Archive for February, 2010

POS Defence

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

The Captains Log 28/2

Solar System:  Undisclosed

Star Base: Gaia

 

In Empire

My alt corp got War Deced, no doubt some opportunistic person was looking around for POS’s to shoot and steal their modules when they found my high sec POS  that I let go offline and thus they decided to take it out. Sort of ironic isn’t it. The corp that war deced me was Have Your Cake and Eat It, a four man corp that according to battleclinic has lost five ships and killed none. Well that would have a been a fun war dec. Indeed I would have actually fought the aggressors if the war dec hadn’t of gone live while I was at work. As it was, I put enough fuel in POS to keep it going for a few days, took down my labs, onlined my shield hardeners and onlined my some 16 ECM batteries. With the end result being, Have Your Cake and Eat It dropping their war dec. Not surprising as that is exactly what I would have done in CPR. A pity really as I have a Scorpion set up I wanted to try out and a little Empire War would have been perfect for that.

 

In Wormhole Space

Naturally there are a few visitors in my wormhole system so it was not that suppressing that yesterday when utilising my D-Scan I located a number of Tengu’s flying around, some of which were not named thus giving me the pilots names and their corporation, Khanid Guard a 45 man corp. As I am a sociable creature I started up a conversation with them in local

Fishy Night > Gday

Chaeon > o/

Fishy Night > running the plexs in here?

Chaeon > nope hunting

Fishy Night > any luck?

Chaeon > lions and tiger adnd bears OH MY

Fishy Night > be carefull with them they are dangours  :)

Chaeon > :)

 

How nice, but it was no problem for me as I didn’t plan on making any market trips. However, when I logged on today I noticed that there was another POS up in my system so I went and check it out. Guess who owned it, Khanid Guard. Potentially, not good. In a buzz of activity I start doing some intel gathering on them to determine which course of action I should take.

So far my conclusions are.

They have weakly defended small Amarr control tower which will be no problem at all to take down. Additionally, there tower does not contain a large ship assembly array so they will not be building any Battleships in my wormhole, which would pose a real problem to my POS’s safety. As it is they can only fly in Battlecruisers and smaller, which will not hurt my large POS unless they bring in a large number of them.

There Battleclinic statistics also show that they have a total of 92 kills and 192 losses. Most of their kills are by one person or at most a few people, which leads me to believe that they for the most part do not run organised fleets, which is what would be required to take down my POS’s. Also looking at their kills I see a lot of kills utilising stealth bombers (particularly in HED-GP), nija salvagers kills (with a Rattlesnake no less) and even some battle Hulk kills against what I presume to be can flippers, though I do have to wonder about this kill where they have used a Hulk to kill one of their own members… This leads me to believe they are for the most part industrialists but that they also don’t mind going out into low sec and null sec for a bit of PvP, but that it isn’t their main goal in life.

So all this leaves me with three options.

  1. A Pre-emptive attack
  2. Abandon the fort
  3. Be friends

At the moment I don’t believe they have the military strength to take down my POS’s and thus give me any reason to abandon my POS operations, though they may be a hindrance when it comes to moving assets in and out of the wormhole. Alternatively they haven’t given any indication that they are going to attack me and thus warrant a Pre-emptive attack, which could anger them and thus make them come back in force. Therefore I will open up negotiations with them as I believe they are in here to mine out the grav and ladar sites, which could be mutually beneficial as I need minerals to build the battleships I plan on having stationed in here. However, if they attack me my response will be swift. There tower will go down. 

Continued in POS negotiations

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My Worst Loss

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

The Captains Log 28/2

Solar System: Doril

Station: Archangels Assembly Plant

 

Over at K162 space Blake asked what the worst loss we have was and did it make us want to quite to emo rage around the room for a bit.

Well the worst loss I have ever had was this Ferox I had fitted with a Pithium A-Type Shield Booster I bought using Plexs. With it fitted I thought I was invincible, even more so when I was running explorations sites where I would have to be probed down (this was with the old probing mechanics). Unfortunately, this proved to be not the case as I got killed fairly easly by a small group of pirates while finishing of a exploration site. Infract I was just warping out as they came in and tackled me. Did I explode in emo rage after this? No I didn’t, as it was not a big deal. It is a game.

The only losses that really annoy me are ones that are due to not my bad piloting skills but my internet disconnecting, the power going out or server lag, much like this loss. In other words things out of my control.

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Eve Space

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

I seem to be a little a late on the ball for most posts like this buy hey I get there, so with out further ado my Eve Space.

As you can see I run a tri screen set up on which I can run all three of my Eve accounts, the center one is 22″ while the other two are both 19″, if I had them any bigger I doubt they would fit on my desk. You will also notice that I have a Australian Flag above my desk, very important : )

More Eve Spaces.

  • Chocolate Heaven: EVESPACE
  • Life in Low Sec: OOC: What’s In Your EVESpace?
  • Rettic’s Log: Lots of Bloggers are posting their workspace
  • The Travels of Black Claw: What’s in your EveSpace?
  • K162Space: Blake’s EVE Machine
  • A Mule in EVE: Manasi’s rig
  • Wench with a Wrench: The Trinity Rig
  • Zen and the Art of Internet Spaceship Maintenance: Inside my Pod
  • Tales of a Low Sec Pirate: My EveSpace
  • I am Keith Neilson: My EVE Space
  • Sweet Little Bad Girl: Evespaces
  • Finders & Keepers: Eve And the Apple
  • Escape Velocity: My evespace
  • My Loot, Your Tears: What’s Your EVESpace like?
  • Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah: My workspace
  • Cogito Ergo Yarr: My EVE-Space? No. Just Space.
  • Yarrbear Tales: Evespace
  • The Wandering Druid of Tranquility: Weekly Highlights
  • EVEOGANDA: EveSpace: Home Away From Home
  • Learning to Fly: My Battlestation
  • A Ghost Blog: My EVE Space
  • @StMistaken’s 2 and 1 monitor set-up
  • @webspaceships‘ simple yet elegant space
  • Nukes Thoughts: My Domain
  • more?

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    Up and Running

    Thursday, February 25th, 2010

    The Captains Log 25/2

    Solar System: Unknown

    Starbase: Gaia

    The POS’s are up and  the reactions are underway and money should start flowing into my pockets soon enough. It was a bit of a hassle to get the POS’s up, not because it was difficult to do so but because it was so time consuming in getting the modules  there as I had to haul in some 500k m3 of assets into my wormhole and then getting all the modules up and running which took a lot of time. All up I have anchored

    3 x Control towers

    3 x Corporate hanger arrays

    12 x Silos

    4 x Coupling arrays

    2 x Simple reactors

    2 x Complex reactors

    1 x Ship maintenance array

    9 x shield harders

    60 x defence modules.

    It was also made longer by the fact that I can only anchor a single tower per day. However It is all over now, so all I have to worry about is hauling minerals and fuel.

    At the moment I only have a couple of days worth of moon minerals to react so for the next couple of weeks the POS’s will be operating on a shoestring budget as I get Fullerides, sell, them buy more minerals and react them together and then get more fullerides to sell and buy fuel. Once I have enough ISK to buy a stockpile of minerals and fuel the whole operation will run allot smoother without constant attention from me.

    When I first started colonising this system it had plenty of combat sites in it. However, a team of five Drakes has emptied the system of all the combat sites leaving behind only the ladar and gravimetric sites, which is sort of disappointing as I wanted to shoot some sleepers. On the plus side scanning is fair bit easier with out all that clutter. The grav sites though will come into use as I plan on building some Battleships in here to knock any intruders around. Using battleships will give me a large advantage as only Battlecruisers or small will be able to enter my system.

    Here are some pretty pictures of my POS’s.

    Here we have a image from which the positions of all three of my POS’s can be seen.

    Gaia, as you can see is located within the planetary rings of is planet making for a nice scene.

    Terra Mater overlooking the gas giant. Gaia is located on the left hand side of the rings.

    Ninhursag and the moon it orbits.

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    Into the Unknown

    Monday, February 22nd, 2010

    The Captains Log 22/2

    Solar System: Uknown

    Shiptype: Buzzard Class Covert Ops

    Well I got the two billion ISK I needed to buy POS’s, POS modules, fuel, moon minerals and even a freighter to start running some moon reactions to get a bit of a passive income stream. The next stage was finding some moons to put the POS’s on.

    I decided to run a Fullerite reaction as I found a lovely little low sec system that had three quarters of the moons I needed, so I loaded up my freighter and prepared to set up shop. However when, I went to online my POS a lovely little message came up saying that I did not have the required standing with the Amarr Empire to online a POS in that system. Then I also realised the system I was in had a sec status of .4. You can only moon mine and run moon reactions in systems .3 and bellow. So here I am with two billion invested in moon reactions and I can’t run them. Well it was time to move on too plan B; find a class one wormhole to operate out off it.

    Step one of Plan B was to buy Buzzard and kit it out will the goods;  Rigs, Sisters probe launcher and sisters probes which I found lying around in one of my hangers. Oddly enough the only time I was operating out of that system was when I was suicide ganking hulks so I don’t know why I had Sisters Probes in that system.

    Step two was to probe out a wormhole, which was followed by step three; more probing and then step 4; even more probing and then lots more steps involving probing.  The first wormhole took me into a C2 system, close to what I wanted, but not quite there.  In that system I found another wormhole leading to another C2 system that some 60 exploration sites in there (including anomalies), which I tried to trade on the forums for the location of a C1 with a static empire exit. Unfortunately this was to no avail. So I left that system through a null sec exit and ended up in deep Stain, the last place I wanted to be as to get out I either have to go through HED-GP in catch (perma camped by AAA) or providence, which is currently on fire. So I went back to probing and found a class 5 system where the locals were not very friendly tried there hardest to kill me. Thankfully my skills add avoining camps a getting better or maybe the hostile pilots were just inept. Either way I got away and found another C5 which didn’t contain people trying to kill me. This C5 system took me to a C3 system which then led to deep low sec in gallante space. At least there are no bubbles in low sec to trap me on gates. I shortly thereafter found another C3 system were another wormhole was found that  took me to a new area of low sec that was only 15 jumps through High sec to get back to Ashab. From there I found some more class two wormholes which eventually took me to a C1 system. About bloody time as well.

    The C1 system had a wormhole leading to high sec, which is what I wanted, however I had to make sure it was a static high sec exit. So off I went to get my Hurricane, the same one I used to bump Chribba off his POS when we stole it, and proceeded to collapse the wormhole. It took me 50 jumps, but it got done. Probe the system again and guess what I found, a wormhole leading to High sec. Perfect.

    So now I am getting my POS’s into position. Soon this wormhole will be mine.

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    Flash Fiction # 5 & 6

    Saturday, February 20th, 2010

    I tend to be little late when it comes to posting, but hey its better late than never right.

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    “Sniper ships are the Ship of the Line in modern fleet battles.” Stated Rurik.

    He was looking out of the view port at the glowing cloud of gasses that surrounded his ship, a Rokh class battleship. He turned back to Lieutenant Korsakov who he had being talking to.

    “The modern sniper fit vessel though is not a true sniper vessel. All the fleet’s ships gather onto one spot within full sight of the enemy and proceed to engage them at long range. This is contrary to what a sniper is. A true sniper remains hidden from their enemies and when the sniper the strikes the target does not see their death coming.”

    Rurik waved his hand towards the gasses of the nebula that surround his ship. “This nebula hides us from the directional scanners of our targets. Our passive targeters prevent them from know about us when we lock onto their ship. Our Advanced Railguns and Spike hybrid ammunition allow us to hit a target from up to 200km away; of course we can’t lock a target from that distance, that’s why we need our sensor boosters. We, Lieutenant are a true sniper, destroying our enemy before they even know we are here.”

    “Ensign Hoth bring up our targets on the holo display.”

    Rurik looked at the display and watched as the two gallante shuttles began to extend docking tubes to each other as their occupants attempted to transfer the good they contained.

    “Weapons control lock onto the target and prepare to fire once the shuttles docking tubes are connected.”

    “Target locked commander. Ready to engage.”

    Rurik watched as the docking tubes locked together, sealing the fate of the ships.

    “Our targets, Lieutenant, don’t know it yet but they are the dead. Weapons control fire when ready.”

    The reverberation of eight Railguns launching a single deadly volley was felt throughout the ship. On the holo disply the hybrid charges tore through the shuttle, disintegrating it and killing its passengers before they even knew what happened.

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    Scaming for ISK part II

    Monday, February 8th, 2010

    The Captains Log 8/2

    Solar system: Amarr

    Station. Emperor Family Academy

    (continued from part I)

    I logged on Sklavin09 to continue trying my little scam only to find this message

    From: GM Yuggoth

    Sent: 2010.02.07 21:54

    To: Sklavin09, 

    This is an official warning for spamming another player with EVEMails. Cease all such activity or risk further repercussions.

     

    I guess CCP doesn’t like me sending out copious amounts of Eve mails with a obvious scam. Hmm I wonder how they classify spam… is 10 mails a our spam or is any kind of eve mail related to scam considered spam? Guess I had better find out. And what about continuly spaming local with obvious spams is that considered spam which will attract further repercussions. If it isnt, how is it different from spaming EVE mails? These questions need to be answered. 

     

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    Scaming for ISK

    Monday, February 8th, 2010

    The Captains Log 8/2

    Solar system: Amarr

    Station. Emperor Family Academy

    I need ISK. I need lots of ISK so I can expand on my industrial empire. So I sat down and thought about how I can make all this ISK and came up with a solution: Scamming. I will scam my way into two billion ISK. So I logged a alt on in Amarr and sent this message to everyone in Amarr local..

    G’day

    I have 100000 units of Megacyte for sale for 255 mill, which is 10% cheaper than buying it of the market. I’m selling it through contracts as I want to get a good price for it but don’t want to deal with the .01 ISK wars on the market. The contract is linked below for your convenience.

    Megacyte x 100000

    Much appreciated

    Sklavin09

     

    Yes I sent a eve mail to everyone in Amarr, some 200+ people, and it only cost me about a mill in CSPA charges. Naturally my contract didn’t actually have 100k Megacyte, only 10k. As you would expect I got a few mails sent back to me. Some people were very unhappy about me trying to scam others like this one.

    From: Bahadur Maharaja

    Sent: 2010.02.05 09:08

    To: Sklavin09, 

    Suck my dick scumer ) LOLOLOOLOL

     

    Other people just blocked me straight away or were just not interested in my great deal.

    From: dumtes

    Sent: 2010.02.05 09:22

    To: Sklavin09, 

    dude im a missioner

     

    And then there was this gem, which I admit I have to made the whole effort worth it.

    From: Amelia Mannerheim

    Sent: 2010.02.05 09:06

    To: Sklavin09, 

    Hello

    Thank you for that fine offer. Im not into manufacturing or trading so I’ll have to pass. But since you showed me such consideration and gave me a heads up on that mighty fine offer I’m willing to trade you a 100 gallente shuttles for a mere 100 billion isk.

    Much appreciated

    Amelia Mannerheim

     

    I didn’t actually find anyone stupid enough to buy my Megacyte so I guess I will have to try again.

    (Continued in part II)

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    Back in Business

    Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

    Captains Log 3/2

    Solar system: Irnin

    Ship: Armageddon Class Battleship

    After the Chribba incident CONCORD Preservation and Recovery has taken a bit of hiatus to recuperate, reship and locate more POS’s to kill (I believe we have some 160 targets now).

    The first target we were going to hit was a little German industry corp who had admittedly a POS that wasn’t worth much. They did however have their ship maintenance array anchored outside of the POS shields and I couldn’t let such stupidity pass me by so in went the war dec. They however went along and unanchored the ship maintenance array, put up POS defences and got a mercenary corporation to war dec us. Ahh well, I only wanted that ship maintenance array and now it was gone so the war got retracted.

    The next target had a two POS, a offlined small Caldari POS with a couple of guns anchored around it and a medium Caldari POS Science and industry worth about 750mill. In went that war dec. The POS shootout was quite uneventful and it only took a couple of ours to put the POS into reinforced, after which most of us logged of. Me and a few others though decided to kill the small POS for shits and giggles.

    Halfway through the owner of POS comes into system and negations start on ransoming his POS. I wanted one billion ISK, he offered 300mill I said 600mill he said 400million. In the end we came down to 400million plus his small POS we were shooting. He agreed. The only problem was we had taken the small POS to 25% shields and he couldn’t unanchor the guns and thus unanchor the POS. So we had to sit there repping his POS so we could get it.

    Turns out using a geddon with three large shield reppers isn’t the most efficient way of repping a POS, but we got there in the end. It just took more time to do then what it did to shoot the POS in the first place. Still we cant complain we got a nice payout from it.

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