Oh wait...I forgot to blog...

Now that the holidays are here and work has slowed to a standstill. I can take a breather and get back to non-essential tasks. rehash #20197 Life is busy!

Eve wise I used to have 10+ hours 5 days a week in which I could semi-afk play EvE. Now with the new RL job and such I get about 4 scattered hours of interactive play time a week. This means I'll more than likely fall back on manufacturing and trade for a bit. Yes yes, becoming another semi retired EvE blogger.

The "Industrial DeResolution" wormhole corp. I founded continues to do well. Having recently picked up 10 new members and a C3. We are chugging along like crazy which is awesome considering I as the CEO am mostly offline. Fortunately the Directors and mates are keeping it moving. One such director "Chromite" from South Africa is being himself and trying to conquer all of EvE through industry. The other directors are just blowing stuff up which is just fine.

I still have the C1 which is kind of my holiday WH now. Mostly for the PI and the quiet now. I might do some light T2 material refining in there and keep the sites worked as I get 30 mins here and there to focus. I sold my RHEA and Carrier a while back. Might be time to rebuild both for grins. Zomb can now fly Minnie Dreads as well.

I still need to check out the new toys from the winter expansion. New mining frigate looks like fun. My vagabond got it's new nifty frill (hats of to Rixx Javix and the frill seekers). New destroyers and such etc. Now I have a safety to stop me from being stupid in Empire (lolz) and can flippers can get shot at by all apparently. Oh when I click stuff the camera shifts to it now. OH and I cannot seem to find the jukebox anymore?

Either way. Still out here and I'll blog now and then.

Cheers

EVE SOB

All dressed up...Still no place to go! :(

It's been over a year now since Incarna was released in June of 2011. Introducing walk in stations as a new feature. With all the controversy around micro transaction and honestly the release lacking any true value to the game. Most people simply turn off captains quarters and well go about there day in spaceships as if nothing ever happened.

Since Incarna we have had these gorgeous new avatars that can be customized and tailored to fit pretty much any PG-13 image one wants to fly around space. We were also given head to toe clothing to don which was cool but pointless because people could at best see a head and shoulders. Many worked the angles and cameras to include some more "goods" in there portraits. I forget the exact patch in the last year when the e-perv full body view feature was released. It finally gave anyone the ability to see what we saw when strutting about our CQs, well assuming it meets the co-eq requirements to wear a shirt and pants. The games T for teen and we can see floating naked frozen corpses, but heaven forbid if some one undocks with out SHOES!!!

Yet still there is a limited application to all this eye candy. Niffty Jiggles here was built to strut and dressed in her leather Officers outfit is in the prime of her social life. She should be frequenting the bars and officers lounges in Caldari Stations. She should be able to use her "assets" to advance her career and gain advantages over her peers. Yet for the last year when she steps away from the mirror and to the door she is greeted with the same message "Station atmosphere not yet decontaminated for capsuleer consumption." The same she has seen every damn time she has pressed that button in her capsuleer life. Honestly it pisses her off that she can undock and be one with her spaceship, get blown to bits and wake up in a med bay light years away. Yet the brilliant minds of New Eden cannot allow her to walk and breathe clean air outside of her little room. Every damn time she walks out to look at her Raven, she wonders how it is she is standing on an open air balcony and YET she can breathe the air.

With DUST looming and in Beta the military application of two legs VS a meat suit in a pod is painting a stark reality. Folks can wander about and shoot at each other down on the dirty planets. The fictional propaganda videos dramatize an attractive woman executing payback to a double crossing orbital commander who nuked the ground forces he hired. Ya know, she walks up behind the dude and points her pistol at him. Psft, yeah right. Like THAT shit is ever gonna happen! It might be fun and well there have been some station campers over the years I'd love to walk up to and shoot them in the head. Especially now implants costs are in pod kill mails. Heck I'd even be happy with the ability to flip them off or moon them from my open air balcony.

The bottom line is CCP has given us this thing. Stacked a failed micro transaction business on it. And yet we really don't have anything to use it for today or in the future. Yoda perhaps said it best "DO or DO NOT! There is no try!" While I love my spaceships and the current focus on spaceships. This Incarna crap should either be developed into something useful or scrapped all together. Shit at least let them run and jump and bounce and jiggle next patch. Perhaps make them walk right and not take awkward scissor steps when they cannot quite figure out if they are on that EXACT spot you just clicked. I mean how hard is it to build a bloody corridor and a common area and let people wander about?

OK off to sit on my sofa and entertain myself. Heck I might just go poke around the Worm Hole for kicks.

Cheers

EVE SOB

W-Space...

So for a little over a month or so now I've been living in a C1 wormhole. Our Small corporation is doing pretty well and while our kill board reflects some teething problems. I am happy with K11:D19 for now as some are cheap shots at IBIS that we jettisoned from and others are just lessons in WH life. We are also new at PvP and well Drakes aint always awesome.The lads and I are working on fixing all that too.

While the C1 ranges from busy to dead quiet. We are doing a fair job at making ISK from it. I've been able to nab a few kills as well to only one real loss. Zombinutz sitting at K33:D10 makes me happy. The loss was a silly mistake. I grabbed a broadsword when I should have grabbed a 'cane and well I really should not have flown either to help a empty Itty V. Then again if a mate says help I try and help ;) I have a few nice solo kills too, so all in all the WH has added more PvP for me.

Logistics in the WH are actually pretty easy if you just learn to break everything down into Itty V hauls. Having 4 Itty V pilots and a few cloaked scouts makes all the difference when the freighter parks in a station outside our HighSec N110 exit.

Like wise we have a small arsenal of ships in the C1 now. Everything from scanner frigates to carriers are in there now. We have flattened 8/10 of the customs offices to allow folks to enjoy the cash cow of WH PI. Our towers are setup and full of fuel for the next quarter, lots of ammo and guns, plus just about every array or POS mod we might need ever. So "Home" is cozy.

The alliance we are in are nice folks and we do weekly alliance wide ops. ranging from C6 sites to hostile C2 take overs. Our Alliance leader has pretty much no life to get in his way (well he works and has a wife, but he is ALWAYS on). So he does a good job keeping things going.

Our corporation could use 3-5 more warm bodies. So If you are looking for some W-Space fun drop Zombinutz a mail in game. We don;t so much require any W-Space experience, or PvP uberness. You simply have to get along with others and not be afraid to fight when needed. I'd say 10M SP is prob a good idea as well. We do background checks and require limited API keys as part of the alliance rules.

Cheers

EVE SOB

August 2012

The blur of summer with my kids on vacation and the many changing facets of EvE in that time leaves me a little lost as to where to begin.  With that I simply must begin so here goes.

First thing: HealthCare for Space Hermits is no more (including sub R&D corps as well). Basically that chapter is done and frankly was boring the sh!t out of me. I had lost interest in EvE and was going through the motions week after week. No slight on the alliance HCSH was in or the folks who were in it. Super awesome bunch of folks who like highsec living. I was just done with empire 100% of the time. Thanks to all the folks who were part of my little corp. over the last few years. Fly safe and live well.

Second thing: Zombinutz’s adventures with The Silent Trust Alliance is also no more. I got tired (as did the member corps) of the alliance talking big and doing nothing. No slight there, had some fun with the member corps. I finished my chimera training and used it for logistics and combat.  I got some kills, flew some fleets and lived in lowsec for a bit. So all good and best of luck to those I flew with. Fly dangerous and live short brilliant lives. I may never return to Khanid space, except perhaps to gather up my stuff and GTFO.

Biggest thing: I founded a new corp: “Industrial DeResolution” and joined a W-space alliance. I moved into a C1 and have been living in here for 3 weeks or so now. DERES is a Small corp. still but comfortable with the C1 and the isk it generates. The new corp. is basically combine so to speak. If it’s in the WH it’s ours and we all work the WH and the spoils are split between the corp. wallet and active members. It’s basically a group of old EVE mates who were looking for a change. That change is more PvP, some place new, and well we still build stuff too. I was introduced to the alliance through an old HCSH mate who had moved on. So far it’s all smooth sailing and super fun. Not sure where this will go, but well I want to log in again. So it's a good thing.

I am finding W-Space a good blend of PvP and opportunity to make isk. I like the solitude of it with the danger (and pray) lurking in the shadows. The "fog of war" aspect of the PvP works for me as well and keeps it interesting. I get to use all the 0.0 space toys (well not Moms and titans) and well targets come to me mostly or we find each other in day trips through secondary WHs. I am far from an expert on WH yet and I have many “lessons” (exploded pixels) to learn in here, but EvE is fun again. 

Industry in the WH is also pretty cool too. I can mine ABC rocks with some care pretty much openly which means I can build hulls end to end without spending any isk. With T2 minerals and alchemy balances I might setup a nice little T2 manufacturing shop as well. I could make T3's but well for now the PI alone makes me happy. The logistics of the C1 is challenging for sure with the max jump sizes etc. However it’s more a matter of planning and many smaller loads. Kinda takes me back to early days before I had a freighter or jump freighter. A simpler time when the Itty V was king.

Well not much else to say right now. As I get my feet wetter and have more things to post I shall. I try to at least post once a month, which might be lame, but it’s about what I find the time for right now. Seems I skipped July, opps! At least I am into EvE more again and should have more to post about.

Cheers

EVE SOB

Margin trading and a hot drop.

My time in EvE has been a little fractured this month. Running here and there in RL getting my Achilles sorted out (in a walking boot now, rehab starts in 2 weeks). As such the blog and frequency of posts are the first things to slip. Sure I could blog every day about what I did that day. I just don't think any of you want to read about what mission I ran, or lowsec belt rat I killed, or rock I mined.

I did have two new events/activities happen of late in EvE. The first was margin trading with my freshly trained trade alt. The other was hot dropping my carrier on a fleet from the folks who war decked our alliance.

Margin trading:

I am still getting a feel for this sport. Lots of watching items, calculating profits, and playing the 0.01 ISK game with other traders. I started out with a meager 2M ISK and closed out around 200M isk after my first week trading. Starting with small things like ammo and t1 drones. Then larger things like cruiser hulls and assault frigates. Shifting markets as they flatten and hauling stuff to another trade area when I find a good delta. However for the most part I've been trading in Jita and so far ISK out of nothing I have been making.

People call trading PvP and while I can see that you are competing with other players for those free ISKIES. I cannot say it's thrilling like the kind of PvP where you try to blow each other up. So yes, I don't see the PvP thrill of EvE trading. Sorry for those who get excited over it. I am just liking free ISKIES.

Hot dropping space pimps:

A war kicked up with The Silent trust and International space Pimps. We were once allies but ISP had a falling out with the alliance leaders and went there separate ways. We lived in peace for a while but some POS attacks and counter attacks lead to ISP war decking us. OH well, more PvP for me :)

The war was lame with a lot of station camps and a whole lot of nothing happening. I had suggested we fall back into lowsec, take some time to burn down some customs offices and see if the fight undocked and came looking for us. In the process I had offered to bring my carrier to help with the customs offices. FC said awesome, I took a shuttle ride over to my carrier.

On the ride over ISP started to log in pilots and neutral alts started poking around our fleet in lowsec. Our own scouts showed a comparable enemy gang forming. FC asked me if I was willing to HOT drop on gate. I said I'd drop it anywhere he liked so long as the fleet stayed to fight with me if they countered with caps. Fleet was game so I prepped the carrier for a fight.

So a camp was set up on the lowsec entry gate and sure enough the enemy fleet jumped in and attacked. I had undocked the carrier at the first gate flash and on command the cyno was lit and I jumped in. I was expecting a fight and perhaps a little rush. It was the first time I had committed the carrier to combat. What I got was a good chuckle and 2 kills.

Literally reds scattered like roaches when the light goes on. We managed to pin down a hurricane and a curse. ECM in the fleet locked them down and the 'cane was called primary. I started locking as soon as my over view rendered and I JUST got fighters on the 'cane. The curse got a little more of my attention and was obliterated before most of the fleet could shift fire.

We got called names. The other side rage logged. I hung with the fleet while my cyno pilots timer was done then bounced the carrier back home. Overkill perhaps, but it's EvE. No one give you a fair fight. Funny thing is we would have won the fight anyway, but that one drop pretty much ended the war. We snagged a stealth bomber before the war expired. Fun stuff.

Cheers

EVE SOB