Friday, October 29, 2010

Temperate Planet PI setup

here it is
extractors routed to spaceport then to factory and factory products routed back to spaceport 
no need for storage

HEART ATTACK!!

OK so as i was writing the previous post and mining in the wormhole... I HEARD THE SOUND , THAT AWFUL DREADED SOUND, OF SHIPS LOCKING ONTO MY SHIPS,
AI LAT TABBED BACK to eve to find 2 battle cruisers,, a drake and a prophecy locking me...
i started trying to warp off and they launched 2 missiles volleys doing about 2.2k dmg to my covetor mining ship and brining me down to about 15% armor!
luckily i managed to warp off, with my drones HAHA before they could get me
i just warped to the nearest planet and then back into the pos!

haha FUCKERS you DIDNT GET ME

Life in the Wormhole, Not too shabby!

So life in the wormhole has been pretty good lately!
we've been mining gravimetric sites with asteroids fields worth almost 300 mil each "(per site) as for the value of the sleeper anomalies, im not quite.Its also been pretty quiet around here except for a small attack on of our guys. His tech 3 cruiser was destroyed and he was also podded ( lost almost 1 billion ISK)
including 20 units of melted nano ribbons or something worth 5 mil each.
Its been pretty safe otherwise,
here are some screens to keep you busy!
Last known picture of the downed Tengu T3 ship

Back "Home"

MY capsule sitting next to the Drake 

The Hangar

COLORS
Some of my artwork

More artwork
Sleeper Fight

Sleepers Ganging up on me

Killing Asteroids
OK thats it for this time, see you next time!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Giant Asteroid of spodumain!!

Ok this asteroid is fucking gigantic considering it has 70 000 units at 16m3 each!!

My covetor and the mining drones next to the roid!
The Mobile Lab :D

First Encounter with this Sleepers in The Wormhole

OK so today one fo the guys had found a new wormhole which led to a C1 system (class 1 ) containing some of the easiest sleepers sites. The sleepers are an ancient alien race and are much tougher enemies than the normal NPC's (non playing characters) that you find in K-space (known space).
Heres some shots from the fight!
Sleeper Turret Battery

Sleeper Cruiser

Sleeper Missile exploding on my ship

Sleeper lasers hitting hard with Energy vampire module

Pulling in the wrecks with my tractor beams and Salvaging
The stuff worth selling :D

Some of the Loot

Gas Planet Colony Setup

OK after 30 minutes or more of fiddling with the different possiblities I finally decided I would use the 1st gas planet to extract only raw ionic solutions (it had the most ionic solutions out of all the 5 planets) which i would then route to the spaceport > basic industry facilites > and back to the spaceport!
AT 82400 units of ionic solutions per extractor its a giant leap compared to the 20 000 i was getting from the planets back home! this is gonna be quite lucrative!!
The Gas planet with my Small Colony

Untouched temperate Planet

The Barren Planet

My Ionic Solutions > Electrolytes setup on the Gas Planet

The sweet Ass Tengu...
More to come when I finish the Temperate/Barren Planets setups

Rules for Surviving in Wormhole Space

Posted by HAVOC on his blog at
http://k162space.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/wormholes-how-not-to-die/
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1. There is no way not to die. You are going to die.
2. Possibly quickly.
3. Protect yourself from financial ruin by buying and hiding in a PoS
4. Protect your PoS from ruin by having stront and 2-3 weeks of fuel, at least, at all times.
5. Never enter an outgoing or incoming WH without either a fully insured unfitted ship and an alternate route back in, or a scan probe launcher and a shitload of patience.
6. Did I mention you are going to die?
7. The directional is your friend. But it’s a shitty friend. It’s a way around getting ganked so the gankers have ways around it. Expect to die.
8. If you find yourself outside your PoS for any reason, be aligned to a planet.
9. Don’t forget to cloak when scanning.
10. There are people who get their giggles by killing people like you. They are, statistically, much better at killing you than you are at not being killed.
11. Never leave your PoS without some method of getting back to it from highsec. This usually means having a scan alt logged off in system or in the PoS.
12. If you don’t have a scan alt, you may as well kiss your assets goodbye and start waiting for PoS fuel notifications as your base dies cold and alone because you got podded and didn’t have a damn scan alt.
13. Any WH connecting you to somewhere else is a potential threat. Be aware of incoming WHs, because someone opened that door straight to you and you better believe that they’re gonna use it.
14. If you see a ship you don’t recognize on the scanner, run. And possibly alert anyone you happen to be with.
15. If your corp mates say run, run.
16. If your corp mates start shouting, run.
17. if your corp mate types a sentence fragment, spelled poorly, consisting of any two of the following words, run.
“Sisters”"fuck”"combat probes”"probes”"directional”"crap”"dead”"podded”"run”"any ship name you or he is not currently flying”"back to pos”"damnit”"ANYTHING in capslock”"gibberish”
18. Pick some symbol on your keyboard, like # or %. Rename all the ships at your pos with that symbol. If you see a ship without that symbol, run. Warning, easily countered.
19. NEVER assume that the designated Dir scanner dude is scanning. If he has a heart attack or takes a piss, you’re fucked and he could just say they had good scan ships.
20. Did I mention you’re going to die?
21. Getting whatever you came for safely inside the PoS does not mean it’s safe. Get it to Jita first, then call it safe.
22. Anchor your hangar and maintenance array next to each other. Bookmark one of them and call it “PoS” warp to it in case of speedy ship swap.
23. Heavy interdictors are small ships that mean you can’t run away, and by the time you see one on the scanner, you’re already fucked.
24. DO NOT BRING A T2 RIGGED FACTION FIT HULK INTO A WH, YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT IF YOU DO SO.(Yes, this has happened. Lost it in under 3 hours. No, it wasn’t me.)
24b. Hell, don’t bring ANYTHING faction fit or t2 rigged unless a) you’re rich enough to buy two more of em or b) you don’t believe in Murphy’s Law.
25. Do not rig your hulk with drone mining augmenters or cargo expander. Use low-friction nozzles, they decrease align time and have saved my ass when there was literally a second difference between getting scrammed by a Loki and getting away.
26. Active tank for sleepers, buffer fit for PvP, mix of both if the site isn’t too hard for gank insurance.
27. If you are attacked during a sleeper run, target the ship and try and scram him. If you didn’t bring scrams to a sleeper fight(understandable) shoot him. The sleepers will eventually switch to him.
28. If a corp mate types”Hey, is that your ____” start aligning and getting up to speed with the nearest celestial until clarification is obtained.
29. If you see a scan ship on the directional, scan again and it’s not there, do not assume that he has left, or so help me I will tear a hole from my WH to yours through sheer rage and beat you over the head with a cloaking device.
30. If you live in a class 5 wormhole, remember iambeastx has a static class 5 entrance and will find you…. eventually. Assuming he figures out how to work a scan ship.
31. If you came into the WH to fight, there are people in here already that fight better than you. If you came here to mine, watch out for the first two groups.
32. Some people will build carriers and rorquals in places that mass limitations would not usually allow them. If a carrier drops on you in a C3, don’t be surprised.
33. Carriers can get into C4s, but not easily and only from a nullsec or incoming link from a C5 or C6. Don’t be too worried.
34. When in a C5 or C6, be worried about carriers. One carrier can shut down an entire mining op until they get bored, and a carrier w/ support fleet can screw over anything else. Except…another carrier with support fleet. Have fun.
35. If your PoS has no guns, jerks will shoot it. If your PoS has guns, they will send interceptors to extinguish your ammo. If you employ webbers, they will warp out and rep. If you employ warp scrammers, they will spider tank. The goal of a WH pos is not to destroy but to annoy the fuck out of. If they have a small force, then they’re not a problem for a PoS. If they have a large force, then they’re not gonna be bothered by a few turrets. Employ shield hardeners, SB ops, and jammers to make them lose interest.
36. Have the max amount of strontium. Or you will regret it.
37. If you afk outside the bubble of a PoS, you will probably die. If you’re cloaked, you may get uncloaked. It happens.
38. C1-C2 are soloable with few skills. C3s take some skills, C4s require two people and RR, C5s require at least five people and C6s require at least ten attentive people.
39. You are going to die.
40. Do not bring implants into a WH and expect them to last over a week. I bought a set of +3s, they lasted 3 months, then I got podded twice in the same 3 days.
41. Skilled scanners can scan out a mining op and only have the probes visible to you for seven seconds. And in the WH, the scanners operate. Make the connection?
42. Never assume that the ships you see on the scanner are the only ships in the wormhole.
43. Whs will make you obscenely rich, assuming you can find an unoccupied one, not get ganked within the first week and get whatever you came for out of the wh.
44. A wormhole in your system is not active unless you or someone else warps to it. Do not activate your static WH unless you need an exit, or you’ve got one more route people can use to find you.
45. By popular opinion, a drake is a good, cheap ship for running up to class three WHs. Don’t forget, popular opinion in an internet spaceship game doesn’t mean much.
45. Don’t type a blog post while mining in a C6.

New corp in Wormhole SPACE!! FINALLY!!

So last night I decided to do some scanning and found a wormhole! Nothing new there, after warping to it I was thinking of going after some sleepers so i had fitted up my trusty Harbinger Battlecruiser but decided to go in with my Covert Ops scanning frigate first as i could cloak my ship and make sure its safe first!
It had been a while since I had been in a wormhole so once I got in i warped off to a nearby planet to avoid being killed by someone who might have been coming through!
unfortunately i forgot to bookmark the location of the wormhole on the other side so that i could get back to it when i would want to exit.
So i started Scanning the system to find the WH. I found two other sites, a LADAR site and GRAVimetric site. Randomly i decided to say hi in the local chat channel, and someone answered!
I knew someone was in there too because my directional Scanner showed three ships were around. 2 Covetor Mining Barges and 1 Badger industrial Hauling ship. They chatted me up and told me they were a WH corp and having always wanted to be part of one I joined up!!
I mined some tasty Low sec rare asteroids for a while with them 
and finally they accepted me and took me to their POS station which had a mobile lab, a corp hangar and shields! I went in and out of the Wh 4 times to pick up all the ore i mined and now im gonna go back in with my ships and leave them at the station because by tomorrow the wh entrance to my system will close and ill have no way of getting back to them and their station! The ore I collected was very valuable and i will now be able to manufacture a whole bunch of ships with the Blueprints I bought from Jita last week!
The POS and the shields around it


Fitting Station
Top of the POS




I had until 6am to move all my ships from Empire Space where ive been for the past year into the wormhole before it closed. Otherwise id have to go and find another entrance to the same wormhole space and it may be 30 jumps or more away! I brought my Covetor mining ship, which i had loaded full of the modules ill probably need during my stay in WY space through and stored it in the Ship Maintenance Bay. Now just need to bring the Battlecruiser, Covops and the Hauler and I can go to sleep!
Due to being super tired , I forgot I  had already entered the wormhole and when I opened eve i warped back out again only to find that i couldn't go back through for another 2 mins because my secondary coils had become polarized!! Instead of wasting precious time , i flew back home got my covops, packaged it and put it in my hauler to bring two ships across in one go!





  only 5 mins left till downtime now!! 2 mins left and time is actually counting down!!
Finally I didnt make it by something like 30 seconds...
the server shutdown as i was warping to the wormhole!! i hope that when i wake up the entrance will still be there! or its gonna suck!
More Eve stories to some soon! tell me what you thought of it!