Ganks, Persistance, and The Mega of Doom
Posted by Captain CharismaticSo apparently, a couple members of JERKS are feeling a bit bearish recently, due to ganking missioners too much, and are doing things like Plexes and lowsec missions and whathaveyou. This is all well and good, and I actually support it, as variety keeps people from burning out.
I, however, am apparently on an opposite schedule, as I just wanna keep chasing after the bears and risking my ships :) So in lieu of their not posting as much as usual, I’ll probably be posting like bloody mad, for your entertainment, of course. :)
Today started with me attempting to do some L4′s with all of my alts in a fleet, like an uber bear. I told myself I’d do them until my main was clear of his negative sec status. 15 minutes later I was shuttling all of my alts to Agrallarier because our ninja friend Clantyn had logged in and had started getting shot at. So much for missions.
I fleeted up with him and we started scanning down the bears, who never seem to want to shoot me (curse you, sec status). A couple hours go by, and we get a hint in The Ninja Alliance Channel that a ninja in the same system needs some assistance. BM Dublyoo had scored Megathron aggression, but it had warped off before he could come back with his trimarked cane. All of us split off, and went to adjacent systems, finding the MR first in one system, then the other. Finally, he stayed put, and I was called in to scan him down.
I got into system with BM still refreshing aggro on the guy, and dropped probes and started scanning. With Clantyn and Kel’airy’s advice (who had him on dscan), I chose a direction, and sent my probes off. Nothing. I moved them again.. Megathron hit… went for the pinpoint scan… nothing. Apparently he was bouncing between or had turned a mission in, because it took me about 20 minutes to find him. Finally, success. BM roared into system, and shot off to my scan hit. Then he laughed in fleet chat – I had scanned the wrong Mega.
Facepalming, I stopped rushing, and looked at things logically. See, dscan and probing are two different things, and one must translate direction in order to position their probes properly. So I looked, I had him on dscan at approximately 9AU out, and he was right infront of my ship, and the sun was directly behind. Aha! Now I had a landmark to work with. I jumped into probe mode, and dropped my probes 9AU from me, opposite to the sun, and hit scan. First result – Megathron, 100%, and warpable.
Once again, BM raced into the system and shot off to the site. This time, I got the right mega. On his call, all 3 of our remote rep cruisers (read: overkill) warped into the mission our target was now doing. Taking the gates, I arrived in just enough time to target the mega and BM, and sick my rr drones on BM, who was taking light damage. Seconds later, the Mega exploded.
BM also got a small tear in a private mail:
From: NeO X96
Sent: 2010.07.14 00:57
To: BM Dublyoo,
bte F U!
BM then sent him a nice bill for our services. All in all, that was an hour of extending aggro, and half an hour for me scanning. But hey, patience pays off.
A little while later, Clantyn managed to get some Maelstrom aggro, and jumped back with his cane, with the Mael still in the mission.
Once again, our 3 rr cruisers ran after him on his call, and I actually got to rep Clant for a few minutes before the Mael died. Clant tried a ransom attempt, but only got this in return:
[ 2010.07.14 01:32:51 ] Clantyn > 100 mil
[ 2010.07.14 01:32:53 ] Clantyn > right now
[ 2010.07.14 01:32:56 ] Clantyn > or its dead
[ 2010.07.14 01:33:09 ] deedawg > lol i got plenty to replace.. have fun :)
Lastly, I’d like to leave this post with announcing the best and most amazing Megathron I have EVER seen. Kel’airy scanned this one down, and we just had to take some pictures. You can see for yourself why it’s so amazing:
Yes, folks, that’s a shield boosting mega. But wait, there’s more:
Yep, lazors and missiles………………….. Finally, I scanned the thing, and came up with this:
Umm, yeah. No comment.
I fired a nice mail off to his CEO, detailing his fitting crimes. We’ll see what happens.
How can you play EVE long enough to use T2 large guns and think that fit is a good idea?
This shit makes my brain hurt.
Look again, those aren’t tech 2 large. Those are tech 2 mediums. He fit cruiser guns on a battleship.
Though it was a typo, I think Captain Charismatic best referred to this as a “Tachyone” Mega in local, given that it has only one Tachyon on it.
He’s also dual passive and active shield tanking. Was this ship running a Level IV or III? I’m very surprised it hasn’t just died in a fire (but maybe I severely underestimated how bad your ship can be to run missions, if you have the patience for them to take forever). EFT shows this ship as 194 DPS, before drones (assuming Antimatter in the hybrids, and everything is at optimal range, of course), with perfect skills.
Of course, we can only hope that the pilot in question was flying a Megathron with only Gallente Battleship II, so he actually wasn’t losing that much of a bonus.
You actually took the time to fit that out? Jeez. That should be a sin of itself :P
It was a level 3 Angel’s Extravaganza. It probably took him about ten minutes to clear the third room with a few sentry guns and a single crusier rat.
And you can’t tell me he’s cap stable with that fit.
This is beyond facepalm worthy.
Megathrons fitted like this deserves to die horribly in a fire. I’mean, oh come on. A properly fitted megathorn is a awesome ship, and some retard dumber than a bag of hammers (and yes, I’m being really unfair to hammers) are fitting it like this.
when facepalm is not enough, there’s always the double facepalm. When even the double facepalm is not enough, there’s always the godzilla facepalm.
:godzillafacepalm
Scanning a ship can have hilarious results.
what, no projectiles? I mean, I figure he was going for at least one of each type of weapon! There goes that excuse…back to :godzillafacepalm
:D I love the comments. :)
did he also have 1 of each type of drone out?