Just like yesterday, I had Jack minding his own business sitting in a safe spot while using one of my alts to look for valuable cosmic signatures. I was moving probes around, positioning them just right, grumbling when it turned out to be a grav site and elated to find a radar here and there. Every once in a while I'd check on Jack to see if any victims had wandered into Ishomilken.
At one point I'm dancing with some rats at a radar site and trying to keep my lone hobgoblin alive (I'm in a helios with room for just one drone) when I hear explosions. "That's odd," I thought, "Those rats aren't anywhere close enough to be hitting me..."
Oh oh.
Jev North in a merlin had found my obviously misnamed "safe spot"...
I switched back to Jack Dancer's screen, targeted and activated all weapons and laid into Jev North as best I could. It didn't go well.
GFs were exchanged in local and I offered a rematch which Mr. North graciously accepted.
It didn't go well either.
I admitted defeat and didn't ask for 3 out of 5... I doubt that I'll loll around in "safe spots" afk much more in the future. Thanks for the lesson Jev!
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ReplyDeleteYou were AFK? Damn, and I was trying to be all slick with dropping probes off-scan, d-scanning like a maniac, and going for a one-cycle 100% fix.
Anyway, yeah. Safe spots.. aren't. :)
Even with me relatively afk - it was good practice for you. I've been trying to learn those skills for my scanning/explorer alt too. It's not as easy as I thought it would be - your explanation "d-scanning like a maniac" is pretty close to the mark. A one-cycle 100% fix would also be nice - but I haven't managed that yet. Need more practice.... The Tiger Ears blog (my favorite blog of all) - http://www.tigerears.org/ - has some good information on scanning down enemies.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been sitting afk in a safe spot since you taught me that lesson...
And, in case you hadn't noticed, you were also mentioned on another Black Rebel Blog - http://starwalker-shikkoken.blogspot.com/2012/05/tristan-is-back-for-more.html