Kode 9

The weekend was quite productive in RL and in EVE. I decided to bite the bullet on Friday night and wait around for fleets as I hadn’t participated in one for some time. I ended up in one fleet IIRC that was rather boring. Shot at one pirate passing through Ame but never got any kills. I was rather surprised at how quiet some of the regular PvP hubs were.

Saturday was far more interesting as I was able to get into 3 different fleets. In two of them, I was acting as squad commander and wing commander in one of them. In all honesty, I felt rather inneffective as wing commander. I wasn’t sure of my role to the squad commanders since the FC was rather vocal over TS about direct commands to SC’s. One of the highlight kills from the fleets was this cynabal fit for fail. It was a rather nice 1.2 bil isk kill.

In one of the other fleets, we had intel that there was an enemy gang on a gate in Ame, so we warp in and right as we warp in, our TS server dies. It was chaos. It almost seemed planned *shifts eyes from side to side*. The FC did a good job of spamming the fleet chat with “SCATTER!!! GETT OUTT!!” It certainly made for an exciting time. My efficiency on the KB is pretty high, but what do you expect when you are a tackler or in a frig most of the time.

Even though I am able to get into BS hulls, my support skills certainly do not make sense in flying something so large. In fact, I think I’ve sworn off BS’s until Large AC spec skill is trained up. It just doesn’t make sense to fly a ship above Cruiser if you can’t fit T2 mods on it. Anyway, my mind is slow this morning. Have a good one all.

Time, Time, Who Has The Time?

Well I finally quite my carebearing ways last night in favor of joinng a low-sec roam that was partaking around 9 pm my time. We all got fleeted up  and were pretty excited as there were reports of yarrbears around in several close systems.  Our FC was relatively new, but we had several very experienced WC’s and SC’s (although our most experienced was high as a fuckin kite and the other has the strongest hillbilly accent making TS comms a little difficult). We moved out and immediately had various people getting DC’d. I’m not sure how so many routers in the fleet had problems, lol. 29 jumps later, we are in the Eha area. Scouts reported several pirates in the area, so we immediately tried to get some yummy baits in system for them to try to munch on.

Side note: Our large fleet was sitting 2-3 jumps out of Eha. I was thinking that by the time the fleet got into Eha to save our bait pilot, he’d probably be poof in his nice new Railrannis. On the other hand, if we sit on the Eha gate, then it would be easy for the pirate to be alerted to the large OGC. Any thoughts from readers? Is the risk of being found, but being able to jump in system quickly greater than the risk of losing the bait pilot(s) but keeping the whole fleet hidden?

Back on topic: The pirates were most likely alts of two guys and it appeared that they were just ratting. They had zero interest in the bait. In fact they docked up and logged after a bit, (which led us to believe that they alts). By this time we had been in fleet for the better part of 3 hours with no bites. RL calls awfully early in the morning for most of us, so pilots started dropping fleet. I was one of them as I had to be in the gym in 8 hours. I was quite disappointed that I didn’t get any pewpew in, but I guess it goes that way. Having fleet members sing (a little drunk albeit) of TS was definitely entertaining. I’m thinking that I might try to gather a small gang of 8-10 and try FCing myself. The idea of being responsible for 30+ pilots does not sound appealing at this point. Maybe once I’m running an Assault Frig it will be.

Side note #2: Learning lvl 5 will be complete tomorrow. I’m thinking that I finish all of my frig support skills and then head down the assault frig path.