sometimes you get your wish ☻

I was a bit eve'd out, logistics and shopping all day, and wanted an easy hulk kill before I logged off. I undock beef in a cheetah. Theres a hulk right on station.. meh. Station ganks are hard.

Keep looking.

Checked the belts in the whole constellation, nothing. Come back. Hulk .. still there, drifting off, by now 120KM off station.

I cloaky-sneak up behind him, hes moving at 69m/s, my cloaked velocity is 500m/s. Can't figure out how to BM it, so I decide Im gonna race ahead in his path, say +40, and BM a spot ahead in his direction - which gives me enough time to dock, buy some gank ships, fit them, undock, warp to planet, and warp to BM.

derpmail

afking in front of station - check
landing my alts 20KM off - FAIL
crawling till in range - check
target not warped off - check
t2 rigs - check 

SHIT DOES NOT GET OLD *trollface*


Minutes later ..  "such and such has added you as a contact with TERRIBLE standings."

zee end.

[17:48:34] target > Why you do this stupid thing?

did you mean.. leave my stationary hulk in a belt with an easy warp-in, in a .5 sec?

no, probably not : http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=15008160

The Game, The Puppet

Eve online has a really interesting concept for subscription, in that you can use the wealth generated in-game, to pay for the game. As my main nears its 4th birthday, and the BeefFleet now sports 3 accounts with a combined 4.5K DPS, this plot from Eveboard paints the picture:

I'm not playing the game, the game is playing me :P

 

 

What this is not showing is my gains in standings with two factions i burnt to -10 while running too many anti-faction missions in Gallente space, all the dips not marked as plex purchases are tag purchases to turn in data-center missions. I'm up from -6.8 to -5 this month .. still a bit to go.

Since the process leaves me with little surplus cash, foreseeably for another 2 months, I've downscaled my hulk ganking addiction from BC's to destroyers. But the Crucible expansion made that transition a smooth one since Catalyst now rates at 730ish DPS, I can still down most hulks with 2 cats (or solo macks.) Nothing quite big-scale as my Gankvember spree, but still:

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=14941238 \0//

Skillwise, I'm still grinding ships and weapons, cross training each toon for at least two races. My oldest is already fully 3x cross-trained (all subcaps except amarr) which in retrospect is a sign of boredom and lack of direction.

"I have a plan.. somewhere in the back of my mind there is a purpose for all of this. "
- the puppet