"I'm a retard" and other stories

[ClydeJr]

What's the best way to transport modules worth 3.5 billion isk? Use a industrial ship fitted with only 2 cargoholds and 1 warp core stabilizer.

The comments on the KB for the industrial pilot are pretty damn funny: http://hydraalliance.org/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=29029

[Slayerik]

Hydra are horrible. They pad our killboards better then even IAC did down south!

[Furiously]

Jebus. Sucks the really good stuff blew up.

[Vedi]

Who spends 1.2 billion on a cruise launcher anyway?

[Furiously]

Someone who wants a big epeen? At a certain point money in the game becomes...worthless?

[Endie]

I have to say, what process of rationalisation is someone going through to decide that the launcher is a worthwhile purchase?  "Hmmm, which will add more to my alliance's fleet strength?  Shall I buy a dreadnought and bring that along?  Or increase my raven's DPS by 3% by adding one Estamel's launcher?"

[Slayerik]

I have to say, what process of rationalisation is someone going through to decide that the launcher is a worthwhile purchase?  "Hmmm, which will add more to my alliance's fleet strength?  Shall I buy a dreadnought and bring that along?  Or increase my raven's DPS by 3% by adding one Estamel's launcher?"

People that buy those aren't usually in alliances, they are State War Academy dudes (lack of tax rate) that have run more missions than god and spend all their mission money on a ship that makes them mission even faster! In the end they will accumulate an insane amount of loot just on the ship (unless TRI or others catch em slippin) and if they really needed cash they can pawn off an estamel launcher.

But ya, I have been slowly faction fitting one of my megathrons and Im now at the point where I go....jesus...how many Thoraxes could I get blown up for just this one ship?

[Thrawn]

But ya, I have been slowly faction fitting one of my megathrons and Im now at the point where I go....jesus...how many Thoraxes could I get blown up for just this one ship?

Now we just patiently wait for the day where we see a post from Slayerik - "DAMNIT, I was playing EvE drunk off my ass last night and suicide ganked someone using my faction fitted Mega instead of a throw away ship!

[bhodi]

Don't forget this recent jihadswarm hulk kill.

T2 cargo rigs 

[Thrawn]

Don't forget this recent jihadswarm hulk kill.

T2 cargo rigs 

Daaamnn, are they just that rare to be worth so much?

I didn't even realize they were still going so strong with the exhumer kills. 

[Ratadm]

Don't forget this recent jihadswarm hulk kill.

T2 cargo rigs 

Daaamnn, are they just that rare to be worth so much?

I didn't even realize they were still going so strong with the exhumer kills. 

Pretty much.  All t2 rigs are ridiculously high cost because of the rarity of t2 salvage.

[Slayerik]

Just had an 'Im a retard moment' last night.

I am looking through skills to train as im scanning ships. I look at the survey skill (which I had at level 0). Ummmmm...Ive basically thrown away a ton of kills because I havent trained this to at least 3. I thought it was a carebear skill that I might need later as a pre-req to something, or for like scan probes or something. Turns out, I could have shaved almost a second off each scan (which can be the difference between rich and poor).

GG Slay.

[ClydeJr]

A local 1-man griefer corp wardecced our empire mission/industrialist corp. He was playing docking games at our HQ which made it difficult on us. One guy in my corp was eventually able to bait him off the station and I flew in a Blackbird (jamming e-war ship) and hit him with 2 racial jammers. I flew in from our POS and landed about 30km from the fight thinking I'd be safe there since he was using blasters. What I didn't realize was 30 km out coming from our POS put me right on top of the station. He turned and made a beeline for the station which meant he was coming straight at me. I thought I'd be safe since I was jamming the crap out of him. Next thing I know my shields melt and my armor starts to disappear. Luckily I was already aligned and almost at top speed so I was able to warp out without dying. I couldn't figure out how that guy could hit me since I had him jammed. I set up my Blackbird a week ago since I knew he Gallente. Turns out I went braindead while fitting and put several Caldari racial jammers on my ship... Oops.

[Slayerik]

Watch for Gallente guys with sentry drones as well. They can bring some pain.

[ClydeJr]

Watch for Gallente guys with sentry drones as well. They can bring some pain.

What's the difference between normal combat drones and sentry drones?

[Slayerik]

Sentry drones dont move. T2 sentries can fuck your world up.

They can be used at up to about 90km, and some are closer range/higher damage.

[TheDreamr]

Sentry drones dont move. T2 sentries can fuck your world up.

They can be used at up to about 90km, and some are closer range/higher damage.

My sentry drone 101 is rather fuzzy -- as they don't move, do sentries ignore the whole "your maximum drone control range is XZY" shenanigans that drove me nuts while using heavies?  Or would you need to be setup to target 90km and control drones that far out?

[Slayerik]

Sentry drones dont move. T2 sentries can fuck your world up.

They can be used at up to about 90km, and some are closer range/higher damage.

My sentry drone 101 is rather fuzzy -- as they don't move, do sentries ignore the whole "your maximum drone control range is XZY" shenanigans that drove me nuts while using heavies?  Or would you need to be setup to target 90km and control drones that far out?

I think if you had your sentries out and someone aggroed you at 90km, they will shoot them. You could not tell them to shoot 90km since you wouldnt have a lock though. None of this is for sure though, anyone help here?

[Der Helm]

I think if you had your sentries out and someone aggroed you at 90km, they will shoot them. You could not tell them to shoot 90km since you wouldnt have a lock though. None of this is for sure though, anyone help here?

I'd have to test that, but I think drone aggro is limited by drone range. Else your little combat drones would merrily head out and engage targets shooting you from 90k, wouldn't they ?

[Endie]

I'd have to test that, but I think drone aggro is limited by drone range. Else your little combat drones would merrily head out and engage targets shooting you from 90k, wouldn't they ?

Even if aggroed drones will stop shooting if the target leaves drone control range.  This is a great tactic in inties: someone sets drones on you, so you kite them out of control range then burn back.  The drones then go dead in the water once the leave control range, and your target has to abandon them and launch more.

Disclaimer: this worked when I was flying inties, but recently I've been in other stuff, so I don't know if the changes to drones in Trinity have altered this behaviour.

[Slayerik]

Yeah, that makes sense...I was just thinking of the auto aggresion of drones.

[lac]

The drones then go dead in the water once the leave control range

I'm pretty sure they don't do that anymore, they keep attacking the target and when it's gone they return to the ship. At least thats how it works on npc's, with my 45km drone control range and sniper setup I run into this rather often.

[IainC]

Pretty sure that drones keep attacking unless they die or their target does. I've certainly sicced drones on something at the limit of my range and then flown off to go somewhere else out of control range while they merrily carve the target up. As long as you stay on grid, they don't go inert.

[Slayerik]

Soooo..... maybe I was right after all?

 

[Endie]

That's a shame: that was a really nice trick, and one of the few ways to mess up stuff like vexors in an inty.

[Endie]

So I log into the highsec system I logged off in last night, near our wardec targets.  I get told I'm in squad one, with who we shall call Mr A Nonymous as FC.  I eventually get him to realise where I am: Yvelet.  He brings the fleet to the next system, Yveve (lowsec).  I warp to the gate.  All is well.  He then says he's jumped into Elore (even lower sec) and is waiting on the Yveve gate.  I inform him he is two jumps away (FCs should always have maps open).  He says to jump into the system and warp to him on the Elore gate.  I do this, because i am still labouring under the delusion that he knows what the fuck he is doing.

I am in warp when he says "right sorry Endie we're going to have to move", and promptly fucks off with the fleet.  I am left facing Notoreity, a pirate corp.  In a scorpion.  I wait til they aggress then jump, but they have more mates on the far side.  The FC says "right, we're on our way", and I tell him not to be stupid and lose a fleet trying to save a Scorpion he's already killed.  I die.  He keeps saying "sorry i'm not doing very well here."

I then discover that stupid idiot was trying to get the fleet into my system.  I could just have stayed where I was.  He didn't know he'd reached the highsec gate.  I could chew a brick, I'm so pissed off. 

[Grand Design]

 

[Endie]

To be fair, when the rest of Aegis came by earlier they tore Notoreity a new one, killing 3 battleships, 2 battlecruisers and a cruiser for the loss of two drakes.  I should have ignored the mad orders and just sat tight.

[dwindlehop]

I am left facing Notoreity, a pirate corp.  In a scorpion.  I wait til they aggress then jump, but they have more mates on the far side.  The FC says "right, we're on our way", and I tell him not to be stupid and lose a fleet trying to save a Scorpion he's already killed.  I die.  He keeps saying "sorry i'm not doing very well here."

Hey, we (NOTR) are an alliance, not a corp! 

[Hoax]

To be fair, when the rest of Aegis came by earlier they tore Notoreity a new one, killing 3 battleships, 2 battlecruisers and a cruiser for the loss of two drakes.  I should have ignored the mad orders and just sat tight.

How did they kill two drakes?  Who goes for Drakes first?  Where's the KB engagement link?

[Slayerik]

Maybe they were fighting.......10 drakes!!!

[Phildo]

I had an "oh yeah, aggression timer" moment today as I undocked from a station in a brand new Vexor (after having just been PVPed by that command ship we took on with roughly four frigates and a cruiser).  Oh yeah, and I had forgotten to insure it in my rush to refit it.  Goodbye, 7 million or so!

[Endie]

To be fair, when the rest of Aegis came by earlier they tore Notoreity a new one, killing 3 battleships, 2 battlecruisers and a cruiser for the loss of two drakes.  I should have ignored the mad orders and just sat tight.

How did they kill two drakes?  Who goes for Drakes first?  Where's the KB engagement link?

My mistake: I misread the KB (http://aegismilitia.phpnet.us/?a=kill_related&kll_id=1277).  We lost a manticore, blackbird and thorax for 3 battleships, 3 battlecruisers and a cruiser.  Apparently the numbers weren't quite as skewed as they look there, as only three of the NOTR guys got on killmails, but some more than the drake did get away.  I'm just annoyed at the idiot squad commander feeding them my scorp to make up for their losses a little :(

Spot the odd rifter out.  Damned Latvian spies...

Edit, for fairness I should say that this was just revenge for the first meeting: http://killboard.notr-eve.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=6692, though that's not that bad a result for being outnumbered 2:1 on BS.

[Nerf]

So I was getting ready to pay endie back a big chunk of money, did a char search and right clicked "give money".

Did anyone know that theres a Justinius flavius too?  If this is one of your alts, please forward the billion isk I accidentally sent him to JustiniANUS flavius.  Thanks.

Endie, I'll pay ya back still, no worries.

[Horazon]

 There was a fucked up regarding the early organisation of the fleet.
 In the very beginning we had the latvians in one gang, people at our FOB in an other one, and people in solitude in a last one.
 Latvians and FOB people merged,( Gang A) but everybody stayed on the same channel on vent with the people already in solitude. ( gang B )
 Gang A was to merge with gang B near Arasare as the system was already full of Friends ( Ekchuah ).
 Gang B was spread between Yvelet  and arasare, camping gates with Ekchuah
 Then we heard scouts reporting NOTR camping the gate gang A was about to go through ( by we i mean gang A + B )
 Personally i was in gang B, sitting in 1 jump from Yveve, when FC reported engagement started i just jumped through and warped to the battlezone. ( without the rest of my gang B ^^)
 I dont remember in which gang you were Endie, but i agree there was a "slight" communication problem there.