Great Weekend

Well, I was enjoying my time with teh new corp on Friday night, I had just jumped my carrier into teh home system and took a break, when I logged back on they were going to run some level 5 missions with the carrier fleet, so I joined in, we ran 2 of them then saw combat probes in local we lined to teh station and warped out just before a tengue landed in the mission. Looks like we were the target of a hot drop, as the pilot was saying in local you boys think your so smart lol...

About 10 minutes later I logged into my scanning alt in the wormhole and found out it was only 7 jumps away, so I readied my fleet of stealth bombers and headed to teh wormhole with the two other combat pilots, we were ging to make some isk off of our sites.

Settleing down in teh wormhole I spent all day saturday closing incoming k162's and someone ran 6 of my sites while I was asleep. Sunday was a bit better we were able to run about 10 sites, but we closed 4 more incoming k162's before calling it a night.

I cant believe it has been over 9 days since my last connection to empire, I want to get the non essential stuff out of the hole until after the pos fuel changes take effect. Also it is a pain in the ass having to put teh starbase password in every time you leave the system. and I cant use the fitting service to reconfigure ships now.

well I dod manage to kill a noctise on the way to teh hoe of friday night, he just warped to teh gate and my brother missed him on the one side of the gate, I got him on the other as I was about half a system behind him on the way to the hole, he uncloaked just as I was coming out of warp, the stealth bomber got him warp disrupted and it only took a couple of vollies to pop the ship, I was hoping he was moving some sleeper loot but just a bunch of junk, I didnt even bother to pick it up.

2011.11.11 14:27:00
Victim: Duncan McClain
Corp: Jolly Codgers
Alliance: Get Off My Lawn
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Noctis
System: XQ-PXU
Security: -0.1
Damage Taken: 4971
Involved parties:
Name: Zandramus (laid the final blow)
Security: -3.9
Corp: Quiet.Storm
Alliance: NONE
Faction: NONE
Ship: Purifier
Weapon: Caldari Navy Mjolnir Torpedo
Damage Done: 4971
Destroyed items:
Charred Micro Circuit, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
Small Graviton Smartbomb I (Cargo)
Medium Salvage Tackle I, Qty: 2
Small Armor Repairer I (Cargo)
Quad LiF Fueled I Booster Rockets (Cargo)
Salvager I, Qty: 3
Mark I Generator Refitting: Capacitor Flux (Cargo)
Conductive Polymer, Qty: 6 (Cargo)
Damaged Artificial Neural Network, Qty: 6 (Cargo)
Medium Ld-Acid Capacitor Battery I (Cargo)
Supplemental Scanning CPU I (Cargo)
Initiated Signal Distortion Amplifier I (Cargo)
Small Tractor Beam I, Qty: 3
Shield Recharger I (Cargo)
Type-D Power Core Modification: Capacitor Power Relay (Cargo)
Dropped items:
Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I (Cargo)
1MN Afterburner I (Cargo)
Warp Disruptor I (Cargo)
Malfunctioning Shield Emitter, Qty: 4 (Cargo)
Tripped Power Circuit, Qty: 14 (Cargo)
Rocket Launcher I (Cargo)
Metal Scraps, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Tracking Computer I (Cargo)
10MN MicroWarpdrive I
Fried Interface Circuit, Qty: 19 (Cargo)
Tungsten Charge M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Small Energy Neutralizer I (Cargo)
Salvager I, Qty: 2
Scorched Telemetry Processor, Qty: 6 (Cargo)
Large Azeotropic Ward Salubrity I (Cargo)
Survey Scanner I (Cargo)
Cap Booster 100, Qty: 10 (Cargo)
Burned Logic Circuit, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Sensor Booster I (Cargo)
F-b10 Nominal Capacitor Regenerator (Cargo)
Ward Console, Qty: 8 (Cargo)
Piranha Light Missile, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Medium Capacitor Battery I (Cargo)
Omni Positional ECCM Sensor System I (Cargo)


Zandramus

A matter of logistics, not the skill or the ship

So yesterday was an odd day for me I was busy moving ships to my new home, I was in a hurry and decided to take the shorter route through ec-p8r to get to Torrinos rather than fly 5 extra jumps, I believe it was because I had become overconfident that a stealth bomber made avoiding gate camps pretty easy, well it seems nothing can change the fact that sometimes when you go to jump through a gate you get the message, Session change already in progress … so frustrating to sit helplessly spamming the jump button and nothing happening. So I end up in Old Man Star again, 17 jumps from Torrinos where I had just purchased a new black ops battleship and was on my way to pick it up.

I will say I was wondering how I was going to come back and get my stealth bomber, no need for that now. I fly to torrinos through empire in my minmatar shuttle and take possession of my new shiney… though I have to send my alt to Jita to buy my faction mods as they are not available in Torrinos. After fitting out my new toy, I have someone light a covert cyno in the new home system and I make my first black ops jump.

Tonight I need to pick up a new stealth bomber, I already have my Pilgrim in system, I need to purchase a Curse to round out my recon ships. I need to get my Legion out of the wormhole as soon as I can get back in there and while I’m at it I have a bunch of ships there I have to move. I have a carrier somewhere in low-sec that needs moved to the new home I will see about filling it up with mods before moving it so that I get a good bit of supplies back home.

Speaking of the wormhole, it was raided yesterday before I got home from work and by the time I could get logged in after voting last night they had managed to run about half of the anomalies before my alts could get combat probes launched and run them off.

With the upcoming pos changes I am worried about not being able to get the new fuel into the hole before the pos goes offline, I may just evacuate the hole for the time being and throw up a small tower in the spot so anyone coming in would have to kill a tower to take the hole. I will leave a offline scanning alt in the system if I do this so I can always get back to the hole. Though thinking about it level 4 missions are a pretty safe way to make money without all the hassles of having to have enough people there to run the sites and exploit the hole, I may just move the pos’s out for now and look for a better hole in the future with new friends.

Zandramus

Why the Caldari Militia fails.

My stint with the Caldari Militia lasted about 4 hours, I came home tonight and logged in and was trying to get a group in the militia channel where no one was interested in FC’ing for me or grouping with me, they were all too paranoid that I may be a spy.

FFS people  it’s a game, so say I was a spy and grouped with you and you got ganked, so you lost a ship why would a 85m sp toon do that, I would never get to play after that…, I told them all where to go after acusing me of being a spy and retired from the Caldari Militia. It is no wonder FW sucks, it’s not the format of it it’s that its full of retards that cant or wont undock in anything other than a frigate, they all want to do solo pvp in the militia and that is not what I was looking for, I was looking for small gang warfare so I moved on.

So back to the forums looking for a corp I talked with several people last night and I think I found myself a new home, I joined Quiet.Storm I went on an op with them last night and they are doing exactly the type of small gang warfare I have been looking for. We had quite a few kills last night and I really like this group. It’s a group of high sp characters doing black ops, hac, strategic cruiser ops. So tonight I will be moving all of my ships to my new low-sec home and buying some more ships to go out on roams with.

Also last night I logged my scanning alt into the WH and found a K162 to of all places Outer Ring, right where I was sec grinding and could have moved the other 2 guys back into the wormhole if I had not flown them 21 jumps back into empire the night before lol.

Zandramus

A very busy weekend ... Your in the Militia now...

This weekend culminated with Zandramus having a security clearance of -3.97, and now he will be joining the Caldari Militia, the goal was to be so he could travel through hisec, which he now can without much trouble in frigate class ships. I will need to get him set up in the militia system over the next couple of days, I have already done some recon with him in his stealth bomber and have taken a few pot shots at some enemy faction cruisers to no avail. I wasn’t able to get him into the militia until late Sunday evening and by then not too many people were on to do anything with.

Saturday and Sunday were spent running around Cloud Ring and Outer Ring, grinding security status, I was tri-boxing three accounts in stealth bombers and was able to move from system to system pretty quickly and thus was able to get his security clearance from -6.7 Saturday morning, to where he is now by Sunday night. I will say I took plenty of time away from the computer Saturday, because hour after hour of shooting red + signs is extremely boring.

Sunday I ran into several 20 – 30 man gangs jumping in to two on Sunday that I was able to evade on all three accounts even after they bubbled up an interdictor on the gate. I was quite surprised how easily the stealth bomber can mwd/cloak to evade a gate camp. I did have one account become unresponsive on me after warping into a 15 man camp of pirates in 0.0 but even though it DC’d they did not get a positive lock on the toon and I was able to log him back in after the gate camp moved on.

The wormhole has not had any sites ran in it since last weekend, and there are about 2 bil worth of sites to be run. However the wormhole’s static exit has been spawning roughly 50 jumps from wherever Zandramus is located at so I am going to do the militia stuff until I get a favorable exit that I can jump in and close then run all my sites and jump back out. I plan on keeping the wormhole and using it as passive income to fund my militia endeavors.

Monitarily I have about 2 billion isk to purchase ships for pvp at the moment, I will start picking up a lot of frigates / cruisers / BC / Geddons in the next few days, and then pick up some specialty ships recon’s / HAC’s / Logistics. I think I may move some marketable ships to the militia HQ also and see if marking them up 30 pct leads to some sales of ships and modules, I will have to put together a list of ships and modules and set some buy orders to pick them up on the cheap.

That’s all for now hopefully by the weekend I will have some pew pew to talk about

Zandramus

The Ice Interdiction...

Things were going well for me grinding my security status when I happened upon a system in outer ring full of what I believe to be Botter’s mining blue ice. They are fully taking advantage of the higher prices of Gallente racial isotopes, they have fairly decent intel on their surroundings due to the layout of the system. And their first interaction with me just encouraged me to stick around since they warned me to leave and told me they were a NBSI group.

A2V6-6 is at the end of a long chain of systems and is a dead end, only one way in or out. The couple of times I have logged in to see quite a few Makinaw’s in system with sequentially name characters. The entry gate is bubbled which gives them enough time to run to their pos as soon as someone begins to come down the pipe towards them.

The only solution I see is that I am currently gathering intel on their timezone’s and monitoring their activity being logged off in their system. I will be adding all the characters to an alt account that can be logged in while I am not logged in to their system to see when they log in and what time zones they operate in.

Why all the hassle you ask??? Well because something is fundamentally wrong with players being able to operate with impunity and no risk in 0.0 With all the grief going on in empire over Blue Ice, these characters are taking advantage of the market and without any risk whatsoever.

So I am determined to recruit as many players as possible to come in and deny access to the ice fields to this alliance, I will play the patient pirate until they decide to come out and fight for their system. They have been very vocal in the local, smacking it up so that just encourages me more to deny them access to their revenue stream.

Zandramus

My Journey back to HiSec

Last night I decided to leave the wormhole for the time being in order to address my security status -7.8 at the start of the evening. I am determined to not only have my security status back to 0.0 but to do a bit of expolring and see if I can find some pew pew. So I started in Outer Ring Region, we ran down the pipe towards A2V6-6 within a few jumps from there I ran in to some very talkative people in local they wanted to know what I was doing, and I explained to them I was exploring, which I was. They pointed out to me that they were a NBSI group and I was ok, game on.... they move into A2V6-6 and I followed to find some warp disruption bubbles and a welcoming committee on the other side of the gate.

Now I wasn’t born yesterday and I know how to handle myself in 0.0 I double clicked in space and pulsed the MWD and cloak at the same time denying them the opportunity to get a solid lock on me. So I find myself in a system with 45 other folks I see in dscan a bunch of Hulk’s and Makinaw’s some Drakes, and a boatload of T1 Frigates. I spend a few minutes reconnoitering the system and find most of the inhabitants sitting inside three Pos’s in the system.

I make my way back to the gate and make some tactical bookmarks, and watch as 2 drakes are playing pong with a set of drones in an attempt to uncloak me some 150k below. I guess they think I would be hanging about near the gate or something. I do some more searching and come across 10 – 15 unmanned tech 1 frigates sitting at a moon nowhere near a POS as if they have been discarded. Well a bombing run or 2 reduces the frigate fleet scap metal, strangely they were all fitted with improved cloaking devices…

Back to the gate and I see the drakes have given up and being in a stealth bomber I wasn’t too keen about fighting a drake fleet anyways or the hurricane that has now shown up dragged into their own bubble.  I leave out through the way I came, and set destination to a station where I can purchase some more racial torps and a few more bombs. I am killing a BS rat in each system as I go, NM-OEA is 20 jumps away, there are several people in the systems in between I pass some more drakes, and a group of other pirates headed to A2V6-6, (I guess its not the carebears evening to get some ice mining in) I arrive in NM-OEA and dock up at the top station.

Strangely enough I have ships and modules here, I have a catalyst here with tech1 rails on it, this may be one of the first catalyst in the game as I remember buying this a few days after destroyers were introduced, I remember flying out here and buying BPO’s for the corp to manufacture barges the first day barges were in the game. Ah the trip down memory lane…. I scope out the route I probably travelled and Yes there it is Orvole… that is where I would have entered through PF-346. It appears I have come a long ways in this game, I exit here and contemplate going to PF-346 for a look and make it to JKJ-VJ where I get some armor damage from a frigate whilst killing a battleship. I head back to NM-OEA and repair I almost kill a POD on the gate but he jumps through as the first volley takes him into structure. I repair and decide to head down through Fountain to the bottom of the map and then head back over into my old stomping grounds Geminate.  That is the plan and I log for the evening as its getting late, My sec status is now -6.7

Zandramus

The end of a very long and stress filled year

Yesterday morning around 8 AM my son landed in Atlanta returning from Afghanistan, safe and sound he was a member of the ISAF serving through the US Army, he was posted to the Kabul ISAF Airbase. He joined the Army Reserves right out of High School, as a parent I am very proud of him. He will be returning to college at the University of Toledo where he is studying to become a teacher.

It has been a very stress filled year for me, I dont think there has been a day gone by where I havent worried for his safety. Those of you who have children know that raising them becomes your job, the feelings I had seeing him get on the plane for Afghanistan where I could no longer protect him was very powerfull and very frightning. Each day for the last year has been a struggle to think positively and try to push all of the what ifs from my mind, but I can tell you that I had some very bad dreams throughout the last year.

I am very looking forward to him arriving home and maybe getting to play some EVE with him before he heads out to school again. I think I may have to buy him a new character as he was using mine and I think he sold his old character when I stopped playing. In any event I will be very happy to help him get settled back into the normal day to day away from the war.

Zandramus