EVE!

[Kadarin]

I logged in today and noticed a news item stating that the NeX store has exciting new items available for the "fashion-forward" player. I'm beside myself with enthusiasm at this amazing enhancement to the game.

 

[Red Storm]

I logged in today and noticed a news item stating that the NeX store has exciting new items available for the "fashion-forward" player. I'm beside myself with enthusiasm at this amazing enhancement to the game.

I know right, I was so excited I accidentally canceled my subscription.

 

[Kadarin]

I know right, I was so excited I accidentally canceled my subscription.

Yeah, me too.

 

[Fallen Kell]

ahahahaaahaaa

 

[ichy]

I had a profitable day. Probed down a guy doing a 4/10 plex in a caracal in Obe. I warp to him, he gets away, but I figure I'll finish the plex. I gt through it fairly quickly and what do you know, Pithum C-Type Medium Shield Booster. That was an easy 400 million isk.

 

[ichy]

Have plexes become more lucrative recently? I probed down a 6/10 plex yesterday (and somehow ran it alone in a HAM Drake) and ended up with 19th tier overseeer box, a Pithum A-Type Shield Hardener and a Gila blueprint. Should end up being another 400 million isk at least once I sell the blueprint and shield hardener.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Beats me, I have never run a PLEX (mostly because I have not truly lived in NULL, aside from some missioning in the curse regions, and I don't consider W-Space the same). I need to start playing a bit more again. All I have been doing is training my characters lately. I need to make up for some lost isk due to plex that I didn't earn last month, as well as enough to pay for an orca or freighter (since I have been training up a freighter/orca pilot to do some hauling for my traders who havn't been trading due to the fact that I am no longer bothering making crap tons of trips in indies or recons trying to get goods to my trade locations.).

What I really need to do is get back into W-Space with a corp and make some bank....

 

[ichy]

FK: These were both low-sec plexes. The 400 million is loot from the 4/10 plex is what really surprised me. Also, isn't PLEX spelled in all caps something totally different (Pilot License Extensions as opposed to exploration sites)?

 

[hooflung]

I just started playing again. Well, I mean I never stopped playing I just was in training mode on a few accounts. Just picked up a few strategic cruisers. Time for some wormhole pvp action.

 

[hrbngr2]

ichy,

how low-sec were they? I can run some angel stuff in low sec, but it's relatively "high" low-sec. Also, if I am just starting out doing this, what can I solo? Will be in a Maelstrom in about a week or so to do this, tried it in a dominix, but that was just not a good fit...blasters or rails, meh.

 

[ichy]

hrbngr2:

Honestly I don't remember the system's security status. Shouldn't 6/10 plexes be the same no matter what system they're in though?


I lost a Drake in an idiotic way yesterday. I've been playing around in Lonetrek for a while and decided it's time to head back to Genesis and be a productive corp member. I get back to our home system and get bounced by a couple of reds on the gate between high and low. I easily could've tanked them long enough to jump back into high-sec, but without thinking I launched my ECM drones to try and break their lock. Stupid, stupid, stupid. That counts as an aggressive act so the gate would not let me jump and I got popped.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Oh well, that was what 50mill tops?

That said, I have been living on luck for as long as I have played. I think I have only lost a couple stealth bombers.

 

[ichy]

Yeah, the cost isn't that big a deal. It's just a hassle. That and the fact that I should've known better.

I'll never understand people who fly HACs, Command Ships and expensive Tech III cruisers for small group PvP. A decent battlecruiser is almost as good and costs a fraction of the price.

 

[hrbngr2]

ichy,
sorry about your drake, I'm still hurting from losing my Paladin in L4 "Attack of the drones". I still havent really played that character since then, I run w/a tengu/navy scorp combo (completely overtanked) while repping for L4 R&D agents-datacores.

Per the true-sec stuff, here is a post on what was coming but a ggl search is not providing the exact info:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/03/31/proposed-changes-to-eves-nullsec-regions-cause-a-stir/

basically, the lower the true sec rating the better reward for running plexes...I believe.

*edit* I believe this has to do only w/sanctums/havens, not plexes, per further research.

 

[Fallen Kell]

Yeah ichy, I agree with you about the people flying HACs and Command Ships in small gangs. All it would take is a couple of reinforcements in BC's to cause some major loses. Don't get me wrong, HACs and command ships have their purposes, but I have not seen them in those size fleets.

 

[nsafreak]

Yeah ichy, I agree with you about the people flying HACs and Command Ships in small gangs. All it would take is a couple of reinforcements in BC's to cause some major loses. Don't get me wrong, HACs and command ships have their purposes, but I have not seen them in those size fleets.

Damage output and survivability are the prime reasons my corp/alliance will fly HACs in small group pvp. Command ships though are pretty much relegated to large fleet duty so that they can hand out bonuses to wings/fleets. When it's all said and done it's really not too expensive for most corps to outfit pilots with HACs and fit them provided that they have a good industrial base.

 

[ichy]

I think I'm a little biased since I mainly fly Caldari ships, and their HACs seem specialized at hurling lots of DPS over long range. I'm sure a Cerberus is just as capable as a Drake at short-range combat, but why pay that much more for it? Obviously a corp that's playing around with big fleets of cap. ships can afford to outfit their people with HACs, but for those of us with less EVE wealth they seem like lousy bang for the buck.

 

[JSt0rm]

I think I'm a little biased since I mainly fly Caldari ships, and their HACs seem specialized at hurling lots of DPS over long range. I'm sure a Cerberus is just as capable as a Drake at short-range combat, but why pay that much more for it? Obviously a corp that's playing around with big fleets of cap. ships can afford to outfit their people with HACs, but for those of us with less EVE wealth they seem like lousy bang for the buck.

I dont think the hac strength lies in get up close and sit there till one person is dead

 

[Martimus]

I dont think the hac strength lies in get up close and sit there till one person is dead

The Deimos is kind of like that, but even then you would usually tank by getting under the other persons guns.

The HAC's strength is its maneuverability, but a nano cane is pretty darn maneuverable and is nearly as fast as most HACs, and costs 1/5 the price.

 

[JSt0rm]

yeah hacs are probably broken considering the price of bc hulls

 

[Fallen Kell]

Well, as I stated a little earlier, I started one of my characters on the path to be a Nyx pilot. There are a few more support skills I need (energy transfer 5, armor resist skills to 5), and then it is really just drones and the ship skills... I'm not worrying about the jump skills so much at this point other than the minimums required as I plan on using this in W-Space for defense/support. Eventually I will train up the other jumpdrive calibration, etc., skills, but not now since I will be most likely building it in the wormhole (nothing like having defense in a C2 static 4 and highsec which is where I hope to settle with my corp (or another corp)). Again, at least that is the plan.

So for now, I am simply working on all the drone skills. Never bothered with getting T2 sentry drones or T2 logistic drones, so I am working on them now (normal drones just do not help in W-Space except for PvP or for potentially getting a quick distraction from the sleepers... since they will switch targets to them from time to time, and typically will pop even T2 mediums in a few seconds so it is just a waste of ISK attempting to use them)

 

[ichy]

Ack, moving ships and equipment is a pain in the ass. I'd been away from my corp's main system for a while, and when I came back it turned out we'd been booted out and had to relocate. Now I've got to move a whole bunch of ships and a pile of equipment through low-sec. Not that dangerous but an annoying time suck.

 

[Fallen Kell]

carrier train?

 

[ichy]

Working on it. Don't quite have the $ to buy a carrier at this point.

 

[hrbngr2]

At least it's in low sec. I tried to move a few ships out of null and promptly lost them and my clone. So, I ended up training the bizness skills then taking a cloaky frig close enuf to put them on the local market @ 15-25% off Jita prices...consider that as an option, perhaps.