Welcome to the sixteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: “Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game, with a ton to learn, so much that you never stop learning. So, the question is; What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?”

Relax. With all intensity of the Eve Universe; the learning curve, the stakes, the adrenaline rush of combat, it can be easy to lose track of what the point of a game is: having fun. And while Eve is by no means like any other game, the same holds true.

My year and a half in Eve by no means makes me an expert, but it has afforded me multiple times to fuck up and learn from my mistakes. So the list below is by no means “expert advice”, but it is tried advice based on my own experiences (just the same, take them with a grain of salt).

Its ok not to know:

I spent a lot of time when I first started having no idea what I was doing. I trained random skills that I didn’t still don’t need or use, for instance a brief period of identity crisis in which I cross-trained (half-assedly) for Gallente. Do this day, I’ve never used a blaster or flown a Thorax.

A lot of people will tell you to have a training schedule right off the bat and stick to it. While I agree that you probably should eventually, when you’re first starting off it doesn’t matter. Explore every facet Eve has to offer; mine some roids (and realize how insanely boring that is ;) ), run a mission or two, explore, whatever. Find something that you really enjoy doing in this game and then start training specifically to get better at it.

Skills:

If you are a new player, and you’ve found yourself going through this recent batch of Eve Blog Banter and reading all of these, don’t think it coincidence that almost every single seasoned player has written something about their regret at not training learning skills. They are a pain, but DO IT. They’ll save you months (hell, years) of training down the line and they are immeasurably worth it.

Also, train up your core competency and fitting skills. These will also make a gigantic difference down the line. Getting to a point where you can fit up a ship as its supposed to be fitted without gimping it due to your own lack of PG and CPU fitting skills is a good feeling.

People:

One of the reason I do what I do in this game (mess with mission runners) is my confusion about some people’s insistence on making this massive multiplayer game a solo experience. To the new player: DO NOT play Eve alone! Find a player corp with great people that suit you and it will make the WORLD of difference  in your Eve experience.

A lot of people say “get out of the NPC corp as soon as possible”. While this is true, when you do, find a corp that suits you, your goals in this game, and your play-style. Coming out of my NPC corp, I joined up with a hardcore pvp/pve group with frequent and mandatory ops, a vent server, lists of agents you could and could not run missions for, etc. While this would be a great corp for some people, it really wasn’t for me. For me, it meant taking this game a bit too seriously, and it took the fun out of it.

I hated, HATED, running shitty level 1 missions, and I was literally just about to give up on Eve altogether and close my account when I came across Suddenly Ninjas. I found Tchell Dahhn’s Ninja Manifesto ™ and Kahega’s first ninja salvaging guide and I never looked back. No offense meant to the guys of Minmatar Training Associates, but it just wasn’t for me. Whereas the Ninjas are a perfect match. They’re fun, laid back enough yet mature, and they play the game with the same open-sandbox mentality that I do. You guys are the reason I play this game (/awkward dude-love).

HTFU:

The HTFU mantra actually bugs me, but at its core its true. Train “thick-skin”, “sarcasm”, and “sense of humor” to V as soon as possible. And don’t take things personally; that can flipper or pirate that got the better of you and popped your ship probably has nothing against you personally, they’re just out having fun. I lost my first cruiser and pod to Larkonis Trassler and the Neo Spartans when a shitty, shitty level 1 agent sent me into 0.3 space (is it any wonder I quit missions and found the Ninjas?). After a few minutes of being pissed off, I bought a new ship, learned some better fittings (cut all ties with the worst level 1 agent in Eve), and got one with things.

Also stay the hell out of Jita. Really, unless you have dire business there, just stay out. There are other trade hubs and other mission hubs that don’t invoke crippling lag and aren’t crawling with fail-scammers and trolls dual-screening Eve and 4chan. I learned very quickly that the worst, most irritating players who actually spend more time in station smack talking than out playing the game all live in Jita.

Don’t be afraid:

Don’t be afraid to die. Really. It actually took me a long time to get over this and just put it out of my head. I saw losing a fight as a personal failure on my part, and looking back, there are probably fights that I *could* have won except I was too busy trying to get away and save my skin to properly fight back. Go lose ships. I promise you it will be the best learning experience you have in this game.

Above all else, please remember to have FUN playing this game, because if you’re not doing that, you’re doing it wrong. Congrats to Eve Uni on 6 years.

o7,

-Aiden

1. CrazyKinux: The Three Pillars of Wisdom
2. The Elitist: Helping the new guy/gal
3. Hands Off, My Loots: Nothing Needed
4. Rantuket: Blog Banter 16
5. EVE Opportunist: Nooby Cluey
6. Into the Unknown With Gun and Camera: EVE University
7. Zero Kelvin: We’re the young ones!
8. I am Keith Neilson: Set Your Destination
9. Prano’s Journey: Just Like the Very First Time
10. A Merry Life and a Short One: No Seriously
11. Yarrbear Tales: Nublet 101
12. A Mule In EVE: If I only knew
13. The Planet Risk Show: Dared to be Bold
14. Diary of a Space Jockey: WTH did I get myself into?!
15. EVOGANDA: Why?
16. A Memoir From Space: 16th Blog Banter
17. Death’s Sweetest Kiss: Who What When Where Why How??
18. Freebooted: Beyond the Shortcuts
19. Learning to Fly: Noobing
20. Caldari Outcast: My First Blog Banter Post!
21. Finders and Keepers: Relax
22. More to come soon…

So among the grand voices that I have seen throughout the blogosphere.. I’m going to add my own small squeak to it.  Somedays.. I figure I might say/do something profound.. but most likely.. it will just be a different take on the ever expanding world of Eve.  Feel free to make your comments, good, bad, or indifferent.. but keep it civil.  I’m an adult and I expect others to act like it as well.. even if they aren’t.

However, I am definately new at this.. and who knows.. it might be just as fun as ventilating some U’K scum.

Welcome to the sixteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The third Blog Banter of 2010 comes to us from ChainTrap of the Into the unknown with gun and camera EVE Blog. He asks us: “Eve University turns six years old on March 15th; six years spent helping the new pilots of New Eden gain experience and understanding in a supportive environment. Eve is clearly a complicated game, with a ton to learn, so much that you never stop learning. So, the question is; What do you wish that someone had taken the time to tell you when you were first starting out? Or what have you learned in the interim that you’d like to share with the wider Eve community?”

I honestly have to say I lucked out in this regard more than anyone else in EVE. During my first two weeks in EVE I was, of course, a masive newbie. But what set me apart from most other newbies was that I was so ennthralled in EVE that I did my homework. A lot of it. To give you an idea of how in depth I was getting into EVE even in my early days, I was already reading EVE blogs, spending hours on Battleclinic.com learning how to properly fit ships, learning game mechanics for combat, reading every guide I could find in Google, EVERYTHING. I’m a huge EVE geek, understand?

But I was still a newbie, and all the knowledge in the world didn’t serve any purpose to me other than entertainment and fascination until much later. So I spent my time running missions, taking in everything I saw, and trying my damned hardest to get ahead as quickly as possible.

Anyone who has read my posts around new years knows the story already, but for those that don’t, I was contacted out of the blue by a JohnPaulJones, a veteran pilot and CEO of Valhalla Naval Corp. He said that he had observed me doing my business in the Lonetrek/Forge area, and was impressed by my progress and noted that I seemed to be doing my homework (Thank you for noticing). He then offered for me to join VNC and I quickly accepted after a few questions about Corp goals, time zones, and occupations of the Corp members.

It turned out to be the best decision I’ve ever made. Since joining, I have constantly been flying by the side of the most trustworthy people I know that have taught me more than any guide can teach, and helped me with problems nobody else would bother with, thus negating many instances of me possibly looking like an idiot, causing a big bright blue flash, and causing someone else far away to giggle with glee.

But I’m far from perfect or all knowing, so these are the little funny moments I’ve had due to lack of experience, hopefully this will benefit whoever is reading it.

1. A single Assault Frigate can take down two cruisers, especially when one of the cruisers is me with 2 million SP. EASILY.

2. When a ninja salvager comes and loots one of your wrecks and flies around you just to piss you off, don’t shoot. He knows what he is doing, and will play with you by warping in and out until you come back to the gate with a scrambler thrown on your PvE ship so he can blow you up in a PvP ship.

3. Pay attention to those EVE mail notifications, some of them are about your ship insurance expiring. Renew the insurance… Or lose a lot of ISK *tear*

“Should you be doing that?”

“It’ll be fine, don’t worry.”

“If they find out…”

“They won’t. Don’t worry, we’ll get through this.”

“Shi… that didn’t work.”

“Multiple warp signatures detected…”

“Quiet Aura.”

“Did you get it?”

“No, shut up!”

“But they’re…”

“Got it, sending a copy.”

“Confirmed, downloading now.”

“Damnit, I’m locked! Scrammed, webbed…”

“No, get out of there!”

“Too late, looks like I’ll see you when you get back.”

“Hull integrity compromised.”

“SHUT UP AURA!”

“Gods, Verner… we have a problem.”

“What?”

“Don’t die, Verner! They got the clones!”

“What!?”

“They killed the clones! You don’t have a backup!”

“No…”

“You can’t get out?”

“No. I… I love you.”

“I know.”

“Hull integrity critical. Hull inte-”

“Verner? Verner!”

“Communication terminated. Multiple warp signatures detected.”

“No…”

So I’m in Frarn tonight, doing what I do, and I happen upon prismet running a level 3 in his Hurricane.  I get there just in time to watch him blow up a structure, which drops a can.  Naturally, I zoom over and open the can to find his mission item.  I yoink it and fly aimlessly…he appears to fly around to the wrecks.  I warp back to station.

Now before we go any further, let me admit right up front that this “job” really lacked finesse on my part.  I’m no Paul Clavet, so sue me.  Anyway, I get in my Armageddon and return to the mission area with the item.  I get into the pocket, prismet is still there, so I drop the item in a can and convo him.  I decided to start by playing the innocent guy…

[ 2010.03.14 02:16:57 ] Locke Mueslix > i think i grabbed your mission item
[ 2010.03.14 02:17:01 ] Locke Mueslix > i was just looking for salvage
[ 2010.03.14 02:17:08 ] prismet > yes you did
[ 2010.03.14 02:17:15 ] prismet > you can have the salvage
[ 2010.03.14 02:17:23 ] prismet > was gonna let it go to waste anyways
[ 2010.03.14 02:17:25 ] Locke Mueslix > anyway, i dropped off the cargo thingy for u
[ 2010.03.14 02:17:35 ] prismet > except it is yellow and I am not that stupid
[ 2010.03.14 02:17:55 ] Locke Mueslix > heh, fair enough
[ 2010.03.14 02:18:11 ] prismet > I was born two days ago…not yesterday ;)
[ 2010.03.14 02:18:48 ] Locke Mueslix > well, i’ll let you figure out what to do with it

At that point, I warped back to the station, with the plan of watching local while I checked a couple of other sites.  And that’s what I did, for about 15 or 20 minutes (long enough for the aggro timer that I had from stealing the mission item to expire, oopsie for them!)  I didn’t find anything good at the other sites, so I warped back to prismet’s mission gate to check on him.  Sure enough, there he is, still sitting there, along with my can, intact, and a Raven has joined the party.  As I’m sitting there wondering what they’re doing, a Keres (Gallente electronic attack ship) warps in and goes through the mission gate.  Interesting…

I go back to station, grab Sunshine Bear the Rifter, and warp into the mission area.  The Keres is sitting 50km away, and the Raven and Hurricane are right on top of my can.  Everyone locks me.  Now remember, that timer has expired, so their chance for pew is all gone-skis.  As I’m chatting with them in local (trying to get a response for a while) and bumping their ships, a Cerberus joins the party, then the Keres pilot leaves and comes back with a Gila.  And again, I’m locked by all four pilots, who can do NOTHING but watch me fly around.  Here’s what went down in local…

[ 2010.03.14 02:45:52 ] Locke Mueslix > you guys just gonna sit here all day on your buddy’s mission item?
[ 2010.03.14 02:46:01 ] Karmavore > lol
[ 2010.03.14 02:46:22 ] Apocriphia > they trying to trap a ninja, I think
[ 2010.03.14 02:46:23 ] Locke Mueslix > i’m being locked by a raven!
[ 2010.03.14 02:46:37 ] Arkienis > shoot it
[ 2010.03.14 02:46:47 ] Z0S0 > only solution
[ 2010.03.14 02:48:43 ] Locke Mueslix > oh you guys are hilarious
[ 2010.03.14 02:48:56 ] Locke Mueslix > you had to warp in a FOURTH corpmate to take care of the big bad rifter
[ 2010.03.14 02:48:58 ] Locke Mueslix > wow
[ 2010.03.14 02:50:40 ] Locke Mueslix > i’m not even sure why you are all here
[ 2010.03.14 02:52:22 ] Locke Mueslix > that’s what I call “fail”
[ 2010.03.14 02:52:32 ] Locke Mueslix > so how important is your friend’s mission to you guys?

Right about here I got a convo from Crimson Vale, their apparent leader.  Note that A) their corp is less than 2 months old, and B) his name is a WoW reference.

[ 2010.03.14 02:53:39 ] Locke Mueslix > are you kidding me?
[ 2010.03.14 02:53:44 ] Locke Mueslix > you guys are horrible at this?
[ 2010.03.14 02:54:03 ] Crimson Vale > I have already destroyed about three of your types so I would not go there
[ 2010.03.14 02:54:12 ] Locke Mueslix > LOLs
[ 2010.03.14 02:54:23 ] Locke Mueslix > if by “destroyed” you mean “suicided”, then go ahead

Also note that their killboard stats are quite sad; they definitely have NOT been destroying my “types”.  THIS is the guy who did most of the smack at the end of our transaction (keep reading).  Yes, that’s nearly one and a half BILLION ISK lost…I’m not exactly scared at this point.  For some weird reason, Battleclinic lists the total ISK lost for their corp at only 630 million, so something’s not quite right in the math there.  Now back to the local chat…

[ 2010.03.14 02:54:35 ] Crimson Vale > I let my guys handle you
[ 2010.03.14 02:54:41 ] Crimson Vale > you aren’t even worth my time
[ 2010.03.14 02:54:46 ] Locke Mueslix > dude, figure it out
[ 2010.03.14 02:54:49 ] Locke Mueslix > there’s NOTHING TO HANDLE
[ 2010.03.14 02:54:57 ] Locke Mueslix > you guys already LOST aggro on me
[ 2010.03.14 02:55:41 ] Locke Mueslix > let’s see…the Raven is worth over 100 mil
[ 2010.03.14 02:55:47 ] Locke Mueslix > the Gila, about 130 mil
[ 2010.03.14 02:55:52 ] Locke Mueslix > the ‘Cane, maybe 40 mil
[ 2010.03.14 02:56:11 ] Locke Mueslix > tell you what
[ 2010.03.14 02:56:31 ] Locke Mueslix > instead of you idiots getting yourselves Concorded, as HILARIOUS as that would be…
[ 2010.03.14 02:56:41 ] Locke Mueslix > how about you just pay me for the mission item?
[ 2010.03.14 02:57:43 ] Lambeau Field > so why are you being a jack @#$ Locke and taking the mission items
[ 2010.03.14 02:58:02 ] Locke Mueslix > because that’s my JOB
[ 2010.03.14 02:58:05 ] Issy Menaiko > not worth the Time Locke sorry
[ 2010.03.14 02:58:12 ] Lambeau Field > how is that
[ 2010.03.14 02:58:25 ] Locke Mueslix > not worth the time? you guys ALREADY called in FIVE of your friends
[ 2010.03.14 02:58:33 ] Locke Mueslix > seems like you’ve already wasted your time with it
[ 2010.03.14 02:58:35 ] Issy Menaiko > we were in the area *shrugs
[ 2010.03.14 02:59:09 ] Locke Mueslix > too bad you didn’t get here sooner, you could have actually done something other than stare at me
[ 2010.03.14 02:59:32 ] Lambeau Field > lol i dont know what you are talking about
[ 2010.03.14 02:59:54 ] Locke Mueslix > i’m talking to the ICTC guys
[ 2010.03.14 03:00:48 ] Issy Menaiko > nah next time maybe you wont be scared to steal from all of us instead of just one if you wanna have fun
[ 2010.03.14 03:01:07 ] Locke Mueslix > dude, i’ve taken from smarter pilots than you idiots
[ 2010.03.14 03:01:32 ] Locke Mueslix > maybe next time one of you will figure out how aggro works before you all waste a trip
[ 2010.03.14 03:01:50 ] Locke Mueslix > i thought it was pretty funny, tho, so thanks for that
[ 2010.03.14 03:02:02 ] Lambeau Field > Locke is just a board mission runner we all get that way
[ 2010.03.14 03:02:15 ] Issy Menaiko > yep glad I could entertain a village idiot for the night
[ 2010.03.14 03:02:22 ] Lambeau Field > lol
[ 2010.03.14 03:02:32 ] Locke Mueslix > you shouldn’t talk about Prismet that way, Issy
[ 2010.03.14 03:02:41 ] Locke Mueslix > he’ll get the hang of it eventually
[ 2010.03.14 03:04:16 ] Issy Menaiko > well the two of you have something in common then huh ?
[ 2010.03.14 03:04:34 ] Locke Mueslix > wow…that was pretty weak
[ 2010.03.14 03:04:36 ] Locke Mueslix > try again
[ 2010.03.14 03:05:03 ] Issy Menaiko > nah not worth the time  im already off running some 4s come find em well have some fun
[ 2010.03.14 03:05:55 ] Locke Mueslix > have fun shooting at npcs
[ 2010.03.14 03:06:22 ] Issy Menaiko > well I wouldve shot at you but you were too scared to agress me so Meh gotta keep my guns warm somehow
[ 2010.03.14 03:06:56 ] Locke Mueslix > that’s called “smart” not “scared”…you’ll get there, just keep at your homework, Jerome

Yeah, did you look at the timestamps?  They sat there in that pocket, staring at me, for over FIVE MINUTES before the Cerb pilot had the genius idea to drop a can of his own.  Instead, I slowly floated over to my can, took MY mission item back, and docked up.  It pains me to say this, but my own “kill record” is in better shape than Issy’s or Crimson’s.

I don’t know if those qualify as “tears”, but it certainly was some wonderfully failed smack, and EPIC fail on the mission-running.  When all this began prismet could have easily docked up when I warped out of the mission area…even if I HAD been waiting for him, I couldn’t have stopped him from docking.  So if anyone runs into the Imperia Coalition corp, make sure you are extra careful…to get the logs for plenty of LOLs.

Currently I am running an HP DV7-3085DX laptop, and EVE runs just fine on it.  It has Windows7 64-bit Ultimate installed, but I am quickly growing tired of the GUI, so I am in the process of down-grading from Windows 7 to WindowsXP 64-bit.  The process will take me a few hours, but I have finally acquired the SATA drivers that I need, and am in the process of adding them to an ISO, then burning that ISO to a CD.  I don’t know if this will work or not, but I have read quite a few forums before making a final decision, and they have all said that it works.  I tried, once before, to install WindowsXP 64-bit, but it turned out horribly.  I did not have the SATA driver, for my hard drive, so it did a BSOD, which didn’t make me happy, because it was looking like I was stuck with Windows7.

Granted, I do like the layout and everything, it is just starting to get old.  With WindowsXP 64-bit, I should see a vast improvement on the performance, due to not as many eyecandy effects going at any given time.  I also cannot wait to start playing a few games that aren’t compatible with Windows7, even with their “cool new compatibility mode”.  Apparently that is supposed to be a “virtual xp machine running inside your pc”, but guess what?  That’s a bog down, so I don’t need it.  Just straight old WindowsXP 64-bit and I will be a happy camper!

I had to fire Mason this morning. The disciplinary report describes “repeated and unapologetic display [of]  social conduct and diplomatic tactlessness unbecoming of a ForgeTech member.”

That’s not the half of it of course, but I don’t think I’ll trouble my future self with the burden of having to relive the whole story. I am certain that this was the only possible course. She’s a nice kid, with a healthy stubborn streak that unfortunately isn’t tempered by knowing how to politely decline to talk to somebody. But she’s also been a net burden on the corporation.

Still doesn’t make me happy at the way things turned out, though. This feels like a personal failing. like saving the patient but not the arm.

end log.

So here we are: Me and Xult in local, and the WTs are: Aids,

anids > and every week u sit in there station is a week ur payign real money to play a gam eu cant play
Xultanis > dude not all of them are blob
Xultanis > im training
anids > and well things get ugly after afew weeks and following u around corps
Abhorsen Sabrial > last time i checked if you win the fight then it was fair…
anids > and ur friends
Xultanis > a lot of people pay real money just to sit a character in a station
Xultanis > not all of them are blob so yeah
Xultanis > a good portion of them yes were blob
anids > i mean right now u outnumber us
anids > and still we are out here<br>and u are in there
Xultanis > because we are usually met with a blob first….v.ery few encounters when we come out with same ships does it work out for our favor….always some huge amount of neutral RR
Xultanis > dude…you have an unknown in system
Xultanis > why would i go after that?
anids > unknown?
Xultanis > yeah
anids > who?
Xultanis > your redum down there in local
anids > me, blue, domi/phoon
Xultanis > and redrum possible falcon :)
anids > tbh shes in a probe seeing as she always in system watching u
Xultanis > you know how it is….you try to fight with same numbers you get blobed….so we blob
anids > she nva leaves here so we can keep a eye open
Xultanis > no shes not
Xultanis > shes not always here
anids > and even if she was in a BS wud that be a blob?
BLUEVER > when logged on she is
anids > nope it wud be 3v3
Xultanis > ive been keeping a good list of chars in system and redrum isnt someone who has set up camp
Xultanis > no no no
Xultanis > not blob
Headerman > just just got word out supply shup is only 6 jumps away
Xultanis > what im saying is the reason we do blob mostly now is because if your engaging with same amount of ships your doing something wrong
anids > lol head u said 5 jus now
Headerman > he got lost :-S
Headerman > he fell down a black hole
Xultanis > i mean do you know how many times we get dropped when we low sec roam?
anids > stop lying really i kinda got there was no indy ages ago now
anids > thats low sec
Xultanis > like a 4 man low sec roam…someone has to bring in a carrier
anids > this is high
anids > u can see the gateswith newts
Xultanis > or when we are at war and try to keep it “fair” they enemy brings like 8 neautral RR
anids > when have we had nuet RR?
anids > infact we been really fair
Xultanis > actually you have been very fair
anids > tbh i think blue been a fucking pussy
Xultanis > not really
Xultanis > its the only way you guys got pvp in the first place
Headerman > shit
anids > mercy has no place in war, but he seems to think so, so here i am
Headerman > now he’s been hijacked by fkn Somali pirates
Xultanis > dude you want targets there are greener pastuers :)
Headerman > we gotta go resue him!
Xultanis > LOL
anids > the amount of crap i gave him for making me use a cruiser
BLUEVER > i had to log off TS….
Headerman > anids can u call the coast guard
anids > lol
Headerman > plz?
anids > it was the day u killed him
Xultanis > hey i came out in a cruiser and a frig a few times….just ran out of them lol
Xultanis > and so have my guys
BLUEVER > you came out with 3 cruisers vs my one cruiser
BLUEVER > thats all ive seen of you xult
anids > n a frig
Xultanis > ?? wait lol
anids > the day u killed him
BLUEVER > other then docking asap
Xultanis > yeah nevermind each time euphoria was the one who killed me
anids > same day i was ripping on him in vent
Xultanis > lol
Xultanis > i tried to have a 1v1 with one of your guys and euphoria as raped me lol
Xultanis > which is another reason we can play with yo uguys
anids > they ant here
anids > infact i ant seen them in ages
Xultanis > i have actually
Xultanis > for some reason they stop by every now and then and i die lol
Headerman > shit man, the somali’s are threatening to sell out crew and replace them with MEXICANS :-S
Headerman > and they are stealing our exotic dancers!
anids > ok 5 of u now
BLUEVER > oh crap
anids > so we are outnumber
BLUEVER > forgot about something
anids > ed
anids > so lets go
Headerman > ok
Headerman > we’ll be out in 5 minutes
anids > fire up thos guns and come out shooting
anids > head seriously shhh now
Galtiner > we’ve chartered a replacement freighter
anids > bb
Xultanis > :(
Xultanis > why war dec my holding corp?
Xultanis > so mean
Kehro Urgus > surprise surprise
BLUEVER > we has rifter now
Headerman > yes, that is not very nice
Gryphon Layne > WTF!!

And after several hours of them (5 WTs) station camping us few guys, i think they finally cottoned onto the fact we wouldn’t be undocking for a fair while :)

I visited the homeworld yesterday.

I don’t think I can sum up the experience in one journal entry. Suffice it to say that I got a fresh backup the second I was back in space. I want to remember what I experienced down there for the rest of my life of lives.

(( http://www.eve-chatsubo.com/viewtopic.php?t=5368 ))

First off, I just want to let Casiella know that the reason I am making the Tyrannisaurus joke is because I dig dinosaurs. In my opinion, dinosaurs rock. I am an amateur paleontologist, and I can feel the urge to study them in my bones. Somebody stop me before these puns tear the world asunder.

Well, I suppose it’s time to get on topic.

Earlier today, I hopped on about an hour before work to mess around on Sisi to check out the new-but-still-in-development Tyrannis features. I have to say, I am really digging them. They are very cool. For some reason, I am really into the strictly icon based view of planetary interaction (PI). It seems fitting for the universe of EVE. A beautiful, dynamic world contrasted by the utilitarian mapping of infrastructure. Yes… fitting.

Some features are currently not full-fledged, of course. The satellite scanning can be turned on to active, but it makes no difference, as it is seemingly not being utilized at the moment. Every planet I visited had the same distribution of the same three materials; argon gas, helium isotopes, and something-else-but-I’m-drawing-a-blank. Not that this is a problem or anything. CCP is only halfway done with Tyrannis, so I would expect many things to not be available at the moment. All this does is get me excited for what they will offer when they become an option.

As for the available features, I like them. I’ve already stated how much I like the icon based design for the infrastructure. It’s sleek, simple, and professional. The new drop down menus are, oddly enough, refreshing. It was nice to see new options for new things. Felt good, like scrubbing a dirty mirror, or wiping your smudgy monitor because your friends don’t understand the concept of ‘point but don’t touch, please’. I also enjoyed the thermal mapping of materials on the planets. When it comes down to it, I am very impressed by the UI for Tyrannis. My only qualm was not fully understanding the requirements for how to gather materials (for example, I didn’t understand that it was necessary to have a factory). I’m sure that CCP will find a way to smooth this over, or may decide to just leave it up to the player base to explain the process of PI to itself, which, as we’ve seen, is probably what will happen.

I would also like to say that this is the first time I had ever been on Sisi. I sort of stumbled through getting it installed correctly on my computer, and feel that somebody should probably work on the wiki page on how to do it.

That person isn’t me, so don’t say ‘Well hey, August, you should do it’ because I am a) not computer literate enough to very well explain to somebody how to do it and b) don’t fully understand how I only did a few of the steps then tweaked what-nots on my computer until it worked enough to get going.

In any case, not a lot to say about being on Sisi. It’s like an alternate futureverse of Tranquility. So… you know. That’s about it for that.

In other news, my girlfriend is digging playing EVE. I came home from work to find her making me a sandwich reading up on the Amarrian heirs and stuff. She does stuff like that. She had gotten on today to tweak her skill queue and actually ended up joining EVE University (HEADS UP ARUKEMOS). I was proud of her for getting that done all by herself without asking me any questions.

My plans for the rest of the night are to do maybe another mission or two, go to bed, then pull a seven hour shift at work tomorrow. Not too bad.

Remember… Love forever; love is free.