Yesterday I got a text message from a corpmate telling me my presence was required for some quality, carebear exploiting, newb life ruining, yo hoing, yar harring, piratey adventures. Well, who could resist that call?
I logged on and took the pod express to a system that our corp frequently "vacations" in to pirate. I didn't have too long to stay, but I figured I would hang out with the gang for a while and get some kills. Like always, when hunting in a high traffic low sec system, we had alt scouts in both neighboring systems so we could set up on in gates when targets jumped in. Our scout in the neighboring high sec system told us that a drake was autopiloting to the in gate to our system. We set up on the in gate and waited for him to jump in. Instead of jumping in, he just sat on the gate at 0 for a while, with our alt scout sitting as well in an Iteron. Our alt decided to play bait and jumped into to the low sec system hoping the drake would follow. Sure enough he jumped through. As soon as he decloaked we had him locked and pointed. Our dps started tearing away at his tank, I had a web but no mwd on my drake. Fail. I slow boated it down to him as he was re aproaching the gate and after what felt like an eternity, FINALLY got a web on him to slow his approach. Too little too late. He made it back to the gate and jumped through (back into a high sec system, or else we would have had someone waiting to tackle on the other side). We lost the drake kill. The no mwd was a fail in this case, but it's a toss up. I intentionally didn't fit one because I would rather have a better buffer against gate guns when attacking in low sec, its a roll of the dice, sometimes no problem, sometimes I can't get a freakin web on in time. In retrospect I though it may have been a better idea to have the gang jump into the next system in the pipe and sit on the in gate. We would have our bait jump through and hope the drake followed, that way we could leave a tackle on the other side ping ponging him between two low sec systems until he died. That would have been a gamble as well, no guarantee he would have followed the bait to the next system.
30 minutes later, we were graced with several stealth bombers, shuttles, and cloaky haulers passing through system. I couldn't help but saying on comms "Somebody make an evewide announcement to these people to come in something we can actually kill!!!". Now I must admit, I've never really been what you would want to call a "believer", but I want all of you to know that the EVE Gods HEARD ME!!!!
Our high sec scout reported a badger II about to jump into the system. Not the most glorious thing to kill, but hey its something, and he could have something juicy in the cargohold. He had already jumped into system before we could get on the in gate so we warped to the out gate preparing to jump through and wait for him. When we landed on the out gate our scout in the next system yelled on comms "holy sh**!!". "What what?" A navy geddon just landed on the gate! our gang jumped through, I held on the other side to tackle just in case he got to the gate and jumped through. Then the completely unexpected happened. We hoped we might get lucky, but we never though we would get THIS lucky with this guy. HE AGGRESSED OUR HICTOR PILOT who was GCC on the gate! Our gang told me he was aggressed and I jumped through just in time to lock him up and get on the mail! The navy geddon went down in smoke....A LOT faster than any body expected. Look at the kill mail and you will quickly understand why. Shield booster on a navy freaking Geddon FOR THE WIN!!!! L.M.A. freakin.O. Hey, at least he had a expanded cargo hold in the lows!!! We all laughed.....hard. Even as he through up his tears in local!!! Needless to say we were called a lot of names! haha. That made my week!
Soon after that my time had come, I had to take off. The gang subsequently killed a Gila and an Orca.
That's all the adventure for today....until next time.
"Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions." -Niccolo Machiavelli
-Agro
Monday, June 7, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
E-Honor?
Fights are fights! Whether you're hunting or being hunted, one of the great things I love about this game is there are usually no excuses. The game mechanics of Eve allow for a pilot to exercise strategy to accomplish whatever they need to. If you are hunting there are plenty of ways to catch your prey. If you are being hunted, there are plenty of ways to get away if you can outsmart the people hunting you.
Recently, on a corpmate's blog, there has been alot of scufflebutt....yes, scufflebutt about logging off as an escape tactic. He has a pretty funny post on his blog Response to an angry boy.
Here was my comment on the matter for your amusement. I'm interested to hear what everyone's opinions are.
"The bottom line is there are plenty of opportunities for pvp'ers hunting someone to catch their prey! If the prey gets in a situation to log off, then they won, its the hunter's fault for not catching them. If someone catches you and aggresses you on a gate and has you tackled and you log off, you die! If you get in a situation where you can log off then that means you got away! Pure and simple. I really don't see anything wrong wiith this tactic...Maybe you should try actually catching people and killing them instead of bitching when they slip through your fingers!-Agro"
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for E-Honor, and not destroying the game for people, and maintaining a level of integrity in the game. I just don't think logging off is a question of E-Honor, or ethics. Like I started to say in the beginning, the game mechanics are such that if you are a skilled pilot, the people you are hunting shouldn't even be able to get to a safe to log off. If they get away then you failed at catching them. End of story.
"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope." - Niccolo Machiavelli
-Agro
Recently, on a corpmate's blog, there has been alot of scufflebutt....yes, scufflebutt about logging off as an escape tactic. He has a pretty funny post on his blog Response to an angry boy.
Here was my comment on the matter for your amusement. I'm interested to hear what everyone's opinions are.
"The bottom line is there are plenty of opportunities for pvp'ers hunting someone to catch their prey! If the prey gets in a situation to log off, then they won, its the hunter's fault for not catching them. If someone catches you and aggresses you on a gate and has you tackled and you log off, you die! If you get in a situation where you can log off then that means you got away! Pure and simple. I really don't see anything wrong wiith this tactic...Maybe you should try actually catching people and killing them instead of bitching when they slip through your fingers!-Agro"
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for E-Honor, and not destroying the game for people, and maintaining a level of integrity in the game. I just don't think logging off is a question of E-Honor, or ethics. Like I started to say in the beginning, the game mechanics are such that if you are a skilled pilot, the people you are hunting shouldn't even be able to get to a safe to log off. If they get away then you failed at catching them. End of story.
"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope." - Niccolo Machiavelli
-Agro
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Swat the flies
Yesturday, for the first time time in what feels like a decade...I had a day off and time to dedicate to Eve. I logged on in our home constelation in Delve to a PL gang in local trying to pick a fight. In typical mav fashion we quickly fleeted up with not only numbers, but a substantial and effective composition of dps, recon, and fast tackle.
After we undocked, the PL gang started to bail and head back up the pipe to KFIE. Before they left, one of the PL members told his gang in local "we've been sitting around too long". Lawlz. I thought this was pretty common knowledge, but just to reitterate, don't ever, ever, ever, give your gang directions in local chat. It's generally a good idea to stay out of local as a rule of thumb while flying in 0.0. The occasional smack talk is understandable, but don't make it a habit to chatter in local.
Our gang gave chase and stopped in NOL. They had a cheetah following us keeping eyes. We decided to take a side step and lure them into a fight. From NOL we went up to AJI and then into RF-K to duck out of site. It worked, their scout following us had no idea where we were as he jumped in to the next couple of systems up the pipe and found local empty. We sent our scout in a vagabond through to Q-H, he found some bait on the 1Smeb gate in Q-H. We hear our scout on comms say "Oh shit....oh damn" FC: " What? What's going on?" Scout: "We've gotta...they're hitting me, their gang is in here aggressed" FC:"JUMP JUMP JUMP, warp to our scout!". While gang was in warp our vaga died. Our scout pilot is a great pilot and I fly with him alot, whether he could have lived if we had gotten there sooner is uncertain, but I liked to think he could have. The reason we were so late getting to him was because of the lack of clear information passed to the FC on comms. When you are being attacked it is important to stay calm and immediately report what is going on clearly to the FC. The moment the bait aggressed our scout, out entire gang should have been in a session change and mashing warp to our scout! We were able to takle and kill a cerb, we almost had a couple of scimi's, but they were able to jump through.
From Q-H we jumped into 1Smeb then into 6Q. We got on the RCI gate in 6Q preparing to duck out of the pipe and regroup and figure out what we were going to do when local bumped red. The gang had jumped into 6Q. We stayed on the RCI gate for a while waiting for them to make a move, they didn't. Our cloaky scout checked out both out gates. Sure enough their gang was sittingon the Q-H gate in 6Q. Our FC ordered our scout to A-E for an exit strategy...we had been there for too long, except we didn't announce it in local...lawlz.
Now we get to a subject I love discussing, and that is strategy. The nitty gritty pvp is extremely important, nowing how to fly, not die. That combined with big picture strategy, and outsmarting the enemy by staying ahead, like moving a chess piece on a board, is what I really enjoy discussing. While we were posted in 6Q, the hostile gang was on Q-H gate blocking our pipe back, and our scout reported one red in A-E. Taking the "what would I do if I were them" approach, I had a gut feeling that they had another gang formed up to catch us sitting in 1DH waiting for us to go through A-E. The general strategy here being keep the gang in 6Q on the Q-H gate, forcing us through A-E and down through 1DH back down the pipe. This way we would be sandwiched between to fleets and stuck. That would be the smart thing to do, what I would have done, we definately gave them enough time to form up a second gang while we were sitting in 6Q. Our FC ordered warp to A-E gate and my gut sank, thinking trap trap trap.
To my surprise, while in warp to the A-E gate I hear our scout say the red in A-E left. SWEET!!! They wont even know we went through! I guess I overestimated a little bit. We jumped 1DH and clear the rest of the way back. All in all good fights, expelled them from our home and killed a cerb.
After getting back to our home constellation I ratted for a bit and logged to spend time with the wifey. Later in the evening I logged back in and saw that one of our FC's PK was taking a gang through high sec to kill the little orphans. I cloned to jita, fitted a drake and met up with the gang. What followed was an extremely boring way back to Delve with no war targets found in high sec.
Then came low sec.....aahhh...low sec, what a beast! We found a rokh travelling through and started chasing him. We chased him several jumps then our rapier inevitably caught up with him...duh! takled in warp to an out gate, double webs on him, scrams, bumps. Our curse nueted, his tank dissappeard and his rokh crumbled fast. There is really no reason he should have died. A BS will NEVER outrun a BC gang with fast tackle...duh...another piece of info I though was common knowledge. We chased him several jumps and caught up...he why he didnt safe up and start bouncing or log several jumps before I have NO idea! Especially in his case...he had a cloak....yes a cloak. He deserved to die! No mercy for the weak!
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." -Niccolo Machiavelli
-Agro
After we undocked, the PL gang started to bail and head back up the pipe to KFIE. Before they left, one of the PL members told his gang in local "we've been sitting around too long". Lawlz. I thought this was pretty common knowledge, but just to reitterate, don't ever, ever, ever, give your gang directions in local chat. It's generally a good idea to stay out of local as a rule of thumb while flying in 0.0. The occasional smack talk is understandable, but don't make it a habit to chatter in local.
Our gang gave chase and stopped in NOL. They had a cheetah following us keeping eyes. We decided to take a side step and lure them into a fight. From NOL we went up to AJI and then into RF-K to duck out of site. It worked, their scout following us had no idea where we were as he jumped in to the next couple of systems up the pipe and found local empty. We sent our scout in a vagabond through to Q-H, he found some bait on the 1Smeb gate in Q-H. We hear our scout on comms say "Oh shit....oh damn" FC: " What? What's going on?" Scout: "We've gotta...they're hitting me, their gang is in here aggressed" FC:"JUMP JUMP JUMP, warp to our scout!". While gang was in warp our vaga died. Our scout pilot is a great pilot and I fly with him alot, whether he could have lived if we had gotten there sooner is uncertain, but I liked to think he could have. The reason we were so late getting to him was because of the lack of clear information passed to the FC on comms. When you are being attacked it is important to stay calm and immediately report what is going on clearly to the FC. The moment the bait aggressed our scout, out entire gang should have been in a session change and mashing warp to our scout! We were able to takle and kill a cerb, we almost had a couple of scimi's, but they were able to jump through.
From Q-H we jumped into 1Smeb then into 6Q. We got on the RCI gate in 6Q preparing to duck out of the pipe and regroup and figure out what we were going to do when local bumped red. The gang had jumped into 6Q. We stayed on the RCI gate for a while waiting for them to make a move, they didn't. Our cloaky scout checked out both out gates. Sure enough their gang was sittingon the Q-H gate in 6Q. Our FC ordered our scout to A-E for an exit strategy...we had been there for too long, except we didn't announce it in local...lawlz.
Now we get to a subject I love discussing, and that is strategy. The nitty gritty pvp is extremely important, nowing how to fly, not die. That combined with big picture strategy, and outsmarting the enemy by staying ahead, like moving a chess piece on a board, is what I really enjoy discussing. While we were posted in 6Q, the hostile gang was on Q-H gate blocking our pipe back, and our scout reported one red in A-E. Taking the "what would I do if I were them" approach, I had a gut feeling that they had another gang formed up to catch us sitting in 1DH waiting for us to go through A-E. The general strategy here being keep the gang in 6Q on the Q-H gate, forcing us through A-E and down through 1DH back down the pipe. This way we would be sandwiched between to fleets and stuck. That would be the smart thing to do, what I would have done, we definately gave them enough time to form up a second gang while we were sitting in 6Q. Our FC ordered warp to A-E gate and my gut sank, thinking trap trap trap.
To my surprise, while in warp to the A-E gate I hear our scout say the red in A-E left. SWEET!!! They wont even know we went through! I guess I overestimated a little bit. We jumped 1DH and clear the rest of the way back. All in all good fights, expelled them from our home and killed a cerb.
After getting back to our home constellation I ratted for a bit and logged to spend time with the wifey. Later in the evening I logged back in and saw that one of our FC's PK was taking a gang through high sec to kill the little orphans. I cloned to jita, fitted a drake and met up with the gang. What followed was an extremely boring way back to Delve with no war targets found in high sec.
Then came low sec.....aahhh...low sec, what a beast! We found a rokh travelling through and started chasing him. We chased him several jumps then our rapier inevitably caught up with him...duh! takled in warp to an out gate, double webs on him, scrams, bumps. Our curse nueted, his tank dissappeard and his rokh crumbled fast. There is really no reason he should have died. A BS will NEVER outrun a BC gang with fast tackle...duh...another piece of info I though was common knowledge. We chased him several jumps and caught up...he why he didnt safe up and start bouncing or log several jumps before I have NO idea! Especially in his case...he had a cloak....yes a cloak. He deserved to die! No mercy for the weak!
"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." -Niccolo Machiavelli
-Agro
Intros
My name is Agro Cathaldus, and let it be known that I am bored! That being said I've decided to create a blog reflecting my own thoughts and experiences in the Eve Universe, and hopefully share some entertaning stories, tales, lies, and exaggerations with you. Minus the lies and exaggerations of course 8).
I have been a long time reader and follower of the eveonline blogging community, but have never participated further than leaving a comment here and there on posts that I find interesting or amusing. When I first started the game I found reading blogs (mainly on capsuleer...yes i'm a lazy iphone user), then other bloggs, extremely helpful in my growth as an eve pilot.
Another motivation I have to right this blog is to pay the education I have recieved and currently recieve forward to those starting out in the game, or want to expand their pvp reading base. I am comparatively a newer player to eve, but have had experiences in pvp that many veterans in the game have yet to participate in. This is in concequence to my decision to move out to 0.0 my second week ever playing the game. Talk about diving in head first. I've been there ever since and the am living the life. Being in a corp with its own constellation in a great spot in the universe is everything good you could imagine it to be. I am a member of The Maverick Navy in IT Alliance. I'm proud to be able to say that that fact has something to say of my own pvp abillities as well as the abillities I have to work cohesively with a team to kick ass!
The last thing I want to say is that if you're looking for a blog all about mining, industrial tips, or how to kiss up to high sec agents for higher level missions, your out of luck. I hold a philosphy that carebearing's purpose is mearly to support my pvp habbits. That being said I am usually broke, but that is the nature of the game.
"Before all else, be armed." - Niccolo Machiavelli
-Agro
I have been a long time reader and follower of the eveonline blogging community, but have never participated further than leaving a comment here and there on posts that I find interesting or amusing. When I first started the game I found reading blogs (mainly on capsuleer...yes i'm a lazy iphone user), then other bloggs, extremely helpful in my growth as an eve pilot.
Another motivation I have to right this blog is to pay the education I have recieved and currently recieve forward to those starting out in the game, or want to expand their pvp reading base. I am comparatively a newer player to eve, but have had experiences in pvp that many veterans in the game have yet to participate in. This is in concequence to my decision to move out to 0.0 my second week ever playing the game. Talk about diving in head first. I've been there ever since and the am living the life. Being in a corp with its own constellation in a great spot in the universe is everything good you could imagine it to be. I am a member of The Maverick Navy in IT Alliance. I'm proud to be able to say that that fact has something to say of my own pvp abillities as well as the abillities I have to work cohesively with a team to kick ass!
The last thing I want to say is that if you're looking for a blog all about mining, industrial tips, or how to kiss up to high sec agents for higher level missions, your out of luck. I hold a philosphy that carebearing's purpose is mearly to support my pvp habbits. That being said I am usually broke, but that is the nature of the game.
"Before all else, be armed." - Niccolo Machiavelli
-Agro
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