Saturday, 25 June 2011

Heavy Fuel (part 2)

6 hours of robotics left, I needed to start taking a few risks to get some fuel.
I waited untill 4pm EvE time for our new static to open, praying it to be close to high sec, as the last wh we had was 15 jumps through null sec to the nearest fuel.
Scanned the static wh down and popped though to see where we are... dammit 28 just to empire and as far north as we could be, right into the middle of goonswarm!
I started to workout how much isk im ganna lose with all my ships and the pos.
Me and my fellow wormhole dweller started scanning goonville for a hopeful wh to high sec...
9 systems and nothing.
The last system I scanned i found a nutral,
A russian nutral ...from goonswam.
Im ganna die!
I spoke in local, telling the tale of my epic search for fuel, expecting to get blown up any second, even though im in a cloaked up SB .
He offered to get me some robotics from the local station that I cant dock in.
So I offered to pay dubble if I got out of the system alive .
Local started to fill up...
He sent me to a planet to meet up, so I got there under the shadow of my cloak , expecting 6 BSs to jump me.
But noone was there.
He than asked me if I need anything else, smelling a hot drop while he stalls me, i asked for some helium isotopes which im tunning low on too.
then aranged to meet up in a system closer to our wh.
When he started offering to drop it off at my pos I knew I waw about to get jumped my a bored aliance.
As a last hope , I had no choice but to put myself in the fireing line, I jumped in my itty 5 back in the wh and set up the meet in a system 1 jump away from the wh exit and empty. My plan was to run as soon as anyone came in local.
I requested he came alone.
There was lots of brakes in our convo, so it appeared he was busy doing something else, aranging a hot drop maybe?
I got to the system with my would be assassin and joined his fleet, then warped.
Then the strangest thing happened...
I gave him the cost of the fuel and he dropped a can with the fuel in!
I quickly grabbed it and warped, paying him the same amount again as I promised, dubble jita prices, but well worth it.
We chatted for a while and he offered to get me more stuff if I needed it.
I was still in shock!
I met a genuine nice guy, in eve! In goonswarm!

I owe the safety of my pos, all my t2 ships and all the corp mates stuff to the first, honiest stranger ive met in eve.

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Robotics

We had a rare hisec exit, great I thought, I can get my overkill for a c1 nighthawk in and some much needed fuel at last.
Got the NH in np and grabbed my itty 5 for the fuel run.

Like the noob I am, I forgot to check what fuel we needed.
So I got meh space buddy to have a look while I sat in amarr buying the pos fuels .

50m isk worth of fuel and 7 jumps later I jumped back through our wh into our w-space as it collapsed due to mass, behind me.
By my calculations we could still get another two BC sized ships in so I screwed up , as I wanted to get our new corp member in that way.
(That makes me the CEO of a three man corp now! Which is weard for me as a really dont like being a guild/clan/corp leader)

So I dump all our fuel in the pos and realize we still need robotics.

Its not meh space buddys fault , ever since hes been in eve Ive made robotics. Untill now :/

That was 7 days ago and still no exit to a hub.
We could have got some in last night but eve suffered a DDOS attack by lulsec and CCP shut down the server.

2 days 14 hours left of robotics.
Time for a mad dash through our null sec static for life saving fuel.

To be continued...

Monday, 6 June 2011

Teh New Rook

Ive been looking for a ECM boat that can Warp scram .
I looked into it for weeks, i already fly a falcon but its never seen action.
Then i finally found a up close rook that had a 20k EHP 250dps and had a scram and some ECM.
I cant post my fit as my pc is down atm but will try to as soon as I can.
Now 130m isk ship is way more than I like to pvp with , but trying to defend a wh with only two guys we need a equillizer.

We had a hi sec exit via a active c2 so I picked one up and got it back to the pos.

No sooner as I put on my captains slippers and grabbed a can of space beer the guys from the c2 decided to come and releave us of our sleeper sites.

My buddy was at the wh entrance in his stealth bomber keeping an eye on there activity's and I fired up the rooks engines and warped to 20km off the wormhole entrance.
Just a I got there so did a cane.

Now I got no idea if i can take him out, but desperate to prove my rook/scram/ECM ship idea will work i engaged.
To my surprise i locked him up , got a point on him and started to chip away at his amour with my crappy dps.
He could tank me np , lucky my friendly nemesis pilot uncloaked and started throwing torps at him.
We done well, in no time at all he was in structure.

Only prob was we were sat at the wh and he simply jumped through.

Looking back at it, we should have followed. But my ship is less than an hour old and his whole crew was probably waiting for us on the other side.
So we put up a few bubbles and headed to finish off a sleeper site we started.

For over an hour there was no sign of the cane coming back in so we relaxed a little , a little too much.

Its not like we both didn't dscan. we were both scanning constantly.
But the cane managed to land on top of us in the site.
I instant warped to pos as I was alined.
Grabbed my trusty rook when I realize my space buddy was still trying to warp.
The cane took him out so quick he didn't stand a chance.
At least he got his pod back safe.