Take that you scum!

While running a mission for the Servant Sisters of EVE a while back, a fellow corp member had his MTU shot away.  He pondered, and then went after the Ishtar that had deprived him of his loot bucket.
Although he had the wrong ammo for shooting a Gallente boat, he had the Ishtar well into structure before his PVE fit Golem had to retreat.

It would have been nicer if he could have destroyed the Ishtar for that scum, but leaving him with a hefty repair bill had to do.

Meanwhile, the corp members are scattered across New Eden running level 4 security missions for the various factions, and selling the salvage and loot to bolster their personal wallets.

We're also pondering the mess that is ISIS.  I mean, seriously…  Just because a Golem has a target painter bonus - is that any reason that you shouldn't train those same target painter enhancement skills for ANY ship that you could put a target painter on?  Sure, they're more effective when the ship has a bonus, but why can't I get ISIS to tell me that to get the best out of a target painter on ANY ship, that I should train… hmm, perhaps CCP should be told that people don't fit target painters to only ships that have target painting bonuses?  You think they might not know that???  ;)


Fly it like it was free,

Yinmatook

And the grand experiment is over - for now

We pulled up stakes and left w-space in the past few days.  The C2 our alliance was sharing with another group was just not enough to sustain us all.  We were not doing any PI, that's probably why we weren't making any isk - and the agreement with the other alliance was that we wouldn't (as they were afraid that the planets wouldn't support us all) do PI.

The anomalies just were not plentiful enough and nanoribbons just do not drop frequently enough.  Being camped by mercs for the Christmas break was the last straw and it was decided that we'll pull out before we actually lose something of value.

So, we're back in k-space.  Gone in different directions, running things out of stations instead of a POS, doing lvl4 missions for various factions to re-build the personal wallets.  Waiting for CCP to release the next great thing (well... as soon as we recover from rogue MTUs that kill their owners).

-Yinmatook

Message from a friend...

This just in from friends in a sister corp in the Alliance:

"We've decided to pull out POS and go back to running our industrial work out of a back-water station.  All work in our POS will be completed this week and we'll take it down and mothball it.  Discussion is taking place about whether to hold onto the components or sell them off."

We wish them well in their migration back into dealing with station queues.

For our own part - we've so far invested about 4b ISK into our w-space adventure and have realized an income of approximately 50m ISK.  Quite a loss for the first month.  But that heavily defended POS was not a small expense!  We'll see what the next month brings for profits… Though… someone was talking about sending one member back to HiSec to run LVL4's in a Marauder for some sort of steady income!

And, now for something completely stupid

Yeah, the new dev blog is out about hi-sec poco's in Rubicon...  I was ok with this idea until I read this paragraph in the poco dev blog:

The NPC tax will continue for hi sec POCOs (as we want low sec POCOs to still be competitive). The tax rate stays the same, at 10% for export and 5% for import. This is then in addition to whatever tax the player owner sets. 

Yup... let's just give everything to the playground bully.  No need to worry, they won't do anything wrong.

Guess our decision to dive into w-space and forget about the junk in k-space was well timed.

I hope it works for them.  I suspect it will turn out to be a short quick grab by large alliances that are not so hated that they actually can get into hi-sec to get a lot of poco's up and help squeeze the profits out of hi-sec to force people to go somewhere else.  Sad.  Oh.  Did you hear that?  I think it was the death gurgle of PI in hi-sec... R.I.P.

-Yinmatook

Tick tock, tick tock...

"Oh bother!", Guerre exclaimed.  Then quickly shuffled his feet and apologized to the Amarr mission agent.  Still, he was upset with himself about forgetting this agent was one that frequently sent folks out to do direct combat with the other factions.  Since this was the second in a row and declining right then would have led to a confrontation with "the boss".  The displeasure (and standings hit) from the agent would have been fine, but when "the boss" got wind of it, and somehow she always did, then there would be hell to pay - and hell hath no fury like a woman bunched up panties... hmmm, did she even wear... oh my God!  Guerre decided he didn't want to pursue that line of thought any further!

So, he delayed his decision (knowing that he'd decline it after the four hour window had passed) and went off to run courier missions.  At least those never led to direct declines in apposing faction standings!

Someone had told Guerre that you could run fifteen distribution missions and then switch to a security agent to run that all important sixteenth mission and guarantee yourself a security storyline for the maximum faction gain.  Sadly, he had found that while you can (and in fact you will get a storyline mission as long as the agents work for the same faction - they don't have to be in the same Corporation) do that, all the storyline missions are a random crapshoot and you are not guaranteed any particular storyline based on the normal mission agents you work with.  Bummer!  Oh well... the standing would come, eventually - as long as he didn't go bonkers (or get castrated by "the boss") in the mean time.

The bottom line is waiting around for the skill queue to finish that all important skill is a slow and tedious process and one just needs to find the right challenge...

Marching to the next big thing

The order has been given.

Skill plans have been re-factored, re-ordered, re-planned, and re-loaded.

We are going to w-space.

Assembly Array experience is being acquired.

WooHoo!

Time to brush up on those scanning skills, they are suddenly going to be very important to survival.

Be careful out there!
  - Yinmatook

Odyssey has landed! Oh my, the world has changed...

Test has fallen apart.  Not that my corp was ever involved in that little mess.  But, we shared an area of hi-sec with a corp that was a member of their alliance and that corp has now left this area of k-space and a couple of mercenary corps have moved in.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have folks around.  However, it would be even better if they'd just run the anomalies, scan down the sites, and run missions; instead of filling up the manufacturing queues in the constellation.  I mean, seriously, it is nasty when I have to wait five days just have a queue available to run a ten hour manufacturing job.

So...

The corp and the alliance are all aflutter with discussion about should we move, should we rent from the Goons, should we find/purchase a wormhole and just leave k-space for a while???!

We'll see... time will tell...

Be careful out there!

  -- Yinmatook