Saturday, March 31, 2012
post-poacher cleanup
Got a text message from Lutra wanting me to salvage the radar site after he scared a poacher off. He volleyed the drakes shields off but since he was 70k away didn't get a point on the guy. 5 nanoribbons from the salvage and Lutra cleaned up the loot.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
no real news
I've been out of the loop lately, but the corp did blow up the small tower someone had planted in system.
As far as the debacle surrounding Mittens....he made his apology and seems genuinely contrite. Let him remain chairman and lead the CSM. Mittens is only human after all, and humans are generally very good at making dumb mistakes. He learned a lesson, and it should push him into being an even better chair than in CSM6.
As far as the debacle surrounding Mittens....he made his apology and seems genuinely contrite. Let him remain chairman and lead the CSM. Mittens is only human after all, and humans are generally very good at making dumb mistakes. He learned a lesson, and it should push him into being an even better chair than in CSM6.
Monday, March 19, 2012
missing the action, for once a good thing.
So apparently the system has been a hotbed of activity in the last couple days, 3 different pilots lost a ship to 3 different groups of hunters.
bestower (setup a small tower, have not seen anyone from the corp since)
badger badger + the pod (setup a medium tower, took it down after Harb asked him nicely)
shiny daredevil + the pod (ohh that was expensive)
We'll wait till the small tower runs out of fuel then take it down cause we're lazy like that.
To the rest, happy hunting!
bestower (setup a small tower, have not seen anyone from the corp since)
badger badger + the pod (setup a medium tower, took it down after Harb asked him nicely)
shiny daredevil + the pod (ohh that was expensive)
We'll wait till the small tower runs out of fuel then take it down cause we're lazy like that.
To the rest, happy hunting!
Friday, March 16, 2012
system crashes
Comcast apparently dislikes me as I have had a string of crashes, likely due to router crap. I'll drop connection anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. I hesitate to do anything risky while this is happening, I'll have to be content doing PI for some sort of income till they get stuff fixed.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
A bug fix causes sad panda
I find out today that entering a POS forcefield will now always decloak you, a very recent change. Submitted a bug report and was told it was an intentional fix, as it was a bug for the past 3+ years that I have enjoyed using.
It was nice while it lasted, I will need to make more safespots where I can idle cloaked semi-safely now.
I have had more client crashes lately as well, I've updated drivers, etc - I'm actually thinking it's caused by my ISP losing the route to the servers, as the website is down for me at the time of client crashes.
It was nice while it lasted, I will need to make more safespots where I can idle cloaked semi-safely now.
I have had more client crashes lately as well, I've updated drivers, etc - I'm actually thinking it's caused by my ISP losing the route to the servers, as the website is down for me at the time of client crashes.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
CSM7 endorsements
This will actually be quite a bit shorter than I had originally planned, but here goes.
Candidates that have my full endorsement plus one of my votes:
Hans Jagerblitzen will be getting one of my votes. Before I even knew who Hans was, I have grown to respect him for his posts on the forums. Hans primarily operates in lowsec and highsec, with lowsec being his primary focus. I know very little about lowsec or the issues involved but lowsec needs a strong candidate. Hans is an advocate for small-gang and solo fighting styles, rather than blog mechanics. He also admits that he knows little about wormholes and nullsec, and I respect him for not wanting to meddle in things he knows little about. Hans is also an active highsec industrialist, which I have been dabbling in on a lowimpact basis. While I may not agree with everything he says, I believe it is important to vote for someone who will benefit all of EVE, not just my little corner. I do know that Hans has been a strong contributer to CSM6, despite not having a seat. Hans has my full endorsement for CSM7.
Mike Azariah will get my vote and full endorsement. I have long enjoyed his blog, his ability to get people together towards a common goal, andit will be fun to have a strong roleplay candidate.
Trebor Daehdoow will be getting a vote and endorsement. Trebor has been quite active in the forums along with Hans, and somehow I popped up on his radar, as he personally eve-mailed me in support of his campaign.
Two Step is a natural vote, being primarily a wormholer. Two Step has been instrumental for bringing wormhole issues to the table, as well as defending wormhole mechanics from being attacked by those who have never lived in one. I will be sending a vote his way, as well as giving him my full endorsement.
The following have my endorsement, sadly I lack the votes needed to include them in the list above.
Kelduum Revaan is the current CEO of Eve University, where I had an alt for a couple of years. I do not agree with everything Kelduum says, but we need a strong candidate with experience bringing in and retaining new players.
Seleene has strong ideas for industry to make life less of a clickfest. Some very good ideas, +1 endorsement.
I did not list everyone, but the above candidates have my endorsement.
Candidates that have my full endorsement plus one of my votes:
Hans Jagerblitzen will be getting one of my votes. Before I even knew who Hans was, I have grown to respect him for his posts on the forums. Hans primarily operates in lowsec and highsec, with lowsec being his primary focus. I know very little about lowsec or the issues involved but lowsec needs a strong candidate. Hans is an advocate for small-gang and solo fighting styles, rather than blog mechanics. He also admits that he knows little about wormholes and nullsec, and I respect him for not wanting to meddle in things he knows little about. Hans is also an active highsec industrialist, which I have been dabbling in on a lowimpact basis. While I may not agree with everything he says, I believe it is important to vote for someone who will benefit all of EVE, not just my little corner. I do know that Hans has been a strong contributer to CSM6, despite not having a seat. Hans has my full endorsement for CSM7.
Mike Azariah will get my vote and full endorsement. I have long enjoyed his blog, his ability to get people together towards a common goal, andit will be fun to have a strong roleplay candidate.
Trebor Daehdoow will be getting a vote and endorsement. Trebor has been quite active in the forums along with Hans, and somehow I popped up on his radar, as he personally eve-mailed me in support of his campaign.
Two Step is a natural vote, being primarily a wormholer. Two Step has been instrumental for bringing wormhole issues to the table, as well as defending wormhole mechanics from being attacked by those who have never lived in one. I will be sending a vote his way, as well as giving him my full endorsement.
The following have my endorsement, sadly I lack the votes needed to include them in the list above.
Kelduum Revaan is the current CEO of Eve University, where I had an alt for a couple of years. I do not agree with everything Kelduum says, but we need a strong candidate with experience bringing in and retaining new players.
Seleene has strong ideas for industry to make life less of a clickfest. Some very good ideas, +1 endorsement.
I did not list everyone, but the above candidates have my endorsement.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Minor thoughts on Crucible
Just some minor things about the expansion from playing the last several weeks -
Corp bookmarks are a godsend.
I don't miss the api jumps missing from wormholes as much as I thought I would.
I've started reading more into the CSM this time around, and I did come across a very good post by Seleene - http://seleenes-sandbox.blogspot.com/2012/03/eves-industrial-revolution.html
He has some very good ideas on how to make industry less boring and more fun, I like it.
Corp bookmarks are a godsend.
I don't miss the api jumps missing from wormholes as much as I thought I would.
I've started reading more into the CSM this time around, and I did come across a very good post by Seleene - http://seleenes-sandbox.blogspot.com/2012/03/eves-industrial-revolution.html
He has some very good ideas on how to make industry less boring and more fun, I like it.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
a merry chase continues
Popping into the C1 greets me with 2 towers and 2 haulers, 1 anomaly. Now if you recall I'm in a nemesis, this one fitted with a probe launcher fortunately. I can bring the probe launcher online if I offline the target painter, which I do as the corps living here have nobody online apparently. (Really, a small tower in wormhole space? GLOBEX. is begging to have it popped)
Oh there are probes out now, and that helios is briefly visible. The residents of C4c are still trying to catch me apparently. Might as well scan out the exit while after he leaves. 5 signatures to sift through, one being the exit back to C4c.
2 piles of rock, and 3 other wormholes are revealed after tortuous scanning - Just remember kids, a probe launcher might save you from death, but it's really painful to use on a bomber. Let's find out where these other exits lead.
Exit L1 leads to lowsec, I ignore it for the time being and head over to the static hisec at wormhole 2 to bookmark it. Exit 3 leads to C2 space, I'll leave it be while I find my way back home. Jumping out to hisec lands me in Isikemi, conveniently 3 jumps from Jita, if I wanted to haul fuel through several hostile systems.
I'll have to wake someone up to get me the hisec exit from the home system, I had it scanned down but not activated. I was spit out into hisec a mere 4 jumps from the location of our previous hisec exit, a tad bit late as it collapsed several hours previous.
Being rather tired I decide to wait till the morning for the corp bookmakrs to get populated with the system connecting with home.
Notes of importance-
Always have probes and a probe launcher if you head deeper into wormhole space
Scanning in a non-bonused bomber sucks
DaShmoo has ice cream, vanilla with chocolate syrup
Eden's Knights of Malta gave a merry chase around the block
GLOBEX. Really?
DaShmoo is out of whipped cream. Sorry ladies you'll have to come back later.
Oh there are probes out now, and that helios is briefly visible. The residents of C4c are still trying to catch me apparently. Might as well scan out the exit while after he leaves. 5 signatures to sift through, one being the exit back to C4c.
2 piles of rock, and 3 other wormholes are revealed after tortuous scanning - Just remember kids, a probe launcher might save you from death, but it's really painful to use on a bomber. Let's find out where these other exits lead.
Exit L1 leads to lowsec, I ignore it for the time being and head over to the static hisec at wormhole 2 to bookmark it. Exit 3 leads to C2 space, I'll leave it be while I find my way back home. Jumping out to hisec lands me in Isikemi, conveniently 3 jumps from Jita, if I wanted to haul fuel through several hostile systems.
I'll have to wake someone up to get me the hisec exit from the home system, I had it scanned down but not activated. I was spit out into hisec a mere 4 jumps from the location of our previous hisec exit, a tad bit late as it collapsed several hours previous.
Being rather tired I decide to wait till the morning for the corp bookmakrs to get populated with the system connecting with home.
Notes of importance-
Always have probes and a probe launcher if you head deeper into wormhole space
Scanning in a non-bonused bomber sucks
DaShmoo has ice cream, vanilla with chocolate syrup
Eden's Knights of Malta gave a merry chase around the block
GLOBEX. Really?
DaShmoo is out of whipped cream. Sorry ladies you'll have to come back later.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Exploration, camping and a slippery noctis
I slip into the familiar electronic murmur of the proteus as I start today's exploration. The first 2 systems are boring, not many signatures and I keep heading deeper hoping for soft targets.
home -> c4a -> c4b -> c4c -> c1a
System C4c holds promise as dscan reveals a proteus, and 2 carriers running a site. Swinging dscan around they are not at an anomaly, but going to the furthest planet showed a well-staffed tower with pilots in several ships including one scanning. Oh dear. I've narrowed them down, drop probes and bookmark the radar site while recalling probes. Only then I notice the carriers and proteus have left the area.
Warping to the bookmark shows the site as complete, but a pair of cloakies follows the incoming noctis. Looks like they saw me after all. I'm not eager to lose my proteus, so I run across the systems home to grab the bomber.
After jumping back into system with the bomber I hear the wormhole flare behind me and a helios blips into the system, belonging to the corp that lives here - well they really saw me now since the noctis just warped off without hacking the rest of the containers.
I head to a safe distance from the exit back home in time to see a welcome party of a dramiel show up - I know I'm no match for the fast little frigate, and I do believe they have another one stationed on the other side. I have really no choice but to head to the static C1 I bookmarked earlier (bubbled of course) and see what is on the other side...
home -> c4a -> c4b -> c4c -> c1a
System C4c holds promise as dscan reveals a proteus, and 2 carriers running a site. Swinging dscan around they are not at an anomaly, but going to the furthest planet showed a well-staffed tower with pilots in several ships including one scanning. Oh dear. I've narrowed them down, drop probes and bookmark the radar site while recalling probes. Only then I notice the carriers and proteus have left the area.
Warping to the bookmark shows the site as complete, but a pair of cloakies follows the incoming noctis. Looks like they saw me after all. I'm not eager to lose my proteus, so I run across the systems home to grab the bomber.
After jumping back into system with the bomber I hear the wormhole flare behind me and a helios blips into the system, belonging to the corp that lives here - well they really saw me now since the noctis just warped off without hacking the rest of the containers.
I head to a safe distance from the exit back home in time to see a welcome party of a dramiel show up - I know I'm no match for the fast little frigate, and I do believe they have another one stationed on the other side. I have really no choice but to head to the static C1 I bookmarked earlier (bubbled of course) and see what is on the other side...
Thursday, February 23, 2012
neighbor moves out
Draco moved out. He's not part of our corp, but a friend for a while. The T3 gas prices have risen without the corresponding increase in reactant end products he was hoping for, so he moved out until the market stabilizes.
I have started reconfiguring my PI away from purely POS fuel into more profitable items, it's going to be a little bit until I figure out the best return for the planets we have with the minimum effort. No need to make P1 materials anymore, everything is going into P2 or higher - currently the market for mechanical parts has been dropping enough that we will be making an effort to replace the remaining 3 customs offices this weekend.
On yet another note, I've managed to get 2 more people to try Eve, one of them has motion sickness but can tolerate the graphics of Eve, yay for me.
I have started reconfiguring my PI away from purely POS fuel into more profitable items, it's going to be a little bit until I figure out the best return for the planets we have with the minimum effort. No need to make P1 materials anymore, everything is going into P2 or higher - currently the market for mechanical parts has been dropping enough that we will be making an effort to replace the remaining 3 customs offices this weekend.
On yet another note, I've managed to get 2 more people to try Eve, one of them has motion sickness but can tolerate the graphics of Eve, yay for me.
Monday, February 13, 2012
choosing the easy target
Woke up this morning in a bad mood, and that usually means someone gets podded. Settling into the helm of my proteus I start my usual morning routine of popping around the system to check for interlopers - what is this? A CNR and a heron on dscan along with some sleeper wrecks. I narrow the location down to a single anomaly, a Ruins of the Enclave Cohort 27, and warp in at 100 to check on pilot names.
Both pilots are from the same corp, and the names are similar enough that I think it's 1 guy dual boxing. While a CNR would be an awesome addition to the killboard, I am still unsure of my ability to take one down solo, even with an astarte. I head back to the pos to swap out for my bomber, waiting seemingly forever for the ships to load. I head back as the heron start salvaging another wreck, the CNR warps out to start another site.
I lay in a tight orbit of the heron, decloak and gain point. Shortly the heron pops, diorienting the pilot long enough for the pod to fall to my volley of torps. Overkill perhaps but it got the job done. Another corpse to add to my collection, I cloak up and wait to see what the CNR does.
The CNR bounces between anomalies for a while while I wait, then finally leaves. Slade has logged in after the heron pops, if I had waited we could have double teamed the CNR, but I wanted a kill right away. Oh well I have to attempt to add a CNR to my kill list eventually.
Both pilots are from the same corp, and the names are similar enough that I think it's 1 guy dual boxing. While a CNR would be an awesome addition to the killboard, I am still unsure of my ability to take one down solo, even with an astarte. I head back to the pos to swap out for my bomber, waiting seemingly forever for the ships to load. I head back as the heron start salvaging another wreck, the CNR warps out to start another site.
I lay in a tight orbit of the heron, decloak and gain point. Shortly the heron pops, diorienting the pilot long enough for the pod to fall to my volley of torps. Overkill perhaps but it got the job done. Another corpse to add to my collection, I cloak up and wait to see what the CNR does.
The CNR bounces between anomalies for a while while I wait, then finally leaves. Slade has logged in after the heron pops, if I had waited we could have double teamed the CNR, but I wanted a kill right away. Oh well I have to attempt to add a CNR to my kill list eventually.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Just a quick update - not a whole lot happening lately, as it has been rather quiet in our neck of the woods. Slade nabbed a drake running the sites, turns that either the drake had backup or we had an opportunist in a bomber get in on the kill.
Added Slade as an author to the blog, he will be able to post things from a different perspective.
Added Slade as an author to the blog, he will be able to post things from a different perspective.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Saturday went into Chicago and hung out with the rest of the TEMT crowd.
Yesterday saw 2 drakes running a site, first one popped after far too much time, all the while the sleepers and his buddy hitting me set me on fire near the end. Second one was 40k away when the first one died, never bothered to warp out with the end result. Props to Frank for getting his first wh kill, and saving my bacon after I was on fire by jamming the 2nd drake.
Strangely I capped out and lost point for a few seconds and they never managed to warp off. Note to self - invest in navy cap boosters so I don't run out near the end of a fight.
At least this time I remembered I can overheat stuff.
Yesterday saw 2 drakes running a site, first one popped after far too much time, all the while the sleepers and his buddy hitting me set me on fire near the end. Second one was 40k away when the first one died, never bothered to warp out with the end result. Props to Frank for getting his first wh kill, and saving my bacon after I was on fire by jamming the 2nd drake.
Strangely I capped out and lost point for a few seconds and they never managed to warp off. Note to self - invest in navy cap boosters so I don't run out near the end of a fight.
At least this time I remembered I can overheat stuff.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
despawning sites
I completely forgot since the patch that a site will despawn if no uncloaked ships sits there. Had a corpie start a radar site and of course he's green enough that he is unable to finish it. So I warp Isha over cloaked of course and plop her down at 150k from the warpin. Isha is happily watching the sleepers circle around aimlessly and before I can log Jhared in the site goes poof.
*facepalm*
I will have to ask people to not start sites unless they can finish them.
*facepalm*
I will have to ask people to not start sites unless they can finish them.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)