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On April 01 2012 16:09 419 wrote:
^^ gj
you are on a distinguished road, my first real solo kill came like 1 year after I started eve. And your heat management is already better than mine!
your next quest is to obtain the burning wreck of a minmatar t2 cruiser (vagabond preferred, rapier / huginn is cool too though)
It has been a while since you issued this challenge to me in response to this rather poorly written BR of mine. I don't really do that much solo since I find it to be rather dull, but I think I have finally completed this challenge you gave me.
We had an exit into Etherium Reach, a section of nullsec inhabited by a group of bads known as Ethereal Dawn. I don't know who they are or what they do (much of the Drone Regions is a mystery to me), but they will put up a fight so I don't really care. crazyfists was out roaming and had some guys who were interested in a fight, but he couldn't engage them by himself. I left Banana in a shield fit Deimos (yeah I realise it is really bad compared to a Talos) and we engaged in honorable battle, which resulted in my death. Luckily for me the Onyx pilot is really bad and didn't bubble me, so I was able to reship.
In the mean time, Scandere was heading to help crazyfists with a Talos and Skirmish links. They engaged their gang again, which had been reinforced by a Stiletto and a couple Hurricanes. They manage to kill the Stiletto and the Talos before crazyfists has to log off for a bit to eat dinner or something. I jump into their camp which consisted of a couple Canes, an Onyx, a Zealot, and a Drake. Scandere and myself put a Cane into hull put it pulls range on us using the rest of his gang as cover and we aren't able to finish it off. We skirmish with them for a bit, and manage to kill the Zealot when it isolates itself. At this point their gang is reinforced by a Rapier. Eventually a Drake warps to an on grid safe, and Scandere probes it down. The plan was to warp to it at 20 and attempt to kill it before the rest of their gang (sitting inside the Onyx's bubble on gate at zero) can warp up to it. He accidentally warps us to zero, so we load Anti-matter and hope for the best. Scandere gets scrammed by the Drake and their gang, which now includes a Tengu and another Rapier, reacts quickly by dropping the bubble and warping up to the Drake. It goes down, but Scandere quickly follows. He gets his pod out because the Onyx pilot decided to bubble me instead.
At this point I am very very dead. I am webbed by two Rapiers and bubbled by the Onyx, but one of the Rapiers is within 5km of me so I overheat everything and burn towards it while attempting to kill it. Just after it goes down I follow.
I don't really know if this kill meets your criteria since it was in a two man fleet with links, but by the time I started killing the Rapier Scandere was already dead so I would consider it a "solo with links" kill. Although the effectiveness of the links is debatable as I had at least five webs on me and the Rapier never got out of unlinked point range.
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United States43633 Posts
Doesn't count Tango. You didn't attack them solo and isolate it and manage to kill it by sweet flying, you just found yourself next to it while not soloing, were completely fucked and decided to press f1. The only thing solo about your kill was the links.
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It is pretty fun when brave recons decloak next to your Talos though.
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Hyrule19193 Posts
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I'm honestly more interested in production/trading/research than I am anything else ATM. I wouldn't doubt that it requires a ton of SP to get started though...
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I got pretty interested in trading actually, but unless you have a lot of money to start with I find it's not a great way of making money. Production and research is boring as hell.
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United States43633 Posts
On January 02 2013 02:35 kollin wrote:
I got pretty interested in trading actually, but unless you have a lot of money to start with I find it's not a great way of making money. Production and research is boring as hell.
Want to join a mining and industry corp with me?
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On January 02 2013 02:54 KwarK wrote:Show nested quote +On January 02 2013 02:35 kollin wrote:
I got pretty interested in trading actually, but unless you have a lot of money to start with I find it's not a great way of making money. Production and research is boring as hell. Want to join a mining and industry corp with me?
Gladly.
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On January 02 2013 02:54 KwarK wrote:Show nested quote +On January 02 2013 02:35 kollin wrote:
I got pretty interested in trading actually, but unless you have a lot of money to start with I find it's not a great way of making money. Production and research is boring as hell. Want to join a mining and industry corp with me?
Sure if there's any use for a low SP player in it. Most useful thing I can do is fly a itty 3.
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Lalalaland34501 Posts
I have a hunch that Kwark is trolling, but I'm not sure.
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United States43633 Posts
Okay, you guys are forbidden to join for laughs or troll it or dec them but Ratchet Industries. Recruitment channel is The Dirty Socket. It's not my corp so you'll have to apply and join on your own merits.
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Firebolt, He's mining, we've lost him.
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Lalalaland34501 Posts
Oh god.
Kwark what has happened to you T_T
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On January 02 2013 03:07 Firebolt145 wrote:
Oh god.
Kwark what has happened to you T_T
Firebolt you play EVE and Dota??
Our interests are so similar.
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Lalalaland34501 Posts
Well
I don't play EVE any more, but yes I do play Dota.
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On January 01 2013 13:14 Shootemup. wrote:Show nested quote +On January 01 2013 10:28 Impervious wrote:
It still took several months of training to get to the point where I could fly a competent frigate or destroyer in pvppp situations..... With a bit of grinding, I could have been there in a month and a bit..... It's very possible to train a decent frigate in a month. I am not arguing that it is faster to train SP on your own than to grind isk and buy them. It is much faster to buy SP. The problem arises when you tell all your new guys "you need to grind a lot of isk and buy 10b isk characters to be useful". This can scare away a lot of recruits because they don't want to grind all that isk and it is very intimidating. If you tell new guys "Hey, here is what you can train to be really useful in our gangs and you can try a few different ships" then it is very welcoming because they have lots of choices and its easy to get into. Maybe they want to try logi, ewar, tackling, or DPS. They can do all these things very easily and cheaply.
And if you tell them that if they spend a couple of hours a week grinding and buying/selling characters for pvp, they can easily acquire SP at a rate of 3-4 times what you can train it..... Or more, depending on how much effort they put in.....
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On January 02 2013 03:12 Firebolt145 wrote:
Well
I don't play EVE any more, but yes I do play Dota.
I know I've played with you...
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This thread goes through the most amazing of evolutions, I swear.
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EPT
