Y115.01.24
Well, after a great WH enabled roam and finding an ex bloc FC to pagger with, I realised that I don’t understand the logoffski. One Cane & pod later though, I do. The engagement thing in the top left corner is red, bold and conspicuous for a reason and the reason is you can’t log off while it still there. Ah well, only 90mil down.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the straw that broke the camels back and I have made good on my recent promise [and the corp MOTD] to do some missions and help fill both my and the corp wallets. I have even trained some carebear skills to get that Navy Apoc in the LP store a bit sooner. So I JC back to hisec to find a bloody incursion going down in the constellation, with all the shield / damage / etc penalties that brings. Least I have a L4 agent a few jumps out, though for a different corporation, so although there’s no movement on the Navy Apoc front, it is the corp I get my implants from so not totally wasted. And still Amarr or something.
And you know what? I’m actually enjoying doing my own thing and not listening to comms so much that I’m going to take a week or two off null and play solo.
So how does this new NPC AI work then? Ah, 2 drones down. To BS’s? Blimey. And how long has the Noctis had a drone bay? Ah, salvage drones – best get some of them, too. And chuck some ammo in the cooker and haul it to my temporary mission hub while that arms dealing, abducting, Caldari scum Sansha Kuvakei gets his arse handed to him on a plate. What I should do really is x up for the incursion fleets, but that is listening on comms again and I can’t be bothered. I am not a number, I am free man, etc.
Training
Well sod AWU V for now, it’s Salvage Drone operation to III, then maybe Large AC’s Spec to IV. Maybe even Negotiation V.
Fly safe
o7
Thursday 24 January 2013
Monday 21 January 2013
The harpoons, man them
Y115.01.20
As the New Year begins, updating the GFX driver fails to improve the 30 FPS when zoomed out in empty space and the lust for a 17” i7 laptop reaches the vinegar stroke, I find that corp is quiet, presumably as folk recover from their festive excesses and resume the daily grind EVE normally lets us escape. I have taken it upon myself as Recruitment Director to annoy RL mates until they come in. The annual Christmas D&D [which turned out to be Risk] Leo Sayer provided a chance encounter with someone who may be game – I’d not give him the keys to the hangar though.
Nurse! Me pills!
Logi is indeed the new DPS for me. Well, I tell myself that to provide valuable succour in the new style armour fleets I seem to find myself in and at least Amarr Cruiser V wasn’t wasted entirely. It’s not armour that’s the problem [Faillente, see], it’s T2 weapons to make them work properly – I fell into the AC Cane / HML Drake trap and failed to act when they were nerfed. Yes, I admit it, I neglected lazors & hybrids. /me beats self with birch – thank you Sir may I have another.
Logi - it’s a bloody nightmare juggling 40 squillion windows on a laggy old piece of shit 15” 4:3 screen at 10FPS while listening to the FC, clicking the porn links in chat channels, keeping the logi cap chain together, prelocking who needs prelocked [and corpies, of course] and occasionally even repping someone. And then the fleet warps to a jump bridge that isn’t in locations and you have to find it.
So, just a quick skill up to Med T2 lazors to get out of logi in this new armour doctrine, plug into EFT and bang – down to earth with a bump – the fit needs AWU V or a bonkers ISK EG implant. Dang. So, 19 days to AWU V? THREE MORE WEEKS OF LOGI??? No thanks, I’ll plug in Med T2 blasters and that’s only 10 days.
However, as I realised when I stopped kicking the Augoror’s ships cat, just a simple rig change from doctrine [shhhh, don’t tell the mad Dutchman or the CEO] still gives me more gank & tank than an armour Ruppie and in a glorious Amarr ship - no hippy slave / cheese-eating surrender monkey / missile chucking capitalist nonsense here. So I’ve bought one of the Empires finest and it’s roam Monday – x for fleet! When I’ve JC’d and bought the right rig, that is.
So what do I do now – continue with Med Hybrid V or AWU V? AWU V of course – AMARR VICTOR!!1!
Hello. Goodbye.
A new corp joined alliance and provided a much needed and KB green US TZ presence which made the CEO happy, not having to hang with us limeys so much. Then they left again. Ah well – he will have to put up with our colonial jokes a while longer. Least one of our US pilots has come back to corp. When he gets off his xbox, that is. It is rumoured he petitioned CCP to have Jita renamed after him. It wasn’t.
Training
AWU V. And I’ve finally worked out that now alty boy can fly all Indys and has good trade skills for selling all the mission loot from the missions I never get time to do anymore, he needs to max his PI, get a JC & blockade runner in null and start generating his little brother some money. Like a bitch.
Fly safe and yes, it’s ARMOUR. With a U.
o7
As the New Year begins, updating the GFX driver fails to improve the 30 FPS when zoomed out in empty space and the lust for a 17” i7 laptop reaches the vinegar stroke, I find that corp is quiet, presumably as folk recover from their festive excesses and resume the daily grind EVE normally lets us escape. I have taken it upon myself as Recruitment Director to annoy RL mates until they come in. The annual Christmas D&D [which turned out to be Risk] Leo Sayer provided a chance encounter with someone who may be game – I’d not give him the keys to the hangar though.
Nurse! Me pills!
Logi is indeed the new DPS for me. Well, I tell myself that to provide valuable succour in the new style armour fleets I seem to find myself in and at least Amarr Cruiser V wasn’t wasted entirely. It’s not armour that’s the problem [Faillente, see], it’s T2 weapons to make them work properly – I fell into the AC Cane / HML Drake trap and failed to act when they were nerfed. Yes, I admit it, I neglected lazors & hybrids. /me beats self with birch – thank you Sir may I have another.
Logi - it’s a bloody nightmare juggling 40 squillion windows on a laggy old piece of shit 15” 4:3 screen at 10FPS while listening to the FC, clicking the porn links in chat channels, keeping the logi cap chain together, prelocking who needs prelocked [and corpies, of course] and occasionally even repping someone. And then the fleet warps to a jump bridge that isn’t in locations and you have to find it.
So, just a quick skill up to Med T2 lazors to get out of logi in this new armour doctrine, plug into EFT and bang – down to earth with a bump – the fit needs AWU V or a bonkers ISK EG implant. Dang. So, 19 days to AWU V? THREE MORE WEEKS OF LOGI??? No thanks, I’ll plug in Med T2 blasters and that’s only 10 days.
However, as I realised when I stopped kicking the Augoror’s ships cat, just a simple rig change from doctrine [shhhh, don’t tell the mad Dutchman or the CEO] still gives me more gank & tank than an armour Ruppie and in a glorious Amarr ship - no hippy slave / cheese-eating surrender monkey / missile chucking capitalist nonsense here. So I’ve bought one of the Empires finest and it’s roam Monday – x for fleet! When I’ve JC’d and bought the right rig, that is.
So what do I do now – continue with Med Hybrid V or AWU V? AWU V of course – AMARR VICTOR!!1!
Hello. Goodbye.
A new corp joined alliance and provided a much needed and KB green US TZ presence which made the CEO happy, not having to hang with us limeys so much. Then they left again. Ah well – he will have to put up with our colonial jokes a while longer. Least one of our US pilots has come back to corp. When he gets off his xbox, that is. It is rumoured he petitioned CCP to have Jita renamed after him. It wasn’t.
Training
AWU V. And I’ve finally worked out that now alty boy can fly all Indys and has good trade skills for selling all the mission loot from the missions I never get time to do anymore, he needs to max his PI, get a JC & blockade runner in null and start generating his little brother some money. Like a bitch.
Fly safe and yes, it’s ARMOUR. With a U.
o7
Friday 4 January 2013
Y114 Round up
Y115.01.04
Well, what a busy year. The last 7 months has seen me move from carebear to PVP’er and I am now really only in hisec when I have >24h off EVE, and then mostly logged off in station until I log back in & JC out to null again. Really need to train some social skills & grind for a bit though. Maybe I will take January off PVP. Lol.
I have added Logi, ‘Ceptors, Recon, Caldari, Amarr, the first T2 guns, the first missiles, lost my first proper shiny to a mission and am no longer limited to being a DPS grunt in fleets - it’s good fun though. Hell, I have even trained some Gallente stuff, got PI working in null and given ISK to noobs. I have been promoted to a corp director and seemed to have gained the reputation I long ago had in D&D, of being Carol Vorderman.
Low points have been a miserable failure to get any RL mates into EVE [though a bloke from the work IT dept tried it for a couple of weeks] and something else I can’t quite put my finger on – ah yes – I don’t think anyone actually reads this blog.
Highlights have been being on 1st PVP killmail / top damage / final blow, seeing a Titan for the first time, hearing the noise of a jump bridge, the rush of a 24 jump ‘tactical redeployment’ from a dead end pocket through hostile space, my 1st cap kill, helping drag the corp KB stats up from 50% to 80% after some heinous losses, getting 100 kills, losing >1 bil of ships, causing fires, dying in fires, saving the pod, spending Brobdingnagian quantities of ISK on shit, but most all hanging out, fighting, repping, bumping and laughing with those folk I am honoured to call my corp and alliance mates – I salute you all.
Fly safe, brothers and sisters.
o7
Well, what a busy year. The last 7 months has seen me move from carebear to PVP’er and I am now really only in hisec when I have >24h off EVE, and then mostly logged off in station until I log back in & JC out to null again. Really need to train some social skills & grind for a bit though. Maybe I will take January off PVP. Lol.
I have added Logi, ‘Ceptors, Recon, Caldari, Amarr, the first T2 guns, the first missiles, lost my first proper shiny to a mission and am no longer limited to being a DPS grunt in fleets - it’s good fun though. Hell, I have even trained some Gallente stuff, got PI working in null and given ISK to noobs. I have been promoted to a corp director and seemed to have gained the reputation I long ago had in D&D, of being Carol Vorderman.
Low points have been a miserable failure to get any RL mates into EVE [though a bloke from the work IT dept tried it for a couple of weeks] and something else I can’t quite put my finger on – ah yes – I don’t think anyone actually reads this blog.
Highlights have been being on 1st PVP killmail / top damage / final blow, seeing a Titan for the first time, hearing the noise of a jump bridge, the rush of a 24 jump ‘tactical redeployment’ from a dead end pocket through hostile space, my 1st cap kill, helping drag the corp KB stats up from 50% to 80% after some heinous losses, getting 100 kills, losing >1 bil of ships, causing fires, dying in fires, saving the pod, spending Brobdingnagian quantities of ISK on shit, but most all hanging out, fighting, repping, bumping and laughing with those folk I am honoured to call my corp and alliance mates – I salute you all.
Fly safe, brothers and sisters.
o7
Wednesday 2 January 2013
The Skillnaught
Y114.12.06
Retribution
Well, that wasn’t so bad. Some chat issues where on log in, the channels opened up sequentially about 5 minutes apart and then I couldn’t switch channels until the member list had loaded for the current channel, the usual black screen on undocking – nothing that a good old cache clearance didn’t fix.
Some weird fucked up thing on the skill queue training times though – I JC’d from empty PVP clone to Gucci clone [and then a CTA went up – grrrr] and the training time went up – whafu? This only happened on the skill actually training though – the others showed the correct time. Maybe I’ll bug report it and get a free PLEX or something. Loooooool. Maybe not.
Out and about
Certainly a bunch of people in corp & alliance had worse issues and the planned op was cancelled. Corpie asked if I wanted to do something, so we shipped to the old favourites for one last ‘BC of old’ fling. This was a big thing for me as it was the first time I had been out and about just tooling around null without being in a formal fleet. I was in good hands though – he was FC’ing from the womb and knows EVE far better than I. After he realised I had more raw EHP, I was first to jump in system which was a great learning experience.
Seeing all the empty space, I guess a whole bunch of other people were having worse post-patch problems than us. Roaming to the usual high activity areas we saw nothing, so sat on a gate for a while with some blues and got a random red into structure before he jumped. I say we – I had me corpie locked to check out the new targeting graphics and he ended up with a volley of the Caldari Navy‘s finest. Sorry mate. Still, no hard feelings – he bought me 2 armour hardeners I needed from another system. I love this corp.
With nothing pinging in intel, I took us into some more local space, but again no dice until a red Talos showed up 70km off the gate. We ummed & ahhed a bit, then a blue Falcon jumps in resulting in this little gem from the red –
[21:22:26] [red] > retards
[21:23:09] [red] > you can fuck yourself with that falcon
Priceless, but fair comment, so we went and did a complex corpie had scanned down earlier, which was the first real test for the ratting ‘Pest – you gotta love perma run LAR fits.
Fitting
All these new ships and no idea what to put in them. As I am an EFT man and also impatient, so as it was not updated IMMEDIATELY [sorry Gripen, it’s great work you do for the community], I’ll give PYFA a go. Then I can buy and lose some new ships without any derisory remarks about my fittings.
All the new things
So a few new skills released this patch, I still hadn’t bothered with those from the last patch and Aura shows a whole bunch of green ticks that I might be interested in at least injecting and level 1or 2 ing. This means only one thing – NEED NEW SPREADSHEET!!1!!! So, I now have 30-odd skillbooks to buy and inject, but when alliance / bloc calls for something, the chances are I can probably fly it. Badly, but at least it shows willing.
Training
Just level 1’d a few things I had injected but not started, now 1 ½ days to Science V, buy and start 30 little-uns as described above and back on track for well, dunno yet. Amarr BS & lazors? Caldari BS? Recons?
Fly safe
o7
Y115.01.02 EDIT: I never posted this for some reason, so here's the update -
Training skill glitch was indeed a glitch and those affected were reimbursed the 75k SP they probably lost.
Never bothered with PYFA as Gripen rules the world.
All the new skills injected and trained to at least 3, some more.
o7
Retribution
Well, that wasn’t so bad. Some chat issues where on log in, the channels opened up sequentially about 5 minutes apart and then I couldn’t switch channels until the member list had loaded for the current channel, the usual black screen on undocking – nothing that a good old cache clearance didn’t fix.
Some weird fucked up thing on the skill queue training times though – I JC’d from empty PVP clone to Gucci clone [and then a CTA went up – grrrr] and the training time went up – whafu? This only happened on the skill actually training though – the others showed the correct time. Maybe I’ll bug report it and get a free PLEX or something. Loooooool. Maybe not.
Out and about
Certainly a bunch of people in corp & alliance had worse issues and the planned op was cancelled. Corpie asked if I wanted to do something, so we shipped to the old favourites for one last ‘BC of old’ fling. This was a big thing for me as it was the first time I had been out and about just tooling around null without being in a formal fleet. I was in good hands though – he was FC’ing from the womb and knows EVE far better than I. After he realised I had more raw EHP, I was first to jump in system which was a great learning experience.
Seeing all the empty space, I guess a whole bunch of other people were having worse post-patch problems than us. Roaming to the usual high activity areas we saw nothing, so sat on a gate for a while with some blues and got a random red into structure before he jumped. I say we – I had me corpie locked to check out the new targeting graphics and he ended up with a volley of the Caldari Navy‘s finest. Sorry mate. Still, no hard feelings – he bought me 2 armour hardeners I needed from another system. I love this corp.
With nothing pinging in intel, I took us into some more local space, but again no dice until a red Talos showed up 70km off the gate. We ummed & ahhed a bit, then a blue Falcon jumps in resulting in this little gem from the red –
[21:22:26] [red] > retards
[21:23:09] [red] > you can fuck yourself with that falcon
Priceless, but fair comment, so we went and did a complex corpie had scanned down earlier, which was the first real test for the ratting ‘Pest – you gotta love perma run LAR fits.
Fitting
All these new ships and no idea what to put in them. As I am an EFT man and also impatient, so as it was not updated IMMEDIATELY [sorry Gripen, it’s great work you do for the community], I’ll give PYFA a go. Then I can buy and lose some new ships without any derisory remarks about my fittings.
All the new things
So a few new skills released this patch, I still hadn’t bothered with those from the last patch and Aura shows a whole bunch of green ticks that I might be interested in at least injecting and level 1or 2 ing. This means only one thing – NEED NEW SPREADSHEET!!1!!! So, I now have 30-odd skillbooks to buy and inject, but when alliance / bloc calls for something, the chances are I can probably fly it. Badly, but at least it shows willing.
Training
Just level 1’d a few things I had injected but not started, now 1 ½ days to Science V, buy and start 30 little-uns as described above and back on track for well, dunno yet. Amarr BS & lazors? Caldari BS? Recons?
Fly safe
o7
Y115.01.02 EDIT: I never posted this for some reason, so here's the update -
Training skill glitch was indeed a glitch and those affected were reimbursed the 75k SP they probably lost.
Never bothered with PYFA as Gripen rules the world.
All the new skills injected and trained to at least 3, some more.
o7
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