Monday, July 6, 2009

Another podding, this one a bit special


We went shopping in high-sec tonight though a hole that opened in the system next to Tash-Murkon. While spending all my available cash (on a gas mining myrmidon and my first hulk) I noticed someone in local inviting people to an event.

The deal was, a friend of hers had left Eve and bequeathed her over 3000 ships. Very nobly, she decided to give them away. Her modis operandi was to fill her Hulk with ships, and eject them near the entrance to a space station. The images of capsules all clustering round a big orca were very primal.

Like everyone else I was siting in my capsule hoping for scraps to fall from the table (not fast enough) when the fun really started. The first guy looking to become famous gets 5000m away from the DED space station and lets rip with smartbombs, he lasts less than a second before the sky is decorated with Concord ships and he is space confetti. Someone pods him for good measure. It takes a particular mind set that in Eve is not rare.

Sharing our system in WH space is a corporation called Caldari State, amongst it's pilots is one Rubico1337. As the first guy is making himself the biggest target possible, he is furiously fitting out a Domi for the same reason. A misclick means I miss his glorious explosion as I am sitting in the station, fortunately Drifnir was on hand to printscreen.

Rubico reported that his rating had dropped to -9.6 needless to say, he won't be shipping out of Jita anytime soon!

I get caught as the another person decides that his way to glory is smartbombs, for the record, Rubico managed to pod 7 people, I don't know what success the others had.