An update. Shortly after my first EVE-Pirate post I joined the North. I quickly found out I couldn't shoot almost anybody. I didn't connect with the members, who spent half the time talking in their native Romanian language, and when my buddies Raven got stolen, nobody cared. That was the nail in the coffin for me. I moved down to my old carebear haunting grounds of Khanid. I talked to a ex carebearing friend of mine, and he invited me to join Firmus Ixion.
I immediately made fast friends with some of the members, and after a few days of intensive ratting, I was awash in wealth. Purchasing a Thorax and using some of the named loot I got from the rats, built myself a nice PVPing ship. In two weeks I ratted heavily for the corp, participated in some gatecamps, nabbed a faction spawn from AAA space, participated in some roving gangs. But all these times I managed not to run into a single hostile force.
This upset me, our CEO was dissapointed by the lack of killmails on the board. Even going as far as to not so vaguely threaten to kick people from the corp if he didn't start seeing results.
Today, I logged into EVE, my friend who invited me to FIX told me to get my rear in gear and head into Catch. I nabbed a gang invite, and moved as a fleet. Our commander kept losing connection and was replaced.
We arrived at the target system. No sov in the system, but their was an outpost.station (not sure which), we were going to take it. A gang of 45-50 battleships, cruisers, frigates, and logistics warped in on the station. Capital ships were en route.
I immediately realize I forgot to fit rails... I'm a blasterax, not a fleet cruiser. Fatal mistake. A Moros undocks. I mwd forward and mwd right back to the fleet as he immediately makes a close range ship go pop. I elect to stay well outside scramble range and try to help as much as I can with my drones, we get him to quarter armor and he docks. Immediately, he undocks and I, lagged out, come to with him 80km away from the station. As I mwd into drone range an Archon undocks. Where the heck are the capitals? Anyhow, our FC orders us to take on the Moros.
A sudden craziness takes over me. Drones are out, mwd on full blast, I close and turn my blasters on. Perhaps I should have cackled madly at my computer screen for effect. I continue pounding the dreadnought. Who has decided to start popping BS's like one pops Tic-Tac's into ones mouth. I continue my relentless assault on the Moros for a full minute. Without missing a beat, the beastly capital ship unleashes a mad pack of T2 medium drones. I suddenly lag like crazy. Scrambled, helpless, I die in a flash. My pop warps off, and I'm at a stargate.
Now I would blame dev alts for the lag, but it wasn't BoB we were fighting, so I can't do that. I couldn't really give him kudo's for popping me, because I was a dead man as soon as I got inside scramble range. But he killed me none the less.
2007.02.10 02:42
Victim: Ivan Moon
Alliance: Firmus Ixion
Corp: Black Avatar
Destroyed: Thorax
System: FAT-6P
Security: 0.0
Involved parties:
Name: Jouni Kalmar (laid the final blow)
Security: 5.1
Alliance: Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
Corp: The Tidemark
Ship: Moros
Weapon: Valkyrie II
Destroyed items:
10MN MicroWarpdrive I
J5 Prototype Warp Inhibitor I
X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
Heavy Ion Blaster I
Emergency Damage Control I
Heavy Ion Blaster I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane I
Vespa I (Drone Bay)
Antimatter Charge M, Qty: 97
Antimatter Charge M, Qty: 97
Antimatter Charge M, Qty: 97
By this time everyones angry. What happened to the capitals? Why had we been slaughtered so badly? I head home and log off to take care of RL. Eve is after all, not my life.
I log back on two hours later. My friend immediately tells me to get my rear over to Catch again. Our act gotten together, the capitals were taking the station shields down. Our force grown to 60 something. We'd forced the numerous IAC who'd logged on into the station. As I jumped into the system the outpost was claimed by FIX. Immediately frieghters came in. Apparently billions of isk in assets were stranded when IAC took the station. Some players had lost some nicely fitted ships, myself included, but the corp gained a great victory that day, we got our assets back.
I shall continue to hunt for fights. I can't find a fight, and when I do I lose. However, I can only go up from here.
Cleared for publication by: Ander
2 Comments
freighter·
Nice on the station capture... throw some POS's up and you will be set :P
Jouni Kalmar·
This was a fun fight. I got bounced off the station at one point and was a bit concerned, however I knew your fleet couldn't hold me down, we also had a fleet on standby for your caps, so it would have escalated nicely.
Your folly was not knowing my rep, I used to run an officer web and scram, with the carrier mindlink boosts i had web/scram to 50 or 60km from memory, so you had no chance of holding me down, it was how I used to PVP in the ship against fleets. Maybe if you had of stopped my alt carrier warping off, you might have been able to get me.
I did eventually lose the dread and the fit some 2 or 3 years later due to over confidence.