Pod FLuid

01.8

I worked an opening shift at the restaurant today and then had to rush in order to make the economics class I had in the afternoon. Everything was sorted in time, and afterwards my girlfriend even sent me a text asking if I wanted to come over to eat the leftover bourguignon (I taught her how to make it on her birthday). A short negotiation later and we'd decided that it'd be an evening of beer, and steak subs swimming in bourguignon sauce and jalapeño cheese. I left around 8 with my belly full and a mind to get some EVE played.

When I got home, gave my dog a hello and got the computer running; I had about 40 minutes to go before the next CTA went out. I should have gotten my Maelstrom sorted out (the hull's been sitting without a fitting for a few days now) but I couldn't get someone to light the cyno chain and guarantee that they could light it on the return trip too. So rather than sort that out, I spun my ship and headed out forty minutes later.

We fought a Sys-k fleet that was trying to incapacitate. a Stain Empire POS in Tpar (aren't they supposed to be deployed north helping out with fountain?)

http://killboard.sys-chaos.net/?a=kill_related&adjacent&kll_id=93858

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=8750632

http://a-kills.com/?a=kill_related&adjacent&kll_id=437649

Pro work on the part of the blue dictors. We managed to pin them down for long enough that our main fleet landed and we got a nice even spread of points. Sys-k people who buggered when we landed either got called back in, or else grew a pair and decided not to let their friends die (alone). Several pilots even came back in small ships once they got popped (those I beleaguered by deploying a light set of amarr drones on; I've started carrying them to work against the shield heavy fleets you see allot in blob engagements now). Kudos to all the red pilots who came back for more and to try and help their drowning mates. Got me on almost thirty kills for a half hours work; plus we killed the Ihub. Taking the system proper ought to happen sometime tomorrow.


On the other side of the spectrum, are the people who came to 'help' with fits that only end up insulting everybody involved. Here's a variation of the IT alliance Shield tank apoc; I think I will call it the Sys-k Dual Tank Apoc.


http://killboard.sys-chaos.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=93951


And theres this dude who runs a Neut Buffer Mega with medium guns;


 http://www.a-kills.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=437608 


You've gotta assume that this is a recurring problem when one of the figureheads in your alliance has to spare a mid slot for a ship scanner.

http://www.a-kills.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=437655

On a related but random note; did anyone else get a chance to listen to the leaked sys-k meeting? I almost threw up in my mouth when their 'leaders' muted everyone on comms, called them fagots and then told them that it 'only takes about 36 bombs to kill a carrier'. (For those not familiar with bombs, any more than seven or so, and they blow each other up rendering all the subsequent ones useless and dead to the blast of the first volley).

Now, I've no problem with someone whose got a low level of experience stepping up and trying to get things done (this is eve after all, not a medical practice). But for the love of fucking god;

1. Show some respect for the people you're supposed to be leading
2. Don't make an ass of yourself by trying to talk about shit you don't get

 Ideally, apply a generous combination of choices 1 and 2.

The fact that Sys-k leadership suggested that -A- get 'bored in a week' only exacerbated my resolve. Did they not pay attention to who helped them get rid of the goons when they invaded Esoteria? Where they drunk when -A- purged providence? Have they not been paying attention to our four month long campaign against Initiative?  Makes me wanna go invade Period Basis or something. ;)

01.4

One more early wake up and one more cheetah fast cta! If getting to be a few hours early and waking up just a little bit later means im going to get on carrier kills 5+ times a week then I may have to start making a habit of it.

I logged in and saw the cta  announcement is alliance. Jumped on TS just in time to hear that the titan bridge would be in one minute, so rather than waste time thinking about what to bring (I just fitted out a Curse and a Scorpion) I made a leap of faith and got inside one of my drakes.

Landed on the titan just in time to watch a Machariel bump into it hard and earn me an extension. Time enough to reload guns, put myself into the empty squad lead position for boosts and pop a booster.

On jump in we got to watch one carrier gobble a doomsday, two carrier wrecks get pirhannad and one start to melt under Titan guns and a swarm of -A-fricanized Drakes. 

One the initiative gang tucked themselves back into the pos (I'm going to assume that they've changed their passwords since last time) we all went to the TCU to reinforce it for good measure. 

With supers titans and the support fleet present, this all happened in under ten minutes. Null sec has become a game of chess where the idea is to swap as many of your pawns for queens as you can, and today's fifteen minute gank'n'reinforce CTA is exactly why.

Maybe when I get a bit more comfortable with blogging eve I will introduce GO analogies to you all. Till then; take a look at the wikipedia page on 'go game'.

01.3

Logged in to jump some spare ships between corps NPC null HQ and -A- staging system today and decided to hang around rather than logski fast. (Generally, if I have to goto work, I rather log off than sit in corp chat and log when a CTA is due. My timezone sucks that way, and I don't wanna give the appearance of not pulling my weight just cause I gotta goto work). Today was different, CTA was due in about four hours (getting up early ftw) and I felt that I could hang out and shoot the shit for two then log without looking like I was ducking CTA's.

15 minutes in, Emergency CTA...

Now, if I sound better please reconsider! I don't want to avoid CTA's, I just dont wanna get dragged out to hostile systems for 4 hours when I have to get to work in two. Emergency CTA, with plenty of time to just sit in front of my computer and take part is a welcome change for me! I was glad to be able to pull some weight before heading off to work.

Call was for scimies, drakes, supers and titans. Then fc mentioned that he needed 5 more dictors. AWESOME. I just trained dictors, and I'd even got one laying around insured (it was very cheap, and I intended to fly it extra stupid).

Form up on the titan, bridge to location, and over comms I hear some Russian followed by "Password is *****, dictors bubble on bridge in". Land on grid with a pos, three Initiative carriers inside, and several -A- titans/supers sitting outside tanking the pos guns. Next fifteen minutes spent bumping the carriers out of the POS, taking one or two pot shots and bubbling once they're out (gotta whore in a small fast ship), and going back in to get the next one out. IN the end, we killed all three; though it took a bit of time. Some friendly drake pilots were orbiting the carriers and deflecting smaller faster ships bumps away from the carriers right as we got within range.

Got myself on two carrier kills, then once caps were charging cap to jump out I warped to a pounce on the GE- gate (figured I'd cloak up and give eyes). Two seconds from dropping out of warp FC tells fleet that someone has a pilgrim tackle on the gate. SCORE! Pounced down, killed it, and managed to get the best of the loot too. The heretic has already paid for itself, and its reimbursable on CTA's. I love this new ship :)

http://killboard.eve-sse.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=28006
http://killboard.eve-sse.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=28009
http://killboard.eve-sse.com/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=28010