TL/DR 100Cr fine cost my PUG wing a Basilisk kill and spawned me 650ly from the fight.
Had a great time this evening at the Onoros Thargoid CG, first off put away some solo Cyclops kills and then picked up some randoms for some wing action, honestly more of a hindrance than anything else, waiting around for other people to drag their ill equipped rust buckets into supercruise. and so ensued the wing issues and connection issues but these randoms seem alright and fairly capable so we merrily plod on putting down a few more Cyclops.
Someone gets ganked, there's some chatter about going for pvp ships and coming back. Not today, I refocus the group on the task at hand and we put down a few more Cyclops emboldened by our success we decided to try and put down a Basilisk, having the only ship fitted with guardian tech i was a little skeptical, we managed to get one to about 50% before bugging out.
One guy who's only fight was with his router decides to call it quits, not a great loss we'd been taking these things down as a trio easily enough. And then we were 3, so back to killing Cyclops for 2 mill a pop. Put a couple more down and took a short recess at the mega ship as we got to chatting, one guy logs off and then we were 2. This guy was keen on the Basilisk kill he'd had a taste and wanted more, unfortunately he only had ax multis and an ax misslie on his conda but he was enthusiastic enough so we pulled two more randoms from system chat, one guy in a pure hull tank conda which we later discovered was only equipped with human weapons and another Krait MK2 with Guardian Guass and a flak cannon but he hadn't taken down any Thargoids yet.
Started off with a cyclops and we smashed it in record time, those extra Guass cannons really made the difference, reeling from that we quickly rearmed and looked for a Basilisk and this is where things got hairy. I was first to drop into the instance, scanned the Basilisk and waited for the others to arrive, having seen them fly past me in SC doing the loop of shame i knew they'd be a couple seconds behind so i just hang back and observe. a message come through on wing chat from hull tank guy, "let me get my laser" thought must be a shield regen laser so never said anything.
We started the fight with the 3 of us "r?" "y" came the reply and so i started hammering 3 volleys of 4x Gauss cannons into the center of the space flower. The ships screaming at me something about heat, I quickly fire a heat sink as I boost over the top of the Basilisk in prep for the swarm, glanced at my radar to see the other 2 ships just sitting there, frozen in fear it seemed like. Here comes the swarm, 64 gloriously deadly Thargons coupled with the Basilisk focusing it's main weapon fire on me, the swarm encircling me and my wingmen trying to ineffectively do some damage, my canopy goes within seconds of the fight starting and i realize i was face tanking a Basilisk solo, not a good move.
Player 3 joins the fight as i bug out to get repairs, down to 60% hull at this point and no canopy, the station is super close maybe 10 seconds SC away. As I'm docking i ask in wing chat how it's going, the bloodthirsty killer from the previous wing replies saying "we can't exert the hearts" "I'll be there in a sec" As i boosted off the landing pad towards the slot, a Belgua of all things begins to slide through the station shield as i waited for the inevitable reckless flying fine. 100cr I'll deal with that later.
As i rejoined the fight all i could see in the distance was this bright green beam of laserfire doing absolutely no damage to this Basilisk, the Krait with the Guass cannons skulking 8km away or so and my Ax MC/missile man just hammering away at this thing, he's got heart.
As i roar into the fight i light the thing up with 2 volleys of Guass fire as my ship screams at me about heat again, the heart exerted immediately, screw the heat, another 2 volleys both direct hits and the petal crumbles as the Basilisk howls, 1 heart down as I fire off a well needed heat sink.
All 4 of us as now finally in the same instance all focused on the task at hand, 2nd and 3rd hearts go down in quick succession, making good progress here, feels like we might get it.
Suddenly with only a seconds warning we all get EMP'd unfortunately and i have aggro, in a desperate attempt to get away i decided to boost and toggle FA off immediately. As my ship spun lifelessly into the void i took the brunt of the Basilisk and it's swarm attacks, coming back online with 40% hull left and i just could not shake aggro which quickly led to my demise. the stations really close I'm still in this fight.
The rebuy screen comes up, something i haven't seen for a while. 6 mill rebuy but something's off, remember that 100cr fine? yeh, my spawnpoint is a detention center in the Pleiades sector just outside Maia 650ly away from Onoros and my fight is over. my wingmen valiantly fight on, Krait guy eats his last rebuy but rejoins and bails once he's taken enough damage, leaving the other 2 wingemen with no way of exerting the last 2 hearts, hull tank laser guy bails at 10% while Ax man fights to the bitter end and we all call it a night as i set my carrier to come pick me up.
Had a great time this evening at the Onoros Thargoid CG, first off put away some solo Cyclops kills and then picked up some randoms for some wing action, honestly more of a hindrance than anything else, waiting around for other people to drag their ill equipped rust buckets into supercruise. and so ensued the wing issues and connection issues but these randoms seem alright and fairly capable so we merrily plod on putting down a few more Cyclops.
Someone gets ganked, there's some chatter about going for pvp ships and coming back. Not today, I refocus the group on the task at hand and we put down a few more Cyclops emboldened by our success we decided to try and put down a Basilisk, having the only ship fitted with guardian tech i was a little skeptical, we managed to get one to about 50% before bugging out.
One guy who's only fight was with his router decides to call it quits, not a great loss we'd been taking these things down as a trio easily enough. And then we were 3, so back to killing Cyclops for 2 mill a pop. Put a couple more down and took a short recess at the mega ship as we got to chatting, one guy logs off and then we were 2. This guy was keen on the Basilisk kill he'd had a taste and wanted more, unfortunately he only had ax multis and an ax misslie on his conda but he was enthusiastic enough so we pulled two more randoms from system chat, one guy in a pure hull tank conda which we later discovered was only equipped with human weapons and another Krait MK2 with Guardian Guass and a flak cannon but he hadn't taken down any Thargoids yet.
Started off with a cyclops and we smashed it in record time, those extra Guass cannons really made the difference, reeling from that we quickly rearmed and looked for a Basilisk and this is where things got hairy. I was first to drop into the instance, scanned the Basilisk and waited for the others to arrive, having seen them fly past me in SC doing the loop of shame i knew they'd be a couple seconds behind so i just hang back and observe. a message come through on wing chat from hull tank guy, "let me get my laser" thought must be a shield regen laser so never said anything.
We started the fight with the 3 of us "r?" "y" came the reply and so i started hammering 3 volleys of 4x Gauss cannons into the center of the space flower. The ships screaming at me something about heat, I quickly fire a heat sink as I boost over the top of the Basilisk in prep for the swarm, glanced at my radar to see the other 2 ships just sitting there, frozen in fear it seemed like. Here comes the swarm, 64 gloriously deadly Thargons coupled with the Basilisk focusing it's main weapon fire on me, the swarm encircling me and my wingmen trying to ineffectively do some damage, my canopy goes within seconds of the fight starting and i realize i was face tanking a Basilisk solo, not a good move.
Player 3 joins the fight as i bug out to get repairs, down to 60% hull at this point and no canopy, the station is super close maybe 10 seconds SC away. As I'm docking i ask in wing chat how it's going, the bloodthirsty killer from the previous wing replies saying "we can't exert the hearts" "I'll be there in a sec" As i boosted off the landing pad towards the slot, a Belgua of all things begins to slide through the station shield as i waited for the inevitable reckless flying fine. 100cr I'll deal with that later.
As i rejoined the fight all i could see in the distance was this bright green beam of laserfire doing absolutely no damage to this Basilisk, the Krait with the Guass cannons skulking 8km away or so and my Ax MC/missile man just hammering away at this thing, he's got heart.
As i roar into the fight i light the thing up with 2 volleys of Guass fire as my ship screams at me about heat again, the heart exerted immediately, screw the heat, another 2 volleys both direct hits and the petal crumbles as the Basilisk howls, 1 heart down as I fire off a well needed heat sink.
All 4 of us as now finally in the same instance all focused on the task at hand, 2nd and 3rd hearts go down in quick succession, making good progress here, feels like we might get it.
Suddenly with only a seconds warning we all get EMP'd unfortunately and i have aggro, in a desperate attempt to get away i decided to boost and toggle FA off immediately. As my ship spun lifelessly into the void i took the brunt of the Basilisk and it's swarm attacks, coming back online with 40% hull left and i just could not shake aggro which quickly led to my demise. the stations really close I'm still in this fight.
The rebuy screen comes up, something i haven't seen for a while. 6 mill rebuy but something's off, remember that 100cr fine? yeh, my spawnpoint is a detention center in the Pleiades sector just outside Maia 650ly away from Onoros and my fight is over. my wingmen valiantly fight on, Krait guy eats his last rebuy but rejoins and bails once he's taken enough damage, leaving the other 2 wingemen with no way of exerting the last 2 hearts, hull tank laser guy bails at 10% while Ax man fights to the bitter end and we all call it a night as i set my carrier to come pick me up.
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