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So, two more hulks fell to my guns…
http://tfhc.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13299667
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http://tfhc.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13299799
Course, aside from my Catalyst sacrifices, I tried to take down another Hulk in Ylandoki.. only to lose a Thorax for the attempt..
http://tfhc.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=13300389
Yeah.. very embarrassing. However, there is one interesting piece of information that I have derived from this. The other pilot has almost exactly the same skills as I do.. except that he has small blaster specialization at V, while I only have it at IV. Notice the significant damage difference. Looks like I need to train out some specializations.
In other news, I found that buying a Freighter may not have been the boon I had wished it to be. Yeah, that 0.75 au/s is a big factor. Normal battleships travel at 3.0 AU/s. That means that in the same time it takes for my freighter to transport two battleships from one point to another point, I could have flown both of them individually and been back ready to pick up another ship.
Aside from that, I just found out that I have managed to collect no less than nine Tempest-class battleships over the several years of playing Eve Online. I don’t have that many of any other ship.. including shuttles.
Apparently, I LOVE me some Tempests..
Here are the names of my Tempests:
Zulu Master
Turmoil
Tribal Dirge
Redemption
Recoil
Scythe
Recoilless
Song of the Violent
Subversive
Of course, in today’s modern battlefield they don’t have much use.. unfortunately.
2nd Anomaly From the Left 
What’s was replacement cost for your Vexor? Eve kill puts it at 23 mil, but I don’t know if that reflects the recent uptick in ships and mods.
And are you running without implants for HGeddon? I’ve noted some pilots have been going after minung ship gankers’ pods after Concord pops their ships. A few have lost some serious implants – some worth well more than the ships they were hunting.
Seems the pace of gank seems to have slowed after the initial flurry of activity. You guys getting bored?
There are a few implants you need/want – typically one for grid, and often one for a bit extra dps. Otherwise, it’s recommended to use a rather cheap one. Not everyone does, tho, as you saw from the results …
Yeah, the pace of gank has slowed, and I don’t know that it’s terribly surprising. Don’t think it’s boredom – if anything, it’s getting a bit more interesting, because people are getting a bit smarter about it. I think I lot of the early pace was a result of a bunch of mass kills – finding a large formation of targets and dropping on ’em with disco BSs, and the like. Those aren’t so prevalent anymore (although we did find one last night – and ripped its heart out (that was the first kill Orakkus linked); mostly, you have to work to find ’em onesy-twosy (like the second linked kill), and unless you’re lucky you’ll only get the one as the rest scatter and dock.
Also, a month is a fairly long time to keep up a high tempo for something like this, especially depending upon how you go about it. If you don’t care at all about your sec stat and are perfectly happy to tank it all the way (like the current Hulkageddon board leader), you can probably keep a higher ratio of kills coming. We’re being a bit more relaxed about it, trying to maintain sec some.
Different strokes and all that there! ^_^
I haven’t replaced the Thorax yet, and probably won’t because I favor Ruptures over Thoraxes for pure DPS. Though with current prices I agree its a little low, and it probably more in the 26 to 28 mil isk mark as far as the replacement cost. As far as slowing down, I think what mdmnmdllr (how do I say that?) is correct.. the first week was essentially “culling the herd” of those who chose to be less informed.
Btw, it’s good to see you back in Eve, Mord.
“mdmnmdllr (how do I say that?)”
Just say … Star! 9-)
– TFHC Star (should’ve put this at the end of the original post … you can ask me about ‘mdmnmdllr’ another time)