do we get to use this as a tax writeoff?

Corp mates
From: Keldon Freeze
Sent: 2012.07.22 17:03
To: The Environmental Management Team,
As of this eve mail, most of the ships and some items that were in your station, have been cleared out. I thought I should nicely thank you for your donation. the tengus, especially the super faction fitted, and the super faction abaddon was sweet. Just as a forwarning for your next recruitment.... dont recruit people that you blow up. and if you do.... dont give them that much access to your goods.

fly safe and take this a a small set back. but learn from it. fare TEMT, it was a privilage working with you.
Keldon

So he made off with a bunch of T1 ships, 2 tengu's, and 1 blingy abbadon while we were sleeping.  Our fault, we forgot to move those ships.  As for access, it's just very difficult to do anything in wormhole space without some access to shared resources, and a loss like this is just something that comes with the territory.  We'll continue to plow on, we've lived here for 3 years, we're not going to let this be more than a minor incident.

You win some, you lose some.

On the bright side I was contracted a fully fit Talos, that was certainly a nice surprise.  Thank you Kulper, that really did brighten my day.

I'm really irritated that Keldon/Kinovic stole the megathron we dedicated to Mike9091...

fresh blood, and friendly faceshooting

Slade popped a drake a few days ago and promptly recruited the guy.  I'm reminded through him of all the new things you discover about wormhole space - keeps me from getting jaded about our little C2.

Today we had a C5 open up into our home within dscan of our towers.   The C5 in question belongs to Future Corps, part of the Sleeper Social Club alliance.  Joining their public channel resulted in an invite to a friendly 1 v 1, which I promptly lost.   Props to them for a fun fight, I would do it again.  I did tell the C5 residents that they had free passage to hisec for the duration of their connection with us.

Note to self -  I forgot to put smokes and booze in the cargohold of the brutix, gotta stock up.

So Slade is off for a week or to on vacation, and has left me in charge.  Of Everything.  Which really helps as our last grav site popped (found out Lutra was mining semi-afk while we had 4 exits open, he's a lucky man), and I honestly don't feel like running combat anomalies.  Lutra is still hell-bent on becoming a mini-Chribba and building a rorqual inside the hole -.I don't know that we should, considering we aren't like many mining corps and have 3 hangers full of ore...

I've been enjoying the alliance tournament matches, I was happy to see two of my favorite goonswarm pilots in last weekends match.  I know Klann from the wormhole channel, and Dashmoo lived in our hole for a good amount of time while he was in chrome, going from wspace noob to his early pvp engagements.

I'm sitting on quite the stash of materials I need to ship to Jita, just waiting for a closer exit.

Fueling two towers

Fuel costs are increasing, Slade purchased 200 mil in fuel for the large tower which added...not as much time aas we would have liked.  We were near Amarr though so I jumped out and grabbed the 15k units of emergancy blocks I had stashed in Amarr and hauled it in.

I'm also running low on electrolytes, amazingly even with 2 gas giants on system.  I'll be reconfiguring my PI setup soon to drop the factory on p4 over to p2 and using an extra extracing slot.

Other than that, I almost miss having good neighbors in the hole - sure they brought trouble with them but it also added targets.

Edit:  Almost shot a blue - saw a ferox on dscan harvesting gas.  Got direction and distance, used Penny's method of pinpointing where the ferox was and warped in systems hot.  He warped off as I noticed I was targeting a blue.

Will need to keep in mind the ships Shockwave Innovations have an SWI prepended to the name.  They invited us onto a roam of our static C4 once we realised blue status, and then yep, connection dropped.   Really wish there was more of a choice in ISPs around here as the local monopoly is seemingly unable to resolve the issue of random connection drops.

Connection lost...

My internet connection has been rather spotty lately, and it's been bad enough that I have not been able to put any solid playtime into Eve.   Unfortunately Comcast has been unable to figure out what the heck is wrong with my service, and there are really no other choices in the area.

Broadband monopolies kinda suck.

Infrequent posting

I've been slacking off with posting, I know.   I just have not been spending much time active in game, many apologies.

Our sightseeing guest is still with us, enjoying the ever-changing vistas of our exits.  Although I have not had a chance to speak with her personally, I hope she is not completely bored with how quiet the system has been the last few weeks.

An alt of mine has left nullsec, from a failed 'I want to experience what nullsec is like' phase.   The alt in question did not want to fly the ships that were standard fleet doctrine, and could nopt make most of the scheduled ops.   Therefore this alt will be joining faction warfare.  I'm sure FW will be far more interesting than nullsec, and I want to thank @eclipticrift over on twitter for the encouragement.

new inventory system hurts...

Opening inventory at a pos is painful.  Everything that has a cargohold is listed, guns, etc, and it's giving my client fits right now.  I'm hoping they add to the filters so I can at least filter out the guns and starbase modules I don't use on a regular basis.

faction warfare

The changes to faction warfare coming with Inferno are interesting, and much needed in my opinion.  I never tried faction warfare, as it seemed hazardous for little reward before.  But with Susan Black and Hans posts on things....I am sorely tempted to try it out.

Other than Miilla using our system as a grand tour through all of hisec, things have been quiet in the home system.  I exported quite a large amount of PI last time we were in amarr space - I did not have time to sell it but it waits there for a day when I need a quick cash injection.  I finally trained up Jhared to interplanetary consolidation 5, as I've been using electrolytes faster than I can harvest so will need to setup on the other gas giant to harvest more.

There are times I've been tempted to take down the medium pos, as it's a faction pos and those are hard to find.  Moving everything will, to be blunt, be a bitch.  Still since I've noticed on the forums that there are people (thanks to Miilla twisting Slade's words) who have taken an interest in taking both of our towers down, that replacing it with a nonfaction tower might be a good idea.

It's been pretty much just Slade and I in the hole anyway lately, and as we don't actively recruit, I worry that we may in fact get evicted - the fact that we have not run into major resistance or been evicted already is parts good luck, and my CEO's silver tongue.

We've been here for ....what 3 years now?  Seems a rather long time, I know we've gotten used to our system, decorated and planted a little garden, yet still are ever watchful.  I may start moving some of the high value items that are not often used back out to hisec, just in case. 

One thing that we need to decide on - we've never kicked anyone from corp for inactivity.  We have corpmates who have not logged in for well over a year, some are still in the wormhole - do we move the stuff in those hangers as well?  Do we start giving more rights to existing corpmates to allow everyone to live in the large pos - and do we still need both towers? 

In Eve, one of the maxims to live by is 'Trust no one'.  By doing so, and not recruiting we've been dwindling our numbers down, as well as activity.   I feel that something needs to change, if only a little bit.

Tests on Sisi

The new missile effects on Sisi are amazing, and the look of the new stealth bombers are quite nice as well.  My personal favorite is the new nemesis, with the mata ray look.

I urge everyone to do testing on Sisi to get used to the new inventory system if nothing else.  Those who forgo testing the new system will likely be lost for a bit when Inferno gets dumped on Tanquility.  It's quite different and easy to lose track of stuff.   I'm all for the change, as Eve is never static.

news of an unwelcome visitor

Opened an corp mail from the ceo.  We've had a ghost loki hanging around for a bit, and finally have gotten a visual on it.  The appropriate name has been added to watchlists.

I suppose now that we've been lucky so far, and we can no longer count on keeping the statics closed without crashing them. 

tidi in hisec

The Sack of Jita got off to an early start, with nearly 2300 pilots in the system blowing up things on the 4-4 undock.  I took some pictures - from a safe distance of course.

At one point TiDi dropped all the way down to 10%, which made doing anything an exercise in patience, fortunately wormhole dwellers have that in spades.

Screenshots after the jump

clearing out some sites

So this morning attempting to login gets me the 'system is still loading' message. Wait 30 seconods, try again and I get this little gem:

We'll see if my tweet about it get any reactions, and I'm searching forums to see if others are having the same issue.



Had chance a couple days ago to do some sleeper killing with all statics closed and nothing incoming.   We had 7 combat anomolies, I chose to run the 3 Perimeter Hangers, which yielded 8 nanoribbons.


Here's the little piggy vacuuming up salvage:

Edit:  apparently the node was restarted for the issue, thanks to CCP Navigator for letting us know.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=96887&find=unread

fuel hauling

Todays exit is a mere 10 jumps from a market hub, pulled 300mil from the corp wallett to haul blocks back to the towers - we have over a month in each of them now.  With about 10k extra fuel it should tide us over till well after the Jita burning event.

minerals, minerals, minerals!

With the recent spike in mineral prices I'm going to take a hard look at restarting my first profession in Eve - mining.

Next grav site we get I'll do my level best to strip out the high end ores before it despawns entirely.  With the appropriate Orca boost, we'll see how that goes.

Note to self - buy some booster fittings for the darn orca.

making the small iskies

6 nanoribbons from 2 Perimeter Hangers, not too bad.  Haven't been on too much but I refilled my factory planets and scanned out the new hisec out near Khanid.  Lutra is making a beeline to get back inside to scoop planet goop to sell.