Neighbors givin you trouble? Run up and kick their dog

Hello again eve, it's been a while since we last talked.  I've been online here and there, managed to pull off a heist to the tune of 10 billion isk a few months back.  I've been busy in real life, too.  Got myself a nice 40 hour job, and school is keeping me plenty busy (I'm working on a Game Development and Programming Associates)  You can read more about boring RL stuff at http://pzaljr.wordpress.com

In Eve Online related news, Heretic Army is alive and viscious, now with Jude Lloyd at the helm, who's doing a pretty good job of lettign the blood spill.   You can read all about that on his blog.

A trillion isk scam has been executed, I must say, I'm a bit 'jelly'.   Read about that here.

Right then, on to business.  I must admit, Dogs are awesome, and if you fuck with cats, god help you.  That in mind, Eve online is a game where I believe we need the option to metaphorically run up and punt their chihuahua though the goal posts.   I'll yield that we can already do that in many respects.  There's can-flipping, hulk ganking and much, much more.  These are good things, because kicking someone's dog makes them angry.  Getting people angry means fights, and,  failing some good fights, it means tears.  Tears are what keeps Eve going, one visit to the game's forums or eve-news24 is testament to that.

Out with it, Man!

Right then.  The problem I see with the game currently is that 0.0 small gang roams usually end with no real fights.  The residents of 0.0 have no incentive -not- to dock up from killing NPC's or mining.  It's the former that I'm bothered by.   I've devised a mechanic wherein a Sov structure would house a chip.  1 chip allows a player 1 anomaly (highend chip = sanctum)  This is an upgrade for most people who NPC, as sanctums were recently nerfed.  On the flipside, the chip can be stolen unless it's defended.  (Enter starwolf)

I've thrown a nice big thread up about it with all the juicy on the Eve-O forums.   Have a read and please dont be afraid to respond.   Here's the link.

The Scorch Crystal Sandwhich

Here's a post that backdates us all the way to March of 2009 - back when the Heretic Nation rapetrain was picking up into a full steam. As I recall, our fleet was approximately 15, Max-Damage fitted Battleships, some Heavy Interdictors and other support; I was flying an Abaddon,"Saviour Self". There was an amarr militia fleet scouted in Dal, and so we left the throne of ossogur gate and prepared for a fight. One way or the other, by the time we jumped in, most of there fleet had warped off. But I scanned at the nearest planet an Eagle, and called to another abaddon pilot and co-commander Dalmont to nab him.

Then, by chance, something beautiful happened.

I called warp to zero of the planet, Dalmont warped in 100KM from me -- and both of us would see at near exactly the same moment that target was exactly 50 kilometers between both of us...coincidently in perfect optimal of our Megapulse II's loaded with Scorch L.

I'm not sure what the story is --if the pilot was distracted or otherwise-- but I seem to recall him picking up speed just as we locked and instapopped the heavy assault cruiser.

And so we define the tactical manuever that is "The Scorch Crystal Sandwhich": Two heatsink laden gun-boats warping in with scorch loaded and alpha'ing a target. The SCS has no need for your warp disruption; the target can't warp if it's dead.

Coincidentally, I made a signature today:

In recent news, I recently convinced Dalmont from Triumvirate back into our circle within Final Agony. And we're all doing bloody wonderful in here in Amamake; as of this post, 2207 chimneys have been shit in this fist 24 days of our occupation. We've killed 133 Battleships, 3 T3 cruisers, an orca, several faction BS, 3 carriers. We've also suicided 40 Hulks (or other exhumers) as a part of our Hulkageddon campaign. Fun times ahead.

Who says auto-pilot is Dead?

Recently, I returned to Amamake, six days ago in fact. I was quite happy with my previous role as a Snigger in Pandemic Legion, but the reason I left Fountain is another entry. In short, we (the heretic crew) have returned because: It's fucking Amamake.

And return we did. Our stated goal? Why nothing else than to find some chimney's to shit in this Christmas season.

And shit down chimneys we did. We've joined Final Agony, a pirate corporation formed by Villwrath and his A-team, formerly Beyond Divinity.

Enough ~words~.

I'd like to talk about one very specific chimney I had the pleasure of squatting over today. On a whim, we decided to put together a small camp and park it on the ossogur gate. A couple BS and a hictor. The usual traffic is coming through; shuttles, T1 frigates. We didn't really bother applying remote sensor boosters to Switch 4's broadsword to tackle them. But then, not three minutes into the camp, an Ashimmu --the blood raider pirate cruiser-- appeared on my overview. It was autopiloting, from god knows where, most likely on it's way to rens. I hear "Point!" over vent, Switch 4 calling an infini-point on the poor bastard. I fired off a volley of Scorch L from my Mega Pulses and go for a quick reload - "He's going 200m/s and approaching the gate, wont hurt to increase my DPS...he's still in shields..."

Seconds later, the Ashimmu explodes. It was shield tanked.

I'm pretty confident piracy in Amamake is going to be in good business for years to come, even if we depend solely on the power of morons in EvE online. I love this system.