Monday, 26 October 2009

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

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

fanfest for me

im of tomoro

so i will update about it when im back on monday

its going to be so FUN! i cant wait :D

fly safe
zama

Monday, 28 September 2009

IM FREEEEE

im free from WH space
no more WH to hold me back

time to collect all the stuff and work how much we earn :D
but 1st im going to dock up and enjoy a beer
update soon with that

Friday, 25 September 2009

high sec high sec high sec

i need a high sec exit :)
takes time for one of appaire but waiting for someone else to open a WH in to our system is just killing me

we are done we have finished the WH and want to move out now but we have no safe exit

the static WH (every WH system has at least one static WH that is allways there and when it colapises it openes a new one the very second) leads only to null sec and while there is null sec we can safely exit in we dont have much choice where the WH will lead too (there is a lot of null sec out there and even more people who would like to kill us)

i took some more pics for you to look at:

delta getting RR while being attacked


our lateist exit in to AAA space (8 jumps away from where we could be safe)
no use to us i bubbled it to scare away any fleets who want to attack us (just hope they not detemind)

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

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

how a WH pos can make you money

:D
The WH pos killed a Cov ops ship
funny stuff he sat there uncloaked and BAM...

so i checked the wreak and a sisters expanded probe launcher happens to sit in the wreak

that a 50mil mod
one of my corp mates surely will find a good use for that :) and the POS has payed foritself
also salvaged some tech 2 stuff and probes lots of them 100+

(im not going to take the laucher as i allready own one with sisters probes)

more updates soon
:D
fly safe (and away for POS guns)
zama

Sunday, 20 September 2009

restarting

ok i know i was serpost to blog while in WH space
but things have been overwhelming me

I'm now in a New WH system a class 3
i will blog about it soon honest

logging off for the time being

From South to North Then back South again

Read about addicted Eve player and his Renewed ramblings in the South of eve, PvPing mostly but never one to stay away from a challenge, I'm sure you will find something i blog about that makes you smile.

please feel free to comment back
and i hope you enjoy reading my ramblings in space

my spelling and grammar is very poor, so i apologize and if there is anything you cant read say and i will try to correct it

fly safe
zama 118

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