Dog's Breath: Sunday Wrap Up - Deimos Cap Use and Aba on TV

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Sunday Wrap Up - Deimos Cap Use and Aba on TV

The Anomic Base (Talos) popped up this afternoon. I've only done it once on live and my eyes lit up when I read the text.

Like last time, I ran it with my offgrid link ship. On SISI, I had of course not used links, but the test server has everything at 100 isk and the real server ... does not. So when things get serious, I drag the link ship along.

Last time, I chewed through a TON of cap boosters. It was very unlike SISI and I left grid scratching my head (but got distracted by a very nice shadow serpentis module). I docked up, put the Deimos away and forgot about it.

Today, of course, I check cargo before undocking and realize "Oh yah, I used a crap-ton of boosters. That was weird." Once on grid and moving, cap again was vanishing at an astonishing rate, and I realized that the Link ship was the difference. With 2x armor reps running every 7 seconds instead of every 9 seconds, I was repping more HP but eating into my profit margin by consuming faction cap boosters. So I turned one Armor Repper off and the cap situation improved.

I typed all that so I could type this.... My Deimos fit (which is pasted on the click through below) is almost cap-stable and with careful flying can permatank the Talos pocket. I didn't need to turn the 2nd repper back on, despite blundering into a few of the proximity guns. I timed the run at 10 minutes, although I looted the wrecks as I went. So I'm slower than some of the guys on forums, but this is a pretty forgiving setup, especially with the off grid booster.

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Second up, had this odd thing happen last night. Was the end of my game session, but was still chatting a bit with the gang. I rarely use Captain's Quarters, but decided to hop in and sit on the couch while I typed. I then remembered that we had gotten new clothes lately, so went in and played Ken-doll with Abavus and dressed him up all shiny.

A few minutes later, I'm sitting on the couch and I see Abavus come through as a "New Pilot Certification." Wait, wtf? Really? Abavus is like 12. Apparently resetting your portrait qualifies you for New Pilot graduation. Was a surreal moment that made me look twice and then grunt loud enough that Mrs. Durden asked what I was doing.

Click through for my current Deimos fit.

[Deimos, Abavus Durden's Talos Hunter]
Medium Armor Repairer II
Medium Armor Repairer II
Energized Kinetic Membrane II
Energized Thermic Membrane II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II