3.31.2011

I spoke too soon

We got another freighter kill.  Will post more on this tomorrow, but I have to go to bed now.  I'm tired. 

*YAWN*...

Yawn...

The camp has been slow.

Those kills that we have gotten are few and far between.  It seems that there has been some raised awareness about the situation in the systems with which we operate out of and people are being more wary.

This makes me sad.  Lemmings are fun to kill, especially when they are flying blingy ships full of shiny faction loot.  Ah well. 

I also missed a freighter kill, a Navy Megathron kill and a few other nice kills like a faction/DED Space fit Loki over the past couple of days, but RL has kept me busy with things that should not be ignored.  I almost had to put my dog down yesterday, and that required my full attention. 

Anyway, I hope to slow down the amount of time I spend playing because I feel that I have been playing too much during the week. 

So that's it for now.  If you want to donate some ISK to me, I want to buy a Cynabal!  lol

Laters,

Hianmar, a.k.a. TheEVEGamer

3.29.2011

Summary 3.28.2011

Last night = Slow night.

We killed a few drakes, but that was about it. We had a Dominix approach as well as a Tengu and a Legion, but they knew something was up and didn't aggress. It could have been better, especially since it we were aiming for fellow ninja Toumas' 100th kill of the month.

He got it, it was a prowler filled with T2 Missiles, about 30 millions worth. It was a nice kill to finish off the night, I went to bed shortly after.

Short post because I have more to write up that doesn't have to do with last night.

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3.28.2011

A Great Day

Yesterday was awesome, for several reasons.

Reason 1:
I made ISK.  Lots of ISK.  I ran some missions on my alt and sold my spare Tengu for 650 mil, 50 more than what I payed for it. That, plus the 350 million already in my wallet as well as about 30 million ISK from missions I had run earlier that day boosted me up to over 1 Billion ISK for the first time in my EVE career.  WIN!



So I promptly went to Jita and 99.99% of that ISK.  It was a Good Day.

Reason 2:
I bought a new ship!  New ships make me happy, really, really happy.  They are like a new toy on Christmas.  What's even better is when they are practical and useful and will be used almost every day.  That's why I bought a Proteus.

Hell yeah.  Currently, with my skills (Subsystems 3), I have 31.2 km point range standard, 350 DPS, 450 m/s and a 660 DPS tank omni.  Oh yeah, did I mention it's cloaky?  This is my baby.  I love it lots.  And it cost me 650 million ISK to fit, a fair exchange for my Tengu.  I also bought an extra offensive sub (included in the 650 million) and will use that for mission runner ganking.  Hurray for Tech 3's!

Reason 3:
Industry 5 finished on my soon to be Orca alt, which means I have just over two weeks till I can have increased flexibility and smoother mission runner ganking. No more having to dock up!  Also, I plan on upgrading this alts leadership skills, getting wing command 4 and skirmish warfare specialist 4, possibly 5 if I feel so inclined (Mindlinks would push my Proteus's Point out to 45 km).  Anyway, that is excellent news.

Reason 4:
Another Freighter kill!  Some numb nut decided to test his freighter's agility and aggressed on us.  Silly, silly freighter.  You died for nothing, giving us a good amount of hilarity and the end to an excellent day.


Well, that was my weekend.  Sunday was definitely the better day, the rest of the weekend was spent being an EFT warrior (Proteus), carebearing on alt for my PLEX and doing other Ninja Hijinks.

Oh, and Reason 5:
I got my first Mission Runner Kill with the help of fellow Ninja Ullus.  Surprisingly, fellow Ninja's are fairly trustworthy, I was able to leave my Proteus under his guard, and Ullus let me fly his speedy little Dramiel around the block (his Orca) and have some fun going 6 km/s.  That was the other awesome thing.

3.26.2011

Some Thoughts

I think I'll write my thoughts down now. I'm kind of bored.

Orca's are awesome, but limited in their capabilities. The fact that Gallente and Amarr vessels are a good bit larger than those of the Minmatar and Caldari really limits what I can do. Currently, I keep 5 scan ship hulls and fittings in my cargo as well as ammo for my two gank ships, the thorax and the brutix which are fitted and ready to roll in ship maintenance bay. I also have an unassembled salvage destroyer kit in my cargo as well. However, the space left over in the maintenance bay is just too small to store a scan ship inside it. This is a pain in the ass.

This problem will of course be fixed when I upgrade to some Tech II/Tech III/Faction gank ships, but until then I'm stuck.

Our ganking operation has been slow of late, *yawn*. Hope we kill something soon...


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3.25.2011

Something New This Way Comes

Stop! It's orca time!

Hell yeah it is! Today I have bought my Orca! Is TII rigged, fitted and almost ready for war! I just need two skills to level one and then my mobile tear harvester should be ready to roll out into the dark, tear-rich regions of high-security space. Sadly, it will not see it's full potential as a Mission-Runner gank support ship until one of my alts can fly it, which will be about another two to three weeks. Ah well.

My next purchase, at least a big one, will be a Proteus. Woot! The Proteus in my opinion is incredibly versatile because of it's huge tank, long point range and massive dps from it's drones and blasters. Point range is likely to be approximately 36 KM without a gang linked Orca or Vulture which is coming on my Orca alt to be.

Also, I may transfer Ram Niah, my currently in-active alt onto my main account and use him as a suicide gank alt, or I could always triple box.

My main is now about two weeks away from tech two autocannons of the medium variety. After those are done I'm going to get all my frigate skills to five as well as Minmatar Cruiser. That'll allow me to fly cloaky proby's and all those fun, fun ships like assault frigs, Vagabonds, Dramiel's and Loki's.

Mmm... I want a Loki. Would fit nicely between my Tengu and Proteus inside my Orca, lol.

Kill some blingy shit for me,

Hianmar, a.k.a. TheEVEGamer


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Freighter Down!

That's right!  I finally got it, my first freighter kill!

Today Jasmine O'Neil decided to tempt fate.  With a little help from our friends, our Obelisk pilot was convinced to gain aggression on us and suffered a fitting punishment at the hands of my faithful Brutix.  About bloody time.  No ransom or loots, but I got a freighter kill! Hells yeah!

Still running operations at the moment, more to come hopefully!

Fight dirty and get some,

Hianmar, a.k.a. TheEVEGamer

3.24.2011

The Last 10 Days

This past week has been awesome.

My contracts in 0.0 went for 100 mil more than I expected, my main is hours from an orca, and I got about 20 kills.

With several other skills queuing up on Hianmar, I am turning my focus from Gallente/Caldari to Minmatar. The Ruppy of Doom is calling, so I have decided to invest my skills for T2 Autocannons and possibly Artillery. It's nigh impossible to gank mission runners in a Brutix/Thorax when in Gallente space because of the inability to change damage types and the fact that most missions in Gallente space are Kin/Therm, the same damage type as blasters. When T2 Autos come in though, I can fit up the Ruppy of Doom or a full auto Myrmidon for funsies.

Anyhow, I got a nighthawk kill last night. Since this is being written at school I can't link my killboards so just check out the "My Killboards" page and see what I've ganked in the past couple of days.

Have fun and fight dirty,

Hianmar, a.k.a. TheEVEGamer

Edit:
This is a few days old, sorry

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Always Bet on Stupid

Always. Today I almost got my first freighter kill. No, it did not get bumped to the gate we tackled it on and escape to safety. No we did not give up to neutral remote repair. No, instead we yoinked it.

Today Jews everywhere rejoiced as Lord Adolf of LA Transportation was liberated of his Providence class freighter. We tried to ransom, but that failing we about to pop the freighter when he ejected.

That's right, he ejected right into the busy traffic lanes on the route from Dodixie to Jita.

What followed was some two hours of ninja hijinks aimed to move the freighter away from the main flow of traffic. All in all the whole operation involved copious amounts of social engineering, bombing of local, coordination of locks to prevent a counter-theft and several suicide ganks.

We also managed a raven kill and a cormorant kill while all of this was going on. To sum it up, a successfully stressful evening, with 65 million ISK payouts.

Always bet on stupid.


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3.19.2011

Whoops...

time fly really does fly when your having fun.

The last 9 days in SN have been a blast.  We've killed several more lemmings, including a several hundred million ISK Worm, a gutsy Impel or two, a Noctis, and of course my first T3 kill: Banga74's Tengu.  There are plenty of more kills, just check me out on battleclinic.

Anyway, there weren't too many payouts from this (there were 8 people on the worm mail for example), but it has still been fun.

We have also war decc'd the Incursion Corp Excuses, only to watch as they slowly disband down to their core few corporations.  I got one or two war target kills, a thorax and something else, but they aren't really worth linking.

I also discovered that I fail at ransoming, I did try to ransom DeadEye2010's Orca, in my previous post, but it didn't work out.  I think he panicked and wasn't thinking too clearly.  Too bad it didn't work out, that would have been another couple million ISK per person.

There are lots of other things going on at the moment, but it is too classified to talk about until after the deeds are done. =P

3.10.2011

Dumb and Dumber

Lemmings and idiots are the Ninja's best friend. They do stupid things, leading to some pretty spectacular kill mails, including two Orca's and a Freighter who thought their ships were speedy and nimble enough for the game of can tipping.

My first few kills in Suddenly Ninja's have been not missioners but idiots.  Over the last few days, we have run bait camps which target those foolish enough steal what they think are valuable goodies.  This results in their inevitable death as Deadeye2010 learned here.  He was the second of two Orcas to go down to our gate camp, the other having gone down the previous night.

But the real kudos goes to the valiant ninjas who stuck with the camp long into the wee hours of morning (3AM EST, 8 AM GMT) until they finally got what we had all been hoping would show up and scoops the loots: A freighter. 

That's right.  Someone in a Fenrir class freighter was gullible enough to risk their 700 million ISK ship for something that might or might not be a PLEX.  You sir get the Ninja gold star for no guts, no glory.  Well, you have received both Kasper Onza.  May your display of testicular prowess, if not a clear lacking in the mental compartment, ever live on in Ninja history as the fool who stole from a can in a freighter.  Good job sir.

So fly safe and fight dirty,

Hianmar, a.k.a. TheEVEGamer

3.08.2011

Suddenly YOINK!!

As I sit here waiting for "Lord of the Dance" to start I feel it is only prudent I take advantage of an opportunity to write a post.

It was Indecision 2011 in my EVE gaming career. I have for the last week been looking for a new corporation, my possible choices ranging from 0.0 to wormholes to industry corps. But what I've been looking for is a Corp that gets me back in the game, aiding and abetting me to utilize my present skills in a way that is new and fun.

Enter the Ninja.

You've seen them. They pop into missions with their silly little frigates, stealing your loots. How dare they be so arrogant. They must pay for their stupidity. You ope fire. They run off. "hah!" you think, feeling triumphant. But a minute later, that red flashy guy is back, in a bigger ship, and he means business. Before you know it, your fancy and expensive rat munching machine is scrap metal and the asshole who did it starts taunting you in local.

If this has happened to you, your probably a carebear. I've been there, it happens. But the scenario has been reversed: I am now a ninja.

Suddenly Ninjas. Hundreds of them.

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3.07.2011

Hunter Gets Hunted

Today, I will admit, I tried to get into the world of corporate theft and scamming.  I tried to get in with some wormhole corps who would be careless enough to let me have access to their corporate hanger array.  Let me just say this... I failed miserably. 

I hooked up with a guy who said that his corporation was running C5's with Drakes and Tengu's.  I was enticed by the idea of stealing this, and got all piggy eyed.  I ignored some of the obvious signs:
It looked cool but their static was way out in 0.0.  They said not to worry, they were friendly with the local alliances and were blue with AAA.  I was wary, but I had only told them I had a Drake.  They said they could provide logistics and get my stuff out there, so I decided I'd let them handle that.

See where this is going?

I got scammed.  They took my drake, which was all I gave them fortunately.  I checked half an hour later where the guy was when he said he was half way to the static, and he was still in the same system.  When he severed all contact I knew I had been duped.  Later they invited me to their public channel and said haha and had a good laugh at my expense.  I left, feeling smart that the drake was all I had given them. 

Lesson learned? Trust no one.  The people that look innocent and you may want to scam are probably trying to scam you.  I've since decided that I'm going to join Suddenly Ninjas, or YOINK.  I'm done being a carebear, and I crave the tears that are produced by the ignorant and willfully stupid.

Good luck and fight dirty,
Hianmar, a.k.a. TheEVEGamer

3.06.2011

The Thorax...

My Second Thorax
is badass.  I'm in love, not only cause it looks badass but because it performs extremely well.  Just look at it, bristling with turrets and shining with glorious power.  And for the 30,000,000 ISK it costs to fit one well, you get 20,000 EHP, 450 DPS, and enough speed to run like hell if you have to. 

My first trial of this beastly craft was in trawling the n00b systems around the Essence Region of Gallente Space for any small mining corps that might be interested in a fight.  This is a glorified explanation of my can tipping a few miners.  All seemed uneventful, for the miners either panicked at the sight of a fully loaded Thorax and fled or just ignored me.  Business was slow and there were other can tipper in the area so I enlisted the help of a Rifter pilot to scout out and get people agressed, having him drop the stolen loot in his own can.  This still proved fruitless.  I was about to give up when I spotted an Iteron Mark IV mining and dropping his ore in a can. 

What the F@#K? 

So I stole the can, but the Iteron just sat there munching on his rock like a catepillar with no other care in the world.  He pops another can.   I steal it too.  He still does nothing.  This goes on for about 5 minutes until I send a rather wordy EVE mail basically saying that he either has to take the god damn can or suffer a war dec from my corp. 

He takes my can, and promptly warp scrambles me.  I retaliate, locking him and scrambling him as well as launching my flight of Hammerhead II's.  As the Iteron died a foolish death of antimatter charges and hammerhead drones an Ishtar warped in, red boxed me and proceeded to neut my cap and unleash unholy fire at my poor little cruiser.  What did I do to deserve this?

It is needless to say that my Thorax died in a ball of fire.  I tried to take down the Ishtar (which was fielding navy ogres, the nerve of him!), but it was not to be.  There were GF's in local, and then i warped to station to collect my Velator and then get my loots (Isthar didn't take it).  If I had flown an Ishtar, I probably would have won that fight.  But the Thorax did an admirable job fighting two enemies at once, while being neuted, scrambled, webbed and shot at.  I got about 10% into the Ishtar's armor, but then my dps dropped to zilch as I encountered his crazy high thermal resistances. 

Hats off to the brave and valiant Thorax, a cruiser without fear!

Back in Black

Well, it has been something like 3 months since I last posted on the blog.  Damn.

Due to my real life getting oh so busy, what with finals in early January; Wrestling all winter, 3 hours a night; and the ever constant thorn in my side of homework, I barely had time to play any videogames, let alone the time consuming and addicting game of EVE Online. But I'm back now.  Wrestling is over (at least the regular season), and I have been back in the game for a few weeks now. 

It is time for change.  I have played EVE for some time now, I have missioned, I have mined, I have pew pewed in null, I have ventured through wormholes, but I have never called myself a pirate.  It is not my plan to go the full monty and get Flashy Red -10 sec status, at least not yet, but I do plan on joining a halfway corp.  A corp that missions, mines,  explores and has a dedicated low sec pew pew operation.  I am planning on joining Brightstar Technologies, who I heard about through one of their director's blogs.  That director is astral dominix of Astral Dominix's EVE Trial by Fire.  You should check out his blog here

Anyway, whats new with me... let's think.  T2 Large hybrids are finally done! This of course includes medium (And small, but i've had smalls for 2 years) hybrids, which i've tested on the Thorax, a ship I have rediscovered.  Nothin is more pimpin than a full t2 fitted (Aside from rigs) thorax bristling with t2 blasters.  20k EHP and 480 dps... thats how I roll.

I think thats all, more to come later when I can think of something else to write.  Please feel free to comment, rate and I hope to keep up this blog more regularly.