A tale of internet spaceships

I realize I am probably late to the party again but I watched this last night and found it very good;

It highlighted to me that my lack of playing isn't that bad at all, the game is good but can be draining and time-consuming at times. What I really still pay 3 accounts worth of subscription for is to stay in touch with the community that EVE has generated.

EVE players are the best! and i cant wait to meet up with a load of you again in September at #EVE_NT!

Departing; chapter 1/7

It was strangely quiet in 'Hope Street', Iges VI most afluent drinking establishment.

Venom Orchid had been here before but the place didnt look like she remembered. There were only a few revellers left in the venue, granted it wasnt the busiest time of day but still.

Venom held at the entrance and as she looked around she spotted him at the bar. Slowly she started to make her way over when she noticed there was no music playing. Strange.

He was drunk, no question about it. Two half empty bottles of red wine sat on the bar-top, neatly lined up with an empty beer bottle, two wineglasses, a shot glass and an empty spirit bottle. It wasnt immediatly apperant what the spirit was as the label had been carufully peeled off, but knowing him it was rum.

Venom pulled up a barstool and sat down next to Nashh. She peered over the bar saw a body on the serving side, lying in a pool of blood. There was a distinct smell of burned hair.

'How many hours have you been here Nashh?

''Two days...' Nashh croaked.

'I see', Venom paused, 'I thought you stopped drinking? and drugs for that matter' she said as she regarded the neatly line up glasses and bottles. 'In fact', she continued, 'I thought you stopped smoking?' nodding in the direction of an overflowing ashtray.

'Yeah, I did' Nashh spoke with a croaky voice. He slowly turned sideways before lighting another cigarette. He inhaled deeply before blowing a large plume of grey smoke in her direction. His eyes were glazed over, pupils dilated, bloodshot and the little 'white' that was visible looked almost grey.

'O dear... look at the state of you'. Venom Orchid looked over at the body on the floor, 'and him?

''He wouldnt give me what I wanted' Nashh Kadavr slurred.

'Well I guess security is on its way then' Venom looked around, 'time to go?

'Nashh sighed deeply, 'yeah, probably a good idea...'

Hulkageddon III Prizes

I know I am a little late but I have added some prizes to the HK3 event;

#1
Name; Nashh Kadavr’s ‘Project Rifter’
Prize; 10 Rifters and Rocket Rifter Packages
Goal; Hulk kill with the most rifters on the killmail

#2
Name; Nashh Kadavr’s ‘CDM’
Prize; Participation in a CDM or 500 million isk
Goal; Top scoring Pilot according to HK3 killboard

#3
Name; Nashh Kadavr’s ‘Mad Scientist’
Prize; 1000 assorted Data Cores
Goal; Hulk kill with the most T2 ships on the killmail

If these prizes get claimed I shall personally distribute them to the market hub of your choice

RL NEWSFLASH

At 6:30 am this morning the missus prodded me to say today, St Patrick's day 2010 was to be the day...

Rgr I mumbled, as the autopilot engaged. Stumbling to the fridge I regretted the wiskey the evening before. Get the wife some fruit, make toast and tea...run bath.

Timing contractions, getting closer...call midwife. Ding dong, heya yeah she's great, cuppa tea?

Hows it going girl? ay ay pain you say? righto squeeze my hand if you must...Aaargh! Jebus frickin christ...mental note; pregnant woman possess the strenght of ten men, each possesing the strenght of ten men.

Head?! this soon? your doing good gal, keep going...

A tear runs down my cheek, nail marks on my back, shoulders and arms...

9:38 am Wednesday 17th march 2010 a new terror entered the world. Welcome Johan;

Pirates Ahoy! #1

Pirates Ahoy!

Thursday had been a good day for pirating, worthy of a post at least so here’s a quick rundown of events;

Kronos Kill
A late afternoon 0.0 roam with fellow Bastards; K Starwind, DanMart, Beta and Jabajools turned out to be a winner. After several jumps through empty space we where about to press on through a system with too many peeps in local.

K Star in warp to a ransom belt mid flight sputtered something on vent. All I heard was something like; ‘Er…about to...jump in warp to me, belt something something…’ He sounded pretty excited so I prepared for the worst; Starwind is a great pilot and gets himself into fights I can’t handle just yet.

On landing I targeted the only ship that wasn’t ours and heard K Star demanding full DPS. I was concentrating on the job at hand, getting required modules on, launching drones, watching D-scan and getting in range to fire my guns.

I glanced over at the enemy Battleship icon at the top of my screen and started to smile, sweet a BS kill for sure, he’s going down. The bright blue flash on screen illuminated my dark room. And we didn’t even get blobbed! Result!

I quickly prepared a safe spot and waited until the excitement died down a bit. Only then did I realise it wasn’t just any BS, we just killed a faction fit, Tech 2 Battleship!

(Danmart unfortunately got shot to pieces about 10 jumps later, holding the faction loot)


Drake Ransom
After logging of deep into 0.0 I returned later to try and run to Evati, K Starwind logged back in himself not long after. Together we set of the 18 jump trip home.

With a mere 8 jumps left Starwind paused for a moment to inform me of a Drake in a belt. On investigation he reported this was indeed the case and tried to get a point.

It smelled fishy to me but what the hell. On landing all modules activated we started chewing away at the Drakes tough outer shell. Both of us overheating in short spells, desperate to break his tank. I stopped overheating with my guns a mere 80% intact when the dreaded news came from Starwind; he burned out 3 of his guns.

Now unable to break the Drakes tank we decided to bail. Hold one minute I said, lets ransom him! Quickly inviting the Pilot into our Yarsom channel I requested 60 million for his life. He laughed politely, explaining that 60 would be to much. Righto, 40 million then please and you are free to go…

To our amazement his next response was simply; ‘who do I pay?’. With the money in my wallet we quickly moved on, laughing our asses of…

Faction Frigate Fight
After roaming with some Bastards around the local area I decided to go out on my own for a bit rather than flying with the grumpy FC.

I passed a small military outpost of some sort with a Crusader clearly within it on scan. I quickly made my way back to Evati and jumped into my Worm, undocked and sped back to Todi.

On entering system a Dramiel showed up on scan but I ignored it, warping straight to the military beacon. I activated the jump gate and much to my dismay my intended target was 300 clicks away.

I paused and weighed up my options when the Dramiel I had seen on scan earlier landed not far behind me. Running was not an option any longer and cold sweat formed on my forehead when my warpdrive shut down.

Ok lets tussle I figured, engaging my afterburner. Faction rockets spewed from their launchers, Warrior drones screamed out of their holds. The much faster Dramiel flew past at incredible speeds and ripped big chunks out of my shield. I was sure to die, or wasn’t I? The Warriors started to take a beating now and gave my shields a breather. Unable to retrieve two of the Drones quick enough I was forced to launch the slightly slower and less effective Hobgoblins I also carried.

At that moment I realized that this fight had started to swing in my favour with my shields recharged to 70% and the Dramiel’s armor stripped from around its hull. In a desperate attempt to hold point on him long enough to claim my well deserved killmail I overheated all racks and approached the aggressor.

A small tear ran down my cheek as right at moment my guns had to reload and I remembered that I was only able to fit a best named Disruptor due to the low CPU and Powergrid left after fitting two medium shield extenders.

That missing 4km now proved my undoing as the Dramiel managed to run just outside of point range and warped off.

I spoke briefly with the Dramiel Pilot and we congratulated each other on an exciting fight, 46% structure is what he managed to get away with…


Loki Ransom
I remained on vent whilst typing up a Help Desk post and heard the call to arms; a Loki in a neighbouring system.

One of the Bastard directors, z0de, had managed to convince a Harpy and a Loki into a fight near a planet. Being the pilot that he is z0de toyed with the Harpy long enough to get within scram range of the Loki. With point on, the request came for backup to help break his tank.

I would have happily settled for a Loki killmail but the unlucky/lucky pilot was offered a ransom of 600 million which he quickly accepted and paid, securing his freedom and ship.

The 120 million as my share shall be spend on hookers and booze.


For more pirating adventures watch this space…

Help Desk: How to fit a Drake

Help Desk: How to fit a Drake

The Drake has been the thing to talk about this week so it appears. Most post actually have been rather negative so I figured it was time someone said something nice about this Caldari work horse.

I for one am a big fan of the Drake and it is the ship I have scored most of my kills in. Yes missiles suck because they take time to get to the target, but as with any weapon system there are drawbacks. Missiles make up for their travel-time with range, and as soon as the first shot has landed your true DPS starts. DPS may be slightly delayed by the first volleys travel time but with gun boats the range needs to be made up with the ship travelling closer to the target rather than the ammo.

Please commence infinite discussions about this, I don’t care, this post just has my two cents and two suggestions for fitting a Drake. Please note that I fully support anyone’s choice of fitting as long as it makes sense. These are mere suggestions; you don’t like it?; troll the many copies of the many similar/same Drake fits posted on Battle Clinic.

[Cookie Cutter]

Low Slots
Damage Control II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

Mid Slots
Medium Shield Extender II
Medium Shield Extender II
Invulnerability Field II
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution
10MN MicroWarpdrive I
Warp Disruptor II

High Slots
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Salvager I

Rigs
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I

DroneBay
Hobgoblin II x5

Statistics;
With all lvl 5, no implants, no overheating;
EHP: 63921
Shield Resists: 54.1/63.2/72.4/77
Armor Resists: 57.5/53.2/36.3/23.5
Capacitor: 3m34s
DPS: 513
Volley Damage: 2615
Weapon Range: 84.4km
Locking Range: 75km
Scan Resolution: 390mm
Speed: 1038m/s
Align Time: 11.7s
Estimated Cost: 47 million isk

Notes:
The salvager needs to be offline for this particular fit unless implants are used.
I personally recommend Faction ammo as the penalties using T2 ammo are not worth it.
The name suggest it, it’s a cookie cutter, decent ship for small or large gangs.
In a mixed fleet it’s generally the last ship to be targeted so it lasts a little longer, making it a good training ship.
If preferred the Launchers can be replaced with Heavy Assault Launchers to increase the DPS to 618 but drop the range to 20.3km

[Podla Drake]

Low Slots
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Nanofiber Internal Structure II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

Mid Slots
Medium Shield Extender II
Medium Shield Extender II
Stasis Webifier II
Stasis Webifier II
10MN MicroWarpdrive II
Warp Disruptor II

High Slots
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Heavy Missile Launcher II, Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Salvager I

Rigs
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I
Medium Core Defence Field Extender I

Drone Bay
Hobgoblin II x5

Statistics;
With all lvl 5, no implants, no overheating;
EHP: 36821
Shield Resists: 25/40/55/62.5
Armor Resists: 50/45/25/10
Capacitor: 3m49s
DPS: 467
Volley Damage: 2474
Weapon Range: 84.4km
Locking Range: 75km
Scan Resolution: 243.8mm
Speed: 1228m/s
Align Time: 8.5s
Estimated Cost: 45 million isk

Notes:
Named Podla Drake in honour of Kamoonga of Pod Liberation Authority, one of the best PVP’ers in the game. He has had enormous successes with this fit, both solo and in small gangs. As soon as a Podla Drake enters system people scatter or dock up as its hard to catch/kill and kills very well itself.
Again as with the previous fit range from the Heavy Launchers is chosen over the slight increase in DPS of using HAMS.


I don’t intend to convert Drake haters, I merely suggest it has its place in our universe and it can be a fun ship to fly. Missile skills are cheap and relatively quickly trained, the difference between lvl 5 and lvl 4 skilling is minimal for most of them so just chose wisely which ones to push all the way.


I’ll be back on Capsuleer soon!

Watch this space…

Tears

Tears…

I feel the need to make a brief apology; I cried big juicy carebear tears last night. Not just that, I logged off in a moment of rage and ended up playing Dragons Age instead.

-=*=-

For the last few months the little spare time I had I have been working hard on doing well at the Bastards to prove I am worthy of their ranks (hence the little CDM action).

I have started to attach to much value to my statistics on the killboard and have lost many stupid losses in doing so. Not wanting to lose ships has made me make decisions like not firing back and hoping to dock in time, jumping around in expensive ships without a scout and generally just being shit.

Anyways I figured I should lighten the fuck up and have fun again and purchased a few more Ishkurs (as I do like flying them a fair bit) fitted them with some nice gear and then lost them all. With my stats in ruins I figured I’d best go back to tech 1’s and whore some killmails until nobody notices I am shite (yes with an e at the end).

So after

losing another Ishkur

for no good reason (other than laziness) I jumped into a drake to pew pew some stuff around Evati. With various Bastards in the system and adjacent systems I felt comfortable in attacking a Vaga at a station.

I am on vent but rarely use the mic when the wife is in the same room to prevent being ridiculed and taking wife-aggro. So my call for help came in desperation and a little late when I realized I could not tank station guns and a T2 cruiser (yes I am a n00b).

The Bastards where too spread out to support me in time and I popped again. I mustered a quick GF in local to show my respects and then cntrl-q’ed without saying anything to my corp-mates.

The funny thing is I told myself earlier this week to lighten up and have fun again and after meeting Sassy B and duelling him in a fight heavily swung in

my favour

I lolled out loud at his cargo. After trading him back his loot (thank you Mynxee for teaching me this noble practice) I decided I should have some random trade goods in my hold for peeps to laugh at when they pop me.

The Drake I flew when theVagabond popped me in Evati was on its last run to collect some funny stuff to have in my hold when I popped.

I didn’t think it was funny …

-=*=-

HTFU is what sprung to mind, and reading Helicity's class post about carebears etc

on the bus today made me realise how I have been sucked in and forgot to have fun.

Pixels in space...just pixels....

Woosah, woosah...

Watch this space...