I've got 2 battleships at the moment, one Tempest (2nd tier) which I have set up as a close tackler and damage-dealer for pvp.
And a Maelstrom (3rd tier) which is set up with arty and I am using to grind out level 4 combat missions for ISK.
Skills-wise i'm getting my shield and cap skills to 4 or 5, then
Large Projectile Turret and Minmatar Battleship to 4, and a
couple of sensor and drone stuff that I didn't get very far in.
After that i'm going to train Minmatar Frigate to 5 and look at Interceptors, or possibly Covert Ops.
My corp, PCTI, have left 5th Column alliance as we felt it wasn't really going anywhere fast. We are in talks with Invictus who have about 10 systems in the drone regions in 0.0 space. The thought of going to 0.0 at this stage of my skills and resources is a little scary, having only just got into battleships a few weeks ago, but I reckon I'll be alright. I mean, I haven't outgrown empire by any means yet, but if the corp goes, I will too because I like them, and the potential for growth is a lot better out there apparently. And it will be certainly interesting to see how it works, there are only 2 stations for like a 20-jump range! Also there should be better pvp available; at the moment all we get in Molden Heath is pirates coming through in ones or twos who you can hardly ever catch, or enormous gatecamps by big alliances with capitals, which we can't really match up to.
o/
