I'm Stealing This Post

  Poking around the web today I noticed that Wensley over at Rifter Drifter has posted a nice primer on current 0.0 politics.  If you are new to 0.0 or getting back into it after an absence I would give it a read.  He has promised to add an update on the conflicts which seem to be taking place all over New Eden these days, which I look forward to.  With CVA, the Goons, and AAA (and friends) fighting in the south and NC and others fighting in the north it is clear that Dominion has stirred the embers of 0.0.  It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out in the coming weeks (or months).

It's always sunny in Venal

  Last night saw my first participation in our effort to make headway into the north. Right now we are operating under very strict engagement parameters because we are hunting reds/neutrals while the pilots we have set to "blue" would be happy to give us a free ride out of their space. Therefore we must be very careful to keep an eye on local and listen to the FC. Thankfully we have some very good FC's as well as capable fleet participants.

  In light of the fleet makeup I decided this would be a perfect time to let the new character sprout his wings and fly. So I undocked him for the first time, set a course for one of our offices, and signed up for the corp. Barely two hours after his first undocking exercise the new fella had scored himself the kill-mail on a pod kill; good start.

Sorry: Hulkageddon Post

I knew it was a matter of time before I made a Hulkageddon post.  As much as I want to keep my little mining ship alive, this is a great thing.  Player events like this are too rare a sight.  Hats off to Helicity and Hulkageddon.

In what I like to consider a small jab at the gankers the AU-F miners took the roid fields on the inaugural night of Hulkageddon.  I would like to give a big thanks to our tactical guys for providing a combat presence just in case.  Thankfully it wasn't needed as either the combat pilots scared off the gankers or they didn't want to bother with us.  Either way I'm happy to report that we were able to have a nice op and get some new players experienced in a mixed fleet.  The threat of danger made this a very nice practice op for null-sec mining for the new members.

Good luck to the Hulkageddon crew, but I am keeping my mining lasers safely tucked away for a little while.



Edit:  For crying out loud people, at least don't make it this easy: http://hulkageddon2.griefwatch.net/?p=engagement&kill=659

Making the Blogrolls

Escape Velocity has made the list covered by EvE Bloggers and I'm excited about that.  There are a lot of good bloggers I read on that list and I hope to do as well as them.

Word of the Day

No, I'm doing a word of the day.  However, this morning when I got to work (half an hour late) I popped open my email and my friendly word of the day from the folks at Merriam-Webster is "myrmidon." 


 I've always enjoyed CCP's effort in coming up with names; ship names in particular.  It turns out that myrmidon means :

a loyal follower; especially : a subordinate who executes orders unquestioningly or unscrupulously

 I hope I don't look like an idiot here but I didn't know that one.

 This is a clearly a perfect name for one of my favorite ships.  It's no secret that this baby loves drones and most Myrmidon pilots will use them religiously.  Of course I don't think my drones always get the "unquestioningly" part as they often take off on their own, but I still love them.

Tell me this doesn't work

While delivering various and assundry goods I happened to read this little blurb in local in one of the systems I passed through:

Jehosh Farrfury: In my wallet is 12 bill isk, send me any amount you like, and then in less than 10 seconds your wallet will contain 5x the amount you actually sent me! Yes, so if you sent me 10m, you will have 50m sent back, Guaranteed!

I had thought I'd seen the last of these when I was done with rookie chat.

Now, EvE is a cutthroat game with scams everywhere you look but this is just plain lazy to me.  I truly hope this doesn't work on people or my faith in humanity may suffer.

New Year, Big Happenings

  With the New Year coming AU-F is making some big moves which are pretty exciting. The alliance guys are making a move to NPC null-sec in an effort to carve out a little living space, while a good chunk of the corp is relocating to Caldari space. The move is meant to help us in a few ways, chiefly in getting the membership back into a general area and reunited after becoming largely disjointed over the past few months. The main reason for this is the increased activity in Providence recently which has made everyday life in the area rather hard.

  It is clear from our discussions that everyone in AU-F has the utmost respect for CVA and what they have done in Providence. However the NRDS policy has made it increasingly tougher to survive. The big change has been a large influx of hostile neutral players looking for easy targets. This is particularly difficult situation for players like me because we are stuck between a rock and a hard place in Providence. If I suspect a neutral to have hostile intentions I cannot act to prevent them by relieving him of his ship and giving him a fast ride home. I also cannot launch my mining ship to tear apart those asteroids because I know that neutral is looking for an easy Hulk kill. With that being said Providence has been good to me in giving me a place to really sink my teeth into null-sec game play. From managing POS’s to blowing up other players Providence has taught me a lot. While many of us feel we need to take a break from the area this respect for CVA and Providence is what prompted the decision to venture into Caldari space; where we should be able to avoid aligning to reds of CVA.

  So for now I will be working on moving my collection of random junk and grinding standings when time allows.

*As an interesting aside I have discovered that unpackaged ships can be carried in a freighter when setup as a courier contract.  I was under the impression this was not true but am happy to be proven wrong!