Eve Online MkIV

Eve Online is a drug, you play it to death, go cold turkey, quit. A few months later you read about a new change, a new mechanic a twist on exploration or you view the new trailer... Hmm, now that gate looks promising.

So Slayfoe's Bull signed up again, he was in Jita with a Vindicator hull and a pile of cash. I looked up the new Sisters of Eve ship the Astero, stuck Amarr frigate into my training queue and bought the required goodies to scan down some sites. Total cost of ship plus fittings ~144million. Not cheap.

Saturday evening I jumped into my new toy and had a look at the map. I had picked Solitude as my target, noticed lots of kills on the main route in so went south via Aridia. Jumped into Solitude, scanned down a few anomalies to get back in the swing of it and eventually found myself a data site. Second hack and a Sacrilege appears beside me. I hit the cloak button but he is already targeting me. I let go of my ECM drones and align for the sun, too late, his mates jump into system and begin arriving. It takes them a surprising amount of time to start shooting, but the end result is the same, my pod is winging its way to the nearest station.

Lessons learnt.

1. Be aligned;
2. Be checking for probes on d-scan;
3. Simply don't bother running a site when some one else is in system!
4. Switch automatic targeting back on! When part of a large alliance you switch this feature off for space battles so you don't end up shooting your own logistics, as it was, I suspect my ECM drones hung round waiting for me to tell them what to do.

So Slay is on the way back to Jita to re-ship. This time I am going out in a Helios, a damn site cheaper to do the same thing!