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I have noticed a lot of people do a "whats in my hanger " post, i have never done one before but thought this may be fun... please keep in mind this is what i have in Isho (our home base), I have loads of other crap spread over the place in little cashes's but this is the main bulk of my fighting fleet. click to enbiggen

Thoughts on plexers

As

HThere are two types of player in lowsec, hunters and pray, the key to sucsess is understanding which you are, which is a very fluid concept most of the time.

Plexers may feel safe, they have their cloaks, they have their stabs, and they have safety in numbers which makes them feel like this

However we have cloaks too.. And we fit lots of scrams and no mater how often you get to run, sooner or later...

/astral

A new style

I have lost some interest in blogging lately, but have been recording fights a whole bunch more so this blog will be part blog part video diary from now on. I will still blog about the stuff that interests me however.

I have over the last few days racked up some good kills for only two losses and one of those was a slicer that I lost at a safe while editing some of these vid's. But below I'll link some kills I enjoyed and a few YouTube vid's of me popping peeps, nothing epic as all the good fights I had so much adrenaline pumping I forgot to hit record.

I hate venture's and theirpods too!.

This was a astral and rixx special on a corax and this one against a cormerent, rixx in that Tristan was tanking like a bitch!!

This was a good duel fight against a hookbill and a harpy. And finally, some vids of random fights... I will get better at these and remember to turn on the record button more often (honest)...

moved and moving

So I have moved house, and been out of the game for almost a month, lots has changed while I have been away.

While I was gone I got the urge to start exploring again and maybe run some ded sites so I will be moving a portion of my fleet off to start that little side project, this time tho I won't be all alone as I have no intention of leaving stay frosty, one of the cool things about this corp is the freedom to enjoy all of lowsec's wonderous pursuits, and this project conversely does not mean I won't be engaging in piracy, just that my time will be split a little.

Lots also seems to be going on behind the sceanes, but for now, all I will say is I will be very busy in and out of game for the forseeable future. /Astral

a collection of thoughts.

The last 4 months have been interesting for me in real life, I have moved home, changed my working hours, had a death in the family and am now on the verge of moving again. This has resulted in a rather irratic time in eve.

PvP wise I have had some great fights lately, but due to a lack of dilligence and practice my kill board isn't looking great, have won some great fights against tough pilots that I have known and respected for some time, however I have had some silly losses, including a curse on a roam (I should have flown something cheaper) and tonight a vengeance and my pod to a tusker in a daredevil (was a good fight tho). I am trying out flying a few different ships nowdays, normaly I just fly amarr or tristans but am having some fun with kestrals breachers and condors lately.

in pve , vespa is plodding along in lucifers hammer, normaly station trading in dodixe or running a few level 4s in her navy raven, I am also one of the directors in lucifers hammer, but as the corp is just getting started there is lots and little to do all at the same time. I'm not sure I'm really the best candidate for a director as I have less time than some others and less interest in the politics than almost all...also vespa is an alt...if I have the time to be on and focued it is with astral. Still I have known rixx a long time and he trusts me (as much as you can trust anyone in eve) I think.

Now as I said at the start of this post I will be moving shortly again so I don't see my play time stabilizing for a month or 3, but I would like to do a series of posts on the frigs I'm flying and how they perform (maybe with vids to accompany) , I'd also like to invest a little more time in lucifers hammer to make it a worthy sister corp of stay frosty.

Astral.

worst Talos ever.

So I logged astral in for a bit last night to keep my eye in, after a few mins sea4elder tells us a talons just docked at our station, I check the toon and it's a 2013 toon.

So I figure let's see if he is really new and undock in a harby, he undocks and after the invuln period I lock him up apply web scream nuet and guns, at this point he could just redock, but no he melts in seconds, I start taking gate guns but can tank them easy in the harby, so I scoop the loot and warp off while angor mau snaggs the pod.

Now some people feel bad about popping new players, personally I don't discriminate, but this fit just makes no sense. Hope learns he from it.

Astral

Lucifers Hammer

So anyone that reads Evoganda may be aware Rixx has made his of corp of lucifers hammer into the sister corp of Stay Frosty, What was originally thought of as a home for alts and an easy way to be set blue will now become a legitimate indy corp in its own right.

The trouble with this is rixx has neither the time nor the energy to run two corps..so he has set a "council of directors" in place to run in his stead..and for some reson beyond my understanding he trusts me enough to make vespa a Director.

I have been considering this for the last couple of days and I have some pretty big ideas of stuff vespa is doing..for a start, she needs to earn me more than astral spends, ATM I tend to fund my playtime with Isk from selling plex which allows me to focus on PVP rather than grinding in the precious time i have, however while I will continue to do this I want vespa to amass a small fortune in the background.

I also want to begin (well already have sort of) seeding Stay frosty's systems with ships and mods to buy..mainly AF's cruisers and the odd BC, which can turn a small profit, but i dont own a jump freighter yet and importing these in a transport ship is cutting into my time again, so will probably be using black frog unless a corpie happens to want the isk instead.

with this in mind i will be reducing activity in the short term with astral (REDUCE not stop) and use vespa to help get lucifers hammer going and build astral a financial empire with which to dominate lowsec. /Astral

In The End It's All Fun

I have seen a lot of people fall by the wayside in eve because they stop doing what is fun, hell it even happened to me a few times..yup I quit...then came back..then quit...then came back. That's why battleclinic thinks astral has 70 mill sp but in reality has 35 ( although vespa also has 12 mill) still ..

So with that in mind I decided to put down in ink (sort of) what it is that after almost 5 years of eve still gets my juices going and tickles my pickle!

Firstly- solo frigate combat: This is what eve is all about, the thrill of finding a ship you think you can take, assessing the odds, then going for it anyway :) NOTHING gets the adrenaline going quite like this, and it doesn't matter if its a 5 mill tristan or a 200 mill daredevil you just need to find that thrill again and again, the fact that loss in eve is real make you body react like a high stakes poker game EVERY time, you learn to function with it, but it doesn't go away.

Secondly - Small gangs : Same premise as above except the adrenaline hit is MUCH lower, still there but now you got something you didn't before.. a team! the social aspect of having fun in a group kicks in and win or lose you share those little WTF moments and have a great laugh as you go ..hunting baiting...killing...its awsome.

Thirdly : undocking with a shit load of goods : this may sound dull.. but when you have been on the reciving end of a gank you will realize just how easy people can take your stuff away, and when you undock in a transport ship with half a bill of mods and ships in the hold, in a known gank system...oo there is that sweet adrenaline again

Lastly- Selling my shit: this is what entertains me while I work buy low sell high...or my way buy in high (sec) sell in low (sec), not mega bucks but I often have 500 mill to 1 bill in orders up at any time, and watching the money trickle in makes my day just that lil bit sweeter

inspiration..

In support of Rixx's anti WCS program...