After success of the previous fleet (#4, http://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewtopi ... 6&t=102481) I was looking to have more people joining, and i got more! Not in experience or skill-levels though, but in number: we formed up with 2 BC, 5 CR, 3 Scouts, 2 Logies.
Great! That is what needed for newbros to start making money in WH.
We did not start quickly, as WH found by scouts was EOL and I decided to spend some time finding a new one versus taking risk of having our connection collapsed.
Relatively quickly we found one, formed up and went to the hole to rat. As it was a bit late after class start, I neglected the full proper scouting and once we confirmed there is nothing on dscan we jumped in.
We barely started killing rats as we saw Buzzard and Astero on dscan. Later we had talk that Astero was from our fleet, but I'm wondering how it ended up to be with wrong name (we did rename ships to have same naming convention).
Anyway, as we saw those scouts, I commanded fleet to jump back to K-space and asked scouts to finish scanning and check incoming connections: I did not want to start looking for another hole somewhere else. Scouts confirmed all inbound connections were empty. Things were looking safe so I commanded fleet to jump to system and we continued killing sleepers.
After we cleaned 1st site, Scorpion and Dominix appeared on dscan. THAT WAS A SURPRISE. I commanded 'scatter, scatter, scatter'. I was thinking about next action when scouts reported that they are landing on WH connection to K-space...
My first thought was: they will roll us... OMG
Second: not a big deal, we can scan the way out.
Third:... one of them was in, another out ... let's kill damn rolling BS!!! We should have enough fire power!
I commanded warp to 'exit'... but while we landed Dominix warped out... hole collapsed.... and where is a Scorpion?
Luckily, I had my alt sitting in K-space on the hole, and I saw a very sad Scorpion sitting on bookmark that left upon rolling the hole.
So we scattered again, scouts kept checking system, we quickly learned these guys came from POS and put our eyes on the POS. Upon that we decided... to keep ratting
Why should we give up our ISKs? Just because one Dominix sitting in POS? No way So, they engaged with us in conversation.
First they offered us to scan the way out. LOL
Second, asked if we don't mind to leave combat sites for them to run: double LOL LOL. I answered we will for 200M ISKs
We kept ratting.
There were not many sites (only 5 in total), and people needed to go (it was already 2 hours from fleet start), so we decided to leave. In a mean-time scouts found connection to high-sec...
All this time that Scorpion was hanging in space near the old hole bookmark with my alt sitting nearby. I thought these guys are waiting for us to leave hole and plan to scan the way out and find that Scorpion: my hands were itchy to kill that Scorpion, but I was afraid we won't make it quickly and he will disappear...
Anyway, we finished ratting, jumped to high-sec, did our best speed to Stacmon... and on the halfway I noticed that... i can BOARD that Scorpion...
Tripple LOL
.I don't know what these guys did, but somehow, they ejected from Scoprion, and jumped in capsule back to WH... and rolled the hole.
Clearly, we decided that hull is better than a kill mail, and got that hull into Stacmon
Great fleet, decent money for cruiser-based fleet, and lots of fun!
Hope guys to see you again!
Lessons:
1. Before jumping to the WH check its timespan and mass left:
- don't jump if it is EOL and you don't know when it did turn EOL
- don't jump if it is crit and you not sure amount of mass it can pass yet
2. Scouting new WH, first check POSes (luckily E-Uni mapper has a solid history and it speeds up scouting) and citadels, make sure there are no active people in system or keep your eye on them.
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