My EVE

from http://poeticstanziel.blogspot.ca/2012/04/hulkageddon-v-opening-salvo.html

It was a good night for The Fancy Hats Corporation.

First of all, Corelin recorded first blood for Hulkageddon V, getting a Mackinaw kill two minutes into the official start of the month long festivities.

The Hats killed another three exhumers while I was enroute with clone #3 from Syndicate.

I recorded kill #5 for The Hats, a solo Hulk gank in my Catalyst. This after Corelin and Millie Milquetoast stole two Orcas out from under poor Ghostdawg13's nose. Apparently, you mine in your Hulks while keeping your very expensive jetcans (aka Orcas) targeted, and this sort-of kind-of protects them from being stolen (since you cannot board a ship that is being targeted.) That is, until someone flies in a Blackbird and scrambles targeting with some ECM. Voila! Two strangers jack your Orcas.

We tried to sell the Orcas back to the miners we stole them from, but they didn't seem all that interested. It was a good deal too, under market value.

(Seems like a really silly way to mine. Who the hell isn't going to exchange a Blackbird for an Orca? Although, not really an exchange, since you just toss the now pilotless Blackbird into your new Orca's hangar bay.)

All told, by the end of the evening, The Fancy Hats had 12 exhumer kills under our belts. If the damned Goonswarm Hulkageddon killboard was working properly, The Fancy Hats would currently be winning EVE Online.

I tallied up three kills, though should have had five (four of them exhumers). My first atempted kill was on a Retriever. I was excited and wanted to kill something. Unfortunately, I didn't read the instructions on my weapons and ammo, engaging from 4.5km. Opening up the instruction manual afterwards, my weapons have an optimal of 2.5km, a falloff of 1.5km. I was in the second falloff. Was promptly killed by CONCORD. The second loss was at the end of the night. Since I'd solo ganked a Hulk earlier in the evening, hubris decided I could do it again. I was not successful. Catalysts cannot solo tanked Hulks. I should have waited for the backup to arrive. As they say in The Fancy Hats, "Overkill is the best kill."

I'm also down to a security status of -1.22. That could put a crick into plans if people start putting bounties on me.

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