tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60805669234649167822024-03-14T03:10:41.132+00:00The Smug Bastard's BlogAdd your email address below to follow this blogJay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-45842558434579712382016-08-22T17:38:00.001+01:002016-08-22T17:38:31.873+01:00The Masterfully Procrastinated Meta-article<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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been since the last one. I’ll try not to do it on this occasion, despite it
being a long time since the last one. What I’ll do instead is acknowledge it
and change the subject so hopefully no one notices the huge gaps between blog
articles becoming akin to the time between Tool albums.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There’s been a lot of changes since the last entry, but what’s
been the most significant? Citadels? Sov stuff? The massive botch that has been
the WH PvE changes? Well! I now have an Aquarium. That might seem a little
random, but I’ll tie that into something nebulously relevant at some point…
somehow. But, yes, I tend to not include too much out of game happenings here.
I think that last time I did, I mentioned the new job would probably mean a reduction
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting back into the swing of things is always pretty hard
though. For something like this, you need a little more inspiration than trying
to give <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/Tuscor" target="_blank">Tuscor</a> something to read at work or just to write any old thing because
<a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/BarnacleBOY007" target="_blank">Barny</a> likes seeing his name mentioned on the internet somewhere (welcome back
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In truth, there has been plenty to write about; the
self-proclaimed ‘Fortizar Police’ and our citadel losses, accidentally soloing
nullsec fleets after some mass calculation errors (i.e. not noticing it was
crit) or the huge chips that certain members of The Projects still have on
their shoulders (which is always such a delightful salt mine /smug). The fact
is I just lost interest when the accompanying video projects crashed without
saving a number of times consecutively. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is here now, though, albeit after many a false-start that
was reminiscent of the procrastination that used to occur whenever I needed to
do coursework at university. Some people say that making yourself a coffee
before typing a single word is procrastination. I call it a necessary pre-requisite
and as I was boiling the kettle for the hopefully creativity inducing beverage,
I noticed the coconut I bought when I went food shopping at the weekend. This
isn’t because I’m particularly partial to coconuts, but I’ve seen the shells
used as an alternative for bogwoods for anchoring aquatic plants, which may or
may not be of interest to aquarists (that’s a person who keeps an aquarium). In
short, even making the coffee got put off. Well, shit. It also looks like
changing the subject failed somewhat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, in game, Enigma Project have been enjoying flying
around in remote-repair Svipuls (with Hecate’s and Confessors for those too lazy
to train minmatar T3D’s). They pack a punch and have a staying power that
belies the destroyer class and because of this, have gotten us some really good
fights. And as an unintended by-product of my lack of articles or videos in the
recent past, a couple of guys from the <a href="https://evewho.com/corp/13." target="_blank">13.</a> have put together the odd video or
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ll start with Znoran, who at least made a start with his “Wrong
Hole Stories”. He does mean the pun, despite suggesting the contrary in his
first episode – but I suggest skipping to episode 2 purely to remain topical to
the Svipuls thing. Of course check out episode 1 if you think it’s a good video
or if you think Znoran’s voice is soothing and as silkily smooth as his beard
looks – you’ll just have to take my word on that one. He’s also put together a
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doctrine off the ground was always going to be the difficult part, especially
with some of the newer guys we’d took on, or anyone used to F1+approach style
brawling and the video is a good indication that after a couple of attempts,
some of the guys were by no means the finished article. Collectively, we’re
getting better I will be able to post some more proof here soon™ (if Dan lets
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Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-57432805380269020042016-01-15T22:41:00.000+00:002016-01-16T17:11:28.852+00:00Gone Fishing<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wardecs to WH corporations are nothing more than an irritation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As far as the op itself went, NVACA had found some guys ratting with an open lowsec but had sent in the tackle before any of the dps was ready, let alone in the lowsec system. Or even 3 jumps out. <a href="http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/60342351.jpg" target="_blank">I wont go into how that worked out</a>. The only 'eventful' thing to happen was someone poked me on TS to say: "Enigma Project are still a thing? Thought you guys were a PvE corp."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Still a thing? Never were." I replied, realizing any in-jokes or irony would be lost on whoever it was. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I had no idea who the guy was or how upset he was with us, until he started shooting at Enigma Project ships on the lowsec wormhole, along with a certain Peter Moonlight. Then it started making a little more sense. Our buddy Pete got quite precious over a post Odi made of the WH forums after he had somehow made a connection with what Odi had said and Lazerhawks, who Petey was a member of at the time. He accused us of rolling away from them, which just plain didn't happen. The guys we rolled was Peter's farming corp, when it was obvious we weren't going to get any content out of them. Is that enough for a guy to be so mad he shoots people joining a diplo-channel organised op? You'd have thought 'no', but maybe his cohort, Luft Reich would have better reason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I had no idea who that guy was, but I did look him up on <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Luft+Reich" target="_blank">eve who</a> just to make sure I didn't know him, but if the comments are anything to go by, he's a class act. Eve Who isn't the kind of site where you use the comments for high praise either and this guy has quite a few comments on his page. My personal favorite is "runs away in logi". Something I've only seen once before, when Isogen 5 were flying logi for us on a joint op.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I may have digressed a little, but the fact of the matter was we were now losing the war with 2 losses (the sabre and the pod) valued at 88mil. Sure, not the end of the world and not really something a WH corp would care greatly about, but I had to redress the balance as a matter of pride. So I set off in my Bustard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, there is more to it than that, but all in good time! It had confused the good folk of 13. as well. I had a second fleet up and people were asking which one to join. I didn't want to bring anyone with me though. <a href="http://smug-bastard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/were-all-going-on-summer-pewliday.html" target="_blank">The last time we had a tangle with Marmite</a>, we brought a WH space T3 fleet and ganked 3ulldog's shitfit loki hard. Knowing then what I know now, my Proteus could have quite happily solo'd that gatecamp. The thing with these highsec 'mercenaries' is they don't gear their ships for PvP. There's a lot of sensor boosters with tank and dps added as an after thought. The sebos are necessary though. I mean, if you can't get on that hauler killmail, what kind of merc are you? And it's highsec, so nothing shoots back and is probably AFK anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hence the choice of the bustard. Firstly, if you want to lull someone into a false sense of security, don't change their routine. Autopiloting haulers are the bread and butter of<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> the c</span></span></span><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">rème de la crème </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">of highsec PvP, the</span></span></span></span><b style="background-color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Marmite</span></span> Collective. Nice, expensive targets that don't return fire. While the bustard may not be the ne plus ultra of their preferred targets, I had to give myself a bit of a chance and while you can fit an almighty tank on these ships, the armament of 2 missile launchers, should you choose to use them, leaves a lot to be desired. I chose not to use them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 more jumps and I'd found a Cynabal sat alone on a gate. Perfect! As he was alone, he'd have to call for help to keep the bustard tackled just in-case he missed bumping it of the alignment for the warp. He didn't disappoint. He bumped away like a trooper, missing only a couple as I made an effort to do my best impression of a big fish flopping helplessly on the deck of the boat that just landed the catch. There was probably a couple of occasions I could have warped off, but that didn't deter our friend, who was soon joined by 2 garmurs, a svipul, confessor, stilletto and a broadsword, who all joined in with the tackle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://images.8tracks.com/cover/i/008/914/772/admiral_ackbar_trap_obama_shepherd_fairey_poster-2341.jpg?rect=34,0,572,572&q=98&fm=jpg&fit=max" target="_blank">The whole plan was predicated on giving the appearance that there was no threat and get them to redbox</a>. They got hold of the cheese, so now it was time spring the trap. I personally would have thought that guys who live in highsec would know their mechanics better than someone who's lived in wormhole space. Especially when people pay them ISK for that kind of thing. But maybe they didn't see my out of corp alt in the Bowhead steaming towards the bustard as they piled the points on. The ship hangar of the Bowhead contained my flagship; The Locust Star. A 425mm autocannon Loki, built lovingly by my own hands (as far as the industry interface allows you to actually build stuff). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quick scan of the field showed that the stiletto had done his best <a href="http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/12300000/holy-sir-robin-monty-python-and-the-holy-grail-12387340-720-276.jpg" target="_blank">brave Sir Robin impression</a> while the other Garmur was seriously testing how big the new grids can extend to. Sadly, the Broadsword and Cynabal were pushing 50km with no sign of slowing down, leaving just one poor Confessor to fend for itself. <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/51372100/" target="_blank">Which didn't work out too well</a>. At least that one looked more like a PvP fit. I'd like to say that he stayed to fight, but it's because he couldn't run away as fast as the others with his afterburner. The Confessor's explosions punctuated the end of the fight, but to Marmite's credit, <a href="http://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2015/06/Sha-Labauff-Clapping.gif?gs=a" target="_blank">they <i>had </i>depleted my shields</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thanked them for content and made my way home, but I have to say that a small part of me was hoping they wouldn't fall for something so simple, yet the vast majority of me was overwhelmingly smug that they did. As well as the fact that war report ended with us being positive on both kills and ISK.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm not sure I mentioned it in another blog post (somewhere in what is now ancient history, even with my previous posting regularity), but somehow, Enigma Project are in the WH diplo channel. Yeah, I fucked up. Apparently, our masterplan of staying firmly under the radar failed somewhat. There was originally some contention over how shit the channel name was, but in the end no one was bothered or motivated enough to change it. It's been amusing though, and I might humbly suggest renaming it to "The Salt Mine" should people tire of "PraiseBob". Nothing quite like the tears of other CEO's. And no, I wont be posting endless steams of said tears, but here's something that made me chuckle:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Kazen Orilg > is 13 in here?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Eisu > I'm pretty sure they are, whether anyone from them
is on though, idk<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Eisu > oh, jay's down there<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Jay Joringer > I can pretend I'm not here if you prefer<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Eisu > maybe he thinks you smell funny or something?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Eisu > or, like the rest of us, jelly of the goggles.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At this point, it seems fairly innocuous, but allow me to put this into some context. <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Kazen+Orilg" target="_blank">Kazen Orilg</a> was speaking for <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Kazen+Orilg" target="_blank">The Desolate Order</a>, who were in our chain. We knew that they don't have a big presence in the EU timezone, so we hadn't bothered them... but we had noticed their neighbors trying to roll the connection to The Desolate Order's home hole. We engaged them without fear of getting back-doored by Brave. We blew some stuff up but the hole got rolled anyway, although despite Kazen's comment, our route back to Lazarus was firmly intact though a couple holes out their static. I felt I had to appraise Kazen of the situation:</span></o:p></div>
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been spotted in the B274 to highsec in the C2. Stillborn Sun had a bunch of
ships. Highsec WH's aren't the best place to fight anyone, so we needed some
bait they couldn't refuse. Odidi volunteered his Orca, hoping to pull them away
from the hole to tackle him as he landed in the bubble. We fleeted up with as
many webbing ships as possible to keep them from jumping to highsec. Given how
light the composition was, I foolishly decided to dual-box a Svipul and a
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armour alarm on a local tanked shield ship when reps from Utari's scimitar
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notices a familiar tag in the chain through an incoming C4 - Unseen Wolves. As
a corporation, we'd had our first big fight again these guys a while back. On
that occasion we'd be outnumbered by around 3:1 and while our numbers had
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got messy. As we started to engage the locals, Unseen Wolves had beat us to the
punch and had moved through the chain quicker than our scouts could find where
they were coming from, dropping a once again impressively large fleet on us as
we prepared for an altogether different fight. The initial exchange saw us lose
several guardians in exchange for a <a href="http://13corp.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=28082384" target="_blank">Sacrilege,2 Navy Exqurors and a Svipul</a>. We could have easily lost more, with Unseen
Wolves fielding about 10 more ships than us so we called in carriers in an
attempt to keep the fleet up, but not before CommanderCane's proteus went down.
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nullsec. We'd engaged some of their bait on the wormhole to Lazarus, but we
knew full well they were waiting with some backup behind the only gate out of
the system. And their backup included a Thanatos.</span></div>
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out, in terms of some eve fights, so I was still confident that Northern
Associates would still be up for fighting. After all, you know renters are
serious when they are prepared to commit carriers for a roaming gang. We
replenished our fleet guardians and took a couple of ships to engage their <a href="http://13corp.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=28082752" target="_blank">bait/tackle</a>.
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tackled. We'd brought neuting ships in anticipation of this, but as they
ship-scanned the Thanatos, they noticed it was fitted with a cyno. I wont
pretend that the new information had given me a dilemma. No, we had already
committed our fleet and the guys wanted the Thanatos to go down. Northern
Associates had other ideas about the fate of the Thanatos and warped in 3
archons to keep it up. Now, this was a dilemma.</span></div>
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Wolves and knowing the Northern associates carriers were rocking cyno's, our fleet
needed a little something-something. Oh well, what's the worst that could've happened,
eh? I went and got the Naglfar...</span></div>
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that fight, but were told it was their mess, so no cyno's were lit. The most interesting
part of the evening was squeezing everything back through the wormhole. Cane was
the last ship through with his Bhaalgorn before I jumped the Nag home. I instructed
him to think thin as he jumped. Thankfully, it worked and the emergency cyno I was
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know. I've been slacking on
here, but there's a few other things I've been working on, so I'm playing catch
up with the blog. This probably wont be followed up be a another post for at
least a few days either, just to make up for the lack of posts. I don't even
get hassled by Utari either, but I think he's also been slacking on <a href="http://deepspacereports.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">his blog</a>,
so I've not been feeling too guilty as a consequence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know a couple of people have
been looking forward to my version of the <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/No+Vacancies" target="_blank">No Vacancies</a> fight - yeah, the one
that was about a month ago... well, a month and then some. Not being able to
write at work anymore -thanks to the new job- has really taken a toll on
updates, but I don't think that's the problem. Writing at home is probably
easier anyway. At least it would be if I didn't log in to teamspeak. "Jay,
we've got pew." "Jay, do you want to interview this guy?"
"Jay there's some russian talking in local!"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, yeah, there's a tiny bit of
completely friendly history with us and No Vacancies. Firstly, there's the part
where I nearly joined them when they were still under the guise of Void Legion
and I was disillusioned with Disavowed. Then Red Coat Conspiracy rocked up to
evict them (which was blogged about in <a href="http://smug-bastard.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/the-centre-of-universe.html" target="_blank">The Centre of the Universe</a>). The outcome
was disappointing, with Void Legion becoming part of Disavowed, but the guys
moved on again and formed No Vacancies after I'd joined United System's
Commonwealth. While under the USYSC banner, we fought NVACA in their home
system. The mass on their C3 static caught us out, allowing them to escalate
with capitals, which did turn the tide to their favour. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I was contacted by my old
buddy, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Moore+McRay" target="_blank">Moore McRay</a>, who was once again looking for a WH corp. I didn't think
he'd fit in with USYSC, so I sent him over to Viscis, who recruited him. The
first time I'd flown with <st1:city w:st="on">Moore</st1:city>,
he got really freaked out by a random mail he got from someone passing him in
highsec. It was a simple greeting followed by "I really like your
portrait" and nothing more. So, as part of initiating new members to
[XIII-], our new guys have to mail him something complementary about his toon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > Hey <st1:place w:st="on">Moore</st1:place> :)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moore McRay > i need to put
all those mails on reddit soon</span></div>
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pick a winner?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moore McRay > you're not
hitchhiking here</span></div>
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best mail</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we have 'Doc', AKA Zerolaws.
<a href="http://smug-bastard.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/high-stakes.html" target="_blank">I've mentioned him before</a> since I have NVACA to thank for him joining XIII. They
blew up his multi-billion ISK Stratios and refused to let him join them because
he had no PvP experience. I've also mentioned that Viscis said "Fuck
you!" after I told him I recruited Doc because Viscis rejected him, but I
think it's worth covering again, not least because he'd been awesome for us.
Still got lots to learn, but is taking it his stride. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So with all that background, the
next meeting between our two groups was always going to be an interesting one.
Especially with the old USYSC guys joining XIII wanting round 2 with NVACA, and
with me and Utari wanting to get Doc involved in a good old dunking at their
expense. And then it happened. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Loads of stuff on scan in
the static. [№] Anyone recognise this tag?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We knew it would happen
eventually - such is WH space. But in all honesty, it happened a little sooner
than I was hoping for. At the time, XIII only had 64 members with NVACA
breaking the century on membership. Of course, this doesn't mean massive
amounts if you take PI alts and their timezone crossover into consideration,
however it's still a reasonable indicator and I was fully expecting to be
outnumbered. </span></div>
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regular readers know that XIII delights in. To do so successfully, you need
every dirty little advantage you can get your filthy mitts on. So, I felt
inclined to remind them of something in the pub channel</span></div>
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promised he'd bring the fight to us next time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Biscuits" is my pet
name for Viscis. I don't think he's taken to it, which doesn't surprise me to
be honest. It's a tiny bit condescending and doesn't even really sound like
Viscis, but what the hell, let's throw some subtle provocation into the mix.</span></div>
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incentive by parking his <st1:city w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:city>
a few clicks off the hole. The NVACA boys went for it and started streaming
subcaps through the H296. They probably weren't expecting Galdur's Phoenix to
be fit for nailing subcaps and it started raining torps on their fleet as out
own warped in.</span></div>
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watching the fight unfold in a covert ops. I'd noticed that Viscis had logged
on his alt, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Andur+Konnake" target="_blank">Andur Konnake</a> and was only on grid with <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/T-X47b" target="_blank">T-X47b</a>, his boosting toon
in a Damnation. What this probably meant was he was holding Andur, his
dedicated Naglfar pilot, in reserve. Warping back to my POS, I prepared my own
Naglfar for a showdown.</span></div>
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wormhole disrupted as Andur's Naglfar jumped in and I warped 'Rising Sun' into
the fight, despite NVACA having a HIC on grid with a bubble up. It was a gamble
to split our dreads up, but I thought the odds were good. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This overly optimistic opinion
was reinforced by the appearance that I was getting the better of the initial
exchange between the two dreadnaughts, so I left the Phoenix to increase the
heart-rate of any subcap pilot he decided to lock up - something that was
becoming increasingly difficult with our own subcap losses starting to become
worrying. No Vacancies quickly responded, switching all their damage and neuts
to me. It's at this point that I found that after I had <a href="http://www.quickmeme.com/img/e5/e584375be26a9c1e233a2ef03dc4abb76e35b14014b63731ec8b27e428ef5772.jpg" target="_blank">imbibed a mild(ish)quantity of rum</a>, that the 'consume' option on my blue pill booster wasn't as
apparent as I remember it being. I was staring at the context menu thinking:
"Where the hell is it? Shouldn't be too hard to find. It's just one word,
and it begins with 'C'. Ah-ha! Compare, there it is! Wait, no...".</span></div>
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combination of the damage and the energy neuts starting taking a heavy toll on
the Nag. I probably should have got the fleet to engage my opposite number, but
other problems took priority. Losing the dreadnaught was not an option I was
prepared to entertain, and the timing was favourable for me to drop out of
siege and get capped up from the Archon that was now on grid, albeit 20km away
from me. Well, at least Galdur would be able to refit if he needed. I called
for the Archon to lock me up as the siege timer ticked down and eventually
expired as my Naglfar hit structure. It was still bleeding hull as the reps
landed, but didn't drop much lower than 80% once there was enough capacitor to
restart the shield tank. They must have thought they were close as the damage
stayed on me for a little while afterwards, but when their focus started to
swift, more of our support ships went down.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No Vacancies went balls deep,
bringing an Archon into the fight. Props to the boys - they really meant it and
perhaps they scented blood after depleting our subcap fleet. That's the problem
with flopping a strong hand; if you don't read your opponent right, he can
still bad beat you on the river. And XIII were rallying. Despite having less
numbers, I knew that home advantage would make the difference and alts of the
guys who were podded started warping in to the fight to reinforce what we had
left on grid. A second Archon made sure that the remaining subcaps would
survive and as the my Naglfar approached a state of readiness to drop back into
siege, Utari bought my Moros in to help out with Odidi bringing in an
additional Naglfar. With that much firepower trained on it, the Archon lasted close
to 2 minutes. The NVACA subcaps started to bail as soon as their Naglfar hit
armour. We tackled whatever was too slow to escape, but relented pursuit in
respect of them bringing one hell of a fight. We offered to show them the way
out, but their scouts were already on the ball. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The fight was as fun as it was
intense, but it wasn't the best part of the night. As we were looting the field...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orange Aideron > so ... pew
pew<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Blue-Fire" target="_blank">Blue-Fire</a> at their subtle best.
Galdur suggested over comms that we do the same to them. Thanks to No
Vacancies, we had little choice with our PvP ship stock suddenly in a less than
desirable, depleted state. I consented, with more than a strong feeling that
Blue-Fire would not take what was being offered. I was not disappointed, and
the guys were treated to some glorious rage with additional fat-finger
syndrome, courtesy of <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Orange+Aideron" target="_blank">Orange Aideron</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orange Aideron > lol oh come
on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orange Aideron > the gayness
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orange Aideron > you guys suck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orange Aideron > seriously
guck you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orange Aideron > im so fucked off right now!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Orange Aideron > okay well gl rolling it tell your guys to log its over for tonight.</span></div>
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not having the numbers to contend with what we had, there was a collective
smugness going around XIII. And it was probably a good few days before we
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Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-69625739323417952772015-02-28T12:49:00.002+00:002015-02-28T12:49:44.840+00:00All The Small Things<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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quiet chain, we'd take advantage of the system bonus and take out a fleet of
Coercers and Catalysts backed up with Augorors to run a few sites. It something
that a few of the newer guys to the corp had never tried, and given how
refreshing we had found it compared to cap escalations, it was something we
were eager to get them in on. </span></div>
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all <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/OEG+Industrial" target="_blank">OEG Industrial's</a> pilots
seemed to be offline - something that was not unusual for a russian corp with
low activity on the killboard at that time of night. <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Sherpa+tsi" target="_blank">Sherpa</a> watched the connection
while I set up an Eos in a safespot, while being acutely aware that the Eos
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certain frigates and destroyers in the region of 1000dps and a low enough
signature radius combined with resists decent enough to handle the incoming
damage from a sleeper site with just a couple of Augorors. A single site will
pay for the whole fleet with some change, but it's easy to lose the ships if
you aren't careful with transversal and sig bloom from MWD. And as PvE in Eve
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after us. That was when I noticed a Loki appear briefly on Dscan. Odi said the
tag was something he'd seen on the ships before the Russians logged off. If
they were logging back in, I doubted they'd take kindly to us running their
sites. Despite how the Destroyers performed versus the sleepers, the small
amount of armour hitpoints didn't make them viable for a sustained battle
against a balanced fleet. The raw dps a group of them ought to be enough to
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appeared on Dscan. With no new signatures and nothing having jumped past
Sherpa, it had to be the locals. And it has to be said, they were crap at
scanning. Eventually, we caught the probes on close range Dscan to our fleet. A
few minutes passed, while they must have been getting eyes on field and perhaps
a warp in, but suddenly the probes moved and started to home in on the Eos. </span></div>
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I tend not to put a point on it. The midslots I interchange for various types
of EWAR. On this occasion, it was still fitted with sensor dampeners. Just as I
was lamenting this choice, a Proteus landed on grid and started to lock up the
Eos, perhaps expected a helpless offgrid boosting ship. <a href="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq0o36TFTk1qfud76.png" target="_blank">Oops!</a> I
couldn't have been happier that he'd gone for the Eos over anything else. I
returned the lock, setting drones on the aggressor. What was worse for the
Proteus pilot was that I fit my Eos with neuts in the spare high slots, so it
would only be a matter of time until he was dead in the water. The only problem
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decloaked his own Proteus to point his opposite number. To add insult to
injury, we warped the ratters, along with a Sabre in to get on the <a href="http://13corp.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=27589696" target="_blank">killmail</a>
and the <a href="http://13corp.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=27589840" target="_blank">pod</a>. </span></div>
Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-29346217624949099782015-02-15T18:57:00.001+00:002015-02-15T18:57:47.383+00:00Resistance is Futile<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The fact that Waldemar Pawlak was hanging around in our pub
channel was bugging Utari. I know what you're thinking - the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Pawlak" target="_blank">former prime minister of Poland</a><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"> hanging around in the public channel of an eve online wormhole
corporation might bug a few people, but it wasn't actually him. It was his Hard
Knocks Inc. </span><a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Waldemar+Pawlak" target="_blank">recruiter namesake</a><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">. He did eventually find a way of breaking the ice:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > so... whats going on in
here?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari Onzo > Sharing fail fits</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari Onzo > Wanna see my drake fit?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > nope, thanks</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > I do</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > Unless it's not armour/sensor
damp fit</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari Onzo > Aw damn</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > well, i have my own</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > i dont really need to play
with others' drakes</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari Onzo > <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">RUSE</st1:place></st1:city> is on sale on steam. Nostalgia time here
I come</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > i bought rise of nations
last night</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > ffs, i loved that game but
now its so tiny on a 4k screen that it made its unplayable</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari Onzo > Lol</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari Onzo > I looked at playing stronghold
crusader 2</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari Onzo > Was bitterly dissaointed it's
jsut a Stronghold Crusader 1 reskin</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari Onzo > Anyone know if they fixed
Assassin's creed Unity yet or is it still broken as fuck?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > dunno</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > sry, slow to respond -
carrier tackled</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > so... you guys are c5-c5...</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > and youre recruiting?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > Aye</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > if youre capable of c5-c5
wh how come i didnt see your application to HK?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > Didn't realise you were
recruiting</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Waldemar Pawlak > we always are!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > Actually, I do prefer the
smaller gang fights.</span></span></div>
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it was a small fib. I was well aware Hard Knocks were recruiting. I just didn't
realise they considered it obligatory for C5 pilots to put in applications to
them. But still, it's cute of them to try to absorb WH corporation while they
are still new and trying to expand, rather than having another populated
J-space system.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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offer. This time it was an invitation to join an alliance. Enter <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/FalconsFury" target="_blank">Falconsfury</a> via eve mail:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">After looking into your corp I wanted to
extend an offer to join my alliance Vanguard of the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">We are a WH C5 Alliance who does mainly PVE
content with PVP when it comes our way. We hope to expand both our PVE
and PVP options with the addition of some new people.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">If interested we can talk further about the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:city> to see if you
would fit in.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Our posting can be found here.</span><br />
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</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #999999;">https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5383174#post5383174</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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when it comes our way" That one killed any consideration stone dead. Not
to mention any alliance whose name you could append to phrase "Harry
Potter and the..." and have it legitimately sound like a rejected book
title should perhaps be avoided. I ignored the mail. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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another. This time a merge, and merge offers tend to come from people whose
activity has dropped off or have been evicted so that larger alliances *cough*[KICK]*cough*
can have a farming hole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">My alliance is looking for another WH group to
merge with. While we are trying to recruit new blood to our current
alliance, we are certaintly open to joining up with another group. The
years and real life have cost us some valuble members that its been hard to replace.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">We currently live in a C5 / C3 WH and are open
to options for working together with another WH alliance (including moving /
mergers etc).</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">We have about 15 active people throughout the
week, with numerous alts etc. Everyone is tech 3 / with numerous capital
alts, Archons etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Our main problem is numbers, 15 people just
isnt enough to keep the ball rolling every day with RL and such.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">If this interests you, please send me a mail.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Thanks!</span></span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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again, it was from Falconsfury. Scrutiny of their killboard looked like they'd
be pretty hard to work with. Couple that with a leadership base in a different
timezone, which in my experience is asking for trouble. And these guys looked
suspiciously like <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Solus+Blacksun" target="_blank">Solus Blacksun</a>
all over again - someone who could talk the talk, but not walk the walk. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
next mail was my favourite. It was another merger offer from <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Hendrick+Toralen" target="_blank">Henrick Toralen</a> of <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Jaded." target="_blank">Jaded.</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #999999;">I'm
contacting you in regards to your corp, in curiosity about a possible alliance
merge, If you'd have any intrest in this let me know.</span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #999999;"><br />
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<span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">Here our the stats.</span></span><br />
</span><span style="color: red;"><span class="evefontff0000evefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">C5-C5</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">WH</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;"><br />
</span><span class="evefont00ffffevefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: cyan;">The Natural Order</span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;"><br />
</span><span class="evefont00ff00evefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: lime;">Jaded</span></span></span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: lime;">:</span><span style="color: white;"> </span><span style="color: #999999;">Currently 12 PoS's 89 Members.</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #999999;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;"><br />
</span><span class="evefontffff00evefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: yellow;">High Self Esteem</span></span></span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: yellow;">:</span><span style="color: white;"> </span><span style="color: #999999;">9 Members fairly active.</span></span></span><span style="color: #999999;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br />
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<span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">Both Corps live in the WH.</span><br />
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<span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">Yours truely,</span><br />
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<span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">Hendrick Toralen [Jaded]</span></span></span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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one even had pretty colours. I remember Billy Hardcore from RCC's invasion of
Void Legion's home system and I had to wonder what the offer had cost him to
make. Either way, I had no intention of flying with the guy, so I said no in
the most diplomatic way I could administer:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #999999;"><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">o/
Hendrick</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br />
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<span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">Thank you for your interest in our
alliance.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffa600evefontsize12"><a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/Enigma%20Project" target="_blank">Enigma Project</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">is not currently considering recruiting
corporations, however</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffa600evefontsize12"><a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Corporation/13_" target="_blank">13.</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">will look at applications from individual
pilots who are active in the EU window.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">We are listed as 'newbro friendly',
which is true of our recruitment doctrine, however I would be sceptical about
recruiting rookies en masse at the moment. In the meantime, I would recommend</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffa600evefontsize12"><a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Corporation/Red%20Federation" target="_blank">Red Federation</a></span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">/</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffa600evefontsize12"><a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Corporation/Blue%20Republic" target="_blank">Blue Republic</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">as well as</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffa600evefontsize12"><a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Corporation/Noir_%20Academy" target="_blank">Noir Academy</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">to augment the skills of anyone in your
alliance interested in PvP, and also</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="evefontffa600evefontsize12"><a href="http://www.universalclass.com/i/course/writing-basics-101.htm" target="_blank">this online course</a> </span><span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">in spelling and grammar for yourself.</span><br />
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<span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">Kind Regards,</span><br />
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<span class="evefontffffffevefontsize12">Jay Joringer</span></span></span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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his credit, he took it well and responded with a simple "lol". <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But
this wasn't the end of things. Perhaps spurred by the success of Utari's
birthday roam in mining barges, to which he invited United System's
Commonwealth, Galdur Trudaihnel made the same offer of a merger. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When
me, Utari and Odi left USYSC, we all hoped things would carry on as normal and
we'd have two active groups in C5 space instead of one. Obviously things hadn't
panned out that way. The prospect of flying with the guys again was something we
all thought would be a great thing, and to be honest, all the offers of merges
an recruitment had worn me down. USYSC would still exist, but Enigma Project
would be assimilating some good pilots into our collective.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-59981920992266266172015-02-14T19:09:00.001+00:002015-02-14T19:09:29.183+00:00Outnumbered, but not Outgunned<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've had a couple of complaints about this blog. Not quite
to the degree that Red Coat Conspiracy (RIP) or indeed Brawls Deep (RIP)
complained, but complaints nonetheless. To prove I take reader satisfaction
very seriously I am now going to address those complaints. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first complaint is from Thornir. <a href="http://www.demotivation.us/media/demotivators/demotivation.us_Be-careful-what-you-wish-for_131289270663.jpg" target="_blank">Hewas bemoaning that fact that he hasn't been mentioned thus far</a>. Which
thereby resolves the complaint. And if no one knows who Thornir is, just try to
imagine a window-licking, Danish <a href="http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121102125945/nation/images/8/83/Ali_g_black.jpg" target="_blank">AliG</a>. Just less funny.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other complaint is from Utari. Apparently, I don't
update this enough. By virtue of mentioning this fact, I am now considering
this complaint resolved. While waiting for any subsequent instalments, he's
tried to fill the apparent blog-void by writing his own. I've been assured that
there's no need to worry about there being crossover in what I'll be writing as
it's 'in-character'. As soon as he'd said that I accused him of reading a
certain Dussette's blog, to which he pleaded guilty. So far, no one believes
that this very blog is all very much in-character. I'm not actually smug at all
in real life. <a href="http://deepspacereports.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">In any case, onceyou are done here, Utari's blog is certainly worth a read</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for my lack of updates, it's not like things have been
slow. Just real busy! While recruitment has dropped off, PvP content has picked
up quite well. It's also inadvertently given us a new question to ask
prospective recruits; "You've got 7 guys online - would you fleet up to
provoke a 28 man fleet into a fight?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our scouts had been watching a C4 connected to the same
static C5 we had. I've got to say, C4 space has become a lot more interesting
lately. I'm sure the capital restrictions are a draw for some of the newer
corporations and players as much as the dual statics. The way connections and
population is at the moment, that's potentially a ridiculous number of systems
to scout and keep tabs in the signatures in. They certainly hadn't checked the
adjoining C5 thoroughly. Enough to be sending a Venture in to scoop gas while
their PvP fleet roamed out of their other static, but not enough to bookmark or
scout Lazarus, where we were lurking.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The reports on numbers were a bit sketchy with so many of
the <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Unseen+Wolves" target="_blank">Unseen Wolves</a> (the C4 residents) moving around, but it was in excess of 20.
They were well equipped too. At least 4 guardians supporting their T3's. As
things stood, we had 7 guys. If we had opted to bring a decent number of our
own logistics, we wouldn't be able to field enough dps to cut the proverbial
mustard. With options so limited, choices tend to make themselves, but choosing
to roll to find something different wasn't on the cards - But making it <i>look </i>like we were rolling definitely
was.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">E'lone and myself logged in a second toon each as Utari did
his best to do an impression of a beleaguered rolling Archon while our flotilla
waited on the home side of the H296 while the carrier slowboated back to the
K162, well within D-scan range of the Venture. The bait had the desired effect
and almost instantly, a loki jumped from their C4 home and dropped combat
probes. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari > This guy is taking ages. I'm almost at zero on
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back to the hole so it doesn't look too much like a trap. </span></div>
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capital ship bait and was soon on grid to tackle it. A sabre arrived next, and
as the rest of their fleet followed, our own fleet jumped through to meet them.
The interdiction probes that the sabre dropped caused the guardians to land
conveniently close to our ships and the combination of neuts and ecm made sure
their guardians couldn't establish a cap chain effectively and we blitzed
through three of them as a fourth scrambled for range. Aware of our range from
the carrier, we did not pursue. The other thing I was aware of was that this
was the first time most of our fleet had flown together in this kind of
engagement. And for Zerolaws, it was the first time he'd ever been in fleet
PvP. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was something that showed. He was eager to prove he could
cut it when it came down to a fight and had charged off after a Proteus,
perhaps hoping his actions might help turn the tide in our favour. His
enthusiasm took him outside of the carrier's rep range, losing him both the
ship and his pod. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Utari's carrier was having no trouble keeping the rest of
the fleet alive, and with their logi as good as negligible, we were laying down
fire on the main body of their fleet, starting with their Armageddon. Their
final guardian had put some distance between himself and our fleet, leaving the
armageddon in dire straits. In desperation, the geddon's neuts switched to the
tacklers and he managed to warp away in low armour. We switched to a Loki but
our low numbers saw our tackle neuted away by Unseen Wolves' Legions and
another of their ships escaped in the nick of time. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the Archon feeding cap to the tacklers, we downed a
Legion before the Wolves could land more Guardians. Another three joined the
fight and far out of our range. We would have to be patient before we could
break any of their ships again as the sensor damps forced their logi closer. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Wolves noticed an error and switched dps to our own
armageddon which had drifted out of the Archon's rep range. Solara drifted
slowly back but neither fast nor far enough for his ship to make it. With ships
down, breaking their fleet would be difficult if not impossible and I called
the fleet to burn the 40 clicks back to the WH. As I did, the Unseen Wolves
decided to target the Archon, while putting webs and scrams on our retreating
ships. Each kilometre ticked by painfully slowly, and as the Archon's capacitor
reservoir depleted, the Wolves started to target the Eos. With no reps
available, the only choice was to jump home, depriving our fleet of armour
links and therefore a big chunk or EHP. The Wolves turned their attention to
the rest of the retreating ships who one by one crawled slowly back to jump
range, with the exception of Thornir's Tengu (look at that - mentioned twice in
one post). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only remaining question was whether the Archon could
last the triage cycle. Utari seemed confident, and none of their fleet had
pursued our ships back into Lazarus, opting to focus on the Archon, but as the
triage module deactivated, Utari jumped home, putting the wormhole on the verge
of collapse and ending the fight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/25677/" target="_blank">battle report</a>
suggests that Unseen Wolves won the ISK war, but at 9 vs. 28, I'll happily take
the moral victory and the fact that we killed 4 ships while losing 3. All in
all, a decent smash and grab but what was encouraging, our new guys enjoyed a
good fight and were eager to learn from the experience. </span></div>
Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-80134591334648022342015-01-17T14:39:00.000+00:002015-01-19T21:03:25.753+00:00High Stakes<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently, a lot of people have
been asking me "So, the blog... Where's the new stuff?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have <i>very</i> aware that there hasn't been anything new on here for a little
while. Of course, there's a couple of problems I have with this. Firstly,
there's having the time to write about new stuff and then post it. It's real
easy to use the holidays as an excuse here. Until recently, I had the luxury of
having a boss who was utterly clueless as to what I actually did, so as a
consequence, I did most of my blogging at work. I should probably clarify here
that I have not just been sacked for not doing any work, but I have been looking
for a new job that's more involved... better paid, better pension, more
holidays - the usual stuff. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Secondly, and most importantly,
new stuff needs to happen. Of course, things are always happening in Eve, but
these thing aren't always worth passing the time with writing about while
pretending to be working because your job is so dull you'd rather be playing
spaceships. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, what has happened? New year,
new job, new eve corporation. Or more accurately, new-old eve corporation. I've
noticed I do get a certain itch when I change jobs in real life to refresh
things in game. This in no way whatsoever means that when I've changed corporations
in Eve, I've got a new job. It's usually a bigger thing. A new, exciting
challenge in real life that gives me new energy and enthusiasm inevitably
filters through into the digital world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There was nothing really wrong
with United System's Commonwealth to give me a straight-up, black and white
reason for leaving, but there was just a few things I couldn't help but think
to myself 'I'd do that differently.' For example, pay people the ISK they're
owed - Galmas, take note FFS [edit: thank you for the ISKies Galmas] !</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It had been over a year and a
half since I created <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/13.">13.</a> I had originally intended it to be a kind of PvP
side-project. With the things you can do solo in high-end W-space being fairly
limited, I wanted to use it as a fallback for when things got quiet in
Blackstar - when people were still logging in or had logged off. It had worked
out that way pretty well. <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Jano+Prim">Jano Prim</a> had offered us a place in <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/F.E.R.A.L">F.E.R.A.L.</a> while
they rented space in Detorid, which presented plenty of small gang
opportunities for <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/setimalas">Setimalas</a>, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Odidi+PeYo">Odidi</a> and myself AKA <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Doctor+Skinner">Doctor Skinner</a>, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Elina+Evon">Elina Evon</a>
and Keeley (before I sold the toon). Seti even set up a twitch stream for a
while.</span></div>
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having to relocate to lowsec after The Unthinkables withdrew renter space. For
better or worse, this happened at about the same sort of time that Blackstar
got evicted from our C5 home. Blackstar could now work directly with F.E.R.A.L.
while figuring out what to do. After Blackstar splintered from Enigma Project
and joined Disavowed, relations with F.E.R.A.L. were ruined when Dizzy pointed
one of their ratting carriers after they moved back into null, effectively
leaving 13. redundant.</span></div>
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start though, even if we never recruited more than a few extra members, so like
the alliance, I kept hold of it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For all intents and purposes it
might well be a new incarnation of corporation and a resurrection of the
alliance, but I see it as 13 version 2.0 - a chance to use what I've learned
from the space in between to not repeat mistakes that were made in Blackstar. Bigger
ambitions generally mean higher stakes, and not just financially. The spare
billions that were padding my, Odi's and Utari's wallets were quickly depleted,
but there were no complaints. To have people buying into the idea with the same
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people are watching how this hand plays out. Guys like Galmas and Moore McRay
had been scrutinising the killboards from the get-go, with <st1:city w:st="on">Moore</st1:city> eager to attempt some light provocation
about a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/43447956/">Naglfar mishap</a> that involved Lazerhawks seeding in the system for POCO
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No, no. I know how much trouble
it must have been all too well! We suspected someone had seeded in. What we got
wrong was who. We'd taken some precautions earlier, but a couple of hours later
with fleet numbers dwindling they appeared as we were on the penultimate POCO.
They'd waited for the golden opportunity and fair play to them. I don't think
I'd have had the patience though and <st1:place w:st="on">Moore</st1:place>
left the conversation disappointed that it wasn't a sore point. By the way, if anyone feels like sending <a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Profile/Moore%20McRay">Moore a mail</a> about how cute his toon is, it's something I would actively encourage.</span></div>
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recruiter asking us why he hadn't seen applications from us instead of setting
up our own corporation, which provided us with some amusement. As did <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Viscis+Breeze">ViscisBreeze</a>'s attempted goading over us recruiting Zerolaws. Zero had been flying
solo for a few years and had lost several billion in a stratios to No
Vacancies. Deciding that it was now time to stop flying solo, he asked No
Vacancies about joining them, where he was sent packing. Viscis was still
buzzing about ganking him while we had got Zero onto TS and were finding out he
was actually a really cool guy, albeit with some things to learn about J-space.
I straight up told Viscis we were recruiting him, to which he replied
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shortly before learning that he has a quote from my blog <a href="http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/Vomit.gif">as his desktopbackground</a>. A quote that does infer ever so slightly that he is a bit anal
retentive when it comes to API keys and background checks. Only a capsuleer
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that I myself am not entirely satisfied with the tenuous link between the title
and the content that is usually customary of a smug bastard post. That's
because I'm going to finish off with a shameless plug that will reveal at least
some duality of meaning. Me and few others have been holding regular poker
tournaments for ISK. I think the biggest pot won has been just shy of <a href="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--5Gkdfpss--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/17kdjxvdqvygyjpg.jpg">2 BillionISK</a> (which sadly went to <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Zosius">Zosius</a> and not myself), so if we have any readers who want to join in with our game, send me a
mail in-game and I'll invite you to the channel. Instructions on how to get
involved as well as tournament timetables will be found there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">Things had been pretty lively throughout the day, but I couldn't agree with Galmas that it was once more what USYSC had lovingly dubbed "Content Day". For a frenetic few hours, Content Day was non-stop PvP. Today, we had opportunities in between the action to catch our collective breath. Plus, it had been an hour and a half since the fight with Unsettled and I had returned to the keyboard to find some scouts hunting down an <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42565904/" target="_blank">Astero</a> in order to provoke a fight with <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Protean+Concept" target="_blank">some people we'd never heard of</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">I had plenty of time to warp away from the hole before a second or two later, a subsequent activation signalled that the Helios had followed me through, and all but confirming my suspicions that the Helios was set up for more than just scanning. I used the time to light the micro-warpdrive and put some distance between the hole and myself as I aligned to my POS, but in the fashion of true hero-tackle, the Helios ignored this, perhaps thinking the Legion was slow to align and burned in to get scram. Anticipating this outcome, I had pre-loaded Navy HAMs and no doubt aided by the signature bloom of the Helios’ own MWD (along with the target painter and webs on the Legion), made <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42565965/" target="_blank">short work of the intrepid tackler</a>. Once again, I loitered. This time, as if scooping loot from the Helios wreckage which was at close to 30km from the K162. Seconds later, a brace of WH activations triggered my exultation; Protean Concept had bought it hook, line and sinker.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The trap may have lacked any real finesse, but it was elegant in its simplicity and the jaws were about to close on a Vigilant and a Proteus. I began to re-align to feign a willingness to escape and soon found myself pointed again. I was still moving away from the WH but the two ships sped after in the confidence that the 90% velocity web from Vigilant and the scram from the Proteus would seal my Legion’s fate, so far off the WH. As the web landed, I signalled our remaining pilots to warp to me and primary the Vigilant that my Legion was already spitting missiles at. On my second screen, I warped my Loki into the fight and was joined by Myst’s Loki and Tuscor’s Stratios. Protean Concept were also calling in reinforcements and an Arazu had joined in the skirmish by the time my backup had arrived on grid. Thanks to the efforts of the Legion, there wasn’t much left of the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566002/" target="_blank">Vigilant</a> and the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566019/" target="_blank">Arazu</a> pilot soon followed the Vigilant pilot in warping their pods to safety.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">What I would have given to have been a fly on the wall of Protean Concept’s comms at this point. The rest of their fleet rushed into our home system to the aid of the stranded Proteus in what would have brought shame to a disorganised clusterfuck. We were further reinforced by Galmas, Seung and Fiesty in Proteus’ and some hastily dual-boxed logi, so, had all their ships arrived together, it would have been a reasonably balanced fight. As things were, it was a shooting gallery. The <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566053/" target="_blank">Proteus </a>was soon dispatched, and was soon joined by a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566109/" target="_blank">Legion</a>, another <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566124/" target="_blank">Proteus</a> and one of their <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566061/" target="_blank">Guardians</a>. A few ships managed to retreat, seemingly with greater fervour and organisation than they had used to join the fight in the first place. As they did, one of their pilots left an ominous message in local:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Galmas announced that he had to log in such a way that it left <a href="http://www.troll.me/images/redditors-wife/wife-aggro-getting-high-play-when-she-sleeps-no-one-needs-to-know-thumb.jpg" target="_blank">no doubt whatsoever</a>. This changed things ever so slightly. We were down to 6 actual players, with Oddic returning to keyboard. A quick background check on Protean Concept showed that despite being of somewhat comparable size to USYSC (or at least not significantly larger), they tended to be more active. That only meant that our preparation needed to be better. <a href="http://www.gifbin.com/bin/012010/1264091579_kirk_rofl.gif" target="_blank">Given how well they conducted themselves in the first skirmish</a>, that wasn’t going to be too difficult. We placed a scout in the connecting C5 to give us warning of their fleet composition. As expected, they brought numbers. Not only that, carrier support landed 30km off the WH and they jumped a Dominix and a Megathron into our home to bait. Jumping smaller numbers into a Magnetar where they had an Archon waiting just wasn’t going to happen. As up for another fight as we were, we aren’t stupid – although chatter in local led me to believe that Protean Concept might well be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Now, I’m all for a bit of smacktalk as a means to an end, but more as a battle of wits – something that most people who partake in smacktalk have a lamentable lack of. Ilaister was certainly no exception. Now, I have a feeling that he might try and mitigate his stupidity with some sort of comment like “I was very drunk”, which I would understand if I even had the slightest interest to ask. But I don’t. I confess that at this time of night, I myself had imbibed not an insignificant amount of rum, however the difference was I could still think coherently. Besides, I fly better when I've had a few!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Let’s do a little recap. There were 4 guys on his <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566002/" target="_blank">killmail</a> (two of which were me) and 4 guys on the Arazu a minute later (one of which was me, making 5) – The Arazu who jumped after the Proteus (making 3 of them at the time). I’m not disputing his numbers. After all:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">As Ilaister carried on with a persistence of an old Jack Russell (for those ignorant of cynology, a Jack Russell is a small terrier, often characterised for its over-aggressive barking in proportion to the size of its teeth), I left them to it as I scanned Protean Concept’s killboards. Ilaister was actually their killboard leader in the month so far and I felt a slight pang of pity for them. It was then I noticed that <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/D3m0n+sam" target="_blank">D3m0n Sam</a> had settled with them for the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">In all likelihood, he’s probably unaware that we've spoken before, but rewind a year or so, I was becoming disillusioned with Disavowed and was looking for a way out of Blackstar. I had a couple of possibilities on the radar, one of which was </span><a href="http://evewho.com/corp/End-of-Line" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" target="_blank">End-of-Line</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">, which D3m0n Sam was recruiter for and who I spoke to via an alt. After a brief-ish chat on Teamspeak with them, I was able to comprehensively rule them out. He’d invited 3 potential recruits on after checking API’s and instead of giving the usual recruitment spiel, got distracted by a corpmate asking about POS rights. For over an hour, the other potentials and I had to listen to Sam struggle with some very simple POS management. It wasn’t that part that put me off so much, but wasting people’s time for that long is just plain retarded. And now he was flying alongside Ilaister. Well, as they say; birds of a feather flock together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;">While I’d been distracted, the guys had been formulating a plan to counter Protean Concept. We’d been trying strafing runs in a Machariel on the bait ships, but these had been pointless with just one Mach and no Scimitar to offset the sentry drones the Dominix was dropping. It would have been two, but I asked for a bomber to deal with the drones. Galdur went through the plan again, and I have to be honest, I didn’t listen that time either. I interrupted to say “Yeah, just do it” in the hope that something would happen. What did happen was that Galdur warped his alt at range to the WH with a Moros. True to form, the Proteans didn't jump their Battleships out, despite the threat of Siege Blasters. Infact, they jumped their fleet in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">At any moment I expected that to change and see volleys of extra-large hybrid ammo tear into the hull, but it wasn't to be. With the Vindicator free to fly around the battlefield with impunity, I scanned around for soft targets. As the mainstay of Protean Concepts fleet closed the distance to our Dreadnought, I spotted a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566780/" target="_blank">Rook</a> between the two groups of capital ships. I warned the fleet I was closing on it and we lit it up as soon as I was in web range. Now halfway across the field, I manoeuvred the Vindicator to the relative safety of a close orbit with Sam’s Moros while I (belatedly) warped the Loki away to bring in a second Dreadnought. While this was going on, I spotted a Protean Ishtar drift close to their Dread and decided to take a couple of potshots, which <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42566858/" target="_blank">paid off quicker than I expected</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Communication among our own fleet was a bit of a mess and we were riding our luck. If Protean Concept had been any good, they’d have stayed focused on our first Archon (which we would have lost) and I’d be short a Vindicator. As it was, they were all over the shop. I was having an easy ride as my Naglfar was set up to tank the kinetic and thermal damage of the Moros and the Legions they had neuting me barely made an impression. For some reason, more of the fleet reshipped to Dreadnoughts as Vince logged in. Then he decided to bring one as well. This didn't leave much tackle around for when the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42567062/" target="_blank">Moros</a> and then the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42567080/" target="_blank">Archon</a> were destroyed, although we did catch one of the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42567082/" target="_blank">Legions</a> as the rest of their fleet decided they’d had enough. At least they took it well:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Well, sort of.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The guys were up to their usual tricks when I logged in. They’d spotted some movement in a C4 and asked me to bring some dps in case it kicked off. And kick off it did. Oddic and Gab had caught an <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Unsettled." target="_blank">Unsettled</a> <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42562173/" target="_blank">Oracle</a> and in response, they were massing a fleet while I moved a Loki and Legion down the chain. I was glad it was Unsettled. We’d happened across them a week or so before in a C4 chain, but one of the connections was a 1bil hole that was well into stage 2 mass, so we couldn’t meet them with a fleet. That, and the fact that Unsettled was <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Roime" target="_blank">Roime</a>’s new home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Before he quit Jay-Space, he made quite a lot of noise on the forums. Plus, I always took notice of corporations that bumped their recruitment ads at similar times as I did, and <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Shiva+Furnace" target="_blank">Shiva Furnace</a> not only did that, but also had a particularly pretentious advert to boot. So, I happened to sneak an alt into his corp to see if they were any good. It didn’t take long to find out that they weren’t and the last straw was blaming a bad fleet loss on the lack of support from the now defunct Dead on Arrival alliance. He signed off from WH’s by cursing it on the forums as “cloaky proteus” online and boring, which predictably provoked much derision. Now he’s back, he cleverly posts on his alt, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/King+Fu+Hostile" target="_blank">King Fu Hostile</a> (a family friendly reference to Pantera’s classic - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E929gqIcwwI" target="_blank">“Fucking Hostile”</a>) instead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Anyway, the fight was on, but it was looking like our fleet was on the small side and not fantastically balanced in terms of reps and EWAR. Halfway through the chain, I turned the Legion back for home. To their credit, Unsettled had formed up very quickly and in decent numbers. Our own guys were eager to get brawling with them. Perhaps a little too eager, though. We jumped in, with a few reinforcements still moving through the chain. Unsettled didn’t have too much in the way of logistics on grid. A couple of Onieros’ out at 60km from the hole, but what they did have was too much for our logi to handle. The jams and neuts told early and before we could drop any of their ships, our own logi was forced to jump out while we lost <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42562640/" target="_blank">Utari’s Legion</a> and <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42562680/" target="_blank">Gab’s Stratios</a>. The rest of the fleet executed a tactical withdrawal to the other side of the WH, where we were doubtful they would follow immediately since their logi were so far off the hole, giving us time to bring in the rest of the fleet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">I have always considered that you can break down PvP engagements into simple one-upmanship. In the most basic terms, if your enemy brings a frigate, bring a destroyer. If he brings two ships, bring three. Applying this literally is often impractical – and I tend not to look at things in the most basic terms anyway! In a fair, balance fight between two ships, the one-upmanship will likely manifest in a bit of module overheating or clever manoeuvring.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">This still applies to fighting outnumbered – which I love to do. The trick if you’re outnumbered is not to be outgunned. There’s a reason some ships are known as force-multipliers, but adding these to a fleet is a real balancing act. Too many Logistics ships in lieu of dps will keep your fleet up, but you won’t be able to break anything either. My favoured force-multiplier for our WH engagements is the on-grid links Eos. Not only does the armour links boost the staying power of the fleet but can be set up to be as versatile as a Swiss army knife while still being able to apply a decent amount of damage.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I don’t think that’s too bad for something that doesn’t cost the Earth. Modules can be juggled around to suit. I initially flew this with a point and web, but as I pretty much always fly this on a second screen, those became largely redundant. My attention would be mainly focused on my Loki, so switching over to the second screen to point something afterwards was often slower than leaving it to other fleet members. The sensor dampeners are a handy, low maintenance alternative and has proved extremely useful as our fleets are generally light on this kind of EWAR. Switching in a second DDA brings it to 694dps and you can spend more money on the tank, if you like shiny.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">With extra logi and links on grid with the rest of the fleet, we ought to have had enough staying power for round 2. Galmas ordered the fleet to jump and called primary on a Vexor. Targetting the both of the Oneiros’ with the Eos, I set a damp on each while putting neuts on a nearby Proteus and setting the drones onto the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42562888/" target="_blank">Vexor</a>, which just didn’t stand a chance. As Unsettled’s logi burned in closer, I dropped the damp I had on Roime’s Oneiros to put both on Squelch, forcing him to burn further in. With their logi impotent, we continued to down the softer targets, which in hindsight may have not been the best choice. A <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42562918/" target="_blank">Brutix navy</a> popped before I made the fleet aware the second Oneiros had burned in to point blank with the fleet. Galmas directed our fleets’ firepower in his direction before he could realize <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42562985/" target="_blank">his mistake</a>. Despite taking out those ships, as well as a cheap-ass <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42563023/" target="_blank">Loki</a>, we hardly seemed to be making a dent in their fleet.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Glancing around the field, I could see Unsettled still had a significant number of their own force multipliers on grid in the form of neuts and ECM. I may have neglected to mention that this was Unsettled’s home system. They were throwing everything they had at us. The guys who we popped reshipped as quick as they could and rejoined the fight. They even had a squad from <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Dracos+Dozen" target="_blank">Dracos Dozen</a> (the fellas who helped give <a href="http://smug-bastard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/bless-me-barnacles.html" target="_blank">Barny a good sendoff</a> - FYI a dozen is only meant to be 12) landed 100 clicks away in sniping Oracles and laying down additional fire – too far for the Eos to target and damp out.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Still, I had spotted another mistake from an Armageddon pilot who had drifted into close range. I knew ECM was directed towards our Guardians as well as my Eos and I knew we couldn’t hold under the combination of that EWAR and energy neuts. I recommended we hit the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42563087/" target="_blank">Geddon</a> next as a second appeared on grid. By now, <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42563120/" target="_blank">Roime’s Oneiros</a> had approached close enough for us to apply damage. Not many people fight on once their logistics have been neutralized, but fair play to Unsettled. They stood their ground while their pilots went to get replacement ships, even if they were losing more ships in the process. A <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42563177/" target="_blank">Prophecy</a> and a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42563189/" target="_blank">Hurricane</a> went down before they could field more logi, even if it was an Exequror and not an Oneiros.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Hanging in there paid off for them. Our Teamspeak had a minor hiccup, kicking half the fleet, but crucially, Utari. This meant no one understood how badly the cap chain was failing and that he had to warp away because polarization meant he couldn’t jump out. An incredulous Myst lost his own <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42563174/" target="_blank">Guardian</a> as a result, forcing the rest of the fleet to jump out. Utari rejoined comms to appraise us of the situation. And that his Guardian was in warp back to the hole. And that it was still polarized for another 30 seconds. 20 seconds. <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42563281/" target="_blank">Down</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Surely a pod can’t last for 20 seconds amidst a hostile gang. Actually, if they are all trying to whore on the killmail, it can. He managed to jump out and head back home with the rest of the fleet. On the way back, Sherpa mentioned that he’d received a convo from one of them, thanking us for the fight. What did leave me with a certain feeling of self-satisfaction was their mention in particular of the EWAR that messed them up. Electronic warfare is a broad term in eve and does encompass things like target painting, weapon disruption and of course, sensor damping – which is why I chose to ignore the fact we had two Tengu’s in the fleet. That way, I was smug enough to ignore my annoyance at accidentally leaving my Geckos behind.</span></span></div>
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had been a quiet weekend, and as one good idiom deserves another, the tranquillity
had indeed proved that the devil makes work for idle hands. Having the time to
reflect, I had invested heavily into some new industry projects to occupy my
time during the quiet periods. Late on Sunday night, the plans started to come
into fruition as I brought a fully laden Rhea into our C5 home and started
unpacking like it was Christmas Day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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looked like it was going to be another laid back evening with some sites on
their final escalations and a brief look at siggy showed that the static had
either not been opened, or had already been rolled as I logged in. The one discrepancy
in that (ignoring the connection to a C2 via a Fozzie-hole) was a direct
connection to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Providence</st1:place></st1:city>.
My first thought was that it might well be a decent exit for the jump-freighter,
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cohorts had different ideas. Given that there is always content in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Providence</st1:place></st1:city>, there wasn't
a whole lot of arm twisting involved for them to convince me to bring a Cynabal
out with them. First catches of the day were a Garmur, Dominix and a Loki. After
that, it was slim pickings so we decided on trying a few riskier systems to
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5 man fleet happened across a pair of Vargurs. We knew that even if they were
fit for ratting, we'd have more than a handful but we were there to shoot stuff
after all. The idea was to keep range and be ready to disengage if need be. If
they were, as we suspected, and were there to bait us, we'd have no problem
disengaging and getting clear, but the best laid plans of mice and men often go
awry. As their support started to arrive, both Odi and myself in our eagerness to tackle the newcomers drifted
too close the one of the Vargurs and we ended up exchanging a Cynabal and a
Vagabond for a couple of destroyers - <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/14291/" target="_blank">not a good trade</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of us that could got clear and headed back home to try and pretend nothing
happened. Gina's Sleipnir was the only other ship to not make it home and the
typical pod camping he was <a href="http://memecrunch.com/meme/WTVP/whinge/image.png?w=500&c=1" target="_blank">bemoaning</a> of nullseccers beforehand prevented him from getting all the way back, and was held bouncing safes 2 jumps out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Thing is, whatever way you look at it, neither side denied it was a good, fun fight. The Provi guys had superior numbers, but they brought they fight to our home system, where we were always going to have the advantage of being able to tailor our fleet composition as required. The aftermath saw GF's cordially exchanged, they were <a href="http://smug-bastard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/tfc-coming-soon-to-town-near-you.html" target="_blank">Thanked for Content</a> and I found a few convo's coming my way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > Cheers. Thanks for a good fight</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Atom Captain > XD wish yall handt warped a dread in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Atom Captain > my tank was holding fine vs them but holy hell 25k dmg on shield and 5k on armor</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Atom Captain > kinda hurts with no self repps, and being nuted</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fardendur > epic</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fardendur > now we need to get out somehow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > It's a good ship for that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > We've not opened the static yet, but we'll scan you guys a way out. It's only fair</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fardendur > thanks</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fardendur > would be epic</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Truth be told, we were reluctant to open the static while we looted the spoils from the field. There was plenty there that could go into replacing Utari's Archon and the last thing we needed was from hostiles from the static chain to jump us while we cleaned it up. As that went on, I showed the pods and frigates out through the Fozzie-hole and Sherpa got onto scanning the rest of them out through the static, but being as slow and useless as he is at scanning, they found their <a href="http://puu.sh/cMOSk/4876f72504.jpg" target="_blank">way out to Fountain</a> through the static without his help (only kidding Sherpa, you're not useless at scanning. Slow, for sure, but not useless).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jay> Galmas! Don't look at the killboard</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Galmas > What?.... Oh, that's a lot of red.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">O'nira > It's OK. Your Bhaalgorn did well.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Galmas > You guys need to stop borrowing my ships.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">It was my turn to be incredulous. Myst's Archon is usually kept in the same hangar as mine, so I didn't mind him borrowing it so much. Especially as it was returned in more or less one piece, but he did mention that I might want to look at some of the heat damaged modules. I got into the carrier with a similar feeling to whenever I get into the car after my wife tells me "I think I hit something and now the steering doesn't feel right". 86% damage to the Capital Armor Repairers showed exactly how that fight was balanced on a knife edge. Thanks to <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Jin%27taan" target="_blank">Jin'taan</a> and his fleet for the content. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Lastly, I'll give mention to a couple of other sources for this one. Salivan Harrdin mentions this in his <a href="http://evescribe.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/providence-fight-club-blade-squad.html" target="_blank">Eve Scribe</a> Providence news and USYSC's very own Utari <a href="https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=384970&find=unread" target="_blank">wrote this up on the forums</a>, but I feel I have to mention one of realape's reddit posts that I think is very fair and brief summary of what happened (and does have a line that makes me feel slightly smug): </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">With only a couple of guys logged in, I wasn’t too worried about what might be ratting a C4 WH 6 jumps out of our home system, until Gab managed to get eyes on their fleet. It was a recently made alliance called <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Random+Thinking" target="_blank">Random Thinking</a> and they were fielding 2 Rattlesnakes, a Raven Navy Issue, Hurricane and a Tengu with a Basilisk pair supporting. It certainly looked a hefty fleet that could dish out a lot of hurt and that was backed up by the speed they were rinsing through the anomalies. The pokes went out and the 4 guys who were on comms initially were joined on the static by a few others to resemble something that looked a bit like a fleet. 3 Proteus’, Loki, Armageddon, Phobos and Eos with our own Guardians to match the Basilisks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">While waiting in the C2, we caught an activation from the C4. A scanning frigate from <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/I%27m+stuck+in+here" target="_blank">I'm Stuck in here</a> evaded us while we waited for the larger targets from Random Thinking. Quickly checking the pilot’s bio revealed a proudly displayed German flag and Random Thinking did seem at a glance, also German. It could have been a coincidence, but if it wasn’t, the game was up and we were sat in the middle of space with our arses hanging in the breeze. The fleet was moved to a highsec connected to the C2 and leaving the Phobos cloaked on the hole to their system while our scout got eyes on their ships. Scanning frigates and stealth bombers seemed to be warping in an out of their POS, but it confirmed that the second C4 was indeed their home system.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">At about half an hour from when we first moved out, we were joined by Athanor’s Guardian and Utari’s Loki and Tengu as Random Thinking seemed to be logging in reinforcements in the shape of a Bhaalgorn and a Legion. The way I saw things, people buy ships like that in order to violence other people’s boats, so it would have been remiss of me to not provide them with boats to violence. I asked Sherpa how he felt about being bait. The response wasn’t hugely positive, but was an affirmation nonetheless! Once again Oddic piped up about not showing them our hand and not using a ship as scary as a Proteus, but was summarily ignored.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">I’d not flown with <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/BarnacleBOY007" target="_blank">BarnacleBoy007</a> long, but as he was a two+ year veteran of USYSC, I was surprised at the response (or lack thereof) at his early goodbye mail. We’d known he was getting married for some time, but hadn't realised his marital love-nest would be devoid of such modern amenities as interwebs. At this point I don’t want to dwell on mawkish sentimentality, but aside from being a thoroughly decent bloke, Barny would always be up for getting stuck into any fight with anything close to hand which had guns and a point, so a farewell roam seemed the very least that we could do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Then it occurred to me – I was certain that in our rare plexing events, Barny mentioned being able enough to fly a carrier to trigger and escalation wave, but couldn’t do much else. Not actually owning a carrier relegated him to either flying ECM or salvage, however. I decided to rectify this situation and gave him an early wedding present: a fully rigged/fitted Archon (with contributions from <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/William+Walsh" target="_blank">William Walsh</a>, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Utari+Onzo" target="_blank">Utari Onzo</a>, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Alzuule" target="_blank">Alzuule the fool</a>, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/FeistyOne" target="_blank">Fiestyone</a> and O’nira – maraming salamat, my friends). I offered the gift with a small condition; that he’d fly it on his final night in Eve. United Systems Commonwealth would provide a sub-cap escort and we’d go down in a blaze of glory. “That would be awesome!” was his eager reply.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">There were a couple of problems though. Firstly, the idea never struck me until the day before he was due to move house, so organising antagonists so close to the event might be problematic (especially so given it was to be on a Thursday). The second may not have been a problem, given our intentions, but Barny had only trained carrier skills to 2, having never actually needed them before, giving me the feeling that this was going to be a short event. Not rating our fleet’s chances of survival, I asked USYSC to turn up in T1 hulls (for insurance purposes) and themed it ‘Golden’, so Amarr ships all round. The choice was partially to match the Archon, but also I had an Abaddon sat in highsec for what must have been two years that I wanted to use, since I had always found the hull had an aesthetic appeal. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Given that the idea was to die horribly in a fire, I thought the turnout would be slim, but either in mains, alt-form or both, Gabriela Arch, Fiestyone, ImmortalisMyst, William Walsh, Utari Onzo, Athanor Ruthoren, Vincent Jardanian, Oddic, O’nira, Tuscor, Sherpa Tsi and even Galmas (after he had gotten over his aversion of K-space) turned up to see Barny off. Mostly everyone was in Amarr ships too. Abaddons, Armageddons, an Apocalypse. The Augorors had been upgraded to guardians, but in addition, there was a Scorpion, Dominix and a Machariel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">After such a long fight, derps were likely to come in at some point. I just didn’t expect for them to happen once the perceived had gone and the fleet were proceeding to dock up. Sherpa was eager to log and proceeded to warp his Dominix back to highsec. At this point, it might be worth mentioning that over the hour long fight, we burned a lot of security status (especially for Gabriela who was was happily smartbombing pods). Pasta syndicate were still in the area and had intercepted Sherpa at the gate as his suspect tag made him fair game. Otherwise, I was joking about how much I wished I had an mobile tractor unit, given the number of wrecks on the field (and not counting the hundreds of millions worth of abandoned drones). O’nira actually went ahead and warped back to deploy one while the rest of the fleet were taking a break or logging off. Barny was one of those that logged, trading back the Archon and thanking everyone for a brilliant last night in Eve.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">That was when we found our lurking hotdroppers. An Arazu decloaked and pointed O’nira’s Machariel as it returned to the battlefield, prompting undock orders on comms. The subsequent cyno then prompted orders of “Don’t warp!”. Local spiked as The Bastion jumped in to get a faction Battleship kill.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">On the plus side, all those people who brought the Golden ships that were asked for got out without a scratch. Sadly, this also meant I didn’t cash in on my ship’s insurance after the value had inflated nicely after 2 years of gathering dust. Either way, there was content. Many thanks to Draco’s Dozen, the USYSC guys who could make it and apologies to those that couldn’t. And last but not least, best of luck to Barny with the wedding. I'm sure we’ll see you back in Eve soon.</span></div>
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Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-63901050238006155222014-09-16T18:18:00.001+01:002014-09-16T18:22:33.538+01:00No Content, Please. We're Funding SRP.<div class="yiv9333525931MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7458" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7457" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Chronologically, this all happened before “<a href="http://smug-bastard.blogspot.com/2014/09/three-rounds-with-champ.html" target="_blank">Three rounds with the champ</a>” but it kind of got parked and forgotten about - probably because of posting 3 articles in 3 days, which made me take a bit of a break (plus I actually had some work to do). As fantastic as it is to have things to talk about that thick and fast, it was equally a relief to have things just slow down so people could chill. It sounds odd since we spend so much time in WH’s looking for PvP, that after a couple of days straight of it, that a lull would be most welcome – but probably only because of the intensity of what is now being referred to in United System’s Commonwealth as “Content Day”. The relief was pretty obvious logging into TS the next day:</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7464" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I’m not quite sure how I got the blame for all that, but there are worse things to be accused of! With things being less intense, we could worry about things like SRP. Normally, this is done from accumulating PvP loot and selling it to members or the market, which might not seem as robust a system as a lot of other people use (as well as being reliant on the members to loot wrecks and ensuring that said loot goes to the right place), but it seemed to be working out pretty well. ‘Content day’ did leave us with a few ships to be replaced, most notably an Archon. Apparently, we also lost a couple of Tengu’s from the pilot forgetting that he could jump through a wormhole. At the time, it was looking like there might be a bit of a hole in the SRP fund for all this.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7466" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">This is where <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/The+Gorgon+Spawn" target="_blank">The Gorgon Spawn</a> comes into things. It’s always interesting to see off-shoots of null entities jumping into WH space. We rolled into <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/The+Gorgon+Empire" target="_blank">Gorgon Empire</a>’s poorer cousins with an open mind. Could these guys be here to enhance the WH community and revel in the environment, using the convoluted chains of C5 space for PvP? No, they were there to farm. I seem to remember the Gorgons being Russian or at least eastern European, in the main, meaning their primetime was a couple of hours ahead of ours and indeed, it looked like we’d missed them ratting. Moros’ were sat at the POS’s, but what was interesting was that there were several mobile tractor units still in space. The sites were scouted and the MTU’s were there, but 300km off. Given that their dreads were fitted with rails, it looked like they were using the capitals at long range and leaving the MTU’s in the sites until the site despawned. We may have missed their fleet ratting, but we were in time to see one of their <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/40635235/" target="_blank">Loki</a>’s emptying the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/40635370/" target="_blank">MTU</a>’s. A gank, for sure, but PvP loot all the same and enough to plug the gap in SRPing ‘Content day’. Thank you, Gorgon Spawn.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7468" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Then came Hyperion. Looking for content once more, scouts spotted a <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Lazerhawks" target="_blank">Lazerhawks</a> tagged Vargur which must have been clearing a Gas site in a C5 magnetar, later confirmed by the appearance of 4 NPC wrecks and a pair of Lazerhawks prospects. That’s about where the confusion began. There were a lot of connections to that WH. What really didn’t help was that a significant number of them were the useless frigate wormholes that we can all thank CCP Fozzie for. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">“Isn’t Lazerhawks’ home a Pulsar?” </span></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7470" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Galmas scouted the pulsar and found the Lazerhawks there with a few ships starting to assemble on the WH. I kept eyes in what would be their static, which was a magnetar. The rest of the fleet was moving through our static (which had a wolf-rayet effect) to the magnetar to try and catch some of the Lazerhawks and hope that things escalated. Galmas ordered the fleet to jump into the magnetar and align for the Lazerhawks hole when I spotted another fleet on D-scan. Viperfleet Inc’s tags alongside DE.NY’s distinctive [˄˅] and a special [Jez] tag for Disavowed’s resident <a href="https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/750664960/h5EC23283/" target="_blank">special snowflake</a>. It looked to be a small fleet of Gila’s and Ishtar’s and a Scimitar, but we had no idea where they were or where they came from. </span></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7472" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">By the time we checked out the null (which did have a connection to a C6 – but through a frigate hole), there was no sign of the Disavowed fleet and the Lazerhawks had moved from the WH and the prospects had also left. Apparently, Lazerhawks had caught a Disavowed scout amid the confusion and the [Jez] tag on D-scan was replaced by Jezza Avada’s Capsule. The Lazerhawks own scouts had obviously spotted our fleet before we moved it back into our static (the wolf-rayet) and started to form up for a fight. They looked like they had similar numbers, so Galmas made the call for him and I to switch our respective Proteus and Loki for Bhaalgorns. The Bhaals stayed in our home system with a couple of guys who just logged in as the Lazerhawks made their way to the Wolf-Rayet to engage the ships that waited there for them. The Lazerhawks jumped through to the fleet, de-cloaked and started to engage just as our reserve landed on grid - perfect timing . With two Bhaalgorns on grid, I knew Galmas would focus on their Guardians, so I put neuts on a couple of the Proteus’ and a Tengu to reduce pressure on our logi.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7478" lang="EN-US">In the end, it was not much of a fight at all, but I made sure to thank the Lazerhawks for content. Incidentally, TFC seems to be spreading. I had a bit of a dual-boxing error while engaging <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Hole+Control" target="_blank">Hole Control.</a> in their home system in what was, initially, a decently balanced fight, until the point where they upped the ante with a Bhaalgorn, an Archon and a Thanatos. Broadly speaking, we were ready for this and jumped out into their C4 static. This was when I noticed my error in that my Legion was 30km off the WH in some random direction. Needless to say, it didn’t make it back, but as I warped the pod away, they did drop a “Thanks for content” in local, so despite losing a Legion (and electronic subs 5 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;">L</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410887083971_7480" lang="EN-US">), I still felt pretty smug.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Jay> Oh, it’s W.H.O.R.E.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">With tails firmly between our legs and running low on ships, it seemed like a good time for a break. By now, a couple more of our guys had logged in and we were explaining the whole embarrassing state of affairs to them over comms. That was when they got in contact again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">It might have been fair to say that we might have lulled them into a false sense of security with our previous successive derps. Our scout reported 2 full neut legions, 3 guardians, Hurricane, 2 Proteus’, Sacrilege, Armageddon and an Absolution, which was more or less equivalent to our numbers with a couple of guys dual-boxing. I was keen to bring a HAM Legion to exploit the Black hole that was our static, but the Absolution was likely to be on-grid boosts. I decided to fight fire with fire and switched into the Eos along with a Loki.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">From the off, we were looking light on dps, but with a HAM/Neut legion, 2 Tengu’s, plus Oddic’s Armageddon in reserve, I was pretty confident we could break their logi and we assembled the fleet (except the geddon) on our static. We knew they had eyes on us, and our scout followed them. They assembled on the other side at zero and I started to hatch a plan. The static had dropped to half mass after round 2 and I knew from earlier that they weren’t keen to fight in the black hole, so I ordered the fleet to jump. As we started to engage, I ordered the geddon to warp to the hole but the WH0RE fleet jumped earlier than I expected. The only thing this changed was that we had shown our hand. I didn’t mind this in the position we were now in, but we <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410804426878_3005">now </span>needed a HIC to pull off what I was planning. Oknos was having trouble re-shipping into his, but this was fine. For this to work, we’d need to wait for our polarisation timers. Given how tentative the other fleet was, I didn’t rate them going for a prolonged brawl but I intended to force the issue. 5 minutes later, Oknos was warping a Phobos over to the static and I ordered the fleet to jump back.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">My first concern was the Armageddon. Along with the 2 Legions WH0RE had, they had the neuting potential to wreck our fleet. Their Guardians burned out to range as we engaged the geddon, but one of the three was caught close and webbed down. It was obvious from early on that our dps wouldn’t be able to burn down even a T1 hull while their guardians were still in play, especially with links active. We couldn’t even scratch it. I dropped the neuts from the Eos onto the stranded Guardian and damps on one of the orbiting pair while calling for the fleet to switch dps to the close guardian. As it hit low armour, the reps landed and seemed to cancel out our dps. We needed this to work to tip the balance in our favour and I called for the fleet to overheat on it. It was agonisingly slow, with their reps heroically dragging the guardian back into mid armour after the damage started to bleed into hull, but it couldn’t hold. We’d done enough and as the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/41271865/" target="_blank">guardian popped</a>, the WH0RE fleet manoeuvred back to jump range – just as I had anticipated.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">I’d been watching and listening out for that moment and our fleet managed to get ahead of some of their ships on the jump. As we decloaked to spread points, the wormhole collapsed. <a href="http://www.quickmeme.com/img/a9/a9ed842f739e930dc8e9340bafbbaeaf77994c50c74fc6a86b046b54cb9b2c59.jpg" target="_blank">I love it when a plan comes together</a>. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SBave-vxZtI/UnD5OUMoCFI/AAAAAAAAIY8/NGaTJY93Kf8/s1600/at4.jpg" target="_blank">I <i>really</i> love it when a plan comes together</a>. I’d like to say that it was the WH0RE geddon burning back to the hole and jumping heavy that made it collapse as it jumped behind our fleet, but the truth is I’m not sure what collapsed it. Either way, all of my fleet had made it to the other side, and the WH0RE fleet guardians were now trapped in our home system, cut-off from the rest of their fleet. Only one thing was missing to make the execution of said plan flawless…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Fair play to WH0RE. It didn’t save them totally, but they’d seen the danger in the Phobos and had managed to get a few ships away while it was regaining cap. Here is where it really showed to me where USYSC had really improved as a group and the new and old pilots had got used to flying with each other. In this situation in so many previous engagements, we were lucky to catch one or two fleeing ships, but now points were being called loud and clear and therefore, spread efficiently. We quickly burned down the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/41271898/" target="_blank">geddon</a>, the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/41271912/" target="_blank">hurricane</a> and the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/41271941/" target="_blank">Absolution</a> as the last two WH0RE ships on grid burned in opposite directions out of the bubble Oknos finally managed to deploy. Feisty called that he was losing point on the Proteus and I moved the Loki to assist, the webs thwarting the Proteus’ escape. The Legion that had burned the other direction was about 70km off but the fleet had split up to keep each one tackled and to make sure there was no escape<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410804426878_3000"> for either the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/41272006/" target="_blank">Legion</a> or the <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/41271997/" target="_blank">Proteus</a></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">As we looted the field, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Chesterfield+Fancypantz" target="_blank">Chesterfield Fancypantz</a> convo’d me. We exchanged “gf’s” (I did make sure they were thanked for content in local) and he asked if there was a way out for his guardians. I told him we’d scan the new static for them. Since one of the guardian pilots was an ex-Blackstar member in <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Sool+Nera" target="_blank">Sool Nera</a>, it was the least I could do. Our fleet managed to make its way back to K-space via a deep lowsec connection, but WH0RE’s stranded guardians had a more convoluted route to safety. Our new static happened to be <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Blue-Fire" target="_blank">Blue-Fire</a>’s home system, and with their usual subtlety, they started shooting at our customs offices in between attempting to catch our scanners. I had to let them know <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410804426878_2989">that </span>the fleet went balls deep, so no fight would be forthcoming until we fixed that. They let me know they <span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410804426878_2996">only </span>had 4 EOL nulls in the chain, which was kinda the end of that. The only other possibility seemed to the direct null into our home. Sure enough, the guardians were escorted 1 jump through null, through another C5 and into a direct lowsec 1 jump from highsec.</span></div>
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Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-44179439485623613112014-09-10T18:17:00.000+01:002014-09-10T18:17:32.592+01:00The Sum of All Fuck Ups<div class="yiv5214357237MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410368241962_1821" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">So it’s a quiet night in the chain. There’s a <a href="http://i1.cpcache.com/product_zoom/482701514/football_sucks_thermos_can_cooler.jpg?color=StainlessSteel&height=460&width=460&padToSquare=true" target="_blank">Euro football match</a> on, so corp chat is quieter as a consequence but there is a couple of highsec connections which people exploit for a couple of trips to the market hubs. Galmas uses to opportunity to replace a Bhaalgorn he lost in a fight with Sleeper Social Club. O’nira is already in Jita and offers to haul in things for people, but has no room for the Bhaalgorn hull. This isn’t a worry, since there is one fairly cheap nearby one of the other highsec connections, so the mods get bought in Jita while the ship itself is flown in through a different route. While this is going on, <a href="http://i.imgur.com/p3Au8Xf.gif" target="_blank">I’m buzzing around the chain in my cloaky-loki</a> (and not a legion), which conveniently puts me in the perfect place to scout the bhaalgorn home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">At this point, it is completely unfit – not even any rigs, but the chain was quiet and I’d not seen anything on my way through. Galmas jumps in from highsec and I throw him a web-warp just to get the vulnerable ship home quicker and warp after him towards the connection with the static. The cloaky-loki is about to land when I hear “Oh. Disavowed are here.” A cloaky-proteus (see, doesn’t have the same ring to it) had arrived on the WH at the same time as the Bhaalgorn and subsequently de-cloaked. There was about 10 seconds of all three pilots sitting there, each wondering quite how precarious the situation was. From Disavowed’s point of view, the Bhaalgorn could turn the Proteus into a floating spectator in a one-sided fight, at least until the inevitable back-up arrived. From our point of view, it looked quite different. We had no idea where they had connected to, so the safest option would have been to warp back to highsec and hope it wasn’t bubbled. The proteus obviously had faith in his reinforcements and put a point on the Bhaalgorn before we could take the safe option, forcing Galmas to jump.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Apparently, the cloaky-loki’s autocannons weren’t enough to grab the attention of the Proteus and it jumped after Galmas, which left me a second or so behind. This meant that Galmas was pointed jump before I was able to webwarp him. Discouraging the tackler with point/webs/dps probably wasn’t going to work at this point, since there was no response from the Bhaalgorn, but it was about the only option I had aside from wishing I was in the Legion instead of the Loki. Neuts would have all but guaranteed the escape from a single Proteus. Here’s where my multi-tasking prowess fell down a little. I was trying to log in said Legion while putting point/webs/dps on the tackler, but in my haste I hadn’t unlocked Galmas and the point went on him for a cycle (along with the webs from the failed web-warp). As I rectified the situation, a Negative Density Proteus jumped in (oh, apparently Negative Density have joined Disavowed). At this point, I started to wonder how much neuts might have been in the system where Galmas had bought the Bhaalgorn.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Prompted by the panicked screams being broadcast via teamspeak, O’nira had turned up with a Falcon and Sherpa also reinforced us with his own Proteus. Even with ECM, we weren’t able to save the beleaguered Bhaalgorn. O’nira only managed to jam both the DE-NY proteus’ <i><a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/morcelle/Macros/joff_clap.gif" target="_blank">after</a></i> their target had popped. By now, I had put some distance between me and the hole, but Sherpa was at blaster range just as the rest of the Disavowed fleet jumped in, adding a Proteus loss to the night’s woes as I decided that <a href="http://blog.chron.com/tubular/files/2014/05/run-away.jpg" target="_blank">discretion was the better part of valour</a>, and found my way back home.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“Ah, the Spy strikes again!” It had completely passed me by that my little miss-click would put me firmly on Galmas’ Bhaalgorn loss as an involved party. I’d already received plenty of ‘spy’ banter from the Marmite Collective connection just after I joined USYSC, but tonight’s derpage was about to trigger another round.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Realistically, it made no difference. I’d have provided an ‘assist’ from the webs but as the point showed rather than the webs, the casual observer might think it suspicious. For us, it was a good way to make light of a good number of things that just plain should not have happened.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Ah, well. At least I christened the new cloaky-loki with a killmail. <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/41153665/" target="_blank">Even if it was my own CEO</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I’ve mentioned before the main reason I dropped out of Serene
Vendetta was the lack of PvP. Or at least the willingness to PvP. The guys kept
asking me to organise roams for them but when I did, two guys turn up and only
one of those was on time. That’s not to say the leadership weren’t up for it –
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themselves an <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=21523436" target="_blank">orca kill</a>. In exchange for a <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=21523436" target="_blank">zealot, two proteus’ an Armageddon, a buzzard and four pods</a>. There are other gems like a reluctance to engage a 6
barge mining fleet in a C4 because it looked like a trap (which I guaranteed
them it wasn’t). The gung-ho FC then ordered everyone to reship to T1 to
engage them – just incase. It wasn’t a trap, and some got away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and in typical ‘I-told-you-so’ fashion, Ludis did say “well, what did you
expect from an ex-Li3 corp?”. I didn’t even know what that meant, but I’m sure
it was a brutal putdown to anyone fluent in the machinations of dullsec. Just
as I left, they were forming an alliance to, according to <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Natasha+Donnan" target="_blank">Natasha Donnan</a>’s
forum post, “We want to be able to form a 40 man t3 fleet and go stomping down
the c5 superhighway.” Glad I got out! Been there, done that, then used the
t-shirt to wax my car. Can’t win fights? The solution is simple; bring moar
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Monday night and after rounding off some finishing touches to the previous blog
entry, comms were alight which battle-chatter. USYSC were heavily engaged with
Mordus Angels in a direct null. Logi was going down, so I ship up into a
scimitar and join Gibs in his on the K162. Apparently, the guys were at the
gate to a complex after scanning down some ratters. The only problem for me was
the fleet was full and the boss was AFK. After 6 minutes of cursing and cussing,
we managed to find a solution and get me on grid. By the time I landed on grid,
the Angels had warped off. Our guys started to loot the field as a few of them
went home to go AFK, but they were taking their time about it, so I burned out
to orbit. A minute or two later, I was just about to mention we really want to
not be here when the reason for not wanting to be here warped back in and
started tackling what was left on grid. The Mordus Angels had the numbers now
and it was looking grim, so ‘get out’ was called. Already being clear of the
melee before it started, I had no trouble warping out and getting home, leaving
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the WH, but by the time we had enough people back at keyboard, Mordus Angels
had re-thought committing to an engagement and docked back up. It was looking
like that was that, but my hopes of getting a fight were rekindled as a new
signature appeared. Jumping into my Stratios, I found an incoming WH from a C2.
A bunch of frigates and an Exqueror Navy waited on the other side. As backup
arrived, the frigates scattered and the Exqueror was pulling away from me fast.
Zooming in, it looked like it was a shield tanked, railgun-boat and it was going
like the clappers. I could see the idea behind it, but surely there’s a better
hull he could use. That’s unless the purpose was to blueball tacklers, in which
case, it worked a charm. I was getting a strong feeling that it was time for me
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other incoming null we had and had found another C5 connecting to the same
system. He’d posted a D-scan result in corp and I recognised the tag instantly
– Serene Vendetta “Oh, we’re fighting these guys.” O’nira got a D-scan of their
fleet, which was moving and I reshipped an alt into a cov-ops legion to keep
eyes in the nullsec while I got swapped the Stratios for a Loki. The Brawls
Deep fleet headed O’nira off at the connection to our WH and bubbled up. They
definitely had the numbers on us and had brought plenty of logi. None of that
bothered us. You fly smart with a balanced composition, you can negate the
numbers advantage. 6 Legions, 4 Proteus’, 2 Loki, 1 Arazu, 1 Falcon</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">4 guardians and a devoter. O’nira skipped through their fleet back
home to reship. Of course, the disadvantage of all this happening in null was,
thanks to local, it was obvious my alt was sat there watching them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Traba Regina> o7<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Val> Hey there Trabs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Val> Can't quite pull your numbers, so you'll have to wait ;)</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Some of our guys were worried about the sheer number of Legions
they were fielding, but while I was chatting to Traba in local, I was using the
opportunity to take a closer look at their ships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Myst> If they are HAM, they’ll have neuts fitted<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jay> No, they’ve not got the right subs. They’re full HAM, all
6 of them.</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">That made things a lot easier. It was a fleet devoid of any
subtlety. All dps and no flexibility. It’s like some guy turning up on your
doorstep in full plate mail and holding a Morningstar, asking for a fight while
forgetting you can simply slip a simple poignard under his bascinet. With a
number of us dual-boxing, we prepared said poignard. 5 Proteus, 4 Tengus,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">2 Lokis, 2 Legions, Phobos, an Astarte and an Archon to
level the field. As the fleet assembled, Natasha Donnan decided to add a cheeky
comment in local.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Natasha Donnan> aww, we didn't kill your venture fleet :)</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Now, that was a real shame because Nat is just about the nicest
guy you’ll meet in Eve. Easy going and a good laugh, but haughty remarks that
imply he was entitled to kill the venture fleet are a good way of making
yourself primary. Although I can kind of understand why he’d do it. Brawls had
obviously scouted the system, seeing it was my new home, had the intention of
making me regret leaving by showing everyone they were big boys now. I’d
probably want to do the same, had the situation been reversed. However, I’d
probably not be so brazen about it – just incase.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">So, as we’d already established, Nat was primary. Our Tengu’s had
rendered their mass of Guardians ineffective, and <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553449" target="_blank">Nat’s Legion did not stand upto the punishment for very long</a> [apologies for <em>those</em> links - eve kill was borked at time of writing - will amend later] and my autocannons sent his pod on the <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553450" target="_blank">highsecexpress</a>. Secondary had already been called but I threw in a couple of names
over comms of who their likely FC’s were. Another <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23558763" target="_blank">Legion</a> went down along with an <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553451" target="_blank">Arazu</a> before we
brought the DPS to bear on their lik</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">e</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">l</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">iest</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">FC, Traba Regina. A couple of cycles of reps landed on his <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553445" target="_blank">Legion</a>
but nowhere near enough to prevent him following Nat in decorating the
battlefield with his own wreck. I made sure not to leave him any time to unplug
his <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553457" target="_blank">slave set</a>. Traba may have been off the field, but with so much new blood in
their group, I had no doubt there would be a secondary I didn’t know about.
Cutting off the head of the beast didn’t seem so important with their reps all
but nullified. Just to be sure, I’d positioned my Legion in a position to intercept
the guardians. Decloaking, I burned for them to neut out the cap chain they’d
managed to establish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">At this point, Brawls seemed to have adopted a similar tactic. I
found both Jay and Val jammed out by the Falcon and my Loki was being lit up.
What was unfortunate for them was on this occasion, I wasn’t FC. It was called
earlier for someone who wasn’t dual-boxing to call targets, which ruled me out.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Then, over comms, something reassuring from our carrier
pilot:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Myst> Guys, make sure you broadcast when you’re in half shields<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jay> Err, I’m in half armour. Gonna need them reps.</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Happily, I didn’t hit hull before the Archon attended the Loki,
but annoyingly, the Falcon had me locked down. At this point, I take my hat off
the that Falcon pilot (I believe it was Blackmoon Thrawn?). There was no let-up
in the jams and without the Legion disrupting the Guardians cap, Brawls Deep
were able to hold reps and I was becoming frustrated as another pod was there
for the taking and just begging for some 220mm mercy. He was keeping Brawls
very much in the fight and our damps were doing nothing to stop him.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Fair play.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">>Kill the pod. Come on, somebody, kill that pod!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I decided to do something risky to try and get back into the
fight. Jay was no longer primary and able to burn back to the WH though the
bubble while Val was out by the guardians not tackled at all. I jumped Jay in
and out, chancing polarisation while warping Val back and forth to a celestial
to remove the attentions of the Falcon. It wasn’t long before I was back on
grid, by which time Brawls Deep had brought reinforcements in the form of an
Archon of their own and had upped the ante with a Naglfar. This was where our
preparation fell slightly short. The response would have been a similar
escalation on our part, but O’nira was realising and regretting that we still
hadn’t brought several caps, including his <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>, back home. To make matters worse,
the Naglfar pilots were engaged in subcaps. The Moros option was still there.
It was just a matter of finding one.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Our Archon was suffering. Their subcaps were trying desperately to
keep it out of jump range while the Naglfar gave it a pounding. Their own
carrier wasn’t reacting quick enough to ou</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">r</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">dps, and with the neuts finally engaging the Guardians, we were
able to pop a <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553464" target="_blank">loki</a> (<a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553467" target="_blank">+pod</a>). We still had no Dreadnaught and the Archon didn’t look
like it was going to last its triage cycle. All we could do from here was to
get everything back into jump range for when it did happen. Brawls Deep responded
by moving their support ships on top of the hole as well. As the Archon
exploded, ou</span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">r</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">fleet jumped home
and I breathed a sigh of relief that the polarisation gamble worked in getting
me back into the fight, but wasn’t done too late that I was left hanging out to
dry. The Brawls Deep HIC pilot was quick to follow and put the bubble up. Our
pilots who hadn’t already warped off held cloak, intelligently.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I say intelligently because from our point of view, it’s our home
system. From here we can field not just another Carrier (which was called for
when we realised they would pursue), but several. Not to mentioned the dreads.
Brawls Deep must have thought they could smell blood. Our reps were gone (until
we warp some more in, that is) so surely it would be a simple case of mopping
up the field, right? I might have been thinking the same thing, but I would
have been sure to check the mass on the WH first.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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legions were right on top of them and soon took a hammering after the Devoter
was forced to jump back out. Some of the guardians followed until the collapse
of the WH meant the end of any kind of contest. The fleet jumped on blubess’
<a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553471" target="_blank">Legion</a> and tackled the remaining guardians as 3TEARS tried to make a break for
it in his Proteus, which hadn’t escaped my notice. 29km, 30km, 31km… links were
down, so I had to apply a little more heat to the Loki that already had heat
gauges full on the active racks. I started to close the distance and then –
jammed again! The Falcon hadn’t returned to torment me, but Bigiboi had put
dishonour drones on me, briefly jamming me until his Guardian went down. The
Proteus still hadn’t managed to warp and I re-establishedlock and tackle before
the fleet closed in to <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553473" target="_blank">finish the job</a>. Last off was a familiar name, but not
from Serene Vendetta. Themad boatman I knew from a nullsec pewliday. He was
formerly a member of the truly terrible ‘King’s Bastards’ whose fleets I
delighted in wiping the floor with whenever they took one of their frequent
roams through our space. As we finished off themad <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553474" target="_blank">boatman’s guardian</a> and <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23553475" target="_blank">capsule</a>, Bigiboi
greeted us in local.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Bigiboi > :)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Bigiboi > hey Jay<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Jay Joringer > Hey Bigi<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">blubess > good fight. who wants to come over to my place and
spoon?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Takashi Haul > shame we jumped in =d</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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stragglers in their pods if they were stuck or leave them to the indignation of
having to safe up and self-destruct, but Bigi is a genuinely cool guy. He is
absolutely terrible at impersonations or mimicking accents, and I think that is
being quite kind. I thought it would be rude not to offer him bookmarks to
highsec in exchange for a song. He was so gracious about it we gave him and
blubess shuttles to go with their bookmarks out, and I got back in the stratios
to make sure the way out was clear. I’ll apologise for the video. The delivery
of Wrecking Ball was so heart-rending that it reduced me to tears. At least, I
think heart-rending is the right way to describe it. No. Painful. Painful is
what I meant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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while describing all this, the fight with Mordus started before 1900 GMT and
the end of the Brawls fight was at 22:30. The busy night didn’t quite stop
there. While I was scouting the wrecked brawlers out, our C2 neighbors started jumping
into system for a small skirmish with our guys. As I was heading back to reship
[Natasha Donnan is inviting you do a conversation]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Natasha Donnan > i guess you guys won the isk war?</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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amount of EWAR we fielded. I didn’t apologise. You want to beat superior
numbers, that’s how you do it. He did also mention that they were going to
petition the WH closure, which we did laugh at a bit</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">about. They must have assumed it was a fresh hole. Oh
well. I’d like to take this opportunity to formally welcome Brawls Deep to
<a href="https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&find=unread&t=319461" target="_blank">Jay-space</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">[<a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Dizzy+Uzzy" target="_blank">Dizzy Uzzy</a> is inviting you do a
conversation]. Another one? Interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Dizzy Uzzy > Ffs Jay why you take our fight?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Dizzy Uzzy > We were waiting to hit Brawls<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dizzy Uzzy > Looks like you had a good one though</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Apparently he’d lost a Cynabal to Brawls Deep earlier in the night
and his lowsec group were waiting to jump their fleet until they saw a few pods
trickle back down the chain. He left saying that if I was ever around Kor-Azor,
there’d always be a fight there for me. Well, that’s one connection I just
might have to look out for and hope they bring the fight as good as Brawls Deep
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Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-78494319906375591302014-08-12T08:45:00.001+01:002014-08-12T08:45:16.215+01:00How The Mighty Have Fallen<div class="yiv5830821949msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Oh, where to begin here? Let’s start with a little James Brown.
It’s not my usual taste, but he has released some real gems in an expansive
back catalogue. “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=istJXUJJP0g" target="_blank">The Payback</a>” being one of those gems and quite suited to the
subject of this entry. Sadly, this musical segue has given me a ridiculous
theme to write this entry by, and I am a sucker for ridiculous ideas (like
drake roams). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUxBvojq5wE" target="_blank">Think</a> of that what you will but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0k5USzHw7g" target="_blank">There was a time</a> when I
thought it was a good idea (apologies - it wont get any better than that, but don't stop clicking those links!).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Payback. It’s easy to get wronged in
eve. Thieves and scammers have become so accepted as a part of the game’s
culture that there are a few well renown. As far as infamy goes, Awox hit the
jackpot to get his name used as a verb for blue-tackling. Maybe it’s because
many pilots see the appeal of fame or infamy and want their own little slice,
and here I reference Skunkworks. They weren’t the ones who invented the various
methods of awoxing incursion fleets or using aggression mechanics to gank the
fleets, but they are the ones people associate with it. The story about it
being a protest about the ISK people generated by running incursions and
therefore raising PLEX prices was about as flimsy as they come. It was about
the attention and the lols.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I used to fly with a guy who, through innovative use of the
in-game notepad, kept tabs on everyone that had ever wronged him with the
intention of paying back every single one. From the guy who first popped him
when he first discovered lowsec wasn’t safe to take shortcuts through in your
best ship, to the old friend who popped his ship in a wardec. Payback is not
always forthcoming and tends not to be particularly noteworthy when it does.
I’d love to say that for all these pages of notes, my former cohort didn’t hand
out one ounce of retribution, but he did get the latter of the two I mentioned.
He’d tracked his target to Dodixie and waited for him to undock where he waited
with his Arty Thrasher, and moments later payback came in the form of a shuttle
killmail. Epic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Personally, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkFm8oah0HU" target="_blank">I don’t mind</a> little
things like who popped my ship once upon a time, so why <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-tSMVMRaGQ" target="_blank">Bring it up</a>? Well,
some things I do mind. Slander, for example. Running a corporation in
Disavowed. Was one of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyPA5B0uHic" target="_blank">The things that I used to do</a>. After I left, some things
were stolen from inside the forcefield of one of the <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Blackstar+Privateers" target="_blank">Blackstar Privateers</a>
corporation towers, but crucially, not from inside the hangars. I believe a
couple of guys lost an Orca, a Legion and a couple of other smaller ships. It
was initially assumed that one of the game patches had made them bug, which was
reported to have happened to another corp within the alliance. <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Odidi+PeYo" target="_blank">Odidi Peyo</a>, who lost
the Orca (which I had built for him) petitioned it. His response was that the
items were still in game, but the GM couldn’t reveal where they were or who had
them, ergo, stolen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">This was never announced publicly, but I was blamed for this. I
know this because I was in contact with the guys who had lost ships. Odidi had
asked me directly whether I’d taken his ships, apparently just to clear up the
issue and accepted my ignorance of the thefts and was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WppB6y797hk" target="_blank">Bewildered</a> at the news.
At the time, Odidi was one of the officers within Blackstar, under <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/IAmSeannn" target="_blank">IamSeannn</a>
and <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Dizzy+Uzzy" target="_blank">Dizzy Uzzy</a> and relayed this information back to them in the command
channel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">IamSeannn> Odi, it was Jay. It’s the only logical explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Now, let’s ignore how I got the chatlog for a minute and work
through Sean’s logical reasoning here. Firstly, I had been out of the
corporation for 4 weeks and had all my toon out of the wormhole for at least a
week longer than that. On the exact date that the ships went missing, I was on
holiday with my wife, celebrating our 10<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>wedding anniversary. The hotel did
have WiFi, but I had made a point of not bringing a laptop – just had better
things to do. I mean, if you go to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:city>
with a significant other, you just have to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7eFHI8KYEg" target="_blank">Let yourself go</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Now, I’ll be the first to admit that
this particular set of circumstances won’t stop a determined thief, but
Iamseannn always struck me as one of those people who have a habit of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZkjo3mNmsA" target="_blank">Talking loud and saying nothing</a>. The important thing to me was that no one who had
anything stolen believed that I did it. My own theories on the theft implicated
either himself or Dizzy. Before I left, he was moaning about leaving ships
floating in the forcefield – free intel or something. Circumstantial, I know,
but combine that with the chips the pair had on their shoulders about me
leaving. Certain people in Blackstar would send me snippets of the corp chatlog
which showed how insecure Dizzy in particular was at stepping into my shoes,
feeling he needed to point out that they could manage without me etc. Just
words though, and they needed something to cement this. Something that could
either prove their quality as leaders or discredit mine by painting me as a
thief. This is why I suspect them of stealing the ships themselves, but like
them, I have no proof. I believe that the total of this Grand Heist came up to
slightly less than 2 billion ISK. If I was going to blacken my name, it would
be for a lot more than that. I’d just sold a carrier toon as well, so I was in
a situation where I could say <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6l5_FxjlaQ" target="_blank">I've Got Money</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Fast forward a couple of months to
just after I joined United System’s Commonwealth where I was enjoying small
gang PvP (not massive blobs) and just being able to play the game instead of
being <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2ZY2loo74" target="_blank">The Boss</a>. Jay was on pewliday in highsec at the time, and my other
toons were living out of an Orca in the USYSC C5. Disavowed roll into us one
night while I was busy in highsec. Their scouts buzzed the towers to see who
was home while their fleet was waiting the other side of the K162. From their
public channel and several others, I could tell who was online, who their FC
(Max Leadfoot) was and could guess at the size and composition of their fleet. Knowing
they had roughly 3 times our numbers in T3’s alone and had undoubtedly Max’s
links and Nag ready to jump us with other caps on standby, it was looking less
like a potential fight and more like a lossmail donation. Our own scouts
confirmed my suspicions. Obviously feeling <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ9CLOEOB5U" target="_blank">Superbad</a> from the fleet backing
him up, IamSeannn’s alt piped up in local.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Maya Scorsese> Hi Val. miss u</span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">There was some other smacktalk, but nothing witty or noteworthy
enough to mention. This many not appear noteworthy itself, but I tend to
remember <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8xzF2y5Jo" target="_blank">These Foolish Things</a>. Especially when, as Sunday night, we roll the
connection to find a way to bring some caps back in but instead of finding a
viable jump location, we find the Mighty Disavowed. The timing was interesting,
since I was on dotlan looking at a jump-plan when I noticed the top alliance
movers on the right which listed Disavowed as having -254 members in the last 7
days. Looks like they had a clearout. Everyone except Viperfleet had
amalgamated into Pandora Sphere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">While the rest of the chain was being
scouted, Galmas did his usual trick of intercepting scouts leaving the hole,
catching an unsuspecting covert ops and Poerkie’s Enyo that had gone in to get
rid of the Eris. At some point, a Gila even warped in and thought better of it,
leaving some poor Anathema to bravely scoop the Gila’s discarded drones. One
covert ops did manage to make it past the one man blockade and find his way
into our home system – an obvious alt of Jezza McWaffles, also creatively named
Jezza. One of our guys asked if we could still get a fight out these guys,
which left me thinking; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdMZ1qrn6k" target="_blank">Please, Please, Please</a>! Jezza was obviously scouting
the POS’s to get intel on our numbers and fleet comp. This is the sort of thing
I would use D-scan for, but Jezza is pro and uses combat scanner probes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">On his way out, he found three of our
ships, including a bubbler attempt to catch him on the static. He bravely
jumped back into our home system and hid, giving me the perfect opportunity to
provoke them. I had a feeling that everything I said in local would get relayed
back to his alliance. Actually, I was counting on it. I dropped a bit of light
banter in local, as well as a few gifs as a way of saying <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1FcN72gzWo" target="_blank">Bring it on… bring it on</a>. While this way going on, IamSeannn’s alt, Maya Scorsese seemed to go
AFK next to Galmas for a full minute. This tends to be a good way of waking up
in highsec. Oh, it’s a cruel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7UUNrCit_k" target="_blank">world</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jezza was the type of cretin to still be using ‘yolo’ and, secondly, it was now
time to deliver my coup de grace in local.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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DE.NY don't fight anymore? </span></span></div>
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from a small, independent corporation such our ours. I was not disappointed.
The scouts reported IamSeannn in a Vagabond, backed up by Poerkie in a Dominix
as well as a couple of Gilas and an Oracle. Catching them out on a cross-jump,
we caught them between two interdictors at different ends of their static. Most
of their kitchen-sink fleet warped off to safespots, but Bloemkoolsaus’ Oracle
was slightly behind and was given the pod express for his tardiness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">From there, our fleet split up. With
Galmas inside their home system, myself on their static K162 side and the rest
of the fleet on the only other wormhole out of their system. Sherpa chased them
around with combat probes until they decided to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZkoLYuTSA" target="_blank">Get it together</a> and make a
run for it back to their new home. Poerkie landed first in his Domi and
returned fire. Poerkie’s backup arrived and jumped through the WH into their
home as my own backup arrived. The Domi lit his MJD while one of the Gilas
jumped back into the static to escape. Sadly for IamSeannn, his Vagabond
couldn’t burn away quick enough to escape my webs or Galmas’ scram. As the
local tank sputtered its last throes of resistance, I decided to say ‘hi’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Jay> Hi Sean. Miss u<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">IamSeannn> ransom?</span><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">The guns answered that one. OK,
it’s only a couple of kills, so the build-up might seem a little overindulgent
but I’ll admit the accusation of stealing irked me. I didn’t think possessing
the frozen corpse of my accuser would provide satisfactory consolation, but the
wait has been long enough. It even left me thinking to myself <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TqIdff_DQ" target="_blank">I Feel Good</a>, and perhaps more than a little smug. Well, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVsL4ExBwlI" target="_blank">there it is</a>. It might
seem a little thing, but there’s all the ‘knowing’ that goes with it. I think
Sen put it best:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">There's that too, as well as seeing the mighty Disavowed run from little
old us.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: xx-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-13548065171101990602014-08-11T19:26:00.002+01:002014-08-14T12:02:09.277+01:00Looking for Content<div class="yiv2550797360msonormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Content is always there. You just have to be patient.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I had spent a week watching content pass me by. With
only a few people around, I was reduced to being a spectator in a couple of WH
fights. We had shared a static with Ministry on Inappropriate Footwork as well
as Ash Alliance, who spent an age setting up a brawl in said static. Ash
obviously didn't like the odds and asked us to help out. I think 3 out of the 5
guys we had were up for it. Either way, we enjoyed the view.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Later that week, One of the guys got a fleet together
because he saw someone log in at a POS about 7 jumps down a chain. Sadly, the
unsuspecting pilot didn’t even move inside of his forcefield and the guys
decided to bait with shield-nano in one of the lowsec connections further back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I had the opinion that something was going to happen
and waited around. It took a while but more pilots logged in. Maybe I should
have waited longer, but when an Epithal started moving, I followed. I didn’t
think that this particular C4 group were likely to escalate an engagement with
a PI hauler. I didn’t mind waiting, but not for too long so the Epithal would
have to do. Well, it would have if the pilot wasn’t switched on. Following him
around wasn’t the problem, but there wasn’t enough time to lock him up at the
customs office before he warped, even with a sensor booster on my Stratios.
Instead of warping back to the POS, he confidently carried on with him hauling,
which said to me that not only did he have agility mods fitted, but probably
stabs too and that prompted me to leave it at that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Jumping back through the chain led me through a lowsec
system. There was a reasonable number of people in local (I can’t remember the
exact number, but it was between 10 and 20), but what was striking was that all
but one were flagged as suspects. OK, not unusual for lowsec and usually the
result of a gatecamp with the non-flagged pilot tending to indicate a victim. A
quick D-scan came back with a bunch of battleships, some of them faction, along
with a <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:place></st1:city>
and a Naglfar. This all but ruled out a gatecamp – I have seen dreads on lowsec
gates before, but that kind of thing tends to be a rarity. And suspect?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Either something was going on, or I had just missed it.
Whatever it was warranted a quick D-scan of the system. As I narrowed the
angle, the gate was ruled out, but the ships did turn out to be in line with a
station and a celestial with a POCO and a POS. Warping to the station turned up
blank, and the ships seemed to be back the opposite way, towards the planet. I
made the assumption that they were at the POS, although the absence of wrecks
from outside the station (and on D-scan completely) didn’t explain the suspect
flags. I quickly narrowed the POS down to a specific moon and checked it out.
There I was thinking that I’d missed the action and they were safe inside the
forcefield either waiting out their timers or waiting for the next victim.
Whichever way it was, as soon as they left the safety of that forcefield, I
could have a fleet prepared to jump them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Landing on grid I discovered they were indeed at the
POS, but were outside, shooting it. Battleships, an Attack Battlecruiser,
sieged Dreadnoughts and a Nidhoggur in support. Here was the content I was
looking for. I told the guys on comms to get home a get themselves some proper
ships. Apparently, the baiting wasn’t going too well and when I reeled off what
I had seen on grid, there were no arguments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Legion, 4 Loki, 2 Proteus, 1 Tengu, Ishtar, Arazu,
Stratios, Curse and a couple of Guardians. To top it off, most of those were
dual-boxed (hence the oddments of that fleet comp), which included my Loki and
Legion, and while I was pleased to see other Loki’s around, reducing my chances
of being primary, I was slightly concerned by the fleets dps or lack thereof.
The absence of neuts (Curse aside) was a conscious decision since the consensus
was our best chance of any kills was to down battleships as quickly as possible
as it was unlikely that so few of us would be able to bother the capitals, if
they were set up right. Only one way to find out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">>Who’s FCing this?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Well, I was kinda
hoping you were going to. Oh well…<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">> Jay’s got this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Sending the Arazu ahead to get us a warp in, I
reflected on breaking my own rules – ones that I’ve discussed in ‘<a href="http://smug-bastard.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-art-of-cheesecake.html" target="_blank">the art of cheesecake</a>’. Truth be told, capitals are little out of my comfort zone. I’ve
not flown them much at all and have avoided FCing any engagement involving them
because I just don’t know enough about them. To be fair, it had been a shitty
week. Activity had been low and we’d had to decline a couple of fights because
of this so confidence probably wasn’t on a high. At least I managed to sound
confident in taking charge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">We stacked up on the WH to lowsec as I gave
instructions to the Arazu for our warp-in. People were eager to get in there
despite the reservations we may have had while discussing it moments before.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">>I’m 30km off them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">>We going?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">>No, that’s no good. Get right on top of them. I
want scram range. They might have MJD’s and I don’t want anything getting away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">I was well aware how tall an order that was. With
drones flying around and ships moving, it’s not easy, but not impossible.
Still, our scout did the job perfectly and our warp-in was ideal. Our primary
was a Tempest Fleet Issue which we started to burn down while scrams were
spread around the other Battleships. The dreads were still in siege and the
carrier, well, that did a '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8" target="_blank">Brave Sir Robin</a>' as soon as we landed and warped off
along with any chance the rest of his fleet had of surviving. A Dominix had
already taken some punishment from the POS guns and soon followed the Tempest
and a Tornado as a couple of Maelstroms burned away from the beleaguered
capital ships. They did try to go for the weaker ships, but it soon stopped
being a fight. We had reps and there was no sign their own was returning. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">We dispatched a Rattlesnake and an Abaddon before
turning our attentions to the Naglfar. He resigned himself to his fate and
became a victim of his own self-destruct two minutes after we started shooting
at him. The Phoenix pilot didn't give up so easily and his tank was holding up
pretty well, although with little chance to fight back, and his companions
seemingly uninterested or unprepared for a rescue recognised the inevitable
when his tank began to fail. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=24437397" target="_blank">Explosions are explosions and it makes it all thebetter when they leave behind a pretty capital wreck</a>. My assessment of the whole
thing is we got lucky. We went in thinking we'd be happy with a couple of
Battleship kills. I was even fully expecting to lose a few ships. Whether it
was luck or not, I've always said you need to put yourself in the position to
benefit from the good luck in the first place.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Jay Joringerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00333888877565852690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6080566923464916782.post-64192530573044291722014-06-23T19:52:00.000+01:002014-06-23T19:52:04.659+01:00TFC - Coming soon to a town near you!<div class="yiv9016589480MsoNormal" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4165" style="padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4164" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TFC. No, it’s not some rip off of a fried chicken franchise, but something we’ve been using as an alternative for ‘GF’. Some people have a habit of dropping ‘good fight’ in local no matter what, and I’ve been guilty of this one myself at times. If you plain gank someone, it’s scarcely even a fight, let alone a good one. So, dropping a ‘gf’ in local would seem quite condescending sometimes, even if it was an acknowledgement of a sort; an appreciation. However, doing it is sometimes does get you responses like:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="yiv9016589480evefontff00001" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4170"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4169"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Admiral Leila > No. Get Fucked. Mining barge vs. 6 = no fight. Get the hell outta here with that bullshit</span></span></span><span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4173" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yeah, fair enough. In my defence, it was <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=21522781" target="_blank">a deadspace fitted mining barge</a>. And I held it for the 5 other guys only to whore on the mail.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4181" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We’ve been discussing finding PvP on comms, or as some put it ‘content creation’. More specifically, the appropriate way to thank people for making pretty space explosions to which it was suggested that an alternative to the ‘gf’ could be ‘TFC’ or ‘Thanks for content’. I’ll admit I’m a sucker for trying to make ridiculous ideas stick and have been trying this out over the last week or two (most recently after a skirmish with Exit Strategy.. to which I received the reply:Citric Acid > Any time).</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4184" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>TFC #1 </u></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First opportunity was when one of our scouts happened across an ill-conceived nullsec gatecamp. An Armageddon and a Hurricane were sitting off a drag bubble, presumably trying to catch anything that passed through. I can’t make any comments about their success with this setup, but I don’t remember seeing any wrecks there – something which was soon to be remedied. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4187" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The scout led them through the gate to where our fleet was arriving and proceeded to melt the campers. Interestingly, they started chatting in local:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23103463" target="_blank">Cassuci Fuente</a> > huston we have a problem</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=23103463" target="_blank">Lasernuts</a> > no shit</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1403543460023_4191" lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Hurricane went down pretty quick but the Armageddon made it back to gate and managed to jump into where they had planned to jump people. Once he realised there was no escape, he went down fighting. The system had a station where the cane and geddon pilots joined their already docked compatriots and let us know how they felt in local:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lasernuts > that was a shitty fight</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Lasernuts > and yall wonder why everyone docks up</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">O'nira > i know right</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">O'nira > :d</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">[it did seem inappropriate for a 'GF' at this point]</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Me > Thanks for content</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/stewis+II" target="_blank">stewis II</a> > you sir are in my bio</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/stewis+II" target="_blank">stewis II</a> > with everything else that amuses me</span></div>
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I’ll go into that a little more in a minute, but first off, let me introduce
you to ‘Cheesecake’. No, not the <a href="http://liannemjones.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/cheesecake-a-symbol-of-single-life.jpg" target="_blank">culinary variety</a>. Cheesecake in this instance
was something that a particularly drunk <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Ryane+Omega" target="_blank">Ryane Omega</a> suggested for the Blackstar
corp warcry. I’m not quite sure how it stuck, but it did and it became
synonymous with PvP. For example: “Get in fleet, we’ve got cheesecake in the
static” or “You just missed some epic cheesecake”. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gone bad. I used to get a good return from these. Quick and easy, get some kills
and be gone before anyone realises what happened. I can appreciate that it’s
not always going to work out quite like that and bad runs will happen, but
surely that’s part of the buzz? Surely it’s more fun taking the risk and seeing
what cards you get dealt rather than waiting till you get an unbeatable hand?
But losing isn’t a lot of fun and this latest one made want to stay away from
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How big a deal is it for an FC to be confident?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>As I thought about the answer, more
questions started to manifest and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the
analysis of it all<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>reminded me of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>way<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sun
Tzu’s <a href="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2013/11/art-of-war.jpg" target="_blank">Art of War</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>analyses its own
focus. Now, I don’t want to place too much weight on the book in relevance to
this subject, mainly because I believe it is the most misquoted and abused text
in terms of the bio’s of Eve pilots who think it’s cool to have a quote from
Master Sun in some way associated with their awesome PvP prowess. And I’ll bet
9/10 of those pilots haven’t even read the book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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book or think it has any relevance to PvP in Eve. Having read it, I think the
simple terms it uses are perhaps too broad to translate effectively into your
average spaceship battle which can last from anything from a few seconds to
several minutes and are often affected by the minutiae of the fight. It’s easy
to see how the rendition of the book’s attacking philosophy in modern business
management is an easy transition, but using those principles in Eve would
already be second nature to a good FC.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Especially
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consider to have more weight behind it in terms of being able to apply fighting
philosophy to serious spaceship games. Now, I’ll bet<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>9/10 of those pilots who misguidedly
quote Sun Tzu in their pilots bio’s have never even heard of Miyamoto Mushashi.
So, let’s do a quick comparison. Mushashi was a real person<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>while<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>historians are unsure who Sun Tzu
actually was. Battles<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that have
been<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>attributed to Master Sun,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>record no mention of the man himself<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(at least not by that name).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Battles<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>as well as the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>duels that Mushashi fought in have<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>all<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>been
chronicled. And let’s just put that into perspective – he fought duels to the
death. To fight that many with confidence that you will come out the other side
the victor requires balls of steel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is it? I had my own theories, but I wanted to know what other FC’s thought. I
talked to a few, but ones I<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
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was meant to be three, but one was unavailable at time of writing – this might
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mentioned him before as we both had the same, humble PvP beginnings in highsec
and he is a recurring fixture in Concentrated Evil, to which he recently
recruited me back to before he left after becoming disillusioned with the
Marmite Collective’s way of doing things. We’ve flown with each other a
fair bit, from the Drake Directorate, Blackstar and in Concentrated Evil where
he FC’d a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>5<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>man fleet against 22 war targets and
won (21 kills, no losses and guess who was flying as bait?). I flew against him
while he was spending some time in null. Once I found out where he and Kreszch
had moved out to, I couldn’t resist paying them a little visit. I made sure to
take some kills off their blues while out there and both Zane and Kreszch tried
to intercept me in their webbing Loki’s while their blues set up a trap to get
a bit of revenge. Once I decided that they’d had enough time to set their trap,
I stopped toying with my old CEVL buddies and went home – <a href="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1v6dzg6lu1qc2lxn.gif" target="_blank">straight through the20 man fleet waiting there with HIC’s, ECM, tackle and various other fun stuff</a>.
Zane tells me those guys were raging about me getting away afterwards which
made me uncharacteristically <a href="http://cdn.wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/doug-benson-smug-life.jpg" target="_blank">smug</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Second is Noir head honcho, <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Alekseyev+Karrde" target="_blank">AlekseyevKarrde</a>. I did have a brief stint in Noir and have always admired that they are
one of the few groups who have the skill to fight anywhere in eve. As Enigma
Project, we found this out the hard way during a C3 eviction. Our objective was
to set up one of the new corporations with a WH system. With all the good ones
seemingly taken, I thought it was time to put the alliance through its paces
and see what we could do when we pooled our resources. Looking at it
objectively, there were a few mistakes. Firstly, the timing of the operation.
Getting Zexxi to set up his POS for the first time while he was steaming drunk
was not a good start. I already had the fleet neutralising the enemy POS, so
Anselm had to talk Zexxi through it in another channel. The next derp was
letting an enemy scanner get out. Ludis decided to solo the Zephyr, which was
scanning from a safe without calling for interdictor support, allowing the pod
to get away along with the bookmark for the WH. We did however have a small
force waiting on the WH for such instances which is where derp number three
comes in; The HIC pilot went AFK without telling me. The next mistake was mine
in not rolling the hole instantly. We had additional ships coming to reinforce
us, so we decided to mass it so it would be ready to roll when they arrived.
Next mistake was from one of the reinforcements as he flew his loki blind into
lowsec and started screaming for help over comms. During the confusion, Noir
made their grand entrance, making short work of our WH guards, including our
now at-keyboard HIC pilot. With our main fleet outnumbered and the alliance POS
inadequately set up to mount any kind of defence, we were asked to leave. Well,
it would have been rude to decline<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
true to his word, Alek let our alliance wander out with tails between our legs.
Top bloke.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">And then of course is <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Jay+Joringer" target="_blank">me</a>. Despite my best
efforts to avoid the responsibility, I’ve FC’d almost everywhere I’ve been but
when all is said and done, I probably ought to thank <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Psychotic+Monk" target="_blank">Psychotic Monk</a> and his
Skunkworks cohorts for wardeccing Blackstar several times and being terrible -
all while we were still finding our feet in highsec. If they weren’t so bad,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=10265770" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none;" target="_blank">this
might never have happened</a> (just check out those <a href="http://i.imgur.com/hyB3PZ6.gif" target="_blank">Drakes</a>!), and I’d
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Jay:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="color: white;">Bringing people
home is often more important than the win itself. Losses not only affect a
pilots ability to PvP, but their perception of the FC. If pilots believe their
FC does not care about fleet losses, the less willing a pilot is to commit in a
fight. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Segoe UI";">Alek:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI";"> When I take a fleet out, I
always aim for a flawless victory. When ganking that's usually not a problem,
but for fleet vs fleet combat it's more of a utopian ideal instead of a
reality. Still, my view is if you're not aiming to dumpster someone while bringing
your fleet back intact you aren't trying hard enough. Losses are inevitable
though, so while you can try to keep everyone alive it's important to not let
losses rattle you so you can make a rational decision on when to tough it out
and fight or start to disengage. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "Segoe UI";">Zane:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI";"> Well, unless its a suicide run,
I like all my guys to come home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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dependent on the circumstances. You are never going to have a 100% win record,
but a full whelp can be acceptable if both rare and for a purpose. It’s about
recognising the situations where there is no escape but you can take down more
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guys out of a 15-20 man fleet I'm ok with that but I don't like losing a whole
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Jay:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> I believe it is one
of the most important factors in any engagement. A lack of confidence can lead
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after recognising certain signs that might show that the opposing FC is not
confident. Committing with confidence is sometimes enough to break the resolve
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Alek:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI";">Super important. If you don't
have confidence your fleet hears it and it shows in your slow decision making.
If you play 100% cautiously it really lowers the targets and fights you can get
so you take a fleet out for 1-2h and have nothing to show for it; not good for
morale.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fleet will feel it and they wont be [confident] either. That causes delays and
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stay positive and not dwell on losses. Deconstructing the engagement and
recognising what could have been done differently can help, as long as it isn’t
done too critically. So long as losses are learnt from, it can be taken as a
positive. This applies to all pilots in the fleet. The more practised the fleet
is in similar situations, the easier it is for the FC<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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can be really hard, especially if A. You made an embarrassingly bad call or B.
You made great calls but your pilots didn't follow them. Often times making the
decision to take a break is hard because if you're this critical and passionate
you're probably one of the better FCs in your organization, and your pilots
need you in order to bounce back from said loss. But it's important to remember
the concept of being "on tilt" which is when your emotional state is
causing you to make bad decisions and have negative reactions. If you can learn
to recognize this and step away from the game for a few days it will help you
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accounts for a lot of it. Familiarity with the fleet, the pilots, the
capabilities of both, the territory and the mechanics. Some people can be
affected by reputation, both of FC’s and organisations. Form is also a factor.
Once you are on a winning streak, the easier it is to keep on winning as can
being stuck in a rut be also be hard to get out of.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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but level of comfort/experience in the doctrine you're using, balanced fleet
comp, trust in the pilots in your fleet, good scouting/intel, and your recent
FC outcomes. Those stand out to me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Jay:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> Hugely. Without
confidence in the FC, pilots are less willing to commit without second-guessing
the FC and judging the situation for themselves. Hesitancy like this works
against a fleet. Pilots without confidence in the FC are less likely to commit
fully<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Alek:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> </span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI";">Pretty clutch, but it's one of
those things you don't really appreciate until you fight a fleet who doesn't
have confidence in their commander. I've FC'd against some 0.0 fleets (wont
name blocs) where key pilots would warp off in ones or twos in the middle of a
pitched fight. Obviously that fleet lost, and maybe they would have anyway but
they will never know because they didn't trust their FCs call to keep fighting
when the battle could have gone either way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Also those scardy ships died to cepters. That's what ya
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Zane:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> V</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI";">ery. If they don't, they don't follow the commands as
fast as they should and that lag can lose kills or cost lives. Without that
confidence you will get a lot people questioning the FC to and adding there
thought in as well. and that causes a mess on comms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Jay:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> Being able to
understand the situation and how to deal with it, which comprises of fleet
capabilities, those of the opposing fleet and local mechanics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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communication, knowledge of ships and meta, ability to read maps, and a solid
understanding of how to build and run the fleet you have. Could be a great FC
but if you run a kitchen sink vs an average FC who has a thought out,
coordinated fleet concept which he knows very well that guy will kick the crap
out of you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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theirs from the intel right off the top of your head; their dps, their tank,
and yours as well to be able to say bring this or that ship to ensure a win. If
you cant and you call for the wrong stuff and engage - bye-bye fleet. The next
would be confidence and that comes from just plain old getting out there and
doing it. Yeah, you have to make the calls fast and be right or *pop* fleet
goes down. I think being able to "size up the enemy fleet" is a good
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Segoe UI';">Jay:</span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"> Sadly, mistakes are
often the ones that stand out more. If one person drops the ball, the
consequences are felt by the fleet. Being switched on enough to notice
something that no one else has can also have a big effect. Having the
wherewithal to force ECM off the field, or spend a weapon cycle or two popping
light tackle are harder to notice, but can trigger a butterfly effect<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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incredibly important but as the size of the fleet scales up it's harder for
individual decisions to impact a fight. Not impossible mind you, especially for
intys, interdictors, and anti support ships where independent action can have
major impact on the fight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">At the fleet size my alliance usually fights at,
individual piloting can make or break entire engagements. As much as possible
we encourage people to constantly evaluate the fight, their role in it, and
what their FC is trying to do so they can make strong plays without being micro
managed. FC word is law but each pilot is responsible for their own ship, so
it's a matter of communication and trust that's pretty brilliant when it works
out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">The harsh reality is if you do something independently
and it works you're a god. If it doesn't, you're shit and should have followed
FCs orders. General rule of thumb for your readers? Dont do anything not worth
getting yelled at if you're wrong :)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Segoe UI';"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">Zane:</span><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI";"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Very. A good pilot will know
when its better to shoot something else like the blackbird de-cloaked in scram
range - grab it fast. Most pilots will orbit at optimal so sometimes a call for
primary may be out of his range so he knows when to ignore the FC and grab
something else. Neuting targets right with staggered neuts and transversal and
blah blah are all signs of good pilots that wins fights. Bad mechanics from the
fleet loses fights.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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“Oh, you’re on pewliday” to me upon noticing that I’d left Serene Vendetta with
Jay to re-join <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Concentrated+Evil" target="_blank">Concentrated Evil</a>. This may be obvious, but pewliday is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI';">portmanteau of
pew-pew and holiday and the only reason I’m mentioning this is so that I can
have an excuse to use the word ‘portmanteau’.</span></span></div>
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call it a PvP sabbatical, myself, but Pewliday works also. So, the idea is that
if I wasn’t getting enough PvP in a particular place, I’d put a toon into a
different corp so I could chill out and shoot stuff when not much else was
going on back at the ranch. I’d flown with Concentrated Evil before as part of
learning more about PvP and brought <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/13." target="_blank">13.</a> Into F.E.R.A.L. to learn more about
nullsec. This time, there wasn’t much learning involved, except for how highsec
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different this time around. CEVL were now part of the Marmite Collective, who
seem to polarize opinions as readily as their namesake would imply. My initial
thoughts on them was that they are just a carbon copy of the 0rphanage. The
irony there is that the 0rphanage’s dominance of highsec trade routes was ended
by the Privateers who were assisted by Concentrated Evil and Count With Teddy
Mercs (whose notable members were Cannibal Kane and Tora Bushido). Given how
easy it was to break these guys up, it’s no surprise to see these high sec
groups come and go like flash in the pan. This time last year, Marmite were
playing second fiddle to Whores in Space, but MYM8 was still there, so the way
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to keep things going for as long as he had, what I was really looking for was a
place where I could log on, get some easy kills to pad out the killboard while
being safe enough to sit in a +5 set. For this, it was fine. But it was very
different from before. Gone were the days where we'd add all the war targets to
watchlist and then go hunt those foolish enough to log in and prepare traps for
them once they developed a false sense of security. It seemed like Tora managed
things by deccing half of Eve, and maintained this by taking huge ransoms from
people to end the wars early. It made hunting pretty difficult and most of the
guys tended to camp trade routes or hubs. This is not PvP. It's scarcely even
actually playing the game but I can see why they do it. Without going out and
working for the kills the old fashioned way, they can still kill faction
battleships and freighters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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toons in Serene Vendetta. I'd not intended the pewliday to be a permanent
thing, but it seemed I'd lost diplomat and recruiter privileges. Fair enough if
people want full commitment, but only having 2 people turning up to PvP ops had
left my appetite un-sated - plus, I can take a hint. So, time to find a new corp! I'd seen <st1:place w:st="on"><a href="http://evewho.com/corp/United+System%27s+Commonwealth" target="_blank">United System's Commonwealth</a></st1:place> had a
recruitment post up and knew that the active members of Delete Inc had joined
them and Calgura had said they were a good group. Despite threats from certain
BLK members about if I ever joined up with Cal, they'd hunt me down (for which
I can sort of understand - Cal can take some getting used to, but is just about
the most loyal and dependable guy I've ever flown with), I got in contact and
made the switch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fights that I knew I was missing. Proper small gang fights that weren't a
foregone conclusion from the outset. First kill was some ex-test/ex-goon that
BLK had recruited and in their home system. Apparently, he and a couple of
guardians had remained on the hole after their fleet (which outnumbered ours)
had run away. Just an interceptor, but an auspicious start nonetheless. The
week continued with small, but frequent kills and culminating with a very enjoyable fight with Team Pizza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fancy; a declaration of war from the Marmite Collective. Now, I'd made sure
that I'd asked very specific question about these kind of situations to Kypp
Durron before I joined and his answer was: <a href="http://rlv.zcache.com/stop_ellipsis_abuse_tshirt-rc97b66dc1ed34f808bffe0fcd5547bed_va6lr_512.jpg" target="_blank">"We don't care where your alts are..."</a> I'm not quite sure why he put the ellipsis
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but I took it as carte blanche to bring fights to these wardecs. Knowing that
the guys would have been very complacent just gatecamping, (which I had seen
before with Privateers after they took down 0rphanage - and in the same spot
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hole, but had found a highsec connection 3 jumps from Madirmilire. I suggested
a quick expedition to not only retrieve my Orca (1 jump from the highsec) but
to get some easy kills in the process. I was very quickly accused of being a
spy - to which I couldn't deny, being on USYSC and MYM8 comms simultaneously. I'd
never intended to be a long term fixture in Marmite anyway. Concentrated Evil
was a shadow of its former self and it was sorely missing pilots like Cuckoo
and Black Wrath. It wasn't just their skill that was missing, but their positively
was needed as a foil to the perpetually
grumpy magic preacher. So the plan was to break up the Madi gate camp, which
had dwindled in number to four very bored pilots, one of which was me. While I
was making up the mainstay of MYM8's dps on the Madirmilire camp, I was also
going to be bait for UYSYC. Obviously I'm not going to be applying that dps to
myself, especially not in expensive tech 3's. No, Jay was there to give them a
false sense of security and while they were engaging the Proteus, then
hopefully they wouldn't notice the fleet moving through the next system to
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Burning bridges and breaking hearts? Quite likely. But they declared war on me
first and rather than have a conflict of interests, I picked a side. Plus, I
didn't tell them to engage me and if any of the old CEVL guys had been around,
they'd have known. As things stood, the Stiletto and the Jaguar both tackled
the Proteus as soon as I decloaked. 3ulldog's Loki wasn't far behind them, leaving
my Loki orbiting idly<a href="http://rlv.zcache.com/stop_ellipsis_abuse_tshirt-rc97b66dc1ed34f808bffe0fcd5547bed_va6lr_512.jpg">...</a>
since I was busy on the other screen, popping the Stiletto who had got a little
too close to the Proteus. At this point, I called in the fleet to join in the
fun. MYM8 did spot the trap before it was sprung, but it was too late. They
were red-boxed and when 3ulldog called for fleet to get out, it was too late
for him (although I loyally followed his orders with Jay). I had him scrammed
and my fleet and I were rubbing our hands together with glee at the impending
Loki killmail. Highsec Loki's were surely blinged up to the nines with deadspace
and faction modules, so imagine our disappointment when this <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=22852534" target="_blank">horrible, scrubbyfit appeared to disgrace the killboard</a>. [EDIT: Hi to my MYM8 fanbois - just remember this is not supposed to be a big secret - it's a blog] <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was parked (already packed full of my WH gear) and dropped out of MYM8 to switch to other team. It wasn't long before
we moved a fleet into highsec again and Marmite fell for a similar trap. Once again,
they lost some tackle and a horribly fit HIC. One of their Vindicators got out by
the skin of his teeth as he took advantage of USYSC's lack of highsec practice to
execute a <a href="http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5wil1Bx9u1qbaj4uo1_500.jpg" target="_blank">tactical withdrawal</a>
through a gate after de-aggressing. I was a second or two too late with tackle,
but late nonetheless. The better fight was on the way home when we found a Loki,
and Astarte and a Harbinger camping the highsec. The Harbinger managed to
escape through the WH but the others made quite satisfying explosions. More,
let's call them '<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Paris_Tuileries_Garden_Facepalm_statue.jpg" target="_blank">progressive</a>'
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had intended to make this post short and sweet since I haven't put anything on
here for a while and I have been intended to put a post on here, but something
a little different and a little special. It's actually nearly finished, and
hopefully it should be a good one, but I'm not going to end this one here. I
will mention a really good fight we had with <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Trapped." target="_blank">Trapped.</a> We noticed them in chain
since midday, but they didn't start logging on until the evening, by which time
we were itching for a fight. The only problem was our guardian pilots had
logged off by then, so if we wanted a fight, the only option was to commit an
Archon. Thankfully, Trapped got this one on fraps. I would have also, but I have
a habit of turning off fraps if it looks like we're going to lose or I don't
want people to see me de-aggressing to save ammo if enemy logi is holding.
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you remember your first Capital Escalation? Some people
consider PvE a bit of a dirty word; a means to an end in an environment that
breeds what some regard as the most challenging PvP in the game. It’s a taboo
that teeters closely to the cardinal sin of ‘farming’ and people should only
generate enough ISK to allow them to bring fights in T3’s, faction battleships
and capitals. Sure, I’ve been there, so I know the fights are more fun, but to
get to that point is an evolutionary step in a corporations growth. Everyone
starts out making the money. When they don’t need it so much, they look for
ways to throw it away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">-S.V- has just been making those first baby steps in C5 space.
Without initially running the sites in RR Tengus or Archon supported
Battleships to begin with, we piled straight into the escalations. I actually
didn’t mind running the fleets again. With this kind of content being new to
the crew, there was still that enthusiasm for it rather than the energy
draining ‘do we have to shoot red dots’ faggotry I endured with BLK. Might be
because these guys don’t rely on credit-carding PLEX or farming FW for ISK, but
it’s more than that also. I remember a mail from one of the old-school BLKPC
members just after we first moved into C5 space entitled “Our first escalations
- f*cking awesome”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, ISK has generally been good but with the luck we’ve been
getting, we’ve been needing it! Aside from teaching the guys the PvE side,
they’ve been raring to test out their new toys and create some content with
them. Fortunately, they share my opinion that small gang is the most fun as
individual skill play more of a part in the engagements. Mistakes are easily
hidden in large fleets in the same way moments of brilliance are. While both
are dependent on the skills of the FC, the pilots themselves can affect the
outcome far more in small gangs. I still prefer a bit of solo hunting, but I
don’t mind losing ships and if more people had the same attitude, new <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">eden</st1:place></st1:city> would be a much more
interesting place. People get hung up on just ‘winning’, hence the 300 man
alliances in WH’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve always worked on the premise you can categorise PvP in
Jay-Space in two ways. The first you can attribute to the phrase “Always bet on
Stupid”. I adopted this from Concentrated Evil given how wonderfully is applies
in WH space (and anywhere in eve really!). This is where a pilot’s ineptitude
or foolishness are the major contributory factors keeping killboards ticking
over. And I’m sure most people can recall plenty of instances of this, whether
personal stupidity or someone else’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second type is a trap. The trouble is discerning between the
two. How many times have you been watching a target and thought ‘He’s either
really stupid or it’s a trap’? Personally, I don’t mind walking straight into
the occasional trap, so long as I think I can make off with the cheese on the
other side. The skill here is figuring out exactly how big a trap it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, C4 PvP. What’s that? I don’t remember there being much of it
when I used to live in one, but people have said recently that there’s more of
it now. After a few weeks, I’m still not convinced but it means I have to get
creative when baiting for a fight. Generally, the locals don’t want a fight,
they want a gank. On this occasion, we rolled into a C4/C5. Generally, the C5
would have greater odds for finding something to shoot, but there were Russian
occupants in the C4 and they were active, with a few battleships on scan. I
sent a scout in and decided to go baiting in my Vargur while the fleet
assembled on our side of the static. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The occupants took their sweet time to notice me, then started
messing about in scanners to see what was going on. Just when I thought things
might get interesting, they all reshipped to bombers just as I heard an
activation on the C5 as a Sleeper Social Club Anathema jumped in. I reported
this back to the rest of the fleet and the response went:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Nat >You’re still in the site?</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Jay >Yes</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Nat >You’ve just reported Sleeper Social Club in the hole</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Jay >Yes!</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Nat >And you’re still there?</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Jay >An Anathema isn’t going to kill me.</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Nat >You’ve either got balls of steel or a deathwish</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://wiki.urbandead.com/images/4/4a/Duke_Nukem_Ava_by_The_Xorcyst.jpg" id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395081674443_4020" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: white;">Dying wasn’t on my agenda for the day</span></a>,
however it did spring to mind that about a year ago I got a mail from a certain
Chitsa Jason, who is now in SSC, regarding his CSM campaign. In particular, the
line that read:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: white;">"I am sending
this message to you because you are in my contacts list and I want to be on
CSM. </span></b><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: white;">It usually means that
I wanted to kill you at some point, we are good friends or we have talked in
eve about something."</span></b><span style="color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, I’m fairly sure I’ve never spoken to him on any of my toons,
which narrowed it down somewhat. And here I was sat in a multi-billion ISK ship
intentionally baiting. While the kitchen sink fleet I had waiting on the E175
could handle a small group of Russians, SSC were another matter entirely [edit:
Jay wasn’t the toon that got that mail –sad panda-].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It took longer than I expected, but the scout had obviously found
where I was and I heard multiple activations from my own scout watching the SSC
connection. They didn’t disappoint. T3’s, logi faction cruisers including a
Phantasm (props for the Phantasm). I’ll guarantee I was in warp before they
were! When they realised what was going on, they collapsed the hole and I went
back to baiting. The locals reshipped to stealth bombers and the hound pilot
convoed me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was waiting for the bombers to decloak for a bombing run any
time now. What actually happened was the hound de-cloaked, but well outside of
bombing range. Infact, he was 101km away. Unable to decline such a beautiful
invitation, I Aligned to him and hit the micro-jump drive. I doubted what I had
in mind would work at all, but I’ve always thought that to get lucky, you need
to get yourself into the position to receive that good luck. The Vargur landed
right on top of the hound and I immediately hit the smartbomb. The remaining
sleeper must have pointed him and a moment later, instead of warping away, he
popped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While I was still laughing about the hound, the guys on the static
were still baying for blood. Not wanting the ISK to go to waste, I went about
salvaging the site while Nat lead the fleet over to the POS to try and provoke
some reaction by shooting at the tower in their Domi fleet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Instead of reacting how we would have liked, the Russians logged
off. Some minutes later I was packing my loot into my POS and reflecting over
how well the Vargur performed. Although more expensive than dual Rattlesnakes
and more skill intensive, I don’t doubt it’s more interesting to fly. Then the
thought occurred to me…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Jay > Guys, are you still bashing that tower?</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Nat > It would feel like a failure if we didn’t get it past 90%
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Jay > Is there any point? I’d scoop your drones and get home</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Tsuki > I’m already on my way out. Time for me to go to sleep.</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";">Razz > Ooh, I’ve got a Sleipnir on scan. And a Loki. And a
Tengu…</span></i><span style="color: white; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Apparently, Anomalous Existence had chained into the C4 while we
weren’t looking. Well, I say ‘we’ but I didn’t fancy a half arsed POS bash and
just went home and I won’t name-drop the fleet scout. However, there is a
phrase that the scout has coined that I’ve taken a liking to “Even my smoking
hull is content creation.” To that end, the S.V Dominix wrecks were testament
that content had indeed been created.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.svc.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=22032248" target="_blank">Always bet onstupid? Yes. But on this occasion, it was us. And the Hound pilot.</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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