Saturday, 31 December 2011

Null Sec - Move

So I decided that high sec was no longer for me & that I needed to either go to low sec or null sec. As you can probably guess from the title I chose the latter or rather the latter just kind of happened. I went to the in game recruitment channel & posted what I was & the kind of corp I was looking for. I spoke to a few people but the only corp that looked remotely interesting was U-208, they were a member of Rote Kapelle Alliance who are better known for their pilot skill over gang size mentality. As I was looking for small to medium size gang PvP, I  had no hesitations in joining their ranks.

Moving in EVE is always a pain in the arse but moving to null sec is even worse. It is especially difficult when you can't fly a carrier. So after moving all my assets with my freighter alt, I contracted black frog logistics my ships to be taken down & a day or so later had all my stuff where I needed it or rather most of my stuff. I should point out that during the moving of my stuff with the freighter RED.Overlord tried to & failed miserably to kill my freighter better luck next time guys. So as it stands just now in my hangar I have:


  • 1 x 650mm Arty Cane 
  • 1 x 720mm Arty Cane 
  • 2 x Welp Cane 
  • 1 x Armour Dual Web Cane
  • 1 x Loki 
  • 1 x Arty Nado
  • 1 x Dramiel
  • 1 x Cynabal
  • 1 x Vagabond
  • 1 x Stiletto 
  • 1 x  unfit Wolf 
I still need to add a few ships to this before I feel that I will have a competent hanger & I am planning on getting  Recon & Logistics to 5 so I can add them to my hanger. I am currently training for Interdictors then Heavy Interdictors. Once I am able to competently field all of those ships I think I shall have an optimal hanger for any fleet that is presented to me.


Keep Tanking & Ganking

WatsonMayte

Saturday, 24 December 2011

My Alt(s)

So I have a few alt's mostly they where PI slaves but I stopped doing the PI because I'm lazy & I'm making enough ISK through the market to keep me in ships. But recently I begun to train one of the alt's up to help with the market stuff & got her into a freighter. This is a great help to me especially since Watson is at war 99% of the time with only very short breaks in between. So having the freighter alt helps me out greatly as I can now move all of my stuff even during war time.

I think after seeing the benefit that having a specialised alt can bring that I am going to train up some more. There is a few guys in corp who have scout alt's that fly probing ships & scan out WT's when they are hiding or they think it's safe to run missions in their shiny ship, I think this may be the next one I train up. Also I could always train up a logi alt as much as it pains me to use them, they really do bring the tipping balance in a fleet engagement. Now I personally would never use a logi alt when I am out soloing as I feel that solo PvP should be exactly that one person one character, but more about that in another blog post.

Now the other night we were on a bs roam through some Low-Sec near our new temporary home in Amarr space & we had a rough time of it about 30 systems & we didn't find a single target. Until our way back we had a Tempest jump into us. So we proceeded to melt his ass until a Falcon lands & manages to Jam all 5 of our battleships & let the tempest jump out in low armour. Now we were all extremely pissed off at this & had a debate on vent about whether the Falcon was OP, Now I think we can all agree that it does need some work to bring it in to balance but in all honesty I think that he just got lucky. That being said Synsational  made an excellent point "What other ship can make 5 ships obsolete compared to just one of them?" & even though it is the ultimate in douchebaggery I would love a Falcon or even a Kitsune alt for situations like this.

Now I probably won't train for any of the above except maybe the Logi alt for fleet engagements as most of my time is spent in small to medium size fleets. I like to solo PvP & to be fair I am not the greatest at solo PvP but I do it & I take my losses like a man. They are all posted to my personal kill board & to my battle clinic kill board for everyone to see. So I will never use an alt when I am soloing but tbh I struggle enough with just running the one character never mind two. So yeah anyway just thought I'd share my thoughts on my alt's & what to do with them or rather what I could do with them.

If anyone has any other alt that they use for a specific role send me an EVE mail in game to WatsonMayte or leave a comment to let me know what you use them for.

Keep Tanking & Ganking
WatsonMayte

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Back Once Again With The Renegade Master

So recently I have been neglecting this blog due to uni work but now that the trimester is coming to a close I can now get back to doing some Pew Pew & some blogging. I have recently joined the Condemned & Convicted again which is great I have been in a lot of corps in my time but none that I have felt as at home as I do in C&C. So over the last 15 days it has been business as usual for us & we have managed to get some pretty tasty kills not all of which I have been on. So with this blog I am going to pick out a few of my favourite kills that I have been on & talk about them with what happened etc etc.

The first kill was a Phobos from the muppet ninja's who are renowned for gate camping the Stacmon gate in Ostingele with a cyno ship. So every now & them we like to go in & bust up the gate camp.

http://condemned-and-convicted.dk/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1307

Not much to tell with this one we actually caught him just as the gate camp had stood down we also managed to kill an Armageddon that came to help him.

http://condemned-and-convicted.dk/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1308

Luckily enough for us there hot drop fleet must of stood down at the same time.

The next kill was a very careless WT in a Drake with a Drake BPO in it's hold & T2 rigs yes that's right T2 rigs on a Drake with T1 launchers & not even best named.

http://condemned-and-convicted.dk/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1281

This kill came upon us by accident we had been told to bring small fast ships but I decided to bring along the cane because you just never know. Anyway we were chasing this other WT in a Crane we couldn't catch him so we were heading back to the gate when frank jumped into us. So we proceeded to grab him kill him & scoop the loots unfortunately  the Drake BPO didn't drop.

The last kill & my favourite so far was just a simple Arbitrator but it was the fight that made it excellent. We were out hunting WT's in small ship I was in a Wolf, Synsational was in a punisher & Black Camper was in a Taranis. So me & Syn had went further ahead & managed to catch the Arbitrator on a gate so we engage. He starts to shoot at my wolf but I'm repping the damage easily so he changes his attention to Syn's Punisher. He then launches his drones only 4 at a time so I start to kill them. Then another wave of drones & another & another Syn has to warp out at this point & I am agressed again so I'm repping his damage still as Syn comes back we start to make way with the Arbitrator now & we are 60km off the gate he is going into structure just as Camper comes into system just in time to get on the KM.

http://condemned-and-convicted.dk/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1321

Now this isn't the greatest kill ever but it was certainly one of the most enjoyable fights I have had in a long time in EVE. So hopefully many more GF's to come

Keep Ganking & Tanking

WatsonMayte


Monday, 14 November 2011

Back Home

So after everything has calmed down at uni I am now back where I belong with The Condemned & Convicted it's great to be back flying with everyone I remember as well as flying with the new members. I have only been back about a day & already we have rf'd a medium POS & killed the stupidest drake pilot ever. This guy has T2 rigs & T1 launchers on his drake but also had a Drake BPO in his cargo transporting it during a war.

http://www.condemned-and-convicted.dk/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=1281

I will let you be the judge of how immensely stupid this guy is


Keep Tanking & Ganking

WatsonMayte


Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Update

Been a while since I posted anything but that's because it has been a while since I have done anything in EVE. I am currently skill flipping & training for tech 2 cruisers while I decide what I am going to do. I would ultimately like to go into 0.0 but I want to improve my skills some more before I do all shield & armour skills to 4 as well as all missile & gunnery support skills to 4. Once I have them I think I will be ready to go into 0.0 I currently have 17.5 million sp. So hopefully by the time I have 20 million probably a bit more I'll be ready


Keep Tanking & Ganking

WatsonMayte