6 months??

Where the heck did 6 months go? Anyway, my grand plan for solo mission ganking didn't last too long. I'm sure its profitable and fun, but I had a chance to go back out to null so here I am, back in the NC by way of the SC.

I had rejoined Gallus, (my first ever corp) just as they and their alliance was getting smacked out of Geminate by ATLAS. So I was out there about 1 week and a half. Came back to empire briefly and then had a chance to join the SC via the director corp of the alliance we were in, who joined BLAST, or Black Star Alliance.

So, went down to fountain, got in a few fights, got harassed by Pandas (who are good by the way, respect for good pvp'ers that they are) and learned pretty quickly that BLAST leadership basically sucks hard. Lots of whining and complaining, epeen strking, and fail fleets. Terrible fc'ing (though some was very good) and just a crappy spot all the way around. We had basically one system for 1200 of us to rat and plex in, so needless to say ship replacement was not that easy for most.

So, I decide with my buddy Zeus to join XH'Duality and start just a small 3-4 man corp up in NPC space in Venal. That worked out real well, camped a station with a machariel, an arazu and a carrier. Got some decent kills (including watching the macha insta pop a tengu, pretty sweet) and made some good isk ratting.

While we were there, we ran into some Gallus guys a few times as they had joined Vanguard and hung out around there, and also ran into a guy (and popped him a few times) who headed an alliance named Demon Hunters.

After popping this guy from Demon hunters about 4 times in 2 days, Duality jokingly tried to ransom him by asking what he would give us to stop shooting him. Surprisingly, he offered to take us into his alliance. We thought about it for a bit, and said what the hell. So now we are in an NC alliance less than a month after joining the SC as IT pets, Vanguard fails and a bunch of its member corps joind Demon Hunters, including Gallus. So now, through the strange twists and turns that are life in Eve, we are right back near Geminate, trying to take sov, and flying with some guys I have known since my first day in Eve.

This game, it's crazy.

More tears to come?

It has been awhile since my last entry, mainly because I haven't had any tears to share. In the interests of creating more and more interesting tears I have decided on a new career path along with my 0.0 exploits. To that end I have assigned my high sec mission alt mission ganking duties.

Mission ganking I have found is extremely lucrative. The concept is pretty simple, piss off a missioner, get aggro, proceed to ransom or pop them and get either the isk or the phat lootz. I began last night by probing out some mission runners in a smaller hub. My reasons for using a smaller hub being that they encounter far fewer ninja salvagers and gankers then people in the big hubs do, which could lead to more rage aggro. Of course the flip side is that there are fewer targets in system, but this strategy is of course going to be constantly refined.

Another note, I do not quite have the hang of probing yet, and it kinda sucks. I am able to probe out the mission runners pretty regularly, just not all that quickly. Also, quite often when I finally get a good signature and am about to get them at 100%, they are gone which is also frustrating. But hey, no one said it would be easy, and the payoffs look to be pretty high in tears alone, much less isk and fat faction mods.

So I fitted a heron with some faction probes, passive targeter, a ship scanner, and a salvager and head to the sun to start to probe. My first target, a CNR, would not aggro, neither would my second, a Raven. Then I found a Nightmare. I warp in to the mission and in the first room is nothing but wrecks. I steal from one and gate to the next room where the Nightmare happens to be. He immediately targets me and shoots me so I warp out and get my Vexor of doom, but by the time I get back he has wisely left to wait out the aggression countdown.

After that I went to be, and I went actually pretty satisfied. If I can get aggro from 1 out of 3, I think that I will be raking in the tears and isk pretty quickly. Hopefully more to come soon.

Back to Empire, and more tears

So after a romp to null space, I return to empire to find that carebears are still the same. Some are just idiots. I flip a guys can and he responds with some delicious tears and smack, which he completely fails to back up. After tangling with my Ishkur and losing, he changes his tune rather quickly.

The guy even calls me an "artard", which is a first for me. Not to mention he is so dumb that he doesnt even realize I am messing with him at the end. This is why I flip cans.

[ 2009.10.21 02:00:43 ] Suntier > Mazlow you fucking artard!
[ 2009.10.21 02:00:56 ] Mazlow Shartain > :(
[ 2009.10.21 02:01:11 ] Suntier > yeah go on take it!
[ 2009.10.21 02:01:21 ] Suntier > just leave you greedy little shit!
[ 2009.10.21 02:01:25 ] Mazlow Shartain > uh, already did
[ 2009.10.21 02:01:28 ] Bux Naked > lol
[ 2009.10.21 02:01:35 ] Bux Naked > I love reading local sometimes
[ 2009.10.21 02:01:59 ] Suntier > why dont you just stay... I will come and blow you the fuck up!
[ 2009.10.21 02:02:13 ] Bux Naked > you go girl!
[ 2009.10.21 02:02:22 ] Mazlow Shartain > damn, those are some awesome tears
[ 2009.10.21 02:03:12 ] Suntier > it's not like I will miss the fucking isk.... it's just bugs me that someone stupid as you took some of it.... and then blew it up
[ 2009.10.21 02:03:16 ] Suntier > but you are dead
[ 2009.10.21 02:03:29 ] Mazlow Shartain > orly
[ 2009.10.21 02:03:39 ] Suntier > or will you run to mommy?
[ 2009.10.21 02:03:52 ] Suntier > can flippers have no pride at all
[ 2009.10.21 02:07:42 ] Mazlow Shartain > still waiting....
[ 2009.10.21 02:07:52 ] Suntier > oh I bet you arent
[ 2009.10.21 02:07:57 ] Mazlow Shartain > come see
[ 2009.10.21 02:07:58 ] Suntier > but I will check
[ 2009.10.21 02:09:48 ] Mazlow Shartain > sigh
[ 2009.10.21 02:10:28 ] Suntier > why are you running?
[ 2009.10.21 02:10:33 ] Suntier > afraid?
[ 2009.10.21 02:10:35 ] Mazlow Shartain > its called orbiting
[ 2009.10.21 02:10:45 ] Suntier > right.....
[ 2009.10.21 02:10:53 ] Mazlow Shartain > 4 minutes
[ 2009.10.21 02:10:53 ] Suntier > says the little rabbit
[ 2009.10.21 02:11:34 ] Mazlow Shartain > well? just smack from you or what
[ 2009.10.21 02:12:36 ] Mazlow Shartain > nighty night
[ 2009.10.21 02:12:52 ] Suntier > like it matters?
[ 2009.10.21 02:12:59 ] Mazlow Shartain > it did to you smacky
[ 2009.10.21 02:13:04 ] Suntier > nope...
[ 2009.10.21 02:13:11 ] Mazlow Shartain > ok then, gf anyway
[ 2009.10.21 02:13:11 ] Suntier > long time since I had some fun
[ 2009.10.21 02:13:43 ] Mazlow Shartain > glad ya had fun
[ 2009.10.21 02:14:00 ] Suntier > well isent that whats games are about?
[ 2009.10.21 02:14:11 ] Suntier > tho you can do it the more honest way.....
[ 2009.10.21 02:14:22 ] Mazlow Shartain > thought it was about lame smack for you, but ok
[ 2009.10.21 02:14:35 ] Suntier > whatever....
[ 2009.10.21 02:15:09 ] Suntier > I know what I stand for... and what I can do.... and I also know what you can do...
[ 2009.10.21 02:15:13 ] Mazlow Shartain > gotta love the e-honor police
[ 2009.10.21 02:15:19 ] Mazlow Shartain > well done officer
[ 2009.10.21 02:15:34 ] Suntier > hm
[ 2009.10.21 02:15:58 ] Suntier > you just cant get by, by yourself
[ 2009.10.21 02:16:41 ] Mazlow Shartain > that a song?
[ 2009.10.21 02:16:53 ] Mazlow Shartain > captain and tenille maybe?
[ 2009.10.21 02:16:57 ] Suntier > no
[ 2009.10.21 02:17:02 ] Suntier > not what I know of....

Another war, a few more idiots....

So we declared war on a corp that had messed with our alt corps pos. Had an engagement last night with them in low sec where they had some neut reps and we lost a rook.

So today, we run a locate and find them in Urlen. Odau heads in and finds them at a station but gets popped. The rest of us fleet up, head to Urlen. Zeus78 jumps into system and heads to the station they are at. He docks and undocks and gets engaged by a harbinger in his Rokh, which Zeus quickly melts. The other guy is there in a tempest but docks just as the fleet arrives.

So six of us proceed to camp the station, and a minute later the guy Zeus popped is gone from local. Turns out he must have clone jumped because he comes back in a mega a few minutes later and docks up.

Within a few minutes, the Tempest and Mega both undock...and engage Arckangel in his Brutix! After a bit of laughter, a little shooty and a couple of nice explosions the Mega and Tempest are yellow triangles in the sky.

Note to self

Don't take on a Hurricane in a Wolf....

Low sec fun

Well tonight was an interesting night. No war targets, so a few of us decided a low sec run was in order. Me, Silo, Bronxer and Sarco hop into a few t2 cruisers and head to a .4 system. We jump into the first one and see a couple of people in a corp we dont feel too much like messing with, so we all head to the next system in.

We get to the gate, and they jump in to the next system. As I am about to jump in, a harbinger arrives on the gate with me. I inform the guys on vent and hop to the next system with them. The harby follows us in and engages Bronxer. We all get on the harby and then we see a Raven and a Crusader warp in. Seems like the party is really getting started now.

The Harby is going down so Sarco decides to take down the Crusader...except the crusader isn't with those guys and hasn't engaged us. He gets him but this gets the gate guns on sarco which forces him to warp out not long after the Harby finally goes down.

Of course now we still have the Raven to deal with and it is hitting Silo hard, Bronxer has already gotten his Cerb popped and Sarco was forced to warp off because of the gate guns. At this point we decided that it was time for those that could to bug the hell out. Silo is pointed so he cant leave and loses his Ishtar as I get to a high sec gate.

After we are all back in high sec Sarco posts the KM and notices that the 30mil Harby is faction fitted to the tune of over 300mil! Various curses and frustration ensue as no one thought to loot the wreck with all that had gone on. Sarco even wanted to go back for it, but we decided that that probably wasn't a good idea.

So all in all not too bad, lost a cerb and an ishtar, but took down a ridiculously faction fitted Harby and a Crusader. We won in the isk destroyed category, but lost in points. A good fight.

Harbinger kill
http://tllkills.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=725

Crusader kill
http://tllkills.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=726

War can be boring

War is sure boring when no one will fight. Spent all night camping stations listening to the war targets talk their smack as they hid. (gotta love it when peeps talk shite while sitting in a station) The corp ended up with one kill. The only remotely interesting thing that happened was some moron in a six man corp deciding to start to talk smack to us while we camped.

Seems he was reading our isk demands to our war targets and was advising them to hire a merc corp to dec us rather than pay us. He started going on about how the last time his corp was decced they hired a merc alliance to wipe the floor with the other corp and blah blah. This is actually pretty dumb on a couple of levels. First, we were only asking for 100mil, chump change. A decent merc corp will cost a lot moe than that. Second, by talking his smack I'm pretty sure he bought his 6 man corp a dec of their own. If he actually does hire a merc corp I see a lot more trouble than just TLL coming his way. Should be good lulz all around.

Gotta love people who start the smack and then just give you a variation of "if you touch me my big brother will beat you up!"

Bring it on.