R1DER Roams

Starwalker had enjoyed the regular R1DER roams: Peri Simone's TESF (Target Everyone, Somebody Fire) and Patrick Kasper's Super serious roam of rules and regulations (name pending), which seemed to have resolved to being named the prosaic Monday Night Roam. Generally, the TESF roam was bring a frigate and the Monday Night Roam was themed around a particular ship or tactic such as Droneswarm. Both were great fun.

 

In addition to those two roams Patrick had started a regular suicide ganking roam and last Friday it was based out of Jufvitte. All of the ships (Catalysts and Thrashers) with fittings and ammunition were supplied and most importantly - scouts. It was a very successful night as various Hulks and Mackinaws were destroyed, along with an assortment of mining barges (Covetor, Retriever and Procurer). Mining ships destroyed tallied to over 3 billion ISK, not including the pods. Whilst Starwalker was keen to get pods too he was far too slow and only managed to get one pod kill the entire night: Sylcyon.

This podding was despite the fact that he had just made another attempt to raise his security status, primarily on the basis that his recently acquired shinier ships would not be very vulnerable to gate camps. He had also rationalised that occasionally farming the clone soldier tags for security status would not be that hard or boring. He started the Jufvitte suicide gank roam at -0.5 and was -3.4 at the end of the night, with the podding being particularly penalised by CONCORD. 

Starwalker had come to the conclusion that unless he reformed his character there was no chance he could keep his status above -5 for any protracted length of time. It was clear, going below -5 again was inevitable and so he would need to fly his shiny ships soon and lose them in fights or simply accept the risk that some of them would be destroyed to an inglorious gate camp.