Im Wurmloch

Fresh air!

2010-01-28T21:22:00.002+01:00

The last few days have been very busy - but actually great fun!
We have decided to merge our two corporations which are living in the system and create 4WARD out of the joint forces.

4WARD has two meanings to us, one inofficial, one official:
- Forward to a bright future!
- Forces Organized, Ready for War, Able to Rapidly Deploy

Both of these meanings we incarnate.

The system contains now a grown infrastructure (I do not tell you consisting of what exactly ;-D) and quite some heavy defense.

Summary of busy days

2009-12-22T12:13:00.003+01:00

The last few days have been quite productive. Interruptions of operation happened a few times for a few hours. Well, yesterday almost the whole day we have had quite some foreign business going on in our wspace system.

One tale to tell is this one:
A guy came in, scanned and cleared - therefore triggered, a grav site (which we very like, really ... truly, believe me ... *BOOOMMM*). He decided to come in with his Retriever and suck a few ABC ore nuggets. Unfortunately for him is, that we collapsed the WH he came from without having him noticing that. So Mr. Stupid then was stuck in our system ... with a Retriever (which usually does not have a probe launcher fitted, right?). The end of the story is whatever you think ;-)
Another guy came in with his Heron and started to annoy me asking questions like "Can I mine in here? Will I have problems doing that?". After a while I told him to GET THE F*** OUT in my diplomatic manner - yes, I can show this side sometimes :-D

Moneywise, the story is this: Today evening I am expecting to reach the 75%-ish mark of investment turn around. Cool thing, eh?

From the R&D side we improved infrastructure and processes and so with it efficiency. Investors might like to hear this ... sad thing for them: We are not paying our shareholders a piece of cake because they do not pay us the exorbitant abrasion of Exotic Dancers at all which we have on our island in the middle of nowhere cut off from all other civilisation - well, last thing is not true ... nor the first :-D

Hey and even better - friends of us will move in in a few days or so and stick in a spore of the ISK generating machine to a neighbour moon somewhere. I am looking forward to lots of synergies and fun with those guys!

sArge out!

Zephyr defilée

2009-12-18T03:27:00.001+01:00

Happy holidays! :-)

Free Willy

2009-12-18T01:10:00.001+01:00

Our friend Free Willy has moved in to the system. Welcome home!

Bubbleholes

2009-12-17T21:47:00.005+01:00

We now have a new way to welcome unwanted guests in our habitat. It for sure does not prevent them to do something we do not like, but gives us a few more seconds to prepare an even more warm welcome commitee.

(un)friendly neighbours

2009-12-16T00:45:00.002+01:00

Today we have had an unstatic K162 which lead to another CL2 nearby. In there our intel service discovered structures and ships and we decided to pull back to not provocate anything we would like to abdicate.

A few hours later our intel service noticed a Buzzard scanning down the system. Further activities of our neighbours let us believe they are in an urgent need to find a way out to known space, most likely hisec. Communication in local was copied but in a very unfriendly manner. We let them continue their fleet movements as it consisted of a large number of transit flights with industrial vessels.

A few hours later we told them again that we have counted so and so many jumps for each ship they have had - response was "leave us alone, bloody noobs". A private chat invitation to our comm officer followed immediatly. Our comm officer made a good job to relax the fronts so far until he got the information he wanted: Our neighbours are leaving the wspace system - as we have assumed.

New Home

2009-12-14T18:10:00.002+01:00

After I have returned I am very pleased to say that my fellows managed to capitalize our 2nd wspace expedition and have found a suitable system. They have bought the whole equipment and settled into a nice system with a few nice signatures.

So the 2nd goldrush has become reality!

Back home in RL

2009-12-14T12:14:00.003+01:00

A short note that I am back from an Expedition in Mauretania to search for newly re-discovered crocodiles which have been thought extincted. We ... no, THEY found us :-)

Back home

2009-10-27T10:48:00.006+01:00

As you could read in the last few posts our POS in the CL5 was under heavy attack of a Dreadnaught which has shotten it into the reinforced mode.

The fact that we did not want to stay in this CL5 and also considered abandoning the POS for going home and prepare ourselves for expedition #2 was a point the attacker did just not know. The attacker was not understanding our behaviour at all which was looking not really care taking.

However, the attacker was surprised to see our POS in reinforced mode because they did not expect Strontium in our bay for some reason. They all went away including the covert ops ship with the words "see you in 14h, lol".
Well that was not our plan to see them again, I am afraid. As we did not want to leave anything profitable, we have loaded the valuable cargo into our fast frigates and just trashed the rest of the inventory as well as self destructed all ships.

I am very happy that at the end of the story we are having the last laugh because they will just find a few wrecks and when they shoot the corp hangar from each mineral exactly 1 piece :-D Furthermore, as they have to get rid of the hangar, maintenance and refining array to unanchor the tower and unanchoring the tower is not possible below 50% shield, they either have to repair the tower after reinforced mode or just leave it. As the wormhole the attacker came from with its dread is going to collapse naturally (not calculated the passed mass in) four hours after our reinforced mode ends, I believe this will be a minus for them in the end.

Bottomline, we have made it out the CL5 through 30 jumps in 0.0 and 4 jumps in lowsec with one unloaded scout character loss. The other five characters took home the other goodies, T2 modules, blueprints, some megacyte and zydrine, sleeper salvage worth 100m ISK and so on back home in fantastic shape.

We are now going to plan our expedition #2 - where we will bring a hughe load of expirience with us and from the beginning on just what we need and no other unneeded crap - not how we did it for expedition #1.

Attached you will find a screenshot of our abandoned POS, just right before leaving it. We have given the tower a nice name and I hope those pirates bite in their butts because they have wasted about 6 hours of their time :-D As well, you will find the chatlog which is quite funny and worth to read.

The Chatlog

We will be back soon!

The dread

2009-10-26T23:16:00.003+01:00

The blackmail mutated from a suspicious bluff to reality - and for the first time we see a Dreadnaught in action.

Breaking news!

2009-10-26T22:21:00.002+01:00

Two days in a CL5 ... two attacks to our POS - I would say that is quite a ratio!
Just right now we are under attack by 3 Paladins supported by a Damnation. The attacker blackmailed us with 500m ISK so they would not stay in the system. Unfortunately we are not the guys which let them get blackmailed. So we let em shoot and hopefully we see this Dreadnaught they promised us so nicely.
Stay tuned!

It has been a bad day ...

2009-10-26T10:06:00.003+01:00

We were caught in the middle of a station move due to refining limitations with the medium tower.
Enemy has shot our offlined defense and taken over some of our ships.
Most valuable inventory was secured so we are able to build some ships to replace some of our losses. Luckily my Hulk made it - without it we would be seriously screwed.

Losses:
- 4 Medium Artillery Batteries
- 1 Corporate Hangar Array
- 1 Large Ship Assembly Array
- 2 Retrievers
- 1 Heron
- 1 Imicus (got shot)
- 1 Iteron Mark 3
- 1 Iteron Mark 4
- 1 Drake
- 1 Myrmidon

Shot into armour:
- 2 Medium Artillery Batteries

Due to the shot artys we are unable to unanchor the remaining and dead medium tower.
Our repair capabilities are very limited and our only choice might be giving the tower and its two artys up.

It has been a bad day, yes, and a hit into the face - but, in the words of Captain Jason Nesmith (Galaxy Quest):

Never give up... and never surrender!

Move

2009-10-25T09:01:00.002+01:00

Yesterday we accomplished to move our infrastructure to a new wspace system - a class 5. I named it "Shadow". From here we have a few signatures to harvest while we are waiting for a new wspace system either a class 2 or 3 with plenty of signatures. However, we do not intend in engaging the combat sites here.

Cloud harvesting

2009-10-22T08:57:00.002+02:00

Yesterday we have scanned a route to the Empire again over the CL5, a CL2 and another CL2. We have sold our harvested resources including sleeper salvage, brought us in about 400m ISK. We further invested in gas cloud harvesting and bought Gas Cloud Harvesters II and the related skill.
Today now, our first attempts in harvesting those materials are happening and so far we are happy with it. Currently we harvest with a Vexor but intend to switch to a dedicated BC sooner or later.

Relocation

2009-10-21T13:29:00.005+02:00

Inbound subspace transmission

Sierra Tango Alfa Romeo Tango -krrrzzZZk- We have almost done our relocation to another moon and to a large tower -zZzk- Waiting for Mammoth skill finished to complete move of all installations -kzZsss- We took our Intensive Refining Array into duty and refined minerals worth around 300m ISK -krZzz- Access to HiSec is again not present -kzzZZss- Signatures down to a minimum -bzzRRzk- Not yet any grav sites anymore -krzBzzz- Preparing next shipping list for HiSec access -bRRzzz- Maybe looking into the gas clouds and polymeres -zzRk- Intends to extend defense -kkRatz- Echo November Delta, over and out! -bsiUuuu....

Subspace transmission end

Empire access #2

2009-10-20T00:10:00.003+02:00

Today another lucky day. A CL1 spawned right next to our system which provided us the luxury of a hisec entry into the region Metropolis where we somewhere have our operation command centre. We have shipped in more equipment for our Hulk (T2 fitting) , more POS fuel, sent out minerals to sell and bought a new intensive refining array for our mining activities. Our overall investment is now around 2 billion ISK worth and we hope to see a return of investment soon. Sadly our both rookies still have not made their way into Odyssee, as RL constraints kept them away from their captain chairs while we have had good accesses from the Empire out. Furthermore, in 3 days I am able to fly a Mammoth which enables me to deploy our large ship assembly array. For this day I am planning to migrate the whole installation to a large control tower which is, as some of you may know, a time consuming excercise. However, I am looking forward to this and the redundantly needed corporate hangar array is already prepared.

Empire access

2009-10-19T08:14:00.003+02:00

Today was the day of the days. On our adjadect CL5 we have found a CL2 which lead us directly into Amarr space within the empire.
As you can imagine, we have moved a lot of expensive equipment into our wspace system. Also we have now a new permanent resident in here, r8g3 - welcome to you in Odyssee!
One thing which we have not been to happy about is, that our medium control tower does not anymore fit our power requirements. Not even with the smallest setup of internal arrays it is possible to keep up the full blown defense battery setup. So I bought a large tower and we are having the undertaking of another move in front of us. I am also not to happy about this, because the esthetic of the nearby planet will be truly missed.
Another expierience we have had today is that with hauling out Arkonor which we mine between secure acesses we do not have enough throughput to generate enough ISK. So we decided to use our refining arrays and only ship minerals out when a secure access is granted.
It was a very interesting day, we also met new friends in the CL5, a mining corporation and we have shared great intel.

New goodies in, one more Iteron out

2009-10-18T07:28:00.004+02:00

We tried our luck again with the same route as before as the wormholes still looked healthy enough for a few Itty runs. The scouting with our new scout frigate went well for 3 runs. We accomplished to move in a Medium Ship Assembly Array, a Hulk, POS fuel and some other goods. On the way out we managed to get out 60'000m3 Arkonor and load it into our Orca. On our last flight out through lowsec into the Empire, one of our Iterons, the Mark III one, got some heavy damage into the hull because a pirate Onyx just arrived at our target gate while our two Iterons were already in warp and I as the scout left the system for checking the next gate. Repaired back trough the same gates into lowsec, we have had almost the same bad luck again: I was cloaked some distance away, Mr. Pirat just flew in again, when our two Ittys jumped the gate. Resulting in the loss of the Iteron Mark III. Good thing at the bad, our victim pilot was clothed with a jump clone and our rigged, more expensive version of the Iteron Mark IV made it back home.

"Odysee" -> CL5 -> CL4 -> CL3 -> Onatoh

2009-10-18T01:30:00.004+02:00

Today we have gained two key expiriences:
To find a way out of our wspace system is possible, almost always, if you have the balls to go deep enough down the rabbit hole and until local pilots in a low system recognizes what a foreigner does there, very little time passes.

We have found an exit out of Odyssee today which lead us trough the adjadect CL5, a CL4, a CL3 and into the lowsec system Onatoh. After long discussions, we finally decided to jump two jump this low sec route to get some more stuff for our POS. We went through with two Iterons, carrying equipment worth about 150m, and safely arrived back in Odyssee. For sure we regocnized a number of capsuleers in the lowsec systems, also a few very dangerous ships there. So my buddy decided to buy a fake Iteron to test the security of our newly found route - and as our guts feeling told us already: Gatecamp, pod kill.

The end of the story is: Now we have my buddies equipment in here, but he is missing - and now putting together a little blockade runner frigate. But: We have new infrastructure at our POS, an intensive refining array and an ammunition assembly array.

Ore

2009-10-16T22:47:00.005+02:00

We have taken our refining array into duty and are heavily utilizing it at the moment with loads of Hemorphite. Arkonor we save a little because there might be a possibility to sell this on the market. The Arkonor we mined today is worth around 100m ISK and returns already a good part of our investments. We are very happy at the moment with this.

Also, I have scanned down the static CL5, found a wormhole to a CL3. I jumped it to find out whats on the other side and landed directly in a coffee party of a Megathron, Abaddon and a Sacrilege. Fair enough I only had 3500 meters to the wormhole I came from - gave me the possibility to jump back two jumps before they even noticed or got a lock on me - maybe they also where not interested in a small explorer like me - nevertheless, I am glad to be home in good shape to see our refining array doing its work.

Cosmic chess

2009-10-16T21:36:00.003+02:00

It is a game - truly. One can call an explorers & scouts business as a cosmic chess. Every move has to be thought first. 360° after jump, wait, decloak and deploy a combat probe, scan, evaluate, make a note of every signature in the system, pull back or deploy more probes to start scanning the signatures down. Constantly check 360° on maximum range, count probes in space, determine between own and foreigns. With the time, you almost can feel when a wormhole collapses - and one most likely respawned for it. Catch every spotted wormhole as a bookmark and surround your home wormhole where you spotted this guy with that Heron in the nearby CL5, just because you want to know if he sniffs around in your own little corner of the universe. Always be prepared to loose your ship, your clone ... always ready for the escape - or a fight. You will never know what the opposite player has in mind and what his next move will be.

Specially if this jerk does not answer my friendly "Hi" in local :-D

Starting difficulties

2009-10-16T17:03:00.003+02:00

Our first day of permanent residence in "Odyssee" raised some interesting challenges for us to master. For example we took in a Retriever for testing out mining (we need a Hulk inhere). We saw those massive asteroids of various kinds in one of those gravimetrics sites which where so massive that we even bumped into them when we warped to 10km to it. Have not seen some roids which contain 200k Veldspar or Arkonor and so on ... exciting!

Furthermore we have forgotten repair modules, be it armour or hull - so we added this as top priority to our list of things to get in next. Also, our equipment for armour hardening somehow went lost somewhere during the move in the Orca. Even we did double check every spot and behind every screw the stuff was not visible. A new login at the next day revealed all in the corp hangar - annoying. At least we have a fully equipped Drake in here. This beast is really angry and eager to kick some sleeper butts.

In general, "Odyssee" seems to be pretty quiet and we start to feel home here.

Home improvement

2009-10-16T09:29:00.009+02:00

Today was a very exciting day. After we have made a few risky operations (big cross on the ceiling, everything went without incidents) we scanned down our nearby static CL5 which respawned. It provided us a wormhole to a CL2 which then made us a present of a HiSec access deep into Amarr area. Already prepared a list of a few things we most likely going to need, we loaded our "Free Willy" (Orca) up to the ceiling with equipment, infrastructure, ships and ammunition and sent her up to the system where we have our wonderful gate to "Odyssee". As already mentioned in an earlier post, my deputy CEO and myself took the time intensive effort to relocate to a moon at the most beautiful planet in the system. Thank you, Mordshoernchen! We increased countermeasures and set the POS to an agressive defense behaviour which should cater for visits from unwanted guests. Furthermore, we have installed a laboratory and a refining array to prepare ourselves for the upcoming assembly of battleships inside the wspace. Finally, we have left some of our main characters at the POS and drunk loads of spirits and smoked tobaccos - all in the wardroom - and definitely with massive amounts of exotic dancers.

May the force (field) be with us!

Under attack!!!

2009-10-16T01:49:00.007+02:00

Today I went exploring our sporadic CL2 spawn nearby and found a russian corp or something around there. I asked around directions - I got them and landed in the pod. However, the guy which shoot me off my captains chair replaced my Probe and told me: "I hope you have learned something today!". Yes, I have. No I did not ... I knew it was a risk, I saw his combat scanner probes, I saw him coming but I have had little to loose so I went all in :-)

A few minutes later on these guys gave me a bookmark from the local WH to a lowsec system, Aliette. My corpmate was also around - I sent him to hide himself meanwhile I catered for the russian guy.

Meanwhile we planned our next step in ramping up business in "Odyssee" - a small convoi with supplies. Two Probes, one we lost already a few days earlier, some fuel for the structures and some modules. We escorted an Iteron IV, equipped with a cloaking device, with two Myrmidons in fleet mode through 22 hisec jumps and two lowsec jumps. All went fine - nevertheless our pulse increased slightly. I was flying the Itty 4 and had the duty to scout with cargo because the two battlecruisers could not yet cloak. So, through the russians wspace finally arrived in "Odysee" in good shape.

Meanwhile a Proteus and another t2 ship from the russians tested our defense - or maybe tested how much damage they can do to a POS. One of our artillerys took some damage into the armour but they stopped after a while - maybe they got bored - to our luck.

"Odyssee" -> CL5 -> CL5 -> CL4

2009-10-15T04:27:00.007+02:00

My travels out of my sweet home do get more distant with every day. Yesterday I found a way out to Low in the system next to "Odyssee" - in the static CL5 space. Today I had to go much further - through two CL5 systems and finally got to a CL4 system.

This time I felt really, REALLY far away from home! Dead end black hole... literally.

Since we claimed this system, Schmotzele and me, I named it "Odyssee". A static access to 0.0, one static access to a CL5 system - occasionally something else, I have not figured out the interval yet. I guess it is two or three days - in this case - friday or saturday a new portal should open - hopefully to somewhere useful.

For my corp - I am laying a fundamental stone. I am THE explorer, THE wspace resident - carriying on the heavy duty to flatten the way to the corporations possibility to be more profitable. Many times I have thought about moving in my real char. I could clear the sleeper sites, mine my gravimetric signatures and just live in peace - without a crouded place like Jita. Maybe one day comes, I invite my corp to visit us for a week - when we know an interval of secure access. If this does not happen - I guess my groundbreaking fieldtest will be a failure. A failure with a lot of priceless expirience.

I start to like the empty - the lonelyness - just my probe, my scanner probes, our little currently unuseful POS and Schmotzele, which occasionally awakens from cold sleep - when I put him into the microwave oven.

Once more - I love it to be back home!

The only things I do have are words, no guns

2009-10-15T03:08:00.006+02:00

Well, the recent post from pilot Kasharic Kaniella (the blog I did link on my left bloglist and really brough me to the idea to set up my own blog) did make me feel to write a post in english too. Maybe, as the communication channels in wspace do not work, the subspace communication system (internet) allows him to reach out for this post.

Capsuleer Kaniella was the first person I met in wspace - well in fact the second one, but the first one with good intends - and I felt very comfortable having his system nearby my one. I seriously wish that we could have spend a few more hours together, maybe trade some things or exchange our expieriences - meanwhile I am sure we both have travelled once around the galaxis in our cosmic habitat - without even recognizing it. In one of my german posts I already have referred a few times to Kaniella as my "temporary Neighbour" - it really felt like that.

I did not learn a lot in the small amount of time we have had together in the infinite distance of wspace, except exchanging intel on our systems, helping each of us to find out the signatures which hide wormholes faster - but one thing I recognized and started after our meeting and I will carry on doing so in future: Words, not Guns! Say hi.

And I honestly feel honoured being remembered by a capsuleer during my difficult and currently frustrating time in here - still not found a secure exit -Kaniella, your post gave me fresh hope!

Kein Ausweg

2009-10-15T02:38:00.006+02:00

Es ist nun vier Tage in denen wir in diesem Loch hocken. Und ich muss zugestehen, es ist langsam nervenzermürbend und äusserst frustrierend jeden Tag zig Signaturen zu Scannen und keinen Weg ins HiSec zu finden und somit die Versorgung der POS und unserer beiden Chars sicherzustellen. Bei aller Schönheit mag ich schwarze Löcher nicht mehr sehen, ich sehe nur noch die fünf blauen Bälle meiner Sonden und meine Hoffnung wir mit jedem Scan der in die Leere führt mehr strapaziert.

Jedes einzelne Mal wenn ich eine Signatur hinunterscanne, bis auf den Millimeter genau, wünsche ich mir dass ich finde was ich nun schon vier Tage lang praktisch ununterbrochen suche - und praktisch jedesmal werde ich durch eine Gravimetrische, Ladar, Radar oder Magnetometrische Signatur oder aber durch ein Wurmloch ins 0.0 oder Low aufs bitterste enttäuscht. Bookmarks schreibe ich mittlerweile nur noch mit "zur POS" an, egal in welchem System ich bin - es interessiert nur der Weg zurück und Wurmlöcher. Der Füllstand des Sprittanks ist mittlerweile bei zehn Tagen angelangt - über ein Drittel des vorsorglich gebunkerten Materials wurde schon verbraucht.

Ich habe seit Tagen keinen Knochen in diesem System gesehen mit einer Ausnahme - einem kurzen Besuch des zeitweiligen Nachbars aus einem angrenzenden CL2 System, der mittlerweile in seinem kosmischen Habitat schon zweimal quer durch die Galaxis gereist ist - ohne es weiter zu bemerken. Und da war eine Helios - wahrscheinlich von sehr weit her - es gelang mir leider nicht mit dem Piloten Kontakt aufzunehmen, wäre schön gewesen sich mit einem Menschen zu unterhalten und dessen abenteuerliche Geschichte zu hören.

Wiedereinmal tief im WSpace, über zwei Sprünge entfernt von "Odyssee", vorbei an schwarzen Löchern, Quasaren, Magnetaren und all dem Kruscht der da sonst noch rumschwirrt, durch Systeme in denen ich unbemannte Frachter vorfinde, unbemannte und verlassene POS Towers - alles von solchen welche die letzte Hoffnung aufgegeben haben - wer weiss nach wie langem Suchen - entscheide ich mich das momentane System nicht mehr zu Ende zu scannen und mich auf den Heimweg zu begeben wo ich die hiesigen Signaturen weiter nach meinem Glück beobachten werde.

Meerrettich, Rhabarber, Gurke, Lattich

2009-10-14T15:48:00.004+02:00

Es scheint als würden sich die Zutaten aus denen das Gericht "Odyssee" besteht doch verändern, zumindest die mengenmässige Verteilung. Der heutige Scan nach der DT hat folgende Ingredentien ergeben:

- CFQ-113 Rhabarber (aka Radar)
- DBC-902 Gurke (aka Gravimetrisch)
- FPL-521 Rhabarber
- HDZ-204 Gurke
- IQD-207 Meerrettich (aka Magnetometrisch)
- JMB-166 Rhabarber
- OEV-066 Meerrettich
- OHM-820 Meerrettich
- TRD-078 E545 (statisches 0.0)
- VQF-168 Lattich (aka Ladar)
- XQC-981 Meerrettich
- YVC-788 N062 (statisches CL5)

Nach einer geschmacklichen Überprüfung des Gerichts ist mir aufgefallen, dass immernoch etwas fehlt damit richtig Stimmung aufkommt:
Zum Beispiel XXX-XXX B274

Zukünftiges Umzugsziel

2009-10-14T03:51:00.003+02:00

Wie bereits geschrieben, habe ich "Odysse" etwas erkundet und bin auf einen sehr schönen Planeten gestossen an dessen ersten Mond ich die POS bei der nächsten Gelegenheit verlegen werde. Der Planet erinnert mich an Jupiter - und zu "Odyssee 2010" passt der ja bestens. Ausserdem ist der Kontrast zur Systemfarbe fantastisch:

Zu früh gefreut!

2009-10-14T03:24:00.002+02:00

Kaum zurück an der POS in "Odyssee" habe ich natürlich sofort nochmal die heimischen Signaturen überprüft. Es reicht ja, wenn die einmal pro Tag erscannt sind, um anhand der ID Veränderungen festzustellen. Und wer hätte gedacht: Ein Wurmloch ist zusammengefallen, das ins CL2 und ein neues entstanden! Denkste ... wir haben jetzt drei Radar Sites in "Odyssee".

Alle Wege führen ins Low

2009-10-14T02:52:00.005+02:00

Nachdem heute unser statisches Wurmloch in ein CL5 System wieder gespawnt ist, konnte ich es trotz immensem Zeitaufwand nicht lassen dieses System zu scannen. Ich habe mich schon gefreut, dass nur sechs kosmische Signaturen vorhanden waren, welchen ich mit meinen kleinen Sonden auf die Spur kommen musste. Munter bin ich an die Sache herangegangen und scannte alle durch. Von den sechs Signaturen waren drei irgendwelcher Schmuh den mich nicht interessierte, eine das Wurmloch aus dem ich hergekommen bin, eines ein Wurmloch welches ins 0.0 führt und eines das in ein CL6 System geführt hat. Einmal mehr keine Mühe gescheut, plopp durch das Wurmloch ins CL6 - da hat es mit der Anzahl Signaturen dann schon anders ausgesehen - ein Report von 24 kosmischen Signaturen knallte mir von meinen Scannern gegen den Kopf! Nun denn ... los gehts!

Nach zirka eineinhalb Stunden (man merke, 3 Minuten pro Signatur!) habe ich tatsächlich ein Wurmloch in ein CL4 erscannt (darauf habe ich nun wirklich keinen Bock mehr gehabt) und eines welches wiedereinmal ins Low geht. Nachdem ich heute schon einen anderen Weg in Caldari State gefunden hatte (nach Costolle), bin ich durch dieses Wurmloch in Passari hinausgekommen. Zwar ist das nur ein Sprung ins Empire, aber als ich die Anzahl Sprünge nach Hause gesehen habe, habe ich gleich wieder umgekehrt und mich auf den Weg zurück nach "Odyssee" gemacht. 30 Sprünge im Empire und 1 Sprung durch das Low, 2 Sprünge im W-Space mit dem Risiko von gegankt zu werden und zusammenfallenden Wurmlöchern - nein danke.

Einmal mehr - schön wieder zu Hause zu sein - in "Odyssee".

Achja, ich will noch die anderen Planeten abfliegen um zu sehen ob mir einer noch besser gefällt - man muss den ja immer ansehen wenn man an der POS arbeitet - der jetztige sieht aus wie Schweizer Käse ohne Löcher und zu viel Rahm.

T(r)aufe

2009-10-13T21:00:00.004+02:00

Einmal mehr alle Signaturen erscannt (ich werde langsam aber sicher ein Meister dieser Disziplin) und immer noch keinen direkten Ausgang gefunden. Über ein neues CL2 konnte ich wiederum einen Weg ins Low-Sec des Caldari State finden. Ein kurzer Ausflug dahin hat um die Nachmittagszeit keine Reisenden in diesen Systemen gezeigt - bis auf vier die offensichtlich auf einer Station rumgehangen haben. Das Übergangssystem ins Hi-Sec wurde wie immer von einer Horde von der Sorte Piloten besetzt, der ich nicht vertraue - daher habe ich mich entschlossen wieder zurück in das heimische System, durch die Wurmlöcher woher ich gekommen bin, zu fliegen.

Ich glaube ich habe nun einen Namen für J134735 gefunden - ich taufe dieses System jetzt offiziell "Odyssee". Einen entsprechenden Namen für den POS Tower suche ich noch.

Was? Und vor allem: Wann?

2009-10-13T04:19:00.004+02:00

Eis minern - eine eher langweilige Geschichte. Währenddem meine Hulk auf dem Eisfeld hockt, kann ich mir einige Gedanken über das weitere Vorgehen machen.

Da kein Zweifel besteht, dass sich irgendwann innerhalb der nächsten Tage ein Wurmloch ins Hi-Sec öffnen wird und nur die Frage ist, wann das genau sein wird, muss ich dahingehend vorbereitet sein um unseren beiden Abenteurern ein Skillkonzept, Infrastruktur, Ausrüstung, Schiffe und natürlich Skills bereitstellen zu können.

Weil wir zwei permanente Residenten im Wurmloch sind, welches eine nicht zu verachtende Anzahl von Anomalien und Signaturen zum Farmen hat und uns als Corp zudem die Möglichkeit bietet eine POS zu betreiben sowie deren Möglichkeiten zu Nutze zu machen, denke ich dass es sinnvoll ist die beiden Charaktere leicht unterschiedlich zu trainieren.

Einerseits brauchen wir den Industriezweig und andererseits einen Kämpfer. Da meine Erfahrungen im Wurmloch gezeigt haben, dass gut gefittete Battlecruiser gegen CL2 Sleeper gut bestehen können, sollte das Fliegen von Battlecruisern ein Ziel sein. Da wir beide Minmatar sind, ich gute Erfahrungen mit Shieldtanks gemacht habe, werde ich wohl auf eine Lokomotive (Cyclone) skillen.

Weiter brauchen wir an der POS mehr Infrastruktur um uns mit Munition selbst versorgen zu können - in Anbetracht dessen, dass wir zwei statische gravimetrische Signaturen im Raum haben, benötigen wir früher oder später ein Refining Array (22m), ein Equipment Assembly Array (54m), Ammunition Assembly Array (9m), ein kleines mobiles Labor (86m) zur Erforschung von Blueprints für die Corp. Gut ist, dass man diese Arrays alle bei nichtgebrauch offline schalten kann.

Schwesters Sondierung

2009-10-13T02:30:00.003+02:00

Nachdem ich das benachbarte CL5 auf einen Ausgang ins Hi-Sec gescannt habe und tatsächlich zwei Wurmlöcher aufgetaucht sind - nämlich das von wo her ich gekommen bin (die findet man immer als erstes obwohl die Signaturen schwach sind - es ist ein Fluch) und eines in ein weiteres CL5 bin ich durch Letzteres hindurch geflogen. Mein obligatorischer 360° Scan zeigte 5 Sisters Scanner Sonden an die mich natürlich sehr interessiert haben. Im Local Channel habe ich Mal aufs geratewohl hin gefragt ob die vielleicht jemandem gehören - bekam jedoch keine Antwort. Ein Hinweis auf nichts Gutes, Angst des Besitzers oder keine Anwesenheit - also eine unbrauchbare Information.

Ich habe dann durch die Verengung des Scanwinkels und Ausrichten des Schiffes versucht einigermassen eine Peilung auf die Probes hinzukriegen - ging aber nach einer gewissen Zeit nicht mehr Mal im 360° Modus - der Besitzer war da und hat sie mitgenommen nehme ich an. Wäre auch ziemlich hohl so teures Equipment liegen zu lassen. Entweder hatte er mich nun erscannt oder sich verkrümelt - jedenfalls habe ich das dann auch getan; also das abhauen zurück ins CL5 woher ich gekommen bin.

Wieder zurück erscannte ich die beiden letzten Signaturen, ein Wurmloch ins 0.0 (X-HISR), war leer - und die letze noch eine Ladar - auch unnütz in meiner Situation. Aus mit der Scannerei für heute.

Zwar hatte ich einen Ausgang über einen CL2 ins Low-Sec gefunden, aber irgendwie konnte ich mich mit der Idee nicht so recht anfreunden da diese zwei Sprünge mit vollbeladenem Itty zu machen, obwohl ich vorher scouten gegangen wäre.

Schön wieder zu Hause zu sein.

Wo ist der Ausgang?

2009-10-13T00:36:00.000+02:00

Heute habe ich wie jeden Tag bisher die Signaturen in unserem Wurmloch Space mit meiner Probe gescannt und herausgefunden, dass wir in diesem Klasse 2 Wurmloch über zwei statische Wurmlöcher verfügen. Eines davon führt offensichtlich immer ins 0.0 - das andere jeweils in ein Klasse 5 Space. Ein weiterer Aus-/Eingang muss existieren, da wir direkt vom Hi-Sec in dieses Wurmloch gekommen sind und in der Nacht von Freitag auf Samstag unsere erste kleine POS aufgestellt haben.

Die Anzahl der Signaturen in unserer Raumblase beläuft sich täglich auf elf Stück. Davon sind zwei Radar, zwei Ladar, zwei Grav und drei Mag. Dazu kommen die beiden statischen Wurmlöcher die sich um ungefähr 1800 Uhr und 2000 Uhr erneuern.

Nebst den kosmischen Signaturen sind ungefähr 20 kosmische Anomalien im Wurmloch vorhanden die wir farmen könnten - hätten wir denn gescheit geskillte Chars hier drin und das entsprechende Equipment. Die Sleeper Sites könnt Ihr auf dem Bild links erkennen.

Bis jetzt bin ich leider noch nicht dazu gekommen, das angrenzende Klasse 5 Wurmloch fertig zu scannen, werde dies jedoch bald noch tun. Als ich zum ersten Mal hineinflug habe ich zwei Signaturen und gleich 3 Schiffe erscannt was mich dazu veranlasst hat, das Wurmloch schnellstmöglich wieder zu verlassen - da der General leider noch über kein Cloaking verfügt.

Stimmt die Anzahl der Signaturen nicht mit dem Vortag überein, wird es spannend. Wir sind nun zwei Tage drin und endlich hat sich etwas geändert: Ein neues Wurmloch. Es führt in einen anderen Klasse 2 Space.

Heutige Signaturen:
- ADK-391 G
- CBG-048 L
- CRX-040 R
- NOC-118 WH E545 0.0 (static)
- FTD-284 M
- GVL-067 L
- JPZ-790 M
- JTs-480 G
- VUZ-188 M
- JTB-634 WH N062 CL5 (static)
- BDW-641 WH CL2 (!)