I have decided to bite the proverbial bullet and moved from Malma to a new system today. Its only 0.3 but traffic is good and it feels “homely with alot more to offer.

I decided to have another crack at scanning after spending the better part of the day moving and low and behold I find my first Wormhole! albeit an unstable one, I entered it excited as a child at Christmas time and found some sleeper sites, being that I love to adventure I went and had a look and managed to take a couple out but my skills are not quite there yet to do it safely alone..

It did give me a nice taste of things to come and was a refreshing break from mining :)

All and all a good day.

Wanting to switch things up this weekend, I decided to try my hand at griefing. Now, I’ve done a lot of things in Eve; I’ve been a pirate, industrialist, carebear, nullsec solider, CEO, market manipulator, and many other things. One thing I have never been, however, is a hisec griefer. Sure, I’ve done my fair share of ninja salvaging on an alt account, but that is a CCP sanctioned mini-profession, right? :P

I spent most of Saturday trying to can-flip hapless miners and ratters, but to no avail. It seems most people are now hip to the can flip, so I decide that it’s time to become the bane of some missioning carebears in Dodixie. I probed out a mission and warped into room one in my trusty Tristan-class frigate Slippy. After taking the gate into room two, I found a megathron finishing off the last few Serpantis battleships. Quickly, I burned to as many wrecks as I could and began greedily filling my small cargo hold. Once all of the rats were down, the mega yellow boxed me. Hope became joy as he fired a single shot across my bow.

After getting to the station, I hopped in Snuggles, my Ishtar, and fit Bouncers to take advantage of the probable explosive hole. It took a couple minutes to get the fitting done, so I was concerned he would have found somewhere safe to wait out the timer. Still, I warped in to the mission and, sadly, didn’t find him in the second room. On a hunch, I went to the next room and literally landed on top of the mega. Lock, scram, web, and neuts all dropped in seconds and then the drone battle was on. I would drop my sentries to apply max dps, bringing him to low armor. Then he would pull out his faction Ogres and make violence on my Bouncers. Pulling them, I’d drop Warrior II’s and try to kill his Ogres before he could get them back in. After about seven rounds of this, my dumbass remembered how slow Ogres are and made quick work of three of them with help from my web. At this point it was pretty much over and my Bouncers brought him into structure.

Hoping to pop my ransom cherry, as well, I opened a convo

Phorbes > 50 mil
Gradente > nah

My attempt at humanity had failed, so I quickly blowed him up. The funny thing is that I actually made more money selling the loot than the 50mil ransom. I felt pretty proud and paraded the kill around Dodixie for the next few days (apparently I’m already on a bunch of blocked lists there).

Yesterday Gradente actually convoed me to say this:

[ 2010.09.01 00:10:30 ] Gradente > Just wanted to let you know what I’m doing right now :-)
[ 2010.09.01 00:10:39 ] Gradente > Ninjae :-)
[ 2010.09.01 00:10:45 ] Phorbes > Heh, you’re trying your hand, eh?
[ 2010.09.01 00:11:01 ] Gradente > Making a mess of things :-)
[ 2010.09.01 00:11:19 ] Phorbes > Haha, nice.
…
[ 2010.09.01 00:17:22 ] Gradente > Well, just wanted to let you know that it’s your fault that I’m a ninja
[ 2010.09.01 00:17:39 ] Phorbes > Haha, I think that’s quite hilarious
[ 2010.09.01 00:17:58 ] Gradente > Had to let you know

Full log in the comments.

I also tried another new something on Tuesday: noobship duels. Or duel, rather, as I’ve only had one. Still, the 10m3 drone bay on RAGING HARDON, my Velator, ripped my enemy apart. I was barely into shields when she went down. I have some promises for more in the coming week.

Having finally gained the ability to fit a covert ops cloak and a probe launcher to my Helios, I came up with the amazingly awesome idea to test it out by scanning stuff in a random nearby semi-dead end low sec system (It was adhacent to one other low sec system which itself was only adjacent to another high sec system). I called in a corp mate who also had a Helios and was messing about with rigs.

He had fitted warp speed rigs. On a 13.5 Au/s warping ship.

After the “wtf” moment of him warping at 20Au/s (20AU!)  we headed into the first system. It was empty. Noone in local.

Nothing.

So we both cloaked up at either end of this huge system (150+ AU between the two gates) and had a look round for stuff. Serpentis stuff, a couple of complexes and that was it. Then someone jumped into the system. In a few minutes we had established they were in a coveter in one of the belts.

We toyed with getting our stealth bombers and springing a surprise, but decided to leave them be and proceeded into the second system.

10 people in local, much more like it. Unfortunately, there was a station and from our initial scans, it appeared everyone was docked up. Then suddenly…

A cyno appeared.

Now, this was my first encounter with one and had no idea it popped up in the overview, so I was mildly confused. Myself and my corp mate quickly moved our probes to the cyno (which had been deployed next to the station by an atron) and my reaction went something like this; “Oh crap a carrier! Why the fuck is a carrier here?”

My friend was equally perplexed and voted we warp in at 100km and have a look.  However, my excitement grew further when my probes and d-scan showed a second carrier. Two carriers in a dead end system. I wonder why. One docked up and the other one sat outside on top of the station. I can honestly say we really considered the idea of calling in all our corp members and hitting it but I wisely decided against it (as much fun as it would  have been). I say wisely because it then docked up. The covetor pilot from earlier entered the system in a rifter and a few other covert ops ships came and went, along with a velator (lol).

I have to point out one pilot however. Some poor capsuleer in an imicus (gallante scanning frigate) undocked at the exact same time as the two carriers. The imicus warped off to a random spot and the carriers jumped.

Still no combat, still no real excitement. Maybe tomorrow.

Also, check out this site; http://www.evenews24.com/ It looks pretty useful.

I’ve recently decided to firmly cement my Eve-addiction by acquiring another character for use in various schemes and general mischief. While he’s languishing in an NPC corp until I find a suitable home for him, I couldn’t resist kicking things off right:

…its the little things ;).

o7

-Aiden

I feel bad.

Today I did something horrible and I hope that you can forgive me.

I flew….

A hulk.

Thats right. I FLEW A HULK AND I LIKED IT!!!!

Ok… No, I didn’t really like it. And I flew it on a rarely used alt, so perhaps it doesn’t count…
the plan was to round up the few assets the alt had, which turned out to be a scanning heron, two ibises, some bookmarks a hulk and a cargohold full of ore. Not nearly as much as i had hoped. “Oh well” I said as i boarded the hulk and set the destination to Jita.
Fortunately for me I checked the market before departing. I noticed that somebody REALLY wanted a hulk in the region I was in and were offering 150 million isk for it in Kakakela, about 20 mil more than I would have got selling it in Jita!
“Some other BASTARD will fill that order by the time I get there” I muttered to myself. I set the destination and began warping anyway, after all it wasn’t out of my way, and was less jumps than going to Jita would require, so it was worth a go.

Hulks align and warp annoyingly slowly. It has been so long since I flew one, I had forgotten.

After about a month I arrived, docked and repackaged my hulk and then sold it, for more than the current sell orders in the region.  ”Hahah!” said I.
I did not pay anything near that much when I bought it.

cash monies!

I know it’s not really some fortune worth bragging over… but I was happy. Sometimes flying a mining barge is not that bad. It’s fit and cargo sold for a couple more million.
I hope the new pilot enjoys their hulk… I’m going to put the money to good use and buy something to make other ships turn into pretty explosions.

It has come to be day Three of my hiatus from Eve.. and my own personal computer.

Spent a good amount of time the last couple days catching up on things, like house cleaning (ooo.. the floor CAN shine!), laundry (so THAT’s what fresh mountain air smells like..), movie watching (new Starbuck is HAWT!!.. and lesbian.. awww.. ), and the gym (some participants there clearly work their chests alot.. and smell alot like flowers.  I believe I may have found the near mythical “female” of my species).

I haven’t had much time to devote to Russian yet, but that will come as I will have plenty of time this weekend (Labor Day weekend in the United States) to get myself back on a working (and habitual) schedule, and I probably be able to get into a study group on Mondays, so that will be sweet.

Still catching up on the local Eve politics.. and as usual, whenever I take a break, cool and exciting things happen.  Atlas breaking up, Pandemic Legion showing off its usual strategic skill, the Northern Coalition fighting the Russians.. the Russian fighting back, etc.  The new http://www.evenews24.com/ channel is definately impressive so far.  Haven’t heard many complaints about the quality of the news.  Kinda makes me wonder if we’re seeing the start of Eve Tribune being relegated to “Newsweek” or “Time” status.

So i found this out through Astrals blog, but figured i would spread the word as it sounds like a damn good idea, although im sure it has been thought of/done before, it still sounds like a helluva lotta fun. EveSOB has suggested on his blog the idea of a frigate cage match. Sounds like a good idea to me, and i applaud him for being pro active about the same situation i was just complaining about. Check it out, drop him a line of support, join up and die to my rifter (maybe). I am really hoping to make this event, and will be planning and strategizing beginning now. I don’t expect to win, as i’m sure much more experienced pilots than myself will be there, not to mention the pirates. But i expect to have a hella good time, come join in.

Draft of the rules:

The draft rules are simple (and open to suggestion):

- 5M to enter with all ISK going to the Last Frigate flying in fleet (minus fleet referee)
- T1 non faction frigates only with any fittings.
- All entrants join a single fleet and fighting begins when they enter the “CAGE” system
- If you leave the “CAGE” system you are removed from the fleet.
- If you dock in anything in the “CAGE” system you are removed from the fleet.
- If you are in your pod you are removed from the fleet.
- Once removed from the fleet you are out of the fight and no ISK for you.
- Gate crashing the system is allowed and expected.
- No restrictions on implants or boosters.
- Faction/T2 frigates or above are not allowed unless a gate crasher. :)

Fittings are unlimited as warping to fleet member will be allowed and should take care of the cloakers and folks who safe up. The “CAGE” system region will be in LowSec and easy to reach from Null or Empire space. The region will be announced to entrants a week before and the CAGE system 1 hour before the bell.

Sounds like fun, right?

So, I had full intentions of flying around in a Worm and creating rage, but that didn’t quite work out as planned.  IT Alliance decided to “invade”, NC decided to try and invaded, I decided to move, and my video card decided that working was overrated.  So instead of flying around solo I’ve been scrubbing dudes en masse, some laggy some not so. I’ll spare the details, but I’ve written some very choice battle-reports over on SHC

http://www.scrapheap-challenge.com/viewtopic.php?p=1351472#1351472

http://www.scrapheap-challenge.com/viewtopic.php?p=1351356#1351356

http://www.scrapheap-challenge.com/viewtopic.php?p=1353763#1353763

But today my new video card came in.  Perhaps my video card wasn’t quite dead, but it was antiquated at best.  My new card, however: beastly by comparison.  So, of course, I put it to a stress test: 500 man fleet fight with all effects on high (though drone brackets off).  Flawless.  If I was in a slump before, consider it gone.  Eve looks like a whole new game now!  For anyone who is into Eve considering getting a better video card: do it and don’t look back.

I won’t lie, I did start blogging only for the prize – hey don’t judge I’m fairly poor and $50 is a big deal – but it is fairly enjoyable.  As far as what got me into this whole mess, the spy, I have been having a great time with it.  Today, for instance, I was able to hear both side of the fight.  Being in a logistics, I was able to anticipate when people were going to get shot and managed to put reps on him before it was too late.  It’s pretty much awesome.

Another perk about having a new video card: I can finally make an Eve video~  I tried to do this earlier and with two accounts running I’d get stuck in 4fps, it was p terrible.  But now I can truly break my way into Eves C-list~  So now I’m more serious about story-boarding a video, if you have suggests for fights and shiptypes you want to see: reply here or grab me ingame. Obviously I can’t fly pimp ships, but I can do lolfits 8)