Late December I have left for a two weeks vacation back to my home country. It was a nice break. I was looking forward to see what 2016 will bring. Few months ago I had a post up looking for wormhole stalking partner. Soon I had me join two new guys. I was excited. We were off to a promising start, but fast forward to now, I come back from vacation to an empty corp. The new guy haven't logged since he joined the corp and my partner - Ganky has left.
We weren't in the same timezone and our job schedules made it hard to stalk the same wormholes. I was trying to recruit few more guys, one for EU and US timezone and have a very tight knit group, specializing in stalking particular wormholes. I was hoping to find like minded people that are ok to afk playstyle that I focus on. Of course it's hard to do any real recruitment during Christmas vacation.
The question now remains: what should I do next? While I do enjoy the stalking, it does get boring to do it solo for so long. The worst thing is to have no direction and no goals. Do I want to keep this minimalist playstyle? Should I just join a corp and dive into more social aspect of the game? Should I stay in wormholes? I honestly do not know. I will need to spend some time in the dark, empty space and make a decision. Until then, it's business as usual. I have a big story lined up for Friday. Here's the teaser.
Hi, Sad to hear Ganky left your blog inspired me to be a cloaky bastard but I most confess I haven't had much success. I enjoy your post and learn lots from it and your style of writing is entertaining... like reading a captain's journal.
ReplyDeleteIf you have are in the EU tz or can play during it, Cloaky Bastard is an AMAZING teacher. He's a genuinely impressive individual.
DeleteYes I too enjoy your blogs! Very good stuff. I invite you to check out my Corp! You seem like the type to fit right in.
ReplyDelete"Do I want to keep this minimalist playstyle?"
ReplyDeleteI find this question very interesting. I am also a solo player. I've been playing since 2009, with 2 main characters each over 120 million SP. One is a perfect Virtue prober with perfect link skills and all sub-BS racial weapons at T2 levels, and the other is a maxed subcap 4-race combat pilot. Despite being involved in some bigger and some much smaller pirate-type corps for my first 3-ish years, for the last 3 years or so my RL situation hasn't lent itself to being in a corp.
I thought hunting with a covert-probing-linked-tackle-T3 coupled with a max-gank covert Proteus as DPS was a "minimalist playstyle", even though that was a huge expansion from my intital solo ventures using only Covops Frig + Proteus combo.
When I first read about your Proteus + 3X Navy Domi fleet I was amazed that one person could wield that much covert ganking power, and I started looking for ways to make something like that work for me. I had trained into Blops a while ago hoping for bigger target selection, but Blobs have limited application in WH's, which were usually my main hunting grounds. Reading this blog made me realize that a single pilot could do more than I thought possible.
Reading now that you feel limited, with almost an order of magnititude more power than I ever projected, makes me wonder if it is ship capabilities that limits us as EvE players, or if it is something else.
By minimalist style I refer to time/effort spent to do things. In this case piloting solo Proteus or multiboxing 4 ships is the same thing. Right now it's not the issue with force projection, but more of having extra eyes on the wormhole and extra tackle ship. I do not recommend 2 Proteus combo. To kill anything larger than battlecruiser, you will need neuts. If you are in EU and want to do wh ganking, perhaps we can work out something together.
DeleteHaving lived in WH´s for nearly 3 years, I´m now again back in HS and feeling incredibly bored. As I`m in EU-TZ, I will contact you with one of my "better" char´s soon, perhaps we can sort something out...
ReplyDeleteBest of luck in the meantime in your hunt,
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