Gleaming rocks ...

Doesn't this view compensate the troubles of low sec mining ?

Upcoming Missile Overhaul

well, TomB leaked some info on the "new" missiles ...

• missile overhaul

also a forum thread has been created for this topic.

Mainly it breaks down to (cite):

1. Size Factored Damage:
Bigger missiles are now doing less damage to smaller targets; the damage is scaled by the targets Signature Radius using a new attribute on the missile called Explosion Radius.

2. Velocity Factored Damage:
Velocity will stay a factor in missile combat in the sense that it can reduce the damage if the target can outrun the missile explosion, missiles have an individual threshold where the damage starts getting reduced by vessels velocity and how fast the damage gets reduced by per m/s.

3. Faster Missiles:
Missiles are now travelling much faster than known and will be able to cross long distances at greatly reduced time.

4. More Skills:
Loads of new skills have been added to the Missile Operation skill group that allow players to get more damage, faster missiles, more range and to add new parameters that missiles now relay on.

I personally feel missiles still to be much overpowered compared to turrets. With this patch they will get better again ... Where is justice for us projectile users ?

new DEV BLOG entries

Well June will be hot (not only from temperatures, but also with the new upcoming patch:

The DEVBLOG's

• Sneak Peaks - Part I - New World Order
  
• Sneak Peaks - Part II - COSMOS and mini-professions
  
• Sneak Peaks - Part III - dreadnoughts & space freighters

some need things on the horizon ...

Design Fraud detected ...

Next to historical sources it has been clear that the design of the Caldari Caracal has been clearly stolen from some ancient TV-Series (yes, a strange habit in late 21th Century) called
"Star Trek - The Original Series", namely the Kingon "Bird of Prey" battleship.

See the prove:

Mining with RIMT

Well lately all a mining OP together with RIMT was not that success ...

Despite we mined four cans in 45 minutes ...








guess who is on the other side of the beams ;)


our operation was disturbed by some T-R-C pirates :(
Well, they destroyed one companion and our cans - sigh.

But thats always the danger a low sec miner has to face - get rich and/or get killed ...

Peace for all ?

Well, definitly NOT in yulai ...



as usual some hotheads fight them in Yulai lagging all others ...

See the infamous Yulai X - DED Assembly Plant ... wanna see a war ?
Be sure to visit Yulai ...

L.O.L.

On the long run ...

Missions seems to pay ;)

Last result of a Level III Rogue Drone mission in Pashanai:

and after the drop in the refinement hole:



including the agents reward 2.225.543,25 ISK - no so bad for 90 minutes - hehe.

This one is mine ....

(no words)

Grr....

A normal sunday cargo clean and a DAMN SLOW server ...

Best of is after moving several hundered items I tried to reconnect and all I got was a

.

*Sigh*

I hope CCP gets rid of all the server load issues in proper time ...

Otherwise they may claim the have on of the greatest online communities online, BUT cannot handle it ...

Visiting the RIMT POS

Lately our mates from Royal Independant Mining and Trading Co succeded in anchoring their own station.

After a little travelling and peeking into a belt (wow, Hemorphite) I reached the POS.

An impressive sight, the POS inside a shining bubble of force fields.
See the impressions I made during this trip.

Please apologize that I cannot name the position, but I was asked by Tessa not the publish it.


Me travelling on my way to the Player Owned Station.


Nice rock, isnt't it ?


Finally - The POS surrounded by a forcefield


A Moon harvester


Core of all refined material - The Reactor



Majestic the Control tower floats in space.


Protected by a cruise missile array (don't get me wrong - there are other defenses out there - but due to security reasons I cannot show all I have seen - I was on a friendly visit NOT on a spy mission)



It was on impressive sight - I think we will have to have also a station in space ;)

Mining impressions in Pashanai

Some little impressions of Pashanai Mining:

Jack CauldLadd (Apoc), Me in a Barge.

Frigate Skirmish or Day of the Imicus

Lately we had our first "we blow each other up in frigates meeting".

Trillius, Forgo, Fremen and I tried to get rid of each other. Fremen succeeded well in his Merlin, Forgo tried out to repair/suck cap in his Celestis (yes, he ignored the frigate thing).

After several blowup's I decided to haul my can back to HQ, and Forgo really tried to empty the capacitor of my Typhoon. Well, not even the light in the toilet got darker ...



Also a little impression of my Vigil, its really hard to kill - one can damage BUT NOT destroy it ;)



Even after this battles it was decided Kestrel are banned from this - its just to easy to kick out any opponents using the kestrels superior DOT ratio. There are no frigates out there that can withstand a double Kestrel volley of 8 missiles ...

Day of the Imicus ?

Well I bought several Imici so Trillius didn't get to bored ;) Also sometimes I was here with my Dustbin to collect my crap suddenly Fremen attacked my Typhoon with his Ferox.

On first sight I was astonished and answered his 6 Heavy missile volley with four of my trusty torps... At this point I still had Trillius with my Imicus still in my target lock ...

Ok, another Imicus to buy - after that I bought me an Imicus BPO ... for the next battles ;)

Business as usual

TGKS keeps to grow ;)

We got now nine new members in the last two weeks and our wallet hits new dimensions. Seems like selling Ravens pays ...

Also CCP brings in two new patches/additions:

• COSMOS (part of the new world order)
• the latest missile nerf