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Asp and I had a blast last night pirate hunting in 0.4 space, a few close calls but overall a real fun time. Hopefully he posts the screenies he took last night.

 

Sure can - we have 2 cruisers so you can join us. The space we are hunting in was pretty safe and there were some good rewards from the pirates out there.

It figures I just sold my Kestrel the other day or I would have given it to you But we should be able to get you up and running regardless.

 

We can get you a new ship Shads, I lost my merlin (fully loaded) helping Jason do a mission (you've got the better shields, YOU go first) last night, so we all lose them.. Some in a firefight, some when we go to get a soda (Jason lost 3 kestrels last night btw)
We';re not filthy rich, but we can help you get back on your feet..


Either way, you were going to head out to our space, but then stopped playing to do something else; so we didn't get a chance to have you out there. With Daleon's cruiser out there too, we can handle just about anything in the belts..

This isn't an instant gratification game, and you do have to find your niche; what you think you'll want to do and work towards that.

I've got some good screenshots of Hamma and i tearing it up, have to post them soon.

 

I've given you full access to all the hangars and such Daleon, so you can move anything you want in whenever. By no means do you have to move anything at all in if you don't want to

I haven't made you a director yet a) because its a pain to jump back and forth between alts, quitting all the time. and b) because I'm using you and Shads as guinea pigs in learning how the whole "roles" and permissions thing works again.

 

speaking of which I'm still kicking myself for not having us jump all over that pirate we saw last night Hamma.. 18 million isk bounty.. would've been sweet.. IF we'd have won that is.. That guy must have pissed off a LOT of people.

 

Yea would have been interesting to see what happened - what was he in anyway?

Would have been a nice payoff

Daleon when I moved into the HQ a few days ago I ran all my misc items in my Badger including a Shuttle, and also I think I fit my merlin in. Then I manually made 2 more runs to fly my Destroyer and Caracal

 

Last night sucked we got ganked

It was a good lesson in PVP though - when being tailed by a cloaking ship get the hell out of dodge or attack! I'm putting out a hit on those asshats

 

I'm still having nightmares about that encounter.. WHY I didn't go after the weaker stealth ship that was punishing us with cruise missiles I'll never know.. We totally fell for the whole bait and switch.. Stealth ship tailing us, in comes the tank with armour hardeners that can take our punishment, while the small ship does the devastating damage from 70km out..

Next time, until we're ready to REALY take someone on, if we get tailed we leave, and not wait for the pirate's friends to arrive..

On the plus side, I've made contact with a few people I used to play eve with 3 years ago. They're part of a couple rather large corps, which I personally want nothing to do with; but still they said if I needed any help to just holler. So I hollered that I'm broke thanks to some pirates.. we'll see what, if anything, comes of that .. As Mani and other WoW vets can attest, I'm not ashamed to be broke

For the few of us that are in the game now as well, we may want to consider, the pros and cons of staying as a small corp, and building up. In which case we'd need some sort of goal to work towards (manufacturing, pvp, whatever); as with what little we have now we can't take the attrition of losing cruisers every week or so. Unless we find some way of generating lots of money (begging can only go so far)..

Another option being, folding our resources in with Koroc's corporation, where there'd be a larger bed of support (more guys with big ships and all that). I'm out of decent ideas for making money consistently, and Koroc has obviously developed ideas to get his corp moving forward.

If all we were losing were frigates we'd be ok, as we could absorb the loss.. One more cruiser loss, at this point, and I'm back to perma-flying around in a frigate for a while.

The corp was designed more as a way to help my friend and I share resources and track each other better.. It'd be interesting to see where we go with it, but I'm not married to the idea of needing a small corp like ours; especially since my trading routes have gone somewhat bust recently, and I'm out of ideas on how to generate money quickly. If we all just ran missions for money and that's it, I'm not sure how the corporation would grow to help support us.

Any ideas?

 

Ya, doing missions is very much a personal thing. I don't mind helping people with missions, but only the one person gets paid, outside of splitting the money for kills. Its ok money, but again, not nearly enough to pay for wrecked cruisers. I lost my merlin to a mission too, so you never know once you start doing higher level missions if you wont lose a ship or two to the mission. So missions would be just something we all do regardless, dunno that they'd be viable for making money to support us all.

Playing the market is hard without a character designed for it. I like it myself, but it requires a lot of legwork to get around and see what's good for selling. I get the idea though, that the best buying/selling comes from manufacturing and bulk mining.

War maneuvers are a good idea and something I've talked to Jason about, even if its just the idea of mock fighting, jamming and being jammed, using some of the devices you've fitted to your ship without having to enter a real combat situation to do so.

My caracal is back up and running too, missiles galore and more focus on heavy shielding, and the ability to get way from people who lock down your warp drive

 

I need to know how to get away

 

3 words: warp core stabilizers, the more you have the better your chances