Decided there was no time like the present, so jumped into a Tristan and set off for nearest lowsec FW system to see what trouble I could get into on a fine Tuesday night.
What I probably should have done was refresh myself on the layout of the surrounding systems in space (or at least glance at Dotlan) so that I'm not sat there thinking, hmm which gate was the 'bad' one again?
Anyway, there were three in local and I spotted a Navitas at a large FW complex so I piled in, activated scram on the Navitas (who just sat there), released my drones and clicked for my default orbit.
Then realised that my scram wasn't running and the Navitas wasn't locked and seemed to be slowly moving away, my drones idling in space.
I tried to lock him up again, noticed the message about my safety settings being on, clicked the green light, clicked the yellow light, tried to activate scram on him again with no luck, safeties were still on green and he was now about 18K away.
Then clicked the green safety light, selected yellow, then ticked the yellow confirm box, then realised my default orbit was set at 40K and it was me moving, not him. Set a closer orbit, locked him up (finally) and sent in the drones...I think he was dead before I'd even managed to land my scam.
Turns out it wasn't even fit !
So although it was a pretty rubbishy kill, it did mean that I managed to get my setup sorted...eventually.
Tristan #1
1 kill
Thursday 26 May 2016
Wednesday 25 May 2016
Been a long time
What have I been doing sine 17th November last year? Real Life got busy, I kept my skills training and dabbling in a bit of industry / PI with alts but wasn't logging in as often as I'd like. My training was all over the place as I kept seeing new things I wanted to try, then finding that my skills sucked.
Around the end of the year I even contemplated jacking in EVE altogether, I'd paid both accounts up already (Zebulon for 12 months, my alt account for 6 months), but set them both to expire when that time was up. I was mostly playing Elder Scrolls : Oblivion (for the first time).
EvE just wouldn't leave me alone though and after some useful discussions around skills etc (particularly the Magic 14) I'm back on track, my accounts wont expire and I'm in EvE almost everyday.
I now have a solid Dominix setup for running L4s, all my alts have moved to Nullsec with their PI and one of them is also training up for nullsec exploring.
Zebulon is jumping between campuses, though my home is still Solitude I now have a few ships at the Lowsec, Highsec and Nullsec campuses and try and spend a bit of time at each.
I also took part in some big fleet ops bashing some POCOs which was great fun as well as very useful experience of operating as part of a large fleet.
However, it's now about time I got back to some PvP, particularly as we're constantly at war and I'm aiming to take part in the Lowsec & Nullsec campuses.
To that end I recently bought and fitted 20 Tristans and dropped them in my staging system of Stacmon. I have a few different fits and will see which fare best.
I've gone with Tristans as I do love drones and have sunk most of my skill points into them, though I also have a bunch of Incursus, Merlins and Algoses if I fancy a bit of a change.
Around the end of the year I even contemplated jacking in EVE altogether, I'd paid both accounts up already (Zebulon for 12 months, my alt account for 6 months), but set them both to expire when that time was up. I was mostly playing Elder Scrolls : Oblivion (for the first time).
EvE just wouldn't leave me alone though and after some useful discussions around skills etc (particularly the Magic 14) I'm back on track, my accounts wont expire and I'm in EvE almost everyday.
I now have a solid Dominix setup for running L4s, all my alts have moved to Nullsec with their PI and one of them is also training up for nullsec exploring.
Zebulon is jumping between campuses, though my home is still Solitude I now have a few ships at the Lowsec, Highsec and Nullsec campuses and try and spend a bit of time at each.
I also took part in some big fleet ops bashing some POCOs which was great fun as well as very useful experience of operating as part of a large fleet.
However, it's now about time I got back to some PvP, particularly as we're constantly at war and I'm aiming to take part in the Lowsec & Nullsec campuses.
To that end I recently bought and fitted 20 Tristans and dropped them in my staging system of Stacmon. I have a few different fits and will see which fare best.
I've gone with Tristans as I do love drones and have sunk most of my skill points into them, though I also have a bunch of Incursus, Merlins and Algoses if I fancy a bit of a change.
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