Yesterday was sunday, and it was a good one. I was running with Warp To Me for the whole day (from 8:30 in the morning until the spawn went down at 16:something) and during that time we had two instances of ganking! Fortunately not in our fleet — or unfortunately? Because, as it turns out, the gankers were incompetent little shits (check kills on November 7th) and didn’t manage to kill a single ship. Well done! Apparently they were going for the ships that were already under the attack of the Sansha and, yeah, I can see how one can think “hey, let’s add more to that damage” but those ships are also the ones that are already locked up by all logi ships, and usually each logi ship has ample repping power left for emergencies so a small number of not-even-polarized Catalysts really doesn’t pose any threat.
Anyway, our FC switched to “ganker protocol” which means that new pilots who wanted to join the fleet were told to stay docked and ask for “undock status” (as opposed to warping to FC and asking for gate status). If you already were with the fleet you were safe (because lots of logi around) but if you weren’t, get your ass into a station and stay there! So, yeah, quite exciting! How was your weekend?
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!
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!
…and other illustrous exploits of a New Eden dweller
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