A Mule in EvE

SO things have really heated up, VERY quickly.

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.

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.

Deathrace 2010 was held over this last weekend.  What a really fun event.  Gratz to Rixx Javixx I had a blast!  OK so I did not Die…rule number 1 …..survive. Check.

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.