4 Years, 3 Months and 7 Days

4 Years, 3 Months and 7 Days that is how long it has been since I last posted on here and geeze has a lot of things happened. I have managed to change corps 7 times moving to the drone lands to highsec back to the drone lands. Spending 3 months unsubbed due to real life and then finally moving into the Imperium into Echelon Research (ECHRE) which was at the time part of SpaceMonkeys Alliance (SMA).

 Now being part of the CFC as it was still called at the time was a nice refresh from back when I was part of the Northern Coalition (not the alliance), the fact things were run at a coalition level really well was fun. Now I have never enjoyed anything much else apart from mining, and 7 years of it I think I know it now. Being a miner as part of null sec alliance before the new sov mechanics was a hard job. People did not want you around and just made you feel like you are leaching off them (which in some aspects you are). But with the new sov mechanics more people want you around to get those ADM's up. But the CFC was still fun to be in. With the downfall of the Imperium, I stayed with my corp when we moved with SMA to the outer ring. As a miner the Outer ring had some significance to me as it is the home of Outer Ring Excavations (ORE) a NPC corporation was pretty fun for the few weeks we stuck it out. However NPC null for an alliance who have been used to full sov null for years is pretty much a death stroke.

 After leaving SMA we as a corp had a few options but we chose to go to Volition Cult (.VC.). .VC. at the time was Not Red Dont Shoot (NRDS) which is a difficult stance to stand in null sov space at the moment. This was a culture shock for our corp, not just for the fact that neutrals in local is not a bad thing but also for the fact of how laid back the alliance is for participation. For me changing to NRDS was really difficult. I have almost typed into intel channels when doing a Jita run before as I have hit high sec, it took a week or two but I go used to this. The biggest change to us as a corp was the lack of IT services. Now as one of the main guys for our corps IT backend I know how difficult it is to just get things working but .VC. had nothing. We were expecting API checks forums and API tracked out of game services, nothing of this. We just got over this and moved into Catch.

The straw that finally broke the camels back was the giving up of the constellation JZV-O6. Now this constellation had been given to VOLT from I N F A M O U S after they had closed their doors due to internet struggles. With Goonswarm Federation (CONDI) moving into Delve certain alliances were displaced, one of these alliances were League of Unaligned Master Pilots (LUMPY). Now .VC. fought well with LUMPY holding their ground and never loosing a system. But one day a directors meeting was called now as a director of ECHRE I was part of this meeting, we were told that we were giving up JZV-O6 to LUMPY, thus surrendering. Much arguments happened within this meeting, however while this was happening the directors of ECHRE were talking, we had decided to move on and look for a new home.
(Please note other things were happening with the alliance which I am not going to go into detail here)

Searching for a new home was not the easiest thing as this would have make it our third region move in less then a year. We had to make sure our next month was right for us. We started putting out feelers to alliance diplos looking for our new home. Now after years of playing and with the corp being almost 4 years old at this point many contacts and friends are made along the way. We started to talk to some of these who had joined CONDI. Now for all the people out there that are "Grr Goons" there are some great guys in Goons. One such corp is Minion Revolution (MINI3). Now MINI3 we knew from back in the SMA days so we knew they were cool guys and we could get along with them. Talks were had and we got the nod that we could join CONDI.
Now this for me was amazing news. I have always kinda admired CONDI for an alliance even if some of what they do sucks. But I was happy as this could very well be the perfect place for ECHRE.  Along with this week the Rorqual changes were announced and not long after the Engineering Complexes were also announced, both of which I will talk about in later posts.

So today finds me in Delve with CONDI and I couldn't be happier.
I started typing this up 2 days ago after talking to a long term EVE friend Randunip (who I forgot to mention I got to join ECHRE a few months ago now). With it being so long I typed a bit out and then deleted it two or three times now, eventually just getting to the point I will just spew onto the keyboard and see how it comes out.
Lets see if my next post is a lot sooner then 4 Years, 3 Months and 7 Days eh :).
Fly safe and target those Roids.

ATX Day 5 Half Way Thoughts

So were in the break for Day 5 and I've got to say there have been some great matches and some really surprising victories.

Nulli Secunda vs Black Legion I didn't manage to catch as the stream started abit earlier so no real thoughts on that match but the Nulli win will give them some good moral while their are loosing their space to Test.

HUN Reloaded vs Choke Point was a good fight and HUN winning was a def for me and that's how it turned out really the triple Vargur set up from HUN was really strong and Choke points triple Gila and Oracle set up just couldn't match the set up.

Fatal Ascension vs Agony Empire was a kind of boring fight, Fatal bringing a rush team and Agony bring a immensely heavy ECM team, Fatal was unable to lock until near the end then a sabre was able to lock up one of Agony's Griffin and finish it off.

The G0dfathers vs Dark Taboo was a fight that I for one was betting on The G0dfathers and that's how it ended up. Dark Taboo lost a cyclone early to a disconnect putting them at a immediate disadvantage. In the end The G0dfathers took a convincing win.

Mildly Intoxicated vs Alpha Volley Union was for me a weird fight Mildly Intoxicated brought a old fashion with a Minmitar rush team and Alpha brought well what seems to be their flag ship and a bunch of ships they had hanging around. The Bhaalgorn flag ship was a fail fit in itself. If you can bring officer mods and such use them don't stay on T2 and faction fit some things, flag ships for me should be a ship where you spend a chunk of your alliance wallet fitting.

Northern Coalition. vs Test Alliance Please Ignore was a great match in my eyes Test bringing dual Windicators against NC.'s dual Loki's and NC. got obliterated a early Hurricane loss from NC. really sealed their fate with the Windicators obliterating the ships one at a time. The Test pilots should however have stuck abit further from their targets with them sitting at 0 even the blasters have abit of trouble tracking.

Goonswarm Federation vs FEARLESS. was the best match I had yet seen. Goons was my favourite but for me they made a drastic mistake of not dropping the drones early enough. I can see the reason of waiting to drop them at the centre but while loosing their frigs early they really needed to drop the sentry's and get going from there but Goons definitely put up a good fight but it just wasn't good enough.

Verge of Collapse vs Capital Punishment. was a fight which I didn't know how it would play out. The Verge team with their Tengus and Capital with their Machariel and Sleipnir's but the Verge Tengu's just couldn't handle the Minmitar team and lost heavily.

And that wraps up the first half with the second half now on I will put up another post once the second half has completed.

ATX and my early thoughts

So I have been watching the Alliance Tournament vids on Youtube due to me being away both weekends and I have got to say this years final should be a good one. Alot of big names have already been knocked out and alot of the lesser known alliances are still in meaning that we could very well have a final of alliances that were barely known.
This weekend is the only weekend that I can actually watch any of the fight live so I will post again sometime this weekend with my thought of some of this weekends fights which should be good ones.

Also going to some of the complaints of people on the forums saying there shouldn't be the deal going on in local and such and that is to be honest rubbish, deals is part of this game and should happen, and as CCP does it should be endorsed as the deals are one bit of this magnificent game.

This must be the shortest post ive yet to have made. hehe

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

New fictions and old Friends

I'm still going strong and finally have my mining fleet set up, Well almost. Just got to buy 2 more hulks and it will be complete,

Soo Rand asked me the other day whether I wanted to do a colab sort of thing with him on a fan-fiction.
With him writing one post with me replying to that post from a different perspective, and I agreed, OK its all on his blog but that's fine with me, don't get many hits on this anyway and its just full of ramblings.

Will probally do one around the new inferno and I will catch up on escalation at the same time.

Well may as well add the link to Rands blog where my reply was just added.
http://harshworlds.blogspot.co.uk/

Fanfest and all the complaints

So I've been reading through General Discussion as usual, its what I do each morning. And the amount of people who have started complaining about what the Mitanni said in the Alliance Panel, which I did watch live on EVE TV, is staggering. There was one thread posted vaguely about it before the results for the CSM were posted and this I can accept some people would be bum hurt from it. However as the majority of the new threads were only posted AFTER the Mitanni was back in the chairman seat shows that the idiotic calls for his resignation about this is only for people to pull him out the seat.
Now I am not a Goon and have no intention to ever be one, however I do believe they are a very integral part of this game and their history goes back almost as far as the game does. What he said may have been wrong but everyone says wrong things while drunk. The Mitanni has publicly apologised and this I accept as being enough, there is no need to pull him off the seat as what he has done for the CSM helped this game no end.
Also another thing with these threads and many like them when people start raging, they always put that the community is not happy with this and that is completely wrong, SOME of the community is not happy with this and wants his resignation, SOME not all and this I feel everyone should get into their heads, just because some people do not post on the forums or some people do not express their intents does not mean they agree with you.

So that's my rant as I do get very annoyed with people like this and I believe this blog will be a mix of some of my PVP experiences and also my ranting as some of the community for being douches.

Unusual Occurances

So yesterday something very peculier happened. I went on a low sec roam and killed something. Now if you have read this blog before or know me ingame then you would know that I am a massive carebear. In the three years I have been playing EVE, I have only got into 4 fights before hand. Although the third time was against a noob ship. I have got to say it was exilerating specially when the so called battle hardened vet of pvp Randunip, started flapping when the guy landed. Anyway onto the report.

So Rand logged on EVE which at the current state is a rare occurance. We started chatting, but then decided to jump on TS as Rand wanted to know more about the newest dev blogs. Later he simply stated, im bored do you want to go on a cruiser roam. Now normally I would have said no but after mining and programming all day I really needed a change. So 20 minutes later and too many vulcan autocannons bought we were sat in Ordion. With the first thing on the agenda to rescue Rands Domi located 5 jumps in low sec after a botched wormhole expedition. We made the jumps and all we saw was a cyno on the way in and no cyno on the way out. This was it. So Rand got back into his cruiser and we go back into low this time actively looking for a kill. We make it back to the system the Domi was in and still nothing. We jump into the next system and theres someone in local. We decided to have a crack and see if we could locate him with D-scan. We managed to see the guy who was also in a Arbitrator a few times before Rand stated "I think hes going for the gate, you go check and I'll go the the planet." So off I go to the gate. As I land the guy jumps out into the next system. So after we go. Now after 10 minutes of trying to scan him and ending up believing he was in a safe spot. We were sat at the sun about to warp off. And low and behold what happens. The guy warps in ontop of us. Now I am no pvper but I started getting abit jumpy but remembered to stay calm or die. I carmly locked the guy put a scram on and started the autocannons. Now while I am doing this the "Seasoned pro" Rand was flustering and shouting down comms "there he is there he is". While also activating and then subsequently deactiving half his modules out of excitment. Well at this point the arby had activated his neuts and was trying to neut me. I was in a stabber so my guns kept firing. Before my cap was sucked dry and I lost scram, Rand finally came to his senses and scram and webbed him too and activated his neuts subsequently draining the guys cap. A few second later. BOOM. The guys down and I have a great day. Gf was said in local and Rand and I warped off to safe spots to wait out the counters.
After that we just jumped back to highsec and docked for the night.

All in all I have to say I see why people enjoy pvping, and I hope to be doing some more soon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

EVE Vegas

So been listening to the coverage of eve Vegas on eve-radio, and I’ve got to say that its positive stuff. Now as I am posting this I am still on the Saturday coverage and haven’t yet got to anything on Sunday but what I’ve got to say is that its positive. The fact that their saying that they will be balancing a large thing and some small things is going to be a big highlight for each patch. Now the big balance that is coming in the winter expansion is going to be the balancing of capital ships and super-capitals. Now as someone who has lived in null sec and is soon to be moving back into null sec, this is going to be a great balance. I am a carrier pilot myself, ok it is a Nidhoggur so I am the medic of the medic's I love the aesthetics of the Nidhoggur and wouldn’t want any other carrier and my main carrier. Now I would love to get into a Hel, and yes it is the worst of the Super carrier's, however it is in my eyes one of the most beautiful super carriers of the lot bar maybe the Nyx. I can fly a Hel and my Nidhoggur pilot is almost perfect in terms of a carrier pilot all I am missing is the 15 - 20 billion ISK I require to buy one. But now that I'm moving to null and in 4 days’ time I will have Capital Ships Construction 4 finished, I should be able to get myself some time with a Capital Ships Assembly Array and see if I can produce me a rusty old Hel.
Anyway back to EVE Vegas and the balancing, so this winter expansion we will have the capital ships balance, but for next year’s summer release it has been said that we will be getting a Gallente weapons rebalance. Now this also personally affects me as a Gallente player since I started eve over 2 years ago now I have always seen and heard how bad hybrids are in terms of damage, range, tracking etc. etc. However I have always stuck with Gallente ships so training tech 2 weapons was kind of a no brainer, I really only use the turrets to complement my drones, as when I’m missioning/ratting I will use my awesome space potato (the Dominix) which the main armament is the drones means that the turrets are really only there to complement them. So with the balancing of hybrids this time next year I am really looking forward to as my Kronos will become even more awesome, and the adequately nicknamed Assault Battleship (the Vindicator) will become an amazing ship to fly in both PvP and PvE.
In other words I am already loving what I have heard from EVE Vegas and I will post another blog or two if I do hear anything else that I believe would be good to type about.