EVE Exploration Hunt

I always wanted to try new exploration mechanics. Seemed quite interesting and exciting to me. The problem I encountered was lack of skills to hack something. Nevertheless I have decided to get into Anathema and go scan some sites. The only difference was that I was not going to do them, but to...camp them.


My small adventure as an explorer went from Vlillirier to Ren,Aubenal,Moc and so on...Scanned around 20 systems with lots of data and relic sites. Bookmarked them all and then began checking for core probes and cov-ops ships on scan.

As I was checking surrounding systems, someone from corporation informed me there was core probes in Vlillirier. So I went back as fast as possible. I had all sites scanned down already there, so the only question was will I make it on time or no. I jumped to Vlil,warped to data site and there he was. Hacking a Info Shard in his Cheetah. Slowly I began approaching my prey. It was a matter of seconds before i de-cloaked and locked him down. Gotcha! There was nowhere to run. For him, exploration was OVER.


After the kill I wandered around low sec for few hours. Finally,again, from my corpmate Seraph I heard there were probes in Oicx system. I was 6 jumps out,but still burned there. Might make it on time if I'm fast enough,or if he's slow enough,- thought. Took me some time,but I was confident, because I had all sites probed down in Oicx as well as Vlillirier. Jumped in,warped to data site....And again. He was hacking. Not suspecting anything,just enjoying his virus game.
Sadly, he did not enjoy it for LONG. Now before i killed him, I did something pirate-like. I ransomed him. Not much, 15million. And he actually transferred that to me. The reason why he died was because I though he had sister probe launcher in there,that's why he paid the ransom. Sadly I was wrong.

Finally I was to thank my Battle Anathema,which is very fun to fly and like someone said, each time I kill something with it, angel gets his wings...

EVE Party Time!

Some great  song made my EVE players about EVE. Party time!  

For the dessert: GMI Karaoke fleet
Highway to Hell
Moves Like Jagger

One man market story - Vlillirier VII

It has been exactly 3 weeks when I have decided to seed Vlillirier VII market. 3 weeks of tracking sell orders, updating, analyzing market demands,making adjustments. I couldn't say it was very difficult to manage it. On the other hand, it was quite fun and enjoyable to see who bough what from me, how much I've sold per day and try to connect it with Gallente Federation losses that day. Interesting job for an experienced trader like me. At the moment I think taking over Vlillirier market was one of the best ideas I've ever had in EVE.  So, before 2013-05-17 Vlillirier had 468 sell orders and total of 16,56 billions seeded.
After 2013-05-17 I began my mission to take control of Vlillirier market.
Having average sell amount per day of 338 millions of ISK inside Vlillirier VII, up to this day I've sold 8.76 billions of ISK in 3 weeks.
By default, I have made around 1,7 billion profit
Current # of sell orders in total: 598
My # of sell orders : 300
% of market controlled by sell orders: ~55%

Current total worth of sell orders : 34,05 billions
My total worth of sell orders:  22 billions
% market controlled through worth of sell orders : 65%


I give you graphs Vlillirier market expansion starting from 2013-05-16 till today.
From graph its possible to see that I have sustained market with about 600 sell orders with possibility to increase. As for total worth of sell orders, market received few injections on 05-17, 05-20, 05-30, 06-05,  so markets total value is growing approximately 5 billions per 10 days  ( after 05-17) !

Diary of EVE Addict : Into the Holes and out

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Started my day later than usual. Had nothing else to do,so I grabbed my Pilgrim and undocked from Vlillirier station. My destination was Indrequlle. All way to my destination was empty. I was bored. Finally, reached it. Empty. Frustrating and disappointing. So I head towards Heydieles. New squid paradise. Checked large plex. There was a  Exectioner flying around the button and de-plexing. No time to waste - i thought. Decloaked, tackled him and killed. Later, in about 2 minutes he came back in crucifier. I decloaked, he tried to escape. But died once again. Felt better. Killing a noob like that felt good.
I packed my stuff and went back to Indrequlle.  In system, a lonely tornado was on 5 degree scan towards small outpost. Hm.... I warped there at 50. He was 100 off and aligned to Murethand stargate. He warped. I immediately warped after him at 100 to the gate. As I land, he was 5km away from me. Piece of cake. Decloked, tackled. As he was dying I was suprised his large guns were able to hit me. I was in high armor, but my repper was holding my tank just fine. After he DIED  my ship was still taking damage. It seemed that I took sentry fire,because he was a neutral.. Oh well, didn't notice that :D

I picked my loot and went back home. Good kill,time to leave.

In around 20 minutes, Yun said he found 3 wormholes in Vlillirier. So he went to check one and on the other side were RAZOR fleet. We quickly formed up, send 2 Prophecies on hole to be bait and waited. RAZOR were too chickened to  leave their precious null sec. After some time of baiting, we jumped after them, initiated a fight. They didn't take it. We were able to kill one of their SLEIPNIR. Rest bailed.

We went back home and Yun went to check 2nd wormhole. It was a class 3 wormhole. And there were a small gang: Loki,Talos,x2 Guardians,Noctis inside. They were doing a combat side. We quickly formed again with only one logi in our fleet. I went inside the wormhole to get a warp in on them. They were finishing their site. I was in position to get them. Fleet jumped in and warped to me. It was a long ~60AU warp, so when they hit 20AU, I decloaked,tackled one guardian and started tanking their damage. It was intense. Double TDs on Loki and x2 Neut on Talos. I needed to survive as long as possible. Fleet landed and I received repps. Logi pilot was overheating, because i was loosing armor and was standing at 10% armor lime. My AAR was OH and running with full power. Our opponents started bailing. Guys had tackle on Loki and I was holding Guardian. As their friends bailed, Loki DIED along with his friend GUARDIAN.

We looted and got the fuck out of than hole.

The 3rd wormhole was empty...


I grabbed my Pilgrim and decided to pay a visit in null sec through a wormhole ( later my Pilgrim was camped and died - it was my first and last time going into 0.0). I was on comms and heard people starting a fight against some hostiles. They seemed stressed. Yelling : "Get a web on that tengu!!!" and etc.
Hmmm,- I though. Maybe I should get back,- and  I started warping back to hole. I was 2 jumps out. Guys tackled tengu, but I heard they cant break his tank. They were struggling and tengu was killing them one by one. I was in a hurry. As I jumped back to Vlillirier, someone X-ed up and I landed 0 on that tengu. My all 3  neutralizers were pre-overheated and ready to go. I applied them and tengu dropped in 15seconds. As a result everyone was super happy about it. I picked up loot. Opened  my cargohold. 2.3billion ISK was in my cargohold. WTF,-I though. JACKPOT!!!
Checked killmail. I held the last hit. Linked it in fleet,corp,GMI,Vlil Check. Everywhere. Why,you ask?

Thats WHY .
It was a pay day. ~220 mil for that kill.

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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Me and Yun were online.I checked the wormhole where we killed a Loki and Guardian yesterday. There was a Nighthawk,Scimitar,Gila and Drake on scan. They were doing combat site. Quickly we formed a small gang, got few people in fleet. I fitted a probe launcher on my Pilgrim. Can't explain why. Just did it.
Me and Yun went back. And......to our horror.. The hole closed.....

It was me and him stuck inside.
Yun had to log off. He was in covert ops, so we were sure we will get out. I had probes too, so I started probing for exit.

It took me awhile. As I almost located our exit, my probes.... disappeared.. They have expired....
I was without probes.
I was laughing at my pain. Thank God Yun was here too.

When He logged in nad probed our exit, we found ourselves in Aridia, 47 jumps out from Vlillirier.

We went through null sec, because it was shorter. Too hard to do almost 50 jumps.....


Going back home I realized that next time I'll go to WH. Ill take more than 7 probes. And watch my probe timer...

Later that day we had a fight versus BALEX in Murethand. It was a serious clusterfuck. BALEX undocked in T3s, they had Archon on field. We had factiom BS and bunch of other random ships. I won't comment a lot about it, many peeps died, I died too. But at the end we lost ISK war only slightly, but had quite a fun. During the fight,many other corporations were starting to head towards us. Tuskers,Shahow Cartel and others.

Here is battlereport: BATTLEREPOT

Vlillirier Market

After some considerations I've decided to supply Vlillirier market with modules,ammunition needed for casual PVP player in Faction Warfare.
I've made a presenatation about it. So,read, suggest and be happy ;)

Presentation







ENJOY

Witch Hunter: Episode 3

Hello all! It has been some time since my last witch hunt post. I've been hunting a lot lately and realized that it is very hard to talk about each engagement I have with my pilgrim. So, I decided to choose some of them, that are most memorable.

I engagement
So first engagement took place in Hykanima system in Medium plex. I sat it that plex for about 2 hours waiting for someone to come and capture it. At first, a Merlin WT came. I was frustrated. 2 hours and only a merlin? So I uncloaked and scared him off. After some time( ~20min), Merlin pilot came back with Dragoon and Eagle friend. Now when I saw Eagle coming in, I immediately asked for back-up. I did it,because it was hostile space and enemies could have brought reinforcements to save Eagle. As my backup team arrived,we were able to tackle that Eagle. After being tackled he had no chance of surviving.My purpose for this Eagle was simple: neut out his guns and wait for him to die.

http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17649407

II Engagement

Second one is more of a fun engagement. I was warping between systems when I saw a Algos on gate. As I land, he started to burn away from gate. He was 10km off me, but by overheating my faction scram I got him. Had to take gate guns, but he dropped very fast and I was already warping off within 12seconds.
It was an interesting algos pilot...

http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17677984


III Engagement

This one was the most fun I've ever had with my Pilgrim. Now Pilgrim is well known ship for killing ratters,right? But in Low sec, there are no ratters,right? Wrong. SO happened that my roam to South of Black Rise ended in Indregulle. Me and some neutral guys were the only people in system. For a second, I saw a Cerberus on scan. You don't see that every day. There were no plexes open. But Cerberus kept moving in system. I checked one of the belts with D-Scan. Bingo. He was in a belt. Wait what? Belt?
As I warped in, he was already gone.So i followed. Next belt. I was too late, he warped off. Then I warped to the third one. Landed 15km from him. Approached. Just as I was about to decloak, he started aligning to next belt. So instead of decloaking,i warped to next belt. I landed before him, decloaked, tackled.
It took me some time though,because Cerberus has a very high Thermal resist, and I was using Hammerhead IIs. But eventually he died. I never got lower than 80% armor. My local medium rep was able to rep all his damage. I lost 20% armor only because I did not want to get very low on Capacitor. It was a strong fight. I was constantly spamming D-Scan and I was ready to align out. 10MN afterburner did a great job reduicing missile damage.

Here is the kill: http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17679977

RULES OF A PILGRIM PILOT

RULES OF A PILGRIM PILOT

Fleet engagement

1. In case friendlies bailed from plex, and only one target came that you could kill - DO NOT ENGAGE, because he have back-up and he is being cautious.
2. When fighing with fleet mates in your favor against multiple target, NEVER come close at first. You are primaried. STAY at range. Unless have logi support.
3.After the fight, DO NOT rewarp at range from the cluster, from which enemies can warp in. You WILL get decloaked and killed. Use a different one, or a tactical bookmark.
4. After engagement, pull range from closest target (>2km) and CLOAK. Be ALIGNED.
5. When baiting, DO NOT DECLOAK, until bait tackles enemy. ALWAYS tell fleetmate when he can burn if needed.

Solo engagement

1. Do not engage people on station. NEVER EVER.
2. Once engaged and killed your prey,in case he called for back-up and decide to come back - DO NOT ENGAGE. They will be fitted to counter you.
3. DO NOT engage multiple projectile/missile users.
4. NEVER warp to plex at 0 if there are ANY possible hostile in space. Always warp to 20km.
5. NEVER fight 0 on the gate or close by. Minimum distance - 80-100km.
6. When engaging a target, pres D-Scan every 2 seconds. Range of D-Scan should be around 214748364 Km. So that you would have time to bail if anyone is coming.
7. DO NOT ENAGAGE missile boats,unless you can tackle them at 0 and bail if needed.
8. In case of fighting multiple SMALL targets: TACKLE kiters first or force them off field and then deal with close range ships.
9. After tackling/neuting target, KILL ECM DRONES ASAP.
10. ONLY engage if you WILL WIN or you are 100% sure you could bail if needed.
11. Statistically, your best range is 7km (T2 fit), or 10KM (faction fit).  - effect of TD optimal range on projectile users.
12. DO NOT ENGAGE  Vagabonds EVER. You can not kill them.
13. ALWAYS carry a set of Hornet-ECM 300. USE THEM IF YOU BEING TACKLED from range.
14. Tell people that your'e going out. Let them know where you are in case of assistance.

Month for Federation

A month of me, fighting for Gallente Deferation has come to an end. So,I quess it is time to show some statistic about how it went.I am also very pleased with my new corporation - Justified Chaos. It is just what I expected.

Lets start.
271 KIILS
18.38billion ISK detroyed.

Ranked 3rd in Gallente Federation Killboard

Ranked 2nd in JUSTK Killboard

Losses:
42 Lost ships
Total isk lost: 2,18billion ISK

A lot of losses i must say.

Most used ships:

1. Pilgrim -74 kills

2. Merlin - 49 kills

3. Caracal - 48 kills

Well, that was a good month, honestly second best in my EVE career.


I am officially a GALLENTE WARRIOR NOW.

A story that now is a part of EVE STORIES.

Red Anch

Slowly I open my eyes. What time is it? I don't know. Can't tell the date either.
Trying to warm my brain first. I sat down on bed and rubbed my synthetic eyes. Dirty,old 'Precision' shoes were near my bed. My coat was lying on the floor near the sofa. I remember when I bought it. Funny story, some guy sold me this coat for a weird currency called AUR. He probably though that eventually AUR will be a strong currency compared to ISK. What a dumb-ass.
I glance at hologram on my table. My current active ship is capsule. I looked around my captain quarters. This looks like minmatar work here. Yes, only minmatar can construct such a rat hole that they call captain's quarters. Worst place to live in, so its probably Republic Justice Department station, Ualkin solar system,Minmatar territory.
I reach for my red towel above my bed on a shelf. Let's check whether I got any new messages while showering.

Water slowly ran through my body,washing every bit of sweat that was on it after night as I heard a female voice reading my messages. First message was from Juan,corp CEO. He was saluting corp mates with a recent victory on taking control over Enaluri system. It was a tough fight, a big story came out about it in the Mittani news. All Juan was talking about was victory and that there will be some more peaceful time in Nennamailia and surrounding areas. But still, Caldari will form forces and come back. They always do.
As I leave shower, NeoCom started reading second message. It was from X Gallentius. Huh? Something's interesting.

"WAVE reporting o7.

Our alliance is heading to capture Siseide atm. It's 65.3% now, so not much left to get our victory. But more amarr defenders are coming this time, so we need as much allied forces as we can gather together. We're calling for backup. Furthermore, almost immedeately after Siseide fall we're starting a massive ops, which one's target would be Kamela, one of core amarr systems. Heavy resistance is expected, so don't hesitate to come and show those damn fanatic slavers power of true democracy.

Note: we advice every participator to choose a temporary base in Jel. It's the most comfortable position to store your assets due to ops progression.
Please, forward this message to all gallente sympathizers who wish to support Matari in this time.

Regards,
Nethridius
WAVE Diplomatic Division
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This weekend I will head down to Amarr space to help out Smile 'n' Wave and everybody else is welcome to join.

I have a large number of derp atrons and attrition cats in from our last op down there, and I can hand them out as needed to anybody who needs to reship.

XG"

Heh, so that means coming back near Dal and fighing for Minmatar again. Never really liked them. They got numbers but no balls. Anyway, it might be fun to meet Dark Rising corporation members again.

As I start to dry my hair I check "Bounty" section on my NeaCom. Alright, I'm still not here. Been trying to impress Concord by killing some local pirates over the surrounding systems so that they would give me a permission to high security space again.

No more news.

I dial Gaustold Aksenber number, one of the local agent here in Ualkin for any information about local disturbance in Ualkin. His voice sounded satisfied about me taking the job he offered.

I grab my coat and leave the room. Been sitting in this station for too long I think.
As I was standing and looking at my cruiser,Cerberus, my heart had an unknown feeling. Its like I knew what was going to happen soon. But at the same time I was not sure when. All I knew that now, I am going to get into my capsule, board my ship and fight for my future.

As I was undocking, i glanced at a planet nearby.

It is always red and dark.
All this system is like that.

Heh, soon we gonna see some pirate Kruul blood on my front Cerberus window when I get him.

Well,off I go.

"Warp Drive active" less

Author notes

Short story is about a day when a pilot wakes up in a station shortly after a recent Gallente - Caldari faction warfare changes,when Enaluri was taken on April 14 (http://themittani.com/news/enaluri-falls-caldari-evacuate).

All that fighting was exhausting and sometimes we all need to stop for a second. Because sometimes you may find yourself in a black hole, unable to bail out. Sucked for an eternity.

Witch Hunt: Ep.2

So, the last couple of days were a big success in PVP.

Did quite a lot of "fishing" with my pilgrim.  The most spectacular kill was this solo Arazuhttp://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17151911 , who engaged my fleet mate in a medium plex. We noticed arazu before he entered the plex. Unfortunately he did  not decloak after warp in, so we just waited. He decloaked about 25km away from us and pointed Tristan. I held cloak, because we didn't have tackle in him. After saying to tristan pilot to burn away from Arazu in the opposite direction to force him approach me i managed to get Arazu scrambed and webbed. He died fast, my friend was in hull when he died. And of course loot fairy was very generous.
Oh, and before the arazu, we took this guy too: http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17151799.
Again,loot fairy was in favor of us.


After a successful baiting i docked my pilgrim and the next day i grabbed my friend Zero and we went for a hunt again. This time action took place in Tama, favorited pirate system, famous for not solo pvp. We went inside the medium which was far far away from anything else ( perfect place for our tactic) and waited. When plex was reaching  zero ( ~1min), we saw 2 wolfs on scan. In my head i imagined two possible scenarios for kiting wolfs and brawling wolfs. So we took the fight. Both wolfs were brawling and as soon as they landed we tackled them. By spreading points we prevented then from warping out,so they fought till the end. And the end was certain.
 http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17165717
http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17165716

Of course,Zero in punisher died too :(

Later that day,me and Jimbo went to check south of Black Rise. He had a tristan.
We did 3 medium plexes in different systems and managed to kill a executioner and hookbill.
http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17167591
http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17167582

It was a nice hunt.
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Later that evening, i formed a frig fleet.
Fleet lasted for several hours and we had much fun. Spotted a cruiser gang in Nenna,who had a NAGA. So simply suicided frigates to kill that naga and it was a lot of fun.
Whole evening battlereport is here: http://dvesk.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=17174239

Also we had a fight against squids and some neutrals. Julianus did a great job calling targets! Really enjoyed it and i might run some more fleets in the future.

Witch Hunter: Episode 1

A lot of time gone by from my last post here. Probably that was necessary. In general, few new events happened in my life:

1. I started working for Czech aircraft manufacturer company as design engineer
2. I left Dark Rising and went back to Gallente militia to fight against squids.


First event is a great push in my career. Im still very young(according to my boss Martin), only 21 and already learning/working in this kind of company. Just recently I was able to show my aerodynamic knowledge  on computing aerodynamic characteristics for a new ultra-light airplane Savage. I did good and I am very happy about it. I am working directly with my boss on this project, he is willing to teach me how to design an airplane from 0 to everything. So its gonna be a lot of fun, of course hard, but i like it very much. And my girlfriend is happy too because i meet her now 2 times per month for 3 straight days every time.

As for EVE. Yes,i left DR. It was a hard decision for me, because i love people there. And it is a shame they left Gallente space and went to fight for minmatar. So I came back ad joined JUSTK along with XG,Dopified,Isis Blood and others. Good people, you can feel a real Gallente spirit in this corporation and whole militia.

Lately I decided to try a new ship. Pilgrim. Fitted it for solo work. First tries were a nice success, i lost two though, but due to mistakes I made (a) attacked an incursus on gate   b)engaged x2 thorax too recklessly without checking they were kiting).  But eventually I very liked it. And I bought another 2 Pilgrim.

Fit is quite standart, although i prefer MWD over AB ( due to camp,and the fact that pilgrim is very easy to kite when hes using AB).

[Pilgrim]
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer, Nanite Repair Paste

Warp Scrambler II
X5 Prototype Engine Enervator
Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I, Cap Booster 25
Balmer Series Tracking Disruptor I, Tracking Speed Disruption Script

Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Medium Unstable Power Fluctuator I
Small Energy Neutralizer II
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Anti-Thermic Pump I


So after joining JUSTK my first hunt was made in Innia. Tactic very easy: warp to medium, jetisson a can ~15k away from beacon with name "LOOT" or other silly name and cloak 5-6k from it. And then  go read a book or go study something.
I realized that is much more effective to have a bait. So I invited  Zero Shazih  to join me in a frigate or dessy. Tanked as much as possible.
Hookbill landed on plex. We tackled him. I accidentally pressed cloak and lost my drones and lock on hoobkill. Thank god Zero Shazih  had him locked down. I locked hoobkill again, but unfornutalety as i tackled him, my friend died.

So eventually we lost a punisher,killed hookbill. A nice hunt for an evening.

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=17146994