Barrage = Medium range, slow tracking speed, not suited for orbiting at low ranges

EMP/Fusion = Good for short range orbiting
EMP=Shield, Fusion = Armor

Stations and Gates have guns that fire after you’ve killed someone, cooldown of 30 minutes.
Under a certain security status they will also attack when you just engage someone.

6/1/112yc Update

When one opens someone else’s wrecks or containers and he/she attacks you you are free to destroy this person’s ship.
One minute after such a fight you can dock at stations again and you can also jump to other systems again.

Barrage is optimal at 1100-1500m and EMP/Fusion should just be at 500m orbit

Captain’s log, 4th of January 112yc.

I has been a tragic day for me and my crew, while travelling towards a station to get some trade goods we encountered a few pirates, after warping into the system and seeing these near our ship I kind of blacked out and issued the warp command in the hopes we could escape them.

“Initiating Warp” the computer said, immediately followed by “Being Targetted”, and quickly after that they opened fire. Shields, armor and hull quickly burned down and the crew together with the ship were gone.

I found myself only protected by my pod, again I was immediately locked and shot at, 2 seconds later I woke up in a station in a fresh clone.

Fresh Clone, New Plans

After waking up in the station I felt like I wouldn’t start hauling any time soon again, I felt like I wanted more action. So after a while of thinking the options over the most appealing way of action would be actually engaging other players just like these pirates engaged me.

So after launching the browser I started looking for info on good equipment for these kind of operations and other tactics and configurations that would proof useful.

After gathering the data it seemed that a Rifter would be a good ship to start this new career path in,So I purchased the equipment on the market (In fourfold so I have some spare ones) and also bought the skill books.

So now the hangar crew have fully assembled my Rifter, and I’m now training to be able to control some of the systems that are installed.

Computer, save secure file, end recording.

Ok Ima make this one quick because I gotta get up early tomorrow.

Lemme see what did I do today, I wrote a script to display my match scores of Call of Duty 2, wrote a script to display trade run earnings from EVE Online (See the market report for today).

Other then that I’ve been trading in EVE Online and made about 8-9m so I’ll continue down the path of the trader.

Now I’ll be going to bed because tomorrow I need to get out at 5:45am and it’s now 11:30pm.

~Xeross

Captain’s log, 3rd of January 112yc.

Today has been a busy day for me and my crew, we’ve travelled long distances both through high-sec and low-sec space. We have only encountered 1 group of people that were marked as dangerous/illicit but fortunately they didn’t engage.

All this travelling was done with 1 goal in mind: Profit. We’ve picked up cargo in various locations to sell it for profit somewhere else. We even got lucky in 1 system were we could sell it to another station in the same system for profit, however this route ran out of supply after 2 runs.

We’ll be docked in station for the rest of the day so me and my crew can rest.

For a full market report see Attachment A.

Computer, save secure file, end recording.

I’ve recently changed my hurricane fit to a shield tank instead of an armor tank, but that still didn’t cut it. So with the help of a few friends (Well basically one just linked me his fit) I got these 2 alterations:

More Damage
2x Gyrostabilizer II
4x Shield Power Relay II

2x Large Shield Extender II
2x Kinetic Deflection Amplifier II

2x Standard Missile Launcher II
6x 650mm Artillery Cannon II

3x Medium Core Defence Field Purger I

Stats
Defence: 225dps
Firepower: 158dps
Capacitor: Stable at 100%

More Defense
1x Gyrostabilizer II
5x Shield Power Relay II

2x Large Shield Extender II
2x Kinetic Deflection Amplifier II

2x Standard Missile Launcher II
6x 650mm Artillery Cannon II

3x Medium Core Defence Field Purger I

Stats
Defence: 296dps
Firepower: 135dps
Capacitor: Stable at 100%

So please leave a comment with suggestions on improving it, opinions on which of the 2 I should pick or anything else related (I could just swap the 2nd gyro with a relay when it’s needed too, hmm).

~Xeross

It’s the 2nd of January of the new year, primarily stayed in station the last few days except for a mission or 2. Celebrating the new year was tricky because we have yet to discover a way to leave our pods, once you get in you can’t get out.

Cleaned a dead-space compelx full of Guristas in order of my agent. Also cancelled all open buy orders we had. They were positioned at the wrong places and just took to long to fill up.

I also got the maintenance bay crew to install a new module in my ship, NavBot, Type J, it has the ability to scan the current region for any good trade runs. After installation we undocked to try it out. After 3 hours of primarily just letting our autopilot hum along we made about 5 million ISK.

I’ve gathered the ships technical crew to start working on a “Trade Run Tracking System” or TRTS for short, this will allow us to log all our trade activities through a simple interface and present them in an easy to read format.

Computer, save secure file, end recording.

OOC: As I love roleplaying I decided I should give it a try too, and yes the computer accepts the same commands as Cia’s because it’s both minmatar design (Correct me if I’m wrong).

To all readers of my blog (And everyone else) Best wishes and a Happy new year.

I went to a friend to celebrate the new year, I expected more people (Twas only me, him, his girlfriend and his parents). But it was still fun. Lighted up the streets with some fireworks, had some champagne and watched some TV. I was tired that evening so I went to bed at 2AM (His gf did too).

So all in all a successful New Years Eve.

~Xeross