im kicking myself for not recording...

post goes up in the fed discord, that there is massive group of empire ships in nanomam(fed HQ) last night. im piddling around in my FDL, so i hop back to SOL and grab my FAS.

hop over to nano, and tons of players, but only one imp(empire) ship. CMDR Relick. dude that does pvp vids on reddit all the time.

we try to interdict him, he either beats it, or runs away after submitting. hes in an engineered clipper, damn fast.

then we all start bullshitting, 10 or so fed pilots from the Fed defense league faction, and relick and me. He says, "anyone up for a 1v1, or im goin to bed." I didnt fly there to play with myself, so i said Lets go, just dont put my dead ass on youtube.

interdicted him, and went to work. one pass with the frags, and his shields were gone. he was using turreted mc's on his large HP's, so he almost always had fire on me. but i basically kept it close quarters, and just kept firing and ramming. he ded. i still had 60% hull.

we did have a second fight, where he learned, and kept his distance. was even till he shot out my canopy, and i couldnt hit the broad side of a barn. i died with him having 12% hull or something.

fun times.

Sounds like fun. I pledged to Z. Hudson last night. Now show me some $$$$! Haha!

what you flying for combat these days?


there are two ways to get merits. Undermining, and forting. Forting is hauling stuff, and costs a bit of money to do effectively.
Undermining is going to enemy system, and killing the proper NPC's. 30 merits per kill.

rank 5, which requires 10k merits, gets you 50mil. rank 4, 1500 merits, gets you 5mil. You keep half of the merits you earned for each week. so if you earn 5k this week, you will start with 2.5k next week.

tutorial video on undermining: i use method 3, as its the fastest. can usually get 2k merits an hour.

couple notes. being pledged to hudson puts a target on your back. certain groups live to kill feds.

if you want to coordinate, get involved, know what targets we are going after (undermining, forting)
join this discord. https://discord.gg/YDHTRUM

you dont have to talk, its a big chat server basically. just screenshot your pledge like the instructions say, and they let you in. you can contribute as much or as little as you want. I like it because there are some grizzly vets there. so much knowledge regarding ship builds ect...

Atta boy! What was he flying?

Never agree to a second fight if you win the first...

he was in a clipper

I got on last night to try and get some undermining in before the week-end... but couldn't figure it out. I went to the powerplay page but only saw supply and support missions (or whatever they're called). I was expecting to see specific undermining missions. I probably just didn't understand what i was looking at. All my powerplay work to date has involved you saying "Steve, go to blah blah blah and kill blah blah blah"... and off i go.

That said, it was a pretty good bounty hunting night. Got to poke holes in lots of bad guys and made about $10M in a couple of hours. Boom!

the targets are assigned by players. a group of people decide on what targets we are going to focus on, and who we are going to hit. join the discord.

i got a vid to go with story time


he was nice enough to share it:

Nice! Some chaff would have gone a long way. I'm shocked whenever i see someone go into a pvp fight with gimballed weapons.

Good job boosting around him. I don't know how guys can turn so fast. Whenever i try FA off, i turn so slowly. Maybe it's a function of the ship.