A Different Direction

My posts have become infrequent, I have excuses - but who needs to hear them.  I'm slowly getting my act together and the posts will start to flow soon, but I would like to take this blog in a different direction.  When I first created this virtual record of my existence I had hopes of it being helpful/informative to any and all eve players interested in getting involved in wormhole space, but flitting back through my posts it seems to have spiraled into the mediocre adventures of a mediocre Eve player!  It is therefor my intention to turn this ship around - and create what I envisaged.  But in order to do that I need help, help from you. 

I would like to extend an invitation (read: semi desperate request/plee) for anybody interested to submit guest pieces, tutorials, or general thoughts here. I will of course be returning to my posts, projects and attempts at writing pieces of some interest to somebody of my own, but I'd really like to turn this place into a series of posts people can learn from!

I'm a huge advocate of hauling new people into wormholes by the scruff of their face, lets face it - judging by a lot of the stuff written on the forums the general consensus is we need help, we need content, and we need people. So anything that makes the intimidating accelerated Eve learning curve easier, in my opinion can't be a bad thing. 

So let me know, if you'd like to contribute great, if you'd like to know something, or have a request for me or another to try and write about something you want to know about get in touch!

To be continued...!

Poking the Big Boys

Running into the wrong neighbourhood of W-Space is never great. 

I don't particularly keep up with the wormhole 'meta' as such. The big groups, the key players - they're all lost on me. So for us to run into two groups I had actually heard of in the same night was something!

We were hunting down a lowsec hole so I could have another bash at FCing, only to be rudely interrupted by a tengu from the fearsome Blood Union. At this point I decided to relinquish FCdom to our glorious leader huei. I'm all up for throwing a fleet of T1 cruisers against a brick wall - but I don't feel upto getting peoples expensive stuff blown up... Yet. 

After some thought we decided to attack the tengu in our home hole and see what happened. As predicted Dscan exploded with tech threes and interdicters so we got the hell out of dodge, losing a stratios in the process. We couldn't take that fight. No way. Nope. After a while we watched Blood Union roll with a Moros - something that they haven't been seen doing in a good while apparently? 

Simultaneously a scout found a group of oracals and nagas bashing a POCO in a C3 down the chain. It's all go! We got into face melting T3s and proceeded to attempt a gank. The fleet was co-ordinated well and we managed to land on them with a bubble and DPS. But due to some bad luck with the bubbles we only managed to drop two of them. Still it was a good gank! 

On the way back we caught a stratios and decided to burn it into the floor. We paniced a little when we noticed it was from NOHO (no holes barred). This worried us. They are big. Really big. The Stratios Popped and we high tailed it out to high security space via the C3s handy static.  

There we waited until we could get some idea of what NOHO were doing. At first it was just a few Lokis zipping around. But we knew there would be more. We managed to jump a scout to where they were staging and he hit D-Scan:

Proteus

Proteus 

Proteus

Legion 

Guardian

Guardian

Legion

Proteus

Sabre

Loki

Loki

Legion

Legion

Guardian

Proteus 

ETC...

We were stuck. We didn't know what they were upto. But we'd just relieved  them of a 1billion ISK stratios so we assumed they were trying to find us. 

As I sat ship spinning in highsec I thought about the wormhole forums. And how the major players are complaining about a lack of content. Is that because everybody has moved out of WSpace? Or everybody does a very, very good job of scuttling away to hiding places when we see you around? I have a really good feeling it's the latter. 

Most people like fights. And ganks happen all the time. But throwing yourself at a group like NOHO or Blood Union, for us at least, is comparable in stupidity to AFK mining in an officer fit hulk with on grid orca boosts in W Space. It just isn't wise and will only end up one way.