A Starry Eyed Pod-Pusher

I’m trying to make this post quick, as I am going to be late for work.

For those who follow my blog (I think I’m at 5 readers now.), you know full well that today is the long awaited (almost three weeks!), much anticipated (by all six of us!) CrazyKinux Apprieciation Day!

For those who don’t follow my blog, take a short moment to contemplate what has taken you so long to find it. If you found it before this post, think long and hard why you didn’t start following it. If at all possible, close this window and wash your eyes out. It’s probably better for the both of us.

HERE IT IS PEOPLE! CK Apprieciation Day (OP here) has arrived for Mr. CrazyKinux’s viewing pleasure! So head over to his site, his twitter, his email or his in-game character and overload his brain with the love you feel! Trust me, you’ll feel better afterwards!

With that, I must go to work (Sadly). I’ll be online tonight to continue the love overload!

Make me proud, Eve-Bloggers!

So, I just wanted to remind you all (Since more people seem to be reading my blog now! (All 4 of you!)) that this Friday, October 30th, is CrazyKinux Appreciation Day! (View here)

To sum it up, show your appreciation for the King of Bloggers by heading over to Crazykinux’s website (Here) on Friday and posting lots of love on his site. I’m talking love spam. For those of us that have his Twitter (@crazykinux) or his email (I won’t give that out!) or even his in-game name (More stuff I can’t give away. The man needs his privacy sometimes =P), send even more love through these mediums.

My goal is for a small explosion to go off in CK’s brain around midnight on the 31st when he can no longer take the love overload he’s getting.

Get to it people. Post links to this blog in your blogs, bios, twitter pages, etc and tell the world about CK Appreciation Day!

Welcome to the thirteenth 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 here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

The first banter of this 2nd year of EVE Blog Banters comes to us from Zargyl from A Sebiestor Scholar, who asked the following: On the EVE Fanfest2009 page are pictures of prizes for the Silent Auction that was held during the event. One of these photos was entitled “Design your own EVE mission”. My question now would be what kind of mission would you write if you got that prize? What would the mission be about? Would it be one using the new system of epic mission arks? What would be the story told by it? Feel free to expand upon his questions and put together your very own mission!

I’m not going to lie. I thought a ton about this and came up with an epic mission arc that would take you into nullsec and WH space, but life hit the fan and I find myself stuck the morning before the Banter goes live with no meat to add to my flavorful Mission Arc sauce. So, instead, I will post a single mission excerpt from the arc.

The mission arc thus far took you into null-sec, into your worst enemies’ territory (the game would take a random system from a random red alliance/corp) to seek out archaeologicalruins left behind by a mysterious, pre-sleeper race. You return to the agent, who tells you a wormhole has opened up in a nearby system and preliminary scans reveal that there are ruins in the WH system that are similar to the ones in you just investigated. However, the ruins are protected by Sleeper ships.

This mission will be far along the arc’s path and will require other players to join. The wormhole generated by the mission will be a class 4 WH. The ship that analyzes the ruins will have to have only a tank (The analyzer module is high tech and if weapons are fit, there won’t be cpu/PG to fit a tank, which is required against sleepers) and DPS/Repper support will be required.

When you arrive, you fight off endless waves of sleepers as the analyzer ship is forced to tank the damage while analyzing the ruins, which will take a considerable amount of time. Once the analyzing is done (There will be several ruins to analyze and each will take 5 minutes), a final wave will appear that will activate a warp disruption field in the sleeper bubble, forcing you to finsih them off.

You return to Kspace and your agent to report your findings. 

I love the idea of WH missioning, personally. It takes the Nullsec/Lowsec missioning high to a new level by adding the unpredictability of Sleeper warfare and WH space.

Thoughts and ideas?

Other Blog Banters:

Aether – Teach a man to fish…
A Starry Eyed Pod-Pusher (ME!) – Wormhole EXTREME!
The Captain’s Log  – More Missions Please
Nukes Thoughts – Untitled
Roc’s Ramblings – The Cave of Time
The Wandering Druid of Tranquility –  It’s another episode of Design Star: EVE Style
A merry life and a short one – Fatal Rabbit
The Elitist – Guristas Invasion
Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah – Mission: Tangled Webs
Eve Trader – Missions with Player Adversaries

Begin recording Captain’s Log 1026111.2

I have found my exit. My NAV computer has labeled it Wormhole A239. I am calling it Codename Salvation. I could hear my crew celebrate as we approached the event horizon of the shimmering, fresh wormhole. Scans say that no one has found the wormhole yet, so no matter what is on the other side I should be relatively safe.

I intiated warp and entered the event horizon.

And appeared on the other side, in Slaver space. Just my luck.

Begin recording Captain’s Log 1026111

I’ve been lost in System J142918, codename “Alpha,” for a day now. I’ve scanned down more signatures than I can count on the hands of my skeleton crew, and all I’ve found are dead asteroid fields and gas clouds. No wormholes that lead deeper into unknown space, no wormholes that lead out back into known space. Just more and more asteroid belts.

I haven’t even seen any of these mythic “sleepers” around. Or another pod pilot for that matter. It’s just me, my ship, and the five poor idiots who agreed to come along as my crew.

Despite my crippling boredom and the fact that I want to blow something up, space out here is oddly… Peaceful. Quiet. The silence seems to envelope me as I orbit Alpha 1, the planet nearest the sun. The light from the star pierces my viewscreen from every direction. At least it seems to, though it is actually the binary star behind me that gives that illusion.

I can see how out here in the unkown reaches of space, capsuleers go insane.

End recording.

I’ve decided to go Wormhole Romping.

I’m currently in the process of training for a Covops frigate and in the process of convincing someone in Ushra’Khan to let me join. I’m in between jobs, in between missions and in between Corps.

So, due to extreme boredom in the game, I’m going to explore the final frontier!

I packed up a Magnate with a ton of probes and a couple scanners, a salvager and my nifty inertial stabalizers and flew out to Dodixie to find me some holes.

After a half hour of scanning a couple of systems, I found my route to J142918, which I am naming “Alpha”. This is the first wormhole I have ever stepped foot in, so it will hold a special place in my heart…

There’s something here affecting my ship’s Systems, but I’m not sure what it is doing. There are TONs of sites in this wormhole, but I’m not nearly equiped for them. Instead, I’m trying to find a wormhole that will take me deeper into unknown space.

Anywho, I better pay attention before I get blown up. I’d like to reach “Omega” before I get the express route home!

Just a quick update for my two readers.

This week has been hellishly busy. I’ve worked 6 out of 7 days, gotten tons of over time, and been sick. I’ve had an hour tops at any given point to do anything relaxing, so I have been unable to do much else besides change skills and advertise for CK Appreciation Day (Here!)

So sorry for the lack of posting. If you aren’t following me on Twitter, it is a good way to get updates from me when I’m busy. (@starryeyedpod) If not, just keep an eye out, i’m sure things’ll calm down soon and I can resume my celebrity-stalker blog.

Fly safe!

My last post was a little bit of a downer. So, I offer, O Reader of My Blog, this little tidbit as a pick-me-up.

Crazykinux Apprieciation Day!

You see, there’s this guy. He’s kind of a hero to me, my inspiration as a blogger and an EVE player. He’s motivated me several times to rejoin the game (His is always the first blog I check!) and his articles always keep me interested in this crazy sandbox we play in. He’s a legend among bloggers in the EVE Community and he has brought the community together on countless occasions.

His name, as you all know full well, is Crazykinux.

Well, his name is actually David Perry, but I like to think that if I ever had the immense honor of meeting him in real life, I would call him Crazykinux (After pissing myself and fainting, of course.).

Now, yes, there are other bloggers out there who have made great contributions to the blogging community. I am not saying that they are unimportant. I’m just saying the CK rocks my socks (And your socks. (And frankly, most of the blogging community’s socks)) off. And he does it with style.

That being said, I ask you, the reader, to spread the news about CK Appreciation Day.

On October 30th, I want Mr. Kinux to feel our vast appreciation for everything he does for the blogging community, from the Blog Pack (Here) to his Blog Banters (Here), from his Ship Setup Series (Here) to his Podcast, Mircowarpcast (Link To Come). I would like for as many people as possible to link this blog in their own blogs, EVE Bios, Tweets, etc.

Then, on October 30th, I’d like the entire EVE Community to send CK their love, whether it be by e-mail, comment on his site or EVEMail in game. For twenty-four hours, I want CK to be flooded with love. Sweet, sweet e-love.

You have your mission, Reader. Go forth and tell the masses.

A note: it occurs to me that Mr. Kinux thinks I’m being sarcastic when I praise his achievements as King Blogger. While my tone is light-hearted and funny, I mean what I say: CK, you are an inspiration to the EVE Blogging Community and without you, we would be no where near where we are. I truly appreciate your efforts and, I believe, so does the rest of the EVE Community.

EDIT: For those of you advertising on Twitter, here is a nifty Tiny Url I came up with: http://tinyurl.com/CKApDay

I bet you can guess at the tone of this post.

So, for those of you who follow me on twitter (@starryeyedpod), you know that this week has been, for a lack of a better term, a bitch. For those of you who don’t, please click the link and then click the “Follow” button. The rest of us will wait for you.

So, here’s a recap:

-Last Wednesday night, I went to bed late.
-Woke up Thursday with a massive congestive headache. My Fiance was feeling the same.
-It turned out to be Bronchitis. I now have antibiotics to take.
-Discovered a “Windows cannot start due to a corrupt Win32 file” message on my computer.
-After 8 brilliant hours with Dell on the phone, opted to reload my OS rather than wade through the BS of their customer “care” department.
-Discovered my credit card payments haven’t been getting through (Even though the money ain’t in my account…) and a debt agency is after me now.
-Reinstalled EVE to find that it won’t start. Even today, three GMs are baffled as to why.
-Can’t log into my EOHPoker profile for some reason, and cannot contact anyone in-game due to lack of EVE.
-The BIG one: (Keep in mind, this is in an entirely different league than anything else, but has very much made the rest of the week hellish) my sister-in-law miscarried her baby on Sunday evening.

So basically I’ve battled a morally, physically, mentally and emotionally shitty week.

In other news (Looking on the bright side!) I’ve come up with a new fitting and skillplan for my Wolf (Which I won’t divulge just yet, as I’m sure people out there would love to see it go pop!) which puts me at 26 days out from frigate carnage. I’m excited to fly an AF as I’ve heard only good things about them and they’ve always been a personal goal of mine.

I’ve been researching the Ushra’Khan alliance and I think I have my eyes set on the corporation “Phaze-9″. I intend to contact the CEO as soon as I can in-game and ask him a few questions. I’ve heard it’s a good corporation and from what I’ve read on Autumnn_aether’s blog, they are very active. Which is good for me.

Aside from that, life is what life is. It’s already looking up, as my day off this week (Friday) my fiance and I will be playing at Disneyland for most of the day, which is very exciting!

I hope to see you all in game soon. Pray EVE stops hating me and comes home already!

Crazy Kinux. Wow.

Kinux is a name that is known across the entire universe by anyone who has ever read or wrote an Eve Blog. He is the king of blogs, possibly even a god among mortal bloggers. He chats with devs and gives away free stuff. He keeps us all plugged in to the EON magazine, even if we don’t want to be. His Blog Banters are the talk of the town every month.

What I’m getting at here is that the man is a walking legend.

Well, he WILL be a walking legend when Ambulation/WiS/Whatever comes out. Until then, he’s a floating legend.

Now, Mr. Crazy Kinux is giving away free stuff to anyone who will shamelessly advertise his site on our blogs. Most people would say “That is an underhanded thing to do, My Kinux!” Some others would call him a Scoundrel for using such free advertisement to make himself heard.

I, however, am glad to talk about Crazy. (Go to his site, here!) The only question I have for you, oh Lord of the Bloggers, is this:

Why? Your name should be on fricken coffee mugs, why on earth do you need us to advertise for you? I mean, I seriously doubt ANYONE who will read my blog will have NOT heard about you. Are you basically making us all admit that you are the king of bloggers by throwing ourselves at you like high school teens at a backstreet boys concert? Do you just like to see us squirm? I’m very curious.

At any rate, so ends my Crazy Kinux Admiration post. I hope you all enjoyed it, especially you, Mr. Crazy Kinux!

P.S. Go here!