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Join us now for a chat in channel Spacemutts

There may be cake.

There may be sweets....

But remember to ask names before accepting any. Safety first!

Seriously though Space Mutts are recruiting and will actively consider any application that talks and can fly a ship in a reasonably straight line.

Drunken applications are fine, we will accept this as an excuse for poor piloting, we will even talk to you in the morning, possibly even think about breakfast, and may even respect you.

Must be able to take a joke, not be afraid of dying, as this, will happen. Welcome to EVE.

Mutts Kills (and deaths)

Not all our corp are male, and come to think of it I am not sure all qualify as human, the amount of hours they put in.

We are a corp that is mainly EU time zone but with a small and active US time zone membership.

Currently located mainly in Null Sec, but with a Low sec base that has some members that did not fancy the current trip to Null...

Space Mutts are fairly laid back, if you want to do

Sites - OK
Mine and build - also OK,
Explore and die explosively in worm holes - OK,
Pvp - there is nearly always someone that will do a small gang type roam with you. - Very OK
Missions - OK
Gate Camping - OK
Market trading - well there has to be a first

Survival is not guaranteed though and any sort of request for SRP will be met with mass laughter.
Please as always do not fly what you wish to keep.

There are no three line whips for CTA's, no penalties for verbally abusing the CEO and directors (they seem to thrive on it) and a good laugh to be had over all.

We have a number of capital pilots and a number who are not.  Logi and suicide tackle are highly thought of and may even get extra sweets. So no matter what your ability, if you fancy a change, talk to us.

We use Team speak and out of game phone app for communication. It would be nice if active on both, but not everyone is.

These are of course my opinions and views as a non director of the corp.

I am assuming that if they ever find this I will be bought an internet pint of the best bitter! Not sure if I will get to drink it or be dipped in it though...

Back in Catch

Well, after neglecting John for too long and the recent frustrations in Vale of The Silent I log in to the strange world of NRDS..

Only needs an E to be apt.

Not Red Don't Shoot is a strange provi block custom that to be honest worries me.

To get used to it went to run a couple of sites in system, and found myself warping out whenever a neutral shows up.
Also saw the strange sight of a neutral industrial quite happy loitering near station. Any where else and he would be toast.

Are they spies, some probably, are they dangerous, some probably, are they useful, some probably.

There appears to be quite heavy penalties for shooting neutrals from the alliance, and apparently they re ship your victims as well.....

I fear that I will become complacent and that cloaked neutral is in fact a warp in point for the million plus interceptors on the next gate.

It also interferes with ratting.

Anyway enough of the rant

Bought a Confessor, fully fitted, off contract, thinking here be a nice little ship.... Still waiting to fly it. I have never had a use for small lasers, so no skill, and the skill for the ship itself was also missing...

3 days until I can barely fly it. Not good. But that's what its all about.

The kill mail will probably grace the blog here soon.

Space Mutts are making a home for ourselves out in Null, but keeping a firm eye on old low sec stomping grounds in Placid as well.

Still, I put down PI to make POS fuel last night, so at some point in the next week I expect the new Drifters to shoot the station out from under us or something equally catastrophic to happen to move us on....


John

Some people....

Short of time in Real Life I log in and set out to scan. Maybe a nice data or relic site that I can do quickly awaits.

Sadly not, wormholes and a Pith Penal Complex.

I look up the complex and decide that I do not have the time and possibly the ship to run this.

So bookmark it in corp and get on the chat channel to see if any of them are awake. 3 in corp but all docked so probably AFK.

One replies and I give him the heads up, he says thanks and heads out to do it.

Fine.

Next day I log in at a similar time and scan. Lo and behold another Pith's Penal Complex in system. So I book mark it in corp again. The same people are on. So announce it and the same person as yesterday pipes up. He asks if I want to do it with him as most of them know I am new to this. I have time, and we agree that 5 mins and we will be off. All looking good.
Spend 5 mins re setting PI.

We then chat about who was warping to site first and what to expect etc.

Now in that 5 mins another corp person has logged in.

The new entrant pipes up with:-

"Hope your not planning to run my complex".....

Really? The one I just scanned down bookmarked and planned to run, while he logged in, un docked, saw it in bookmarks and saying nothing starts to run it....

To be honest I logged out in disgust. He did offer to sell me a Rattlesnake BPC though, but would not name a price.

Part of me hopes he got shot.

Next time I will BM it privately if I am at all interested, or contact the people that I know are not rude, ignorant, self absorbed nerds in their tech cave, blinking myopically whenever a stray beam of sunlight comes their way, and are in all probability allergic to soap!

Arrggh

Oliver

Guristas Military Operations Complex

I have been ratting the lower end sites this week due to time constraints, May only be on for 20 minutes. Now this is enough time to do a Port or Rally Point but not a Forsaken Rally Point or Hub.

I have had two escalations from this, both in Germinate, so I left them alone.
In my mind, what happens when expired in 24 hours? Does it become scanable or does it become an escalation for another or just disappear?

Now on Wednesday evening  I had 20 minutes to kill so went to do a Port. I thought not good money but can do it in the time I have, so did.
At the end I was 7 million richer and had an entry in my Journal for a Military Operations Complex. This on look up was a 7/10 rated complex of 5 rooms.
Gurista_Military_Operations_Complex

It was also 8 jumps away in a fairly well traveled system.

A few people in corp were hesitant about my chances in a Gila and more so with the location.

Lucky that I was off the next day so logged on 90 mins before downtime, and quickly jumped across.

No issue getting there, didn't see anyone of note.

Started in after making a couple of safe points. Paranoia had kicked in and I had removed a couple of RLML and put in a cloak...

The first room was a bit of a shock at the volume of targets, but started with the smallest and just attacked everything in turn. Rapid Lights making 1-2 shots on the frigates while the drones chewed out the medium and above. Quite happy that shields did not dip below 65%.
Second room was the same, but I was more organised. In neither place did I stop to loot or shoot structures. I was more concerned with finishing before neutrals and reds show up.
Room three is the first one a commander turns up in, and therefore the first one that's worth looting. But hey, this is the first one I have done, if all the multiple BS drop BPC's let me know what I missed out on!
The fourth room was more of the same and then the fifth...
Now this pushed me a bit. mainly as the overview setting I had did not show the stasis tower... I had killed 4 or five before I thought on why I was only going at 100 m/s and my shields were south of 70%...
An unholy amount of small and medium and indeed large ships.

The tower died quickly and I moved on to actively targeting from small to large. Then I noticed I was slowing down and the commander BS was webbing me... By the time I had killed him and started on the rest there were still over 20 red crosses, half were battleships and shields about 35%

Not disastrous. I had in mind to align out when at 30% and warp at 20 to a safe I set up on the way in.
I was down to 4 BS when a neut appeared in system, so I swooped in to collect the commander loot and aligned out. At 2 BS to go 4 reds entered system and combat probes appeared on scan... Not feeling lucky I pulled drones and warped to a safe spot where the cloak I fitted came in very handy.

I did not bother going back.

I then sat still for 10 mins until everyone left, luckily going the other way to me.

Now was it worth it?

For the experience, Yes
For the adrenaline of the unknown, Yes
For the ISK (61 million from rat kills) Yes
For the loot.... No

Three faction rats
walked away with
Pith C type kinetic deflection field. about 17 million
Guristas Iron Charge Medium
Guristas Nova Cruise Missile
Dread Guristas Kinetic Deflection Amplifier about 2 million
20th Tier Overseer's Personal Effects. about 60 million

The ammunition all from the 4th room, the Deflection Amp the 3rd and the Pith C and effects the 5th.

So nothing earth shattering, but when sold 180 million in total for just over an hour...

Must admit I would have been interested in a Rattlesnake BPC, if only to build it.

Drama in Germinate

Apparently there is...

Now there seems to be some sort of war going on, mainly involving Russians.

Why does this affect me you say?

Well, it seems that the Vale rental command  has placed the area off limits to any members. A blanket no go.
If they find out you have been shot there, or indeed been doing the shooting there, apparently you may be shot again. And possibly again.

Some high up power negotiation has us keeping out.

That does not stop Germinate residents from roaming through our areas.

It also to be fair does not stop us shooting the intruders if we can:
1. Find them
2. Be bothered
3. Un dock

The crowd I have fallen in with seem ok, and if the fight comes to us, most are happy to reship and give it a go, but no one goes looking for trouble.

But its not why we rent. I am sure that there are some people that this is their main game play and their only characters, however I am equally sure many others are alts of a combat/mining/hauling character and their only reason to be here is to build the cash to be able to splash the cash elsewhere.

I am one.

I am guilty of spending four fifths of my time in Vale at present. I now have a set up that I can log in and in about an hour earn 40-45 million. Now this is sorted I may scale back Vale and play more in Catch. Well at least until I get my ships shot out from under me and need some more.

This is pretty good, but its taken me a month to get there. It does mean that if I log in and do this 20 days straight I can probably buy a plex and pay for the account. That gets me 10 days of game time for other activities.

Needless to say, I am not always on for an hour, nor am I solely ratting for that time. I scan, reset PI, and do some invention. If I find relic or data sites I do these. Sometimes I mine, just to be sociable.

Now the month in Vale has been quite profitable
looking at cash flow
I went there with 135 million in cash and a Prospect. I took existing BPCs for some stuff, mainly some ships. This was between Oliver and a Jita Character.

Beginning Of Feb.
Cash on hand Oliver : 101 Million
Cash On Hand Jita : 52 Million

Ships
Fully fitted Ratting VNI Estimated value 125 Million (
Fully fitted dead space fit Gila Estimated Value 425 Million
Algos - Salvager  Estimated 10 million
Caracal Combat Estimated 22 million
Astero Scout Estimated 160 million
Drake fit for combat (its a laugh) Estimated 50 Million
Nemisis 30 million
Epithal, Kryos, Miasmos  5 million
Procurer 25 million
Heron 50 million (sisters probe launcher)
Venture 5 million

so roughly 900 million in ships plus the prospect.

According to the in game estimator roughly 500 million in assorted junk.

Also about 100 million in BPO's including some POS weapons

This is from selling everything I loot, making rigs with salvage and selling those and price of all tech 2 salvage and PI finished material on hand.

I admit that probably half of that income has come from Data and Relic sites. So they are worth doing...

In short I am no longer poor.

Next step is buying a ratting ship and a small pile of combat ships for John