A Mule in EvE

Archive for October, 2009

Hey all for those that do not know I am NOT a mission runner.  SO, I did not participate this month’s blog banter.  None the less, I like all the folks that post on this  CK and the other banter writers have some good stuff to write about!

1. CrazyKinux’s Musing – Your Mission, should you decide to accept it…
2. Zen and the Art of Internet Spaceship Maintenance – First Blood
3. The Elitist – Guristas Invasion
4. The Wandering Druid of Tranquility – …It’s another episode of Design Star: EVE Style…
5. Level Cap -Epic Battles
6. Roc’s Ramblings – The Cave of Time
7. Aether – Teach a man to fish…
8. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah – Mission: Tangled Webs
9. Adventures in Mission Running – I can haz spaceship?
10. Nuke Thoughts – EVE Blog Banter 13

I just do not run missions, doesn’t mean it is a bad way to go, just that I do not have much desire for this type of game play.

• From the CK and the Xiphos 83,  miners be on the lookout for an uber mining drone? After Dominion?
• Low security look for something called ‘Corruption’ that may come your way.

In Alt news… Jumpc Calibration level 4!  Finally I jump my Thanatos all over hell and back! Cost of everything to get into a carrier close to 1.9 B( skills plus the ship ), the ability to jump your own shit around without having to ask/beg/plead for others to do so…’Priceless’

In website news my  development site is almost done, a couple more tweaks and we will be all set to go!

sometimes the bug.

All my pleading for news on the damned sovereignty changes has apparently fallen on deaf ears in Iceland.  /heavy sigh.

in other news GREAT dev blog posted some more Dominion goodness to be coming:

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=706

Fleet finder ~ Sounds like an Awesome feature!  I have been watching the feedback on this thread for a while now so the fact that they are taking your opinions into account is well phenomenal.

Broadcast ~ These changes seem a  welcome addition although I have to hop on the test server to see how much they changed

Loot logging ~ it is about damned time.  Ever wonder who looted wreck A, who salvaged wreck b?  Who took what mod that dropped off what ship?  NOW you can know.  Holy crap!  That is just awesome.  I have never  I repeat NEVER gotten anything even close to remarkable off of any of the 250 ships that i have eliminated from the battlefield.  Ever.  Not that there wasn’t anything good there, granted I am not into loot whoring but every now and again it would be good to know that pilot x salvaged 50 t2 bits of salvage from the Titan..

There are greedy people out there, and no worries this won’t stop them what it will do is allow other people to positively KNOW what happened.  I am wondering, no hoping that Happy San loot board concept would be used.

/small rant

When in gods name will info about sovereignty be released 2 days from Dec 1?  Come on now dammit I really want to know about upgrade costs, the cost of the flag modules, how big etc…detail this shit out so that we can look at it for pete’s sake!

/end rant

I know many now involved with 0.0 could care less but you may want to know:

When POS towers are not needed in quantity, what will an industrialist who makes POS towers do?

When will component costs changes for T2 Cruisers/ Frigates/ Battle-cruisers be released…costs are important factor to alliance that build and or use these ships, hell anyone that makes T2 stuff.

When will existing alliance learn what they will get for the current sovereignty levels?  Will they get anything?  Will cyno jammers be on/off?

If people leave the 0.0 space for empire ( due to be ing upset/ need for money /whatever) you think they will mine or run missions?  They will run missions which will affect those people that engage in this activity as their only style of game play.

How will system upgrades work EXACTLY?  What upgrades will be available, precisely?

To date we have gotten the “why’s” and the “way’s” we want to do this but nothing concrete.

We have 4 weeks plus a few days till release, I wonder if other info will be coming sometime before launch?

As reported by, The Captains Log, Esoteria has seen some heavy fighting since Friday.  Not wanting to rehash it all lets go over the highlights shall we:

1. POS warfare just stinks, but until the new sov system is actually explained it is the only one we know.
2. Invasions are tough to do from the attackers point of view.
3. Fighting on multiple fronts at multiple times is never ever easy

The players involved:

• Atlas
• Red.Overlord
• Systematic Chaos
• Stain Empire
• Hellstrome Alliance
• C0ven
• -A-, (Triple A)
• Leguinae Romania
• Legiunea Romana ( sincere apologies gentlemen)

To correct the EvE Tribune ( which I do like and do read)…SyS-k provides a hell of a lot of forces to the Stainwagon group. Eve tribune does not like to mention the fact that SyS-k provided a ton of pilots to the Campaign in 49-U6U in March and again to the losses there in June.  Sys-k is part of that group and never gets identified.

We have been left out of both E:ON magazines in the last 6 months, or any mention thereof so those records needs to be set straight. Yes I am talking to you Mr. Zapatero

As discussed elsewhere the Goons attacked us for a reason.  This attack was not successfull, over this weekend several things have happened:

• Attacks in Period Basis
• Attacks in Querious
• Attacks in Delve
• Loss of the Titan to Red.Overlord ( good going fellas)
• 36 capitals lost in A1-AUH to a combined Atlas, Red.Overlord, with a sysk or two member in there
• 25 Towers were downed belonging to ZA, and Goonswarm in a span of 48 hours

Hats off to the many members of -A-, Atlas,  Red.Overlord & Leguinae Romania who have all beaten the crap out of them!  You have certainly done yeoman’s work!

Saturday ( while all this was happening) I was able to hang with The Hellcats & The Bastards and some niggling 12 yr old guy named Yugi ( no, the mule does not DISLIKE 12 yr old’s, just 12 yr old’s who like to hear themselves talk … amongst awesome conversations with the members of the blog-pack and TeaDaze ( who I falsely I.D. as a CCP guy)  Helicity Bosun was like a bear eating honey…well ok no more like a really persistent used car salesman hitting on all the hellcats !)  Keeping up with the chat was almost impossible to do as it scrolled so fast   To all involved Thanks it was a ton of FUN!

Go read The Captain log’s second entry about it!