tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65286066781122495322024-03-05T03:30:26.353-08:00Invading Your Hole <a href="http://imgur.com/WPKZ93Y"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/WPKZ93Y.gif" title="Hosted by imgur.com"></a>Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-43416138427424241522018-06-18T13:29:00.001-07:002018-06-18T16:59:49.741-07:00Death By 1000 Cuts -- Wormhole Edition<br />
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AAR: Colorful RP fan fiction of a Paladin gank. I know I'm a super nerd, but sometimes I just like going over the top on stuff. Its my blog, try and stop me. <br />
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TLDR: hyperlink<br />
<a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/70668927/" target="_blank"> https://zkillboard.com/kill/70668927/</a><br />
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The immortal Captain Aurum paced the spacious bridge of his Paladin class Marauder. He was getting more anxious by the second. It was taking too long, he silently cursed himself. Were the reports of combat probes true? When he commanded his first officer to verify the report, the first officer simply said, 'They are gone now, may have been a fluke". Incompetent fool. Gritting his teeth, the Captain communicated his location to fleet at the station, just in case.<br />
The crew of the Paladin were deep in an uncharted system clearing it of its ancient inhabitants. The mission was simple. Destroy the aliens who resided in this section of space and return. The crew had scanned out a cluster of strange ancient aliens and set about process of extermination and collection. The data clusters collected from the wreckage would fetch a fair amount of ISK on the open market. The aliens, sleepers, as they were referred to, were not without their own defenses. Heavily armored and just as heavily armed would attack any ship that violated what they felt was theirs. The dangers were amplified only because these sleepers resided. They were ruthless, mechanical in thought and action, this made them predictable and within reach of a crafty individual with the guts to go to them and pry their data from their destroyed carcasses.<br />
To amplify the danger, the targeted sleepers only resided in maelstrom of J-space. A lawless space of isolated star systems only connected to real space through thousands unstable wormholes who's location was as infrequent nature made them impossible to navigate for any great length of time. These J-space star systems were colonized by immortal pilots who enjoyed the isolation and the stealth provided by a space without registered communication. They used this lack of communication between each other to hide, but a rarer few used it to hunt their fellow immortal pilots.<br />
These hunters, many who followed their own god of chaos they called Bob, were what Captain Aurum feared most. The sleepers were predictable, dangerous to be sure, but predictable. The mind of an immortal hunter, was not. Captain Aurum wasn't without tools for his protection. He had used his extensive knowledge of these random wormhole mechanics to bring its connections to unknown dangerous connections that may harbor these hunters to a critical degree of unsuitability by jumping a specific amount of mass through the connection. Any ship passing through it, may close the wormhole behind them, effectively trapping that ship on one side permanently, until the twisted maze of connections might take it back to once it came. The trapped ship would be without support and of no threat to Captain Aurum and his paladin. Or so he thought.<br />
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Captain Spear cared not for harvesting the ancient aliens when he approached the wormhole connection. He had just scanned down just another signature among hundreds that week. All didn't provide what he was desperately seeking.<br />
Using his covert ops Anethema, he was able to make incredibly quick scans of systems, disregarding useless gas signatures, even less useful sleeper civilization clusters and quickly finding connections to other wormholes. His target wasn't ancient civilizations or even harvesting the vast resources provided in such an isolated section of J-space. He was hunting immortals, just like himself. To offer their brief fantastic explosions to his fickle god, for no other reason than the challenge hunting such an illusive prey could provide.<br />
Captain Spear had come across something out of the ordinary directly connected to his home system. An incoming connection out of the norm his home system received. A quick view on his NAV computer revealed the wormhole he had just found was highly unstable and critical. Something had done this. Something big had brought this gift from Bob to this unstable state. Opportunity for another offering to Bob may just be on the other side of this wormhole. <br />
Licking his greasy lips he made a silent inner prayer to his uncaring god of chaos, "May my explosion and offering of blood, please you and bring me fortune". Risk was part of the job and nothing ventured nothing gained some one said. Weighing what maybe a one way trip from his current destination and fleet support. Faith in Bob should never be questioned. His small craft would hardly alter the critical state of this connection to the unknown. He piloted his small one man vessel into the wormhole. Lets take a peek and see what Bob has given me. <br />
The sound of the shift from one system of J-space to another thundered around him, the connection held. Quickly hitting his 360 directional scan, specifically tuned to find other ships and the wrecks of the sleepers they may be harvesting, reviled evidence of other pilots in the system.<br />
Smashing down the communication button, "Wrecks on Scan! Paladin times 2, Mobile Tractor times 6, Salvaging Destroyer!" "The connection is critical, get to delta hole in destroyers or smaller!" "Wolf-Rayet Star". The call to his fellow hunters silenced the nonsensical banter typically enjoyed in the off time between kills. This was why the hunters were here, for that sudden burst of adrenaline that only hunting an immortal could provide. Bob had gifted us with a challenge. <br />
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Standing at the private shipyards of the fleet quickly selected the correct ships for the operation. The puzzle was less than simple. The target was Paladin class Marauder, known for its unique ability to temporarily transform itself from a space craft into an immobile weapons platform. Completely immune to electronic counter measures, temporarily providing additional defensive capabilities and making it a tough nut to crack in the best of situations.<br />
The hunter fleet did have one advantage over the cumbersome marauder, it had speed. With expert piloting a small craft could quickly orbit the battle ship while its tremendous cannons failed to apply damage on such a quick target. The marauder wasn't without options. The battleship had a flights of unmanned drones it could use to out run a small ship attempting this tight orbit maneuver. Though the marauder couldn't track the small craft, the drone could easily. There would be casualties.<br />
Captain Tota and Captain Saken selected a tactical destroyers, an Amarr confessor and Gallente Haecate. Superb space craft each, with tried and true crew. Their crews needed to be elite to fly the fickle spacecraft capable of transforming itself mid flight into essentially 3 different specialized platforms. Captain Raalei brought a fearsome assault frigate which was designed in the Minmatar ship yards. Minmatar technology was one that favored function over form. How that lunatic Raalei kept that ball of welded metal and bonding cement from coming apart in warp, should be studied. Finally, one Captain Brannigan, who had sacrificed so much to Bob in the past, that he could only accompany us in a Caldari Caracal cruiser. Its missile systems were an asset, but his ships shield defenses would be less than useful in the Wolf-Rayet system. Captain Brennigan didn't care, his crew was expendable, he was immortal!<br />
The marauder did have one tremendous weakness perhaps ignored by the people who designed it, it was highly susceptible to energy neutralization warfare. The marauder pulled tremendous amounts of power from its critical systems to fire its weapons and repair combat damage. Without power, the marauder was vulnerable. The problem was, nothing in the small group of ships selected for the mission could provide the tremendous energy neutralization needed to cripple the marauder. The call went out for a bold pilot with nothing to lose but his ship. "Bring the Bhaalgorn".<br />
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In the deeper reaches of the Fortizar class Citadel while the fleet was forming, Captain Lomax was walking down a hall toward a ship only a madman would pilot, let alone command. It was necessary for the safety of population of the Citadel to moor some spacecraft in isolated hangers. Often times, cutting edge technology would be a hazard to those around them. This was not the reason for this ships isolation. Its reason for isolation from other crews and staff, were entirely outside the realm of science.<br />
The final seal broken on the 7th door of the 7th compartment. The smell of death came hissing through the airlock of the hanger. Captain Lomax waited patiently as the hanger door screeched open to reveal a floating battleship hovering in the anti gravity mooring chamber. Its hull drenched in blood, perhaps new, perhaps old, likely both. Looking down to the left of the staircase he saw the blood drained body of some unlucky dock worker still clutching its neck in a vain attempt to claw the blood back into its body. He'd been warned, but often times curiosity for the forbidden draws in scholar and fool alike. Their fate is always the same. <br />
Before purchasing this space craft from a station full of ship slavers, this was the only information found. <i>"Named after a child-devouring demon of Amarrian legend, the Bhaalgorn is
the pride and joy of the Blood Raider cabal. Though it is known to be
based on an Armageddon blueprint, the design's origin remains shrouded
in mystery. Those of a superstitious persuasion whisper in the dark of
eldritch ceremonies and arcane rituals, but for most people, the
practical aspect of the matter will more than suffice: you see one of
these blood-red horrors looming on the horizon, it's time to make
yourself scarce</i>. (historical <a href="https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Bhaalgorn" target="_blank">reference</a>)<br />
Inside the spacecraft it was much much worse than its bloody exterior. The stories were true, the ship was powered the same as standard craft its was based on, but something else was at work on this mysterious ship. A dark force, a force not of science but a force of horror. Its crew were cultists and priests of this dark cabal. Their technological understanding of the ships inner workings were only matched by their ritualistic desire to feed the ship and the ship was always hungry. This ship was their outlet to their god, their conduit to the evil which made this space craft special. Captain Lomax didn't care, nothing mattered to him other than pleasing his own god, a god that didn't need blood, that god needed only explosions and if this Bhaalgorn and its evil crew were the explosion called upon, so be it. Captain Lomax was immortal.<br />
Captain Lomax ignored the smell, stepped over the bodies of the crew, brushed off the drained limbs of the former first officer from the Captains chair and plugged himself in. The executive staff was a mix of clergy, engineers and what could only be described as a doctor specializing in quickly pulling blood from the willing and unwilling alike. The staff was loyal to its Captain, what they did to make the ship work was simply their business. He didn't ask because knowing the answer would only bring madness. The ship undocked and with a thought, he was in warp to connection Delta.<br />
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Captain Spear managed to launch his combat probes off of the directional scan of the Paladin. Then arrange his probes remotely before launching them, narrowing their search pattern to a minimum, with maximum effect and efficiency. The idea was to not spook the target and give target ship cause to run until the fleet was on top of it. One quick warp of the combat probes and the exact location of the marauder was found, Captain Spear quickly recalled his probes seconds later. With a little luck, the target ship wouldn't see them. Captain Spear warped to a location 100k from the last known location of the Marauder. Captain Spear was just kilometers from his fleets target. He gave the command to form up on Delta connection. <br />
The hunter fleet rendezvous on the critical Delta connection. The
traverse would be simple. Jump the small craft through the critical
wormhole first, in hopes that these small ships mass would not close the
wormhole before the huge Bhaalgorn was able to close the connection
with is bulk. All this would be for not if the Delta connection was so critical to only allow just a couple small craft through and close before the battleship could skirt in. Stranding small ships without the support of the battleship only to watch their target leave.<br />
"Assault Frigate Jump!", the pile of angular metal reached the event horizon and disappeared. The connection remained. "Destroyers Jump!", both of the larger ships disappeared into the quivering nexus. Still the connection remained. "Cruiser Jump!", the Caracal and its rookie crew approached and disappeared. A collective silence swept over the fleet as the Bhaal waited its turn. Would the connection remain? " YES! Bob wants to see us die this day" Captain Lomax shouted. The Bhaalgorn lumbered through the critical hole and collapsed it behind the battleship. The beast was in, and it was hungry. <br />
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Aboard the Paladin marauder still pacing on the bridge an anxious Captain Aurum was monitoring the destruction of the final sleeper. "Sir! Wolf on directional!". "Hecate, Confessor and"... long pause... " a Caracal?" A look of confusion across his face.<br />
"Damn it!" Captain Aurum exclaimed, how did they get in this system there are no new connections. One of his subordinates must have failed in their duty to critical mass the connecting wormholes. They insubordinate swine will be punished for this, if we live, they won't for much longer.<br />
"How long till we can warp?" Captain Aurum screamed. "The siege module is still active sir, we can't move!" responded the NAV station.<br />
"These tiny craft are no match for the power of a bastioned marauder" he stated with confidence. Then he remembered that intel report he chose to ignore earlier in the day. This was a Wolf-Rayet Star system, a system enhanced by heavy elements, depleted hydrogen and strong strong stellar winds, nonsense to the untrained, but the effect on small weapons would be amplified. Worse, the signature of space craft would be much smaller, making his primary cannons useless vs a small moving target. He knew he was in trouble.<br />
"Coms, place a call to our support fleet, we need help".<br />
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The smaller craft of the hunters were much faster than the Bhaalgorn and made it to the target long before the battleship arrived. They would need to deactivate the warp drive of the marauder and keep the ship there until the Bhaalgorn could land. Captain ordered his ship to warp to the designated target. His NAV station, which doubled as a butchers table of sorts, was a mess with parts of some kind of creature, hopefully not sentient. The NAV station officer adjusted the destination into the computer and stopped moments before to nibble on a severed finger he had pocketed ealier that day. Making the critical mistake and warping to the incorrect spacial bookmark. 100k from the target. Captain Lomax thought to himself, "Fool, if he wasn't already damned I'd flay the skin from his bones, if I though he wouldn't enjoy it". "letting him live longer should be his punishment".<br />
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The word "Bhaalgorn" uttered from the first officers mouth had never had the gut wreching effect as strongly as it did on Captain Aurum that day. He'd heard of the legendary spacecraft before, never giving the option of owning or flying the ship a second thought. They didn't specialize in the collection of unthinking ancient aliens, so why should he care. Knowing full well its potential to cripple his marauder he instantly knew it was a threat much greater than the small craft that had disabled his warp drive preventing escape. If this Bhaalgorn does to him, what he fears is possible, he's in greater trouble than previously estimated.<br />
But why is it so far from him. The deadly Bhaalgorn should be right on top for maximum effect of its weapon systems and energy neutralizing. This was the marauders weakness, these hunters were no fools, but they may have just given me the opportunity for escape.<br />
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The hunter fleet coms were a blaze of combat jargon and screams of g-force pinned crew-mates as they made their tight orbit on the marauder. Pinned to their chairs as they orbit the massive craft. The marauders cannons firing meters behind them as the smaller ships out tracked the cannons.<br />
"Warp drive disabled!""Marauder targeting me with drones!""Shoot those drones damn it""I've just lost shields"'I've just lost my armor""My ships on fire!!" "Aww shut up Raalie, your ship was on fire before you even got here, you fly Minmatar!""Its on fire more than usual!!"I'm coming apart!" There was glee in his voice as his crew manned their stations for one last time.<br />
On fire, only structure keeping the ships together, their critical systems pressed beyond their factory specifications by over heating the pilots were in the figurative area between reality and Valhalla, their dream of being seen by their god Bob, moments from coming true. That razors edge where pushing it one way or another means certain death for themselves and their crews. The hunter fleet couldn't be happier.<br />
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Aboard the Paladin there was a different outlook. One of desperation crept over the crew. The crew knew what to do, but events were closer to having a grim outcome more than positive. Captain Aurum had one last trick up his sleeve. He had installed a weapon system rarely used outside of very specialized instances. A point-blank area-of-effect weapon, when fired doing damage to everything in a very short radius. These small ships orbiting and avoiding his cannons would either need to break off their assault or be destroyed. Either outcome would be fine in his book. Hunter scum.<br />
The only draw back of this weapon system was the tremendous power it took to activate. It was worth it for the chance to escape.<br />
Wave after way erupted from the point-blank weapon system, he was damaging something at first, but the small craft still maintained the tight orbit needed to disable his warp systems.<br />
The tactical officer conveyed to Captain Aurum, "We were having effect at first but the attackers have altered their tight orbit to outside our point-blank fire effect."<br />
"Blast! where's that support fleet !!!?!" Captain Aurum shouted. Silence came over the coms system.<br />
A reluctant engineer eyed the Captain before giving his report. "Sir," swallowing hard "the Bhaalgorn has begun applying its heavy energy neutralizers". Silence fell over the bridge.<br />
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After the slow creep from the wrong NAV point to the target, the Bhaalgorn was finally doing what it was designed to do, drain. The command was given to begin energy neutralizing the marauder. The crew chanted and begun unspeakable rituals that seemed to share the same rhythm as the energy weapon systems. The darkness kept within this ship was awakening and being unleashed on the marauder. Screams of the stock of slaves could be heard as they gave their lives to the rituals. In areas of the ship that didn't have sufficient slaves, crew men and women gleefully injected themselves with blood draining needles and ejection tanks, watching as their own life force was sprayed across the weapon systems. Happily serving the ship and their cabal.<br />
Captain Lomax sent over the coms "Marauder empty". The marauders precious energy systems was as dry as the slaves that powered the weapons that took them. Captain Lomax grinning, looked to his attentive tactical officer who wasn't grinning back.<br />
"Sir, the murauders support fleet has been spotted". Captain Lomax relayed the information to the fleet. "Guadian x3, Pontifex, Proteus , Sacrilege, Ashimmu,..... Bhaalgorn". The color fled from his face.<br />
"OVER HEAT EVERYTHING!!" Captain Tota shouted. Cannons hissed, capacitors ruptured in a desperate attempt to cause the explosion they all so desperately came to create, but would it be enough?<br />
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The bridge of the Paladin marauder were on fire. Bodies of crew lying all around, but still the marauders held together. Its defenses starved of power and unable to operate from the Bhaalgorns energy draining weapons. The rescue fleet was in warp and moments from assisting them.<br />
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With blood trickling out of the corner of the first officers mouth, giving his last report. "Sir, there isn't any power left, the fleet is landing in moments". "But the bastion module is locked in place, the rescue fleet can't repair our systems with it on, what do we do?!"<br />
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Captain Aurum stood up from his chair and calmly walked to his personal escape pod. "Well, you die".<br />
Suddenly the automatic ejections system took over and shunted the Captain violently into the egg shaped ejection pod. His spaced crew of thousands, floating lifelessly in the wreckage around him. <br />
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Blood for Bob. <br />
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A video of the AAR <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2I3Eq_e374&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2I3Eq_e374&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
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Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-53249146366228695172018-05-28T07:33:00.003-07:002018-05-28T08:00:35.828-07:00Into the Abyss 1.0Hello friends<br />
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On Tuesday, May 29th 2018 CCP is going to release more actual content to the game. YAY right?<br />
Welllll, its got some goods and bads of course. Here's my take on the new stuff from a day of screaming at my computer screen. <br />
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My experience.<br />
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So on the 27th (yesterday) I figured I'd log on to Singularity (test server) and try out some of the new stuff. I didn't exactly know where to start so I did what a good boy should and actually read the patch notes.<br />
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These new instances begin with these little items you find in Data sites. Well, suppose to find in data sites. I don't know if they are rare as hell or CCP dropped the ball but I spent about 2 hours in my scanning ship flying around the test server hacking data sites and found 0. I hope CCP doesn't do what they did with Ghost sites and make these little nuggets as rare as hens teeth. Because after doing, not making this up, 8 data sites, I didn't find a single 'filament'.<br />
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That sucked.<br />
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Well, I thought to myself, 'Spear old boy, you should just go to the Null market and see if anyone is selling them', yea well they are, all of them, for 100.00 isk. ... /sigh...<br />
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So these little filaments are broken down into 5 levels of difficulty and 5 different flavors of 'bonuss' and 'penalty'. They work exactly like Wspace, but instead of expecting you to know what effect you're in, it just tells you with a little buff/de-buff symbol above your capacitor. Thats nice. :)<br />
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I suspect going forward, one type of effect filament item would be easier to run than others, thus the demand for those filaments would be greater. Where the really awful effect ones, would be cheaper.<br />
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Heres how the filaments work.<br />
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You get your cruiser, as far as I know right now, you must use a cruiser or smaller for these, fly to a spot in space away from other celestial ( just made a safe) and right click "Activate". Why you would try and use something smaller, I can't guess, maybe you just like punishment.<br />
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Once the filament is activated, a little window pops up with some warnings and a "are you sure" message. At the bottom is a little 'jump' button, which you push and whoosh, you are taken away to a a new area.<br />
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You're aren't in 'local anymore, or I don't think you are, I didn't confirm if you left local or not, but you are in a section of space with little unreadable squiggles for a name. So maybe you're there, maybe you're not. We should look into that, because it might be a cool way to hide a fleet by carrying these lv1 1 things with you on ops and teleporting your fleet out of local for 20 minutes. <br />
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I'll just say that the little Abyss area is Gorgeous! Its a maelstrom of rocks, ice, pointy bits, lighting, clouds.. all floating around with different colors. Very pretty. If you don't do anything, fly in there on a cheap one and just experience the graphic layers, it would be worth your pod.<br />
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Yes, I said pod.<br />
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If you die in these, you're podded. The rats pod you and you can't escape them once you've started. The entire event is timed 20:00. Rats take off and just dodge you to burn up time, dead. Can't dps frigs well because of your larger weapon system, dead. Can't break their reps because you have frig specific damage types.. dead. podded.. <br />
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Someone said that this was intended for someone to just 'do as a quick thing' on a lunch break. HAHHAHAHA HAHHAHAHAH <-- sarcastic laugh.<br />
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Sure, maybe you could hop into your cruiser and knock out a level 1 on a lunch break. But a level 3 or higher, you better have put in your time on the test server to figure out what works with each combination of rats and effects.<br />
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The rats as far as I can tell are like sleeper rats, in that they shoot omni damage type and will kite your ass if they feel thats the best way to deal with you. They will kite your drones from you, which is nice... I placed two medium drones on a frig rat and watched as it turned around and ended up 30 from me. Its friends still pounding away on me.<br />
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The rats don't seem to follow the typical agro control methods we enjoy in other parts of space. they're smart, and very trolly. Its almost like they know the whole thing is timed and when they are down to 2 frigs about to die and you can go to the next room. The two frigs just fly off, they saw what you did to their friends, know you're going to explode in 5 minutes, so they just make your life that much more miserable before dying.<br />
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Worse, I'm fairly sure each room changes based on your fit or the weapon system you use. Perhaps I'm giving the AI more credit than is due, but I swear, if I did great in one room with my drone weapon systems, the next was tailored to do terrible vs my weapon system. After doing about 10 lvl 3s and dying 9 times out of 10... I could swear the game was hacking.<br />
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Not only that, but you're podded each time you fail.<br />
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The vibe I get from this isn't one of 'casual game play on a lunch break', the vibe I got is exactly like Hard Core mode in Diablo or POE. There is a sword of Damocles hovering over your balls, waiting for you to lose connection from a internet hiccup or the particular combination of resistance/room effects and NPC tower AOE that just places your scrotum exactly where it wants you, and drops the sword.<br />
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After 7 straight hours of screaming at computer screen about why a rat that died 3 times before with this type of weapon system, simply won't die now ,and watching the clock ticking down before reaching the end and exploding I gave up and tried to cure cancer in my basement with a toaster and box of rocks. Punishing, is close to the word I'm looking for, but masochistic (not the fun kind) is really more at the heart. <br />
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I did get to loot each 'can' in each room though, which I think makes the experience worse for me. See if the loot was in the final room only, you wouldn't really know what you lost if you failed, but the fact that you can hold the loot in your hot little cargo hold and know you can't take it out of the Abyss if you fail.. Then DYING with the potential loot in your cargo hold and seeing it go from gotten to lost... yea, that's seems to raise the stakes that much higher and make the experience that much more punishing when you fail it.<br />
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After as much time, ships and, pods as I spent on the test center, I have abandoned any hope of doing these on release. No loot is worth this abuse.<br />
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I'm rich enough to pay other people to punish themselves with this shit. Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-65916735757464392042018-05-04T10:34:00.002-07:002018-05-04T13:23:53.564-07:00Battle of the SerengetiAs you all maybe aware, I'm back playing EVE and having fun with a great crew in Wspace.<br />
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Some of my most memorable fights are desperate small gang fights that involve both sides reshipping, warping out, dying, putting mass on holes, using wormhole mechanics to your advantage and just going totally nuts like ship loss isn't a thing!<br />
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Though my least read posts are always my battle reports, they are by far my favorite to write... so if you don't like stupid PVP don't bother reading any further.<br />
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<b><u>Battle of the Serengeti</u></b><br />
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I call it this because of the mild shit talking I did while I was trying to get a fight with a newly rolled static connection.<br />
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Its early EST and I'm the only one on other than some guy that was just logged in long enough to do PI.<br />
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I jump my cloaky legion into the newly rolled hole and see a Rorq on scan. Now I can't hope to solo one of those, even if I did ping, my EUTZ / AM EST TZ is minor at best. So, I do what any person looking for a hopeless fight would do, ship my alt into an Incursus and fly around their wormhole trying to start shit.<br />
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While I'm flying around their hole, I see a Loki and Cheetah jump from their static connection. They drop probes and quickly find our K162 to their home. In random hopes of possibly killing a Loki with my incursus and scout legion, I proceed to bait on our K162 with the incusus. Maybe they didn't see the Legion, but I'll take a T3 scout vs T3 scout fight with incursus assist any day of the week.<br />
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They don't bite, they just jump the Cheetah into our home, so I figure I'll chase with the Incursus.<br />
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This is the local chat after I miss the decloak.<br />
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<u>NOTE</u>: I was kind of punchy, hadn't had my coffee yet and was feeling weird.<br />
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[ 2018.05.04 14:37:35 ] Sir Lomax > the deadly incursus stalks its prey...<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:38:49 ] Sir Lomax > its prey, completely confused by the incursus's use of speed and cunning, hides.. doesn't drop probes, yet watchs.. and waits.. for the axe to fall...<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:39:57 ] Sir Lomax > is it a solo hunter? or does it have a pack of deadly fellow incursus to assist in the kill, only an excessive amount of time will tell<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:40:43 ] Sir Lomax > will its loki pack mate assist? or leave it to die on the sarengetteee?<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:43:15 ] Sir Lomax > Confused by its preys lack of movement or action the deadly incursus retires to its den<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:48:10 ] Hisoka Abre-Kai > So. Ya gonna tell stories all day, or actually come shoot at something with that frig?<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:48:53 ] Sir Lomax > :) i like stories haha<br />
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I saw a dare devil jump into our home while watching with my cloaked Legion. I figure what the heck, and warped there with my Enyo.. I honestly wasn't awake enough to know that wasn't my Incusus anymore, I brought the Daredevil into structure and it jumped out.<br />
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Realizing that my incursus shouldn't be doing as much damage as that, I looked again, and realized, wait I'm in an Enyo! O ffs... then I reshiped back to the incursus and warped back to the hole.<br />
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I'm not kidding, I honestly felt I was in the incursus the hole time. I think this is what schizophrenia feels like.<br />
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O well, reset.<br />
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I see on Dscan a malediction warping in, then a confessor... Sure I can take that! Its an Incursus after all!!<br />
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I announce in local that I see the confessor.<br />
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[ 2018.05.04 14:55:06 ] Sir Lomax > oohh.. a confessor, that looks spicy :)<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:55:13 ] Sir Lomax > 1v1?<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:55:19 ] Sir Lomax > incursus vs confessor?<br />
[ 2018.05.04 14:55:57 ] Sir Lomax > but who will jump into who.. does the confessor falter?<br />
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The confessor just sat there for a bit, not wanting to be the first to jump in, but I guess he was waiting on the malediction to tackle me first, because the malediction jumped in first. I just ignored it. I got reps and he's got shit dps.<br />
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Malediction points me.. Confessor jumps...Uncloaks and I just turn on the old afterburner, scram web and orbit like a boss.<br />
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I'm tanking both just fine, but its grinding on and on.. the Confessor knows hes screwed when he clearly sees hes applying little to no DPS. We are both on the hole, so it was going to be dual side fight anyway.<br />
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I got cocky:<br />
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[ 2018.05.04 14:58:25 ] Sir Lomax > whats tracking... how does it work? <br />
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But wait.. a second confessor warps to the other side of the hole. I guess he didn't want to lose a fight 2v1 in a confessor vs a T1 frig.<br />
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He gets low and jumps back into his home. Figuring that any kind honor fight was ignored at this point, I uncloaked the legion. I hold cloak on the incursus till the confessor uncloaks (he did jump first afterall) he uncloaks.. I point him in the Incursus, and get blapped into nothingness by the new confessor.<br />
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Lost the Incursus :( <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758144/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758144/</a><br />
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[ 2018.05.04 15:00:32 ] EVE System > Channel changed to Local : J130039<br />
[ 2018.05.04 15:02:06 ] Hisoka Abre-Kai > Oops<br />
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But I got the confessor! <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758153/" target="_blank">https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758153/ </a><br />
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So.. who oopsed who.. SIR! <br />
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Now the Loki shows up.. at this time one of my corp mates joins voice coms. I'm holding my own just fine while I reship my Incusus pilot.<br />
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What happens next is the most chaotic 45 minute fight over a C5 connection I've ever been apart of.<br />
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Ships warping out.. ships blowing up.. me reshipping, them reshipping... drones everywhere.. pandemonium in the streets, cats and dogs living together... END OF THE WORLD Type shit.<br />
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Naww.. but the battle report is slightly hilarious.<br />
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/related/31001803/201805041500/">https://zkillboard.com/related/31001803/201805041500/</a><br />
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Yes I flew all those ships at once, I'm THAT good.... (reshipping occurred) <br />
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I'm flying a solo rep bhaal, supported by god only knows what.. jumping back and forth from hole fighting vs 2 Armageddons, multiple dictors, loki and they had a wolf rayite star effect Cerb/Caracal death camp firing squad on the other side of the hole...OMG they did so much damage in that hole, but we kept chasing each other back and forth into structure.<br />
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It was bananas.. !!!<br />
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Some of the kills...losses.<br />
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Kill Machariel <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758904/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758904/</a><br />
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Kill Loki <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758743/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758743/</a><br />
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Kill Proteus <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758573/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758573/</a><br />
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Kill Flycatcher <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758353/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758353/</a><br />
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Loss HEE-La <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758202/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/69758202/</a><br />
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Now.. the reason I lost that HEE-La is because I jumped into there not realizing it was a Wolf Ryate Star effect.. which vs.. that firing squad of small weapons and my lack of real shield... I died in a fire while only 10 seconds on my Polarizing timer remained.<br />
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To be totally honest, every loss the other guys sustained was entirely because they fucked up on their polarization timers. They chased when they shouldn't have, they over committed when they didn't need to..Good on them for bringing the fight for so long, mad tip of the hat to them.<br />
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Wormhole mechanics are the great equalizer in Wspace. <br />
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All in all, it was a great set of engagements that used up every single drop of mass on that wormhole connection. Nonstop fighting that ended with us having a trapped Mach stuck on our side.<br />
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No quarter was given.. None was asked:)<br />
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-53456228257934854752018-04-20T14:21:00.002-07:002018-04-20T14:21:53.534-07:00Hello Friends, I'm Not Dead<br />
What a relief right? <br />
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Now that we got the obvious out of the way let me give you an update.<br />
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I've started playing EVE again and I'm intentionally trying to go easy on it. I'm trying not to make the mistakes I've made in the past when I've tried to come back and failed.<br />
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Story time.<br />
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I'm a salty vet but recognizing that you are salty is the first step to rehabilitation. I posted in the /r/EVEJOBs subreddit that I was a vet looking for a fresh perspective and wormhole space. I was quickly petitioned by multiple offers but my one caveat to joining this new corp was that it had a minimum amount of people on coms at all times.<br />
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This may sound braggadocios but I can say I've done most everything in EVE that I care to do. I've done it in every way that I care to do it. This kind of experience I've found has lead me down a path toward boredom and burn out. The problem isn't the game, its me and how I look at the game its tools.<br />
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Take voice coms for example; Discord is superior in most ways and free. Its become the standard for gaming communication and left TS/Mumble and Ventrillo in the dust. Of course thats just my opinion, to which I wouldn't like being a part of those voice com servers because I find them inferior.<br />
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The above statement is how I view nearly all things in EVE. I know about the options and I am happy with what I like. This can be very limiting and boring. I recognize this and I'm trying to fix it.<br />
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There for, when I entered into this new corp I tried my damnedest to not have preconceived notions about how they do things. They use Team Speak, I don't know why, I didn't ask.. and better yet, I didn't try and change their minds to the way I'm accustom to doing things.<br />
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Fresh perspective.<br />
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I just jumped into their coms and started talking like I was excited to play the game.<br />
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I can tell you that its provided me some area of growth and challenges that I thought I would never need to overcome again.<br />
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Take wormhole chain mapping, the way they do it, makes total sense, when someone takes 30 minutes to explain it to you. Its tuff to learn and is antiquated as hell. Its not efficient, its not how anyone I've ever heard of does it, and better yet. Brace yourself.. they don't use a wormhole mapping software. Thats like driving across the country without using a map.When I first heard it, I thought these people were absolutely out of their minds. I know you may be interested how that can be possible so I'll do my best to describe it. <br />
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Mapping a chain without a map:<br />
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Lets say we have a C4 wormhole. Lets name it Mike.Mike has 2 static connections. In the corp bookmarking system, we will call them A and B. So the Static connections to Mike are labeled like this.<br />
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<b>W A H900 C5 YUX</b>. Exactly like that.<br />
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The first letter W signals 'Wormhole".<br />
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The letter A signals its the A static, which is always the same from our hole.<br />
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The following H900 represents the type of connection it is between wormholes. H900 would be a C5.<br />
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The YUX is the spacial signature you get from your probe scans.<br />
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Now the other side of the wormhole bookmark looks like this.<br />
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<b>W A Back K162 ITI </b>Exactly like that.<br />
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Same as before, but the BACK is the important part. Because all the following wormholes will have an additional random (somewhat) letter attached to them which will make those holes appear below the W A BACK in the corp bookmark drop down.<br />
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For example a connecting high sec in the A static would look like this.<br />
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<b>W AH D126 IFF </b>Exactly like that.<br />
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The AH, is A hole H connection. H is a reserved letter used only for high sec connections.<br />
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Crazy right?<br />
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So if you want to know where a high sec connection is and you're in high sec wanting to come back in, you simply look through your corp bookmarks for the connection that is in Kspace with "Back" in the name. Then its just a matter of following the "back"s to the home.<br />
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No map needed.<br />
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I thought this system would go to shit when I needed help with a target down a chain.<br />
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All I need to do is post where I am in coms or in Fleet with "I'm at ATKOB and I need help".<br />
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This translates that I'm 5 jumps down the chain and anyone that would be flying to assist, simply flys from one wormhole to the next by going to W A... then W AT.. then W ATK then W ATKO then WATKB.<br />
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Its slightly ingenious by really hard to visualize and teach new people. I would never had that experience had I had preconceived notions about what way things needed to be done based on what I know works already.<br />
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This is just one thing my new corp does thats out of the ordinary. They also have some very interesting ways of doing nearly everything that I find endearing. I'm not going to go into all of them at this time, just know that I hold my tongue on a great many things.I let them discover and fail themselves because thats part of the fun. If I step in and try to control everything I'm just going to get burned out again.<br />
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I could be a stick in the mud and tell them stuff won't work. I could tell them the "better way" of doing stuff, but fuck that, I want to experience EVE again!!<br />
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... O and they let me fly a assault frig all the time, which I think is awesome!!! Eventually they're get frustarted with me and tell me to stop, but right now.. I'm manually piloting vs larger ships while they pick up the slack with DPS.<br />
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I'm having a good time, if you can tell. Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-17412263553506582642017-10-26T20:15:00.000-07:002017-10-26T20:28:48.544-07:00Resource Wars - How To<u><b>EVE Resource Wars In Game Activity</b></u><br />
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Hello space friends I just discovered how do the new "Resource Wars" after trying a few different times and doing it wrong.<br />
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I wanted to share what I've found, so you hopefully won't make the same mistakes I did.<br />
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<b>1st: What are EVE Resource Wars?</b><br />
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It seems from my brief attempts at doing these, its like speed mining without keeping the ore you mine. I know it sounds crazy, tell me, I've done 7 of them so far. But they are kind of fun. <br />
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The activity isn't without reward, its just ... different... which IMO is good. EVE needs different activities to break up the click and wait which has been mining. Its interactive, its not in the same star system hour after hour and its quick. Well, the ones I did were quick, I'm sure the harder ones aren't as fast.<br />
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<b>2nd: Where can I find this amazing activity?</b><br />
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"The Agency" button. Its this little button I never used, or knew existed. You can find it on your task bar and it seems to work like that old external Agent site used to. You can find the old school agents with it, asteroids belts, anoms all sorts of stuff we old timers just saw on our overview.<br />
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With in it, there is a drop down that says "Resource Wars". They are broken up into levels that are based off a faction relationship with some corp. Before I started this my standing with that corp was 0, but with my connections skill or which ever skill gives you free points, I was able to do Level 2's without even doing 1s.<br />
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It looks like this.<br />
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This is what it looks like if you're in the correct ship and have the correct amount of faction. If you don't have the right about, or someone in your fleet doesn't have the right amount that pilot can't get past the entry warp gate. So before you take your space friend (or in my case 2 other characters) make sure everyone is in the correct ship and has faction to enter. <br />
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Some information that threw me on this, which perhaps I'm just dense but seriously I didn't know how mining really worked... I couldn't figure out from the description if I was the one hauling the ore or not. I kid you not I tried fly to one with a hauler, thinking I had to haul 10,000 units. I was honestly perplexed trying to figure out if I had to warp out of the site, drop off the rocks for my hauler which couldn't enter, then warp back again...<br />
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Like that description at the top was 'events I'm about to experience' would happen like this.<br />
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The hauler is an NPC hauler, all you as a pilot need to do is fly there, mine 10,000 units and drop them in the hauler, which for this mission is an NPC Orca that is waiting for you to drop ore into.<br />
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Took me a little while to figure that out.<br />
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<b>3rd: What kind of ship do I need?</b><br />
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There is a list of frigs on the 'mission window' that you can bring. All of them are T1 frig, no faction. <br />
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Well I went in with what I could fly with 3 pilots (I triple boxed it) flying this exact fit.<br />
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<b>[Venture,]</b><br />
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<b>Lows: </b><br />
Capacitor Flux Coil II<br />
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<b>Mids: </b><br />
Small Shield Booster II<br />
EM Ward Field II<br />
Adaptive Invulnerability Field II<br />
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<b>Highs: </b><br />
Miner II<br />
Miner II<br />
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<b>Rigs </b><br />
Small Capacitor Control Circuit I<br />
Small Capacitor Control Circuit I<br />
Small Capacitor Control Circuit I<br />
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<b>Drones: </b><br />
Hobgoblin II x2<br />
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This was a bit overkill IMO. I could have done the mission with 2 of these. The trick is to not let your miner II's totally cycle. I'm sure this is some sort of mining tech I never knew, but I guess the rocks are very small and a full cycle of these miner IIs is more than is needed to destroy the rocks.<br />
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You could I'm sure do this with T1 versions of this fit, if your quick. You do need to kill the rats, so I think that would be a challenge with just 1 venture. The rats I was fighting were fit with a web, so you may have trouble doing this site solo even in a blingged out Venture. The web would make it hard to mine 10,000 ore then drop it off before the timer expired. Not only that, but darn near impossible to kill 2 rats with a single venture. <br />
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<b>4th: Once I'm in the system where do I go? </b><br />
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Well if your familiar with the Blood Raider Celestial Beacons, these work very similarly. They are right there on your overview. <br />
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The timer doesn't seem to start till you land. At which point this guy pops up and gives you a scary message.<br />
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He wants you to destroy the pirates. Add the pirates to your overview... <br />
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<u><b>KEY Overview Point! </b></u><br />
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Make sure this Ore type is on your overview, do this before you start, or you won't see the dumb rocks. Failed one of these missions because I couldn't figure out WTF he was talking about. Mine rocks? what rocks?!?<br />
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Empire Asteroids<br />
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There is a little timer on the left that tells you whats left to be done and there is a ticking timer which is super annoying if you let it get below 1:00. (Ive never head that before in EVE and I thought I was losing my mind)<br />
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Once the Orca is filled and the pirates are dead.<br />
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You are rewarded with all the left over rocks being deleted from your cargo and this message.Which personally I thought was dumb. The "ACCEPT" button is actually something you need to press. Like I wouldn't accept it.. "O no don't give me money and faction.. " :P Even if I didn't want it, wouldn't a "DENY" button next to it make more sense? Seems silly to have just 1 button. <br />
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Anyway... You're also rewarded with what I thought was a fairly hefty chunk of faction points. Which for me in Amarr is awesome. You used to need to do level 1 missions in low sec in order to not be killed by Amarr and raise your faction standing. After about 40 of those I wanted to jump out a window.This is way better.. because if that kid loses her doll one more time.. i sware.. so help me. <br />
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After about 7 of these with my 3 characters my Amarr faction was a net of 0.184 which is awesome!<br />
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I haven't a clue what the LP is used for I guess I'll eventually figure it out, but I wanted to share some pitfalls I came across while trying this thing.<br />
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My opinion on this as an activity in EVE.<br />
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I'm going to be totally honest, I'm not a miner. The activity for me has always been just boring. IMO this Resource Wars is what mining should have always been. Its interactive, it makes you think, it keeps you engaged and can't be done by a 5 year old. (not making that up, I had my daughter when she was 5 mine, even she got bored)<br />
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Great job CCP. You keep adding stuff like this and I might stop being so critical of you.<br />
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(pff who am I kidding, I love to hate you) <3<br />
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-69255516491306946022017-08-18T09:57:00.001-07:002017-08-18T09:57:47.877-07:00The Transition to Vampiric Bitter Vet TLDR: Newbie makes newbie mistakes, I semi restrain myself from destroying him utterly, or have I?<br />
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Perhaps its the natural evolution of vet-dom, but I wasn't always like this. I've come to realize, that I'm the worst kind of bitter vet. The kind of vet that feeds like a vampire off of the life force of newbies.<br />
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In the past, I've enjoyed myself observing my fellow low experienced players like a kind of Jane Goodall, cataloging the behavior of the Mountain Gorillas and their primitive use of tools. Giggling at the similarities and discoveries they make, hopping to reach that place in our evolutionary past and possibly learn something once forgotten.<br />
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Naw, fuck that.<br />
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Instead of peacefully observing the primitives in their natural habitat, I've found a level of amusement tormenting them in creative ways.<br />
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Here we begin the tale of <span style="padding-left: 0.25em;"><a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/Eve-iL+Shenanigans" target="_blank">Eve-iL Shenanigans</a> a player I met in Military Wormholers. MW are a collection of vets and newbies trying to do what they can to play this great game called EVE. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">ES as I'll refer to him is no different than you and I except he doesn't fully understand the game to the level we do. He hasn't had the hope and wonder of EVE brutally crushed out of him. He thinks the game is actually a sandbox and simply creativity is the only thing stopping him from succeeding, what a sucker. I'm kidding, hes a nice enough guy, just slightly naive. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Military wormholers, like other newish wormhole corps is constantly trying to improve its PVP doctrine. They even elected a PVP fitting coordinator, who proceeded to send email after email about what ships he thought we all should bring in to make a cohesive group. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Along comes ES and his hauling services. His dream, as best as I can figure out, is making an EVE business of sorts by hauling equipment to the wormhole from Kspace at the ever fluctuating rate between 5 and 10%. So he made us a google doc with complex instructions on how to list the items we need that he could eventually haul in. Adorable right?</span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">I inadvertently at first and later overtly explained to him that everyone worth their salt in Wspace has their own means of hauling shit in and out of the wormhole. But he wasn't having it, he was set on being our corps main go to connection to the distant Kspace market place. Not wanting to crush his hopes and dreams with the realities of this game, I played along. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Shortly after the PVP doctrine mail went out with 3 ships listed on it, I figured I would use his hauling services and save me some time. I told him, "I'll pay your 10% fee, go ahead and bring me 1 of each ship" have fun, be a space/wormhole hauler. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">He then explained to me that he didn't have the capital for all the space ships on the list. He also mentioned to me that his hauling business wasn't taking off the way he'd hoped. No one was really using it. Not wanting his hopes and dreams to be dashed I broke him off a billion isk. "Bring me change and run along." Thinking I was being tremendously magnanimous with my money and giving this little fellow some business he was striving for. He then begins to complain that our current high sec is 20 some jumps from Jita but he could go to Rens and buy everything, but everything would cost more. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Sigh, I tried to explain to him, thats not my problem. This is your business, you can't charge people more for a hauling service entirely based on how much effort in jumps you were willing to do. After some checking, we both agree that Rens is near to the Jita price on most of the items but the faction mods for the fits will need to come from Jita. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Shortly after that conversation I discover that he's using his bestower to do the hauling. By the time I figured it out, he was hauling a scimitar that ended up costing me 540 million through high sec in a bestower. I then told him that any 5 million isk catalist could pop him before concord saved his little hauler. He then asks me if it would be OK if he autopilots. To which I responded with NO!</span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;"> O well, newbie mistakes, I get it. Surprisingly he managed to make it the entire way with 1 ship. He sends me the change. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Now I know this kid didn't make the fits, but I've bought and flown many scimitars and none of them really ever cost me more than 250, who faction fits a roaming scimi?! O well... </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Fast forward to last night. The conversation is happening in coms about this guy trying to figure out how to run a market in our wormhole. Why not simply fit a market hub in fort? Well the only one who wants a market is the newbie. He's still trying to figure out how he's going to get his 5 to 10 percent from the market hub if its installed. He's doing his best to get out of paying for the fuel it costs to run the hub, complaining that the % that he makes would never pay for the fuel, this is going back and forth for some time. I get bored of the conversation I just fly out and buy it along with as much fuel as I can carry. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">I'm not making this part up, when I was about to head back with my 1 billion isk market hub, he says on coms "Would you like me to haul it for you?" I damn near spit out my drink. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Now the bitter vet in me said something not very nice to him and for that I was sorry. "did you just hear me key up the mic and say nothing? That was me struggling to say something other than go fuck yourself" Those weren't my exact words, but it something to that effect. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">He disconnects from coms. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Realizing that instant I just wrecked a newbie and possibly a future EVE player I instantly felt bad. But in that instant of feeling bad and potentially crushing the dreams, the vampire EVE Vet takes over. It hit me... Why don't I just log in my trading alt who can field 200+ orders? I could undercut him by 1 isk forever, I giggle to myself and realize how terrible that would be to do to my fellow player. He would never sell a thing, meanwhile I rule the market with my alt, giggling to myself, driven to log in day after day for the only reason being to undercut this poor son of a bitch...forever! </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Then I came to the realization that I would need to plex that market account to turn it on and pay for a market that I would only be using to torment a single player, day after day. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">Think of the cost. I 'd have to buy every item he wanted to sell, bring it in the wormhole, then sell it by undercutting whatever price he might have made at the time. I'd pay for the upkeep fuel, the initial module cost and the plex cost to keep the market character account running. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">And I actually did the math.. I had the money to keep it up for months! I could play exclusively to just crush the hopes and dreams of this 1 would-be corp hauler marketeer. </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">I salivated in delight with the thought of the delicious tears he would generate. It gave me renewed spring in my step. How diabolical have I become?! </span><br />
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<span style="padding-left: 0.25em;">I figure the best way to satisfy my sadism was to place all the parts of the ship he initially hauled in for me on the market, at 20% mark up. </span><br />
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Its nice to know that even years later, people that you've enjoyed spending time with still manage to find you at just the right time. <br />
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Since my last post I've been trying to get fights from the people of J155616. I think the main active corp in the hole is named "Unreasonable Bastards" with a sub feeder corp called "Reasonable Bastards". I don't know if they some how own the hole or are renting it or its an alt corp, I honestly haven't figured it out yet. There a lot of corp names in this hole. One group owns the POCOs, one owns the Fortizar another owns a Astrahus.. Its crazy. Honestly it doesn't matter as long as they fight. <br />
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In the past week or so I've moved into target (J155616) multiple alts and I'm up to 3 active accounts deep into this venture. First I started with some fun and tried to dual box two sniper (Rapid HML) ravens. I was going to go bigger, but I'm still just getting back into the game right now and don't really want to commit too much.<br />
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My targets didn't disappoint and brought the heat. I was streaming it and shared the stream with my targets, because fuck it, why not?<br />
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They were able to bring a good fight, but sadly outmatched me with a really good warp in. <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/63517884/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/63517884/</a><br />
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RIP one sniper raven. The goal of that ship was to keep jumping around and pew off cruiser sized targets. Sadly, they only brought other battleships and my ravens were very cap sensitive. Once they got that warp in and landed at 0 on me, I failed to MJD to safety in an effort to keep my two dual box ships together.<br />
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After I blew up, they tried to trap me out of the wormhole by bubbling the high sec hole. I was going to come back with more ships and fight, but it seemed they didn't really want me there with them in the first place.<br />
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The following days I attempted to get their attention by shooting at one of the POCOs with two bombers. On the sly I kept a cloaky legion waiting to jump on whatever their response would be.<br />
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Only one guy responded and he bit the bomber bait with a tengu. I was milliseconds from locking him my legion before he popped my stationary bomber. <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/63588032/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/63588032/</a><br />
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That would have been a great fight, but he wasn't having it and ran. The next thing that happened made me slightly sad. The tengu pilot logged in a Nid. /sigh<br />
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Who brings a carrier to a fight in a C2?!?!<br />
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Well, looks like the fun police arrived.<br />
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I spend the next few nights doing the best I could to scan out holes, jump on targets, but looks like with me living in their hole, they just aren't that active right now. Kind of a shame, someone brings snacks to your house and you don't open the door :(.<br />
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I'm in target hole with a cloaky Legion, bomber and a falcon. I notice two different groups using the high sec connection. One a group called "The clown car" and the other "A band apart." (don't forget the dot). Two groups not connected with the people who live in target. 3 potential targets! WEEE. <br />
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I drop a drag bubble from one of the connecting holes to the high sec. Sadly nothing really amazing happens, some interceptors saw me before I was able to make anything with the camp. The good part is, I managed to annoy both "the clown car" "a band apart" at the same time.<br />
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I watch the connecting holes a little longer and eventually commit to attacking a lone hauler belonging to a band apart. It was bait, I knew it when I attacked it, but never not bite AMIRTE!?!<br />
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Onyx drops along with a Sac. and I barely make it out with my ship. YAY!<br />
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Still watching all connecting holes with my characters. Clown car and a band apart begin fighting in clown cars home hole. I watch about 7 ships belonging to a band apart come and go from clown cars home. Not wanting to be left out, I mention the high sec connection location to a friend named Shaded Rose I knew from SUSU 2.0.<br />
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He brings a fleet to the high sec :) and proceeds to jump into target with a scout, mapping out all the holes. I share with him the sig names all the parties are using and figure I could get something going.<br />
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Now, I'm positive that clown car and a band apart know about my legion because of the failed gank attempts earlier. Good time for me to reveal myself ! Sure enough, I jump into "A band aparts" home hole only to find they are trying to roll with a raven.<br />
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I lock it up with the cloaky legion and it scram/webs me. O dear its a tarp! I see on D scan. HFI and sleipniers...<br />
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I tell Shaded bring the fleet... O DEAR its a trap of a trap.. DOUBLE TRAP! Shaded brings the fleet from high sec and warps to A Band Aparts home hole.. Murder happens.<br />
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/63679798/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/63679798/</a> The bait raven I baited.. :)<br />
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I managed to get on that kill and do top damage with my Legion!! yay..<br />
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Always nice to have friends outside the friends you are shooting at. Special thanks to Shaded, Doom Gen and love of my EVE life, the Windam Wizard himself, Glyndi!<br />
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-1812357141760896822017-07-15T02:10:00.001-07:002017-07-15T02:16:27.487-07:00Making a FriendWell its been about 5 months to the day since my last post. Needless to say, but I will, I've taken a break.<br />
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It wasn't a rage quit, it wasn't any particular action by any one group, party or happenstance. I just didn't like playing anymore.<br />
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My absence from the EVE has really made me reevaluate what I want out of an internet game. What brings me joy and keeps me coming back isn't 'something new', which other games offered. I figured out that playing with friends hits 9 out of 10 points on my chart of happiness.<br />
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I've always told people who just started playing EVE, JOIN A CORP! ASAP. Its not because of what the corp can bring to you, its because you need them as human interaction. EVE isn't about you vs the game, because the game has no clear end, or goal.<br />
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There are those who think gathering ISK or ships or mods is the eventual goal. They refuse to interact with people out of fear they might lose some of that "item/money", this might work for a bit, but in the world of EVE the ways of making money and things to spend them on are a bottomless pit. The game will simply let you go full retard with multiple accounts, multiple billions of items and money, run by you in exactly the way you want it to be run. But to what end?<br />
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Eventually, you'll reach a stopping point, a number in your mind that you don't exactly know, but know that you've past it and the challenge isn't there anymore. You look for more challenges, you find them, but eventually those two dry up. The number gets bigger and bigger, but you keep passing your point of, darn, I should just stop doing this now.<br />
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I got to that point. Worse, I made internal rules of expected behavior and outcomes when I encountered other people. I'd ask new people I've met the same set of questions to narrow down exactly how to deal with them.<br />
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1. Do you require Ship tags.. if yes.. I yell at them about how dumb it is. If they say No, I ask why as the next question. If they happen to answer correctly to me, I'd continue with the next line of questions.<br />
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2. Do you require a API.. if yes.. I yell at them..<br />
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This goes on and on till I eventually rule them out for whatever invented reason I come up with in my head.<br />
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The thing is, if you ask the same questions from people, and you ask enough of them, you will eventually just get the same answers. You hear the answers you want, you know their play. The risk isn't there, because you know what to expect, without risk, there isn't challenge, without challenge, why the fuck am I even trying?<br />
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Back to burn out because I've "done it all" in my head. Even the human side of the game. I know your reaction, given the circumstances I've created for you. blah blah blah blah.. Back to boredom and back to not playing EVE.<br />
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Well that sucks! <br />
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So here I am. The saltest of vets seeking a fresh perspective I haven't seen yet. So I logged in and decided to fit up one of the new T3 Cruisers and dive into some holes.<br />
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I've talked to a couple recruiting wormhole groups, one was someone who I've had past negative dealings with so I ruled that out. I talked to another group who said they were part of a C1 group, but when I asked why they had their FF set to legal, they gave me some fishy responses. I think it was a reverse safari corp, so I passed.<br />
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Since I despise local chat and wormholes are my home, I said fuck it, started up the stream for some sniper action, and waited for them to find me. Started broadcasting my location to the stream watchers and jumping into a wormhole connected directly to Amarr.<br />
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All went well till I nearly cross jumped a Tengu in a connecting C2, Tengu scout vs a proteus scout, sure, I'll take that fight, I waited for him to uncloak, he cloaked up before I could lock him. I jumped in for quick look to see if they dispatched anything I could kill, nothing, so I jumped back.<br />
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He reveled the fact he was baiting for friends when he uncloaked off the hole a couple minutes later. I would have tackled him right off the bat, but a few minutes later he just accidentally turns off his cloak he so quickly activated minutes before.. NOPE, thats bait and not the fun fight kind.<br />
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I activate one of my other accounts to bring some back up if needed.. suddenly I see a bhaal on the hole. So its proteus scout vs Tengu and Bhaal. Not the best way to bait at this point, because I'd have to be a total idiot to do that, and total idiots don't fly proteus.<br />
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He opens a chat with me and asks to brawl!.. I said sure 1v1 Bhaal. I don't think he was expecting that response.But being a sporting guy he agrees.<br />
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This whole time I'm expected to lose my bhaal by a double cross or at least a 3rd party, but fuck it, its only ISK, and I might make a friend.<br />
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We 1v1 and I win, I don't blow him up, two reasons, I didn't really care to win that much, the other, I couldn't prevent the MJD with my disruptor. :P<br />
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Then he comes with a domi, still only 1 person, then he even brings a DST to drop me off more Navy 800 Cap charges!<br />
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Each time I just let the ship warp away, good fights with a stranger, and just for the fun of it.<br />
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He says that he's have such a good time that I deserve a KM. He brings a hurricane and I blow it up. He brings a drake and warps off, he's about to bring a cyclone, but I remind him that if he simply brought something smaller and flew a little different, my large guns couldn't hit him.<br />
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He brings a Vexor and honestly it was one of his hardest hitting ships, but I eventually chase it off with my drones.<br />
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Then he brings a Amarr assault frig (forget the name) and he orbits me till he runs out of missiles, then runs.This whole time, I'm streaming our fights on this wormhole, totally expecting to be 3rd partied by someone, anyone, but nothing. It was just he and I sharing a good time.<br />
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Later I discovered, and I mean that I didn't know it, I was flying that Bhaal in a full slave clone. That bhaal was faction fit and had an EHP of 133,000k. I went on a suicide run into an unscouted hole, to fight someone I didn't know, in a 2.6 bil pod, in a 900m isk ship. The entire time, I'm telling everyone watching where I am and how to find me over a twitch stream. I'm such an idiot!<br />
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But here's the thing, I had fun.<br />
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The key was me putting myself, my expectations in check, taking a risk and interacting with a stranger.<br />
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So here's to you <a href="https://eve-hunt.net/hunt/Hobb%20lol" target="_blank">Hobb lol </a><br />
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Thank you for letting me have fun with this game one more time. <br />
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Welp, here I am again. Posting with a less than stellar EVE update. But, if you hang in there through all the remorse and self loathing, I have a nice space story for you! Won't that be fun!?! Now on to the brief sadness. <br />
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Now when I was going through the process of leaving NoVac, I was hurt. I had some really good friends there, a lot of people who were great to me and the through crossed my mind to simply burn them with a blog post. I was like a pissed off ex girlfriend who lights all your stuff on fire in the drive way. I was going to tell all 4 of my readers that NoVac was the devil!<br />
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Then someone said this to me, I honestly forget who it was (I'm sorry).<br />
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<b>"I can't wait for the review of our corp on his blog". </b><br />
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Those were some of the hardest hitting words, besides "Spear we really don't need you here". Not because I was leaving, or that this person totally wrote me off before I had actually left the corp, but that my rage was expected.<br />
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If you look at some of my older blog posts, you could easily make that assumption, hell, I've made that assumption. I'm just some child who joins a group of people only to be eventually washed out for one reason or another, then bring a rage fueled editorial about my experience in that corp. Good old Spear, up to this usual shit again. Well I'm not going to! <br />
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If I could put my experience with NoVac into a phase, when asked what it was like, here it is. <br />
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<u><b>I wasn't good enough. </b></u><br />
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Just that simple statement should tell you everything that you need to know. Just add that to any task that I attempted to be some what competent in. Be it, forming for a fleet, bringing the correct ship, scanning a chain, fitting a ship... you name it. I wasn't good enough. The grim realization of that fact really brought me down, because I really tried!<br />
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Not just saying that, "I tried', the way teenage kid says he really tried to be employee of the month at a fast food restaurant. I mean going to work, sweating, giving it 110%, busting your ass, then being told that you aren't needed anymore and never were in the first place.<br />
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Knowing that if you left such an organized, finely honed machine and the problem wasn't the machine, it was you. Knowing it was you who tried your hardest and were still found lacking isn't fun. It sucks. That sucks really really bad, but, the sun rises tomorrow and it doesn't give a shit if you're sad. <br />
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I know this post sounds all down and out, but I'm not out just yet. I've had a vacation! Yes, I went to Mexico for a week. Got the old batteries recharged the best way possible, exploiting economically challenged countries by drinking all their of ultra cheap beer!<br />
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I also made a new space friend before I left. <br />
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<b>Space Story time. </b><br />
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So after all the terribleness of my last corp, I was left with billions in ships and mods that were required to be used in that group<b> </b>Now without the correct support to deploy these expensive space vessels, they are just huge kill mails waiting to happen. I've got better things to do with my isk!<br />
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So I went about plexing one of my market trader accounts and began the process of stripping all my space ships and repackaging them for sale. As a naturally frugal person, crushing over 13 billion in subcaps, each, with rigs installed was a painful process. I think I might have lost about 2 billion in rigs, once it was said and done. Uggg.. My inner jew says "oi vay!".. (I come from a Jewish family, so i can say that, fk off SJW's)<br />
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I then went about process of shipping all my space craft/modules to my trading characters and began the long painful process of liquidating my hard assets. 400 some sell orders later, all I needed to do was wait. But how to spend my time.<br />
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I've been wondering about something I heard someone say was possible and wanted to try it myself, but never had the time. The trick was, finding a C6/C5 wormhole to make it happen. best way to find a wormhole is to start scanning.<br />
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I launched my scout character into the friendly space of Amarr and dropped probes. Behold, a wormhole, lets jump in! Bubbles can happen, 3 medium anchored bubbles to be exact, and some guy in a rupture waiting to kill me once I uncloak.<br />
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Assessing the situation, I noticed all kinds of wrecks, ejected cans and corpses all over the place. This guy had a direct connection to Amarr was killing every single pilot dumb enough to not jump back out. Well sir, I won't add to your wreck pile, I jumped straight back out.<br />
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Now remember, I had stripped nearly every ship I had for sale, so I was at a loss as to what to bring to fight him. So I got inventive!<br />
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I still had a legion that, for whatever reason, wouldn't repackage (yes I repaired it) and a whole bunch of faction mods I hadn't moved yet. I quickly tosses some stuff together with one of my pilots and jumped through the Amar connection this guy was camping.<br />
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He was brave, but no match for a rapid light missile legion. Poor bastard didn't have a chance, he did get me to 97% armor, so that's saying something. <br />
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/59983253/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/59983253/</a> Rupture<br />
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/59983307/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/59983307/</a> and his pod too! <br />
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Turns out, this fellow had been trapping all sorts of pilots in this wormhole, who where just waiting for a white knight to some along and free them from their confines.<br />
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Moments later, some other guy uncloaks, but with every despot ruler, they just get replaced with another despot ruler who does the exact same thing. <br />
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/59983187/" target="_blank">https://zkillboard.com/kill/59983187/ </a> and his pod. <br />
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Then some other guy shows up moments later...<br />
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This connection as some crazy good action! All sorts of stuff just letting me blow them up and pod them.<br />
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I'm not much of a camper, so I figured I'd take apart the bubbles and consider this an interesting find.<br />
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Then some guy opens a convo with me. Its the guy in the shuttle who I podded. He's asking, very nicely if he can get back into his wormhole. I said, "Well, since you asked nicely and I'm feeling kinda good from blowing up a bunch of stuff in the matter of minutes with little to no work" " Sure come on in!"<br />
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He jumps in, in a shuttle and proceeds to fly off somewhere in the hole. Then he asks I could be so kind to guard the hole, while he runs ships out, because hes being "burned out" (his words). I was like, "oooo a hole in conflict" I want details. I said 'sure, as long as he tells me the story'. He doesn't have a TS server, so I ping Bronya asking to use his old Isogen 5 TS server to talk to this guy. <br />
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Bronya says cool and the guy begins to tell me about how he essentially stole (started using while they were away) all the assets, Astrahus's and "capital ship" from some people he knows IRL in some way. Now I don't usually condone stealing from friends, but when he explained it, they really did paint him into a corner and he really does have the right 'friendly' attitude, I'll cut him some slack. He's by himself, doesn't seem to enjoy "Surprise pvp" very much and wants to make an effort to live in this hole. <br />
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After some long Q&A, turns out that the prior owners of the equipment in this hole may or may not have paid some people to level the wormhole. I don't know if any of this is true, he could be a total thief, I honestly don't know, but he did give my corp blue status to dock in the astrahus, so I can at least stick around to see what happens.<br />
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Now all this happened the night before my trip to Mexico and as of right this second, a week later, the astrahus's are still standing and I can still dock there.<br />
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I don't know whats going to happen in this hole, who's fighting who, why they're fighting, if someone is lying or if someone isn't. I'll find out with some time. None of that really matters at this exact second. What does matter at this exact second, I have a reason to log in and keep on keeping on.<br />
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-55328180836087487262017-01-25T09:31:00.001-08:002017-01-25T09:38:38.039-08:00Wormhole Life Culture Part 2: API Key Required or is it?Hello everyone!<br />
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During my last blog post I stated that I was looking for a corp. The crux, I wasn't going to provide my API key. Many of you thought I was just being a pain in the ass, which in most situations is totally true. Honestly though, I really wanted to know what people were looking for when they asked for one. Worse, when they asked for said requested API key to NEVER EXPIRE.. *cringe*. Now prepare yourself for some, excessive cursing, half-assed assumptions, straw man arguments and misleading conclusions. Seriously... I'm terrible at blogging/writing/spelling/punctuation and kind of an idiot.<br />
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For those of you who don't know what an API key is, here is a CCP guy talking about it.<br />
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<b>Wormhole Life Culture Part 2: API Key Requirement </b><br />
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In the past, API's have had there place, but with the release of citadels to keep your assets safe, along with great sites like <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/Longinius+Spear" target="_blank">EVE Who</a>, <a href="http://eve-hunt.net/hunt/Longinius%20Spear" target="_blank">EVE Hunt</a>, <a href="http://eveboard.com/pilot/Longinius_Spear" target="_blank">EVE board</a>, and just plain old <a href="https://www.google.com/#q=longinius+spear" target="_blank">Google</a>. You can figure out without much effort what a person has done and if past history is a record of to come actions (9 times out of 10 it is) what a person will do in the future.<br />
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Some of the things the above mentioned sites <u>can't do:</u><br />
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<li>EVE mail - Personal, Corp, Alliance communications to this character. </li>
<li>EVE Contacts - Who your EVE Contact friends/enemies are and what standings you have for them</li>
<li>Wallet and Assets - How much money you got and what you own</li>
<li>Contract history - Who you sold things to and for how much. </li>
<li>Transactions - Who paid you, or who you paid. </li>
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All of the above go back about a year, usually a lot less.<br />
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There have been multiple 3rd party API readers, but an easy one to use with just a quick API key. I googled API reader and came up with <a href="http://ridetheclown.com/eveapi/audit.php" target="_blank">API Jackknife</a>. I suggest you input your own API and see exactly what everyone could see before you submit your API to others or leave the thing to not expire, ever. <br />
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<b>Why we shouldn't use them for Corp Application Intel Gathering. </b><br />
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<b>Privacy </b><br />
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<i>"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have
nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free
speech because you have nothing to say" --<b>Edward Snowden</b></i><br />
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1st Its none of your business who I mail and what we talk about.<br />
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2nd The idea that a small amount of information found could be the clinch pin on taking apart a potential infiltrator is a total fallacy.<br />
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This fallacy has become a scenario that any recruiter runs through his mind each time he speaks to a potential recruit. The recruiter then builds up a case in his mind during the interview, for or ageist a potential applicant. The thing is, the information on which they make their decision may be inaccurate or incomplete. They are putting together a jigsaw puzzle without all the pieces.<br />
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If you can't see the potential harm in that, well the Trump presidency has some open positions for you.<br />
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Let me give you an example from my own API.<br />
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What you're looking at is the transaction history (about a month mind you, that's as far as this site goes back) from my main character Longinius Spear and others.<br />
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If you can't figure it out by looking at this, I gave a character Sir Lomax 2 billion ISK and bought/sold some items. This you could categorize as a "suspect" transaction. It would tell the potential recruiter that Sir Lomax is my alt. Which he is.<br />
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Now you could draw all sorts of conclusions from this transaction if you simply didn't ask, "hey, do you have any alts you want join the corp?" in which I would say. Yes. or No. <br />
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Simply asking me on voice coms will give you any level of answer that I'm willing to give you.<br />
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The issue occurs, when I don't give you the answer you're looking for.<br />
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Let say, I don't give you an API key. You would never know that I gave 2 billion ISK to Sir Lomax. What then? What potential scenario do you see occurring that you could have prevented by now knowing Sir Lomax is an alt? <br />
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Everyone without missing a beat says "infiltration from a hostile corp" and that's the final part of the argument for them. They have build the case in their minds that they can either prevent an infiltration or stem spy activity by building this case based on fractured data. <br />
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<u>Some key things that make this a this stance apart</u>.<br />
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1. This is only the previous month or two's transactions. Its not EVERY transaction EVER in the history of this characters. You aren't seeing the full picture, you're not even seeing a glimpse you are just seeing the past transactions the API viewer is letting you see. I can circumvent your very cleaver expected API requirement by simply waiting a month or two. In the programing world we call this garbage in, garbage out.<br />
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2. Lets say I did want to transfer money two this potential spy alt from a hostile corp. Because lets say I'm not a spy. (hard to believe) How hard would it be for me to simply put items in my cargo hold of a ship, eject that ship at a safe spot and get in that ship with my alt? You can't see this transaction from an API. Its totally untraceable by anyone other than CCP.<br />
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I can't be the only one who's thought of this, its not like I'm a master spy here, you just need to see what the API key actually looks at, then don't do those things. Its not all that hard.<br />
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The thing is, most recruiters know this, and when asked directly why even bother, I'm told.<br />
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"It weeds out the ones that don't bother with hiding it" "Its, low hanging fruit". Keeps out idiots, essentially.<br />
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The follow up response I've had is, "do you need to protect yourself from idiots?"<br />
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The fact that an API key requirement intel gathering tool is used at all boggles the mind. Its like trying to figure out if a employee is going to steal things by simply asking him, "hey are you going to steal things from us". Anyone with any sense would simply say "No". The idiots I'm assuming would simply say "Well now that you ask me, yes that was my goal for working here in the first place".<br />
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Except in the case of EVE API key requirement, you aren't even asking them, you're just looking at bank transactions between people you don't know and don't have an API key from, then making the assumption that because he didn't give you that name in the first place, the other party must be an accomplice.<br />
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Transactions might be one of the easiest things to hide, and yet there isn't a full API recruiter who doesn't look for them. They have build this idea in their head, that this small glimpse of information will protect them in the future, if they simply justify it to themselves by going over useless searches of activity.<br />
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I feel like I'm in a crazy alternate reality, where all the EVE recruiters are TSA screeners who think they are going to uncover the next big plot by asking every single person to take off their shoes.<br />
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Side note: For those who don't know, even during internal and external audits of TSA screening, they are about 10% effective? Its like everyone is going through the motions, that don't actually do anything, just for the sake of doing them, because the hind sight vision they've constructed would be totally foiled, had they asked.. "hey would you leave the box cutters at home?"<br />
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Its all for a completely false sense of security. STOP IT!! I can't keep the TSA from doing dumb shit for no reason, but for this little thing, in this little instance, I'm taking a stand, and you should too!!<br />
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<b>Hey Spear, why don't you just play along, what damage could a FULL ACCOUNT API set to NEVER EXPIRE really do?</b><br />
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Here's one, a site called "<a href="https://eveskunk.com/e" target="_blank">EVE Skunk</a>". <br />
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For those not familiar with the site, its powered by leaked API's to this guys website. API's gotten from god only knows what way. You go there and read alliance/corp mails from people who at one point in time gave their API keys to the site (doubtful) or gave it to a person who then created an API with full EVE mail access.<br />
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Not sure how this could happen?<br />
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Lets say I'm a recruiter, I demand everyone EVE mails me a full never expire API. I save that in my special EVE mail folder and recruit like 20 people. I then have access to 20 other emails. What happens when I (the recruiter) thinks about going to another corp, which requires full never expire API's? I submit it them... the new corp now has API's of all the people who provided API Keys and thus whatever corps they went to's internal mails. <br />
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So on and so on and so on.<br />
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It gets worse, many people use the same never expire API for each application they submit, because why make a new one if you're simply shopping around for a new corp. You could have submited an application to a rival corp, who refused you and is now getting mails from whatever corp actually accepted you. <br />
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I've already ranted about the effects of the "Location" selection on a full API, because for those who don't know already, you can simply enter ill gotten full API's into a wormhole tracking program for someone who apped to your corp, forever creating their own little wormhole chain maps. These maps keep updating every time you travel anywhere, you can then exploit those maps for god only knows what reason. They aren't even in your corp, but every time they travel through a wormhole, you'll know it! (hi wingspan) <br />
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I think the largest damage that the FULL API or Git the fuck out fallacy creates is a future lack of trust in your corp mates. It gives a person with a suspicion a very small bit of information, that can bring doubt on normally innocent interactions. This fallacy hurts human interaction, which really is at the core to why many play EVE. This can lead to drama, accusations and worse.<br />
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For those of you who would do an extensive API scrub, before allowing someone to join your corp, I hope my words/opinions have helped sway you to stop doing it. Stop requiring it because the best way to get to know someone is simply talk to them. Ask them what they are about, give them a small level of trust, but don't let their overall exposure to access be categorized as reckless. If they don't play often, kick them. If they sit in coms muted for long periods of time, why the fuck are they they in coms?! These are common sense observations anyone can do, and won't show up on an API screen. <br />
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A quick story...<br />
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A few years ago I was CEO of a very small wormhole pvp corp. We didn't require API keys to enter. We figured, we could simply sort out everything we would need to know by talking to them and reviewing kill boards. Along came an applicant with a slightly shady past, he had been in another wormhole corp that I was in personal contact with at the time. They had slight falling out and that applicants history was called into question. I said fuck it, and recruited them anyway because shady fuckers is what i wanted in the corp.<br />
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After getting to know him from simply playing with him in fleets and in coms, he's someone I would call one of my great EVE friends. This pilot later became one of the top wormhole FC's in the game and is still doing great things.<br />
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Take chances, invite crazy people, but be smart about it. Don't give even your best friends access to your items, because even after years and years of playing this game, there isn't a single person I'd trust in this game. NEVER TRUST ANYONE! better advice, don't think your ridiculous background checks would ever give you reasons to trust because people flip for weird reasons and none of those reasons can be weeded out with an API Key mandate. <br />
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Let me give you some examples i got from conversations I had with recruiters during my time looking for a corp.<br />
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<b>Convo #1 </b><br />
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[ 2017.01.05 01:03:54 ] Longinius Spear > Saw your reddit post for LS pvp group, still recruiting?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:04:37 ] Ed Hinken > o/<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:05:04 ] Ed Hinken > yeah were always looking for new members<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:05:26 ] Longinius Spear > cool, what area do you all call home?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:05:56 ] Kuts Mesumslak > o/<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:05:58 ] Ed Hinken > we live in l lonetrek<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:06:07 ] Ed Hinken > close to veil tribute and jita<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:06:17 ] Longinius Spear > Tama then?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:07:09 ] Ed Hinken > not to far<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:07:37 ] Ed Hinken > jan nalvula taisy kinda home<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:08:02 ] Ed Hinken > its a really good area for pvp we get a lot of traffic going through to jita from null<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:08:26 ] Longinius Spear > ha, yea I would assume so :)<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:08:32 ] Ed Hinken > ;)<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:08:46 ] Ed Hinken > i see you been playing for a while<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:09:11 ] Longinius Spear > yea, lots of wormhole stuff<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:09:26 ] Ed Hinken > nice we done the wh thing for a god year<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:10:06 ] Longinius Spear > API key required?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:10:12 ] Ed Hinken > yeah<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:10:18 ] Longinius Spear > why?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:10:38 ] Ed Hinken > just to look over your contacts<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:10:51 ] Ed Hinken > we dont care about aything else<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:11:01 ] Longinius Spear > what are you looking for? persons?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:12:15 ] NastaKilla > Hey<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:12:24 ] Longinius Spear > hi<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:12:27 ] Ed Hinken > NastaKilla our ceo<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:12:31 ] Longinius Spear > o/<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:12:34 ] NastaKilla > sup, Just got back<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:13:41 ] NastaKilla > hows it going, you looking to join our pvp corp?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:14:06 ] Longinius Spear > yea, but I was wondering about API thing, really more curious why its required<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:14:53 ] NastaKilla > Its pretty standard in any corp you join, Allows to to figure our if your intentions are bad<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:15:00 ] NastaKilla > figure out*<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:15:09 ] Longinius Spear > O yea, hows that done exactly?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:16:03 ] NastaKilla > Okay, So an "API key" is a code set for your account that gives anyone who has it the ability to look into your contacts, Wallet, Mails, Implants etc<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:16:22 ] NastaKilla > When creating an API key you are able to select what an observer can view<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:16:40 ] Longinius Spear > Yep. How does it give the viewer the information if my intentions are bad?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:17:23 ] NastaKilla > I'm able to see if you make regular transactions to certain accounts, that would suggest to me that theres another account<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:17:28 ] NastaKilla > things like that<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:17:36 ] Longinius Spear > and if there was?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:17:50 ] NastaKilla > If you tell me you have another account its cool<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:17:58 ] Longinius Spear > right, then why the api?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:18:25 ] NastaKilla > API allows me to see facts, then when i ask a question if a person lies to me I already know about it<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:18:54 ] Longinius Spear > so you ask questions you already know the answer to, in the idea that they would lie?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:19:04 ] Longinius Spear > So its a screening for liars?<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:19:26 ] NastaKilla > Yes, Its one aspect of judging character<br />
[ 2017.01.05 01:23:10 ] Longinius Spear > Thank you for answering my questions<br />
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<b>Convo #2</b><br />
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[ 2017.01.12 22:06:48 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > o7 mate<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:07:01 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > How are you?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:07:20 ] Longinius Spear > Good, you?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:07:45 ] Longinius Spear > So lets say I ap up and you ask me for an API, and I say No. What happens?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:09:10 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > It basically comes down to, how big does -my- ego get I suppose<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:09:22 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > I could say screw it, you're in<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:09:42 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > What kind of music do you like?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:10:10 ] Longinius Spear > Depends on what i'm doing<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:10:22 ] Longinius Spear > but back to API requirement even after you know fully well who and what I"m about<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:10:38 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Right<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:10:48 ] Longinius Spear > thats really why I want to talk to you, I'm desperate for a logical conversation on the topic<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:10:56 ] Longinius Spear > because as of late, i've yet to have one<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:11:20 ] Longinius Spear > Most people say... "well If you have an email saying you're going to do something bad" I'll see it<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:11:25 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Well, pond is always full of other fish, so you'd always find a corp that wouldn't require one<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:11:40 ] Longinius Spear > ....<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:11:45 ] Longinius Spear > I want to know WHY<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:11:47 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Yea, but that's where the intelligence gathering stops for most people<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:12:14 ] Longinius Spear > I could assume, but every scenario in my head comes out with very outlandish things<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:12:36 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > For a player like you, there isn't much an API could tell me<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:12:45 ] Longinius Spear > The truth really is, most people know to ask for it, but they don't really know what to look for<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:12:48 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > (Hence, I'd learn towards waiving that requirement for you)<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:13:01 ] Longinius Spear > they heard somewhere sometime that it was good to require it, still haven't a clue why ..<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:13:06 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > As I said, most people's intelligence gathering stops at looking at a message<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:13:45 ] Longinius Spear > So you're saying, you don't require it... ? I'm confused...<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:13:59 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Ok, let me explain;<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:14:26 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > As you said, most people don't know what to look for, which makes API keys useless for them<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:14:28 ] Longinius Spear > What would you see in it that you simply couldn't see looking at a kill board or corp history. what scenario do you see occuring because you didn't weed them out with an API key<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:14:48 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > I can detect if players biomassed characters on a full account API<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:14:52 ] Longinius Spear > What scenario do you see happening.. from this point forward.. stop doing it. what would happen.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:15:13 ] Longinius Spear > Detect biomassed characters. please explain that<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:15:48 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > An API key gives you total playtime on the account<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:16:15 ] Longinius Spear > O i know what it does.. one of the many reasons why i stopped giving it out<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:16:45 ] Longinius Spear > I want to know what you would find if you looked at it and what you would prevent from happeing if you had one<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:16:46 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > So, I look at your total skill points, I look at your playtime, and it can give me a rough<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:17:00 ] Longinius Spear > Right, both of those can be found on EVE character sheets<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:17:10 ] Longinius Spear > so cross those off<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:17:25 ] Longinius Spear > Next<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:17:43 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Eve-board tell your total play time, account wide?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:17:50 ] Longinius Spear > For that character<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:18:07 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > But that's not what I want to know<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:18:16 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Hold on; let me show<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:19:13 ] Longinius Spear > What you 'want to know" and what I'm willing to tell you or show you are two totally different things. The name of the difference between those things is called privacy.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:19:35 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Right<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:19:55 ] Longinius Spear > So you're saying that if someone joined you, they would be required to no privacy based on your determining factors<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:20:28 ] Longinius Spear > do you think thats a 50/50 fair way of addressing other players?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:21:00 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > In that sense, no.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:21:07 ] Longinius Spear > Clearly you have a reason for this, in your head there is some scenario that could be uncovered by you finding out total account play time.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:21:24 ] Longinius Spear > I'm asking you.. whats that scenaio?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:21:43 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Right, lets exclude your character, lets exclude my character for a bit<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:22:22 ] Longinius Spear > whats your nightmare scenario that would be overted had you known my total account play time?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:22:58 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > If Random Joe would come to me, in a one month old character, with perfect knowledge on how to fit ships<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:23:09 ] Longinius Spear > k<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:23:24 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > He'd say he's in game for a single month<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:23:38 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > But then I'd see this;<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:23:43 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > http://puu.sh/tkdXv/1360840231.png<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:24:13 ] Longinius Spear > what am I looking at. a month and 24 days?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:24:23 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Aye.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:24:28 ] Longinius Spear > so what<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:24:39 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Random Joe said he's been in game for just a month<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:24:44 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > One character on his APi<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:24:50 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > But has a total playtime of two months<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:25:12 ] Longinius Spear > and that means what? what devlish thing could he do with the extra 24 days of play time?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:25:13 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Random Joe is lying<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:25:15 ] Longinius Spear > So what<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:25:31 ] Longinius Spear > how does this effect you?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:25:44 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Why would he lie about his total play time ?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:25:56 ] Longinius Spear > why should you care?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:26:06 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > I'll show you again<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:26:18 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > (Gimme a minute to find this one)<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:26:28 ] Longinius Spear > no.. lets just stay on this one for a minute<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:26:46 ] Longinius Spear > why do you give two poops why he lied about his play time?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:26:50 ] Longinius Spear > why does that matter?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:27:13 ] Longinius Spear > My names Frank in real life<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:27:23 ] Longinius Spear > wait a second.. its Steve..<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:27:30 ] Longinius Spear > You find out.. its actually Tom<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:27:33 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Two months ago we had a character who lied about his total play time<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:27:40 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > 4 months actually<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:27:59 ] Longinius Spear > well, you got him.. and did he shoot spaceships differently<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:28:00 ] Longinius Spear > ?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:28:22 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Two weeks later his main was shooting our citadel<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:28:50 ] Longinius Spear > Do you think his main would be shooting your citadel anyway?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:29:29 ] Longinius Spear > Did your citadel shoot back?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:29:35 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Citadel shot back<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:29:39 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Not to much effect<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:29:44 ] Longinius Spear > win win i guess?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:29:59 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Win for them, our alliance boss ended up paying them off<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:30:24 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Not the proudest day in my short eve career<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:30:36 ] Longinius Spear > I think I'm piecing this together a little<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:31:27 ] Longinius Spear > you think having continued access to the mails, comings and goings of characters beyond simply asking them as human beings.. you can overt/subvert threats both current and future?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:31:27 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > My stance of APIs is a bit complicated, personally I'm not fully black/white, you have to give an API<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:31:52 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > I personally don't care for the continued access<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:32:03 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Any good spy would be smart enough not to use mails on his spy alt<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:32:05 ] Longinius Spear > i get that, but others have that requirement<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:32:09 ] Longinius Spear > no shit<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:32:11 ] Longinius Spear > lol<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:32:23 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Hence, 90% of people who check APi's dont know what to look for<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:32:57 ] Longinius Spear > Well, the other 10 don't seem to know what the final outcome could possibly be if they simply didn't ask for them in the first place<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:33:05 ] Longinius Spear > they seem to be a tool for paranoia<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:33:24 ] Longinius Spear > the thing about surveillance is.. it doesn't give you the full picture<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:33:44 ] Longinius Spear > the scenario you played out was only possible if you ASKED them a question and figured out they where 'lying'.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:34:16 ] Longinius Spear > the thing is, getting a spie caught in a lie isn't check mate for most of them. it doesn't stop them from doing what they are doing<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:35:02 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Oh, that's for sure, and there's no 100% foolproof way to stop them<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:35:10 ] Longinius Spear > so why try?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:35:45 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > At least try to mitigate the risk to some extent<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:35:59 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > (And you hate that sentence)<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:36:09 ] Longinius Spear > ahh.. risk... you haven't shown me at all in the above situation there was real risk in the first place<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:36:44 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > ((I do hope this is actually a fun conversation for you , and me not just getting you fed up btw))<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:37:16 ] Longinius Spear > You're helping me formulate a better blog post and for that I thank you<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:37:37 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Now I very much wonder if I'm gonna be on the bad side of things<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:38:13 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Personally for me though; as I said, API's arent a catch all, hence I don't agree with the black/white yes/no regulation the alliance has<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:38:40 ] Longinius Spear > The damage of loose API's in Wspace along with how EVE skunk far out weighs any reasons for their continued requirement as a intell gathering tool.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:38:55 ] Longinius Spear > Do you know what I can do with your full API?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:39:03 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Do share<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:39:30 ] Longinius Spear > I can enter it into a wormhole mapping software program and essentially map your commings and goings into wspace and the ships your in<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:39:38 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Hah<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:39:45 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > I was listening to that podcast today<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:41:08 ] Longinius Spear > yea, shits real boss man. I don't give it out anymore. and to those peeps who think I should give them a full one so they can review it when ever they want to seek out spie activitiy.. NOPE<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:41:24 ] Longinius Spear > Not only that buts an invasion of privacy<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:41:45 ] Longinius Spear > If you think privacy is unimportant for you because you have nothing to hide, you might as well say free speech is unimportant for you because you have nothing useful to say.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:43:22 ] Longinius Spear > whats worse is, all it takes is someone liek yourself to send a full API of your own to some one else.. who is also exposed.. for a 3rd or even 4th party to have access to all our mails and API's sent via EVE mails<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:44:12 ] Longinius Spear > You could have apped to one of these alliances.. or persons who had a full api out there.. then they simply review our mails forever. our own comings and goings in wspace<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:44:33 ] Longinius Spear > Do you see the danger of having them and willy nilly sharing them ?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:44:49 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Yes I do<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:45:12 ] Longinius Spear > The interesting thing is, you'll still keep asking for it, even after today<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:45:36 ] Longinius Spear > because of 'reasons' that have yet to be fleshed out.. to catch liars?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:45:59 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > But, I think you're also simplyfying it a tad<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:46:11 ] Longinius Spear > perhaps, but its how my mind works..<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:46:24 ] Longinius Spear > i chop threw bull shit and get to the point that i want<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:46:25 ] Longinius Spear > :)<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:46:43 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > For example; I wouldn't even need a full always accessible API<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:46:47 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > I wouldn't even want that<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:47:07 ] Longinius Spear > you shouldn't want ANY of your characters in your corp to have them around at all<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:47:29 ] Longinius Spear > the fact that there is a button that lets your API NEVER expire.. is the entire reason EVE skunk is a website<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:47:38 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > ^<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:47:47 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Delete the damn thing when you're done using it<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:48:12 ] Longinius Spear > yep, and never ask for it unless you can visualize a scenario where having it would matter<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:48:59 ] Longinius Spear > because small amounts of unexplained behavior both good or bad.. can bring doubt in a person who is totally innocent<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:49:01 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Unfortunately, not being top dog I don't always get to make every decision<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:49:13 ] Longinius Spear > you should be top dog<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:49:41 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > :)<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:49:46 ] Longinius Spear > I was told early on in my EVE carreer.. "Players don't need corps, its the other way around"<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:50:25 ] Longinius Spear > Going to say good day to you, thank you for the chat, I'll do my best to not villify you in my post :)<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:50:38 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Before you do os<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:50:41 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > so*<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:51:26 ] Longinius Spear > ?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:51:30 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > You already have a new home, don't you?<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:51:35 ] Longinius Spear > yep<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:51:48 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Well, shit.<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:51:49 ] Longinius Spear > figured that out without an API didn't ya<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:52:16 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > Lots of things can be found out without an API key<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:52:20 ] Longinius Spear > it was a joke<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:52:24 ] Longinius Spear > :P<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:52:25 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > I know :P<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:52:30 ] Longinius Spear > thank you again for the offer and good luck<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:52:40 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > API keys in that sense are something terrible<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:52:41 ] Longinius Spear > may we shoot spaceship guns at each other one day<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:52:57 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > I'd hope we'd shoot them together at someone :)<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:53:02 ] Longinius Spear > o7<br />
[ 2017.01.12 22:53:05 ] Kypischovic Malifozik > o7<br />
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Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-67725820782275760332017-01-11T06:59:00.002-08:002017-01-11T06:59:35.488-08:00I posted in Reddit Jobs that I'm looking for a WH corp<div class="usertext-body may-blank-within md-container ">
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Hi potential recruiter, names Spear and I'm looking for some new friends who play EVE with. <br />
Now I'm sure you might be wondering why I said "No API will be
given". Let me explain. I don't believe in the the value of giving them.<br />
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If you don't recruit without one, and that's a required part of your
process, well good for you, I disagree. In the immortal words of
Aristotle - <strong>dude, that don't make no damn sense</strong> <br />
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"But Spear, how could we possibly know more about you without digging through your emails and assets."<br />
<br />
I don't care. I feel that a pilots reputation, how they answer
questions, past actions and outlook speak for themselves. I have yet to
see any real value that an API check could bring to the table that
simply couldn't be found with the following sites.<br />
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EVE Who, EVE Hunt, Kill boards, EVE board or just plain old google.<br />
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I've recruited, flown with and trained some of the best wormhole pvp
pilots/now FC's in the game. You might find it shocking, but I never got
a single API from any of them. If you think you can prevent a double
cross by simply digging through some emails and contacts, well you're
giving yourself a false sense of security and I'm not interested in you
because of it.<br />
<br />
If you're still reading this and haven't totally written me off as an egotistical shit, good, there's hope for you yet. <br />
<strong>This is what you'll get from me.</strong> <br />
<ul>
<li>A blogger and podcaster who will share all your inner workings
with all 4 people who read and listen to my blogs/podcasts (hi mom). </li>
<li>A pilot with access to multiple characters, lots of isk and the
desire to throw spaceships at people just because they're there. </li>
<li>Years of wormhole experience in wormhole hunting and wormhole scouting. </li>
</ul>
Here are my credentials. <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddR7W4LmR8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddR7W4LmR8</a><br />
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Here is my blog. <br />
<a href="http://invadingyourhole.blogspot.com/">http://invadingyourhole.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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Here is my podcast<br />
<a href="http://downthepipe-wh.com/">http://downthepipe-wh.com/</a><br />
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Here are my characters. <br />
<a href="http://eveboard.com/pilot/Longinius_Spear">http://eveboard.com/pilot/Longinius_Spear</a><br />
<a href="http://eveboard.com/pilot/Sir_Lomax">http://eveboard.com/pilot/Sir_Lomax</a><br />
<a href="http://eveboard.com/pilot/STIHL">http://eveboard.com/pilot/STIHL</a> -PW chainsaw no clue why it has a pw.. can't figure out how to change that one. <br />
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If you can't figure out who I am, what I'm about, what I do from all
those links, without an API still, well, you're and idiot and I don't
want to fly with you anyway. <br />
-- Spear<br />
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Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-46947154404155795802016-12-30T13:12:00.003-08:002016-12-30T13:53:12.714-08:00Deep Null Unfriendly DED Site RunningSo this is what I've been doing for the past few weeks.<br />
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Before I continue, I want to make some points and perhaps a quick disclaimer;<br />
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1. I'm not a PVE expert.<br />
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2. Do not try what I have done with the expectation that I will work for you. My terribleness, is only trumped by my own dumb luck.<br />
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3. The fits I post are monsters of bad choices and too much money. Don't replicate them.<br />
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4. FFS, don't email me asking me for more details. Read that like one more
time, if you even consider it. I got into some trouble with my C13
backpacking trip posts, now people think I'm the expert on confessor PVE.. and email me all the time to fine tune C13 site running. STOP IT! I just blog for my own
self gratification! Make your own way, leave me alone!<br />
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Sorry... off topic vent there. <br />
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<b>Idea Genesis: </b><br />
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I, just like anyone unfortunate enough to find this blog (mom), are seeking inspiration for our own activities in EVE. I've always said this to people, EVE is about taking an idea, a fit, an example or even a conversation and making it happen, just to see the outcome. <br />
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A few years ago, I went to my first EVE Vegas in 2013 and my very first player presentation I saw was this poor son of a bitch. Hats off to the this guy for standing in front of a room full of beards and showing them, there are different ways to play the game. You can hear it in his voice, public speaking isn't his strong suit. <br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J46MTETfFc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J46MTETfFc</a><br />
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If you don't have time to watch, you should make time its a great example of a player making his own way, doing the best he can and giving 0 fucks doing it.<br />
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For those of you who don't have time to watch, I'll summarize. He might be the worst public speaker I've ever seen, aside from perhaps myself, but if you look past all that, you can see this guy is on to EVE gold and sharing it with us, free of charge. <br />
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What Joker describes is, essentially going deep into unfriendly null sov owed regions and runs DED sites using black ops PVE boats. 7/10s,8/10s, 10 of 10s. All with neutrals in local and often taunting them while he's doing it. Now it might not be a "new idea" but from the perspective of a guy like myself with little to no NULL PVE experience but to me, it looked dope and NEW!<br />
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Ever since I watched it, I wanted to do it myself, just never felt so inclined.Well I did it, and its kinda fun.<br />
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<b> Making it happen: </b><br />
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<b> </b>1st off, having multiple skilled pilots on 3 accounts is slightly key to making this work. Also understanding Covert Cyno jump ranges, what ships you'll be fighting and using correct tank and DPS to do these sites quickly, and better yet find the sites quickly too. Most of this info you can find online if you google, but for those not knowing how to Covert cyno.. well.. here's a quick description.<br />
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A covert cyno capable ship, my case a Proteus. Lights a Covert Cyno generator and covert jump capable ships simply right click on the pilot and select "Jump to player". Here is a link to the site I use to figure out how far I can travel from my staging point. (not my actual staging point you sneaky fuckers.. but an example)<br />
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<a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/range/Sin,4/M-MD3B" target="_blank">http://evemaps.dotlan.net/range/Sin,4/M-MD3B </a><br />
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The red circles are the systems you can travel to if someone lights the covert cyno on the other end.<br />
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Easy right?!<br />
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<b><u>The scout.</u></b><br />
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My least skilled pilot/account is about 60 million skill points, he flies the scout. The goal of the ship is to move quickly through defended SOV Null and scan as quickly as possible. With this ship, I can cover multiple systems and bypass bubble camps, drag bubbles, while still being able to haul Covert Cyno fuel for multiple jumps to and fro. I've found that when setting up a jump off point, the use of my wormhole experience has been able to help me to move in large amounts of fuel/equipment while by passing low sec and gate camps. <br />
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<b>[Proteus, Git in Git fked]</b><br />
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<u>Lows:</u><br />
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Damage Control II<br />
1600mm Steel Plates II<br />
Experimental Hyperspatial Accelerator<br />
Imperial Navy Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane<br />
Capacitor Flux Coil II<br />
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<u>Mids:</u><br />
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Scan Pinpointing Array II<br />
50MN Y-T8 Compact Microwarpdrive<br />
Scan Rangefinding Array II<br />
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<u>Highs:</u><br />
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Anode Electron Particle Cannon I<br />
Anode Electron Particle Cannon I<br />
Anode Electron Particle Cannon I<br />
Anode Electron Particle Cannon I<br />
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II<br />
Covert Cynosural Field Generator I<br />
Sisters Expanded Probe Launcher<br />
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<u>Rigs: </u><br />
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Medium Trimark Armor Pump II<br />
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II<br />
Medium Trimark Armor Pump II<br />
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<u>Subs:</u><br />
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Proteus Electronics - Emergent Locus Analyzer<br />
Proteus Defensive - Adaptive Augmenter<br />
Proteus Engineering - Power Core Multiplier<br />
Proteus Offensive - Covert Reconfiguration<br />
Proteus Propulsion - Interdiction Nullifier<br />
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Sisters Core Scanner Probe x80<br />
Federation Navy Antimatter Charge M x1948<br />
Nanite Repair Paste x100<br />
Sisters Combat Scanner Probe x8<br />
Liquid Ozone x625<br />
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Now before you rip into me for not having T2 guns, or having like 80 probes (shift drag was mean to me).. 1st this character can't use T2 guns, and I really just put guns on it as an after thought, I don't expect it to ever need to shoot anything.. its just a scout. As for the rigs, well it was one of my old heavy armor proteus hulls I had lying around. I didn't see the need at the time to strip them for hyperspacials.<br />
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So, suggestions going forward if I wanted to fine tune it next time. (hind site being 20/20). Ditch the T2 Armor rigs, install hyperspacials, ditch nearly all tank and install either more cargo hold or gyros or nanofibers. Maybe even dual prop it for crashing gates, if a hostile cepter got lucky on a uncloak some time. This fit has WAY more CPU and Power left over, so I could change it quite a bit if I wanted or cared enough. <br />
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Again, first time doing this.. cut me some friggen slack bro.<br />
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<b><u> Scouts job: </u></b><br />
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Find a section of space where the Sec value is the lowest and your preferred rats exist. <br />
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For my first run I chose Deep Fountain Serpentis space <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/C-N4OD" target="_blank">C-N4OD</a><br />
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Set my destination.. and go, not much can stop this rig. <br />
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This section of space is player occupied by ... whoever... names not important.. they can't stop me even if they wanted to. I tell them so, each time I pass through one of their gate camps. (btw, gate camping is pvp version of mining, you're bad if you do it, and you're not good at this game. May your characters get testicle cancer.)<br />
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The point of picking this one, was simply, it was in the middle of the map and was in range from my kick off point in NPC null. My launch point for my PVE Black Ops ships was in Deep NPC controlled Outer Ring Null.<br />
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Fuel being the key to my activities, I needed an NPC null sec region that I could set up a POS or some Mobile depots. (not the shit ones btw, the really hard to scan ones, their name escapes me at the moment) Its not that hard to find you Covert Cyno fuel in most NPC Null stations, but honestly, there isn't really a good station near deep fountain, so a small POS became my fuel station. A small POS costs about 200mil with fuel and equipment to run it, so who cares if someone comes and smashes, I'm not really storing much in it anyway. <br />
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The whole point of the POS is simply to make it possible to hold extra Jump fuel, not ships, though, I'm thinking of expanding my operations to include Black ops capable ships, for some future sorties. We'll see what I feel like doing next :).<br />
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All the scout does is, jump into the system, scan down the combat sites. Once one is found, I simple set up a safe point to covert cyno in the PVE ships. Once they arrive, they cloak up and then I reset the scout in an adjoining system, just in case things go sideways and I need a covert cyno exit.<br />
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I've found the better the Sec status, the better the chance for DED's.. but I'm not 100% on that, it just seems to be that way. <br />
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<u>The PVE ships</u>:<br />
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Now again, I'm not a PVE expert, the ships and the way I'm doing this might be totally wrong. Before I made this fit, I had NEVER done a DED site above 7/10. I had no idea what to expect or how long it would take.<br />
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Hind sight being 20/20 these ships and the dual spider RR/cap transfer is a bit much. In like the 10 some sites I've done so far, I've had to turn on both of them 2 times because I simply fucked something up or wasn't paying attention. More of an insurance policy more than a requirement. I figured, why chance it when dealing with this much money. <br />
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<b>I dual box two of these </b><br />
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[Sin, Right boob]<br />
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<u>Lows: </u><br />
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Centus A-Type Armor Thermal Hardener<br />
Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier<br />
Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier<br />
Centus A-Type Armor Kinetic Hardener<br />
Imperial Navy Drone Damage Amplifier<br />
Centus A-Type Armor Thermal Hardener<br />
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<u>Mids:</u><br />
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Cap Recharger II<br />
Cap Recharger II<br />
Sensor Booster II<br />
Federation Navy Omnidirectional Tracking Link<br />
Federation Navy 100MN Afterburner<br />
Large Micro Jump Drive<br />
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<u>Highs:</u><br />
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Improved Cloaking Device II<br />
Large Remote Capacitor Transmitter II<br />
Large Remote Capacitor Transmitter II<br />
Drone Link Augmentor II<br />
Drone Link Augmentor II<br />
Centum A-Type Medium Remote Armor Repairer<br />
Centum A-Type Medium Remote Armor Repairer<br />
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<u>Rigs: </u><br />
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Large Anti-Kinetic Pump II<br />
Large Anti-Thermal Pump II<br />
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<u>Drones</u><br />
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Hobgoblin II x5<br />
Warden II x5<br />
Hornet EC-300 x5<br />
Vespa II x5<br />
Garde II x5<br />
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Targeting Range Script x1<br />
Optimal Range Script x1<br />
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This bad boy cranks out 680 DPS and can effectively track and one shot an incoming NPC frig at 105k range.<br />
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Again, I know there are better drones, better ships, but this was the first attempt at concept.<br />
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<u><b>Process: </b></u><br />
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Step 1: Scout finds DED 8/10 or 10/10<br />
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Step 2: Scout creates safe spot for corp bookmarks.<br />
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Step 3: Covert Cyno in both Sins to the safe spot.<br />
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Step 4: Scout leaves or becomes eyes in adjoining system.<br />
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Step 5: Sins warp to DED and go into the first room<br />
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<li>The second I come out of the Gate warp, I pick a celestial that's on the other side of the next room gate and align to it with both characters. I do this for a lot of reasons; one, it gives me a common place both micro jump drives will arrive at; two, it puts me closest to the gate after the MJD, for less time burning back to the gate after the rats are dead. </li>
<li>I begin locking both ships for the spider tank, once both ships are at full speed and aligned to the celestial, I MJD. Since both ships are identical in most ways, they land within 3k of each other. </li>
<li>I then start repping both ships and cap transferring both ships, in typical spider tanking technique. </li>
<li>I drop my Wardens on both ships, and start locking all frigs and destroyers. They are the fastest and some can even scram you so they should die first. Side note, when the frigs are approaching you, they have nearly no transversal, so the wardens just blap them out of the sky. </li>
<li>If any cruiser or battle-cruiser gets below 30k, its next to be targeted. I clear all the cruisers/frigs before switching to the battleships, because the sentry drones have no trouble hitting them at nearly all ranges.</li>
<li>Once all the rats in that room are dead, I simply yank drones, and after burn both ships to the gate. With this particular after burner, I'm moving at about 300+ or so. Relativity fast. </li>
<li>After all the rooms, I simply bookmark the final can warp off, wait for the site to dspawn. </li>
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Step 6: Cyno back to my staging point. Refuel and log off in space. <br />
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Of course the whole time, I'm hitting Dscan like a mad man, paying attention to what ships are on D, kill boards of those in local, watching for scouts, tackle, probes... signs that I might be getting hunted. If anyone comes calling, I can simply MJD away, or warp away and cloak... or blackops jump away and cloak. Maybe, if I'm feeling frisky, I can try and blap the tackle.,. who knows. :)<br />
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The whole process once the DED is found takes me about 45 minutes, give or take the type of site I find. The entire time, I know fully well that I have nearly 4 billion in assets in space, local is full, local knows fully well what I'm doing and they either can't or won't stop me. It gets the blood pumping let me tell you. <br />
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So far I haven't found a huge pay day in DED stuff, most of the loots I've gotten were fairly lack luster, a Pith X here, a vindi blue print there.. but the fun for me is getting inspired by someone to do something, then making it happen. I've made enough isk/items to cover 1 of the sins so far, but I've got that bug to do something in the game again, which really is my goal at the end of the day. <br />
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Maybe next time I'll fly dual widows... :)<br />
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-57515085856464529902016-12-17T09:41:00.001-08:002016-12-17T09:41:30.369-08:00So I tried to join a null sec alliance, outcome as expected. I know this blog is named "Invading Your Hole" and historically its been a very wormhole focused blog, but EVE is about reinvention to me and some times you just need to try something different. I should have renamed the blog "The adventures of a guy who takes EVE WAY TOO SERIOUSLY!"<br />
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I know its me, it can't be everyone I encounter but sometimes I just get this overwhelming urge to punch babies in the face when I see something I've deem crazy going on. <br />
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My grandfather used to say, "If you encounter one asshole in a day, you can say, that guy's an asshole. But, if you encounter nothing but assholes all day, chances are, you're the asshole".<br />
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Well, I'm the asshole.<br />
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Call it arrogance, call it pride, call me a bad person, whatever, I'm slowly coming to terms with it. I just don't get along with people, which is sad, cause I'm a fairly reasonable person, who enjoys the company of others.<br />
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<b>Story time: </b><br />
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I've been adventuring around in my Cov Ops Proteus in my alt STIHL, just seeing what people are doing, scanning things out, checking out wormholes, trying to be inspired.<br />
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I found myself in Fountain while doing some Black Ops BS DED sites (I'll post fits and results later) and I realized I was really deep in Null, so deep that getting my BLOPs refilled would be a challenge. Well, lets look at what kind of corps we have around here...<br />
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I checked who owned the system, who was in local, who was in their recruitment channels and found one that spoke English! I asked them what it was going to take to join them.<br />
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They told me, they were drug makers, some of the best in EVE. I was like DAMMNNN son.. I like gittin high!!!! The corps name is<br />
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<a href="https://evewho.com/corp/Es+and+Whizz" target="_blank">Es and Whizz</a><br />
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Some kind of play on words about RL drugs or something, I dono, I just know, I've never done that before and it seemed interesting.<br />
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I went through the app process, which was some sort of super annoying questionnaire, which I'm assuming someone somewhere reads, I dono, I'll just through hoops sure.<br />
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Then it came to sending in an API which to be honest I think is a little dated, all important information I think you can gleam from an API, you could simply find from kill board behavior, but whatever, I'll play along.<br />
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I send in Spears API. Someone pipes up in coms and says "This API has an expiration" Well no shit, you don't think I'm going to send one without an expiration, what sense does that make. You're going well beyond a simple history check by asking someone to forever give up privacy, for the duration of their EVE career. <br />
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My response to my general observation of something so incredibly absurd was "Well that's our policy". Well that seems like a dumb reason.<br />
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Spear my man, you're going to try new things remember, you're here to do what Null folk do, blend in, don't make waves.<br />
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Ok fine, I'll send you an API that will NEVER expire, because that's a thing for some reason. Not like I won't just delete the fucking thing a couple days later anyway. The expiration date simply makes that process easier. Whatever. I'll just set an alarm on my phone.<br />
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Deep breath.. New things! I'm here to try new things!<br />
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I get in! yay, i'm a Null guy! wooooo. I have an intel channel.. I have a fleet channel.. I have another and another.. All these channels that are very important to someone, for something.<br />
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Lets do this!<br />
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I then begin going on about my business and then ask to get my alts in.<br />
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'you can get your alts in, but they too need full API's that don't expire'.<br />
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For. Fucks. Sake.<br />
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Ok, fine, maybe I've been bad with my alts and now they are going to uncover the deep spy who has multiple personality disorder and refers to himself in the 3rd or perhaps 4th person and does bad things with alts. Sure..<br />
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Here ya go. I ask in voice coms, do I need to send two more annoying questionnaire google docs? or can I simply send in an EVE mail with the two API's?<br />
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"O no.. EVE mail will be fine"<br />
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The mail was sent. <br />
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<b>3 Days pass. </b> <br />
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Maybe the guys (7 of them) are just really busy doing other stuff, but I did manage to get STIHL in, he was my scanning cov ops pilot so I figured, I wouldn't spook the locals having some random proteus in system.<br />
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Sir Lomax, my other BLOPS pilot I guess his application is still pending. They were on the same mail as STHIL but he does have more assets so,, I figured he needed a deeper look. (I don't actually know that, I just guessed because if one got in, I'm sure the other would have? I honestly don't know, I'm just doing my best to figure out the situation).<br />
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<b>4 Days Pass. </b><br />
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Its my day off, my day to play EVE my single day out of the week to devote to a video game, lets do this!<br />
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Sir Lomax is still not invited to corp/alliance, no biggy, I'm sure those folks in charge are just busy.<br />
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STIHL, my scout finds a 8/10 in the main system that we all operate out of.<br />
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I see there are other people in local and I ask. "Hey is anyone doing that 8/10?" one guy responds with "Havens". Nice, I'll drop my toons in get her done.<br />
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Since I know Sir Lomax isn't in corp/alliance, I know fully well he is going to bother the people in system. I link his name for all the locals to see.<br />
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STIHL > Sir Lomax is my alt, please don't freak out.<br />
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This is the friendly local convo that followed. These people are our "blues" btw.<br />
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<i><b>[ 2016.12.17 13:31:38 ] Kjellerup > Seriously, get those alts in corp/alliance or keep them out of here<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:31:57 ] STIHL > i just told you they were<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:32:12 ] STIHL > and I've applied<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:36:36 ] Kjellerup > No problem .. you guys can get docking rights again when you're in</b></i><br />
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Dick head here, Kjellerup, proceeds to remove my entire alliances ability to dock in the station. These guys are just miners and ratters. They were in space and go no warning what so ever. Simply, O you know all that stuff you though you had access to, yea, well you don't anymore, cause... reasons.<br />
<br /><i><b>[ 2016.12.17 13:37:55 ] STIHL > I've been in wormholes for the past 5 years, i'm not sure what that means<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:38:51 ] STIHL > are we in some sort of null drama right now? Should I be upset, i'm legit confused as to the context of what you said.</b></i><br />
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I wasn't kidding, I legit didn't know that person did that, or that was some sort of consiquence for telling them in local chat, I literally was the exact same pilot who was already in there. This fuck stick was busting our balls because of some sort of legalistic issue. What the actual fuck?!<br />
<br /><i><b>[ 2016.12.17 13:39:59 ] rigar Muutaras > im gettting denied to dock<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:41:21 ] roger Hanis > dud wtf<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:41:44 ] roger Hanis > we got miners and people in combat ships<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:43:03 ] STIHL > I'll reimburse your losses if there are any, clearly I've made some sort of mistake or tripped an unwriten rule or something.<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:43:14 ] roger Hanis > wow</b></i><br />
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I was serious, clearly I stepped on someones dick and I was some how responsible for this calamity.<br />
<br /><i><b>[ 2016.12.17 13:43:48 ] STIHL > i'll leave, would that make you happy?<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:44:16 ] roger Hanis > im leaving since i can do shit now<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:44:41 ] Kjellerup > I asked you nicely to get your alt in corp or out</b></i><br />
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Are you serious right now? Is this real life?! Did you just deny an entire alliance the ability to dock because of a missing blue square on the bottom of the picture? I can prove that its me, I am that pilot, I'm no one else.. I'm not some sort of sktizo. I lost my temper.<br />
<br /><i><b>[ 2016.12.17 13:44:51 ] STIHL > fucking null sec people never change. This is the reason why I've been in wspac efor 5 years because of people like you<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:18 ] Kjellerup > Well you are causing the drama really<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:26 ] STIHL > nope<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:33 ] STIHL > I just told you.. This<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:37 ] Sir Lomax > is an<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:40 ] Longinius Spear > alt<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:42 ] Sir Lomax > we<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:45 ] Longinius Spear > are<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:47 ] STIHL > the<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:49 ] Kjellerup > I know and I dont care<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:50 ] Longinius Spear > same<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:45:52 ] Sir Lomax > person<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:46:02 ] STIHL > its not tuff to wrap your little pea around<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:46:49 ] Kjellerup > Obviously you're having problems understanding that your alt is welcome here, once he is in corp or alliance<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:47:43 ] STIHL > its not intentional.. look at my time in the corp.. I just joined.. I've only been doing this for like a day.. the CEO simply hasn't invited him yet, he isn't online, why are you doing this.. i mean seriously<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:48:25 ] Kjellerup > Why is it so hard for you to log him off until you're in corp?<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:48:30 ] STIHL > you're punishing people not even effected by it, by simply to my guess not having a 'hall pass'<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:48:47 ] STIHL > cause he is part of my triple box process..<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:49:17 ] Kjellerup > lol<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:49:48 ] STIHL > if i left the corp would that fix the issue?<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:49:58 ] STIHL > could you let this miner pleaes return to a station?<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:50:04 ] Kjellerup > As I said. Docking rigths well be back when Sir Lomax is out or blue<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:50:39 ] STIHL > how about if I'm out of corp and so it Spear? would that fix the issue also?<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:51:00 ] Kjellerup > I have nothing against you<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:51:09 ] STIHL > clearly you do<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:51:19 ] STIHL > or we wouldn't be having a little pissing match right now<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:51:38 ] Kjellerup > You can just log him off<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:52:30 ] Kjellerup > I opened the astrahus<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:55:37 ] Kjellerup > Im gonna close it again in 5, unless you move your neut out of system</b></i><br />
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Where was this threat before you turned off docking rights the first time?<i><b></b></i><br />
<i><b><br />[ 2016.12.17 13:55:48 ] Longinius Spear > I'm moving my cyno, keep your shorts on<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:56:19 ] Longinius Spear > i don't use gates<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:58:59 ] Longinius Spear > o/ please fix whatever you changed for the corp i joined. to all i'm sorry for the mix up.. I misunderstood maturity levels here<br />[ 2016.12.17 13:59:35 ] EVE System > Channel changed to Local : XF-TQL</b></i><br />
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An hour or so later, docking rights were returned to my corp/alliance, but only after I apologized again in local. <br /><i><b> </b><br /> </i>I think the part that makes me hostile about the whole thing is the blanket moronic attitude of the person. The "This is the process, this is the policy, even if it doesn't make sense at this very moment, we are going to follow it just the same, fuck you and any issues it causes". <br />
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I think that's what i have so much trouble coming to terms with. The "we do it because we do it' kind of thinking. This isn't creative thought, this isn't adaptive thought, its just, this is the machine, and that part turns because it was deemed 4 years ago to turn. Don't ask why, don't question it, don't change.<br />
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Yea, after the whole non expire API thing, the 4 some days of being ignored and then this.. Its reminded me exactly what Null Ring kissing bull shit I've been missing in Wspace.<br />
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The whole blue, someone triggers some thing.. not blue.. You can dock, o wait someone stole a rat from someone else.. you can't dock anymore, now spend the remainder of your day trying to unfuck something. All my faded bad memories of being in Null under the thumb of -A- came rushing back to me. That one time, they reset us for an entire weekend before someone belt ratted in the wrong system, our null overloads spend the weekend camping our exits.<br />
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All that came rushing back to me. <br />
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Naww its cool, deuces. I'll make my own waves. <br />
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-58421799822638210132016-12-10T07:46:00.001-08:002016-12-10T08:20:27.060-08:00Fun response to calling out people Oooo I've gotten some spicy messages on the topic of those two corp members I commented on in a previous posting. <a href="http://invadingyourhole.blogspot.com/2016/12/space-vajians.html" target="_blank"><b>LINK</b></a><br />
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Some of the messages were super poopy and didn't really offer much so I didn't post them, but this one does hit some points which I thought I would address in a special posting.<br />
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After re-reading what I wrote and what this person (anon) responded with, I could see how some confusion about my points could be interpreted. <br />
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I'll break it down for clarity, because there seems to be much emotion in this one, which is great, I love the passion!<br />
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<i><b>"I know all the players you're talking about and it makes ME sick
to see how you shittalk them on a blogpost with things that are
supposed to stay internal."</b></i><br />
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Fair point.<br />
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I never did explain to each member, me simply being in your corp will thus make your corp and its inner working more "public" and less "internal". I typically say this to the CEO upon entering a corp, "Hey, I'm a blogger and a podcaster" will this be an issue if I share stories about what goes on inside your corp?" I don't ask EVERY member, cause honestly it just gets confusing. I remember saying this to your corp recruiting person and if I remember accurately, he said "eehhh No problem"! (best Borat voice) I'll remind people what a blog is, its an unqualified diarrhea of the mouth, for anyone with an internet connection and read by people who enjoy staring at diarrhea.<br />
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<i><b> "This + the fact you're insulting
people over their own decision not to fight something (and get whelped
in the process) is pathetic."</b></i><br />
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Without getting too bogged down in the mechanics of how time and space work, I'll just keep it simple. We had time to adjust our fleet LONG before these two guys decided to go home, and they knew it. Hence why I insulted them.<br />
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Not only did I insult them, I called them on they're goal of them even playing EVE in the first place. Hell, why they even had PVP ships in a wormhole at all. I challenged their manhood at a Mexican Pro Wrestling level. Called them on their shit while it was happening. I didn't wait and just flame them on my blog, I called them sack-less Tibetan monks getting run over by Chinese tanks.<br />
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It wasn't just because they ran, because you can run in some situations, it was because I was pinged in corp chat to be a part of this AND volunteered to be bait for this OP. In a bait ship I'll remind everyone that cost more than BOTH fleets combined. Then I offered to pay for every lost ship!<br />
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<i><b> "If they don't wanna fight, why
insult them afterwards?"</b></i><br />
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Because as a self righteous blogger of a game I love, I feel obligated at my core to share what total emasculated players these two are. <i><b> You're welcome :)</b></i><br />
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<i><b>"I feel like you're way too emotional
over this and I don't think you really wanted to write what you
just wrote."</b></i><br />
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Yes to 1, No to 2.<br />
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Having passion and emotion for this game is what keeps me logging in. Having that drive to share what I've experienced with total strangers is why I blog and podcast.<br />
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Am I too emotional? Yes, I could see that, it is a video game after all, I'm not blind to that, I've accepted this and made my peace with it. To both my readers (mom and you) thank you for letting me go this journey. <br />
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Did I not want to write what I wrote? Absolutely not. Sharing this as I see it, has given me a new found drive, and for that, I thank you. WoW can never offer this level of drama for me, to be honest, I'm actually very grateful to everyone involved.<br />
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<i><b>"You have NO right to say what is a pussy and what is not."</b></i><br />
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Now you just wait a second, I do have a right. So do you, we all do. As individuals with our own minds and opinions I have just as much a right to call someone a pussy as they have a right to call me one right back. <i><b> </b></i><br />
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<i><b>"As
a LONG time reader and listener of your podcast and supporter, I think
you're needlessly slandering a corp over your own feelings.</b></i>"<br />
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So you're the other reader hu? This is going to make mom super happy, I've been reassuring her for years now that she wasn't totally alone in reading my blog. Its going to go a long way in convincing her she hasn't totally wasted her time in her support.<br />
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Also, I'm not "needlessly slandering a corp" at no point did I slander the "corp" and if I did, I'm sorry for that. I intentionally slandered these two pilots/players with my opinion of them and they should have played like they had a pair, which they don't. Just wanted to clear that up for you. <br />
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<i><b>"</b></i><b><i>I
feel like if you'd joined my corp and if we didn't take a
fight on the spot, you'd probably write the same hate-filled,
childish crap you just wrote"</i></b><br />
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Well, dear "long time reader", if you look back there are multiple instances where I flame the poop out of people who don't fight I think, you maybe right in a sense. Past instances of where I bring someone into a private convo and explain in great detail about how I would abandon a fully fit space craft at the sun, with the entire intention of having them fly it and kill me with it, and they refused, yea this type of thing doesn't sit well with me. <br />
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So hind site being 20/20, would I react the same in an exact same situation knowing what I know now.. Yep. I'd still call them shitbird pussies. <br />
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<i><b>"Seriously, according to KB they have 100 members, you
call them all shitbirds now?"</b></i><br />
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I think you're at that point again where you're confusing me calling these two pilots out and their entire corp, which I still don't think I did. As a matter of fact, these two pilots in question did mention their own KB's and how amazing they were. Trust me, these two pro pilots have no trouble defending themselves, they just need to fight more in situations the outcome isn't nearly 100% in their favor and they can ride the coat tales of others/the blob. <br />
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<i><b> "This is very very low, wretched and disgraceful, and you can be sure I
on.... " (sorry the message got cut off, i'm sure it was very meaningful and I'm sure you can image what it said)</b></i><br />
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Is what I did low? Is it wretched and disgraceful? Maybe, if we were dealing with real life. Since this is a video game and I'm a very well adjusted man in real life (so my mom keeps telling me HI MOM!!)... I think I'm A-OK with this outlet for my frustrations.<br />
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You keep being you, I'll keep being me. Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-86276126241600627902016-12-10T07:00:00.003-08:002016-12-10T11:07:14.801-08:00Wormhole Life Culture Part 1: Corp Ship Name Tags Hello everyone,<br />
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I'm back at it, sharing my opinions on things I'm no way qualified to give an opinion on.<br />
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I thought I would start a multi part blog series called Wormhole Life Culture. Living in a wormhole is a culture after all. I figure anything that a group of players/people could self identify as being one way or another collectively could be referred to as a 'culture'.<br />
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At this very second in my EVE game play, I'm not in a corp with other people. Its not from lack of trying mind you, I just haven't found a corp that offers me what I'm looking for. What that is, well I'm not exactly sure, I just know the corps I've talk to thus far, don't completely do it for me, so to speak. Not sure any ever will, but till I find one, I'll keep looking and keep blogging. <br />
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Today, I want to share one of the reason why I said no to to the culture of my last corp offering. <br />
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<b>Wormhole Corp Ship Name Tags. </b><br />
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Example : " ☜∰☞ " <i>Insert name here</i><br />
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I've commented on them in the past at different points, one of them specifically was during my <a href="https://youtu.be/5ddR7W4LmR8?t=822" target="_blank">EVE Vegas scouting presentation </a><a href="https://youtu.be/5ddR7W4LmR8?t=822" target="_blank"><br /></a><br />
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I had no idea that, this relic ideal system was still so prevalent with wormholers who say they take themselves seriously now.<br />
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Here are the pro's and cons as I see them. <br />
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<b>Pros: </b><br />
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<li>When Hitting D scan in whatever system you instantly know which ship is 'on your side'. </li>
<li>You can stay totally silent in coms with the knowledge all ships on D are accounted for one way or another. </li>
<li>Pilots can be lazy and not be forced to be aware of whats and who are on scan at all times. <b></b></li>
<li>You at a glance can see who's on your side and who isn't. </li>
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<b>Cons: </b><br />
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<li>With as much Dscan ship information that you can gain in the Pro's, it can be just as easily lost if the 'other guys' choose to copy your ship name tag. <b> </b></li>
<li>Any information that you think you have, is instantly lost when the other guys choose not use your culture of self identifying with a special squiggle<b> </b></li>
<li>Pilots can be lazy and not be forced to be aware of whats and who are on scan at all times. <b> </b></li>
<li>You at a glance can see who's on your side and who isn't. <b></b>This is in both places because for as much intel advantage as you seem to think
you gain, you give up that advantage right back to the people outside your corp. </li>
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When you list the pros and the cons to using a Corp wide ship naming convention it results in a zero sum game (no bonus for either group) if one thing didn't exist. Then it turns into a near total value lost for the people who use corp ship names. <br />
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1. D Scan<br />
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2. Select Ship on D Scan<br />
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3. Ctr (your keyboard button under shift) and C<br />
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4. Open your own ship rename (right click on your hull, select "Rename")<br />
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5. Ctr (your keyboard button under shift) and V<br />
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Just like that, all bonus's the people who are using a ship naming convention are now GONE! In fact, they're not just gone, but they're now suddenly working against the very popular goal, which is to not have your stuff exploded from being an idiot. <br />
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In all seriousness, I thought such an obvious intelligence flaw in an activity should be overwhelmingly obvious to anyone with half a brain. The trick was simply telling them,<br />
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"Hey you know that thing you've been doing, yea its dumb, stop it" and they could then respond with "uhh yea you're right, its fucking dumb, maybe I should stop"<br />
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NOPE, not having it. We'll not have any of that thin stuff goin on around these parts. <br />
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Its not that simple.This activity is so ingrained in their heads that simply telling them, won't work.<br />
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This is very much like smoking cigarettes, why anyone ever thought this was a good idea, we may never know. People still do it, people have been told it will shorten their lives, make their teeth yellow, give them social leprosy and pigeon hole them with a classification of folk who simply can't be bothered to give a shit. <br />
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Corp ship tag naming conventions are on this same level.<br />
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Just like smoking I think they were invented back when people simply didn't know how to copy and past. In the long history of EVE perhaps it wasn't always an ability to copy and paste your Dscan results, but since they are now.. we know better as a culture and we should be smart enough to stop it.<br />
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I'm making my solemn vow at this point going forward. Any corp that asks me to use a ship naming convention as part of their normal day to day is filled with lazy idiots who probably chain smoke cigarettes and can't predict the consequences of informed idiocy.<br />
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If you are reading this, feel that I'm wrong, thats fine! People who know better will exploit your own failings in the future, hell Marlbro is still a multi billion dollar company filled with lots and lots people who all need jobs. But for the rest of us, well we enjoy the explosions and cheaper healthcare. <br />
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God damn it, I need a smoke! (quit 14 years ago)<br />
<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-1210433038599899252016-12-02T07:14:00.000-08:002016-12-02T14:05:38.237-08:00Searbhreatharch and Spike FieldsHello EVE Peeps!<br />
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After a brief break, some WoW action, I'm back at it again. Trying to get that passion back and I may have found it!<br />
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<u>The last 2 weeks for me:</u><br />
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Where I last left off, I was removing SUSU's citadels from our C4 static C3, Static C2. This was one of the most painful and long processes I've done in a long while. The multiple trips back and forth from Kspace, moving out my staging POS and all the gear it took to make 3 citadels work.<br />
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Ugg soo long.<br />
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I did little at a time over weeks while I played WoW with Bronya. Well WoW does what it always does at higher levels, it turns into a pure grind fest filled with guild drama about raids. Meh, been there done that.<br />
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Now back to EVE.<br />
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During the past two weeks I interviewed with about 6 different corps. I simply went into the Recruitment channel and typed "Bitter vet, looking for a fresh perspective and friends!".<br />
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I was spammed with about 10 convo invites, each from a different group. Each one had something different to offer. One guy who I was seriously considering was doing some Null sec Merc ops. They essentially get hired by one or more null groups to fight ratters, gate camps, whatever deep in enemy space. Like hired guerilla solders. I thought that would be awesome, till I asked them if the mercs members in the corp got a cut of the money. The answer was a resounding "NO". "We use the money for paying for fleet ships". <br />
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I was like wtf?! Who wants to be a merc with no pay? Thats not a merc group, thats simply a job and exactly like all other corps. Some one getting paid other than line members. Meh. Not for me. Its not like I need the money, but I do like having some kind of goal in mind other than "go here and blow these people up, while you make me rich" blah.. I passed.<br />
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The next corp I was considering was a low sec combat group. These guys have fleets every night with lots of blues they team up with to fight larger gangs. A loose group great pilots with only one goal. Blow everyone else up! I was super tempted, till I asked them what they do when they don't have many members online. They simply said, "kill alphas in mining ships who simply wander into their little systems". Like, that was what they did the majority of the time. Then I visualized just being a low sec bully all the time, which has its draws.. it just doesn't hold my attention for a long time.<br />
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Finally, I came across a wormhole corp recruiting. Now I know a lot of wormhole players, friends with most of them, with the proper desire, I have a good relationship with most. I'm even confident that I could get into nearly any of them, baring any language barriers. What enticed me about this one talking to me was how enthusiastic the CEO was while he was talking to me voice. How enthusiastic the members were when they were talking to me in coms.<br />
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See to me, skill, kill boards, histories, accomplishments all that stuff, is totally secondary. I want to fly with people who want to be there, have fun, enjoy themselves! You can teach fits, tactics, its the enthusiasm that really draws me in.<br />
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Not only that but their CEO talks like "Borat", his entrance question was "How much Sex you have?!?!""Because we want people who fuck!" Not anything EVE related, just some random disarming question. It made me laugh. Frankly, as someone who attempts to entertain himself, I get along with people who make me laugh. He is a charming mother fucker, even though his command of the English language is lacking. <br />
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He said they played during my Time zone which is really what I need in a wormhole corp. They fight everyone, which is a huge plus. They have noobs and experienced pilots too, good mix. I like it.<br />
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Sure, I'll give it a go. I joined Partisan Squadron with just Longinius Spear. I figured while I felt these guys out, my alts could just collect all the ships and crap in Kspace.<br />
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These guys lived in a C4 static C3, Static C4. They had two citadels and each time I logged in to play there were at least 8 or so people on Team Speak. Good number for small fights, random ganks and that type of thing. Stuff I liked doing :)<br />
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I moved in some combat ships, heavy armor, along with my Tard inspired scout tengu. I found some kills for people and got into some fights. It was good times. <br />
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<b>Now the bad</b>: (caution the remainder of this is one long rant, If you don't like that type of thing, stop reading now) <br />
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During my time with Partisan Squadron I noticed they preferred running sites to finding targets. Thats ok, I'll let that pass because they have newbies who need money, PVP isn't everything for everyone, I'm ok with it.I can just do other stuff.<br />
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But one particular instance I had found some targets 2 jumps away, a whole bunch of ventures and tech II ventures (whatever those are called) gassing in a C5. I started baiting with my tengu and calling over my support.<br />
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These were the questions I heard over coms:<br />
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Member 1: "How many are there?!"<br />
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Me: "A lot, I'm alone here, need back up"<br />
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Member 2: "What kind of ships are they flying"<br />
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Me: "I dono. like 8 ventures and shit, I need a bubbler to catch them, I can't lock them fast enough with my tengu"<br />
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Member 1: "What kind of ship should I bring?"<br />
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Me: "A bubbler, I just said that, there goes 3 more, they are running home, lets kill these things!"<br />
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All the ventures and crap were just alts but they did ship up to 3 guardians and 5 or so Vexors and a Strat. Thats when they all came came for me.<br />
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I was sitting on a wormhole tanking their entire fleet, asking calmly for more ships to assist, we have targets a plenty out of their citadel shooting me.<br />
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Enter our hero Searbhreatharch <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/Searbhreathach/">https://evewho.com/pilot/Searbhreathach/</a><br />
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This person began with what I thought was some sort of combat jitters, excuse riddled diarrhea of the mouth on the reasons why our 10+ member fleet COULDN'T"T fight that gang.<br />
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Searbhreatharch: "We can't tank that!" We'll Die"<br />
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Me: I'm tanking them fine.(I was sitting there tanking their dps and full nuets with my tengu)<br />
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This guy continued on and on about how it was "Dumb to fight them" about how we will "Just lose" hes doing this while I'm sitting and fighting them. He goes on on and about what to bring, what we didn't do right.. on and on and on.. during battle coms. <br />
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I'm calling targets and this fuck wit Searbhreatharch is going on and on and talking over me, while I call targets about how its dumb and we should all head home.<br />
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I started shouting over him and saying "Please save criticisms for after the fight, we have targets, battle coms please" But this turd continued to go on and on.<br />
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I was stunned. Turns out, my support for my baiting (which was going on for like 10 minutes btw) was a bunch of destroyers and bubblers. They didn't think to reship when I called the vexors on D.<br />
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Ok.. I get it, I brought a knife to a gun fight. I can see where this shit bird could criticize the fleet, but to do it during the op in combat?!?, while the FC at the time was calling targets? Thats just noobish and disrespectful. <br />
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I shrugged it off, figured it was just a miscommunication. We only lost one ship because we were fighting on the wormhole. No one was in any real danger because when people got low they could simply jump through, its not like a bunch of Vexors and a Strat where going to hunt down some T3 D's .<br />
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O well.<br />
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Even after we shipped back up to bigger stuff, the space turd continued to go on and on about how we were going to die. <br />
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<b>Story number 2:</b><br />
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Today, I'm slightly AFK doing something on another character when people in corp chat start pinging me.<br />
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"SPEAR GET IN HERE" We have targets"<br />
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Fuck ya, I like targets, lets do this.<br />
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Me: "Where do you need me, what do you need?<br />
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Someone says they have 2 strats and a proteus. I was like "ooooo I'll bait that"<br />
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I move my tengu down the line. My support for this was op was 1 Falcon, 2 Augours, and other random armor DPS cruisers. More than enough to deal with that. Our targets were 2 jumps down the line.<br />
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I sat on the targets hole and dropped probes, acting like I'm just a scout tengu that is slow boating off the hole. Good target for 3 combat ships.<br />
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All of a sudden the scout watching the citadel says 6 more pilots log in.<br />
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I said "Awesome this should be good!"<br />
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This is when "Searbhreathach" began again with his "its dumb to fight them".<br />
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I was like "wait a second, we don't even know what they have, those could be alts"<br />
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He (in the falcon, two jumps away from the bait/target situation) warps off.<br />
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What the fuck?!?! You not only ran from a fight, but you ran from a fight in a falcon (that could cloak) that was 2 fucking jumps away!?! Are you shitting me?!<br />
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He starts telling everyone in the fleet that we can't take those numbers. They haven't even undocked yet, I'm sitting with my dick in the wind baiting on their hole, we haven't a clue what they will bring and you RUN!?<br />
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I said this to him. Word for word.<br />
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"I'll pay you for your ship if you lose it" In fact, I'll pay for EVERY SHIP IN THE FLEET" if we wipe. I have the money, its no big deal. I just need the back up".<br />
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The answer as shocking as you might think was "No, its not about the ISK".<br />
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My jaw dropped.<br />
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This is when our second hero Spike Fields <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/Spike+Fields">https://evewho.com/pilot/Spike+Fields</a><br />
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Not only agreed with Searbhreathach, but backed him up about how it was dumb to fight them.<br />
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I reminded him along with other people on coms that we don't even know what they are bringing. The targets were 2 jumps away, and we could pick our fights if we needed to.<br />
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Nope, not going to have it. The simple fact that 6 more pilots logged into their citadel was enough to not only spook these two fucks, but enough to make them try and convince the remainder of my back up fleet to leave the situation.<br />
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I reminded them along with the CEO, "I'll pay for your losses, I just need back up" "Who fucking cares if we die?!?<br />
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Nope, they weren't having it.<br />
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I lost my patience... I saw red... <br />
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I have never in all my EVE days encountered cowardice to this level. I've seen where people wouldn't take a free ship I left at the sun to fight me because they thought it was some sort of trap, but never from within my own corp.<br />
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I said to them over voice coms.<br />
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"You make me fucking sick" "This is a fucking video game, no one cares about your kill board" "Players like you who don't fight, make me fucking sick. How the fuck did you even find your way into Wspace, you're a god damn disgrace and you should be ashamed of yourselves." This is a video game based on explosions of ships, not only your own but others.<br />
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I'm not exactly sure if they have heard that before, but they then told me that I'm nobody, that my kill board isn't even that good, they've been in wormhole space longer than me and I was nothing". <br />
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I know I should have just kept quite, but I was like "mother fucker do you even know who I am?!". (I know that sounds arrogant as fuck, but seriously I think my time in this game has earned that remark.)<br />
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I pulled all my ships out of the hole, removed my roles and said my goodbyes. <br />
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Done and done.<br />
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So any of you ever encounter either of these shit birds, send them a fuck you from Spear.<br />
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Look at his EVE Who, I'm not alone in my assertions of Searbhreatharch<br />
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obsessed with killmails, cant take jokes without crying to the
higherups, bombs allies for killmails, brings neutral fleets to capital
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Dont even consider, just mute him and pretend he doesn't exist
because this guys a joke, the only thing he has probably amounted to in
life, is his proclaimed epic killboard. Thinks hes among the best in eve
yet everyone cant stand this guy and for the wrong reasons. Mute and
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Genuine thief. Do not accept into corp. His KB is padded, and he
works with a war dec alliance, so when he gets burned he war decs you.
He also has an alt named CavFighter and a scan alt named Luna Temper
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These are all his toons I know about. Let any in your corp at your own risk.<br />
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Shikkoken, Luna Temper, zyon97, Chigivaro Konchini, Mogwai Dune, Joe90
Togenada, Esa Allier, Searbhreathach, CavFighter<br />
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He's a troll, A awoxer and has been kicked from nearly every corp in
the game, including ours , after 3 days of begging for roles and getting
nothing he left. He would have you believe that's hes not the awoxer
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Irish guy in his 30's, acts like a child - has serious mental problems and is autistic in real life.</div>
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-5595102791514179962016-09-19T16:07:00.002-07:002016-09-19T16:07:35.873-07:00Down the Pipe - Ep. 63<div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" id="block-ceeaa781f111884c018d">
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Lots of salt and vinegar to be had. I tell a story about how I try and AWOX my AFG corp
mate, after decommissioning the citadel out from under him. <br />
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BTW as of 9/19/16, he and his tengu are still in space, in a box... floating... alone... and cold.. with no friends to be found.<br />
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Music is by Emerald Park - Open.<br />
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Remember, if you like the intro music to all these podcasts, you can listen to the Youtube music playlist found here -- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20z4edLGxHE&list=PLCfRott_9lV_PmWebV5-DJ1RW6QoFJeQ-">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20z4edLGxHE&list=PLCfRott_9lV_PmWebV5-DJ1RW6QoFJeQ-</a></div>
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Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-44443811040299761462016-08-30T07:49:00.001-07:002016-08-30T07:49:42.392-07:00SUSU/Blog UpdateHello everyone!<br />
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I'm back to my infrequent posting habits again. Its not like I don't have a wealth of opinions on EVE to share, its just that I simply haven't really had the drive to post or participate with the community in any real meaningful way. Not that posting on this blog really is all that 'meaningful', but hell, you're all reading it aren't you?! Gotcha!<br />
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Joking aside, I would regretfully inform you that SUSU 2.0 is has died. Its been dying for the past month or so, but I'm putting it to rest in the following weeks. How did this happen you ask? Well I'm glad you asked.<br />
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Core members simply had other shit to do. That's really the gist of it. Summer time in EVE isn't exactly filled with players as it is, but I and others found it tremendously painful to log in on a regular basis and scan the chain looking for content. This caused an issue for those who did log in on a regular basis, without the support or help with normal wormhole hunting tasks, people questioned why they should be flying with inactives.<br />
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Honestly I can't blame them, I didn't really want to do it either. This caused a chain of people simply not wanting log in. I was forced to recruit my ass off, or close it down. Frankly recruiting open minded people to our way of doing things was getting harder and harder. When we did get someone in who actually knew their ass from a hole in the ground, they questioned why we flew like noobs intentionally. When I explained, because its fun! They explained, well losing ships all the time isn't fun. Meh.. Valid point.<br />
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So I sent out the typical "The corp is dead" mail to anyone who might have not figured it out yet. The team speak server is going down shortly and most people have yanked all their stuff.<br />
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Good news though most of the active members have joined other PVPwormhole groups, I'm happy to say that their KB histories weren't too damaged by our shinnagins and they aren't tainted forever.<br />
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So whats in Longinius Spear's future?<br />
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Well, I've got some semi ridiculous ideas floating around in my head. Not sure I'm down for more Wspace direct hunting at the moment. Wspace is going through a strange time, the transition to citadels isn't 'odd' to say the least. I'm 'not sure I like where its going over the current POS model, I might go into greater detail on that topic in a future post.<br />
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One of my ideas was provided by Urban Oxide. I should set up an alt in Hard Knocks Home hole and simply read from 50 shades of grey in local chat. Just some light reading in their local chat would add a certian flare.<br />
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Another idea I had was doing a bit of aggressive market manipulated trading in one of the minor trade hubs. (not Jita) I think there is room to work out some really hard core math. With my new found wealth, i'd have to fun wars or pos bashes or something. Maybe some ransoms. Be less of a puppet or agent of destruction, and more of a behind the scenes puppet master.<br />
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All of my ideas involve causing problems for everyone else, no idea why. Perhaps this is how I get virtual attention when no one reads this blog<br />
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EVE is the place for reinvention. Maybe I'll get lucky again (the way I got lucky with C13 backpacking) and inspire people to play EVE more. BTW.. that fucking C13 post is still getting a fk ton of hits, with the follow up mails to me in game asking about my fit/alternate ways of doing it.<br />
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I'm sure once I come across something fun, I'll share it with all of you. Here's to limitless ideas, fresh perspecitives and rebirths.Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-21301003623784112252016-07-27T10:43:00.001-07:002016-07-27T11:23:37.334-07:00Down The Pipe Ep. 62Hi everyone<br />
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<i>Don't get Snooty with me! --</i> Actor never seen again<br />
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<b>Friday:</b> I was pinged on slack with this message. <br />
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"We are being shot at!!!!"<br />
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The above picture is a fairly good size fleet bashing Abe Froman 1. Sadly because I'm an idiot and don't know how EVE time works, it was the middle of the afternoon for everyone, but Kildress.<br />
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Sigh..<br />
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O well, one more thing I need to sort out once this is over.<br />
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My goal for Abe Froman the citadel was for its timer to be set for friday night starting at around 8pm EST. This didn't happen.<br />
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By the time anyone got online, the 1st timer was triggered, starting a 24 hour timer to come out Saturday afternoon. 4pm EST. Not the best of times, but manageable. This gave us just enough time to work on hole control, and run some intel on why this attack was happening.<br />
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We figured out it was some Wspace pvpers and Null sec pvpers who seemed to specialize in ganks. Their Kills were all overwhelming numbers with almost no losses. Not the kind to sit around and brawl when the outcome was in question.<br />
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This lead us to believe that this was a one off attack for a group that was just knocking on our door, so to speak.<br />
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<b>Step 1. </b>See how many connections we had. We figured out, we had only the two statics, and the C2 static was Crit. The list of ships meant a lot of mass was put through one of the holes. Counting the battleships and their respective masses, we figured out the fleet must have gone back out the way they came. The other reason for a crit connection would be to reduce the chance we could get a batphone fleet in to help with defenders. But if this was the case, the C3 static would also be crit, which it wasn't.<br />
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Strange.<br />
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<b>Step 2</b>. Figure out if they had an invasion POS erected. After some quick warping around, we didn't find anything out of the ordinary. I guess the attackers liked hard mode. <br />
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<b>Step 3.</b> Get hole control.<br />
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During an invasion, it is absolutely essential you maintain hole control for the duration of the timer. Without it, the defenders could bring in more pilots, either in corp or out. If you can't bring in more defenders, you can't maintain the advantage.<br />
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I warp to the hole and check for a fleet. Nothing.<br />
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I better roll it. I warp my battleship to the hole and jump through. I see a stratios uncloak and tackle my torp typhoon. Well thats crazy, good thing I didn't use a rolling battleship for rolling! I put the Stratios into half armor and he fucks off.<br />
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Well 1 pass done!<br />
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The stat was from "Straight Outta Wormholes". I'm thinking, great, now we are fighting a coalition of peeps and these guys are the ones guarding the hole.<br />
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O well. get this shit on! We get some more battleships and random things to finish off the hole and fight them.<br />
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They explode us more.<br />
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Typhoon loss <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55122941/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/55122941/</a><br />
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Armageddon loss <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55123185/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/55123185/</a><br />
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Exequror loss <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55123157/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/55123157/</a><br />
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We lost some other random things but after fighting with them for a bit, and figure out they aren't here to support the invasion, they were just connected to us. Cool, we'll fight'em anyway!<br />
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After fighting those guys, we said good fight and local and rolled the hole. Waiting for hostile probes to launch. Nothing.<br />
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Well if they aren't going to maintain hole control, we sure as shit will.<br />
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We crit the holes. It was approaching late night for me, and the only person online was our AUZ TZ player, so he was left with the mission to watch for scouts and do what he could to keep them out while the corp slept.<br />
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I wake up, get some coffee and checked slack to see if our AUZ player had any issues. He had instructions to ping me (wake me up) if he needed assistance. Nothing, no action.<br />
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I logged in and took over my watch of the crit holes. I also, because the AUZ guy was but one man, rolled both holes to reset the EOL timers, and just incase a scout slipped by him in the night.<br />
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I found the new statics and crit them. This time though, I set up a cloaked battleship on one side of the crit hole. The reason for this was, if they left a scout in the hole, and wanted to bring in their fleet, they would need to scan out an entrance. The moment the scout jumped through the crit hole, the battle ship would uncloak and jump heavy back into our home, thus trapping out the hostile scout.<br />
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Repeat till all scouts are either trapped out or the timer is up.<br />
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Not my first rodeo.<br />
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About 4 hours before the first timer we saw our first set of probes. We had enough players on to see if the hostile scout. It was a tengu. The strange thing was, he dropped a mobile depot at a safe first. We instantly set to finding it with combats and then encapping it.<br />
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The Tengu which we guessed wasn't warp cloaked fit, seemed to just warp around from safe to safe, till he logged off. Very odd for an invasion scout, but whatever.<br />
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About 3 hours before the timer, an astero uncloaked in the hole and dropped probes. We waited for it to jump through our crit holes. Nothing, they just probed down a single hole and yanked probes. Weird.<br />
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About an hour before the timer we out, we realize we have another SIG connected to home. Please don't be a frig hole.. please don't be a frig hole... boom.. not a frig hole, but it was a dangerous Unknown. Scout jumps in, and says. multiple mining ships on scan, out of a force field.<br />
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An hour before the timer, and we have an abvious bait. happening connected to us. Now here's the problem with getting podded out with less than hour on a timer, we can't use those pilots for defense. <br />
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For fucks sake....<br />
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I do what any good leader who isn't fit for command would do.<br />
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I Scream "GLORY ME BROTHA!! WITNESS!!" JUMP JUMP JUMP!!<br />
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Scout gets a warp in, we send in the saber. Sabre lands and bubbles up.<br />
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Calls out many many more ships on D and landing.<br />
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Vindicator... Sviple... Sabre.. Loki.. Proteus.. Crow...<br />
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Guess what I decided to gank these miners with?<br />
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My solo Bhaalgorn !! Go big and stupid or go home!<br />
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Bhaalgorn loss <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55132988/" target="_blank">https://zkillboard.com/kill/55132988/</a><br />
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<br />I was not alone in my silliness.<br />
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Typhoon Loss <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55133023/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/55133023/</a><br />
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Typhoon Loss <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55133009/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/55133009/</a><br />
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Sabre Loss <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55132951/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/55132951/</a><b> </b><br />
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The reason we went for the bait with battleships was we wanted to put on as much mass on the hole as possible, in the event the newly connected group decided to 3rd party our invasion. <br />
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Yes, I did manage to welp our fleet on a random connecting force minutes before our citadel timer was coming out of reinforced. I'm that fucking pro! ... sigh.. kill me now. <br />
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When our fleet landed we knew we were fucked. we just went for shit that pointed or bubbled in a hope that we could possibly get our pods back to the citadel before the timer came out. We were successful in that one thing, destroying the hostile sabre, even our suicidal tackle sabre pilot who managed to bubble himself slow boated his pod out of his own bubble and made it to safety.<br />
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I screamed. "Quick roll the hole while they loot out wrecks!!"<br />
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We managed to get a bunch of rolling maulers through the hole and as we were crushing it. One guy of the baiting force says in local.<br />
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"Why's your citadel in-capped"<br />
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To which I answer<br />
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"You're guess is as good as mine"<br />
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And close the connection and hope to god they didn't seed a scout and are looking to come knocking or offer to work with the attackers.<br />
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During the time we waited for the timer, I had some strange conversations with the attackers. I figured since these people may not know who to ransom/threaten whatever, I would introduce myself, or at least be a point of contact.<br />
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I found one of the attacking corps public channels and decided to chat it up. :)<br />
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I'm Sir Lomax. <br />
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[ 2016.07.16 16:11:07 ] Sir Lomax > hi there :)<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:12:09 ] Traavemynde > \o<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:12:16 ] Sir Lomax > you guys recruiting?<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:13:24 ] Traavemynde > nope<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:14:15 ] Sir Lomax > Any idea when recruitment will be open?<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:14:42 ] Traavemynde > in 2-3 weeks<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:15:26 ] Sir Lomax > Are you guys a wormhole corp? Interested in buying one?<br />
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I figured I might be able to see if they wanted to buy the hole they helped invade. LOL.<br />
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<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:15:44 ] Traavemynde > kinda and nope<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:35:45 ] Sir Lomax > o/ xmaster<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:36:20 ] Traavemynde > \o xhamster<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:36:43 ] Amarr Shakaru > jan kannst du uns nen exit geben? :)<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:38:21 ] Sir Lomax > Ich bin auch der Suche nach einem Ausgang<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:38:45 ] Sir Lomax > rekrutieren ihr?<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:39:15 ] Amarr Shakaru > nein wir sind voll<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:39:31 ] Sir Lomax > :(<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:45:13 ] XMaster96 Xv3 > o/<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:45:15 ] XMaster96 Xv3 > ja<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:45:44 ] XMaster96 Xv3 > dann muss ich aber scanne, und es kann sein das ich ausgespert werde<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:46:57 ] Traavemynde > das Getriebe ist offensichtlich Bogeymen etwas?<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:48:07 ] Amarr Shakaru > keine hektik, BB is wieder off<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:48:12 ] Amarr Shakaru > verschieben wir auf morgen<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:48:19 ] XMaster96 Xv3 > ok<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:48:40 ] XMaster96 Xv3 > ich glaube die sind gerade noch sehr schreckhaft ^^<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:48:47 ] Amarr Shakaru > ja hehe<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:48:54 ] Amarr Shakaru > habt ihr die wenigstens erpresst?`<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:49:05 ] XMaster96 Xv3 > ne<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:49:24 ] Amarr Shakaru > ok<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:56:02 ] Sir Lomax > o/ Lord Periclitor<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:56:47 ] Lord Periclitor > hello fellow nerds and tom of germany<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:57:01 ] Traavemynde > \o LP<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:57:08 ] Amarr Shakaru > lol hi LP<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:57:11 ] Sir Lomax > LP is your corp recruiting?<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:57:55 ] Lord Periclitor > depends, you wanna get recruited?<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:58:12 ] Sir Lomax > Yep.<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:58:33 ] Lord Periclitor > why do we want you?<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:59:08 ] Sir Lomax > Well i'm a honest trustworthy guy, and I send flowers to my mother on mothers-day<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:59:26 ] Sir Lomax > two qualities that make for a great EVE player<br />[ 2016.07.16 16:59:54 ] Lord Periclitor > well, join our public chan and try poking recruiter<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:00:07 ] Sir Lomax > whats your public channel?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:00:32 ] Lord Periclitor > STRCU Public<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:02:32 ] Sir Lomax > Thanx !<br />
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They gave me another place to chat it up while we wait for the timer.<br />
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Random German gang, one of them said in German something about finding an exit. That could mean they are trying to get out of their home hole and form up with a fleet, or they are trying to evac from our hole.<br />
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I went to the next channel.<br />
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[ 2016.07.16 17:00:43 ] Sir Lomax > o/<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:01:19 ] Sir Lomax > Anogra poke<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:01:37 ] Sir Lomax > LP says you might be recruiting<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:05:19 ] Anogra > hey Sir Lomax<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:05:22 ] Anogra > how might i be of assistance?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:05:36 ] Sir Lomax > looking to hear more about recruitment.<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:07:58 ] Lord Periclitor > mi balls are itchy<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:08:20 ] Anogra > we are looking for pilots willing to live in wh's on a permanent basis and fly with us on the different fleets we do. Also pilots who are able to create some content on their own. we are not here to hold everyone's hand :D<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:08:33 ] Anogra > some info about us are in our recruitment add, in the forum post linked in the motd<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:08:34 ] Traavemynde > Lord Periclitor , i have told you several times to take a shower... Amarr has good one if you need...<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:08:41 ] Anogra > xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:08:45 ] Amarr Shakaru > lies<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:09:41 ] Anogra > quite now kids, papa is talking ;)<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:09:43 ] Lord Periclitor > i don't wanna shower with tom of Germany, I would feel slutty<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:10:26 ] Anogra > Sir Lomax anything not coverd there, feel free to ask<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:10:33 ] Traavemynde > just dont drop the soap<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:10:39 ] Anogra > my question to you, is why are you seaking to leave Semper Ubi Sub Ubi ?<br />
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[ 2016.07.16 17:11:09 ] Anogra > [17:10:39] Anogra > my question to you, is why are you seaking to leave Semper Ubi Sub Ubi ?<br />
[ 2016.07.16 17:15:30 ] Anogra > [17:08:20] Anogra > we are looking for pilots willing to live in wh's on a permanent basis and fly with us on the different fleets we do. Also pilots who are able to create some content on their own. we are not here to hold everyones hand :D<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:15:33 ] Anogra > [17:08:33] Anogra > some info about us are in our recruitment add, in the forum post linked in the motd<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:15:39 ] Anogra > [17:10:25] Anogra > Sir Lomax anything not coverd there, feel free to ask<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:15:42 ] Anogra > [17:10:39] Anogra > my question to you, is why are you seaking to leave Semper Ubi Sub Ubi ?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:15:50 ] Anogra > that covers it till now i belive<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:15:58 ] Sir Lomax > lol ya,<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:16:27 ] Sir Lomax > You guys seem to have your stuff together<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:16:45 ] Sir Lomax > was looking around and saw you guys did ops, thought I would put out a feeler<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:18:24 ] Sir Lomax > what kind of wormhole are you looking to live in 'on a perment basis'?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:19:10 ] Anogra > we are currently residing in a C3 while members accumelate skills and some isk. our next step up would be a C4 while people skill into the next tier doctrine and stock up on it<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:19:38 ] Anogra > due to we accept people of any skill level there are people with low skills that takes time to get into our doctrines<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:19:57 ] Anogra > and ofc, its summer and alot of people are prioritizing RL (as we encurage them)<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:20:06 ] Anogra > so no large change untill summer is over atleast<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:20:27 ] Sir Lomax > yea, i kno whow that is, summer people don't log in as much. Too much outside time<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:21:27 ] Anogra > its not a worry. they come back after summer, and if everything catches fire, they will come as well :D<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:21:49 ] Anogra > even i have alot less online time during summer even though i am working this summer, simply coz alot of rl stuff needed to be done<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:22:08 ] Sir Lomax > are you all german?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:22:18 ] Sir Lomax > Any USTZ people, thats my primary time<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:22:31 ] Anogra > we got...ehm.. 0 germans atm xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:23:13 ] Sir Lomax > SCAN one of the pubs I jumped into had people speaking German is why i asked<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:23:14 ] Anogra > we have a couple of USTZ, though our primary and strongest tz is by far our eu<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:23:26 ] Anogra > simply because we havent gotten hands on anyone willing to build a ustz<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:27:19 ] Sir Lomax > Well i commend you on your efforts in this C4. Nothing more fun than rattling a cage :)<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:27:43 ] Anogra > always fun :D<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:28:48 ] Anogra > c4s are great for farming statics for pvp and pve :D<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:29:04 ] Sir Lomax > yep.<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:29:32 ] Anogra > i noticed ur current corp lives in one of those great ones<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:29:39 ] Anogra > C3/2 statics<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:29:56 ] Sir Lomax > yep<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:30:02 ] Anogra > short way for supplies, and easy to roll for better chains for pvp and c3 easy farm<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:30:39 ] Sir Lomax > we don't much farm anymore<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:30:48 ] Anogra > what makes u want to leave ur current corp? they seem fairly active and live in a nice wh<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:31:23 ] Sir Lomax > would save me a trip if you evict them :)<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:31:36 ] Anogra > even decent planets for PI those into that<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:31:44 ] Anogra > those elusive storm planets<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:31:52 ] Sir Lomax > lol the PI is trash in here<br /><b>[ 2016.07.16 17:31:56 ] Anogra > sounds like you are unhappy with ur current corp. why?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:32:12 ] Sir Lomax > I'm not unhappy. Just don't want to move my stuff<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:33:20 ] Anogra > -_-<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:33:33 ] Sir Lomax > if overall lazyness isn't a good reason to switch, i'm not sure what is<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:34:10 ] Anogra > haha, but thats only if we actually evict :P<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:34:26 ] Sir Lomax > you did evict those in that c1 or was that just an offline pos<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:34:54 ] Anogra > target of opportunity<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:34:56 ] Anogra > :D</b><br />[ 2016.07.16 17:35:14 ] Anogra > we evict if someone pisses us off, or if they have something we want<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:35:30 ] Sir Lomax > Thats a fair reason on both ends<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:35:40 ] Anogra > a lowsec small corp pissed us off by reffing some pocos. we replied with killing their alts tower in lowsec abit later with a small cap group<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:35:53 ] Anogra > but we dont evict for "fun" or "content"<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:36:20 ] Sir Lomax > I think only Wspan does that, and not really much anymore<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:36:54 ] Anogra > they tried to blackmail us not long after we moved in. "pay us 200m/month or we will evict you"<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:37:08 ] Sir Lomax > yea, thats one of their things<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:37:17 ] Sir Lomax > you would be amazed how many people just pay<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:37:24 ] Anogra > we laughed, killed and podded their scout and rolled the static xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:38:00 ] Sir Lomax > they do have a good shstick though, carpet all the holes, ransom everyone they meet.<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:38:35 ] Anogra > ye. but they aint really dangerous as they dont field proper fleets<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:38:36 ] Sir Lomax > thier trip wire network is boss though, they have people mapping chains not even in their holes, giving intel to everyone<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:38:51 ] Anogra > they try to "blob" in lesser ships and hope the ones they fight dont know how to use guardians xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:39:18 ] Anogra > anyways. i digress xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:39:29 ] Anogra > we are recruiting. no SP requierment or mandatory fleets<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:39:35 ] Anogra > people are asked to prio RL>game<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:39:42 ] Sir Lomax > makes sense<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:39:53 ] Anogra > but when they are online and something is up, we expect people to preform their best, whatever that is<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:40:14 ] Sir Lomax > when you say best, do you mean best ship? thats alway a point of contention fo rme<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:40:44 ] Sir Lomax > like i fly stuff because I prefer quanitty vs quality<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:40:56 ] Anogra > we happily share fits and experience and knowlage and expect members to share theirs as well with newbies. We have a code of conduct which prohibit members from scamming, ganking in highsec or other types of griefing<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:18 ] Anogra > preform their best = fly the best they can according to the doctrine/shiptype asked for<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:19 ] Sir Lomax > code of conduct? in EVE? thats a thing?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:27 ] Sir Lomax > ahh<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:33 ] Anogra > we do have a higher moral expectation of people<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:43 ] Anogra > then most of eve<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:47 ] Anogra > mostly, just dont be a douchbag<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:50 ] Anogra > xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:53 ] Sir Lomax > lol fiar enough<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:41:54 ] Sir Lomax > haha<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:42:15 ] Anogra > when it comes to preforming. if we fly our BS doctrine, dont bring a frig unless the FC asks for it<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:42:28 ] Sir Lomax > ahh<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:42:59 ] Anogra > in random cruiser fleets most fits are welcome, though we do have some fits saved for our main armor fleets<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:43:20 ] Anogra > but logi fits are set in stone. no other fits are allowed or welcome without an FCs expressed consent<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:43:41 ] Sir Lomax > sure, some random shield logi in a bunch of armor would be nuts<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:43:54 ] Anogra > we also roll with that everyone skills into guardians so we always have logis, and can rotate who flies logi depending on how many we need<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:44:11 ] Anogra > our pve fleet is shield, and primarly consist of drakes + osprey<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:44:16 ] Anogra > cheap and efficent xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:44:20 ] Sir Lomax > totally<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:46:17 ] Anogra > we have some special rules when it comes to sites in our own wh. sleeper sites (anom, data and relic) are off limits apart from on our harvest ops<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:46:26 ] Anogra > ore/gas and nullsec data/relics are free for all<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:46:28 ] Sir Lomax > off limits?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:46:41 ] Anogra > but in any other wh, all sites are free for all<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:46:51 ] Anogra > meaning, no one is allowed to do them outside the corp op<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:47:04 ] Sir Lomax > o are the corp ops scheduled ?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:47:27 ] Anogra > same time and day each week<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:47:35 ] Anogra > so its predictable<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:47:46 ] Anogra > not a random ping "we do harve st now, durr durr"<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:47:47 ] Anogra > xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:48:24 ] Anogra > we also run a buyup program in the wh, buying anything people harvest from sites, ore, gas, relic, data, pi<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:48:30 ] Anogra > corp buys everything<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:49:08 ] Anogra > harvest ops are done on the same principle as the buyup. we have a spreadsheet where we put in when people join the fleet<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:49:15 ] Anogra > or when people leave<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:49:32 ] Sir Lomax > really, thats very similar to what sleeper social club used to do<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:49:32 ] Anogra > once fleet is over, stuff is piled and i pay everyone according to how long they have participated<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:50:20 ] Sir Lomax > you do that in a c3? I've only heard of that in like a c5 or higher<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:50:29 ] Anogra > corp takes 20% tax on buyup, rest is devided amongst people in fleet. its 1 share per warm body in fleet. adding alts will make it faster /more isk/h for everyone) but will not entitle said person to more then 1 share<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:50:45 ] Anogra > we buildt our system to be applicable anywhere we live<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:50:55 ] Anogra > so people are used to the system once we move to a higher class<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:51:05 ] Anogra > then there isent a new system in addition to a new wh and such<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:52:15 ] Sir Lomax > ahhh<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:55:03 ] Anogra > any questionas?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:55:47 ] Sir Lomax > Not sure you would answer it honestly<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:55:53 ] Anogra > :)<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:55:57 ] Sir Lomax > lol<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:56:14 ] Anogra > give it a shot<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:56:21 ] Sir Lomax > Do you know who my main is?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:56:26 ] Anogra > wcs i wont give an answer:)<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:57:06 ] Anogra > that is indeed an interesting question<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:57:22 ] Anogra > although the name seem familiar, i cant say anything pops up<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:57:54 ] Sir Lomax > So thats a no?<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:58:14 ] Anogra > kyllä<br />[ 2016.07.16 17:59:58 ] Sir Lomax > no, and I don't think you can make the umlou in EVE names in this game<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:00:17 ] Sir Lomax > is that how its spelled "Umlow"? the little dots above german letters<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:00:24 ] Sir Lomax > oomlou?<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:00:31 ] Anogra > its finnish actually<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:00:39 ] Anogra > the one i used<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:00:52 ] Anogra > kyllä = yes<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:01:02 ] Anogra > u could also use "joo" or "niin"<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:03:32 ] Sir Lomax > I'm learning a bunch of linguistic stuff from this conversation<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:03:44 ] Anogra > finnish is a messed up language<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:03:48 ] Anogra > i moved here about a month ago xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:04:59 ] Sir Lomax > From where?<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:05:07 ] Sir Lomax > you moved to Finland from?<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:05:23 ] Anogra > norway<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:05:58 ] Anogra > still not a german :P<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:06:15 ] Anogra > what made u belive we were primarly german? we'v been called russian twice, though we only have 1 russian with us xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:06:36 ] Sir Lomax > Google translate detected german<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:07:00 ] Anogra > google translate should stop hogging and share, coz its high as fuck xD<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:10:22 ] Sir Lomax > What I'm trying to figure out is how are SCAN, STRCU and your corp all linked, you say you're a c3 corp, but you're working together with epople in complicated histories<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:10:55 ] Sir Lomax > A bunch of you are from hole control, but now you're all kinda doing your own thing<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:12:28 ] Anogra > friends knows no boarders<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:12:30 ] Anogra > :D<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:12:47 ] Sir Lomax > yep. :D<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:48:07 ] Anogra > misses has movie and sweets ready. time to bail :D<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:48:09 ] Anogra > *wave<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:48:16 ] Sir Lomax > o/<br />[ 2016.07.16 18:48:25 ] Sir Lomax > GL with the misses'<br />
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This ended shortly before the timer was coming out. Anogra was part of the orginal invasion group, but was logging off to do whatever with his sweets.<br />
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About 15 players logged in and prepared for the final timer, which came and went, without any pressure from the attacking group. I guess we weren't a good target of opportunity at this point. <br />
<br /> Don't fuck with the sausage king of Chicago. <br />
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Crazy, but after all this I could still go and join a wormhole corp :) <br />
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Special thanks to FOFO from HK for messaging me 4 days after the fact if we needed some help. :P Better late than never right?! haha<br />
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-25384119729548328782016-06-27T08:16:00.000-07:002016-06-27T08:16:03.671-07:00New Down The Pipe Ep. 61Hi everyone,<br />
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Sorry for the late post/podcast. Bronya and I have been total slackers, but we have a new podcast for you. Its just us talking about things and catching up.<br />
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We tell stories, talk about new things, try and recruit people into Wspace PVP.<br />
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Enjoy<br />
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<a href="http://downthepipe-wh.com/episodes/2016/6/27/episode-61" target="_blank">http://downthepipe-wh.com/episodes/2016/6/27/episode-61 </a><br />
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The intro music (my favorite part) is from Fever The Ghost - Source. I added it to the DTP intro music play list. Crazy video but great song. <br />
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Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-18529737434424277072016-05-10T12:09:00.001-07:002016-05-10T12:09:10.181-07:00New Down The Pipe Ep. 60I'm going to start promoting my connection to Down the Pipe on this blog, because why not?<br />
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Short post that a new down the pipe is out, special guest Noobman from HK.<br />
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<a href="http://downthepipe-wh.com/episodes/2016/5/10/episode-60">http://downthepipe-wh.com/episodes/2016/5/10/episode-60</a>Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-88097257389341761642016-05-07T11:28:00.003-07:002016-05-10T12:07:47.723-07:00Citadels and the human elementHello space friends,<br />
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Citadels were released a week ago or so and we already have one up in our home.<br />
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The "Abe Froman". The sausage king of Chicago. I weep for future generation that doesn't know that reference. I named it this for two reasons. One, I thought it would be funny and two, Farris Bueller says very clearly to the camera when confronted by his friends in the movie, "you can never go too far". I always thought that was slightly profound and a play style dream for me. <br />
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One thing I've noticed from a small wormhole corp CEO's perspective, I've lost some control. You might think, so what, isn't less management responsibilities better? Yes and no, here's a scenario that we may see more in the future.<br />
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In our corp we have about 400 million worth random T1 cruisers, frigs, destroyers and haulers for everyone's use. These are ships with the primary reason for existence being, to be destroyed in PVP glory. Prior to the citadel release we had these ships sitting in a corp pub SMA for all in corp to use. Now, they're in the citadel.<br />
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Here lies the issue.<br />
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As we slowly trundle toward the eventuality of POS's being removed and everyone owning citadels we must begin to embrace the citadel way of life. So lets play like that POS is gone and I want to continue loaning out ships and equipment using a shared Corp hanger system.<br />
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What happens if I or any corp gets a bad egg? Someone with mayhem on their mind. Not just an infiltrator but a person not so different than myself that just wants to see the world burn.<br />
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There are two scenarios that I've thought about.<br />
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1. The New Recruit -- This person joins the corp with a citadel and shared hanger with the give no fucks attitude. Day one, he scoops all the shared hanger stuff and places them in his personal hanger. He doesn't tell anyone hes done it, and no one really knows he's done it since there isn't a record that I can find at this time.<br />
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Now that new recruit can't move the stuff because most of the time he can't fly half the stuff in there, but he's just doing it to troll the people who live there.<br />
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The question goes out, "Where is all the public stuff?" Silence. No one knows. No one saw it happen because its a small corp and not everyone pays attention to this. Fingers point, people say "Meh didn't want that shit anyway". Life goes on.<br />
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Then a little bit later as people go back to using the pub hanger, he does it again.<br />
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More fingers point, more "didn't want it anyway", the CEO eventually admits that "This is why we can't have nice things". Pub hangers go away.<br />
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What happens to all the stuff that one guy scooped and stuffed into his personal hanger in the citadel? He could eventually move it out, but odds are this guy is just looking to troll folks or he may be been suspected and then purged.<br />
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The stuff remains.<br />
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What I'm wondering is, as these citadels live on and are slated to not be deconstructed but be transferred, the items remain inside of them. The older the citadel, the more things that could be inside of them as the greater the chance people leaving the game, not moving things out, or this very same citadel trolling occurs.<br />
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Since the citadel owner/CEO never truly knows whats inside of it, and decommissioning one in a wormhole would thus destroy its forgotten contents anyway. Why not just blow it up yourself to get the forgotten goodies inside.<br />
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<b>**EDIT!!** Noobman from HK informed me that by decommissioning the citadel, it drops all the space goodies in lots and lots of cans.. Putting this in after the fact... Thnx Noobman! </b><br />
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This moves me to part 2.<br />
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2. The Reverse Safari CEO. A CEO who doesn't know whats inside, but suspects a great deal of things are inside, destroys it himself.<br />
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This can be done by a rogue CEO simply removing all corp roles to a citadel at the worst possible moment.<br />
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Now the debunked, leaderless corp simply needs to form a bash fleet to get maybe half of their combined stuff out? When it does drop, its going to be in a huge pile of different peoples things spread out, some won't drop because of normal loot farie mechanics, but how would you divide that up?<br />
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You might be saying that, all that stuff could happen in POS's, but here's the difference. In a tower, you can see the modules holding your things. There is also a finite amount of space in each of those modules, which means all yes, you could do the same thing over multiple towers, but when your targets are spread out all over the place, risk is mitigated to an extent, simply from a theft logistics point of view. Also, FUEL, before you could siege a tower to the point where getting more fuel in the hole is an issue. A citadel is there holding all your things no matter if its fueled or not. This giant brick, holding all your stuff, that will be there forever, or until you gather up your forces for the promise of maybe half your stuff. Because your half, might not be the half that drops.<br />
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I'm not pointing out that I'm going to do any of these things, but after living in a wormholes for almost 5 years now, you tend to get a little paranoid. The "what ifs" become more actual threats that need to be addressed, because lets be real, this is EVE.<br />
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<i>The question isn't "what are we going to do," the question is "what aren't we going to do?" </i><br />
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<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-33385849571014714402016-04-12T07:02:00.001-07:002016-04-12T07:18:35.924-07:00An apology to POS PartyCharlie,<br />
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Sir Lomax is my alt and I called you a liar.<br />
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In hind sight, that was a mistake and I apologize for it. I'm not without my faults and I'm doing my best to be a better person but the moment overcame me. <br />
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Please accept my apology, it was the salt talking. <br />
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I'll give you a quick understanding of my perception of events. You opened into us and I baited with a ECM armor drake. A convo opened up asking if we wanted a 3v3, we figured you would just bring a winning set up and we would just lose anyway, so we decided against that. During that convo, you said you had 5 live humans online, we had 3. You guys came and bit the bait with multiple Gila, so we left. Since Gila blobs are the universal symbol no fun will be had here, we figured we would roll.<br />
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I thought it would be fun to crash a hole with every battleship we owned, for the giggles. The blob landed, then they systematically hunted us down with 0 fun allowed fleets. <br />
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We later try and roll the hole again, and we are blobbed again. Later, after getting my pods back into the hole I bring 2 tech 1 ships, I get blobbed again. Over and over and over we were blobbed. You keep the hole from being rolled to essentially farm us with 5v1 fights, (which is a blast btw, thank you for that). <br />
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See even after you killed us over and over and over again, thats not the issue in my mind or what makes me salty. <br />
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My salt comes from my own actions and expectations that you would play the way WE (SUSU) wanted you to. That wasn't fair of us, it wasn't fair of me to hold you to a standard you weren't aware of or agreed to.<br />
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Our play style was in conflict with your play style and I was holding you to a different standard that you weren't aware of and thats not fair.<br />
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Please accept my dearest apologies for my heated words, it was a mistake and I'm sorry. <br />
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unsure of subject<br />
From: CHarlie Andrard<br />
Sent: 2016.04.12 07:37<br />
To: Longinius Spear, <br />
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<i>Somethings been bothring me since our contact earlier so i just feel the need to throw this out there. I felt there was some hard feelings after we engaged your rollling ships, not because shit blew up because we all enjoy that, but because I was called a liar. I told you we had 5 people online and that was the truth. we had 2 more log in due to a ping that said "lol rolling ships trapped in our home, Come catch them." there were a few of us dual boxing as well, which still only leaves 7 warm bodies at their desks. I tried to talk to Sir Lomax who called me on it but he blocked me. I dont like people thinking we baited them into a blob since we held back people on the first engagement. I dont need a reply per se, but would appreciate it if you would forward the message. hope to shoot each other again sometime.</i><br />
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Gratz on your kills POS Party. <br />
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<a href="https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33320530"><b>https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33320530 </b></a><br />
<a href="https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33320529"><b>https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33320529</b></a><br />
<a href="https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33320476" target="_blank"><b>https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33320476 </b></a><br />
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<b><a href="https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33319674" target="_blank">https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33319674 </a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33318878">https://underwear.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=33318878</a></b><br />
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PS: I did find it tremendously funny when I jumped on your coms after the hole was rolled (again) and asked the 15 people on coms, to please stop podding, because they are just empty clones. It just makes me have to jump 10+ just to get back in the hole and reship.<br />
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They responded with. "No, I have a quota". That did make me giggle a little.<br />
<br />Longinius Spearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04534079344148099779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6528606678112249532.post-27489876814207055092016-04-02T13:32:00.004-07:002016-04-02T13:42:03.428-07:00Three unrelated real stories of recent SUSU shenanigans<b>Story 1 --I'm a screw up </b><br />
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Nef pipes up in coms, "I have a Hicate with me on High Sec B and I just jumped in with my mammoth". We all ask if there is anything else on D and he says no. Everyone in corp immediately stops what they were doing and jumps into combat ships so they can assist.<br />
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Now Nef is an old hand when it comes to wormholes and he does exactly what you should do in this situation. Remain calm, answer questions and most of all hold your cloak as long as possible.<br />
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He instantly starts verbally kicking himself that he took the point off his hauling ship. This is what makes me laugh the most about our members, he isn't at all fearful of losing his ship or his cargo, he just wants to see others blow up.<br />
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We get some other corp mates who start heading his way. One in an astero and I think tard in his strat. We have more than enough to deal with the lone Hicate. I think though we were all content not engaging as quickly as we could, because we simply wanted more hostile ships to join in. Sorry Nef your ship and cargo is just impromptu bait for us. :P<br />
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Nef says that he is holding off on his shield rep cycle for us to show up. He doesn't want to make the hicate feel totally ineffective, so he is essentially 'bait tanking' in his hauling ship. He reassures us over coms that this guy isn't doing piss all dps and he could tank the dude for hours if he had to.<br />
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I ship into a bifrost. I've played high sec games before and jumping ships off their only escape is key to winning the high hole nonsense. Remember, any ship can jump out of the hole to safety, at any time if they are within 5k of the hole. We are going to have none of that!<br />
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I'm listening to coms and I hear the astero say he has point on the ship, but no one has a web. He will be getting away for sure if I don't come in and save the day.<br />
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I jump into the C2 that has the high sec connection and warp directly to our Mammoth. Two reasons; if during the warp more ships appear, getting the bait out of there with a MJD would be important and because the hicate I'm sure is still staying with his target, making it possible to MJD the hicata away from his High sec freedom. <br />
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I notify my corpies that I'm going to jump him off, "Is he scrammed?" they answer "Yes". Ugg.. I say what must have been 4 times. "Scram off!<br />
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I land, I see the hicate is 4k from me. I activate the micro jump drive field generator. It begins to spool up. I'm screaming scram off, scram off.... for the love of god... "WHOOSHH! ... The hicate stays put and the rescue fleet is launched 100k in a random direction.<br />
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"Be free little hicate.... !!"<br />
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The previously doomed hicate politely jumps to freedom to high sec. There is total silence in voice coms. I say... in a calm voice knowing I just totally hozed that. "god damn it."<br />
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"O well, my work here is done".<br />
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The tackling pilots explain later to me that he was in deep hull. ... Sigh.. <br />
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<b>Story 2 -Buzzard Auction</b><br />
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Vecii tells me in coms "There are Tech 1 probes in the C2a". I'm not really doing anything with all my characters I have logged in, so I figure I'd give an assist with trying to grab a scout kill. I move my sabre to the c2a.<br />
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Now what you should do in this situation is wait for an activation on the hole. I wasn't really paying attention and I ended up jumping into the hole with my sabre. This was a mistake. The main reason is, if you are hunting in a hole, any ship sign, ANY, can scare a potential target. As a professional wormhole hunter I should have known better.<br />
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I immediately apologize over coms to Vecii for my fuck up. Lucky for me the sabre has a cloak. I quickly get off the hole and cloak up.<br />
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We don't think the scout saw me so we wait to see what shows up on D scan. The only thing that was on scan this entire time was a single fly catcher in a force field. Since Vecii already scanned down the system, the first thing he checked was the POS to see if the fly catcher was piloted. It wasn't.<br />
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Eventually a buzzard appears on Dscan and drops tech 1 combat probes. That's weird we both said, is it looking for us? Nope, we figure out that it seems to be checking where the fly catcher is. After the pilot gets the fly catcher down to less than .25 AU, he pulls his combat probes and ejects from his ship.<br />
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His pod name matched his ship name. "Did he just eject from his ship? Did we not find out if that fly catcher was in the Force field or not?" Vecii assured me, its definitely in the Force field by warping to the tower and watching the pod of the scout bump against the force field.<br />
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For some reason, that we have yet to figure out, the pod warps from the force field directly on to the C4 connection that my sabre is sitting cloaked on. I bubble up and kill him.<br />
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We do a quick Dscan and figure out the now dead scouts buzzard is 100k off the high sec wormhole connection that we already had scanned down.<br />
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Vecii jumps an alt into the hole and warps to the buzzard. Then jumps into the buzzard.<br />
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Free buzzard!<br />
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This is really where the story should end, but wspace is weird.<br />
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The previous buzzard owner asks in local if we took his buzzard, which we reply "What buzzard?"<br />
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Then he explains to us in local that he disconnected, which some how ejected him from his buzzard and made him warp away to another wormhole. I've not heard of this bug before, but I guess anything is possible right?<br />
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He tells us in local, that he would like the buzzard back. Well we can't give it back without a finders fee am I right? So we figure 35 million (the price of the hull and mods) is a good place to start. The wayward pilot agrees. We invite him to fleet and ask him to warp to us. Now, I don't know if he expected us to give him the buzzard and then wait for him to pay us or not, but we sit around waiting for payment that never comes. <br />
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Around this time, Tard logs in and joins fleet. He asks in fleet, whats going on? Is someone selling a buzzard?<br />
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We answer yea, we are having an auction for it starting at 35 million. He says 'Sweet, I need a buzzard. Now for the record, Tard is on coms with us and knows fully well whats happening, but decides to play along and says "Can you link the fit?" So we link the fit in fleet with the previous buzzard owner there. He says "I bid 35m".<br />
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The previous buzzard owner now realizing that hes in a bidding war, bids 36m. Tard mullls over the new cost of the buzzard and bids 37m. This goes back and forth for a bit till Tard gets bored and says "Fine you can have it".<br />
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The previous buzzard owner seemed happy to have won and sends Vecii the money. We then give the buzzard back to the owner.<br />
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I guess he wasn't happy with buying back his own ship till he bid on it for a bit with someone of the same corp, that just stole it.<br />
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<b>Story 3. -- Someone killed the teacher. </b><br />
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Our scout pipes up on coms "I have... uhh.. about 10 ventures, some t1 scanning ships and a strat out in space in this c2, no force field".<br />
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I was like "whut?" He repeats it, and I said "Wtf are they doing out there?!" Scout says "I don't know but lets kill them!"<br />
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I say, "Well duh, of course".<br />
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The scout drops combats, quickly probes down the giant blob of random ships, yanks probes and gets on grid.<br />
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The scout says "These are from all different corps and doing what I think is a relic site?!!" I question him again. "In ventures, what the fuck?!" Since there is only 2 actual humans in corp I dual box an oracle and hecate. <br />
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In all honestly I didn't know what to expect, would they all ship up to save the strat? Would they try and fight us with ventures? No idea. I just knew that shooting them was the most effective way of saying Hi.<br />
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The scout gets point on the strat and I warp my DPS and tackle in.<br />
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All the little ships could have just killed us instead they just ran in all different directions. Some even warped back onto grid with the tackled strat. The tackled strat launced ECM300 drones so we didn't want to lose him, we doubled up the points on him. He never really put up a fight, and neither did the 20 some ships that warped away. <br />
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It was only after the ship exploded that I bothered to read local.<br />
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It said this, "Hi, We are conducting a class for 'March of the newbros', please don't shoot us".<br />
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I responded with "Well did you teach them that wormhole space is dangerous?"<br />
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There is a special place in my heart for people who take time out of their days to teach new people, so instantly I regret blowing up the teachers space ship.<br />
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A private convo opens up with me from Emmaline Fera, which I guess I figure out after the fact is the CEO of POS party's alt, the corp I just left. (no bad blood, just wasn't for me). The weird thing is, she didn't annouce herself as that, just that she knew who I was and if i could come on voice coms and give some tips to the newbies. I was like sure, why not.<br />
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They gave me the recording, before you listen to it and hear me laughing like a crazy person when I jump on coms with them. Just know I have an entirely different perception of the events than they did.<br />
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See the way I looked at it, I was just doing what I do and they may have expected random pvp to occur. That's not at all how Tovanas viewed it. This guy, even after I refunded the cost of his ship I exploded was a bit salty about the exchange. He's one of those types of pilots that even if you bought him a ship, fit the ship for him, then flew to him in an identical ship which blows him up... he would still view it as losing something. I'm not sure what, because you bought him the ship and he isn't really losing something... it still makes him salty that he was a part of it at all. Weird right? Ok.. back to the story.. just thought it was interesting.<br />
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The vibe when I jumped on coms was of glee and excitement. Happy that something exploded, happier still that it was something I didn't own!<br />
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Had I known I had just essentially boarded a school bus, grabbed the teacher and slit his throat in the corner. All the students forced to watch and listen in terror before they are forced to leap out the bus windows.<br />
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I may have done things differently.<br />
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Like bring two oracles, ungrouped my guns, essentially jumping on the school bus with two chainsaw arms and cartwheeling my way to Vallhala!!! WHITENESS MEE!!<br />
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MUAHAHA<br />
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The recording and target coms here. The SUSU scout tackles them around 1:37:00, so unless you want to learn something about scanning/wspace and what not. start listening there. <br />
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<a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/582063/MoN_Wormholes101_032716.wav" target="_blank"> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/582063/MoN_Wormholes101_032716.wav</a><br />
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You can hear how totally out of place my giggling is based on the mood of that room. Whupse! Ahh O well, it'll grow hair on their little newbie chests to meet crazy people.<br />
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You're welcome. <br />
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Chainsaw hands.. and D cups of Justice!<br />
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