Crime & Punishment

Just one question Mr Bronson Hughes?


How can we trust a "Knight of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration" when you don't wear a black Fedora and Ray Bans. Nor do you accompany any of your posts to great Blues Music such as Sweet Home Chicago.

Sigh

Damn Nitshe always fraks it up.



If only CCP would give us hats.

WE NEED HATS

Lesson 80: Sometimes you really just have to scratch your head and wonder "WTF mate?"

I managed to whore on this kill in Amarr. The victim had gone criminal right off of the Amarr trade hub undock. Aside from the obvious "watch your safeties" lesson (which I covered way back in Lesson 3), the raw weirdness of this fit is just...well, I'm speechless.

I need to spend more time in wormholes before I mock WH-specific fits. Derp. I still got a laugh out of that guy for going criminal in hisec though....

Lesson 81: Faction Warfare delivers. Looking for something new to try, I joined the Amarr Empire faction in FW figuring I'd give it a go for a spell.

Well, literally the first time I undock after going live, I manage to bag a competing pop-popper in Amarr. Heck, I hadn't even had time to activate my sensor boosters yet! Good stuff this Faction Warfare!

Looks like a wormhole fit. Nothing too weird about it

Really? Wow, I've obviously not spent nearly enough time in wormholes then.



I thought about it, but I don't think that I'm nearly enough of a "big deal" to warrant that.

Lesson 82: Locator agents are a fine art. It's easy enough to show up in your wardec target's backyard using locator agents. It's another thing entirely to stall negotiations to join your corp while one of your pilots burns to their seemingly remote location just to put a "hello" in local to let them know that you know exactly where they live and where they sleep.

Good times I say, good times indeed.

Lesson 84: Waste not, want not. Given that wasn't planning on sticking around for long and that I have a large-ish pile of assets to burn through, I've been taking on fights that are riskier than normal. Taranis vs. Ishtar? Sentinel vs. accomplished FW frigate and pod killer?

Sure, why not! They were fun!

Anyways, I was going over some of my fits, kills, losses, what I enjoy flying, and, most importantly, what I have time to fly, when something dawned on me: I have multiple millions of skillpoints allocated to things that I will never realistically fly again (i.e. capital ships) and a pair of capital ships sitting around that have never been, nor will likely ever be, flown in anger.

Screw that!

I'm going to ditch those wasted skill points and beef up the skills that I actually use whenever I fly but never got around to maxing out. I've sold off one of those capital ships to pay for extractors/injectors (and ships that I'll need) and I've offered up the Thanatos (loaded with the fit of the Moros I sold) as a reward for an upcoming competition.

Now, you may be thinking to yourself, "Bronson, this is all good and fine and very introspective, but what the hell does it have to do with C&P?"

Well, I've found what I most enjoy about EvE is being an a$$hole. I don't have time for roaming losec or doing proper wardecs anymore, so I'll settle on being that guy who catches folks when they least expect it and give them a little RF EMP wake up call. You know the kinds. The -10s in 'ceptors. The flashy pods. The idiots hauling valuable cargo with an active killright available. And maybe I'll even get in some suicide ganking. I can log on and find those kinds of targets in abundance between Amarr and Jita and not need much time to do it. And I can do this entirely solo, so I don't need to Omega my other accounts, and largely in Thrashers, so I don't need to bother worrying about things like income.

Who knows...maybe I'll end up sticking around after all....

Corollary to Lesson 84: One consequence of realizing that I have more skills than I'll ever need is the realization that I don't need to give a rat's behind about skill training rates anymore. Clean pods for me from here on out! (Expect a flood of stupid pod losses in the near future, heh.)

SPANKS BACK


*does happy dance*

Try a rail Gnosis. You will wander why you havent always used one :D

Failing that the arty Gnosis is about as good has the cane fleet but cheaper and tankier

Also gnosis scan res.... Are we sure this thing is a BC?

try it with 4 scripted sebo's and 2 scripted tc's should out track the cane no? + it can fit a fairly beastly armor tank with only 2 gyro's. I feel rails are better for most things because their alpha is enough to volley pods shuttles and alot of frigates but where it really comes in handy is most of the time it can get in 2 volleys that track much nicer than the arty on incoming suspect/wt traffic. Bare in mind this is the highsec equivelent of lowsec gate camping and I can't think of a worse way to pass the time than actually doing PvE