December Screenshot Collection
Posted: 2009-12-28 Filed under: screenshot, ships | Tags: mining, ships, wormhole 1 CommentDecember 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.
- 5x Hulks, 1x Orca working on a 150,000 unit Crokite asteroid in WH space link
- Closing WHs with a Battleship link
- 3x Hulks mining in WH space link
Merry Skillmass
Posted: 2009-12-24 Filed under: ships | Tags: capital, carrier, skills 2 CommentsI 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.
Jita Purchases
Posted: 2009-11-23 Filed under: ships | Tags: jita, ships 2 CommentsSorry 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:
Total: -1.286 B
Sold:
- Mackinaw, 67.99 M
- 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 Filed under: ships | Tags: capital, carrier, gank, ships 13 CommentsWe 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.
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
T3 PvP
Posted: 2009-11-04 Filed under: ships | Tags: carrier, gank, pvp 5 CommentsA Legion and Tengu entered our C5 system and logged off at some point unnoticed by any of our pilots. When my WH partners came online one afternoon after downtime and started mining, the T3 ships attacked; 2 Hulks down. Later in the day, I thought the system was clear so I started mining; 1 more Hulk down.
At this point the damage was 3 Hulks, so around 300 M in damage.
A corpmate scanned down an exit to empire and found that our C5 linked to a C2 with friendlies, who had a direct link to Amarr. We got a lot of compressed ore, C320, and C540 gas out to market.
We talked about getting the Orca back in WH space from Amarr with new Hulks, fuel, and mods. We took a defensive approach to the Orca move and fleeted up to camp the WHs. A Dominix, Raven, Apocalypse, Typhoon, Prophecy, and Wolf camped the WHs as the Orca moved back to the POS.
As the Orca finished the jumps from Amarr into the C2, and finally from the C2 into our C5, a Tengu appeared 186 K off of the C2 Amarr WH.
We had a good force, so we decided to engage. Once the Tengu got some fire on it, a Legion and Megathron came online to defend it. We took a beating and lost around half our fleet with no losses to the T3/Megathron fleet.
We retreated into our C5 and the WH linking to the C2 closed behind the T3/Megathron force. We warped to our POS and then sat quiet for a few minutes. The Tengu pilot started to talk in local.
They were trapped!
After some more talk in local, we learned that they have been scouting us out for a few days and were staying logged off in our system. They waited for us to start mining and then warped to the Gravmetric site we were working on to gank us. Easily done as we only had 1 active Gravmetric site.
We agreed on the price of 500 M for scanning down a new exit after we had another round of PvP. They agreed and we selected a planet.
1x Tengu
1x Legion
1x Megathronvs.
1x Chimera (Caldari Carrier)
2x DPS Typhoon
1x Tackle Taranis
1x Dominix fitted for Remote Repping
We got the Megathron down first and then worked on the Legion. Soon only the Tengu was left and it had one amazing tank. It was successfully tanking 8x Carrier Fighters, 2x Typhoon, 5x Ogre I’s, and other smaller drones. We were not able to break the tank, so we congratulated the Tengu pilot and let him warp off.
We got 250 M for scanning down the C2 WH and another 250 M for the empire link. After salvaging and looting the wrecks, which were full of Faction gear, we came out ahead in the fight.
I lost a Hulk and a rigged Dominix and managed to net 100 M. Not a bad day in WH space.
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