EPTLuckily, at PTSC we usually didn't want that one anyway.
The first thing you notice about Curse when you move here is the massive amount of trolling. The second thing you notice is that most people are fairly competent in stark contrast to Molden Heath, where most people are totally clueless. Not many will engage in fights they wager they can't win, and most will engage in fights only when they think they have a massive advantage.
In addition to "because of Falcon" ( http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10323543) and "do we have enough Dramiels?" ( http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10329502), people are often quite capable with high SP and enough money to make even mediocre ships quite deadly ( http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10336244).
The other difference with flying 2 guys with absolutely no friendly presence is the disparity between our intel and theirs. How can you tell if there's 0, 1, 5, 10, or 20 ( http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10355162) guys on the other side of the gate waiting to smash your face? In Molden Heath, hardly anyone even knows what links do. In Curse, however, it pays to keep in mind the possibility of 25km webs ( http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10358181).
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Giant Mega-blabs
One of the more interesting things we've done is crawl through a null-sec corridor with 200-400 people moving around in it. At one point, I was "stuck" in a system with roughly 100 Abaddons on my outgate - heavily bubbled with inties of course. They actually had a cyno near the gate as well (which was weird, still don't know what it was for). I used the distance on the d-scanner to determine that the cyno was in fact "behind" the gate whereas all the bubbles were "in front" of the gate. I decided I would try to warp to the cyno and burn the distance to the gate (it was about 60-70km I think). It turned out OK in the end because their tackle was all 100km+ from me camping the bubbles, but it was quite scary (for me and my computer) to have 100 Abaddons yellow-boxing me.
Me and Emdar met up shortly after this and headed back through the way that I came - towards the giant mega camp. When we got into system, there were 0 local. I had noted an Erebus before so I figured they must have bridged or something. A few systems down the pipe, we jump in... and literally 400 people are fighting on the gate. We burn out extremely far and warp off to random aligns just to get clear of the massive computer-destroying clusterfuck. We decided the prudent thing to do would be to camp their station.
After a few small targets warped off, an Omen undocked, and we started wailing on it. Unfortunately, they ended up warping a load of tackle on top of it (in addition to it doing tons of damage to our kiting-style frigates).
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Get off Mah Lawn: The Rage of the Inhabitants
So far, we've found 2 groups of people terribly offended at our presence. One is the so-called Pet Pocket.
http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Catch#sec
In the lower-right side, there is an isolated pocket past WLAR where a "training" renter corp lives with their mining fleets and their carriers running sanctums. We only successfully trolled them out of their POS shields once, and they ended up taking the life of Baddini, who logged off with aggression in system while probes were out and we had been taunting them about being unable to probe us down quickly or effectively. For most of the pilots on the mail, it was their first and only "combat" kill ( http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10355538) and they were quite ecstatic about the whole thing.
Unfortunately, we haven't caught these guys out in the open yet. Their dedication to warping to their POS when a non-blue enters system is basically unrivaled. We even tried doing their havens etc., but they still wouldn't go for us (although this rather successful camp went for us on the way out http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10358181, http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10358118).
We'll just have to come up with something different for these guys.
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However there's another group that's more than willing to undock quite a few things against us. At the bottom left of the Catch region, there is a very rich set of systems leading into Querious. The only entrance is CNC- which is fervently guarded by the owners.
Emdar and I enter local in our pro Slicer-Wolf combo.
+ Show Spoiler [Local] +
Bagarai Predador > so
Bagarai Predador > what ship's everyone flying?
buljager > urmother ships
Kamile Bidon > ur face
Bagarai Predador > BAM
DefMatrix Ultra > ice buuuuurrrrrrrrrrrn
Bad Tast > come to station
Bad Tast > come closer
Bagarai Predador > you come closer
Bad Tast > i asked first
Bagarai Predador > i'm bad mannered
Legasti > you sit inline to the sun? you are noobs aren't ya?
bassie12bf1 > lol running away
buljager > ur not running fast enough!
Bagarai Predador > you obviously need to send something to catch us then?
bassie12bf1 > fly ships that are worth burning out for
Bagarai Predador > I SENSE
Bagarai Predador > BM
Bad Tast > pussies
Bagarai Predador > clearly
Bagarai Predador > it was such a fair fight as well
Bagarai Predador >
They spiked local by +30 or so as soon as we entered the system and undocked numerous bad things from their station like this Zealot who hit us from 150km (rofl), Cynabals, Vagas, Lokis etc. - stuff we weren't interested in.
They had a lone Ishkur and a Retribution with them that we were sorta kinda maybe interested in (considering we would just get blabbed by Cynabals and Vagas). We ended up catching the Retribution on the other side of a gate and blasting it down (holy tank, batman http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10337091) before the inevitable local spike. The chase continued with us trolling a 20-ish man fleet several jumps through.
+ Show Spoiler [Local] +
[ 2011.08.08 13:42:22 ] EVE System > Channel changed to 4NBN-9 Local Channel
[ 2011.08.08 13:43:15 ] Legasti > *sigh* come back when you want a fight
[ 2011.08.08 13:44:18 ] EVE System > Channel changed to X4-WL0 Local Channel
[ 2011.08.08 13:50:21 ] EVE System > Channel changed to Q-U96U Local Channel
[ 2011.08.08 13:52:20 ] EVE System > Channel changed to EX6-AO Local Channel
[ 2011.08.08 13:54:45 ] EVE System > Channel changed to HY-RWO Local Channel
[ 2011.08.08 13:55:38 ] Bagarai Predador > you know we're like
[ 2011.08.08 13:55:39 ] Bagarai Predador > leaving
[ 2011.08.08 13:55:40 ] Bagarai Predador > right?
[ 2011.08.08 13:55:50 ] DefMatrix Ultra > gotta catch the bus
[ 2011.08.08 13:55:53 ] Bagarai Predador > i consider the matter closed
[ 2011.08.08 13:55:55 ] Bagarai Predador > good day.
We plan to go back in nanocruisers and try to kill some of their shit.
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To Troll or To Troll Harder: Doril
Doril is the trolliest of the troll. So many would-be half-fights and extreme meta-counter-blobbing, gate camping, cynopopping, station games etc. goes on in Doril and the Doril diamond ( http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Curse/Jamunda#kills24) that it will make your head spin. Noob ships abound with over 9000 off-gate safes on every gate. I accidentally decloaked a Falcon once and had them jump another Falcon in to "save" it.
Recently, we haven't gotten much besides extreme blue-balling in Doril apart from yesterday night. After moving back from blobville ( http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10364144), I noticed something odd on d-scan - an Executioner. Now who would ever fly such a ship and for what reason? I had to know so I scanned it down. It was, of course, at an off-gate safe near Sendaya gate (the lowsec entrance into Doril). A pod appeared on d-scan, and the Executioner warped to a bubble to kill it! What in the world...
Anyway, I did what I could to avenge the pod: http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10364208. Turns out it was Trolly McTrollerton - the Thrasher pilot from my previous blueballed tilt-run in Doril ( http://ptsc.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=10297948). I was quite amused by this turn of events. But that had to wait.
I had 2 Rifters and a Griffon on scan. If there's one thing that really gets me on tilt when I'm flying solo or small-gang, it's ECM. I had to get this guy somehow. It turned out that one Rifter and the Griffon were together with Trolly McTrollerton in a Taranis. Many off-gate safes were warped to and many trolly half-would-be-maybe fights were started and stopped. Most of the time what happened was I would warp to an off-gate safe and burn towards one of the targets. I either wouldn't get there or the other 2 would land right after or before I got point.
One time, I almost got the Griffon. I had one-shotted his shields + some armor and was confident he was dead, when suddenly jammed -____-.
Then I put on my troll hat.
Instead of burning at them, I burned away from them, trolling the Taranis to burn me down instead of the other way around - and Emdar would join me in system and jump into the fray. The following is what resulted:
1) A ranis doesn't do much damage at 8km.
2) In order to kill things, they must be pointed.
I was paying so much attention to the Griffin (and talking about him on comms) that I completely derped holding the point on the Rifter and actually just hit orbit and ignored him altogether, waiting for my moment to strike the Griffon (yes, I was slightly on tilt from being jammed).
