The Horror of Null Sec

So, what have I been up to recently? Beyond chain running plexes in Caldari & Gallente space to earn some ISK, I've been roaming Syndicate, that region of 0.0 situated closest to Hevrice with a few corpmates. No Logi, no ECM, so no handholding, just DPS & tackle, the way things should be done. So what have I killed? Well......read on

WARNING: This piece clocks up at 4500+ words and is over 11 pages long so I suggest grabbing a drink. I also suggest opening a map of Syndicate from the ever useful Dotlan maps in order to track our movements if you're not familiar with Syndicate.

Titan Down

On Superbowl Sunday (not that I follow the sport) a Titan died. Not just any Titan - a ratting Titan, confident in his security. He was ratting in a dead end system, with the only entrance bubbled to hell - almost 300km of bubbles to traverse to even enter the system. Combined with his alliance mates sharing intel channels, reporting any movement around him, neutral or red. He thought he was untouchable. He was wrong.


Why am I discussing it? Well, I was the one who made it happen.

I've already written a Battle Report about this kill, posting it on our internal forums as well as Failheap Challenge. Fellow corpmember Marc Scaurus blogged about it here.

After some poking, I submitted the BR as an article for EveNews 24. It went up a few hours ago.

Enjoy!

Drake OP

And this is why.......

http://tuskers.killmail.org/?a=kill_related&kll_id=12163768

P.S. Recruitment for The Tuskers has re-opened, for AUZ/US timezone pilots only. Instead of an SP requirement, we now have a list of minimium core skills, as well as the ability to T2 fit a Shield Battlecruiser to within 80+% of "max performance". Good luck!

Alt-Truisms

This post is about using one or more characters to support your "main" character in PvP directly, thus I will neglect to consider market alts and the like. Instead, the categories of alts I will be considering are:

i) Boosting Alts
ii) Neutral Logistics Alts
iii) Scooping Alts
iv) Falcon Alts

I am aware that some people PvP on more than one character separately, but in my eyes those are also "mains" in that they are used to PvP separately and not together.

In no way do this post suggest that everyone trains an alt to assist them in PvP. Some pilots such as Wensley, Miura Bull truly do fly solo with no alts of any kind and do great things. Personally, I prefer to be able to engage any gangs I run into within reason and there is no doubt that using an alt will increase the amount of gangs you can engage, both in terms of ship types available as well as in sheer numbers.