I’m currently still producing in null sec, but I’ve had a few issues with the new material costs, my calculations were a bit off so my shopping sheet was also a bit… Wrong

But this has been fixed, at least I think so. We will see, I have just put up around 20 bill in buy orders in Jita and we’ll see if everything works out the way it should.

Wars are annoying me though, it means I have to move through a few extra hoops to get things where they need to go, but it’s not the end of the world, it’s just part of the process.

As for the wormhole, I’m quite enjoying C4 space. We’re taking it easy, get content where we can find it and just do our thing. There’s zero pressure to log on, people just come online and shoot stuff, it’s relaxing.

The other day I did some ratting in C4 space to help a corp member out. We ended up doing 20 sites, 25 even, he had already done 5 before I joined.

I have done enough ratting for the next 365 days I think. I have never really enjoyed it. Not that it’s bad isk wise, I just have different ways of making it. And ratting will always be at the bottom of my list of how to make it.

I don’t have much to say right now, it’s been a busy few weeks IRL but there are more things to come

Stay tuned

I lost a brand new Kronos the other day. It wasn’t even fitted yet.

I normally fly my things from Jita to wherever I need them to be before unpacking them, mostly because flying in a DST is just faster. You can get ganked but that’s only happened twice in my entire eve career while flying my DST. And both times it was because I wasn’t paying much attention. But not the other day, well, not really at least.

The other day, I was just hauling a bit late while watching the Rookie with my girlfriend, a show we only just started watching (it’s so good!) and so I wasn’t really paying much attention but whatever. I undocked my trusty Occator, click jump on the system that I needed to go to and suddenly see my pod flying off.

Turns out there were a few gankers on the Jita undock. This is literally the first time that I’ve had this happen to me EVER. I have an insta undock and use it whenever I remember (this does not happen much), but the other day the RNG gods where not in my favor and I lost the Kronos I was going to bring in for PVP fun. 2.5billion isk down the drain, well 2.9 if you count the occator fit. Which is funny because an hour before that I was hauling 10bill worth of stuff so I’m glad that one didn’t get popped.

It was a bit annoying but “Oh well” and I bought a new one but flew that one in manually.

And not even a day later, yesterday, I was able to use it.

As per usual chains were being scanned, content was sought for. At first it was for PvE purposes, when that failed it was PvP purposes.

A Paladin was seen 2 jumps down the chain on D-scan but not found, and we gave up a bit. There was a nice highsec connection not too far from Jita so one of the guys decided to fly in a rolling battleship. Coming through the highsec we hear him go “Guys I see a Paladin and mobile depot on D”

Ears perked we told him not to decloak as a scout was looking for that exact person. Once the decloak timer ran out we told our friend in the trusty roller to just warp to the return. On the way there, his computer crashed.

The thing about EVE is that if your pc crashes, you won’t log out immediately, there’s a 30 second timer before you log off. So, in those 30 seconds, our buddy’s ship landed on the return, as well as the paladin that we were searching for. He had decided that a Tempest would be a nice little snack.

“Shit we gotta help him” seeing that there were only 2 of us on comms now it was time to bring the big guns I had just purchased.

While I started moving, the PC had restarted and he was back on comms, ready to log on, the battleship wasn’t dead yet. He logged on, exclaimed “I’m still full shield” and then the moment his client had caught up to what had happened, was suddenly in a pod.

Only a few minutes had gone by, our scout had the Paladin tackled and I was on grid with the Kronos, it was time.

Quickly moving a little closer so I could scram the Paladin too AND be in range of the wormhole to jump back if things get dicey, I started slowly taking away his armour, as he did mine. The little tackle that could had died already, and on D-scan a blackbird was coming to help the Paladin.

Since the marauder changes, Blackbirds are annoying little ships because of their ECM, when you’re trying to do a DPS race, you do not want to lose your target. Unfortunately, that happened a couple of times.

While all of this was happening, a ping had gone out on discord “@here Paladin” That was all that’s needed for our CEO to run upstairs from his kitchen having had just turned on the oven to come and help us.

Which was a good thing, there was another Paladin on D. But all was well, or hopefully it would be. Since two paladins shooting my Kronos did hurt a little bit and I was using quite a few cap boosters.

Our tempest pilot in the meantime had quickly gotten into his Vargur and started making his way down the chain too. Right on time because the first Paladin had jumped back to the other side having had most of his hull eaten away already. I started shooting the second one but he jumped back as well, so I went after them. In order to try and finish him off, the Vargur was there as well now, things would be just fine.

During all this our CEO brought in a Pilgrim and a Loki to chase the blackbirds away. I use plural here because there was a second one.

Having had killed the first Paladin, number two had to jump back but we were waiting and got him on the other side, the hole collapsing behind us. But everything was fine, there was still the highsec close to Jita in this exact hole.

It took longer than expected but, in the end, we came out victorious, having killed almost 8billion isk in ships and only losing 550m.

The Kronos, now named “Number two” in honour of the first one lost to the gank, had his baptism of fire. Having drank the blood (or rust) of its enemies, it now thirsts for more.

We’ll see how many times I can undock it before it goes up in a great big ball of fire.

Oh and, Yacht is recruiting!

Stay tuned o7  

A couple of days ago I noticed a few messages in discord, we were being invaded by multiboxers.

A bunch of (I think Russian) multiboxers had set up a POS in one of the places I call home and bringing ships in. Over the next 24 hours or so the corp tried to wrestle hole control and eventually there were supposedly about 100 characters in the hole.

A few citadels got reinforced and while all this was happening people were messaging friends and allies for a little call to arms.

There were also questions being asked, what made this person angry with us, who touched him in his no no square?

Over the next couple of days it would turn out that nobody really knows. I was told by someone I’m acquainted with that was helping the invader, that supposedly the corp I’m in tried to evict a Russian noob corp. And that one of our dudes kept scanning them whenever they undocked for PvE. Someone else was told that it was because of one of the guys killing a mobile tractor unit that belonged to them in Null.

Both explanations basically a bunch of bull, the Russians were bored and wanted to invade. So be it.

One of the nice things about being in a wormhole with a highsec static is that it’s really easy to bring friends in, although on the other side of that coin it’s also really easy for the attacker to bring friends in.

But once we were ready to defend one of the timers we had a fleet of about 150 people read, 100 Scorpion Navy Issues warping towards the grid, in the back logi pilots ready to come support us. It would be a glorious fight.

If only someone showed up for it.

But that’s fine! In the background, a bunch of diplomatic missions were happening and the aggressor agreed to a fight. He would bring everything he got and we could bring everything we got.

So… We did, in a way they didn’t expect. 180 characters, ready for a massive brawl, one that low-class space like this had not seen in a while.

Unfortunately, my balls had never been bluer than two days ago. The dude ran with his tail between his legs. We all know why, he did not expect so many people to show up. He did not expect the hand that was shown.

No brawl, no kills, just blue balls.

In the end it was nice to see the amount of frenemies we had, people that would gladly shoot us and we them, but not when it comes to our home being on the line.

Over the next few weeks I’m sure that we’ll see this guy again. If he is as butt hurt as he was made out to be he will try this exact same thing again. With a high chance of this exact same outcome happening again. Although this time, blue balls will have to be remedied some other way.  

We’ll see.

Stay Tuned o7