So it's been a while...not alots happened for me game wise atleast. Not managed any fights out and about solo and not been around for the R1FTA roams either. :(
After spending most the week packaging most my ships and parts and shifting my main base over to Molden so i can be near the majority of the other R1FTA pilots i decided to have some random fun...but what to do? Well the question was answered for me midway through sunday whilst listening to EVE Radio.
It seems DJ FunkyBacon was running DroneSwarm V that evening. Only 1 condition had to be met for joining the open public fleet for the event. Which was that the ship must be able to fly atleast 1 drone. Which lead to issue with what to take. Rifters out...cant use Hybrids...Gal frigs only at 3 atm...dont want to take the Cane since most are probs in BC's and BS's. Then it hit me i'd won a comp awhile back with one of my alts and had a nice Dram sat there untouched(May aswell use it before the Nerf Bat lands). Quick log saw that it wasnt fitted which lead to about a hour looking through fits hear and there trying to pick on that did it justice but didnt cost the earth. Fitted her up and joined the fleet with moments to spare.
130+ random pilots in completly random fitted ships formed up and headed out towards Null. Many pilots were been trained over comms on the first few jumps through High. "Well this is sure going to be fun atleast" All form up on the final gate from Empire to Null and in we go. Within seconds hostiles start landing on Gate and bubbles go up. The NC had brought a mainly T3 fleet with logi and Huginn support to come and play. Seems we were using their teamspeak server for the op :P Needless to say not alot died on their side and none with me on the KM. But a surprising amount of the DroneSwarm fleet made it out either burning back and through to high or the sun. After afew mins gf's were exchanged and they removed the bubbles giving those in system a free pass back out. Yes we knew it was coming but afew random kills and jumps in might of been better for entertainments sake.
Back to Jita the remaining fleet went along with masses in pods to reship and go off again. Only this time in Frigs/Destroyers and ignoring the drone rule. After what seemed like forever we formed up and went out towards null yet again. Only this time we headed towards Goon space to avoid the NC fleets. All went well and we had afew games of cat and mouse on the way. And then we started a fight with 2 Flashy red Canes. Right after the fight started NC landed yet again. Seems they actually called in a favour and Titan Bridged into Goons space just to come play some more. Been light and nimble meant the vast majority of the fleet got away with alot of laughs had by all.
At this point i'd run out of time and left the fleet while they decided to play in lowsec to save them the hastle of bubbles for the many new PvP players. I'm defo seeing why people have such hatred or love for drams after this. I;m defo more on the love side after that outing as it faired well and kept me alive in quite afew tight spots during the large engagements.
All i need now is some KILLS hell even some fights would be a start rather than having to avoid the BS ganky wartargets and insta campers
I had a feeling the event would go something like that. NCdot are known for primarying enemy FC's when THEY want to have a fight. That they came in t3's and t2's vs t1's isn't terribly surprising.
ReplyDeleteThen again, had everyone brought domi's that would have been something.