My corp has recently begun moon mining operations in low sec. For a while, I have disliked low sec because it doesn't suit my play style, but that may begin to change. Just for fun, I thought I would move a cruiser down to our low sec base of operations to see what low sec was really like. Our base was fairly deep into low sec in an out of the way area, so the odds of a gate camp are slim. When I got to our base in my Arbitrator, I decided to start off with some ratting, I have never really ratted in low sec before so I figured I may as well try it out. I was actually quite surprised with the results, I didn't really expect ratting to be as good as I found it to be. Sure the rats weren't all that great, but it was a whole lot better from what I thought it would be. I usually found about 1-2 battleships per system, which wasn't all that bad. I also tried to run a few anomalies in my minimally tanked Arbitrator, it didn't work to well. I didn't realize that a lot of anomalies really require a bit of firepower and a good tank. I may move a harbinger down to our base of operations just to see what I can accomplish from low sec anomalies and deadspace complexes .
After partially living in wormhole space for quite some time, I have learned quite a few survival techniques. I found that I could apply these techniques to low sec as well. Whenever someone came into local (Which I personally hate because it gives you no real element of surprise) I would check my directional scanner to see what who came into the system and if they were a threat or not. I would also check to see if they were trying to probe me out if they thought I was at a safe spot. My wormhole habits really came in handy when trying to survive in low sec.
Overall I ran things down in low sec for about a night, which about payed for my ship that I flew down in. So overall, I would have no net loss if lost that ship. Although there would be the logistic issue of getting a new ship. It really is hard to prepare for everything, and next time I head down I will probably plan it out like I plan out wormhole tactics, unlike what I did this time, slapping together a ship in about 15 min and flying it out.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Overkill in a class 1 wormhole
I have seen my share of interesting things in wormholes, full capital ship fleets in high class wormholes, undefended POS's, Full Scale PVP ops, and other various interesting things. Nothing I have encountered so far tops something I saw over the past week. A Thanatos, which is a Gallente carrier, in a class 1 wormhole. I couldn't actually believe this when I saw this, The only way to get one in a class 1 is to build it in the wormhole. I screenshotted it just so that I could have proof that I actually have seen this.
Although Wormhole Thingy sucks for accurate data on the effects of a wormhole, its accurate with the class of wormholes. I use EVE HQ if I want to know the exact data on the effects.
If you want overkill, do it with style. Not sure why anyone would do this but they could just have easily soloed the sites in a cruiser....
Although Wormhole Thingy sucks for accurate data on the effects of a wormhole, its accurate with the class of wormholes. I use EVE HQ if I want to know the exact data on the effects.
If you want overkill, do it with style. Not sure why anyone would do this but they could just have easily soloed the sites in a cruiser....
T3 Cruisers: Don't be Cocky
Over the past week I have done a few things wormhole / exploration related. I also have a story to share as a warning to all people who think they are safe in their precious T3 cruiser. First I will start out with my wormhole expeditions. On Wednesday, I had just logged on when my friend Anti Kondor messaged me saying he had found an epic class 2 wormhole. 30+ Cosmic Anomalies, and a whole lot more Signatures. The best part was that the wormhole was free of POS's and not a single person had entered the wormhole since he started running the sites. He had been in the wormhole for about 7 hours already and had made around 200 million isk doing just the anomalies, not to bad for a class 2 wormhole. Immediately I wrapped up what I was doing and started heading to the location of the wormhole. From here we continued to do as many sites as we could before the wormhole we entered through began to reach the end of its natural lifetime. After making around 70 million isk, we had to exit. Not a bad haul for the 2 hours or so that we spent in that wormhole.
Think you are safe in that T3 cruiser of yours? Think again. Just because a T3 cruiser can tank sleepers doesn't mean it isn't vulnerable to people killing you. This is an interesting story that shows just how stupid people could be. About 2 or 3 weeks ago, I went into a class 1 or 2 wormhole to see what I could do in it. I found a few signatures and anomalies, nothing to special. But I did notice a Tengu on the direction scanners, so I immediatly though, Oh cool, if I get a few people we could probably kill this Tengu with no problems. So I proceeded to use a technique I developed for finding other ships in a wormhole with minimal detection (Not sharing because I don't want people to know all my secrets).
Upon finding this Tengu and warping to 100 km in my Anathema, I got a bit of a laugh when I realized that the Tengu I had probed out belonged to a person in my corp who runs wormholes often. So I started a conversation with the guy and asked him if he knew I had probed him out. He had been completely oblivious to the fact that anyone was even in the same system as him. He didn't even check his directional scanner once....An obvious newbie mistake and anyone in a wormhole should always check the directional scanner no matter how safe you think you are. When I talked to him for a bit, he said that he could tank anything and that he wasn't in any danger of being killed. He thought his faction fit Tengu could tank anything and was really cocky about it.
About a week later, I checked our alliance killboards, and guess who got podded while in a wormhole. The same person I had probed out a week earlier and warned him to be more careful. I heard that he was jumped by a curse, pilgrim, and hurricane, attacked them so that he had an aggression timer. Then he thought it was a good idea to log out because he apparently thought he would disappear before they could kill him. Well he got podded and lost his faction fit Tengu all because he thought he was "safe".
To pile stupid mistakes upon stupid mistakes, the Tengu pilot thought it was a smart idea to put his 900 million isk haul of wormhole stuff that he had gotten from a few wormholes in a single Iteron Mark V and move it through one of the most gate camped systems in Amarr Space, Niarja. The suicide gate campers got him good and he lost his Iteron Mark V in one volley.
Personally, I have to laugh at this guy's stupidity because I had warned him to be more careful in wormholes, instead he ignored my advice and lost his 2 billion isk Tengu, and then another 900 million while transporting wormhole loot in the worst possible manner. If you are going to transport wormhole loot through a heavily gate camped system, do it in a battlecruiser or something because the space needed isn't that high, and a battlecruiser has a very good tank and won't insta-pop against a gate camp. Or better yet, take a covet ops ship to transport the blue sleeper tags, they hardly take up any space and a covert ops ship isn't worth scanning for gate campers.
Moral of the story, Always check the directional scanner, assume you will be hot dropped by a capital ship (I have had it happen when I was in a harbinger in low sec...), and don't be stupid when transporting a large amount of isk worth of goods in high sec.
Think you are safe in that T3 cruiser of yours? Think again. Just because a T3 cruiser can tank sleepers doesn't mean it isn't vulnerable to people killing you. This is an interesting story that shows just how stupid people could be. About 2 or 3 weeks ago, I went into a class 1 or 2 wormhole to see what I could do in it. I found a few signatures and anomalies, nothing to special. But I did notice a Tengu on the direction scanners, so I immediatly though, Oh cool, if I get a few people we could probably kill this Tengu with no problems. So I proceeded to use a technique I developed for finding other ships in a wormhole with minimal detection (Not sharing because I don't want people to know all my secrets).
Upon finding this Tengu and warping to 100 km in my Anathema, I got a bit of a laugh when I realized that the Tengu I had probed out belonged to a person in my corp who runs wormholes often. So I started a conversation with the guy and asked him if he knew I had probed him out. He had been completely oblivious to the fact that anyone was even in the same system as him. He didn't even check his directional scanner once....An obvious newbie mistake and anyone in a wormhole should always check the directional scanner no matter how safe you think you are. When I talked to him for a bit, he said that he could tank anything and that he wasn't in any danger of being killed. He thought his faction fit Tengu could tank anything and was really cocky about it.
About a week later, I checked our alliance killboards, and guess who got podded while in a wormhole. The same person I had probed out a week earlier and warned him to be more careful. I heard that he was jumped by a curse, pilgrim, and hurricane, attacked them so that he had an aggression timer. Then he thought it was a good idea to log out because he apparently thought he would disappear before they could kill him. Well he got podded and lost his faction fit Tengu all because he thought he was "safe".
To pile stupid mistakes upon stupid mistakes, the Tengu pilot thought it was a smart idea to put his 900 million isk haul of wormhole stuff that he had gotten from a few wormholes in a single Iteron Mark V and move it through one of the most gate camped systems in Amarr Space, Niarja. The suicide gate campers got him good and he lost his Iteron Mark V in one volley.
Personally, I have to laugh at this guy's stupidity because I had warned him to be more careful in wormholes, instead he ignored my advice and lost his 2 billion isk Tengu, and then another 900 million while transporting wormhole loot in the worst possible manner. If you are going to transport wormhole loot through a heavily gate camped system, do it in a battlecruiser or something because the space needed isn't that high, and a battlecruiser has a very good tank and won't insta-pop against a gate camp. Or better yet, take a covet ops ship to transport the blue sleeper tags, they hardly take up any space and a covert ops ship isn't worth scanning for gate campers.
Moral of the story, Always check the directional scanner, assume you will be hot dropped by a capital ship (I have had it happen when I was in a harbinger in low sec...), and don't be stupid when transporting a large amount of isk worth of goods in high sec.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
About Me
My name is Revii Lagoon, I have been playing EVE Online since October 2009. I am a relevantly new player, but in the few months that I have played EVE, I have taken an interest in exploration. I have had to learn mostly everything there is to exploration by myself with a little help from starter guides, but for the most part I have developed my own techniques for doing various things. I currently am a member of Eclipse Industries [ECLIN]. My base of operations is in the Khanid and Domain regions mostly. From here I go out looking for exploration sites as well as run wormhole sites with friends. I usually run with an Estonian named Anti Kondor, we usually do stupid stuff in wormholes that involve us getting killed or wasting time doing stupid things for our own enjoyment.
Some of my more enjoyable activities in wormhole space involve learning how to outsmart every single person in a wormhole, and finding ways to kill them. Aside from wormhole space, I enjoy spending my time scanning the systems surrounding my home base for possible sites to exploit. Deadspace complexes, Magnometric sites, Radar sites, Gravimetric sites, I enjoy doing most of them even if it doesn't mean a whole lot of profit. Since I am based out of an Amarr region, I mostly encounter Blood Raider related sites, but sometime I would like to broaden the scope of my search into different regions of space, to see what they have to offer and what possible adventures could await me.
Some of my more enjoyable activities in wormhole space involve learning how to outsmart every single person in a wormhole, and finding ways to kill them. Aside from wormhole space, I enjoy spending my time scanning the systems surrounding my home base for possible sites to exploit. Deadspace complexes, Magnometric sites, Radar sites, Gravimetric sites, I enjoy doing most of them even if it doesn't mean a whole lot of profit. Since I am based out of an Amarr region, I mostly encounter Blood Raider related sites, but sometime I would like to broaden the scope of my search into different regions of space, to see what they have to offer and what possible adventures could await me.
New Blog
I thought I would make a new blog dedicated to my life as an explorer in EVE Online. I have some interesting tales to tell and will have many more to share in the future. I also will post some opinions and things related to all aspects of exploration, mainly focusing on wormholes because they are the biggest aspect of exploration in EVE. Hopefully this blog will become a good resource for people who are just interested in learning about exploration, or just looking for some good information to read on.
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