Drinking Lincoln's Birthplace

Sippy Sippy Mr. Lincoln

Well, I picked me up some Knobb Creek for my sipping pleasure. I usually go with Maker’s Mark as I find it to be a bit smoother, but I wanted something more peppery. hence Knobb Creek in my glass.

Last night started off a bit lame as I was still grinding out some stupid SOE missions. I just got up to level 2′s and have been running those. I ran into some mission last night that loaded improperly. It stacked three warp gates on top of each other and you just had to keep warping in order to arrive at the engagement area. Dumb. After grinding the stupid, my buddy RobTex jumped online and we hit up some high quality level 2′s. We got stuck on one for a long time that was kicking our asses. We’d warp to a star gate then into the next room. Upon entering the next room, one of us would have our sensors jammed and the other would try to take down the jammer. The guy that wasn’t being jammed could only do 15 dps. We would both get pummeled, taking upwards of 150 dps. We warped in and out probably 6 times before I called through some channels for help from a friend in a PVE Drake. He was 10 jumps away and said that he wouldn’t mind helping so he starts over to us. Right about the time he’s one system over, Rob reads the mission details and sees that we just need to run the blockade and get to another warp gate that is  about 25km from warp in point. Lol, we be dumbasses. So right about the time my help gets in system, we turn the mish in. We invited him to join us for another mish since he came all that way. He obliged and we obliterated the next one.

Rob logs for the night, so I join up with Kom for some level 4′s. Needless to say they are significantly more difficult, but the payout is certainly worth it. We made 4.5mil in about an hour and a half. He would  basically warp in, get all the aggro and then let me come in and steal all the cap and pew pew up close. It worked quite well. I had to log before he turned the mish in so he just gave me half the reward in advance. Stand up guy he is.

The Necessity of Boredom

Last night was rather uneventful despite finally caving and purchasing a Rupture. I spent most of the evening sipping that 03′ Hess Cab that I mentioned in the last post and studying various PVE and PVP fits for the rupture. I like the versatility of the rupture as a 10k frig/destroyer killer and a 70k arty boat. While playing around with various fittings, I realized that I need to train my cap skills to higher levels. Most relevant skills are at III right now as I’ve mainly been hitting the gunnery and  skills like crazy. Anyway, once I finally found a few fits that I really liked, I made the 26 jump trip over to Airaken. I did that dirty NPC grind with Sisters of Eve for a few missions before getting obscenely bored. A cruiser is a bit of over kill for lvl 1 bullshit.

After spending the majority of my time in PVP roams, PVE just seems very… impersonal. I would much rather get my ass handed to me by another person than pew pew loads of Angel Cartel guys, but I need some cash and really want to be able to initiate higher level missions. A lot of new guys in Eve Uni are a bit daunted by PVP roams and run to the safety of missions, so I’d like to be able to take some newbies on high level missions in order to work on fleet commands. The end goal is to prepare the fresh meat for slaughter in some Friday Night Drunk Fleet.

Like most people that play Eve, I certainly find the social aspect to be the best part. I am amazed at how warm most people are in the game. By warm I don’t necessarily mean that they are nice, etc. but that nearly anyone will accept a convo invite. Maybe that’s the curiosity of human nature taking over, who knows? Regardless, if the community within Eve didn’t exist, the game would certainly not be worth my $15 a month.