Tired of mining, but cant quit?

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I thought I should post these steps to recovering from carebearing up for anyone struggling with mining addiction or missioningism who thought that all hope was lost. There is a way out, you can recover. These step are just a suggestion, but rarely have I seen a person who has failed if they have thoroughly followed them.

12 Steps of Carebear Anonymous
1. We admitted we were powerless over Boredom—that our lives had become uneventful.
2. Came to believe that Piracy could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to go flashy and leave highsec behind.
4. Made suicide ganking and Gate Camping apart of ourselves.
5. Attacked noobs, miners and carebears of all types.
6. Were entirely ready to receive ransom, and take their assets and ships.
7. Promptly through out the GF(good fight) wether we won or lost.
8. Having a list of all ships we had destroyed, we prompty posted our Killmails.
9. Made direct attacks on any persons wherever possible, especially when to do so would would make us isk.
10. Continued to take personal ransoms and when we could not promptly podded them.
11. Sought through lowsec, nullsec and worhole space to improve our chances of gankage, praying only for the ability to kill our targets and to capture their pods.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps,
we tried to carry this message to carebears, and to practice these
principles in all our affairs.

Oh crap.......

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It started with me just messing around Hevrice...

when I spotted a 2 year old pilot docking a hauler in the 5 station. Thinking that he might be grabbing some things to haul back to highsec I undocked my Tempest Battleship. The plan was to get set up to snipe his little hauler right out of existence. As I waited I spotted a shuttle being piloted by a guy on our corps watch list. He quickly disappeared and returned with a Phobos Heavy Interdictor, which was cause for a change of plans.

Being bored and tired of waiting on the hauler pilot to undock I decided to switch ships to my Typhoon Battleship. With the new plan of seeing if my heavy energy nuetralizers could shut off his tank and allow me to kill him. But alas to no avail. I ended up warping off as he had not aggressed me and the station guns were wearing on my tank. After which I went back and docked up to repair my damage and wait out my GCC(global criminal counter). The phobos pilot left shortly afterwards.

Thinking that is was all over, I reshipped back to my Tempest since the hauler pilot still had not undocked. As I waited I notice that the phobos pilot was back and had a corp mate with him. Thinking that they had comeback to take me on I switched ships yet again and got my corpmates on alert. Well his buddy went to the 6 station and undocked a Thanatos Carrier. I undocked my Typhoon to find the phobos waiting for me. This time he aggressed, I notified my mates and the call was made to try and take it out before the carrier could get reps on him. I immediately pointed and webbed him as my corp mates undocked and the carrier warped in. This time with the added fire power the phobos melted within seconds with a happy end result.

The surprise came next, the carrier had both web and scram fit and had me in full tackle with a full flight of fighter drones on me. Thinking that I was going to go down because I had station aggro and could not dock, I informed my mates of the situtaion as I waited for the end of my ship to come. As I sat there with depression hitting me harded with each second I noticed that I had only 9, I repeat NINE seconds to go till I could dock and had about 10% armor and all my structure left. Just that little bit of hope spurred me into even faster spamming of the dock button. Then it was 7 and my armor was gone, then 5 and my structure was at 70%, then 3 seconds and 30% structure, then 1 second and I thought that I was exploding and yelled to my mates that I was down.

Then something funny happened, I was setting in station still in my glorious Typhoon. With joy I started yelling over coms that I had made it and docked up with 1% structure. I immediately through out the GF(good fight) in local chat. The following is what I heard back:


[13:21:49] Valgore Meurte > gf
[13:22:06] Man Barthelme > gf
[13:22:45] Ethan Fletcher > You lucky b*****
[13:22:54] Ethan Fletcher > 5% structure?
[13:23:02] Valgore Meurte > less, 1%
[13:23:12] Ethan Fletcher > Oh crap.......
[13:23:40] Valgore Meurte > I have 73 hp of structur left
[13:24:01] Ethan Fletcher > I'll buy those at 10k isk each.


Yes you are seeing that correct, I had made it out with 73 hit points of structure. I cannot tell you of any other time I have made it out with so little of a ship left. I am so glad that when this first started and I decided to fight on a station that I had removed my 2 gyrostabilizers and put 2 more energized adaptive nano platings on for that extra bit of tank.

Recons Down

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The other day us Tuskers got together to do some covert ops ganks.

We had us a nice gang to do it with as well. When we formed up in Hevrice we had a cloaky recon and bomber from every race. The hope was that we would find a battlecruiser gang or small battleship gang to decend upon.

After we sent our scouts out looking for targets, we started getting reports of a couple of large mixed gangs from the surrounding areas. Nothing really to our liking for a solid engagement. But considering the amount of traffic that was being spotted, we sent out a bait ship in hopes of luring a group in. Well the bait ship sat for close to 20 minutes without even a nibble, while our scouts kept looking.

As time was slowly clicking by, and feeling that nothing was going to happen sank in, we got word to be ready, a Tempest had been spotted. It was in a near by system and that it looked like it was being harassed by a Hurricane. So we got ready and waited for the report from the scout that the Hurricane and Tempest were indeed engaged, as soon as we did we dropped in and started working on the Hurricane. All of us moving out to our optimal ranges and hitting him with what we had, me in my Rapier hitting him with dual webs, the Arazu holding point and hitting him with sensor damps, the Falcon running its ECM to jam him up and the Pilgrim draining his cap. All the while the bombers hitting him with sensor damps and target painters and torps, it was all going so fast.

Then local spiked and we were hit with the Hurricanes support fleet which included a Gaurdian. The call was made to try and shut down the Gaurdian, and then to pull out. Needless to say, there fleet having more numbers, and being closer to the recons then we liked. had us fairly well locked down. Over coms I heard our Arazu pilot Ka Jolo, our Falcon pilot Kopecky, and our Pilgrim pilot Migrond Aramath, one by one say those dreaded words "I'm down". My heart started to sink, I was tackled by multiple hostiles with no support. I aligned to a planet and started burning as fast as I could, switching my webs over from one ship to another forcing them to slow down as I raced out from under the warp disruptors. About 60km away from where the engagement had started the hostile drones caught up to me and I started taking damage. By 70km I had out ran all but the fastest of their fleet and was working on shaking the 3 or 4 that was still keeping me pointed as my shield tank started to fail do to the amount of drones I had on me. At about 80km the inevitable happened, I went down.

I know what most of you are thinking, that this is me whining. Its not, I really enjoyed that fight and got some really good practice in piloting my rapier in. Though we might have lost and lost horribly, it was still a great experience. We all learned something in that fight, probably including the hostile fleet, and got to leave it with a smile on our faces from the sheer rush of it at. Props goes to the guys from Muppet Ninjas, and thanks goes to my fellow Tuskers for the fun.
Battle Report

We Stole a Tengu \o/

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So, there I was in Onne.....


scanning down a noob harb when this Tengu pops up on the probes and the harb warps out. So naturally, I already having the Tengu at 20%, just switched to him. At the same moment Shigeru Tamura entered system. I got him into fleet and to warp to the Hulmate gate where I was waiting. As soon as he landed I warped us in to get point.

Well things werent so easy at first, us both being in rifters. Me and him started taking turns holding point while I started paging people in the afk channel. Sure enough itsmeHck1 answered my page and came in his Myrmidon. He helld point as me and Shigeru reshipped up to a Myrmidon(shigeru) and Rupture(me), since we were unable to break the Tengu with just the 2 Rifters and the single battlecruiser.

As we landed and hit the Tengu with our nuets and added dps, his tank broke and he ejected and ran away. This left us screaming on coms to hold fire, for we had us a Tengu. Well we managed to stop fire at about 10%, then we were like "who is going to fly it back to hev?". Well itsmeHck1 got on the batphone and had us a pilot that was willing to jump clone and then travel another 20 jumps just to fly our precious shiny back to hev for us. Thanks goes out to Icarus Helia for that.

After waiting for what seemed like forever, Icarus got there. During the wait, itsmeHck1 brought in his prober and let us know that the ship was fit with. I couldn't believe my ears as he listed the mods.
Here is what we ended up with:

Tengu with:
4x Heavy missle launcher II
1x Sisters expanded probe launcher
1x Gistii B-Type small shield booster
1x Invuln field II
1x Photon field II
1x Republic Fleet 10mn AB
1x Dread Guristas medium shield booster
2x Dread Guristas Shield Boost Amp
1x Cap Flux Coil II
2x BCS II
1x F85 Peripheral Damage Controll
3x Medium CCC rigs
1x TO- Acc Ejection Bay
1x TE- Emergent Locus Analyzer
1x TD- Amplification Node
1x TP- Fuel Catalyst
1x TE- Cap Regen Matrix

Not a bad haul for some really lucky timing with the scanner probes.