And in other news my corp has joined Black Star alliance and are securing fountain and have been fighting a battle of attrition in NOL to 'distract' Goons from the battle in 49- I assume its because I'm told its their HQ and thus they would all spawn there when podded.
The problem with this plan is CCP's epic fail in server maintenance during a major battle and when the 49- node crash it freed up about 40 odd cap ships (which included The Mittani (squee!) and a titan (omgomgomg) to hot drop on us.
Strangely enough this did not immediately spell our doom! Its a strange feeling to have a competent FC at the helm (referring to EIA's fcs during the Chronitos(sp?) War) as we used our ability to warp freely to outmaneuver their cap fleet (stuck in bubbles) and wipe out their fighter squadrons that followed us in warp, and snipe their fighters when us being 100 km out come after us.
At some point however we didn't change our warp in points often enough and I died in a stealth bomber ambush (as I only brought a cruiser as my carrier jump to Serpentis Prime was rushed and didn't have time to bring a boatload of spare ships and didn't have time to finish my level 5's). I called it a night as it was 11:30 pm and I'm trying to get a regular sleep schedule started.
Now for further elaboration as not everyone here plays EVE, a carrier is like what it sounds a capital ship for carrying 'frigate' sized fighters for anti large ship combat, they might do a lot of damage to smaller ships but this I don't actually know. Hull classes are a bit wonky in EVE and don't really correspond to other scifi stuff so here it goes:
http://i40.tinypic.com/2nbzp02.jpg
See the big big ships? Those are titans, they blow stuff up and make stuff move very large distances like a portable stargate network, they're kinda like really big and not cost effective penises (I've seen 2 thus far), basically the biggest 'supercapital' and next biggest supercapital is the biggestish ship (hard to tell with Gellente on that chart) is the supercarrier/mothership, they like normal carriers carry fighters and with the next patch bombers for anti capital ship warfare. Use to have clonevats (for portable player movement) and used to not be able to dock making them very big and very large investments and costed up to 15 billion isk (a year old player I could consider being kinda skilled to have 1 bil in assets) newest patch will reduce cost to about a third as they are removing the clone vat ability but letting them dock and other changes.
Normal capital ships are the Carrier mentioned above and the Dreadnaught, at the battle mentioned above only a titan and a bunch of carriers arrived no dreads or supercarriers, dreadnaughts are essentially large gunnery platforms for long term sieging of player owned stations and crucial for sovereignty war.
Only the Moros however is kinda able to do pvp since it can hold 5 heavy drones, they have piss poor tracking speed and thus will probably won't even be able to hit battleships unless they are webbed, some people use them for level 5s as they have good tank.
NOL/49- are just collective nickname jargon for complicated alphanumeric names for 0.0 and lowsec star systems and thus tend to collect regionalized nicknames by alliances fighting for them IT is fighting in 49- to help -A- (Tripple A alliance which is the nickname for 'Against All Authorities' alliance (or is that quadruple A??) which is I think a predominantly Russian player based alliance so automatically cool.
'-A-' is an example of an alliance/corp ticker, like RZR (RAZOR Alliance) or WI (Wildly Inappropriate) or CVA (Curotaris(sp?) Veritatis Alliance, Amarr rp'ers nice people they reimbursed me for a lost Dominix class battleship when they Kill on Sight database screwed me over. Mr Coffee's alliance)
Goons stands for Goonswarm/Goonfleet more or less the trolls/4chan of EVE they exist to break your game kinda cool in an edgy sort of way, apparently there's only 20 actual people controlling their alliance with 6 screen computers if their Fanfest propaganda is to be believed, I like how they exist to take in new players you originally needed to be a member of somethingawful.co* (which costs 5-10$) for 3 months or be referred by a Goon not sure how it is now, if your just signing up to the game check them out.
disclaimer: You might not be able to get recruited by other alliances though if you stay with them for an extended period of time
podded: When you lose your ship your left in a sorta escape pod thingy when you lose that your clone activates and your in a new pod at the last station you made a clone in.
hot drop: 'jumping' in a number of capitalships into a hostile area for combat operations.
FC: Fleet Commander.
Stealth Bomber: Goddamn bats.
