KW-I6T....I was sort of there

So after dragging my ass out of bed, booting up the PC and jumping onto EVE. Turns out there was a massive fight going down in KW-I6T. Since I've never actually seen a super cap fight up close...hmmmm only 33 jumps away...lets go.

Moving through highsec with a positive sec status is soooo much easier! No navy chasing me and no worrying about getting nabbed by fast locking high scrubs. Still feels strange moving around in highsec. Odds are I will get bored and trash my sec status again soon. But I am getting sidetracked.

Entering Catch through Providence was fun. Thankfully the camps were simple enough to run. One jump out from KW- I land in a bubble and get tackled by a Taranis. He was bad at piloting and dies quickly. Couple of random pods jump in and get popped.

Jumping the gate into KW- lands me in 10% TIDI. Holy fuck, modules were activating slowly, the warp to the station took ages. Upon landing I catch a random bomb and get dropped into low structure. So I begin the slow burn to the Titan and manage to get a few rep cycles. Pretty screen shots below:

I managed to do a drive by and whore on the Titan followed by the server locking up and my Slicer was stuck burning until I got disconnected. Reconnecting again the server was still not responding, so I alt+tabbed for a few rounds of Warthunder (love the Beaufighter). Then the server crashed again saving the Titan. Awwwwwww.

Logging back in I tried to dive in to tag a Sabre and got instagibbed by a Munin.

Ah well lol.

The sheer scale of the fight was amazing. Seeing all that hardware up close and in combat was a sight to behold. But it was kind of spoiled by the crushing TIDI. To be honest I don't really see what the big deal about large scale null fleet combat.

Also mad props to CCP for their progress with holding the servers together when these massive fights break out. All the whiners and tinfoil hatters should remember that no other game offers fights on this scale.

Very cool experience overall :)

Syndicate Deployment

Calmitous Intent started their Syndicate deployment at the beginning of October and invited THC2 to come along. A few THC guys moved down and fuck me sideways, it's been a fucking blast!
On a sad note, THC2 pretty much died during this time. People were not logging on, Diz was getting massively frustrated trying to motivate people and decided to join 7-2. Fast foward a week and most of the active THC2 people have moved over as well. I joined yesterday after a fair bit of pondering about what to do next. I briefly toyed with the idea of rejoining Tuskers or maybe Shadow Cartel. Decided to go with 7-2 since I know a bunch of people in there and have been actively flying with them for the last few months. Always sad when a really cool corp dies off   o7 o7 o7

So, Vindicator BPCs...yum. I came for the PVP, but have ended up spending a lot of time running DED plexs. Strangely enough a Tengu and Ishtar looks like a pure carebear setup. So while running my first 8/10 I was interupted by the locals probing me out and invading the plex. What followed was about 45 minutes of combat (I also managed to lose my alts PVE Ishtar like a fucking boss lol. The last room in the 8/10 is nasty for lightly tanked ships).

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=19992179

Speaking of Vindicators. Webless Rail Vindicator..../facepalm.

I've also been playing with the sentry Ishtar. Holy shit this ship is broken. So I jumped my Ishtar into a FIGL gate camp, started kiting and the grid broke lol. A quick rewarp dropped me back on the gate but not before my Gardes killed their light tackle. A Cynabal escaped in low shields because of EC-300s and Diz + Robinton arrived just in time to whore on the last Caracal.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=20005283

This 3 way with Rote Kappele and E-uni. This was also my first time flying a fleet interceptor properly. Holy hell it's and adrenaline rush.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=19986164

Round 3 vs E-uni after we lost some expensive shit. Fun fight regardless.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=20209522

The expensive ship hanger cleanout has been progressing rapidly.

The Typhoon "Bad Call" finally died after 49 days alive (according to insurance). She survived a tons of close calls and killed heaps. RIP in pieces.

Arty MAAR Cynabal didn't really work out for me. I just seem to have terrible with that ship. I've heard that some other people have had better luck with that fit /shrugs.

Don't fight e-uni while drunk and mad. In fact, if you lose your cool just log off EVE and go do something else lol.

Two weeks left on the Syndicate deployment and it's been an eventful month.

A side effect of tons of plexing and null combat is a -3.63 sec status. I might even go poke my head into highsec once it's over O.o

Gold Magnate huh?

So CCP is toying with the idea of raffling off a Gold Magnate and a few Guardian Vexors throught Somer Blink.
Predictably, the EVE forums are full of crying about how CCP is wrecking the game.


...



Seriously?


My personal position: Zero Fucks Given, Mate.

I really wonder about EVE players sometimes. I think a majority just like to complain for the sake of complaining.

[VIDEO] Fuel Cache Partition

So yeah, I made and EVE pvp video.

Ships used: Thorax, Scythe Fleet Issue, Bellicose, Retribution, Heron, Firetail, Incursus, Omen, Prophecy, Talos, Tengu, Kestrel, Thrasher, Caracal, Torp Phoon and the Typhoon Class Battlecruiser.

Mix of solo and linked fights.

Youtube Link:

http://youtu.be/el5quo-WBTA


EVE Files direct download:

http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/eezaak21/Fuel_Cache_Partition_1.mkv


Enjoy!

Ooooh Cyno! Better warp to that....

.....huh Archon. Wait there is no POS! Oh shit the Archon just cloaked. Quick, quick go for a decloak!

I sucessfully decloak the Archon \o/

We get point and start screaming for help on comms and in the intel channels and get one response. Shit, log in all the alts!

Backup points are established and me and LR swap out for battleships. It's fighters are popped in short order. Heavy Energy Neutralisers delicately caress the poor Archons capacitor as we start to chew through the armor.

Eventually the noble beast succumbs.

We link up the kill and start gloating on coms. Then someone comments "Hey the can is full of capital BPO's."

A brief mad scramble and the can is secured.

HOLY FUCK!

Split 4 ways that should be at least 5 bil each. Gotta actually haul this shit to market and to a proper appraisal of it's worth.

And people say you can't make any money off piracy :)

Oh, and Diz got home from work and logged in minutes after the Archon died.....heh.

[THC2] vs [TSO]

So we had a really busy weekend of fights. Here is one I actually remember to hit FRAPs for.

Our Omens + Exeq + BB vs a mixed shield Rupture, Thorax, BB, Scythe and fast tackle gang. Needless to say we kind of paniced when landed at 0KM on their gang with our kiting gang. But in the end our only losses were the Exequeror. 3D Horrorshow (Exequ pilot) did a fucking awesome job of keeping the fleet up until he got taken out.



Also had a decent fight vs Noir + ROFL. THC2 paper thin kiting Omens paired with 7-2 Guardians and AB HACs.

Amazingly we held up. 7-2 Guardian pilots were fucking amazing in this fight. Fleet managed to last long enough to scramble cynos to drop dreads on the tackled ROFL carriers. That moment as the dreads land...brought a tear to my eye.

Sugar Kyle also did a write up.

Fun fights all round.

And Razor did not die O.o

Huh, is that a freighter?

So it was a quiet night and I just finished a shitty Angel Plex escalation (only crap dropped). Time to head back to Bosena, log and get some sleep.
Jumping my Cruise Phoon from Illamur into Atlar I sleepily notice a few drones, a pod and an Obelisk on gate.




WTF!





Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, 84KM away! I swiftly lockup the hapless freighter, spool up the MJD, bounce and land 18KM away. Point and web apply the deeps! My cruise missiles start punching into the freighter as the sentry guns open up on my poor Phoon. Overheat that LAAR and start screaming for help in intel channels.
Wait! I have Rusu sitting in Bosena, I put her in a Domi and start making best speed. Cesto, from 7-2, responds and starts heading over.

The freighter pilot opens a convo:

[ 2013.08.16 13:36:50 ] MJ Stakus > hi
[ 2013.08.16 13:37:02 ] MJ Stakus > i give you 40kk and u let me go pls
[ 2013.08.16 13:37:21 ] Naoru Kozan > 40KK?
[ 2013.08.16 13:37:26 ] MJ Stakus > yes
[ 2013.08.16 13:37:30 ] MJ Stakus > 40 mil
[ 2013.08.16 13:37:45 ] MJ Stakus > can u stop firing?
[ 2013.08.16 13:39:04 ] MJ Stakus > what do you want?
[ 2013.08.16 13:40:02 ] MJ Stakus > is it personal? u want to kill me?

My LAAR runs out of nanite paste and I start to dip into low armor. The Obelisks armor evaporates...then damage slows to a crawl. Fracking Gallente structure! Rusu, hits the Oddelulf gate and jumps. 50 AU warp. My Phoon starts to dip into structure as the heated empty LAAR fails to keep up with the sentry gun dps.
Half structure, align for the sun.
Rusu lands and grabs secondary point as my Phoon warps out in 28% structure. Cesto lands moments later and grabs a second point and whores the final blow lol.

Obelisk killmail.

The freighter pilot convoes Rusu:

[ 2013.08.16 13:42:25 ] MJ Stakus > well im dead, but let me ask you
[ 2013.08.16 13:42:41 ] MJ Stakus > is it not better to get payed then get only kill?
[ 2013.08.16 13:43:06 ] MJ Stakus > no english?
[ 2013.08.16 13:46:10 ] Rusu'kara Kenban > no habla
[ 2013.08.16 14:00:44 ] Rusu'kara Kenban > o/

More backup arrives then we start scrambling to move industrials in to secure the loot. Quickly the wreck is strippled clean without incident despite the randoms floating around system.

We left an Itty V and about 250 shuttles in the wreck for passerbys to help themselves too.


I manage to pull about 300 mil of loot from the charred freighter hulk (also managed to loot a hulk ^^).


Very good way to end the night.