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I've been taking the opportunity lately to work on my solo-pvp skills, so our killboard may be a little more red than usual.

That said, we have a perfect environment for just about any kind of PvP you'd like to try, including solo pvp. We don't take our killboard efficiency THAT seriously, and yet we still manage to get some pretty good stats.

So come give us a try. You just might enjoy it :)

It has its moments :)

we just moved a bunch of corpies stuff out to a new deployment area for them, no need to struggle when we have logistics this good.

our recruiting channel RDNT. has been busy lately with all our new friends, drop by for a chat.

Of course, we shouldn't tell you where the new deployment area is at the moment.

:)

Things don't always go right - but that doesn't mean they have to end badly...

Just the other day I was on a SOV bashing fleet with a few fellow member of THORN and some of our allies. It was late - about 3 am local time for me - and having just reinforced another station, we started heading out to our fourth system of the op, supercarriers and carriers jumping out in a blaze of jump drives, as I recovered my fighters.

Unfortunately I was one of the slightly further away carriers by the time we'd finished off the latest target and my fighters were being slow to return. By the time I'd gotten them all onboard only one other carrier was left, but there was still a significant number of fighter bombers stranded between me and the station. A couple of the Supercarriers had jumped without recovering all their bombers (I did say it was late...).

We'd had a single neutral in the system with us throughout the op, but hadn't really seen any evidence of him, so I agreed I'd go back and collect the stranded bombers, knowing I could jump out at a moment's notice. So, I turned my carrier around and started burning back towards the bombers, and began trying to work out how I might be able to get to them before the destination cyno ran out. That's where some of Eve's peculiar mechanics really didn't help me. I was just 137km from the station, so I couldn't jump to it. The planet was off to my right, and I couldn't bookmark a drone in space, so warping to the planet then back was out too. I was still trying to figure out what I might be able to do to speed up the process of getting to the drones 40km away, when I spotted a ship on my overview. As quick as I could, I right-clicked on the capacitor and selected "Jump" to the cyno, and suddenly nothing happened. I was already being warp disrupted, so couldn't jump. I was a sitting duck.

In desperation I hunted through my list of drones to find light drones I could use to attack the Anathema who had me locked down, a precious few seconds passing. And local was beginning to fill up with reds. I tried to target the Anathema, but since my fit was intended for hitting stationary targets with subcap support (the situation I'd been in less than a minute before), I didn't have any sensor boosters fitted, and it was taking an age to get a target lock. Before I could loose the drones on the Anathema, his friends had arrived and it was game over.

My buddies in the fleet discussed whether it was worth trying to save me, but the FC sensibly decided against that idea - with my full support - and I calmly told them not to even try, there was too much to be lost in an attempt to save one carrier. As was said to those who protested - sh*t happens, and there's no sense in compounding an error. I felt bizarrely calm about my impending doom.

Carrier down
Then podded

I posted a brief report and apology on our corp forums (no-one likes to lose cap ships, and it doesn't do anything good for your killboard stats), and gratefully headed to bed - by this point it was half past three in the morning and I had a busy day ahead.

The next day when I finally got to the computer after a fairly long day, I had messages of support from my corp mates on the forum, and pledges of enough ISK to replace the carrier. So, not such a bad day after all. And a good learning experience for myself and others. The moral of the story - don't try to be "a good samaritan" when you're dog tired and the situation hasn't been fully evaluated. We should have just left those poor bombers to their fate and proceeded on with the mission.


Ardent Spirits is a close knit community of like-minded pilots, and we help each other when things go badly, whether in game or "Real Life", and have a bit of fun at each others' expense when things go well or not-so-badly.

And we're happy to bring new people into our community, if you share our core values - if you're basically mature (that doesn't mean boring!), and willing to "play well with others", you too can be a part of this great team.

Come join us - what is there to lose?

It was a hell of a fun ride and those bubbles had a key role. We will just have to go get another one

Who else will be with us when we do?

Come join the fun!

Another story, this one from our time in Initiative Mercenaries. The title of the story is:

Clueless fools with to much isk to spare


The story behind that one is either hillarious or rather depressing depending how you prefer internet-games to be .

We had just finished a round of POS-bashing and stood down most of the fleet when someone called on coms that there was a Moros (Gallente Dreadnought) sitting on one of the stations in Maila and we started discussing if it would be possible to gank it somehow.

While we planned this, someone mentioned seeing this guy warp to a gate so we started figuring he might not have a clue how to use a Capital Ship. And sure enough, he convoes one of the guys who's having eyes on him and ask (in russian) how to use the gate with his Dread.

At this moment, small horns start appearing on all our foreheads and we quickly scrounge up someone who can speak russian and jump him into the convo to translate for our FC. We had a suspision that he might simply be trolling us but we all wanted to take the chanse so we prepared a fleet of 40-50 ships and stayed docked while our FC with translator tried to get him to warp straight into our little trap.

After some atempts he got nervous and started to suspect we where just out to kill him (*gasp* Noooo waaay we would do that!) and docked up at another station (two cynoes going up in system didn't help either).

At this point we where all worked up and just waiting for the call to warp to either the Purjola-gate or planet one (our designated ambush-points) when an alliance-mate started a convo of his own with this guy and using only google-translate, told him that we where all n00bs and got him to warp to him at planet 1!


Moments later, he warped straight into our trap and was quickly tackled. The call went out and a few seconds later our entire fleet was right ontop of him and teached him how reality in EVE looks!


Sometimes it's fun to be an evil bastard

Much laughter was had. We even got it on FRAPS

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As the Eve Ads say - I was there. I was in on the original fleet, and listening in on comms as the downfall of the poor ill-informed Russian was plotted. I just couldn't bring myself to get in on the killmail - it just didn't seem "sporting" somehow.

Ah well... to each his own, I suppose!

Our first recruit from the new batch was promoted to Wingman and given two medals this week!

We have medals (which sound naff, but are actually pretty cool) given out for a variety of things, and one of our newbros managed to earn the 2 in his first month.

We've also started a "New Bro" competition - a few free T2 hulls provided by our veterans which will be given to the recruits who do best in certain things :)

Come join the fun!

Still some spots available and a lot going on, come and join us in Null sec