The flying Spacepig

Battle Report – Yong – Planet 6 Belt 1

spacepig — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:16:39 +0000

So this was the biggest capfight i have been in. I dont know the total numbers on the enemey capfleet on field but i know we had at least 17 red carriers. It started with the enemy dropping 14 carriers on CVA friends in belt 6-1 in Yong. So what does CVA & friends do? They drop an even bigger cap fleet on them, alot of carriers and dreads.

When the fight began i was in my harbie but i ran off to mamet to reship to my mega instead to get some more damnge on the caps. When the smoke cleared 17 red carriers was dead. I dont know how many blues that died in this fight but our alliance did not have any losses at all. I know that CVA & friends had some losses thoe. In total there was some 100 caps on the field and 75 – 80 off them was blue.

So the lesson here is…do not drop caps on CVA friends… CVA & friends has a sh*tload of caps just waiting to kick your butt

Some screenshoots after the fight.. on the capfleet.

Battle Report from Providence and Catch

spacepig — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:00:36 +0000

Well as i said in my last post the war has come to providence. LFA has claimed a number off systems in catch and we are helping them in the effort of keeping them. The current status is as follows.

LFA is holdning f9e, wd and 9koe

AAA took SV5 last night

We did what we could to hold on to SV5 but AAA had 650 ppl in SV5 and to jump in another 600 – 700 ppl in that system would be sucide. The call was made to let SV5 fall for now and i’m sure we will be back in SV5 very soon. Right now every 0.0 alliance that trys to take space or defend their space with large numbers off ppl suffers the same problem.. lag and that the grid wont load.

Our alliance Core Factor has been involved in almost all the fightings and has so far over 180 kills in catch alone from this war. Our alliance members has stepped up and been taking command in the fleets. Its a great time to get better at fleet fights and to get noticed by others. I’m looking forward to another weekend of large scale pvp in this area.

After the patch the carebearing in provi almost got worse then before the patch and it feels good that we have some pew pew to do instead of boring rats, mining or plexes or those cloaky U’K guys hiding everywhere.

I will keep u updated on the progress.

Dogs of war

spacepig — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:15:45 +0000

So its begins… war…

The holders of Providence have decided that we need to expand. AAA has dropped a number of systems in catch. Couple of days ago the campaign to take systems in catch began. Right now i’m sitting on at gate in hostile space. Our orders is to let now one get thrugh this gate alive. A TCU is up and will be online in hours. A massive blue fleet of holders and pets are in place.

Update: We moved into HED and started to shoot at some station services. While this was going on the server crashed. We are now waiting to login again and continue this war.

Update: We moved back into HED after servercrash and are takeing the services down

Updates will follow.

3 fights in lowsec

spacepig — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:15:47 +0000

Well this weekend has been a great pvp weekend for me. On Saturday i got my first final blow in a pvp fight and on sunday i got another final blow in a fight.

Harby & Drake:
Well i’ll start with the fight yesterday against a Harby and a Drake in misaba. I was sitting on the mamet gate in misaba waiting for a red to jump in. This red had been playing gategames for awhile and i wanted to wait for him on the other side to agress and kill him. When i’m sitting at the gate two neuts show up, one harby and one drake. This is nothing strange in providence / lowsec domain so i didnt think twice about it, but then both of them lock me and start scraming and shooting at me. I locked the harby and started to shoot at him. I called for backup on vent. My corp mate, Nishka was sitting on the other side waiting for the red so he jumped in and started to help me out. In the end of the fight i rememberd that i had forgotten to drop my drones on the harby so got my drones out and after that the harby went down even faster then before, this is not the first time i forget to drop the drones in a PVP fight.. i get all worked up =). Together we managed to kill the harby and the drake, i was in 70% structure when the fight was over but i got the final blow.
At the end we got help from both an alliance friend and three paxton ships, they helped us to take down the drake. [Harby kill] – [Drake kill]

This is the first fight i have been from the begining to the end in a small gang fight. I have been abit afraid of these kind of fights becouse i’m still missing some skills. I can’t use t2 laser for example, i can’t overheat anything yet aswell. Both the harby and the drake was t2 fitted so i’m proud that i got out alive from this fight and didnt run away or get killed. I didnt begin the fight but i made sure i ended it.

Mista fight:
Next fight was in Mista. We had some wartargets there that we where camping in station. During our station games they had a faction fitted crow flying around the station at like 300 km out. That crow was our main target, we wanted to kill it badly. So we layed a trap for him and i’m not going to tell how exacly we did it but we got one of our ceptors to land on him and tackle him. We warped our ships to the ceptor and dropped our drones on the ceptor. He was dead within a minut. Again we where a small gang with 5 or 6 ships and we didnt blob him with 30 ships. The kill was worth about 200 mil, not to bad – [Crow kill] - Our stupid killboard doesnt show the right price for this ship but it was worth 200 mil.

Fight in Valmu:
Next fight was again in lowsec domain. In citadel i saw that someone needed some help in valmu couple of jumps away from R3 where i was. So i started to head there and as a jumped into the system after valmu i saw a red hurrican attacking a blue assault frigate. I waited for him to agress me so that i could take up the fight without the gateguns killing me and he locked me up and started to fire. So i lock him up and start firing my lasers at him and droping my warrior II drones on his ass. He died quickly and yet again i got the final blow Me and the assault frigate pilot where sorting the loot from the wreck when 3 atlas guys came form nowhere and started to attack us. This time it was a battleships and some other heavy ships so i was thinking that i should redraw from this and get out while i could. But on the other hand i didnt want to leave the other 2 blues at the gate and let the atlas guys kill them without a fight. One of the blues went down pretty fast and now i was primary and i was going down fast aswell. It was a good fight but we should have left while we could becouse we had no chance. But in the face of a battle i’m not the one that runs away. I got one kill and i lost another so i guess it was worth it anway. [Hurrican kill] – [My harby loss]

Update and news

spacepig — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:54:33 +0000

It has happened alot recently. There has been much PvP action. I have fun but have lost one or two ships, but also has been involved in the death of one or two ships. I’ve also been part of a POS takedown by CVA, it was an interesting but very boring task. I was also part of a CVA fleet that was slaughtered by a AAA fleet in Catch. We where 140 and they came with 200+ ships and killed us.

It has happened quite a few things in the alliance. I have been promoted to working with all matters relating to PVP with Harry. Although I am fairly new at this game but I have got my experience from RL and seems to work pretty well in that role. Me and Harry, has a similar approach to how to manage our fleets and howto deal the enemy most harm.

Me and Harry are going put together a guide to how to behave as FC and as member of a Core Factor fleet. In this way we hope to work better as a fleet and to kill more enemys and lose less ships on our side. Core Factor was wardecced by another corp yesterday and the fighting will start today.

Our visit to Syndicate

spacepig — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:45:36 +0000

Well last night we went to visit some friends of Core Factor in the Old Man Star. Well one thing lead to another and we went to Syndicate. Allmost right away when we entered Syndicate the reds where after us. They tryed to block us in but we got deeper into Syndicate. The new destination was AAA space right next door to Syndicate. What we didnt know was that we where heading right into a trap set by reds in Syndicate. Our fleet of 15 frigs/hacs and stealtbombers ran into a massive gatecamp and some of us died and some of us got lost. I got lost and seperated from the fleet by a misstake of my squad commander. This things happens in intensive situations. Instead of just logging i decided that i should go out in flames. So i pointed my ship into the gatecamp and died fighting By doing that i didnt have to travel the 30 jumps back into providence Some of our fleet made it out alive in pods or in ships.

It was a fun night and this was my first visit to another 0.0 space besides Providence and Catch. Nishka (my corpmate) has spent alot of time in Syndicate and had no problem getting himself and my other corpmate back home to Provide without a scratch, i was impresed

How about the alliance and corp then? Well more problems. We created this new corp and entered Core Factor becouse we wanted to get all active players from TSC into one corp and then join a new alliance. The CEO of the leading corp in TSC came back last night and all got messed up. So now it looks like we are going back to CIW and then rejoin Core Factor with CIW instead. Well i’m waiting for the answers of my corpmates to see if they want to merge back with CIW or not.

Tonight is the alliance contest. I dont know yet what to bring. The choice i have is a Stabber, Rifter or a thrasher. The rifter and the thrasher i can fitt with t2 guns but not the stabber.

New corp and alliance

spacepig — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:05:25 +0000

Well its done… i moved my main and my alt to the new corp we created some days ago. We are allready 13 ppl in the corp and are growing fast. We hope that many in the old alliance will come and join us in the new corp. The new corp has entered the Core Factor alliance in providence. It seems to be an active alliance and i like it.

How about kills then? Well its been a very slow 14 days now with no kills. I’m looking everywhere for reds to kill but Providence has been very calm latly. Well we got reds but they come in big blobs and there is no use in attacking them and die. Another problem is the ratting right now.. there is allmost no rats in the belts right now. Someone hasnt been chaining the belts like they should had. At least we are going to have PVP contest on suturday. Its a last man standing game and the winner gets a battleships of choice. Me and Rin are going to join the contest. You will only be allowed to use ships upto T1 cruisers. Both be and Rin are going with a classic stabber PVP fit. Its fast and its good

Another week in Providence

spacepig — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:40:05 +0000

Well its been another great week in providence. My traning to assault frigate goes on and i got 14 days left. I’ve been flying alot with Core Factor this week also. We havent got into any really great fights. We chased a Tri gang all the way from Misaba to T-R where we together with LFA destroyed 3 out of 4 ships. I didnt get any part of it but some other in our fleet did. Harry Eyeball was great FC. The Tri gang used vagas and tryed to get us to spread out to kill us one bye one but Harry did a great job of keeping us together and they didnt get any of us.

We got abit backstabbed by LFA and Paxton aswell. We noticed a big blue fleet getting into F9E in D-G. So together with other blues we staid at the F9E gate in D-G to trap reds. Well the reds came aright.. a 30 – 40 man tri fleet jumped in and cought us. LFA and Paxton ran off and left us there to die, at least i got my pod out in time. They didnt even warn us about it so we could get out in time. But what i hear this is the way LFA and Paxton do.

We also went into catch in chase of a bs fleet last night. We went into one emty system after another but we didnt find the bs fleet so we jumpend into Providence again on the kari pipe side. There we found a couple of pirates attacking ships so we went after them and chased them away. No kills this week But i guess we do a good work becouse the Mista -> Mamet pipe is allmost allways clear now and we got alot less reds in providence then before.

In other news.. The Security Council alliance will probly split. One corp will join Core Factor. I’ve asked around and we are about 8 – 9 players that wants to stay in Providence and join Core Factor instead. We could joins as members in a member corp but we talked about it and we wanted to join as a corp instead. We have been flying together for a while now and we know how we work. CF says they are ready to let us join right away if we want to.

Carrier kill in Mamet

spacepig — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:39:26 +0000

Well this has been a great week for me. In the begining of the week I contaced a player from another alliance(Core Factor) that had been very active and talked to him about joining there fleets. Via this guy iIve been invited to fleets and new intel channels in prov that froms defence fleets. This has been a great way for me to get more pvp action. Couple of days ago I got my first final blow, a pod Me and some guys from CF helped out another fleet that was attacked by a large red fleet. It was allmost a suicede run but in the end we came out alive and we had manged to scare of that red fleet, well Harry lost his drake in the fight. One of these guys docked at a station in Mamet to get a new ship. We waited outside and then he undocked and we popped his ship. I got hold of his pod and killed it. The station guns where after me so I warped out to a gate at first…I dont know why I did that becouse I got hit by gateguns aswell, guess it was a panic thing I did I was deep into armor and I warped out to a planet to rep and wait out my GCT and agression timer. After this I was also invited to a more private CF chat / intel channel. I got some great connections via this fight and it was all becouse I contaced this Harry in CF.

Then tonight I got x:ed up in a new fleet and we head to Mamet and waited for a red incoming fleet. They came aright.. at least 7 battleships and then a carrier came in. The carrier was called primary and I focused all my fire on that one. Soon it was going down. Then I helped out with at least 3 other battleships but the rest got away. In total we where 3 pilots from TSC that joined this battle. This was a great fight! We held out while waiting for more blues to come and back us up. At the end i think it was 5 or 6 maybe more blue carriers that backed us up. After this fight I went back to Core Factors pos in Mamet to wait out my GCT. Here is the link to the killboard. My stats are really getting better. I’m still minus total on the killboard becouse of some losses i’ve done But now my killratio is 3:1 at least

After a while me and Rin headed back to x6ab and start some ratting. After a while a call for a new defence fleet came and I x:ed up again and we was heading to D-G. This time we didnt catch up with the red fleet so we put the fleet on sandby in I7S. After a while it got to late for me so I logged off.

As I said… its been a great week and i’m getting alot of pvp traning. I have also lost a couple of ships but its worth it.

In other news.. Lord DarkBear can now fly a fully fitted Hulk. I think i’m going to move him down to the providence area soon. Now when his mining skills are ready I can start traning more combat skills. Lord DarkBear is a caldari so I will train him to be able to use both a Ferox BC with good fittings and then i’m going to train him to use a Raven. Also.. i’ve been hearing that in winter we might have to fight for Providence for real. AAA and some other alliances might be planing on getting rid of CVA and Paxton in the Providence area. The new Sov changes will probly spark a wave of wars in nullsec.

The EVE Personality test

spacepig — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:05:01 +0000

I did the EVE personality test and here are the result:

Industrialist with teeth

I must say that this is true about me. I like both the mining, building and at the same time enjoy PVP when I feel for it and need to. I don’t run away from a fight.
In other news, i lost another ship.. again This time I lost a hurrican. Well me and the gang(3 ships) where headed home after a boring patrol in Providence. On the way back we cought up with a red domi. Nishka started the attack and we followed. We got the domi into 50% armor but we just didnt have the DPS to take it down. Then we lost Nishkas broadsword and that was it for us. After that the domi took out our two BC’s aswell. It was a good fight but we shouldnt had attacked in the first place. We where tired and we just didnt have the dps to take it down. If it was a bad fitted and unskilled domi pilot we could take it but this wasnt a bad fitted domi with a unskilled domi pilot Well you learn everyday and we went home in a pod

Update: So what did we learn from this fight?

Don’t pick a fight when you are on your way home and are tired
Define your roles in the gang.
Don’t pick on targets that you don’t have the dps to take down