It was a fairly quiet night tonight.  Not much traffic coming through the gate, so, we decided to track down some of the neutrals that were in system.  We chase a rupture away, 3 flashy reds warping into a belt is always a good way to clear the room.

It’s pretty empty in system, so, we decide to try to locate the only other neutral in system as this point.  I warp into a belt and ding, the 2 year old pilot in a Jaguar is here.  I am in my Devoter, I lock him up and hit him with the ever popular inifinte point that the Heavy Interdictor uses so well.

My corpies are on their way as the Jag pilot tries to escpae.  Devoter’s are great for their intedicting ability, rather weak on DPS.  Tacklers usually are weak in that department.  As my corpies drop out of warp in the belt, I think for a second that the Jag has popped.  There is a pod on my overview.

He ejected and insta-warps away.  Wow, free ship.  I guess his implants were worth more than the 10 mil ship with the 10 mil in fittings.

Score one for a free ship in the corp hanger.

It’s been a quite week for me in EVE as I have been working a lot lately.  When I am able to get online, it’s much later in the evening for the European time zones.  As a consequence, most of my corpies are offline, tucked in and sleeping nicely in their beds.  So, what to do?  Well, solo roam time.

Or so I thought.  As I undock in my favorite nano roaming ship.  I head to the POS to check on the tower’s resources real quick and I notice a great deal of smaller ship traffic coming through the gates.  Yup, gate camping time.  I quickly hop into my bomber and head for the gate.

I’m sitting there, ninja camping without a scout, bombing shuttles as they come through.  Not high on the kill scale really.  The point is not for awesome fights, but to add isk to our wallet.  From time to time, you get that Nirvana like kill, such as implants or BPO’s as my corpie discovered the other night.

What do I get for my efforts last night?  Tags.  Just a few tags.  Okay, a boatload of tags.  So many tags I can say that I am a bit “tagged out’ but don’t take my word for it, take a look for yourself:

http://nspta.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=532954

Needless to say I was able to use my scout/hauler alt to sell the all that did drop, 15 mil in all.  Killboard isk counts are notorious for not being very accurate, but 15 mil for ten minutes of sitting on the gate is not bad.  After that, traffic completely died off aside from an Axoim Alliance Dominix with a huge buffer tank setup.  Needless to say, being alone, in a bomber battleship, is no match and it was time to head to bed.

In a previous post, I mentioned a nice take on smartbombing a gate.  One of my corp mates topped my last take in a big way, take a look at the kill:

http://nspta.killmail.org/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=532267

Yup, that’s what you think it is.  Fenrir BPO’s, here’s the screenie for proof:

Way to go Rawrior!!!!

Over the past few weeks since the summer ended, traffic coming through the pocket has been slow.   Now, for most people, that would not be an issue, but when you are a shivering timbers yarr machine pirate, it makes for a dull evening.

So, what do you do?  You setup a scout and get your smartbombing ship and make sure you catch all the traffic that comes through.

How does this work?  Well, you find a gate that is traveled in low sec and put your smartbombing ship in line between the two gates so that when the incoming ship drops out of warp, you can hit it with 8 large smartbombs and with luck, all of them will hit the incoming ship and pop it.

A destroyer with a rep running will get through, but shuttles, noob ships and inteceptors stand a good chance of getting popped.

Why would you do this?  For the challenge of the timing of the kill.  For the pretty explosions.  And for this, the loot (http://www.eve-druid.com/kb/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=15068).

This tactic works well for catching traffic when you are camping all on your own.

EDITED FOR UPDATES, EVE FORUMS THREAD, ETC…

Well, it’s finally happened.  There is an open war in the pocket.  A number of us formed up in a fleet and engaged a group of lame pirates known as The Final Stand.

An intense battle ensued and there were losses on both sides, but ultimately we won, 16 kills, 17 losses, however, they lost more in isk value in modules and in ship values.  Some would say it is a draw, byt 880 mil isk lost to 580 mil on our side, makes it a close engagement, but a win for us.

Now, you may ask, why do I call them lame?  Well, how many pirate corps do you know LOCK their killboard on the night they take a beating from every kid on the block?  Not many, but apparently their’s is locked, take a look, http://eve.thefinalstand.com/?a=home.

So, you can’t see what they have done, both good nor bad.  No worries, you can learn all about the battle and the fights to come here.  It was great fun!!!

http://www.eve-druid.com/kb/?a=cc_detail&ctr_id=1

UPDATE

The thread about this blog post is getting interesting, check it out.  Don’t worry about the userid and password request from eve.thefinalstand.com that may pop up if you have images enabled on your EVE forums account, that comes up because TFS have locked up their killboard and their signatures cause that error.

http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=871990