Captain's Log 2019-07-05
Well, it's technically the 5th but it's the middle of the night.
Drifters have come to our space and reinforced our structures. We think we've found a way to deal with them. If you have a station - man the station and fire away. We let off bombs and that seemed to do damage. One of my guys was online doing this and when I logged on I warped to the other citadel and then they logged off as soon as I docked and took control of the station.
We have timers and will respond to those.
In other news, we fought NSH the other night. It was the maiden voyage of our cerb fleet. I'm very pleased with how things went. Next fleet op will hopefully run better. I'm not sure why people don't have trust in Sanders or I when it comes to fleet ops. I hope in time they will learn that we know what we are doing. We need to elevate our gameplay. People need to be in the fleet and in the ships we ask for - fit how we have them posted - when we ask. They will learn in time.
*sings* there you go looking pitiful ... listening to P!nk while I type this up!
Anyway, I am pleased with how the cerbs showed up on the grid. We didn't kill NSH but they didn't kill us either. So we now have a fleet comp we can take with them. We have to make some minor tweaks when we are small gang (like 6 people or less) vs a gang sized fleet. The only other tweak was people didn't have the right ammo in - HUH? Ok so I will have to make sure that is up to date on the fleet comps.
Until next time ... fly dangerous!
Friday, July 5, 2019
Monday, July 1, 2019
Captain's Log - New RL Adventures & Eve
Captain's Log July 1, 2019
Today is the first of the month. The sov war in Querious continues to battle on. NSH continues to bring ships we just can't fight. So, my guys aren't logging in. Tactic? Yes, at the same time we also won't field anything above a cormorant right now because of the ships they bring. If we bring cruisers they are in marauders - WTF? So, it looks like they are only here to try to bait out big ships like capitals or get the goons to fight them.
I had checked at 11:00 am when I got off work and then checked again at 1:00 pm - no pings, no one was on hmm ok. I was in the other room watching a movie - The Matrix. I watched all 3 of them. LOL, apparently there was a ping at 1:42 pm for in 7 hours SMA would need help.
Well, last night they got what they wanted. Goons came to the fight along with NC & PH.
Battle Report: https://zkillboard.com/related/30003968/201907010300/
We had one of our guys in on the fight LOL.
The Matrix marathon I had was good too. LOL I needed some movies and TV to relax.
So I put new RL Adventure & Eve as the subject ... so what is my new real life adventures?
I'm starting my own business doing consulting work writing - content management, social media management, web site content, etc. Also, we do offer excel spreadsheets, access database management, etc. I had been working at Amazon in the Registry department. I gave my notice yesterday and my last day is July 3. Lucky for me I'm off July 1-3. So, technically I worked my last day yesterday. This week is homework and getting my websites up and running. Next week I will announce it on social media what I'm doing.
I'm excited & nervous. This is what I'm getting my degree in. I have a year left of school. They say it will take about a year to a year and a half to have a fully functioning company.
So I'm doing it!
Eve wise doesn't change - I'm still here, playing, etc. I am hoping that we can get back to QFC fighting soon. Fighting outsiders, while fun, is exhausting.
So fly dangerous - take a chance - if you don't you won't know if you can fly!
Today is the first of the month. The sov war in Querious continues to battle on. NSH continues to bring ships we just can't fight. So, my guys aren't logging in. Tactic? Yes, at the same time we also won't field anything above a cormorant right now because of the ships they bring. If we bring cruisers they are in marauders - WTF? So, it looks like they are only here to try to bait out big ships like capitals or get the goons to fight them.
I had checked at 11:00 am when I got off work and then checked again at 1:00 pm - no pings, no one was on hmm ok. I was in the other room watching a movie - The Matrix. I watched all 3 of them. LOL, apparently there was a ping at 1:42 pm for in 7 hours SMA would need help.
Well, last night they got what they wanted. Goons came to the fight along with NC & PH.
Battle Report: https://zkillboard.com/related/30003968/201907010300/
We had one of our guys in on the fight LOL.
The Matrix marathon I had was good too. LOL I needed some movies and TV to relax.
So I put new RL Adventure & Eve as the subject ... so what is my new real life adventures?
I'm starting my own business doing consulting work writing - content management, social media management, web site content, etc. Also, we do offer excel spreadsheets, access database management, etc. I had been working at Amazon in the Registry department. I gave my notice yesterday and my last day is July 3. Lucky for me I'm off July 1-3. So, technically I worked my last day yesterday. This week is homework and getting my websites up and running. Next week I will announce it on social media what I'm doing.
I'm excited & nervous. This is what I'm getting my degree in. I have a year left of school. They say it will take about a year to a year and a half to have a fully functioning company.
So I'm doing it!
Eve wise doesn't change - I'm still here, playing, etc. I am hoping that we can get back to QFC fighting soon. Fighting outsiders, while fun, is exhausting.
So fly dangerous - take a chance - if you don't you won't know if you can fly!
Thursday, June 20, 2019
NSH Sov Push on Us!
TLDR: We had timers that started at 20:30 on June 19 and went until 09:30 on June 20th. 12 Timers. 11 things saved successfully. We lost our ihub in VT-G2P valued at $2,340,550,088.93 (Today’s prices) and some ships. We may have new pvp targets.
Battle Report
For those who want all the details ...
Captains Log: June 20, 2019
Yesterday was a long day and I was prepared for it, or was I? I got up at about ten in the morning and had coffee and breakfast. I logged in and took care of a few things – who am I kidding I did my PI, well most of it anyway. Then I started making bookmarks for the corp in V-LEKM on the K7D gate. Let’s just say that when my guys say I’m anal about bookmarks on gates, there are a lot of them. I make so many because you just never know where they will be and if I use one of my guys from the corp they can look at the bookmark and say “warp to x bookmark at 10 and you’ll be on them” and we will have them. Our allies put up small and large bubbles. Not the kind that disappears in a few minutes – you know the annoying anchorable kind. I sat off that gate cloaked. I’m not going to fly that toon into sub cap battles any longer because everyone knows her and knows she’s me. I have an alt and started using it. I know it won’t be long until people realize who it is but hey, I have got to try. I realized I had no gum, so I quickly finished getting dressed and ran to the store to get gum. I bought 3 packs. I swear I chew gum the way most people smoke. I also got a bag of popcorn – Smart Foos’s White Cheddar – that’s so yummy!
I got back home and instantly checked TS – no one new on. Checked discord – nothing pressing. I went to the kitchen and got my water and came back to my desk. Fed the cat. He laid down to sleep - thank goodness! Sat down and continued making bookmarks – I’m telling you I have a lot of these ok. I talked with my allies pvp guy and he said he had bubbles and could bubble the gate for me - perfect. He got into the system and told me. I got to the gate and decloaked at the right range, or so I thought. He said he wasn’t in range and I said well if you can move out from the gate but be at those points that would great. He put up three small bubbles and one large. Got me to thinking – I think we need to start doing classes on things. Bubbles – placements and ships etc – made a mental note to get on that. Anywho I digress, so I moved around the gate and told him where I wanted the bubbles to be put and he bookmarked the site and went at it for me.
The bubbles were up, and the first two hostiles came into the system. I laughed because I was like HA jerk faces – you aren’t the only ones who use bubbles! Ok so maybe I didn’t say jerk faces and used more colorful language, but you get the idea. They burned out and then went on their way. Oh, wait here come three more pilots, then two more, etc. It was so much fun watching them burn out. The original plan didn’t come to mind for that scenario. It’s been put on the back burner for now – if you know what I was planning great – if you don’t, stay tuned more to come I’m sure!
The first timer went off and we were able to secure it - easy. They had some guys and we were warping around. I should have moved the fleet to K7D to gate camp, but they had a fleet of about 4-6 people in our systems and it seemed more important to keep the fleet together. We would move from system to system. Finally, I decided to engage.
Battle Report
We lost more ships but isk wise we were 50-50 – so for us it’s a win. The sabre was the first thing to go down because we didn’t want to be in their bubbles! The Phantasm was the second target and we took him into armor. Although one guy said that we got him into shields. We went back to the station and reshipped.
Our home base is 60M-TG out of the Goon Fort there. Why? Well let’s see, us a tiny little group of 200+ pilots who can field 10-20 vs a 30,000+ alliance who will wipe the board with them if they attack their structure. Hmm hard choice, right? LOL All of our contracted-out ships were not on contract any longer. I had traded a bunch from one toon to another and put them up for the alliance. Those sold out. We need to have a person who will do this for us because I was doing several jobs at once and that is NEVER effective.
We got reshipped and went back out again. We found them and warped away. There were a couple of pilots who were upset but sometimes warping on grid then getting off grid is better for us. We were flying cormorants and needed to be at our tactical. The biggest problem with that is skills trained on each pilot. Most pilots won’t have it trained to level 5 which would have been sweat if we did have that. We would have done cormorants and kitsunes then. Based on level 4 skills it was griffins and cormorants. I know sucks doesn’t it when you have the fleet comp you want to do and willing pilots – just have to wait for the skills to catch up.
Side note – I’m old school and won’t ask anyone to skill inject. You must be smarter than your enemy and use the skills that you have now. Not a problem!
Then the second and third timers went off. Wait did I hear intel right – they said Golem? WTF (Ok here I did really say that sorry if you don’t like the F word.) Why on earth would you bring a marauder for entossising? WTF are these guys thinking. Who the hell would do that? Crazy rich old men or young kids killing summertime? I don’t know. This perplexed me. I knew it was because of the griffins. We had brought them to help SMA defend their space and broke up the NSH fleet with them before. Yes T1 ECM Frigates. But now we were countered. Dang it!
I hand control of the fleet to Skyee Everson and he took over. I went to another channel with Riela to tell him what to get to bring down to put up on contract – we ran out and I had already done a market run! Riela and I sort everything out and go back to the fleet channel to hear them engage and loose.
At that point, I was at a loss of what to do. I’m the FC. I’m the alliance leader. I knew what I wanted to do and fly but I know the actual skills of these pilots is not there yet. Hell we had rigs in the cargo holds of the cormorants that weren’t put on the ships. *WHAT?* Yep that’s how new we are. Ok – not a problem I will take the blame, I am the leader, and I didn’t educate my guys on that. Something to fix for next fleet op.
At this point, this is what our battle report looks like Battle Report
Now, most folks were ready to fight – and for that, I applaud each and every one of you! Cookies, cocktails or whatever you enjoy to you!
We were outnumbered and out shipped. We went to channel commander and Skyee and I talked. Doipen later joined us. Basically, we all agreed we are outnumbered and out shipped. We had another fleet we wanted to fleet into but didn’t have the DPS ships. We had logi but not dps. Yeah, I know most people go “wait what?” yep we are good with logi pilots – just gotta get those dpser’s in! We talked for a bit and decided to stay docked.
By then the enemy fleet we call NSH but known as “can’t these mother fuckers give us a week?”, NullSechnaya Sholupen is their real name were on our discord. Pinging away. WTF? What are you guys 5? So, I go to discord and hop into a voice channel and they all joined making noise. Oh, ok so you are actually 5, ok noted. I banned them from discord. Why? Because all they were doing was screaming and making noise. There was nothing coherent. Their troll game is weak at best. They are now downgraded to 3-year olds. We are fighting a war with 3-year olds who want the toy we have but as soon as they get it will throw it out. Yeah ok, so you picked the wrong alliance to do this with.
This is why they call me a bitch, I guess. I banned you from discord because you acted like children and were moronic. So next came Team Speak. Interesting because I know I haven’t given it to them. So, that’s interesting. I started kicking everyone.
Now, mind you in game I have 5 conversations going on with these guys who in game are talking like actual human beings. You get them on discord, and they are like idiots who found a gun – no you can’t point that at me thank you bye bye. The only guy who is listed on their alliance as the diplo and I know he’s an FC was Wallypants. Yeah he’s not capable of conversation on any level and I knew at the end of the conversation that we were going to lose something – just not what until the guy said “For this you will lose the VT-G2P ihub”. I lol’d and looked at the timer board – it went from 60% to 35% in that moment. I gulped and went Ok I am playing with children that’s fine – I know how to play with people like this.
Well one of them typed in local “drag me please”. So, I kicked all of his people from TS and drug him to our fleet of a whopping 7 people. I said hello. Nothing. I said How can I help you. Nothing. I just want to point out I waited about a minute in between. I finally on the third time go “Look, you are on my TS, you asked to be dragged, if you want to talk – talk – otherwise I’m going to ban you”. I hear “wait I’m trying to get my push to talk set up”. Ok.
Now some of you may go “oh yeah I understand I don’t have it set up either” I call bullshit.
Now before you guys go “oh he’s a brand-new char Athena don’t be so mean” I’m going to call bullshit on that one too.
CharleytheChair
While on paper he only started the game on January 13 and instantly found a player corp and joined it and now 6 months later is flying a Loki and capitals like he’s an old pro at the game – he’s an alt. Of who, I’m not sure just yet, but he’s an alt. He, I’m sure, was trying to get our ts to stream to their ts or to record us – that’s what he was “setting up”. While I know others maybe don’t think like this / like me – this is what I’m thinking.
He fed us a lot of rhetoric and at one point I called bullshit on him. I told him that you don’t say you are being honest if you are honest. He laughed and changed the subject. Now before any of you go OMG you are a traitor to the QFC why would you talk with him OMG – stop. If you have learned nothing else from me know this – I’m tactically sound and think of things constantly. While we were talking with him, we learned he plays League of Legends (yawn – as does 80% of Eve Online btw), He would feed us bs stuff etc. My guys were very cautious about him and kept asking me about him and I finally said, “who wants to ninja entosis with me?” and my guys went “ok I will how do I do this?”. I said, “don’t talk about it on coms and let’s get our stuff back”. They were working on the 9-HM04 ihub at that moment and I saw that they were going to capture it. I wasn’t going to lose another ihub. We had lost VT-G2P at the low low cost of $2.35 Bil. One of my guys suddenly went “why are you guys using marauders to entosis? It’s really annoying.” He goes “because you guys came in griffins.”
That’s what I needed to hear. Logic.
Now we could actually talk about the game and maybe make some headway with him!
I told him that the QFC is designed to fight but it’s also here for smaller groups like us to build up our pvp forces. That means that newer pilots with only 7 million skill points can come to learn about null sec, fighting etc. He went “wait you have pilots with only 7 million sp?”. That’s when my guy keyed up and goes “yes that’s all I have, and I am training skills now but that’s all I have is 7 million”. He went “oh we didn’t’ know that give me a minute.” He came back and we talked about how I have pilots with over 100 mil skill points and pilots with 7 million skill points. We told him that Fatal Order has the same lack of experience. That neither of us lack the will to fight – it’s the experience. I told him that with our current pilot base the only thing we can do is dock up when they come with 18 Loki’. He lol’d. I said, “Ok like you wouldn’t do that when you are outnumbered or out shipped?” and he goes “What do you think we would do if it were Goons? The same thing you are doing with us.”
So tactically, we are sound. We did the right thing to dock up. I know that for some pilots that’s hard to hear. I don’t want to destroy their fighter spirit – because that’s the last thing I want to do!
Then I hear him say “Ok so if we brought you a fight with Assault Frigates would you fight us then?”
YES! YES! YES!
THIS is what I was hoping for. I’m not asking them to go away – I asked them to bring us a fight that we may win or lose but a fight we can actually fight in. We talked some more, and I said Destroyers T1/T2 or Frigates of any type we would fight gladly. We made a gentlemen’s agreement of a week. Only time will tell if these guys are decent or just trolls.
We talked for a little while longer and then he said thank you for the conversation and went on his way. We learned some things about them as well as about us.
We finished entossising what was left to do for our 12 timers. We lost 1 out of 12 and hopefully, have new people we can actually pvp with. May not be a win in your book – but my guys and the members of the QFC are winners in my book!
Battle Report
For those who want all the details ...
Captains Log: June 20, 2019
Yesterday was a long day and I was prepared for it, or was I? I got up at about ten in the morning and had coffee and breakfast. I logged in and took care of a few things – who am I kidding I did my PI, well most of it anyway. Then I started making bookmarks for the corp in V-LEKM on the K7D gate. Let’s just say that when my guys say I’m anal about bookmarks on gates, there are a lot of them. I make so many because you just never know where they will be and if I use one of my guys from the corp they can look at the bookmark and say “warp to x bookmark at 10 and you’ll be on them” and we will have them. Our allies put up small and large bubbles. Not the kind that disappears in a few minutes – you know the annoying anchorable kind. I sat off that gate cloaked. I’m not going to fly that toon into sub cap battles any longer because everyone knows her and knows she’s me. I have an alt and started using it. I know it won’t be long until people realize who it is but hey, I have got to try. I realized I had no gum, so I quickly finished getting dressed and ran to the store to get gum. I bought 3 packs. I swear I chew gum the way most people smoke. I also got a bag of popcorn – Smart Foos’s White Cheddar – that’s so yummy!
I got back home and instantly checked TS – no one new on. Checked discord – nothing pressing. I went to the kitchen and got my water and came back to my desk. Fed the cat. He laid down to sleep - thank goodness! Sat down and continued making bookmarks – I’m telling you I have a lot of these ok. I talked with my allies pvp guy and he said he had bubbles and could bubble the gate for me - perfect. He got into the system and told me. I got to the gate and decloaked at the right range, or so I thought. He said he wasn’t in range and I said well if you can move out from the gate but be at those points that would great. He put up three small bubbles and one large. Got me to thinking – I think we need to start doing classes on things. Bubbles – placements and ships etc – made a mental note to get on that. Anywho I digress, so I moved around the gate and told him where I wanted the bubbles to be put and he bookmarked the site and went at it for me.
The bubbles were up, and the first two hostiles came into the system. I laughed because I was like HA jerk faces – you aren’t the only ones who use bubbles! Ok so maybe I didn’t say jerk faces and used more colorful language, but you get the idea. They burned out and then went on their way. Oh, wait here come three more pilots, then two more, etc. It was so much fun watching them burn out. The original plan didn’t come to mind for that scenario. It’s been put on the back burner for now – if you know what I was planning great – if you don’t, stay tuned more to come I’m sure!
The first timer went off and we were able to secure it - easy. They had some guys and we were warping around. I should have moved the fleet to K7D to gate camp, but they had a fleet of about 4-6 people in our systems and it seemed more important to keep the fleet together. We would move from system to system. Finally, I decided to engage.
Battle Report
We lost more ships but isk wise we were 50-50 – so for us it’s a win. The sabre was the first thing to go down because we didn’t want to be in their bubbles! The Phantasm was the second target and we took him into armor. Although one guy said that we got him into shields. We went back to the station and reshipped.
Our home base is 60M-TG out of the Goon Fort there. Why? Well let’s see, us a tiny little group of 200+ pilots who can field 10-20 vs a 30,000+ alliance who will wipe the board with them if they attack their structure. Hmm hard choice, right? LOL All of our contracted-out ships were not on contract any longer. I had traded a bunch from one toon to another and put them up for the alliance. Those sold out. We need to have a person who will do this for us because I was doing several jobs at once and that is NEVER effective.
We got reshipped and went back out again. We found them and warped away. There were a couple of pilots who were upset but sometimes warping on grid then getting off grid is better for us. We were flying cormorants and needed to be at our tactical. The biggest problem with that is skills trained on each pilot. Most pilots won’t have it trained to level 5 which would have been sweat if we did have that. We would have done cormorants and kitsunes then. Based on level 4 skills it was griffins and cormorants. I know sucks doesn’t it when you have the fleet comp you want to do and willing pilots – just have to wait for the skills to catch up.
Side note – I’m old school and won’t ask anyone to skill inject. You must be smarter than your enemy and use the skills that you have now. Not a problem!
Then the second and third timers went off. Wait did I hear intel right – they said Golem? WTF (Ok here I did really say that sorry if you don’t like the F word.) Why on earth would you bring a marauder for entossising? WTF are these guys thinking. Who the hell would do that? Crazy rich old men or young kids killing summertime? I don’t know. This perplexed me. I knew it was because of the griffins. We had brought them to help SMA defend their space and broke up the NSH fleet with them before. Yes T1 ECM Frigates. But now we were countered. Dang it!
I hand control of the fleet to Skyee Everson and he took over. I went to another channel with Riela to tell him what to get to bring down to put up on contract – we ran out and I had already done a market run! Riela and I sort everything out and go back to the fleet channel to hear them engage and loose.
At that point, I was at a loss of what to do. I’m the FC. I’m the alliance leader. I knew what I wanted to do and fly but I know the actual skills of these pilots is not there yet. Hell we had rigs in the cargo holds of the cormorants that weren’t put on the ships. *WHAT?* Yep that’s how new we are. Ok – not a problem I will take the blame, I am the leader, and I didn’t educate my guys on that. Something to fix for next fleet op.
At this point, this is what our battle report looks like Battle Report
Now, most folks were ready to fight – and for that, I applaud each and every one of you! Cookies, cocktails or whatever you enjoy to you!
We were outnumbered and out shipped. We went to channel commander and Skyee and I talked. Doipen later joined us. Basically, we all agreed we are outnumbered and out shipped. We had another fleet we wanted to fleet into but didn’t have the DPS ships. We had logi but not dps. Yeah, I know most people go “wait what?” yep we are good with logi pilots – just gotta get those dpser’s in! We talked for a bit and decided to stay docked.
By then the enemy fleet we call NSH but known as “can’t these mother fuckers give us a week?”, NullSechnaya Sholupen is their real name were on our discord. Pinging away. WTF? What are you guys 5? So, I go to discord and hop into a voice channel and they all joined making noise. Oh, ok so you are actually 5, ok noted. I banned them from discord. Why? Because all they were doing was screaming and making noise. There was nothing coherent. Their troll game is weak at best. They are now downgraded to 3-year olds. We are fighting a war with 3-year olds who want the toy we have but as soon as they get it will throw it out. Yeah ok, so you picked the wrong alliance to do this with.
This is why they call me a bitch, I guess. I banned you from discord because you acted like children and were moronic. So next came Team Speak. Interesting because I know I haven’t given it to them. So, that’s interesting. I started kicking everyone.
Now, mind you in game I have 5 conversations going on with these guys who in game are talking like actual human beings. You get them on discord, and they are like idiots who found a gun – no you can’t point that at me thank you bye bye. The only guy who is listed on their alliance as the diplo and I know he’s an FC was Wallypants. Yeah he’s not capable of conversation on any level and I knew at the end of the conversation that we were going to lose something – just not what until the guy said “For this you will lose the VT-G2P ihub”. I lol’d and looked at the timer board – it went from 60% to 35% in that moment. I gulped and went Ok I am playing with children that’s fine – I know how to play with people like this.
Well one of them typed in local “drag me please”. So, I kicked all of his people from TS and drug him to our fleet of a whopping 7 people. I said hello. Nothing. I said How can I help you. Nothing. I just want to point out I waited about a minute in between. I finally on the third time go “Look, you are on my TS, you asked to be dragged, if you want to talk – talk – otherwise I’m going to ban you”. I hear “wait I’m trying to get my push to talk set up”. Ok.
Now some of you may go “oh yeah I understand I don’t have it set up either” I call bullshit.
Now before you guys go “oh he’s a brand-new char Athena don’t be so mean” I’m going to call bullshit on that one too.
CharleytheChair
While on paper he only started the game on January 13 and instantly found a player corp and joined it and now 6 months later is flying a Loki and capitals like he’s an old pro at the game – he’s an alt. Of who, I’m not sure just yet, but he’s an alt. He, I’m sure, was trying to get our ts to stream to their ts or to record us – that’s what he was “setting up”. While I know others maybe don’t think like this / like me – this is what I’m thinking.
He fed us a lot of rhetoric and at one point I called bullshit on him. I told him that you don’t say you are being honest if you are honest. He laughed and changed the subject. Now before any of you go OMG you are a traitor to the QFC why would you talk with him OMG – stop. If you have learned nothing else from me know this – I’m tactically sound and think of things constantly. While we were talking with him, we learned he plays League of Legends (yawn – as does 80% of Eve Online btw), He would feed us bs stuff etc. My guys were very cautious about him and kept asking me about him and I finally said, “who wants to ninja entosis with me?” and my guys went “ok I will how do I do this?”. I said, “don’t talk about it on coms and let’s get our stuff back”. They were working on the 9-HM04 ihub at that moment and I saw that they were going to capture it. I wasn’t going to lose another ihub. We had lost VT-G2P at the low low cost of $2.35 Bil. One of my guys suddenly went “why are you guys using marauders to entosis? It’s really annoying.” He goes “because you guys came in griffins.”
That’s what I needed to hear. Logic.
Now we could actually talk about the game and maybe make some headway with him!
I told him that the QFC is designed to fight but it’s also here for smaller groups like us to build up our pvp forces. That means that newer pilots with only 7 million skill points can come to learn about null sec, fighting etc. He went “wait you have pilots with only 7 million sp?”. That’s when my guy keyed up and goes “yes that’s all I have, and I am training skills now but that’s all I have is 7 million”. He went “oh we didn’t’ know that give me a minute.” He came back and we talked about how I have pilots with over 100 mil skill points and pilots with 7 million skill points. We told him that Fatal Order has the same lack of experience. That neither of us lack the will to fight – it’s the experience. I told him that with our current pilot base the only thing we can do is dock up when they come with 18 Loki’. He lol’d. I said, “Ok like you wouldn’t do that when you are outnumbered or out shipped?” and he goes “What do you think we would do if it were Goons? The same thing you are doing with us.”
So tactically, we are sound. We did the right thing to dock up. I know that for some pilots that’s hard to hear. I don’t want to destroy their fighter spirit – because that’s the last thing I want to do!
Then I hear him say “Ok so if we brought you a fight with Assault Frigates would you fight us then?”
YES! YES! YES!
THIS is what I was hoping for. I’m not asking them to go away – I asked them to bring us a fight that we may win or lose but a fight we can actually fight in. We talked some more, and I said Destroyers T1/T2 or Frigates of any type we would fight gladly. We made a gentlemen’s agreement of a week. Only time will tell if these guys are decent or just trolls.
We talked for a little while longer and then he said thank you for the conversation and went on his way. We learned some things about them as well as about us.
We finished entossising what was left to do for our 12 timers. We lost 1 out of 12 and hopefully, have new people we can actually pvp with. May not be a win in your book – but my guys and the members of the QFC are winners in my book!
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Sov Ownership ... boy how it's changed and yet it
When I started Eve Online over 9 years ago - wow has it been that long?!? - Owning sov was something that you did with POS Towers. You had to go into a system and 50% + 1 of the Moons in the system had to have POS Towers on them. That was ridiculous. I was friends with a logistics pilot who used to do a lot of the behind the scenes pow towers for IT. Ok, I'm aging my self here, aren't I? Eh oh well! Then they changed things to be TCU & SBU based and fights would happen etc. We would start with sub-capitals and escalate fights to capitals. That was back in a time when capital pilots would sit and wait for the word that they were needed.
Now, everyone just jumps to capitals or supers right from the start for fights. There is an entosis link you have to have on your ship - generally a sub-capital ship for that but wow. Running the entosis link is like mining for ore. You lock up the target and turn the link on and then sit there for the next 10-20 minutes. Yawn. Boring. It's really BORING. What the hell was CCP thinking when they launched this? I know I was on a break but for fuck sake really? Was this some way to get carebears interested in taking sov? Because this is the most BORING thing on the planet. I've been in systems taking sov and had people type in local "have fun entosising" ... to "call us when you aren't entosising stuff". Really? So, CCP do you know this is how the players feel about this stuff? Probably not. Hmm who knows but I know that at some point I may end up giving them my feedback or maybe wait and hope and pray that the new owners of the game go "this is shit let's fix that" and change it!
Entosising newe systems are such a pain in the butt that the other day I was talking with a guy from QFC due to a sov thing and needless to say we kept the two extra systems we have. An old ally who wanted the space we were given and had unblued us to "take" the sov. When the whole time I would have given him the fucking sov - yet he didn't fucking communicate with me at all. Now he doesn't like us living where we live and wants blues again because we could "sneak up" on him at any point. Hmm you don't say? Well let's see how long this lasts.
I will say it's interesting dealing with people in this game. I know they won't believe me but I'm not the same person I was years ago grinding out sov. I was broken then and now I'm not. I LOL a lot at how these guys play this game. There are days when I even get sad because of how sexist they can be at times and the guys I play with aren't. It's ok. Underestimate me. That's fine. Been here done this before, boy how things have changed and yet they haven't. We'll just see how much you underestimate me come spring/late may 2019. ;)
Until the next time I write. kill something!
Now, everyone just jumps to capitals or supers right from the start for fights. There is an entosis link you have to have on your ship - generally a sub-capital ship for that but wow. Running the entosis link is like mining for ore. You lock up the target and turn the link on and then sit there for the next 10-20 minutes. Yawn. Boring. It's really BORING. What the hell was CCP thinking when they launched this? I know I was on a break but for fuck sake really? Was this some way to get carebears interested in taking sov? Because this is the most BORING thing on the planet. I've been in systems taking sov and had people type in local "have fun entosising" ... to "call us when you aren't entosising stuff". Really? So, CCP do you know this is how the players feel about this stuff? Probably not. Hmm who knows but I know that at some point I may end up giving them my feedback or maybe wait and hope and pray that the new owners of the game go "this is shit let's fix that" and change it!
Entosising newe systems are such a pain in the butt that the other day I was talking with a guy from QFC due to a sov thing and needless to say we kept the two extra systems we have. An old ally who wanted the space we were given and had unblued us to "take" the sov. When the whole time I would have given him the fucking sov - yet he didn't fucking communicate with me at all. Now he doesn't like us living where we live and wants blues again because we could "sneak up" on him at any point. Hmm you don't say? Well let's see how long this lasts.
I will say it's interesting dealing with people in this game. I know they won't believe me but I'm not the same person I was years ago grinding out sov. I was broken then and now I'm not. I LOL a lot at how these guys play this game. There are days when I even get sad because of how sexist they can be at times and the guys I play with aren't. It's ok. Underestimate me. That's fine. Been here done this before, boy how things have changed and yet they haven't. We'll just see how much you underestimate me come spring/late may 2019. ;)
Until the next time I write. kill something!
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
And so it begins ...
So I've spent the last year in Eve playing a game that I used to play for others. This is the first time I'm playing the game for ME. I work and go to school full time now. Yep, I'm finally back in school. My alliance is small and I've done no recruitment. All I did was play the game and people asked to come to fly with me. Ok. I had to do an attitude adjustment because I was just playing the game for me - not for me and to have my alliance.
So last night we lost a Rorq. I was texted about it because I was out at a thing for writers. Oh yeah, that's what I'm in school for :D. Anyway told them I would be home soon. I got home and there were only two people on Teamspeak. The guy who lost the Rorq and another alliance member. We talked about his play style etc.
This fellow only has one account and flies capitals. He doesn't want the time or expense of a second account and feels the game would suck if he did need it. That's his opinion and he is entitled to it. It's not one I share but I'm "old school'. I come a time in Eve where all capital pilots have a cyno alt that is online when you have your capitals out and they are in cyno range. Even if someone else will light your cyno you always have your cyno alt in range. He doesn't choose to play this way. He wants me to put up a cyno beacon so he can jump out when he needs too. Well, that's all well and good but CCP has been changing things. This isn't a POS Tower driven world any longer. In about 6 weeks that will all change and I told him I'm not going to put up a cyno beacon until after that. Cyno beacons have to be anchored on to a POS Tower and they are being discontinued. I thought it would have been done a little faster than it has been but it is what it is.
So do I put a cyno beacon for him? He is one person in my alliance and the only one who needs this. So I think I'm going to tell him if he wants a cyno beacon put up he has to pay for the beacon and be responsible to fuel it. That seems fair to me? But then I wonder if that is too much to ask? Well no, that's what he needs. So we will see.
Later this week we will have a citadel loss on our killboards. They won't get the assets but they will be getting the citadel. It was in low sec and that corp CEO inherited the corp and assets. We can't defend it because of the fleet size and what we can field at this time. That's fine. I have a plan, ship doctrines are out. My killboards are going to look like shit for a while. I am hoping by December some time that we will have our pvp "shit" together and move on to the next phase in our doctrines but only time will tell with that.
I am happy to have taught them kiting and they are using it! I had one guy go "hey Athena look at this" and linked me a kill mail. He took no damage and killed the guy - while kiting! Oh yeah, baby! I talked with a friend of mine who now lives in a WH and he says most pilots in null sec these days are F1 pilots. OH really? LOL Yeah, this will be good.
The next class I'm teaching is the first of many on FC'ing. I hope to get about 3-5 people at it. I know small numbers but that doesn't bother me. It gives me the time to do more 1:1 training with them.
It feels good to have pilots who want to learn how to pvp. It feels good to share my knowledge again.
Smaller numbers of skilled pilots vs larger numbers of blobs - who will win? Let's wait and see! ;)
So last night we lost a Rorq. I was texted about it because I was out at a thing for writers. Oh yeah, that's what I'm in school for :D. Anyway told them I would be home soon. I got home and there were only two people on Teamspeak. The guy who lost the Rorq and another alliance member. We talked about his play style etc.
This fellow only has one account and flies capitals. He doesn't want the time or expense of a second account and feels the game would suck if he did need it. That's his opinion and he is entitled to it. It's not one I share but I'm "old school'. I come a time in Eve where all capital pilots have a cyno alt that is online when you have your capitals out and they are in cyno range. Even if someone else will light your cyno you always have your cyno alt in range. He doesn't choose to play this way. He wants me to put up a cyno beacon so he can jump out when he needs too. Well, that's all well and good but CCP has been changing things. This isn't a POS Tower driven world any longer. In about 6 weeks that will all change and I told him I'm not going to put up a cyno beacon until after that. Cyno beacons have to be anchored on to a POS Tower and they are being discontinued. I thought it would have been done a little faster than it has been but it is what it is.
So do I put a cyno beacon for him? He is one person in my alliance and the only one who needs this. So I think I'm going to tell him if he wants a cyno beacon put up he has to pay for the beacon and be responsible to fuel it. That seems fair to me? But then I wonder if that is too much to ask? Well no, that's what he needs. So we will see.
Later this week we will have a citadel loss on our killboards. They won't get the assets but they will be getting the citadel. It was in low sec and that corp CEO inherited the corp and assets. We can't defend it because of the fleet size and what we can field at this time. That's fine. I have a plan, ship doctrines are out. My killboards are going to look like shit for a while. I am hoping by December some time that we will have our pvp "shit" together and move on to the next phase in our doctrines but only time will tell with that.
I am happy to have taught them kiting and they are using it! I had one guy go "hey Athena look at this" and linked me a kill mail. He took no damage and killed the guy - while kiting! Oh yeah, baby! I talked with a friend of mine who now lives in a WH and he says most pilots in null sec these days are F1 pilots. OH really? LOL Yeah, this will be good.
The next class I'm teaching is the first of many on FC'ing. I hope to get about 3-5 people at it. I know small numbers but that doesn't bother me. It gives me the time to do more 1:1 training with them.
It feels good to have pilots who want to learn how to pvp. It feels good to share my knowledge again.
Smaller numbers of skilled pilots vs larger numbers of blobs - who will win? Let's wait and see! ;)
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
I am back!
Well, I took a two and a half year break from Eve Online. Personal and real-life issues along with some game mechanic changes and I just did not have the energy to recruit new people. At the time we would go to null sec in frigs and destroyers and people would field dreads or not fight. It got boring. Yes, of course, I have pvp alts. I could have used but it just wasn't the same.
So, one of my guys said he was back to playing eve online. That was in July of 2017. I started looking at recent changes because it had been about six months since I had checked them. We are in August and I start logging into Eve online. Old friend Neok sees me and asks me to come to fly with him. I tell my guys and help move one of them out of stain - OUCH! I am still not fond of the jumping delays. About a week goes by and suddenly Neok's corp isn't going to stay where they are at and the offer to join just kinda goes on hold. Hmm ok. So, I decide to restart Divinity. (DVN.). Toss my corps in and just go to null sec npc to make isk. I join a few bomber bar fleet ops and next thing I know it is October and I'm fc'ing fleets for bomber's bar. Wait how did this happen? I have a corp join Divinity. First of the year comes and I'm approached by people who fly in my fleet ops who want to come to fly with me.
Woah not what I was expecting when I rejoined Eve Online. I just wanted to make isk, shoot people and have fun. Ok, I guess you can come to fly with me. Querious Fight Club I had been watching for some time - ok since they started. Finally the first of March came and I contacted them and they said: "yes we'd love to have you". Hmm ok ...
You know for years when I played Eve I'd have people tell me how afraid of me they were and I never understood it. I'd have people tell me I taught good classes and got good kills. But see the whole time people never wanted to stay in Divinity. They would come and go, well except for a handful of people. Maybe that is Eve Online. Maybe it's because I'm a woman. In either case, I don't know and frankly, don't care about that any more. See, friendships that are really formed from playing Eve Online will stand the test of time. It doesn't matter if you fly with me, are allied to me or fight me. It's a game. Real friendships come from other actions.
I've changed a lot since I last played Eve Online. It will be interesting to see how people perceive me now. I've spent a year playing this game and while I have a lot of knowledge and don't mind sharing it, I really just want to shoot people and have fun. Oh yeah and make isk too.
So I now have Divinity. Alliance. We own sov and live in Querious. Yes, we are members of the QFC (that stands for Querious Fight Club). No we don't pay rent *YUCK*. We pvp and have fun. As for the pvp'ers I have. Well, they are learning and that will take some time. I wasn't willing to teach them a year ago because I didn't think I knew much about Eve Online. Taking a break and coming back to the game has opened my eyes to several things.
So, I am recruiting people for my corp Divine Mortals (gotta start somewhere). If you flew with me before the Garden of the Gods may be an option for you but we will see. I am also looking for corporations looking for a home. Your size doesn't matter - it's your spirit and how you approach the game that matters. One thing is for sure - you do need to be pvp'ers if you want to come fly with us and live in Querious. It's a lot of fun!
Let's see what the next year brings us!
So, one of my guys said he was back to playing eve online. That was in July of 2017. I started looking at recent changes because it had been about six months since I had checked them. We are in August and I start logging into Eve online. Old friend Neok sees me and asks me to come to fly with him. I tell my guys and help move one of them out of stain - OUCH! I am still not fond of the jumping delays. About a week goes by and suddenly Neok's corp isn't going to stay where they are at and the offer to join just kinda goes on hold. Hmm ok. So, I decide to restart Divinity. (DVN.). Toss my corps in and just go to null sec npc to make isk. I join a few bomber bar fleet ops and next thing I know it is October and I'm fc'ing fleets for bomber's bar. Wait how did this happen? I have a corp join Divinity. First of the year comes and I'm approached by people who fly in my fleet ops who want to come to fly with me.
Woah not what I was expecting when I rejoined Eve Online. I just wanted to make isk, shoot people and have fun. Ok, I guess you can come to fly with me. Querious Fight Club I had been watching for some time - ok since they started. Finally the first of March came and I contacted them and they said: "yes we'd love to have you". Hmm ok ...
You know for years when I played Eve I'd have people tell me how afraid of me they were and I never understood it. I'd have people tell me I taught good classes and got good kills. But see the whole time people never wanted to stay in Divinity. They would come and go, well except for a handful of people. Maybe that is Eve Online. Maybe it's because I'm a woman. In either case, I don't know and frankly, don't care about that any more. See, friendships that are really formed from playing Eve Online will stand the test of time. It doesn't matter if you fly with me, are allied to me or fight me. It's a game. Real friendships come from other actions.
I've changed a lot since I last played Eve Online. It will be interesting to see how people perceive me now. I've spent a year playing this game and while I have a lot of knowledge and don't mind sharing it, I really just want to shoot people and have fun. Oh yeah and make isk too.
So I now have Divinity. Alliance. We own sov and live in Querious. Yes, we are members of the QFC (that stands for Querious Fight Club). No we don't pay rent *YUCK*. We pvp and have fun. As for the pvp'ers I have. Well, they are learning and that will take some time. I wasn't willing to teach them a year ago because I didn't think I knew much about Eve Online. Taking a break and coming back to the game has opened my eyes to several things.
So, I am recruiting people for my corp Divine Mortals (gotta start somewhere). If you flew with me before the Garden of the Gods may be an option for you but we will see. I am also looking for corporations looking for a home. Your size doesn't matter - it's your spirit and how you approach the game that matters. One thing is for sure - you do need to be pvp'ers if you want to come fly with us and live in Querious. It's a lot of fun!
Let's see what the next year brings us!
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Athena Where do you Live?
So for many years that I've played the game I've been in null sec. I cut my teeth in Provi so to speak and then on to Delve. I have enjoyed many different null sec locations in Eve. I've FC'd fleets. Taken Sov. Lost Sov. There are some things that I always go back to - my roots.
I started in a small, close knit corp / alliance. I went to IT and it was a big blob. Cold and distant is how I felt. I left and was with small close knit and learned small gang pvp. I went to a blob. I went back to small. I went to blob.
I have friends who message me and ask when am I coming back to null and the simple answer is - I'm in null every day. The current status of null sec dynamics are that it's dead. Many others have gone on at length about it so I won't bore you with my thoughts on it at this point.
There is nothing in null that draws to me any more.
There is one part of Eve I haven't ever delved into and I'm trying that now.
We'll see how that goes ...
and thus a new adventure has begun.
Oh yeah ... where to I live ? ... well in New Eden of course!
I started in a small, close knit corp / alliance. I went to IT and it was a big blob. Cold and distant is how I felt. I left and was with small close knit and learned small gang pvp. I went to a blob. I went back to small. I went to blob.
I have friends who message me and ask when am I coming back to null and the simple answer is - I'm in null every day. The current status of null sec dynamics are that it's dead. Many others have gone on at length about it so I won't bore you with my thoughts on it at this point.
There is nothing in null that draws to me any more.
There is one part of Eve I haven't ever delved into and I'm trying that now.
We'll see how that goes ...
and thus a new adventure has begun.
Oh yeah ... where to I live ? ... well in New Eden of course!
The Hidden Overseer
So this big event is gearing up for the Eve Online community. My friend and event creator Riela was keeping me posted. I just couldn't wait to see how the Eve community would embrace this concept. Would the players love it like I did ? Would they think it's stupid and it not happen? Oh god, I hope that didn't happen. I encouraged Riela to go to CCP with this. No, these are nerds, they would love this!
There were changes that were made to create this event on a
grander scale. I eagerly waited for the
announcement of the event. I told Riela I
would love to help out again. I had this
crazy idea that you have a GM hidden in the player base and they get a prize
for figuring it out and killing me.
At
first Riela, thought that was a silly idea.
Then the more he thought about it he thought that it would be an
interesting idea. So we developed The Hidden Overseer.
In addition, I was on the Sponsorship Rewards team. When scripted events happened and the pilots
completed them, they would earn sponsorship rewards. Things like logi in any fight for 5 minutes
or ECM or slave implants. We had a list
of things we could reward with. We
figured I’d die early and could go off to help my team.
Day of the event I am logged in hours early to help with pre-game
prep. A few friends came with me to help, Dewgong, Jack Marshal and Krackers
McGee. Dewgong was on the scripted
events team. Jack and Krackers were on
the sponsorship team with me. The arena
needed a lot of prep work and set up and the guys helped with that.
Cans anchored and filled, ships fit and dropped, towers anchored,
etc. The guys were running around doing
a zillion things. I felt kind of bad
because I had to be in pilot staging, I had to remain ... hidden.
On the event TS I choose the name Betty for team speak so I wouldn't be visible
to any competitors and logged in a regular log in as Athena. The staff was busy making this or that happen. As I started to watch corp chat the players
were forming teams. I reported back to staff - they are forming teams. Overseers began to prep for groups and asking who seemed to be in what group. Intel was given.
I quickly asked
Riela if I could join a team and truly blend in with the players. At first he said no, then he said yeah that
is a good idea. In corp chat I asked if I could join someone’s team.
[ 2014.08.09 17:59:26 ] Athena Olympia > hey any one want
to team up with me ?
I got two invites.
One from Shar’ku Silf and one from Marlona Sky. I was so excited ! I was infiltrating the pilots and little did
they know that I was The Hidden Overseer.
[8/9/2014 11:56:04 AM] Athena Olympia: lol I'm helping with Theomachy
[8/9/2014 12:00:33 PM] Athena Olympia: I can't share what I'm doing
[8/9/2014 12:00:39 PM] Marlona Sky: ok
[8/9/2014 12:00:51 PM] Marlona Sky: but you need a team?
[8/9/2014 12:01:03 PM] Athena Olympia: yeah
[8/9/2014 12:01:21 PM] Marlona Sky: want to be in mine? it is a 'together till the end' thing
[8/9/2014 12:01:27 PM] Marlona Sky: after we go free for all
[8/9/2014 12:01:37 PM] Athena Olympia: ok
My private chat:
[ 2014.08.09 18:00:56 ] Shar'ku
Silf > i with friend looking for some allies
[ 2014.08.09 18:00:58 ] Shar'ku
Silf > o/
[ 2014.08.09 18:01:02 ] Athena
Olympia > ok cool
[ 2014.08.09 18:01:40 ] Shar'ku
Silf > then if you want you can join us
[ 2014.08.09 18:01:46 ] Athena
Olympia > ok cool
[ 2014.08.09 18:02:17 ] Athena
Olympia > i have another team asking me
[ 2014.08.09 18:02:25 ] Athena
Olympia > you want to come with us ?
[ 2014.08.09 18:02:34 ] Shar'ku
Silf > hmm how many ppl?
[ 2014.08.09 18:02:41 ] Athena
Olympia > 5 with me
[ 2014.08.09 18:02:47 ] Athena
Olympia > how many with you ?
[ 2014.08.09 18:03:06 ] Shar'ku
Silf > i have 6 atm + me
[ 2014.08.09 18:03:50 ] Athena
Olympia > ok hold on
So now I have this guy and Marlona in chats. Marlona invites me to a private chat channel. It's for the team! This is some of what first was said ...
[ 2014.08.09 18:03:56 ] Athena
Olympia > he's got 6 with him
[ 2014.08.09 18:04:03 ] Marlona
Sky > oh wow
[ 2014.08.09 18:04:03 ] Athena
Olympia > want to merge teams ?
[ 2014.08.09 18:04:19 ] Annie
Gardet > do you plan to form an army or something ?
[ 2014.08.09 18:04:23 ] Marlona
Sky > um... maybe
[ 2014.08.09 18:04:35 ] Shar'ku
Silf > o/
[ 2014.08.09 18:04:40 ] Athena
Olympia > so this is that guy
[ 2014.08.09 18:04:54 ] Aliventi
> Stay smalll. Don't want the overseers to primary us.
[ 2014.08.09 18:05:14 ] Marlona
Sky > that should give us a big enough team and then if anyone in here has a
friend join we should be good
[ 2014.08.09 18:05:16 ] Marlona
Sky > ah yeah
[ 2014.08.09 18:05:18 ] Marlona
Sky > that is true
[ 2014.08.09 18:05:24 ] Marlona
Sky > they will be hunting large teams
[ 2014.08.09 18:05:37 ] Annie
Gardet > we should have less that 11 in total imo
[ 2014.08.09 18:05:52 ] Marlona
Sky > yeah
[ 2014.08.09 18:06:04 ] Shar'ku
Silf > so atm i start with 6 friends in this event if you want we can join
to you
[ 2014.08.09 18:06:34 ] Marlona
Sky > i think that would make us too big
Oh how fun, not only did I join
Marlona’s Group but I convinced the two groups to merge! I was so excited I couldn’t stand it. They had no idea what the overseers could or
would do to them. Very smart to think of
that, after all there can only be one winner, right?
Now in Skype Marlona and I are having a chat. See he was on Eve Radio one night and I slipped and said I was on staff for Theomachy. I had told a few people I was on staff. The funny thing was that morning he was helping me with some show stuff. He needed to go to prep for Theomachy - little did he know so did I. I started to wonder if Marlona would feel betrayed or see the fun and value in The Hidden Overseer and that for the event I really couldn't share.
I was given team speak
information and I logged on. I listened
in to their strategy on how to survive until the end. It was interesting to hear and see how the pilots
were organizing themselves. It got me thinking of Eve and how we come together on the live server and forge alliances and what drives all that.
Suddenly, I thought that me
keying up and giving tips could be considered an unfair advantage maybe. Crap!
I wanted to blend in. This got me
to thinking what will happen if they don't find me, hmmm ok I need to drop clues but not obvious ones. A few times I found myself keying up to correct some of the pilots on what they were saying and strategy. I had to stop myself because I so wanted to say go here and do this and get this but I refrained. It was so hard to not just key up and tell them to get off grid as soon as possible or that there were a lot of troll fit ships. So I listened in and would
chime in now and then but was very careful to not divulge things.
Teams kept forming. Hunting Overseers wanted intel.
[8/9/2014 2:03:43 PM] Athena Olympia: who is fc / target calling our group ?
[8/9/2014 2:03:51 PM] Marlona Sky: theronth
At first I thought it was Marlona - but soon corrected that. As I saw the teams forming in corp chat - those that asked or were telling folks what coms to get on or generally appearing FC like were reported into Overseer Command.
The announcements started and I
was listening to staff coms. I muted
staff coms and listened into the rules. The
pilots asked questions and you could feel the excitement of the competition
building. As I sat waiting and listening
I plugged implants into my head. Wait,
pilots weren’t allowed to have implants, right?
Right – but I wasn’t really a pilot now was I?
It was time. All pilots are to report in. Set your clones for death cloning to the
designated system. Pilots were to join
one of the two player fleets, undock in a pod and warp out. They were poded to the system to clear any
clones. I sat nervously waiting as local
started to drop. OH shit, will my team
notice me? I just won’t talk on coms
and maybe they won’t remember I’m here.
A few players showed up late and
missed the pilot line up. I sat
patiently watching local. It was me and
one other person. The pilots were in the
starting system waiting to be bridged into the staging system. Again I got nervous wondering if my team was
going to notice me not with them. Pilots
are being bridged in and are on grid.
The staff channel command is starting to get so active.
Eve pilots, being the kind of
pilots they are, were testing the waters.
Player x disqualified would come over channel command. Channel command was busy with behind the
scenes coordination. I waited patiently and painfully wanting to be on grid. Players bridged in and were getting into ships and moving around. CCP Falcon moved me to a secrect location in the system where my ships were waiting.
I had fully fitted Amarr ships waiting for me with fits that were not troll or shit. I book mark the location and then get into my prophecy. I felt the battleship would have been obvious and too much over kill. The entire time I was in Overseer fleet. Hmmm did my group send a fleet invite? Nothing was said to me. Interesting. Maybe they didn't think too. All they said on coms was to x up in chat for fleet invite. I hadn't done that yet, but a good FC would have looked and said - why is x here but not in fleet and is in coms with mic not active listening? I was trying to exhibit every behavior a spai would do.
I un mute my mic and I x up in channel. I get a fleet invite and ask who do I warp too. Off I go. Not one fleet member even comments on my ship, where did I get it, etc. Hmm really ? We now had grown from 11 to 20 people and everyone else is in smaller class ships not one person notices me in a BC ? HUH ok.
We were at a beacon and would fight anyone that came in. In comes overseers and my group actually engaged. Oh shit they are shooting ME. WAIT! Quickly report in - Overseers can't shoot me I'm a prize and event for the competitors!!! The overseers would lock but disengaged. Announcement reminder that an Overseer was hidden among them and that he or she when dead had a prize. Then comments about the overseer being a she. What the hell ? So gender neutral we tried to keep it.
Our fleet sat at the same spot for a good 45 minutes. I told Marlona - get this fleet moving and engaging many times. He didn't, but tried on coms.
[8/9/2014 2:22:17 PM] Athena Olympia: y'all need to get off this beakon
[8/9/2014 2:22:25 PM] Marlona Sky: i know
[8/9/2014 2:22:27 PM] Athena Olympia: they will come nuke this group
I reported in - Hunters needed to come take out my fleet and where we were and what they were in. Riela seemed very happy to have me there. Besides, there can be only one in the end.
Then it came - CFC and BRAVE have the biggest formed fleets. Any intel or ideas who the FC's are? Intel given. Hunting them began.
At two hours into the event Riela and I couldn't believe I was still alive. There were some fights that were good and I thought at one point I was going to die. My Overseer team (Jack & Krackers) along with Riela (Event Creator) would warp in to every fight I was getting into to try to witness my demise. The players weren't killing off the events to earn their sponsorship so my team decided to come help players at will. Yes I'm into armor damage! I am running my repper .... wait no WHERE ARE YOU GOING?! I hear on the team TS "these overseers keep finding us, we need to keep away from them".
Pilots would see my team and warp off. The beauty of not knowing if it was an overseer there to hunt you or help you. At two and a half hours I announce to command - I am going to awox my team.
To Marlona Sky
[8/9/2014 2:39:12 PM] Athena Olympia: at some point i may have to break from you guys
[8/9/2014 2:39:27 PM] Athena Olympia: are you paying attention to the announcements ?
I hear they are going for x ship to get into it - I start shooting it and destroy it. I hear "Athena stop shooting ships we are trying to get into". So I tell my fellow Overseers and we all figure - that my fleet is going to turn on me and shoot me.
[8/9/2014 2:46:12 PM] Athena Olympia: put me on watch list and lock me
[8/9/2014 2:46:18 PM] Athena Olympia: NOW
[8/9/2014 2:46:40 PM] Marlona Sky: shoot you?
[8/9/2014 2:58:50 PM] Marlona Sky: ffs now just in pod
[8/9/2014 3:02:03 PM] Marlona Sky: i keep getting disconnected
[8/9/2014 3:04:35 PM] Athena Olympia: you need to get into a ship
[8/9/2014 3:04:41 PM] Athena Olympia: because i will soon have to turn on the fleet
[8/9/2014 3:10:56 PM] Athena Olympia: i'm the hidden overseer my dear
[8/9/2014 3:11:13 PM] Marlona Sky: oh i get it
[8/9/2014 3:11:29 PM] Marlona Sky: just lame i spent the entire time with socket closes
A true lover of the Eve Universe he doesn't announce it in fleet, in the form up channel, in corp or on coms. Thank you Marlona !
Marlona Sky
[8/9/2014 3:12:38 PM] Athena Olympia: i just got into my bs
[8/9/2014 3:13:39 PM] Marlona Sky: nice
[8/9/2014 3:15:03 PM] Athena Olympia: you on coms ?
[8/9/2014 3:15:07 PM] Marlona Sky: i am lol
[8/9/2014 3:15:13 PM] Marlona Sky: they getting mad at you
[8/9/2014 3:15:25 PM] Athena Olympia: lol wait til they hear i was a prize
[8/9/2014 3:15:35 PM] Marlona Sky: not sure i think the 'hidden overseerer' thing makes for an interesting element. dont know
[8/9/2014 3:19:38 PM] Marlona Sky: lol why you drag me into your scheme
[8/9/2014 3:20:53 PM] Athena Olympia: rofl
[8/9/2014 3:28:29 PM] Athena Olympia: come kill me damn it
I go get into my battleship and go out to various beacons. Again my Overseer buddies wait and I tell them oh this may be it - they warp in. No. OMG CHICKENS the whole lot of you are! Ok finally I run into someone I'd flown with before Anna Niedostepny. Anna had even been in my corp at one point years ago.
Now about this time they decided to let overseers kill pods. I originally was and then was told not too since I was an overseer. I argued the case that since I was "hidden" I should have been exempt and that could have helped with a lot of pilot elimination and the massive amounts of pods we had warping around at that point. Overseers opened podding for a period of time to keep the event moving forward.
I report in I have the BRAVE fleet on me - stay off until I am almost dead. They had me into armor and going down fast - finally. Here come my Overseer friends ... Jack, Krackers and Riela to just watch. BRAVE WARPS OFF. REALLY? There was like 30 of you on field and there were 3 Overseers in ECM ships no damage. How brave are you really ? Not very. So Anna opens a private convo.
[ 2014.08.09 21:42:38 ] Anna niedostepny > so lucky
[ 2014.08.09 21:42:44 ] Anna niedostepny > devs showed up :P
[ 2014.08.09 21:42:46 ] Athena Olympia > why ?
[ 2014.08.09 21:42:47 ] Anna niedostepny > they are hunting me hard
[ 2014.08.09 21:42:49 ] Athena Olympia > devs ?
[ 2014.08.09 21:42:58 ] Athena Olympia > why are they hunting you hard ?
[ 2014.08.09 21:43:10 ] Anna niedostepny > cause i am in a group
[ 2014.08.09 21:43:24 ] Athena Olympia > lol oh little do you know
[ 2014.08.09 21:44:30 ] Athena Olympia > invite me to your fleet
[ 2014.08.09 21:44:33 ] Athena Olympia > i'll help you guys
[ 2014.08.09 21:44:51 ] Anna niedostepny > lol
[ 2014.08.09 21:44:56 ] Anna niedostepny > we already have a be enough one
[ 2014.08.09 21:47:01 ] Athena Olympia > oh ...
[ 2014.08.09 21:47:13 ] Athena Olympia > well ... did you catch that hidden overseer yet ?
[ 2014.08.09 21:48:10 ] Anna niedostepny > we killed 2 o them
[ 2014.08.09 21:48:29 ] Athena Olympia > not the hidden one
[ 2014.08.09 21:48:33 ] Athena Olympia > you killed exposed ones
[ 2014.08.09 21:48:47 ] Athena Olympia > there is still a hidden overseer still in the player corp *wink*
Player Corp Chat:
[ 2014.08.09 22:20:08 ] Corr Donnyr > Athena is on planet 4
[ 2014.08.09 22:20:11 ] Corr Donnyr > abaddon
[ 2014.08.09 22:20:27 ] Athena Olympia > yes i am
[ 2014.08.09 22:20:51 ] Athena Olympia > and to think ... i asked to join a group ...
[ 2014.08.09 22:20:57 ] Athena Olympia > and when i turned on my group they did nothing
[ 2014.08.09 22:21:32 ] Corr Donnyr > damn
[ 2014.08.09 22:25:14 ] Copyleft > lol
[ 2014.08.09 22:25:29 ] Copyleft > I'd shoot you, just don't have enough ammo :)
[ 2014.08.09 22:29:33 ] Athena Olympia > lol
I did finally die.
My parting message: [ 2014.08.09 22:35:30 ] Athena Olympia > It's been fun - see you on the field in a bit :) o/
I hope my team doesn't hate me too much - I tried to give you opportunity for you guys to win T2 HAC of your choice but ... alas you were nice, kind and gentlemen.
I then got moved by CCP Falcon to our staging system - joined the staff corp and took the jump bridge back. I really wanted to get into a bomber and start bombing runs on the large groups and pods just warping about. One small problem - no damage bombs were staged. DAMN IT! Ok - where are the bubbling ships? Ah sabre or flycatcher ... flycatcher.
Off me and the guys went putting bubbles every where we could. The participants needed to be eliminated. There could only be one winner. Seek and destroy. The end was coming for the pilots. The Arena was going to be despawned. Announcements made, pilots needed to only be in two locations. Pilots were being disqualified. Then it was down to the final match and all overseers were told to NOT shoot.
HA! I had bubbles! We ran out of bubbles in one staging area and had to go get more - went through 500.
Zipping around bubble bubble. Oh announcements - we will shorten the arena grid in 2 minutes. Ok oh that group is far out - bubbles to stop them from getting in must go up!
The final battle was a passive fit Drake and a Hunter fit Caracal. Both held on for a good long time but the victor was that Drake. I wonder how FC's will now respond to "can I bring my Drake?" I for one will say only if it's Theomachy winner fit!"
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