Screenshot Saturday: No Pushing!

Just a capital fleet undocking. I think this is the h-w station during the recent max 2 campaign; don't quote me on that though, because there seem to still be people in phoenixes....

Gettin' hotdropped

So the other day Dead Terrorists reinforced a razor technedium pos in black rise. We scheduled a repping op, me hastily refitting my PVE carrier for shield rep, and headed out. The enemy were in system with about 30; we had intel that ev0ke and cry havoc were not forming up so we jumped in carriers and started repping. Shortly the hostiles warped to zero-ish on us and jumped in four supercarriers from DOOM, who we had not had intel on.

At first I was like :D


But then I was like :O

Anyway, we lost two carriers who didn't make it back into the shield, as well as the pos.

EDIT: Check out the video link in the comments for a more detailed view of the battle. Good stuff.

Concurrent campaigns

As you may have heard, the NC is running a campaign against IRC again. We've done this any number of times when nothing else needs our attention, killing them until they stop undocking and taking out CSAA, that sort of thing. Apparently the story is that if they stop fighting back we'll take their space this time, or something.

Razor haven't given their members permission to come up north, which seems stupid since the curse campaign is a yawnfest and the IRC campaign is staging out of our home region. I've moved up there anyway, leaving one character in doril and moving the other with some CR BS to the northern staging system; a number of others in my corp have done the same.

Apparently there have been some good fights in the last two days, which of course I missed. I finally got in on a smaller fleet today, 50 CRBS and logi, and we headed to vy- where the enemy were sitting on pos shields with about even numbers of battleships and eventually 11 carriers. They wouldn't engage, but I did get on a couple kills before they got inside the pos.

Land first, get shot at

Screenshot Saturday: Caldari research outpost

Looking at the date this is one of the first screenshots I ever took (plus a cheap scan lines fiter), wandering around 0.0 in a cov ops while I was still in an empire corporation; I believe this is the ZAOL-U outpost.

Strange to recall, but there was a time when I thought of things like POS and gatecamps as elite endgame play.

Death in a fire: Op success

We formed up nano shield BC/hacs today, roamed a bit and then went down to AAA space. We shot station services 1 JB from HED and waited for them to bring a fleet, and we weren't disappointed. A combined AAA/ROL/initiative medium fleet of about 100 entered the system and warped on us as they undocked carriers; we ran to the next system and engaged the hostiles on the gate.

We died in a glorious fashion, somehow managing to scrape together a positive isk ratio (not kills, since we lost a lot more pods than they did) while losing half the fleet. GFs to all involved.

Dying

Killboard

Ship names

People have been posting about ship names. Having established a naming convention earlier this year in order to keep track of my hangar, I thought I would chip in.

It goes like this: range/ability/insurance. E.g. S/R/N. Not as exciting as other themes, but more useful.

Range:
L -- sniper fit
M -- medium range, such as a cane with 650s or a tempest with 1200s and tracking speed scripts
S -- close range

Ability:
R -- armor remote repair
S -- shield remote repair
HT -- heavy tackle, a generic vagabond fit
B -- buffer, a vagabond fit for gangs in which it will not be tackling

Insurance:
N -- not insured
B -- basic insurance, used for non-combat capital movement
I -- fully insured

Other:
Non-combat ships and ships for which I have only one fitting do not need to follow this convention. They may be named descriptively, or for amusement; sometimes I use the name to insult the enemy after the ship is dead -- think of a sentence ending in the word 'wreck' and name your ship the first part.

My hangar from march, mostly following the naming theme

A wrecking insult!

Screenshot day: Freighter

Starting a new post category today. I have a bunch of old screenshots sitting around and will be posting ones of historical interest or aesthetic value on an approximately weekly basis. The tag will be 'screenshot day', as opposed to using the existing 'screenshot' tag which is for current events.

Today we start with the charon, one of the most beautiful ships in the game. I owned one for a while just because I had spare isk, eventually selling it off the first time I was trying to save for a mothership. The isk was eventually invested in blueprints because I wasn't skilled for the mothership yet (I'm still not).

Embiggen it. Or suffer.