ElRodeo
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Posted - 2003.06.30 12:47:00 -
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Love the posts, keep the positive stuff coming.
mining has more than one form i might add,
myself and 2 friends, (the total force bieng 2 thorax's and a bestower) went out one day for a little 'mining'. i took a belt, the other thor took a belt. we both wait for pirates to spawn, BINGO i had a decent 5 cruiser spawn (about 20k a head :) so i proceed to start slaying the opposition, bieng carefull not to kill them all because as we know, npc players when in trouble let off a shriek for backup.
soon i am down to the 2nd to last one, pop, 3 more bandits spawn in, its getting interesting i thought to myself.
i start noticing that i dont need to stop firing to keep any alive anymore, (the serpetis are onto me and think that faster reinforcements will break my little one man blockade) so i keep going, and going.
now although im not the best pilot in eve, i consider myself to be a darn good one (even if it is self obsession :) and the serpentis plan is starting to work, over the course of the past hour or 2, my road block has consumed about 150 serpentis lives and is starting to actually be a problem, as i kill one out of the five present, another appears.
now im a big headed fool and will take on most problems full charge, but i had to admit that i would soon start losing at this rate. 'no' i though, 'no defeat'.
the indy, bobbing around the cargo containers, must get every last one home for recycling (luckily for him i had enraged the serps enough for them to not be bothered by him, in his little yellow unarmed ship).
i admitted defeat and called backup.
my friend arrives form the neighbouring belt after a sucessfull pirate killing bout himself, and we proceed to wipe the floor once again, with serp ass! :) untill we found a real problem.
the serp plan was still in effect, they were getting faster still, both of us were dealing with a serp every few seconds or so and usually teaming up on the next one, but alas as we kill they appear.
giggling insanely to eachother we start talking about them winning, and the realisation that they arent too far away from swaying the battle hits home, (this time with no more backup and us running low on hybrid ammo).
so we decide to finish it once and for all. 'kill every dirty last one of them' we cry >:)
we both let loose a legion of heavy drones and proceed to rip them all down to 10%(ish) hull in preperation for a mass explosion festivity (to mark the end of a serpentis attack wing it would seem) quickly we make an attempt to finish it.
BOOOOOM before we could sneeze 4 are down with one to go, but wait another has appeared >:) 'quick' i start yelling 'backup is on the way i bet' :) so we combine guns on the new comer and finish of the remaining 10% straggler. success. we win we guard the belt untill the 300+ cargo containers are all gonea few more battles were fought but nothing as blood drenched as what had just been.
at the end the cargo is inspected, 'well done gang' e all thought.
ill leave the ammount of minerals gained to your imagination, but lets say no less than 2 thorax's worth of mins were 'mined' that day, and the remaining 'leet gear' was sold for a profit of about 25 million, plus the bounties we had earned.
after donations the boats that we had earned from the corp, had earned the corp back more than their weight in minerals and isk seperately.
and ohhh yeah,,, we had fun :)
the same could be repeated with 3-4 exeqs and 2 iterons, and a newby corp could make 'a killing' >:)
just another fun filled way to earn a living without the need for miners.
i apologise for any bad grammar or spelling mistakes, but the fire from that battle still makes me giddy like a little girl looking at a new barbie doll :) and a little excitement may have knocked my auto spell checker out of sync for the duration of the post :)
c you all out there
(edited after i realised confusion was rife in my brain after reading it, and i wrote the darn thing :)
Edited by: ElRodeo on 30/06/2003 12:56:43
Edited by: ElRodeo on 30/06/2003 12:57:29
ElRodeo
May the Blood of the Innocent and the Righteous Cleanse me of my Demons.
May Any God you Choose to Worship Have Mercy Upon Your Soul
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