The circle is now complete

I mentioned in my last post about how important it is for new players to have a mentor in eve. By new player I mean anyone with less than a year of play time. I started eve a good while ago and managed to fight through my first year without a soul helping me through. It was tough, I had no idea how to make money, how to tank or any real concept of what pvp was in the game. I managed well enough and even convinced Ellemshaye to play and we have effectively mentored each other until today. I am super fortunate to have a relatively large group of RL friends who play and I love being able to teach the skills I’ve learned to them and see their pvp success early in their game experience. I took Nerbert out and we got a kill and I met HevyDevy just before this one. Nerbert even went out and got two solo kills. Enough of the emotional crap and onto the ganking.

I have grown worried lately that I will not be able to produce interesting enough posts for the blog. Most of my kills are entirely similar to each other and it isn’t all that interesting to read about the same guy uncloaking and killing a mining barge over and over. Fortunately I managed a great kill this past week.

I had only planned on being on for about an hour or so, but managed to find and quickly probe down an unusually deep network of holes all of which had towers in them. The last system was a dead end C5 with a typical tower. At one of the outer planets were 3 Dominix(How the hell do you pluralize that?), a Raven and a Scorpion running an anomaly. Intrigued I moved in for a closer look. They had about 5 BSs and a few cruisers to finish off and I moved into a safe position to watch from. It took a good while to finish, some of the BSs were outside the Domis control range and the Raven seemed to be the only one doing any damage at points. I think they finished about 30 minutes after I started watching. My prober was back at their tower watching. When they finished one immediately flew back and I think logged, while another got in a typical cormorant looter and started motoring around in the huge cloud of wrecks. The other three hung out for a bit repping each other, their drones and doing whatever else, but eventually they all left, one returning in another destroyer. By this time the first looter had gotten all but 5 of the BS wrecks. The second destroyer did not appear to have any tractor beams or salvagers fitted and did nothing but loot one wreck. I assumed they had wisely sent out a little protection. However they had failed to keep the two destroyers close together and when the looter finished one of the last BSs I uncloaked and ruined his afternoon. The second destroyer was about 60km at the time. I looted the wreck and was out of there long before the cavalry arrived. There were still a few cruiser wrecks, but I managed to abscond with about 140M in drops. They were understandably upset and summed it all up in local, to which I offered my condolences:

SecretMoonBase > mother fucker :(
Genocide Machine > if it makes u feel better i had to watch u run the whole site
Genocide Machine > o/

They also evemailed me:

Thanks for reminding us that our wormhole isn't our own private Eve server
I don't know if I should hate you or giggle at how funny your kill was

They were very gracious losers. I’m a pretty warm and caring person in real life, I guess that’s my best excuse for being such a jerk in eve.

Not today Rusty

As is typical I was out scouting holes for my Corp’s pvp op. I was just about to head home when I came through a hole to be greated by an uncloaked Anathema. I reacted as fast I could, but it managed to escape. After a bit of snooping around I headed back for home base. I was convo’d:

Yokyen > We're not Worthy
Genocide Forge > huh?
Yokyen > may I say we are big fans of your blog!!
Genocide Forge > oh thx
Yokyen > LMAO
Genocide Forge > were u the guys back in that hole?
Genocide Forge > i didnt evennotice
Yokyen > yup
Genocide Forge > i have no idea what was going on with that anathema
Yokyen > nothing to do here now cause we have it all neat and tidy
Genocide Forge > i jumped through and it was there
Genocide Forge > im LONG gone
Genocide Forge > ive probed another hole by now and am back near home
Genocide Forge > "scouts honor"
Yokyen > we were going into our neighbor hole and do some combat sites they have there
Genocide Forge > yeahthat hole was eol and i dint know the timer so i was headed out
Genocide Forge > im sure you know the timer though
Yokyen > we found a covetor in there unoccupied and were going to take it home with us
Genocide Forge > there is a gallente shuttle too
Genocide Forge > outer planet
Genocide Forge > big whup though
Yokyen > but no 40,000,000 kg ships thru the hole
Yokyen > must be why someone left it
Yokyen > we have both posted on your blog as thomasale and my son bodega cat
Genocide Forge > k man im gonna role, fly safe
Genocide Forge > nice thats cool
Genocide Forge > you "almost" made it
Yokyen > u2 write again soon in the blog
Genocide Forge > im trying/.....
Genocide Forge > u didnt help
Genocide Forge > lol, ltr

That was the first time I had aggressed someone who had read my blog. We ended up going back to his hole later that night, but they were all closed up. We dropped in on their neighbors though.

We managed to get five bombers out and into a hole in Rens. I love holes in frequently traveled areas, they typically have a lot of idiots running around in them. This night though we ran up against a pretty squirrelly adversary. When we first came through the system there were two pilots logged in at the tower. We left a scout back to watch as we probed deeper, but they didn’t come to life until we were just about to leave. They both jumped into cov ops and started started jumping around, probing and heading into hi sec. To make a long boring story short we camped them for well over an hour and despite 5 of us they always managed to allude us. It didn’t help that I am pretty sure they got a glimpse of us in the beginning. Regardless, it was nice to hunt a worthy opponent.

Shortly after leaving them we returned to pay a visit to my readers, but as mentioned above they were closed for the night. I like to think it was because they knew I would be out hunting that night. However, their neighbors didn’t get the memo and had a quiet mining op planned for the night. I was woefully out of practice combat probing and managed to botch my scan twice dragging out the whole process for a minute at least. Despite the lengthy time uncloaked and scanning we all moved in undetected and popped their three mining barges and two pods in the blink of an eye.

Caindlazz needs a mentor. I assume he is a brand new character, but take a look through his past loses, especially the three hurricanes. It really is unfortunate when new players don’t have someone to guide them through the game. Newbs are people too and no one should have to be humiliated for the rest of their eve career with those KMs in their past.

As we left, my wingman formulated a pointed response to the evening's hockey game:

Kiritsubo > take that you filthy Canadians!