Hands Off, My Loots!

First off, before I go any further and forget, I wanted to throw a teaser out there for everyone to ponder about, because I’m an evil ass like that. Me and another corp mate were having a talk earlier today, and decided we are going to have a discussion in the corp forums about a new, rather fun project for the ninjas. So…hopefully you’ll hear something about that in the near future. No…you can’t have any hints.

Without further ado…

I’m flying around in my rifter, looking for some miners to kill and some ore to liberate when I jump into Chelien and am greeted in local by some guy taunting another guy…sounds like something I’d do. As their convo continues I’m roaming the belts doing my thing, when I happen upon a can that was left (as bait most likely) by the aforementioned taunter…so, knowing I’ll get a fight most likely…I grab it, and continue my search.

The smack is still going in local, and I take the opportunity to align my Orca alt to the belt I’m going to try and fight him in so I can warp him straight to me. I do this so I can play shenanigans and switch out rifters if I’m about to die, because…since I restarted my character…my pvp skills aren’t the greatest and I need all the help I can get. As I warp out of this belt to try and find him, he warps in just as I enter warp. Crap! Luckily I warped to the next belt at 100 and he followed…because while I was aligning back to where I just came from he showed up in the new belt at 0 and saw me at 100. So, I warped back at 100 hoping he’d get the hint…and he did, as when I landed, he showed up a few seconds later…about 30km from me…having warped to 70.

I took a few seconds while I was closing the distance to switch over to my other client and warp the orca to me at 0. And we began to fight around it.

[ 2010.03.11 16:27:45 ] ihcn > lol
[ 2010.03.11 16:32:33 ] ihcn > i wonder how this orca feels xfd
[ 2010.03.11 16:33:00 ] Cyberin > orca feels fine
[ 2010.03.11 16:33:45 ] Wantless Hero > just dont go swimming with it if you have a pony tail
[ 2010.03.11 16:34:00 ] Cyberin > lol

He went through my shields and armor pretty quickly, but since I had 8 more rifters in the Orca, I hopped in one of those and get a fresh start. Also, a few seconds earlier, a neutral rifter warped in near us as well. I thought this was his friend, and as you’ll read in a bit…he thought it was mine.

[ 2010.03.11 16:34:04 ] ihcn > i have to admit i’ve never seen someone pull that in a frigate fight before
[ 2010.03.11 16:34:19 ] Cyberin > yeah, i’ve never done it in a frig fight before, seems like it might be fun though
[ 2010.03.11 16:34:33 ] Cyberin > my skills suck…so…i need some sort of advantage…
[ 2010.03.11 16:34:39 ] Cyberin > if i can even break your tank…lol
[ 2010.03.11 16:34:45 ] ihcn > nope

I didn’t think I’d break his tanked, but just as it seemed I might be wrong and his armor appeared to be SLOWLY going down…I switched to a new ship..and he got bored and warped before I could point him again.

[ 2010.03.11 16:36:13 ] ihcn > welp, good fight
[ 2010.03.11 16:36:22 ] ihcn > that was a good tactic
[ 2010.03.11 16:36:23 ] ihcn > lol
[ 2010.03.11 16:36:42 ] Cyberin > thanks
[ 2010.03.11 16:36:44 ] Cyberin > was fun
[ 2010.03.11 16:37:35 ] ihcn > indeed
[ 2010.03.11 16:37:52 ] ihcn > i loved the fact that we were circling the orca for half of it xfd
[ 2010.03.11 16:37:56 ] Cyberin >
[ 2010.03.11 16:38:22 ] Cyberin > can’t get too far away from it

A little bit later he opens a convo, trying to figure out what happened. Apparently he didn’t realize I was using the Orca. He thought I was switching ships with the neutral rifter that was there, while the neutral guy repaired the ship so I could jump back in again. That would be neat, but…don’t think that would work quick enough to actually do though.

Channel Name: Private Chat (ihcn)
Listener: Cyberin

[ 2010.03.11 16:42:13 ] Cyberin > o/
[ 2010.03.11 16:42:18 ] ihcn > i’ve been thinking about it and i really can’t figure out what was happening
[ 2010.03.11 16:42:32 ] ihcn > i’m pretty sure you were just swapping ships but how did you do it without a session change timer?
[ 2010.03.11 16:42:42 ] Cyberin > no session change timer using an orca
[ 2010.03.11 16:43:02 ] ihcn > oh i didn’t realize he was with you
[ 2010.03.11 16:43:30 ] Cyberin > yeah, he’s my alt
[ 2010.03.11 16:45:10 ] ihcn > well i knew the neutral rifter guy was, the orca didn’t even occur to me
[ 2010.03.11 16:45:21 ] ihcn > i just thought we were curcling around a random guy’s orca XD
[ 2010.03.11 16:45:27 ] Cyberin > actually…i have no clue who the rifter was
[ 2010.03.11 16:45:47 ] ihcn > wait
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:00 ] ihcn > arg i thought i had your strategy all figured out
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:01 ] ihcn > lol
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:06 ] Cyberin >
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:08 ] ihcn > i thought he was repping your damaged rifters for you
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:09 ] ihcn > lol
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:22 ] ihcn > which is what i thought was genius
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:23 ] Cyberin > nope lol
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:27 ] Cyberin > ah
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:37 ] ihcn > so how many backups did you have in the orca
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:43 ] ihcn > i was cap stable, i should have kept fighting
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:44 ] ihcn > lol
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:44 ] Cyberin > 8
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:47 ] ihcn > XD
[ 2010.03.11 16:46:53 ] ihcn > that would have taken forever
[ 2010.03.11 16:47:01 ] Cyberin > yeah
[ 2010.03.11 16:47:31 ] ihcn > but yeah i thought you were swapping ships back and forth with the neutral rifter
[ 2010.03.11 16:47:46 ] Cyberin > normally i don’t use the orca for frig fights, but since I just restarted my character I wanted some support for can flipping
[ 2010.03.11 16:47:47 ] ihcn > and the neutral rifter reps your ship, reloads ammo, etc, then you switched back
[ 2010.03.11 16:47:54 ] ihcn > but after the fighti realized there’s no way that would work
[ 2010.03.11 16:48:54 ] ihcn > but anyways yeah, that was fun
[ 2010.03.11 16:48:56 ] ihcn > have a good day

2 days later…I caught myself a Hyperion!…in my rifter…(please note, I’m using chat logs from Alliance, Corp, Private, Fleet, and the Bloggers Channel…so times could get a bit confusing here…but I’ll do my best to make it make sense, best off to just ignore the times on these chat logs for the best effect)

I was out salvaging this time; rather than can-flipping…gotta change it up a bit you know. I got a hit on a Hyperion so thought I’d go get some salvage. The plan was to just salvage, and not loot…but I found a nice expensive microwarp drive in one of the wrecks…so I just had to. Apparently…the Hyp pilot didn’t think I’d be much of a threat (he was right) so he shot at me. Warp drive activated, off to the Orca I went to grab a retriever. I knew I couldn’t kill him…but, well…I’ll work something out later I guess.

[ 2010.03.13 00:59:58 ] Cyberin > lol, i have a hyperion tackled with my rifter…

I got back to the mission, and there he was. Pointed, Webbed, and Guns blazing…I took some time out to move the guns and web over to his drones…and killed those off. After the drones, I focused back on him. Got his shields down…and then…well…yeah, I got his shields down.

Channel Name: Private Chat (Gfy Trextron)
Listener: Cyberin

[ 2010.03.13 01:01:38 ] Cyberin > o/
[ 2010.03.13 01:01:53 ] Gfy Trextron > you’ll never break my tank, what do you suggest?
[ 2010.03.13 01:02:02 ] Cyberin > you pay me to leave
[ 2010.03.13 01:02:15 ] Gfy Trextron > lol I got all day
[ 2010.03.13 01:02:19 ] Cyberin > me too

12 minutes later, I had quit shooting because it was pointless…and I got a little bored.

[ 2010.03.13 01:14:20 ] Cyberin > so, have a good day so far? Mine’s been excellent
[ 2010.03.13 01:14:29 ] Gfy Trextron > not bad
[ 2010.03.13 01:15:09 ] Cyberin > that’s good
[ 2010.03.13 01:15:41 ] Gfy Trextron > where ya from?
[ 2010.03.13 01:16:04 ] Cyberin > North Carolina, US
[ 2010.03.13 01:16:15 ] Gfy Trextron > St. Louis MO
[ 2010.03.13 01:17:39 ] Cyberin > you bored yet? lol
[ 2010.03.13 01:17:51 ] Gfy Trextron > naw playin with alt
[ 2010.03.13 01:18:12 ] Cyberin > lol, me too
[ 2010.03.13 01:18:28 ] Cyberin > feel like paying to be let go yet?
[ 2010.03.13 01:19:09 ] Gfy Trextron > so why the ninja salvagin? seems like running mish would produce more
[ 2010.03.13 01:19:22 ] Gfy Trextron > na I am fine
[ 2010.03.13 01:20:07 ] Cyberin > because i like to bother people, not really about the ISK
[ 2010.03.13 01:20:18 ] Cyberin > missioning isn’t fun
[ 2010.03.13 01:20:45 ] Gfy Trextron > ya but good skills.. pirating can get boaring
[ 2010.03.13 01:21:01 ] Cyberin > i’m not a pirate, i’m a ninja
[ 2010.03.13 01:21:26 ] Gfy Trextron > no I do the pirating
[ 2010.03.13 01:21:33 ] Cyberin > ah, gotcha
[ 2010.03.13 01:21:39 ] Cyberin > tried it for a while, prefer this
[ 2010.03.13 01:21:54 ] Cyberin > i’ve tried just about everything in EVE except 0.0…and that holds no interest for me
[ 2010.03.13 01:21:59 ] Gfy Trextron > seems kinda low though
[ 2010.03.13 01:22:17 ] Cyberin > it’s fun, that’s all that matters to me
[ 2010.03.13 01:25:25 ] Gfy Trextron > I’ll be back in 5 stay there ok.. lol
[ 2010.03.13 01:25:30 ] Cyberin > lol

And, another 17 minutes later…

[ 2010.03.13 01:42:09 ] Gfy Trextron > fun fun..

Meanwhile…in Alliance Chat…

[ 2010.03.13 01:05:19 ] Cyberin > hmm…this is fun…i’m never gonna break the tank on this Hyp…lol
[ 2010.03.13 01:10:39 ] Cyberin > ok, i need a plan…how can i kill a hyp without being able to break it’s tank, lol
[ 2010.03.13 01:11:01 ] Lazy Eyeh > i’m omw
[ 2010.03.13 01:14:26 ] Lazy Eyeh > Where are you?
[ 2010.03.13 01:15:33 ] Cyberin > i’m in Fricoure, not much you can do unless you can get him to aggro you though
[ 2010.03.13 01:15:46 ] Cyberin > Fricoure
[ 2010.03.13 01:15:56 ] Lazy Eyeh > i’m in fri, I’ve got rr so let’s give it a go

Sometime during all that waiting, Lazy Eyeh (corp mate) came out to see if he could get agro by repping me in a domi…didn’t work, so instead I just had him go get me some faction ammo incase Gfy decided to try a logoffski. I could have gotten it myself with the orca, but I didn’t think about it after Lazy offered.

Channel Name: Fleet
Listener: Cyberin

[ 2010.03.13 01:20:47 ] Cyberin > i told him you’re my alt
[ 2010.03.13 01:21:41 ] Lazy Eyeh > lol
[ 2010.03.13 01:26:12 ] Cyberin > he said he’s not gonna shoot ya
[ 2010.03.13 01:26:45 ] Lazy Eyeh > awwww ;(
[ 2010.03.13 01:27:08 ] Cyberin > just my luck something like this happens when i have no skills, lol
[ 2010.03.13 01:27:39 ] Lazy Eyeh > ransom him for a nice bounty
[ 2010.03.13 01:27:48 ] Cyberin > tried
[ 2010.03.13 01:28:19 ] Lazy Eyeh > he’ll probably get really bored of this…………what happens if he logs?
[ 2010.03.13 01:28:31 ] Cyberin > then his tank goes off and i kill him…
[ 2010.03.13 01:28:42 ] Cyberin > think you could bring me some faction ammo in case that happpens?
[ 2010.03.13 01:28:50 ] Lazy Eyeh > you bet
[ 2010.03.13 01:29:14 ] Cyberin > fusion and some phalanx rockets would be nice
[ 2010.03.13 01:29:38 ] Lazy Eyeh > want me to get them now….or wait a while?
[ 2010.03.13 01:29:43 ] Cyberin > up to you

Blah Blah Blah…

[ 2010.03.13 01:32:19 ] Cyberin > i’ll train some gunnery skills while i wait, lol
[ 2010.03.13 01:34:52 ] Lazy Eyeh > btw, it’s good to have you back
[ 2010.03.13 01:34:56 ] Cyberin > thanks

I’ve changed my mind about the other chat logs, they are long, boring, and just lots of comments with me asking if people thought a small neut could take down the cap of a Hyperion. Also tried to plan some ideas in corp chat. The best one, and the one I was going to try, was to throw 3 small neuts on my rifter, and have someone cap transfer me hoping that Gfy was AFK. So, I decided to grab one of my other Rifters out of the Orca to do that with, thinking I could have one to cap him out, and then switch to the combat one with the faction ammo after that was done. Well…all didn’t go as planned.

[ 2010.03.13 02:58:48 ] Cyberin > damn it Gfy, you were supposed to be afk
[ 2010.03.13 02:59:30 ] Gfy Trextron > lol
[ 2010.03.13 02:59:39 ] Cyberin >
[ 2010.03.13 02:59:43 ] Gfy Trextron >

Earlier in the day, I noticed my ships in the Orca had all their mods offlined for some reason, not sure why. But, I managed to grab the ONLY rifter that I hadn’t reonlined the stuff…and couldn’t get the point onlined before he warped out…apparently he wasn’t AFK.