This is self indulgent really, and is in response to training I received from Ninjr, who showed me how to go Queen Hunting, big thanks to you.

Queen hunting and killing is really exciting and engaging, it looks spectacular and is relatively easy for Newbies to the game to get involved.

I Azulas of the Itani, will be running Queen Hunting sessions in game and using voice chat to take Newbies through a complete kill cycle of a Queen Hunt.

If your Interested look out for me in game, and check this thread for updates about dates and times.

Next Queen Hunt in the Itan Sector will be Wednesday 24th February 20:30 GMT

Did they fix the bug where the escorts don't attack or is Static Queening still lame?

I believe they did.

*** Vendetta 1.8.112
- Improved bot agressiveness behaviour.

*** Vendetta 1.8.114
- Added threat-to-shields logic, enabling more responsive queen (and
other shielded-ship) defense.

Great Queen Hunt this evening with Ninjr and Stark Dar
Two Queens killed after a bit of bother by Azulas, i.e I made a pigs ear of the first few Stacked missile runs.

The support bots are still non aggressive, but I think for training newbies that's just perfect.

Next Training mission Thursday 25th February at 20:00 Itan System /msg Azulas for details.

You know what else you can do with three people? Kill a levi.

But Levis shoot back. I think the point here is that rick doesn't want any sort of opposition or challenge, he just likes incrementing an integer value stored in the database.

Well ladron, that troll sounded really nerdy : )

bleed well

@ladron nice troll :p

but tbh stacking missiles/rockets together is not that easy for ppl that are doing that the first time. So it's better when there is nothing which could shoot back.

do nerd trolls wear big thick rimmed glasses?

No takers for Thursday nights mission

Nest mission will be Sunday night 28th Feb 2010 at 20.00 GMT, looking also to build a groupo strong enough to take out a Levi after the Queen Hunt.

This should be a fun night

/msg Azulas in game for details

Win all the Critical skirmishes in the area, make sure there are none left (check adjacent hive skirmish systems, too), get the central skirmish, get 3 people with chaos swarm/gem rags, get everyone to target a turret on the levi and position themselves 2000m away, have everyone start turboing at the same time, at 1600m drop the speed to 80 m/s and start stacking... voila dead levi. Good luck.

Blundering diagonese thunderdrones, that one hell of a big ask!

I didn't realise it was that much of a task, no wonder I keep getting dead, trying to take a Levi down.

I think for this Newbie training mission, we might have to give that a miss

that is not a big task, you can make a bind to do it with a bit of trial and error, and a plugin to remotly activate it via group chat. If you're industrious enough at leveling alts, you could do it on three trials i guess.

There's a fair amount of levi killing going on at the moment, and it's usually mentioned on #100. Feel free to ask to join,it's good fun for the whole family..

Ricker,PA

I'm always up for a levi hunt, I know how to chainsaw and perfect stack. Willing to teach to anyone new.

- Estrian Prosis

Unfortunately, chainsawing is a plugin. Unless you're actively using /lua strings in the console you can't know or teach how to "chainsaw."

my chainsaw isnt a lua plugin, its like a 7 line bind

Xactly, fail.

Great event tonight. Queen hunt which lead to a Leviathan Hunt. Successful kill of the last Leviathan in the Itani system.

Great working with Ricker, Spedy, Tuxator, et al