Thursday, March 28, 2013

Famous Dave's and Killing Miners

So, my husband took me out to dinner last night. Nice to have a date night!!! And the restraunt changed menus... no so nice! I managed to get the naked ribs, which turned out wonderful and not drowned in BBQ sauce.

After getting home, I decided to check some pricing online and Sa buddied up to his infiltration alt. Turns out, the corp he is in just killed two players who were trying to extort the corporation miners. Pay me, or I awox!

They kicked them, then killed them with a proteus. Oh ya, a proteus, I want in on that action. He knows how fast they respond, and what they are flying. No to get in a position to kill that proteus!

While the boys were funning it up, I checked out the Old Hole. What a surprise, new Gallente tower wrecks and miners! LOTS and LOTS of miners!!!

I hunt them down, find out the corp is 600 strong and from NS. I warp out to my safe and see an imicus nearby. Not happy with that, I drop combat probes scan him down and kill the ship and pod. The imicus pilot wasn't associtated with the new interlopers, and I figure that out later. So off to the races, and find those miners!

Landing in the only mining site left in the system, there are ten-ish ventures with two procurers and a retriever. There is a drake sitting in the pos and a thrasher bouncing the celestials. Talking to Sa, he texts Ge and VC and they all agree the drake is providing boosts to the mining op. As I am watching, the thrasher lands in among the miners and cloaks.

I figure there has to be a couple of combat fit ventures in the group, so I drop in and scare them just to see the reaction. Warping to a safe immediately afterwards... the response time was horrible and it took nearly 30 seconds for all the miners to warp to the Pos. Shortly afterwards, half the miners log out from the Pos. With the recent experiment, I create a second safe on the opposite side of the site and get ready to tackle! The miners accommodate me by going back to business.

Driving in from the opposite side, I tackle a procurer and kill it. The pod and remaining miners warp off, I scoop and shoot and warp to my first pounce. The miners return almost immediately!

Since they want to play like I dont exist, I warp back in and shoot all of the cans left behind. And warp to a safe, one miner doesnt even leave the site!

Irritated, I warp in tackle and start shooting the venture, only to have it warp away. Returning to my pounce, all the miners go back to mining. Disgusted, I safe up, wait out my timer and log out.

Next time, no Mrs Nice Guy!

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Local scanner

How I would love to have a one shot, total system scan once a day. With that said, I scanned both systems this morning. And it is a drag!

We rolled holes, and killed sleepers. And I got a text on the way into work. Probes in system, system hot.

Seriously? I just left home!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Missing the shot.

We had a good time last night, broke into a c3 and slaughtered sleepers for three hours. Grabbed all the bloot we could find, and rolled holes.

Logging into the Old Hole, I found the sites were gone! Two unidentifed ships were plundering, and the last site they were in I did not have book marked.

Dropping into a safe, I launched combat probes and tried valiantly to pin them down... they managed to salvage the last sleeper and warp out, just as I landed. The potential target swore in local, and jumped through a wh.

So, I scouted the rest of the Old Hole and found four k162s... I logged after that, and enjoyed a quick match of WoT.

Just a few pointers, I have that system scanned every day. I forgot to check the Dotlan before we started our combat in the static. Which means they went uninterupted for three hours before I checked in.

P.S. Anyone selling a c3 with decent PI and a static other than NS?

Monday, March 25, 2013

Close but no biscuit

Weekend started out slow, yardwork and movie-time at home. Eve was fun, no actual kills.

Sa had an alt scouting the static, and found a WH with four PoS and lots of active pilots. Normally we will ignore them, and maybe roll the holes with a scout on both sides. Sa had different plans.

Sa tells me this over breakfast, so all the fun was gone when I got up. He drops in the static, looks around and find the PoSs and piloted ships. Watching dscan, he discovers a mining operation in progress. Two orcas in a PoS, two Macs and a Retriever warping around the system.

He drops combat probes in the far reaches of the system, and hides them out of view. Then dscans the site down, narrowing with-in 5au. He aligns and combat probes, misses the first time. Second time bingo on the retriever, warps in and starts shooting.

This is where it gets intersting, the retriever was hard against an astroid. And the pilot drops his pod out and warps out with the other two toons. Dscanning like mad, he spots two BCs and a T2 headed his way. He warps back to the k162 and waits on our side cloaked. No response after 15 minutes, he logs out and makes breakfast.

-First off, Sa had the wrong ammo loaded, so no KM.
-Second, it was a trap. Retriever was hard against an astroid.
-Third, there were ten visible pilots in system. Parked at various PoSs.
-Fourth, a second ship would have scored a second kill (ammo).

All in all, an excellent example of a well prepared force. Response time was minimal, Sa thinks the response team was in warp as soon as the combat probes were spotted.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Gotcha!

My combat alt has been watching the Old Hole very carefully, even to the point I have it favourited at work. Watching for three hours while someone was chipping away at the sleepers... not able to do anything but watch.

Getting home, jumping on the alt and quickly determining all the anoms are gone! Since I cloaked as soon as I could, I avoided the single combat probe sitting in the system. Asleep at the wheel it seems.

A quick look around, shows the local static is EOL. There are three toons active on my list. And then, I see two Tengu and a Drake. And then, sleeper wrecks...

The only thing left is ladar and a mag site, dscan shows they are at the mag site. Got to love pre-scouting an entire system, top to bottom.

Once I am in the site, I start checking weapon types and speed. They are sitting still and plinking away with HMs, no transversal. I start a slow boat to make a perch, and watching as none of them approach the sleeper wrecks or cans.

Once the sleepers are all dead, the two tengus warp away leaving the drake. Having the single ship look tempting, the warp from the site back to the pos is over 32au. Not enough time to break the tank of the drake in my cloaked proteus. Instead I warp to the perch outside of the pos and see what they are doing.

Half way back to the pos, one tengu passes me. Probably refit with a code-breaker, or maybe with salvagers. The second tengu is swapped with a Noctis! Ooo, got me a soft target!!!

Warp back to the mag site to my perch, and watch, and watch, and watch. Finally the noctis pulls away from the drake, while the tengu was busy at the far can code-breaking. Four wrecks left is perfect, should be full of sleeper parts. The range of the noctii's tractor beams has me worried, they seem very short. Could it be the residents are smart enough to fit stabs on the noctis?

Warping directly to the noctis, uncloaking as I land. Bump the noctis, and overheat the point and guns. I do not web, just in case he is stabbed. And start shooting, neither drake or tengu change behavior. As soon as I pop the noctis, I go for the pod and miss. All three toons warp out together.

I loot the noctis, the two sleeper battleships left behind and destroy all the wrecks. Warping to my perch, I cloak up just as the two tengu and the drake land back in the mag site. I go get some coffee and a biscuit.

They have had over three hours of clearing to strip the system clean, and this is how it ends. Last site and I nab me a noctis for 150mil, loot 50mil in modules and sleeper salvage. Only the victim speaks in local, I say nothing and go back to reading facebook.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Disconnect!

Slow morning, training queues are full, hole is scouted, time to roll! Half way through our hole rolling party, I cant seem to dscan. Then, my 'socket' closes... wtf is a socket?

My internet dropped the connection for five minutes, while I am safety on our side of the static. My husband is not... and we are both disconnected. Which means I am madly texting our friends that we are not on. They text back, they aren't either!

Seems we have a network outage in the neighborhood, it sucks, we got back in and rescued ourselves before work. Instead of killing sleeper sites, we crashed two grav sites and cleaned up.

On the Old Hole;
- The residents have offlined the hanger and storage arrays, except the lab.
- Activated all the hardeners.
- Onlined all the gun... all the guns.


Sad to say though, I think they are expecting an invasion. To bad they are using lasars and cruise missile launchers.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Found you!

My friend GK, finally found us a possible entrance into our old C3. Appearantly he has been hitting people up who have recently died in that hole. Going to be quite the conversation on how he finally found someone willing to part with the information!

I dropped my combat alt out into HS and boogied over to the possible entrance system, and began scanning. After the tenth hit, I found a WH, THE WH! Quickly thanked GK and set up safes. Logged out and waited for the rest of the crew to get on.

After an uneventful night of killing sleepers and eatting stew, we logged out for the night. Ge forgot to set up his manufacturing last night, I see he got to it this morning. Slow isk, is still isk.

Waking up today, I jumped on the chance to scan down the entire WH and began triggering everything. Yes, I trigged everything in the hole. They now have 3-4 days before it all goes POOF!

The static moved, it was EOL last night. And a K162 from NS showed up, I didn't uncloak to check either. Just set up new safes, and made sure all the inhabitants were asleep. I expect the current residents are industrial Germans, they have crap for a KB. EvE-Who was kind enough to fill in all the blanks.

On a side-note, our old alliance had killed off an off-line pos in the system. Not sure why the field was down. I am setting up an informational matrix to track the inhanbitants.

Fly cloaked.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sneak

So, we have a sneak in the home system. We rolled the holes after messing around in HS, and got out the PvE/P ships. Yes, PvE/P ships, our sleeper ships are set up to ambush and kill stupid ambushers. I like it that way.

Hitting the Radar site first, it seemed the despawn of the site went a little long. We grabbed some rougher PvP fit ships, just in case. Sa running the salvager, and the rest of us covering.

The combat site/anom went quick, and then lingered... and lingered... and lingered. We did a quick warp-in/out and the site despawned third time around. No one was decloaked.

One of the ruthless tricks I have used, is to wait on an anom until all of the combat is gone and then leave with good bookmarks for pounces. If you wait in an anom until it despawns, it will uncloak you. I have used this trick to catch unwary pilots, and find scouts who I suspected were in the site.

So, we have a sneak in the hole. Somewhere...

Monday, March 18, 2013

Weekend Biking

Weekend was spent on the beach, and talking about motorcycles. We took pictures for my granddaughters school project "Flat Stanley". The view was great, the rain kept us inside.

EVE related, the pi factory worlds are set up by Ge. Processing out the excess materials has started, reactions normal. AKA. BORING!

Maybe tomorrow night I will throw together a little LS roam.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Quiet again

Nothing to report, nothing killed, nothing left in the hole... Sleepers are stuck again, I hear the call of a day raid this weekend. Good luck to those who keep openning our statics.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Proteus Punch

Monday night was fantastic! I logged in and found a proteus sitting in our home system. After scouting the hole from safes, I launched combat probes. I was very certain he would cloak up or run away, which he didn't.

Sitting 30km off and oribting, I was sure this proteus was BAIT! So, we had dinner, talked about our day and came back an hour later. Proteus... still sitting there.

Quick text sent out, people log in and we set up an attack plan. Leaving two people cloaked, just in case it was a trap. I uncloak a flacon, lock and jam. He doesn't move.

I uncloak my alt, and web/scramble... he still doesn't respond.

Ge drops in with a Maelstrom, and we drop him quick. I lock up the pod and punch his lights out. And we all warp to safe spots, while the other two watch...

A rapier apears on scan, then vanishes. We keep waiting... nothing after ten minutes. We hop to our pounce to loot and salvage. Everything packed away, and we safe up again.

The guy must have been afk, and forgot to hit cloak. Either way, we killed a 2bil proteus and a 1bil pod. Looted 1bil in modules from the wreck. The next morning, we dropped the loot and accumlated wh stuff out the static. Rolled the holes and went back to hiding.

Sa has been on a kick to get everything not nailed down, out of the hole and into HS stations. So far, we have reduced our odds and ends down to half a bil of ammo and manufacturing BPCs. Maybe he is being paranoid, maybe he isn't?

Monday, March 11, 2013

Tengu-Tango

This weekend was fabulous! We woke up early saturday, before a motorcycle ride with some friends. Go online and found a tengu busily attacking our sleepers. (Our sleepers are ours, after all)

Two quick texts and we get one response. We logged on, far in the outter reaches of our home. Fleet up and get a scout in place. Once we were all in place, 200km or so out, we wait for the lone tengu to get nearly done with the sleeper site.

Down to the last sleeper, we warp right on top of him. He was kind enough to be 5k from a wreck, wasn't that sweet of him? I fast tackle, while my alt tags the sleeper for agro, and we dog-pile him. Three cloaky tengu, and a proteus against a sleeper tanked tengu.

Each of us had him webbed and scrammed, d-scanning like mad. Sa calls out "gaurdian, gaurdian, loki!" To bad I can't hear, so he types it in real quick. Think it was "grdian, grdian, LOKI!!!" hehe.

We finish off the tengu, and we warp off to our safes. No one loots!!! Would have been nice =(

Watching d-scan shows there are two groups of people in the hole. People with identical tags to our victim (no, missed the pod) and another group with differnt tags. Looking like they are sitting on holes we haven't found yet. HELLO! I just woke up, no I dont have the hole scanned ;-)

So we safe up, and wait out our timers and everyone gets some breakfast while I get to scanning. I resolve three incoming k162s and our statics. One of the k162s has a drake from our victims corp, and the other has a helios loitering... obvious bait is bait. The real kicker is, they are 20au from each other.

Since we are headed out on the motorcycle, we log out one-by-one. Four hours later, I see what happened! The orginial corp sent in a HAM legion to finish off the sleeper site. The second group tackles and kills him with prejudice. Then follows the first group back into thier hole, snags our original victim in a drake and kills him a second time.

Texts get sent out, that the hole is hot. We wait for ten hours before coming back in and finding the offending k162s gone. We form up, roll holes and harvest gas.

Great weekend EVE!

Friday, March 8, 2013

Carrier on scan

Not much scarrier than dropping into a new wh and seeing a carrier on scan. Then watching it land on the hole you just entered in.

I am sure people would be very excited about taking on a carrier in wh space, some people are not. Our scorpions uncloaked, the carrier dropped fighters and two hictors showed up on scan a second later.

We bugged out, and they finished closing the hole using dominixii. It seemed a very over-powered response to our hole rolling operation this morning. Cleaning up the system, we netted a cool 25mil each... chump-change for higher holes.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Patience pays off

Last night, we gathered a small hole rolling group. Since we were short, I ponied up an alt and we started rolling. Our WH static yeilded a system with probes on our first entrance. Racing from the opposing static, we jumped in and out and waited for our timers on the WH static, on our side.

We jumped in on the second round, critted the hole and watched the probes climb from four to seven. Grabbing our hictors, GE grabbed his loki and watched our side of the hole.

Jumping in, the probes were gone, Sa jumps in and there is a Helios... which promtly follows him into our hole collapsing the static. Since I was on an alt, I missed the chance of locking up the Helios. We also got the wrong name, and couldnt figure out who was in our home.

Ge said he would wait for a while, and see if he could intercept our visitor. Sa and I log out, and log back in with scout alts. Since the holes were all rolled, we didnt have bookmarks for the new statics. We waited 15-20 minutes before the scout uncloaked, AT THE SAME PLACE HE CLOAKED AT!

Ge powers up, uncloaks and starts burning towards the scout, locks him up and blows him away while he is dropping probes. Ge then locks the pod ( the scout didnt have BMs in the hole I suppose ) and pops that too.

A great ending to an otherwise quiet week.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Quiet

The home system is quiet, two interrupting k162s which we rolled out. Gassing and reacting like normal. No words on our old home, way to early for the search teams. All-in-all everything is quiet.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Old Friends

I was looking over our old corps, seeing where people had landed and I was sad to see an old friend got evicted. The eviction force removed our friend's carrier and pos with prejudice. A seemingly new corp had occupied the old home as well.

Looking deeper though, shows the evictors were there for the capital kill. The new corp was made up of alts from our friend, and his current alliance-mates. So, he still controls the old home.

Sa discussed it with me, and we are looking for our old first wormhome. Pretty sure we can find them, and we now have Ge and VC on-board with the idea.

Our home system was fairly quiet this weekend, we had a day-tripper and his alt playing games on our static. We 'accidently' uncloaked a t3 on top of alt, and he jumped back and ran. Two passes later we had a new static, dropped a new load out the lowsec and scouted a route for another months worth of fuel.

In other news, Ge has _finally_ started to see a profit from the reactions.