Line 'Em Up, Knock 'Em Down!

Yesterday was a great day to be a ninja!

I logged on in Tintoh yesterday with little expectations for my chances of getting shot.  I started scanning and got a few battleship hits, so I scanned down the one that was already pretty much done for and and it was a Raven.

So I swapped to the Worm and went to visit the Raven in his Sansha mission, a single room mission with lots of rats.  He was not pleased to see me and since he only had aggro from 1/4 of the rats he engaged.  What ensued was the most intense Ninja v. Bear pvp I've ever had the pleasure to take part in!  He had about 3 flights of 5 tech II drones and my worm had picked up aggro from the remaining 3/4 of the rats.  That said, I still managed pop most of the first flight of drones until he recalled them.  Then he stopped shooting me, which was suspicious.  I was sure he was locking up my drones!

Sure enough,  a few moments later he popped drones again and one of my Warrior II's went into structure.  Oh No!  I did the same trick to him, except my locking time was 2 seconds rather than a minute.  He and I did this for a while but then I noticed his tank was breaking to the rats.  So I decided to help them!  Web, Rockets and 5 Warrior II's was apparently the DPS needed to break him.  He died in a brilliant ball of fire!  Silly Carebear =D

Well, he apparently hadn't had enough of a beating (I think he was more mad that he died to a frigate) and decided to come back!  I had to warp out after trying to loot the wreck cause I now had full aggro from all the rats and when I stopped moving, I went into armor!  Oh NO!  I swapped to the jaguar and returned to the mission.  I warped the Orca to the gate of his mission at the same time for whatever my reasons were.  Oh yeah, I had warped it in so as to swap to the Legion to kill the Raven, but I didn't want to bring in the Orca yet.  So the Orca's sitting on the warp gate, I'm in a jaguar in the mission looting his Raven wreck when all of a sudden he's back, in a Drake! 

My ninja senses were tingling that this guy was probably web fit to catch me and since there was no need to burn right at him yet I simply orbitted at 22km and pointed him while I warped in the Orca.  I knew there was going to be trouble so I asked for reps in a ninja chat channel where I knew there was at least one active ninja in system with me.  He kindly warped in to rep my jaguar as I burned towards the drake to swap.  When the Orca was 8km out, I swapped to the legion (the drake had stopped moving, but he was originally going faster than my Orca at approx. 385 m/s) and pointed him.  I started to orbit the Orca who was set on approach to the drake.  This was fine for me as I had the drake webbed as well.  The drake melted and refused a ransom for a second time.  So I finished him off and stole more loot!  Hurray!  (Note how I was right about webs... he really wanted me dead!) Two kills in about 20 minutes!

About a minute into scanning for new guys to kill there came a shout in the same ninja chat from the same guy who had repped me that he needed reps!  Well shit, he helped me I might as well help him!  He had been about to warp to the guys mission when a corpmate had pinned him down on bottom station and then 4 more corpies had warped in.  So I warped the Orca and my Basilisk in so as to get red and sure enough, a Tengu boxes me and a Raven goes red right off.  I wait till I'm in low shield to see if the Tengu engages but decided to swap before the Basilisk goes boom.  I swap to the Legion and start raping the Raven,  who promptly decides to engage back.  The tengu also engages.  I start hitting him hard, but he is strangely heavily shield buffered and manages to deagress and dock at low shield. I then swap to the jaguar and burn after the tengu but he manages to warp just outside of warp disruptor range.  Damn.  Ah well, at least I got shot!

So I returned to my safe spot, jumped in my cheetah and started to scan for more battleships.  That's when I scanned down this russian bloke in a dominix!  I thought what the hell, it's been a good day, lets make it better!  In the jaguar again and I warped off to bug the damn ruskies!  Well, the Dominix was in the second room of his Angel Extravaganza and I stole the one wreck that was there.  He was not happy!  I tested his auto-lock (which works =P) and he shot the wreck right as I started looting it.  He then boxed me and sent drones after me!  WOOT!  Point, orbit at 22km and shoot drones!  He recalled his drones quickly though and then popped Warden I's.

Wat!?

I thought he was going to keep on doing the mission but he apparently decided that I couldn't kill the drones from 22km away.  Derp.  He derped even more when he decided not to align.  He finally started to get smart again and deployed his Hobgoblin II's again, though he still didn't get some movement going.  As the Orca entered warp on the second gate, I burned right at him and swapped before he realized what was happening.

Then the tricky part came.  How do you ransom a guy who doesn't speak English while: trying to keep him alive (my neut killed any chance he had at tanking the rats), Watching your own cap, using google translate to check what he is saying and what I am saying, oh and checking your wallet/log to see that he pays or doesn't self destruct.

It's hard, but he finally payed me 18 million ISK and then I popped him.  I got a nice little surprise from the drop, I did not expect the faction armor repper!

That was my afternoon yesterday.  Oh and I popped a Sansha mothership (Event in New Caldari on Jita Gate which we were trying to fuck with) and got on a -10 guy's typhoon loss mail.  Altogether a good day to be a ninja!

Fly dangerously,

Hianmar

The Gaming Rig of Doom

I ordered a new gaming PC this past week and as it has been assembled and will probably ship out on Monday, I thought I'd share the specifications with my readers (if any).   Anyone who is interested should note that I've spent the last 6 months researching the parts and specifications and future release of parts that I might eventually desire.  It finally culminated to this:

1 x Case (NZXT Guardian 921 RB Gaming Case - Black w/ Blue Light))
1 x Processor ([= Six Core =] AMD Phenom™ II X6 1100T Black Edition Six-Core CPU))
1 x Processor Cooling (CoolIT ECO II 120mm Liquid CPU Cooling System - Standard 120mm Fan))
1 x Memory (8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - Corsair Vengeance))
1 x Video Card (AMD Radeon HD 6970 - 2GB - Single Card))
1 x Motherboard ([3-Way SLI] Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 -- AMD 990FX w/ 5x PCI-E 2.0 x16))
1 x Power Supply (800 Watt -- Standard))
1 x Primary Hard Drive (1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive))
1 x Data Hard Drive (1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive))
1 x Optical Drive (24X Sony Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black))
1 x 2nd Optical Drive (None but will install my own))
1 x Flash Media Reader / Writer (12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer - Black))

1 x Operating System (Microsoft Windows 7 Professional + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-bit))
1 x Keyboard (Thermaltake eSPORTS CHALLENGER PRO Gaming Keyboard)) FREE AFTER MIR
1 x Mouse (Thermaltake eSPORTS BLACK Professional Gaming Mouse)) FREE AFTER MIR
1 x Headset (Thermaltake SHOCK Spin Gaming Headset - w/ Ergonomic Shaped Velvet Ear Cushions, Neodymium Magnet Speakers, In-Line Volume Controller & Independent Microphone Box)) FREE AFTER MIR

1 x Warranty (Standard Warranty Service - Standard 3-Year Limited Warranty + Lifetime Technical Support))
1 x Rush Service (Rush Service Fee (not shipping fee) - No Rush Service, Estimate Ship Out in 5~10 Business Days))
1 x Advanced Build Options (Professional wiring for all cables inside the system tower - Achieve exceptional airflow in your chassis))
1 x Advanced Build Options (Professional wiring for all cables inside the system tower - Basic Pro Wiring))

1 x Free Stuff ([Free Game Download] - Darksiders - Free with Purchase of AMD Phenom II X6 CPU))
1 x Free Stuff ([Free Game Download] - Total War: Shogun 2 - Free with Purchase of AMD Phenom II Processor + Radeon HD 6000 or Higher Video Card))
1 x Free Stuff ([Free Game Download] - Deus Ex - Free with Purchase of AMD Phenom II X6 Processor / Radeon HD 6850 or Higher Video Card))
1 x Free Stuff ([Free Game Download] - Just Cause 2 - Free with Purchase of NVIDIA Video Card))

All from www.ibuypower.com, I really hope this thing works! Cause if it doesn't Imma be real sad ;(

Fly dangerously,

Hianmar

PS:  That picture is the standard product image... I don't play W.o.W. and I didn't get a new monitor!

PPS:  There is a big ass hurricane heading up the eastern seaboard right now and my sympathies to those who are receiving the blunt of mother natures rage!  My Uncle's getting hit right now and we're due to be hit dead on by the storm around Sunday so... who knows?  Drive safely, fly internet spaceships deadly!