You do not speak about Frigate Club - Great kills but 2003 main will kill us all

[Endie]

OK, we came, we saw, we shot stuff, we fell for the smartbombing battleship with a faction smartbomb costing more than our fleet, then we killed other people.  Now it's time to apply those valuable lessons to new, improved pewpewing.  We'll try to get people with even more kills for the killboards.

The first rule of Frigate Club is: no T2 ships this time (codicil 1 - except any covops who want to scout).  I will not be running this one as intentionally suicidal, but there is always a chance of death and I want us to be able to aggressively engage stuff knowing that one kill pays for the lot. 

I don't want to get people fatigued with too many of these gangs chewing up evenings, and this Sunday is superbowl Sunday, but if Saturday 9th February at 2000 Eve Time is fine for enough people we can run again then: post if you are up for this.

This time I will be setting up ships for people and handing them out in advance so you can jump back into one and short-cut across highsec to where we'll be with no downtime.  I'll also contract ships to people who will be turning up late, and arranging rendezvous points for them to join us.

I will also get a new mic.

I'll post more details later, so check this op at the top of the thread for updates, but assume for now that we'll be based out of Reisen again.  We'll be moving fast, largely in lowsec at first but dipping into 0.0 if I spot vulnerable targets.

For those who only experienced the first couple of kills and then the comedic Typhoon-based carnage, you missed out on quite a long and successful roam through lowsec afterwards, once everyone had got used to what we were up to.  Come back and try again.

Time of Op:

EVE/GMT      EDT      EST / CDT      CST / MDT      MST / PDT / Arizona      PST      Sydney      Stockholm      2000 4 PM 3PM 2PM 1PM Noon 7AM? 9PM Please do train up ewar skills: especially Sensor Linking for RSDs.  With warp disruptors letting us stay at almost 20km from a target this means a bunch of us can damp someone to the point they literally cannot lock any of us. Also, post your shiptypes, so I can get the right race of replacement ships in place and fitted to hand over in advance. Participants: Endie - Incursus Ajax34i - Griffin/Merlin Dbltnk - Rifter Tar - Incursus IainC - Gallente Bhodii - Pod Griffin Epid3mic - Merlin Ravandor - Griffin Hoax - Punisher Lac - Rifter Amiable - Minmatar/Amarr Murgos - ? Grand Design - Gallente Myrdyn98 - Rifter Quinton - Caldari Akkori - Merlin Sir T - Amarr Jet Antares - Caldari Ninja Sportz - Griffin Snee - Amarr Der Helm - Rifter Gal Than - Caldari (all those guys use Caldari  ) Mook - Punisher Falconeer - Rifter Llyse - ?

[ajax34i]

I'm in.

[dbltnk]

I'll be there. Count me in for a Minmatar Tackler.

[tar]

I'll be there. Still got lots to learn :)

[IainC]

I'll try and be there if CCP sort out their comedy server connections. the main reason I left after my brutal podding on Sunday was that I couldn't maintain a connection. Everything else was fine but EvE just kept booting me as soon as (or before in some cases) I'd loaded the station. Losing the ship wasn't an issue, I was taking the piss a bit with a T2 fitted Ishkur but I can easily afford to lose a few of those in a night.

if I can reliably play, I'll be there again.

[tazelbain]

EDIT: nvm

[Thrawn]

I'll go down as a maybe, Saturdays in the early afternoon (for me at least) usually won't work for me.  I'll find out for sure probably tonight.

[Endie]

Like I say, if you can only make it a couple of hours in, I'll be runnning it for about the same amount of time as last time, so we can rendezvous with late starters as the evening goes on.

[bhodi]

I'll be there in a griffin!

[Endie]

I'll be there in a griffin!

And you don't have to scout this time...

[Epid3mic]

Ill be there with a merlin again =) only problem is ill more then likely be a late joiner...work on saturdays normally runs until 7pm Eastern standard time (east coast US)

[Viin]

Can't make it early on Sat, again. 

[Ravandor]

I'll be there in a Griffin at about 2130 Eve time.

[Hoax]

Jacked up and good to go!@!!     

Umm, for real though I'll be piloting a Punisher again.  Anyone else looking to fly Amarr who wants to compare notes PM me here or talk ingame.

[lac]

I'll be there, probably in a rifter. I should have trained the other frigate skills to III by then for easy replacement.

[amiable]

Put me down for a maybe again (wife permitting) - i could do a rifter or punisher, whatever you prefer.  (alternatively I could buy a few throw away stabbers and fit it with some cheap speed mods/shield extenders and make a ghetto vaga)

The real problem is I have to get around to getting my PvP jump clone out of 0.0 where I left it oh...  7 or 8 months ago...

[Murgos]

Depending on GF issues (there is a formal Gala that night and she won't tell me if she wants to go) I'll be there for either a couple of hours or the whole op.

As of today I can fit MWD's so that should help make me a bit more useful as a tackler.

[Morat20]

Darnit, I'm on nights that weekend.

[Grand Design]

I'm down.  I still have five punishers and four crucifiers left over, so I will bring those. 

Here is a handy guide to electronic warfare if anyone needs to brush up.

[Tragny]

Sign me up. I've amarr, minmatar, and caldari frig III, along with gallente frig V and sensor suppression III, so uh incursis, tristan, maulus, or whatever is at hand. I should be around Thursday and Friday a bit, so give me a shout if you want a hand pre-fitting stuff.

[Myrdyn98]

Ill be there in my DPS rifter

[Quinton]

I'm in.  I'll be creating a new character just for F13 piracy fun.  Probably Caldari.

12 days should be plenty of time to train up enough skills to cover MWD and ECM goodness.

EDIT: Character name is Zzelle.

[bhodi]

I have heard good things, everyone seems to recommend this mic for people who need one. Like Endie :)

[ajax34i]

This is what I have available at most stores I think, $14.  Microphone sensitive enough that I have to keep it about 3 cm away from my mouth else it's too loud.

I don't like microphones that hang on a wire and pick up vibrations from my neck area; prefer something that's in front of my mouth, or to the side.

I also usually have the "20dB gain" checkbox checked on my sound card (it's an old old soundblaster).

Teamspeak seems to have poorer quality than some of the ventrilo servers I've been on (which supported 40 people in high quality), and I know vent lets you manually adjust someone's volume as well as put them on the left or right speakers, and there's a way to make Vent normalize everyone automatically regardless of how loud or whispery they are.

But that's neither here nor there, we use what we have access to, of course.

[Akkori]

I'm in again. I might even have my new system by then and get a decent FPS. Merlin, and I will be ready for a MWD by then, with several nav-type skills at lvl 4.

I would have no problem renting a Ventrillo server. It's pretty cheap at around $13 per month for 60 users or $37 every 3 months. I like Vent better than TS personally. I love the way you can set up a hierarchy of channels within  room, and bind them to key. So if the FC wants to issue an order, he can speak only to WC, and then the WC can speak only to their Wing members, etc... Makes communication flow better. I was in a clan for BF2 that did this, 64 man teams, worked awesome. And the per-user customizations, like tone altering (for those with really deep voices -poke-) and volume adjustments. Anyway, just a thought....

[ajax34i]

Yeah, but if we only have 1 op every 2 weeks, it probably isn't worth it, even with that low price.

[Quinton]

I actually prefer teamspeak because I can run the client on my (Linux) laptop.

My win32 gaming box has some super-braindamaged onboard audio that crashes the game if hw accel is on.  I cannot imagine what running teamspeak *and* eve would do to it, but I bet it would not be pretty.

[bhodi]

I have a commercial-grade internet connection with a server; Obviously, I can run vent as well as my current TS server should the need arise. There's no need to be buying access to one.

If you want, I'll set one up, and then you can buy access to mine, and you can pay in ISK :)

As for "Sound quality", there are a variety of codecs that you can use with different bitrates. I think teamspeak sounds better, but when you get 30+ people in one channel you end up having to drop the bitrate to avoid stuttering. The cool thing about TS is that you can do it on the fly, whereas in vent, you can't. Vent, on the other hand, has some other features, like different command channels, and also has a "de-geeking" filter that smooths and drops your voice about an octave :)

[Sir T]

Hmm.. I might drop in then. All I have is a newbie alt with basic skills but I can trained her with basic jamming and scramming.. Any race prefered?  Shes Amarr but I can wipe her and create a new one.

[Viin]

I have a commercial-grade internet connection with a server; Obviously, I can run vent as well as my current TS server should the need arise. There's no need to be buying access to one.

If you want, I'll set one up, and then you can buy access to mine, and you can pay in ISK :)

You can't, actually. Only their authorized resellers can have a 'commercial' version that holds more than the default 5 or whatever the personal version is. I looked into it once. See here: http://www.ventrilo.com/purchase.php

[Slayerik]

Hosting a LAN party so ...prolly not...but I might want to show the guys some eve PVP so who knows.

One thing is for sure, no leading for me. I got stressed the fuck out last time ( i was kinda hoping for a stress free roam, I have enough intense ones in VSQ). I was probably unfair in expectations. Either way, it was my first ever daredevil kill...so thats cool. I know this one will be much smoother, like any game ...PVP is a matter of experience. Valuable experience was gained last time. I'm still learning PVP stuff to this day. Part of the reason I love this game.

[bhodi]

You can't, actually. Only their authorized resellers can have a 'commercial' version that holds more than the default 5 or whatever the personal version is. I looked into it once. See here: http://www.ventrilo.com/purchase.php

Oh. Well, that's a bunch of shit.

TS it is.

[Logik]

What's the status of EVE's built-in voice comm?  I was under the impression they had made it free at some point.

[Akkori]

TS will work okay I am sure, but for important kind of op's, I would still vote Vent, and I really don't have a problem renting a server for a month so we can try it out.

[Slayerik]

Vent pwns TS.