Ok how not to update

Ok 1st off I have been updating

But I just never published my blogs lol

so you ever get that feeling when something keeps building up and you keep putting it off then next time you come back to it you will have to do even more work to make it right. Yer well that’s this blog post.

So all that has happened is that I’ve been writing down notes and then forgetting about them then added

The blog becomes larger and larger in till I get to now and I think maybe I should post this and post on a more regular basis. 

but now I think about it, my blogs are about me and my life in eve and if my delayed updating is me then it’s just right :P

So like iv done before I will just post it all out in a jumble  :P

Class 5 WH

Even the gas mining in a class 5 WH is deadly, 2 Battleships spawn in the gas belts and they eat you for tea.

I went in with my tanked dominix and a friend in a Hyperion remote reping me and they just melted me like butter I was only just able to get out. Now I won’t brag but my dominix tank is good but while I did last longer than my friend I could not have taken them on alone. Nor did we manage to break them even after warping out (yes my domi and his hype did get out) and coming back for more.

I can’t imagine what kind of loot you get from a BS that powerful I love to crack one open and scope up its goo :P

In the end we settled for a less rare gas site where we mined it bear and my friend took the gas to build stuff with.

I also have a little business deal going on with my friend where I will hopefully earning money off building Tech 3 ships with him

And once get the ships building :) I will get my own :D

Dominion hype

See the new Dominion trailer (was new when I took the notes lol)

Its fanatic

I recommend downloading it form eve online website and playing over and over again on big screen TV

Corp management

Way to much business reuting all new players

Never knew corp management could be so much work

Losing ships

arg iv lost 3 ships in a short amount of time!

1st one was my SB to a bomb that I was not able to outrun, while I was trying to protect a bunch of logistics ships reping a POS

2nd was an Eris from taking on an Arazu, never reile on falcon ECM support the falcon was not able to get a jam and pop I go.

3rd was a Myrmidon I lost to a bunch of war targets we were camping in ammar. I really did not expect the neut’s around the station to start helping them that was a stupid mistake it’s been to long since I fight in high sec wars.

Then new world

I mined in the new patch

I’ve not mined in ages! I can’t believe I enjoyed it some what

I can’t believe what CCP are allowing you to get away with huge rare rocks :D I love it lets watch the market crash 

oo lord

Last few days have been insane! (Which only adds to the fact iv not been updating)

My alliance is now a happy Sov owner which we are working on upgrading our system and getting our outpost up

In the mean time I’ve gone in to more business with a group of friends running WH’s and DED sites around provi and if you read the 1^st bit up there about the sleeper battleships well let’s just say I played them a another visit.
I will keep training this gang up so soon we will be able to run class 4 WH as a team and make lots of dosh.

Funny thing how you can just start to fleet command all of a sudden

Lately people seem to expect me to FC fleets (small ones rangeing from 5 members to 20). It’s funny how it started I just join a fleet see there is no leadership and step up in till a better FC comes along... no one else steps up (I will always hand it over I got some good friends I trust very much to FC and always hand it over to them if they are about) and I end up leading a fleet around which is fun to say the least. Very scary at one point when I logged on and there were 50 members in the fleet all needing a leader and the current FC begging me to take over, Long story short there was a carrier under attack in the next system this fleet had formed I just got back from eating and bam I was being asked to take over while the carrier shields where failing. Trying to get a hold of the situation and of the fleet in less than 5 minutes and get the fleet to the fight and keep them alive overwhelmed me to be honest and I managed to do the age old mistake of not warping fleet and just warping myself to die next to the carrier that was under attack. I got my pod out and lucky for me and for that carrier pilot a new FC had stood up warped the fleet and started calling primaries (I had not realised I had warped myself and called only 1 which asperity did die according to my friend).

So good job I say and very hard work

Lot a keres and go no kill mails :P

From that point I made my mind up I got to learn more about FC’ing and started asking and taking notes so that I would not make the same mistakes.

So now I get to today

Basically this is all that has happened since I last updated I’m sure I missed a lot of fine detail
but at the moment my eve life is full of politics and management (still FC’ing)  

The new free ship CCP gave us is cool (I think it looks good too)

And charismas is soon and I want the snowball launchers to come back: D

I hope to keep updating a little less jumbled like this
time will tell

Well yesterday was fun

CVA dispaned because someone hacked an Directors account

so i log on and get blasted with all this info
there ships flying around takeing there worldy goods out
that day everyone else makes there mind up that Providence is the place to be
what a day loads of PvP all over the place
i had fun right up intill i went to bed.

im sitting in 2V holding the fort from any pirates and we did a good job of that :)
joined up with a larger fleet as well and kicked some ass

so i log in today
and nice to see that CVA problems have been fixed by CCP
i dont think it would of been fair to let one of the oldist alliances in eve fall because of a hacker

long live CVA

well seem as my update is a bit early today i may as well tell you what im doing today
iv just had a my new Hyperion and im off it jita to fit it then im off to Providence to use it in what is probley going to be some more fighting over today as everyone still wants to be in Providence it seems i dont mind they can all come i will be waiting

have a pic as well to keep you reading

Back in here and in Provi again

iv been neglecting this blog

yes I have
is coz I’m a busy boy with a life?
Or am I just lazy

*voice in head* "LAZY!"

....
ok on to real things
one big update to make up for the lack of small ones
iv made them up in to the little titles I would of had if I was updating like I should

Fanfest

ok so I went to fanfest and iv come back its been about 3 weeks now :P and iv not told you about it
it was FANTASIC I will be going next year for sure I can’t believe how much fun such a geeky event can be
to start with all the jokes where eve related (my fav is the trip is taking so long I may as well pod myself home). everyone was pretty much talking eve talk tough the whole thing
it was my dream come true
from the moment you walk in the door and see the live feed for jita (lol so funny fights and ships 24/7) I felt at home as a demi-god of eve
you can hear my voice and see me on some of the YouTube videos out there (I leave you to guess that one)
I went to PvP talks, PvE talks, talks about the market, seen lots of new stuff talked to loads of eve fans
seen the most fantastic prestaions iv ever witnessed
... the back ground for the stage w as amazing and they guys at CCP know how to give a show
took part in the PvP torment
... PvP torment aaa yes I well ummm forgot my ammo :( and my other two team mates had no time to fit so we were kind of bummed out by that

Cap op
I can’t say much (as I would be skinned alive by our Cap ship FC) but I went on my 1st cap op in my carrier
it was fun (I know a lot of people think there not) but I enjoyed seeing all that power and jumping from system to system is cool
killed a Dark Blood Control Tower I am very happy about that
also almost got to hot drop a carrier group (but they were quick and jumped out before we could catch them

WH space

So we went in to another Unknown space system (a class 2 this time) with lots of plexs to run and one static link to low sec and another to class 3 WH.
I had planned to use the Class 3 link and do raids in to other systems (not PvP just run the plexs) but we never got around to it as we got a bit fed up after we had finished off the Class 2.
Note to everyone always check you directional scanner. I got lazy (so did my corp mates) and we did not notice the onyx, two nightmares (YES I know nightmares should not go unnoticed), Rapier and a Falcon. Who then came in to our complex we were running and killed Jorrel Baas in his Dominix (and got hits pod), which really sucks because I hate losing members and mainly as I was being lazy could of be avoided completely. Ooo well lesson learned.
lots of people do poke their heads in to WH space I never check there scanners I had a harbinger and a Bestower gas mining while I scanned them down checked them out and go in to bombing range on them with my nemesis (I really love that ship), I did not bomb them (I’m not a pirate) I private one of them then asked them to leave or die (I would of in fact let them finish gas mining if they asked). They closed chat and turned and left faster than I’ve ever seen a Bestower ever go

General musing about WH space
spamming the combat sites in a class 2 gets very boring and WH Large pos takes too much fuel for it to be worth the time for a class 2 WH
lots of people like to poke their heads in to class 2’s as well I think a class 3+ is much safer

Sitting outside stations bombing them is fun

a yes the more evil side to my latest WH trip
I found a link to null sec (red space to me Surprise!) with a station in system, I sat 32km off the station in my nemesis (which I love even more now) and bombs targets I think I could kill
I had a Helios undock I failed to kill (the bomb hit him but did not get the damage it needed)
then came a Bestower which the bomb did kill
I went back for more bombs come back in to system there was a banger mark II which held its docking timer (so took no damage)
after that the system started to light up and I thought it was time to get out

getting out of WH space

The class two is done time to get out
I haul the ships out Delta sorts out the POS
this is the last time we going to do a WH for some time there are other things we as a corp need to be getting on with and I am fed up of WH for the time being all the work of setting up a pos and scanning the system wears you down a bit (esspily if it comes solely down to you to do it)
this WH has not yield fantastic profit only shy of a billion

my friend rejoins VVA

My friend Cneagle has rejoined VVA (I know CN from real life and we are good friends) it’s just a shame he did not rejoin my corp (I duno really why he did not)

Back to provi
so now that all the WH stuff is sorted I head back to my real home of providence
I’m also back to doing a little ratting on the side to fund my ships and going to give the life of PvP a much harder try

Orders from a old friend
a hype and 20 Tristan (plus fits) for less than 84 mil my friend is crazy
I’m going to pay him 90 mil coz I can’t stand it feels like I’m stealing off him

Kills of late
I been flying around in my Ishtar (which I have finally sorted the fit for) and iv had a nice spree of kills
we had a Gallente Navy Comet and pod which got trapped by gate sling bubbles
Impairor I know it’s not worth anything but we got his pod as well (I larth about the noob ship)
2 ishtars and pod (ooo juicy) even 1 Ishtar I failed to do any damage to so no killmail for me for that one, but it was because I focused on the other :P like I should do
I have to put my hat off to my friends in provi of late they are getting good a PvP
1 fleet I ran which was made up of rag tag ships wonderful pilots they all knew exactly what we needed and we killed loads (I was honderd to command them around)
on that note I really love to FC small gangs (max of 20 people) it’s fun without having to go all all supper bossy FC mode (which I can do but don’t like to do)

FACTS and lack of members
I’m sure I’ve talked my corp. before but I think I will outline it again:
FACTS is older than eve we used to pay X games from egosoft way back in the day. FACTS was a clan so to speak (as none of the games are online we never played togever) with the sole aim of helping new players pick up and play X, like eve its very complex, FACTS stands for Free Advice Conquering The System and that’s what we do. As the X games started to lose our attention we as a group of friends started to break up and play other games, I started playing Eve and I was hocked. A few months past and DeltaW7 (known as Delta wolf on FACTS I was known as ZAMA) and we both joined a group called the triangle. Year later some more of our FACTS friends start playing and BAM we have our own "FACTS on EVE" corp (and for the 1st time ever we all start playing the same game online). the rest is as they say history, but after some time we as a corp. start breaking up (people want to do their own things in eve and everyone always moves on) as we have always been facts members we never looking in to getting new members so we are kind of low on numbers at the min and looking to go back to our roots and teach people how to play (on that note older members are welcome too :P).
Just hope we can keep going :)

VVA training op
last thing to note smally is VVA had a PvP training op which went very well
i was part of a red team they had to kill

So I will leave you with some last pics

And I hope to be updating very soon and very often

Intel then fly safe

Zama118

so about that update i was talking about

ok so will be the 1st one to admit it never happened

so i will recap and tell you what happened with mine and dirks WH trip

we entered the WH and come back out a week later LOL

no really what happened is that we setup the POS and everything then i got my ships in and the WH closed before dirk could do the same
it really sucks for him and we tryed ever so hard to get a new link but timing of the WH's and the amount of time he was on played against us
so i ran the WH solo and in the process learned a hell of lot about them
a bullet list of things that happened
# I lost my domi while trying to close a WH (don't use BS to close WH without major backup)
# some people came in and ran almost the whole WH while i was offline
# i had Cneagle come in and teach me lots about WH's and how the systems work
# i fight the sleepers a lot and learn a lot about how the work and how to kill them (drone not such a good idea all the time)
# i had to fly a orca tough a few low sec system (i cant believe i managed it)
# i lost my vitor to a hype off station trying to get some equipment out of low sec when we got back out

so after a week we just packed up and left (had to fly all over to get the stuff we looted)
in total earned 380mil (rounded)
with the losses there is no profit but we only managed to run probley 1/3 of the WH as the rest of it was run before i had time

so i pretty much left the same as i had entered the WH
apart from i owe a 215mil debit to 2 people who i will have to repay soon

here some pics of the time i spent in a class 2







i can honestly say i really enjoyed it WH space has a whole new feeling i never get in high sec and only sometimes in 0.0

our corp FACTS wants to do more as a corp
so i say we go in to WH space (as dirk is away for a while he has loaned me the POS)
i fueled it up and stuff got some new mods and off we go to find a WH to a class 2 (me and delta scanning around)
after ages of trying to find a WH (all where closing or had people in them) we found a empty class 3 with alright sites and a good small system
so being fed up of trying to find empty WH's we just take the risk and setup inside there
with the newly fitted with lots of guns
i have also setup mobile warp disruptor's around the POS to stop anyone from getting any smart ideas about scouting out the POS or attacking it

so its piratically imposable to solo the combat sites in my Dominix inside a class 3 (i can but i need to warp in and out a lot and frigs scram me so its too risky)
so along with me i have jorrel and delta (delta is in a drake and jorrel is in another Dominix)
the two Dominix's can RR and that works very well against them
we have also run a magnetometric site (which delta did the scanning) and i been gas harvesting
so far i think we have blown away the 380mil of the last WH we did but only time will tell

the only problem iv had so far is that lots of people have been coming in and out of this system (had lots of scanning going on and roaming gangs come in yesterday)
but just as i say this so far today there has no no sign of anyone with only 1 WH link active in system which the other side has not been opened

hope to keep you updated from now on enjoy the pics from my current system



of just a 1 more thing
this pic is how i arrange my probes around a sig i want to scan down
it helps a lot


till next time
fly safe
zama

ooo boy lots of stuff

so i am home from my holidays
which was very good thank you for asking everyone :D

1st thing when i get back is a lovely group of chat rooms telling me VVA is at war and a evemail to seal the deal
large problem is that its going to start in 1 hour from the moment i loged on (fanstasic timeing if i do say so)
so my brain overwelled i log off call it a day

i come back move back to 0.0 and later in the week there is a fleet to hunt the war targets we fly around but as with any war iv ever been in the targets always hide and they have very good intel so you cant jump in on them (god dam it) so i get no kills just a long trip there and back

after that i have started a new job in Real life and thus have less time in the day for eve :(
but i came on one afternoon to find a massive attack was being held in a 0.0 inside provi
the system was called d-gtmi so i get in my Hyperion and head down there over 600 people in system all dukeing it out at a plaint
so i head there
get in close in a few targets and deal some damage (which was fun) then before i know it i get called primary (probley due to the size of the hyperion) and and dead before i even blink
the lag was just amazeing (i stop fireing but my mods keep on going) was funny as hell
lost my Hyperion but i got out in my pod (which i thort was worth it :D)
later that same day i was flying around and we come accross Oli Robbo who was in a Cyclone
i join a fleet which was allredy hunting him (with some of my freinds Cneagle, Humongo and Jorrel Baas) i pick up my Phobos and we catch and kill him at the 2v-css to ay-ycu gate (we did not get his pod coz i was a dumb as a set my bubble up too soon hitting myself all day for that one)
he was a good sport and we had some funny convo with him in local at wich point he made his mind up to take the pod express home and i got this very funny chat log :) and screen shot

EVE System > Channel changed to 2V-CS5 Local Channel
Oli Robbo > damn scorpion :(
Oli Robbo > gf
maggelan > ^^
Oli Robbo > lucky ranis, gj w/ the scorp
Oli Robbo > shoulda overheaded my guns :(
5hadow 1 > ╔╗║║ ╔╗║║╦ ╦║║╠╣ ╚╗╠╣║ ║╚╝║║ ╚╝║║╩ ║╦╦╔╗ ╔╗ ╦╔╗╔╗╔╗║║╚╗ ╠╣ ║╠╣╠╣╠╝╩║╚╝ ║║ ║║╚║║║
Q'uip > fail :(
Oli Robbo > wasnt really a trap.. had the ranis and scorp on scana, was the obious thing for you guys to do
Oli Robbo > let me check where my clone is you guys may as well send me home
Q'uip > no expensive impies?
Oli Robbo > lol yeah i'll bring snakes to providince in a cyclyone that im bound to get blobbed in
Oli Robbo > -_-
Oli Robbo > really c'mon
Gibbo3771 > haha
Q'uip > hehe :P
5hadow 1 > I will tip my hat off to ya, You did not whine and you have my respect
Oli Robbo > ^ insurance ftw
Oli Robbo > :)
Oli Robbo > just came to get some gfs and some kills on the way.. startin to fraps some stuff
Oli Robbo > unfortunatly i forgot to hit f9 :(
klinewire3 > no soup for you!
zama118 > :)
Oli Robbo > indeed
Q'uip > heh
zama118 > lol
Q'uip > I usually forget to fraps too ..
Oli Robbo > well, gf again. im en route to the ac gate, get ready to pop me :)
Gibbo3771 > i always forget :(
Q'uip > and if I dont forget the f9 key suddenly doesnt activate fraps anymore ;P
Oli Robbo > lol
Oli Robbo > or laggs out >.< Oli Robbo > call this service? i even need to wait to get podded lol
Q'uip > missile race
Q'uip > speedtank it :)
Q'uip > aww too late
zama118 > lol
TheSprite > rofl

and here is the killmail
http://vva.evekb.co.uk/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=759416


after that fight i have Cneagle shoot missles at me till my buffer tank went :D and he loged off and his shipp still was shooting me lol funny stuff

a pic of lots of ships in that big fight shooting another



enjoy till next time
fly safe