Calling on Jimer Lins

This may never happen but I wanted to put it on the interwebs just so that possibly Jimer Lins may see this and be inspired....

please...oh PLEASE...

...do a parody of the COPS theme song but for EVE...

Was just thinking about it..."PODS, filmed on location with men and women of Piracy" (since I'm a pirate and all)

I'd die if this happened!

OMG::Overwhelmed, Muttering, Gasping

I have never really been big on getting into parts of EvE that are fairly technical and require a lot of thinking.  I'm not one to get enjoyment out of playing the market as a trader or being a top of the line mass producer of everything under the sun.  It just doesn't quite bring enjoyment out of the game for me. 

I really do envy the people that are able to do these things with ease.  The launch of Planetary Interaction is very enticing and I do want to get involved.  I started reading up on it not too long ago and I about had a heart attack I felt so overwhelmed.  I want to get into it so I am gonig to make a concerted effort to do so.  I will still be PvP'ing as I just restocked my hangar and hopefully don't have terrible roams but I need to grow my wallet so I can actually get started with PI.  I will never be at the point to get to Tier 3 or 4 production.  It just seems too complicated.  I can't tell the future though.

I will definately be using Eve University's wiki on PI to get me started.  I feel a little trepidation as I venture into this but it is not going to be my whole new life, just something on the side to get deeper into the game...and hopefully fund my PvP some more!

Also, the CSM5 results were released.



CONGRATULATIONS MYNXEE!!
CONGRATULATIONS MYNXEE!!
CONGRATULATIONS MYNXEE!!
CONGRATULATIONS MYNXEE!!

True Heroes of Eve

Jimer Lins of Noir. over at Declarations of War has helped create some very entertaining eve-related material.  One of his most recent parodies being that of Clik Lok based off Tik Tok by Ke$ha was very entertaining.  I wanted to direct you to two other parodies titled True Heroes of Eve.  Some of you probably understand exactly what it is just based off of that.  For those that don't, please go visit the site and see for yourself the genius that is Jimer Lins.

The True Heroes of Eve title itself made me think of some positions in roaming gangs that I felt could be considered a True Hero.  I will be making some posts about these positions in the near future.  I don't have a lot of time to write them tonight or in the next few days as real life takes over.  I want to do them justice and have some nice posts about them.  You can expect a post on Probing Scouts and Good FC's just to name a few.

*edit*
I read this post again and thought that my comments about writing about some other True Heroes could be misconstrued.  I was taking the words literally and want to write about people that are usualy very important to successful PvP.  I do not want to rip Jimer Lins off and make my own True Heroes parodies.  I just want to give props to certain positions in a gang.  Hope that clears this up :)

Capsuleer

One of the first things I downloaded when I got my iTouch this past Christmas was Capsuleer.  I had never really been big on blogs until I got this App.

For those that do not know, Capsuleer is a program that holds the Blog Pack and also has a Skill tracker that will keep track of your skills in training.  It is an amazing app and really got me started on reading blogs.  Since I used it on an iTouch and not an iPhone, I had to remember to update it before I went to work because they don't allow things like the iTouch to connect to our wifi.  It was, and still is, something I do every day.  The skill tracker is amazing also and has definitely saved me when I forgot to update skills the night before and scramble in the morning to make sure skilling didn't stop.

I think this is a pipe dream and probably not even possible but... it would be awesome if somehow, something like EFT was integrated into the app.  It would probably make it way too huge but totally awesome :)

Venting...

Who uses their blog to vent?

I really feel like I have a few things to really vent about but am hitting a dilemma in which I don't want to hurt feelings but I am entirely too frustrated to write in a nice way about the situation.

Being pissed and writing tactfully don't seem to go together.  I think I will hold off on my topic of venting for now and just go sleep this one off.

What I can say is over 1 week for this to happen is beyond me.  I need to make more money and buy an alt that can do what I need done.

I still have respect for those that do what I need done but goddamn, I'm drowning in mediocrity among those I depend on.

Reminder:  It is a game.

*eats handfuls of chill pills*

Dastardly Drake

Popped a Hurricane
My Harby goes pop
Drake Popped by corp mate

I was out in my 'sader about to set up some more pounces when I find a Harbinger on gate - I jump through - he has a buddy in a Harpy on the other side.  I get a corp mate to come and play while I hurry home to jump into my Harbinger.  The neut Harbinger bailed to high-sec but his friend wanted to play a little in his Harpy.  Suffice to say, we only melted his shields before he ran to high-sec.  We were on each side of a gate and he burned out of my Drake partners disruptor range after I had a few pop shots at him on one side.

We soon found a Hurricane in a nearby system just chilling in a belt.  My corpmate went in for the tackle and scored big.  I land, with no shields (damn sentry guns) and the 'cane quickly switches to me as primary.  He had smartbombs fit and my partner lost his drones but somehow mine survived.  As soon as we are scooping loot a Drake lands right on top of us.  I was at about 85% armor at this point.

I start burning toward a planet as I figured I would be primaried.  I did not time it right to warp out and come back in at range and was stuck in the fight.  Right as we burn through his tank, I am sitting at about 10% armor.  At this point, in my excitement, I burned out my guns!  I end up popping with the drake about 50% structure!!!

I think I would have survived if I did not burn out my guns nor have rat aggro (3% damage on the KM, hah!).

I think the Drake is an overlooked powerhouse.  In HAM range, they are fairly beast and his tank, with only one BCU, was enough to take on a Drake and a Harby's DPS long enough to pop me.  It almost makes me want to train into one but that's a long train.  I'll stick with my lasers for now.

Being a Wuss or Smart Decision?

A few of us were chattering on vent and decided to get a small gang together and play with the locals.  We started out with 4 Harbs and a Drake.  I guess the Drake pilot did not get the memo.  We were a little obvious in our choice of 'scout'/'bait' and the Drake is our looking for a fight.  Us harbs were sitting on a gate while the drake was fishing.  We didn't get much interest in the drake as he is completely obviously bait (we need to work on different lures!) and so we move into the system we were just baiting so the scout could move to the next promising one.  This area is usualy pretty active.  This was giving me the heeby jeeby's because we were sitting a LOT.  30 mins at a 350k spot off a gate is...well....it's any choice of synonyms for 'retarded'.

We end up getting spotted by a larger alliance and are on their radar now.  We decide to start roaming so we don't get squashed in by a plan to counter our gang of about 8 BC's.  We jump a few systems and we manage to get a Hurricane on gate to engage us.  Unbeknownst to us, we had just ate some bate.  Several alarm bells should have went off - Hurricane, not moving on gate, engaging 8 BC's.  Regional gate to boot! :(

Suffice it to say he was the perfect bait for us.  We were harby heavy, so he was able to burn out of harms way very fast.  We soon realized almost completely too late that this was bad news as the gate is flashing like a lightening bug and we have a bunch of neuts pouring in. 

We were definatly not prepared for this tarp and it showed in the FC's orders.  Three quick orders which all contradicted each one.  Most of us had stayed aligned (which was the best order he gave) and were able to get out as soon as the larger gang dropped in.  This is where the title comes in.  I think, if we were more mentally prepared for the drop, we could have done decent against the gang.  Soon as the FC's orders were confused and not focused, I warped out as the gang was spreading points.  Was this a hasty decision?

I think we only lost 1 or 2 people, while everyone else was able to get out.  I felt bad for making my own decision to get out but others did also.  The primary was 40k off from most of the gang because the gate was so huge.  No new primaries called and basically mass chaos.  I think I made the right choice because I lived along with many others.  I need to FC so that I know how it feels to lead and be run over so I can make these choices easier for myself.

*edit*  The FC doesn't suck.  The situation sucked.  I wasn't trying to rag on him or anything, we all have bad fights from time to time :)