December Screenshot Collection

Posted: 2009-12-28 | Author: | Filed under: screenshot, ships | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

December was a month of mining for my corp. We cleared a few core sites on WH space that netted me around 750M. I’ll be stepping into a Thanatos soon, so there will be a lot of Carrier pictures coming in January. I’ll try to make this a monthly feature.

  1. 5x Hulks, 1x Orca working on a 150,000 unit Crokite asteroid in WH space link
  2. Closing WHs with a Battleship link
  3. 3x Hulks mining in WH space link

Merry Skillmass

Posted: 2009-12-24 | Author: | Filed under: ships | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

I decided to treat myself and buy the necessary skills to get into a Thanatos (Gallente Carrier). Ignore Acceleration Control; it was a skill that I looked over for the past few months.

New Gaming Rig

Posted: 2009-12-16 | Author: | Filed under: eveonline | 3 Comments

I’ve been playing Eve for the past year on a spare laptop and a old desktop rig that has a AGP 8x video card (blerg). The desktop PSU went up in a puff of smoke (literally) so I decided to get a new desktop machine.

Here’s what I got:

  • Intel Core i7-920 processor (8MB L3 Cache 2.66GHz)
  • 4GB DDR3 SDRAM
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
  • Windows 7 Home Premium, 64bit

I’m now able to run 2x Eve clients at 1280×960 in High Detail with Shadows Enabled both holding 60 FPS with the CPU sitting at 19% utilized, amazing. I’ve been doing a lot of station spinning lately! You’ll see a lot of pretty screenshots in my posts from now on.

Jita Purchases

Posted: 2009-11-23 | Author: | Filed under: ships | Tags: , | 2 Comments

Sorry about the lack of updates over the past 2 weeks; I have been interviewing and will be starting my new job on November 30th!

I got my main parked in Jita and my alt mining in WH space. My main has been watching Megacyte drop over the past few weeks to a 6 month low. This has affected T2 and higher end ship prices, brining them to a new low. I thought this would be a good time to spend of the ISK that was sitting idle in my wallet.

I’ve decided to make some purchases before the Dominion expansion.

Bought:

  1. Obelisk, 660 M
  2. Orca, 349.1 M
  3. Eos, 132.9 M
  4. Phobos, 95 M
  5. Ishkur, 25.9 M
  6. Nemesis, 23.3 M

Total: -1.286 B

Sold:

  1. Mackinaw, 67.99 M
  2. 4x Ice Harvester II‘s, 13.7 M

Total: +81.69 M

I’ve got a Proteus on my watch list but this week someone bought out all of the Proteus Propulsion – Localized Injectors on the market at 31 M and relisted at 67 M this week. I’ll wait.

Carrier Bounce

Posted: 2009-11-12 | Author: | Filed under: ships | Tags: , , , | 13 Comments

We had an encounter with a rather large T3/T2 fleet from Black-Wing (B-W) Corporation this week in WH space that resulted in two Hulks and a Carrier loss.

For a number of hours, we had been mining a 150,000 unit Crokite roid. For those of you that don’t know, a 150 K unit roid is rather large. In order to not bounce off of it, you have to warp to 20 K away.

Our Carrier pilot wanted to have some fun so he warped the Carrier to 0 on the roid. This resulted in the Carrier coming out of warp inside the roid and bouncing away at 5,000 m/s.

Just as the Carrier was starting to slow down, Combat probes showed up on the directional scanner.

[ 2009.11.09 20:52:03 ] Blake > COMBAT PROBES
[ 2009.11.09 20:52:09 ] s > oh shit
[ 2009.11.09 20:52:13 ] H > to POS ppl
[ 2009.11.09 20:52:46 ] h > omw back!
[ 2009.11.09 20:52:56 ] s > holy shit
[ 2009.11.09 20:53:25 ] T > theres too many tech 3 out there
[ 2009.11.09 20:53:49 ] T > legion legion loki diemos proteus tengu tengu

Black-Wing had a good scanning crew and were on top of us within 40 seconds and caught us in a moment of vulnerability. We were able to get 3 out of 5 Hulks back to the POS before the Phobos bubble was up. To our dismay, the bubble trapped two Hulks and the Chimera Carrier.

2009.11.09.21.01.28

Chimera Under Attack

The Hulks were destroyed within a few seconds and then they started to work on the Carrier. We counted 11 T2/T3 ships that assaulted the Carrier. After some smacktalk in local, and a threat to take down our POS, or Carrier pilot began his self-destruct sequence so they would not get a Carrier killmail.

*BOOM*, Self-destruct.

After a few minutes, we saw the T2/T3 fleet go off directional and a salvage crew arrive on-site to salvage the Carrier and Hulks wrecks.

The lesson? It is ok to play with your capitals (if you insure them).

Links:

1680 x 1050 no Overview screenshot of Chimera Carrier under attack.
Black-Wing (B-W) Killboard

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