Suddenly, News!

So it’s been a long time but there hasn’t happened much in the latest mount’s. The wars TEARS have been involved in have been quite pointless. We have inherited most of the wars by recruiting new corps. That leads me into a new topic.

This isn’t the first inherited war TEARS have been involved in. We have seen both sides of it. We’ve accidentally been involved with Intrepid Crossing (one of those scary 0.0 alliances) and we’ve taken on wars as a cause of corp recruitment.

When i sober up I’ll come up with a way to exploit these things.

TEARS are once again at war with DEADS. Our glorious leader Velocity Prime have promised us that this will be the final strike. We shall all take part in this genocide of Carebears. Board your frigates and we will swarm them. They will be like “Is that a meteor swarm? *pause* Oh shit its so many rifters what they black out the sun (and don’t give me that crap about fighting in the shade).”. They might not say it exactly like that but I think it’s pretty accurate.

I’ll just throw in a few sentences about Hulkageddon for good measure. We had a bit of a internal failcontest in TEARS which resulted in quite a few of us killing of mining frigs instead of the mighty HULK! The reason for this was that Cyberin (who was going to give away all his assets) decided to state that any killed ship with a mining laser counted, and the guy with the most kills won’t. The contest have now been cancelled. Damn you Cyberin. You have ruined everything from beyond the grave (I still love you anyway).

So the final tally in the war against the abominable Zephyrs is 44. The winner of this little contest is Lazy Eyeh with seven kills. All in all it’s been a fun little contest. As an extra bonus, our revered leader Velocity Prime produced a little video of a gank.

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On another note, Hulkageddon II is finally here! If someone have happened to miss it this beast of a event have its own site.

And I will end with a sad note. Cyberin have decided to quit EVE due to being a self-proclaimed eve addict. I think it’s the right decision RL before EVE. I’ll probably come back to this in a later post.

/ Max Hatter

So TEARS have involved  ourselves in yet another war, this time with an alliance called Legions Of Justice. Their hobbies include taking themselves to serious and composing silly quotes. Just read it yourself.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds… We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in Space, we shall fight in the depths of Space, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our POS, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in the ships, we shall fight at the Stations, we shall fight in the wormholes and in the Low sec space, We shall fight the reds to the end; we shall never surrender

- Legions Of Justice

So we are doing a bit of recruiting in Suddenly Ninjas. Most of you who read this probably know who we are already. If you don’t read some of our blog material. Take a look at our forum or have a chat with us in “The Ninja Alliance” channel in game. Give it a try and you will be hooked.

Requirements and Stuff:

1. Minimum Skill Points: None
2. Willing to train a few skills like salvaging, scanning, etc…if you don’t know them, we’ll help ya learn once you get in!
3. Ability to use EVE Voice (at least listening…we use it for our ops, if you don’t want to FC you don’t HAVE to have a mic.
4. Willing to provide a full API key

Our current recruitment officer is Cyberin some guy I have mentioned to often now. So I will simply refuse to do it again or he’ll get hubris.

After being back in Suddenly Ninjas, Super Judas Cyberin gets a promotion to Grand Samurai of the Growing Shadow a.k.a recruiting director. I personally will just call him headmaster as he will be in charge of taking care of all the little ninja schoolchildren. I think Cyberin is a great choice for the position as he is one of the more infamous famous EVE blogers out there (Take a look here if you’ve somehow managed to miss it.). Well good luck and give me a shout if you need any help.

/ Max Hatter

So in the spirit of Christmas Suddenly Ninjas have decided to stage a Zephyr ganking contest that will last from the release of the Zephyr (18th Dec) to the end of the claiming period (6th Jan). With this selfless act (Read Velocity Primes post to see why it’s so altruistic.) we are trying to spread some holiday joy to all the inhabitants of EVE. All the way from the seasoned 03 veteran to the newest noob.

If you are staging a contest there has to be a price. 1.5mil ISK will be added to the price pool for every Zephyr killed, up to around 200mil. The ISK will then be distributed as follows:

1st Place: 60% of the Prize Pool (Max of 120M ISK)
2nd Place: 25% of the Prize Pool (Max of 50M ISK)
3rd Place: 15% of the Prize Pool (Max of 30M ISK)

I would also like to thank Sal Pheebu, Cyberin, and Aiden Mourn for donating ISK to the competition. To show you that I’m also a jolly Christmas person I’ll add 1mil/kill to the prize pot if it happens to cap out (If it goes over 200mil), just to keep the fun going as long as possible.

There is also an extra prize (100mil) for the best frap video thing containing at least one Zephyr kill.

PS. The competition have started at breakneck speed with 19 kills in just over two days.

/ Max Hatter

First of: I told you so! That felt good. So whats this all about? Well about a week or so ago I wrote about how Cyberin left Suddenly Ninjas and the ninja lifestyle to live a life of parrots and dismemberment (…and hooks or wooden cylinders to replace dismembered body parts.). He answered:

Even if I do…looking at my sec status…and my impatience…I can certainly say it’ll be longer than three weeks .  Though, a nickname does sound fun…lol.

I had almost forgot about that nickname business.

Then we will all welcome him back with open arms and give him affectionate nicknames like Judas or Deserter. Come back to us! Please.

Now I’ll just have to decide if I like Judas of Brutus better. And one more thing, welcome back. It’s been hard without you.

So this proves my claim that ninja salvaging is one of the most entertaining things you can do in EVE.

On another sad note. Another of the more prominent  figures in Suddenly Ninjas have decided to part with us. This time its Kahega Amielden author of the popular smash hit Kahega’s Ninja Salvaging Guide. I hope you will be back. Until then I’ll be crying myself to sleep thinking of you. In honor of this I’m working on a pdf version of the guide. Keep your eyes open.

/ Max Hatter

The reason for behind this subject is this post (and some buzz on the Suddenly Ninjas forum) written by Empress of TEARS, Velocity Prime about the latest in ninja fashion. We are talking about the Angel Cartel’s Dramiel. A slick little faction frig with a price tag of around 85 mil. So what are the scum of the earth space, bottom feeders doing flying around in a ship with a hull made out of PURE GOLD (I can’t see any other reason for this costing 300 times as much as an ordinary frig.)?

Are we ninja salvagers actually getting rich from what we are doing? It’s generally accepted that you can make around 10-15 mil/h ninja salvaging AND looting. A little less if you are some kind of pretend ninja who’s only salvaging. Ganking mission runners will probably net you a bit more. It will all max out at about half of what a mission runner actually earns (no having fun unfortunately doesn’t earn you much extra ISK). So you will have to work about 8 hours or so to get your hands on a Dramiel that isn’t much better then a Vigil for 300k.

So what’s the reason behind the choice of this extravagant space car? My theory behind this is hidden behind some of the facts I just stated. We ordinary fly Vigils that cost around 6 mil fully T2 fitted. That investment will pay back in just 30 minutes or so. The rest is just pure monetary gain. Full time ninja salvagers have nothing (that improves their play style) to spend their ISK on, except bling. If you compare this to a mission runner, they always have room for improvement (faction modules, better ships and all that).

So my if I was to compare this to real life it would be, someone living at their parents house, working at a job where they make decent money and buying a Porsche. Kind of sad isn’t it (This stands in stark contrast to most “ninjas” real life where they are ether in the army or live the whole white picket fence life. This is from my own non scientific observations.). Well fuck it. I’ll buy myself a fucking solid gold Dramiel right now! You all do the same! Now!

/ Max Hatter

On a quick note, Logit Probit didn’t get enough votes to get in to the CSM. Take a look here for some more informations about the results.