Ram, We’ll have to get u an invite to our PG. One of us will get in touch with The_Nephilim and get you added. I believe the first step is to friend request us. My nick is CMDR UTUMNO in game. You will prolly see Wingy on before me, he is CMDR Wingnuts01 I believe. I hope to be in game about 6 hrs hence.
That was fun. Met up with Wingnuts and Ram, but no invite yet for the PG, but I did drop a note to Neph. We were all on comms though. See, every now and then I make an appearance!
I flew to Sirius in Poison Whiskey, taking along 16 limpets. I scanned the system and found two HGEs close to the star and close to each other so I hit them, then looked for a RES. Couldn't find any, but did see pirate threat 5, and thought that must be where the action is. Dropped in and bounced my first target, a Deadly Chieftain. The bastage gave me all I could handle, and no mistake. One v one joust battle and he shot away my fancy shields and down to 61% hull by the time I was done with him. Toughest NPC hombre I can recall. The ships in this thing are jacked. So after just one engagement I was already heading back to the megaship to repair!
Meanwhile Wingnuts arrived then we both dropped in to the pirate instance and cleaned their clocks. Two are much better than one. The kills are also worth a hell of a lot of money, Wingnuts said about a million a pop. They are darn tough, but pay well. Good CG, and I'll be back. But if I do it alone I'm going back for the FDL In all I turned in 13.4m, 8.5m of which counts toward the CG. Top 50% at this point.
Here's Wingnuts and his colorful Krait against a fine blue planet background
Nice choice of HUD schemes for this one eh?
And we landed in unison, Wingnuts couldn't see it as he was ahead, but I snapped a shot just as we both touched down. That hull damage is due to shield breach attacks. My shields didn't drop after teaming up with Skittles. Taste the Rainbow.
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No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
Ram, We’ll have to get u an invite to our PG. One of us will get in touch with The_Nephilim and get you added. I believe the first step is to friend request us. My nick is CMDR UTUMNO in game. You will prolly see Wingy on before me, he is CMDR Wingnuts01 I believe. I hope to be in game about 6 hrs hence.
Since Sirius is a permit system, no carriers allowed. It’ll be parked as close as possible. CG’s always have a ton of carriers present, so it’ll take some searching to find a system that hasn’t reached the carrier limit. I’ve never had to park more than 1 jump away yet.
I’m pretty sure you will be able to transfer any ship or module you want to my carrier.
For what it is worth, the pirate threat instances aren't the only place to do this. Sirius has a CNB at the moment, and the CG thread I linked says this in the first post
Other Sirius controlled local systems:
Procyon, 5.23Ly Luyten's Star, 5.79Ly - has ringed planets with various RES Luhman 16, 7.70Ly Luyten 674-15, 11.56Ly Ross 446, 19.87Ly - has ringed planets with various RES LHS 1951, 21.02Ly RR Caeli, 21.13Ly - has ringed planets with various RES LHS 2065, 21.32Ly - has ringed planets with various RES Lu Yupik, 25.60Ly
But that pirate threat combat is the best against NPCs I have come across. Felt like a whole gaggle of spec ops ships. And the pay is great. And it is just .3ls from the megaship.My previous best bounty as displayed in the codex was 390k. It jumped to almost 600k fighting these ships.
But I think any of those other places would work too, just have longer to the bounty station.
Thanks for the info about the carrier Bo. I haven't tried a transfer when I have been there, and thought a shipyard is needed. Do you have one and I am thinking of a different carrier?
I think I am fortunate Wingnuts came on. Are the pirates lawless? Didn't even notice. If they are, you need a KWS right? I could have done all that and got nuthin'.
Neph has invited Ram, but certainly this is old news by now
No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
What a night!! So glad I hooked up with Bo and Wingnuts, me in my Condo, Bo in his AWESOME Vette, Wing in his Krait. Man we swatted them down like flies, one after another!!
Bo regenerated my shield.................I never knew there was something like that!! LMAO
We killed it, and I can't wait until tomorrow, and hopefully others can join in. THANK YOU to Nephilim for getting me into the group.
I had a great time and am honored and grateful to fly with you guys!!
Here's where I ended up at the end of the night:
Couldn't have done that without you all and hope we can all get the most we can!!
Was just thumbing through the CG thread on the Frontier boards and one guy posted his CG standing, with over 300m in bounties for this one. Needless to say he currently resides in the top 10. That is some OCD going on there
Was just thumbing through the CG thread on the Frontier boards and one guy posted his CG standing, with over 300m in bounties for this one. Needless to say he currently resides in the top 10. That is some OCD going on there
WTF!! #%&*$#, I'm only at 40mil!! Dude must have some GREAT CRANK!!! : HAHA
Anyway, just had a weird situation happen in the closest Pirate Activity 5 area, Sirius.
I was scanning ships and came upon a Python from the Sirius Silver Mafia, wanted of course, I locked him up. I didn't attack because I was waiting for my shields to regenerate, once I had two rings, he decided to wake out, so I deployed my weapons and attacked him.
He turned to attack me and told me he was going to boil me up. HE DIDN'T FIRE A SINGLE SHOT, no cannons, no beams or lasers! A BUG??
He kept turning nose hot into me and in a minute or two he was toast!! I've done this before when a ship was waking out, but the ship has always attacked me back. Was a bit weird having someone attacking you but not firing!!!
I've seen that in RES before, shooting a ship with surge detected. He aborts the jump, but never opens fire. A freebie!
I turned in 12m yesterday to stand at 20m for the CG, in the upper end of 50%. Was actually just 200k short of 25% but that would have quickly faded. But I'm pleased with where I am at the mo. Another session or two and I'm good I think.
No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
Met up with Bo and Recluse today to fly a bit. They both brought their SEXY Yellow and Purple Vette's and I was in my Conda. We made BANK.
A few pics, okay, a bit more than a few!
And where I'm at!
Bo made it into the top 10%, can't remember his total though and Recluse got on the board. A pleasure to fly with you all!
I have MORE beer and cigs, so I'll be around this evening, though I do have to make dinner!!
EDIT: Also, Bo and I had a crazy hilarious deal, Bo and I pinned an Alliance Cheftain with the nose of both our ships, he was stuck, and we blasted away, must've been 10 seconds or so that we had him pinned in between us. He didn't last long, we almost pinned a second ship and we laughed all to heck about it. Recluse also started have internet issues, getting disconnected for TS and ED, which sort of sucked, but it was great flying with him for a bit.
Have I said lately what a BLAST I'm having!! Thanks Guys!!
Wait a minute! That's not the Bo I know in those screen shots. JUST look, he has full shields!?! What's up with that? Jeesh, OK NO MORE FINGER CRAMPS my boy. You've proven you don't need my healing powers any more.............................................
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