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Intigo
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Posted - 2006.09.12 15:51:00 -
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[boring part]
I'm a returning EVE player. I've played the game for perhaps a little less than a month in total - some time during the beta and perhaps 1 year after release for ~3 weeks. It never hooked me for some reason, and the fact that WoW (I know, everyone hates WoW here, but read on :)) was in beta/released slightly later put an end to a rather short-lived EVE career there, which I spent primarily doing missions and small-time mining (perhaps that's where I went wrong).
Now, WoW is boring me and I decided to give EVE another chance. My old account was rubbish so I figured I'd start over and registrered for this 14 day trial account. I did so much missioning and mining last time I played and that apparently didn't really cater to who I am. So I figured "heck, why not try pirating?" - I was a Minmatar last time around and had dabbled somewhat with Gallente ships, and Caldari missile-boats really are not my cup of tea, so I went with Amarr this time around since I had read some good things about a Punisher.
Now, my account is approx. 11-12 days old and I've been around the block. The first couple of days I used to train the necessary skills for the Punisher 'Bleeder' setup (thank you Malka Badi'a) that I had been reading about on the Ships & Modules forum. It seemed very "newbie-friendly". I was able to fit my Punisher with a little help from fiends and from a module that I had picked off from a random rat in 0.7 space that was worth ~1million (talk about luck). Had a few run-ins with different miners and other new players such as myself, had a few kills and also lost 2 Punishers in the process. Nothing amazing had happened, and while I had fun I just wasn't...hooked!
Untill one day, when the fight which I would compare every future fight to began. I was merrily strolling about in Istodard, warped to the southern-most planet surrounded by a dozen or so belts and did a 360 degree scan (the stickied Scanner guide is SO AWESOME <3). A few ships popped onto my scanner, one of which particurarly caught my interest. A Caracal. Ever since watching a Punisher movie ( http://dl.eve-files.com/media/0606/punisherhiq.avi ) that I found from searching on http://www.eve-files.com a while back when I started this trial account, I have dreamed of one time taking on a Caracal solo. And while a friend of mine that I was chatting to certainly thought it was insane of me to even THINK about beating it, I still went for it.
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Intigo
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Posted - 2006.09.12 15:52:00 -
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Edited by: Intigo on 12/09/2006 15:54:34
I narrowed down the Caracal to one belt by lowering the degree setting on my scanner (once again, thanks for that awesome Scanner guide) and warped in . I was 30km off and the Caracal had apparently just mopped up the last of the rats in the belt and was moving to the last Cargo Container. I turned on my AB and approached, my adrenaline already rising as I knew this fight would by no means be a pushover.
I got within 10km (to not rise suspicion too soon) and locked on, immediately scrambling him and engaging my guns + NOS as I got within 5km, engaging orbit at 1km. At first he didn't fight back, but he quickly regained his senses and webbed me and shot back. I was pretty much losing hope there already as the first 1 and a half volley from his missiles took out my entire shield! Not only was he dealing massive damage, I was apparently completely unable to dent his tank! He was sitting comfortably at 75% Shield with his Shield Booster running as I was unloading my measly 200mm ACs on him (1 named 'Scout' one, and 2 of those uhh.. semi-named ones that are better than the standard one - this was my 3rd fitted Punisher, and since I got 3mill from ransoming a miner's pod a few days earlier I thought I might as well put some money into it this time :)) and my 1 Nos.
I carefully rethought my strategy and with adrenaline surging through my body I turned on my T2 (only piece of T2 I have, so easy to train for) Armor Repper. I figured I would need to outlast him as there was no way I could dent his tank or last much longer cap-wise with AB + scrambler on. I turned off my AB as I was already going 80m/s or something from his web and figured going a little slower wouldn't hurt me. I also disengaged my scrambler as I guessed he wasn't going to warp out now when it was clear that I was losing.
So I was a sitting duck. It did not seem I was able to outtank his damage, atleast not by a lot. And while I do have 2 Cap Relays fitted, my Armor Repper was still draining my cap slowly but steadily. It looked bleak and I was losing hope steadily...untill for one moment I realised he had turned off his web! Just a little glimmer of hope appeared in front me and I realised that perhaps he was having cap trouble?! Without much regard to why he did this I immediately turned my AB back on and orbited him at 1km, going 500+ m/s and taking considerably less damage. And just then, my suspicion was confirmed. Not only was his web turned off, he had also stopped shield boosting! I was sitting at 20% armor and very low cap, but the fight was suddenly turning in my favor! As I realised this I immediately turned my scrambler back on to make sure that he wouldn't be making a run for it.
Then it was just a matter of time and *POP* his Caracal was history - Woot! (it took me 3 tries to find Print Screen during the fight, I was bloody shaking). I was still trembling as I slowly attempted to lock his pod and convo'd in order to ransom (I am a pirate after all).
I stated my demands (2mill for his pod) and was greeted with (warning - profanity): Loot + smack I chuckled to myself and unlocked him and scooped up all the loot I could carry (had to dump all my ammo). I wasn't really ready to take the sec loss from a Pod kill, and not even smacktalk such as that was able to get me off my "Cloud Nine". :D
I sold the loot from his Caracal for ~4 mill later on which was more than double of what I had in the first place, so that was quite the boost as well. I could still feel my adrenaline surging for the rest of that day. :)
I am hooked. There's no way out of it now, I just need to dig up some cash somewhere so I can keep this account activated. I'm somewhat strapped for cash IRL lately, but with some luck I might be able to pay for the 2nd month by buying a GTC with ingame ISK, if I'm able to scrounge up enough. ^^
Please do stop by and say hi in Molden Health!
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Darknesslnc
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Posted - 2006.09.12 16:08:00 -
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haha
nice story. Makes me ponder going ratting in a nearby system. I went out with a T1 non named fitted rifter. Lost i because I wanted too. PC ganged me so I could help them and they used the 'good spawn here' tactic. Typical. But I felt like a challenge and I was bored so warped in. Haha, boom. They tried to ransom me, but the moment I said 'no implants mate' they left the convo and podded me. XD
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Da Maddness
Deimos Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2006.09.12 16:26:00 -
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Well done and congrats.
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Stigee
Warped Mining
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Posted - 2006.09.12 17:13:00 -
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Most evil noobpirate there is in eve :)
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mirel yirrin
Gallente
N I M I T Y
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Posted - 2006.09.12 17:16:00 -
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 Originally by: Stigee
Most evil noobpirate there is in eve :)
I'm insulted :O
I thought I was the most EvilNoobPirate in Eve.
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Inappropriate signature for the forums -Eldo ([email protected])
But..but..it had boobies in it..Wrangler would have approved!
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Intigo
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Posted - 2006.09.12 17:20:00 -
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Originally by: Stigee
Most evil noobpirate there is in eve :)
My mentor and eternal guiding star - the pirate of all pirates! One of the people who really helped me by teaching me the basics and letting me hunt with him for a while. I will be his suicide tackler any time. :D
Also, much <3 to teq, rawr and the rest of the crew in #eve-online on QuakeNet, lots of useful advice there.
This post was primarily made to show that you can actually pirate quite efficiently as a low SP character in a Frigate, and also to just share the best EVE experience I've had so far and what really has permanently hooked me on this game I think.
From what I've gathered, posting directly to killmails is not accepted on this forum, but you can follow my progress (and see my losses) on a killboard that a friend of mine let me use at http://nova.pingtimeout.net/kb/
I hope my story will inspire other low SP pirates to give it a go. There's (almost) nothing to lose and everything to gain. :)
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Darknesslnc
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Posted - 2006.09.12 17:42:00 -
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send me an evemail ingame. :) we can go pirating together 
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Mia Starbright
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Posted - 2006.09.12 17:51:00 -
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Way to go !
Intigo is da man - Punisher Pirating FTW :D
And Quakenet-IRC #eve-online ftw too :)
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digital0verdose
Caldari
Megathorn Minning And Industry
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Posted - 2006.09.12 18:01:00 -
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Originally by: Jake Stevens
<3 ya
Great story... only problem is he talks about it ALL the time on irc lol
Welcome to the yarr side.
Where is this scanner guide?
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Jake Stevens
Lone Wolves
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Posted - 2006.09.12 18:01:00 -
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<3 ya
Great story... only problem is he talks about it ALL the time on irc lol
Welcome to the yarr side.
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Intigo
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Posted - 2006.09.12 18:09:00 -
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Edited by: Intigo on 12/09/2006 18:09:25
Originally by: digital0verdose
Originally by: Jake Stevens
<3 ya
Great story... only problem is he talks about it ALL the time on irc lol
Welcome to the yarr side.
Where is this scanner guide?
http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=339264
The first link in that thread has a guide on using the scanner. Was also another scanner guide somewhere on these forums that I read.
Maybe Eve-Search has it. :)
Yarr!
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Vim
Spiritus Draconis
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Posted - 2006.09.12 18:38:00 -
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Care to join our little corp that explores the dark side of lowsec occupations?
Great read, hope you get thoose money from somewhere :)
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Rawr Cristina
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.09.13 01:25:00 -
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this just goes to show that there's no reason a low SP character cant PVP. i remember i went out only a few days after this char was made, made a gang with some ppl in the starting school and went out roaming through low-sec with a t1 frig/dessie gang :) we all enjoyed ourselves lots and though it was only a glimpse of pvp (some of them lost their ships, but kills were made) it made them want more and as a result most of them now have full subscriptions to EVE, where the average trail accounter does a few missions and trains some skills by the time their trial is up, experiencing essentially NOTHING of EVE and not really enthusiastic about continuing :S
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Frank Draconian
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Posted - 2006.09.13 02:24:00 -
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nice story. did you have him NOS'd the whole time?
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Asha'Lil
Minmatar
Republic Military School
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Posted - 2006.09.13 08:02:00 -
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Stories like this inspire me and make me want to get back to playing as soon as I can...
(Darn video card is dead so canĘt play)
Do you remember what your SP was when you made your first PK?
What about when you killed this Caracal?
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Intigo
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Posted - 2006.09.13 12:30:00 -
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Frank, yeah, he was NOS'd since we started the fight. The guy wasn't the smartest, he could have moved out of gun + NOS range when he had me webbed if he tried.
Originally by: Asha'Lil
Stories like this inspire me and make me want to get back to playing as soon as I can...
(Darn video card is dead so canĘt play)
Do you remember what your SP was when you made your first PK?
What about when you killed this Caracal?
Hrm... the first couple of kills I had were pretty easy. A few inexperienced Frigate pilots such as myself and a Prophecy mining solo with mining drones. 
I think in the course of my "current pirate career" I've had 150-275k SP.
The Caracal kill was approx. 250k SP.
Also, Asteroide (the victim) was only ~20 days old. He did have some nice named loot for a new char though.
Thanks for the comments so far. More yarrr to come soon! Perhaps once I fix my PC I'll be able to Fraps a bit too.
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Winter QC
Amarr
Altera Odyssea
Tau Ceti Federation
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Posted - 2006.09.13 20:55:00 -
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Way to go!
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deathforge
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Posted - 2006.09.13 21:05:00 -
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Low skill point piracy is one of favorite hobbies, good read
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Devilish Ledoux
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2006.09.13 21:29:00 -
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Great read.
I'm starting to think that the Caracal is the cruiser of choice for people who suck at PvP. I've yet to fight one that didn't just crumple the moment I jumped on and opened up a can of nasty.
The Billionaire Buccaneer (A Blog for the Bored) |
Fourthorseman Griefer
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Posted - 2006.09.13 22:32:00 -
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He probably did most of his damage to you, and drained most of his capacitor, with the smart bomb, unless he got that from loot and it just happened to be in his hold.
Just FYI: missile launchers use no cap so it is sometimes not terribly effective to NOS, depending on how they are tanked.
I started getting an adrenaline rush just reading your story. Good memories floated to the surface.
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Militis Kolosok
Caldari
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Posted - 2006.09.13 23:30:00 -
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That's very inspiring :) I need to start killing people or something, lol.
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Intigo
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Posted - 2006.09.14 15:53:00 -
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Originally by: Devilish Ledoux
Great read.
I'm starting to think that the Caracal is the cruiser of choice for people who suck at PvP. I've yet to fight one that didn't just crumple the moment I jumped on and opened up a can of nasty.
Oooh, Devilish. I actually followed your blog for quite a while, was good fun to read. 
Glad you liked my little story, I'll be sure to read up on the latest of your blog, haven't read it for a while.
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Amdushus Palimadore
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Posted - 2006.09.15 02:58:00 -
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Hooray - another lame nub pirate for me to beast on. Let me know the next time you're in the rens area? I'll pull out my rifter.
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murder one
Gallente
CRICE Corporation
Lotka Volterra
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Posted - 2006.09.15 04:51:00 -
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NJ Intigo =]
I cut my PVP teeth with a low SP alt and then various trial accounts to find out what the most efficient path was with respect to skillpoints, firepower and flexibility. Always glad to hear someone else is forging ahead with their pvp/pirate career :)
Because I said so...
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Majin82
Caldari
Arkhangelos Alliance Naval Intelligence
Arkhangelos Command
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Posted - 2006.09.19 20:24:00 -
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Good job!
That Caracal Pilot must have been a newb.
How shamefull to lose a fight he should have won.
But at the same time, it's good you killed him, will make him remember that just cause you have the money don't mean you should buy a bigger ship.
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Intigo
Amarr
Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2006.09.24 13:02:00 -
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Edited by: Intigo on 24/09/2006 13:04:24
Edited by: Intigo on 24/09/2006 13:02:24
Woo, been a while since I checked in here. Just catching up on replies, been busy with work and training for T2 guns lately, soon time to bring the Punisher out for another spin. :)
Originally by: Amdushus Palimadore
Hooray - another lame nub pirate for me to beast on. Let me know the next time you're in the rens area? I'll pull out my rifter.
No need to be so hostile. 
I'm usually around Rens the majority of the time, as I generally pirate in the Molden Health region. If you want a 1on1 when I finish training for T2 guns, I'd be all for it. I'd most likely lose as I'm still at around 400k SPs total, but it'd be a learning lesson never the less.
Feel free to eve-mail me.
murder one, glad to see you enjoyed it. Your stories and threads here on the forum are a great source of both entertainment and valid advice on pirating. You're an inspiration to many new pirates such as myself, I bet. :)
Majin82, yeah, I don't plan on leaving my Punisher just yet. After I finish this T2 guns training I'm switching over to Minny cruisers - Rupture just looks too sexy to pass up. Can't wait to try it out.
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Small-time pirate. Upgraded from trial account as of 14th September 2006. Loving every part of EVE so far. \o/
http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=394625Tale of low S |
cytomatrix
Caldari
Catalyst Reaction
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.09.25 18:28:00 -
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Edited by: cytomatrix on 25/09/2006 18:28:07
Originally by: Devilish Ledoux
Great read.
I'm starting to think that the Caracal is the cruiser of choice for people who suck at PvP. I've yet to fight one that didn't just crumple the moment I jumped on and opened up a can of nasty.
I have the same feeling. Once i undocked in a Manticore in a low sec system when i was an outlaw and one caracal attacked me. In two volley he was down to half hull and i was tanking him. He had to warp out embarassingly. It left my mouth open. Later that day i killed a caracal in my manticore.
I really enjoyed your story btw. Post more. Do more pirating. Have fun.
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Intigo
Amarr
Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2006.09.27 18:52:00 -
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An update!
Been a bit busy with work lately and training for T2 guns (which I can use now, YAY!), but I am officially back in action once again - rawr. <o/
Slightly modified my setup too, nothing drastic though (fitted a membrane to replace a cap relay as my cap skills increased).
And what a great return it has been so far - another Cruiser kill, and my God it was a thriller.
I was running about in Half, looking for a fight as I usually am. I do a 360 scan from the bottom planet surrounded by 12 or so belts and among the ships I find a Bellicose. I immediately light up since from what I've been told these are gimp! I narrow it down to one belt and warp in, already feeling the same rush of battle as I had when fighting the Caracal.
I warp in 45km off the Cruiser and curse silently to myself, as I've seen way too many Mining Barges or other targets warp off when I warp in at this range. But he seems to be too busy finishing off the last rat in the belt to notice me, so I approach with AB (T2 too, I have phat loot!), making sure to add the drones fighting the rats to my overview as I approach so I can target the damn things when the fights begins.
Even though I've been told that Bellicose is gimp, it sure did dish out quite the hurt. Outdamaged the Caracal (who was using Heavy Missiles, granted) by a fair amount. Target Painter + Drones = ouch. D:
I engage and immediately dump my NOS + scrambler on Bellicose, target a drone and unleash hell with my new T2 guns, weee! The thing goes down fairly fast, but so do I due to the fairly impressive DPS that the Bellicose was doing. I take out the first drone, but I'm already at 75% armor! Fortunately, the DPS taken is severely lowered for every drone I kill, so I continue relentlessly while cursing quite loudly at the fact that Punisher only has 2 Max targets (and most of the cursing is pointed at myself for not training the skill that lets me have more targets locked earlier, but I wantd my T2 guns ). As I take out the last drone I'm down to 20% armor and my cap is severely drained (I've been turning scrambler on/off a bit during the fight, but I didn't want to risk my target warping off), but I can finally start doing damage to the Bellicose.
At this point I also notice that he has been asking for help in Local, even pointing to the location of our fighting! I immediate begin scouting Local while orbiting the Bellicose at 1km, doing my best to tank the lowered (but still enough to keep me below 50% armor constantly with repper going in phases) DPS he's outputting. In Local I notice another person from his corp called IshmaelDS and realise that I am now fighting against time! I need to get this Bellicose down before his help warps in or I'm as good as dead!
The fight progresses slowly - while it's clear that I'm winning now that his drones are out of the way, I still don't have enough of an upper hand to turn off my repper, constantly below 50% armor. As he finally enters hull, I dread as IshmaelDS turns up on Overview. From the Overview [] I notice he's flying a Battleship and I decide to take my chances and finish off the Cruiser (since he has slow locking, I figured). As the hull on the Bellicose keeps going lower, I slowly start to align for warp to a nearby belt.
50% hull, I'm silently praying the Battleship pilot is either sleeping or just locking slowly.
25% hull, at this point I'm pretty much yelling at my screen for the Bellicose to die, as the first couple of hits from the Battleship starts hitting my ship.
Just as the Bellicose pops I am knocked down to 10% armor once again, after being up over 50% for a good portion of the last part of the fight.
I immediately warp out, shedding a tear as I leave the loot behind. As I write "gf" in Local I also thank the Gods above for the Battleship not having a scrambler fitted.
Phew - that was quite a fight. Once again, my love for this game has been established.
Come see me in the Molden Health region! <3
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Small-time pirate. Upgraded from trial account as of 14th September 2006. Loving every part of EVE so far. \o/
Low SP piracy |
Intigo
Amarr
Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2006.09.27 18:58:00 -
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I ran out of space, so a few screenshots of the fight if anyone is interested:
1st drone
2nd drone
Last drone
Finally on Bellicose
BS warps in with Bellicose in hull
Thanking the Gods
Also, both Agril (although a bit quiet) and IshmaelDS were very kind in Local afterwards. Great people. :)
Frigate piracy is great!
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Small-time pirate. Upgraded from trial account as of 14th September 2006. Loving every part of EVE so far. \o/
Low SP piracy |
Ras Blumin
0utbreak
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Posted - 2006.09.27 19:25:00 -
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Edited by: Ras Blumin on 27/09/2006 19:49:02
EMO!
edit - not a bad read tho :) <3
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Kimaya
Dark-Rising
Xelas Alliance
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Posted - 2006.10.05 05:05:00 -
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Dude..
People like you make me proud of being Amarr!!
i hope to see your FRAP¦s later on..
Yarr!!
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Kitana Bane
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Posted - 2006.10.05 08:02:00 -
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Intigo I would love to fly with you.
Drop me an eve-mail if you want to hook up.
Kitana Bane @ tranquility
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flashfresh
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Posted - 2006.10.05 14:26:00 -
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Cool thread. Drop me an evemail in game - would love to fly with you.
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ōMe, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for...'ö
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Trystram
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Posted - 2006.10.08 00:26:00 -
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Wow, you really know how to put the action in your writing...Nice write keep Pirating 
I have fraps....kills my FPS
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kublai
Short Attention Span
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Posted - 2006.10.08 00:29:00 -
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I heard this guy got into one of the most nber pirate corps under one of the most nber directors in the entire eve universe
O_O oh my gawd.
I also heard a rumour he got blobbed by some three day old newbies O_O
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JoeT
Amarr
Short Attention Span
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Posted - 2006.10.08 05:43:00 -
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Originally by: Majin82
Good job!
That Caracal Pilot must have been a newb.
How shamefull to lose a fight he should have won.
But at the same time, it's good you killed him, will make him remember that just cause you have the money don't mean you should buy a bigger ship.
Caracals seem to just seems to suck in anything in a solo fight.
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Phelan Boots
Queens of the Stone Age
Chimaera Pact
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Posted - 2006.10.08 05:44:00 -
[38]
Very nicely done. I <3 frigates!
Quote:
info It's not a good idea to place an Exotic Dancer in a Giant Secure Container. The Exotic Dancer will not survive intact, if transported in such a container.
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JoeT
Amarr
Short Attention Span
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Posted - 2006.10.08 06:01:00 -
[39]
Originally by: Phelan Boots
Very nicely done. I <3 frigates!
Makes me want to get a puni and go kill in one
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Intigo
Amarr
Short Attention Span
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Posted - 2006.10.08 12:36:00 -
[40]
Originally by: kublai
I heard this guy got into one of the most nber pirate corps under one of the most nber directors in the entire eve universe
O_O oh my gawd.
I also heard a rumour he got blobbed by some three day old newbies O_O
Blatant lies. I heard they were just big meanies. D:
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Small-time pirate. Upgraded from trial account as of 14th September 2006. Loving every part of EVE so far. \o/
Low SP piracy |
Zerker
Caldari
The Yarrmada
Pirate Coalition
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Posted - 2006.10.08 18:54:00 -
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Great read, i'm gonna go kit myself out a frig and go huntin! :D
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Sun Win
Mutually Assured Distraction
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Posted - 2006.10.08 21:23:00 -
[42]
Edited by: Sun Win on 08/10/2006 21:23:20
Great read. Much love for the Punisher Piracy. If you're ever out in the Forge, drop me a line.
New to Eve? Learn to Fly - join channel: "Eve University" or read here |
Kaleeb
Celestial Apocalypse
Insurgency
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Posted - 2006.10.29 17:15:00 -
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Very nicely written post Intigo, keep it up and you'll go far
Originally by: Blacklight
Last night was an 'anomoly' for different reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with skill or who were the better pvpers.
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Chroan
The Drain
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Posted - 2006.10.29 17:35:00 -
[44]
Very good read!
That writing got my adreanaline pumping, feeled like I would've been there
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Mr Jay
Pre-nerfed Tactics
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Posted - 2006.10.30 00:23:00 -
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I'm pleased to say that after two years of pirating, I can still, albeit only sometimes, get the shakes.
Me and a friend today took down a Raven and a Geddon in a Deimos and an Eos. Not a great deal, but sentries were on their side - my Deimos not being set-up for gate ganking, struggled when the sentries hit me.
But it's nice after so long of playing, you can still get the feeling you had when you first killed something.
Absolute Evil pwned my sig =( |
Intigo
Amarr
Short Attention Span
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Posted - 2006.11.09 20:27:00 -
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Just thought I'd bump the post a little since the IRC crew at #eve-online on QNet got quite a laugh out of the Crow fight I had recently in my Rifter. The victim was some -4.6 guy from Pirate Coalition being half-asleep in a belt in Gonditsa.
Movie: Click!
I had scanned the guy out earlier in a belt where I had gone to attempt to engage him. Unfortunately he was going ~3.5km/s and was impossible to catch, so I warped off to another belt to try and bait him to follow me (picked a pretty obvious one where he could easily see where I went) - unfortunately he did not follow. I stayed around a bit, then started scanning again and found him in another belt. This time I warped in right on top of him and the movie tells the rest of the story.
Please excuse the bad FPS, was running a few other programs at the time, wasn't really prepared to Fraps. ^^
Loot was decent enough, although his 2 other T2 launchers blew up along with his T2 MWD. :(
Just got 2m SPs on my char today too, this was a nice way to celebrate it!
PS: Please ignore the fact that I forgot to use my scrambler, I was much more interested in making sure the web was active. No way he was going to warp out before dying regardless (but yes, it was not on purpose, I suck!). ^^
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Posted - 2006.11.10 10:30:00 -
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I made an amarr alt to pvp with a few months ago, working on assault ships atm. Would love to fly with you sometime.
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Shigsy
Caldari
Four Horsemen
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Posted - 2006.11.10 16:36:00 -
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Originally by: Intigo
Just thought I'd bump the post a little since the IRC crew at #eve-online on QNet got quite a laugh out of the Crow fight I had recently in my Rifter. The victim was some -4.6 guy from Pirate Coalition being half-asleep in a belt in Gonditsa.
Movie: Click!
I had scanned the guy out earlier in a belt where I had gone to attempt to engage him. Unfortunately he was going ~3.5km/s and was impossible to catch, so I warped off to another belt to try and bait him to follow me (picked a pretty obvious one where he could easily see where I went) - unfortunately he did not follow. I stayed around a bit, then started scanning again and found him in another belt. This time I warped in right on top of him and the movie tells the rest of the story.
Please excuse the bad FPS, was running a few other programs at the time, wasn't really prepared to Fraps. ^^
Loot was decent enough, although his 2 other T2 launchers blew up along with his T2 MWD. :(
Just got 2m SPs on my char today too, this was a nice way to celebrate it!
PS: Please ignore the fact that I forgot to use my scrambler, I was much more interested in making sure the web was active. No way he was going to warp out before dying regardless (but yes, it was not on purpose, I suck!). ^^
Lies! you dont suck!
Keep the videos coming ;D You rawk! \m/
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ErbUs
Minmatar
Free Industries Union
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Posted - 2006.11.10 19:57:00 -
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no blob only 2
hey intigo
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Lightfinger
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Posted - 2006.11.10 20:39:00 -
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Thanks for the inspiration. Keep the stories coming.
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Aranin
Amarr
Dragons Of Redemption
Veritas Immortalis
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Posted - 2006.11.11 12:39:00 -
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wait untill u can fly the pilgrim - you'll love it.
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illusha
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Posted - 2006.11.13 06:50:00 -
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I'm interested in making a minmatar character like yours and doing some pirating on the side. What skills did you train? Learning first, then frigates to get the punisher, what then? and how long did it take you to get through the basic skill training to fly a punisher and do some pirating?
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Intigo
Amarr
Short Attention Span
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Posted - 2006.11.13 23:06:00 -
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Originally by: illusha
I'm interested in making a minmatar character like yours and doing some pirating on the side. What skills did you train? Learning first, then frigates to get the punisher, what then? and how long did it take you to get through the basic skill training to fly a punisher and do some pirating?
Sorry for the late reply.
Some of this was answered here, but for which skills to take you could just see the Skills forum. It's pretty basic, basically whatever you need to use the Bleeder setup and then additional gunnery / frig skills to increase your overall usefulness.
You can start almost right away, you just have to be very picky about your targets and prepared to lose a lot of ships.
Almost done with T2 Medium Projectile training now, can't wait to try out the Stabber with a T2 fit - close-range ships such as the Rupture & Rifter are getting a bit dull. =)
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Katrina Coreli
Vindication Angels
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Posted - 2006.11.14 14:52:00 -
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You rock m8, keep them coming
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sathross
Hounds Of War
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Posted - 2006.11.15 13:14:00 -
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m8
Great reading there, kept me entertained at work :-) Nice to see and very well written, keep it up !!!
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Nylian
Amarr
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Edited by: Nylian on 24/12/2006 19:16:25
Just Had a convo with Intigo (well, yesterday) and she's pretty much convinced me with her posts + movies to go pirate! :D
I'm utterly disgusted with our alliance war, and I hate large fleet pvp with a red-hot passion. An astounding 2fps with 300+ ppl in the system. A sarcastic Yay.
So yesterday, I figure if I'm going to lose my first ship to piracy, I might as well make it a doosey.
Fully fitted Vengeance with all T2 weps and mods (cept for the webby / scram of course)
I see a fellow amarr pilot by the name of "Redart" who was obviously in a pirate corp, while perusing some lowsec systems. I shoot him a quick convo, stating I'm rather new to pvp (Half industry char mostly done missions + 0.0 ratting / standing farming for research) and I ask him if he's interested in having a wingman. To which he laughs in disbelief, understandable, as I still carry my old corp's ticker and a positive 3 security.(roles :/ ) I'll post the convo when I get home. Coulda been fun though.
I start hopping around where Intigo says she's based out of, I'm hoping to wing with her when she's back (I use gender in reference to pic :p ) I jump into a .4, 3 in local, but only two in scan. Prolly a mining op with the third person shuttling ore. Even their corp name was something along the lines of "Tritanium Workers Galaxia" (can't remember exactly atm, typing this from work). I quickly narrow them down to a belt and initiate warp, scanner forum guides ftw. Ooh, this will be good, I turn fraps on to record my first pirate kill.
-At this point my wife says something I still don't know what it was, (I hope it wasn't something like "I'm leaving you") breaking me from my state of anticipation and adrenaline while in warp. I say "Yarr, shiver me timbers woman! Can't ye see I'm busy being a pie-rat!?" I come out of warp and shout "From hell's heart I stabbath thee!!"
I drop about 30km from a punisher & some other t1 frig... ratting a cruiser(?) in .4 "Odd" I thought to myself dismissivly. I kick in the ABII cruising at around 600ms It didn't take too long to get within 10km but he actually targetted me first. "Odd" I thought again as he turned on his scram. I unleashed hell with my 3 T2 Medium Pulses and a Nosferatu. 50% armor in no time. Tanking considerably well, however. Could take a minute.
And then, that third person that was on local, however WAY out of scan range that I assumed to be docked pops right ON TOP of us. (Warp to 0 ftw) Holy ownage of death from a tempest multiple webbing + drones and omg =O. A well planned and executed trap by some pirates. I was in my home station faster than something really fast. heh. Nothing but feeling's of respect for a well thought out plan.
I toss a convo to the person that got the kill mail, congratulating them on their well laid trap...and explain some of my thoughts on the situation (OMG A TEMEST AT 7.5Km). And how I fraps'd the whole encounter (I'll post that when I make it smaller).
Turns out they invited me to join their corp, and we ganged for the rest of the night in search of prey sadly to no avail. They were kind enough to sell me back my t2 stuff too. lol.
I've been playing for years, never really had the guts to pvp a lot (I always hated losing something 50x faster than you can make it, and ALL of my pvp attempts (maybe 15 or so) have been extremly poor/unlucky. I've relaxed though :) so it doesn't bother me so much anymore) and I have yet to get my first kill. I think I got an assist or two in the past, but it's been minimal.
Watching Intigo take out a cruiser with her Rifter with less than 500k skillpoints has inspired me.
For now I'll be out hunting, searching for that first act of successful piracy. Searching for my niche.
Yar.
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Shaox
Sniggerdly
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Posted - 2006.12.24 19:45:00 -
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I knew I'd heard your name from somewhere.
Curious; did you FRAPS our fight?
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Nylian
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.12.24 19:47:00 -
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Not sure I remember, were you in the Matari Interceptor during a war at some stargate in empire?
If that's you, then yes, fraps that too.
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Shaox
Sniggerdly
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Posted - 2006.12.24 19:49:00 -
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Sorry I meant Indigo, I killed her earlier in a pretty good fight.
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Intigo
Amarr
Short Attention Span
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Posted - 2006.12.25 17:05:00 -
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Nylian, haha, sweet story! Definetly a fun read and your wife seems like a great girl (on that note, I'm not female myself, I just thought the azn chick avatar looked way hawt). :)
You should definetly keep up with the story-telling when you continue your acts of piracy as that was definetly more entertaining than anything I could produce (I liked the "stabbath thee!" part in particular)!
Also, the Caracal fight was when I was still flying a Punisher actually. Moved to Rifter later, as they are (with T2 fitting) some of the best anti-stupid-Crow-pilot ships ingame IMO. And we sure did have a lot of stupid Crows in the area I flew in. 
Now let's see if I can scrounge up some cash for a new Hurricane. Anyone want to buy 100 mill worth of shares in Eve Financial Services (FIN)? They give a 7% dividend monthly! <o/
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Nylian
Amarr
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Posted - 2006.12.25 18:42:00 -
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I'll take those shares, if you're serious. :)
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Short Attention Span
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Posted - 2006.12.25 19:06:00 -
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Originally by: Nylian
I'll take those shares, if you're serious. :)
He is, take them so he wont ***** at me to buy them anymore :P
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Destr0math
Tritanium Workers Union
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Posted - 2006.12.26 01:24:00 -
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one thing you've taught me, intigo, is to use overwhelming force when available. Our "handling" of Nylian went perfectly, and i was happy to welcome him back, this time on our side. Something to take away from this - just because someone shoots you doesn't mean they don't like you. It means they're playing a video game involving shooting others...and you're "others." This is kinda a note to all the carebears out there- most of the best people i've met in this game are pirates. Intigo's a great example- he killed me once (barely ), and when i see him around i wave and say hi anyway- no hard feelings.
/me gets off his soapbox
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Saint Bubba
Minmatar
S.Y.N.D.R.O.M.E.
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Posted - 2007.01.05 20:12:00 -
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Hey intigo, Great story mate ;) You too nylian, awesome reads from both of you, better then anything I could ever produce 
Keep it up guys :P
Cant wait for this bloody AF :P
And you got learning skills done intigo?
Originally by: Sakura Nihil
That being said, the PvP Force is strong in this one, I forsee a good future full of whining carebears and jealous PvPers crushed under his heels .
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Rail Duke
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Posted - 2007.01.05 21:37:00 -
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Sniggwaffe, dude. Sniggwaffe.
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Arrgs
Umbra Congregatio
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.01.05 21:53:00 -
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nice story
My first video!
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Intigo
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2007.01.05 22:00:00 -
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Originally by: Saint Bubba
Hey intigo, Great story mate ;) You too nylian, awesome reads from both of you, better then anything I could ever produce
Keep it up guys :P
Cant wait for this bloody AF :P
And you got learning skills done intigo?
I finished learnings a while back, just after I got T2 med guns. Just getting all support skills to 4/5 now, so I can fly my Hurricane as well as possible. :D
And I might train for an AF / Inty soon, so I have a slightly more 0.0-oriented ship, as I will probably be joining a 0.0 corp soon - I am on the look out for a corp as it is.
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Leviathan9
Gallente
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2007.01.05 23:20:00 -
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Hehe, nice stories. =) Btw that time in Bantish and you were swearing and stuff, there was a GM in the system reading everything, was wondering you get in trouble? We got told to cool it a bit. Cya on the battlefield.
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Intigo
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2007.01.06 00:13:00 -
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Edited by: Intigo on 06/01/2007 00:13:35
Originally by: Leviathan9
Hehe, nice stories. =) Btw that time in Bantish and you were swearing and stuff, there was a GM in the system reading everything, was wondering you get in trouble? We got told to cool it a bit. Cya on the battlefield.
Nope!
Perhaps he could see I was right, and you weren't.
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Leviathan9
Gallente
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2007.01.06 00:53:00 -
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Bah, =p I doubt a GM would do that, cos they don't allow abuse etc in local chat.
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Haargoth Agamar
S.Y.N.D.R.O.M.E.
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Posted - 2007.01.06 07:20:00 -
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Edited by: Haargoth Agamar on 06/01/2007 07:17:49
Edited by: Haargoth Agamar on 06/01/2007 07:16:41
Sorry about today Intigo, Bubba didn't tell me we were friendly. If I had known we would of gotten that Myrmiddon. Maybe you me and Bubba can go hunting some time.
PS: Destromath, I'll be back with another Interceptor and this time I'll take you down! (Or die most likely)
Proud Member of SYNDROME
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Edited by: Furelise on 06/01/2007 11:04:29
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Kintaana
Minmatar
Lasleinur Production
Fimbulwinter
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Posted - 2007.01.06 11:09:00 -
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Edited by: Kintaana on 06/01/2007 11:06:34
Edited by: Kintaana on 06/01/2007 11:06:00
Originally by: Furelise
Edited by: Furelise on 06/01/2007 11:04:29
Excellent story mate, had me on the edge of my seat and I wasnt even the one piloting haha. Hmmm time to train Amarr Frig 2 and 3 methinks! 
ps. wrong char :P
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Saint Bubba
Minmatar
S.Y.N.D.R.O.M.E.
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Posted - 2007.01.06 13:03:00 -
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Originally by: Intigo
Originally by: Saint Bubba
Hey intigo, Great story mate ;) You too nylian, awesome reads from both of you, better then anything I could ever produce
Keep it up guys :P
Cant wait for this bloody AF :P
And you got learning skills done intigo?
I finished learnings a while back, just after I got T2 med guns. Just getting all support skills to 4/5 now, so I can fly my Hurricane as well as possible. :D
And I might train for an AF / Inty soon, so I have a slightly more 0.0-oriented ship, as I will probably be joining a 0.0 corp soon - I am on the look out for a corp as it is.
Hehe get an AF and you can join me and haargoth on a 3 man gank squad AF style
1 more day!!! :D
We almost had the myrmidon yesterday mate, I suicided but was worth it. Next time go for the kill, you had more strucure then him :P you were at 80 % he was at 30%. I would have gone for it since as you well saw I suicided rifter style :P
Originally by: Sakura Nihil
That being said, the PvP Force is strong in this one, I forsee a good future full of whining carebears and jealous PvPers crushed under his heels .
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Nylian
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.01.21 18:00:00 -
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I know this is a bit of an old thread, and there's something out there that people call necro (I thought it was a dude that opened the cow lvl and tanked everything), but I don't care. :p
Yesterday I had the greatest 3man group EVER.
Myself, Destr0math, and Kytthix
Taranis, Thrasher, and Claw
I think our slowest was Destr0, at 1.5km/s
Destro had the bright idea (hah) of going to gallente space and looking for targets. First 13 jumps we were making fun of how his "route sucked." due to all the docked afk'rs and empty locals. Curse the bloody land lubbers.
Finally we find something worth launching precious ammo at. A thorax. Kyt does that thing he does and Destr0 and I come in all shoosty like and boom goes the thorax. Odd I didn't get on the killmail, I did shoot at the dronsies first, I hates the dronsies. Nothing Spectacular. But worth a mini-yar
It's when we got to mission-carebear central that things really started to heat up.
40+ people in local, CNR on scan, Navy mega on scan, whooboy, wonder what else we can find out here.
First target was a catalyst... Kyt and destro were done with him before I could even get there. >.<
Next was another Thorax, I whupped on the drones while they worked on his hull, rail-ranis at it's best.
Third was a celestis I found while we were repairing, I manage to get a point on but I think it was a moment too late, that or he damped me and off he goes. We run off to our safespot to look for more juicy carebears .
I keep scanning and wow, celestis on scan again... in the SAME belt. HAH. We all chuckle in disbelief on the way in. This time we all get a point on and poof goes the celestis.
It got really fun when we warped on top of the mining hyperion and it's MOA guard. :)
To be continued... (I'm at work atm)
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Amarr
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Posted - 2007.01.21 18:47:00 -
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MOA gets me to hull 87% (light missiles and high skills I guess) OMG my poor ranis, I have more value in my 3 T2 guns than Destr0 does in his whole ship. I could hear scotty in the background "SHE CANNA TAKE ANYMO CAP'N."
I held a point on the hyperion until Kyt could come in and take over. We warped in and out for a solid 12 minutes, just barely popping the MOA (he warped), scaring off a thorax while an arbitrator with T2 Acolytes was on us, until finally, unfortunately, the hyperion made it out. Just the arby with those speedy little drones was a rough one.
And by that time dest0 and I seriously had to pee, we insta-docked went to our respective restrooms, did our thing... and undocked to see 10billion isk or more waiting outside the station with drones launched, just for us. That was the biggest compliment I've had in eve.
And to stay with Intigo's line of low sp :p I have interceptors lvl 1, and my gear was all t1 un-named except for the T2 125mm rails.
And to think, I used to think missions were fun.
Yarr!
But dear lord, that was the most fun I've had pvping. 3 small ships finally destroying several cruisers while being significantly outnumbered.
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Saint Bubba
Minmatar
S.Y.N.D.R.O.M.E.
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Posted - 2007.01.21 20:14:00 -
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Originally by: Nylian
MOA gets me to hull 87% (light missiles and high skills I guess) OMG my poor ranis, I have more value in my 3 T2 guns than Destr0 does in his whole ship. I could hear scotty in the background "SHE CANNA TAKE ANYMO CAP'N."
I held a point on the hyperion until Kyt could come in and take over. We warped in and out for a solid 12 minutes, just barely popping the MOA (he warped), scaring off a thorax while an arbitrator with T2 Acolytes was on us, until finally, unfortunately, the hyperion made it out. Just the arby with those speedy little drones was a rough one.
And by that time dest0 and I seriously had to pee, we insta-docked went to our respective restrooms, did our thing... and undocked to see 10billion isk or more waiting outside the station with drones launched, just for us. That was the biggest compliment I've had in eve.
And to stay with Intigo's line of low sp :p I have interceptors lvl 1, and my gear was all t1 un-named except for the T2 125mm rails.
And to think, I used to think missions were fun.
Yarr!
But dear lord, that was the most fun I've had pvping. 3 small ships finally destroying several cruisers while being significantly outnumbered.
Nice writing man and good job :)
But what was 10 billion thing? O_O
Originally by: Sakura Nihil
That being said, the PvP Force is strong in this one, I forsee a good future full of whining carebears and jealous PvPers crushed under his heels .
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Nylian
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.01.21 20:53:00 -
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Destr0 got the screenshot, but it was a myraid of factional ships, like CNRs and Navy Megathrons. (Actually got to see one at a belt, and maaaan are they sexy)
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The Carebear Stare
Privateer Alliance
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What a great read, thanks Intigo. Theres a place for you in The Carebear Stare \/
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Saint Bubba
Minmatar
S.Y.N.D.R.O.M.E.
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Originally by: Nylian
Edited by: Nylian on 21/01/2007 20:55:42
Destr0 got the screenshot, but it was a myraid of factional ships, like CNRs and Navy Megathrons. (Actually got to see one (like zoom in and pan, etc) at a belt, and maaaan are they sexy)
Im presuming you got owned in under 10 seconds? :P
Originally by: Sakura Nihil
That being said, the PvP Force is strong in this one, I forsee a good future full of whining carebears and jealous PvPers crushed under his heels .
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Nylian
Amarr
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Originally by: Nylian
Im presuming you got owned in under 10 seconds? :P
Just spammed dock :)
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Astral Wolves
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Posted - 2007.01.22 16:08:00 -
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Edited by: Jason Marshall on 22/01/2007 16:04:48
Originally by: Darknesslnc
send me an evemail ingame. :) we can go pirating together
Yea you will bait noob ships in Kisogo with Darknesslnc and his main.
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Minmatar
G.H.O.S.T
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Originally by: Devilish Ledoux
Great read.
I'm starting to think that the Caracal is the cruiser of choice for people who suck at PvP. I've yet to fight one that didn't just crumple the moment I jumped on and opened up a can of nasty.
I've met a few that didnt. They hurt a lot  . If the pilot has good range skills and can keep you at range, then you're screwed. Of course, they cant keep you scrammed either 
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Caracal is kinda a wildcard. It either sucks, or the pilot has some clue how to play and it can be an invaluable asset. Really based on pilot knowledge.
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