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Yes indeed, after quite a few months recruiting ( aside from some in the pipeline)  we are shutting recruiting down. All the folks that were interested or curious, thanks for your time.  I hope the Hotel elsewhere has some vacancies

Some good fights recently specifically Friday night and Monday night.  I was out of game on Friday and Saturday. SO far we have pounded into Dust the Drake/ RR Scimitar fleets overcoming the Alpha of 10-15 Tempests is very tough to do.

Looking at the influence map does indeed show a new corp arising from Atlas it woudl seem. White Noise it would seem, has a reconstituted Atlas..  I have zero contacts within Atlas, so we shall see what comes to pass with them.

I was remiss last week with commenting on other people’s blogs so for that I do offer a humble apology, normally I try to peruse some and see if any new ideas spring to life.

I would like to offer, for your consideration whether or not to faction fit a Dread.  As long as the modules are not too costly I do not see the need to actively avoid it, but was wondering what the consensus was out there?

• One camp ( the one I am leaning to right now) says there are no amount of modules that will prevent it (a Dread) from being blown to pieces by a POS gunner/ or any Enemy Fleet if they feel like engaging it.
• The other camp is one of try as best possible to protect the largest most expensive ship I own from dieing.

Hopefully losing it will not be a result of it’s maiden voyage but meh…do not fly what your not willing to lose. No risk , no rewards, no guts no glory and all that

broke 700 kills with manasi, something I have been striving to do for a very long time.  With greater responsibilities within the Alliance and the Corp my playtime has certainly taken a major hit, and things slowed very much this summer, but enough about that…

Oh and for you other Alliance folks do you maintain a “black” list, a list of people that are unwelcome not wanted etc within your Alliance/ Corporation?  Just curious.

TC and Good Hunting…

~manasi

SO it seems that Triple A .-A-. has fallen on some hard times.  Since the beginning of August they have lost 5 corps :

	Dark Knights of Deneb	DKOD		26
	Ausbruch	NIXOT		11
	0utbreak	TOXIN		123
	Military Arena Combat Evolution	MACEM		5
	Rionnag Alba	R A		164
	Body Count Inc.	BDCI		206

At about the beginning of the month their main leader stepped down I believe.

Having flown a great deal with -A- I was dismayed a bit when they set SyS-K to neutral a few months back and sided with C0ven and Stain empire against us. We had done a HUGE amount of rapid response style fighting for them over the years and it felt like a stab in the back to be honest. None the less they had some good pilots amongst them so I could not loathe them nearly like I do c0ven or SE. ( I say loathe in the in-game sense as if I met anyone else who played EVE i’d buy em a drink )

They have also transferred ownership of at least 26 stations.  Needless to say I do not know if .-A-. will be around or not but I can only wish em well and hope they pull it together!

On another note my provider (Lonetrek) has switched hands.  The guy who owned it lost his job and he was good bloke so I stepped up and tried to send some business his way, turns out he needed a real job ( doesn’t everyone wish they could live  the life of a ISP owner?..I do not   Still I will miss ya bro and can only wish you the best in your future endeavors.)

In game I would counsel EVERY corp to do background checks on people.  I have had some dealings of late with Corps that just “take all comers” those corps are destined to fail in huge way.  I can recommend the accVIEW website as one such tool. http://accview.mmmetrics.co.uk/

No it is not the only tool for sure.  Directors/ CEO’s can list out their own corp members/locations etc from the API…it can be a useful tool.

Hey all just thought I’d echo what few others said about the CCP dev blogs, go check em out as they are actually answering questions and such.

Yes they do not know what the exact problem is, but they are trying to work on it.  Hell at least they are trying to do something.

There is a way to actually view only the dev responses to the forums, it is done ina simple easy RSS feed, which I can honestly say, kicks ass.  I do care what other players write about…BUT I really care on what the Dev’s write.  The RSS feed I use is quite useful for that, I am looking at how to share that feed out.

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Corp recruitment has gone fairly well, although there are some unusual trends I have seen.

• People have a hard time with 10M to 15 Skill Point requirement.
• Still people do not train interceptors
• Players are STILL afraid to lose ships
• Players once they join are nervous about actually asking questions.
• Some people wont give API keys out.

Skill Points: This is a direct measure of three things, their commitment to the game, their newness versus someone who is creating and alt, and lastly the ability to actually help our corp.  We fly interceptors, battleships with T2 Large Rails/Beams/Projectiles, and Heavy Assault Cruisers ( also with T2 weaponry.  Having 10-15M SP shows us that a pilot knows how to plan, has the mental fortitude, and the maturity to stay the course.

Interceptors teach people via loss, close combat and hones the ever present desire for people that know how to properly “point’ a ship.  They are relatively easy to replace, and in fleets the longer ranged “points” are especially useful.

As mentioned above people are stuck in the mindset that losing ships in and of itself is a failure.  Yes needlessly losing your ship is not a good tactic, but being able to commit to a fight ( realizing you’ll probably lose your ship), and yet still commit to a fight anyways is critical. There is more to EVE combat that just your single ship, by all means use whatever tactic you can to survive and come back and do it over again but I’d rather lose 1 interceptor that say, one damnation command ship.

For some reason , perhaps it is the snarky comments , perhaps the ” I do not want to look like an idiot, or I do not want to be called a “noob”, people seem unwilling to ask questions while in corp chat.  Hell I’d rather you ask in corp chat, and a few laugh than ask in fleet voice coms, “umm what’s a point?”.  We who have been in this game can remember what it is like hop in a ship and NOT know the answer to something.

If you will not give out your API key ( for validation mind you) do not even bother to join an Corporation/ Alliance.  Most want to at least be diligent about protection both Corp and Alliance assets ( this includes making sure no blatant spies abound) no you cannot protect against all, but you can be diligent and make sure those you let in are at least smart enough to have spies on a  different account.

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Thanks for the nice comments about my rig at home for gaming.  Makes me feel good that I could put the whole thing together for about $900.

Yes, it was originally for a flight sim setup comzik, I just bought it for the extra screen real estate it allows…Yes I did buy it from my buddy for $100( it is nice to have friends).  Mynxee no need to be jealous I don’t have kids and I am the only mule, so you must have done alright . Crazykinux, also no need to be jealous you have what 3 clones now?  Sheesh  man only has so much time bro

I do not normally talk about OS’s etc but the following works VERY well:

• Windows 7 64 bit FTW baby
• 6 GB of DDR3 RAM,
• 2 500 GB 7200 RPM caviar Black  hard drive ( striped for speed), and now
• 4 monitors soon I will control all the silo’s, umm I mean soon i will watch less pr0n, nvm that for now.

Good Hunting.