So I created this blog with the full intention of seeing it through, however, seeing the newest expansion has completely killed my immersion and given me reason to doubt CCP and their solidarity as a gaming company.
MT be damned, I don't really care as I am sure they will have safeguards in place to make sure the economy doesn't crumble. My issue is the fact that it has been 2 years since they have put out any real content and with this newest expansion, they proved to us that they aren't even working on developing EVE, just the new games and then giving us an "expansion" as a beta test for their other games. While I am still fairly new, the fact that we probably won't see new content for a year or two is very depressing. I am not QUITTING EVE, however, I am also not going to put time into a game to have it crumble when I finally get to where I want to be. I will update this if the climate changes and I get my hangar view back. (For some reason not having it REALLY kills my immersion.)
Due to me not being able to post comments on my own blog, I'm posting here:
Well keep an eye on my blog. I do plan on resubbing, but CCP is clearly going down the wrong path of using money which should be used for EVE dev on other ventures instead. I do plan on playing again, who knows after the CSM meeting, I may even resub. I just can't be ok with them developing nearly nothing for EVE while putting two games on full Microwarpdrive. It's just wrong.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
The beginning of my plan
Ok, so while I have been roaming lately and have literally found NOTHING. I just discovered Miura's guide to lowsec roaming and will be taking a look at those roam paths and will not stop until I have lost multiple ships =)... I am going to try and get my first kill on the plan as an above class kill. We'll see...for you lowsec roamers out there, I may be young and inexperienced, but I have a wealth of knowledge so don't think I will be an easy kill!!! (Ok that was posturing, I'm sure I will be an easy kill as right now I am working on my 3rd rank 5 skill Engineering. (Flex)
Friday, June 3, 2011
Sometimes roaming won't get you kills, but you'll get loot!
So last night, during a roam, I jumped into a system where, apparently, there was a 3 sided fight between 5 ships going on in one of the belts. Perking my ears up, I waited until GF's were issued and then warped to the belt at 100km to see the damage.
I found that there were 4 wrecks ranging from cruiser to battleship and 2 red drakes sitting around. Heart racing I'm thinking "oh crap oh crap oh crap" and I get ready to align, when I realize they are 120 km away. "Ok, I think to myself, as soon as I start seeing locking, I'll warp out." Looking things over, I realize that there are wrecks 60, 120 and 150 km away from me...that's when I get an idea.
See, I'm flying a shield tanked Rifter right now. This makes it so I have a bit of tank and I am fast....so fast that I decide to bookmark all the wrecks and warp out. =) When I get to the station, I turn around and look at my bookmarks. CRAP, no range on the bookmarks and I have no idea which ones are next to the Drakes and which ones are 60 to 100 km away. Closing my eyes and picking one randomly, I warp in and BINGO. Drakes are sitting 90 km away and I have two unlooted battleship wrecks. Picking through the wreckage, I find a couple Heavy Blasters, an EANM II, 10MN Afterburner II and 50 nanite repair paste. I warp out and dock to unload my goods. Popping back out, I warp in to the other set of BMs that are away from the Drakes and, go figure, one Drake warped out and the other is now where I had just looted...LOL.
I pick through the wreckage again and select a couple items that I can fit in my cargo-hold and just sit there. I stare at him, he stares at me...blink blink blink....now he's 150km away which means that he can warp to me, but this is what I want. I figure as soon as I see him warp, I warp out, which happens. I immediately warp to the last set of wrecks that hadn't been looted yet, which funny enough, had been the ones the Drakes were next to initially, and loot the wreck.
Flying back into the station, I look up local Jita prices and find out, I just made 10 mil AND got a nice rush out of it as I was expecting the whole time to get ganked. Not necessarily the most upstanding thing to do, but I figured that if there were 3 parties involved and the 2 drakes were in the same corp only 1 of which stayed, that means that there was no looting representation from the other parties. It helps me sleep at night.
I found that there were 4 wrecks ranging from cruiser to battleship and 2 red drakes sitting around. Heart racing I'm thinking "oh crap oh crap oh crap" and I get ready to align, when I realize they are 120 km away. "Ok, I think to myself, as soon as I start seeing locking, I'll warp out." Looking things over, I realize that there are wrecks 60, 120 and 150 km away from me...that's when I get an idea.
See, I'm flying a shield tanked Rifter right now. This makes it so I have a bit of tank and I am fast....so fast that I decide to bookmark all the wrecks and warp out. =) When I get to the station, I turn around and look at my bookmarks. CRAP, no range on the bookmarks and I have no idea which ones are next to the Drakes and which ones are 60 to 100 km away. Closing my eyes and picking one randomly, I warp in and BINGO. Drakes are sitting 90 km away and I have two unlooted battleship wrecks. Picking through the wreckage, I find a couple Heavy Blasters, an EANM II, 10MN Afterburner II and 50 nanite repair paste. I warp out and dock to unload my goods. Popping back out, I warp in to the other set of BMs that are away from the Drakes and, go figure, one Drake warped out and the other is now where I had just looted...LOL.
I pick through the wreckage again and select a couple items that I can fit in my cargo-hold and just sit there. I stare at him, he stares at me...blink blink blink....now he's 150km away which means that he can warp to me, but this is what I want. I figure as soon as I see him warp, I warp out, which happens. I immediately warp to the last set of wrecks that hadn't been looted yet, which funny enough, had been the ones the Drakes were next to initially, and loot the wreck.
Flying back into the station, I look up local Jita prices and find out, I just made 10 mil AND got a nice rush out of it as I was expecting the whole time to get ganked. Not necessarily the most upstanding thing to do, but I figured that if there were 3 parties involved and the 2 drakes were in the same corp only 1 of which stayed, that means that there was no looting representation from the other parties. It helps me sleep at night.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Not Taking a Break, I Swear.
Just an FYI to any folks out there who may actually want to see more from me. I would love to write more, but I have only gotten to play a couple hours in the past few days and in the time I have played, my roams have uncovered nothing more than a 2 person team trying to catch me to gank me in my little rifter....kind of a funny story actually.
The other night I jumped into a system in my 15 system string of lowsec that I am trying to roam, I warp into a belt at 100 like I normally do just to do a 360 and see if there's anyone in any of the nearby belts before scanning down further when, 130 km off, I see a Slicer and a Comet. Now I'm no fool, I am DYING to cut my teeth on a ship, but I want something I think I might have a CHANCE of winning and a Slicer and Comet team would not give me that. Anyway, when I warped in, they were finishing up on a pirate and the three of us literally SAT there staring at each other for a solid minute.
The best description I can give is when the fish guys in Spongebob Squarepants just sit there and blink with a neutral expression for an inordinate amount of time. I was LOVING it lol. I assume the reason they just sat there was to determine whether I had backup warping in and whether they wanted to engage or not..heh well once I saw them start burning toward me, I warp off.....and the chase was on!! I warped to a couple different places in system, dropping bookmarks along the way not really concerned with them as I would warp in at 50 one time, 100 another time, 70 a different time, unless they were using a disruptor AND got very lucky, they weren't going to catch me. After 10ish minutes of cat and mouse, I got bored and jumped out. Sure enough, a few minutes later I see them again. Sadly, it was at this point that my RL obligations got the better of me and I docked up for the night.
I'm seriously about ready to go to Molden Heath and pick a fight with some Tuskers just to watch something (me) explode.
The other night I jumped into a system in my 15 system string of lowsec that I am trying to roam, I warp into a belt at 100 like I normally do just to do a 360 and see if there's anyone in any of the nearby belts before scanning down further when, 130 km off, I see a Slicer and a Comet. Now I'm no fool, I am DYING to cut my teeth on a ship, but I want something I think I might have a CHANCE of winning and a Slicer and Comet team would not give me that. Anyway, when I warped in, they were finishing up on a pirate and the three of us literally SAT there staring at each other for a solid minute.
The best description I can give is when the fish guys in Spongebob Squarepants just sit there and blink with a neutral expression for an inordinate amount of time. I was LOVING it lol. I assume the reason they just sat there was to determine whether I had backup warping in and whether they wanted to engage or not..heh well once I saw them start burning toward me, I warp off.....and the chase was on!! I warped to a couple different places in system, dropping bookmarks along the way not really concerned with them as I would warp in at 50 one time, 100 another time, 70 a different time, unless they were using a disruptor AND got very lucky, they weren't going to catch me. After 10ish minutes of cat and mouse, I got bored and jumped out. Sure enough, a few minutes later I see them again. Sadly, it was at this point that my RL obligations got the better of me and I docked up for the night.
I'm seriously about ready to go to Molden Heath and pick a fight with some Tuskers just to watch something (me) explode.
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