Wow, I haven't written one of these posts since July of last year! For those of you just joining us these posts are mini-recaps of fights I've had recently in all their glory, horror, and honest perspective. These are not intended to hurt anyone's feelings, but provide an honest re-telling of the events surrounding each fight. As best I can remember them. I might win 83% of the fights I take but that doesn't mean I don't screw up every so often.
Let's get started.
The Insurgency was raging in our neighborhood yesterday and that means systems in Stage V without the usual worry regarding gate guns. It has been a relatively uneventful series of insurgency in our systems lately and that has been a bummer for the most part. As usual other players tend to cluster up in one of two systems and rarely venture out on their own. I was just landing on the Murethand gate when this Noctis popped out next to me. By the time I reacted he had managed to warp off, but I noticed he warped to the next gate and not a station. So I followed him. And I jumped the next gate ahead of him and set up to catch him on the other side. Sure enough he popped out about 8k from me. The funny thing is that a Rook showed up towards the end. I thought he had come to try and save his buddy, but he just sat there on the gate with us. I did briefly consider attacking the Rook, but I had some heat damage I was worried about and I figured I had already pressed my luck enough.
Sometimes the Medium Advance has a recon in it. All we saw was an Atron and a Catalyst, but they were hiding a darker secret. I had two other pilots with me on this adventure and we had intel on the location of the Curse ahead of time. The only reason I bring this fight up is for two reasons. First of all, you should always wait until your fleet mates are ready. We ended up sliding early and one of our guys was behind. And secondly - damn, sometimes this game really annoys me! I still don't believe I lost this fight. Oh sure I had no cap but I swear that Catalyst died. And if the Catalyst died then the Atron would have died and I could have just warped out. But that is not what happened apparently. Eve can be very frustrating. And even I am not immune to its whims.
The Bad: Vexors Vs Ferox Navy Issue
I thought a nice fleet of Vexors would be fun to run this past Saturday. And while we always end up having fun, the Vexors weren't the best choice. We had problems getting fights and engaging with anyone. We even took a Wormhole down to minnie low sec and didn't have much luck down there either. But we did manage to grab a few decent kills. And I bring this one up primarily because it happened in High Sec. Yep, that's right. I don't often get a chance to go into HS and, because of the insurgency, we were able to catch this FNI on the far gate after his buddies ran off. The Ferox isn't the bad part of this story though, because we are idiots we ended up losing a couple of ships (including our Logi) because we didn't appreciate the new rules in HS. It was pretty bad. But a few minutes after this we'd catch a Vigilant, so everything worked out.
It is rare to see a solo Damavik in space. And I had my reservations about taking this fight, but as usual, I did it anyway. And here is where I would like to insert an encouragement for anyone reading this - take the fight. You never know what might happen. I have literally never fought a Damavik with a Hookbill before, so I prepared as best I could and tried to use the ship's advantages to my advantage. The Damavik is not a particularly nasty ship, but fitted the right way it can be challenging if you are flying the wrong ship against it. Which is what I didn't know, was my ship the wrong one? As it turned out, and it was close, it wasn't. Dual webs are a real bitch.
Some days are just cruel. Earlier this day I had a good fight against a Cruor. For some reason this Cruor decided to attack me in my Arbitrator - probably because he thought it was just another multi-boxer fitted version. But later the same day I slid a Harpy into a Cat Navy and suddenly I had the entire local on top of me. I quickly told my wing to stay away and quietly watched as more and more of them arrived. Only four managed to get on my kill, but at the end there they had at least eight or nine ships in the plex with me. All is fair in love and war, and almost every day in Eve ends with me getting blobbed to death. But even so, this was a bit much. Could have been some fun there, but instead it was just a club. Oh well.
And there you have it. Every day is an adventure and you never know what might happen next. Every fight is a story and sometimes that story is a good one, and sometimes it isn't. But still we undock and try again.
I hope to see you in space.