tooled up, ready for a fight

since my last post I've mainly been working on my mission runner alt and he is now comfortably doing L3s in a shield tanked Hurricane, which whilst not massively lucrative is generating a load of crappy loot for my industry alt to reprocess / sell, all the while increasing my standings with Gallente Federation so in the not too distant future he should be able to run Level 4s and make more money to fund PvP.

In the meantime I've been continuing my alts PI to bring my funds back up after my spending spree in my last post - all those Thrashers, rifters and associated fittings are now in my hangar in Heild waiting to eventually be reduced to space dust.

With that in mind I set out from Teon in my Rifter last night looking for war targets in and around Dodixe as there had been a few posts on the r1fta forums about WTs operating in the area.

Pickings were pretty slim, but I did notice that there was a WT out and about in Aufay in a Megathron - now I'd normally assume that a Battleship would be out of my league in my trusty, rusty frigate, but the pilot was less than a month old so there was no way he could have decent skills to fly that ship effectively so I decided to hunt him down.

I visited each of the asteroid belts as I assumed he'd be ratting or mining (yes, people do mine in Battleships), but couldn't find him, so decided to work on my scanning skills and see if I could locate him (something I really should spend a lot more time on).

Turns out he was sat at a gate. A quick check in corp to see if gate guns would should me if I aggressed a WT in range of the gate (responses covered no, yes, possibly, can't remember, try it and find out, no - probably ... got to love r1fta :) ).

Best way to find out is to just pile in so off I went, landed almost on top of the Megathron, engaged point, scram, guns, nos and orbited at 500m. Checked my capacitor and Nos was doing it's job keeping my Cap running, point and Scam were running well, and my cannons were hammering away - the Megathron was losing it's shileds, slowly.

However the Megathron was not returning fire, and hadn't even targetted me - either the pilot was afk (I hoped) or else he was just teasing me and was about to jump through the gate leaving me on this side as I wouldn't be able to jump through straight away.

Sure enough as soon as his shields vanished, so did he :(

I followed him through as soon as I was able - he was still showing in local but not in space, so he'd apparently docked up.

I left system until my timer ran down, gave it a couple more minutes and jumped back and saw he'd undocked again, but he must have been hugging the station as within about 30 seconds of me showing in local he'd docked up again.

Not sure there was a lot I could have done in this situation - I guess I could have not fired upon him straight away and called in for some extra firepower to hang on the other side of the gate so when he jumped through he wouldn't have escaped.

I guess I could have tried bumping him far enough away from he gate that I would have had time to take him down before he was close enough to jump through (though not sure how far I could bump a battleship with a frigate?), or I could have left him alone and jumped into a Thrasher (only ships I can currently fly are Minnie Frigates and the Thrasher) and hoped to take him down quicker (though if he jumped through the same he'd still have got away).

Ah well, got my blood pumping anyway.

Out of game for the next 4 or 5 days due to my twuin girls 2nd birthday and lots of family visiting, but expect more PvP reports to come.

committment issues?! not here

not posted in a while, main reason being, I was skint and down to my last couple of Rifters :(

so it was back to my alt to work on his missioning skills as he could only run low-paying L2s

He is now friendly with a L3 agent or 5, but will concentrate on Federation Navy security agent.

Not run one of these missions yet, so not sure how much better the payout or loot is - ideally I'll get him to work for a L4 agent but that will require him to ship up to a BS, I think.

In the meantime I've done some running around between my PI alts and raised another 100 million isk some of which was promptly spent on some more Rifters and fittings (two of which went in quick succession in 2v1 fights firstly against a Rifter & Dram and secondly against a Wolf & Ishkur. I managed to get my pod away both times, but I should think about more suitable targets. However, it had been that long since my last fight that I just piled on in there with all guns blazin. It got my blood pounding and that's what counts afterall.

Anyway, having recently embarked upon a year long training plan, I decided I may as well fork out for a twelve month subscription too.

I then realised that I had a Plex I'd bought through a special offer promotion a while ago that I was saving for a rainy day - I sold that for about 480million isk and promptly spent about half of it on more Rifter hulls (20), some Thrasher hulls (10) and enough modules to fit them all - that should keep me in trouble for a while, just waiting for them to be delivered to HQ.

Until then I seem to have 2 or 3 Rifters left to burn through as well as starting my alt on his L3 missions.

I'm here for the long haul.