A Month In Stay Frosty

I'm really sorry for the lack of blogging lately, I'm still playing and EVE news is interesting, I've just been lazy :)

September is over and so is my first full month in Stay Frosty, running Sunday Night Roams in small kitchen sink gangs and seeing what we can turn up. Its been decent:

Nothing like the heyday of low sec and faction warfare, but not completely without action. Some excitement does not register on the killboard, like last night when I entered a FW plex to engage a Rifter (Scout/Tackle FC best FC) in my trusty dual rep Incursus only to find myself counter-tackled and a Chremoas alliance tournament ship uncloaking 50 klicks away.

Ho ho, a trap. My fleet comes in and the enemy flees (I lost my point barely on the Rifter) so no losses, but I did comment that I found that tactic is a pathetic use for an AT prize ship, baiting in almost perfect safety where there is not even a chance someone might land on you from warp and uncloak you accidentally.

Of course, some might point out that going around in a gang and ganking solo or duo ships is not very sporting either, but at least our initial tackle ships put it on the line and there is a chance the enemy might spring a trap with more or bigger ships and a pitched battle occurs. Sitting deep in a plex with a covert ops cloak and running at the first sign of a challenge is not the same thing.

But whatever, caring is the path to madness.

As for my Sunday Night Fleets, I've noticed once again that consistency is the key: putting the fleet up at the same time and night every week slowly brings in more pilots and we have more options on what we can engage as a result, getting more excitement and luring in more pilots. First couple weeks was just a handful of us, last couple weeks we started to peak around 10. That's the sweet spot, 10 to 15 pilots. Enough to cover all the roles of scout, tackle, damage, and a logi bro or two.

Good times! I highly recommend the Stay Frosty Retirement Program for aging low sec PvPers.

Chillin'

So earlier this month I left Aideron Robotics.

It was not a decision I made lightly or off the cuff, nor one I made without reservations about what I was deciding to do.

I felt that the corporation and the alliance it was part of was moving in a direction that left me feeling adrift. My role back when we were keeping the lights on in Aideron during the dark days and during the rebuilding had been to run the weekly roam and keep some group content flowing and that role is no longer needed in the busy and bustling alliance and the coalition it is part of.

I also feel like FEDUP and the larger Gal Mil coalition are extremely focused on null sec holdings and content and I'm not interested in that content. In null sec your space owns you, not the other way around. Besides, low sec is where my heart is. While no one said that my weekly low sec roam was prohibited (indeed, it was even welcome) there was often enough content generated by other FCs and fleets that it was not needed.

But the final straw came when we became allies with the Goons. I gave that a try once long ago, wasn't too my liking.

I decided I needed a change.

I considered joining another Gal Mil group less entangled with null sec and its politics, but let's face it; CCP has left Faction Warfare to wither and die.

I thought about going solo and running open public roams, but really, that seems like more work than I have time for.

So what to do?

I decided to give Stay Frosty corporation a try. Low sec PvP? Check. No null sec entanglements? Check. Rixx Javix? Double check.

I plan to start up a Sunday Night fleet roaming low sec again and we'll see if there is still some life in me and low sec.