Follow - Up (Homeless)

After yesterday's rant on being homeless in EVE, I've decided to quit sniveling and adjust. I considered heading back out to null but the corp I applied to turned out to be closed. I have graduated from joining cascading alliance in the process of their crumbling to attempting to join alliances, which have already failed and closed up. Hey, it saves me time and agony this way.

I seriously considered Brave's small gang corp, Brave Operations - Lollipop Division, but it always comes down to timezone for me. One of the biggest driving factors for soloing has always been the fact that no matter what corp I join, people are usually sleeping when i'm ready to break shit. When they want to break shit, I'm busy sucking down booze and roasted turkey legs that were cooked over an open-pit flame by my ol-lady. Who am I kidding? I'm a lone wolf. You may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but all he needs to know is how to bite.

It has become fairly evident to me that the scram-kite game I enjoyed much success with has proliferated throughout Lowsec. The masses have caught on. I have had four fights with my new toon. Three losses and one victory (finally... SHIT), all of which demonstrated the evolving meta of Lowsec PVP.

The first fight was Atron vs. Atron. I never really know how to proceed with this kind of battle but in this instance I decided to use my range and hope he was looking to slug it out up close. I loaded null and burned off the beacon to around 7km. Things were going well but he started closing on me. I don't think he was snaked or linked, probably just speed rigs/mods but who knows? I believe I took him into armor first but I was a little slow on activating my repper. This fight was where the rust really showed... Once he hit my structure I instantly exploded. Someone forgot to turn on their damage control...

I'll spare the details of the next two fights. Sard Caid kicked my ass with an arty Firetail and once I realized what was happening it was too late. Then I had another Atron vs. Atron scuffle that was basically me wanting to brawl him down with Caldari Navy Anti-Matter and him fitting rails and saying nope to my stubby blasters.

The fourth fight was Slasher vs. Atron. I used to love fighting Slashers in the scram-kiting Atron so when I saw this dude on scan I licked my lips and got ready for an easy kill. I was in a 150 rail Atron this time, slightly gimped due to being smartbombed and losing my genos (WTF with the Santo wannabes?). But this dude was closing range on me like nothing. It was a really good fight. I eeked out the victory but my mids were fried and so where his. After reviewing his fit, I realized the lowsec meta was evolving again. Again, speed rigs to counter those pesky scram kiters...

Sometimes you get set in your ways. Things work so well that it becomes hard to do anything else. I have been so stubborn that I didn't even have EFT installed on my computer. I had lost sight of what makes EVE so great... the constant evolution of tactics.

I think I'll stay in Lowsec and lose some terribly fit T1 frigates for a bit.