I log in and notice the Instrumental site is still in the system. Someone was mentioning yesterday in the corp channel about cleaning the sleepers from the site, so I wonder if that did happen and if there is at least the cheap C-540. Sometimes, some of my colleagues don't consider worthy their time and effort to suck that one, compared with the C-320.
I warp to the site, and confirm there are no sleepers, and still plenty of C-320. Time for Venture fleet!
I grab both ventures and I warp to the site and without hesitation, I start to harvest the gas meanwhile I watch d-scan.
A few minutes later, silent terror logs in and confirms there are new signatures in the system, and suddenly, sleepers show up in my gas site. What? I thought they were gone!
Silent terror explains me that they "return home" after downtime, so even if the site was triggered, as it was yesterday, it's like a fresh site. A new thingy learnt, and always learning. This is EVE.
So, I warp squad the ventures back to the tower, and I get Kippel into the cheetah and start to help Silent to locate the new signatures.
Besides the new static C4, we have a null inbound (2DWM-2). I jump in, and I see at least two POCOs are reinforced and their timers will end in about 2-3 hours. The locals are aware, and greet me in the channel.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
Sucking some gas
Sunday afternoon, the chain I scanned yesterday it's gone, perhaps rolled. There's nobody at home, and there are new sigs, so I get Kippel and his cheetah to start scanning.
I find the C4 static as expected, the deadly data site, two crappy gas sites, and voila! an Instrumental gas site. That's the best gas site you can find, with lots of sweet C-320 and some C-540.
I finish scanning all the sigs, and jump to C4, I want to be sure there's no activity there if I want to start getting that gas. C4 looks inactive, good. Time to swap ships and get into ventures.
Before triggering the site, I broadcast through our jabber that I found the Instrumental in case anybody wants to join. I think it's kinda rude to trigger the site without giving the chance to my corp colleagues to share the good gas.
I don't get any reply, so I fleet warp my pair of ventures and start to suck. After 2 minutes in the site, Omaristos and Aymala show in and join the fleet in response to my ping.
I find the C4 static as expected, the deadly data site, two crappy gas sites, and voila! an Instrumental gas site. That's the best gas site you can find, with lots of sweet C-320 and some C-540.
I finish scanning all the sigs, and jump to C4, I want to be sure there's no activity there if I want to start getting that gas. C4 looks inactive, good. Time to swap ships and get into ventures.
Before triggering the site, I broadcast through our jabber that I found the Instrumental in case anybody wants to join. I think it's kinda rude to trigger the site without giving the chance to my corp colleagues to share the good gas.
I don't get any reply, so I fleet warp my pair of ventures and start to suck. After 2 minutes in the site, Omaristos and Aymala show in and join the fleet in response to my ping.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Slaughtered
Friday evening, I have been idling and afking in the corp for a while, being busy preparing the dinner and sending the kids to sleep. When I come back I see Brother Chaplin is asking me if I can fly the webber Loki that we use for C5 escalation sites. I acknowledge, and I grab my escalations Loki, currently my most expensive ship due the three True Sansha Stasis Webifier (200m each).
I join the advertised fleet and turn on Mumble, the usual when running these sites. The fleet is formed by two Lokis (Brother and myself), Archon (Mick) and Revelation (silent terror). I have run sites with them before, so everything should go smooth.
I join the advertised fleet and turn on Mumble, the usual when running these sites. The fleet is formed by two Lokis (Brother and myself), Archon (Mick) and Revelation (silent terror). I have run sites with them before, so everything should go smooth.
[ 2014.05.23 22:00:23 ] Brother Chaplin Rinah > you run site beforeI warp to Mick and start targeting battleships tagged, but only 30 seconds later after arriving to the site...
[ 2014.05.23 22:00:26 ] Chuck Turing > yes
[ 2014.05.23 22:00:29 ] Chuck Turing > c5?
[ 2014.05.23 22:00:30 ] Chuck Turing > yes
[ 2014.05.23 22:00:53 ] Chuck Turing > let me grab my loki
[ 2014.05.23 22:01:20 ] Chuck Turing > My ship5
[ 2014.05.23 22:03:39 ] Chuck Turing > when do i come in?
[ 2014.05.23 22:04:06 ] silent terror > warp to mick now
[ 2014.05.23 22:04:14 ] Chuck Turing > omw
[ 2014.05.23 22:04:48 ] Chuck Turing > sisters combat are ours?
[ 2014.05.23 22:05:10 ] silent terror > new sig
[ 2014.05.23 22:05:12 ] silent terror > SUI
[ 2014.05.23 22:05:13 ] silent terror > scan it
Friday, May 23, 2014
Retriever in d-scan
Another day in wormhole space... our chain was gone and we had to start to scan it again. I had already scanned our C4 static two hours ago, but did not continue further because I had to leave to solve a few things, kids stuff, they always have priority over EVE.
When I came back, Raul is in the C4 scanning the rest of the chain, I join him. A few gas sites and a C4 inbound and a C3. Raul jumps to C3 and I do to C4z.
In C4z there is an unmanned retriever in a tower, and it looks it has been there for some time, nothing else of interest in the system. We had two bookmarks in siggy for two towers but they were gone, so I update siggy, removing previous towers and adding the new tower that Elder found quicker than me.
Meanwhile, we were having a good discussion how he knew it was a C4 site without jumping in, and Raul gave me a good lesson about finding the wormhole class based on its colors. To be honest, I had read about that in the past, but I never have been aware of it, or never tried to identify it. I remembered reading about it at Penny's blog, and with some googling I found the post: http://www.tigerears.org/2011/04/24/wormhole-colours.
Raul Itinen > c4 - very orange + Green
Raul Itinen > our c5, black + red
Raul Itinen > srsly try it
When I came back, Raul is in the C4 scanning the rest of the chain, I join him. A few gas sites and a C4 inbound and a C3. Raul jumps to C3 and I do to C4z.
In C4z there is an unmanned retriever in a tower, and it looks it has been there for some time, nothing else of interest in the system. We had two bookmarks in siggy for two towers but they were gone, so I update siggy, removing previous towers and adding the new tower that Elder found quicker than me.
Meanwhile, we were having a good discussion how he knew it was a C4 site without jumping in, and Raul gave me a good lesson about finding the wormhole class based on its colors. To be honest, I had read about that in the past, but I never have been aware of it, or never tried to identify it. I remembered reading about it at Penny's blog, and with some googling I found the post: http://www.tigerears.org/2011/04/24/wormhole-colours.
Raul Itinen > c4 - very orange + Green
Raul Itinen > our c5, black + red
Raul Itinen > srsly try it
Trying the Nereus
My colleague Brother Chaplin a few days ago showed me a great YouTube video from Marlona Sky doing PvP with an industrial ship, a Nereus. Since I saw that I wanted to try that hilarious experience and for that reason I had acquired a Nereus and fitted it.
Today we had in our chain a low-sec entry and it was a good opportunity to put in practice the Nereus. I did ask Brother to join and he gladly did it.
The lowsec system was Shalne, and there was nobody in the system so we decided to jump to Gonditsa.
At Gonditsa, we warped to the gate that leads to Bherdasopt - a high sec system - trying to find criminals or suspects to shot. And we did, because as soon as we arrived, we found a suspect Drake Navy Issue owned by K'Dra, that started to shoot us with Heavy Assault Missile.
Today we had in our chain a low-sec entry and it was a good opportunity to put in practice the Nereus. I did ask Brother to join and he gladly did it.
The lowsec system was Shalne, and there was nobody in the system so we decided to jump to Gonditsa.
At Gonditsa, we warped to the gate that leads to Bherdasopt - a high sec system - trying to find criminals or suspects to shot. And we did, because as soon as we arrived, we found a suspect Drake Navy Issue owned by K'Dra, that started to shoot us with Heavy Assault Missile.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Mister Commander and his Arazu
After a few buys days only updating PI and skills, I find some time to be more active. Mick and Bolinar were rolling our static C4 and I join them with my rolling-100MN-rupture, and we do the usual stuff, jump with the afterburner on to increase the total mass and jump back with the afterburner on. The wormhole goes puff as it should be.
We only have one relic signature at home, so the new one it has to be our static C4. I recently have trained my alt Kippel to Astrometrics 5, so it becomes more easy to scan, good thing, because the older, the lazier. Kippel gets into his cheetah and starts to scan. With some small RL interruptions to provide "IT support" to my wife, I finally find the wormhole.
C4a has been active recently, Commander Predator has lost an Astarte and his pod, so I try to be more careful, just in case the system is still active. There's a tower in dscan and I start to search for it. Two manned ships in the POS, Prophecy and Arazu, being in the Arazu Commander Predator. Then, he was podded and came back. They seem to be afking.
Meanwhile Raul has been scanning and got the static C3, nothing else in the system besides a gas site and our own wormhole connection to home. We jump to C3. I see in dscan an online small tower. Using dscan I find it and warp to it. It has some ships, but only one of them manned, just a Cheetah.
To my surprise, all the defense mods are offline, and two of them are incapacitated, so perhaps the tower has been in siege recently? Or the owners are not very skilled in POS defence techniques?
We only have one relic signature at home, so the new one it has to be our static C4. I recently have trained my alt Kippel to Astrometrics 5, so it becomes more easy to scan, good thing, because the older, the lazier. Kippel gets into his cheetah and starts to scan. With some small RL interruptions to provide "IT support" to my wife, I finally find the wormhole.
C4a has been active recently, Commander Predator has lost an Astarte and his pod, so I try to be more careful, just in case the system is still active. There's a tower in dscan and I start to search for it. Two manned ships in the POS, Prophecy and Arazu, being in the Arazu Commander Predator. Then, he was podded and came back. They seem to be afking.
Meanwhile Raul has been scanning and got the static C3, nothing else in the system besides a gas site and our own wormhole connection to home. We jump to C3. I see in dscan an online small tower. Using dscan I find it and warp to it. It has some ships, but only one of them manned, just a Cheetah.
To my surprise, all the defense mods are offline, and two of them are incapacitated, so perhaps the tower has been in siege recently? Or the owners are not very skilled in POS defence techniques?
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