, but at least my wingmate managd to get away.
To address the speed issue I've decided to carry a microwarpdrive with me and switch to it when I see a proper target, someone who can kill me from a distance but won't be able to track me at point-blank range.
Now, to good news. I've finally scored my first battlecruiser kill thanks to xxphilkeyxx who was ratting in a belt in Kamela in his Prophecy. I don't know if he had noticed me arrive at the belt, but that wouldn't have changed much as I came out of warp close to him and battlecruisers aren't known for their agility. I locked the larger ship and activated my guns, nosferatu and scrambler. He responded, with a bit of delay, by sending three Tech 1 drones after me, which I quickly dispatched. His guns were not hitting me at all so the whole fight was about me chewing first through his shield and then armour. I zoomed out just in time to see the battlecruiser explode.
What I like about militia guys is that they don't care what's going on in asteroid belts. There were about 15 of them in local when I was slowly killing the Prophecy, but no one disturbed us. Neither did they intervene when I destroyed johnny2combs' Omen in another belt and his Coercer at the same spot 15 minutes later. Guys, at least watch the scanner when ratting in lowsec!
Sadly, I ended the week with another Wolf loss. I killed another ratting cruiser in Lulm and docked at one of the stations. When I undocked, an Ishkur and a Jaguar tackled me and started hurting my ship badly. I tried to dock again, but did not make it. I checked the Ishkur pilot's records later and found out he specialises in killing other assault ships with an interesting setup - two webs and a scrambler in midslots.

Maximum Overdrive

2009-01-19T11:57:00.000+06:00

Last week I made my first flights in a Wolf class assault frigate, a ship based on the Rifter hull but with better defensive and offensive capabilities. It has a drawback as well, lacking the third medium slot, which makes it less useful in fighting small and fast ships.
My first fight was against a Thorax cruiser. I destroyed his Hammerhead II drones and settled into a tight orbit to evade his heavy blasters, but his armour was pretty strong so I decided to overload my guns. Unfortunately, I did not turn the overloading off in time and the autocannons broke so I had to leave. Looks like four cannons break quicker than three...
A bit later I took my new ship to Lulm where I saw a Rifter in a deadspace complex. Expecting an easy kill, I jumped in. Turned out I was wrong: the Rifter, piloted by FirenDisco, was much faster than me and orbited at about 15-20 kilometres pounding me with artillery cannons. I tried to throw him off the orbit by maneuvering close to complex structures, but in vain. Soon, my Wolf blew up.
I had another Wolf ready and later on that day I challenged Tefer Bo, who was flying a Vengeance assault frig, to a duel in Amamake. The fight was very close until I overloaded my guns and repper which gave me an advantage. Unfortunately, I then tried to dock before my GCC ran out and got stuck at the docking perimeter for thirty seconds - more than enough for sentry guns to destroy my ship.
With no more Wolves left in my hangar I jumped into my good old Rifter and decided to try ganking FirenDisco together with BiggerGuns, a pilot who has just started a pirate career in the Amamake area. I equipped my ship with a microwarpdrive to be able to catch FirenDisco. But when I jumped into the same plex I realised it did not work there. Fortunately, FirenDisco was not in the first pocket and I just warped out. I apologised for wasting BiggerGuns' time and challenged FirenDisco to a duel. He was fine with that, BUT would only fight inside the plex.
There was no way I could beat him in his lair. Or was there? I checked the available reports on FirenDisco's setups and quickly figured out I could outrun him by dropping the repper and the damage control unit in favour of an overdrive injector and a nanofiber internal structure module. That is, if I overload and he doesn't. Still, the chance was there and I decided to take it.
I returned to Lulm and we quickly agreed on the duel. I found him some 30 kilometres away from the plex warp-in point and started the chase, overloading my midslots. My shield died quickly and armour was taking some damage. I checked the speed of both ships: yes, I was som 100-150 m/s faster. Come on, I've got to make it! When I was at about 40 percent armour the distance between out ships has been reduced to web range. After that, I was only taking damage from his sole missile launcher while my autocannons worked their magic in optimal range.
"Good fight," FirenDisco said in fleet comms channel.
"gf," I confirmed a few seconds later when his ship exploded.
And it really was a good fight, one of the best I've ever had in my career: a nice and strong opponent with an unconventional setup and an environment that limits your options making you come up with a special setup of your own. Nice loot, too - a Gistii B-type Small Shield Booster to partly offset my ealier loss.
Concluding the week, I managed to lose my third Wolf in a fight against a Thorax which had a pack of ECM drones. My ship was quickly jammed and destroyed.

Outmatched

2009-01-09T12:37:00.000+06:00

I had one of those rare duels yesterday where you don't know until the last moment who is going to win.
Drek Grapper challenged me to a fight in Amamake and I could not refuse. When he arrived at my safespot, I quickly burnt towards him, settling into a tight 500 metre ordbit, overloaded all my weapons and started spewing out Republic Fleet Fusion shells.
Drek Grapper responded with furious fire of his own and our armour melted at about the same rate. I overloaded the repper to keep myself alive for as long as I could. But once armor got really low and then we both got into structure, it became clear my opponent had an advantage.
My Rifter blew up while he still had 81 percent structure.
This is the kind of fights I enjoy the most and I intend to try that again once I get a new setup and maybe improve my skills a bit. EFT says I can still raise my DPS by about 15 percent, although that would require a lot of level V skills.

One Hundred

2009-01-05T11:45:00.000+06:00

Just a small celebration post.
According to Battleclinic, I've scored my 100th kill last night. It took me 97 days to achieve this, meaning I have killed a ship per day on average. All kills have been made in a Rifter.
Looking forward, I think I need to try new ship classes, namely assault frigates and interceptors and take on bigger targets.

One and a half kills

2008-12-31T10:06:00.000+06:00

After undocking in my Rifter last night to find Amamake full of gangs I decided to check out neighbouring systems. Soon, I stumbled upon a 12-day old pilot in a Myrmidon. He jumped out of the system soon after I had appeared, but I knew he took one of the two jumpgates and followed him. A perfect setup: there were just two of us in the next solar system.
The pilot started ratting in a belt, displaying his Tech 1 drones, and I quickly engaged him. I noticed he started targeting me so I decided to wait and see if he aggroes first. He did not. Instead he scooped up his drones and moved to another belt.
All right, man, I'll aggro. I scrambled him and started orbiting. He first sent medium-sized Hammerheads after me and then switched to light Warriors. I was taking some damage, especially when slowing down due to asteroids, but my repper was able to compensate that. The other pilot tried saving his drones by recalling and then redeploying them, but they didn't last long.
When there were no drones left, I started attacking the battlecruiser itself. Shield down, armor melting... I opened a convo with my target and suggested that he pay me 20 million isk to save his ship. He agreed and I let the badly beaten Myrmidon go. Hmm, not a bad start.
I returned to Amamake hoping that at least some of the local gang members had left. There were just a few ships on scan, but, sure enough, once two Rifters started a duel in belt III-1 a Falcon uncloaked there and others arrived quickly to finish off one of the frigates. Not my piece of cake, fighting in that belt.
But there was something else on scan that drew my attention: a Cheetah covert ops ship. Those rarely stay on the scanner for a long time, but this one did. Quickly, scanned it down to a station and warped. There it was, moving away from the station at about 600 m/sec.
I decided to try to chase it. On many occasions such chases ended with the other pilot warping away just when I was about to get into scrambler range, but there was nothing else to do anyway.
By the time I was close enough to attack, the stations was more than 150 km away meaning senty guns would not attack me. Lock, scram, web, bang-bang. The pod disappeared quickly, making me wonder what the pilot had been thinking of before. An 88 million isk kill, according to Battleclinic, - a price of a good battleship hull!
Satisfied with that, I docked up for the rest of the night.

December Recap

2008-12-29T15:38:00.000+06:00

So, I've scored 53 kills this month and 18 losses. Some have been more memorable than others.

Expensive Toys
The first place goes to a fight against two Tech 2 frigates: a Manticore stealth bomber assisted by an Ares interceptor. I was scanning Amamake belts as usual when I noticed a Manticore in one of them. It disappeared from the scanner soon, but did not show up elsewhere so I decided it might have cloaked in the belt. From my previous Manticore kill (assisted by a Falcon who just happened to be there, so not a clean one) I knew it would not be able to kill me quickly. I warped to the belt and waited. Just as I had expected, the Manticore decloaked and started shooting me with cruise missiles. No worries, I can tank that, I thought as I sped up towards the target. Lock, scram, web and I started to return fire. But then the third ship showed up in the belt and started locking me. Damn, I'm still going to kill that bomber. So I did and by the time it popped I still had enough armor and cap to repair it. I switched to the second target, an Ares interceptor, whose pilot made a mistake by getting too close to me. He died just as quickly. I snatched his pod, too, and asked for ransom. He refused and was sent to a cloning vat.
That was easily my best fight in terms of isk destroyed, but I still don't understand what those guys' plan was? Maybe they hoped to kill a noob or two.

Griffin Power
I think I've boasted in my first post about not losing to a Tech 1 frig for a long time. Well I got punished for that (no, not by a Punisher). During one of my roams, I spotted a Griffin at a Faction Warfare complex in Amamake and decided to kill it. I jumped in and we started approaching each other. I got the lock and opened fire, but then the Griffin jammed me. OK, I thought, this is not a Falcon, he can't do that forever.
Turned out he could. The Caldari frig permajammed me and I could not even escape as he and his drones slowly chewed at my armour. A good fight and a good lesson.

Bits and Pieces
I also engaged two Hurricanes this month in my Rifter, both controlled by unexperienced pilots which allowed me to tank them easily. The problem was, I could not break their tank. In both cases, I had to let them go and retreat when someone else showed up in the same belts. Maybe when I train up for a Jaguar things will change.
Cruisers have been easier targets: I caught one Navy Issue Caracal and got it into structure when the pilot offered me a 10 million ransom. I should have asked for more, but it just happened so that I needed to leave my ship's control console so I accepted the deal.
Also, to take on bigger targets I ganged up with other Amamake pirates on a few occasions. To make things easier, I've set up a chat channel for us criminals. Convo or eve-mail me to join.

Ups And Downs

2008-12-18T10:40:00.000+06:00

I love it when people complain about being killed in lowsec: "hey, this is not fair, I was fighting rats!". I usually respond with "rat in hisec if you want to be safe", but I guess they still feel offended. That was the case with Yvie Ly whose Rifter I destroyed in Amamake on Tuesday. Don't they read the pop-up message when entering lowsec?
Shortly after that I saw my old acquaintance Brutus Severus in local and offered him to gank a ratting Rupture. Brutus agreed and we warped to the target belt. He arrived first and started to take damage from the Rupture's drones and autocannons. I was dispatching the drones, but by the time I dealt with them my partner's Rifter was destroyed. "I'll finish that Rupture," I thought, settling into a tight orbit around the cruiser with my afterburner on.
Or was it on? Damn, all my cap-dependent modules were off and I was taking damage from the Rupture's guns. I quickly toggled them on and continued to chew through the cruiser's armour, wondering what had happened. Then -- BANG -- my cap dropped to zero, everything went off again and I realised the other pilot was draining or neutralising my cap. Frantically, I tried to relaunch my afterburner to reduce incoming damage, but in vain. My Rifter exploded while the Rupture was just a few percent into structure.
I sent a sincere "gf" to Kastet Mamont, the Rupture pilot and apologies to Brutus for getting him involved in a failed gank attempt.
Just 40 minutes later, having got myself a new Rifter, I noticed another Rifter and a Thrasher in a belt. I figured out that if they were fighting, I could kill the survivor. Well, I was wrong: despite being less than a month old, Dedal Halfov downed my Rifter with Tech 2 150mm autocannons after dealing with his first victim. He was at a comfortable 53% of structure. Guess someone forgot to tell him new players should spend their first months studying learning skills.
Later on that day ~~my homey Dr. Dre came through with a gang of tanqueray~~ I moved to a neighbouring system of Auga and spotted a Rifter in a Faction Warfare complex. I jumped in, but the Rifter, equipped with a microwarp drive, quickly got away. I returned to a safespot to see and wait if he returns. He did, but together with a Blackbird ECM cruiser and my corpmates told me to stay away from that thing. Fortunately, the Blackbird soon disappeared and the Rifter was once again alone so I decided to try again.
This time the other pilot, mr kangaroo, decided to give it a try and started approaching me. We did the usual Rifter dance, watching each other's shields and then armour melt under autocannon fire. The fight was close, just the kind I really enjoy, but the speed advantage was on my side with mr kangaroo's MWD shut down by my warp scrambler. I was at 15 percent structure when his Rifter exploded. We exchanged gf's and discussed each other's setups: turns out he also had no damage control module and used a gyrostabiliser instead.
On Wednesday, I returned to Amamake and soon scanned down a Tristan at one of the planets. Its pilot Sojiuro, who had beaten me once in the same ship, offered a one-on-one. I lost the previous duel after orbiting too close to him, at the range where his Tech 2 blasters outdid my autocannons. I made no such mistake this time, settling into a 7.5 km orbit (actual distance was about 5 km). I destroyed his drone and then his ship comfortably staying out of blasters' range and laying down torrents of barrage fire. As usual, we exchanged gf's while I scooped the loot.
I moved around neighbouring systems in search of new pray and soon scanned down Gambuk's Breacher in Kourmonen. He chose to engage me, but I guess Breacher just wasn't designed to take out Rifters.
My next target on that day was Eddie Monaghan who ratted in Amamake in his Rifter. Unlike some other pilots, he made no drama about the loss.
In the evening, while watching gangs roam through Amamake limiting my attack opportunities, I spotted a lone Osprey cruiser piloted by another Amamake resident Speshtard. I offered him a one-on-one and he agreed, despite noting that his chances weren't good - I like pilots who do that! Indeed, it turned out his missiles weren't hitting me hard while I was dealing with his drones, keeping a tight orbit. I destroyed the cruiser and thanked Speshtard for the fight.
That was a good time to dock up and go to sleep, but I decided to hang around a little longer. Soon, I spotted a Caracal at the infamous belt III-1. I hesitated for a while, knowing this was one of the riskiest places in New Eden to be in, but then said "what the hell" and hit the warp button. Of course, that turned out to be a trap set up by the VooDoo Technologies alliance and the Drunk GanG corporation. As soon as the Caracal had a point on me, a Lachesis, a Jaguar and a Rapier warped in and quickly destroyed my ship. This was the second time I fell into their trap - I MUST become more attentive to pilot identities and affiliations.
All in all, a nice couple of days, but at least one loss could and should have been avoided.

An introduction

2008-12-12T15:50:00.000+06:00

Hello, my name is Nursultan and I'm a pirate.
Like many others, I did not start killing people immediately upon arriving in New Eden. I spent about eight months in the high-security Empire space running missions for Caldari corporate agents until I felt there should be more to life than mindless shooting of predictable and underpowered enemies.
It was about August this year when I stumbled upon Ka Jolo's pirate diaries. Boy was I thrilled by the adventures he described: fighting against real opponents, inventing new tactics, tinkering with loadouts, setting up traps, ransoming victims, KILLING PEOPLE!
Following Ka Jolo's advice, I bought and equipped a Rifter, trained some basic skills and went to the nearest lowsec to launch my new career. I remember very well my first fight: trembling and sweating, I engaged a Kestrel, a ship generally considered subpar for PvP combat, and was destroyed by its missiles, having learnt that ship type advantage is not enough to succeed.
But less than an hour later I scored my first kill - a Tristan frigate. From that point on I knew what my mission was: bring more violence and destruction to the universe.
Although I've never applied to join Ka Jolo's corporation, the Tuskers, I've learnt a lot from them about setups and tactics as I built up my list of kills and losses. I've stuck to Rifter as my weapon of choice and plan to use it for some more time as I continue to improve my skills at using its weapons and defensive and navigation systems.
This pays off: I haven't lost a frig duel for a month now and yesterday came out on top in a fight against Brutus Severus, a more experienced pilot who had beaten me twice in our previos Rifter-vs-Rifter fights.
Finally, why am I writing this? To brag about how cool I am, of course, but also to hopefully entertain some readers and lure more pilots into the realm of New Eden and, particularly, the darker side of life in EVE.