Jhared's space hardware

Scattered from time to time I see others posting about what they fly, so I'm going to occasionally post a tidbit here and there with what I fly, and the fittings.  Comments , critiques, and suggestions are welcome.

We will start with one of my oldest ships still in service, the Myrmidon.  As I was still less than a year old, being able to fit T2 tank/guns felt powerful at the time.

Myrmidon -

High slot-
6x 425mm Autocannon II

Mid slot -
3x Cap Recharger II
1x 10MN Microwarpdrive I
1x Stasis Webifier I

Low slot -
1x Damage Control II
1x Armor Thermic Hardener II
1x Armor Kinetic Hardener II
1x Armor Explosive Hardener II
1x Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
1x Medium Armor Repairer II

Rigs -
1x Medium Projectile Collision Accelerator I
1x Medium Capacitor Control Circuit I
1x Medium Projectile Metastasis Adjuster I

Drones -
16x Hobgoblin I

I have recently refit the Myrm to replace 1 gun with a salvager, and 1 cap recharger with a web for ninja salvaging anomolies where the wrecks are not mine.  Otherwise it has remained pretty unchanged for the better part of 3 years.

Traffic and a project

Whee it was a busy busy day.  First up, a vexor gas mining, it was a quick kill -

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15577536

A cloaked loki from Exhale. called me out on the kill - he was stalking the vexor and I got to it before he did.  Not only that, but I picked up the gas it dropped with a hauler.


Then while I was at work this happened -

http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15584347 - drake pilot ran a site and came back to salvage, suddenly bombers got to him before my esteemed leader could do so.  Fortunately more explosions happened as 2 of said drake's corpmates decloaked and nabbed one of the bombers in return - http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15584346

Getting home I did notice a tengu somewhere in system, updated PI and logged to catch some sleep.


On another note - I am starting a long term project that hopefully will see results in the next 2 years, a personal project as I'm not asking the rest of the corp to take up an undue burden.

Quick death

On my way to work I get a bit of news via text message on the phone -

Slade Fox :
  Just got killed by bubble outside the pos

Me:

Dammit I'm working

At least it was a cheap hauler :/

 

Slade Fox :

Yes. It was quite a surprise. They were maybe 300k off pos.  They must have seen me leave and waited.

 

Me:

Interesting. Wonder if they'll setup camp

 

Slade Fox :

They're gone. Came from the k162 one jump from dodixie.

 

 

And the killmails -

 

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17968420

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17968419

 

I had logged an hour previously...at first I didn't realise his pod goo got flushed until I was able to check the killboard.  A chance opportunity as we are careful when making planet goo runs.  Wormhole life is still the most unpredictable in Eve, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Sudden activity

October was extremely quiet, no kills, and only 1 loss in lowsec.  November promises to be a far more exciting month, with 5 kills + 1 pod only 4 days in.  Slade has also reactivated our griefwatch killboard at http://temt.griefwatch.net/ - he was not happy with eve-kill.

Kill so far-
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17834715 killmail is a bit screwy
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17834712 and his pod

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17848836 Slade gets to pimpslap a salvager
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17848521 Frank nabbed an unfortunately empty hauler
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17866769 This guy was sitting at planet 2 moon 1 as his buddy was attempting to run a site in a tempest - we wanted the tempest but he kept warping out to recharge shields maybe?
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=17870642  This just happened while I was offline.

I haven't been too active due to a little thing known as Guildwars2, but as November seems to be getting busy I'll hopefully be able to get some more action.

Edit: A picture Slade took of the raven kill-

The retriever that got away

Logged in well after hours today after seeing a single sleeper kill on the sensor net, retriever mining arkonor.  Bugger had stabs fitted, which is just as well since as he was leaving my futile attempts to point him, 2 drakes showed up.  I really don't think my proteus can take on 2 drakes at the same time, so it's just as well.

Bugger.  Scanning quickly removes dead signatures and brings up....4 exits.  Let's see where they lead.  First up is our regular hisec, since I don't know who is in system I'll pass on seeing where we are.  Second looks like an incoming C2 after consulting the databanks Penny provided.  The third signature has seemingly expired or collapsed by the time I warp in to get a visual, which leaves the fourth as our static C4.

It seems we have neighbors in the C2 who want to mine - seeing that I'm the only one on, I'll just head back to the tower and settle in for some sleep.

The Procurer is a tough nugget

We've had a busy day today.  Slade killed a navy megathron and a retriever shortly before I logged in.  Strangely a procurer from the same corp as the mega started mining, we figured it was a trap.  Frank checked the hisec side, the mega's corp had a badger mk2 sitting outside of the exit.

I waited till the procurer dropped a can, bookmarked it and ran willy nilly off to the tower for a cheap ship to commence battle.  Now the procurer had left a sleeper in the site as it could permatank it with ease, so a bomber wouldn't work.....hmm refit here and there and grabbed my old standby myrmidon.

Warped in, got a point on the barge, popped his can and the sleeper wrecks he left (salvaged one of them) and started dropping rounds into his shields.  Getting through armor and Frank piped up that a slepnier and drake from the pilots corp showed up on the hole.  Slade saw them come inside, and they started warp to my location as the last sliver of hull vaporized from the barge.

Both hostiles landed just as I entered warp, maybe half a second too late to point me.  That is quite the adrenalin rush, and my first actual kill in ages.  20k damage, that barge is a tough one.

Soon after, both hostiles left, and an unrelated anathema and hurricane came in to presumeably scout.

non-eve things...

I still exist, still have connection issues.  Many people have been badgering me to try out Guild Wars 2, I hesitate to plonk down money for a game I don't know that I'd enjoy.  I did get into the closed beta for Path of Exile, so that satisfies the D3 urge.

system offline

My connection to the internet has been flakey, so I have not really done anything of note that is risky.  On the other hand it allows me the time to go for a few rounds of disc golf each week, I have been trying to visit at least one new course each week.  We have several lovely 18-hole coursses in the area, as wekk as 9-hole courses.
I plan to visit them all eventually, even the ones that get terrible reviews.

do we get to use this as a tax writeoff?

Corp mates
From: Keldon Freeze
Sent: 2012.07.22 17:03
To: The Environmental Management Team,
As of this eve mail, most of the ships and some items that were in your station, have been cleared out. I thought I should nicely thank you for your donation. the tengus, especially the super faction fitted, and the super faction abaddon was sweet. Just as a forwarning for your next recruitment.... dont recruit people that you blow up. and if you do.... dont give them that much access to your goods.

fly safe and take this a a small set back. but learn from it. fare TEMT, it was a privilage working with you.
Keldon

So he made off with a bunch of T1 ships, 2 tengu's, and 1 blingy abbadon while we were sleeping.  Our fault, we forgot to move those ships.  As for access, it's just very difficult to do anything in wormhole space without some access to shared resources, and a loss like this is just something that comes with the territory.  We'll continue to plow on, we've lived here for 3 years, we're not going to let this be more than a minor incident.

You win some, you lose some.

On the bright side I was contracted a fully fit Talos, that was certainly a nice surprise.  Thank you Kulper, that really did brighten my day.

I'm really irritated that Keldon/Kinovic stole the megathron we dedicated to Mike9091...

fresh blood, and friendly faceshooting

Slade popped a drake a few days ago and promptly recruited the guy.  I'm reminded through him of all the new things you discover about wormhole space - keeps me from getting jaded about our little C2.

Today we had a C5 open up into our home within dscan of our towers.   The C5 in question belongs to Future Corps, part of the Sleeper Social Club alliance.  Joining their public channel resulted in an invite to a friendly 1 v 1, which I promptly lost.   Props to them for a fun fight, I would do it again.  I did tell the C5 residents that they had free passage to hisec for the duration of their connection with us.

Note to self -  I forgot to put smokes and booze in the cargohold of the brutix, gotta stock up.

So Slade is off for a week or to on vacation, and has left me in charge.  Of Everything.  Which really helps as our last grav site popped (found out Lutra was mining semi-afk while we had 4 exits open, he's a lucky man), and I honestly don't feel like running combat anomalies.  Lutra is still hell-bent on becoming a mini-Chribba and building a rorqual inside the hole -.I don't know that we should, considering we aren't like many mining corps and have 3 hangers full of ore...

I've been enjoying the alliance tournament matches, I was happy to see two of my favorite goonswarm pilots in last weekends match.  I know Klann from the wormhole channel, and Dashmoo lived in our hole for a good amount of time while he was in chrome, going from wspace noob to his early pvp engagements.

I'm sitting on quite the stash of materials I need to ship to Jita, just waiting for a closer exit.

Fueling two towers

Fuel costs are increasing, Slade purchased 200 mil in fuel for the large tower which added...not as much time aas we would have liked.  We were near Amarr though so I jumped out and grabbed the 15k units of emergancy blocks I had stashed in Amarr and hauled it in.

I'm also running low on electrolytes, amazingly even with 2 gas giants on system.  I'll be reconfiguring my PI setup soon to drop the factory on p4 over to p2 and using an extra extracing slot.

Other than that, I almost miss having good neighbors in the hole - sure they brought trouble with them but it also added targets.

Edit:  Almost shot a blue - saw a ferox on dscan harvesting gas.  Got direction and distance, used Penny's method of pinpointing where the ferox was and warped in systems hot.  He warped off as I noticed I was targeting a blue.

Will need to keep in mind the ships Shockwave Innovations have an SWI prepended to the name.  They invited us onto a roam of our static C4 once we realised blue status, and then yep, connection dropped.   Really wish there was more of a choice in ISPs around here as the local monopoly is seemingly unable to resolve the issue of random connection drops.

Connection lost...

My internet connection has been rather spotty lately, and it's been bad enough that I have not been able to put any solid playtime into Eve.   Unfortunately Comcast has been unable to figure out what the heck is wrong with my service, and there are really no other choices in the area.

Broadband monopolies kinda suck.

Infrequent posting

I've been slacking off with posting, I know.   I just have not been spending much time active in game, many apologies.

Our sightseeing guest is still with us, enjoying the ever-changing vistas of our exits.  Although I have not had a chance to speak with her personally, I hope she is not completely bored with how quiet the system has been the last few weeks.

An alt of mine has left nullsec, from a failed 'I want to experience what nullsec is like' phase.   The alt in question did not want to fly the ships that were standard fleet doctrine, and could nopt make most of the scheduled ops.   Therefore this alt will be joining faction warfare.  I'm sure FW will be far more interesting than nullsec, and I want to thank @eclipticrift over on twitter for the encouragement.

new inventory system hurts...

Opening inventory at a pos is painful.  Everything that has a cargohold is listed, guns, etc, and it's giving my client fits right now.  I'm hoping they add to the filters so I can at least filter out the guns and starbase modules I don't use on a regular basis.