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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.10.24 18:28:49 -
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Lesson 79: Always remember yer !@#$%^-ing cap booster charges!
So here I am, back from hiatus for a spell, wanting to try new things. I had been itching to fly a Sacrilege since fighting a few in the C&P Thunderdome series last year, and I saw these new Blood Raider Guntlets as an opportunity to get me a little hisec PvP action going. Just a pretty basic "steal-loot-go-suspect" bit.
I clear a few sites, both solo and with others, and nobody takes the bait at first. Eventually, I get an engagement with a Gila (which pegged my irony meter because a Gila was what I used to fight the Sac back in Thunderdome). The pilot was PvP fit, which impressed me. Both of our tanks were holding when I noticed that I had made a fatal flaw: I had forgotten to grab my cap booster charges!
I keep the neut pressure on the Gila hoping to break tackle as my cap, and armor, slowly melt away. I switch my DPS to his drones hoping to reduce his DPS but those drones are hella tough. Just when I start kicking myself in the arse for such a monumental screwup, his tackle fails under neut pressure. At this point I have to make a decision: stay on and fight, or make a discrete exit?
I chose the better part of valor. I suspect that I could have taken him eventually, but I was in a vulnerable state and didn't want to push my luck with an unfamiliar build. One or the other, sure, but not both.
We had friendly chat afterwards to exchange "good fights"; he told me that I was his first attempt at initiating combat PvP, which impressed me even more.
Well done sir. No kills, no losses, but you still managed to remind me what I missed about EvE. Here's to hoping I can stick around for a bit.
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xXuber-NitsheXx
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Posted - 2016.10.24 19:57:44 -
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Just one question Mr Bronson Hughes?
How can we trust a "Knight of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration" when you don't wear a black Fedora and Ray Bans. Nor do you accompany any of your posts to great Blues Music such as Sweet Home Chicago.
Thieving pirates discuss INTEGRITY; Anarchist gankers give us LAWS; and Whoring merc's cry then blow off clients with INSULTS.
Up is down and down is up in the C&P Forum.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.10.25 10:30:07 -
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Lesson 80: The roleplay is real.
xXuber-NitsheXx wrote:Just one question Mr Bronson Hughes? How can we trust a "Knight of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration" when you don't wear a black Fedora and Ray Bans. Nor do you accompany any of your posts to great Blues Music such as Sweet Home Chicago.
May I direct you to our corporation's description:
The Poor Knights of the Oh Blessed Mother Acceleration, Mover of All Things, and Her Holy Temple in Cook County, Illinois.
The Knights were founded after the discovery of an ancient copy of a film that pre-dated the EvE Gate. The language is largely unintelligible, but it involves the story of two heroes dressed in black, The Blue Brothers, who acted on behalf of an entity known as the Oh Blessed Mother of Acceleration.
We build, we discover, and we destroy in the name of the Blessed Mother, and we ask that she not fail us now.
"I seek to create content, not become content" - unofficial motto.
Diplomatic Contact: Bronson Hughes
You see, in New Eden, we knew nothing of the black fedoras or Ray Bans, nor the fantastic blues music. We knew only of the Blue Brothers and the Oh Blessed Mother of Acceleration, to whom myself and my brethren have all devoted their EvE careers.
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Mike Adoulin
Adolescent Radioactive Pirate Hamsters
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Posted - 2016.10.25 13:42:36 -
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Sigh
Damn Nitshe always fraks it up.
If only CCP would give us hats.
WE NEED HATS
Everything in EVE is a trap.
And if it isn't, it's your job to make it a trap...:)
You want to know what immorality in EVE Online looks like? Look no further than Ripard "Jester" Teg.
Chribba is the Chuck Norris of EVE.
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xXuber-NitsheXx
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Posted - 2016.10.25 15:43:12 -
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Mike Adoulin wrote:SighDamn Nitshe always fraks it up. If only CCP would give us hats. WE NEED HATS
Nitshe is closest to the Source of the Blues, Robert Johnson is only "the most important blues singer that ever lived". Selling his soul to the Devil at a cross-roads to obtain his mastery.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.11.13 15:16:21 -
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Lesson 80: Sometimes you really just have to scratch your head and wonder "WTF mate?"
I managed to whore on this kill in Amarr. The victim had gone criminal right off of the Amarr trade hub undock. Aside from the obvious "watch your safeties" lesson (which I covered way back in Lesson 3), the raw weirdness of this fit is just...well, I'm speechless.
Lesson 81: Faction Warfare delivers. Looking for something new to try, I joined the Amarr Empire faction in FW figuring I'd give it a go for a spell.
Well, literally the first time I undock after going live, I manage to bag a competing pop-popper in Amarr. Heck, I hadn't even had time to activate my sensor boosters yet! Good stuff this Faction Warfare!
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Natural CloneKiller
The Phoenix Rising Vendetta Mercenary Group
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Posted - 2016.11.13 23:54:57 -
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Noragen Neirfallas
Rabble Inc. Legio De Mortem
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Posted - 2016.11.14 02:49:52 -
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Bronson Hughes wrote:Lesson 80: Sometimes you really just have to scratch your head and wonder "WTF mate?" I managed to whore on this kill in Amarr. The victim had gone criminal right off of the Amarr trade hub undock. Aside from the obvious "watch your safeties" lesson (which I covered way back in Lesson 3), the raw weirdness of this fit is just...well, I'm speechless. Lesson 81: Faction Warfare delivers. Looking for something new to try, I joined the Amarr Empire faction in FW figuring I'd give it a go for a spell. Well, literally the first time I undock after going live, I manage to bag a competing pop-popper in Amarr. Heck, I hadn't even had time to activate my sensor boosters yet! Good stuff this Faction Warfare! Looks like a wormhole fit. Nothing too weird about it
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Noragen Neirfallas
Rabble Inc. Legio De Mortem
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Posted - 2016.11.14 02:53:14 -
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Also If you are gonna start this again get your original thread unlocked and post these there ;)
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.11.14 12:32:28 -
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Noragen Neirfallas wrote:Looks like a wormhole fit. Nothing too weird about it
Really? Wow, I've obviously not spent nearly enough time in wormholes then.
Noragen Neirfallas wrote:Also If you are gonna start this again get your original thread unlocked and post these there ;)
I thought about it, but I don't think that I'm nearly enough of a "big deal" to warrant that.
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Duo Roman
Warp Nomads
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Posted - 2016.11.14 15:20:31 -
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Noragen Neirfallas wrote:Looks like a wormhole fit. Nothing too weird about it
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.11.17 04:43:58 -
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Lesson 82: Locator agents are a fine art. It's easy enough to show up in your wardec target's backyard using locator agents. It's another thing entirely to stall negotiations to join your corp while one of your pilots burns to their seemingly remote location just to put a "hello" in local to let them know that you know exactly where they live and where they sleep.
Good times I say, good times indeed.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.11.19 14:11:49 -
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Lesson 83: Ganker tears are the best tears. After I popped an expensive shuttle with a cheap killright on them in Amarr, a 'Nado-flying station ganker complains to me about having popped his shuttle and podded the pilot back to Jita.
Your tears, they are small, but the irony makes them oh so delicious.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.11.21 14:26:56 -
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Lesson 84: Waste not, want not. Given that wasn't planning on sticking around for long and that I have a large-ish pile of assets to burn through, I've been taking on fights that are riskier than normal. Taranis vs. Ishtar? Sentinel vs. accomplished FW frigate and pod killer?
Sure, why not! They were fun!
Anyways, I was going over some of my fits, kills, losses, what I enjoy flying, and, most importantly, what I have time to fly, when something dawned on me: I have multiple millions of skillpoints allocated to things that I will never realistically fly again (i.e. capital ships) and a pair of capital ships sitting around that have never been, nor will likely ever be, flown in anger.
Screw that!
I'm going to ditch those wasted skill points and beef up the skills that I actually use whenever I fly but never got around to maxing out. I've sold off one of those capital ships to pay for extractors/injectors (and ships that I'll need) and I've offered up the Thanatos (loaded with the fit of the Moros I sold) as a reward for an upcoming competition.
Now, you may be thinking to yourself, "Bronson, this is all good and fine and very introspective, but what the hell does it have to do with C&P?"
Well, I've found what I most enjoy about EvE is being an a$$hole. I don't have time for roaming losec or doing proper wardecs anymore, so I'll settle on being that guy who catches folks when they least expect it and give them a little RF EMP wake up call. You know the kinds. The -10s in 'ceptors. The flashy pods. The idiots hauling valuable cargo with an active killright available. And maybe I'll even get in some suicide ganking. I can log on and find those kinds of targets in abundance between Amarr and Jita and not need much time to do it. And I can do this entirely solo, so I don't need to Omega my other accounts, and largely in Thrashers, so I don't need to bother worrying about things like income.
Who knows...maybe I'll end up sticking around after all....
Corollary to Lesson 84: One consequence of realizing that I have more skills than I'll ever need is the realization that I don't need to give a rat's behind about skill training rates anymore. Clean pods for me from here on out! (Expect a flood of stupid pod losses in the near future, heh.)
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Lady Spank
Get Out Nasty Face
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Posted - 2016.11.21 18:32:33 -
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Natural CloneKiller wrote:This is not a crime or punishment thread. This is more for care bear news. Reading your posting is punishment enough.
(a¦á_a¦â) ~ It Takes a Million Years to Become Diamonds So Lets Just Burn Like Coal Until the Sky's Black ~ (a¦á_a¦â)
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Mike Adoulin
Adolescent Radioactive Pirate Hamsters
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Posted - 2016.11.21 22:07:23 -
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SPANKS BACK
*does happy dance*
Everything in EVE is a trap.
And if it isn't, it's your job to make it a trap...:)
You want to know what immorality in EVE Online looks like? Look no further than Ripard "Jester" Teg.
Chribba is the Chuck Norris of EVE.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.11.29 20:20:29 -
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Lesson 85: Sometimes overkill is a bad thing. I've been continuing my little stretch of station gaming in Amarr, trying out different fast-locking arty builds to one-shot targets of opportunity. In doing so, I've noticed a limitation of this style of play: since Arties have such a long cycle time, it's impossible to make any quick follow-up shots.
What fun is it to pop a shuttle or rookie ship if the pod gets away? None I say! None!
Enter the Hurricane Fleet Issue. Although it's slower to lock than a Thrasher or Svipul (but still no slouch at 1000+ scan res), it has one huge benefit over either of them*: if you fit one right and split your guns up into two groups, you effectively get two Thrasher-sized salvos out of one ship. This means that I can pop a target and then pop the pod without having to wait almost 10 seconds for my guns to cycle. It also means that I can load one group with EMP and the other with Fusion, so that if I do have to fire both groups at one target, I'm potentially applying more appropriate damage types (EM to shields, Explosive to armor).
I tried this at first with a vanilla Hurricane, and while the faster cycle time was nice, it lacked the alpha and tracking to make the multiple groups as effective; I almost always ended up just shooting both groups at the same target, making it not worth the effort. Plus the extra buffer, bigger drone bay, and longer lock range on the HFI are nice too.
My only problem now is losing ship kills to fast-lockers, but at least I've been getting plenty of pods while their guns cycle. Given this, it seemed appropriate to resurrect my old favorite Sabre name from back in my nullsec days:
iPod.
*It's also got a huge range advantage, so I can sit at one spot and cover the undock and pretty well all of the arrival vectors and still have targets at or close to my optimal.
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Noragen Neirfallas
Rabble Inc. Legio De Mortem
3284
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Posted - 2016.11.29 20:27:12 -
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Try a rail Gnosis. You will wander why you havent always used one :D
Failing that the arty Gnosis is about as good has the cane fleet but cheaper and tankier
Also gnosis scan res.... Are we sure this thing is a BC?
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.11.29 21:25:48 -
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Noragen Neirfallas wrote:Try a rail Gnosis. You will wander why you havent always used one :D
Failing that the arty Gnosis is about as good has the cane fleet but cheaper and tankier
Also gnosis scan res.... Are we sure this thing is a BC? Arty Gnosis is definitely on my list to try; low cost, high agility, solid sustained DPS, and impressive scan res are hard to pass up for this role. What drew me to the 'Cane and the HFI first were the higher alpha and multiple application bonuses (range and/or tracking depending on the hull) that the Gnosis lacks.
Plus, it's sexy, and we all know that looks totally matter.
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Noragen Neirfallas
Rabble Inc. Legio De Mortem
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Posted - 2016.11.29 22:28:29 -
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Bronson Hughes wrote:Noragen Neirfallas wrote:Try a rail Gnosis. You will wander why you havent always used one :D
Failing that the arty Gnosis is about as good has the cane fleet but cheaper and tankier
Also gnosis scan res.... Are we sure this thing is a BC? Arty Gnosis is definitely on my list to try; low cost, high agility, solid sustained DPS, and impressive scan res are hard to pass up for this role. What drew me to the 'Cane and the HFI first were the higher alpha and multiple application bonuses (range and/or tracking depending on the hull) that the Gnosis lacks. Plus, it's sexy, and we all know that looks totally matter. try it with 4 scripted sebo's and 2 scripted tc's should out track the cane no? + it can fit a fairly beastly armor tank with only 2 gyro's. I feel rails are better for most things because their alpha is enough to volley pods shuttles and alot of frigates but where it really comes in handy is most of the time it can get in 2 volleys that track much nicer than the arty on incoming suspect/wt traffic. Bare in mind this is the highsec equivelent of lowsec gate camping and I can't think of a worse way to pass the time than actually doing PvE
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
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Posted - 2016.11.30 15:58:39 -
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Noragen Neirfallas wrote:try it with 4 scripted sebo's and 2 scripted tc's should out track the cane no? + it can fit a fairly beastly armor tank with only 2 gyro's. Two TCs will bump your tracking above a max scan-res fit HFI, but you lose a hefty chunk of range in the process. Sitting 10km further away from your target makes up for a lot of that tracking.
Noragen Neirfallas wrote:I feel rails are better for most things because their alpha is enough to volley pods shuttles and alot of frigates but where it really comes in handy is most of the time it can get in 2 volleys that track much nicer than the arty on incoming suspect/wt traffic. I've done rails to death. This whole bit is about trying something new.
Noragen Neirfallas wrote:Bare in mind this is the highsec equivelent of lowsec gate camping and I can't think of a worse way to pass the time than actually doing PvE Keep in mind that you're talking to the guy who used to solo* bash dead hisec sticks for fun.
Having said that, it's not like I'm intently focused on camping a station for hours at a time; I'm just doing this here and there while I chat with friends. I'm tired of PvE and I don't have the attention to dedicate to do proper PvP, so this is what I get for now. It doesn't require much attention and it lets me scratch my "weird ship-fitting" itch so it works out.
*Solo + 2 alts.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
2801
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Posted - 2016.12.31 15:25:16 -
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Lesson 86: Know the proper way to steal large loot. If you are presented with a large amount of loot in a can that you don't own that requires a hauler, your first impulse will be to grab a hauler, pinch the loot, and pray to RNGesus that you were aligned to something quickly enough to not get caught. While this can be effective, it does risk your hauler unnecessarily and someone with a sharp eye will figure you out and either bump you or pre-lock you, both of which will greatly reduce your odds of success.
The best way to do it is with a ship with a fleet hangar (Pilot A) and a friend in a disposable ship (Pilot B). You both pull up to the can, Pilot B opens both the can and the fleet hangar and then transfers the loot directly from the can to the hangar. Pilot B in a throwaway ship goes suspect, but Pilot A with the loot and the bigger ship does not.
Viola!
Corollary to Lesson 86: Can flipping is not dead yet.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
2801
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Posted - 2016.12.31 23:03:44 -
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Lesson 87: T1 EWar Cruisers have ****-all for tank.
Exhibit A. This kill was a result of a friendly little back and forth between two opposing FW pilots. Chopper camps the undock bagging multiple kills, I wanted to rain on his parade. I couldn't rightly kill him in his Loki on station, so I decided that annoying him and denying him kills was an alternative. Not trusting RNGesus, I opted for damps.
Apparently it was effective because he rather politely asked me if I would mind if he tried a hard counter. So he docked his Loki and came out in a Cerb.
Everything was fine until I drifted into 84km of him like an idiot. Four or five volleys later, even with the repper running, I was in my pod.
Good fight sir, and good hunting.
Also...goddamn I need to work on my "OMFG WARP OUT!" skills.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
2806
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Posted - 2017.01.05 14:03:27 -
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Lesson 88: In the post-watchlist era, loose lips sink ships.
So I've picked up a contract to harass the mining operations of a small corporation based in Hahda. As is typical, I deployed to the system in advance of the wardec to do a little recon before going live. The target corp tends to be most active in the UK/Euro afternoon/evening timeslot, so when I logged on this morning just after DT and made the wardec official, I had no reason to suspect that any of their members would be online.
Within 10-15 minutes, I got a convo request from their CEO. The fact that they were online at a seemingly off hour was a critical piece of information that I wouldn't have had otherwise.
Now, I had seen said CEO with the mining fleets in Hahda on multiple occasions and runing goods back and forth from Amarr, but I had eyes in the area and they weren't there. I quickly ran a locator agent on them and found them 12 jumps away in Safshela, a dead-end hisec system in Khanid that's 12 jumps from Hahda with nothing of interest except a level 2 security agent, a lot of belts...and an industrial platform owned by the target corp.
Bingo! I had just found an alternative mining operation by my target corp. Had they not convo'd me, I likely wouldn't have run agents on them until after a few days of not seeing them in Hahda, so their casual misstep bought me more time to shoot at them. Now that I know that my targets operate across multiple times and multiple locations, I will change my tactics.
Thanks.
Corollary to Lesson 88: I do realize that by talking about Lesson 88 publicly, I am effectively violating Lesson 88. However, a post saying "Lesson 88: Redacted for OpSec." would be pretty damned boring, so I'm running with it.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
2855
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Posted - 2017.01.18 16:46:24 -
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Lesson 89: If you're not pissing someone off in EvE, you're not doing it right. Last night I received notification that PIRAT* had wardecced my corporation. As much as I respect them for their abilities, I'm not all that concerned as my corp has no assets in space and we're quite adept at being a slippery bunch.
But I do have to wonder why. Why my corp? I have been hanging out in Amarr a lot lately snagging cheap killrights and flashy pods, but surely they don't see me as any kind of threat. And even if they did, I'm not often on during their peak hours, so it's not like I'm depriving them of kills.
Boredom maybe? Do they just see me as an easy mark? Possible, but I doubt it, especially since they are rarely at a loss for people to shoot at in Amarr.
No, someone likely paid them. I take no issue with this, but I do admit to a certain curiosity as to who and why. Is this my most recent target attempting to extract some revenge on me? An old forum grudge trying to knock me down a few pegs? Someone who just wants to watch the world burn? Or is it something else entirely?
I'll likely never know.
Regardless, to whomever decided to have PIRAT rain on my parade, I have one thing to say. Thanks for considering me to be enough of a nuisance to warrant such action. I take it as a compliment of the highest order and I look forward to the next week.
*Yes, I know that technically it's P I R A T, not PIRAT. It's just that typing the extra spaces is annoying.
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Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
2924
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Posted - 2017.01.21 05:06:37 -
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Lesson 90: Killboards are meaningless.
Look at this kill.
By itself, it's meaningless. It looks like any of dozens of pod kills I have in Amarr on the trade hub station using my fast-locking ENI. Big deal? So what?
What sets this kill apart is the context, the information that isn't involved in the killmail. See, PIRAT, a highly effective Amarr-area merc corp wardeced me as I mentioned in Lesson 89, so to secure this kill I had to:
1) Have a neutral scout undocked and watching the station. 2) Have a target with a reasonably priced killright on the undock. 3) Have said target not have a inasta-warp udock bookmark. 4) Be able to undock my ENI, lock and pop the pod, and use my own insta-warp undock bookmark before PIRAT could lock, scram, and kill me.
This seemingly simple kill is one of my top ten most enjoyed kills in an EvE career going back over 10 years...and you'd never know it fro just looking a the killboards.
Good hunting my friends.
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