Lately we've been ganking miners in highsec. Anything within one jump of Egghelende, because all them belts be ours. A good number of Fwedditors have been getting in on the action. We've been supplying free Catalysts and Thrashers for the job, as cheaply fit as possible to get the job done. And according to Rina, our CEO, the loot and salvage is actually netting us a profit. Enough to afford new gank ships. Perpetual gank machine.
The miner ganking is done during slow periods. It keeps people interested and active. And it moves those not yet outlaw closer to being so.
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Dudes like this give miners and carebears a good name. I don't hate all carebears, just the Whiney McWhiners. After we ganked his Mackinaw, he sent us an evemail:
ahh blast, you blew up my mackinaw! haha, good manuevers guys saw a blob of red drop in on my shit from across the room... funny when my roommate started screaming like a girl hahah xD cheers you guys!This guy has the right attitude about this game.
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I guess one of the pocos we put up last week has turned a profit. This spurred Fweddit into throwing up two more. Now we own six. Soon, reimbursements for all the things. That might be a bit of a pipe dream.
If it means we get to do less orbiting buttons and missioning, then all the better. Fuck some of these faction warfare mechanics.
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I got my 150th killmail for October tonight. No great achievement relative to other folks, but it's triple my previous best month.
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I haven't been terribly active this last week, so some of the better battles that happened, I missed out on. Eve University is as terrible as always. Their two kills, they just held ships down so that the gates guns could take them out. Valid, though cheap, tactic.
And I missed out on a huge repping battleship brawl on an iLaw poco. Iron Oxide dropped a battleship gang on them. The battle raged on for awhile, but nothing was actually lost on either side. I'll assume that means the repping was pro on both sides.
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We have a new doctrine in the works. But we've yet to try it out. So won't speak about it quite yet. Looks promising though. I have a couple skills to raise if I want to be helpful with it.
Civilian shield boosters? No DCII? In a 0.6 belt? The guy might have the proper attitude but clearly not the proper amount of brain cells for EVE.
ReplyDeleteYou would be surprised how many of them use Civilian Shield Boosters.
DeleteThe Civvie Shield Booster fits are a holdover from the pre-buff days. Due to the CPU/PG/cap limitations on the Mack, that was pretty much all you could add for a perma-run active tank, after fitting for max ice mining. The Civvie's are more than sufficient to AFK perma-tank any NPC rats in 0.5 systems or higher.
DeleteNo one fits a DC II on a mining barge or exhumer, in high sec. Lows are used for mining upgrades only. High sec mining is all about efficiency.
Have you had much luck killing Skiffs and Procurers? Or are you mostly seeing Mackinaws and Retrievers in the belts?
ReplyDeleteJust seeing Mack and Retrievers, with the odd Hulk here and there. Skiffs and Procurers are very rare sights.
DeleteI find it hilarious how you keep whinging about the uni so much, but your profile mentions three things, one of which is being a uni grad. The uni is, I well, a uni, and ie a place for unexperienced people to learn. If they were as good as a normal pvp corp they wouldn't be a uni anymore would they? Congrats for beating them though, cheap tactics and all.
ReplyDelete1. The E-Uni grad medal annoys most unistas, especially Kelduum. Which is why I publicise it. It's a troll. Kelduum wanted a new mechanic that would allow him to remove medals from people, even if they weren't in the corp. The Poetic Mechanic.
Delete2. The folks who leads Uni fleets are "experienced" PvP pilots who have generally been with the Uni for a year or more. These "experienced" people have no experience, and teach very bad fittings and very bad habits. They are actually detrimental to anyone wanting to move to PvP after their stint in the Uni. There is so much for them to unlearn when they graduate.
1. Kudos for publishing the comment and answering.
Delete2. Not being an expert in PvP myself, how much can you achieve even with 2 or 3 experienced leaders if everyone else in the fleet is a new pilot that can't even fit a proper tank? I'm asking as a sincere question, not a troll.
Cheers
By offering up training plans and viable fleet doctrines.
DeleteThe problem is not unique to the uni. TEST and goons both have a problem with newbies who struggle to fit things "properly" - yet their theory crafters have managed to pull of fleet doctrines which are effective and bring these people into the fold allowing them to be useful and effective members of the fleet.
The uni fits are hilariously bad. This has nothing to do with the fact that they are dealing with newbies and everything to do with the fact that their pvp leadership is utterly clueless.
What anonymous said. The people coming up with their doctrines are morons. Their FCs fly super bad fits, so hard to expect that they'll be able to steer the newbies in the right direction.
DeleteSkill points aren't the issue. You can always fit a ship properly, it doesn't require T2 modules. If you don't have the skills for T2 mods, then shift down to the T1 mods that you do have the skills for.
I poke fun at the Uni, because it pisses them off ... and it seems to get them moving in the right direction. For example, I made fun a few weeks back, in a particular fight, that every destroyer they fielded had an afterburner equipped rather than an MWD. That's dumb. Destroyers need the maneuverability. Since that post, they've been fitting their dessies with MWDs. So mocking them seems to move them in the right direction.
You do realize that they asked for MWD long before that fight, right? The fact that they are fitting MWD probably has nothing to do with you at all. http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Uni_Hydra_Destroyer_Fleet
DeleteAmazingly, the entire world does not revolve around you.
Anonymous: you do realise that defending Uni fits puts you on a hiding to nothing? and that they seriously have no fucking clue what they are doing when it comes to PvP?
DeleteAs a CEO the amount of *retraining* the terrible shit that comes from the uni I have to do makes me want to punch kittens. Its gotten so bad that I will not take people directly from the Uni anymore. They are seriously that bad. Bad fitting principles, bad understanding of fleet concepts, bad piloting skills, incorrect terminology - and above all else a belief that because they were taught by the uni they are some how right even though they are demonstrably wrong.
The Uni is a fucking cancer on the game. Who cares of Po made them change their fits or not.