Well actually
I moved to Keberz, the hi-sec system 1 jump out, but we’ll get there.
Anyway, why did I moved from K-QWHE and Curse
region?
In reality, I kinda “moved out” in 2014, when
my 1st kid was born. Having a baby/child with some sleep issues (and
even other natural needs), forcing me to go AFK unexpectedly every hour or so,
I restrained myself from FCing or joining fleets and instead focused in roaming
far away alone with a cloak on every ship of mine. Ever since, I only return
home once I get my ass podded and stay around for long enough to get into
another ship and go someplace via Thera or even gates as the Southeast has been
a good place to catch targets for last couple years.
…And what changed? Why not continue to use
K-QWHE as home and roam the stars. It suited me for the last 3 years!
Because I’m burning out at current my
playstyle… I love roaming but after 3 years of roaming alone I went to all the dark
corners of EVE, met all sort of players and tactics and tried to make the best
of all the nastiest situations I’d gladly put myself into. If you have been
following my blog I can hear you say:
“No wonder, you been using the same Dual Hull
Brutix for more than a year, what do you expect?! Just roam with different
stuff!”
Hard to explain, it’s not really about the ship
I flew, because even using the same setup, I’d get lots of different
engagements. It’s all the attention/stress related to roaming:
1 - Countless of click Jump/Warp;
2 - Always taking attention to slight changes
in local because it has a crucial effect on either I kill or die;
3 - Having extremely limited window of
opportunity to kill something before I get swarmed or before everyone docks up;
4 – Being unable to reship easily to counter
the guys that geared up to counter me!
5 – Wanting to tone down on EVE (not quit just
yet) and go away more often and still being able to get the occasional
engagement.
After looking to the last batch of 50 Brutix I
bought I said:
“Nope, time for a gameplay change, let’s look
at the starmap and pick a place where I can camp and relax!”
I can hear you scream already… “Oh my god
Pleniers, you used to be cool! What happened to you?! Are you going to get a
Falcon too you wannabe dirty gatecamper?” Top Secret… I’ve always had a Falcon
and I am not afraid to use it. I’m only against ECM when used AGAINST me, not BY me,
but I’m looking for a more original approach (we’ll get there too).
Why not just go home and camp K-QWHE… After all,
I got corp mates living there (I can join comms for small periods of time),
billions and billions of assets, bookmarks, intel and backup from some other
blue alliances that live nearby! I’m going to digress here a bit…
Fact is, Aegis Sov and jump drive limitations
messed up Curse region a lot, and probably other NPC places too. Before the
jump drive nerf bat hit, every bozo could swoop around the EVE Universe in less
than 5 minutes. This also meant that people would deploy often into NPC null.
Bored? Let’s go Curse or Syndicate for “fun”
and “good fights”.
You lost your home or were kicked from your
previous alliance? Let’s go Curse or Syndicate for “fun” and “good fights”.
Want to brag about being a badass in EVE? Let’s
go Curse or Syndicate for “fun” and “good fights”.
We even had an inside joke in A4D… Want to kill
the whole universe? Easy… Just wait a bit and the whole universe will
eventually deploy within a couple jumps. Everyone and their freaking mother
would deploy to Doril, Utopia, Litom, Hemin, HLW, D87-, RA-, XX9-, etc ect.
Every month we’d have a new duck to shoot for a limited period of time, from
entire coalitions to lone corps.
After Agis Sov, people live in their dense
populated mini pockets and hardly move more than a couple jumps. Don’t get me
wrong, this is awesome for roams all over the Universe, but Curse did lost much
of its charm due to it.
I recently had a small glimpse of the “Old
Curse” when Test and CO2 along with their pets deployed to Doril/Sendaya for a
couple weeks! Oh the joy! Within 4 jumps of home I had loads of targets!! Loved
busting their gatecamps, loved camping their citadels, loved teaming up with
local mates again and loved being able to reship quickly to adapt to a new
situation. My baby starts to cry? All cool, just dock at the station in local…
No need to put a cloak on a Brutix, or whatever I’m using. I wanted that feeling
and sort of gameplay again as well as play EVE in a more semi-AFK status.
Wanting a more target rich environment I looked
upon HED-GP…
HED-GEP is a very special system, mostly
because it’s a Null system adjacent to Hi-sec in an active area while also
having a reputation in EVE’s collective mind as a place to go for some action.
Test, Brave, Co2, Proviblock and Goons live close by, and it’s an entry point
to the Southeast of EVE, so all sort of people, from hi-sec carebears looking
for a new experience to veteran PVPrs come this way looking for prey. This is a
very rare combination in EVE!
Because HED-GP is Null Sec Sov Space I cannot
just dock there… I mean, I could if I joined the “owners” of the system, but
then I’d probably be blue to a third of all freaking EVE, so, no thanks… I
treasure my targets very fondly!
Keberz, the adjacent Hi-Sec system has no NPC
station and putting billions of ships into a POS is just a risk I was never
willing to take.
Then Citadel Age comes into play… Now, I can
use one of the crapton Freeport citadels in Keberz pretty much risk free.
Citadel gets destroyed or my entry rights revoked? It’s ok… I’ll move all my
stuff for free to another Freeport citadel nearby after a couple of days! Unless
someone decides to go in a Holy Crusade against Freeport Citadels in Keberz for
some crazy reason, I’ll be just fine… Up until now, I had never collected any
benefits from the Citadel Age (other than occasionally bumping off the tethered
AFK poor soul), but now, I can effectively move into someone else’s Freeport
Citadel in Keberz, almost risk free.
So, right now I can have my assets safe in
hi-sec and enjoy a charismatic (and decently active) Null Sec system, while
being able to reship in under 1 minute and keeping a very limited list of
blues. This new location is still very close to my home in Curse so I can go
back and forth real fast between Curse and HED-GP.
I don’t know how long I’ll be around HED… 1
year? 1 month? Regardless, it seems to have been the proper choice as I’m
actually enjoying a lot of engagements I would never have while roaming Sov
space.
