Atlas it seems capitulated to PL as Mr. Atlas, bobby, was AFK from some reports.  Seems as if Atlas could not put up enough of a defense, I never wish Alliances poorly but some were miffed inside SyS-K that Atlas set us neutral when .-A-. did their reset, I hold no illusions, such is life.  Seems as if .-A-. will hang on a bit, I expected to see the SOV map change but it didn’t, we shall see what comes to pass.

Huge weekend for me, I added  another 20 kills or so, in various different ships, from the Minmatar Broadsword, to the Vagabond and yes. wait for it..I purchased my Revelation.  Now for those needed implants, any thoughts would be welcome as I know capacitor is life to these monstrous beasts.  We shall certainly see what we might find. Getting ready to crack 700 kills soon, boy I can remember when I had 15…

With .-A-. slightly bloodied, Atlas reeling from the surrender, who knows what will happen in the rest of the South. ROL is still around and certainly a force to be reckoned with…

Fall is a busy time in EVE to be sure people are back from vacation, plans made over the summer are kicked into high gear, lots and lots of tumult and chaos to be found. We shall handle is systematically…

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Gratz to Myxnee for joining the VETO corp along with Shae Tiann, both are excellent Pirates by reputation and hopefully will serve VETO for a distinguished amount of time.

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Anyone who feels like posting  rev fit, your welcome to do so, my Rev pilot will remain nameless for security sake but will be rounding out current training with Dreadnought to 4 and Tactical reconfiguration to 4 as well, with Jump Drive Calibration skill to 5 I will hopefully be able to take advantage of the extra range it might afford me

Not as large an update as I normally do but work is very busy ATM, so you gotta live with what I can do in shorter amounts of time.

]]> http://manasi.eveplayer.net/2010/08/going-to-be-an-interesting-fall/feed/ 6 http://manasi.eveplayer.net/2010/08/farewell-a/ http://manasi.eveplayer.net/2010/08/farewell-a/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:16:45 +0000 Manasi http://manasi.eveplayer.net/?p=2104 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.

I did not win…1st place…turns out I was in 12th place.  Respectable but hardly what I was looking for.

Ship setup:

[Stiletto, eat my dust]

250mm Light ‘Jolt’ Artillery I_2
250mm Light ‘Jolt’ Artillery I_2
Salvager I_0

Gistii B-Type 1MN Afterburner_1
Gistii B-Type 1MN MicroWarpdrive_2
Caldari Navy Small Shield Extender_2
Caldari Navy Small Shield Extender_2

Micro Auxiliary Power Core I_2
Inertia Stabilizers II_2
Domination Overdrive Injector_2

Small Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizer I_2
Small Low Friction Nozzle Joints I_2

Cost  Approximately 220 M.

The route was from Assah [Derelik Region] ->via mid point –> to Misaba [Providence] through the R3 gate.

It was a quick trip.

1st 2 jumps were bubbled. SO I overheated the MWD and got the hell out of dodge.  94 KM from the second gate was one HELL of a long way to go but at 6730 m/s it didn’t take nearly as long as I thought.

I did not notice a single other racer, all i noticed was the neutrals sitting at the gate.  I burned in a jumped.

Sadly I was NOT fit with Hyperspatial optimizer II’s,  very few things can I NOT fit and this was one of them.

plus I should have had 2 of them not just 1 ( the winner used 2)

When I hit the mid point I had a glitch. Screaming into it I was insistent ( along with some others) on knowing the next waypoint.  ( it was Misaba) I thought I added it as a way point but must have clicked away as I hit Misaba and stopped for about 3 seconds.  Realizing I did nto have the right destination left I punched in Misaaba again and hit destination while aligning to the gate and I was off screaming down the pipes.

Sigh one lil 3 second mistake,  Plus not having the extra rig  to go 21.20 AU/s…  cost me the race.  Persephone did well and should be congratulated.  Keeping your head cool while 94 KM away from a gate isn’t always easy…not to mention the Friendlies there trying to say HI.

Rixx as I expected it was Excellent fun and I had a blast doing it.  Had I picked from, my other ships I would have chosen the Rapier but I was glad with the Stiletto.  The Claw did not offer a double propulsion, so I did not go with it. Excellent fun and thanks a ton for doing it.

P.S. Moving away from the race was a bitch I got caught by a camp and lost my ship AND my training clone + implants.. I had no intel and no way home so such is life. Easy come…easy go.

With the recent completion of the 3rd installment of the Hulkageddon last month, @CyberinEVE, author of Hands Off, My Loots!, asks: “Griefing is a very big part of EVE. Ninja Salvaging, Suicide Ganking, Trolling, and Scamming are all a very large part of the game. What do you think about all these things? You can talk about one, or all…but just let us know your overall opinion on Griefing, and any recommendations you may have to change it if you think it’s needed.”

Griefing in EvE you say?

That is an interesting thought. Certainly there is some loss in EVE, but I am not sure loss = griefing.  The four items mentioned above were:

• Trolling
• Scamming
• Suicide Ganking
• Ninja Salvaging

All 4  to me are not griefing.  To me, griefing is using something against someone, that they have no defense for, or a different choice they can make to prevent it from happening.

Perhaps trolling is griefing to a point… but it is normally Out Of Game, as I know no way to Troll anyone in game.  Perhaps Alliance chat..maybe.. but I’ve got fairly thick Rhino Skin, so most insults mean very little.  Honestly even if you know me I generally do not GET insulted if you make me mad (which happens, albeit VERY infrequently) I tend to lose any anger very rapidly. Many in my corp are the same, we post extremely infrequently to any forums, except maybe our own.  SO getting trolled increases by the amount you might post on a forum, as we post very little we just do not see it.   Granted most who play EVE are older, maybe this is a case for those who try to wade through the forum.  I learned long ago that there is not much value in that cesspool.  The fact that it IS a cesspool should not be debatable.  Choices to avoid Trolling.  A) Do not use the forums b) do not use the forums or c) expect it to happen if using the forums.

Scamming is not only part of real life but also is part of the game.  You can avoid scams by  A) being patient and reading thoroughly(( many scams target the “I need it RIGHT NOW mentality”, B) being a bit cynical and not fully trusting many, C) applying a great deal of common sense. ( you really think someone will auction off that Cynabal for 9999999.99 or 999999999.99? Can you get scammed?  Of course you can, but never put all your resources in one spot.  When I was scammed by Dynasty Bank (more than 12-14 months ago) out of my money, I wasn’t happy…I did however learn that just because someone pays you once , twice or even three times on an investment doesn’t mean they cannot take it all at some point.  They certainly can.  SO no there is a defense against this called patience and  not putting all your assets in one spot.

Suicide Ganking has a defense as well, you see them(the gankers)  come in system, you dock up.  Simple as that, even better try coming to 0.0, where NO suicide ganking happens as we eliminate neutral pilots as we see them.  Choice A ) come to 0.0, Choice B) dock up, again there is a defense against them.  Economically speaking if your mining Ore in Hi-Sec space your not going to get “rich” that way.  For proper mining 0.0 is the place.  In an extremely limited point of view you may call this griefing as it hurts a pilot economically, but for gods sake there is more to the game than  mining in Hi-security space.

Ninja salvaging also has a defense, salvage as you go or get a less experienced pilot to salvage with you to split it.  Many seem to rail against someone coming in and salvaging on a ship.  They gnash their teeth like someone is stealing a baby child from a crib.  Remember this game is not for the the solo player…can they make it…sure, but the game dynamics increase your likelihood of survival 10 fold if you fly in a group.  Fly with a group or a buddy, someone to watch your 6.

Many of the items on this griefing list are unpleasant things that can happen to a pilot, 2 of these 4 happen in hi-security space ( which should tell you something) 1 I do not see in game ( although there is a ton of trolling on the forums), and if a deal is too good to be true reread it again and again.  Many of these are sometimes painful lessons that NEED to be learned. Do we want unpleasantness to happen?  Perhaps, as it seems to teach the best.  Honestly one of the chief things the Directors do in corp is try to prevent pilots from making a fatal mistake that one of us probably has already done.

I cannot give those 4 items the tag of griefing as people must learn the core lessons.

1. DO not waggle thy tongue about, it will if left to it’s own devices, get you in trouble (Trolling)
2. DO not look for the get rich quick scheme, do it the hard way and earn your money (Scamming)
3. DO not wait for the enemy to engage you before you do anything about it, protect yourself by being vigilant (Suicide Ganking)
4. Do find yourself a friend or a group you can fly with this game is dangerous enough/ hard enough to do with a group, why compound that by going solo? (Ninja Salvaging)

EvE is about cycles, creation, modification, destruction being the chief cycle.  Destruction is a key part…without it, the need to create is greatly diminished.  Not eliminated, but diminished.  The system is always in flux, from one side to another, but losing sight of even 1 of these is missing the forest looking for 1 tree.  Learn that destruction/loss does not = the end of the world as we know it.

I will link to others who blogged about this once I know they are active.

~Manasi

Just some notes:

1. I do not know who the Hi sec cop is…
2. This is yet another reason not to go to low sec ( although Mynxee is a good draw, for those brave enough to live there) Another warning to guy’s do not wear the tight “nut huggers” see middle pic for why…
3. I do not know where they came up with my name, nor do I wish to know, we are  normally very twisted( in our TS channel there is a warning that states ” if you are offended by racial slurs ( of all types) ethic slurs, potty mouthed humor, unkindness in language, or have sensitive ears ( small children) please do no come in channel, you ahve been warned” …and yes that is my photo-shopped head.   Nitro is our PvP Director, and one hell of a good pilot, and well Carl is “Don” Tremura Missing from the Picture is “gramps” Moordor, Victor “the steel hand” Gixxer , and the ever elusive “sneaky pete” Luxo. All exceptional pilots, and good people of exceptional caliber.

Yes i know not my normal stuff here but I been swamped at work.