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04-04-2007 , 01:19 AM
How exposed are you to risk of being PVPed if you are doing missions in 0.4? I was attacked twice in two days when ratting in 0.4 back in January, and I'm wondering if missioning is safer due to the relative difficulty in finding me. The only level 3 combat-oriented agent I have enough standing to access is in 0.4 on the edge of empire space (Hyseria in The Citadel).

Also, if/when I ever do get access to the single combat-oriented level 4 mission agent (Ahanen in U4-Q2V) in the corp I'm farming (Expert Distribution), how possible is it for me to run missions there? Whatever the heck U4-Q2V is, it sounds like 0.0 space. Should I assume I'll have to ally with the guild who controls that region to get access?
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04-04-2007 , 02:22 AM
U4-Q2V is in Syndicate. And you're right - it is in 0.0. When I go to empire space I have to go through Syndicate and there are always pirates gate camping. Especially in the system closest to empire (at the Orvolle/PF-346 gate in my case). But if you look at U4-Q2V on the map browser, it seems fairly quiet.

Get in a jump clone without implants and fly a shuttle out there and have a look. Then if you get podded, you'll only lose 7-9K ISK.
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04-04-2007 , 07:11 AM
Syndicate is like pirate central in eve. If there was one region i wouldn't run lowsec missions into that would probably be it.
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04-04-2007 , 11:38 AM
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How exposed are you to risk of being PVPed if you are doing missions in 0.4? I was attacked twice in two days when ratting in 0.4 back in January, and I'm wondering if missioning is safer due to the relative difficulty in finding me. The only level 3 combat-oriented agent I have enough standing to access is in 0.4 on the edge of empire space (Hyseria in The Citadel).

I made the move to low-sec space a while back due to annoying overpopulation in the high sec systems with good lvl 4 agents. I'm in a 0.3 system about fifteen jumps away from Jita, so it's not too remote in terms of getting back to selling/buying stuff.

The pirate risk is significant, but not too out of control in my experience. In three weeks of running lvl 4 missions I have gotten my ship blown up twice by pirates. The first time was totally my fault, as I lingered too long on a lvl 4 mission, working on salvaging ships as I went and not monitoring local nearly enough. It was also at 3AM so I figured I'd be safe...but a persistent pirate managed to probe me out and kill me (but I got his support ship!). The second kill was due to a gate camp by a rather active pirate group I often see around these parts. I managed to outrun them a few times but they had camps at all the gates of the surrounding systems so ultimately I met my demise.

All in all I think it's worth the extra risk considering the lack of lag and the higher LP rewards (I get about 10K LPs per mission now, and my connections skills are only at lvl 4 so far). Just be mindful of the local channel and run quicker missions so there's less of a chance of gankers probing you out.

Swede
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04-04-2007 , 02:23 PM
So I guess I should be looking at changing which NPC corp I farm for standing, to one where the level 4's might be more doable.

Or more logical, join a guild that has some area of 0.0 secured, and then work towards agent(s) within that area.
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04-05-2007 , 12:07 PM
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Syndicate is like pirate central in eve. If there was one region i wouldn't run lowsec missions into that would probably be it.
I'd say missioning in Syndicate is safer than in lowsec, tbh. It's a lot easier to see if someone's probing you out -- keep directional scanner up at all times and start scanning when someone hits local. it's easy to stay aligned up to a station, but it's often better to warp to a safespot near the station in case they warped an interdictor to the station to try to bubble you there (warp disrupt probes show on scanner, but you have to turn off the 'use overview settings')

Also if you really want to mission in 0.0 you could try getting standings up with ORE and join up with BGBR/Alektorophobia, who have designs on Outer Ring...

Unless you really dig the LP rewards though, ratting or mining is a lot more worthwhile in 0.0...
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04-06-2007 , 07:59 AM
So I'm a newb to this and have started producing missles for the hell of it and because the system I'm in didn't have any. I'm seeing folks buy 3 or 4k of these things and wondering what the deal is? Are they selling them somewhere else or something? My price is a little over region standard.
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04-06-2007 , 08:35 AM
Last time I needed missiles, I bought 25000. I have about 6000 left, so I'll need some more soon.
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04-06-2007 , 01:25 PM
Yup. I buy 5-25k at a time. Depending on how far from the market i'm using them.
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04-06-2007 , 04:56 PM
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It's a lot easier to see if someone's probing you out -- keep directional scanner up at all times and start scanning when someone hits local. it's easy to stay aligned up to a station, but it's often better to warp to a safespot near the station in case they warped an interdictor to the station to try to bubble you there (warp disrupt probes show on scanner, but you have to turn off the 'use overview settings')

Also if you really want to mission in 0.0 you could try getting standings up with ORE and join up with BGBR/Alektorophobia, who have designs on Outer Ring...
I have no idea what any of this means.
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04-11-2007 , 12:08 PM
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Syndicate is like pirate central in eve. If there was one region i wouldn't run lowsec missions into that would probably be it.
I'd say missioning in Syndicate is safer than in lowsec, tbh. It's a lot easier to see if someone's probing you out -- keep directional scanner up at all times and start scanning when someone hits local. it's easy to stay aligned up to a station, but it's often better to warp to a safespot near the station in case they warped an interdictor to the station to try to bubble you there (warp disrupt probes show on scanner, but you have to turn off the 'use overview settings')

Also if you really want to mission in 0.0 you could try getting standings up with ORE and join up with BGBR/Alektorophobia, who have designs on Outer Ring...

Unless you really dig the LP rewards though, ratting or mining is a lot more worthwhile in 0.0...
I just started doing some ratting in 0.0 in a cruiser. Been blown up a few times by other players, but my setup is so cheap I came out a little ahead in ISK. Loads more fun than higher sec ratting (F1, F2, F3, F4, pop, repeat...)

Last night I decided to try something different as I was tired of getting blown up. Fitted my Rifter (have taken out 0.0 battle cruisers with it but its takes so long to pop them) with a WCS, Stabs, MWD, and a rack of salvagers. Over 2Km/sec with the MWD and dual stabbed it aligns fast.

I made more in a hour salvaging than I could ratting in the cruiser. And If I got popped, I'd be out about 300K after insurance. I made about 6 mil salvaging in an hour.
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04-11-2007 , 03:12 PM
Nice chigger that sounds like a good change. I fought my second carrier last night. Fun time, killed a hac, bs and bc and lost my raven. But the raven had a veeeery cheap fit. Maybe worth 3mil total after hull and insurance costs.

Engagement goes like this:

We fly to RISE territory to [censored] some bitches up. Most of the group is drunk or high since apparently this is a SLOSH op. I am the only bs in the gang which i find out about halfway there (i'm too lazy to check and see what everyone else is flying). Supposedly there is someone on station who is aggressed so we jump the gate and warp our gang of about 30 there. He docks while we are in warp. Booo. We send scouts to belts and nearby stations.

We find a couple of bses on one next door. Warp to the gate, as we get there we hear they docked. Boo. Warp back to station and some people that popped out dock again. We make some safe spots and chill in them for 5 minutes with a scout on station to give them time to hopefully form some [censored] up so we can make with the pew pew. Then we hear the magical words: the carrier has undocked!

30 people insta warping to the station, orders are out to bump it, nothing else at station so it is primary gogogo. We get it bumped away from the undock point and it calls in for reinforcements. A few bses start landing on top of us, a hac and some bcs and frigates. First primary is the hac since most of our gang is cruisers and he can probably insta pop them.

It takes me a bit of time to swap since i still had cruises pouring into the carrier so i'm halfway down the damage list on the hac . The next target is a dominix, yess. My kind of target. Turn on the cruise missiles and hit the secondary target with 3x sensor damps. Also got a point on him with my warp scram just in case no frigates locked him down. He lasts about 20 seconds. Midway through i become primary target for their side. A brutix, megathron, hurricane and caracal target me.

The mega was like 80km off with 425mm railgun II's, the brutix and caracal both had valkies on me, in addition to heavy missiles out of the caracal. The hurricane lit me up with 220mm vulcan autocannon II's. The hurricane was our next primary and goes down quickly, but that doesn't stem the flow of damage enough and my LAR can't keep up with the damage chewing into m armor. [censored]. I'm in structure at this point so i start clicking a gate to warp off too as soon as i'm in my pod. I lag out a bit as i die and come close to getting podded but make it out safely. A couple of inties, one more bs and about 10 fighters die after i do. Our side gets wiped out other than a caracal and one other cruiser. We wiped out something like 800mil worth of [censored] from them for total losses of maybe 250mil on our side. Half of that is from the raven hull i lost.

Overall a fun engagement and the first battleship i've lost in pvp (other than getting ganked by tyc recon [censored] at a gate once).
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04-12-2007 , 03:57 PM

Ok, I reactivated my old account. I can't remember where I am at in space, but I have two characters, a 4.5M SP cruiser pilot and a 1.5M SP mining alt. I would lean toward joining either a 2+2 corp, or the SA forum corp, or even the PA one. Where are most 2+2'ers? I need a break from WoW anyways.

Pancho
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04-12-2007 , 04:46 PM
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Ok, I reactivated my old account. I can't remember where I am at in space, but I have two characters, a 4.5M SP cruiser pilot and a 1.5M SP mining alt. I would lean toward joining either a 2+2 corp, or the SA forum corp, or even the PA one. Where are most 2+2'ers? I need a break from WoW anyways.

Pancho

Join the twoplustwo channel in game. The PA corp is Merch Industrial (MRCHI), the SA is Goonfleet/Goonswarm (OHGOD/LWTAX). Twoplustwo doesn't have a corp of its own but maybe some of our guys should start one. There are no 2p2ers in goonfleet that i know of, but two of us are in the PA corp. However most of the drunk people in the trip report i listed above were goons.
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04-12-2007 , 05:16 PM

Ok, will do. I will probably spend most of tonight patching though..... I wish I had joined SA forums long ago. I have followed that site for 6+ years, but never even used the forums. No Goonfleet since you gotta be registered for 3 months there. So its Groon or hook up with you. Is MRCHI allied with goonfleet? I want to help kill BoB! That is the whole reason for even joining.

Pancho
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04-12-2007 , 05:38 PM
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Ok, will do. I will probably spend most of tonight patching though..... I wish I had joined SA forums long ago. I have followed that site for 6+ years, but never even used the forums. No Goonfleet since you gotta be registered for 3 months there. So its Groon or hook up with you. Is MRCHI allied with goonfleet? I want to help kill BoB! That is the whole reason for even joining.

Pancho
I'll answer that question in game .
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04-12-2007 , 05:59 PM
I am most worried about where I am at space wise..... Hopefully I am in a position to get my ships and stuff to relative safety. Account tool says I got 25 mil ISK, so at least I am not broke and I think I have a cruiser or two.

Pancho
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04-12-2007 , 06:00 PM
Can you change your skill trainings through the website? Or do I have to login to do that?
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04-12-2007 , 06:49 PM
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Can you change your skill trainings through the website? Or do I have to login to do that?
Login.
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04-17-2007 , 10:16 PM
shout out to king4aday for hooking me up with 3mil isk.

about the game: i find it cool, esp. the whole training up your skills while offline.

game name is safic. can't say much else since im a total newbie. i do pilot a condor though, and i do own lvl 1 agents/missions. lol.
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04-18-2007 , 01:01 AM
king4aday is lsf xxi's alt.
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04-18-2007 , 02:03 PM
wow, i got lucky last night.

I had joined the greater goon since I have been a reader of SA for several years. Last night I was running missions and some dude was said thats it I quit. Corp chat is pretty much non-stop banter and bs and actually quite entertaining so I of course offered up the obligatory can I have your stuff. 30 seconds later my wallet started flashing. Not a broke noob anymore.

If you are looking for a guild that is half pvp and half totally screwing around, its a decent spot. Warning though, you must have very thick skin, and no concern for people being politically correct. The most accurate description of corp chat would be a mix of southpark(the movie not the TV show), borat, and Team America. Very non-pc. Go to greatergoon.net if you want to consider them or talk to me in game. I am usually int the twoplustwo channel and my char is Quixote.



Pancho
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04-23-2007 , 02:12 AM
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THREAD CAT > this game angers and confuses thread cat :,(
SOON THREAD CAT WILL CONTROL THE UNIVERSE
thread cat why don't I see you in Eve anymore

also sup thread, long time no see
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04-23-2007 , 05:17 AM
also stabn helped kill a carrier. It was mining veldspar in 0.0 like every good carebear should.
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05-15-2007 , 12:18 AM
Does anyone have a link to a guide or website on where the good mining is at(besides 0.0 space)? I've been to a lot of systems and can't find anything besides Veldspar. I hoping to find Kernite or Plagioclase(or another higher value ore). Also, what is the 2+2 chat channel? I tried looking for it and had no luck.
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