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UP and DOWN the pipe. (but mostly down)

2011-10-11T20:45:00.000-07:00

I spent most of my time tonight going up and down a pipe of systems near Egghelende with Necio. I was in an Arazu and he was in a Macherial. It was pretty uneventful for the most part but we did manage to snag a Drake who got a little to cocky on a gate.

I tackled him on a gate first, but he jumped through and warped to a spot about 300k off it. He told us how he'd like to kill us:

[00:36:32] Revathy > i wish you were in something smaller
[00:36:49] Revathy > so that I can shoot my missiles at you and blow you up

He continued to warp to spots just off gates, until eventually we managed to probe him out and kill him. He didn't say anything after that.

So, we carried on roaming, and we did manage to get camped in a system called Taff by a bunch of Recons and T3's but they eventually got bored and let us go. I did manage to enjoy a Cheese and pickled Onion Sandwich while we was waiting for them to leave, so it wasn't all to bad.

When we finally got out we headed to a system called Avenod. In Python this system had special meaning, as it was the system where Python MK1 originally died. Its been a running joke ever since then about it being a kind of Elephant Graveyard for corps. Its where corps go to die.

Avenod, was well, dead of course. But on the way back to our main pipe we noticed a Carrier on scan in a system called Isbrabata, and we soon found it wasn't just on scan it was in a mission! So off went Necio with the probes and off I went in corp chat telling my corp to get their asses here asap.

5 seconds later, which is exactly the amount of time Necio needs to probe you out, he told me he had a hit! So in he warped, with me in tow, only to find that the Carrier had gone. Dam, he must of seen the probes.

So we did what any persistent pirate would do and we bookmarked the mission then made believe we had left. Necio kept his unaffiliated alt in system to watch if he came back and after a couple of minutes he returned to his mission.

I immediately jumped back in and warped to the bookmark, only to land 80km off of him. I uncloaked and hit my MWD and managed to get a point, only to get targeted by the 500000 rats in the mission. I saw my cap disappear instantly from a bunch of rats nuets and there was a bunch of rat missiles heading my way. Outta cap and unable to point I was useless.

The carrier managed to get away, but he didn't dock up. He sat outside the station for a while and he actually shot at us a few times with his drones. He had also gotten the help of 2 friends, one in a Macherial and one in a Hurricane. My fellow corpies had arrived in the system next door by now and we figured we might actually be able to get a fight outta these guys.

But even with all the warping-to-obvious-belt and warping-back-to-the-station-then-back-to-obvious-belt. They still wouldn't play, and to our dismay one of them told us to "have fun" in local, then all three of them docked up and logged off.

All wasn't lost tho, because while we were dicking around with the Carrier it turns out a Maelstrom had started to do a mission. Necio quickly probed him out and I warped too him but again that wasn't just a simple kill. Turns out the guy had disconnected, and was in an emergency warp safe, and when he logged back in we were actually warping to his emergency safe... so it seemed like we had missed yet another kill...

EXCEPT Necio just hit scan again and warped us to his real mission, this time I got a point and managed to hold it long enough for the rest of the gang to arrive and finish him off.

After that we all headed home, kinda disappointed about the Carrier. But at least we got something.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

2011-10-09T22:21:00.000-07:00

What do you mean its october? Oh I see, I havent posted this entire year! Well, thats because I quit EvE. I had grown seriously bored of low sec and its tiny balled inhabitats and I ended up giving all my gear away. All in all, about 3 billion isk, a carrier and a bunch of ships.

I did manage to retrieve some, and I have managed to get enough back to get by, but if i learnt anything, its:
NEVER GIVE YOUR SHIT AWAY, EVER.

But anyway, I got the urge to play again. So now I have just applied to a new corp. They are called The Black Sail Anarchists and they live in Egghelende which is one of my favourite systems of all time. Hopefully I shalt have a ton of adventures worth writing about, and if not, well, I guess I'll just post ponies.

BACK IN THE DAY

2010-12-13T16:39:00.000-08:00

A LONG TIME AGO, WHEN I FIRST STARTED PLAYING EVE. OH HOW FAR I HAS COME!

I SEE A CORRELATION

2010-11-21T18:58:00.001-08:00

?????

Lol

2010-10-13T12:28:00.000-07:00

League Of Legends.

The new game that I'm addictive too, and the main reason why I havent been playing EvE much lately. I'm on a kinda semi break.

Alot of people in Python have been playing it recently, and as a result our EvE corp activity has dwindled abit. But Python is more than just a corp. We play alot of other games together.

Anywho he games alot of fun (tho very harsh a newbie, tho if you played HON or DOTA its suposed to be alot easier to pick up, I never played either).

So if you too are bored of getting blobbed by russians, give this game a try.

Oh...

and its FREE TO PLAY!

DRAKES

2010-09-30T16:00:00.001-07:00

CAPS LOCK ENGAGED.

EWR9BU-BRUBR9VBUHNEWRP9V[BN9EWRUGVEW

FUCK DRAKES. THEY ARE THE MOST BORING, UNIMAGINATIVE, STUPID SHIPS IN THE ENTIRE GAME. THEY ARE MEATSHEILDS WITHOUT THE MEAT. THEY ARE LIKE SAFETY BELTS, IM SURE THEY HAVE THIER USES, BUT THEY SURE ARENT USED FOR FUN.

I HATE EVERY SINGLE PERSON (CAP LOCK DISENGAGED, except you larsypoo, CAPS LOCK ENGAGED) WHO FLY DRAKES. GET SOME STYLE. GET SOME SENSE OF FUN. IT IS NOT FUN TO SIT IN A BELT AT ZERO, TANKING AND NOTHING ELSE. IT IS NOT FUN HAVING TO SHOOT A DRAKE WITH BOUNCERS.

DRAKES ARE NOT FUN. DRAKE PILOTS ARE NOT FUN. I HATE YOU ALL.

RAGE

EINVWPVUNWRVUNWR9VWNRV

YES

I MAD

MAD!!!!!!!!!

Ahhh, thats better.

EPIC VICTORY OF EPIC PROPORTIONS

2010-09-14T07:14:00.001-07:00

It is today. The most glorious of days, that The Python Cartel has succeeded where many of failed. Many corps and alliances have tried to achieve what we have achieved today. For 3 years we have tried, and today we reached our goal.

No, we did not take over an entire 0.0 region. We didn't kill a Mothership with a bunch of Rifters, neither did we crush one of our bitter enemies under our pink snakeskin boots. No, none of those things. What we accomplished was of much greater significance.

For today.... we HOTDROPPED a BANTAM, mining in a belt in MARA.

GLORIOUS!

How to lose a two billion isk fleet?

2010-09-11T23:32:00.000-07:00

Easy.

Make me FC and this happens! BEHOLD!

It started off a nice little armor hac gang. It would of been abit bigger if the people who signed up for the op actualy showed up. But this is Python afterall.

We ended up rolling around FW land, trying to goad people into a fight. They wouldnt fight us 1-1, not even 2-1 with bigger ships, instead, they fight us 3-1 with Carriers and ECM.

We even had our scout see the massive gang massing on the gate nearby, and we saw they had a Carrier and several battleship in system... but I told everyone to stick around anyway. Tonight we was guna get a fight. Win or Lose.

So 40 minutes of waiting for the chumps to get thier shit together.... the fight started! It started pretty well too, we dropped the Scorpion and a Myrmidon pretty fast. But in came the ECM and in came the Carrier. With our two gaurdians perma jammed we didnt last very long.

After talking to one of the guys afterwards, apparently they didnt mean to blob us, it was just a coincidence.

Gallabella > faction warfare accidently blobbing?

Of course. Faction war never blob on purpose. Where is the fun in that?

Best part was the comments after:

Knutsov > thats why you fly with ecm
Knutsov > cause eveyone else is using it

Helicity Boson > way to give them nice kills

Knutsov > well blame the time
Knutsov > we waited too long tbh

Helicity Boson > tbh i think its fucking retarded to engage suicidally on purpose
Helicity Boson > but hey

Lachesis VII > just seems like we could have been more productive
Lachesis VII > thats all

Kazaji > But skye, even i have to say, that was a bit silly
Kazaji > when we saw local go up by 30

Not everyone was a whiney bitch tho.

Golden Helmet > for HONOR

Jeros Hun > python are spartans
Jeros Hun > they fight to the last man

Angel Petroni > good fight guys.
Golden Helmet > gf
Angel Petroni > Very commendable. You should join the caldari militia and teach them to grow a spine. :D

Sir Juggalo > meh
Sir Juggalo > tbh losing ships is a part of the game if u dont wanna lose it dont leave station

But it was fun. You cant win them all. I just wish more people valued the fun of a fight MORE than the stats on their killboard and the isk in their wallet.

The Great Python Named and Shamed: Vol 1

2010-09-04T00:50:00.000-07:00

Hear' ye! Hear' ye!

Attention to all ye' who shalt hear! there hast been a great failure within the ranks of the MIGHTY band of ragtags known to all as the Python Cartel.

It has been decreed that all shalt hear of this failure.

T'was just last night that a Pirate known as Gallabella lost his mighty Ishtar class Assault Cruiser in the line of duty! But oh' the Horror! The Ishtar was fitted with a dishonourable warp stab.

Let it be known that Gallabella shalt not go unpunished! Tis' a crime that deserves justice! and justice shalt be served! In addition to being demoted to deck scrubbing duty, for no less than two months, Gallabella shalt also be receiving many years of hearing the phase "LOL REMEMBER THAT TIME YOU FIT WARP STABS ON YOUR ISHTAR!"

A suitable punishment indeed! May this serve as a warning to all who would fit warp stabs on thier vessels. There can be no greater dishonour!

TUSKERS: Assault Frigate Tourny

2010-08-31T20:09:00.000-07:00

http://fleeonsight.blogspot.com/2010/08/assault-frigate-tournament.html

Looks like alot of fun! Send your entry fee and get in your AF's! I'll be attending for sure!

A link.

2010-08-20T21:57:00.001-07:00

http://www.machine9.net/python/?p=75

Banstick

2010-08-19T17:19:00.000-07:00

So after going away for a day or two, I come home to find this in my email inbox:

Hi,
 
This mail is sent to inform you that your EVE Online account ********, has been 
suspended in light of EULA violations.
 
Our END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT and other game policies can be found on this 
page: http://www.eveonline.com/pnp/
 
If you feel the ban is not justified or you have something to add to the matter, 
please reply to this mail and we will respond as soon as possible.
 
Regards,
EVE Online Customer Support 

Not cool. I've replied to the petition but I am not expecting much.

I've heard off one of the few Pythons that still talk to me, that Spectre has also
been banned for account sharing. Nice way to sort it out CCP, just ban EVERYBODY

All your alliance belongs to us.

2010-08-14T18:20:00.000-07:00

Hi there.

As you might be aware. I stole all of Spectres Isk and most of his ships. One thing I forgot to mention when I told everyone this... I also stole his shares.

Now Python had 3 main Directors. Me, GH and Spectre. We each had roughly 1/3 of the shares, in the off chance one of us disappeared off the face of the earth, or had to take a break, or started being a complete faggot. So by me stealing Spectre's shares, I had the majority of the shares.

This was my insurance, should Golden Helmet try and remove me from the corp (for stealing Spectre's stuff)

Well, Golden helmet did actually disapprove with my theft (no idea why) and he demanded he give it back. Of course, this was out of the question. So we ended up arguing and he told me when he got home he was going to remove me from the corp.

But he didn't know I had Spectre's shares, and when he logged on I immediately clicked the "Run for CEO" button on the corp tab (I like to shove things in peoples faces). This removed GH's CEO capabilities, including his ability to kick me from the corp.

I voted for myself, obviously. and there was no way GH could win. The vote passed a small while agoso... I am now the new CEO of Python and The Jerk Cartel. I honestly still don't know what I am going to do with the alliance, as I didn't really plan that far ahead.

So what should I do with it? Give it away? Give it back to GH? (not likely lol) recruit a bunch of carebears and start running missions? simply disband it? or what?

I'm taking suggestions! give me some ideas!

Fuck you too Spectre.

2010-08-13T13:58:00.000-07:00

Firstly, my last post was indeed a troll and I never actually stole anybodies ships. It was all just a big joke and I'm surprised so many people believed it. I had quite a few messages in-game about how I'm such a bad person. But the jokes on you!

Anyway, after reading this post I feel as tho I have to get some facts straight.

First and foremost. Yes I did steal all his isk. yes I did steal all his ships. Overall I got about 3 billion isk (when I sell the ships anyway) and I have no intention of giving them back.

Why would I do this to someone I have known so long? Because Spectre is a drunken, egotistical, moron who contributed nothing to Python. Everyday he would log on vent, pissed out his brain, declaring how awesome he was and how shit we all were.

After a lengthy argument the other night over vent I decided to take matters in my own hands. I still had his password and account details from a long time ago, so I waited until I knew he was at work (and unable to log EvE) and simply just logged his account and took everything I could, as quick as I could.

I then sent Spectre an email telling him why, as I wanted to be upfront about what I did. I was nice enough to leave him 0.69 isk tho, so he should count himself lucky.

Quit your whining Spectre. This is EvE, getting fucked over is part of the game, and you sir... just got fucked over.

NOT SO AWESOME ANYMORE EY???

GOODBYE PYTHON! THANKS FOR THE STUFF!

2010-08-08T15:54:00.000-07:00

So, Python has moved home once again, and as usual I was demoted to being one of the Carrier bitches for the day. After a good few hours of moving people ships my hangar looked like this:

After much deliberation I decided to quit Python and steal everyone ships. I still don't know how much I made, but dam, I should be sorted for at least a couple of weeks! At the rate I lose ships anyway.

On a completely unrelated note: Anybody recruiting? got decent corp assets they want to let me have access too? I'm trustworthy, helpful and extremely active! Send me a mail in game.

Thanks!

I'm a whiney bitch and I'm taking a break.

2010-07-31T03:53:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I undocked in my Sentinel. The past few days I've been able to fly it properly (EWAR frig 4 recently finished) and I've been extremely eager to try it out. I've seen alot of people fly it really well. Be it by taking out larger ships, larger gangs, or just being able to screw over an enemy gang with Tracking Disruptor's and Nuets.

I've also seen people fly it badly. Hi Inertial. Hi Blammo.

Anywho, as I said, I've been wanting to test this ship out the past few days. I've spent my time roaming 30-50 jumps through the most busiest systems in EvE only to find one thing.

FUCKING PUSSIES.

Nobody wants a fair fight. Hell nobody wants a slightly uneven fight. I saw a Crusader, Retribution and a Dramiel RUN from my Sentinel today, and the day before that I saw a COMMAND SHIP run from it. Not just any command ship either, it was a bloody Nighthawk.

The only person I've managed to kill was some guy in a Hurricane ratting in a belt. And while the Sentinel did perform admirably I just want a proper fight (He had killed most of my drones with his double webs, and I had forgot to load tracking scripts... so I had to call in backup). A fight like you always used to get in the old days if you roamed enough. One where its just two guys, looking for abit of fun and not just a killmail... anyone else remember that?

Nowadays, low sec is full of Faction war. High security status PvP'ers who never leave the safety of the sentry guns, and people who just hunt for Killmails by sticking 50 T2 cruisers on a guy in a Rupture.

I've always liked soling, I find it relaxing and kinda fun. But I think its time we called it. In low sec... Soloing is dead.

Then there is the news (.pdf file) that Low sec will not be getting looked at for at least 18 months and that CCP will be spending all our cash on Dust and Incarna. Which nobody really wants anyway.

Well, maybe Incarna. Walking around in stations will be pretty cool I guess. But there is alot more pressing issues that need fixing first.

Fix the game we pay for CCP, not some turd thats probably going to fail anyway.

So this is me signing out for a break. Again. I will still be playing EvE, but not as much as normal, which means my blog post will dwindle abit, and my PvP video will be... delayed. But I have got a little footage! So its definitely going to be out someday!

o/

Your top 5 ships... ever!

2010-07-13T06:47:00.000-07:00

So after reading Mail Lites blog post, I've decided to do something similar. These are my favourite ships in EvE:

#5

The Rapier/Huginn

I used to fly this every single time on a roam. Its just so dam awesome. Its mostly used as a scout/tackle ship and it pairs very very well with an Arazu/Lachesis. I like the green engine exhausts on the Huginn, and I wish CCP put them on the Rapier.

The Rapier is flown by our super efficient scout Necio. Some say he's actually a Rapier IRL.

#4

The Crusader

I haven't got to fly this ship much yet, as I was only able to get in it two days ago. But so far its been pretty cool, its a great tackler, its speedy, and it looks god-dam-sexy.

I have always wanted to fly one after seeing Golden Helmet fly one back in the old days of Python. He used to fly nothing but Crusaders. Did I say fly? I meant, he used to die in nothing but Crusaders.

#3

The Sabre

Its basically a shiny Thrasher on steroids, but its one of the most fun ships in the game at the minute. Its fast, has huge alpha (when fitted with arties) and looks like a mini Cyclone. I actually fly these in low sec, fitted with no tank, just arties and speed. Their great, but cost a bomb... so I don't fly them as much as I'd want too.

#2

The Tempest

Awesomest of the awesome its the Tempest at #2. This is my most used ship and I use it for literally everything. Its just so versatile! You can fit it for Sniping, DPS, Nano, Passive shield tank, Passive armor tank with RRs, active shield tank, active armor tank AND you can PvE in it. You just never know what to expect from a Tempest

And it has sails. Every pirate needs sails.

#1 THE BESTEST SHIP OF THE BEST BESTEST BEST EVER IN THE WHOLE WORLD OF EVE EVER.

The Tempest Fleet Issue.

Of course! The only ship that could possibly be better than the Tempest is another Tempest! With improved sails and even more rust... it is to me: The Greatest ship in EvE!

Size matters

2010-07-12T04:04:00.001-07:00

Behold, the biggest penis in the Galaxy, with a girth of over 50km wide and a length of 200km (including the balls!).

Thanks to Golden Helmet for not ADD-ing out and ERECTING such a display of Python spirit.

Tickets to visit this spectacular monument are now on sale. For only £1million isk, made payable directly to "The Python Cartel." (don't forget the . ), you can gaze in awe and wonder at this magnificent sight.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity! It wont be long till the fascist Dev's at CCP dissemble this mighty monument to the male reproductive organ.

DISCLAIMER
The payment of one million isk must be made upon entering Resbroko. Failure to do so will result in your ship being targeted and maybe destroyed.

Oh, and even if you do pay for tickets. Your ship will also probably be targeted... and maybe destroyed.

SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED.

You want a fight? .... OH GOD!

2010-07-10T21:03:00.000-07:00

The theme of Pythons roam this week was RR Drakes.

Yes, RR Drakes. We fit our ships similiar to this:

[Drake, New Setup 1]
Damage Control II
Mark I Generator Refitting: Reaction Control
Co-Processor II
Ballistic Control System II

Large Shield Extender II
Medium Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 800
ECCM - Gravimetric II
Warp Disruptor II
Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II

Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Large S95a Partial Shield Transporter

Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I

Some people dropped points for a target painter, and one of us was actualy flying a Lachesis for the awesome point range.

As always we headed for faction war land in the search of a blob. Our first stop was Auga and.... it was empty.

Our second stop was Houla, where we managed to get a warp in on some Geddon sparing with his friend in a Macherial. The Macherial managed to get out of range, but the Geddon died quickly as he was in low armor thanks to his friend.

[ 2010.07.11 00:52:45 ] duck eh > wow
[ 2010.07.11 00:53:10 ] duck eh > thats the biggest pussy move ive ever seen

We also got into a little fight on the gate where we killed a Stabber and a Crusader. But still, nothing really exciting. So I decided to do our favourite trick to getting a fight. Head to Amamake, smack in local for abit, and hope that someone gets so pissed at us they formed a gang to kill us.

In Amamake we arrived, and the smack began;

[ 2010.07.11 01:15:14 ] Katsuragi Mimiko > chin chin hoshi....
[ 2010.07.11 01:15:16 ] Jaxxon Voers > bitches love me cause they kjnow that i can rock!
[ 2010.07.11 01:15:21 ] IEATCRAYONS > -ASCII penis goes here-
[ 2010.07.11 01:15:24 ] IEATCRAYONS > penis!
[ 2010.07.11 01:15:25 ] Pablanzo > PENIS
[ 2010.07.11 01:15:27 ] IEATCRAYONS > PENIS!
[ 2010.07.11 01:15:34 ] Andrea Skye > The python cartel, taking over your system once again
[ 2010.07.11 01:15:36 ] Jaxxon Voers > i herd ther wuz pierats in yor systemz
[ 2010.07.11 01:15:39 ] Pablanzo > fuck you i said it first!
[ 2010.07.11 01:19:09 ] Katsuragi Mimiko > :O
[ 2010.07.11 01:20:09 ] Pablanzo > MY BUM IS ON THE GUM, MY BUM IS ON THE GUM, I CAN BLOW A BUBBLE WITH MY BUM BUM BUM
[ 2010.07.11 01:24:06 ] Pablanzo > MY BUM IS ON THE MAN, MY BUM IS ON THE MAN, ITS ALOT OF FUN TO PUT YOUR BUM IN A MAN
[ 2010.07.11 01:26:09 ] Radcjk > I am jacks complete lack of surprise.
[ 2010.07.11 01:26:38 ] Jaxxon Voers > i thought amamake was full of pewpew and shit
[ 2010.07.11 01:26:47 ] Jaxxon Voers > all i see is shit
[ 2010.07.11 01:26:54 ] Radcjk > Nah, just a bunch of FW imitaters in drakes in 3-1
[ 2010.07.11 01:26:58 ] Pablanzo > full of pussy's these days .....
[ 2010.07.11 01:27:08 ] Jaxxon Voers > FW imitator...thats a new one
[ 2010.07.11 01:27:11 ] Andrea Skye > You know where to find us. Just show up, and if we got just a slight chance and dont smell blob trap, we will be ther (QUOTE FROM EVE FORUMS ABOUT US FROM BANE, WHO LIVE IN AMAMAKE)
[ 2010.07.11 01:27:18 ] Jaxxon Voers > i thought we were no-talent nanofags
[ 2010.07.11 01:27:25 ] Radcjk > In drakes ? nah
[ 2010.07.11 01:27:43 ] Jaxxon Voers > we get called something new everytime we come here
[ 2010.07.11 01:27:59 ] Katsuragi Mimiko > I still remember the carrier kill here
[ 2010.07.11 01:28:06 ] Katsuragi Mimiko > That was funny
[ 2010.07.11 01:28:14 ] Jaxxon Voers > mostly we just call you guys 'our bitches', its easier to keep you all straight that way
[ 2010.07.11 01:28:28 ] IEATCRAYONS > boys have a penis
[ 2010.07.11 01:28:34 ] IEATCRAYONS > girls have a vagina
[ 2010.07.11 01:28:35 ] Radcjk > What evr works mate. Im staring at your mad kill skills right now.
[ 2010.07.11 01:28:48 ] Jaxxon Voers > i am disconcertingly badass, i know
[ 2010.07.11 01:29:09 ] Jaxxon Voers > you can worship me, i dont mind
[ 2010.07.11 01:29:10 ] Radcjk > Its true. I wanna sit in drake gang and talk worthless smack. You take apps ?
[ 2010.07.11 01:29:26 ] Piscis > dont use big words. it confuses the tissue buyers
[ 2010.07.11 01:29:41 ] Andrea Skye > is your penis bigger than 9 inches
[ 2010.07.11 01:29:48 ] Radcjk > With T2 pump yes
[ 2010.07.11 01:29:48 ] Katsuragi Mimiko > I don't speak English.
[ 2010.07.11 01:29:57 ] Jaxxon Voers > not from AOS guys, they usually cant fight their way out of a wet paper sack
[ 2010.07.11 01:30:07 ] Andrea Skye > then feel free to drop an app, along with a photo confirming the size of your penis

40 minutes we waited. 40 minutes of constant smack, and even with 30-50 people in local nobody would fight our 8 man gang sitting in the top belt.

With everybody getting bored we figured we would just head home, where we had heard about a EvE-Uni Carrier sitting outside our home station. For those unaware what EvE Uni is, its basically an EvE training corp. It has alot of members but most of them are clueless with very poorly fit ships. They do seem to throw thier ships at anything that moves (alot like we do) so we thought maybe we could get a decent fight out of them.

We arrived in Resbroko to see a cyno up outside the station. We warped to the cyno, and quickly dispatched the Merlin that was being repped by a Thanatos. I told everyone to just aggress the Thanatos for lulz, and we did. His shield slowly went down and as it was about to enter armor, a Revalation Dreadnought undocked.

"Just Keep moving, it wont be able to track you" said Golden Helmet in his sexy pre-pubescent voice.

We did keep moving, and GH was right! it couldn't really track us. Then to our complete surprise, the Carrier entered Triage! WTF! he wasn't even repping anybody! I decided to get my Niddy and I told everyone else to get in something abit more BEEFY with some Nuetage.

As I undocked I noticed a small local spike of about 5-10, so I decided to not aggress for now. Just in case. Checking scan every few seconds, we saw nothing but a bunch of frigates on scan. I told everyone to keep shooting the Thanny. What would a bunch of Frigs do against BS's with a Carrier repping them?

Then local spiked again.

By 120.

With local now at 150 we decided it would be a very good idea to simply de-aggress. Even if they were in frigates, that is still alot of DEEPS.

They wasn't in frigs tho, they were in BS's, Dreadnoughts, BCs and other assorted ships. When they landed they all began shooting my Carrier. I wasn't aggressed, so I could dock at any time, but I stayed out long enough to keep a few of our guys alive long enough for them to dock. Luckily, they focused most of their attention on me, so it was quite easy.

Our corp docked up and I followed soon after with nearly all my armor on my Carrier blown away.

HOLY BLOB BATMAN! (Thanks Inka for the ss)

All was well. Tho for some reason Super-Jaxx decided to would be a good idea to try and tank 150 pilots with his Ishtar. Needless to say, it didn't end well. He ended up losing his Ishtar.

And his pod.

Twice.

I love you Jaxx.

OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED KENNY. AGAIN.

2010-07-04T11:51:00.000-07:00

Past week or so the corp and I have been looking forward to an op that was being arranged on a forums. The idea of the op was simple.

- Get as many people online as possible
- Get everyone in either a Gaurdian, or a remote rep battleship, with lots of ECCM.
- Head to Amamake 3-1 and smack until we got blobbed and killed.

The simple plans are always the best plans, and when the day for the op came, we had 16 corpies and 2 friends of corpies in fleet. This was one of the largest gangs we had ever assembled. And even tho our setup was good, and are fits were awesome... nobody really had much more expectations than getting smashed in the top belt and warping back in our pods.

When we got to Amamake the smack began:

[ 2010.07.04 00:23:36 ] Golden Helmet > WE ARE PENIS
[ 2010.07.04 00:23:37 ] TwiceDAsiZe > penis
[ 2010.07.04 00:23:38 ] Golden Helmet > YOU ARE VAGINA
[ 2010.07.04 00:23:42 ] IEATCRAYONS > PENIS
[ 2010.07.04 00:23:42 ] Jawmare > PENIS
[ 2010.07.04 00:23:48 ] Golden Helmet > WE. ARE. PENIS!!!!
[ 2010.07.04 00:23:49 ] Katsuragi Mimiko > CHIN CHIN!
[ 2010.07.04 00:23:49 ] Gallabella > PENISSSSS
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:00 ] MrWhitei God > guys
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:04 ] IEATCRAYONS > PENIS?
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:05 ] Gallabella > Who wants a bag of dicks?
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:10 ] Airric > you people could try to bait better
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:13 ] MrWhitei God > those balls look a bit wierd
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:13 ] Inka Kaoru > ur mom's a bag of dicks
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:24 ] IEATCRAYONS > I HAVE TESTICUALAR CANCER!
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:25 ] razor122 > ill take a bag
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:31 ] Jawmare > wuts baiting
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:32 ] Jawmare > ?
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:40 ] Golden Helmet > COME OUT AND PLAY, VAGINAS!
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:43 ] Gallabella > come to top belt for free bag of dicks
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:49 ] Jawmare > at 0
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:53 ] Inka Kaoru > i'm a master baiter, wtf r u talking about
[ 2010.07.04 00:24:59 ] razor122 > OMW GALLABELLA
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:03 ] Bruh'n Orellux > what kind of dicks
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:06 ] Golden Helmet > /emote waves his immense penis around
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:11 ] IEATCRAYONS > WTB CYBER
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:17 ] Targie McRed > /emote warps officer fit velator to top belt at 0
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:17 ] MrWhitei God > real men bait at oso gate
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:20 ] Kobrakilla > a/s/l?
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:22 ] Gallabella > spotted dicks
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:24 ] Gallabella > white dicks
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:26 ] Airric > are you going to pull those dicks out of your ass
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:27 ] Targie McRed > kobra?
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:27 ] Gallabella > black dicks
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:33 ] Bruh'n Orellux > wait
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:35 ] IEATCRAYONS > 53/M/INDIA
[ 2010.07.04 00:25:37 ] Golden Helmet > oso gate is for faggots

It went on for quite a while, and while I could post the entire log, I dont think I could even fit the log on the front page of my blog. But hopefully you get the idea.

Nonetheless, nobody came to fight us, and after about half an hour of sitting in the top belt, we decided to go with PLAN B, which was to head on down to Huola which is a system near Amamake that houses alot of faction war dudes.

When we reached Houla, our 9000 series scout reported that there was a Mega on the gate we was about to jump through. I figuired I'd jump through first and get a point, and then see if the Mega would agress me, or just simply jump through the gate and get caught by the rest of the gang.

He agressed me back.. I called the guys through... and he died in no less than 5 seconds. Meh... a kill is a kill.

We sat in Houla for abit, when a crazy irish guy in local seemed to want to tell us how much he loved River Dance.

[ 2010.07.04 01:20:07 ] Tatanka Marcussen > RIVER FUCKING DANCE
[ 2010.07.04 01:20:08 ] Tatanka Marcussen > RIVER FUCKING DANCE
[ 2010.07.04 01:20:09 ] Tatanka Marcussen > RIVER FUCKING DANCE
[ 2010.07.04 01:20:10 ] Tatanka Marcussen > RIVER FUCKING DANCE
[ 2010.07.04 01:20:11 ] Tatanka Marcussen > RIVER FUCKING DANCE
[ 2010.07.04 01:20:12 ] Tatanka Marcussen > RIVER FUCKING DANCE
[ 2010.07.04 01:20:13 ] Tatanka Marcussen > RIVER FUCKING DANCE

I'm not sure exactly why he was telling us this. But I'm sure it had a deep and meaningful message in there somewhere.

Anyway. No fights to be had in Huola either. So we decided to goto plan C.

Plan C was to head to Egghelende, which is also very close to Amamake, and annoy the mighty Ken Plante. We arrived in Sisiede and formed up on the Egghelende gate and decided to send our most annoying and also best smacktard in.

You probably guessed it was Spectre3353.

Spectre3353 and Ken Plante had a relationship a long time ago, but it all went sour when Spectre3353 accidently taped over Kens favourite Kylie Minogue cassette. Ken spent several days listening to the radio and taping each song off the weeks-top-40. And he was very upset by Spectres disregard of his most treasured cassette.

Ever since then Ken has hated Spectre and has tried to kill him at any opportunity. He goes into a fit of pure blind rage and ends up throwing his own ships away, and ships of his corp mates.

So Spectre, being the good Python. Smacked and smacked while sitting on Kens home station. You can read the convo here.

But strangely, Ken didnt bite, he must be finally over Spectre, or his new boyfriend has brought him a proper official Kylie Minouge cassette. That, or he had finally got some anger management therapy, and was practicing some excellent self control.

Who knows!?

We saw Kens alt undock, and when we saw him enter Sisiede local we figuired that our trap was busted. He saw our beefy gang, so we decided to give Amamake one last shot.

We turned our ships round, went to Amamake and again sat in the top belt. We then started to smack:

[ 2010.07.04 01:46:03 ] Andrea Skye > THE PYTHON CARTEL CLAIMS THIS SYSTEM AS ITS OWN
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:07 ] Andrea Skye > WHO DARE CHALLENGE US
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:15 ] WNKyle > not on my watch
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:25 ] Brick0Joe > AMAMAKE DEFENSE FORCE SWAT
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:27 ] Sabine Demsky > MEOW!!!!
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:40 ] Kobrakilla > LOGIN THE TITAN
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:50 ] 00sage00 > HAI KYLE
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:50 ] Brick0Joe > RELEASE THE KRAKEN
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:50 ] Katsuragi Mimiko > ANAL HURTS! BUT YOU GET USED TO THE PAIN!!
[ 2010.07.04 01:46:59 ] Helicity Boson > bane should renounce their evil ways and join the ADF!
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:00 ] Inka Kaoru > i herd we couuld get a fight here
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:02 ] Inka Kaoru > c/d?
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:04 ] WNKyle > d
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:05 ] 00sage00 > d
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:09 ] Jawmare > d
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:12 ] 00sage00 > too many pussies
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:15 ] WNKyle > c

Kens alt entered local:

[ 2010.07.04 01:47:16 ] Andrea Skye > HEY KENNY
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:17 ] Jawmare > d
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:19 ] Andrea Skye > LONG TIME NO SEE
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:20 ] Brick0Joe > HELLO SHLERKEDERKELER
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:20 ] IEATCRAYONS > HI KEN
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:22 ] Jawmare > HI KENNY
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:22 ] Helicity Boson > ken is the best curse pilot
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:24 ] 00sage00 > HI KEN
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:26 ] Jawmare > WTF IS PROTUS?
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:29 ] Eofina > Release the Kraken!
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:36 ] 00sage00 > i r leet pvper?
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:36 ] Kri Matar > oh shit, we gonna blog about this?
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:43 ] Spectre3353 > hellz yea
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:46 ] Andrea Skye > NICE CURSE FLYING IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE TOURNY
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:55 ] Jawmare > I WAS MISSIONING IN A RAVEN, THEN A PROTUS WARPED IN
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:55 ] Andrea Skye > GOOD JOB YOUR TEAM DIDNT FUCK UP AS MUCH AS YOU DID HUH
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:56 ] 00sage00 > PRO PILOTING
[ 2010.07.04 01:47:56 ] Brick0Joe > I heard that to be a pro curse pilot you MWD into the opposing team
[ 2010.07.04 01:48:01 ] Jawmare > WTF IS PROTUS?

Even Spectre himself thought that maybe our smack was going a little bit to far..

[ 2010.07.04 01:48:11 ] Spectre3353 > please be more professional pythons
[ 2010.07.04 01:48:15 ] Spectre3353 > we are above the smacktalk

Again, the smack went on for a small while and as Spectre was about to tell us to give up:

[ 2010.07.04 01:51:23 ] Spectre3353 > we should just go
[ 2010.07.04 01:51:30 ] Spectre3353 > the longer we sit, the sooner until we get smacked down by a hotdrop
[ 2010.07.04 01:51:32 ] Spectre3353 > and nothign is coming

An Abbadon, two tempests, A Megathron AND a Nidhoggur appeared on close range scan:

[ 2010.07.04 01:51:40 ] Spectre3353 > or not

And it began! It was BANE, Kens alliance and it seemed they meant business.

We primaried the Megathron and someone reported that their Niddy had entered Triage mode. For those of you unaware what Triage mode is, it basically boosts your repping and local tank by a very large amount. It does however make you run out of a cap very fast if you start running everything.

More battleships landed, along with a Falcon. Everybody hate Falcons, even when your running double ECCMs, and everyone was quite relieved when Kobrakilla announced that he just one volleyed it in sniper Maelstrom. Shortly after Ken plante landed in a Armagedden with a full rack of nuets.

I told everyone to primary the Megathron. The Carrier began repping it and we simply could not break its tank. BANE were primarying Golden Helmet, but they also couldn't break our rep train. We were at somewhat of a stalemate but we had a slight advantage. Our Gaurdians wouldn't run out of cap, but the Carrier would.

I told everyone to switch primary to the Carrier... so that he had to turn on his local tank, thus wasting even more cap. We pounded it for a while, and being in triage he managed to tank all of us quite easily... that is... till he ran out of a cap a few minutes later.

I told everyone to switch primary again, back the Megathron and this time he went down fast. We switched primary to a Hurricane, who died before I could even lock it. Then to Kenny in the Gedden. Kenny melted like a Freddo in your back pocket on a hot day and already this gang was happy. Killing Ken Plante is our favourite past time.

We killed a few more ships, and we all began approaching their carrier to make sure it didn't get out of range. With the Carrier capped out and their dps ships dropping, BANE decided to call it a day and get the hell out of the belt. So off they ran like little bitches leaving us to finish of their capped out Carrier.

As it died there was an eruption of FUCK YEAS on comms, and we set about scooping as much loot as we could. I warped my alt in to collect the Capital mods from the Carrier wreck, but one of the BANE guys in a sniper ship destroyed the wreck.

Faggots.

I decided right then to call it. We had just beat a group of "Pro-pvpers" and not took a single loss in a pretty evenly matched fight. It was probably the best fight I've ever been in. You cant really tell from the engagement on the killboard, as we took zero losses, but BANE had 12 guys including a triage carrier, where as we had 19 with just BS/BC/Gaurdian support.

They had seen exactly what they had, and had formed a fleet specifically to kill us. The Falcon with mostly Amarr jammers to jam the Gaurdians, the neut Geddon to break our cap transfer chain, and the Triage carrier to negate our ECM and keep his fleet alive long enough to break our RR chain.

But they still got rolled!

After I returned home and docked up for the night I recieved a mail from Griznatle. You may remember him from a previous post:

carrier kill
From: Griznatle
Sent: 2010.07.04 06:12
To: Andrea Skye,

please send to spectre wants to congratz you on a job well done.

Also, I wanna be honest with you. This game, its pixels, I might treat you guys like crap, and you treat me like scum, but you guys did a good job out there and yes im a bad pvper but i can still tell that you ate your wheaties and got it done.

Till next time your in local

We must of done something right :D

Props to Bane for bringing the fight tho, and well done Pythons for actually pulling your shit together for a change.

Pythons returning home

PS. You can read Helicity's version of events here, and Spectre's here.
PPS. I FORGOT TO TURN ON FRAPS AGAIN, ILL NEVER MAKE A MOVIE AT THIS RATE XD
PPPS. sage also made a post about it here

Python recruitment drive.

2010-06-28T09:34:00.000-07:00

So the King of Penis Larsypoo has requested that everyone who has a blog to make a shout out about our recent recruitment drive.

Actual picture of Lars

So here is my shout out!

Python has been around for nearly 3 years now (including original python) and our current variation has been round for over a year and were still as hard as ever.

Few things about our corp:

- We smack.. alot. If you don't like smack, we definitely aren't for you.
- We prioritize fun over everything else. If your a serious player who wants to win 100% of the time and don't like fails... we again.. aren't for you.
- Regular ops commanded by mostly drunk Fleet commanders.
- Small to medium gang warfare. We hardly ever blob. Most gangs have <10

What we are looking for:

- Moar EU/AUS pilots. Prio on EU.
- Pilots with a sense of humour
- Able to use vent and a mic (mic isn't mandatory, but very very encouraged)
- Activity. Don't bother joining if you log on once a month
- Pilots with initiative. Not pilots who just expect everything done for them. Going out soloing or forming your own gangs is very very encouraged.
- A little experience will go a long way. But if your app is good, and you seem like a good fit, we are willing to show you the ropes.
- We don't have a set SP requirement. Alot of our best pilots have been rifter noobs. We judge a character on attitude and experience, not how many SPs they have.

All that I need to do now is provide a link! here it is: http://www.swingnews.org/python/forum/index.php?board=3.0

Good luck!

You mad You gay?

2010-06-23T00:04:00.000-07:00

So a long time ago, a guy called Griznatle used to be in the same corp as us. Readers of Spectre's blog may remember him. For those who dont know him, basically hes the most annoying shit in the entire of EvE. Doesn't post his losses, constantly talks over people, screams on vent like a girl and pretty much just thinks he's the proverbial shit. When in reality hes the worst player in EvE who has never got a solo kill in his life. After he left the corp, he joined Heretics, then Advocates of Sin.

Anyway! History lesson over. Today we went on a little roam down to good ol' Amamake in a bunch of tanked battlecruisers. We decided to simply just sit in the top belt and wait for the blob. Sure enough, the blob came in the form of Minimatar faction warfare and with a few losses we destroyed nearly thier entire fleet.

There was much rejoicing, and as we were about to leave the belt, and return home, an Armagedden belonging to Advocates of Sin warped in at zero. I was FC again, so I just told everyone to cancel thier warps and kill the Gedden.

We opened fire.... and in came the blob + ECM. They claim to be "pro-pvpers" in thier corp description, yet they just smash a bunch of battlecruisers with a bunch of battleships and ECM. Not to mention a gang boosting titan at a pos nearby.

But its cool. We all blob sometime, and we all want the killmails. So off we went home in our pods.

When we got home Twicedasize came up with the idea to camp our new High sec gate in Resbroko. It was pretty queit, but we did manage to get a few kills.

We were sitting in our ninja when our cloaky falcon on the gate told us that there was a blinky Advocates of Sin Maller on the gate. I warped my shiney new Vigilant to the gate, followed by the rest of the gang and proceeded to tear the Maller a new one.

His tank was good, and as he hit armor.... he lit a cyno!

I immediatly told everyone to get the hell off the gate, and get the hell off the gate we did... in came the Titan bridge. In came the battleships and.... nothing. They managed to point nobody and we all managed to get out without even a scratch.

Smack ensued:

[ 2010.06.23 06:35:04 ] Andrea Skye > HAHAHAHAHA FAIL
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:07 ] Lars Lodar > LOL
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:08 ] Apoctasy > lololololol
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:09 ] Longanimitas > LOL
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:12 ] Lars Lodar > so fail
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:13 ] Brick0Joe > you guys fucking fail
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:13 ] Apoctasy > bridge
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:13 ] TwiceDAsiZe > epic fail
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:15 ] Griznatle > bubie
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:20 ] Lars Lodar > FU GRIZ
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:27 ] judes23 > we fail yeah but u are the guys that are running
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:28 ] Lars Lodar > PENIS
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:31 ] judes23 > pussies
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:33 ] Griznatle > i see you brought the wildcard
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:36 ] Brick0Joe > there's like 4 of us
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:36 ] Andrea Skye > NICE POINTS BROS
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:38 ] Griznatle > falcon this time, learn quick
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:38 ] Brick0Joe > are you kidding
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:42 ] Lars Lodar > lol
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:49 ] Apoctasy > put point on maller next time
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:50 ] Apoctasy > retards
[ 2010.06.23 06:35:59 ] Griznatle > you had a falcon you idiot fucks
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:03 ] Lars Lodar > LAWL
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:04 ] Griznatle > he was jammed
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:09 ] Andrea Skye > derps
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:10 ] Griznatle > your bad at this
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:14 ] Andrea Skye > fit eccm
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:25 ] Lars Lodar > because of falcon?
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:33 ] Andrea Skye > so how much fuel does it cost to jump battleships again
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:33 ] Griznatle > those killmails on my board
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:45 ] Griznatle > for sure cause of falcon
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:48 ] Andrea Skye > yeh, bs > bcs
[ 2010.06.23 06:36:54 ] Andrea Skye > equal ships we will shit all over you
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:03 ] Apoctasy > ^
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:06 ] TwiceDAsiZe > all in that ass
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:27 ] Griznatle > you mad u keep losing ships?
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:33 ] Griznatle > btw what happened to spec
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:33 ] Brick0Joe > lol griz
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:33 ] Apoctasy > u mad you cant kill ships?
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:35 ] TwiceDAsiZe > u mad u gay?
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:36 ] Griznatle > his bettime?
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:38 ] Brick0Joe > TITAN BRIDGE THE FUCKERS
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:44 ] Griznatle > i am gay
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:48 ] Griznatle > no im not mad
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:53 ] TwiceDAsiZe > u mad about it?
[ 2010.06.23 06:37:53 ] Brick0Joe > I haven't lost a ship in 3 months kid
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:05 ] TwiceDAsiZe > u are mad
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:08 ] Andrea Skye > I GOT POINT GUYS, LIGHT THE CYNO
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:09 ] Griznatle > true, that domi we fucked was nice fit
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:10 ] Andrea Skye > SHIT
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:14 ] Andrea Skye > THIER WARPING AWAY
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:14 ] Lars Lodar > why kill the maller?
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:17 ] Apoctasy > why you guys kill the maller?
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:18 ] Lars Lodar > for failure?
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:20 ] Brick0Joe > you are so bad you got kicked from python
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:26 ] Brick0Joe > thanks for the maller killmail btw
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:30 ] Brick0Joe > you guys are awesome
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:45 ] Griznatle > atleast u killed something tonight
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:52 ] Griznatle > btw, having a armor tank
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:54 ] Griznatle > and scimi
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:56 ] Griznatle > pro
[ 2010.06.23 06:38:59 ] TwiceDAsiZe > u mad u gay
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:01 ] Apoctasy > "FU MALLER YOU DIDNT POINT ANYTHING. PREPARE TO DIE CUZ WE DONT TAKE FAILURE"
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:09 ] TwiceDAsiZe > ^
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:17 ] Maximus3533 > man i feel like im dealing with clown fags all over
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:18 ] Lars Lodar > http://jerks.machine9.net/?a=home
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:19 ] judes23 > pussies <3
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:21 ] Brick0Joe > so wait
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:23 ] Lars Lodar > yeah we killed no one tonight
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:25 ] Brick0Joe > you are smacking us for having a falcon
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:29 ] Brick0Joe > when you always fly a falcon
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:29 ] Maximus3533 > ??
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:34 ] Griznatle > im not smacking
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:36 ] Griznatle > im loling at u
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:37 ] Slashmach1 > BECAUSE OF FAILCON
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:40 ] Griznatle > cause ur that bad
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:42 ] Brick0Joe > and you are smacking us because you failed to titan bridge 2 battlecruisers and a cruiser
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:46 ] Griznatle > when spec wakes up
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:47 ] TwiceDAsiZe > naw hes mad that hes gay
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:48 ] Griznatle > tell him i said hi
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:53 ] Brick0Joe > and you are smacking us because you got kicked from python
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:54 ] Griznatle > i know im gay
[ 2010.06.23 06:39:55 ] Brick0Joe > GG griz
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:05 ] Griznatle > wow brick u used to be cool
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:07 ] Lars Lodar > getting kicked from python
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:08 ] Griznatle > did u turn jew?
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:09 ] TwiceDAsiZe > does ur mom know ur gay??
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:13 ] Lars Lodar > the laughing stock of eve
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:14 ] Griznatle > yes mom knows
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:15 ] Apoctasy > you guys are beyond shit at this game
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:18 ] Andrea Skye > Final agony = pythons rejects
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:20 ] Lars Lodar > that is brutal
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:25 ] Griznatle > whos final agony?
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:25 ] Brick0Joe > enjoy your titan bridge blobfag corp
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:32 ] TwiceDAsiZe > penis
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:32 ] Griznatle > the titan isnt in our corp
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:36 ] Griznatle > he is in fw
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:38 ] Griznatle > thanks
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:39 ] Apoctasy > titan bridge is leet peeveepee
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:45 ] Andrea Skye > I MEANT ADVOCATES OF SIN
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:45 ] TwiceDAsiZe > word
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:45 ] Griznatle > better than you though
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:46 ] Andrea Skye > LOL
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:49 ] Griznatle > bubie now
[ 2010.06.23 06:40:59 ] Griznatle > have fun gatecamping
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:03 ] TwiceDAsiZe > u mad u gay?
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:05 ] Andrea Skye > go back home
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:07 ] Apoctasy > have fun not killing anything
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:07 ] Andrea Skye > get a new maller
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:10 ] Lars Lodar > lol
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:11 ] Andrea Skye > fit points this time
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:26 ] TwiceDAsiZe > guys hes mad hes gay
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:40 ] Lars Lodar > hahahahahah
[ 2010.06.23 06:41:49 ] Apoctasy > we have won the smack battle

So! YOU MAD? YOU GAY?

Fleet Commander Andrea Skye.

2010-06-14T07:12:00.000-07:00

When I first joined The Python Cartel. I pretty much accepted the fact I'd never FC a gang. I always used to let Golden Helmet or Inertial do it. They would lead us all to death and glory in our T1 frigs and we would return home in our pods quite happy.

Recently tho, most of our regular FC's have became slightly inactive. This is a problem in any corp, as most decent gangs need an FC to keep everyone organised during fights/roams.

So, the past few weeks, I have been kinda pushed into the FC role. Mostly because everyone else is lazy as shit, or too drunk to speak properly over the comms.

My FC-ing has actually been pretty terrible. Half of the time we all end up dieing fiery deaths, and the other half the time we end up not getting a fight at all.

Well last night, I was once again pushed into the FC role, and we set out to roam around our rather quiet area. We were flying a pretty mixed gang, of Battlecruisers and T2 cruisers. Half were nano-ed and half were not. I explained to those who were not nano-ed my current track record, and told them that they were most likely going to be blown to a thousand pieces. But they wasn't phased... they simply just told me to hurry up and get the roam started!

So off we went. First we went off to Gademon, where our nearest neighbours hang out. They are called The Alpha and the Omega and we have have some pretty decent fights with them in the past.

With our Scout bot 9000 series Necio's voice exhibitors offline (his microphone was broke), Golden Helmet was set as role as scout, in what was actually MY Rapier. I had told him to be extra careful with it, as it was really well fit with a Faction disruptor. I knew as I was saying "DON'T GET IT BLOWN UP PLZ!" that is was a futile task. Golden Helmet is a solid pilot but hes also the most suicidal person in EvE. He would cyno his Carrier into a fleet of Dradnoughts just get a Bantam kill.

Anyway, GH scouted around looking for something to crush just ahead of us, and sadly found nothing but a Myrmidon and Harbinger, sitting on a high sec gate, who jumped the moment they saw us.

So I told everyone to set their destination to another system nearby called Antem, where a group of pilots live belonging to Chains of Chaos alliance (CoC from now on. Yes, their really called CoC)

Along the way we saw a Myrm and a Hurricane who also jumped back into high sec the moment they saw our numbers in the local channel. I hate high sec PvP'ers with a passion.

We continued to Antem and once we arrived we set ourselves up on the Antem gate. We sent Golden Helmet in to look around and tried to lure CoC out for a fight. While we were waiting on the gate a CoC catalyst jumped past us and saw everything we had.

CoC would no doubt gather the blob and my suspicions were confirmed when one of our scouts noticed a large CoC gang right behind us. I quickly decided that fighting them on a gate on the home system would be pretty stupid, so we decided to simply get out the way before the BS gang arrived and flattened us.

We quickly got out of local and headed further down the pipe. But while we were jumping we noticed that the CoC gang were following us. Quickly assessing the situation I figured that if we sat on the gate as they jumped though, got into our optimal ranges... we would have a decent advantage, as they would all be spread out and unable to remote rep, and we would be in perfect position to at least kill a few of them.

Their scout jumped through into us and quickly cloaked in his bomber. We waited a minute or two, and to our joy we saw the gate fire and local spike a little. It seemed the trip from Antem had actually spread them out a bit, giving us even more of an advantage.

Primaries were called the CoC ships started to explode One by One. First went one of the bombers who warped in abit to close, next a Dominix, then a Mega. We were losing our non-Nano ships as they made an easy Primary sitting right next to the CoC gang. My Gila was pretty safe, and I easily outrun a bunch of Ogre IIs that someone had put on me. I tried my best to keep up with Fc-ing and call both secondary and primary targets while keeping my ship outta harms way.

CoC kept sending more people, only to be destroyed by our now mostly nano gang (non nano-s were already dead) and we slowly picked them off. Eventually CoC decided to cut their losses and de-agress, then jump back into the previous system escaping.

Overall we lost 6 battlecruisers and killed 12 ships, 4 of them Battleships and one Ashimmu. We were slightly outnumbered and had smaller ships than CoC but somehow we managed to hold the field in the end. The amount of loot we received afterwards covered most of our losses with insurance so it really wasn't so bad.

My Fc-ing it seems has gone from getting the whole gang killed, to only getting HALF the gang killed. Definitely an improvement! :D

PS. I forgot to turn on fraps (seem to do that alot)

Lights, Camera, Action!

2010-06-02T19:46:00.000-07:00

So after watching Htrags new video (you can watch it here) I've finaly decided to go make my own. I've been planning on making one for a long time now but never really got round to it.

I havent rly got any footage yet, all I have is a few seconds of Lachesis' girlfriend going out for a refreshing drive in the country. I'm going to use it as an intermission.

So heres to running fraps with 20 fps and lots of losses to Falcons while trying to get good fights. Cheers!

Nice tower... we'll take it!

2010-05-28T07:09:00.000-07:00

It was a pretty normal night. We were camping our gate in our system and in all honesty it was pretty dead. There was hardly any traffic and we spent most of the time mocking Twicedasize's HIC skills... or lack of them. (Love you still Twice). When Apoctasy noticed the corp mute, Inka.. typing messages in one of our Intel channels.

I glanced down at my screen to read it:

"...Tower un anchoring... Dread Gurista large... estimated cost... 1.5 billion!... unattended!..."

Huh what, their must be some mistake. Our gangs interested shift from taking the piss outta Twice to the 1.5 billion chunk of space trash that appeared to be only 3 jumps away.

We quickly, abandoned the gate camp and began to make our way to Jeni. I was in a Tempest with a GCC and going unscouted. I was in a gate camp fit too, no MWD or prop mod.. if I got caught on the gate I was toast, slightly risky... but in this situation, definitely worth the risk.

We arrived in the system expecting to see the owners of the tower there ready to defend their 1.5 billion isk asset... only to find a lone Bustard Transport ship on scan, and nobody else in local. OK...

My alt in a Prowler transport jumped in and made her way to the tower. As she landed, it un anchored and I scooped it. No problems...

That was Easy!

Maybe abit to easy.

We all decided to get out of the system asap and quickly made our way back to Ami. My alt following closely behind the gang. We thought our luck couldn't get any better... We had just lifted a tower worth 1.5 billion with little to no hassle. Split 5 ways we would make about 300 million each. Not bad for 5 minutes work.

But our luck did get better.

On the way back to Ami we came across a lone uncloaked Proteus jumping the opposite way to us. As it jumped through the gate Inka got a point and needless to say... it died horribly. We scooped the loot and eventually made it back to Ami intact. We later sold the Tower for what it was worth and added a nice little layer to each of our wallets.

Thats what I love about EvE. One minute your sitting on a gate, passing the time, hoping for a juicy Frieghter or Navy Megathron to jump through, whilst getting bored out your wits and the next your hitting the Jackpot and killing T3 ships :D

FACEPLANT vol.2

2010-05-23T07:26:00.000-07:00

So the much loved Spectre3353 is finally back playing again. While nowhere near as much as before due to him being a huge vagina... but at least hes back!

His "first" night back resulted in the killing of Ken Plante. You may remember him from a while ago when we assassinated his Proteus after 3 hours of waiting and nearly a month of planning. But you can read about his new face plant here.

I missed it! :(

Ken is the guy standing ontop of the box thing. Every time I watch that video, it reminds me of Kenny. He acts all big and bad, attempts to show off and... fails. :D

Post EvE related!

2010-05-21T00:54:00.000-07:00

Epic fights!

"Domi in a belt Skye, wanna kill it?"

It was Twicedasize. I had just logged on the change a skill... but Domi in belt!?

Why not? I thought to myself.

I quickly changed to my Rapier and fleeted up with Twice and proceeded to scan around the system to try locate exactly where this Domi was. We scanned him out a few times, but to our dismay he always managed to warp out just as we were about to land. It was always a seemingly random belt too, so we could predict where he was going to go either.

We was about to give up, but then Twice noticed a few other ships on scan. An Onyx, Broadsword and a Rook. They were in the same corp as the Domi pilot and usualy in this situation we would of just left it at that and docked up. But a new guy to our corp WNKyle wanted to join us.

He wanted to help kill the gang that was in local. He was in a Nano Harbinger and Twice was in a Nano Ishtar. So the plan was made. I would tackle them with my Rapier whilst staying outta of neut range, then Twice and Kyle would smash then with drones and scorch.

The gang appeared to have stopped moving and now were just sitting in a lone belt in system. So off we all warped and the fight began. For some reason, the Rook cloaked at the start of the fight about 70km away and remained cloaked for a good while.

We nanod around trying to split them up but they were sticking together. They would never stray to far away from each other and the heavy missiles from the onyx and the Sentry drones from the Domi were really starting to hurt my Rapier. Eventually I had to warp out at 10% armor (not good in a Rapier that has only 600 structure HP or so, and shield tanked :D ). Kyle and Twice were still sticking around tho, so I decided to go switch ship and get something that can point from really long range.

I switched to my super secret Nano Arazu and warped back to the belt. With this fit I could go nearly 2k m/s and point from 60km. Seemed like the perfect ship for the job. The only problem: No damps!

As I landed, Kyle had to bail also. The Drones and heavy missiles were starting to get the better of him so off he went leaving just me and Twice in the belt. I uncloaked and pointed the Onyx. He was closest to Twice but still 50km from me. The only problem was now, is that the Onyx had a MWD. We had no webs and Twice's sentries couldn't track it. So Twice had to use medium drones which the Onyx easily tanked.

Soon they again switched primary to me, Kyle had landed back in the belt after regenerating some shield but again, the drones and Heavy missiles were really starting to hurt. I tried to get a bit more distance from the Onyx but his range appeared endless. At one point I was 110km from it and the missiles were STILL hitting me. I eventually had to bail nearly in structure again...

I had had enough of dicking around. I had had enough of being squatted with drones and missiles so I again decided to switch ship .Twice and Kyle kept them busy and I docked up and fetched my triple rep Myrmidon with boosters to boot.

I warped to Twice and this time it was Twice who had to bail due to low armor. Twice followed my example and went to fetch his own Myrmidon. I landed right next to the Broadsword. The Domi was a good 60km off, and the Onyx was about 30km away. The Rook was still cloaked somewhere in the belt for some reason or another so I decided to get a point on the Broadsword as it was closest.

I burned towards it and got a point and a web. Twice announced he was undocking as I launched my drones and set them on the Broadsword. Like all HICs, his tank were pretty good, and my drones and ACs were barely doing enough damage to break his tank. They couldn't break my tank either tho, and I was good aslong as my cap boosters lasted.

Twice and Kyle landed again and soon the Broadsword started to drop. The Domi warped out to warp back to his friend in an effort to try get closer to us to use his neuts... which would be really bad for me being in an active tank ship. So I screamed for Twice and Kyle to "OVERLOAD YOUR SHIT!" The extra damage helped to get past the Broadswords passive Regen.

As it was about to bleed into armor the rook uncloaked and warped to his friends from 150km away. I found myself jammed and unable to keep a point. Twice also announced his was jammed and I groaned to myself.

Fucking ECM.

But it was to late for him. The drones wern't jammed. They continued to do damage and with the help of Kyle the Broadsword exploded. We were about to turn our attention to the Onyx when the Dominix landed again. He turned his attention to me and noticed my cap starting to get sucked away.

"Dominix is Primary!" I cried.

I had one cap booster left and was being neuted to hell. My armor was dropping and I figured it was all over for me. I overloaded my guns in an effort to break them, but as I did I noticed the Dominix was actually double rep fit. He was neuting, Scrammed/webbing and Repping all at the same time. His cap wouldn't last long if he carried on like that. knowing this, I aligned myself to an asteroid on the other side of the belt and started to spam the warp button.

Then, for reasons I'm still not sure the Rook and the Onyx warped out and ran away...

Out of cap charges, into structure I went, followed by the Domi who was also about to go into structure. If it carried on like it was I'd die first, the Domi has alot more structure than I did... But I wishfully kept spamming the warp button in the hope that the Dominix ran outta cap and lost his point.

Warp warp warp!

I hit about 40% structure and my ship lost a lock on the Dominix. For a second I thought I'd died and went to open my char sheet to check the loss mail. But I realised I wasn't dead. I was in warp. the Domi had lost point and I was free! I couldn't believe it. I sat there for a few sec stuck amongst the roids and watched as the Domi blew up in the distance. Awesome! Nothing like ending a fight on fire, with no cap charges left and your guns burnt out :D

The whole fight lasted about 20 minutes and kodos to "No Code of Conduct" for bringing the fight in the first place.

Apoctasy says: OMW

After that epic fight of awesomeness we decided to get a gang together and go roam around our new area. The gang consisted of ME (Gila), IEATCRAYONS (Fleet Stabber and yes, he really eats crayons), Wohenmang (Dramiel) and 00sage00 (Scimatar).The whole area was pretty dead and one hour in we had only killed a lonely Hoarder moving around some junk. After that we were joined by Sean Dillon (Scimatar) and Jaxxon Voers (Huginn)

We were about to turn back when Crayons told us there were 6-7 battleships, including a Armageddon Navy Issue, in the system ahead apparently shooting a POS. After a quick talk we decided we would go play with the battleships but we would keep range just in case they had a bunch of neuts.

As we was about to send Wohen in to get a point. Apoctasy logs on.

"Sup" he goes

"Bout to get into a fight actually"

"wait for meeeee! I gotta falcon!"

He was 13 jumps away. But a falcon would be very handy in this situation. The enemy gang had a bunch of geddens with a Navy Gedden and all of them packing scorch would be very nasty to us, all being in nano ships. If Apoc could come and fit a bunch of Amarr jammers.... maybe we could gank a couple of BS's without actualy losing any ships...

So we decided to wait for him. We called Crayons back from scouting as we didn't wanna scare them away.

We spent the next 15 minutes it took Apoctasy to reach us formulating the perfect plan to kill these guys. We had planned to send Wohen in first, tackle the navy gedden, then send in Apoc to jam whatever he could. Then we would warp the rest of the gang in and slowly pick them off one by one.

The plan we good, and when Apoc arrived we all got on the gate to the system they was in. In went Wohen and to our dismay...

... they had left local.

God dammit Apoc.

Because Jaxx told me too.

My blog doesn't get "that" many readers, and most of the readers are already in my corp. So this bit seems rather pointless. But because Jaxx told me too here it is:

THE PYTHON CARTEL IS RECRUITING!

Everything you need to know is in the link! Forums > Applications and follow the stickies if you want to apply!

A confession.

2010-05-04T22:47:00.000-07:00

So I'm still on my EvE "break". I do still log on sometimes but I've been doing something I said I wouldn't.

I've been playing WoW.

The worst thing is, I'm actually enjoying it, and I've started to level up one of my old characters again and I have every intention of getting 80 and gearing it and then doing arena for serious.

Which wont leave much time for EvE.

The good news is, I have about 20 days left on my Carrier training. All relevant skills will be at 4 so I will be very useful in both logistics and fleet engagements in our corp.

When my Carrier training finishes I'm going to train something fun like Crusaders and light laser IIs. I definitely wont be able to resist playing then :D

Yes, I got his stuff

A good EvE friend of mine who you probably all know recently "quit" EvE. His name is Spectre3353 and this has to be like the 10th time he has quit. This time he insists its "FO' REALS this time" and has even given most of his stuff away. I woke up the other day to find a freighter and a Navy Megathron in my hangar and an offer to give me all his cash... except.... his game time ran out so he couldn't give it to me. He also mentioned giving his character away.

Well. I know Spectre. He will be back. Nobody gets outta EvE alive. So I'm going to keep a hold of his stuffs and give it him back when he inevitably returns.

PvE = Self Harm

2010-04-08T08:26:00.000-07:00

Ever since I've played EvE I've always had an inner Carebear that sometimes bursts out to do lame PvE stuff. That said I've always considered myself a PvP'r and I do tend to get bored of PvE very quickly. (as with most games I play actually)

Recently I have set myself up with a clone deep in 0.0 space, with a couple of ships and a station full of mission agents. Ive spent the last few days slowly (Note: _slowly_) building up my standings to be able to start the Epic mission arcs. I've finally got my standings into positive numbers, but I've still a way to go and many low level missions left to burn through.
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WHINE: The epic PIRATE mission arcs were designed with criminals in mind. They were for people who wanted to be on the wrong side of the law. My problem with that, is that nearly all pirates and criminals have terrible standings with everybody. So to start the mission arc you need to farm up a whole bunch of standings. Rather tedious to say the least.

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Anyway, yesterday I was about to jump into my new 0.0 clone and continue with my mission blitzing when I got stopped by Felix and Lady Thanatos (LT). Apparently LT had found an escalating mission, and wanted to know if anyone would like to join.

Its possible you can get some rather awesome loot from doing it, and they can actually be kinda fun. So I stopped myself from jump cloning and decided to join them on their epic quest for fame and riches. Lee11B also joined us and the chain sent us to a system several jumps away.

The first site was rather easy. We finished it in a couple of minutes, got some crappy/cheap faction loot from one of the rats and then moved on to the next site. That one was also easy and gave us a crappy faction item again, so we moved on.

While we were on the way to our next site, Lee decided it would be a good idea to sit on a gate with a bunch of frigs for a while... and idea which ended up with him getting scrambled, shot and exploderised before we had even got back to the gate to help him.

Being true to the spirit of Python we decided to just continue without him.

We carried on without incident until we reached a site that looked like it could be the final site. At the centre of the site was a small control bunker and we assumed that was where all the loot would be.

"Don't shoot the bunker yet, kill all the rats first!" said LT.

Fine. I shot all the rats in my bomber, melting them pretty easy. Felix was in his arty cane, so we pretty much volleyed everything (Even tho Felix brought the wrong ammo). After all the rats were dead we checked the loot of one of the faction spawns we had killed. Again... crappy item with about a million isk..

But it was OK, the bunker would drop something awesome no doubt.

So, after LT had recovered a little bit of cap he told us to go ahead and shoot the bunker. Felix, opened fire and.... I exploded???

What the fuck!?

I spammed the warp button to get my pod out and checked my screens. Apparently the bunker set off a blast wave which insta popped my ship. Awesome!

So I set of back home, in my pod, and about half way back I received the news that the bunker had dropped nothing. We had ended up with a couple of faction items worth about 15 mil altogether which when split up meant a measly 4 mil each. not even enough to pay for the ship I lost.

PvE sucks.

Break Times!

2010-04-04T00:33:00.001-07:00

Past few weeks I've grown increasingly frustrated with EvE. I like to solo PvP, and in EvE atm, its not exactly the best thing to be doing.

Everything you attack is bait, you basically have to assume your going to be fighting more than one target. Which not only cuts your target selection down considerably, it also means you die a lot. I previously made a post where I mentioned about nano-ing. Well, even that's getting difficult to do now, as people seem to be flying with anti nano ships alot more than before (Rapiers, Curses, Sniper ships and scrambling frigs that don't lose point even if you neut them for a hour)

Then there is the corp activity. Python always seems to go through hot and cold phases, and at the minute it seems were going through a cold phase. A lot of what makes EvE fun is the people you play with, so its one of the main reasons I've decided to take a "semi-break".

I thought about leaving Python and joining a corp where stuff is always happening... but I quickly realised that Python is really the only corp I want to play with. There is no other corp like it, and the people we have gathered pretty much all share the same sick sense of humour and laid back attitude.

There is also the fact I'd have to "start all over" get to know everybody again, and earn every bodies trust.

Hopefully when I get back to my 23/7 playtime schedule again, Python will be in a HOT phase AND my carrier training will be finished/near finished. So I can start skilling up for new fun ships (Like a Crusader.. or a Succubus, I always wanted one of those.. I just need light lasers and Amarr Frig 5!) :D

So by "Semi-break" I mean I'm going to cut my playtime drastically. I will still be playing, but nowhere near as much. I will probably just log on for pre-arranged ops and when I have nothing else to do.

And for the record... I wont be playing WoW!

FIRST!

2010-03-27T06:59:00.000-07:00

A long time ago I told myself and everyone else, they would never catch me in a capital ship. To me they just seemed like a huge, expensive waste of time.. and I said I'd get every BS/BC/Cruiser/Frigate to 5 before I would even consider training for a Carrier.

However due to constant nagging from the Helmet, I did adjust my skill queue and after many months of training I finally undocked in this:

Tada! behold -Unfit Niddy-. named after a memorable Nidhoggur we killed a while ago (that and... its also mostly unfit!)

The strange thing is, as I got closer to be able to fly the thing, I actually got more an more excited about it. Everyday I would announce to everyone I was 1 days closer to being able to fly it. I could tell I was annoying them with it, but I didn't care... I couldn't wait!

I cant actually use the Fighters or any of the remote reps.. but I have already been jumping a lot of my ships from our old home in Egghelende and because of that, its already been quite useful.

Now just another few months of skill training to be able to use it properly :(

Love/Hate. PICK ONE!

2010-03-25T11:37:00.000-07:00

I hate EvE..

..When you get two volleyed by a 2 month old player in a Hurricane, auto piloting to gate with 3 Tech 1 drones.

I love EvE...

...When you get awesome hate mail after killing someone:

Hi Andrea,

Enjoy the expensive loot.

I thought I liked that name when I saw it on the local, sorth of peacefull sound to it.

Here is my post for your enjoyment

*KM LINK*

I dont understand why it took 6 of you to get rid of me, but for someone with no honor, that means nothing right?, is just a bloody game after all.

Please pod kill rather than just going for the loot. Sad. Is that the way they teach you at home?

Is honorable to go home that way. To die..

Thanks,

Followed by

Next time finished what you started. like a good fuck, is never left unfinished.

Killing militia for the fun of it is no honor and worst alone.

Six against me? OVERKILLL You patethic bitch.

I hate EvE..

...When you get podded because your overview closes itself. Due to frantically clicking the GTFO button.

I love EvE..

...When you actually get a really good fight. Even if you get killed in the process.

I hate EvE...

... When your told by a Russian guy to get a bigger ship to kill his Hurricane, so you get your Lachesis, go to the belt. Kick his stupid ass, till he reaches structure... then he warps a Falcon alt/friend in... and then jams you and the Cane warps away.

I love EvE..

... When something you took part in gets mentioned in the news.

I hate EvE..

... When you get scrammed.

I love EvE...

... When you scam somebody for 700 million isk in one go.

I hate EvE...

...When high sec status PvPers sit on a high sec gate, acting all big and bad bragging about how big thier genitals are... and then jump out the moment you attack them.

I love EvE...

... When you get out with 2% structure from a fight where you thought you was toast.

Do I love or hate EvE? I actually don't know!

Ms paint... like a pro!

2010-03-21T11:10:00.000-07:00

So sometimes I make MS paint pics and their never actually meant to be any good, just slightly humorous and for a bit of fun.

So when I saw this pic, I felt it deserved its own post. I did not draw it. It was a guy from our corp who I actually hardly know. Vranz Drooshka

Anyway, you can see what my portrait is supposed to look like in the top right hand side of my blog. Here is this guys pretty awesome attempt at drawing it, using MS paint:

Just wow!

(I particularly love the censored part)

EDIT: I just allowed Anonymous comments on all posts. maybe ill get spammed, but we will see :P

Scram range = dead range

2010-03-21T02:44:00.000-07:00

So here I am, flying 20 jumps back home in my pod. Why is that?

Because I suck.

No I really do. the past few weeks I've been flying nothing but Nano ships. For those not familiar with what a Nano ship is. Its a ship that's fitted for speed and long range damage. You sit outta "scram range" and kill the other guy before you run outta cap (due to MWD usage).

Ive been quite successful "Nano-ing" recently. Ive taken on much larger ships/gangs and actually won, or at least managed to drive them off. But the best thing about Nano-ing is that you can nearly always escape should the proverbial shit hit the fan.

There are situations of course where escape isn't always possible. For example, Rapiers webbing you, Nueted by a Curse, scrammed by a frig while being jammed by a Drake (Yeh, seriously), scrammed by a frig while his Scimatar buddy keeps him alive from 50km away... But most of these situations can be avoided if your smart/cautious.

Unfortunately for me, I'm not very cautious.

A really good example of why fighting in scram range is a really bad idea while soloing just happened to me.

I was out roaming in my Claw. I haven't flown the Claw in a real long time and it was quite refreshing to fly an interceptor again. I roamed pretty far, as it was the early morning, and ended up in a system I used to visit often. Dantumi.

Now in one of the belts I spot a named Thorax. I normally wouldnt engage a Thorax at all, but this guy is ratting... has his name on his ship (which is generally considered to be a bad idea) and after a quick check of his info I see hes only a few months old.

OK free kill.

I warp to the belt. There he is, at zero shooting the rats. I immediately tackle him and begin to fire. The thorax pilot doesn't do much at first..

"Perhaps he thinks I'm a rat?" I thought to myself.

I continue to fire while orbiting as close as I can. The Thorax enters armor... then he decides to lock me. He releases some Valkyrie Is ands send them to attack me. They don't hit me much, I'm small, fast and they cant track me very well.

I'm still pretty confident I can win until the worst possible thing happens. He WEBS and SCRAMS me, and a quick check of my combat log I see hes started firing light blasters at me.

After that, I'm toast. Nothing I can do now. My MWD is shut off, and hes faster than me. I feebly try to get outta of his blaster range. But its way to late. My ship exploded and I'm riding home Pod style.

There was no way I could of known he had those, and in a ship like a Claw there is only one way to find out for certain. That's to get in scram range and hope for the best. that's all well and good, but when you see that 90% of all ships sitting in a belt alone is bait... well you get the idea...

Now there are a few ships that can fight in scram quite successfully while still having a chance of escape if things go bad. Like the duel prop Taranis. But not every ship in EvE has the ability to fit both a MWD/AB with a point at the same time.

What bothers me, is the fact that CCP when they first introduced the scram/web changes (Scrams never used to shut off the MWD, and webs were 90% slowing effect) they said they was because they wanted to give players more of an option when their webbed. They didn't want the players to think "Oh, that's it I'm webbed... no escape now..". The web nerf was a good thing, but paired with the scram buff... I think it's made the "Oh shit, nothing I can do here" scenario even worse.

I suck because I knew this before the Claw/Thorax fight even started.

There is only one way to fly now, While soloing or in a small gang.. and that's Nano. The only solo interceptor worth anything is a Taranis. I wont be flying a scram range fighting ship for a long long time.

Smack my bitch up!

2010-03-11T09:21:00.000-08:00

First off, I've played quite a few online games, and EvE is probably my favourite out of all them. Its the one I play most.

The past few weeks, Ive noticed something while playing EvE.. that is... I smack.

I don't just mean, I smack sometimes... I smack at every opportunity. I get a kill, I smack. I die, I smack. I wait for some dudes docked up in the station to come out and play... guess what? I smack.

Some people might not know what smack is.. (in other games people dont call it smack) So heres an example:

(Read this thread to understand what we are on about)

[18:00:57] A1eksandr > х
[18:01:10] DAX ZAIR >
[18:12:56] Andrea Skye > Okay so i read these forums alot and it never cesses to amaze me that so many so called 'pirates' think there bad ass PVP experts becuase they can put 10 ships on a gate and pop anything that comes through
[18:13:09] Lars Lodar > lol
[18:13:16] Battle Dog > wow you can copy and paste arnt you clever
[18:13:21] Lars Lodar > rubber neck thread is da best thread
[18:13:50] DAX ZAIR > forum freak
[18:13:55] Andrea Skye > Proper PVP experience comes from finding and catching your targets and manipulating situations so you have the advantage before the first shots are even fired.
[18:14:01] Andrea Skye > yeh
[18:14:17] Andrea Skye > what about when target TELL you where they are, and you still pussy out anyway
[18:14:19] Andrea Skye > is that pvp?
[18:14:29] Lars Lodar >
[18:14:39] Battle Dog > lol you dont even have a fucking clue
[18:14:44] Lars Lodar > was was the KB efficiency again skye?
[18:14:52] Lars Lodar > like 2%?
[18:14:54] Andrea Skye > pretty sure i have more kills than your entire alliance actualy
[18:15:44] Andrea Skye > as i said before thier about as effieceint as a chocolate teapot
[18:15:47] Codi > shit, where did these nublets come from, i thought we already flushed the toilet?
[18:15:53] Andrea Skye > and by effieceint i mean, fucking useless
[18:16:10] Lars Lodar > I think I was their only kill against us
[18:16:18] Lars Lodar > and the gate gun got me in a kitsune
[18:16:20] Andrea Skye > dammit lars!
[18:16:21] Lars Lodar >
[18:16:26] Lars Lodar > I'm sorry baby
[18:16:30] Lars Lodar > I'll be good next time
[18:16:56] Andrea Skye > your a bad bad boy
[18:17:44] Lars Lodar > please don't spank me again

Now this is weird for me because in every online game I've ever played I've always been polite and a good sport. If I lost I'd tell them well played and if I won I'd be very modest and wish them better luck next time.

It wasn't always like this in EvE either. I used to be polite here too. I used to exchange "gf"'s and frown upon the people who talk crap in local.

Ever since I've joined this new version of Python its got progressively worse. I don't really know what has caused it... maybe it was hanging around with Spectre3353 to much (he smacks worse than I do, believe it or not) or maybe it was because of the way Python just honestly doesn't care about anything but having fun... or maybe I'm just a huge jerk.

Hell, maybe its a combination of all of those!

I don't know.

But what I do know... SMACK IS FUN..

Do you smack? I'd like to get other peoples thoughts on this..

Lost in a strange world.

2010-02-05T14:50:00.000-08:00

"only 2 more badges for my trinket" I thought to myself. I had spent weeks saving up enough Frost emblems to have enough to buy it. One more herioc and it was mine. Finally.. it would be mine!

****

"SKYE WAKE UP!"

What? Who was Skye?

"SKYE! THERES A FUCKING CARRIER IN A BELT!"

I quickly woke up. The hell? What a strange dream. I was someone called Tiffan and I was something called a Deathknight. What the balls is a deathknight?

I Got out my bunk and gathered my senses. Did someone mention a carrier in a belt?

I went down to the cockpit of my Cynabal and it all started to come back. I remember now. I was in a Python gang and we was out roaming. I must have fallen asleep while waiting out GCC. Hmm.

"So wheres this carrier again?" I asked

"According to Hellcats comms, its in Okkamon" Said Crayons.

That's only two jumps away! before I had even voiced my opinion that we should get in there and rip him a new one, Helmet had already given the order to get our asses there. Reckless... but I didn't care. If it went bad then I would be relatively safe in my Cynabal. Everyone else would die and I would just Nano away to safety.

I quickly got my self to Okkamon and was ordered to just go straight to the belt. No scouting to see what was going on? No, of course not... this was Golden Helmet in charge.. who gives a balls about Intel?

While we were in warp I noticed Helicity in the Hellcats comms channel. Bargaining a temporary truce with the guys who had the Carrier tackled. I hope to god they accepted, I was about to land and I had no idea what to expect when I did.

As I landed I quickly took note of the situation. A bunch of Guristas associates had the Carrier tackled with a bunch of BCs and cruisers. They had killed a bunch of drones and there was a wreck belonging to a Drake in the belt. They had it by the balls, but they couldn't quite break his tank.

My gang landed next to me, and I decided to play it a little cautious. Pirates were Pirates after all. The Guristas could well just shoot us and get themselves a couple of kill mails + a carrier kill and keep all the loot.

I set my orbit to 20km and activated my guns, carefully watching every TGA ship in the belt. If I got locked I was ready...

Some time passed. TGA hadn't shot any of us yet. The carrier was dipping into armor. I decided to just risk it and get in close. I set my ship to approach and loaded up my most damaging (but also worst ranged) Fusion ammo.

The damage difference was quite noticeable and a couple of minutes later the Carrier exploded and local erupted with my fellow Pythons war cries...

"PENIS!"

"PENIS!!!"

"penis"

"P3N15!"

Ah yes. Penis.

I quickly got my ship outta range and docked up. Just in case TGA did anything funny. They hadn't shot us so far.. but like I said earlier.. they were pirates.. just like me... and they were capable of anything.. just like me.

I went back to my bunk and drifted back off to sleep.

****

Halls of Reflection Heroic! Woot! Maybe I'll get my Amulet! Woohoo!

(PS: What a terrible fit carrier)

What? Dramiel is evolving!

2010-01-03T12:42:00.000-08:00

Congratulations! Your DRAMIEL evoloved into a

Cynabal!

WOW! I wonder what abilities it learnt? now it evolved? I quickly opened up the skills tab and checked for myself:

- FACESMACK - A high damage ability that smacks the face of your oponents. Only the strongest Pokemons can hope to survive such an onslaught.

- GTFO - The Cynabal attempts to flee from harms way, burning away from her oponents with speed they cannot hope to match

- TAUNT - The Cynabal taunts all nearby enemies to attack the shiney fraction ship sitting in the top belt.

- STOP RIGHT THERE LITTLE BUDDY - The Cynabal applies her webs, nuets, flight of Warrior IIs and completely stops any and all scrambling ships in thier tracks. Also makes the next FACESMACK super effective!

What the hell! Dr. Oak told me I should press B whenever my Dramiel started to evolve.

To late now I guess. Ill just have to find somewhere to catch a new Dramiel, and next time I will definatly press B.

P.S I heard a rumour that if you use a Moonstone on the Cynabal, it turns into something called a Macherial. C/D??

...And a happy new year!

2009-12-31T14:09:00.000-08:00

Happy new year guys!

(Post inc in a day or two, detailing my new favourite ship. What could it be?)

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-24T20:42:00.000-08:00

I dont really get into the Christmas thing, but I know alot of people do.

So Merry Christmas all!

(I'll keep it short, like I said, I dont get into it much :P)

Secrets out!

2009-12-18T16:41:00.000-08:00

Its now been a few weeks since the dominion expansion and we have seen a wide variety of changes. And every change I've came across so far has been "bloody marvellous".

The most marvellous of all has been the changes to the faction ships. One of these faction ships caught my eye within the first day or two, and that ship is the Dramiel.

On paper it doesn't look like much, couple of Ac's, and a shield tank. Looks just like the old Republic Fleet Firetail. Didn't look very special at all...

...Until I started to play with it in EFT. More out of boredom than anything and I started to notice how much potential it could have. It had near uncatchable speed, half decent dps, drones, a falloff bonus, and the ability to fit a large shield buffer. After about 20 mins of EFT warrior-ing I came up with this:

[Dramiel, New Setup 1]
Overdrive Injector System II
Overdrive Injector System II
Tracking Enhancer II

Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
Gistii B-Type 1MN MicroWarpdrive
Shadow Serpentis Warp Disruptor
Cap Recharger II

200mm AutoCannon II, Barrage S
200mm AutoCannon II, Barrage S
[empty high slot]

Small Projectile Ambit Extension I
Small Projectile Ambit Extension I
Small Ancillary Current Router I

Warrior II x3
Warrior II x1

6950 m/s with snakes NOT overheated. Its insane. Overheat and you break 10k/ms.

"Yeah so what its fast" you say.

Well that's not all it is. Its got 20km falloff with small Ac's, a decent buffer should you screw up, and a better scan res than most interceptors. And on top of all that, its cap stable.

EFT it looked good. I couldn't wait to test it out in game, so I sent off my hauler to Jita to buy one and a bunch of snakes to go with it. Overall it cost me about 250 mil to buy the snakes and the ship. (I didn't buy the faction point at first)

At first I regretted spending so much on a frigate, but the moment I undocked I knew I had got my moneys worth. Holy shit! This thing was fast. It was so ridiculously agile. It literally went to top speed in about 3 seconds.

Since then I've spent most of my Eve time flying one and its already got itself 49 kills. Being the sharing type I quickly let my whole corp know about how awesome the Dramiel was. Most dismissed what I had to say at first. But soon Felix brought one, and we went on a long roam which resulted in the killing of several ships and gangs. One gang in particular consisted of a Blackbird, Thorax, Hurricane, Kestrel, Myrm, Hyena and a Harbinger. And after a long fight we either killed or chased them off with just two Dramiels. (We did have a Taranis with us, but it died within the first few seconds. Sorry Siskin!)

After that, Jaxx got one, then Spec, then pretty much the rest of the corp. Nearly everyone agreed just how awesome it was. It was everything you could expect from a ship.

We soon started flying around gangs 4-5 of these and there was nothing they couldn't handle. nothing could catch us, we just slowly wore our targets down and they either had to flee or die.

We decided to keep the details of the Dramiel and its awesomeness secret from outside of the corp. But as we started to lose a few, and kill alot of ships in gangs consisting of only drameils. The secret started to get out. Already our area is completely overrun by Drameils, there's one on scan in nearly every nearby system. And this particular killmail made me post this.

So here I am. Laying claim to the idea of Dramiel gangs. Python/Space jerks thought of it first! And the rest of you are just unoriginal twats!

Only joking of course :)

Buy one, try it out. Have a blast, send me isk as thanks!

Still Alive!

2009-12-06T11:15:00.000-08:00

Recently the Python Cartel has moved to Yvangier. Its a small system near Old Man Star and its kind of link a quiet corner of a very hectic region.

We share the system with another pirate alliance called The Blood Money Cartel (refered to from now on as BMC). Now our esteemed CEO Spectre3353 told us to be nice to BMC, "We have to live right next to each other, we might need thier help sometime!" he would say...

I can be nice. When I want to be.

But after a few days it became clear that BMC didnt want to share thier little corner of the universe, and started to become downright hostile. They convod our CEO and after finally getting to the point, they less than politely asked us to leave. Jerks! (you can read the chat log on Spectres blog here)

We at the Python Cartel didnt take kindly to this, and what started our as a little bit of smack in local has blown into a full blown war. We fight at every oppurtinity and thiers no quater given. They bring Falcons, Logistics and other ECM boats. We undock our carriers and sniper BS's and each fight usualy ends up in a stalemate.

Yesterday was a good example of how we have decided to fight these chumps. We sat outside thier station at the undock with a couple of carriers, a BS or two, and several other different types of ships, camping them inside the station. I myself was in my Tempest Fleet Issue, which has been redisgined and is actualy now a really good ship. Able to fit an armor tank, and have enough slots left over for alot of DPS and nuets.

Anything undocking either died or docked back up immediatly. Only the fastest most agile ships were able to get away and a even those sometimes died horribly.

We kept this up for a few hours and even tho it felt lame, it also felt good to be showing BMC who's boss.

We had no intention of letting up untill an Invicta Hyperion appeared on local scanner, and a few moments later it arrived at the station we were camping.

Now we were very cautious around Invicta. They had a habit of fitting a cyno onto a bait ship and waiting for a carrier to agress them. Then they would light the cyno and jump in 8 or so Dreadnoughts and a couple of carriers.... then kill the carrier before it could deagress and dock backup. Just like what happened to our friend here.

The Hyperion pilot docked up his ship, and then undocked in a pod and left system. And for a moment we thought they were gone. But one of our carrier pilots noticed a suspicious pilot in local and a quick check of his records showed that he was a cloaky-Pilgrim-cyno-pilot who hangs around with Invicta.

We assumed he was watching us and we assumed as soon as one of our Carrier aggressed we would see the Pilgrim uncloak, drop a cyno and unleash a whole world of pain.

So we all agreed that our Carrier pilots wouldnt agress. They would just rep and see what happens.

And nothing did happen for a small while. Untill 2 BMC typhoons undocked and agressed us. What were they thinking? We had like 4 Carriers and had no chance of killing anyone of us. So we soon realised something else was at play here.

Our BS's shot at the Typhoons and we managed to kill one before the other one deagressed. looking at the killmail we saw that the Typhoon had been fit for pure tank and now we knew what they were trying to do.

They were working with Invicta. They wanted our carriers to agress. And they wanted to cyno in the Dreads.

We carried on camping for a small while, untill the second Typhoon undocked again and immediatly started shooting at my Tempest. Our BS's retaliated and the moment we did Mr cloaky-pilgrim-pilot uncloaked. Popped a cyno and to our suprise and shock.... 8 Dreadnoughts and 2 Carriers appeared.

We all immediatly deagressed and it seemed they were all gunning for me. 8 siege mode dreads, 2 carriers and a BS all shooting at my Tempest. I quickly assesed the situation and began to move my ship very slowly. I was being webbed about 5 times, but the 15m/s seemed to help a little. the Dreads couldnt track me very well while I was moving, and my corp mates in thier Carriers bust thier nuts to try keep me alive with reps.

Spamming the dock button I wasnt sure if Id make it. When I hit structure I was so sure it was over. But a few moments after I managed to dock up intact. The Carriers followed me, and all that was left was 8 Invicta Dreadnoughts, looking stupid outside the station, waiting out thier siege modes.

I experessed my love for our Carrier pilots and wondered how the hell I had managed to survive a hotdrop like that. I was STILL ALIVE somhow and I thought of the perfect song for our Invicta buddies:

[ 2009.12.06 02:54:02 ] Andrea Skye > hey invicta
[ 2009.12.06 02:54:04 ] Andrea Skye > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI

This song also has special meaning to us Pythons as its one of our corp anthems. The other being: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hi6yfgOclw

Filling your boots.

2009-11-22T00:02:00.000-08:00

The past few weeks Ive been watching our Killboard with some sadness. Activity of late in our corp has gone down considerabilty. Mostly because of a bunch of new games that have come out, and partly because a huge alliance has moved into our home system of Egghelende.

The corp had grown fat. Egghelende gave us all the kills we could wish for without ever having to jump through a stargate. Now were competing for kills tho, alot of people dont seem to be intrested in searching for greenier pastures, and as such our killboard has been very bare.

My own activity has dwindled too, mostly because I've been playing WoW a little and Dragon Age: Origins. But today I felt the urge to play EvE.

Looking through my now overcrowded and slightly dusty hangar, and found myself stuck for choice when it came to ships. I remember when I didnt have a choice when it came to ships. It was Merlin or Ibis, because i simply couldnt afford anything else. How times have changed.

Figuiring I'd be a little rusty, I picked something cheap and expendable, which just happened to be my Stabber. Little Polly as I called her. She had served me well in the past. So I jumped in and undocked and prepared for an epic adventure.

Checking scanner, I noticed the a large number of pilots from the alliance I mentioned ealier. Thier called Dead Terrorists (DT), and what they lack in skill and tactics, they make up for in huge numbers.

Seeing hunting here would be difficult I pointed my ship towards Amamake and set off, arriving a few gate jumps later. I recalibrated my scanner and checked out the many asteroid belts that dot Amamake.

There was alot of ships about. And I assumed that nearly all of them were faction warfare. (as thats usualy the case now). But I continued scanning to find a lone Claw towards a belt. Now I am always wary of engaging scambling frigate ina nano ships, as all they have to do is get under you guns and your a sitting duck.

But, today I was trying a new load out for Little polly and it included 2x Small Energy nuets. If I did get scrambled and couldnt hit him, I could just nuet him and escape right?

Loading up my Guns With EMP I warped straight to the belt. The claw was only 20km off and I locked and activated my warp disruptor just in time to stop him warping away. I hit my MWd and approached him, figuiring he would try to flee. And flee he did, 20km, 25 km, 28km dammit almost outa point range... I overloaded my MWD for that extra burst of speed and noticed I was going nearly as fast the Claw but I still couldnt quite keep up with him. About to give up, I watched in slight amazement as the claw did a 180 and sped straight towards me. Moments later I was scrambled, and he was under my guns. I couldnt hit him and I watched as he started to make slow progress on my shield.

Ok this was it, time to see if those nuets really work . Activating both my nuets the effect was almost instant. The ship almost completely slowed down and I was no longer scrambled. I pulsed my MWD to gain abit of distance and lower transversal, and the Claw ate several facefulls of EMP. He couldnt stand up to the destructive power of the autocannons and exploded shortly after.

'I guess this fit works then' I thought to myself.

As I was checking the wreck, a Rifter landed in the belt only a couple of KM off. I was at about half sheild but i figuired I'd stick around anyways. I can beat a claw, why not a Rifter? as I tackled him, I also got scrambled. I activated my nuets just like before and again he stopped dead in the water, only to be torn to shreds by several rounds of EMP.

Another Rifter warped in. This time I figuired I'd stay outa scram range as I was low on capicator. The pilot was very new and his ship didn't pose much of a challenge. He didnt even get a shot off before his ship exploded.

I quickly looted the wrecks and warped away to the saftey of the station. What a rush! Even tho I had only killed 3 frigates, to me it seemed so intense. I hadnt felt this feeling for a long time, and it seemed I wasnt so rusty afterall.

Destination: Amamake 3-1

Probably the most infamous belt in all of EvE. Your almost as likely to get killed as to get a kill there. And tonight Me and Spectre decided that we needed to fill up or killboard due to the recent inactivity. We had to prove to everybody that kills could still be found, if your willing to go a little bit further than a few AU of the undock of our home station.

We were joined by Kobrakilla, who is a friend of ours from Space Jerks. I was in a Typhoon, Spec in a Megathron, and Kobra was in a sniper Mealstrom.

Following some intel from a source of ours, we found that there was a rather large gang, baiting in 3-1 Amamake.

It would almost certianly be scuicide, but we didnt care. We fitted ECCMs and simply hoped for the best. Warped straight to the belt we landed right in the middle of a gang about 20 in number. They were fighting a smaller group but we didnt care. We picked out the biggest ships and started calling primaries. The fight was pretty intense, and I wont detail every explosion. But in the end we killed 9 of them and they killed 2 of us.

Not bad considering we were vastly outnumbered. and it was a helluvalot of fun.

Dead Terrorists - bad at this game.

Heading home in our capsules, still feeling the adreniline of such a good fight. Spectre informed me that Dead Terrrists were camping the high sec gate in our system. Hardly a suprise, but aparently they only had a smallish gang consisting of a Vagabond, Sliepner, Eagle and a Hyperion. Only me and Spec were available at the time, but we couldnt let this opportunity pass. We had to get at least one of them and so we constructed a plan.

Spec would get an assoiciate of his to watch the gate they were camping while cloaked. Once they went after a target, and thus getting sentries we would make our move. We moved our ships to a safe spot way outa scan range from DT, and we waited a little while for an unsuspecting civilian to jump into Egg.

Sure enough, the Jel gate didnt dissappoint, and soon Spectre was reporting that DT had engaged a Scorpian on the Jel gate. I warped my Raven straight to the gate, and spec followed in his Curse. As we landed we watched to our dismay as all thier ships warped off the gate back to thier safe spot.

That is, all except one of them. I noticed the hyperion head straight to another gate, and I quickly aligned my ship after him. Spec did the same and soon he was teeling me he had a point. I landed a few KM off and locked him. I hadnt really tested This Raven much, and I overheated all my launchers in an attempt to get the Hyperion down as quick as possible before his friends would arrive.

And did he go down. The Torpedos completely annihilated his sheild, and soon his armor. He was in structure when his Sliepner buddy landed, I told spec to drop point ont he Hyperion and to get a point on the Sliepner.

A volley or two later and the Hyperion went up in smoke and I turned my Torps and nuets toward the Sliepner. His sheilds were tough, and my Torpedo explosions were way to big and dumb to do full damage against him. But with the combined nueting power of our ships, his sheild did start to fail.

Watching him slowly dip into armor we were shocked to see a hostile Loki uncloak near us. We figuired we could take that too, but he warped off almost immediatly. A little saddened I turned my attention back to the Sliepner.

Bleeding into structure, we were suprised to see a Megathron Navy issue appear on scan, and then on the gate. Debating wether or not to engage it, a few moments later a hostile falcon uncloaked.

Lameass falcons... This wasnt a fight anymore, it was time to bail. I overloaded my nuets in an attempt to get the Sliepner to stop neuting me. I aligned my ship and it paid off, capped out the Sliepner lost point and I managed to get out. ME and Spec both cursed, the Sliepner was in structure and a few more seconds he would of been toast.

But our anger soon turned to joy as we recieved some intel informing us that the Sliepner had indead been destroyed by another gang just a few second later. The Mega Navy Issue and falcons gang apparently.

Today, me and Spectre filled up our KB (with the help of Kobra) in just a few hours. Proving that just because your home system is overun, doesnt mean you cant find kills elsewhere. And if you cant find them elsewhere... you can always kick DT in the nuts instead.

Karma

2009-10-27T11:26:00.000-07:00

What goes around...

Ive always frowned on scamming in any game I play. I always thought I was a lame way to make money and was kinda like cheating. But after hearing of how a couple of my corpies make billions of isk in only a few hours... and staring at my ever shrinking wallet... I decided to get rid of my last shred of decency and take up scamming.

Off I went in my hauler to a nearby trade hub, and I began to use a scamming technique that we all learnt from Lanisum. It was a slow start, most people see a scam right away, and even try to scam you back. After about the 20th convo, and about to give up.. I received a mail saying that he would take all three of my "Fleet Stabbers" off my hands for a reasonable price. After abit of Bartering he brought them for 210 mil for all three.

Except of course they wasn't actually Fleet Stabbers. They were just normal stabbers with a different name. He even thanked me afterwards for giving him a great deal. He probably still flying around in them right now, still not realising they aren't the real thing.

With my first successful scam, I began to get a feel for it. Don't act to pushy, act normal and most of all LIE LIE LIE.

A couple of hours later I was sitting upon 1.3 billion isk and instead of moping in the station wondering where my next meal was going to come from.. now I was looking through every contract throughout EvE looking to splash out on a shiny faction BS.

...comes around

In the end I brought Macherial.. from a friend from Space Jerks (our blue friends in Egg)

I'd always wanted one. Back in the days when I got in my first Rifter I had always dreamed of flying one. In my opinion it is the Sexiest ship in all of EvE bar none.

Scrapping together my modules I managed to fit the Macherial pretty decently with even a couple of faction mods. I sat for a moment spinning it in the station, admiring its beauty from every angle. But this wouldn't do... I needed BLOOD! I needed to get my first killmail with it.

Undocking, I sat outside for a few minutes, and sure enough, a few moments later a Iteron Hauler appeared and docked at our station.

"Haha sucker" I thought "wait till you undock..."

So I waited..

And waited..

And waited some more.

After about 20 minutes of waiting and slowly growing bored of it. I was kinda surprised to see a pilgrim uncloak about 30km off.

I was sitting next to a fellow corpie, Brick0joe (we call him Felix) who was in an Abaddon. Watching Felix start to attack the pilgrim I decided to do the same. As were attacking it, I notice a message in our Intel channel for a different corpie telling me to be careful about agressing the pilgrim. Apparently he well known for bringing huge amounts of ships to kill greatly outnumbered foes.

Looking at local, and seeing it was nearly empty I continued to fire.

" What can he possibly bring thats quick enough to kill me? Id see them enter local and then just deagress and safetly dock up"

The pilgrim was burning towards us quite slowly and was about to go into structure when he suddenly opened a Cyno, and a few seconds later a Huge blob of battle ships and carriers arrive.

Jump bridge. Doh

Deagressing and recalling my drones as quick as I could I started to spam the docking authorities for permission to dock.

DOCKING REQUEST DENIED!

DOCKING REQUEST DENIED!

DOCKING REQUEST DENIED!

About to enter structure, I checked my aggression timer to see I still had about 15 seconds before I could dock. I gave up and watched as my structure melted away and my brand new Macherial exploded into a thousand pieces.

Dammit.

I had had the ship for about 30 minutes and the worst thing is, I never even got a killmail. Karma is indeed a bitch.

Whats this? A post?!

2009-09-27T22:33:00.000-07:00

Why hello there my fellow compatriots. This is indeed a post and it is indeed on my blog.

As you may know I went away to play WoW, but here I am, back again... playing EvE. It was "inevitable" after all. So without further ado, here's a little story about what happened just a couple of hours ago.

NBSI

NBSI. Or for those not familiar with the EvE acronyms, it means Not Blue Shoot It. Which in our corp (the glorious The Python Cartel) it means you can shoot pretty much anything, because we have very very few blues, which means we have very few friends outside of the corp. Some might say were like the North Korea of EvE.

A few days ago, a pilot of ours, Apoctasy, decided to leave the corp for reasons of his own. This is fine by me, if your not having fun, or wanna try something different then more power to you. Apoctasy is a really cool guy and Ive flown with him alot of times. We killed loads of things together and had alot of fun.

Anyway today we were gathering the guys together to start a gate camp in our local system. Everyone else undocked and warped to the gate ahead of me, as I had to refit my ship. That ship happened to be my beloved Tempest, and since I've recently just gained the skilled to use T2 large artillery... well that means Ive stuck T2 Large artillery on pretty much every ship that can fit them.

So lagging behind the others, I finally get the permission to undock. As I begin to align to the gate I notice a hauler undocking too.

"Great, a chance to test my 1400mm's again"

As I start spamming the lock tab on my console, I notice the name of the pilot... Shaka Laka... an alt of Apoctasy, which he uses to move his ships around. Obviously he was moving his gear to his new home.

Now I'm faced with a tricky dilemma. On one hand its a free target, He isn't blue, and he probably has a ton of cash in there. On the other, if I do kill him, he will probably never talk to me again. It only took me a few seconds to make the decision however, and it resulted in this.

I called out on our comms channel for somebody to grab the loot for me. As my ship was rather quite fragile with this setup, having no tank whatsoever. Spectre3353 answered my call and quickly scooped anything of value from the wreck just before Apoctasy could try to salvage anything from it, in his nice shiny Reaper.

The Hauler was worth over 200million isk and I didn't feel even the slightest bit bad until Apoctasy came onto our comms channel and asked why the hell I blew up his hauler. I didn't quite know how to respond and I just mumbled something about him being a "free target". Soon after that Apoctasy's friend, Twicedasize, came onto the comms and also voiced his opinion. Apparently I was a jerk for blowing him up. Twicedasize is in our corp at the moment, and Ive also flown with him alot of times.

Am I really a Jerk? Or was it just a fair game. What would you have done?

Given the same choice again.. I don't think I'd have done what I did...

This time I'd have podded him too.

A little something sweeter..

2009-06-07T19:06:00.000-07:00

So I've decided to take a break from EvE, which means this blog won't be updated until I decide to return.. I've fell in love with a game I used to play a while ago again, and it doesnt leave much time to play eve, apart from making changes to the skill queue.

In case your wondering the game is... well... I'm pretty sure you already know.. its World of Warcraft.

I'll be back someday, once I get bored of WoW again, which I almost certianly will.

Cu guys around o7.

If you cant beat 'em, join 'em...

2009-05-26T03:11:00.000-07:00

For a long time I've lied to myself. For a long time I've been flying Crows, Claws, Stilettos pretending they were great interceptors. But now the charade is up.

About a week ago my skill training finished for the legendary Taranis. Ive always said it had nothing on the other Inties I could fly. Many a time I've had Spectre laugh at me, trying to get me to see what I'm missing out on.

Ever since I've been able to fly it, I haven't flown much else, and my conclusion is....

ITS THE GREATEST SHIP IN THE GAME. EVER. PERIOD.

What makes it so great you say?

Amazing dps for a frig, fast, full tackle, tanks well for a Inty, and it completely WRECKS any other interceptor. The only downside it has, is that it looks like the elephant man.

51 kills in it so far and yet to lose one.

So, if you like interceptors, and you cant fly a Taranis... my advice is...

... Train Galentee Frigate V... RIGHT NOW!

Clusterfuck

2009-05-14T05:02:00.000-07:00

Clusterfuck.

I try to use good English on my blog, and rarely use any swear words. But today's title is the word that describes today's post most accurately.

There are several pirate corps in our area. They shoot us, we shoot them, its just one big, happy, free-for-all. But sometimes, when the situation sees fit, we pull together and point our guns at a common goal instead of each other.

It all started when we were sitting in a safe spot waiting out our timers, after we had just killed watched some guys Drake self destruct. Self destruct? yeah. You heard right. Golden helmet had the bright idea to make him eject from his ship, but we all failed to see the message were it said the Drake pilot had initiated self destruct.

So we were sitting there, praising GH about his wonderful ideas when a call came over the comms. It was Diva PRM from Quantar Swords.

"What the hell do they want?" I thought. "Their not usually the chatty type"

Accepting the call, I soon learned that Quantars had a Sandstorm. Archon tackled outside their home station. And Quantars wanted our help to kill it.

We don't get on well with Quantars, but I do have alot of respect for them. talking to Diva we made a temporary truce not to shoot each other if we came to help kill the Carrier.

I docked up my ship and quickly boarded and undocked my Tempest, then set a course for Propel Dynamics factory. Which is where the Carrier was said to be tackled.

Exiting warp I saw I wasn't alone. There was already 10+ ships shooting each other and it seemed that the Sandstorm. Archon had got some backup too. I watched to see which ship our temporary friends were shooting, and focused my fire on it. Which just happened to be the Archon.

A little while went by, and not much changed. We were shooting, they were shooting, but none of us were able to down anything due to the carrier repping capability. I thought about just deagressing, when a bunch of red entered system. Checking their info I saw they belonged to Bamboule, Carebear Stare, and Dirty Filthy Perverts. They landed outside the station with a couple of BS's and I assumed they were here to help us kill the Carrier as they didn't agress any of us at first. They opened up a cyno and they brought in a Carrier or two of their own. Still, they didnt shoot us.

So assuming the newly arrived pirates were just here to help, I continued to fire on the Carrier, just as it seemed the Archons tank was starting fail, I noticed one of the Bamboule guys lock me and open fire.

Maybe a mistake?

He fired again, totally destroying my shield. I saw several other Bambo, DFP, and CBS pilots lock me and I knew I was toast. Id had been called primary and their was nothing I could do about it. I overloaded my hardeners and armor repairers in a feeble attempt to maybe hold out long enough to deagress and dock, but it was hopeless. A few moments later my Tempest exploded and I was warping back to my home station in my pod.

Quantar, realising the newly arrived pirate gang wasnt here to help kill the carrier after all, started to deagress, then dock their ships up and it seemed the fight was over.

Looking back at the battle, I think I know why BAMBO, DFP, CBS, didnt shoot us at first. And that's because they also assumed we were on their side. They thought we were helping them to kill Quantar. As soon as they realised we were shooting their new friends, they turned their guns on us. Turning the battle into a clusterfuck.

So there we have it. The problem with being pirates is you can never be sure who's actually on your side and who isn't. I think from now on its better to not assume anything and if a bunch of reds turn up in local, its safe to assume they didn't come to help you out after all.

Frigates, Frigates, everywhere...

2009-05-10T14:01:00.000-07:00

Frigates

Quite recently in Aurohunen, a large corp has moved into the nearby low sec and they spend alot of their time roaming in huge 15-20 man blobs full of... T1 fitted frigates.

One frigate alone isn't much to worry about but when you see a huge 20 man blob that can dish out 2000 dps and the only way to hit them is with your drones, well that's when you start to worry.

So anyway, today me, Spectre and Felix decided we would fly around in our nanod out cruisers and maybe get to kill something before we all docked up for the night and went to bed. Space was pretty empty until we saw 19 reds enter local and checking their info we realised it was the frigate gang.

We figured we could definitely take them being nanod, and most of the pilots in the blob were only a few days old, which means most of them wouldn't of learnt to use Microwarp drives just yet.

After seeing them jump into Dantumi, which is right next door to Aurohunen. we decided to give chase. Aligning to Dantumi we were interrupted by Spectre:

"Ah Crap, just gota sort something, back in a mo"

Being good corp mates, me and Felix decided to leave Spectre alone in space and go hunt the frigate gang ourselves. We both jumped into Dantumi and saw the gang towards a planet. We immediately warped and landed a few kilometers of them all. We activated our microwarp drives and got out of their web and scram range, then released our drones and hoped for the best.

We were soon joined by a couple of Monsters (a corp in our alliance) and all the frigates started dropping very fast. 11 or so frigate explosions later the rest of the frig gang decided to cut their losses and run leaving just a couple of capsules lying around space, which were quickly podded and their corpses collected. (Don't ask why we collect corpses, its best you don't know).

It was while sifting through the wrecks trying to find something useful to take home and maybe sell when Spectres voice crackled over the comms:

"OK back, what I miss?"

Well where do I start?

Sleight of Hand

Sleight of hand is a term magicians use when performing magic. Its about turning the audiences eyes away from the "magic" part of trick with some kind of distraction. And today, that same corp you just read so much about tried to do something similar.

It wasn't long after the previous battle when their leader decided to offer a challenge in the local channel of Dantumi.

"Anyone want a 19v1 fight?"

19 vs 1? that's hardly fair. But it got my interest nevertheless. Opening a private conversation with the guy, I asked what kind of ships we were talking about. Apparently if I accepted the 19v1 challenge I could fly whatever I like, "even a dread" and the opposing gang would only fly frigates.

My thoughts wondered to my tempest floating in my hangar and the huge stack of smart bombs I had just brought from Jita. If this was for real it would be awesome.

We continued our conversation discussing details about the fight and any rules we would have to follow. We agreed to fight at a planet and my friends could watch from a distance if they liked. Everything seemed fine until I started to get a little suspicious of the time they were taking to form up. Apparently they were forming up in Korama and were nearly ready. But again, they were taking a long time about about it and it seemed as tho they were stalling us or something.

Maybe they gota buy new ships or something right?

Wrong.

Ossa is a dead end high sec system next to Dantumi, and its like the Frigate corps second home. they go in and out of there alot and imagine our surprise when one of the alliance scouts, sitting on the Dantumi gate in Ossa, cloaked, told us that there was a FREIGHTER from their corp about to jump into Dantumi.

Auro local began to fill up a little and it seemed the frigate gang was coming after all. But they wasn't coming to fight me, they were coming to escort their freighter through low sec.

Smart, keep us distracted with the prospect of smart bombing 20 or so Frigs and their pods while at same time bring their billion isk freighter through low sec right under our noses.

We played along and watched their freighter jump in and warp to Aurohunen. Some of our gang were already on the gate and as soon as the freighter jumped in Spectre got a point and called for backup.

I was still in my smart bomb Tempest, which isn't exactly the best thing for killing a freighter, but i warped to the gate anyways and as I saw a few of the Frigate gang land trying to protect their freighter from our rather weak gang.

I had landed next to the gate and for those not familiar with the use of smart bombs you cant activate them within 5 k of a gate. So I slowly headed towards the freighter who was about 10km of the gate now. And hoped that I could maybe get out of the gates range quick enough to get a few frigs.

I was scrammed and webbed and only able to go about 50ms, but I eventually made it out of the gates range and activated my full rack of smart bombs destroying a couple of their frigs, a few pods and even one of my own alliance mates (Sorry Dextor!). The remaining frigates bailed and accepted thier freighters fate, which was destroyed shortly after. Unlucky for us it was empty and it refused to pay us a decent ransom.

So the Moral of today's story is:

1. Don't go AFK, even for a few minutes. Or like spectre, you could miss a huge fight.

2. Even carebears are capable of being smart.

One rule to pod them all!

2009-05-07T19:28:00.000-07:00

Now when it comes to podding. I don't hesitate, honestly, its the squish that does it for me. There is nothing quite like it. And I know some of you will say that I'm just a homicidal maniac (and your right, I am), but usually the person I pod generally deserves it.

My corp members are all united on this philosophy. Podding someone is like a perk of the job. Today however, after an extra long, and mostly uneventful roam to Old Man Star, our points of view clashed on this.

We arrived in Old Man Star and were disappointed to see that there was absolutely nothing to kill. The whole roam had been relatively boring and all we killed was some idiot in a drake, and then we killed his totally unfitted cormorant afterwards. ANYWAY! Old Man Star. After arriving and seeing that there was nothing to plunder. We decided to head towards Hevrice where a notorious pirate corporation hangs out, called The Tuskers.

So off to Hevrice we headed and when we arrived once again we were disappointed to see that there was nothing in scan in the entire system. Disappointment soon turned to joy however when just as we were about to leave a Tusker Vexor appeared on scan towards the station. Eagerly turning my Belicose (my new favourite ship BTW, but more about that later) I landed on the station and started firing my missiles at it. Little did the Vexor know my gang were waiting next door. And I almost cheered when I saw the vexor agress and the CEO of the Tuskers, Ka Jolo, undock in a Myrmidon. Signalling my corp mates to jump in I kept myself out of web range and dodging Ogre II drones, while the whole time trying to keep a point on the Myrmidon.

The two Tusker pilots must have saw the local channel raise, and they both immediately deaggressed. By the time my gang had landed the Vexor was well into cancelling his aggression timer and a few seconds later he docked. The Myrm who was out of dock range had also managed to warp out. Nothing seemed to be going right today.

We sat on the station a while and contemplated what to do. The Myrm was still out there somewhere but we assumed he was a safe. We were all scanning away trying to pinpoint him regardless tho:

"Hes at the moon"

"No, hes at the other station"

"No hes at the SS"

"No, hes 3k off me!!"

Who said that? 3k? I heard someone call on comms that they had managed to slighly bump him out of dock range and that they had him webbed and scrammed. I aligned immediatly and warped to my corp mate and my other corp mates landed soon after. We quickly melted his Myrmidon and we quickly got a point on his 100million-isk-of-a-bounty-pod.

"Awesome" I thought "not only do we get a squish we also guna get some iskies for it. I pressed my finger against the trigger only to quickly take it off again when Spectre3353 screamed down the comms:

"STOPPP! DON'T POD HIM"

Silence filled the comms for a Moment, but it didnt last long.

"We cant pod Ka jolo, hes my hero" he said quietly

"You cant, but we can" I laughed. Everyone agreed except Spectre3353.

"NO STOP!!! YOU ASSHOLES!" he screamed again.

So here is the situation. Pod some guy you don't even know, and get a fat 100million isk stuck in your wallet and also risk getting kicked out of the corp... or listen to our bleeding heart carebear of a CEO and respect his wishes.

While contempleting this, I watched with horror and Ka jolo managed to creep his pod over to the station and dock.

Comms erupted with disbelief.

"MUTINY!"

"PRIMARY IS SPECTRE!"

"LYNCH HIM!"

"KAMIL ARE YOU PLAYING EVE AGAIN? ITS WAY PAST MIDNIGHT??!! YOU'VE GOT SCHOOL TOMORROW!"

The argument lasted several minutes but in the end we all saw the funny side of it. Spectre would never live this down. From now on whenever something bad happened we would have some ammo to throw in his face. We even got him to change his corp title to something more suitable as we felt he deserved a scar on his record for letting some guy live, when he had a 100 MILLION ISK BOUNTY for no other reason than that he reads his blog sometimes.

What would you have done? would you have podded him? right now I'm wishing I didn't respect Spectres wishes and just pulled the trigger, I know next time I definitely will!

The reason I gave up posting for a while was mostly because I havent had the time. Also I rejoined the newly formed Python Cartel and spent alot of time settling in. But I should be back to posting now, so enjoy :)

Im just a peaceful miner..

2009-03-31T06:54:00.000-07:00

No I really am.

I AM!

I spent the majority of the last two days flying around in an Osprey. And it is quickly becoming my most favourite ship of all time. But, its not because I like sitting in belts and sucking huge rocks, and its not because I like fitting shield transporters to it and keeping all my friends alive. ..

Its because I like the way people under estimate it in their interceptors, frigs and AF's and wonder "WTF? WTF just happened?" when they see their overpriced, shiny new frigate explode before their eyes.

Lo and behold... The Doomsprey (shamelessly nicked from some guy who hangs about in one of our local comms channels )

3x Light Nuetron IIs
1x Small Nuet

10m AB
scram II
Web II
Sensor booster II

1600mm Rolled tungsten
EANM II
Damage Control II

Drones to taste, but I go with 4 warrior IIs.

It can handle any AF/frig and yesterday I even managed to gank a Brutix in it. Which has to be one of the greatest moments in my EvE career so far. Sure he was young and barely had a clue, but the mail from Concord sure looks good. I bet the guy handling them must of thought there was some mistake before he posted it.

Anyway, give it a try, you will be surprised how much action it gets, sit in a belt and it wont be long before a cocky guy in an Incursus or a Tanaris comes along thinking hes gotta free kill.

Fraction Battleships!!!11

2009-03-23T20:20:00.000-07:00

In low sec its pretty rare to see a faction battleship on scan. And you can imagine our surprise and joy today to see no less than THREE of them on scan, and to kill them afterwards.

It all started when we heard a report over on of the local Intel channels about a Caldari Navy Raven on scan in Aurohunen. Relaying the information to one of my friends, Golden Helmet, he decided to go check it out in his Helios. I told him I would go fit up my Vagabond for mission busting on the off chance he managed to probe him out.

Arriving in Aurohunen, Golden Helmet was busy probing away, and we had been joined by Apoctasy in his Pilgrim. A few moments later GH told us he had a hit and he was warping to it. I aligned my ship in his direction waited for the call...

"Warp to me, hes 20k off.... I got a point!" Gh called down the comms.

Me and Apoc walked in and landed about 20km off, we both got points and GH activated his ship scanner revealing he was decked in faction modules.

"Great, payday" I thought

"Err, wait a minute..." Said GH, interrupting my train of thought "Hes got THREE warp stabs"

God dammit. A few seconds later the raven warped out. Apoc had been unable to get his extra 2 points on him and it seems we had been robbed... we sat there a moment, wondering what to do next.

"Two Navy Megas and a Raven on scan" said GH, filling us all with hope once more.

As he went to probe them out to our surprise the Navy Raven warped back into his mission and began to lock me. He had come back to kill us?? I wondered a moment what was going on. Maybe it was a trap? Maybe he had backup on they way?

I saw Apoc began to scramble him and figured I might as well do the same, Apoc had 3 points on him now and I activated my own point a few moments later. GH warped in after hearing the good news and we proceeded to blow up his ship without much trouble, and we were several million isk richer.

Checking scanner we saw that the other two navy Mega's were on scan, along with the Raven. With our current firepower I doubt we could of took them if they were fitted properly so we asked around our local Intel channels for backup. Our friends The Guristas Assoicates responded and told us they had sizable gang only a few jumps away. Gh continued to probe and a few moments later, to our surprise he told us they appeared to be at a belt?

We cant be that lucky can we?

Gh warped to belt and informed us they were actauly there at 0km RATTING. Guristas Associates responded by jumping their 17 man gang into Auro and warping directly to the belt, me and Apoc followed suit and all landed at the belt spreading out points evenly among them. Jammed by the Guristas super blob and taking huge chucks of their shield and armor, they quickly evaporated leaving nothing but smoking wrecks ready to be looted.

During the fight another pirate gang seemed to have the same idea as we did but they didn't expect a 20 man gang to be in the belt and we managed to bag a Myrmidon of theirs too.

All in all, a pretty good outing wouldn't ya say?

Just like the old days.

2009-03-09T17:09:00.000-07:00

"5...4....3...2....1....HIT!, warping to the Raven right now!" Golden Helmet called down the comms.

Golden Helmet was the old CEO of my old corporation, and had recently came back out of retirement to start pirating once again. Him, Spectre3353 and Inertial (he was also one of the directors of The Python Cartel) have both joined The Carebear Stare. And now The Carebear Stare is alot like The Python Cartel as many of its core members are all here. The past few days have been alot of fun.

My own probe finished its cycle 2 seconds later and I also got a hit. Dammit, I lost. Me and Golden Helmet have like a private competition when it comes to probing out mission runners. I'll never hear the end of it, I thought. But lets not worry about that for now, we got to Raven to kill.

This Raven had been flying around our home system for quite some time. It seemed like he was running a mission, but he had to keep warping out, as the Guristas kept kicking his ass. Every time our probe cycle was about to finish he moved spot, and after an hour of this, we were desperate to kill him.

We all landed right next to him and quickly locked and scrambled him. Our gang was relatively weak, consisting of 2 cruisers and 2 Cov ops ships. But the Raven pilot appeared to be clueless. And as we watched his shield melt in a few seconds,, WE KNEW he was clueless.

He exploded a few moments later, and wondered why we had spent so long hunting this guy down. The kill mail showed he had 4 warp stabs. 4?? No wonder the Guristas kept kicking his ass, by the time he had locked one of them his Shields were probably gone.

So, saddened by the anticlimax, we retreated to our safe spots to wait out our timers and dock up. When Spectre3353 alerted us that a friend of his, in a system reasonably far away, in a system called Vifrevaert, had a drake tackled. Apparently he was in a Punisher and couldn't break the Drakes tank. But the Drake couldn't kill him either.

"so how far away is this system Spec?" I asked gingerly.

"17.." he replied

17? by the time we got there he will of either got backup or someone else would have came in and killed him. Spectre wouldn't hear of it and told us he was going anyway. I sighed, and docked up my Buzzard to get my Stabber. And I headed off to Vifrevaert close behind Spectre, and with Golden Helmet close behind me in his Rupture.

We sped through the gates not bothering to check the scanner, while requesting updates from the Punisher pilot on any change of the situation.

About 15 minutes later we arrived in Vifrevaert, and the Punisher Pilot had still got the Drake tackled, and he had been joined by a Rifter. I warped to the Punisher to see Spectre already there attacking the Drake. Checking my watch list I saw Spectre was already half into armor, and I set about orbiting the drake and then firing my 220mm's and heavy missile launchers at it.

Spectre's armor was getting low, and I told him to warp out if he needs to.

"Nah I'm fine, I can take it a little while" he said, drunkenly.

A few moments later, watching his Vexor suddenly go into structure, he yells down the comms "What the hell? Why wont my ship warp?"

"Err maybe hes scrambling you?" I said in a matter-of-fact way.

"Oh shi-" Spectre said quietly. And I watched as another volley of missiles left the drake, hitting Spectre, completely destroying him in the process. I laughed at the situation and continued to fire at the Drake.

Golden Helmet landed and also began firing, the Drakes tank was very strong and now he had started to agress me. I watched as my shield slowly disappeared and I contemplated getting out before I left it to late like Spectre. I overloaded my guns a little more, and hoping he exploded before I did.

Luckily enough the combined DPS from both my Stabber, GH's Rupture, the Rifter and the Punisher, were hitting him pretty hard and soon after the Drake popped.

We gave the loot to the Punisher as thanks for holding the Drake in place for such a long time. The pilot was only a few months old too, and did very well to keep a Drake tackled for so long.

Afterwards, Spectre brought a new Vexor and scrapped together a ship fitting from his old wreck and from the stations in the nearby area, we went around Old Man Star and killed a few other ships including a Thorax, Enyo and a Kitsune . And it really was just like the old days, back in The Python Cartel. Its great to have those guys aboard The Carebear Stare bus!

You gota lose it eventually...

2009-03-02T00:50:00.000-08:00

You gota lose it eventually...

This is a saying familiar to most pod pilots. Especially pirates. You see when we buy a new ship, we know that someday, its going to go down in a ball of fire. No matter how careful you are, one day that shiny new Hurricane is going to be nothing but an insurance payout.

Today I proved it, and it all started like any other day. I was sitting in my bunk, watching some rubbish on the Holovision. Why is there never anything good on?

I switched off the Holovison, and the comms panel in my room started to flash. A voice crackled through the speaker, which I recognised as Grumbler1, from the Bamboule corporation. We got on well with those guys, so i listened.

"Charon tackled on Litura gate, send assistance if possible" There was a click and the comms panel went silent.

A Charon? Killing something that big and expensive is a pleasure that comes few and far between. I quickly threw on my jacket and ran down to the hangar bay as quickly as i could. Knocking over several people in the process.

When I arrived I took a moment to decide on a ship. Tempest or Hurricane?

Tempest has more damage, hurricane has... Right! I ran up the ramp and into my Tempest, lovingly named -Bad Karma-. I ordered the Hangar tecs to swap my cap Injector for another Stasis Web, as Keeping the Charon webbed would be important. I hurried the docking manager for permission to undock and was soon out in space.

Litura was it? I'm pretty sure it was. I set a course for the Litura gate, which was a few AU away.

I landed a few moments later, to see Grumbler also in a Tempest blowing large holes into the hull of a Charon. I wondered if i would be able to get a lock in time..

I did, barely, I fired two rounds of my Duel 650mm before the Charon exploded a pretty blue flash. I sat there a second, happy to have killed such an expensive ship, when I saw Grumbler aligning without even checking the wreck. Wheres he going? I wondered

"GET OF THE GATE NOW!" " GET OFF IT!" Grumbler yelled over the comms.

What? I only just got here. There was nothing aro...

The gate fired and a Huginn decloaked 30km off. Immediately I saw what was happening and I frantically tried to warp. Aligning in a battleship takes forever, and just as I was about to enter warp, the Huginn manages to Warp scramble me. I sighed, and locked the Huginn. I opened fire and watched as 6 heavy rounds of EMP shattered against his shield.

That was the only shot I'd fire, because a few moments later a Falcon decloaked and started to jam my targeting systems. I hate those dam things. I lost my lock on the Huginn and realised what was about to happen. I was Webbed, Scrambled, Jammed, and taking fire. I was screwed.

A vagabond jumped in, followed by a Thorax, and then another Tempest. I sat there helpless, being jammed, unable to fight back. This is why I hate Falcons. I don't mind losing a ship, but losing a ship and not being able to fight back has got to be the worse feeling in the universe.

My ship exploded a few moments later and I warped my pod out to safety.

I had helped kill a Charon which was alot more expensive than a Tempest but I couldn't help feeling angry at losing my Tempest in such a lame way. As I docked my pod in the station I promised myself i wouldn't ask questions again. If I was told to get out, Id get without question or hesitation next time.

I went back to my bunk reminding myself that "I had to lose it eventually...". Just a shame it had to be today.

Payback is a bitch... and so am I!

2009-02-25T22:29:00.000-08:00

Firstly Id like to say welcome back to an old friend who has come back to Eve after recently escaping a Gallentee high security Prison camp. You can read about his escape here: http://evenewb.blogspot.com/. This is the same guy who inspired this very blog, so welcome back Spectre3353!

Floating lazily in my Rupture, waiting for something worthwhile to kill is how I spend alot of my time in EvE.

Once again I was in Mara, and I was seeking out a Maller. I seemed to keep missing him by a few seconds. It was during one of those close encounters I saw his name on my overview. The name seemed familiar, so I did a quick check on his public records but I couldn't seem to place him.

He was part of one of the training Corps that capsuleers are thrown into when they first become pod Pilots, but I knew I had seen him somewhere before. So I checked our corporations Kills log, which records any ships we destroy or lose.

"Voila!", there he was... It appears he was part of a gang that "baited" my corp mate just the day before. Hmm..

Mallers are great bait ships, as they can withstand alot of punishment. I paused a moment from chasing him and considered my options. This guy is probably bait, so it would be wise to back off no? I didnt know what kind of gang he could be flying with either.. so its probably best to leave him be. Let some other unfortunate soul be victim to the "bait in Mara" trick...

But no.. once again I start to hear a voice in the back of my mind..

"You could kill him before his mates arrive.."

Could I?

Well, there's one way to find out I guess. So shrugging of caution, which seemed so easy to do recently, I set a course to a belt where my scanner had him pinpointed.

Sure enough, he was there. I landed right next to him and quickly began to lock him only for my computer to say:

"NOTIFY: Your attempt to target Maller failed"

A few months ago, I would of started to panic, but I kept my head and gently pressed target once more and waited. You see, I had discovered that this is a bug with some ships computers. I'm not sure what causes it, but if you continue to spam the target button after you get this kind of error. You will never be able to target as the computer just keeps restarting the targeting process. If you press it once and just wait however, even tho it doesn't appear to be targeting, eventually you will get a lock.

And a lock I got. The shield on my Rupture was at half power now, but I was armor tanked so it didn't really matter about my Shields. I opened fire and quickly evaporated his shields under a hail of machine gun fire. I knew that the Maller was also armor tanked just like I was and once I started to do damage to his armor I groaned a little... His armor was stupidly strong and I contemplated trying to escape... but my readout showed that I still had a little sheild left.

His damage was pathetic. So I forgot all thoughts of running away and continued to rain 220mm rounds upon his hull. I knew if nothing changed I would win... but something did change. Just as his armor was starting to take some real damage a Moa warped in, who I knew was with him as he was part of the corp that had killed my corp mate.

The Moa quickly locked me and I was trapped. With no hope of escape I did what I usually do when there's no hope of coming out of a fight intact.. I overloaded my guns and fought on. If I was going to get destroyed I will take one of them with me. The Maller was starting to buckle under the extra pressure, but so was my Rupture. The combined damage from both of their ships was really starting have an impact.

I kept firing, my armor holding... barely. The Maller began to take structure damage, and a few seconds later so did I. I closed my eyes and waited, I heard an explosion followed by another. My pod shot out into space and I quickly warped it out of the belt. Looking back I saw the Maller had been destroyed too, and I felt good that I had taken at least one of them with me.

I went back to passari and quickly jumped in my Vagabond. The Vagabond is my favourite ship when it comes to engaging multiple hostiles and I wanted some revenge.

So I went back to Mara ignoring the sentries that started firing at me as I got to the gate. I jumped through and warped to a safe spot, and I noticed that local had started to fill up. Checking the scanner I saw that several ships were located in the same direction.

Arbitrator, Vengeance, Manticore and two Mallers. Checking the ship names I saw that one of them was the Moa pilot from before, he must have changed ships. Without thinking I set a course right for them and I landed in the belt just as most of the gang had warped off. But there was one still here, alone and not moving. It was the same guy who had killed me in the Moa just moments before. I saw RED.

I turned on my microwarp drive and sped towards him. He was in a Maller this time and I quickly caught up to him and locked and scrambled him. I emptied my drone bay and sent my drones to attack the Maller. I Kept my distance as any good Vaga pilot does and watched as the Maller helplessly tried to close distance. He didn't have any speed mods and was covered in armor plates. He had no chance of catching me.

He was going down pretty fast and a few moments later his friends started to arrive. I overloaded my guns, and continued firing. A Vengeance landed just as the Maller was going into structure and it started to speed towards me. I toggled my MWD on as I knew I got webbed it would be all over. I was going out of range of the Maller now, but my drones continued to attack him. I saw the Maller explode in a bright orange fireball and turned my attention to the retribution. We was quite far from the Arbitrator and the other Maller now and the Retribution Pilot must have understood the situation. I saw him align and warp out just as I was about to get a lock. Cursing, I headed toward the Arbitrator who also warped out, followed closely by the Maller.

My ship slowed down and I calmed down and and savoured the feeling. I scooped the Maller loot to my cargo hold and decided to wait out my timer in a secluded part of the system. Its a great feeling when you destroy someone who had destroyed you just moments before and I recommend it to anyone. So next time you get killed and want to get revenge on someone. DONT pay mercs or some other gun for hire to do it for... do it YOURSELF! its a much better feeling when you do so, and alot more fun too!

Yes, another post about Interceptors!

2009-02-18T19:16:00.001-08:00

So there I was.

Criminally Flagged, in a Rapier, in Mara, looking for something to shoot. Mara is the place us pirates go when we feel like a party. Its kinda like Amamake but with better Music.

Hitting the refresh button on my scanner every two seconds was starting to make my fingers ache. There was plenty of targets, but they were either sitting near gates (yuk, sentry guns) or cloaked just like I was. I was about to give up, and dock up for the night when something caught my eye.

Crusader.

I'll never be able to catch that I thought, checking the Pilots records I saw he was quite experienced and from the Veto Corporation. He probably wouldn't be caught unless he wanted to. Hmm, he wouldn't engage a Rapier, even if I sat in the first asteroid belt, uncloaked, and started Mining. So what would he engage?

My mind wondered to the 3 Claws still sitting in my hangar. He almost certainly go for one of those. So I rushed back to Passari, docked up and got into the nearest Claw and then headed back to Mara.

I had that feeling you get just as about combat is imminent. I knew the Crusader wouldn't be able to resist and jumping through the gate back to Mara i rubbed my hands together and got ready to savour a good old fashioned 1v1 interceptor fight "Just like old times" I thought.

I aligned my ship to warp out when I heard a Almighty thud, followed by loud crash. I was being attacked? by what exactly? "CRACCCKKKKK" I saw the tip of my left wing shatter, out the corner of my eye.

"WARP DAMIT!" , I punched warp button on the console, still not knowing what was going on. Luckily I was in a Claw, and they can warp out of bad situations like this pretty fast assuming they ain't scrambled. I entered the warp tunnel and sat back in my chair.

What the hell was that? I checked my ships database for recent aggression and it turns out the person who had been trying to destroy my ship belonged to the Caldari Navy. Hmmmm.... ohhh! then it clicked. Of course. I was Criminally Flagged and the Caldari navy don't like criminals, I don't know why, they are just very touchy about it. Anyway I had been shot by the sentries and my ship was in a pretty bad way, but at least I had survived to laugh about it later on.

Checking the scanner again, the Crusader was still there and he appeared to be looking for me. I watched him warp from Planet to planet trying to find me to no avail.

I sat in my Safe spot, fuming over my stupidity. If I had just waited a few more minutes my ship would be in a fight right now. I couldn't engage now as all my armor had been blown off and engaging a fresh Crusader would just be throwing my ship away. So I sat there waiting, and waiting until my new criminal timer ran out. Hoping that maybe the crusader would stick around until I could get back to the station and repair my ship.

Sure enough as my timer expired the crusader was still zipping around, so I jumped into Passari and went back to the station, repaired my ship and headed back to Mara. I jumped in, checked the local Comms channel (that shows all the pilots in the system) and the Crusader pilot had gone.

Dammit. I sat there a moment trying to decide what to do. Veto were also a pirate cooperation that lived nearby, just a few jumps away in fact, in Ishomilken. Maybe the Crusader pilot had gone back to his home station, and maybe if he saw me in local would want to fight again. However he would probably have friends as it was his home system after all. But caution was never a trait I did possess and I felt cheated out of a good fight. So I set a course for Ishomilken and arrived there a few minutes later.

Just as I thought, the crusader pilot was there, so I quickly warped to the nearest planet and waited again for the crusader. Watching scan, for a while nothing happened. When suddenly a Sentinel appeared on scan. Checking the name of the ship i saw it was the same pilot who had been in the Crusader.

Sentinels are generally a no-no for interceptors, as they use energy neutralisers and tracking disruptor's. Both bad news for a claw as you cant use your Microwarp drive, and they ruin the tracking of your guns. On top of all that they use light drones, which eat interceptors alive.

The Sentinel didn't hang around and soon landed at the planet a little bit away from me. I was going to warp out there and then, but then I remembered how cheated I felt, missing a cool 1v1 interceptor fight and figured Id make the veto guy pay. Id fly around just outside his drone range and tease him until he couldn't take anymore. Then maybe he would go fetch his Crusader again.

So that's what i did, and when I saw the Sentinel warp to the station I clapped my hands together and thanked the EvE gods for being so kind. And I promised to sacrifice a small goat when I get back home. I warped to the station and waited for the Veto pilot to undock and I jumped out my chain when i saw a Crusader appear on my overview.

I quickly locked and tackled it without even thinking and activated my guns. The other crusader pilot didn't seem surprised and I watched as he did the same and started firing back . My shield disintegrated almost instantly, and my armor started to take damage. But my claw was well armored and took all the Crusader could throw at it. Meanwhile my 200mms, were chewing through his armor at an alarming rate and soon his structure. He exploded while I still had most of armor left and I started to lock his pod when I noticed something strange on my overview.

A sentinel?

Wait... I just killed this guy. What the hell was going on? I forgot the pod and quickly warped out and checked the kill mail I received from Concord. And to my surprise the Crusader pilot was actually a different pilot all along, tho he was also from Veto. Maybe they had tried to double team me?

Regardless, I was happy, I came for a Crusader kill, and got one, even tho it wasn't the guy I intended to kill. I warped to the gate to leave and noticed I was being followed, by the Sentinel and the guy I had just blown up. This time he was in a Iskhur and obviously wanted some revenge.

I couldn't take both of them so I quickly made my way back home. And being lighter and more agile I made it without any problems. I docked up at my station and couldn't help feeling an ounce of shame for running away so quickly without really thinking it through.

Maybe I could have lured one of them away from the other and got a second kill? I sat there for a second, and reminded myself I got what I went for and that was a Crusader kill mail. But the voice in the back of my head told me to go back and fight.

Its a very persuasive voice, and extremely hard to resist. The things its made me do, I cant write here as children might be reading, but suffice to say they ain't pretty.

So I had one half of me telling me to dock up for the night, and the other half telling me to go back to Ishomilken. Obviously, being the mentally unstable type I undocked and headed back to Ishomilken and began to look around for the Sentinel Pilot.

I knew the chances were, if he caught me, Id probably lose my ship. But at the time I didn't seem to care. Once I go looking for a fight I usually either get one or get blown up trying to win against impossible odds. I remember the time I tried to solo a Rapier, Rook, Vulture and a Zealot in my Drake (that's a story for another time). It was the same voice now, as it was then.

Anyway, I warped around looking for the sentinel. He seemed to be doing the same and it was like we kept missing each other. Until eventually we landed at the exact same time right near each other. "Here goes nothing" I thought.

He was about 20km off and I burnt towards him. He tried to keep distance but my ship was alot faster. I caught him pretty quickly and activated my warp scrambler, shutting of his Microwarp drive. He launched his drones and I began to hear them start tearing chunks out my ship. I heard the sound of an energy neutraliser and watched as my screen started flashing about how I had low power. My microwarp deactivated as I didn't have the power to run it. But my scrambler was still working, barely. I opened fire and to my suprise the tracking on my guns seemed fine.

Why wasn't I Tracking disrupted? I watched as my guns tore through the other guys ship with striking ease, and it wasn't long before he was scrambling away in his escape pod. I sat there a moment dumbstruck. I had been running from the sentinel for a while now and it turns out he wasn't fit as most Sentinel pilots do.

Afterwards we had a small chat about fittings, and his fit was more of a gang tackler fit. He seemed friendly enough, and I almost felt bad about blowing him up. But he was OK about it, and I know he would of done the same to me if he had the chance.

I made my way back home again (uneventful trip), once again impressed by interceptors and wondered why I ever stopped flying them in the first place. They are a hell of a lot of fun to fly!

Size isnt everything? or is it?

2009-02-11T23:22:00.000-08:00

*Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt Bzzt*

"uh" I grumbled getting out my bunk. I dodged past the empty Quafe cans scattered about the floor and switched off the alarm.

Dammit I overslept again! I quickly got dressed and headed to the Office.

The place was empty, seems like I'd missed everybody. Not again, I thought. So I went down to the hangar and prepared myself for a solo outing. "OK, maybe I'll find a Battleship ratting or something" I said to myself, trying to be optimistic.

Looking at my ships, I was abit stuck for choice. But just as I was about to get into my Rapier, the Cargo door to the Hangar opened and my Hauler reversed her Mammoth in.

"Hmm, I don't remember making any orders yesterday" I thought. So I went over and waited for the Bay doors on the mammoth to open. To see what goodies might be inside. A huginn maybe? a Hurricane with trimarks? maybe even a new Cerberus... Hmm!

The door opened and I was quite disappointed. Inside was 3 Claw Interceptors.

I Called my hauler, Courtney Lester, on my comms... "Is this some kind of joke?" I asked "How am I supposed to kill a Domonix in that? Hell how am I supposed to kill anything?"

"Just following orders Ma'am, you asked for 3 Claws, I bring 3 Claws. Now give me my dam money!"

I looked at the order form, sure enough my signature was there. Dammit, I must of been drunk. I thought about not paying her, and just telling her to take them back. But haulers who work illegally for pirates are very hard to come by. I reluctantly paid Courtney the Isk and asked the hangar tech guys to unload the Claws.

After the hangar techs were finished I decided I may as well fly a Claw, I got three of them, if it gets destroyed its no biggie right? I boarded up, cursing the guy who invented alcohol and flew out of the hangar. I have to admit it felt nice being in such a fast ship for a change and I flew out of the hangar almost knocking off my right wing against a Iteron Mark II

"HEY WATCH WHERE YOUR FLYING, JACKASS!" I yelled at the Iteron pilot. I knew he couldn't hear me, but I felt better none the less.

"OK Piracy!" Checking the local comms channels around Passari, it seemed everywhere nearby was completely dead. So I set a course for Black Rise which is quite a few jumps out. I activated the auto pilot and made my way to Tama.

Tama at this point in time is a war torn system. Mostly where the Gallentee and Minimatar stand off against Caldari. Its extremely active and your almost guaranteed to find something to shoot or be shot by.

So I warped myself to spot in the middle of the system and set about scanning around. The scan was flooded by various ships, Rifters, Incursus's, Falcons, Thorax's, Griffens, and a Crow. A crow? These were a Claw pilots breakfast. I scanned around, and pinpointed him to a belt alone.

Without thinking I set a course there and landed in the belt a few moments later to see the Crow pilot about 70km off. I Activated the Microwarp drive and sped towards him. Only to see him warp off to a gate. As he did so an Incursus landed in the belt only 20km off. Just as I was about to turn around and tackle the poor frig, a Rifter and a Griffin land, followed closely by a Falcon and a couple of Thorax's. I Knew this was the perfect moment to make my exit but first I would have to make some distance between them, as if I stop to align I might get warp scrambled. So I activated my Microwarp once more and sped away from the Gang of pilots which was growing bigger by the second. "All that for a Claw?" I thought.

After i got enough distance i warped to the Kedama gate, and quickly jumped through. Hoping that the gang that just tried to blow up my precious Claw didn't follow. I warped to the center of the system and scanned around. There was one ship on scan and it was a Rifter. I scanned it down and it seemed to be at a control Post.

Now a interceptors worst nightmare is a ship with Stasis webs, and a good Rifter never leaves home without one. And if I lost my T2 frigate to a T1 frigate, I'd never live it down, my corp mates would probably laugh at me for weeks.

But, I was hungry, I hadn't shot anything all night and maybe the Rifter was just a new pilot exploring and it would be a easy kill. Listening to the Demon on my shoulder I warped to the control post and landed right next to the Rifter.

"Great!" I thought. I locked and Warp scrammbled him and to my surprise he locked me back. I felt my ship shudder as my ship begin to slow down and my Microwarp drive deactivate. I had been Webbed and Scrammed and had no chance of escape. "Not great" I thought.

I did the only thing I could do and activated my 200mm's and the Rifter responded by shooting me back with his very own autocannons. I overloaded my guns for abit of extra beef and watched as my armor started to be smashed apart by the Rifter. But his armor was going down almost as fast as mine was. "I cant lose!" I said to myself.

We both hit structure as pretty much the same time, and from there I knew I had won. The claw has more structure than the Rifter and I had a Damage Control II, which my opponent had decided not to fit. A few seconds later the Rifter exploded and I watched as the other guys pod warped out to safety.

We exchanged "Gf's" and I meant it. It was a really good fight and I nearly got more than I bargained for.

I looted the guys wreck, which was pretty good loot for a Rifter and set a course back home to Passari. The journey home was quite uneventful, and I docked up a few minutes later and made my way back to my room.

What a Boring night. I sat down on my bunk and looked on the bright side. I had come back intact and had even got a kill. Even tho it was just a measly Rifter it was a great fight, and it brought back alot of memories of when I used to just fly around in nothing but interceptors. I think I'll be doing it more often!

How i got to where i was today.

2009-02-11T01:08:00.001-08:00

"So who the hell is Andrea Skye?" you ask?

Well, let me tell you.

My childhood was average, I grew up on New Caldari IV, my Father was a Trader who spent alot of time away from home, my Mother was a teacher in a local nursery. We lived comfortably, but I was never really happy, everything was just so routine and dull. My Father wanted me to carry on the family business, and I didn't have the heart to tell him that I wasn't interested in the slightest.

I wanted to fly spaceships, I wanted to feel the adrenaline rush of combat, I wanted to be more than just a boring Trader.

So the moment I turned 16, i signed up for the Academy. I never told my parents, and last I heard they assumed I fell out the Airlock on my fathers Bestower. Nice huh?

While i did well in the academy, after I learned how to fly I left almost immediately. It just wasn't for me. I hated being told what to do, and not being given a reason for it. So i set about and went down the local job office.

There were many jobs there. One in particular caught my eye "Low sec Industrial Corporation seeks Mercenaries to Protect Assets"

Sounded like my kind of job! I joined the Corporation, called Pandemic Influenza, they were based out of Rorsins and this is where i learnt the true horrors of Low sec. I kept my head down and stuck on that job for many months. I made a lot of good friends there and its where i got my very first combat experiences from.

A few months in, out of the blue, the Directors of the corp announced they would have to let everyone go as they were going to join a pirate corporation. I couldn't believe my ears! They had became the exact thing they had hired me to protect them from!

They offered if i wanted to join with them. I said No as i wasn't sure about killing for profit. Tho i did really enjoy the rush of combat so I told them I would think about it. A few weeks past and I lost contact with them. Every now and again I would hear on the news about a convey being plundered on the outskirts of empire space and I wondered whether it was my old friends from Rorsins were apart of it.

"OK, stuff it!" I thought to myself after watching Star Wars Episode XVIII: Don't the Sith Ever Give up? again. I was bored of sitting in a station with nothing to do. "I'm going to become a Pirate!"

So I Searched about and joined a Corporation called "The Python Cartel" and this was to date the best corporation Ive ever been in. It lasted for nearly a year before it slowly fell apart, but it was great while it lasted. And if you read Spectre3353s blog you will know why. I wont go into details because most of our adventures are already documented on for mentioned blog !

So once again I found myself Jobless, and without a corporation to work for. Until one day I got a message from another Pirate called Htrag who I had fought with and fought against back where The Python Cartel used to be based. And on a side note, I've always found that strange with pirates. One minute your best friends, the next your worst enemies. Its like an episode of Eastenders sometimes. (only English people will understand that!)

Anyway the message contained an invite to his corporation called The Carebear Stare. I had alot of respect for those guys from my time in The Python Cartel. So I took the job (loving the new corp so far btw!) and here I am. A pirate doing what I love. Ransoming what i can, killing what doesn't pay. And I do love it when they refuse to pay!

So, that is who Andrea Skye is. And my next posts will document the more interesting moments of my eve career. Enjoy :)

First post and an introduction.

2009-02-11T00:54:00.000-08:00

Greetings, all who may be reading. I've been wanting to start a blog about my Eve Adventures for a long time now. But I've always put it off, but yesterday i found that my favourite EvE blog of all time has... wait for it... became a World of Warcraft blog. OH THE HUMANITY!

So, This blog was inspired by a eve friend of mine (well hes doesn't play eve anymore, but as we all know, eve never lets you out... ever!). The guys name is Spectre3353, and many of you might of even read his blog too. His blog can still be read at http://evenewb.blogspot.com/ But i warn you... hes turned to WoW and it isn't pretty!

So a little about the RL me before we start. I'm a guy, I'm 22 years old. I like EvE, paint balling, and pretty much anything that gets your heart going. In game, I'm a low sec pirate by the name of Andrea Skye. Shes a feisty one and never scared to engage when outnumbered or outgunned. In it for the thrills, not the money!

My posts will be in character (LOL RP'r!) and ill even try to throw in some humour. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as i will enjoy writing it :)