Beitrag von: Aura am Mai 21, 2013, 10:23:06 Vormittag
Why? Because of the fucking rookie ship. Every rookie ship can fit a full load of liquid ozone with Cynosural Field Theory IV. Every rookie ship, except the Amarr rookie ship. Which means Amarr characters have to buy goddamned cyno ships. Every other race can just dock and get one for free.
Da'fuck, CCP?
So, yeah. I was moving my jump freighter up north, into a position close to Jita and one jump from TVN-FM. It was a nerve-wracking start to the day, though. Up until today, every jump I'd made with the freighter was into Egghelende -- Fweddit's home system. So I was never particularly worried about losing the ship. Setting a cyno location on the University of Caille station is about the easiest thing you can do.
In jumping my freighter north today, I was doing it alone and into completely hostile territory. I was setting cynos on very different stations to Fweddit's home in Egghelende and praying I was doing it right. I know the general theory and procedure behind finding a good cyno spot, so I wasn't just winging it, but when you're doing something new and for the first time there's always some doubt that creeps in. And doing all that in an 8B ISK ship, well it can fray the nerves a bit.
All went well and I'm not 8B ISK poorer. I made four separate jumps today, and by the third I was feeling a lot more comfortable in my process. I haven't jumped the freighter into nullsec yet. I still have to get the cyno alt into Gents (just adding her via auth), as well as getting my JF pilot into a Gent's approved alt corp, for the all-important blue status.
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Had my first outing with Paxton Industries last week. A roam using a new doctrine of theirs. Mostly dessies and frigs, along with at least one interdictor. (Everything in null requires at least one bubble maker.) We destroyed two ships and podded both pilots, but the fun part was the chase. We had good intel on the prey, their direction of travel, all we had to do was catch up. To be an effective FC up here, you really need to know the lay of the land, and that's not just which systems hook up with which systems, but what jump bridges are short-cuts between two points. I thought it was kinda cool having use of the bridges to get ahead of the prey, set a trap they weren't expecting. The bridges really give a different spin to a roam.
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The second outing was this week, it was an alliance fleet rather than just corporate. Just sitting around, waiting to be titan bridged. We were at the mercy of our prey in this instance and nothing happened on day one. Apparently someone in Gents had "rented" a moon to some unsuspecting dude. After he was finished setting up his POS, it was expected he was going to jump in a Rorqual and a jump freighter. Upon which we would pounce, and then afterwards destroy his POS. After getting his new POS up, he decided to go to sleep and finish bringing in his goods the next day. So the fleet was stood down.
I gotta say, though, I felt a little bad for the guy. I don't begrudge anybody in EVE scamming outsiders. This is EVE after all, and it's one of the big reasons why I joined. Even though I want to play a game that is like the wild west, a grifter in every local chat, it's not something I could do myself. I would be wracked with too much guilt. For those that don't get the guilty conscience thing, well, go for it.
Although I wasn't around, the guy was got the next day. Just a single ship, a Chimera, valued around 2B ISK. I believe his POS was put into reinforced shortly after that.
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So after the previously mentioned op, on the unsuccessful day one, I logged off Poetic and hopped on Disco to see what was up with Fweddit. Lo and behold. They have an Archon tackled and in triage off the Egghelende undock. I hop into a mighty Thrasher (because Disco is a fairly low SP character) and join the fray. I think it went through four full triage cycles before we finally popped it. We had some initial trouble with our cap chains, but when we did finally get that sorted out, the carrier was capped-out, and it was made quick work after that.
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I joined Freedom Squad. One of the Goon subgroups. It's a USTZ PvP group, currently fighting the good fight down in Delve. Rina Kondur (Fweddit's CEO) recommended it to me.
So I flew a clone out to 1DH-SX. Did it in a speedy little interceptor. Was fairly uneventful, even with bypassing a single Northern Coalition gate camp. Thankfully, my last couple trips through Delve, late 2011, I created a number of gate observationals. They proved useful.
I should have thought Delve through a little more. All the ships I want to buy are going to be up on Alliance contract. I'm in Gents, not Goons. So, I'm going to have to talk to some Goon people tomorrow and see about getting a few ships private contracted. Someone in Gents suggested I just use my jump freighter to get some ships down. I laughed. No way in hell I'm confident enough to be jumping a freighter into an active warzone.
Goon doctrines tend to be some expensive stuff, though. Battleships and Tengus. I'll have to figure out what sort of ship reimbursement programs I may or may not be entitled too. I don't want to be losing 500M ISK ships too often. But I would like to fly a Tengu a few times. It does sound like some fun. So whether or not I'm entitled to any reimbursements, I will buy one or two for the laughs.
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"Roaming is just giving your enemy an opportunity to discover your fleet composition." That's the quote of the week. Except, I forgot who said it. Zakn told me second hand, but I can't remember who's the source.
Kind of amusing. Paranoia reigns supreme. Gent's prefer to have scouts roam (maybe this is standard stuff for nullsec), and once they find something juicy, you hot drop on them. No roaming. Roaming is for suckers.
That's pretty much all you do in lowsec. Roam. So nullsec is going to be a much different experience.
Source: Freedom Squad! (http://)