Damn!
On my way to my own personal pvp experience I managed to run into some pirates who expertly baited me into losing my Onyx. I did nearly escape to the gate but died just short. I was both saddened and impressed, especially when the major offending pirate convo'd me shortly afterwards with his apologies for the smack talk that took place in local. I won't give away their position or their identities (especially because I enjoy them killing most of the people they are killing in that area) but I will say they were extremely professional and I don't mind losing a ship to such an outfit.
In the meantime I'm working on my isk gathering while I experiment in some facets of PVP that I'm not used to, which is really fun but also frustrating...
Also, Kirith is looking for a bit of a fight which is fun, but as for me...if at all possible I plan to show up on the side of defense rather than offense :)
23 December 2010
15 December 2010
Patch Day Blues?
I doubt it's only me but I sure as hell miss EvE in the short time we cannot have it on patch days. It's sort of like Chik-Fil-A on Sunday's. --For those that don't know Chik-Fil-A is a restaurant that we have mainly in the eastern US which is awesome but closes on Sunday's which makes it pretty much the only day I want it--
On the plus side we are getting our learning skillpoints back when we come back from the communications blackout with CCP. There has been a lot of debate about this, honestly going back to my first exposure to EvE. While I did enjoy the complexity that learning skills added to EvE it really hurts the new player experience and I must admit that I am thrilled to be getting SP back now that I know more about how to use them properly! You have to admit that having 1-3 million of your SP freed up to use any way you like is pretty darn cool.
Many older players have been upset at the attempts to improve new player experiences in EvE. I do understand where they are coming from as veterans had it much harder when they began. However, I do want to point out that if no new players join up then EvE will most likely shut down. I for one enjoy assisting new players who join our corporation and am happy to share the small amount I have learned since getting started. I think everyone will benefit from the learning skills change.
On the plus side we are getting our learning skillpoints back when we come back from the communications blackout with CCP. There has been a lot of debate about this, honestly going back to my first exposure to EvE. While I did enjoy the complexity that learning skills added to EvE it really hurts the new player experience and I must admit that I am thrilled to be getting SP back now that I know more about how to use them properly! You have to admit that having 1-3 million of your SP freed up to use any way you like is pretty darn cool.
Many older players have been upset at the attempts to improve new player experiences in EvE. I do understand where they are coming from as veterans had it much harder when they began. However, I do want to point out that if no new players join up then EvE will most likely shut down. I for one enjoy assisting new players who join our corporation and am happy to share the small amount I have learned since getting started. I think everyone will benefit from the learning skills change.
30 November 2010
Fun Month For Me
November turned out to be a pretty nice month for me. I got a few chances to put the new Rorqual to good use which I was happy for considering the price. I also had the chance to get my logistics in Empire wrapped up and settle myself fully in 0.0 again; it's just amazing how spread out you can get your stuff. On the PvP front, not a very successful month but also no major losses which makes it just fine in my book. Still it was nice to get out and have a little PvP fun again, it's been a while.
There is a lot of big news from CCP and I am absolutely thrilled that they have finally made an effort to "fix the little things" that players have been asking for. I hope they stick to this and continue to improve EvE. I am also very happy that they decided to stage Incursion instead of push out incomplete features that neither CCP or the player-base would be happy with. It really looks like the efforts of the latest CSM have paid off and I think all EvE players should be proud of that!
There is a lot of big news from CCP and I am absolutely thrilled that they have finally made an effort to "fix the little things" that players have been asking for. I hope they stick to this and continue to improve EvE. I am also very happy that they decided to stage Incursion instead of push out incomplete features that neither CCP or the player-base would be happy with. It really looks like the efforts of the latest CSM have paid off and I think all EvE players should be proud of that!
21 November 2010
Lo-Sec - yes, it sucks
I've regularly avoided entering the discussion on hi-sec, lo-sec, and null-sec and why any one is better than another. In reality there are differences that should be addressed and in my opinion CCP needs to realize that putting more "loot" in lo-sec is not going to make it any better.
To help explain this I want you to consider New Eden to be an ecosystem. With that said please imagine hi-sec to be the land ecosystem. Here a person is relatively safe from danger. Of course there are criminals here that are willing to forgo the protections of civilized society in order to damage other's property but in general they are the exception rather than the rule.
Skipping ahead a bit I would like you to imagine null-sec as the deep sea ecosystem. Here, in the deep of the sea humans are able to hide, to fight small battles at will, and to field the mighty warships that have made us great. We have flexibility here! We can establish empires here! We can take empires here if we do not like how they are run! We can hide within the depths of the sea and disappear into the dark if we must. These are the problems and the benefits of the ocean, as well as the reason so many pilots love null-sec space.
And now... just consider lo-sec to be what it really is! It is a tidewater, a break between the land and the sea that ebbs and flows. At times it is fine; a grand place to stage fleets for money making ventures. But at times it isn't so friendly; being the most unrelentingly turbulent place that can be imagined. Yes, I have already painted lo-sec space in a negative light and I won't apologize for that. In lo-sec CCP has created an area where no pilot wants to go except for those few who prey on the pilots who either: are forced to pass through or are too new to understand why it's dangerous. This area of space is more ridiculous than anything because it doesn't fit the fiction or the form of the game yet we are expected to accept it as pilots.
While this seems like a fair system because every pilot must pass through the slums of lo-sec to get to their destination; in reality it is not. Personally, I no longer pass through lo-sec with anything other than a frigate that has a cynosural field generator attached. By using Jump Freighters, or other capital ships I am able to almost completely by-pass low security space. Many alliances do this, which leaves only the singular pilot or the poorer alliances in lo-sec space.
I have heard all of the arguments ranging from "alliances as powerful as CVA started in lo-sec" to "if you don't want to be there don't go there." If you think about both of those arguments they don't hold water in my opinion. Firstly CVA did begin in lo-sec but that was a staging ground for a concerted attack on 0.0 space and (what many current pilots seem to overlook) tat happened in a time LONG before the area was truly contested. Secondly, I know many pilots who don't want to be in lo-sec. They often want to go to 0.0 where they can use their interdictors, their stealth bombers, even their frigates at full effectiveness. However in order to do so they are forced to pass through lo-sec space where they may be killed by pirates who know that those pilots are only passing through.
So what should CCP do? I know I don't have the answer, but I do know that it won't matter if they make lo-sec space rewards a 100,000,000 times greater than any other area, the drawbacks will still keep pilots out. It need much more work than a little better reward system which seems to be the plan of incursion...
To help explain this I want you to consider New Eden to be an ecosystem. With that said please imagine hi-sec to be the land ecosystem. Here a person is relatively safe from danger. Of course there are criminals here that are willing to forgo the protections of civilized society in order to damage other's property but in general they are the exception rather than the rule.
Skipping ahead a bit I would like you to imagine null-sec as the deep sea ecosystem. Here, in the deep of the sea humans are able to hide, to fight small battles at will, and to field the mighty warships that have made us great. We have flexibility here! We can establish empires here! We can take empires here if we do not like how they are run! We can hide within the depths of the sea and disappear into the dark if we must. These are the problems and the benefits of the ocean, as well as the reason so many pilots love null-sec space.
And now... just consider lo-sec to be what it really is! It is a tidewater, a break between the land and the sea that ebbs and flows. At times it is fine; a grand place to stage fleets for money making ventures. But at times it isn't so friendly; being the most unrelentingly turbulent place that can be imagined. Yes, I have already painted lo-sec space in a negative light and I won't apologize for that. In lo-sec CCP has created an area where no pilot wants to go except for those few who prey on the pilots who either: are forced to pass through or are too new to understand why it's dangerous. This area of space is more ridiculous than anything because it doesn't fit the fiction or the form of the game yet we are expected to accept it as pilots.
While this seems like a fair system because every pilot must pass through the slums of lo-sec to get to their destination; in reality it is not. Personally, I no longer pass through lo-sec with anything other than a frigate that has a cynosural field generator attached. By using Jump Freighters, or other capital ships I am able to almost completely by-pass low security space. Many alliances do this, which leaves only the singular pilot or the poorer alliances in lo-sec space.
I have heard all of the arguments ranging from "alliances as powerful as CVA started in lo-sec" to "if you don't want to be there don't go there." If you think about both of those arguments they don't hold water in my opinion. Firstly CVA did begin in lo-sec but that was a staging ground for a concerted attack on 0.0 space and (what many current pilots seem to overlook) tat happened in a time LONG before the area was truly contested. Secondly, I know many pilots who don't want to be in lo-sec. They often want to go to 0.0 where they can use their interdictors, their stealth bombers, even their frigates at full effectiveness. However in order to do so they are forced to pass through lo-sec space where they may be killed by pirates who know that those pilots are only passing through.
So what should CCP do? I know I don't have the answer, but I do know that it won't matter if they make lo-sec space rewards a 100,000,000 times greater than any other area, the drawbacks will still keep pilots out. It need much more work than a little better reward system which seems to be the plan of incursion...
16 November 2010
Fail Mail - Uh... What?
I'm not trying to steal Ga’len's awesome fail mail Friday's but I just had to share this one that I ran across. This weekend while roaming I was involved in some kills against my former alliance Fatal Ascension and while looking for those I found this.
Now to me this looks like a mining Archon which was odd enough when I first ran across it. But on closer inspection I noticed that this beauty is sporting a pair of "Large Armor Repairer II's" and a "Large Remote Armor Repair System I" instead of capital mods. Also note that the single rig is a "Large Drone Mining Augmentor I."
Eve-Kill Link:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8069519
Eft Fitting:.
Now to me this looks like a mining Archon which was odd enough when I first ran across it. But on closer inspection I noticed that this beauty is sporting a pair of "Large Armor Repairer II's" and a "Large Remote Armor Repair System I" instead of capital mods. Also note that the single rig is a "Large Drone Mining Augmentor I."
Eve-Kill Link:
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=8069519
Eft Fitting:.
[Archon, Sevano Markeen's Archon]Large Armor Repairer II
Large Armor Repairer II
Expanded Cargohold I
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Large Remote Armor Repair System I
Prototype Cloaking Device I
Drone Control Unit I
Drone Control Unit I
Drone Control Unit I
Large Drone Mining Augmentor I
Einherji x1
Einherji x1
Einherji x1
Einherji x1
Einherji x1
Einherji x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Hammerhead I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Mining Drone I x1
Templar x1
Templar x1
Vespa II x1
Vespa II x1
Vespa II x1
Vespa II x1
Warrior II x1
"
Odds and Ends
Just a quick note that I've updated the blog to reflect my new corporation in the "My EvE Life" section as well as the about me section. Also, Dashavata is currently recruiting on a limited level so head over to our forum for more details. You may contact Erbie in game if you have questions.
I have also added a section with my favorite blogs. Mainly these blogs represent the writers I enjoy the most as well as those who keep me up to date with EvE the best. I added the Dev and EvE news feeds as well for anyone who doesn't catch them as much with Capsuleer gone (ie. me).
I have also added a section with my favorite blogs. Mainly these blogs represent the writers I enjoy the most as well as those who keep me up to date with EvE the best. I added the Dev and EvE news feeds as well for anyone who doesn't catch them as much with Capsuleer gone (ie. me).
10 November 2010
EvE: Games of Chance
It's been a very busy week both in game and out but I've been blowing off a little steam with a touch of EvE Online Hold'em and far more mini lotteries at SOMER.blink than I want to admit. My streak of zero luck in EvE based games of chance is still intact and despite loving EOH I've had to pull out for a third time to avoid losing all of my ISK.
SOMER.blink on the other hand is something I really just discovered, even though I have known about it for a while. Now that I've started I don't think I can stop, but I will certainly be taking a break before I go broke. Even though I have lost 7 "blinks" this is addicting and really quite fun, so head over there and check it out if you haven't already. I believe you need to sign up via the in game browser but you can use your regular browser to play once you have registered.
SOMER.blink on the other hand is something I really just discovered, even though I have known about it for a while. Now that I've started I don't think I can stop, but I will certainly be taking a break before I go broke. Even though I have lost 7 "blinks" this is addicting and really quite fun, so head over there and check it out if you haven't already. I believe you need to sign up via the in game browser but you can use your regular browser to play once you have registered.
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