The best ship in EVE

The other day I was reminded of some of the people I’ve met in EvE who I have also met in the offline world and it made me smile.

It made me realise that the whole “Friendship is the best ship” is an actual thing. I’m quite happy with having met some of the people in the game and calling them my friends. And to think that would never have been an actual thing if not for the corporations we join on the way.

Unfortunately COVID is making things a bit of a bummer all around the world so meetups and such are postponed/delayed and all that thing.

But once everyone’s vaccinated, oh boy will there be partying. I’ve already got my ticket for 2022 Graspop Metal Meeting, a festival here in Belgium. Mostly because it’s still the one from 2020 and they cancelled it once more. Well, I say cancel, postponed. Unfortunate but nothing to do but wait.

As for my ingame time, let’s just say that my corporation is currently enamoured with HighSec wars and defending alt corporations. Seeing that I will never, ever do a structure bash if it is something I can ignore, I’m just not really logging in.

Here’s hoping regular fleets are back soon.

I also heard something about an industry change. I’ll have to look into this some more soon, when I can find some time to read up on things.

Stay tuned o7

The thrill of the hunt

The thrill of the hunt

A few days ago I was getting familiar with scanning again. This because in the past few weeks I haven’t been doing it much while playing on the laptop.

During my mapping of the holes surrounding our home I came across a few people on my dscan. Nothing major, a Drek here, a scanner there. You know, the kind of traffic you expect in wormholes.

I jumped into a C5 wolf-rayet and my eyes lit up, my dscan showed five Nestors and a Leshak, along with their Mobile Tractor Unit.

Now, normally when people are out farming in space, they pay attention to d-scan and vamoose the moment someone pops up. I’m not sure if these guys were just pretty sure that nothing would happen or that they did not see me but they stayed there.

After messing around with dscan a bit I came to the conclusion that the site they were in was already despawned, this conclusion was made firmer once I noticed that they had the Sleeper spawned.

So what do you do in a situation like this?

Well, you decide to see if you still know how combat probes work.

They did

So I moved out of their dscan range, got my combat probes, and scanned them down. I think I took less than 2 seconds to grab the mtu to 100%

Normally, when I do C5 pvp, at this point I would have seen it happen, but I used to do it in dreads and I kept spamming dscan the whole time, mostly because a site didn’t take too long to clear in the first place.

These guys, did not see it. So I warped at 100 and now I had eyes on them. Slowly they were poking away at the sleeper.

Unfortunately, nobody was online, it was a slow day, almost evening, around the time when most people are eating etc etc. So all I could do was keep my eye on them.

I wanted to drop a saber on them and kill the mtu as they ran but unfortunately I did not have any sabers left.

I did try and kill their salvager, but this one did pay attention.

During all this, I had a bit of an adrenaline rush. For reasons that most of you know, even seeing your would be target is a rush. And I kept thinking I was uncloaked too so that didn’t help much 😉

Next time, I’ll try and actually have something to shoot at.

However we did kill a Rorqual the other day too with the corp fleet, so that’s always nice for the killboard.

Stay tuned o7

The joys of multiple screens

The past few weeks have made me realise how handy a second screen is. I’ve spent the past few weeks in England playing just with a laptop instead of my normal system. And let me tell you, that I do miss my extra screens.

Rolling holes, scanning,.. Everything is so much easier with a secondary and even tertiary screen. The lack of extra screens made it so that I did not feel confident enough to do the things I normally do, which is play around with two or three characters at the same time, so I just kept to my main, or scanned around a bit with my scanning alt.

But this changes again tomorrow. I have trained my third rolling alt into a support role so next time fleets happen I can have him tag along in a Guardian or something. And I can use one of my alts as a tackler.

Things are happening, and they are good!

I also can’t juggle multiple games at the same time without extra screens, I missed out on a phoenix the other day because I was right in the middle of a game of League of Legends.

Normally when they call for help I undock real quick, get on comms while I still mess around in LoL (I only play ARAM or the fun modes) but alas, I was too late.

Oh well, won’t happen again anytime soon.

Stay tuned o/