Alzir

Brave of you to head out to OR by yourself Silver, good on you though 🙂 A few tips for for 0.0 survival might come in handy, and maybe others can help out with this.

First thing that comes to mind, considering your experience last night, is don’t autopilot, ever. Warp to 0 on every gate and jump manually. You’ll find this cuts out a lot of travel time as well as obviously saving you a few ships. You’ll be surprised how few roaming gangs actually bring an interdictor with them, and you’re only likely to find anchored bubbles on choke points such as the gate into 0.0 from empire. A ship on autopilot gives a gang with no dictor, 15 km of flight time to scramble and kill you, and since you’re most likely not paying attention you’ll die for sure. I rarely autopilot even in empire because of the time it saves.

Always pay attention to local. You should always have the local chat window separated from the rest of your chat windows and open so you can see who else is in system with you (I’ll post a ss of how my screen’s setup later as an example). Because you’re out there on your own you’ll have no standings set for anyone around you so everyone will appear as “neutral” for the moment, and you’ll be neutral to them. In 0.0 neutral is license to kill, so be careful when neutrals enter your system. Once you join a local corp you’ll start to see people with blue standings, who you’re safe around (assuming your corp keeps uptodate with their standings), and others with red standings who you should be especially aware of. You’ll still see neutrals as well, and treat these guys as if they were red. Sometimes you’ll be stuck with a load of twats who don’t allow you to shoot at neutrals, which is a hangover from earlier days in game, but I think it’s more or less obsolete in the game and almost everyone operates a nbsi policy (not blue, shoot it).

When you’re ratting, find an empty system until you’re friendly enough and have standings set with people to rat in the busier systems (usually the station systems in NPC space). Keep local open and always have one eye on it. If someone comes into system, warp to a safe spot and forget about that last wee bit of hull on the rat you’re shooting. A good scout will have you located in seconds and you don’t want to be losing ships over a rat worth a few hundred k. If you do ever lose your ship, and there is no bubble scrambling you, click on a stellar object such as a gate, planet or another asteroid belt, and spam the warp to button. There’s often a delay between your ship spinning out of control, and you appearing in your pod. This is only a delay on your own screen though, and the ppl shooting you will have that time to try and scramble your pod. Pods warp the instant they’re told to, so even if it looks as if you’re still in your ship keep hitting warp so as to save your pod.

God I’m bored this morning, I could go on but that’ll do for now, hope it helps someone 🙂

technoilliterate

happy birthday to our great leadef

yolur

At least I can type and spell…until later tonight anyway 🙂

Thanks though, I’m almost half the age of Queeks 😆

Yea was fun mate, cheers 🙂

I want to first check how many people we can reliably get together for a team, but if we can muster the full number this time, would you fancy another of these games before the league starts?

I only asked for the database info 🙁

if someone wants a copy of HL2 I have one as a gift to give away

I’ve one as well if anyone wants it.

Left4Dead’s I’m hearing about from all over atm and I might just get it. Are you on Steam SOIA, or does it still give you rage?

pfft I’m sure there were boo’s last season after coventry beat you in the League Cup at OT. I hate it happening at Anfield though, and there were even boo’s for a substitution last weekend against Fulham which was ridiculous. Fair enough people pay their money to be entertained but it’s hardly supportive to boo your team, especially during a match! Some people at Anfield these days don’t seem to realise what YNWA means.

/rant

@XDC_Wolf wrote:

awww shucks, forgot about that!

Wish I had 🙁 but at least the traditional November slump’s left us top.