First week back in Eve - owch

So came back to Eve about a week ago and made a new character to get the feel of things. Once I got comfortable with the interface again, I ended up moving my production character to a new account, but in the process - lost a few billion in fully researched BPOs (Corp assets, forgot to look at those. There were other people in the now-dead corporation, but they haven’t logged on in years either). Luckily, I did have my Capital Shield Booster I Blueprint and EMP XL Blueprint in my personal assets.

Ion Siege Blaster I Blueprint
Hexa 2500mm Repeating Cannon I Blueprint
XL Torpedo Launcher I Blueprint
Dual Giga Pulse Laser I Blueprint
Capital Armor Repairer I Blueprint
Dragonfly I Blueprint
Firbolg I Blueprint
Berserker I Blueprint
Einherji I Blueprint

Bought the BPOs with the ISK I had in the wallet and, well, since I was now broke, decided to do a bit of mining so I could start producing stuff again.

2021.09.25 13:04:09

Victim: Feng Schui
Corp: Cruor Evertum Dominicus
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Retriever
System: Emolgranlan
Security: 0.5
Damage Taken: 7344

Involved parties:

Name: BingBongMaccaDangDang (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.20
Corp: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Alliance: Novus Ordo.
Faction: None
Ship: Catalyst
Weapon: Light Neutron Blaster II
Damage Done: 4849

Name: Darkside Tickler
Security: -9.9
Corp: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Alliance: Novus Ordo.
Faction: None
Ship: Catalyst
Weapon: Catalyst
Damage Done: 2495

Destroyed items:

Strip Miner I
Medium Drone Mining Augmentor I
Medium Cargohold Optimization I
ML-3 Scoped Survey Scanner
Mining Laser Upgrade I
Medium Drone Mining Augmentor I

Dropped items:

Dense Veldspar, Qty: 14471 (Other)
Strip Miner I
Mining Laser Upgrade I
Rich Plagioclase, Qty: 23984 (Other)
Mining Laser Upgrade I

2021.09.25 13:04:19

Victim: Feng Schui
Corp: Cruor Evertum Dominicus
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Emolgranlan
Security: 0.5
Damage Taken: 460

Involved parties:

Name: Darkside Tickler (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.90
Corp: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Alliance: Novus Ordo.
Faction: None
Ship: Catalyst
Weapon: Light Neutron Blaster II
Damage Done: 460

Destroyed items:

Zainou ‘Snapshot’ Cruise Missiles CM-603 (Implant)
Cybernetic Subprocessor - Standard (Implant)
Zainou ‘Gnome’ Shield Management SM-703 (Implant)
Social Adaptation Chip - Standard (Implant)
Zainou ‘Deadeye’ Guided Missile Precision GP-803 (Implant)
Memory Augmentation - Standard (Implant)
Neural Boost - Standard (Implant)
Zainou ‘Deadeye’ Rapid Launch RL-1003 (Implant)
Ocular Filter - Standard (Implant)
Zainou ‘Deadeye’ Target Navigation Prediction TN-903 (Implant)

Right then. So no mining for me, gotcha. After CONCORD destroyed their ships, I was able to pod BingBongMaccaDangDang with my production character since we were in a fleet. Since I had kill rights, I station-camped them for a few days, but ended up getting tired of that.

Guess I’ll do L4 missions then since, well, I remember those being cake walk…

2021.09.26 12:56:06

Victim: Feng Schui
Corp: Cruor Evertum Dominicus
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Raven Navy Issue
System: Emolgranlan
Security: 0.5
Damage Taken: 135497

Involved parties:

Name: Centus Dark Lord / Unknown (laid the final blow)
Damage Done: 135497

Destroyed items:

Caldari Navy Cruise Missile Launcher
Caldari Navy Cruise Missile Launcher
Metal Scraps, Qty: 6 (Cargo)
EM Shield Hardener II
Small I-a Enduring Armor Repairer (Cargo)
Small Solace Scoped Remote Armor Repairer (Cargo)
Drone Link Augmentor I
Salvage Drone I (Drone Bay)
Initiated Compact Warp Scrambler (Cargo)
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Caldari Navy Cruise Missile Launcher
Shadow Serpentis Power Diagnostic System
Type-D Restrained Inertial Stabilizers (Cargo)
Inferno Cruise Missile, Qty: 20
Depleted Uranium M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
EM Shield Hardener II
Gist A-Type Large Shield Booster
Kinetic Shield Hardener II
Gist A-Type Shield Boost Amplifier
Upgraded Layered Coating I (Cargo)
Inferno Cruise Missile, Qty: 21
Multispectrum Shield Hardener II
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Fleeting Compact Stasis Webifier (Cargo)
Caldari Navy Cruise Missile Launcher
Xray M (Cargo)
Caldari Navy Cruise Missile Launcher
Caldari Navy Cruise Missile Launcher
Passive Targeting Array I (Cargo)
Microwave S (Cargo)
Inferno Cruise Missile, Qty: 21
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Inferno Cruise Missile, Qty: 20
Warrior II, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)

Dropped items:

Small Asymmetric Enduring Remote Shield Booster (Cargo)
Large Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery (Cargo)
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
Metal Scraps, Qty: 8 (Cargo)
Carbonized Lead L, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Inferno Cruise Missile, Qty: 20
Ultraviolet M (Cargo)
Salvage Drone I, Qty: 4 (Drone Bay)
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
FFR Enduring Assault Damage Control (Cargo)
Inferno Cruise Missile, Qty: 21
Caldari Navy Ballistic Control System
J5 Enduring Warp Disruptor (Cargo)
Caldari Navy Cruise Missile Launcher
Titanium Sabot M, Qty: 200 (Cargo)
Baker Nunn Enduring Tracking Disruptor I (Cargo)
Inferno Cruise Missile, Qty: 20
Inferno Cruise Missile, Qty: 1312 (Cargo)
Thermal Shield Hardener II
Hobgoblin I (Drone Bay)
Peripheral Compact Target Painter (Cargo)
J5b Enduring Warp Scrambler (Cargo)
Shadow Serpentis Power Diagnostic System
Small Compact Pb-Acid Cap Battery (Cargo)
Warrior II, Qty: 3 (Drone Bay)

Yea, this was a face palm moment as, well… I aggro’d the entire area and didn’t align myself, nor did I kill the frigates that were warp disrupting. Live and learn, right? So at this time, I didn’t have the ISK to outfit another CNR, so I went ahead and “downgraded” into a Legion. Covert Ops, with missiles AND drones?! That is basically my entire skillset (except for weapon disruptors - Pilgrim pilot and all).

I was getting used to using it seeing how it was not the best fit out there as, well, ISK was running VERY low while I have all of my capital BPOs in research (again). So on my alt, I started running mining missions since, well, he hasn’t really trained for combat, but I did have a Covetor on him.

Sweet! No real combat, just some frigs that are easily taken down by the Warrior II drones, plus I could run level 3 missions at the same time with the Legion. Win win!

Since, for some reason, I could do L4 mining missions, I started doing those and yada dada, mine mine, borrrring, but $2 mill a pop while I wait. Even brought Feng down there to run the hauler back and forth since it was more profitable. Then I got a storyline and… well, of course I accepted it!

Only, I didn’t expect a L4 mission from a level 2 agent, but… I wonder if the Legion could do it? I mean, in the first room, there were only a few cruise missile sentries, heavy missile sentries, normal sentries, some webifier sentries, and a couple of energy neut sentries - plus the battleships, battlecruisers, and a couple of frigs. No big deal, right?

Oh… kite away, its fine. Keep the directional scanner pinging (in LowSec - scan, result, scan, result, etc…). Few pings from some SOE core probes - those are only for scanning anomalies, right? Finally killed off the ships, now it was time for the sentries. Still nada from the DS… So, once I just got into range of the first group of sentries…

How TF did a Proteus find me? Target lock, unlock the sentries. Target paint, fire missiles, engage medium drones. We’re both being webbed and neutralized at this point, but… he’s not doing much damage and I can easily repair. He had some ECM drones, but my real damage isn’t from my missiles but from my drones. Seeing how I didn’t have a warp disruptor, I had to keep bumping… but sadly, he finally found an alignment just as I got him to 3/4 hull and he was able to warp out…

Aaaand… as I was pulling in my drones so I could follow; in comes two Stilettos, both warp disrupting me. But… they are being webbed as well. I might be able to do this. Bring in medium drones, send out Warrior II’s. Nice, first one close to reaching armor… Are you serious right now? A Brutix? After everything, I was nearing 1/4 of my armor left… and at this point, it was time to just give up as I had 0 capacitor, was being webbed, warp disrupted, AND was still being engaged by the NPC sentries.

2021.10.02 16:59:43

Victim: Feng Schui
Corp: Black Market Production Corp
Alliance: Unknown
Faction: Unknown
Destroyed: Legion
System: Oddelulf
Security: 0.4
Damage Taken: 66939

Involved parties:

Name: Amarr Cruise Missile Battery / Amarr Empire
Damage Done: 53340

Name: Dgon Milton (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.10
Corp: Harmonist
Alliance: Parallaxis Alliance
Faction: None
Ship: Brutix
Weapon: Infiltrator II
Damage Done: 13599

Name: BOJIODbKA
Security: -1.8
Corp: Harmonist
Alliance: Parallaxis Alliance
Faction: None
Ship: Stiletto
Weapon: Warp Scrambler II
Damage Done: 0

Name: Carnelio Marrone
Security: -0.4
Corp: Federal Navy Academy
Alliance: None
Faction: None
Ship: Stiletto
Weapon: Warp Disruptor II
Damage Done: 0

Name: PrometheusTob
Security: -1.5
Corp: Molden Orchestra
Alliance: None
Faction: None
Ship: Proteus
Weapon: Hornet EC-300
Damage Done: 0

Destroyed items:

Legion Offensive - Assault Optimization
Valkyrie II, Qty: 3 (Drone Bay)
10MN Afterburner II
‘Packrat’ Mobile Tractor Unit (Cargo)
‘Arbalest’ Heavy Missile Launcher
Medium Warhead Rigor Catalyst II
Legion Propulsion - Intercalated Nanofibers
Medium Warhead Flare Catalyst II
Legion Defensive - Covert Reconfiguration
Cap Recharger II
800mm Steel Plates II
‘Arbalest’ Heavy Missile Launcher
Bouncer I, Qty: 3 (Drone Bay)
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump II
Legion Core - Dissolution Sequencer
‘Arbalest’ Heavy Missile Launcher

Dropped items:

Target Painter II
Inferno Heavy Missile, Qty: 320 (Cargo)
Inferno Heavy Missile, Qty: 6
Valkyrie II, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)
Inferno Heavy Missile, Qty: 6
Drone Link Augmentor I
Multispectrum Energized Membrane II
‘Arbalest’ Heavy Missile Launcher
Covert Ops Cloaking Device II
‘Arbalest’ Heavy Missile Launcher
Inferno Heavy Missile, Qty: 6
Inferno Heavy Missile, Qty: 6
Multispectrum Coating II
Core Scanner Probe I, Qty: 16
Bouncer I, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)
Damage Control II
Medium Armor Repairer II
Ballistic Control System II
Inferno Heavy Missile, Qty: 6
Expanded Probe Launcher I

Soo… yup. Had to fail the mission, so no more level 4 mining missions. No more ISK for refits; so now, back to level 3 mining missions. Oh how I missed you Eve-Online, lol.

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WB :slight_smile:

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Welcome back but just an observation and yes you don’t know but Emolgranlan is your problem, not eve or you.

Like many of the SOE systems and ice belts the ganker scourge is upon us. Our answer to this is fight when we can .

Hope you can find a new and safer place to do your eve stuff.

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You’ll be fine once you reorient yourself some. Much has changed over the last number of years, read up. Seems you’ve had a bit of a bumpy re-entry to EvE but appears you at least know to keep going. WB

I see you around quite a bit in-game and it’s unsettling XD

Always expect Aaaarrg

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Just buy a permit. :stuck_out_tongue: :smiling_imp: :popcorn:

Ooof. Welcome back!

Anything shiny in low sec will attract the local ghetto thugs, especially something like a T3 cruiser. When it comes to low sec PVE, I stick to flying a T3 destroyer like the Jackdaw or Hecate. They’re very nimble and cost-effective. Or if you do want to mine, low sec gas mining is very lucrative. You can do it in a Venture that costs less than 10m, and you can expect to make over 50m isk per hour. I use the following page to find out which gas is most valuable:

https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/ore/gas.php

The bit I liked was where the OP didnt cry but got back on the horse for another go every time.

Good on ya m8

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Great write up and I love your attitude. o7

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