Looking for a wormhole stalking partner

Attention! Looking for partner

I've been doing a lot of thinking if I should put this out, but here it goes.

• Have little time to play EVE and don't want any commitments?
• Like stalking and hunting?
• Have no problem to camp system for days?
• Want to kill something more than a hauler?

If you answered Yes to above questions, then read on.

Hunting as a way of life

I started thinking about my wormhole adventures. I call it: The Pilgrimage. It's a little tradition I started since my old low-sec days to change up the game. Idea was to lock myself out in some wormholes and stalk locals and/or kill any day trippers that come by.

It's different from your average wormhole corp lifestyle. A lot of wormhole life is very opportunity based. You are tied to your home connection, if you don't spot any potential targets, you either roll the static, scan the chain, or stalk, but have to be back before home connection goes end-of-life. I have no such attachments. I choose potential system and I can stalk it and its surrounding connections for days. It usually is the system with potential great catch such as a faction battleship, a t3 or even a Marauder. Since I am not restricted to one home system, I can invest a lot of time in one location waiting for that opportunity to present itself.

Playing EVE without really playing

The greatest advantage of this play style? Minimum time investment needed. Despite stalking for days and waiting for targets to come to you, it is not necessary to be present at your computer. If your EVE client can run in the background, you are free to do anything else. Watch TV, spend time with your significant other or family, play other game, surf internet, learn new language or do anything else you desire. 

What started as a temporary change of corp life, became my EVE way of life. Mostly, because I have always struggled in finding necessary amount of time to enjoy this game, but still wanted to be connected. My time constraints grew and although there are corps that are very relaxed about participation, in the most cases, it still feels you need to invest more time than you would like to, in order to be a part of it.

Looking for like minded people to spice up the game

So if you are a player with a lack of time, interested in rolling yourself out in random wormholes and are very very patient, perhaps we can work something out. While I fly 4 accounts, I do have limitations and there are targets I'm not capable of taking on and there are situations where some targets manage to escape. I also know, that while I stalk particular system or systems, I miss out on some gank opportunities because I can't have eyes everywhere and can't always be on at the right time. I can only assume there are people that are facing similar problems. If there are dedicated stalkers, we can join our efforts together by covering more ground and packing a bigger punch.

I am not sure if anything like this is feasible. Perhaps this type of play was never meant to be for more people than solo, but perhaps having a one or two partners doing the same thing could make the big difference.

If interested, feel free to shoot up an email or find me in game: Zosius or ggnoreTT.

Killboard

Some random updates and mumbling

Finishing with standings

It's done. It took me around a week, but standings grind is done. Sort of. I have done all Cosmos for each trader. Broker fees are down to from 0.30 to 0.32. I have not raised any corp standings because I couldn't wait to gtfo of high sec missioning. I could do the corp grind any time in the future, but for now, it will have to do. It was quite fast this time, just over a week, with full time play during weekend and only some hours on evenings during weekdays. I guess not being so poor and buying most of things of the market helped. God bless you, Cosmos item farmers

One of the most annoying things is inadequate rewards from Cosmos in all races. I did Caldari, Amarr and Gallente. Caldari has most and best rewards, Amarr has similar, but Gallente... it's like Gallente was left for last, and whoever designed Cosmos, said fuck it and just quit half way through. Literally. Gallente has roughly 30 highsec agents, while Caldari has 60. What's up with that?

About recruitment and finding a corp

I planned to do some ninja salvaging and wh stalking before I joined the corp. I couldn't wait and was eager to smartbomb some pods in lowsec, thus I was scouting for some offers and found few interesting ones. I wanted to find something very small gang in lowesec. More I did research, more I was not sure where to join. I got some great offers and met some great people. I decided to go with Better Kept Frozen., however my EU primetime play was not what I expected and thus I moved on. I had Volatile Instability contact me. Had a short talk and it felt right and I'm soon to move in. Let's hope it works out. If not, there are still many great options around.

Funny thing though. When scouting for corps, I have found some "elite" ones. I won't mention names, but the process to apply was ridiculous. Such as answer 30+ questions, do this and that, keep your API active forever for all your accounts. It's a big turn off for me. First, most questions to answer can be googled. Second, why the fuck do I need to keep my full API active? In a god damn lowsec. I know spies and ambushes is a thing, but seriously. Not feeling of having my mails and everything I do visible for some guy. In the end, you spend as much time applying as you spend applying for the real job. And I mean not just random click button apply, but adjusting your cover letter with CV according to position. There is a line I am willing to draw in a video game in terms of effort and privacy. Of course you always want a quality, but there has to be a healthy balance.

Recycling ships

Moving out my fleet out of wormhole and in general collecting spread out ship assets, I ended up with below.

Holy crap. Where do all these ships come from? 6 Megathron Navy Issues? I know I only used one for plex running. I have no idea where other 5 came from. In any case, it's always good do so some cleanup. Sometimes you end up finding things you never knew you had.

CSM Voting

I have done my part. Have you?

I gave my votes to:
1. Steve, because he is awesome asset when it comes to 3rd party tools.
2. Ashterothi, because I like exploration. Even it got updates, it still needs a lot of work. Too bad CCP fucked up some things such as crashing fucking markets. Instead of making unique mods and expand drop tables, they just increased dropping rates for same items. Always taking the easy way out.
3. Borat, because I am solo/small gang player and that is his focus
4. Sabriz, New Order candidate, because highsec pvp had enough nerfbats already.

So these guys get 7 votes from all my accounts. Best of luck to them! I probably shouldn't have put Steve as priority as he probably is going to win anyways, but oh well. At least this year I will have voted.

Skype contacts in a nutshell

And finally, nothing EVE related, but something I still wanted to share. Below picture sums up most of my contacts on skype and facebook. I hope I'm not the only one. Perhaps it's time for a cleanup too.