The major problem with the Rifter, with learning piracy, with being noob and not having enough skillpoints: I have to choose my targets very carefully. There are a lot of ships I cannot beat and there are few I can but if this few is commanded by an old capsuleer I can easily find myself at the wrong side of the dick.
As I read back my logs, I have to say my losses would be preventable if I run away. But... This is not the reason I play this game. I want to explode ships of others, not running away. Schizo...
Anyway, I have dir. scanned a Federal Navy Comet. Another ship from the you cannot beat list. But there were something else on the scanning list: three drones. T1 Hobgoblins. T1 means the guy is beatable. Maybe. So I engaged. He started to run away. Not warping, just running. So he wants to fight. He locked me and sent three Hobgoblins. 3/4 of my shield gone but the drones too. Web and autocanon, good combo. Then he engaged and three more drones arrived. Without the web I could not kill the drones, so I webbed the drones and started to kill em. Without web the Comet could reach me. Catch 22.
Ahhh, I nearly forgot: I had capacitor problems again. And one more think: overload! There is no reason to spare your guns for the opponent.
Overall this fight was fun and I think that a Comet is beatable with more practice.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Loss 7, 8 and 9: Be serious, mon!
About the first two loss I don't have anything to say. I was careless, ratting and enjoying the Enyo. First time a Cynabal jumped on me, I warped to the next belt and checked the guy. He had 2,9 security status so I decided he won't attack me. He followed me and attacked. This is the story of this fight.
Second time again ratting, a Merlin found me this time. With the blasters and without a web I was not able to hit he.
The last loss... I went home and picked up a Rifter. Rifter is the king of the T1 frigs, isn't it? After arriving Dastrynis I started to warp between belts to make Bai attack me. During the warp-here-and-there session it would be nice to check the Merlin's specification. I did not do that. Rifter is the king of the T1 frigs, isn't it? We met at some belt, both engaging and then I was surprised. OK, this guy is shield tanker. But what the fuck is happening? No real damage on him and I am on half of my armor... Desperate attempts to tank the Merlin without success.
Of course I analyzed the fights. With the Enyo I had no chance after scrambled. So if I use Enyo, I have to focus on not to be engaged.
With the Rifter... This is another story. Bai told me that I need "those skills". Yep, I need skills. Ingame and player skills too.
The ingame part is straightforward. My damage and tanking ability was not enough.
The player skills:
Second time again ratting, a Merlin found me this time. With the blasters and without a web I was not able to hit he.
The last loss... I went home and picked up a Rifter. Rifter is the king of the T1 frigs, isn't it? After arriving Dastrynis I started to warp between belts to make Bai attack me. During the warp-here-and-there session it would be nice to check the Merlin's specification. I did not do that. Rifter is the king of the T1 frigs, isn't it? We met at some belt, both engaging and then I was surprised. OK, this guy is shield tanker. But what the fuck is happening? No real damage on him and I am on half of my armor... Desperate attempts to tank the Merlin without success.
Of course I analyzed the fights. With the Enyo I had no chance after scrambled. So if I use Enyo, I have to focus on not to be engaged.
With the Rifter... This is another story. Bai told me that I need "those skills". Yep, I need skills. Ingame and player skills too.
The ingame part is straightforward. My damage and tanking ability was not enough.
The player skills:
- Merlin is shield tanker, so I have to use EMP against it.
- Merlin has insane resistances. I could easily check it before fight but I did not so I went in with Barrage armed. This time gf ment: What did you expect, moron? I am affraid. Against Merlin I should use EMP. Period. I suspect an EMP shild hardener (or whatever its name) on the Merlin but the EMP would be the biggest enemy of her for sure.
- I decided to go a 6 km orbit with AB. The idea was the very sophisticated I will be too fast for the missiles to scratch me. As I reconstructed I was not fast enough and additionally the AB sucked my capacitor (Missing skills, right?). So no tank. The vampire... I forgot to overheat and Bai sometimes moved out of range and I forgot to reapply.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Loss 6: Ishkur vs. Rifter
Scanned down Aeron Llyr. Ishkur... Who cares, I will die but I am curious about the how part. How? Fast. I have told Aeron that although we said gf it was not a good fight, I went too close, with a 6000 meter wide orbit I would negate the effect of his guns. But it does not matter, the drones would have killed me.
Loss 5: The Tank
Just bought an Enyo. It does not make any sense to use an Enyo but I could not help. Bought that one and searched a usable loadout. After fitting I went to kill some rats. Big ones, just to see, how well blasters operate on that little monster. They operates well and the Enyo is really a monster. It erases rats sooo fast... That you will fuckin' forget to check the nearby are by 360ยบ directional scanner. So a Rapier jumped on me. Of course it should be cloaked while warping to me, but the fact stays fact: I did not check the scanner.
Sorry, what is the question? Yes, it was a Muppet Ninja.
Well, what's done is done. Lets fight! I had an alive rat, five T2 small drones around me and a Rapier around 6000 meters away. What could I do? Die. But not so fast. I used the rat as capacitor battery, so my repper could permarun. Tank part done. I won't be able to reach the Rapier, I have to focus on the drones.
Enyo is a piece of shit for PvP, lacks one midslot for web. The drones were orbiting me 700-1000 meters, high speed. Enyo has bonus on tracking. This bonus depends on the Assault frigate skill. I had (and have) this skill on lvl1. As far as I remember the next level is 2 hours of training. If I could have tanked for that long... I missed the drones. I mean my gun was not able to hit them.
Second chance would be to use my drone against the others. I had minimal drone skills and one single Hobgoblin I. It was not enough.
So the Rapier killed me. As usual GFs went and tsocheff karma has told me I was tanking "prety well". Yep, this fight was a loss but I felt in love with the Enyo. Tough bastard.
It is worth to mention that I bought and similary fitted an another Enyo and I went to a short ratting session with it, killing only rats 100.000+ bounty on them or Shadow ones. One Shadow targeting computer has been dropped: 70-80 million ISK. It is about 4 Enyos with the similar fit.
Of course for PvP I will use an Ishkur instead. But this is an another story with a lot of training.
Sorry, what is the question? Yes, it was a Muppet Ninja.
Well, what's done is done. Lets fight! I had an alive rat, five T2 small drones around me and a Rapier around 6000 meters away. What could I do? Die. But not so fast. I used the rat as capacitor battery, so my repper could permarun. Tank part done. I won't be able to reach the Rapier, I have to focus on the drones.
Enyo is a piece of shit for PvP, lacks one midslot for web. The drones were orbiting me 700-1000 meters, high speed. Enyo has bonus on tracking. This bonus depends on the Assault frigate skill. I had (and have) this skill on lvl1. As far as I remember the next level is 2 hours of training. If I could have tanked for that long... I missed the drones. I mean my gun was not able to hit them.
Second chance would be to use my drone against the others. I had minimal drone skills and one single Hobgoblin I. It was not enough.
So the Rapier killed me. As usual GFs went and tsocheff karma has told me I was tanking "prety well". Yep, this fight was a loss but I felt in love with the Enyo. Tough bastard.
It is worth to mention that I bought and similary fitted an another Enyo and I went to a short ratting session with it, killing only rats 100.000+ bounty on them or Shadow ones. One Shadow targeting computer has been dropped: 70-80 million ISK. It is about 4 Enyos with the similar fit.
Of course for PvP I will use an Ishkur instead. But this is an another story with a lot of training.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Loss 4: Stupid, stupid me
Usual roam, duel with Artwig. It was a good way to check how blasters are working against my Rifter.
Then... I have scanned two BCs (a Myr and a Cane) chasing each other and Fizixx. Again. I should decide to move to another system, but I did not. Warped to a belt where Fizixx with his Ranis sits. He was 250 kms away. I was stupid enough to forget that it is enough distance for warping to me so I had a false safe feeling. He warped to me. And then... a fleet invite from the Cane pilot arrived, a nice popup in the middle of my screen, I pressed Yes (Why not, just remove this shit, I cannot see my opponent!!!). A new popup, the fleet window. ... Nice distracting... And the Rifter is gone.
In fact iIt was gone at the fucking moment I did not left the system after the Ranis appeared on my scanner.
Then... I have scanned two BCs (a Myr and a Cane) chasing each other and Fizixx. Again. I should decide to move to another system, but I did not. Warped to a belt where Fizixx with his Ranis sits. He was 250 kms away. I was stupid enough to forget that it is enough distance for warping to me so I had a false safe feeling. He warped to me. And then... a fleet invite from the Cane pilot arrived, a nice popup in the middle of my screen, I pressed Yes (Why not, just remove this shit, I cannot see my opponent!!!). A new popup, the fleet window. ... Nice distracting... And the Rifter is gone.
In fact iIt was gone at the fucking moment I did not left the system after the Ranis appeared on my scanner.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Loss 3: The Duel
Yesterday I planned to do my "usual" roam from home to Hevrice. In Agoze I scanned a... guess what... a Muppet Ninja at Ostingele gate in a Harbinger. Too big but he won't catch me at gate, so I warped and jumped.
A few players in Agoze. Tuncan followed me to this system, which was not a comfortable feeling. Anyway, I did the usual stuff, checked belts then the sun... The Harbinger was there. One more check. 50m3 drone bay. No way I engage this pilot in my Rifter. On the other hand I knew how boring a roam could be, so I warped to 100 km to him just to see what happens.
Well... An another Rifter appeared, that happened. As I mentioned earlier I have a feeling that Muppet Ninjas are not roaming alone so I was suspicious. On the other hand a Rifter sound beatable at least more beatable than a Harbi. So I jumped to my safe at top belt. The Rifter jumped too to the belt. I warped to 50, he warped away. I warped to sun then warped to safe. He warped back to the belt.
Sounds boring? It was. So I warped to 50 again and I started to disengage the Rifter. If he moves away from the belt it will prevent that someone jumps right on our head during the fight. Xi 'xar has followed me and after some kilometers I decided to engage. Xi is an old char, so he had better damage dealing and/or tanking skills. I just realized after checking the lossmail that I had Rep. Fleet Fusion armed, not Barrage, but the main reason should be age-difference of the two chars. I have lost my ship. His ship was in half armor at the time I decided to save my pod.
GFs went and Tuncan asked about the result of the duel in local. Then I went home and offline.
Lessons of the fight:
A few players in Agoze. Tuncan followed me to this system, which was not a comfortable feeling. Anyway, I did the usual stuff, checked belts then the sun... The Harbinger was there. One more check. 50m3 drone bay. No way I engage this pilot in my Rifter. On the other hand I knew how boring a roam could be, so I warped to 100 km to him just to see what happens.
Well... An another Rifter appeared, that happened. As I mentioned earlier I have a feeling that Muppet Ninjas are not roaming alone so I was suspicious. On the other hand a Rifter sound beatable at least more beatable than a Harbi. So I jumped to my safe at top belt. The Rifter jumped too to the belt. I warped to 50, he warped away. I warped to sun then warped to safe. He warped back to the belt.
Sounds boring? It was. So I warped to 50 again and I started to disengage the Rifter. If he moves away from the belt it will prevent that someone jumps right on our head during the fight. Xi 'xar has followed me and after some kilometers I decided to engage. Xi is an old char, so he had better damage dealing and/or tanking skills. I just realized after checking the lossmail that I had Rep. Fleet Fusion armed, not Barrage, but the main reason should be age-difference of the two chars. I have lost my ship. His ship was in half armor at the time I decided to save my pod.
GFs went and Tuncan asked about the result of the duel in local. Then I went home and offline.
Lessons of the fight:
- I am able to find ships by directional scanner. This is positive.
- I engage opponents if I know well that I cannot win. This is negative.
- I am afraid that a roam won't be successful, so I engage instead of serching another opponent. This is negative.
- I forgot to overheat repairer. This maybe could save my ship.
- I disengage too early. With a more aggressive manner (and an overheated repper) I could win. Most likely not but running away is not a good habit... On the other hand forcing a fight against all odds is another bad habit. Have to find the balance.
Battleclinic ban
IP-banned from battleclinic. I put a link to every kill and loss pointing to the according blogpost. They decided it is a spam. So be it! Moved to eve-kill.net.
Monday, August 22, 2011
Kill 4 and 5: The first real victory
A 9 jump roam and a Muppet Ninja blob again.
After entering Melmaniel I jumped to the belt safe for the top belt. My directional scanner showed an Incursus and a Hobgoblin I so I decided warping to zero and engage. Well... There were nothing to engage. Just few dead and unlooted rats and a poor Hobgoblin I.
First toughts: the pilot is ratting and he jumped to the next belt so I did the same. Nothing.
Midwarp an another idea came into my mind: the guy forgot the drone so he will jump back to it. I jumped back too. The guy was there but too far and he warped away. I did it too to a nearby safe and I permascanned the belt. The guy jumped back, he must love that drone. Let's assume he warped to zero! So did I. Gotcha! He was 2800 meters away. Lock, scramble, nos, net, orbit. He went down without any problems. After the ship destroyed I realized that my orbit was 6000 meters and the distance between the pod and me is too high to scramble. Lock, turn on guns and push aproach. The capsule disappeared and I was not happy loosing a kill by a stupid mistake.
I did not check the killmails so just today morning did I notice that the pod disappeared because it was killed.
Now I am not able to enter 1.0 systems.
After entering Melmaniel I jumped to the belt safe for the top belt. My directional scanner showed an Incursus and a Hobgoblin I so I decided warping to zero and engage. Well... There were nothing to engage. Just few dead and unlooted rats and a poor Hobgoblin I.
First toughts: the pilot is ratting and he jumped to the next belt so I did the same. Nothing.
Midwarp an another idea came into my mind: the guy forgot the drone so he will jump back to it. I jumped back too. The guy was there but too far and he warped away. I did it too to a nearby safe and I permascanned the belt. The guy jumped back, he must love that drone. Let's assume he warped to zero! So did I. Gotcha! He was 2800 meters away. Lock, scramble, nos, net, orbit. He went down without any problems. After the ship destroyed I realized that my orbit was 6000 meters and the distance between the pod and me is too high to scramble. Lock, turn on guns and push aproach. The capsule disappeared and I was not happy loosing a kill by a stupid mistake.
I did not check the killmails so just today morning did I notice that the pod disappeared because it was killed.
Now I am not able to enter 1.0 systems.
Loss 2: The Taranis
It was a long roam. I cannot say it was boring. It wasn't. I was able to directional scan an Ishkur. At that point I was sure I would be able to find another opponent so I just warped to him to see what is he doing. He was ratting. Then I warped back to the safe and then I was lucky to see a Muppet Ninja blob causing a local spike, jumping right on the top of the Ishkur and raping him.
When I write blob I mean 20+ HACs and some similar shit.
I checked the Ishkur's wreck just in case but nothing has been left behing for the jackals.
I continued the roam and Costolle I have scanned a Taranis which seemed to be moving from moon to moon. I was (too) confident. I was sitting in a Rifter, if I am able to keep distance nothing bad could happen. I found him, warped to him and then... I was not able to keep distance. At least I recognised the undodgeable explosion so the good ol' align and warp-spam trick saved my capsule.
When I write blob I mean 20+ HACs and some similar shit.
I checked the Ishkur's wreck just in case but nothing has been left behing for the jackals.
I continued the roam and Costolle I have scanned a Taranis which seemed to be moving from moon to moon. I was (too) confident. I was sitting in a Rifter, if I am able to keep distance nothing bad could happen. I found him, warped to him and then... I was not able to keep distance. At least I recognised the undodgeable explosion so the good ol' align and warp-spam trick saved my capsule.
Kill 3: The Iteron at sun
The guy was sitting at the sun. Lock, scramble and shoot. And then the guy has ejected before I could have explode the Iteron. It was surprising, so I lost a second in hesitation. Lock was too late and the scrambler was on cooldown so the pilot escaped. I cannot fly an Iteron so I had no choice.
Loss 1: The Myrmidon
I was just arrived to Placid and went to a short roam hoping some target appears.
Warped to zero to an asteroid belt. Red on overview. CTRL-clicking on it and meanwhile checking who is it and what kind of ship. It took a few secs more than it should, so he locked and warpscrambled me. A Myrmidon commanded by a Muppet Ninja. Those guys are very common seen in the neighborhood. Pirate/PvP corp which runs blobs frequently. Back to my battlecruiser opponent... Myrmidons are stuffed with drones in normal case so I knew my ship is lost. I targeted the sun and clicked align then 2465623 times the warp to zero button. The reason is simple: if my ship aligns to the sun then after it pops my capsule will align to sun. And a well-aligned capsule goes into warp in a split second so the Myrmidon won't have a chance to lock and scramble me.
Ship exploded but capsule saved.
Warped to zero to an asteroid belt. Red on overview. CTRL-clicking on it and meanwhile checking who is it and what kind of ship. It took a few secs more than it should, so he locked and warpscrambled me. A Myrmidon commanded by a Muppet Ninja. Those guys are very common seen in the neighborhood. Pirate/PvP corp which runs blobs frequently. Back to my battlecruiser opponent... Myrmidons are stuffed with drones in normal case so I knew my ship is lost. I targeted the sun and clicked align then 2465623 times the warp to zero button. The reason is simple: if my ship aligns to the sun then after it pops my capsule will align to sun. And a well-aligned capsule goes into warp in a split second so the Myrmidon won't have a chance to lock and scramble me.
Ship exploded but capsule saved.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
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