Showing posts with label Accounts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Accounts. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Thinking about eve and the Community

So at the current moment I am down to one account and that is because I haven't plexed them this month. Now this isn't because of anything CCP has done in fact 4 of the accounts ran out even before Inferno was released. The reason my accounts have run out is that I have simply no time to be on and get the 3.5 bill each month to keep the accounts alive. I was having to spend 10 hours a day minimum mining to keep the accounts open and with exams coming up that cant happen. I may be returning after the exams but I have yet to decide. This is the first time in nearly 3 years that my accounts have lapsed and it feels weird. True I wouldn't be playing at the current moment anyway due to the fact that my main pc is dead after the hard drive fried itself, so my accounts would probally have lapsed anyway.
Ive got to say even with my accounts lapsed and at the current moment not a certain of me returning, I still read the forums, evenews 24, twitter (where half of the people I follow has something to do with eve) and still listening to the podcasts and this I see is a great thing of this community that even after I stop playing the game I still follow much of the community.

Ive got to say that there are things pulling me away from starting eve again after the exams, ive spent countless hours playing this game and countless pounds before I started plexing the accounts. I enjoy mining and have tried to play other types of gameplay in eve and have simply not enjoyed it. Though I would love to move back to null if I was to come back to eve, the main problem I have is isk and buying plexs, I need to make the isk each month to be able to pay for the accounts and moving and setting up in null takes time and this is time I'm not making isk so the accounts get tight, and also if I was mining in null I would need to transport minerals to high sec and currently I have no way of doing this which is a major problem for me too. If I was to finally move to null I think I would like to have 2-3 months worth of game time sat on each account so that I can have a buffer for the accounts when I move I can have abit of time to set up and get comfy in null before my account time starts getting scarce.

I have still one of my spare pcs that can run eve and that I used to log on the last remaining account I have and was able to use the new unified inventory and ive got to say its nothing near as bad as people on the forums are saying. Many people on the forums have said its the worst thing since Incarna (which I personally liked but needed more). People have been asking for it to be reverted and in my eyes this would be the worst thing ccp could do. The reason for this unified inventory change was to fix up old code which needed changing and this is important. A rollback is not a good idea even is a minority of the community doesnt like it this needed to happen and has happen so people need to HTFU.

Ive also seen recently this thread which shows the goons are extending hulkageddon indefinitely. Now for me who has mined for the majority of 3 years and has always mined throughout hulkageddon I don't find this as a problem but for the people who whine about this somethings wrong, the problem is that eve is dangerous and people can get blown up anywhere. At least now people don't have to worry about meta-gaming as hulkageddon is happening all the time.

Right that puts the end of today's ramblings. It may be abit hard to read as I'm sat here on my laptop listening to Lost in EVE, so Ive got to say I'm kinda distracted. All this post is about is I wanted to get some things off my chest

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Burnouts and Sov

So I have burnt myself out again, it happens atleast once a year and its not just EVE its gaming in all general, I suppose its just the fact I do play games alot and most of the time I am playing solo which leaves me getting bored of things. I will get back and start playing EVE again in few weeks after I've relaxed and listened to a few more podcasts and listened to Eve-Radio untill I get soo itchy to log in I'll just log in and spend a couple hours mining as I always do. As Rand knows it happens and I'll be back. The characters have got long skills on like Minmitar carrier 5 so its all good untill I get back and play more. So this blog in terms of what I have done is going to be short and the posts as always will be sporadic as any previous readers of this blog will know (dont think there is any).

So in other news any people who like Verites influence maps and would like to see them in motion, I have put together the maps all the way back to August 2007, in both monthly and yearly views in animated sequences. These can be seen in this link. These will be updated monthly.

Thats going to wrap it up for today as I dont know much more to add.

Monday, 23 January 2012

I folded and Crucible 1.1

So on the day before the 60 day trials expire, I caved in and created another account. This accounts going to be my second orca pilot, leaving my maxed out booster in the pos while I haul with this orca, some people may this this is a waste of an account but tbh I find the loss of boost while my current orca warps to the pos and back a large loss of isk as the roids could be out of range while the boost isn't on. This account is a minmitar meaning I have now got one character that trains from every faction. Two from Gallente them being my oldest two accounts getting onto nearly 3 years old, 3 Amarr pilots as I like their mining frigate as while they are training they will be making my isk through mining in 1.0 away from the rats, 1 Caldari mission running account who's account was opened last year but due to lack of funds was shut down fairly soon afterwards which as stated in the previous post was opened up again, and finally onto my newest account the Minmitar pilot who's ships I simply adore but I have never had a character for some reason or the other.


From the account perspective that's currently it and I don't see myself opening anymore any time soon. So yes tomorrow being patch day I'm getting all excited. As a number of the features being brought in are of a massive interest to me. So first of all ill start with the T2 mining link boost where the range boost given out by the Mining Foreman Link – Mining Laser Field Enhancement II boost being upped from 5 to 5.625% which will give me a nice range boost while I'm out mining. The next beautiful extra is the pos fuel blocks, which will make my life soo much easier fuelling the poses as I don't have to check if anybody else form the corp has put any more modules onto the pos and the pg and cpu have nothing to do with the fuel anymore which in my mind is a great addition. Moving onto the next extra is the new neocom which looks beautiful and I cant wait to get my hands on as many of the links on my neocom I barely ever use and there is others which I use on a daily basis. Ill post a screen shot of my neocom tomorrow showing exactly what I use. From my point these are the main 3 things that Crucible 1.1 is bringing to the game for me, the full patch notes can be found here.

That's all but does it for me today, something I want to start and have done bits of in the past is giving my own stance on the happening within new eden, this will not be locked to just high sec news and some people may think me being a high sec carebear that's all I know and that I think that the edge of high sec is where eve finishes, however I follow the going ones with null sec and so I will also be commenting on the news from there. Which also brings me onto a quick linky for myself but have produced a animated version of the nullsec sov maps and a link to the eve-o forum thread can be found here ( you do have to be logged into the forums to see that link). A link directly to the you tube channel can also be found on the right hand side.

Which also brings me to the end of today's post. Fly as you wish to fly.

Friday, 20 January 2012

Returning

So its been awhile since I have posted here, I've been busy working with the minecraft servers and general home life. Im on the final year before heading to uni so getting the results is extremely important.

Im back to mining in high sec, bringing in about 120 odd mill a day from mining with my two hulks and an orca, and thats been ticking over. I bought a noctis and brutix BPO to not really increase my profits but to cut down on the hauling needed. So a full load of noctises and brutixes would equal to about 1.7 bill in isk when sold to buy orders, the same amount of minerals sold on the market is about 1.5 bill however the minerals do not fit into one freighter load, they fit into 4-5 freighter loads resulting in alot more hauling and when its 23 jumps a return journey to Jita takes ages even when manualy jumping with the freighter.

Ive also took the second christmas present CCP gave us, 60 day trial codes and created two new mining accounts which brings my mining accounts to 4 and my total accounts to 6. Yep 6 last time I posted here I had just created my third account which is now in a hulk and mining away with me as good as my 3 year old miner. So in between I started a new account which now flys drakes with missiles. Both my first accounts are gallente cross trained into minmitar and all my new miners are amarr so I really wanted to find out what caldari ships and missiles are like. So that gives me a mission runner account that I can just jump on and mission if I dont feel like moving my main account to a mission hub.

So that just about wraps it up for this blog post, I am going to try and keep this up to date but if not I'll see you next time.

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Mining Mechanics Again

So after coming across this thread. https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=19440
I’ve had to complain at people attitudes to mining and its mechanics.
First of all, miners do not want Captcha added into the game, and as far as I believe neither do CCP.
"But it will stop the macroers". No it won’t all it will do is nark miners off so that they will stop mining. I for one do not want to have to sit there and do a Captcha on each one of my accounts, when I’m out mining.
"Well what about adding in a mini game". First of all where in EVE do you actually see mini games? So why do I want to have to play a mini game inside of EVE just so that I could mine the meagre minerals that I require to keep my accounts ticking over.
"So you want mining to keep being boring so you can chat... lol?" Written by Khun SP. Err yes mining is the one part of eve that I can sit there and talk with corpies while making ISK. Readers of the blog will know that I have lived in every part of EVE apart from in the drone regions, and have tried a large amount of ways to make ISK. However the only active way of making ISK that I have found that allows me to sit back and relax while talking to corpies and making friends. I have been in the same corp in one way or the other with the same guy from the start of my EVE career two years ago, because we became friends while mining.
"Any system that makes mining less favourable to multibox and more favourable for those who control one ship at a time will be a good thing for the mining profession as cutting down on the overall number of miners will boost the price of minerals thus making it a more profitable endeavour." written by Steven Fonulique. Now why would CCP want to get rid of a part of EVE that they actively endorse and give special offers for? The majority of multiboxers are miners, so if CCP was to make mining more difficult to multibox they would lose a large amount of accounts due to people dropping their extra accounts.

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Hellmar's post

It’s been a bit since my last post, I’ve been dragged away busy resetting up Minecraft servers and also been playing Wurm-online which has a strange pull which has kept me logging in for the last month. In EVE terms for me I have started a new trial account, which I will be subbing with a plex once the trial is up and the skills are trained.
So Hellmar has posted a dev blog found Here.  Although if you haven't read it where have you been. It apologises for the recent things that CCP have done and what some of the community has not liked. It also states that they have made changes to the structure of CCP, to try and fix the problems that have arisen recently with the lack of communication with the community.
What has impressed me is not the letter, I never really lost my trust in CCP, as someone who is looking at becoming a games programmer and someone who looks at the games industry from that point of view can see why CCP was doing what they were doing. They need to change to keep up with other games that are currently out there and to keep up with the games industry as a whole. The real thing that surprised me was the community. It took me till half way through page 5 till I found a post that was truly sceptical about the post and who was flaming the letter. This has brought me back from thinking that the majority of the community are complete twats, and only seem to sub to EVE to complain and whine at everything that CCP do to the game, as I have shown over the past few posts on here. Then I found the following post which reinforced my new admiration for the community of the game that I have enjoyed playing and putting my time into for the past 2 years.
Chira'Relael
#120 Posted: 2011.10.05 18:24  | 
If you community doesnt understand how his love of eve may have blinded him some then you dont deserve a CEO like him. I enjoy this game thoroughly. I dont view what he did as making mistakes, just as things that were not clarified. Im defensive about this game myself but patience is a SKILL in eve you must train :)

This sums up my views and is what really was needed in the thread to show to the people who were going to complain why they should just be quiet and stop complaining at every little thing CCP tries to do to improve this game and keep it up to date with the current MMOs out there to bring in new players to this fantastic game that I love.

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Small things

So another month rolls by and 800 million disappears from my account to keep my accounts open.
Ive been reluctant to make a new post as there’s simply been nothing much happening, I hoped to have my two new accounts open by now, but I’ve not had time to actually mine the needed minerals to pay for the extra plexs. I’ve spent a lot of my time working on little programming projects so not spent much time on eve apart from keeping my accounts open and keeping them training.
Incarna 1.1.1 was released today and I’m downloading that, but the changes it brings don’t really affect me so I’ve not much looked into what it actually fixes. Little things with the cargo hold and bits like that. My tech 3 ships are still flying backwards but I still won’t refresh my cache as I like the looks of it.
I got this blog listed on eve-blogger.com which seems to have brought some more traffic to the blog which is always nice. That site doe have a lot of great blogs listed, and some that I had never heard of before.

Now as my reader I want to give you some reason to come back and actually read my blog and pass it on to your friends to read, however I do not know what you want from me, so what I am asking is you leave a comment saying what you would like to see me doing with the blog. If you want me to start doing some fiction again I can. I did eve fiction a long time ago and never really got it posted but I could have another crack at it while mining.

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

Incarna 1.1 and Ice

So the new forums are being (re)Released, this in its own right should be good, now I did use the forums before they got took down last time and they weren’t too bad there was some glaring problems with them, which really should not have made it into the release they released but CCP did see the error in their ways after a largish security breach was found in the code.
Now I’ve had a poke around the test forums but I’m not yet sure if they have fixed the huge quotation marks that were in the last iteration, for the people who didn’t see them before these quotation marks were so large they were adding on 4 lines of space without actually adding anything into this space other than the quotation image on the left hand side. So hopefully this has been fixed to save some real estate on the screen.
They will be adding some new stuff to eve gate and making it look a bit more spiffy which should be good. Now I don’t use eve gate as a social networking site like CCP hoped I would, all I simply use it for is reading my eve mails on my phone when I'm away from my pc. This I believe is more use then most people use it, however if CCP can do it correctly then I believe that they could very possibly get it to be used how they wish it to be used.

In mining terms it’s been slow. I had my birthday yesterday so spent most of last night out with friends so no mining happened then and before that I was in Wales again so absolutely no mining has been happened since Tuesday night last week, which means in the long run I could very possibly be able to only sub one account this month which isn’t too bad as I can still mine with just one account but it does mean that I can’t have my boosts from the Orca which I still have to buy anyway so currently my second account is just training up till I can get him an Orca to sit in and increase my ISK per hour from 8-9 mill to 14 mill.
I’m also still going to get some more account’s it will just be when I can actually get the ISK in-game to buy two new plexs which hopefully at the rate I’m currently mining should be the end of this week. Now the first two account I’m going to train them into Hulk's. However what I’ve been thinking is after that with me living in high sec the roids aren’t that big and trying to multitask with more than 4 characters mining, targeting fresh roids/ emptying the cargo hold could overwhelm me so which about ice. Now I live in a system with a ice belt so it wouldn’t involve moving anywhere, the roids never pop and all the multitasking I would need to do is making sure the cargo hold was empty into the Orca and then having the hauler warping back and for emptying the Orca's hold so I would not need to warp off the Orca and lose any boost. So after 4 mining account's this could very well be the better idea until I can move to null and get my strip miners on those massive rocks.
Either way hopefully I should be opening two new accounts by next week and tripling my current ISK input within 2 months.

Sunday, 21 August 2011

Camping trips and more accounts.

So I’ve been really busy the last fortnight was running the three peaks of Yorkshire one weekend off the Wales the next week and the down to London for another week so I have had no access to a computer that could run eve, so on the blogging front there was nothing to actually say.
Well I’m back now and unfortunately due to my last fortnight of camping I wasn’t able to make any ISK but my accounts time still run out so I’ve had to sell all my minerals to cover two more plexs. So that’s my Nidhoggur minerals gone and I now need to build up my stockpiles again, which means that my plans to move to null have to be moved back while I get some more minerals. That’s one of the set back's Delve is currently not safe and won’t be for a while so I’m going to put off the move indefinitely. So I’m still going to build myself a Nidhoggur but I’m going to put it in a low sec system until I’m ready to make the move to Delve.
Well in going with an Indy persona, industrialists like to have more than one account. I have currently got two a mismatch of a character that can do most things but not well and my second account which is a perfect logy pilot/carrier pilot and is now training for command skills and the command ships. Now this is good as my main character can build and mine but mining with it doesn’t give much in terms of ISK or minerals. Now if I was to get two new accounts and solely train them to mine then my ISK per month can triple. As my carrier pilot can’t even fly a covetor there’s no real need to get him into a mining ship, however he can fly an Orca, which means boosts. He can fly a Rorqual but as I am in high sec I can't use it so it’s not an option.
So this month for the price of two plexs I’m going to be getting 4 accounts which is a blessing as I will be using the buddy program to open up the two new accounts.