tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90565268530367064032023-11-15T09:48:09.112-08:00ain't no sunshinea first-hand account of the scoundrelous life of a pirate in the space MMO, eve onlineDirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-85535899198548023942012-04-13T09:49:00.000-07:002012-04-13T09:55:57.797-07:00when preparation meets opportunity<i>Dian Lung > "maybe we should say sorry to all the people we told to fuck off" "NO GODDAMNIT, IF YOU TELL ME I'M TROLLING FIVE TIMES WHEN I SAY I HAVE A NYX POINTED I'LL FUCKING WELL TELL YOU TO FUCK OFF"</i><br />
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it's funny to me- i sat down this week intending to write a blog post and really dragging my feet about it. now it was hard for me to go to bed and get through work before writing this next one<br />
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the reason should be obvious:<br />
<a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13047561">http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13047561</a>
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holy shit<br />
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gunpoint diplomacy's first super cap kill \o/<br />
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it went down like this:<br />
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we had just finished ganking a <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13047427">slippery drake in atlar</a> and our little gank gang was headed back to bosena to dock up. me for the night, the rest to get drunk and spin until they had to go to bed at the time normal people go to bed~<br />
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as we're warping home, titus veridius, who's obviously not ready to stop killing for the night, announces on ts that he's going to go scout and probe the istodard pocket before coming home to bos. people halfheartedly acknowledged and we trudged our way home<br />
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about 15 minutes later, i was doing my nightly rituals: adjusting market orders, minor ship logistics and just shooting the shit, procrastinating my inevitable bedtime when titus blurts out:<br />
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"nyx on scan in sakulda"<br />
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now, you should know that this happens fairly often. plenty of alliances use backwater systems in dead end pockets around mh and derelik for supercap logistics. hell, even some raiden. and quam singulari guys use their supercarriers to run level 5 missions from the republic fleet agents around mh<br />
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nobody really cares<br />
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"it's at a pos, right?"<br />
"what time is it?"<br />
"fuck man, he's got a titan buddy in there"<br />
"CARE"<br />
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titus didn't give up though<br />
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"i'm pretty sure he's at a safe"<br />
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i'm already refitting my devoter for super tackling<br />
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i was landing on the oddelulf gate when titus announced that the nyx was actually at a safespot, not within the safety of a pos<br />
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"i've probed it. i'm sitting 50km off of him and he's got 0 velocity"<br />
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now we're fucking talking<br />
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suddenly gripped by a sense of urgency, a lot of shit started happening really fast. the call for more heavy interdictors to come to sakulda started hitting every friendly(ish) channel we had characters in. cynos were shifting all over the place. friends self destructed pods, clone jumped and podded through high sec to get into the area<br />
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titus gang-warped my devoter to the scan result the instant it hit sakulda local. not seeing a nyx on scan, my heart was pretty far sunk as i warped to the result. i'm good at dealing with disappointment, but near misses on careless supercapitals has become almost a regular occurrence in my life<br />
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"nothing here dude. you sure you weren't seeing thin-"<br />
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::bump::<br />
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my devoter bounced off the cloaked nyx, now 700m from my ship<br />
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"point"<br />
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that was it. batphones were ringing off the hook, every channel was now fucking SPAMMED with us begging for help<br />
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the call was hictor>armor logi>dps>whatever... and people just couldn't believe that i was serious<br />
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xxxalloxxx jumps on comms:<br />
"are you serious?"<br />
i'm urgently repeating ship orders and system name<br />
"yes i'm serious"<br />
"get to sakulda. hictor, armor reps or dps"<br />
"are you fucking serious?"<br />
"yes, i'm serious. nyx tackled. i need backup BADLY. sakulda. hic, reps or dps"<br />
"this is a troll"<br />
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<a href="http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll59/xdemonicaurax/DPkillsanyx.png">and i lost it</a><br />
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"DO I SOUND LIKE I'M FUCKING TROLLING? NYX TACKLED. SHUT UP AND HELP ME OR FUCK OFF"<br />
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responses pretty much cleared up after that. some time in the huge chat mess, titus had landed on grid in a hictor followed by his alt. vanderie was along shortly after adding yet another point... and the guy logged off. maybe he didn't know about the new aggro and logoff mechanics? no matter. let's burn him down<br />
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people kept offering to bring dreads to help tear him down faster~ don't get me wrong, they were awesome to offer. the problem with supers is that where there's one, there's typically 20 more. the last thing i wanted was to have this nyx tackle turn into a clusterfuck of friendly(ish) cap losses should he light a cyno and bring in whatever support to help try and shake him loose. that and a supercap fc in burn eden [nc(dot)] had responded to my spammed plea for help and was on his way with a gaggle of supers<br />
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awesome<br />
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from previous run-ins with nc(dot), i knew better than to have anything on the field that i would regret getting <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12652033">blapped by a titan</a>. i figured that while this ran the risk of the guy coming back and managing to self destruct before we could murderize him, it was the safest way to halfway control the absolute shitfuckery of chaos that was forming around this dude<br />
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sure enough, as he was going into structure, the nyx pilot logged back in, activated his tank (capital armor rep, hardeners, pesky fucking damage control~) and initiated self destruct<br />
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oh well<br />
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friendly cyno on the field not 10 seconds after self destruct initiated and out poured 10 nc(dot) supers and their 9 supporting carriers<br />
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in the end, a <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13047561">nyx </a>and his <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13047541">empty pod</a> died, there were no friendly fire incidents and everyone walked away happily with a km<br />
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oh! and allo <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRBOKpwna8g">remembered to start fraps</a>!<br />
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thanks everyone who came out and made this possible. i'm still trying to figure out what that guy was doing out in our neighborhood with his pants down but so far coming up dry<br />
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maybe i'll never know~<br />
<br />DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-90733347366850459572012-04-11T10:50:00.000-07:002012-04-11T10:55:54.520-07:00spring update 2012<i>Dirty Protagonist > quick! someone say something funny</i><br />
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it's been a while since i posted anything to this here blog i run so i figured it's time for a quarterly update~</div>
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i guess i'll start with the most recent first: marauder ganking~</div>
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ransm has ganked miners in molden heath high sec for ages. roaming bands of thrashers would often show up in teon local accompanied by hilarious(~) gifs and followed by honoure-fiilled(~) gfs. often there would be multiple casualties. <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12979322">hulks</a>, <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12946613">mackinaws</a>, <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12735658">retrievers</a>, <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12735658">covetors</a> and <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=11883462">pods</a>.... sometimes even <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12655094">assault </a><a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12654933">ships</a></div>
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we used to get multiple alts providing multiple warp ins on multiple hulks(~) and it was AWESOME. we would be able to alpha one, hit his pod as we warped to the next, land, hit another miner, hit his pod, etc. our best record was 3 warps yielding 5 mining ships and 2 pods</div>
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unfortunately, ccp declared this shoot and warp thing to be an exploit and has since patched the game to prevent us from achieving such glory~</div>
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we couldn't let this hamper our suicide ganking so to the mathboat we went. after doing some timing experiments with concord in high sec, we determined that we could use 12-15 catalysts to <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12925659">suicide</a> <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12928009">gank</a> an <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12976304">orca</a> if i didn't fit a reinforced bulkhead nor damage control</div>
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but why stop there? once again a'sail in ye ole mathboat, we determined that we could use 10 catalysts to take down mission fit marauders. the call went out, alt probers got busy, ships were scanned and it wasn't long til the first <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12977058">vargur</a> and <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12977059">pod</a> went up in balls of blue fire</div>
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after that it has been nearly non-stop the past week. <a href="http://eve-kill.net/">eve-kill </a>estimates us at ganking <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=cc_detail&ctr_id=16848">over 36.7 billion isk in assets</a></div>
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holy fuck~</div>
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kane rizzel also has a fantastic write-up on these shenanigans over at his blog, <a href="http://novakaneinc.blogspot.com/">a pirate's perspective</a></div>
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i wanted to take a second to plug a molden heath resident and fellow pirate joe struck</div>
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joe is the owner and operator of Joe's Signpainting, Pinstriping and Tatoos (<a href="http://spacejoe.blogspot.com/">http://spacejoe.blogspot.com/</a>)</div>
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his work is top notch and his prices are more than reasonable. i'm talking to him now about doing a much-needed banner for the blog and maybe a matching forum sig</div>
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check him out if you're into eve art and stuff</div>
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omg armor hacs. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-kGGW0UlPA">ARMOR HACS</a>~</div>
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our latest fleet doctrine to be met with insane success has been ab armor ships. i think that most of eve knows about the afterburner propelled, low sig, high damage, low range cruisers by now so it's not like it's anything new, but i like our spin on it: ruptures</div>
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<a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12696500">the fit is silly</a>, but we've had a lot of success with them. from forcing carriers to self destruct (another story entirely) to killing 3b isk <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12963773">bhaalgorns </a></div>
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basically, it's a burly armor tank, little bit of low range dps, some smartbombs for clearing drones and a handful of guardians to make them ridiculously hard to kill. it works really well with 8-10 guys and only gets better from there</div>
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i know i posted about this back in january when it was still relevant, but here's a vid of us using a similar gang to cause all kinds of problems: <a href="http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/Laktos/a_tale_of_two_poco.mkv">laktos's "tale of two pocos"</a></div>
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<br /></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-88607843605424305572012-02-03T07:11:00.000-08:002012-02-03T09:00:40.059-08:00gunpoint diplomacy: an evolving paradigm<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><i><span >if you want to it to be more of a test the best option would be to have a smaller fleet considering that when we blow the horn of gondor we outnumber them comfortably. - Arasul</span></i></span><div><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><i><span ><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span >when i left <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=Something+Rotten">something rotten [5-20]</a> last march, i joined a <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=home">gunpoint diplomacy [ransm]</a> that was like 5 dudes, a <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=291659">pirate princess</a> and a bunch of hurricanes. it was pretty much a continuation of the small gang piracy that i had always done in 5-20. probing, ganking, skirmishing, robbing, thieving, ransoming... it was all in a days work</span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span ><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" >the thing is, when you have a good thing going, it rarely stays the same. it usually either starts growing or fizzles out. for us in gunpoint, we were a part of an amazing community, had some great fc talent and plenty of targets to fire upon. more and more people joined and our tactics evolved. first we started adding scimitars to our little marauding gangs. shield bc/scimi gangs became a common sight in the heath</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" >it wasn't long after this when gloriouse~ CEO sard caid introduced us to the loki links. a small campaign of scrapping with 0.0 bears in derelik showed us the amazing things that the drake could do with a booster loki. after kiting and brawling down <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_battle&kll_id=9791034&kll_times=2011-05-27%2020:47:00,2011-05-27%2020:54:00">TONS of unsuspecting targets</a> in situations where we were outnumbered, link lokis became the rule of the day</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" >this shift led us a whole new direction. once we had practiced exploiting speed and range thanks to the loki links, things started to change. many more gunpoint suddenly had loki link alts. snakes sets were being purchased. our drakes were now unstoppable!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" >problem with drakes though is while they have amazing range, good ehp and a great assortment of mid slots for more tank or webs, they lack heavily in the dps department. heavy missile launchers just weren't intended to be the weapon of choice for the discerning pirate. what could possibly fill this niche in the way that the 425mm autocannon hurricane once had?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" >enter machariel</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" >the mach, while expensive, brought long range autocannon punishment to the already well established base of amazing speed and good ehp. they also brought with them another unexpected boon: artillery. gunpoint soon started refitting the autocannon machariels with 1400mm artillery. now they simply <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10678093">alpha'd ships to their doom</a></span></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span ><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span><span><span style="line-height: 17px;" >this era brought about some of gunpoint's most expensive lossmails. feeling invulnerable in these ludicrously fast battleships with dreadnought-esque alpha strikes led some members <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10813479">(lol me~)</a> to make poor choices and engage things that they should not, <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10928482">ending</a> <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=11761963">in</a> <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12210537">lossmails</a></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span><span ><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span><span >this hasn't stopped us yet though, far from it. in fact, i would say that we're now emboldened to try more new things and share our results with the whole of eve</span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span><span ><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span >gunpoint's latest experiment is another pioneering move by our grandiose~ CEO sard caid: his <a href="http://twitch.tv/sardcaid">livestream</a></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span >if you follow <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/sardcaid">@SardCaid</a> on twitter, you'll see when he starts streaming (usually around 7pm PST) and you can tune in to see what he's up to. he typically takes out a solo or small gang incursion into one of the nullsec regions around us where he tries valiantly to get a brawl from the locals who are often tuned into his stream. lately even he has been streaming our mid-sized gang work, sharing our gang's perspective with the people we are engaging</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span >while it might not always (read: never) work in our favor, it's incredibly fun and it's all very heroic~</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span >it's exciting for me as a player to watch the organization that i'm so fond of grow and evolve as an entity as well as grow the molden heath community that i have loved for so long. as much as i hope that its spirit never changes, it's exciting to see what new and rad things come of this dynamic group of individuals</span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-52740322050826583292012-01-30T16:58:00.000-08:002012-01-30T17:23:24.921-08:00pirate on pirate violence: yarrrrowch~<div><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); line-height: 17px;"><span ><i>CraftyCroc > i'm too hung over for life atm. going to get drugs - bbiab</i></span></span></div><span ><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><div><span ><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br /></span></span></div>we formed up a little early for the poco op today (1741 or so fleet was started). 90% of the fleet was present, on time and ready to fucking rock with 20 minutes to go to departure</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">fucking win</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">we rolled to unertek in 15 ruptures and 5 guardians ready to rape faces autocannon style (shout out to sulei with his 300dps fit). scouts showed less than 8 hostiles logged into local by the time we hit the unertek gate in klingt</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">fuck em</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">we started shitting up local right away and whomping on the first poco. it died in minutes. the local g-spot big mouthed dread/widow loser, sshecat, piped up with a bunch of ominously nebulous threats while we watched her coalition mates just fuck around in mission ships and noctises and shit. we lol'd and took 30 for food/bio/wank/local shit talking</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">when we came back, we got a tip that friends of harassment were setting up a bait phoon to light cyno for a black ops gang (lawl). i pinned a scout to it and apparently their phoon got welp'd by russian hurricanes while their arazu (cyno i reckon?) got welp'd hard by the same canes and maybe gate guns. i don't know but it was amusing</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">anyway, we went back to work on the pocos. second poco was dead in what felt like seconds. the GSA (g-spot alliance, not goonswarm~) guys quit talking shit and logged off to go watch my little pony (friendship is magical~~) and we just kept hammering on structure (boring~)</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">finally we get a report that a spam fleet is moving our way</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">fucking FINNULLY~~</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Kaeda Maxwell > 2 zealot</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Kaeda Maxwell > 2 typohoon</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Kaeda Maxwell > 4 pest 4 guard</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Kaeda Maxwell > omen navy</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Kaeda Maxwell > sfi</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Kaeda Maxwell > 3 abbadon</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Kaeda Maxwell > legion'</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Dade Corban > I suddenly have to pee.</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">at this point, i ordered all of the tempest pilots, loki and bhaal pilots and 2 abaddon pilots to dock and ship up. once we were ready, the last two guardians and remaining ruptures (like 6 i think? maybe 8? idk i left the field~) showed as much leg as a bored t1 cruiser fleet as they could. i knew their scout/links (legion) were in local probably watching scanner, so we just waited</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">and they delivered</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">thankfully they were kind of dumb. first, they warped in a couple of battleships with only two of their four guardians at 0 on the ruptures. webs and points were thoroughly spread and we undocked on cue and all hell rained down on the spam gang. apparently their fc must have been tackled on the field... or the people on the field were far too dumb to report the deluge of rape on them because they warped in the rest of their fleet in- battleships at 30~km one direction and guardians at 30~km from the other</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">whoops</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">damps went straight up on the guardians at range as we luxuriously plowed our way through their remaining battleships, losing only two ruptures in the whole event</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span ><span style="line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12297407">http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12297413</a></span></span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">the BR is sort of skewed considering a lot of people reshipped and pocos were killed in the system, but you get the idea</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">gf spam.</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">Mad_Morris</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">yeah, the only way to stop spam is getting blue with corps around the whole eve-universe -_-</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); ">~~</span></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-24231425057850562022012-01-26T13:08:00.000-08:002012-01-26T14:47:39.447-08:00a night in molden heath: a love story<div><span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><i><div><jack dant="">Jack Dant > "Small/Med size corps are at a greater disadvantage. Having a POCO is like painting a big target on your back for wardecs"</jack></div><div><jack dant="">Jack Dant > most stupid statement of the day?</jack></div></i></span></span></div><span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><div><span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br /></span></span></div>~battle report 25/1/2012~</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "></span><div><span><a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12242304">http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12242304</a></span></div><div><span><a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12242782">http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12242782</a></span></div><div><span><a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12243178">http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12243178</a></span></div><span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">this two-part battal began with warlord protagonist~ forming up a gang of 10 or so tr3 bcs to go out and whomp on some player owned customs offices (pocos). the idea was to reinforce a handful of them with the intention of getting a combination of both a group that would defend their office as well as a tremendous timer for our glouriouse~ battalfleet</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">this was achieved with two potential pocos- one in aedald owned by <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=Blackened+Skies">blackened skies [the unthinkables]</a> and another in unertek owned by <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=alliance&name=HELM+Alliance">gal0re industries [HELM alliance]</a></span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">the plan was to form up the next iteration of our rupture/guardian gang as zealots, stabber fleet issues (sfis) and guardians. this new fleet would be slightly faster than the ruptures with a little bit better dps thanks to the zealots. the draw of this over the ruptures, however, was the sfis had a trick up their sleeve. a t2 sensor booster and meta 4 sensor dampener on the stabber fleet issue gave it a unique ability to limit kiting logistics' ability to lock at range as well as frustrate dedicated ewar platforms and force them to close range or leave</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">the final linch pin in the fleet was the warlord mobile~~ fc ship- the devoter. fitted for buffer and ab sig tanking, it also sported 3 faction medium smartbombs for clearing the field of ecm drones (also whoring everyone's km if we were to wipe~)</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">fleet formed up on time. we had some issues with comms and members from the uk connecting. it seemed as though it's a DNS problem with BT... but we still don't know. thankfully joe public was there and offered us use of the hydra RELOADED ts3 (thanks joe~). that hurdle cleared, the gang undocked, ready to go</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">final gang numbers were 5 guardians, 6 sfis, 6 zealots, fc devoter, armor web loki, kaeda's heroic vengeance~ and a link loki + legion already in position for faggot off-grid skirmish and armor links. with this rag-tag band of fuckery, we rolled to the poco. </span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">during this time, our eyes had spotted a clusterfuck of antipirates <a href="http://killboard.coalitionofantipirates.com/?a=home">(CoA)</a> defense fleet forming up in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Molden_Heath/Unertek">unertek</a>, the site of the earliest timer out of our set. local was hovering right around 70 with between 4 and 6 carriers landing on the poco, warping to gates, cloaking on the poco, warping to poses, etc. with only 17 in gang, i wasn't too keen on showing up to try and fight even after their gang left unertek. i'm sure they were just dying hit us with some kind of hat trick bullshit. guess we'll have to find out about that shit later</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">anyway, their bs and below gang was held on the oddelulf gate in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Molden_Heath/atlar">atlar</a> when we hustled through heild. while they had an obvious scout on us, their gang did not seem keen to pursue or engage us on a structure, even though the entity owning the structure was confirmed red to them</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">oh well. their loss</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">we sat there manually firing on that poco in aedald for what felt like an hour since it was bugged and guns would alpha but not continue to cycle nor show cycle timers, no matter what tricks we tried to do with switching on or off "auto repeat" or grouping/ungrouping, whatever. we did test that they would cycle normally on another ship (thanks everyone who shot me~). during this clusterfuck of dickery with the bugged poco, <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=853694">sneaky</a>, <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=11590">rahmat </a>and <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=40438">ryuichi </a>logged in providing the gang with new armor links (so jd could swap to a sfi from the hero damnation), 2 zealots and another guardian</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">after that hour though, scouts reported a big spike in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Molden_Heath/audesder">audsder</a>. figures they'd come from behind~~</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">crefakis > loads of shit on scan. no ecm though</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">their gang comp: 7 hurricanes, claymore, lachesis, 2 falcons (lol no ecm~~), 4 drakes, 2 dominix, oracle, harbinger, rifter, tristan and 4 (i thought 5 but w/e) scimitars</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">they decided to warp to about 20 on us, which is as good as 0 since we were on the ball hooking up their ships with skirmish linked scrams and loki webs. warlord protagonist tried to first break their logi by damping some of them and primarying one of them, but alas they were too close. instead, he opted to start alphaing some poorly chosen ships for their shield fleet. damps were well used vs offending falcons and smartbombs handily cleared the field of nasty ecm drones</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">after the first guardian died, it became apparent that the neut fitted domis were the biggest threat. they were pretty quickly dispatched but not before we lost a SFI and another guardian. once the domis were gone, the rest of the field was easy to handle and the hostile fc ordered his retreat. we mopped up some remaining ships that were slow to warp and the field was looted/salvaged</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">things weren't done yet though. as we were cleaning up, our scout in unertek reported that the hostile fleet had stood down. however, there were two phoenixes "slowly dropping speed below 20m/s" on one of our pocos they had reinforced to retaliate</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">perfect</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">we hot burned it for unertek to land mere seconds before both dreads finished their siege cycles. points were landed and their meager support battleships were quickly dispatched. after that point it was just a matter of hammering on the dps whist smacking in the most nauseatingly abrasive way possible... and maybe neuting out their cap. thanks to sard caid for piloting cephas boaz's bhaalgorn and titus piloting titus's neuting fleet phoon (lawl~) from bos and jack dant for piloting his alt's neut apoc from heild to unertek to make this possible</span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">we thought that in itself was dessert... but as we finally got the cap loot scooped and returned to bosena, arasul's alt had probed a small gang of battlecruisers out that had been fighting at a safe spot. several of them were quickly killed, including a <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12243110">pod of +5 implants worth around 400m</a></span><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">all in all, it was a fantastic night. thanks and props to everyone who made it possible. i hope it's as fun to fly in my fleets as it is to fc for you guys</span></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-42964058136519455242011-12-07T03:42:00.000-08:002011-12-07T05:48:04.947-08:00battle report- 12/6/2011<div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sometimes I sneak into your room at night and play with your face like a puppet - T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; ">riksterism</span></span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">sunday december 4th, 2011</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">warlord protagonist received intel that a player owned customs office (poco) that was attacked by <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=corp_detail&crp_id=64925">some old acquaintances of ours</a> was coming out of reinforced in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Molden_Heath/Unertek">a back-end system</a> in molden heath. upon further investigation, it turned out that the defenders were <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=2978">HELM alliance</a>, a long-time ally of sworn pirate enemies <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=48">electus matari</a> and <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=5242">dragoons</a>. they were further partnered with <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=3525">broken chains alliance</a> and some local terribads, <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=3921">g spot alliance</a></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">since this first reinforcement was set to come out squarely in our best EU/US tz overlap, we geared up to drop one of our strongest battalfleets on top of them: armor buffer bs w/heavy neuts supported by triage</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">the warlord's fleet formed up to respond with about 12 armor BS and a couple triage carriers prepped for action supporting the 10 or so THC2 guys in their shield bs</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">as we moved down the pipe, intel was coming in that HELM and their allies had both in-gates camped with substantial tackle. nothing we couldn't deal with, but it would prevent us from getting to the nugget we were lurching for: the BCA nuthugger repping the poco + his motley supporting fleet</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">alas, when we hit the gate the repping fleet legged it. our intel was splotchy at best about what they had in its entirety, but my best guess is about 25 sub caps including: 3 basilisks, 2 scimitars, a hyperion, at least one falcon, at least 2 sleipnirs, as well as several t3s</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">maybe we came on a bit strong~</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">no matter. they had repped the poco back over 50% and we came for a fight. the one kill we did get </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">was never going to satisfy... so we reinforced the poco again. since our dps was a bit on the overwhelming side and our balls were swollen and blue we went ahead and reinforced two others as well</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">now with 3 fresh timers and our pimp hand shown, we waited and watched</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">----</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">tuesday, december 6th, 2011</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">pre-staging began at 1845. mid/close range armor buffer bs w/heavy neut + eccm was the order. fleet numbers up until about 1945 were anemic at best. no carrier pilots, 6 armor bs pilots... people were only trickling in</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">god damn this RF timer sucked</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">luckily, people were willing to travel great distances (looking at you <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=8526">triksterism </a>and <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=385089">suleiman shouaa</a>) and help bump up our numbers a bit</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">scouts reported a substantial number of anti-pirate coalition members congregating around unertek. scouting myself, unertek local was up to 60 or so without us in it. adjacent systems had as many as 15 more milling around, gearing up for the brawl. final number of pirates and alts in our fleet: 33</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">i decided to join up our fleet into one homogeneous blab in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Molden_Heath/Klingt">klingt</a>, right next door to the hostile fleet. EM had obvious scouts attached to our movements, but i knew that would be the case anyway. coming in from klingt through a minmatar constellation gate (FUCKING HUGE~) would be messy, but messy is what i was going for. the idea was that the large gate could have let the bulk of our BS escape their meager tackle and warp to station for a better warp in on the poco where i wanted the fight to go down</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">it wasn't meant to be that way, unfortunately</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">the HELM/gspot/BCA gang was right on the first poco, happily repping it with 3 scimitars and 3 thanatos. they were covering these ships with a small attachment of sub bs ships: sleipnirs, lokis, tengus, recons, cynabals, 2 widows (drool) and at least one cloaked falcon. the EM LR alpha fleet was set up 50 or so km off the klingt gate with 9 maelstroms, 3 scorpions, 4 scimitars, 2 lokis, lachesis, vulture and a few odd interceptors</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">i chose to jump into them~</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">holding cloak and assessing our field position, i was hoping the maels and scorps didn't have much in the way of propulsion fit and we could burn for them while primarying something with scorch/barrage. that was the intention anyway. while we caught up with them pretty easily, our fleet because quite spread and the damage was evident. we dropped a scorpion, but we had started losing ships since i had ordered the thanatos on the field at the cyno ship furthest from the alpha fleet. while this kept pressure off the triage carrier itself, it was more to assist it in escape if that became and issue</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">the fleet quickly pulled range from the thanny (who triaged immediately) and kept taking heavy losses (relative to our smaller size) realizing rep range was going to be the issue here, i order krole to light his cyno and the archon to join the fray pretty much right in middle of the bottom portion of the EM fleet</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">right as i ordered the cyno lit, HELM alliance did something quite brash</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">they warped their fleet (including 2 widows and 3 thanatos) right to 0 on our triage thanny</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">realizing that now leaving the thanny so far from its dps support under 3 other carriers and a curse worth of neuting was a bad idea, i ordered all bs to hot burn back to manc in the thanatos and titus's archon to jump to the lower cyno, sacrificing krole's typhoon to the alpha gang</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">as the fleet closed with manc once again, damage all but stopped and we were able to put down a ludicrous amount of pain on the HELM fleet. dispatching their t2 cruisers, 2 scimitars, 2 widows and a sleipnir right off, we then started tearing apart the first thanatos</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">he went down like a taiwanese hooker</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">after that we mopped up a little more support and started closing with the other two carriers. one of them managed to warp as EM was motoring back into optimal for those big 1400s forcing off our tackle, the other decided he would triage to help his chances of survival</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">and that it did</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">we had lost enough dps and neuts that trying to stay on the triage thanny under shelling from the 1400s in the maels was going to be a problem. plus the constant jamming from the 2 remaining scorps (+1 widow that reshipped) was making it hard to fully apply what dps we had left... so i ordered us to pull out</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">both carriers went red on their triage while our fleet swatted back the tackle trying to pin them to the gate and they both warped off to station. this wasn't the best spot for us to lack any form of reps (sorry blise) but we deaggro'd and jumped into klingt, lumbering to the safety of the station</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">all said, it was an incredibly fun fight for everyone involved </span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">EM believes that to be a resounding victory considering they killed 10 battleships and a battlecruiser and only lost one scorpion. we consider it a victory because we lost 10 battleships but slaughtered the fuck out of HELM to the tune of 6b worth of face-smashing damage on ludicrously fit ships. HELM considers it a victory because they held the field and got to smack titus in local for not undocking his archon to fight them further.... alone</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">i consider it a victory as we brawled face first into 2x our numbers with less logi, no ewar and little support and didn't derp as hard as we should have</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">had the HELM fleet not warped to 0 on our triage thanny, we would have lost more BS than we killed on the EM LR fleet and this would be a harsh lesson in important role ships for outnumbered fleet engagements. our bs didn't have enough webs to engage the prop fitted EM fleet the way i had intended. even if we had dropped the archon in the middle of their fleet, they would have continued to burn and pulled range until they pulled our ships off the archon, killed a few more and just warped off leaving us with two carriers on the gate for them to tackle and us to scramble to save</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">so, final numbers:</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">US-- 29: 24 battleships, 3 battlecruisers and 2 triage carriers</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">THEM-- 50: 18 battleships (including black ops), 11 battlecruisers (including command ships), 6 cruisers (including faction, HACs and recons), 5 frigates and destroyers, 7 total scimitars and 3 thanatos (of which at least one was triage)</span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">thanks to: HELM for being terrible, sulei and trik for hauling balls to come down for the fight (extra thanks to sulei for baller t2 info link), finheri for taking over target calling when i started derping, THC2 for rf'ing this bitch in the first place, EM for bringing the gfs, titus and manc for triaging our asses (extra thanks to manc for armor links), everyone else for bootin' and suitin' to help kick some faces and pere madeline for leaving the fight early, allowing us to kill their thanatos</span><br /><br /><a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=11816603">http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=11816603</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); ">gf</span></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-82096131768300533622011-10-09T05:58:00.000-07:002011-11-25T07:52:16.240-08:00solo pvp or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the nanofiber<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i><div>frogstomper > i was discussing you with some 9pool members the other day</div><div>frogstomper > you have been recorded in nothing but jaguars since 2007</div><div>frogstomper > except for one wolf and a stiletto</div><div>frogstomper > i presume this is accurate</div><div>frogstomper > though it begs the question</div><div>frogstomper > what skills are you training anymore? =P</div><div>Alex Medvedov > well your information is not quite true</div><div>Alex Medvedov > i have flown a once in combat thrasher in 2009</div></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;" >this is yet another post pulled straight from the moldenheath.net forums. one of our junior members started a thread called "the art of solo pvp" and i had to weigh in as many people were piping up with "SOLO PVP IN LOW SEC IS DEAD" "unless you have a scout/link/falcon alt, you're not EVER going to get gfs" etc. below is my take</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;" >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); "><br /></span></div>i solo all the time in the ghetto geddon (<a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2453" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(152, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; ">http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2453</a>) and the lsb cyclone (<a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2415" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(152, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; ">http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2415</a>)<br /><br />ghetto geddon:<br /><a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2371" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(152, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; ">http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2371</a><br />this guy was with 3 drakes and a rupture. i landed on the gate with them in aedald. the arazu jumped through and everything else aggressed me. i jumped into mutto to go for the arazu with them all aggressed on the other side. i burned back to the gate (slowboat, obviously) and the arazu went for me. the instant he did, i dropped garde iis and lit him up. he damped me till i could only lock to 15km and he was holding around 16.7<br /><br />i let my drones chew on him as i approached the gate and lo and behold he came within lock range. i locked him, hit him with the heavy neut and a face full of lazers and he was like WHOA~~<br /><br />he didn't manage to damp me again (force recons have shitty cap reserves so damp kiting once heavy neuted is ~REALLY~ hard) and died nobly on the field as his mates jumped in<br /><br />as soon as the drakes started hitting me in earnest, i abandoned drones, overheated LAR and popped an exile while spamming jump on the gate<br /><br />i made it through the gate@30% structure and warped to a station to rep up. once that was done, i warped BACK to the gate and jumped in without a second thought. the other drakes were all on the gate@0 and jumped back into aedald... except one. he was looting and salvaging the arazu wreck and was just sat with no velocity on the wreck. soooooo i hooked him and started whomping on him (<a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2370" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(152, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; ">http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2370</a>) as he was dying and making no attempt to burn away or to the gate, titus jumped in and whored on like a faggot, but he was dead to rights<br /><br />gf in cheap bs<br /><br />lsb cyclone<br /><a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2206" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(152, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; ">http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2206</a><br />i had been out in a jaguar with shtang and he spotted this rapier along with an arazu, geddon, cane and rifter and told me about them. i had a lsb 'clone stashed in bos so went and swapped to it. after playing games on the gates for a while, the rapier and arazu made a play for me, trying to lock me down off a gate. since cloak delays are nasty, they didn't pin me but i got aggro on both of them<br /><br />after jumping back and forth, tempting them to try it again, i managed to get the geddon to follow me and be huge and slow off the gate as i nimbly barrelled back to it. upon jumping through, the recons went for me again, but i decloaked 5km from the rapier. snagging him quick (he had aggression, remember?) i started brawling him. the arazu decloaked 40+ away from me and tried to damp me and pointed me and swarmed me with drones<br /><br />the rapier popped pretty quickly. even double webbed, i was fast enough to keep up with the scrammed rapier. he died and i started burning for the arazu who still had me pointed. again, damped to <20km i was just trying to get in range to put pain on him. i got lock back as i closed and came within ~1.5km for landing my heated scram on him to nuke him when he warped in a fit of cowardice<br /><br />at that point, the geddon and cane were back in, but i was tanking them at range just fine and had enough cap boosters to keep my tank and mwd running under the heavy neut and still pull range... so i did and peaced<br /><br />another gf in a cheap ship<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />basically, there are some important things to remember in solo pvp:<br />- be familiar with your surroundings. know who people are aligned with, where their backup is at, how fast they can get to you, etc. that doesn't mean use a scout alt, just talk to people, pay attention to who you see as you roam and know how far between gates, etc. also know how many ways in and out of the system you're in has. having an escape that's NOT into a wall of ships is always a good idea<br /><br />- split up hostile gangs. play games with aggression, know when to jump, pull range and kite out the tacklers, etc. even the most powerful ships in eve can't fight a gang of more than a couple in a toe to toe fight... and even if you CAN, in most situations you don't want to<br /><br />- pick your targets. if you're in a cynabal, choosing a fight with a drake is a really bad idea. your range is almost guaranteed moot point, his dps to tank ratio is better than yours and if you get scrammed, you're fucked no matter what. you need to know what fights look like you have a chance of winning and which you should run from<br /><br />- don't be greedy. when you're facing a group of ships, pick out the ones you can take and focus on them. pull them apart and brawl them down quickly... and get out. you don't need to be billy badass and try to take ALL of them if the situation isn't in your favor. i can't tell you how many times i've heard "i had the rapier down and i would have gotten out if i hadn't tried to go for the XXXXXX" (edit: not that i don't believe in killing as much as you can in every engagement, but the longer you fight an enemy, the more chance they have to call for back up, call in a counter for your tactic, warp in a falcon... etc)<br /><br />- take into account every contingent you can and have a plan for dealing with certain situations (even if that plan is DIE WITH HONOURE~) if that means eccm, implants, cap booster, etc... just make the plan<br /><br />- make loads of tactical safe spots. if you're truly solo, you need to be able to spy on gates and check grid and stuff. they're quick to make around your normal hunting grounds and well worth it<br /><br />- get in the mindset. here's the thing- for every fight you get that's amazing and you perform as you should and your opponent bites it in a humiliating manner and you enter god mode, there's 20 where you welp, the faggots bring a falcon/swarm of ecm drones/logi/etc, you fuck up and burn out important modules (WELP~ point gone) or any number of things. so fuck the losses and go balls deep. take every fight as if it's the first one of your night and say a quick prayer to garmon as you wing in for the kill<br /><br />when you do that, you're everything that's right in eve</span></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-37977481467825205332011-10-01T18:47:00.000-07:002011-10-01T19:00:40.239-07:00domi/typhoon op<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>ARIMAN > ariartus quit corp?</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>ARIMAN > can it lacked hard spanking?</i></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div>battle report- domi/phoon op 1/10/2011<br /><br />sooooo formup was only 30 minutes late. almost everyone was present on-time and shipped up and everything. warlord protagonist was impressed<br /><br />our first order of business was to go to ennur as planned and sit at a planet and then a belt practicing cap transferring each other. this was much butts<br /><br />after we decided that this was too boring, we sent out scouts to try and find us a decent fight somewhere in the hot spots. on my way past akkio, i spotted a russian gang that headed back towards paala/lxq so we re-routed to go for them<br /><br />apparently there's an incursion going on somewhere past lxq in drone space. these guys went one or two in and prompty turned around and headed back to us. we jumped lxq and there were two of them at a perch... while the rest came plowing down and into a sling bubble 30km off us<br /><br />them: 8-10 assorted shield battlecruisers + zealot + 2 basilisks<br />us: 5 typhoons + 6 dominixes<br /><br />our idiots were spread out all willy nilly on the gate. cref got primaried and burned back to the gate and jumped out in a fit of cowardice (twice in the end i think?) while the rest of us clustered up and started neuting/jamming one of the basilisks and blasting the fuck out of the other one. <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10742888">one basilisk died</a> and the rest of the fags jumped<br /><br />except <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10742806">one drake</a> (who sat on the gate and let us murderize him)<br /><br />during all of this, vanderie came back from afk and started blaring up from whatever butthole he docked in... and got attacked by a pair of recons. <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10742911">he murdered the falcon</a> and the arazu was like "well fuck this shit" and bailed. we rejoined, burned back from molden heath and dp had to go afk to eat and vand took over<br /><br />maybe vand can wrap this battal report because i wasn't there, but they fought EM and lost two domis<br /><br />after this, i returned and we fought reverb in drakes.<a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=10743507"> that didn't go well for them</a>... <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10743465">or my domi</a>. anyway, net win.<a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10743498"> falcon fitted like a twat</a>, <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/sardcaid">sard streamed the whole event</a>, my children screamed the whole time and we murdered some intrepid crossing faggots in a decent toe-to-toe engagement w/logi<br /><br />so i'm gonna call this a win for the domi/phoon op (even though the best fight happened in draeks)</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >\o//</span></span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-3713684816604235382011-09-28T06:35:00.000-07:002011-09-28T13:54:13.129-07:00fall update 2011<span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>Plasma shields exist. Just because your on the outside of the know....doesnt make me a lunatic. -Titus Veridius</i></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >i am really having a hard time knuckling down and writing any kind of interesting or reasonable blog post, so here's some random news items, thoughts, incoherent words and phrases that are related to eve for your reading pleasure~</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); ">------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); ">~~tildes~~</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); ">god do i abuse them. i'm not really sure where i first saw them or how this mind-infection caught root in my system, but whenever i say something in a facetious or sarcastic manner (or even a jesting or amused manner~), i can't help but appending it with at least one definitive tilde</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); ">i've been told by several sources that this is a goon-specific behavior and perhaps it is but i don't typically hang out with any members of the goonswarm crowd.... that i know of. perhaps their metagame extends to "insignificant" and "irrelevant" low sec pirate crews, but somehow i doubt it</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">since when does one clique of people get to claim ownership of any meme or cliche?(~~~)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >molden heath is forever changing</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">from one year to the next, it's impossible to know who or what will be in the area at any given time for any amount of time. last year at this time, my molden heath pirate cooperative (trademark pending) was alive and actively using devoted intel channels for fighting the oppressive <a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=1357">anti-pirate gangs</a> that frequented the area. this year, there are very few pirate bands in the area, a couple decent sized dislocated nullsec type corporations, a horde of angry russians (which we have war dec'd because they don't have the honoure~ to go -10) and reaaaalllly crappy high sec "pirate hunter" corps that fail at even the overwhelming force (and ecm) tactics that <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=NeoNxGREEN">neonxgreen </a>and the <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Electus+Matari">em</a>/<a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Dragoons.">dragoons</a> guys <a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=1122">used to employ</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >that said, i'm having a blast. people keep <a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2369">throwing</a> <a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=2454">themselves </a><a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=2405">in front</a> <a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=2438">of my guns</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >if you mine rocks or ice in <a href="http://deepee.griefwatch.net/?p=kills&system=Teonusude">teonusude</a>, i suggest you contact me about purchasing a mining permit</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">we started hulk ganking in the high sec bordering molden heath low sec to alleviate bullet blue balls between fights, but the tears and aggression that it creates has made it a pretty staple pastime of ours. it also pays for itself many times over in insurance, drops, t2 salvage, drones, and loot</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">lately we've gotten a bit brash with our tactics, hitting one hulk and warping in on a second before concord has enough time to respond to the scene of the first crime. our current best is 2 hulks after the initial gank (that's 3 total) with 8 thrashers. i challenge anyone to do better</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >i guess that's it for now. hopefully i can make some kind of in-depth informative post about something interesting soon</span></span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-62878353243696752132011-04-28T19:54:00.000-07:002011-06-25T11:46:45.378-07:00carrier doooooowwwwwwn<i><span class="Apple-style-span" >our killboard even displays damage out to 11 decimal places so I can discern just how precisely I got my ass beat - Huo Lung</span></i><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >the life of a pirate can be an exciting one</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >the other night, i was on comms, lazily shooting the shit with laktos (a long time friend and one of our sexy new <a href="http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/imagesbicycle-upside-down-Australia.jpg">australian </a>recruits) with my headset half cocked on my head munching <a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4487961229_466db623dd.jpg">easter m&ms</a>. i'm telling laktos about who even knows and he's telling me about the various gangs he was bumping into about mh. being relatively late in my evening, i was winding down for bed and was just taking mental notes of the corporations that seemed to be out from bases in our area</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >as i peeked about our intel channels, it appeared that <a href="http://lifeisreallybeautiful.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Adolf-Hitler.jpg">kwark uk</a> and his merry band were trying in vain to fuck with <a href="http://killboard.eveuniversity.org/">eve-university</a> on a station they've been apprently occupying in <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=system_detail&sys_id=2405">half</a>. in the spirit of wanting to fuck the shit out of people i don't know who think they can live in molden heath, i let kwark know about the various gangs and their rough locations and let him do his thing</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >about 20 minutes after delivering the intel and thinking about whether or not i should go to sleep now or an hour ago, one of kwark's guys was in channel:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Caelum Terra > ARCHON IN SPACE AEDALD</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >apparently the 9pool gang had engaged one of the gate camping battlecruiser gangs that laktos had spotted and they had dropped an archon and nidhoggur about 100km off of a gate</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >after ascertaining that it was in fact tackled, we started spamming every channel we were in, trying to muster a cap killing fleet while getting ourselves into battleships and moving down the pipe to aedald. sadly, being the first battleship on the scene, i opted for an abaddon so i could try to maintain heavy tackle for the 9pool guys. this meant that i would be shitfucked the entire fight for capacitor, even though i wouldn't die</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span">anyway, more people trickled in as time progressed. vanderie was close behind me to the event and took over managing the fleet from kwark (who apparently had never killed a carrier before), got us a triage archon on the field and we started whacking away at the <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9529284">carrier's </a><a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9529291">meager </a><a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9529324">support</a>, some even choosing to return <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9529260">two </a>and <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9529262">three </a>times to the fight</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >in the end, vanderie managed to get a cyno up for 2 texn naglfars and chimera to add the dps we needed to break their spider tanking asshattery, though even two dreads wasn't enough dps to kill both of them before they managed to self-destruct in nerdrage</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >thankfully, the <a href="http://ransm.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=9529271">archon </a>fell to our guns with 15 seconds left before he would have self-destructed. yaaay loot!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >i'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who came and did such a fantastic job</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >-kwark uk- you are a faggot, but you make some good fun times in spaceships. i'm certain this is on accident, but i'm glad for it</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >-caelum terra- you did everyone a great service by taking the job of inviting people to halp kill a carrier while kwark managed your fleet. it was a little confusing, but you got the important details to both parties quick enough that we managed to pull this off</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >-the three curse pilots (gangris, gix tyrionn and kylathar)- you guys coming to the fight when you did probably helped us get the archon km. thanks for travelling as far as you did</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >-9pool drones- you guys were great at adapting to the situation and keeping those carriers pointed. riftersANDdraeks4ever</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >-texn- for responding so quickly and unquestioningly with dreadnaughts to what was obviously a clusterfuck</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >-vanderie- making sense of the chaos ftw</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >-every other random hero that popped falcons, got neuts, brought cap boosters for my pathetically cap dead brick and put the word out we needed help</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >that was pro</span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-88225129868400358652011-03-29T17:00:00.000-07:002011-06-25T11:46:32.473-07:00electus matari and dragoons- party your ass off!<div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>Buttpoint Diplomacy best Diplomacy - Finheri</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://boglyft.podpilot.org/kb/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7646">FLEET FIGHT 3/28/2011</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >we received word that a TEXN pos was put into reinforced in Hegfunden and was coming out at 2200 eve time the next day. dragoons and their pet alliance electus matari had put it into reinforced, which is delicious. the initial report of their forces looked a little something like <a href="http://boglyft.podpilot.org/kb/?a=kill_related&kll_id=7617">this</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >for those following along at home, that's 16 bs, one carrier, one command ship, two recons, five battlecruisers and an <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=details&kill=4575">ares</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >since dragoons had no problem dropping a nuthugger on the boglyft (relative) swarm of caps, it was presumed that they would have their capital fleet ready to come back to the engagement and finish the job since they've <a href="http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=9214908">done it before</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >in the hour up to the end of the reinforcement cycle, our scouts reported em/dragoons forming up in teon. while we didn't have exact eyes on their force, we had a rough idea of their numbers. initial reports were about 18 bs and 8-10 bc and below for support. obviously, they would be keeping their capitals in a system away from our eyes so we had no idea what to expect</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >10 minutes until the pos came out of RF, we started to consolidate our BS. almost all of the TEXN ships were in station in hegfunden waiting for orders to undock while the rest of the pirate forces spread between egbinger and oddelulf started moving into position. our scout reported seeing a smattering of hostile ships moving up the pipe between bosena and egbinger, all in various stages of warp. our fc took this as a sign that they could be a bit unorganized and pushed us to close the gap between us</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >by the time we were in egbinger, however, the hostile fleet had landed on the pos and had already begun shooting at the guns that TEXN had repaired and put back online. not wanting to lose too many guns in case we needed them for removing support (FALCANZ), we jumped aeditide as soon as we possibly could and finally had all of our rag-tag pirate crew together on the hegfunden gate</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >things got a little messy for us here. no one had discussed with the archon pilots what their triage order was going to be or what triage discipline we were going to use. we also had not sufficiently sorted an entry cyno even though two exits as well as an emergency exit had been prepared. quickly fixing that problem, the TEXN scout in hegfunden reported that the battleships had incapacitated two guns and were now warping off</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >mental groans went through the fleet. all this way for nothing. boo, hiss. mighty FC sard caid ordered a rifter scout to jump the gate and report on the other side. mael mael tempest hype... they had warped to the gate!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >TEXN wasted no time warping to 0 on the aeditide gate, effectively sandwiching them between our forces. it was obvious that the hostile fc presumed we would be RR fit with our bs, so he ordered locks on the TEXN battleships and prepared to fight on their side of the gate, forcing us to jump into them</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >this was ok with us</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >TEXN kicked the show off by aggressing first. once they started redboxing, we piled into heg, primaries rolling from glorious fc sard caid's mouth as though from the golden tongue of an archangel. primaries started dropping as the TEXN entry cyno lit, archons plowing on to the field like mack trucks. we fully expected one of two things to happen. either they would light their own cyno and bring their cap slaying fleet out to play... or they'd deaggress and jump out. either way, it was either going to be really shitty or really boring</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >what happen next surprised everyone</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >the triage archon piloted by evelgrivion cyno'd into the gate and was rocketed off at 2000 m/s to the tune of about 80km</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >oops</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >as scary as it must have been for evel, it completely changed the course of the fight. apparently the hostile fc noticed this and ordered everyone to tackle and primary the renegade archon. not a terrible idea... if it hadn't been the first to go triage. evel happily tanked all of the incoming damage while maya and uther's archons took over non-triage fleet repping duties</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >primaries died quickly in spite of their 2-4 scimitars (numbers not verified. there were at least 2) since our anti-cap bs setups all sported a big assed heavy neut BITCHES! at one point, magnanimous fc sard caid was jammed, presumably by the falcon that showed up midway through the fight, followed by ineffable back up fc vanderie leaving the ever-so-eloquent warlord protagonist to BLRRRRRR his way through targets</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >final count of casualties is best represented by either the boglyft boards at the top or by the <a href="http://twistedinc.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=engagement&kill=5865">twisted inc killboard</a>, since they got all the fucking mails</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >final status of the fight was:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >friendly- 18 bs (mostly amarr), 3 bc, 3 triage archon, 1 hac, 1 lolhound</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >hostile- 14 bs (shield buffer/long range or arty fit), 6 bc, 2-4 scimitars (at least 2 confirmed), 3 recons, 1 hac, 1 cruiser, 1 lolhound, 1 interceptor</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >losses:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >friendly- 3 bs (all TEXN before the archons arrived on the field)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >hostile- 12 bs, 3 bc, 1 rapier (whoopsie!), 1 interceptor</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gfgfgfgfgf</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >pity we didn't get a crack at their caps, but eh. maybe next time</span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-65587619372081502472011-03-21T10:53:00.000-07:002011-05-04T18:53:56.775-07:00customer support<div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i>we hunt kariberov - cbIpoK</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >as part of my quest to commit acts of violence against all things shitposting, i have a very excellent and personal example of the incredibly high-quality customer service that ccp provides</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >as i typed that line, i can already tell what my responses would be. initially, someone reading this might think i was being facetious or sarcastic. what, with calling ccp customer support or service high-quality, i must be high as hell, right? i can't possibly be serious. upon reading, however, i'll probably be accused of sucking someone's e-dick for some sort of benefit or another. i'd like to state that it is definitely the case and completely true as evidenced by the nice things that i say and have said. i got a whole bunch of faction gear, t3 hulls and subsystems as well as the ability to explode any ship i engage just by double clicking them in space</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >--------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >now for a little backstory: i had let both of my accounts lapse around late october 2010. i wasn't able to play worth shit on skyblue(fucking worst net ever(tm)) and was just not up to trying to hack it out with the sometimes 6000ms latency to anything. on top of that, in december i found out that mrs. protagonist and i are expecting our second (omgwtflol) child</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >i know, right?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >so eve kind of took a back seat to the hilarity that ensued. on february 7th, however, i received this very polite message:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Greetings from CCP!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >We're reaching out to players that have recently canceled their subscription to EVE Online. We'd like to make a final attempt to address the reason you've decided to stop playing EVE if you'll allow us.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >If you've had an unresolved billing problem, an issue with an unanswered petition or a petition you feel was improperly handled on our part, experienced an episode of harassment or been the victim of an exploit, or any other problem that resulted in your decision to leave EVE, please give us one more chance to address the problem to your satisfaction.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >We also encourage you to visit our Expansions page and see what new features, fixes and updates have been added since you last played.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Please don't hesitate to contact us if you want to take another look at the game and we will gladly open your account for a few free days.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >You can either answer this mail directly for a discussion with a senior customer service representative, or if you have a petition you would like us to further review, we would be happy to take another look and see if there is anything we can help you out with. We are always available at support@eveonline.com and will do our utmost to help you out with whatever problem you may have.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Sincerely,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >EVE Online Customer Support</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >--------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >wasn't that sweet? i'm sure anyone else that had let their account go to shit got one just like it. i know that i'm not special. however, i was kind of in a good mood when i got that mail and decided to write a little response to the automated form letter i had received:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >greetings!<br /><br />i am just taking a moment to respond to this email for your benefit</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >i absolutely LOVE this game. for a while, i was at home being a stay-at-home father to a newborn infant and i was managing to play 40-60 hours a week. i lived in molden heath low sec and ran around with some notorious eve celebrity pirates, bloggers, scoundrels and roughnecks and it was the best gaming experience i have ever had</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >that said, i cannot maintain my account(s) currently as my wife and i are expecting our SECOND child and work/family is taking my top priority. perhaps in the near future i can return and enjoy the game as i once did, but for now, i simply cannot</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >i would still like to receive emailed newsletters so that i can keep abreast with official press releases, but there is little that can be done to get me to reinstate my account(s) at this time</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >thank you for making a great game!</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >xX REAL NAME HERE Xx</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >dirty protagonist</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >--------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >in case you were wondering, yes. the brown stain did come off of my nose after about 30-45 minutes of scrubbing</span></span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >i thought it was over at that point. i'm sure their email system was configured to sort the <i>deluge</i> of whinefuckery that an email like that was certain to generate and it made me feel a certain bit of smugness that i would be (in my head at least) the only one writing them back saying that they're doing a really fucking ace job and made a pretty nice game</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >imagine my surprise when i got this letter the next day:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Hello, GM Yuggoth here.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >I can very well understand that you won’t be able to play a lot for now. It’s good to see that you have your priorities sorted out, because although we want people to play our game we certainly don’t want their real lives to suffer for it. I hope that you will join us again in the future when time permits. We’ve never removed any characters from our database to this point, and don’t plan to in the future, so you can rest assured that your characters will be waiting for your return.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Let me know if you have any further questions or if there’s something that we can help you with. Also, congratulations on your second child that’s on the way!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" > </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >Best regards,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >GM Yuggoth</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >The EVE Online Customer Support Team</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >--------------------------------------------</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >holy fucking shit! did yuggoth really just take the time to handwrite a response to my little bit of knobbery?! i think he did! holy shit!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" >joking aside, i was absolutely gobsmacked to get a response to what i thought was just a meaningless email fired off from my blackberry in the middle of the night into the black abyss that is an automated email system</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >this isn't really a huge deal, i know. it also certainly doesn't prove or disprove anything about the level of customer service that they provide... and maybe i'm easily impressed. i will say, however, that of the many (and it is a fucking lot) of online games i've played, i have never ever received a personal email or response to something insignificant as that before... and that really impressed me</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >i think that a lot of the eve community (certainly among my friends and the blogs/tweets i tend to read) people find that abusing ccp over everything from game design to their development schedules to their customer service is not just okay but an important thing to do. frankly, i think they need to shut the fuck up and <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=4388">shoot something already</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >jesus</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-60802427845031688432011-03-16T21:30:00.000-07:002011-03-21T11:07:36.564-07:00shit posts<i><span class="Apple-style-span">What is a overview setting? I just avoid the purple ones LOL xD - </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span">ReBeLSKuLL</span></i><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><div><span class="Apple-style-span">no more shit posts!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">after reading countless tweets, blog posts and articles, i have come to the conclusion that many of the good writers of eve blogs have abandoned their post (lawl) of writing good, quality eve shit and instead decided to focus on writing about shit that really isn't worth reading. like other games (wtf), what's wrong with the game... even sometimes what they're trying to do to fix it (blah csm)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">so, instead of writing shit that (i think) is completely irrelevant to the game, i've decided to take up the pen (keyboard?) and start abusing the shit out of some parentheses. maybe write some good eve posts while i'm at it</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">i guess the first thing of note i should point out is that i'm back!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">that's right! i built a new "gaming on a budget" desktop that truly kicks ass. to be honest, i spent way more than i should have but the end result is pretty kick ass. i also got hooked up with a local WISP (who had such bad web/advertising presence that it took me the better part of 6 months to find them (fuck satellite internet)) and now enjoy a lag-free connection to the internet we all know and love</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">coming back to the same place after being gone for 6 months is kind of strange. there are, of course, the <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=4267">old</a> standby<a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=4381"> people</a> who were there when i left, but the scenery is nowhere close to the same. my hq station was filled with some really <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=4301">nasty former IT corp guys,</a> there are several new <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=corp&corp=The%20Hatchery">small pirate corps</a> in the area and there are a TON of new faces in the molden heath pirate intel channel</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">however shit changes, it still stays the same though. the welcome i've received has been truly fantastic</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">which brings me to my next thing</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">i'm sure people have noticed my new corp ticker by now... yes, i have joined <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=main">gunpoint diplomacy</a>. not that 520 is dead, mind, but that the rest of the roughnecks i flew with are still on other shit i figured i might as well fly with the people i spent 90% of my time in molden heath with anyway. so far, things <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=4268">have</a> <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=4252">been</a> <a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=4375">great</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">i can't wait to see where this next season takes me</span></div></span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-3697139484899349152011-03-11T09:26:00.000-08:002011-05-01T15:22:37.384-07:00changing a babby diaper<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; " ><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; ">the following is a post directly from the forums at <a href="http://moldenheath.net/">moldenheath.net</a>:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 17px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div>this is a very serious topic so i'm going to be very serious with you all. i've thought long and hard about this strat and you'll do well to consider my points<br /><br />first, any vet will tell you that this is not some undertaking to be taken mildly. you do not fucking embark on this journey on a whim. i will show you how this will not go:<br /><br />Ramenfan1025 > hey I think I'm going to try my hand at changing a babby's diaper<br />Dirty Protagonist > WHOA HO HO HO HOLD THE FUCK ON BRO<br />Ramenfan1025 > seriously bro, how hard can it be?<br /><br />and they never heard from him again. seriously, this actually happened. ask yourself- "how come that guy is like on all of 520's kms back in july/august then all of a sudden he's gone?"<br /><br />really, it's fucking weird<br /><br />you really don't want to end up like poor ramen, so here's a little how-to to help you survive this harrowing ordeal. i went ahead and broke it down into some easy to remember steps and handy mneumonic for you<br /><br />read on to find out--<br /><br />(A)sk yourself: am i fucking retarded? really. why are you thinking about changing a child's diaper? that is why god put women on the face of this planet- to wipe babby asses. i'm not even kidding. here is an exerpt from genesis 2:11-15 "and lo! god was like 'holy shit babbies make some nasty shit! i ought to make a woman who can both cook delicious sandwiches and also wipe this foul ass on the child i created. and so it came to pass." seriously, look it up<br /><br />if you find yourself alone with a soiled child and there isn't a woman ANYWHERE nearby (this is an extremely unlikely event), your next course of action is to...<br /><br />(W)rangle that child. i recommend a rope but a chain, steel cable, or even plastic zip-strips will do in a pinch. remember, if the child is moving, you are in for poomageddon and believe me, there are things in that diaper that can not be unseen. men have come back from such places as empty and charred husks of men<br /><br />once fully restrained...<br /><br />(A)rm yourself. you need the following equipment: a military grade flame thrower, an air tight vacuum sealing standard nuclear waste containment unit, a bucket of muriatic acid, some spill-magic(tm), and a standard issue diaper in the correct size for the child in question. god help you if you have one too big or too small<br /><br />after you've armed yourself...<br /><br />(R)emove the fasteners holding the diaper to the child. these are usually sticky snaps that somewhat resemble velcro though they can be as severe as u-locks for bicycles, carriage bolts or nautical rivets. this is a very sensitive step as any mistake you make at this point can result in the child thrashing and even restrained there is a serious risk of them flinging hazardous waste into an area it does not belong<br /><br />once you're at this point, you're committed buddy...<br /><br />(E)viscreate the entire area. you need to destroy any evidence of the toxic waste that might have been slathered or smeared around the child's emission nozzle. if you don't, its caustic ooze will devour the skin tissue on the child and cause even more thrashing. perhaps even tempestuous yelling and stomping. believe me, you don't want to be around for that, so do a good job<br /><br />i know it takes a lot of heart, but stick with it until the job is done...<br /><br />(T)oss that filthy rag in the container and run like hell. believe me, you don't want to be anywhere near that bomb when it hits atmosphere. it will melt you face while your children weep over your charred corpse<br /><br />once you've handled cleaning and disposal....<br /><br />(P)owder dat ass. seriously, if you don't use some kind of absorbent material such as kitty litter, spill magic or babby scented talcum powder you could have residual ooze creeping into places where it will do nothing but wreak mayhem. i knew a man once who neglected this aspect of "the change" and he was greeted at his next change by an army of raunchy scented warriors spawned in the dark crevaces of his child's ass-skin folds that hungered for brains and thirsted for blood. his family lives in a shelter for zombie victims and his child is haunted by those images probably for the rest of his life<br /><br />if you've survived this far...<br /><br />(W)rap that babby up. the new diaper should go on as quick as you can since the child will be bucking like a wyoming stud stallion in a corral. best case, you have about 2 seconds from lobbing your shit-grenade into the hazardous waste recepticle and letting the powder fly to when you need to have that emission nozzle contained unless you want a complete cluster fuck of shit flying all over you and everything you hold dear<br /><br />at this point, you should consider yourself victorious. it's generally frowned upon to forget to untie the restrained child, so i strongly suggest that you not neglect this point<br /><br />if you find yourself in a situation where you're faced with the aforementioned task, i hope you remember the mneumonic that i've taught you today: AWARETPW<br /><br />awaretpw and stand strong, soldiers</span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-4529411649398246952010-12-14T18:53:00.000-08:002011-05-01T15:20:10.817-07:00constantly changing: of fate's fickle whims<span class="Apple-style-span" ><em><span>is his name dusty protagonist? Like, not as filthy as you, but still unclean? - butters</span></em><br /><em><span></span></em><br /><span><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> not going to lie. it's been a pretty bleak couple of months for me in eve. my lovely girlfriend and gorgeous 11 month old (i can't believe she's almost a year old already!) daughter and i have <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">recently</span> moved out of the town we had been living in to a new town, a suburb a bit closer to the big city. it was hard, mostly because the baby is so young and both me and the girlfriend grew up in the town we left, but over the years, the neighborhood where we had been living (which is also consequently where we both grew up and where we met 20 years later) has been rapidly deteriorating... to the point where my motorcycle was stolen from in front of our house in broad daylight! if that doesn't make it hard to raise a child in a place without worrying 24/7... <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">sheesh</span></span><br /><span></span><br /><span>anyway, as we're getting settled and established here at the new place, eve has taken a back seat to the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">RL</span> action. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'd</span> like to say that it's been <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">regrettable</span>, but the timing was just so perfect that 520 slipped itself into hibernation with the boys being simultaneously pulled off their computer chairs to various other interests, activities and responsibilities all at the same time. we've been able to keep in touch though. text messages, twitter, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">facebook</span>, email... late night phone calls from members who shall remain nameless... all serve to keep us up to date on the goings on in each others' lives</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>although it may seem like it, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> not quitting. at least not entirely. currently, my account with DP is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">unsubbed</span>, but in his stead, my market and trade account which hosts my alt <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">frogstomper</span> is running strong. it's a kind of crafty set up. let me explain:</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>since moving, my trusty 2003 dell laptop (which i have been using to eve on since <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">december</span> of last year (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">lol</span>)) has taken a turn for the worse. the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">usb</span> ports are all pretty much broken thanks to a curious baby's disregard for the delicacies of technology. the microphone port has been wobbly and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> reduced to logging into and controlling eve from the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">touchpad</span>. that combined with the terrible satellite <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">internet</span> that <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'm</span> stuck using until i can find a company to assist me with an alternative... it has been awful. i won't go into any more details</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>in spite of all this, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">frogstomper</span> is raking in the cash without the burden of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">DP's</span> ship losing habits to support. eventually, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'll</span> have a new <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">pc</span> up and running as well as a genuine broadband connection to plug into and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'll</span> be back in action. and thanks to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">frogstomper's</span> expanded money making abilities that have given DP access to an even wider assortment of ships as well as his probing prowess, it'll be better than ever</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>until then, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'll</span> just continue to watch from the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error">sidelines</span> as life goes on in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error">molden</span> heath (and elsewhere in eve). in the mean time, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">i'll</span> try to entertain myself by posting stories along with some explanations of some interesting and unique projects that i have created (and not had the time to blog about) and am a part of</span></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-82810064903061427022010-09-27T18:39:00.000-07:002010-09-27T21:42:53.971-07:00of life and love in low sec<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in ur blog post, describe my pickle pls</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - sard caid</span><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ur poast would be LEGENDARY</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - lt graham</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i often sit at my computer, intending to write a cool new blag poast about spaceship battles and junk and stuff. </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">often</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. honest</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but stuff happens</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">for instance, today i popped open the laptop, logged in eve, opened a new poast thing thing and start trolling my friends for a terrible opening quote. it's all going well with the typically veiled (and not so veiled) sexual advances, penis jokes and self indulgent poor spelling dominating my chat windows</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">suddenly, </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=4188"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">battlecruisers</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">my blog forgotten, i went from typey type mode to ZOGM MUST KILL W/FIRE mode</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that in mind, i'm going to say some stuff like really quick before someone that needs to die walks across my front lawn</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><a href="http://forum.battleclinic.com/index.php/topic,102145.0/small-gang-low-sec-pvp-corp-looking-for-a-few-good-men.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">520 is recruiting!</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">selectively, of course. i want amarr and minmatar pilots... logi is good, bc a must, piracy experience not required but pvp experience a definite necessity</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that's what it says in the post. so far i've got 3 caldari pilots and a gallente pilot. fml</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it might help recruiting if the boys were more active on the kb but everyone has their priorities. i'll hold it down for the lot of them</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
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<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i'm training t2 large arties for sniperpest goodness</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i'll probably do a machariel one day, too. nothing says "LOL FU" like epic dps from a BS as it zings by at vagabond speeds with a heavy neut and 3x the ehp of a shield hac</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">that also means minmatar bs v and gallente bs v are in the pipe. lol@having my skills planned for the next 4 months</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so very much unlike me</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
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<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it was my RL birthday in august!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i got a few gifts from friends (you guys rock) but most notably was an armageddon navy issue from an anonymous person (ok it was </span><a href="http://evebroadside.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">SARD CAID</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (rigs courtesy of </span><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Vanderie"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">vanderie</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><33))><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=4021"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">used promptly to whack some dudes</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=system&system=Hegfunden"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">hegfunden </span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i was solo on the station undock at first until i realized that they were dying and not deaggressing so </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=pilot&pilot=weboide"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">weboide </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(who was there to save me in case my bday ship lost too much armor) undocked his archon and </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=pilot&pilot=MD%20Dawg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">md </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">undocked his abaddon and we wiped the field with white hot lasers for great justice</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">carriers: unsporting? maybe. fun? you betcha!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
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<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">speaking of hegfunden-</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">we've been tearing that system up for weeks now. some </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=corp&corp=Loki's%20Marauders"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">corps</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> that </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=corp&corp=Templar%20Construction%20Battalion"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">used</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=corp&corp=Freedom%20of%20Exile"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">be</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in </span><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=alliance&name=Avalon+Alliance"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">avalon alliance</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> live there along with (more recently) some </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=alliance&alliance=Outer-Haven"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">alliance none of us had heard of</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> that wants to try their hand at low sec</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">apparently they've declared hegfunden to be </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">theirs</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and when you're in there you better state your business and/or gtfo</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">we've been going with the former.</span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=13049"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> territorial and aggressive nubs make for good pvp times</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
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<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">totally unsponsored plug time!!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i was rolling with </span><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Alex+Medvedov"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">alex medvedov</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and the czech death squad toward amamake when we got blobbed by eve-uni. i would show kb links, but we ran like ninnies once they spiked and though we had a snag up on the gate, we all got out intact</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">anyway, while i was docked up in egmar, i saw </span><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=Sassy+B"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">sassy b</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> pop into local with me and i saw this link in her bio to some blog of hers or something</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i guess she drawed sum spaceships one time, maybe? i don't know but they made me happy. </span><a href="http://idrawedsumspaceships.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">i suggest you check them out right now</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
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<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">so i guess that's it</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">oh wait, one more thing- </span><a href="http://www.moldenheath.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">molden heath regional pirate forums</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">! if you're a pirate anywhere and want to banter and chat with dudes in molden heath, check them out. you can always come register as a guest and post pics to my hot naked b~ i mean cats doing funny stuff thread. yeah. cats</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ps- sard's pickle: it is enigmatically delicious. a twisting mind-fuck of dill goodness, hidden behind a crisp crunch and salty finish. surely, there is none like it</span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-83988476382138425132010-07-25T19:41:00.000-07:002011-05-01T15:22:43.532-07:00molden heath: come for the pvp, stay for the comedic relief<div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><i><span class="Apple-style-span">i'm lol'ing all over my tits and ass</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"> - bryan havoc</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span">it was late on a typical saturday evening. with the night still relatively young, myself one of </span><a href="http://forum.battleclinic.com/index.php/topic,102145.0/small-gang-low-sec-pvp-corp-looking-for-a-few-good-men.html"><span class="Apple-style-span">my new recruits</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=pilot&pilot=Thorasine"><span class="Apple-style-span">thorasine</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"> were whetting our appetites by camping a primae we had chased into a </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=system&system=Altbrard"><span class="Apple-style-span">dead end system</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span">. as we were fighting the boredom by bumping each other around the gate, a shuttle landed on us.... and </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=details&kill=3680"><span class="Apple-style-span">didn't jump</span></a></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >his mission item dropped, i looted it and we all went on our merry way</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >that is, until he convo'd me</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >what follows is our conversation:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > hello</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > o/</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > game froze :(, I clicked jump long before you could have locked lol</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > shame</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > it happens</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > are you upset?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > nope</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > just a shuttle</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > do you need this data card?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > tho you cost me my mission, but that won't set me back much at all</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > yes plz</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > give you 200k for it if you bring it to Altbrard</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > to IX - Moon 8 - Concord Testing Facilities</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > will you bring it for that?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > hold on a second</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > someone else convo'd me</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > np</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > hold on dude</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > this is messed up</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > what is that?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > there's a cop after me man</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > a cop?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > yeah dude</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > like a concord guy</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > in low sec?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > hold on</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > i think i lost him</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > FREEZE</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > WHOOP WHOOP</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > SHIT</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > dude, unscramble me</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > im going to have to ask you to pull over, sir</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > i can't pull over any more!!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > you've got me as pulled over as i can get =[</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > seriously, you're going to blow up m ship</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > SIR</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > wtf did i do?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > PLEASE CALM DOWN SIR</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > lol, well if you kill him, can you bring me the encoded data chip :P</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > are you aware that you are in possession of an illegally obtained data chip, Mr. Protagonist?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > what?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > that chip is the express property of CONCORD</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > no</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > I'm going to have to ask you to turn around and put your hands on the side of you ship</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > you have to be shitting me</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > You have the right to remain silent</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > SIR</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > IM GOING TO ASK YOU ONCE AGAIN TO CALM DOWN</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > Where did you get this chip, sir?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > i got it from this dude's wreck</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > IM GOING TO ASK YOU ONE MORE TIME</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > I GOT IT FROM HIS WRECK OK?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > Is this true?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > Blackfyre , is he telling the truth?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > yes, that is my chip :P</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > and this is probably one of the best times I have had in eve lol, awesome job guys</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > Are you aware that that particular chip was STOLEN FROM THE HEIMATAR MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE??!?!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > look man, i just pulled it out of his shuttle</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > at approximately 02:00 EVE, a suspect was seen fleeing the scene</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > seirously it was just sitting on the gate</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > DONT INTERRUPT ME</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > you gotta believe me i didn't steal anything</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > I"LL TASE YOU</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > GET DOWN ON THE SHIP NOW</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > its apparent you have the right to remain silent</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > but not the ability</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > I'm afraid you're going to have to come with me, sir</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > both of you</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > get in the car now</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > NOW</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > fuck this. i'm outta here</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > STOP</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > jam drones GO</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > WHOOP WHOOP</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > unit 456 requesting backup</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dirty Protagonist > weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Blackfyre 001 > lol</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > im in pursuit in a suspect Dirty Protagonist</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > citizen, im going to have to ask you to leave the area</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > before i book your for illicit theft</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > am i clear?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >gooch 456 > GET OUT OF HERE NOW BEFORE I FIND SOME CRACK ON YOU</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >sometimes the aftermath is more fun than the actual scrap</span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-1571886151785139352010-07-17T18:54:00.000-07:002010-07-17T19:55:57.759-07:00summer update 2010<span style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"u guys don't just come into local. you knock down the damn door" </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">- hoe bag</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">it's been a really long time since i posted. rest assured, i have not been sitting idly</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">since my last post, i returned to the old corp along with the core guys. we fooled around in a</span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=system&system=J122137"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">wormhole</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> for a bit, did a couple high sec wars and woke up in </span><a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Molden_Heath"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">molden heath</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. we messed around with some ideas like changing the corp name (we were h</span><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=High+School+Musical"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">igh school musical</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> for a bit) but in the end, the call of low sec and its emergent pvp environment proved to be too much for us to resist</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">since moving into </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=system&system=Istodard"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">istodard</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, we have made some fantastic new friends- our politely coy pirate brethren of </span><a href="http://scone.griefwatch.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the gentlemen of low moral fibre</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, the notorious (serd cain E-ON FAMOUSE~~~) solo and small gang pvper sard caid and his </span><a href="http://evebroadside.griefwatch.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">gunpoint diplomacy</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> crew, as well as some very crafty russians in </span><a href="http://delait.clite.ru/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">delait</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> just to name just a few</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">our exploits have been pretty overwhelming. coming from high sec where a 3-5b isk war was considered a smashing success, operations such as our absolute destruction of an </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=2555"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ethereal dawn capital gang</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> or our </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=3083"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">POS assault</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> against </span><a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=alliance&name=Electus+Matari"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">electus matari</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (the major antipirate/rp alliance in the area) put that paltry sum and tiny effort quite soundly to shame</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">but large scale combat has never been our thing. thankfully, molden heath has proven to be an absolute haven for solo and small gang pvp. 1-5 guys can consistently go out and find fantastically fun fights </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=3605"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">all</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=3533"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">over</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=3436"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the</span></a><a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=3428"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> region</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> any day of the week</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">hopefully i can spare a bit more time now to devote to relating tales of our exploits and the beauty of the molden heath region and its denizens</span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-57878867616500752822009-11-08T14:19:00.000-08:002011-05-01T15:22:47.542-07:00handling the galactic job search<span class="Apple-style-span" ><span>"</span><span style="font-style: italic; ">the natural ebb and flow of prons. We have ups and downs</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" >" - ten tron<br /><br />in every pod pilot's career, you're going to change corporations and alliances. sometimes the shift is smooth and intuitive such as corp mergers or group migrations... but sometimes, you're out on your ass with just your wits, your personal belongings and a noob corp chat full or retards<br /><br />finding myself in a situation much like this, i decided to put a little list together of things i found useful for anyone else that might be in this situation<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">1) plan for disaster</span><br />call it a backup plan, an emergency contingency plan, an overnight bag, whatever... but make it. if you rely on your current corp and their ops to make your isk or to provide you with any necessary resource (ammo, ships, ratting/mining areas, etc), set up your own private line. if that means stashing a ratting ship and a jump clone in a quiet region of low sec or npc 0.0 or leaving a mining rig in an empire system where you can mine alone in peace, do it. also keep on hand a healthy stack of whatever consumables such as ammo and drones that you might need to make cash. consider it your emergency life line to help get you on your feet in case you find yourself in a serious bind<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">2) stay professional</span><br />this is not always easy considering that this is a game we're playing, not real life. try to anyway. you never know when something retarded you've said or done will come back to bite you in the ass. case in point- in my interview for <a href="http://the-bastards.com/">the bastards</a>, one of the first things my RO brought up was <a href="http://eve-search.com/thread/1020111/page/1#19">a rather uninspired and offensive forum post</a> i made back in march. how embarrassing! being courteous, attentive and demonstrating common sense can go a long way for your cause, though. also, remember to try and keep good relationships with former corporation and alliance mates. you never know who you might need to vouch for you or who might know of solid crews that are looking for people with your skill set<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">3) update your resume</span><br />when you apply for a new corp, they're going to want to know all about your character and abilities. for your own benefit, make a list of all of your experiences and skills in eve. if you're a pvp character, think about things you've done and ships you're trained or specialized in. probing, scouting, fleet commanding, tackling, logistics... knowing your strong points and communicating that to a potential recruiter is really important. also, it's a good idea to look at how you're going to show off your personal stats. first check your character's stats on <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/index.php">battleclinic</a>- if those are accurate, save the link to include with your application. if not, <a href="http://www.griefwatch.net/">griefwatch killboards</a> offer single user killboards for only 5m isk per month<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">4) find candidates</span><br />this really can be the hardest part. you don't just want to apply for the first corp that you see in the recruitment channel. do your homework. you want to find a corp that does exactly what you want to do. piracy? large scale combat? small gang combat? when you find a corp that claims to do what you're interested in, check them out. look at their killboards, look them up on the <a href="http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?">eve-o forums</a> (<a href="http://eve-search.com/">eve-search</a> makes this easiest). remember, you need to appraise an organization just as thoroughly as they should you. my personal theory is that you should try to join a crew that will teach you something, not a crew that you could train<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">5) be choosy</span><br />i can't stress this enough. the best analogy i can think of would be a romantic relationship. there are obviously more and less desirable partners based on your preferences. ideally, you don't want to commit to one that's willing to take just anyone... at least not for any length of time. on that same note, you don't want to have a one time thing with someone who's interested in a long term commitment. either situation has potential to make life difficult for you. keep this analogy in mind when you're looking at different corps and don't be afraid to say no to one that you don't think fits you<br /><br />all that should help you find and apply for some great opportunities for fun in eve<br /><br /></span><br /></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-10259890223136852042009-10-17T20:58:00.000-07:002011-05-01T15:22:51.703-07:00soft targets: i'm gonna gum you you death!<span class="Apple-style-span" ><span>"<span style="font-style: italic; ">battle badger standing by... where's my scimitar support?</span>" - rustysherrif2</span><br /><span><br />the life cycle of empire corporate combat is pretty predictable. the two sides talk a lot of shit to each other, they have a couple small skirmishes, eventually one of the small fights explodes into an all out brawl and the stronger organization becomes apparent. often after this has happened, the weaker of the two tries to prove their prowess and execute a stunning ambush once or twice and another major engagement comes to a head. regardless of who comes out victorious, both sides are fatigued by their losses and if they have any skill at all, can easily avoid further conflict until the aggressor bores of fruitless chases or runs out of the conviction to attempt raids on a target which blacked their eye sufficiently<br /><br />a good example of the latter would be <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=7954">REIGN Alliance</a>. REIGN is an empire alliance about 400 men strong. that many people clustered into secure space makes for generally poorly organized command structures and people eager to prove their bravery in fleet fights. these crews usually yield the most fun and fruitful combat environments<br /><br />unfortunately, this was not the case<br /><br />REIGN had a rather effective low skill combat doctrine, not unlike the one practiced by eve university. their combat fleets were comprised of the usual armor buffered, close range battleships with logistic support in low to mid numbers (3-8 ships). however, having the logistics on stand by allowed the battleships to use their high slots to fit cap war. also, unlike most combat forces that have the low skilled pilots fly tackle support for the fleet, REIGN trained all of their new pilots in electronic warfare. this meant that every time our fleets engaged, we were faced with more ECM ships (scorpions, griffins, blackbirds, falcons, rooks) than we had battleships in our fleet<br /><br />in PRONS, we're used to fighting in situations where we're extremely outnumbered and coming out on top. in the REIGN campaign, we <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=7292">did just that</a>... at first. following my war progression timeline, they <span style="font-style: italic;">should </span>have gone into hiding and evasion mode </span><span>after the first large engagement</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" >. however, they instead adjusted their strategy and added more logistics and e-war to offset our logistics and e-war... and their superior numbers <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=7321">proved too much to overcome</a><br /><br />what you don't see in that fight is our 2 guardians, oneiros, two falcons, rook, and 4 remote repair dominixes that were all trying in vain to keep our high dps turret ships alive<br /><br />even though we managed to do over 3 billion isk in damage to them (including a very strange and expensive <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7298">curse</a>), the 2 odd billion isk that we sustained in losses took its toll on our pilots and we dropped the war under the pretense that they were just "too much for us to handle"<br /><br />on the opposite end of the spectrum, PRONS once again engaged in epic pitched battle against <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=8114">REPO</a><br /><br />just like last time, we believe that they were hired on the cheap and sloppy due to some kind of connection to <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=7622">the junta</a>. allow me to explain...<br /><br />during our downtime between wars, we like to keep our skills sharp by probing out and <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=7420">terrorizing </a><a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=7399">wormholes</a>. unlike the bulk of our empire engagements which are focused against a single, specific target, these skirmishes are completely random against whoever happens to be in space in the wormhole we visit. in this particular tale, the unlucky wormhole denizens happened to be <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=8074">The ENTITY</a>.<br /><br />they were just sitting in their alliance POS in the J170409 wormhole, minding their own business when <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=pilot&pilot=Ten%20Tron">Ten Tron</a>'s neutral probing alt happened upon their operation. they greeted him with the typical "tough guy carebear" welcome- threatening his ship and his pod and setting a quite elaborate bubble/can/drone trap for his humble covert ops ship<br /><br />of course, any time anyone is up for a fight, we here at project nemesis like to oblige them<br /><br />after the dust had settled and their four battleships were sacked and looted, the smack talk commenced. to keep this short and to the point, Ten Tron announced (facetiously of course) that we were moving into their wormhole and waging a war against their alliance in order to procure a "rare resource" later to be identified as <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=pilot&pilot=Bryan%20Havoc">Havocium</a><br /><br />this war followed the typical pattern for empire campaigns... except the large, deciding battle of the war was fought before the war declaration was even put up for a vote<br /><br />seeing as they lacked the skill and manpower to fight a war machine as practiced as project nemesis, The ENTITY hired mercenaries... particularly our old friends at <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=7816">REPO</a>. REPO's decision to take the contract on us after how poorly their last campaign went left many of us confused... until we saw Enigmatic Lunatic's employment history. this ENTITY security officer spent a month in the junta<br /><br />funny how all of the pieces come together<br /><br />anyway, since we had pretty much blacked the eyes of both of these organizations, we spent the better part of the wars' duration catching the <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7441">odd hauler</a>, <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7507">chasing</a> <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7492">solo</a> <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7493">battlecruisers</a>, and killing <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7511">neutral remote repair alts</a><br /><br />to be fair, the <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=Demonic+Empire">demonic empire</a>, a newer REPO corporation, gave us (and won) the one <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=7496">head on battle</a> of the war<br /><br />hopefully they'll keep bringing it now that they're back on their own</span><br /></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-45970264570074626262009-10-05T12:59:00.000-07:002011-05-01T15:22:55.308-07:00what's the "show stopper"?<span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-style: italic; ">"write blog about shenanigans NAOW. Then about my beautiful eyes and firm buttocks"</span> - weboide<br /><br />i apologize for the lack of posting lately. my fight with the flu was long and gross, but i won in the end<br /><br />now for our regularly scheduled eve updates...<br /><br />PRONS is once again <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=8028">at war</a>! in the world of high sec war decs and griefing, being memorable is never a good idea. unfortunately for <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=pilot&pilot=Zodicar">zodicar</a>, he must be lacking this particular piece of wisdom<br /><br />we met zodicar way back when <a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/">5-20</a> first met <a href="http://dkhrs.griefwatch.net/">the dark horses</a> and prons. he was in <a href="http://somethingrotten.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=6179">terran alliance</a> who was the first war dec that we shared in the formation of the <a href="http://waste.griefwatch.net/?p=main">WASTELAND</a> alliance. he made a name for himself among our pilots for quickly docking or cloaking whenever one of our ships would enter local and promptly smacking us... all while divulging sensitive pieces of his real life data. particularly about his daughter<br /><br />with that as the backdrop, i was out in my scimitar in piak visiting with <a href="http://waste.griefwatch.net/?p=pilot&pilot=MD%20Dawg">md dawg</a> and <a href="http://waste.griefwatch.net/?p=pilot&pilot=weboide">weboide</a> when we saw our old pal zodicar sitting on the undock of the 3-19 station in a megathron. he was quite obviously baiting his wts (whoever they were) with a plate and sensor booster fit and failing at it miserably<br /><br />so, feeling a bit mischeivous, i sent a private convo to his wt and told him to undock and aggress while the three of us remote repaired him. sure enough, as soon as the wt opened fire on zodicar, 6 of his corp mates lunged into system... even as we were laughing in local that we were repairing his war target!<br /><br />clearly embarrassed, his corp mates unleashed some rage at us in local and pointed out the fact that prons was a "bunch of retards" and that our "(pvp skills are) lol". since that is taken as a challenge in the eve player versus player combat pilot world, we welcomed it and pushed the dec through that night<br /><br />since it began, we've endured the typical empire war stages. first it was the <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=details&kill=7358">station</a> <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=details&kill=7359">games</a>. then it was the large, unorganized fleets <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=engagement&kill=7368">charging into our home system</a> and running once we showed the slightest amount of aggression. now we're on to <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=details&kill=7393">hat trick fleets</a> and <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=details&kill=7396">hot drops</a><br /><br />actually, that wasn't really a hot drop. we had been playing a little station game with zodicar for 30 or 40 minutes down in <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=system&system=Piak">piak</a> in a very random assortment of ships. once his fleet was in place, zodicar warped 600 off the station and waited for us to gank him, and <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=details&kill=7392">gank him we did</a>. unfortunately, we didn't have the manpower or the fleet cohesion to take on a drake/scimitar gang, so we podded back to <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=system&system=Uedama">uedama</a> to change ships and regroup<br /><br />however, there is nothing more frustrating than having eyes on an angry enemy fleet and lacking the manpower to fight it. we needed a hail mary and fast<br /><br />scouts reported their fleet moving toward uedama as we shuffled ships and pods around system in front of their cloaked system scout. our carrier pilots quietly slipped out into <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=system&system=Kubinen">kubinen</a> and suited up into their dusty carriers leaving four of us in local in battleships. careful to be obvious and slow, we four bait battleships lumbered between the kubinen gate and the bottom station. as they piled in, we warped back to the kub gate with their forward scouts and the first two of their drakes in hot pursuit<br /><br />without any scouting or intel, the wt fleet followed our battleships into kubinen, right as the carriers were in warp to the gate<br /><br />the resulting chaos only yielded two kills, but we didn't lose <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/index.php?p=pilot&pilot=Double%20Diamond">double diamond</a>'s raven (it was scary close) and one of the kills was zodicar in his armageddon! the psychological blow was so great that their fleet completely scattered, running all different directions to their respective homes<br /><br />they're probably done fighting now that we've put a little monetary and psyche hurt on them but so it goes with empire wars<br /><br />o7 zodicar. project nemesis salutes you<br /><br />and your daughter</span><br /></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-59643090630491773672009-09-18T18:29:00.000-07:002011-05-01T15:22:58.753-07:00showing us what the inside of our skulls look like<span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-style: italic; ">"please refresh my memory....did we dec privateers to actually kill shit....or to lose as many t2 ships as we can in the most failtastic way possible?"</span> - pentinor<br /><br />as of 9-12-2009, prons has been at war with the <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=7893">privateers</a>. i think that Lies thought they would be a logical target to keep sharp on after we curbstomped repo. unfortunately, this has not been the case<br /><br />instead of giving us little head on skirmishes, they're doing to us what we did to repo. hit and run guerrilla warfare taking out 1-3 ships at a time with overwhelming firepower then vanishing into the shadows<br /><br />frankly, it's absolutely frustrating to be on the receiving end <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7240">of </a><a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7242">such </a><a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=7253">punishment</a><br /><br />the losses we've taken at the hands of the privateers raise some obvious issues:<br /><br />- we don't have the intelligence network necessary to fight guerrillas, even around our home systems. whenever we found ourselves in a trap, it was a complete surprise. that really shouldn't be the case<br />- our pilots are considerably overconfident in t2 hulls, resulting in rather large losses in rather <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=7248">embarrassing situations</a> on the killboards<br />- when we start losing fights in embarrassing situations, pilots quit logging in, diminishing numbers leading us to lose even more fights<br /><br />my hat's off to the privateers. before this war, i had no idea that they have such an effective organizational practice. basically, the executor corp provides and endless stream of wars while corporations come and go freely from the alliance to join in and step away from the carnage quite easily. this allows them an endlessly fresh band of guerrillas to unleash upon their targets who are typically 0.0 alliances and their squishy empire operations industrialists<br /><br />while it can be argued that the privateers may have been a "bad war" to fight, i think the merits of showing us our weaknesses makes it one of the best wars... so long as we improve ourselves from it</span><br /></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-1864036455096573252009-09-14T13:14:00.000-07:002011-05-01T15:23:02.712-07:00the forums: popping your community bubble<span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-style: italic; ">"<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">spigsnoggling</span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">spafflewhacking</span> bastards!" </span>- infernal travesty<br /><br />when it comes to any <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">mmo</span>, there are usually two distinct yet occasionally overlapping communities:<br /><br />first is the community that any given player belongs to- his or her corporation, alliance and whatever friendlies he or she accumulates along the way. these relatively small collections of players form their own cultures, have their own relationships and operate in a fairly self contained manner. since trade and combat can be rather impersonal in eve, these communities are like tiny bubbles, isolated almost completely from each other by the vacuum of space<br /><br />the might stay this way, if it wasn't for <a href="http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp">the forums</a><br /><br />the forums are the second community in any <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">mmo</span>. they provide a means and location for these otherwise isolated communities to interact with each other in near (or not so near) real time. in theory, one could lead a happy, fun and complete game experience without ever visiting the forums... and many people do. however, those that choose to participate in the dialogue pass information and make and break friendships as well as reputations just by their contributions to the noise levels<br /><br />my point in bring any of this junk up is simple: <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">i've</span> been reading the eve-o forum for pretty much the first time this week and <span style="font-weight: bold; ">whoa.<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span> i have learned a lot about the history of several organizations, game culture, and the doing and happenings of all sorts of eve celebrities... most of which i would have never heard of otherwise<br /><br />at the end of the day, most <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">mmo</span> forums are full of garbage, ego stroking, propaganda <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">campaigns</span> and absolutely insane drivel in the form of "memes" which are usually just silly jokes that are made once and then repeated with impunity<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">i'm</span> still trying to decide if <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">i've</span> been missing something by not reading and posting more, or if it's better for my psyche to have missed out on all the rabble</span><br /></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-12295435106159009392009-09-13T19:45:00.000-07:002011-05-04T19:03:37.433-07:00kow killa: the legacy<span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-style: italic; ">"whoa. are these guys paying by the preposition?" </span>- bryan havoc<br /><br />few players in the game of eve have created as much legacy based on their legendary stupidity as <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=player&name=KoW+KiLLa">kow killa</a>. he is instantly trusting, mindnumbingly ignorant, and in possession of a comically over-inflated sense of competency. he gets taken advantage of and mocked<span style="font-weight: bold; "> ALL THE TIME</span>, both in and <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=233254151">out of game</a><br /><br />our relationship with kow started some time back last year when a few guys in prons used their alts to convince kow and his "coalition" (there were two alliances involved in this scam) to give them their ships to move to 0.0. the details and amusing ventrilo recording from the revelation of this scam can be found in ten tron's video, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDt7oXX17dg">the pod pilots' court</a><br /><br />anyway, prons has made a pretty regular habit of checking up on him by dropping a war dec on whatever alliance he's in every so often. the results from last time were pretty <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=campaigns&campaign=7568">stellar</a>. the money that was destroyed in those bpos the <a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=details&kill=6602">rifter</a> was carrying (yes, they were bpos) was enough to make it worth "checking up" on him again<br /><br />within 8 hours of the new dec being announced, kow killa chose to disband his <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=alliance&name=Legem+Terrae">alliance</a> and start trying to find another home in some other alliancesx for his corp, <a href="http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/combat_record.php?type=corp&name=Three+6+Mafia">Three 6 MaFiA</a><br /><br />as always, project nemesis wishes our friend kow the best of luck in his future endeavors and look forward to the prons rap that he has promised with excited anticipation</span><br /></span>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9056526853036706403.post-28653715300740683732009-09-12T09:51:00.000-07:002011-05-04T19:03:51.907-07:00late night memos and such<span class="Apple-style-span" ><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span">"at first i was like lol but then i didn't lol" </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span">- bromba</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span">i'm out on assignment for RL work when i get a message from </span><span><a href="http://prons.griefwatch.net/?p=pilot&pilot=NoMoreLies"><span class="Apple-style-span">NoMo</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span">: the junta has given up fighting after a solid month of relentless pounding and it's time to find new targets... something with a little more bite this time</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >we talked briefly about a few possibilities and what they might bring to the table when lies had a "flash of brilliance". he joined the in-game mercenaries channel and threw down the gauntlet</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >i don't know the specifics but i imagine that his blood alcohol content combined with the boost to his epeen spanking repo provided spurred this brash decision. i'll admit, i'm pleased with both his technique and his results</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span">the corp vote for the dec on a group called </span><span><a href="http://eve.thefinalstand.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span">THE FINAL STAND</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> is now up. honestly, i didn't know anything at all about these guys. from a first look at their killboard, i'll say they're pretty good. they have great numbers made from plenty of empire fighting along with a healthy sprinkle of 0.0 and low sec mixed in. quick intel shows that they enjoy their </span><span><a href="http://eve.thefinalstand.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15317"><span class="Apple-style-span">battleship fleets</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> and took a </span><span><a href="http://eve.thefinalstand.org/?a=cc_detail&ctr_id=31"><span class="Apple-style-span">righteous beating</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> at the hands of eve university... not that losing to eve-uni is a bad thing, mind you. every high sec merc or griefer corp has to dec them and get their asses handed back to them at least once</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span">while digging a little deeper for intel, the real treasure came to light in the form of </span><span><a href="http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1136666"><span class="Apple-style-span">forum posts</span></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >dear sweet baby jesus</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >NoMo went into this trying to find the "elite pvpers of high sec" and it certainly looks as though he found them</span></div>DirtyProtagonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763144520501130812noreply@blogger.com0