Tired of my Iteron

I’m tired of my Iteron.  It’s dusty, old, and looks like a wang.   Really, it just doesn’t fit lately.  I’ve taken to hanging out around a system with a lot of NPC kills (agral, illinfrik, etc) and then moving base to somewhere else.  Which  means I have to repackage ships, make a couple trips, and do all of that.

Usually that is ok – I play some Call of Duty in another screen while I let autopilot do its thing.

But that’s not really safe.  So I’m going to, over this holiday break, skill up for my Orca and hopefully with the plex I contracted recently, purchase one and have it available to shuttle things around when the coast is clear.

I know, I stay in high-sec but an Orca will be harder to suicide than an Iteron, right? ;)

Plus, I won’t have to refit/repackage ships and I can keep rigging, etc.

Logistics

Moved a lot of my ships around last night – repackaged a lot of crap and just generally “hauled” stuff back to one of two “home bases” so to speak.  Refit my Rifter called “Drake” and started tinkering with a Throax that I may try to snipe with.  The drone bay isn’t too bad, either.  It’s just a thought.  Tonight, however, it’s getting close to holiday season.  So I’ve got a skill in my queue and I’m going to relax out of game for a bit, maybe see you on the 26th.  Maybe before.  I’ve still got a lot of “garbage collection” to do, at various stations.

Hey, I’ve got a PLEX in my hangar…

So, I’m not certain how often others get hits on this sort of thing, but I put a WTB contract up for a PLEX at 400,000 ISK.  (They were going for attempts at 10,000 and 1 million, and the usual 300-400 million.)

Thanks, Zancshar Iller!

Where do I find mission runners?

Here is a great video from the great blog, My Loot, Your Tears.  If you want to know where to find those pesky mission runners, check this out.

I’m full of fail, according to:

Viog says I’m full of fail.  I warped into his pleasure hub running mission.  I know I’d never take that drake, especially after his alliance member warped there in another drake, too.  So a nice bout of local taunting helped.  No damsel, but that’s not the point some nights, is it? ;)

Congrats on one year!

Congrats to EVE Travel on 1 year!

Suddenly – Free Ships!

The lovely boss at Suddenly Ninjas wants everyone to know, we have been working real hard this holiday season.  I mean, for us.  Some of us are wonderfully productive, some of us are mildly retarded.  So I’ll just copy some of his post, here.  (Can you guess which group (productive or retarded) I fall into?)

How it works:

Over the next few weeks, you can keep an eye on the public section of our forums as well as this blog for tips on where to find these little giveaways. You can also monitor the “suddenlygiveaway” channel in-game for a heads-up on ship type and location an hour before each event.

In keeping in theme, ships given away will mostly be battleship-class mission ships, with occasional battlecruiser tossed in. Ships may or may not be fitted, and who knows, there might even be a little shiny tucked away on there for certain extra-lucky little bears.The first giveaway event will be sometime in the next week.

So keep an eye out and listen up kids. And from all of us, to all of you; Happy Holidays Eve.

…and thanks for being so damn fun.

There is more information at the link above, and also on the EVE-O Forums.

 

Cold

Well, actually, I am getting over one.  A nasty one.  Logged into the game tonight, though, to try out a new Tristan fitting[*] and I just wasn’t feeling it.  It wasn’t that I forgot about 7 Sisters probes, days ago, and had to buy new ones.  That’s no big deal.  I got a few 90%+ hits, and no real 100% ones to bookmark and just logged off after about 40 minutes.

That Tristan fitting?  I just buffed up a current one of mine with more T2 and some null ammo. Or maybe it was void.  It was specced for a bit more range, but with some firepower rigging so I can orbit the ships ‘too close’ for them, but just good for me.

A can flip in Ammold

Flipped a can in Ammold, belt 1.  The retriever sent his drones attacking my Vigil.  I warped off, and returned with a snip fit Vexor.  Got him into armor before warped away. (The vexor has no scram/web…)  He warped to station, and I watched him there.

When he undocked, I knew he was going back to belt 1, and in a better ship.  He was.  It was a rifter.  I was returning in a tristan.  The fight was a good learning experience for me.  I started to get nervous when he had started to scram me, and I was losing shield.  His ship, however, was losing things too.  Albeit faster than I, so I kept my orbit nice and tight.

He went down a few seconds later, and we had a little conversation about the kill, things like that.

Link: Level 4 missions in a Caracal

The good blog over at Freebooted has a writeup on the experience of running a L4 mission in a Caracal.  I find this a great article.  What is interesting to me is that it goes to show – a little bit of thinking outside the box goes a long way.

Sure, he had to wait minutes to offline and online different modules, but what the heck, why not.

Also, make me think – I really should start paying attention to the missions I warp into and attempt to steal from.  Is the ship running it fit for the mission, fit for pvp, or fit for fun?  Things like that could potentially change the outcomes that usually happen to me when I try to fight back.