Monthly Archives: October 2021

New Spawn Is Up!

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Holy moly, I have been flying with Warp to Me today and it was pretty amazing.

First, I got into a Headquarters fleet and apparently was thrown directly into a True Creations Research Center (aka TCRC) which is supposed to be the hardest of all HQ sites… but as I was completely new to all of it and totally overwhelmed by all the action on the screen I didn’t really notice any difference between the three sites at all so I guess that was fine? 🤷‍♀️

I flew with them for a bit more than an hour, had some dinner, then decided to X up to fly some more and had the opportunity to also take a sneak peek into what Assault sites are like. The fleet is smaller, around half the size of HQ fleets (so 20 pilots instead of 40) but for logi the difference is not really noticeable. All in all it went without any problems (except for my ultra-slow faction afterburner which needs to be switched for an abyssal at some point), and after a short time we managed to upgrade our fleet to an HQ fleet as one of the other fleets running at the time stood down.

So, that was my first day with Warp to Me and I am very happy with how it turned out. I will be flying with them a lot more in the future as long as they’ll have me but — and I’mma be honest here — I am looking forward to running some nice relaxing Vanguard sites with EVE Rookies tomorrow night! 😀

Inter-Incursion Busy-Keeping

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Oh my, the last two spawns were really short so there were not that many opportunities to run them with EVE Rookies. I really should get started on running with either Warp to Me or some armor-based incursion group; I am already running the WTM fit on my Basilisk so that shouldn’t be that much of an issue (except for waiting time) but for doing logi in a Nestor I’m still a couple of skills short. Working on it, though! (And after that the Vargur, Ajaqa, I promise! 🤣)

Anyway, with so few EVE Rookies fleets running I looked into alternatives way of getting at least a little bit of money and so I had Ajaqa build me the small woman’s Vargur (aka a Tempest) and tried for several days to find a fit for it that would work for me. I’m not 100% sure whether I found it already but after failing hard several times in a row at the same mission I now have adapted my Stabber fit (artillery, two shield hardeners, and a shield booster) for the Tempest and it managed to not fail horribly immediately. More experiments will be made!

Beware the Basilisk

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Yesterday my skill training for Logistics Cruiser V finally completed and as such I was finally able to fly EVE Rookies’ Basilisk! I am still missing Capacitor Management V and Shield Emission Systems V to really nail that down but Logistics Cruiser V is way more important. Anyway, flying Logi for the incursion fleet was amazing! I almost immediately noticed that once I do not have to shoot things anymore I completely lose track of which wave we are currently in. 😆

It wasn’t really the very first time I flew logi for (some of) the EVE Rookies crew: last week we formed a small group under The Quartermaster and went to low-sec to do the Rogue Drone event sites. After about two hours (and me running dangerously low on cap boosters because logi frigates are not really capacitor powerhouses) we were murdered by a couple of frigates because right at that time our fleet decided to stretch itself too thin, with the FC burning to some target 120 km away, half the fleet following him, the other half staying where they were and we basically all died. Doing logi in the actual event sites was awesome, though!

Luckily, last night’s incursion fleet went a lot better. 🙂 We did have this one Vindicator that basically had paper shields because they put 5 webs on it and I didn’t really realize what that means until it got aggroed a second time. Apart from that everything went without a hitch and I was very happy to have paused skilling for the Vargur (sorry, Ajaqa!) to get into the Basilisk. 😁 But don’t worry, I’ll get into the Vargur eventually because that will more easily allow me to fly with TDF and/or WTM fleets as well.

For now I will be out there, listening for all the desperate “medic!” screams by victims of unjust aggression. See you out there!