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Blog Banter 61: Chapter 1
Welcome to the continuing monthly EVE Blog Banters and our 61st edition! For more details about what the blog banters are visit the Blog Banter page.
TurAmarth asks this question: "What would we encourage ALL new players to do in their first month to get them to subscribe long term, if we had to give out one set of advice for everyone (which we do if we're giving general advice)?"
To be honest, I expected writers to use this blog banter to promote their little niche of New Eden with. Not that I think it's wrong to do so. Wormhole lords, null-sec barons and pirate commodores need new blood as much as the most genial mining foreman.
In fact, to show solidarity, I highly recommend Stay Frosty as being a great place to learn the ropes of pirating (perhaps after you've learnt the ropes in general). It's friendly, welcoming, and has a strong focus on personal freedom, a genuine rarity in New Eden. Even if you're a solo pilot just looking for a comm channel to fill the void, I strongly urge you to try it once. Not only that, but it's headed up by the most notorious, gallant and cunning ebil scallywag to ply the stars.
I expect my cheque in the mail Rixx.
What's actually been written has been refreshingly realistic, and is focused more on general advice about the right kind of attitude to have as a fresh capsuleer. The ones I've read advocate trying everything. Great advice, if a little lacking in clear objectives.
So, no matter who you are, I have only one thing to recommend to new players, and something that I guarantee will keep you in space longer than any single activity:
Record the story.
Blog it, vlog it, personal diary entries, comic strips, kill boards, charts and graphs, tattoos showing how many ship kills you've gotten… anything to remember the story by. From spoken Captain's logs to the humblest screenshot album, recording your personal story will keep you coming back.
New Eden is a canvas.
Some capsuleers will try to convince you that the market is the soul and centre of the galaxy. The majority will probably pontificate about the virtues of social corps, and the bonds of friendship. A little more will lure you into the trap of thinking of space as a massive gladiatorial arena. They are all right, but they do not have the whole story.
The EVE Gate led us to a wild frontier where all narratives are possible. A stardust sandbox, where kings are built grain by grain, battered by competition and blasted by misfortune. Mighty sandcastles build upon thousands of capsules have been raised, and razed. All of these are fantastic stories, and most likely what brought you here in the first place.
So record it.
The one thing people can tell you about New Eden is how temporary everything is. That ship you slaved for, that horded wallet you ground out of space rock… all can vanish in a instant. Your cherished module, looted from an unsuspecting pirate, can crash in value at a moment's notice. Even the Null-sec barons know how tenuous their empires are.
But your story can remain.
No matter where you end up, no matter how high you rise or how brilliant and destructive your fall, the one constant is your own impetus, and your continuing saga amongst the stars. That, and that alone, is safe from the galactic predators. Your story is something they can never take from you.
You owe it to yourself to have your chronicles made.
It doesn't matter if they are never shared. It doesn't even matter what the form is. Even the simplest kill-mail tracker or leader board is enough. The fact that you are aware of it, and are taking part in the crafting of your legacy is what will drive you. It is what will bring you back to hostile space and under fire, again and again.
So if you are starting off in New Eden: Record your story.
I look forward to seeing all of your Chapter 1s.
Slice of the Ol' Pirate Life
The stack of paper glared at me with the intensity that only ink and expectations can give.
I leaned back in my chair, rubbing my tired face with stained hands. The damned black stuff got everywhere, no matter how careful you were. It didn't even seem to matter most of my work was done at the keyboard these days.
A cheery beep from my terminal reminded me of the half-dozen deadlines for tomorrow.
Take some time to appreciate the situation, I told myself. You've got a family to feed, and students who rely on you. And you wanted the shift from teaching language to hard science. Better prospects all around. All you need to do is push through these months of truly hard work, and everything will be better.
Don't think about that government service job you applied for on a whim. Doesn't matter you're through to the second round. You have to think of a secure future.
All good points, I agreed with myself.
The stack of assignments and training plans shifted its glare to impatient gloating.
I need to get out for a while.
I left the sombre, confining office, and wandered out to the living area, my wife conspicuously absent. It wasn't safe enough to bring her to Ardar yet. She was busy being pregnant with our first child back on Hek. Just a comm call away, but our schedules had fallen out of synch. She should be asleep by now.
I fled the empty, claustrophobic quarters, meandering aimlessly around my small section of the station. My corporation had a few levels rented out for members, but I was the only current occupant, footsteps clanging down the darkened hallways. Had to save power on the lighting bills these days.
I stopped abruptly outside my personal hangar. Three sets of key cards hung on the rack, each coded for a different frigate. Just two Rifters and the Prospect here. A fraction of the fleet gathering dust in Hek. Two Rifters.
I didn't bother with the furtive glancing around. They were my ships, and if you can't take your own damn ship out whenever you wanted to, what was the point in shelling out the ISK for it?
I grabbed the card for the Rhys Tai; a little project before I started training for my new job. Standard fitting, with plate and ancilliary repper, 200s and trinity tackle. The devil was in the details for this one. Two projectile ambit extensions instead of the standard nano-pumps.
I was of two minds about it. The nano-pumps were a nice, safe, and easily quantifiable advantage, based on the sound military principle of being on the positive side of damage in versus armour repaired.
The ambits, on top of the Rifter's already impressive range, gave a much more incalculable advantage. Distance against hard firepower was always tricky, but I was confident the Rifter could exploit this advantage well.
Mostly confident.
Within moments the little Rifter prowled out into space. Its butch form was a façade. This frigate needed a delicate touch, and a careful, considered mind. But still, by looks alone, it is one of the more empowering pod sheathes.
I jumped a few systems, leaving the paperwork to glower in my ion wake. Just an hour or two away. To fly amongst the stars… And then I'll be good. I'll willingly press my face to the grindstone.
The various low-sec denizens fled before me, like startled pigeons. The pirate colours I fly tended to have that effect. I don't begrudge them it. When I fly the Prospect, I act in the same way. Prudence over bravado is my usual running order.
Not today.
A Slicer on scan.
He who dares…
I warped to the complex gate, slightly changing my initial contact tactic. I tend to gamble on warping in on top of my opponent when using Rifters, a habit born from my early days of flying brawling frigates. Today I started 30km out.
The Slicer probably couldn't believe his luck! A clapped out old Rifter, flown by a pilot so rusty he melded into the Matari penumbra, and right at his optimal range! Incredible!
Pulse fire came in stripping shields with ease, and chewing through armour with equal abandon. Reppers cycled, but the inevitable stream of fire began melting holes of vulnerability.
But it wasn't going all his way. It wasn't, in fact, going his way at all.
My own projectiles had punched through his shields, even as he orbited at 20km, the ambits casting the hail of radiated metal across the gulf between us. His micro-warpdrive made him an absolutely massive target, his signature bloomed out like a waiting flower, my own, Matari engineered radius needle thin in comparison.
I managed a text book slingshot manouver, something I've never been able to pull off before, and his incoming fire dropped to a trickle. I was neatly under his guns.
Victory was nearly mine when both my rocket launcher and auto-cannons burned out, melted to slag through over use. I made some efforts at escape, but the inevitable happened, and the Rhys Tai erupted into flames.
I set my pod back to Ardar. Just twenty minutes since I left.
It was… perfect.
Well, not the exploding part. But that was a minor set-back, caused by a little inattention to heat levels, and clumsy, out of practice hands at the controls.
The slingshot perfect. The theory behind the ambits verified, at least in this one test. The Rifter could easily match most mundane kiting frigates, and some navy specials, whilst still brawler fit.
I attacked the stack of papers with renewed vigour, its glare reduced to a morose stare.
Everyone needs a little slice of life every now and then.
Yarr.
Labels: Brawlling, Faction Warfare, Low-sec, Rifter
I know nothing
Lately I've been trying to keep myself to a posting schedule. I take Mondays and Tuesdays off (to actually spend in space!), and then write the rest of the time.
I stalled this week.
I was trying to make a thread of Rifter re-balances. I was trying to be clever, and used Excel to track falloff ranges, and tracking changes.
I tweaked fittings and manipulated graphs until EFT burned holes in my computer. Spreadsheet after spreadsheet fell to my cold calculations.
And I found out that all my suggestions were wrong.
I found the Rifter was exceptionally well balanced.
In fact, I would almost describe it as overpowered.
Imagine my shock, for a ship so underused.
It can literally compete with every single Tech 1 frigate, and I'm not un-convinced it can't best the Navy faction sips either. It has tactics to counter everything. It does not have a single winning formula, but it does gave one for every situation.
All the arguments that I used to claim the Rifter as weak, or somehow un-fit for combat, were demonstrably incorrect. I worked the numbers, and found that the only part of my Rifter that wasn't working was the pilot.
So, I must admit;
I am... impressed with the finesse of design here.
I also need to apologize for the level of arrogance in assuming I knew better than the designers. I was wrong.
Fitting suggestions: Go with a standard set up. Rocket launcher in the utility high. If you want to scare kiters, two Projectile ambit rigs and a missile launcher works wonders, and actually fits with a meta plate fit. I'd also argue this is a great way to deal with drone users: Kite out to beyond scram range, and pop off the drones. Then close for the kill.
But this whole experience of working through the numbers has been valuable. I have a far greater appreciation for the effects of falloff range increases, and for tracking on turrets.
And I've found out that the Rifter works. It is a finely balanced blade. A product of years of engineering. No crude tool to repeat a tactic over and over, but a calm, measured responder to circumstances. If anything, I was wrong about capsuleers showing their age with a shift to the Tristan. The Rifter grew up... we didn't. We just switched to the easier ship to fly.
I've never wanted to fly a ship more in my entire life than I want to fly a Rifter now.
(That said, a little speed increase would be welcomed.)
((And maybe a reduction on reload times to make better use of damage type selection.))
Swords of New Eden
Less of a factual post, this is more of a framing device for imagining New Eden's weapon systems. I tend to think of each star-ship in terms of conventional hand held weapons.
Honestly, I find it hard to conceptualize falloff and tracking, at least in real terms. Trying to hold all those numbers in my head means they start leaking out my ears. It's certainly impossible to work it out during combat.
Weapon systems also change their use from hull to hull. But keeping a group of weapons in mind whenever I encounter ships in space, allows me to react accordingly.
It also gives us a frame to understand the mystery of the Rifter's unpopularity.
So lets start with the easy one:
Pulse lasers are Spears
I've written several times how I equate these weapons to lances and polearms. They are excellent weapons of war, and perhaps the best example of a real military grade weapon.
They have the best operational range, able to damage at a distance well beyond the reach of other weapons. This is just like the spear. You're able to keep your opponent at arms reach, and you have excellent control at this range.
The ability to switch to point blank faster than other weapons is also shown here. A spear can be swiftly drawn back to a closer grip faster than most other weapons. If you're curious, take a stick, and hold it like a spear. Draw it through your dominant hand to a shorter grip. See how fast that was? Of course your control is limited at this range, but so is pulse laser tracking.
Spears had their roots in hunting tools, and again, lasers are one of the more popular NCP hunting weapons.
Blasters are axes
I've never really used blasters, except once in my youth when I thought the Thorax was the best looking ship in New Eden. But ask anyone anything about blasters, and the ridiculously high damage usually comes up. Blasters blast things apart, just as axes were designed to do.
Axes gained popularity around the same time as chain mail did. The reason being, axes were high impact weapons that could pummel a chain mail user, and even hammer past shields. That's not to say they lacked finesse, but that's what their purpose was: close-range high-damage.
You could also use it to chop wood. Most people living away from civilization centers prefer an axe over other weapons, simply because of it's utility. We see this quite clearly in New Eden, with various ratting Vexors and mission running Dominixes. Blasters are extremely quick to clear NCPs, and a baying pack of drones neatly wraps up the image of a hunter.
You can argue the Atron treats blasters as longer range weapons. You're right. I'd call them poleaxes.
The downside of axes was the lack of protection for its user. No hand guards, and a fairly vulnerable wooden handle meant that a competent opponent could hurt the user, or weapon easily. This was true until the blaster boats got their full-plate armour in the form of tanking bonuses, and a flat increase in hit points.
Projectiles are blades
Anyone who's flown a Slasher knows the seductively little dance of slipping in under an opponents guns, and jabbing them furiously at point blank. The Slasher is just what it says it is; a knife fighter. Utility highs and e-war fits show this little ship to be an utter scoundrel, cruelly closing range and attacking mere inches from the enemy. And it works extremely well.
If you intend to go pirating, you can't do much better in terms of theme than the Slasher.
And the Rifter? Rifters used to be long swords. Able to jab at full reach with Barrage, and then cut more vigorously at close range. In a universe defined by the three ranges: close, scram and disruptor, the Rifter could cope well at two of these, particularly since the other ships lacked the practicality in application of the Rifter.
Long swords, especially those with longer points, could more easily find the gaps in armour. This is represented by the ability to choose ammunition, to find that resist hole.
These days? Other weapons developed, and the Rifter went into stasis. Unsurprisingly, it became less popular. No one needed a plain heavy long sword when the modern axe could hit harder with decent armour to back it up... particularly since the axe users became either lighter on their feet, or started using hunting dogs.
It developed into the rapier. The weapon became a long thin piece of steel, more designed to thrust at long range, into falloff and scram range, but still heavy enough to cut. It was still better than a spear (Punisher) at close range, but nothing like a knife (Slasher) or an honest axe (Merlin/Incurs).
Which is a promising start, but it carries with it the flaws of the rapier. They were not primary military weapons. They were excellent sidearms, being easy to carry at the hip, but aside from a cavalry sabers, the majority of soldiers carried either spear,musket, or some kind of weapon to deal with either (axes being commonly used to chop spears into kindling).
Moreover, it can't full utilize the rapiers advantage. It can't easily find those gaps in armour. Reload times for projectiles are 10 seconds. Yes, you can hunt for those resist holes, but you're going to sacrifice nearly a quarter of your armour to find it. And the Rifter doesn't have much armour to spare.
And without that armour piercing capability, the relatively small damage advantage at range the Rifter has is irrelevant.
The Rifter is a blunt, and over-weight rapier. Yes, it can do reasonable damage at most ranges. But it can't react to its enemy as it should be able to. And even then, it can't leverage its advantage well. Furthermore, it's too bogged down by armour to dictate the ranges it likes against lighter ships.
It's still a good ship. It's just much harder to use effectively than other frigates.
Well, that's fairly common knowledge. Everyone knows this about the Rifter.
So... how ca we fix it?
We could petition designers to alter bonuses (and I'll post up later on my recommendation for that). That takes time though, and does nothing for our Rifter now.
Or we could break the rules a bit.
And we draw our influence from medieval Scandinavia.
Strategikon: Scram Range analysis and the Rifter
I was patrolling around in my Rifter the other day, when I realised a big gap in my knowledge. And it was a fairly crippling gap.
The Rifter is still very much unloved by capsuleers, or at least under-used. Part of this is due to a shift from dare-devil piloting to a more mature, and reliable flying style offered by the Tristan. The Fat Man's drone bay allows for relatively easy counters to an unexpected opponent, and doesn't require such light-footed reactions for piloting.
In short, capsuleers are showing their age. Passions of youth give way to the more cool responses of maturity.
But lets deal with the hulls themselves. A while back the Rifter was re-engineered to have longer ranged autocannons, at least as far as falloff was concerned. I was initially pleased, and excited about the possibility of an autocannon true kiter, operating out to disruption range. More on that later.
However, it still hasn't done the trick. New Eden still distrusts the Rifter. And I know why.
I was hunting for targets. Several frigates popped up on scans, and I noted there were a lot more pirate and navy ships fluttering around these days.
I saw an Incursus. Blaster boat. Should be easy prey for a scram range kiter... but for the drone it also carried. That drone's damage could be applied at all ranges, and might best my Rifters projectiles in falloff. Better find something more easily targeted.
Atron. Attack ship, so should also be easy to slug it out with... but its own falloff bonus means the heavy damage of blasters may out-do that of my relatively light projectiles. Hum.
Kestrel. Can put reliable rockets out to a distance equivalent to my projectiles...
You can see my problem.
Whilst I knew the Rifter's advantage lay in scram range kiting, I didn't actually know how good an advantage that was. Thus, I didn't have the confidence to take my ship into combat. I feel that many capsuleers are the same, and are not eager to go find out for themselves, for fear of embarrassment. I always think flying smart is just as important as flying bravely, and taking a ship into a bad situation without knowing what you're doing is fairly dumb.
So let's find out...
Tactic: Scram range kiting
This is where a ship will operate at the very edge of a warp scramblers range. It knocks out a micro-warp drive using ship, but also stays out of range of the bulk of returning fire. It's a much more delicate form of brawling, as opposed to the more common image of slugging it out with an opponent.
So lets look at some ranges and damage profiles. As before, I got my calculations from the Eve Uni-wiki. If anyone knows this is out of date, or simply wrong, please let me know!
Since we're looking at scram ranges, we'll only be comparing long range T2 ammunition in the biggest short-range guns that can be reasonably fit. This should give the best range achievable by a single hull. Of course, all these are T2 variants (as only these can fit the long range T2 ammuition types).
(Note: We could include faction T1 ammunition types, but they're typically inferior to the specialist T2 munitions for range)
I'll include example ships below for clarity. Many ships carry the same bonuses, and turret layout. If they carry additional drones, add +20dps for each drone (assuming Hobgoblin IIs). For a Rocket Launcher 2 secondary, add 18dps up to 10.1km (Navy rockets), or 15dps up to 15.2km (Javelin).
Auto-cannon -200mm x 3, Barrage [Slasher]
Blaster - Light Neutron x 3, Null [Merlin, Incursus]
Pulse laser - Small Focused Pulse x3, Scorch [Punisher, Tormentor, Executioner]
Whilst running the calculations, I thought it'd be interesting to see the close range ammo on a Rifter. It's range is similar to that of a Barrage using Slasher, so it'll be interesting to see the difference in damage. I also counted the Atron, with a fall-off bonus to blasters, as a separate ship.
The damage shown is before any modules or rigs. Obviously the more damage increasing modules you put on the better! All skills to 5, for fairness.
Scram ranges highlighted in yellow, the first one cold, the second on overheat. The orange is disruptor range.
What follows is mostly my own opinion. If you disagree, let me know in comments!
Pulse lasers are clearly the best scram range weapon (but most of you knew that!). This damage projection offsets the natural slowness of Amarr ships, and gives the reason why the Executioner works as an attack ship. Coming in dead last are blasters, with projectiles in the middle. The Rifter with it's fall-off bonus comes in at 2/3 the firepower of pulses at scram range.
So yes, conventional wisdom wins out. Rifters should use keep blaster boats at range, and engage Amarr ships at point blank.
The drone users
Incursus vs. Rifter is still skewed in favour of the Incursus. Adding the damage of the drone (30dps @ 11km) puts the gap between them at about 20dps. Which is great! But the Incursus with it's repair bonus can absorb that easily. It also comes a bit more cap stable than the Rifter, and usually more armour, meaning that in a war of attrition, the Incursus comes out just a little better the Rifter.
Tormentors are similarly protected by their drones at close range. Most carry a plate along with a holy trinity (propulsion, scram and webifier). Eve if you get under their guns, that's still around 40dps of fire coming in at you.
This can be remedied by putting a rocket launcher in the Rifters utility high. Work on your rocket skills to fit javelins (for range against blaster boats). You lose out on the cap warfare options (neuts and vamps) when you go close range, but it works out to be more flexible (i.e. useful in all engagements rather than one). Cap warfer will mostly be useful against laser boats, but with the Rifter's capacitor being what it is, you'll just cap yourself out before the enemy.
Tristans a little out of control right now. Just don't get involved. Your best bet is to go point blank and hope they're not blaster fit. Either way you have 100dps from drones coming at you, and that's pre-damage mod. If someone can explain to me their weakness, I'm dieing to know... Quite literally in fact.
The kites
It's also interesting to see that the Rifter's damage is quite respectable at disruptor range. Provided you're not hamstrung by electronic warfare, you should be able to do reasonable damage to those pesky T1 frigate kiters. Not a stellar amount, but enough to maybe make them think twice!
Which brings us to the scram range kiting Atron. According to the paper work, these are basically tied. You should try to keep your distance, and the Atron should try to get under your guns. Tracking comes into play too, but these fights will most likely end in one party escaping.
Looking at the pulse laser line, we can see that the Executioner is clearly the king of scram kiters. Keeping out at OH scram range, you even have a great chance against an Incursus. Of course, a number of factors come into play here (sig radius, resistances etc.) but in a 100 second extrapolated fight, the Exec puts out 9300 damage at scram range, to the Incursus' 3000. Not bad at all really!
Against a Rifter, the difference in tank makes this actually a reasonable fight. You won't be able to close the distance on them, but you'll be tougher, and a rocket launcher in the high slot might make all the difference. Weaving in and out of pulse laser fall-off might be the best option, tagging them with a scram when they look like they're about to escape.
On overheating
On overheating scrams; yes, it does cut incoming blaster fire by half. Against an Incursus, that's not actually significant (because of the drone), and honestly, you'll just be cutting your own damage by the same actual amount. But against a Merlin, which has nothing better to do with it's low slots than damage mods, yes, it's good!
Against a Slasher, well, not that helpful. It's faster than you anyway. Just focus on ripping it's flimsy hull to shreds. Against an Atron, the difference is slightly in your favour, but you're going to have your hands full keeping him at range.
The rocketeers
These are some ships you should avoid like the plague:
At scram range, all the rocket ships out-damage you, and realistically with webs and your guns suffering from tracking, they'll outdamage you at close range too. The Condor you may be able to slug it out with, but you're likely to be hamstrung by ewar. Kestrels are rather terrifying at all ranges, and I'm surprised more people aren't fielding them with an overdrive injector in lows to dictate range. The Breacher, again, shows itself to be a sheer marvel of Matari starship design.
I feel a little more confident about the Rifters ability now, and it doesn't need the overheating management of tackle modules suggested by many others. It helps in some cases, but shouldn't be standard operating procedure. Just keep an eye on your ranges, and make sure your scram has a base range of 9km or better. Realistically, the other ships I've mentioned aren't going to be fitting their biggest weapons, and the virtue of auto-cannon's low fitting cost means that the Rifter can.
A rocket launcher is most likely the best choice to put in that high slot. Leave cap-warfare to the sneaky gutter-fighting Slasher.
What's remarkable is just how well balanced the Rifter comes against the other frigates. Despite having a falloff bonus which suggests it to be a scram range kiter, it always has options. It's still the same flexible, jack-of-all trades it's always been.
Which I think is a problem. This post is getting huge though, so I'll leave why to next time!
Bonus post: Hurricane in a teacup
I was looking through the thread on clothing in the official Eve forums, and was disappointed that traditional Khanid clothes are still not available to capsuleers, and that we are forced to wear whatever sanctified robe comes out of Amarr.
Not that I think there's anything wrong with them, I just wish they made more different cultures clothing in capsuleer sizes.
However, I found this response to the thread:
"Best part about eve is all the freedom and crap you can do, swearing, trolling, etc., the only respectable mmo I've played that doesn't bring me down by trying to be child friendly. Even if people wanted to walk around in underwear, it would still be in the spirit of the game to allow it. And on that note, is anything truly wrong with a bathing suit? This is the first time I've bothered to take an interest in this new cosmetic part of the game and its a pretty big downer."
- Alestra Demoness of the TinklePee corporation.
Now the thread itself is a fine example of a storm in a tea cup. What started as a simple request devolved into a heated debate, where (Overheat Diplomacy) someone very passionately believes in something that most people would consider of relatively minor importance (/Diplomacy).
But that reply is particularly worrying.
New Eden is all about the swearing and trolling? And somehow this is a respectable game?
Apparently it is in the spirit of the universe to allow capsuleers to walk around in their underwear.
It's hard to say how misguided an opinion this is without coming off as prudish, or simply old. Maybe that's true. Maybe I am settling into my maturity a little too well. I'll consider that next time I jump at the chance to go underwear shopping with my wife.
I still think the image is bad. And it tars the rest of us with the same brush. I've never seen this world as a place where I can simply be cruel to other people. I very rarely swear either. I certainly don't consider it to be a right I have in space. But people who hear I'm a capsuleer will see comments like that, and assume I'm the same.
They'll assume that you, gentle reader, are the same too.
So that's bad. People will join the sleepers simply to avoid being associated with that kind of juvenile false-maturity. Older capsuleers in particular, those who actually have the patience and experience to train new pilots, would simply assume this life is not for them.
Mabrick recently wrote about how it's damaging New Eden. I have to agree.
I simply have to agree.
But on the upside, the thread gave me inspiration for this Hurricane in a tea cup picture!
Tea cup image from here
The wormhole interlude
Today is an example of a project that you work towards, but fizzes out at the end. This was part of the ongoing project to run a Sleeper site (and potentially see a Black Hole!).
So far I've only crossed a few things off my list. Not doing so well.
I got back to Hek, and in a fit of madness decided to take a Hurricane to wormhole space instead of a Harbinger. To be honest, there's not much difference between the two hulls in terms of damage output, and running a shield tank leads to similar levels of survivability on both.
I recently did some number crunching on projectile fall-off, and realised that operating ranges for projectile ships was actually pretty good. I usually dismiss them for NCP clearing purposes, as lasers and drones have a very good edge when it comes to sustainability. However... well, just look at that Hurricane!
No doubt one of the better looking ships of New Eden!
Fitting was a relatively simply task too. For this little trip I'd be taking advantage of the Mobile Depot, taking modules for scanning and evasion on top of what I'd need to hunt the Sleepers. Fit shown in the picture, along with all the tools for the job.
Lows were the simplest part f this fit. All damage and target projection, with mids hosting the relatively meaty shield tank.
The shield tank itself is non-standard, both for current wormhole preferences and for NCP hunting. Shields, barring passive Drakes and Tengus, are not all that popular for wormhole work, with capsuleers favouring the stronger resists of armour. Capsuleer combat, as Rhavas outlines here, tends to work at relatively short distances from wormhole event horizons, so the slowness of armour tends to not be an issue. (As an aside, he mentions low-sec tends to prefer nimble shield tanks... I can't say if this is true, as I've seen a good mix of both, but the reasoning is sound, and worth exploring.)
I chose a shield tank, however, to clear the site quicker. My experience in low-sec has taught me the best defense is avoidance, and clearing a site faster means less time for an unfirdnly capsuleer to catch you. The tank itself is a standard buffer; extender plus invulnerability field, with Anti-em rig and extender rigs. The non-standard part was a Large Ancilliary Shield booster.
The theory was to make the fit as independent of capacitor as possible. The buffer is there to absorb fire whilst the shield booster reloads. incredible unsustainable, due to the size of cap boosters, but I didn't intend to stay in the hole for very long.
All gank and burst tank, my strategy was to blitz unknown space; to blow in fast and hard like... well, like a hurricane.
The deployables are a depot to refit, and a tractor unit to loot faster.
I scanned down the nearest hole, and hopped inside. C3, full of anomalies. All of which had rocks. As my bad luck would have it, the only anomalies in this system, barring two combat ones which seemed too challenging for my untested battle-cruiser, were mining ones.
Fortunately, these anomalies still have sleeper patrols, usually entering on a timer. So, I refit to combat, leaving a cloak in the high, and warped in, excited for the hunt!
And waited.
And waited...
And soon my allotted time in space ran out. Duties back in the known world called out to me, and I had to leave.
Extremely disappointing, but not necessarily a waste of time. The ship was fit and ready to go. Next time I attempt to do this, all I need do is un-dock (and hope for a lower rated wormhole!). Projects in New Eden can go this way sometimes, and even the most careful planner can have unexpected events throw a spanner into the gear system.
Well... no matter. Although it did give me a new thing to put on the list: go mining in a wormhole! Honestly, they look empty enough for it.
Ratting results
I actually only managed an evening or two of ratting, with half an hour spent each night. My schedule doesn't allow a great deal of time to be in space. The area I chose had a nice selection of battleship rats and clone soldier recruiters.
Sadly, I did not encounter any Mordu's Legion ships.
Overall, not a bad haul. Within about an hours worth of ratting, I ended up with a good haul of lot, including a bunch of clone soldier recruiter tags.
The ratting itself was fairly easy. I got a little practice in closing the gap between myself and a target, and the Omen held up well against the incoming fire.
It did however, take some damage to armour. I was never in danger of having that armour breached, but it did mean some trips back to station to repair it. I think in future one of the resistance plates could be swapped out for a repairer, for in between belt reps. You lose out on capsuleer combat ability, but you gain in sustainability of patrol.
Honestly, if it weren't for the laser-fit pirates, I probably wouldn't use an armour cruiser for this work anyway. After some thought, I'd much rather take a shield cruiser that was lighter on it's feet, and with better regeneration. I think next time I'll try taking a Rupture out. Projectiles aren't ideal, as you need to carry ammunition, but flexibility in damage type may be better in cross-region patrols, as might be the case in my next project.
Or just take a Vexor. It's the better choice, and if I wasn't so stubborn about not following the herd, I'd be using it too.
It's not worth your time to shoot the frigates. Their drops are't stellar, and their bounty pocket change. You're better off moving on to find other, more profitable targets. Even the non-clone tag cruisers are better left alone.
Across the two days, with a total play time of an hour, I made 11 million ISK. Not bad at all, and a much closer trip to get the loot to market. I also didn't have to live out of a depot to do it, putting the Great Wildlands to shame.
It's only a brief snapshot of the rating lifestyle, but so far, it's promising. If I had found a Mordu ship, that profit would have been huge. I have to admit, I kind of like it.
But I have a task to do in a wormhole. Back to Hek to pick up a battle-cruiser!
Strategikon: Standard cruiser armour fitting
My targets this time are not capsuleers, and I'll be going after the more elusive, but less able Mordu's Legion. However, that does not mean capsuleers will blithely let me pass by. I fully expect to be hunted down whilst I do my own hunting. As such the following is a solo Omen, which should manage the belts NCPs well enough, and be an effective counter for capsuuleers.
Billed as an attack ship, the Omen is designed to bring the fill fury of concentrated laser fire on its opponents. There are a number of different fits available, from brawling to kiting. Its major weakness is capacitor, so if you plan to use it, start training those energy management skills.
It's been a while since I've done a fitting, and the one I've chosen for my Omen is hardly revolutionary. In fact, it's so standard, it's applicable to the majority of armour tanked cruisers. Most Omens are actually fit for kiting, and that was my original intention for this fit. However, after a little bit of research (and the location I'd be hunting in) I decided an armour brawler was best.
The below fit is based on the most popular Battle-clinic entries, corroborated with an Eve Uni fitting, and may even have been on Jester's Trek at some point.
[Omen, Brawler]
Damage Control II
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Heat Sink II
Experimental 10MN Microwarpdrive I
Faint Epsilon Warp Scrambler I
Small Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 25
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Valkyrie II x3
Warrior II x2
Like I said, this is fairly standard, and can be applied to most other armour brawlers, with slight differences based on slot layout.
The core defense is as follows:
Damage Control Unit II
Energised Adaptive membrane II
(Energised Adaptive membrane II)
1600mm plate
And that's it. Fill up the rest of your lows with damage modules, and you have yourself an armour brawler. One of the membranes can be swapped out for a damage mod if you wish, but the core is fairly similar right across all the races.
This is standard for most capsuleer combat ships to save on capacitor. Unlike Ancillary shield boosters, ancillary armour repairers still require a big chunk of capacitor to run... which is why you won't see many cruisers with armour repair bonuses built into the hull. Modules of a size to be effective repairers consume more cap than is sensible for most cruisers. Simple plate and resistance allows you to keep guns and prop mods running.
Mid slot choices are limited by number of slots, but usual trinity rules can apply (warp disruption, web, and propulsion) with an extra wildcard for ships with 4 slots. For laser ships, the web can be swapped out for a cap booster. Even a small one will keep the guns shooting, so it's worth bringing along.
This homogeneity makes cruisers a lot easier to fit. This is not a bad thing (although my inner theoretician rankles at such a thought). I've heard it said that cruisers are actually the best place for a capsuleer to learn how to fight other capsuleers. After seeing the relative ease of fitting, and the more manageable speed of combat, I'm tempted to agree. Defenses take far longer to break through than in a frigate fight, so you have more time to appreciate your mistakes.
Tactics are fairly simple too, depending on your weapon choice. Blasters close in, lasers and rails sit at optimal, and projectiles and missiles move around in between. Drones... well, sit back and manage capacitor, recalling any drone that gets hurt too much.
Overall, cruisers, whilst being heavier on the wallet, are shaping up to be much lighter on the brain than frigates.
Labels: Fits, Strategikon
Insurgency in Null
Okay, so people have been talking a lot about guerilla style warfare and irregular tactics as a counter to the growing stagnation in Null. I say talking, because no one has actually stepped up to do it.
We have a saying on Khanid: All talk, and no trousers.
Anyway, despite people talking in theoretical terms, I'd like to discuss what the hit-and-run tactics being suggested would actually involve. A lot of the comments I've read are full of 'great ideas', that 'could work only if people tried'. Which shows a remarkable lack of understanding of the problem.
So lets look at it, so that people can understand the challenges of insurgency in sovereign null.
You'll need a ship that can either warp whilst cloaked, or pass through bubbles unhindered. Wormholes are distinctly unreliable as a transport system to a specific location, which makes them impractical for our purposes.
This limits you to Strategic cruisers, interceptors, the covert ops line, and Sisters of Eve ships.
The use of covert jump drives and jump bridges expands your options, but at that level you've already hit conventional warfare, and you may as well bring in the dreadnoughts.
Alternatively, you just fly a fleet in and hope for the best. Not a terrible idea, considering the gaps in most sov-null alliance defenses, but also not as secure. You'll need to run scouts. But this leaves you wide open to a counter-attack from a settled fleet, that can pick the hard counter to what you'v brought... being next to heir home bases and all.
Extremely restricting. And this is the easy part.
Admittedly if all you wanted to do was take out miners and mission runners, all you need is a gun and a warp jammer. This is already being done, and hasn't helped the stagnation. If you want to destabilize a system, you'll need to do something more impacting.
Sadly that means structure.
Here is where you can find out about the Sovereignty structures you'll need to shoot. I consider myself an educated man, and even I have difficulty deciphering this. As far as I can tell, unless you start putting up Sov-blocking units, everything worth shooting is invulnerable. And once you've put those onto the field, you're reverting to conventional warfare. (Note: To be honest I don't even know if this site is still relevant. Seems like a peculiar way to manage sovereignty.)
About the weakest thing you can shoot at there is a POCO (and I'm not even sure they are vulnerable).
Foo goes into detail about how this can be done.
I've run my own numbers, and yes, it's largely correct. To get a POCO to reinforce under an hour you need the equivalent of 4 battleships, pumping out 1000dps. Once the reinforcement timer is finished (and provided they've let you shoot this long without repping the POCO), to finish it off takes little more than half an hour.
And yes, that's do-able. But even if you manage to take it down, you've cost the alliance 50 million ISK. To put that in perspective, using tier 3 battle-cruisers for the DPS you need, you've invested just under 100 million.
For one ship.
Extremely easy to do. Get ship, go to null, start blowing up non-capsuleer pirates, and carting off the loot. Alternatively use a Prospect to steal ore. Alternatively, use siphon units to steal moon resources from POS.
Now... how do you plan to get that stuff out again?
You can't sell it locally. A Prospect fills up it's hold in maybe one belt run, and battleship modules dropped from the NCPs take up a massive amount of space. You'll need a logistics network to get this stuff to a place you can sell it.
It's a lot of effort. And in the end, you're better off working in low-sec. And based on the results of my low-sec belt ratting run, you're probably better off in hi-sec running missions.
I was informed that Dirt Nap Squad is doing these things regularly, and stealing resources from null entities to fund themselves. If that's the case, then good! They've managed to work through the logistical problems presented above, and are surely destabilizing the sov-empires as we speak!
But they're not. And the biggest problem is why they're not:
Your supply lines are far more vulnerable than theirs.
Guerrilla tactics work best against an opponent who is far from home, who needs that plane full of bullets and pancakes to land to be re-supplied. Blow up the airfield, and he'll starve and run out of ammo. Stealing his resources costs him not only the resources, but the travel time it takes for new resources to get to him. This costs them more to resupply than it costs you to attack.
They also work great because your fighters an just go home, bury their weapons and become a civilian again within minutes.
Hit and run against null requires you to go there, and escape again. It's going to cost you more to hurt them than it will for them to resupply, which means you haven't actually hurt them. You can't hide in null, and you can't go home easily. Cloak up in a system and log off, and you'll still have a mission to get back out.
It's a headache, and one most capsuleers have sensibly avoided.
The only way for a capsuleer to hurt null-sec in this way is to be so invested in their destruction, that even the tiniest scratch on a POS shield is worth a Titan. You have to be willing to set fire to yourself to watch them burn.
But these are New Eden capsuleers. Immortality mutes these passions.
That said, if all you're looking for is to kick mud in sov-null eyes, and come away with a bunch of kill mails, Gevlon Goblin has some data that shows them to be rather soft targets. This is where 'insurgency' works.
Theoretically, if enough capsuleers maintained a round the clock siege of a null empire, then the members might lose heart, quit and join the sleepers in slumber. Realistically, the profits of null-sec are good enough that I doubt this will ever happen. It's a place where you can replace your lost battleship in half an hour, and that raid that happened mostly just livened up your day.
It's probably been said before, but null-sec is mostly likely choking on the glut of ISK available to it. So called apex forces will be much harder to field if you cut the income needed to fly them.
That's as far as I want to think about null-sec issues. Frankly, everything about null seems so taxing, I don't know why people bother with it in the first place.
Holders of Hek
I ended up in Hek fitting out my Omen for some low-sec belt ratting. Whilst there, I decided to have a look around the system.
It's fair to say that Hek is my favourite trade hub. I couldn't say why. Prices aren't as good as Amarr, and certainly lacks the sophistication of Dodixie. I haven't been to Jita for years, and refuse to go back there. But Hek certainly does hold some charm for me, and I even had a few factory planets in that system making POS fuel parts.
Not that I've ever owned a POS, but POS fuel was an easy pay cheque back then. I probably should have written something about it.
So I was interested to see who had laid claim to what I consider as my home system (despite growing up in Khanid).
Turns out, there's a good story here!
Quite clearly the Obsidian Front owns Hek. They have the majority of planets held, spread across a few different corporations. They appear to be a very well run alliance, with a large chunk of text to describe who they are as well.
Are they a Hi-sec superpower? A branch of a null-sec sov group? Simply a group of friends out to leave a mark on the cluster? I couldn't say. But they are, at least for now, the Holders of Hek.
Well done! But you missed a spot...
Here are some rebels of Hek, and actually their rebellion spreads across Metropolis.
VenKee Enterprise is a relatively small corp, that nonetheless has a foothold in a major trade hub. Whilst I doubt they have the manpower to hold onto it for very long, for now, this tiny corp is keeping an alliance from having a clean sweep of the Hek system planets.
As a tiny minnow is the galactic ocean of New Eden, it makes me happy to see a tiny faction stannding up to a much bigger alliance. Well done pilots! Well done indeed!
And finally something that I noticed getting the above shot of the Obsidian Front against the Hek star; some advertising companies will stick billboards anywhere. Kudos on going the extra light-year Eve Radio!
Back to Low-sec
Honestly don't remember where I got this picture, but I know it's not mine.
Well, it's clear that the Astero is not going to be up to the task of running a sleeper site.
I'm going to need something of at least battlecruiser caliber, particularly if I'm planning on doing this on my own. Whilst I have perfect piloting skills for battlecruisers of all races, my medium weapons skills (both trained and practical experience) are quite limited.
I'll probably be taking a Harbinger into the hole. No real reason, other than I quite like the hull, and I've been feeling a hankering for lasers of late. It's also because medium pulses are one of the few mid-sized weapon sets I have any competence in. I'm near the same level of competence in projectiles, but I don't have that much confidence in the weapon system, at least as far as long-term wormhole patrols go.
Fortunately, I have other things on my list to get on with whilst I skill up. I'l be hunting down some Mordu's Legion ships.
This runs in tandem with a little niggle I've been having at the back of my mind lately: Is it possible to get a decent income hunting low-sec Non-capsuleer pirates (NCPs) these days?
In the Great Wildlands, I managed to get a decent amount of ISK from bombing the NCP battleships there. I'm a little curious as to whether or not you could get similar results in low-sec (which would be a thousand times easier to get loot to market).
I'll be attempting this in a PvP fit ship, so that other mercenaries and pirates in low-sec can have see an alternative income source accessible whilst they roam. It also gives me another option instead of running from people interfering in my project.
So, the following ship choice criteria need to be met:
Must be fit with medium lasers
Must be PvP capable
Solo capable
Preferably cheap...
Not a lot of choice there, coming down to either Maller or Omen, and arguably any Amarr ship is meant to be used in a fleet. Most laser boats are too vulnerable to, well, any unconventional weaponry. Neutralizers, dampeners, and turret disruptors are all very effective on tough but inflexible Amarr ships, and most fleets make up for these shortcomings with heavy logistic support.
The Omen is slightly more flexible in dealing with frigates than the Maller, partly due to it's expanded drone bay, and I've heard that it's firepower can take one of the field in short order. Sounds good if any capsuleer pirates decide to take an interest in the experiment!
Lost pioneers
Despite being fairly useless for my purposes, a group of capsuleers once made this place their home.
All of the planets in system had POCOs up, and there was even a Gallente station in orbit around one of the outlying moons.
Wormholes usually require a lot of operational security (i.e. hiding), but bearing in mind what I found, I think I can reveal the residents of this system without ruffling too many feathers.
The Hordes of Belial own this system.
I didn't see much evidence of their existence other than the space structures. The POS itself was still running near as I could tell, but I must admit utter ignorance when it comes to station upkeep. They could still be active, or the hole could have been abandoned.
The POS name didn't leave me hopeful that they still lived here: Hearse.
Even so, from these probable remains of a once running corp, we can learn a few tricks.
The POS itself was in orbit around a moon far from the center of the system. If I hadn't flown out to it's planet to get a picture, I probably would have missed it all together. That's a neat trick, and I recommend anyone living in a hole, or out of the way system to try the same.
Well, since no one responded to hails, I took the low-sec wormhole back to civilization. I have some other low-sec things to do on my list, and might as well take the opportunity to get some planning done.
Up to 100 posts!
It's certainly been a while since I started writing. Lets check some stats whilst we're here.
Start date: 22nd July 2013
100th post date: 1st August 2014
Total days writing = 374
Posts per day = 100/374 = 0.26
Posts per month = 0.26 * 30.5 = 8.16
So a rough number of 2 posts a week since I started. Not bad considering I took a few months off here and there.
In the course of the year I've joined a militia twice, and quit at least once more than that. I've been on both sides of the Amarr/Minmatar conflict, and pirated in Metropolis and Gallente space.
I've traded as well, making myself comfortably well off. I've dabbled in PI, and even manufacture. I've tried exploring, and even managed to visit a wormhole or two.
I signed up with one of the more notorious pirate groups in the cluster, and then left again.
I've shot down factions ships in standard issue hulls.
I went to null to live out of a depot.
I've missioned.
I've mined.
100 posts on what I've been doing.
100 posts on aimless wanderings.
100 rambles about pretty much whatever took my interest at the time.
And occasionally something useful.
My reputation at the Khanid court has been completely and utterly devastated. My family has thoroughly disowned me in every conceivable way. I've managed to make myself little more than a vagabond, a nameless traveler, weaving a chaotic and erratic path through the stars.
I'm hardly the kataphract I once was. Perhaps I never was much of a soldier.
But it has been fun. More fun than I imagined it could be. And I've learned far more than I ever could have done if I never started writing.
Enough of this self-congratulatory business. Next, we look at the owners of the wormhole I found myself in. Time to congratulate some other people's achievements!
The Wrong Hole
It's easy to get sucked into the cries of the sov null-sec capsuleers. Extremely vocal, they're the ones who tend to grab headlines, and have all the shiniest toys. As a friend once told me: "Whining gets you stuff. That's why humans are on top of the food chain, and all the other animals got nerfed."
Very poignant, and it's tempting to get dragged into whatever boon they're begging for from interstellar developers. But I've said my piece on null, and I have things on my list out there anyway. They'll have to wait their turn for more attention from me.
Right now, I'm intent on finding a sleeper site to run.
So... this is frustrating.
I ended up in a C3 wormhole. You can tell from the colour of the penumbra, this one being a dull, Caldari grey, with some rosy pink splashed in.
This presents a few problems. A quick look on Eve Survival shows that pretty much everything here is beyond my Astero's capabilities. A more rigorous scan of the system revealed only gas sites and two more wormholes.
One led to the Great Wildlands.
The other led to low-sec just outside of Hek.
It's either an unbelievable coincidence, or a sign. Either way, I couldn't run a sleeper site here, and there wasn't even any interesting spacial features to look at (i.e. the black hole on my list).
This place was as dull as the star field around it.
However, there is a more human story to tell here. Clearly there are some people living in this, well, backwater wormhole.
Null-sec: Gold and blood
This post is in response to a blog post made by CSM Sugar Kyle.
Go have a read. And whilst there, bookmark her blog. She's one of the best writers out there, and has a near unmatched passion for New Eden.
The gist of the post is in itself a response to a Twitter conversation about a lack of motivation to take the space owned by the big Null-sec power blocs. She mentions that mechanics are one of the problems. It is a larger, and more complex issue than my feeble experience can cope with... but I do know why I wouldn't storm Null-sec, and she's largely right.
There's not much point in toppling the power blocs in the first place.
If you want to live there, joining the existing groups is easier than taking space from them.
If you don't want to live there, why bother with the structure grind?
And even if you do take it, you've basically locked yourself into a life of constant defense against interlopers. Any trips to other parts of the cluster have to be short, so you can always be on hand to defend your space.
Much worse than that, you're obliged to keep *everyone* out of your space, just in case they do want to attack.
Null-sec is a place where you have to fight hard to get there, fight hard to keep it, and once there, you're basically stuck with the people that helped you get it, wandering around space, rolling in cash, and asking the inevitable question: What now?
To give you an analogy: The Gold Mine
You get a group of friends together to attack a gold mine. It's long, and painful, since there's only one entrance in. You lose a lot of friends along the way, but eventually you get a foothold into a rich seam of gold.
You use that gold to buy bigger weapons, but the further you go into the tunnels, the more concentrated the enemy, and the harder it is to get your guns down the tunnels. In turn, you get more gold, but you start losing more and more friends, replacing them with greedy people only interested in either money or blood.
If you're stubborn enough, you get the whole gold mine, and all the riches are yours. But now some other people are looking at your wealth, and they'd like a piece of it. You know, from experience, that even just a foothold in the mine makes it easier for those people to buy better weapons, and take more from you.
So you barricade the door, and kill anyone that even takes a sniff. You drill secret tunnels to take your gold to market, using false identities and disguises, since you're terrified of people in the market, so terrified that they'll steal your gold.
You spend all your time underground, terrified of the world outside your mine. The sun becomes a distant memory.
But getting the mine was an achievement right? Something you and your friends did together right?
But when you look behind you, to see who's in the mine with you, you see very few of your friends. Instead, the majority of your bunk mates are covered in blood, hungry for more. They jealously guard their own shares of gold. Much worse, they expect you to pay them to help defend the gold mine.
Too late, you realise you've locked yourself in a dark hole, with only digging through more rock in your future. Locked yourself in a hole with murderous mercenaries. People on the other side of the barricade just as jealous, with just as bloody intentions.
Isolation grows.
Soon, despite a steady trickle of fresh recruits to man the barricades, a rot sets in. All the warriors turned miner become caked in dust. Their wealth grows, and grows, but with only ever more expensive weaponry to buy, restlessness increases.
Your followers grow scornful of the weak and poor people out of the mine. Those pathetic sunwalkers could never hope to take the mine they so obviously covet. But still, the barricades are held strong, and held stronger every day by the ever expanding arsenal.
It may take a few years. It may take a few days. But eventually, you'll realize the truth of the mine, and whatever dreams you had of building cities and monuments were actually never the true purpose of the gold mine.
Yes you built a barricade. Yes, the gods handed you ever better tools to make weapons with. You have vast tunnels pouring wealth unimaginable into your wallets, and beautiful engines of destruction dancing to your whim.
But all of this is underground, out of sight. Too dangerous to let the rest of the world see. Better to keep it safe in the dark. Maybe invite some of the sunwalkers to mine for a while, so they become as black-lunged and swollen with gold like the rest of us. Good fodder for the other tunnel dwellers.
Because that's all the gold mine is. That's all you can find there.
Gold... and blood.
Sounds fun right?
CSM Sugar Kyle is right. The mechanics of Null need to change. But competitive mechanics are not what Null needs. Rather Null needs a reason to let the barricades down, and allow both it's own people to get some sun, and allow people to come in and see what wonders they have built.
Future capsuleers
After investigating the single planet in the system that gave our cluster it's name, it was time to leave a message to the capsuleers that would follow.
Despite having written this many blog posts, I am not such a fantastic writer. It takes a good deal of time for me to say anything of interest, and there are reams of deleted words that will never see the light of your monitors.
However, since this is the first step of my farewell voyage aboard the Farewell, I wanted to leave something at least a little poignant.
Aftersome thought, I warped out to one of the distant cans, and burned a respectable distance away from it. I made sure my position was still in sight of the gate, and set up my depot.
Here folows my message:
"For the future capsuleers of New Eden. May our mistakes show you a new way."
Well. That's that.
My next item was to clear a sleeper site. It only seemed fitting that I take a wormhole from the Eve Gate system.
I found two, one leading back to low-sec, and one into wormhole space.
I could go back to the militias. I could begin again fighting the 'good' fight for whoever's coin was shiniest. I could answer Benh's frantic emails about the state of our investments. I could do so many things back in that comfortable routine.
I entered the wormhole.
Unknown space beckoned.
Lords of New Eden
This is a new style of post for me.
When I escaped a gate camp, I wondered if people would enjoy reading about the anonymous capsuleers that make up our cluster. I regret not finding out why the campers were there, or even their names, as I suspect they'd love the notoriety of being fearsome pirates.
With the aim of spreading the notoriety and highlighting the lesser known stories of the cluster, I present to you, the Lords of New Eden:
Easily Excited Holding.
Why are the the rulers of New Eden? Since they have a customs office in orbit around the sole planet in the New Eden system.
I had a look to see if there were any extraction operations in progress on the planet, but could find none. It's purely a flag planted in the New Eden system. Not surprising, since a barren planet this far from any trade hub in a dead end low-sec system is barely worth the industrial used to transport the command center.
However, here they are, the dominant presence of the system holding the Eve Gate. I'm sure the Sisters are seething at their presumption!
They probably won't be holding on to it for very long after this post. Some other entity will probably go and stake their own claim on the spiritual hub of the cluster. However, this record will always remain; once they were the lords of New Eden.
As an aside, anyone looking to set up a more permanent memorial to someone may want to consider putting up their own POCO instead of leaving a can... but then again, that could lead to some seriously tricky moral questions. Best to leave a less contentious depot.
New Eden: Memorials
Floating just off the gate of the jump gate are anchored cans and some mobile depots.
Just as in my youth, the same messages were left by other pilgrims to the clusters greatest landmark.
And why not? The Eve Gate is the closest thing we have to a shrine in New Eden, or at least one that's sacred to capsuleers. making the pilgrimage out to the dead-end system, with one sad solitary, barren planet, is something that most, if not all capsuleers do.
I'd like to think that these are some of the few in-sight containers that don't become inevitable targets, and that they are sacred enough to run the full course of decayed orbit. I like to think that when the anchor finally does run out, they begin to fall towards the Gate itself, to be torn up or pass through to whatever divine realms lie beyond.
Either way, the types of message left haven't changed since I came the last time.
Yes, the usual interstellar graffiti is here. Whoever Talon Kalos was, he was definitely there at some point. Proclamations of affection for a girl named Lauren, publicized for all to see.
But there are also a number of stories here, left spinning in space for those to find.
The top of my overview shows a message to Vile Rat. That's a Goon tale, and one that deserves telling. I was surprised to see it there, along with the other messages to capsuleers passed. It was humbling, to say the least.
I'm not sure why I wanted to write about them. I guess I just wanted to let the people who left them know, that their messages were seen.
The Eve Gate
Approximately 3 light-years out of system, this is the closest one can come to the giant wormhole that dominates our cluster.
Rather than ruin the image with words, I'll only say that the Eve Gate is on the left, with the New Eden systems star on the right.
Worth the trip.
The Monolith
Whilst the Eve Gate is certainly the main attraction of the little Genesis cul-de-sac, there is another little curious site. Nestled in an off-shoot of the original trail, is a floating black monolith.
I had dropped out of the militia without too much fuss. One less mercenary didn't warrant much fanfare. I may join up with another corp whilst I do my last errands in New Eden, but I doubt I'll try.
Solo capsuleer to the end really.
The trip from Hek to Genesis was fairly uneventful. Surprisingly there was a rather poor attempt at a gate camp leading into the Eve Gate constellation. Not very competent, they managed to lock my Astero up, but a quick burn back to the gate got me free without even the shields getting scratched.
I think if something like that happens again, I'll get the names of the capsuleers doing it. Not out of any naming and shaming, but I think they'd enjoy the notoriety. There might be something in that.
Back to the monolith.
The system is Dead End. Clearly our ancestors found nothing of value here, and named the system accordingly.
For my part, I didn't stay long. Low-sec is never really good space to hang around, even if you are flying in cloaked ship. And I was eager to get to my end point. I stuck around long enough to note the pirates hanging around the monolith, and get a snapshot.
The pirates were Blood Raiders, by the way. The bounties were worth about 500k all together. I can't speculate as to their interest in the monolith, but there's probably a story there. I was already on my way to the Eve Gate before it occurred to me to have a closer look around the system.
I tried to tell myself I would do that next time. But 'next time' wasn't the purpose of this trip.
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(Evidently real life conspires to thwart my grand plans of leaving New Eden in the style I'd like to. Of course I don't think someones out to specifically stop me flying, but this is a little suspicious.)
My first item to tick off the list will be a trip out to the Eve Gate.
It was actually the first landmark I went to visit in New Eden. I took a Rifter out there, feeling very brave at the time as I navigated through the hazards of low sec.
Taking a look at some maps, and checking for ship destruction data, I probably shouldn't have felt as brave as I did.
Experience tends to make a mockery of youth's achievements.
But anyway, it was a good trip, and ironically happened about the time I first joined a militia. My memory is a bit hazy on which militia it was, but I was flying a Rifter at the time. It may have been the Tribal Liberation Force.
All I really remember from those times was flying out to a battle and seeing the Eve Gate on the way back. Oh, and soloing a Rupture. I nearly won, which came as a shock to me at the time.
When I got to the Gate, the entrance was strewn with anchored containers, slowly decaying into the stars. Messages were left on these containers by previous visitors, and I recall a few. Some were the simple "Eric was here" sort of graffiti you find on bathroom stalls across the cluster, and some were actually moving comments left by explorers. One had the unforgettable quote:
"We came. We saw. We squeeed."
I remember cursing that I didn't bring my own message to leave spinning in space for the next few, and vowed I'd come back to leave my temporary mark.
Time to make good on that vow.
For ships, as much as I love the Rifter, it's not suitable for the rigors of this journey. I'll be taking my Astero. Cloaked, and designed for these missions with no seeming end, it should be flexible enough to do whatever needs done.
I'll be carrying most of what I need in the hold. Fortunately I came up with a list of essentials from my camps in null-sec. For this particular trip, I'll be carrying an extra Mobile Depot, to leave the message.
The name of the ship took a great deal of thought. Typically my ship names are sentimental acknowledgments of the dreams I have outside of New Eden. But this time, such things didn't seem to be appropriate. I'd rather it be an acknowledgement of the things I'll leave behind IN New Eden.
I'd also like something similar to Clear Skies. Not an aggressive name to strike fear into the hearts of my enemies, but one that merely wishes for a peaceful journey.
So, when I un-dock for the Eve gate, it'll be in the freshly christened: Farewell.
Shot across the Hek star.
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Q: .NET MVC - 2 foreach loops My code goes like this;
First Loop
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        if (item.IsValid && item.IsRecommended)
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and the second one
@foreach (var item in Model)
    {
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I am using "@using PagedList; @using PagedList.Mvc;"
i want my page to display recommended products first and than the rest of the products. There is 15 products/page and 150 products in total.
Best regards,

A: Try This One
In Your Model Create Two Classes For RecommendedProduct.cs and RestOfProducts.cs
Create new Model Class
 public class Products
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     public List<RecommendedProduct> RecommenedProd { get; set; }
     public List<RestOfProducts> RestProd { get; set; }
 }

In Controller
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    Products Obj = new Products();
    Obj.RecommenedProd  = Your recommend product ;//Your Recommended Product List
    Obj.RestProd  = Your recommend product ;//Your rest of product List
    return View(Obj);
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FAQ: Why Does The Choir Get Paid In Episcopal Church?
1 Do church choirs get paid?
2 What is the purpose of a church choir?
3 How much do choir members get paid?
5 Do church choir directors get paid?
6 Do churches have to pay to sing songs?
9 Is church choir biblical?
10 Do Mormon Tabernacle Choir singers get paid?
11 How Much Should church musicians be paid?
12 Is singing a good career?
13 What does God say about musicians?
14 Why do church musicians get paid?
15 Are Levites musicians?
Do church choirs get paid?
What is the purpose of a church choir?
How much do choir members get paid?
Professional Choir Salary
Top Earners $76,500 $1,471
75th Percentile $52,000 $1,000
Average $40,919 $786
25th Percentile $21,000 $403
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Do church choir directors get paid?
While salaries can range anywhere from $46,991 to $74,606 a year, the average wage of a church choir director is closer to $62,000 a year, revealed a survey by Christianity Today International, a nonprofit ministry association.
Do churches have to pay to sing songs?
Truth: Churches do not need a performance license to play / perform copyrighted music IN A WORSHIP SERVICE. In such cases, you need to follow copyright protocol and pay for the licensing. It's only in the case of the worship service that you are free to use the music either by playing it or performing it.
Is church choir biblical?
Choirs are biblical. Old Testament worship was led by great numbers of trained singers and musicians. And the Psalms were the hymnal of the New Testament church.
Do Mormon Tabernacle Choir singers get paid?
Do Choir and Orchestra members get paid for their service? No. All 360 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and all 110 members of the Orchestra at Temple Square are unpaid volunteers who practice and perform weekly.
You might be interested: FAQ: When Chorale Melodies Were Harmonized For Church Choir?
How Much Should church musicians be paid?
The salaries of Church Musicians in the US range from $10,063 to $180,583, with a median salary of $32,817. The middle 57% of Church Musicians makes between $32,817 and $82,005, with the top 86% making $180,583.
Is singing a good career?
Is singing a good career? Singing is an amazing career. It is wonderful to earn money from doing something you love, but it is a tough career and there is no protection if you find yourself unable to work as it is generally a completely self-employed status.
What does God say about musicians?
Psalm 98:1-7 KJV Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
Why do church musicians get paid?
The reason church musicians should be paid is because of the time and effort that goes into performing at a certain level of excellence. First of all, musicians should be compensated for all the years of sacrifice and dedication needed to attain their level of skill. Musicians should also be compensated for their time.
Are Levites musicians?
Those who performed subordinate services associated with public worship were known as Levites. In this capacity, the Levites were musicians, gate keepers, guardians, Temple officials, judges, and craftsmen.
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FAQ: How Much To Commission A Piece Of Church Choir Music?
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Genesis has unmatched experience in securing public programmes.
Genesis Innovations Ltd is the successor company of Genesis Consulting which was a leading practice providing Government funded business support through the now disbanded Business Links.
Below is a list of programmes which Genesis Consulting had contracts for, making it the leader in providing Government funded business support in England and Wales (excluding the south east).
Genesis delivered the West Midlands Business Links regional (HGSU) programme, branded as the 'mustard.uk.com' initiative.
Services included business planning, strategy and planning advice, market research, technology appraisals and management buy-ins / buy-outs.
We created award-winning businesses in the region.
The programme provided strategic business development support to the very best business propositions.
It secured a sponsorship of £10,000 from NatWest Bank.
The principal services provided under this project included business planning and undertaking due diligence process for equity investors, thereby enabling them to fully assess business proposition to make investments and assisting our clients to raise finance.
The project led on to the award of the West Midlands Access to Finance programme.
Genesis was selected as one of the two delivery partners, by Advantage West Midlands (the Regional Development Agency), to deliver the High-Growth element of the West Midlands Access to Finance programme.
Coventry City Council had developed a unique programme to help small businesses secure funding from the Regional Enterprise Grants and Regional Selective Assistance Grants for their expansion programmes from the Department of Trade and Industry.
In order to allow local businesses avail themselves to these grants, Coventry City Council initiated a "no-win no-fee" programme.
Selected companies were given quality professional support throughout the grant application process.
If successful, the businesses payed a small percentage of the value of the grant secured to the Council.
This programme focused on providing intensive, hands-on, and one-to-one support to mainly high-growth potential businesses across the industrial sectors with a particular focus on hi-tech and inward investing propositions to successfully launch their business in Birmingham.
These early contracts have underpinned the high development of our services to high growth businesses.
Genesis were selected to deliver for the AEM Supply Chain Delivery programme that aims to provide specialist consultancy support to manufacturing companies in the supply chain, with particular focus on the automotive, aerospace and defence industries.
Growing Business Merseyside was an enterprise support programme targeted at entrepreneurs and established SMEs within Greater Merseyside.
The aim was to help businesses grow by giving them access to consultants who could transfer the necessary skills and knowledge needed to remove the common barriers to growth.
Genesis were appointed by Manchester Enterprises to train and assist social enterprises in Greater Manchester to secure work from public sector organisations.
The aim of this the project was to provide hands-on business development support to social enterprises that wished to take on contract work and thereby diversify into a mixture of both public and private sector contracts.
Genesis has been an approved consultant to Finance Wales plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Welsh Development Agency. The programme supported high growth SMEs in the Objective 1 areas of the South Wales Valleys, West Wales and North West Wales.
Genesis were awarded a contract to deliver the inward investment element of their HGSU initiative.
The aim was to develop an effective, co-ordinated business support infrastructure for high growth business, which delivered real economic regeneration and contributed to local economic prosperity.


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In the afternoon, we'll emphasize braking techniques as we simulate real world scenarios. The next time you have an emergency stop, you'll know exactly how to react and how your motorcycle will respond. Most importantly, you'll know what skills to practice to DRIVE safely when you're under pressure. Afterward we'll take you on the road in real traffic where you'll learn to read the natural road signs you have always seen but never known how to properly interpret and how to handle intense traffic situations.


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Binance Adds Russian Ruble to Its P2P Exchange
By admin_mm on February 11, 2020
Binance, one of the leading crypto exchanges, announced on Tuesday the addition of Russian ruble on its peer-to-peer (P2P) platform.
This the third fiat currency added on the platform as it already lists services with and .
The P2P platform will allow Binance users to purchase services of Tether, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Binance Coin with the newly added fiat.
Commenting on the development, Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of the exchange, said: "Russia is a vibrant market for blockchain and crypto advancement. We strive to provide our Russian users with easy fiat-to-crypto access. P2P trading provides an open marketplace and more flexible access for users to trade multiple cryptocurrencies with other users or merchants in the payment methods they prefer."
The Malta-registered exchange launched its P2P platform last October and is targeting the Chinese traders who do not have access to centralized crypto exchanges.
"Via the Binance P2P trading platform, our users can enjoy instant and secure trades with zero transaction fees and 24-hour customer support," Zhao added.
High hopes with fiats
This comes as a part of the exchange's bigger ambition of adding more than 180 fiats across its several platforms.
Binance is already one of the leading global crypto exchanges both in terms of trading volume and user base and handles over a billion worth of trades each day on its primary platform. The exchange is also expanding its wings on untapped markets with acquisitions and partnerships. To date, it has already added 24 fiats across its different platforms.
Meanwhile, the ambition of the platform to become a fiat-based trading leader can also be seen with the recent appointment of former TradingView COO , who will be responsible to expand fiat-based services in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).


This leads to a complete dilution of the debate about transgenic foods, for example. Nearly every vegetable you eat has been selectively bred for the traits you want in that. While that selective breeding was not done in a lab, it should not matter to you if it was. If your problem is with 'transgenic foods,' then you should word your opposition to it in those terms.


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On Thursday the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board will consider cuts intended to balance the Medicaid budget for the upcoming year. One of these cuts, which would hike co-payments on low-income adults for prescription drugs and other benefits, may be especially harmful on Medicaid recipients without saving the state any money.
The Legislature this session left the Health Care Authority with $90 million less than is required to meet the need for services. Once federal matching funds are considered, the agency must slash some $225 million from the Medicaid budget. The bulk of the savings will be achieved by cutting provider reimbursement rates and imposing restrictions on certain medical benefits. The OHCA is also set to raise copayments to the maximum amount allowed by the federal government, which it claims will save $8 million.
The steepest co-payment increase will affect prescription drugs. Currently Medicaid recipients are charged no copayment on certain generic medications and between 65 cents and $3.50 on others; with the proposed changes, they will be charged $4 on all prescriptions.
In considering the impact of this increase, remember that Medicaid serves only the lowest-income Oklahomans, those living at or below the poverty level. In many cases, these are people with disabilities and chronic health conditions. They typically have the greatest need for regular medication and the least capacity to pay for it.
Research shows that even modest increases in copayments keep low-income individuals from getting needed medical care. Reviewing studies in multiple states, the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group, found that Medicaid recipients do not seek needed medical care due to cost after copayments increasing. This leads to significant increases in expensive emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and nursing home admissions.
A careful study conducted in Oregon found that pharmacy use and expenditures per person decreased after that state raised copayments, while hospital inpatient and outpatient services and costs increased.
"In the Oregon Medicaid program, applying copayments shifted treatment patterns but did not provide expected savings," study authors wrote.
Budget shortfalls and our continued refusal to accept increased federal Medicaid funds under the Affordable Care Act have left the OHCA with no good options. Raising co-payments, however, will only leave Oklahoma's Medicaid recipients sicker and poorer, without saving the state money. It should be taken off the table.


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Academy Award winner Regina King ("If Beale Street Could Talk") chatted with Powerjournalist Markos Papadatos about her acting career, motivations, and she shared her definition of the word success.
Regina King as Sharon in 'If Beale Street Could Talk' (Annapurna Pictures) Photo Credit: Tatum Mangus, Annapurna Pictures
On being a part of Watchmen on HBO, she said, "That was singular. It was hard to put into words. I doubt that I will ever experience anything like that again. I am so grateful to have had that experience."
Regarding her daily motivations, she said, "I am motivated by caffeine. For me, the things that motivate me change all the time. The anticipation of learning something new is motivating and it inspires me daily. Right now, the hope that I have that I will see changes in our system and how people are regarded in my lifetime."In February of 2019, King won the coveted Academy Award for "Best Supporting Actress" for her stellar portrayal of Sharon Rivers in If Beale Street Could Talk. "That was another singular moment. With everything in life, the first time for something is always the most unique because it's the first. Someone can tell you what it's going to be like, but whatever you've been told doesn't live up to the experience. The little information that you were told ahead of time does not resonate. Your first experience is your first experience and the circumstances that brought you to that experience is different for every person. How it lands on you is indescribable," she explained.
"You can probably draw it better than you can say it, literally. You can draw pictures of family, rainbows, and champagne," she added.
On being an actress and filmmaker in the digital age, she said with a sweet laugh, "It feels like I'm supposed to be here."
King enjoyed being a part of a virtual reunion with Reese Witherspoon via Zoom for Variety. "It's always a joy to have a moment," she said. "Everybody is so busy and has so much going on, even though it was a moment they were doing for Variety, it was exciting for both of us. This gave us a chance to catch up. You don't really get to do that because of life normally getting in the way."
For young and aspiring actors, King said, "Know that you really want to do this and that this is something that you have a passion for. Not because you want to be a star, but because you truly have something inside you that is speaking to you and that you are receiving this as a gift in the form of art and not as an opportunity to be a celebrity. If that is your reasoning to get into it, then you are setting yourself up for a really disappointing, slippery road into darkness."
Regarding the key to longevity in acting and entertainment, she responded, "The key to longevity in any industry is authenticity."On the title of the current chapter of her life, she said, "Hope."
King listed dentistry as her alternate career choice. "I probably still would have been a dentist. That still stands," she said.
She also opened up about directing One Night in Miami, which she described as an incredible experience. "If you open up the thesaurus and look up every word that is a synonym for 'breathtaking,' that is what One Night in Miami is and continues to be because I am in the post-production process."
King defined the word success as "when you have the ability to take a moment that is looked at by the outside as a successful moment and transform that into the next moment that includes a successful moment for others."
For her fans and supporters, she expressed her sincere appreciation. "Thank you. I hope that the ride has been for you as exciting as it has been for me. More importantly, the successes that I have wouldn't have been possible without the energy and support that I receive daily from fans. All of the accolades are awesome, don't get me wrong, but when my fans tell me that a performance or a project of mine has moved them, that is really rewarding. That has helped to keep me motivated for the last 15 years of my career, for sure."
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