Topic: Hey Troy
started by: Cakedaddy
Posted by Cakedaddy on Feb. 16 2008,21:16
Not that you'll answer, cause you've been giving us the silent treatment lately! But, how's Eve? What brought you back?
Posted by Troy on Feb. 27 2008,12:25
Oi, i still check the boards every few months.Dunno, I took a long ass break for a couple of different reasons, and in my last semester of college found free time on my hands again.
It's been fun, not much has changed really, and I really haven't missed much training wise. I managed to train up a Dreadnaught on Ageha while I was gone. It's been a blast to fly, nothing like laying waste to shit with big mofoing lasers.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 27 2008,13:39
Holy fucking shit.We figured you'd kept your account logged in at the computer lab or something.
Posted by Troy on Feb. 27 2008,14:27
I have GM(UO) or Level 5(EVE) Lurker skills.
Posted by GORDON on Feb. 27 2008,14:50
Indeed.
Posted by Troy on Apr. 17 2008,19:30
Hey cake, if you wanted to come back man, now is a good time.We are about to launch an offensive !
P.S. We have titan(s)
Posted by TPRJones on Apr. 17 2008,23:23
Some of my new coworkers play Eve. I get to hear abou it often these days.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 18 2008,00:01
Who's the offensive against? Where's it at?And at the risk of sounding like a whiny bitch. . . is CCP/BoB still cheating?
Posted by Malcolm on Apr. 18 2008,11:13
(TPRJones @ Apr. 18 2008,01:23)
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Some of my new coworkers play Eve. I get to hear abou it often these days.
Numerous nerds at school do as well. Makes me want to jam a railroad spike thru their monitors.
Posted by Alhazad on Apr. 23 2008,14:29
(Malcolm @ Apr. 18 2008,11:13)
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(TPRJones @ Apr. 18 2008,01:23)
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Some of my new coworkers play Eve. I get to hear abou it often these days.
Numerous nerds at school do as well. Makes me want to jam a railroad spike thru their monitors.
Just jam some more alcohol through your blood-brain barrier and let them have their fun.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 23 2008,14:46
Ok, I'm back in for now. Getting use to things again. Accidently rejoined EXO though. Had planned on spending a couple days, not a hostile target while relearning things. But, rejoining was just a two step process when I thought it was three. Oh well. I've only seen one flashing target so far, and that was a pod. Didn't expect to see any though. . . Anyway, I'm back. I'll have questions. Things have changed a bit.But, at least I'm still rich. Well, by one year ago's standards. 1.2 billion and about 5 BS, 7 crows, a flycatcher and a cerb. So, it's just a matter of making my way to the battle front and figuring out which skills to train. I want to get into the rigs things, I think.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 23 2008,15:06
Damn I'm such a newb. . . I'm stuck in a station cause I don't remember how to ID war targets in local. hehe
Posted by TheCatt on Apr. 23 2008,15:27
(TPRJones @ Apr. 18 2008,02:23)
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Some of my new coworkers play Eve. I get to hear abou it often these days.
New job? How's it going?
Posted by TPRJones on Apr. 23 2008,23:36
Good! I haven't worked this hard since I was in the food services industry. There's no time to so much as scratch your ass at this job. But it's very educational and oddly fun.And the days fly by.
However while my call and chat quality is superb (my first two weeks I have the highest "Awesome Job" rating on record for a two week period), my number of calls and chats taken is a bit low. We're supposed to be on one call and three to four chats at a time, and I'm typically on one and one instead. So any day now they may tell me to stop showing up for work. We'll see.
It's a great company though (hostgator.com) and from what I gather from others there who've done tech support it's a completely different world from most call centers. Plus as long as your feedback percentages stay above a certain level, you get free food (there's a chef on staff for that). And next week they're getting an Xbox360 for the staff break room (which already has air hockey, billiards, foozball, ping pong, and a MAME game cabinet).
Posted by Alhazad on Apr. 23 2008,23:57
(TPRJones @ Apr. 23 2008,23:36)
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Good! I haven't worked this hard since I was in the food services industry. There's no time to so much as scratch your ass at this job. But it's very educational and oddly fun.
And the days fly by.
However while my call and chat quality is superb (my first two weeks I have the highest "Awesome Job" rating on record for a two week period), my number of calls and chats taken is a bit low. We're supposed to be on one call and three to four chats at a time, and I'm typically on one and one instead. So any day now they may tell me to stop showing up for work. We'll see.
It's a great company though (hostgator.com) and from what I gather from others there who've done tech support it's a completely different world from most call centers. Plus as long as your feedback percentages stay above a certain level, you get free food (there's a chef on staff for that). And next week they're getting an Xbox360 for the staff break room (which already has air hockey, billiards, foozball, ping pong, and a MAME game cabinet).
And the days fly by.
However while my call and chat quality is superb (my first two weeks I have the highest "Awesome Job" rating on record for a two week period), my number of calls and chats taken is a bit low. We're supposed to be on one call and three to four chats at a time, and I'm typically on one and one instead. So any day now they may tell me to stop showing up for work. We'll see.
It's a great company though (hostgator.com) and from what I gather from others there who've done tech support it's a completely different world from most call centers. Plus as long as your feedback percentages stay above a certain level, you get free food (there's a chef on staff for that). And next week they're getting an Xbox360 for the staff break room (which already has air hockey, billiards, foozball, ping pong, and a MAME game cabinet).
Man, what do you take calls on?
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 24 2008,00:19
Even though the thread's being hijacked. . . :-)I'm reading about jump bridges and reloading LO or something like that. About not buying stuff in P-V. And other stuff. How's a newb to get to P-V, and what should he bring? My stuff is spread WAY out and I'm just going to buy new stuff. Where's a good spot to buy from that's close to the destination, and how do I get it out there? I'm in Isanamo right now, on the edge of secure space. It's like 20+ jumps to get to P-V through unsecure space for me. I'm gettting the impression I'm doing this wrong. Need some guidance please. I'm sure once I get out there and start traveling in gangs, things will come back quickly. I just can't hook up with the fleet. I'm in a flycatcher right now. Wanted to end up with some Cerbs and crows out there as well. I don't like flying my missle/ravens any more. Unless something's changed that makes them better now. I just felt I was more useful as a flycatcher than a Raven back in the day. Anyway, need guidance!!
Posted by TPRJones on Apr. 24 2008,00:48
(Cakedaddy @ Apr. 24 2008,00:19)
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Even though the thread's being hijacked. . . :-)
I have no idea what you are inferring, sir. ;)
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Man, what do you take calls on?
Oh, everything from "tell me about your reseller accounts" to "why is my account suspended" to "my Wordpress blog won't load, I think I may have deleted a file, can you help me?" Although we don't have to be able to help with code, if it's not too busy I'll usually take a look.
The "what do you mean I have to load up files, I paid you for hosting, make my website" calls are no fun. Indignant idiocy trumps all.
Posted by Troy on Apr. 25 2008,04:03
I think we nailed all the questions last night.... but if there are any more let me know.Remember that we are apparently moving stuff as a corp from 8-2 out to the staging area tonight.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 25 2008,09:20
Yes, all questions covered so far. I've been working nights, so that was a no-go for me. But I don't have anything up there to move. . . so, I didn't miss anything. heheI'm in 8-2 and will make my way to P-V today at some point.
Posted by Troy on Apr. 25 2008,12:45
I called an EXO only roaming op for Saturday at 19:30 eve time. Mostly for the new guys that merged with us to get a feel for EXO. Dunno if that fits in your schedule or not.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 25 2008,12:52
I'll have to check what time that is in real life, but I'm guessing it's a good fit.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 26 2008,15:14
Other than it being a bigger ship, is there an advantage to having a heavy dictor? Does it basically act just like the flycatcher?
Posted by Troy on Apr. 26 2008,16:58
In small gang situations the onyx has a pretty damn good tank, and can last longer than the flycatcher.Also, the onyx can scramble with a focused beam, which can scramble motherships and titans, (immune to normal scramble)
Posted by TheCatt on Apr. 26 2008,17:16
(Cakedaddy @ Apr. 26 2008,18:14)
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is there an advantage to having a heavy dictor?
hehehe
Posted by Troy on Apr. 26 2008,19:07
Heh, Taran was the only dictor who survived my op today.PS be sure to get ONE more kill any way that you can before the end of sunday, you are 14/15 for your interdictor badge.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 27 2008,10:41
Got an alt with a weak ship anywhere near p-v? hehe
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 27 2008,11:09
Also, that 'only dictor' comment makes the op sound worse than it was. The 27 of us took on 40 interceptors, and took only one loss. The first dictor. During looting, the second dictor had been getting remote repped by an ally. Then a few bed guys came in and the repper activated his guns, thus destroying the second dictor. So the second was to friendly fire. I thought we had 4 dictors at some point, did one leave early? But over all, a very well run op with a HUGE kill:death ratio.I wonder if they meant to target the dictors, or if that was just luck of the draw. Being interceptors, bubbles shouldn't have been THAT big of a concern for them.
I liked the voice comm going into it there.
Tas: Holy shit, we've got a gate camp. Warp to
(where ever it was). Gogogo. Hold on gate. Tas: *Tas laughs* holy shit. Can we take on 40 frigates? *continues laughing*
Random voices: Hells ya we can.
Tas: *still laughing* Ok, we are gonna lose some ships, but fuck it, this is going to be fun.
After waiting for 75% of the fleet to get to the gate, a few targets were pre-called and the jump order given.
We all jump in. Tas repeats some target info, then says "Fuck it. Everyone just pick a ship and kill it!"
There was some random laughter through out and a couple commands given "Bubble up" and such. But it was a complete wipe out. One person down and another 30% into structure. (who was then killed while being repaired)
So, I might have been the only surviving dictor, but we definately kicked ass!! 40ish kills in about 3 minutes. Wrecks EVERYWHERE, and one one of them was ours.
I was just targeting alphabeticaly, and most things were popping before I even got a lock on them.
P.S. I see that you can have the ship type in overview. Last night when you were calling ship types last night, I was thinking, "Names!! I need names!!" But over all, I just targeted frigates or the smallest target anyways, unless there were only a few ships, then I'd hit the one everyone else was. Figured with standard launchers, I'm going to be most effective against the small stuff. Is that right, or no?
Posted by Troy on Apr. 27 2008,11:15
Yeah, as a dictor your biggest job is to 1) stay alive for more bubbles and 2) take out small ship and supportSometimes the two conflict.
Definetly have name, shiptype, and velocity, and distance on your overview.
In small gangs where there aren't a lot of ship it's easier for me to call, and people to hear, ship types instead of crazy l33t player names.
Posted by Cakedaddy on Apr. 27 2008,11:17
Why the hell can we still not edit our posts. . . .Correction, there were only about 25 posted kills, not including pods (I bubbled like 14 pods though. heheh) So, some of them got away. But still. . .
Also, I was wrong about getting points for pods. I under estimated the number of actual ships I bubbled/damaged. So, my badge points look right.