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.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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.
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.
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