So I believe that the last post is going to be the last post about ranting at the community as that won’t get me any readers. So I’m going to start with what this blogs really going to be about.
Null sec.
This is mainly going to be null sec industry as I am a Indy pilot at heart. But for any pvp action that I get myself into then I will post a comment about that too. I will be following the news and giving my views on them, but I’ll keep these to a minimum unless people actually want to read these.
So yesterday I bought myself a hulk after selling the mackinaw. This alone will boost my mining output, but I also have got my hands temporarily on a orca. Which combined with Trebs great command skills means I can strip 0.5 belts in 5 hours with just a single hulk and an orca. Now I have been toying with the idea of starting 1 or 2 new accounts and getting them into hulks but I’ve never needed to before as I haven’t mined enough but now that I’m going to null sec to join THORN-Syndicate again as a Indy pilot I feel that I could do it. I will just need to make sure that my pc can actually handle it, as its currently just about does 2 eve clients and a Minecraft client.
So yes I will be moving to null to be a Indy pilot, running PI planets again, and making ships sub and capital class hopefully as I will have the skills for them by the time I actually want to move down there.
Monday, 25 July 2011
Saturday, 23 July 2011
Rioting and Nullsec
Well things have happened in the last two days. I’ve had an invite from and old corp of mine Thorn Syndicate which is re-merging and are going to join Brick Squad. I am still deciding if I will go for it, but I am looking at going. It will mean that I’m back in null sec which I’ve been pinning for a while now. The only requirement for me to join as I’m an ex member is to have a capital ship. I used to have a Nidhoggur however I sold that last month to pay for plexs. So it means either ice mining and selling to stuff then buying a carrier, mission run and then buy the carrier, or mine proper asteroids and build myself a carrier. I am leaning more towards the mining asteroids and then building one myself, so time to sell the mackinaw and work with the covetor as I’m not going to buy a hulk, with their current pricing.
Anyway onto the riots. So last month we had the large riots in the 4 major trade hubs of eve, if you haven’t heard of these then where have you been. What I see is that it is just a bunch of whiners hurt that CCP is changing the game and putting it into a new direction. However what they need to see is that CCP has not changed the direction they are taking EVE at all, this has been the direction they have always had for EVE. Now I know not everyone in the riots were rioting because of the captain’s quarters. Some were rioting because of nexus I have already put a post about that so will not come back to it here. Some more of the rioting was because of the leaked internal newsletter. However even in this people have not had the full message. Yes eve-news24 posted this newsletter but they did not post the whole newsletter, they have missed a large portion of it. Now some of the newsletter that was missed I agree eve-news24 should have missed, it was personal information about CCP staff and did not need to be released, however what was missed was the front page where there is a statement explaining that the views that were written in the newsletter did not give the views of CCP and where purely speculative. This is the major section that the newsletter did not show the definite way the CCP will be taking EVE and that gold ammo will not be added into the game. However the major problem after all this happening is the CCP did not just come out and say that no gold ammo is not going to be added and people would have been rioting so much. Well the people who just wasn’t to disrupt the game would have still rioted but who cares about them and they should just leave EVE.
Anyway either way it shows that if the players of EVE really want to show their views they can.
Anyway onto the riots. So last month we had the large riots in the 4 major trade hubs of eve, if you haven’t heard of these then where have you been. What I see is that it is just a bunch of whiners hurt that CCP is changing the game and putting it into a new direction. However what they need to see is that CCP has not changed the direction they are taking EVE at all, this has been the direction they have always had for EVE. Now I know not everyone in the riots were rioting because of the captain’s quarters. Some were rioting because of nexus I have already put a post about that so will not come back to it here. Some more of the rioting was because of the leaked internal newsletter. However even in this people have not had the full message. Yes eve-news24 posted this newsletter but they did not post the whole newsletter, they have missed a large portion of it. Now some of the newsletter that was missed I agree eve-news24 should have missed, it was personal information about CCP staff and did not need to be released, however what was missed was the front page where there is a statement explaining that the views that were written in the newsletter did not give the views of CCP and where purely speculative. This is the major section that the newsletter did not show the definite way the CCP will be taking EVE and that gold ammo will not be added into the game. However the major problem after all this happening is the CCP did not just come out and say that no gold ammo is not going to be added and people would have been rioting so much. Well the people who just wasn’t to disrupt the game would have still rioted but who cares about them and they should just leave EVE.
Anyway either way it shows that if the players of EVE really want to show their views they can.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Null sec
Now I don’t live in null sec anymore, however I did spend the entirety of last year there, so I would say that I have some knowledge of how it works.
So the DRF own the drone regions half the South and the majority of the North and to be honest I believe this is too much space. No CCP won’t be stepping in as this is a sandbox and it is player run, the problem will need to be sorted out by us the players. Yesterday some news appeared that the DRF had lost interest after the massive losses from the Goons, Test and the Deklein coalition when they can’t bring in the massive amounts of supers they have and their not using a exploit to being these in.
The real problem I have is the DRF went in supposedly to break the massive blue ball that was the Northern Coalition however they have gone in with more blues then the whole of the NC had anyway so all they have done is contradict themselves throughout the whole campaign which seems to have stalled after so many sub-capital losses and the recent caging in of their super caps in their own pos's.
I do believe that the goons and the rest of the cluster-fuck coalition will attack the DRF and take back the North, but I can’t see this happening till after the promised super carrier nerf this winter.
What I would love to see is a mass attack on the DRF from all sides and completely obliterating the DRF and kicking them out of the drone regions, but it’s more likely me winning the weekly lottery on eve-radio.
Tomorrow I will be talking about my views with the recent riots in the major trade hubs of eve.
So the DRF own the drone regions half the South and the majority of the North and to be honest I believe this is too much space. No CCP won’t be stepping in as this is a sandbox and it is player run, the problem will need to be sorted out by us the players. Yesterday some news appeared that the DRF had lost interest after the massive losses from the Goons, Test and the Deklein coalition when they can’t bring in the massive amounts of supers they have and their not using a exploit to being these in.
The real problem I have is the DRF went in supposedly to break the massive blue ball that was the Northern Coalition however they have gone in with more blues then the whole of the NC had anyway so all they have done is contradict themselves throughout the whole campaign which seems to have stalled after so many sub-capital losses and the recent caging in of their super caps in their own pos's.
I do believe that the goons and the rest of the cluster-fuck coalition will attack the DRF and take back the North, but I can’t see this happening till after the promised super carrier nerf this winter.
What I would love to see is a mass attack on the DRF from all sides and completely obliterating the DRF and kicking them out of the drone regions, but it’s more likely me winning the weekly lottery on eve-radio.
Tomorrow I will be talking about my views with the recent riots in the major trade hubs of eve.
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Back and other things.
Ok so it’s been awhile since I last posted, lots been happening both in-game and out. So the Tech 2 stuff didn’t go great. I didn’t have the time to play the game properly to actually put myself fully into it so I only went in half-heartedly, this was a mistake which I hope to fix this summer. Along with a lot of other things. The corp did join the Amarr militia for a while and that didn’t go too bad we got some kills, Well I didn’t as I’m not a pvper in anyway as my Killboard shows.
I have been meaning to set up some PI in the low sec systems around where we live but currently can’t get myself to do it, Going to wait till I get my alt into a black ops and then just covert cyno into the systems to grab the produce.
My main ISK income currently is ice mining, yes this isn’t the best income by far and its most likely the worst, however it means I can play the game and make ISK while working on my other things, namely setting up Minecraft servers, writing game reviews and typing up pages of coursework.
Ok now onto the main reason I really wanted to post on here. The micro-transactions. While I am writing reviews I will read other people's reviews and many game news sites. The majority of which have had at least one news article about eve and its micro-transactions. The problem that I have with this is that they do not get the full story. Many will be posting how the monocle costs $70 and that's overpriced, with this I agree it is a lot for an in-game item and CCP could have done better with their roll-out of the system by also integrating the cheaper items. However my real problem is that the news sites bring across that this is the only way that you can buy the items. They do not see that players can spend ISK which they gained from mining, ratting, mission-running etc. I have been talking to some people mostly on the eve-radio irc channel and they been saying things like people have still had to buy the plex with real money, my response to that is that yes the people have had to buy the plex but they sold it for ISK, so they then don’t care where the plex goes after they have got the ISK safely in their wallet. I for one buy the plex and convert it into game time as I don’t have the real life money to pay for eve currently but still wish to play the game. So in conclusion I really do wish for game news sites to actually fully read up on the news story’s before posting them. However I know they won’t and many people in the comment sections for the eve news articles wil complain and all I can do is post on these comments and finish off the news article so people can actually read the full story on the eve micro-transactions.
In other news my main character also turned 2 years old 14 days ago, seems strange 2 years ago eve was different and there were many friends who used to play. Ive been through a couple of corps and really enjoy eyed my two years of playing, all I can say is roll on the next 2 years as I can say that I won’t be leaving eve for the foreseeable future, even if some of the community continue to annoy me enough to walk outside and do something else.
I have been meaning to set up some PI in the low sec systems around where we live but currently can’t get myself to do it, Going to wait till I get my alt into a black ops and then just covert cyno into the systems to grab the produce.
My main ISK income currently is ice mining, yes this isn’t the best income by far and its most likely the worst, however it means I can play the game and make ISK while working on my other things, namely setting up Minecraft servers, writing game reviews and typing up pages of coursework.
Ok now onto the main reason I really wanted to post on here. The micro-transactions. While I am writing reviews I will read other people's reviews and many game news sites. The majority of which have had at least one news article about eve and its micro-transactions. The problem that I have with this is that they do not get the full story. Many will be posting how the monocle costs $70 and that's overpriced, with this I agree it is a lot for an in-game item and CCP could have done better with their roll-out of the system by also integrating the cheaper items. However my real problem is that the news sites bring across that this is the only way that you can buy the items. They do not see that players can spend ISK which they gained from mining, ratting, mission-running etc. I have been talking to some people mostly on the eve-radio irc channel and they been saying things like people have still had to buy the plex with real money, my response to that is that yes the people have had to buy the plex but they sold it for ISK, so they then don’t care where the plex goes after they have got the ISK safely in their wallet. I for one buy the plex and convert it into game time as I don’t have the real life money to pay for eve currently but still wish to play the game. So in conclusion I really do wish for game news sites to actually fully read up on the news story’s before posting them. However I know they won’t and many people in the comment sections for the eve news articles wil complain and all I can do is post on these comments and finish off the news article so people can actually read the full story on the eve micro-transactions.
In other news my main character also turned 2 years old 14 days ago, seems strange 2 years ago eve was different and there were many friends who used to play. Ive been through a couple of corps and really enjoy eyed my two years of playing, all I can say is roll on the next 2 years as I can say that I won’t be leaving eve for the foreseeable future, even if some of the community continue to annoy me enough to walk outside and do something else.
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Moving
So its been awhile since I actually posted on here. Im pretty bad with keeping these things up to date.
So today ive decided to leave my current corp E115. Which is part of TEST alliance due to, as I see it failings in the corp leadership after the loss of the corps titan and then the loss of the station egg which was due to go up in our space. I dont feel like the corp owes me anything apart from the domi which they have in a low sec staging system so it will be easy enough to get that back off them.
So the new corp im going to join is Serenity Rising which is run by my old eve mate Randunip (or whatever is his main currently). The corp is aimed around low / null sec small gang warefare which is cool as ive witnessed some large fleet engagements while in TEST and their not for me. Im going to be focusing on my indy roots from now on as I want to get into T2 production. So many skillbooks need to be bought and also many blueprint too. Yay lets see where this isk is coming from as ive no idea where its coming from myself. I should get my PI set up and printing money but just need to find that sweet spot of a system to let me.
Other then that ive spent the day watching eve tv and some of the updates coming to eve look epic. Thank you CCP for bringing us this epic game and then garnishing it soo many wonderfull things.
So today ive decided to leave my current corp E115. Which is part of TEST alliance due to, as I see it failings in the corp leadership after the loss of the corps titan and then the loss of the station egg which was due to go up in our space. I dont feel like the corp owes me anything apart from the domi which they have in a low sec staging system so it will be easy enough to get that back off them.
So the new corp im going to join is Serenity Rising which is run by my old eve mate Randunip (or whatever is his main currently). The corp is aimed around low / null sec small gang warefare which is cool as ive witnessed some large fleet engagements while in TEST and their not for me. Im going to be focusing on my indy roots from now on as I want to get into T2 production. So many skillbooks need to be bought and also many blueprint too. Yay lets see where this isk is coming from as ive no idea where its coming from myself. I should get my PI set up and printing money but just need to find that sweet spot of a system to let me.
Other then that ive spent the day watching eve tv and some of the updates coming to eve look epic. Thank you CCP for bringing us this epic game and then garnishing it soo many wonderfull things.
Monday, 29 November 2010
The Capsulers (Part 1)
Andrew woke with a start. Over him Jessica was standing with her hand over his mouth.
"There here."
Andrew gave a bemused look.
"The capsulers, there finally here."
The two of them had been living in X-ray bunker for over a month now.
They were part of the planet defence force put together after the news that capsulers could take over planets finally.
Jessica moved her hand from Andrews mouth.
"Then why are we whispering."
"Their scanning the planet, command say they don’t know what for. We have just been ordered to keep voices low and cross-bunker messages to a absolute minimum.
Just then there was a boom outside and the earth shook.
"They must have sent something down."
The two of them ran out the door, pulling armour on and grabbing weapons. They weren’t the only ones. People who had heard the boom were doing the same while the ones who hadn't were being woke by the people who had.
The pair reached their station. It was a laser rifle, But only for personal not what they saw in front of them.
There in front of them was a large building.
Suddenly steam started spurting out from doorways that just appeared.
For five minutes everything was quiet accept from the hissing of the doors. Then they opened.
Armed men started rushing out taking up defensive positions.
"FIRE."
The command erupted from the loudspeakers positioned in the hallways.
The night lit up with the flashes of laser fire.
"BOOM."
The artillery must have finally got the message.
Hey
So this is a new eve blog. Plenty of them out there.
So a bit about me. I'm currently a pilot in a null sec alliance. Main character name is Dusty Meg part of the alliance Controlled Chaos.
I have been playing eve for over a year and in null for about 6 months now. When I first started eve I was brought in as I loved the look and feel of eve and also eve-radio. I got into mining I found it relaxing I could do programming or read a book. However due to the fact that I could never get more than 100 mill into my wallet at any single point in time. I sold off the Hulk and bought a few ships, and joined a null sec corp. This corp had just moved down into null sec. We were a renter from Gentleman's club. However with the threat of the Russian's rolling in, we pulled out and the alliance simply fell apart. With the CEO and a few other guys we moved off and found that we could join a corp in the Northern Coalition. So off we went. So you see me today still in the Northern Coalition.
This blog will follow me through my adventures with the alliance. However I will also be putting in my attempts at eve fiction. Before people start criticising it too bad I am in no way a professional writer.
My current activities in eve is trading and PI. I don't have a lot of time for eve but these activities buy me my skill books for my characters.
With Incursion coming out tomorrow I will be be looking out for all the new items. The main thing I am looking for is the Noctis. I have been wishing for a new salvage ship since I started the game. As my trusty Catalyst has been doing this for many a wreck now. I have logged on Sisi every now and again and currently have my character sitting in a ORE station but no there's nothing around there. I'm currently toying with the idea to actually make a new account and have this ship on the new character.
So the learning skills. Both of my characters are currently training up the final learning skill to 5 to make sure that I have the maximum amount of skill points to put into something else. I still have no idea where I will be putting the skill points but it will be good to have them sitting there. What I will probably do is leave them there and when I'm in a rush to get into a ship for a fleet roam (when I get back to eve proper) I can simply chuck some skill points into the skills to allow me to use the ship.
So this will be it for the first post. I will be updating this at random points so you may see more then one a day or see none for a week or two it will simply be when I get some bits that I want to chat about on here.
So a bit about me. I'm currently a pilot in a null sec alliance. Main character name is Dusty Meg part of the alliance Controlled Chaos.
I have been playing eve for over a year and in null for about 6 months now. When I first started eve I was brought in as I loved the look and feel of eve and also eve-radio. I got into mining I found it relaxing I could do programming or read a book. However due to the fact that I could never get more than 100 mill into my wallet at any single point in time. I sold off the Hulk and bought a few ships, and joined a null sec corp. This corp had just moved down into null sec. We were a renter from Gentleman's club. However with the threat of the Russian's rolling in, we pulled out and the alliance simply fell apart. With the CEO and a few other guys we moved off and found that we could join a corp in the Northern Coalition. So off we went. So you see me today still in the Northern Coalition.
This blog will follow me through my adventures with the alliance. However I will also be putting in my attempts at eve fiction. Before people start criticising it too bad I am in no way a professional writer.
My current activities in eve is trading and PI. I don't have a lot of time for eve but these activities buy me my skill books for my characters.
With Incursion coming out tomorrow I will be be looking out for all the new items. The main thing I am looking for is the Noctis. I have been wishing for a new salvage ship since I started the game. As my trusty Catalyst has been doing this for many a wreck now. I have logged on Sisi every now and again and currently have my character sitting in a ORE station but no there's nothing around there. I'm currently toying with the idea to actually make a new account and have this ship on the new character.
So the learning skills. Both of my characters are currently training up the final learning skill to 5 to make sure that I have the maximum amount of skill points to put into something else. I still have no idea where I will be putting the skill points but it will be good to have them sitting there. What I will probably do is leave them there and when I'm in a rush to get into a ship for a fleet roam (when I get back to eve proper) I can simply chuck some skill points into the skills to allow me to use the ship.
So this will be it for the first post. I will be updating this at random points so you may see more then one a day or see none for a week or two it will simply be when I get some bits that I want to chat about on here.
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