Saturday went into Chicago and hung out with the rest of the TEMT crowd.

Yesterday saw 2 drakes running a site, first one popped after far too much time, all the while the sleepers and his buddy hitting me set me on fire near the end.  Second one was 40k away when the first one died, never bothered to warp out with the end result.  Props to Frank for getting his first wh kill, and saving my bacon after I was on fire by jamming the 2nd drake.

Strangely I capped out and lost point for a few seconds and they never managed to warp off.  Note to self - invest in navy cap boosters so I don't run out near the end of a fight.

At least this time I remembered I can overheat stuff.

despawning sites

I completely forgot since the patch that a site will despawn if no uncloaked ships sits there.  Had a corpie start a radar site and of course he's green enough that he is unable to finish it.   So I warp Isha over cloaked of course and plop her down at 150k from the warpin.  Isha is happily watching the sleepers circle around aimlessly and before I can log Jhared in the site goes poof.

*facepalm*

I will have to ask people to not start sites unless they can finish them.

Fuel blocks and more

The fuel block switchover happened this morning, fortunately both our towers had no issues staying up.  The neighbors in the C4 also kept the towers online.   Congrats to everyone that found offline loot pinatas.

Going to wait a week, then convert the rest of the legacy fuels over to fuel blocks.  I also need a spreadsheet put together for T3 production, so I know what materials I need to purchase off market.

poachers again

Slade called out poachers in system, 3 drakes, myrmidon and a noctis for salvaging...hmmm.  Warped to the anomaly they had just cleared and bookmarked a wreck that was close to the noctis.  I slowboated out to 150k as the 3 drakes and myrm headed to the next anomaly.  Fortunately the noctis wasn't moving which nabbed this kill.  Looted and shot the wreck before his buddies could come back, but they all ran out to hisec.

7 nanoribbons, plus I salvaged the remaining 4 wrecks which netted 2 more, a nice little haul from a single site - and I got to pew pew as well.

boring neighbors

We have yet another incoming C2 connection that I resolve once the old k162 pops.  Entering the connections reveals signs of past battles, as there are 2 warp disruption bubbles on dscan.  The inner system is clear, so after dropping probes I head to the only planet out of dscan range, and the tower hiding there.

A blanket scan with probes reveals a very messy system, and as the two pilots in the tower are seemingly afk, I get to work.  All but two signatures are able to be resolved without probes showing up on dscan of the tower, the last two being done quickly despite the continued inactivity of the tower residents. 6 ladar, 2 grav sites, 2 magnometric sites, and 3 additional wormholes.  That doesn't even mention the 12 combat anomalies in here.

After helpfully activating the sites in this messy system I check out the wormholes, 2 C1 connections, the static hisec which is eol, and the exit back home of course.   I dive into C1a, which reveals an even messier system.  I count 26 separate signatures, and almost 30 combat anomalies.   Obviously the 12 towers setup in here are for reaction purposes and dotlan reveals no activity for the past couple days.  I head back into the C2 and jump into C1b, which only has 2 towers, but is still messy with 14 signatures and 12 combat anomalies. 

And of course the only ships on dscan are sitting at the tower unpiloted.   By now the connection between the C2 and home system has gone end of life, so I head back and settle in for the night.

missing a kill....again

Couple nights ago we had a drake in system who ran a few sites, as I had just gotten home I didn't have any current bookmarks.  Later he came back in a  noctis to salvage that we also missed due to being afk (doh).

This morning I woke up to a tengu running sites, I was unable to pin him down before he ran off, and his salvage cane friend slipped away just before I was able to get point on him.   Since they were still in system I started blowing the wrecks on them, if you run our sites we'll deny you the salvage.

So I get down to scanning and we have 3 inbound wormholes,and since I'm the only one online I can't collapse them safely.  Time to log and get breakfast.

new clone unlocked

Jhared has passed the 54 million skillpoints mark, and as such I have upgraded my clone to grade Rho.  Not much news other than that - non-eve life has been busy lately and taken my attention away from the important internet spaceships business.

I can see why structure shoots are considered one of the most boring parts of Eve.  It took Slade and I just over 2 hours to kill that Interbus customs office.  In fact I fell asleep near the end of it.  Fortunately putting up the replacement took under a minute.

Today's hisec exit comes out a mere 6 jumps from Jita, however it's late, and taking the haulers out when you're tired usually means something bad happens.

anomolies in full bloom

Logged in this morning, did my usual scanning down of the new exits but did not activate them.  Checked combat anomolies and had 12 spawn overnight, so I get to work clearing a path through the clutter.  A few of the anoms looked half finished, likely due to our newest member being unable to tank the combined might of 2 sleeper battleships.

Sites run in 2 hours included, 5 Perimeter Hangers, 2 Data Santuarys, and 1 Ruins of enclave.  I know you're asking about the salvage, right?  For all those sites I managed a paltry 4 nanoribbons - no wonder nanoribbons are shooting up in Jita.

We'll be blowing up another Interbus office today.  Despite doing 300 less dps than my megathron, I'm going to use the oracle again because I can afk it, as long as we keep the exits closed and no new connections form.   I may ask Roudin to keep an eye out while we do the slog through the office shields.

The start of Interbus office takedowns

We blew up the first Interbus customs office a few days ago to put up our own.  A very long, boring affair with just two of us, me in an Oracle and Slade in a Megathron.  Of course I had the coffee wench on scanning duty for incoming wormholes, as we decided to keep the statics closed for the duration of the op.

2 hours or so until it finally blew.  Fortunately putting up our own office took less than a minute.

I'm not looking forward to the next 5 offices we need to take down.

mouseripper gets all torn up

Noticed scan probes floating around the system, and the hunt started.  The pilot was obviously still learning, as he had tossed out 3 flights of 6 probes over the course an 2 hours trying to pin down our mag site, I was even able to see him when he dropped the third set 200k from the sun.  I decided to wait and see if he brought anything bigger than a helios in after he left the hisec exit.

Minutes later, the wormhole flared to announce his arrival in a drake.  I followed him to our mag site, and sent a txt to Slade, as I feared I would not be able to finish him with my proteus - only 4 guns and fit for probing/cloaking.   Slade logged in, and when I was 3000 meters off the drake I decloaked and pointed him.   He shortly melted when Slade warped in to our combined damage.

Afterwards we exchanges a few emails where I gave him a few tips, including setting up dscan to look for active POS towers in system.