Wh pvp is hilariously fun. The no local thing makes things require much more stealthyness(because carebear paranoia escalates greatly) and less rushing in recklessly but the rewards are much more satisfying becuase if you do things right they probably won't see it coming until it's too late.
Edit: I know the double scimitar for killing a bunch of c3 ratters is a bit of overkill, but they wouldn't listen to me saying: "just get into canes and lets go rape them"
Just went afk in lowsec cause I needed a piss and I was red flagged. Could have potentially moved one system over and docked but gate guns are a bitch. Suppose if I was really keen I could have left my ship, taken my pod into hisec and waited there. But I was lazy. Got probed down and lost a 1.2b clone. I grind it up, they knock it down, rinse and repeat.
@gordon: CH died? Why? I know quite some people who bitched about MS, but what happened exactly?
Also: how easy was it to get into PL, which corp? Why did you leave?
Someone update me with all the drama I apparently missed. :D
@vil: fu and wait for the day I can play sc2 on my googlephone. ;(
MS wasn't actually even leading CH at the time I was there, it was mainly The Nova and Viper running things. This post from MS basically sums things up:
Here's the official announcement for those who are out of the loop.
Cry Havoc is going dormant at this time. Each corp can make its own decision about what they want to do moving forward. Thanks to all of you who joined us for the ride. We've done a damn good job of having fun and killing stuff without giving in to EVE's crappy push to simply become large as the solution to everything.
That being said, EVE just grew less and less compelling over time and I decided it was time to stop spending my time on it. I stepped down as active executor about 3 months ago and The Nova took over. EVE continued to be bad, more people stopped playing, and we ended up where we are now - too few motivated fun-makers to create an environment that makes for a good active alliance.
So CH as a serious entity will be closing its doors. ENH and MULTI will both be going low activity and staying within the alliance ticker. I believe TM is headed to join NC. HABIT is busy scooping people and heading to PL. INVT and SHADE are both deciding what their next step is, and ONION just kinda got screwed by showing up after we all had stopped playing. Sorry guys, not your fault.
Thanks to all who flew with us and blew up internet space pixels. Good luck to the folks still playing, and for those that are burned out I encourage you to come join us in other games (see Out-of-EVE).
Mistress Suffering Executor, Cry Havoc
When ONION decided to go do the GC mark 2 thing in Syndicate, I decided to join HABIT who recruited most of the active CH mothership/titan pilots and joined PL. HABIT is basically The Illuminati reloaded. It's the members that left PL with Viper as well as some who stayed in PL and have now rejoined now that we rejoined (if that makes sense). Elise Randolph is ~my CEO~. I'm still in PL shooting at what's left of -A- and ROL and IT/pets whenever they decide to drop by.
As to getting into HABIT, recruitment is closed atm unless you have a titan I think, and I'm just a grunt so beyond vouching for you, there's not much I can do.
@gordon: CH died? Why? I know quite some people who bitched about MS, but what happened exactly?
Also: how easy was it to get into PL, which corp? Why did you leave?
Someone update me with all the drama I apparently missed. :D
@vil: fu and wait for the day I can play sc2 on my googlephone. ;(
MS wasn't actually even leading CH at the time I was there, it was mainly The Nova and Viper running things. This post from MS basically sums things up:
Here's the official announcement for those who are out of the loop.
Cry Havoc is going dormant at this time. Each corp can make its own decision about what they want to do moving forward. Thanks to all of you who joined us for the ride. We've done a damn good job of having fun and killing stuff without giving in to EVE's crappy push to simply become large as the solution to everything.
That being said, EVE just grew less and less compelling over time and I decided it was time to stop spending my time on it. I stepped down as active executor about 3 months ago and The Nova took over. EVE continued to be bad, more people stopped playing, and we ended up where we are now - too few motivated fun-makers to create an environment that makes for a good active alliance.
So CH as a serious entity will be closing its doors. ENH and MULTI will both be going low activity and staying within the alliance ticker. I believe TM is headed to join NC. HABIT is busy scooping people and heading to PL. INVT and SHADE are both deciding what their next step is, and ONION just kinda got screwed by showing up after we all had stopped playing. Sorry guys, not your fault.
Thanks to all who flew with us and blew up internet space pixels. Good luck to the folks still playing, and for those that are burned out I encourage you to come join us in other games (see Out-of-EVE).
Mistress Suffering Executor, Cry Havoc
When ONION decided to go do the GC mark 2 thing in Syndicate, I decided to join HABIT who recruited most of the active CH mothership/titan pilots and joined PL. HABIT is basically The Illuminati reloaded. It's the members that left PL with Viper as well as some who stayed in PL and have now rejoined now that we rejoined (if that makes sense). Elise Randolph is ~my CEO~. I'm still in PL shooting at what's left of -A- and ROL and IT/pets whenever they decide to drop by.
As to getting into HABIT, recruitment is closed atm unless you have a titan I think, and I'm just a grunt so beyond vouching for you, there's not much I can do.
What happened with Liquid and Nulli, by the way?
Hmm.. interesting. At least a cool way to go afk. Liquid and Nulli? I went officially afk, no one wants to take over and the hatchery enjoys its highsecwars instead (;
dw about vouches or anything, in case I do decide to go active again (and TL stays as lazy as it is in terms of pvp) I've got pending invites to doom and vouches for nesw (PL) since the last campaign in the north where I took a dump on the active Atlas FCs by being.. better. ;D
I took over like 4-5 of the 250 men fleets back then and lead them from chicken with their heads cut off to like 60% eff. with 2:1 odds. D00M. tried to recruit me from like two weeks into the campaign, but I enioyed the TL ride too much to jump ship. Seems Quesa (last solid Atlas FC imo)/Soho recommended me for d00m. and thx to some random spy I landed on the PL FC "primary that dude"-list. That's basicly half the deal right there. ;D
Dno if I'll start playing for real though. While eve pvp is great you need great people in your corp/alliance to compensate all the boring time and I feel too lazy to socialize somewhere else after the majority of TL enjoys non-pvp stuff nowadays.
Keep some PL updates in here and make some FC fraps for me, will ya?
EvE > LoL unless you have a group of people to play with. Also, afking in a wormhole waiting for ratters/miners in a pilgrim is not as epic as I thought it would be. I"ll give it some more time or until my pilgrim goes boom.
Edit: Instead of training for an arazu, I'll train for Logi V. I'll be pro scimitar/guardian pilot when I get there.
On October 18 2010 16:52 pahndah wrote: EvE > LoL unless you have a group of people to play with. Also, afking in a wormhole waiting for ratters/miners in a pilgrim is not as epic as I thought it would be. I"ll give it some more time or until my pilgrim goes boom.
Edit: Instead of training for an arazu, I'll train for Logi V. I'll be pro scimitar/guardian pilot when I get there.
I dont even have the time to play LoL or sc2 properly, but they are so much more rewarding when you put in an hour here or there.
Fuck the Arazu, Lachesis baby! Scimitar with Logi 5 is damn sexy though, for the Guardian it's cool but not that great. For the scimi its not even funny.
Good part about being afk from eve: Recon 5 is done, training for mukkariel is in progress. <3
How is pvp in a pilgrim btw? I always assumed it sucks hard especially at solo since you have to be so fucking close to do anything. Being close while solo has a tendency of ending scrammed and blobbed. ;D
I've been playing EVE now for 4 or 5 weeks and it's ... frustrating. I love the setting, the whole idea of the game - sandbox, freedom etc. - but it's virtually impossible to do something fun on your own. Mining and missions are dreadfully boring, regardless of what level or type of ship you're doing them in. Factor in that you have to loot and salvage with a different ship to make it worth your time in many cases, and a single mission can become and undertaking for a whole evening.
I did take part in some ops - one mining op, one fleet roaming lowsec (without finding targets, though) ... and it was fun, but it's nothing I could do more than once a week time-wise. I tried roaming lowsec alone in a pvp fitted Rifter, I even picked up some fights - but again, you have to spend hours to find a handful of targets, and that doesn't even garantee combat.
On October 18 2010 17:09 Khul Sadukar wrote: Hey any of u guys playing perpetuum?
I gave it a try, downloaded the client ... and it's just weird. There's a whole bunch of things obviously copied from EVE, and the fully configurable overview ist one of the most confusing game UIs I've ever experienced.
On October 18 2010 16:52 pahndah wrote: EvE > LoL unless you have a group of people to play with. Also, afking in a wormhole waiting for ratters/miners in a pilgrim is not as epic as I thought it would be. I"ll give it some more time or until my pilgrim goes boom.
Edit: Instead of training for an arazu, I'll train for Logi V. I'll be pro scimitar/guardian pilot when I get there.
I dont even have the time to play LoL or sc2 properly, but they are so much more rewarding when you put in an hour here or there.
Fuck the Arazu, Lachesis baby! Scimitar with Logi 5 is damn sexy though, for the Guardian it's cool but not that great. For the scimi its not even funny.
Good part about being afk from eve: Recon 5 is done, training for mukkariel is in progress. <3
How is pvp in a pilgrim btw? I always assumed it sucks hard especially at solo since you have to be so fucking close to do anything. Being close while solo has a tendency of ending scrammed and blobbed. ;D
Uneventful? WH space is empty apparently. Hopefully I'll be able to find a populated WH, scan out all the sites, pull probes and afk for an hour or two, come back and use d-scan + align to bookmark to get the drop on some miners or a juicy T3 ship.
D00M. are one of the core Tri corps, and most recently, the founding and leading member of NCDOT. Their average member quality (and age) is very high. They're definitely one of the most supercap heavy corps in the game, and are not afraid to use them.
I flew with D00M. both in Max 2 and during my brief stay with CH in Pure Blind. Soho Torres, Vince Draken and Supertwinky are all solid FCs and fun guys to fly with. They run some of the best LR hac gangs of anyone. For people who haven't flown with Twinky, you have to give this a listen:
Dude, tri was never good.
EDIT: I lied, they were good for hilariously easy fight wins, especially in small roaming groups.
Your post is content rich and delightful.
No, actually it's not. Why not post some content instead of simply refuting what I said?
Well, I could post logs of battles where they lost battles at about 50% efficiency in cost, their titan losses to Goons/ZAF or recall events of how easy it was to kill their roaming groups.
Truth is, I don't really care that much to go around and get all the links. Tri have disbanded and reformed more times than I can count, and each time all they manage to do (at best) is camp in an npc dock and be bubbled to all hell.
On October 18 2010 20:15 WiljushkA wrote: and take regions off NC even when they're outnumbered 5 to 1. but NC is so incompetent anyway, that it doesn't count for much.
Maybe they got better in the ~9 months I wasn't subbed.
damn i got raaaaaped this weekend. can someone teach me how to not die in an ECM frig? =P
definitely learned some crucial lessons from yesterday's roams though ... like, be the last to leave when your fleet's getting ambushed, not the first, especally when all their tacklers are interceptors (although I didn't notice this at the time, they had 2 falcons with them as well). Sorry guys, I feel like I could've definitely saved a couple of you then.
I think I'll start bookmarking a few hundred kms before any fight, so if I do get forced off the field it's somewhere close so I can get right back into the mix. Freaking warrior 2s turn me into swish cheese in 5 seconds, no joke. And then there's the cynabal that alpha-strikes me before I can even finish targeting him.
So question for the more experienced folks -- how often should ECM guys jump off the field to jump back in? Judging how fast I died last night multiple times, I feel like the safer the better, especially since if I miss all my jams in the first cycle I could probably leave and come back in time for my next jam cycle to start again.
For those worried about losing ships and getting roflstomped in pvp, it's the best way to learn. Blowing shit up, getting blown up yourself, whatever. Also, my roams will always end with something blowing up. (:
Come with me on ops (i'm Tee Gun, or Cheiya) and I'll gladly FC and/or reimburse your ships (given you don't like... suicide them unless ordered to. xD)
On October 18 2010 16:52 pahndah wrote: EvE > LoL unless you have a group of people to play with. Also, afking in a wormhole waiting for ratters/miners in a pilgrim is not as epic as I thought it would be. I"ll give it some more time or until my pilgrim goes boom.
Edit: Instead of training for an arazu, I'll train for Logi V. I'll be pro scimitar/guardian pilot when I get there.
The trick is to find a system with multiple POS's, custom houses on every planet and few sigs/anoms. That and make sure that the corp seems to be on your TZ and you should be good to go.
In my latest endeavor I ended up in C02 space. Needless to say they sent an anathema after me that I ended up fleeting and giving him my low-sec exit wh. So far my search for elusive T3 rat is fruitless. Even if its EU TZ I'll eventually track em down!