Since I joined Against All Authorities I’ve been doing lots of solo roaming in Rifters and Thrashers. Most of what I’ve done has concentrated on finding fights and something that I’ve neglected has been to make myself bookmarks except when I’ve needed to safe up to avoid CVA defence fleets.
The way that I fight solo is to use fast ships and try and pick off the tackle from a fleet. In general what I’ve been doing is warping to gates, stations, and celestials at range and then attempting to lure their tacklers into chasing me. Without bookmarks this tactic is prone to getting me caught in bubbles or getting over-confident and getting killed. Over-confidence and boredom are probably the two main reasons that I die.
During the lulls in our campaign against CVA and the Providence Holders I have started a new project. I am going to make sure that I have a good range of bookmarks in all the systems that I regularly PvP in. For now this means mapping out Curse and Providence. Several friends think I’ve gone mad. I’m being very methodical in this process and making sure that I have a large selection of bookmarks at all of the strategic locations in each system.
This might sound like a tedious and dull activity and in some ways it is. One of the advantages, though, is that by spending time in hostile systems I find people to fight, or at least have fun not fighting. Having these bookmarks has already proven to be useful too so its definitely not time that I’ve wasted.
So while I might not have much exciting stuff to write about I have been up to something worthwhile. As well as making the bookmarks I’ve also been experimenting with Rifter fits, learning to hate rail Ranises, and failing to stay cool, calm, and collected when in charge of gangs.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Cool mate, I just joined a new Corp too. Good luck in AAA, hope it’s a blast.
Scary how my alt looks a lot like your pilot there.. o.0 I think that bloodline all look pretty similar really.
-Sile
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:29 pm
It isn’t time wasted, it is time well spent. I have well over 2,400 bms and they have saved my life more times than I can count. And I can count all the way to eleven. Cause I’m special.
March 23rd, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Oh heck, yeah. Very early on I was taught the importance of them and then as a pirate I got kind of lax about it. Getting back up to speed on it now. During fleet fights I got good at making lots of them as soon as we entered the target system. My collection is beginning to look pretty impressive and I’m going to need to come up with a good system for filing them soon. Its going to be excellent in the long run seeing as my favourite fleet role is skirmishing scout/tackle.
March 23rd, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I confess! Myself and your Uncle Splatter are very happy to see you go back to your bookmark making roots.
March 23rd, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Totally agree with ya’ll. Bookmarks are insanely helpful, in 0.0 and to low sec. Its the first thing I do on moving to a new region, grab a ceptor and start making bookmarks. Insta-undocks, snipes on every gate, pounces on key chokepoint gates, and (for now) poseidon safes in key systems. I almost feel naked without them. How do you guys organize yours?
March 23rd, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Bookmarks = win. Interdiction nullifier also = win.
Interdiction nullifier + cover ops config = UBER WIN
How I have been making my bookmarks in hostile territory. We have been heading over to Curse semi-frequently. I’ll have to drop a line next time I’m around. Or next time you head up yonder… Pure Blind what? Not too far from home for me. In that case drop me a line… isn’t being blue so super special?
March 24th, 2010 at 10:21 am
I use the Agony Unleashed naming system for my bookmarks (http://www.blackwater-syndicate.com/downloads/PvP...). Its nice and simple and lets me sort them quickly and easily. So far I have been making a sun spot, an off-grid scan spot, and a handful of on-grid scan spots on each gate. Oh, and station scan points. You make the BMs on hostile POSes? I’ve not done that so far.
I’ve never tried to make a Poseidon safe. My client takes forever to log in so it always comes out of warp too quickly.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Being blue is just one big happy family. For sure look me up next time you’re in the neighbourhood.
March 26th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
What the…. how do you read my mind?!
March 27th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Mine too…
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.ph...
March 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Link doesn’t work. Do you have another version/copy?
Yeah, especially when I am in my bomber it gives me a good spot to catch any reds as they come out of their ‘nests’. Plus we feed the intel back to Alliance as to whether or not POS/JB is still there or if it has been moved.
March 30th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
They must not have liked all the traffic I sent them. Will look for an alternative link.