Monday, May 26, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Status update
Back from a (diving) vacation in Estartit, Spain and almost ready to get back into EVE online. Every year around this time my interest in EVE drops and I change games for a short while.
This year I already blamed TAGN for getting me back into Civilization V. A friend has bought the full game and we have completed few multiplayer 1 vs 1 games these past few weeks.
I expect to get back into EVE in a few weeks at most (just need to win Civilization with on a large/huge map, 4 more races and at least one emperor difficulty victory.)
Several weeks of blogs to catch up with as well, so far I read about burn Jita, Gevlon & Noir, and the CSM voting results.
Good: Sugar Kyle and Mike Araziah both got in!
Bad: Uneven representation of players with the CFC/goon dominance.
This year I already blamed TAGN for getting me back into Civilization V. A friend has bought the full game and we have completed few multiplayer 1 vs 1 games these past few weeks.
I expect to get back into EVE in a few weeks at most (just need to win Civilization with on a large/huge map, 4 more races and at least one emperor difficulty victory.)
Several weeks of blogs to catch up with as well, so far I read about burn Jita, Gevlon & Noir, and the CSM voting results.
Good: Sugar Kyle and Mike Araziah both got in!
Bad: Uneven representation of players with the CFC/goon dominance.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
EVE: CSM9 voting
Voting for CSM9 is open!
1. Sugar Kyle
2. Mike Araziah
3. Ali Aras
4. James Arget
5. Jayne Fillon
6. Psychotic Monk
7. Steve Ronuken
8. Mangala Solaris
9. Matias Otero
10. Progodlegend
11. Mynna
12. DNSBlack
13. DJ FunkyBacon
14. *
1. Sugar Kyle
Sugar Kyle was number one on my list the second I read she was considering a run as candidate. I've been following her blog for a while and trust her to represent not just low sec but all players. She is willing to listen, visible, good at communication and isn't focused on promoting just one play style. I was disappointed when Ripard Teg only placed her 5th in his list. http://jestertrek.blogspot.nl/2014/04/my-endorsements-for-csm9.html
2. Mike Araziah
I had my doubts on whether or not to vote for Mike again because it's not always obvious which incumbent CSM members actually contributed but I think http://interstellarprivateer.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/grading-csm-8/ and http://interstellarprivateer.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/csm9-endorsements/
3. Ali Aras
Nothing but positive recommendations by everyone.
The same post by Rhavas that convinced me to put Mike in second place made me put Ali in third. A recommendation by Mike doesn't hurt either. http://mikeazariah.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/who-to-vote-for-pt-2/
4. James Arget
As incumbent CSM member with several endorsements he is the most visible wormhole candidate and you know your vote won't be wasted on him as it would have been on Kesper North last year.
5. Jayne Fillon
Simply because his name rings of Firefly and Serenity.
6. Psychotic Monk
By now I am in solid filler territory.
7. Steve Ronuken
I don't really care about 3rd party tools, I want EVE tools. But his name pops up often enough that I'll put him on my list.
By now it's very unlikely my vote will havy any influence at all but I don't expect the candidates below to need to my vote anyway since they are all part of a block or have block support lined up behind them.
8. Mangala Solaris
9. Matias Otero
10. Progodlegend
11. Mynna
12. DNSBlack
13. DJ FunkyBacon
14. *
Spot 14 will go to Corebloodbrothers, Gorski Car and Xander Phoena, one vote each.
EVEOGANDA endorsements:
http://eveoganda.blogspot.nl/2014/04/eveogandas-csm9-official-endorsements.html
Trebor endorsements
Gevlon Goblin recommendations
http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2014/04/csm-election-recommendations.html
Kirith Kodachi endorsements
http://www.ninveah.com/2014/04/endorsements-for-csm9.html
Noizygamer
http://nosygamer.blogspot.nl/2014/04/the-nosy-gamers-csm-9-election.html
1. Sugar Kyle
2. Mike Araziah
3. Ali Aras
4. James Arget
5. Jayne Fillon
6. Psychotic Monk
7. Steve Ronuken
8. Mangala Solaris
9. Matias Otero
10. Progodlegend
13. DJ FunkyBacon
14. *
1. Sugar Kyle
Sugar Kyle was number one on my list the second I read she was considering a run as candidate. I've been following her blog for a while and trust her to represent not just low sec but all players. She is willing to listen, visible, good at communication and isn't focused on promoting just one play style. I was disappointed when Ripard Teg only placed her 5th in his list. http://jestertrek.blogspot.nl/2014/04/my-endorsements-for-csm9.html
2. Mike Araziah
I had my doubts on whether or not to vote for Mike again because it's not always obvious which incumbent CSM members actually contributed but I think http://interstellarprivateer.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/grading-csm-8/ and http://interstellarprivateer.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/csm9-endorsements/
3. Ali Aras
Nothing but positive recommendations by everyone.
The same post by Rhavas that convinced me to put Mike in second place made me put Ali in third. A recommendation by Mike doesn't hurt either. http://mikeazariah.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/who-to-vote-for-pt-2/
4. James Arget
As incumbent CSM member with several endorsements he is the most visible wormhole candidate and you know your vote won't be wasted on him as it would have been on Kesper North last year.
5. Jayne Fillon
Simply because his name rings of Firefly and Serenity.
6. Psychotic Monk
By now I am in solid filler territory.
7. Steve Ronuken
I don't really care about 3rd party tools, I want EVE tools. But his name pops up often enough that I'll put him on my list.
By now it's very unlikely my vote will havy any influence at all but I don't expect the candidates below to need to my vote anyway since they are all part of a block or have block support lined up behind them.
8. Mangala Solaris
9. Matias Otero
10. Progodlegend
13. DJ FunkyBacon
14. *
Spot 14 will go to Corebloodbrothers, Gorski Car and Xander Phoena, one vote each.
EVEOGANDA endorsements:
Trebor endorsements
Gevlon Goblin recommendations
http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2014/04/csm-election-recommendations.html
Noizygamer
http://nosygamer.blogspot.nl/2014/04/the-nosy-gamers-csm-9-election.html
Thursday, March 27, 2014
EVE: Ganked 108
The theme was Amarr: BC and below, lasers and neuts, armour tanked.
When I started thinking about the available options my first thought was a nano battleship dualboxed with a logistics ship. While that might have been a lot of fun, my wallet and I decided to settle for a single cruiser hull instead as they have better mobility as the larger hulls and more DPS/EHP as smaller ships.
The Omen and Augoror hulls, both in normal and Navy Issue variation seemed like the best hull options to me when comparing ehp, speed and damage output. To increase the odds of my survival I went for a normal omen instead of a Navy Issue hull.
I was slightly late and arrived in Rens after RVB had already left but managed to catch up with the fleet as they left the low sec staging system.
Highlights:
As usual I was a bit annoyed with the TiDi effects of a 200 man fleet waltzing through space but by the time I left fleet I was determined again to participate in as many future ganked fleets as possible.
When I started thinking about the available options my first thought was a nano battleship dualboxed with a logistics ship. While that might have been a lot of fun, my wallet and I decided to settle for a single cruiser hull instead as they have better mobility as the larger hulls and more DPS/EHP as smaller ships.
The Omen and Augoror hulls, both in normal and Navy Issue variation seemed like the best hull options to me when comparing ehp, speed and damage output. To increase the odds of my survival I went for a normal omen instead of a Navy Issue hull.
I was slightly late and arrived in Rens after RVB had already left but managed to catch up with the fleet as they left the low sec staging system.
Highlights:
- Mr Vee showed up in an Ares.
- We encountered but did not engage a goon railgu fleet.
- A razor zealot gang bubbled itself.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=22469276 - A big fight between multiple fleets, the main battle being between the RvB and a providence fleet brave enough to engage us (with a CFC naga fleet and BL railgu fleet on grid at times as well). http://eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=22470013
- A Brave Collective noob ship fleet trying to get past us.
- DaBigRedBoat showed up in local.
- We failed to get a CFC titan bridge to the supercarrier battle going on at the time
http://evenews24.com/2014/03/16/grid-foo-for-you/
As usual I was a bit annoyed with the TiDi effects of a 200 man fleet waltzing through space but by the time I left fleet I was determined again to participate in as many future ganked fleets as possible.
Monday, March 3, 2014
EVE: Ships permitted
Sometimes I wonder about the ships restrictions on missions...
No carrier, dreadnaught or titan allowed but supercarriers are just fine.
No carrier, dreadnaught or titan allowed but supercarriers are just fine.
Friday, February 28, 2014
EVE: Ganked 103
A while ago I participated in RVB Ganked
103 and the theme was rifter hulls. With the choice between rifter, jaguar
and wolf I would have liked to fly a wolf for the dps but instead went for a jaguar, e
a shield jag flies 3 km/s vs 2 km/s for the armor wolf.
Artillery over autocannons was an easier choice. A relatively big fleet like this and a horde of small ships means everything turns into a race to get on killmails. So I’d need the ability to close range fast and large as possible damage application range.
My fit had an invulnerability field that I forgot to activate when targeted so perhaps next time I’ll replace it with a sensor booster (pod catching, km whoring, kb padding, one of the better pvp modules).
Artillery over autocannons was an easier choice. A relatively big fleet like this and a horde of small ships means everything turns into a race to get on killmails. So I’d need the ability to close range fast and large as possible damage application range.
My fit had an invulnerability field that I forgot to activate when targeted so perhaps next time I’ll replace it with a sensor booster (pod catching, km whoring, kb padding, one of the better pvp modules).
It took a while to get started but
eventually we undocked and headed for null sec space. While in high sec the
fleet brought its own tidi wave but this passed once we got close to
null. Our basic plan was to go to renter space and kill some ratters engaging anything we could handle while on our way. Mostly we jumped back and forth among the pipeline between
Doril and HLW-HP, managing to get some fights. Outside combat (voice)
chat was something of a mess but when action came targets were called out loud
and clear (and sometimes broadcasted as well).
The most important events of note were encounters
with bombers camping a gate, a CFC cruiser gang and some exchanges with an N3 interceptor
gang. Guest of note was Sugar Kyle, CSM9 candidate, bringing along some
support from her chat channel 'Spoonful of Sugar'.
After I lost my second ship I decided
against reshipping and left fleet heading back to high sec in my capsule. On
the way back I had a small adventure in one system with half a dozen drag bubbles and a
hostile brutix but I managed to deny him an unsatisfactory empty clone
kill and made my escape.
In the end I managed to get on 21 kills, 18
ships and 3 pods.
http://eve-kill.net/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=593357&view=kills&m=2&y=2014
I lost 2 jaguars and one pod during the
roam.
My fit:
Ganked 106 will be ECM themed and I would
have loved to join hat one but I’ll be spending that day playing board games: Twilight Imperium (plastic space ships!), Civilization, Smallworld.
In other news:
My main finished Mining Director V, one alt
finished Sentry Drones V and the other alt is little over a week away. A
wormhole PI alt trained to get into a
decently tanked but shitty dps drake.
*Hint: don't spend 2 bil on a drake or legion*
Friday, February 7, 2014
EVE: High sec corporation
Some people feel that a high sec corp has no added value and only puts you at the mercy of awoxers. While there is some truth in that statement I still jumped at the chance to join a new high sec corp: Lucifer’s Hammer.
Lucifer's Hammer is the industrial sister corporation of Stay Frosty and will primarily be a high sec corporation. We are still trying to figure out our identity and what direction to take so I took a look at what other high sec corporations advertise with.
Which of these can I provide or assist with?
Which of the above am I looking for?
The main benefit of a high sec corp I see is perhaps the social environment and being part of a group. What I want from my corporation is a sense of purpose. Instead of manufacturing the most profitable items to sell in Jita I’d rather build ships and modules that my friends plan to fly and instead of being fleetbear 254 I want to feel useful and appreciated .
This will be my first real high sec corporation. Most directors are alts of Stay Frosty members and have no real experience with high sec corporations either so we will probably hit our head a few times trying to get everything up and running. This first became obvious when I started a discussion about anchoring a research POS because until I mentioned this nobody had considered the requirements of anchoring a POS.
As self-proclaimed carebear my first step was to push for anchoring a POS in high sec. Unfortunately anchoring a POS in high sec requires the corporation to have good faction standings. With over 30 members in just a matter of days this was not going to happen without first purging a lot of players, including myself.
I didn’t even consider anchoring a POS in low sec because that is where the evil pirates live. But with almost 200 of those pirates on our side a low sec POS might not be as suicidal as it appears. Scientific networking allows you to research blueprints remotely as long as they are stored in a corporation hangar in the same system so there is no need to turn the POS into a loot pinata either.
The close relationship with Stay Frosty and the pirate/low sec background of our leadership and perhaps players is probably what will make Lucifer’s Hammer stand out and differentiate it from most other high sec corporations.
The future?
Lucifer's Hammer is the industrial sister corporation of Stay Frosty and will primarily be a high sec corporation. We are still trying to figure out our identity and what direction to take so I took a look at what other high sec corporations advertise with.
- Mining ops with orca boosting.
- Ore refining service
- Ore buyback program
- Manufacturing
- Hauling and logistics
- Mission running
- POS research and invention
- POCO access at reduced tax rates
- Jump clone access
- Helpful advice
Which of these can I provide or assist with?
- Mining ops with orca boosting.
I am currently training mining director V so I can use T2 mining links and the Mining Foreman Mindlink implant.
- Ore refining service
My main industry alt is running mission for standings with Caldari Business Tribunal, Creodon and Quafe so I can offer perfect refine in all Everyshore high sec ice mining systems. I'll probably get standings with Core Complexion and Federal Freight Storage as well to offer the same service in Hevrice and Raneilles.
- Ore buyback program
Since not everyone is interested in hauling ore and minerals around the universe the corporation could offer to buy these at a reasonable price. If my own manufacturing takes off I might want to do this myself because I don't think I can mine enough to
- Manufacturing
I can build items for sale to Stay Frosty (I assume they tend to lose more ships as high sec players) and I can offer to build items for players that supply minerals but don't have the skills or blueprints.
- Hauling and logistics
With an orca, freighter and multiple blockade runners I have no trouble moving items around for those with smaller cargo hulls or for our security challenged friends in Hevrice. While I am not yet considering a jump freighter, I am looking to get into a carrier.
- Mission running
I could allow newer players to assist in shooting red crosses or contract a site bookmark so they can salvage missions after completion. Recruitment policy is still undecided but it seems likely Lucifer’s Hammer will adopt the same open door recruitment policy Stay Frosty has in use. So perhaps it's best to shelve any faction fit mission ships, run my own background checks or request api keys from anyone that wants to fly with me.
- POS research and invention
I could research or invent blueprints for corp members that don’t have the skills when not researching anything for myself.
- Jump clone access
Estel Arador corp probably has more to offer as any other corporation in this regard.
- Helpful advice
Yay! Advice I can do, how helpful this is can be open for discussion.
Which of the above am I looking for?
- POCO access at reduced tax rates
Currently I do PI in a wormhole but if Lucifer’s Hammer or Stay Frosty can offer support for local PI that would be great. This is certainly something I will look into.
- POS research and invention
I have a small collection of blueprints but he majority needs to be researched before I can compete with established manufacturers so access to a research POS is almost mandatory for me. This is also the first thing I made inquiries about but since the Stay Frosty Frigate Free For All was coming up most of the leadership was otherwise occupied.
The main benefit of a high sec corp I see is perhaps the social environment and being part of a group. What I want from my corporation is a sense of purpose. Instead of manufacturing the most profitable items to sell in Jita I’d rather build ships and modules that my friends plan to fly and instead of being fleetbear 254 I want to feel useful and appreciated .
This will be my first real high sec corporation. Most directors are alts of Stay Frosty members and have no real experience with high sec corporations either so we will probably hit our head a few times trying to get everything up and running. This first became obvious when I started a discussion about anchoring a research POS because until I mentioned this nobody had considered the requirements of anchoring a POS.
As self-proclaimed carebear my first step was to push for anchoring a POS in high sec. Unfortunately anchoring a POS in high sec requires the corporation to have good faction standings. With over 30 members in just a matter of days this was not going to happen without first purging a lot of players, including myself.
I didn’t even consider anchoring a POS in low sec because that is where the evil pirates live. But with almost 200 of those pirates on our side a low sec POS might not be as suicidal as it appears. Scientific networking allows you to research blueprints remotely as long as they are stored in a corporation hangar in the same system so there is no need to turn the POS into a loot pinata either.
The close relationship with Stay Frosty and the pirate/low sec background of our leadership and perhaps players is probably what will make Lucifer’s Hammer stand out and differentiate it from most other high sec corporations.
The future?
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