A tale of two POCOs

- "You pay for it before you eat it? What happens if it's dreadful?"
- "That's why."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)

Here is a rather fun video from some fights I was involved in a few nights ago, courtesy of Laktos as xxxAlloxxx forgot to hit FRAPS.

And if you ever feel the need to watch some live EVE PvP, then look no further than Sard Caid's channel on TwitchTV.

COME AT ME BRO!

"You're not one of us."
"I don't think I'm one of them, either," said Brutha. "I'm one of mine."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)

Jumpcloning isn't a very pleasant experience, having your consciousness ripped out and sent light years away to another clone isn't for the faint of heart but I'm starting to get used to it as I now spend more time at my vacation station in Bosena. Tonight was an operation of particular brilliance dreamt up by the Mighty Warlord Dirty Protagonist.



Our fleet departed from Bosena to defend a POCO in Unertek and we pulled out all the stops on this one, a mighty fleet of Ospreys and Scythes made the perilous journey but we encountered no opposition on the way and we then encountered no opposition as we safely nursed the POCO to full health, no entity brave enough to stand against us, that is until the red mist descended upon the fleet, backs were stabbed and ships were shot, my Osprey defiled in the most hideous of manners as I attacked a Skiff, the massive fleet obliterated itself, THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!

With no signs of opposition we reshipped after the shenanigans at the friendly POCO and set the system on fire, with marshmallows toasted and hot cocoa after.



Feeling rather frisky we headed back to Bosena where suicide fleet mode was engaged, numerous Thrashers sacrificed in the nearby high security space of Teonusude where a rather expensive Tengu and pod were laid to waste along with some miners who were ravaging the local asteroid fields, and then we went further into high security space to save some more asteroids. What made these incursions worth it, wasn't the ISK, but the reaction of the Tengu pilots CEO/friend/whatever after the fact and on the Gunpoint Diplomacy killboard.

A good night out in the paradise that is Molden Heath.

NOVAK's 5th

Edit: To celebrate I joined the Molden Heath locals in what was a most enjoyable operation, which included two faction fitted dreadnought kills :)

Pay attention

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)

Last night I jump cloned to Bosena to help the locals shake some hornet nests, during the operation I had an associate move some ships to Bosena for future operations.

However, she didn't pay attention and lingered a little too long outside Bosena station and was destroyed by the very people I was out there to help. She at least had the presence of mind to warp her rather expensive pod to safety.

No hard feelings, had a good laugh on voice comms:
Me > bugger, sneaky just popped my friends hauler outside Bos station, she didn't dock 0_o
followed moments later by:
Sneaky > Holy shit, just popped a hauler outside BOS station, it dropped two SFIs!!!!!

Her fault for not paying attention but let this be a lesson to you all not to take things for granted, make sure you dock after setting warp/dock before doing anything else, especially if your friend isn't known or on friendly terms with your other friends

I did get the SFIs back though, they were kind enough not to ransom them to me :D

You'll also note a full copyright notice at the bottom of this blog, A Pirates Perspective is now an official EVE Online fan site \o/

Shiny

Quote #646.

The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.
-- (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)

After many long years, I have decided to sell something very precious to me, the proceeds and production have fueled my Piracy. The family no longer have the energy to carry on production.



As such I have started an Auction which ends on Sunday 23rd January 2012 at 2300. Only occurred to me now to advertise said auction to my loyal readers, who knows, one amongst you may have what it takes to own this bit of Piracy history.

I would appreciate any bumps and kind words to my character, but only bid if you are serious about owning this rather precious BPO

Introducing:

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

-- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)

I have been having fun in something slightly different recently, a Cruor class Blood Raider frigate:

Cruor

Mottled, dark red, and shaped like a leech, the Cruor presents a fitting metaphor for the Blood Raiders' philosophy. Designed almost solely to engage in their disturbingly effective tactic of energy draining and stasis webbing, this ship is a cornerstone in any effective Blood Raider fleet - and could play an intriguing role in more standard ones.

Special Ability: 100% bonus to Small Energy Turret damage

Amarr Frigate Skill Bonus: 15% bonus to Energy Vampire and Energy Neutralizer drain amount per level
Minmatar Frigate Skill Bonus: 10% bonus to the velocity factor of stasis webifiers per level


Spike in Gusandall with the 'Death's Head' Nebulae

It's an interesting vessel and is flown somewhat differently than one might imagine, needless to say I've had a few fun fights recently with her while I try to get used to new tactics.

This evening however, I renewed my hatred for something called Warp Core Stabilizers, whilst hunting a Golem, I eventually tracked him down, warped in with Havelock Vetinari, my Bhaalgorm and proceeded to layeth the smack down, only to see the Golem calmly warp away

Shimazu Maru > too bad eh?

Congratulations, you've made ze list. If you ever come to Evannater lowsec again, I will find you, and I will kill you :)

Edit: The blood of this innocent is on your head due to your cowardice, I hope you can live with yourself.

Edit #2: A few close calls today against long range destroyers with no tackle, will need to check myself before just rushing in.

Thank you

A Pirates Perspective turns four today and I would just like to take a moment to thank each and every one who has read the words I type, the stories I've woven, shared with me the highs and the lows of what has been an immense journey, this blog would be nothing without someone to read it.

While I'd loved to have had an epic tale for you this evening, things don't always work out as planned. In fact, it almost ended up being a very expensive day for NovaKane Incorporated.

I had joined the Molden Heath pirates to try get a fight from some folk who had knocked a bait POCO into reinforced. They didn't come as we had a very nasty fleet so we decided to knock one of their POCOs into reinforced to see if we could get a fight.



We were bored and the thought of dropping some dreads on the POCO to make the job quicker crossed our minds and before you knew it we had three dread pilots in gang ready to jump, one of them being Keira. We jumped the dreads in, sieged red and went to work, meanwhile a hostile gang, not affiliated to the POCO owners had jumped in and warped to the cyno in a heavy battleship fleet with logistics support.

Our fleet composition was no match for the battleships and before we knew it we had lost an Arazu and the first dread out of siege was tackled. Keira exited siege and spammed warp to the station, the behemoth taking an age to align and it was only a matter of seconds before she was tackled.

WARP DRIVE ACTIVE

"HOLY SHIT!" she screamed as the Moros warped away, having been hit with a Stasis Webifier, accelerating her warp.

Keira Rizzel > thanks for the web
Keira Rizzel > pro move
Sarah Artuaius > only couse we like your blog :)

Thanks guys.

But the fight was not over, our other dread had gotten out leaving just the Naglfar tackled. We were outgunned so we raced two jumps back to Bosena to reship into heavy armour battleships, hoping we could make it back to save the stranded dread.

As we jumped back into Atlar, the Naglfar exploded under heavy fire and cap neutralizing applied by the hostiles. We warped in anyways, with a triage carrier joining us on the field, we started to point and take apart what we could, eventually killing two Guardians and two Abaddons

The battle report shows what were originally in and what we ended up in, good fights shared in local and whilst we lost the ISK war, we held the field.



Quite a few lessons learned from this evening and I think we were lucky to only lose a dread and a recon. But the corp Moros did get a night out, she does love to party :)

Edit: Almost forgot, Crafty flooded his bathroom whilst trying to save a capship, that's got to be worth a medal :)