Day 4 was an improvement for me...sort of.
I was determined not to lose a ship needlessly and managed to stay focused for a change, went out around my usual hunting grounds and played cat & mouse with a Thrasher - Incursus double act that I couldn't split up but who were definitely up for a fight - just not one that I was at all confident in winning.
Avoided hurling myself at Cruisers and AFs and bigger ships, and at the end of my usual hour or two's session I was still in my Rifter, so that was an improvement...but I'd also not been in any fights :(
Day 5 saw me at home during the day rather than at work, so I jumped online for an hour or two and made my rounds. Spotted some likely targets, but was a little slow off the mark and so they all escaped unharmed.
Then I spotted an Incursus, a quick check of local showed me that the pilot was likely to be a year or two older than me at least, but he didn't seem to be obviously working with anyone.
Eventually we met up and engaged, my guns & rocket was overheated, I had him webbed & scrammed, and he returned the favour. He stripped my shields down pretty quickly, but I fired up my repper to keep my armour regenning as my autocannons did their thing to him.
By this point his armour was dropping too, but I was getting close to structure so I OHd my repper and switched off my scram to save a bit of cap. My repper was doing valiantly, managing to restore vital hp before they were stripped off by his next salvo, though my structure was slowly dropping too. My opponent was not in much better shape and I got him down to about 50% structure before my repper fried (I think, either that or I ran out of cap), either way with no more reps I went BOOM
We exchanged GFs in local (and it was heartfelt from me at least, man I was >< close to winning that one), I then noticed I wasn't warping off, which was when he offered to release my pod for 30 million.
As I had no implants installed, I declined...and he let me go :) Very good of him
Thinking back, if I'd thought about it would overheating my Damage Control II have given me enough of a buffer to outlast him?
Implants - damage and armour implants would also have helped and may have made the difference.
Overall I was very happy with my performance against a much older character, would have been happier with a win though.
Campaign score = 0-0-4
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