protip for my future self: make drafts as you go instead recompiling posts from the memory.
Setting your priorities straight
Eve is like a bucket full of holes. You can keep pouring your time into it all you want, but it will never be enough. Leaving my poor analogies behind, I am happy to have quit eve as a full time job and treat it more as a hobby. It's very hard to do it for a such competitive person as myself. Even if it's pixel stuff, progress is progress and I like to win.
Even though I love EVE, it doesn't earn my bread and butter. It only make sense that person invests in himself in order to get better returns. Investing in EVE, unfortunately, gives very minimal returns if any. So I decided to reorganize my time and invest in myself. So what I have been up to?
- Learned basic programming to remove a lot of shitty tasks at work;
- Learning bloody swedish language with little success;
- Bought a guitar (hardest part done ech?);
- Kicked a lot of asses in dota 2 with techies release.
Continuing Cloaky Bastard adventures
Slowly getting back to EVE...again.... for the Nth time. I packed my bags and set off to the unknown. Nowdays it is a bit harder to find a proper wormhole to stalk people since CCP removed API for kills information. Now I have to be creative and investigate corp towers, signatures and anomalies and make the best judgment call if I am likely to find any targets.
Being sneaky bastard makes my game. I feel like a well hidden predator watching his prey and waiting for the right moment. Best part of this is that I can do any other activities while stalking. It requires minimal effort. The only requirement is to be online and check that D-scan once in awhile.
I miss my lowsec smartbombing pods days though. Back then, I even had timed all covert ops warp time to the second. If everything went right, I could kill those pesky cloaky frigates without even seeing them. It really brought a sense of achievement. I even had plans to multibox several battleships to kill blockade runners, but after checking out the math, I did not have enough accounts to do it nor I felt like creating any more of them. I was never interested in an even battle. Killing someone who doesn't expect to be killed brings me most satisfaction.
Being sneaky bastard makes my game. I feel like a well hidden predator watching his prey and waiting for the right moment. Best part of this is that I can do any other activities while stalking. It requires minimal effort. The only requirement is to be online and check that D-scan once in awhile.
Good old days
I miss my lowsec smartbombing pods days though. Back then, I even had timed all covert ops warp time to the second. If everything went right, I could kill those pesky cloaky frigates without even seeing them. It really brought a sense of achievement. I even had plans to multibox several battleships to kill blockade runners, but after checking out the math, I did not have enough accounts to do it nor I felt like creating any more of them. I was never interested in an even battle. Killing someone who doesn't expect to be killed brings me most satisfaction.
Just rather hypothetically; how many smartbombers would it take for your average blockade runner ?
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid to lie since it was couple of years ago, but I believe somewhat like 8 rokhs with full rack of EM smartbombs should take out standard Viator. I would like to revisit idea at some point in the future. Killing haulers and/or tengus with smartbombs sound very lucrative.
ReplyDeleteNeat, I've got 2 accounts and 6 friends - will give it a try.
ReplyDeleteMight be difficult to time it, because you have to be precise to the second. Especially with new warp changes I am not sure how that is viable. But by all means, try it and let me know how it went.
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