tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62001079318707958822024-03-04T22:19:13.370-08:00Life and Times of a Noob CEOOrionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-41017229521502837662017-09-30T22:48:00.004-07:002017-09-30T22:48:43.512-07:00Content is not dead, just stop being lazy<div class="MsoNormal">
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I take T1 ship roams out to Horde space every so often and
other places as WH's give us just for a change of pace, and to have a bit of
fun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These are normally Caracals, because I pray to our lord and
savior Rapid Jesus nightly prior to going to sleep, but sometimes we take other
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Carcs: <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/94990/">https://zkillboard.com/br/94990/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Other stuff: <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/94989/">https://zkillboard.com/br/94989/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Always fun Horde have been awesome and thanks for the fights
thus far. Tonight, was a bit different a
corpmate had been bugging me every day for a month about whelping a Carrier for
the insurance. Finally, I got him to
move it into jump range of C4C so we can shoot some horde and let them get a
cap kill out of it. So I form our whelp
Caracals about 9 folks with my moral Drake and we head out.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We burn to C4C and with them deployed it's pretty inactive: <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/65016728/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/65016728/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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So we keep moving and dodge a 30+ GotG Ferox fleet, though
as much fun as that would be... I don't just want to whelp us right into a gang
with logi that we have no hope of killing anything before dying in a fire. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Many jumps later we get to 7RM and derp around a bit our
dictor calls out drake in KLY on the gate aggressed so we bounce through and
pop him and some other small ships. Then
suddenly Brute Force Solutions BS fleet!
Rip try to warp everyone off and we lose a few sadly. <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/65017279/">https://zkillboard.com/kill/65017279/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Suddenly Cyno goes up I panic thinking our carrier has
jumped in only to find out Slyce had dropped on that gang....
<a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/94992/">https://zkillboard.com/br/94992/</a> (I
know the BR is balls it's just to show the drop less who was shooting what so
calm your nerd balls)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well shit there goes that idea with them around, but they
soon jump their caps out and leave system.
As soon as they do we get back on the 7RM gate in KLY and jump in to
brawl out some of the Horde folks on the gate and drop the carrier in. We decloak light cyno and bring in our
carrier, and we all start dying pretty damn quick! Most of the Caracals and the moral Drake die
a couple minutes in while our carrier does what it can to kill things till his
fighters are jammed out by horde. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Slowly dying to Horde I hear that that there is a Goon Blood
Raider fleet jumping into 7RM and they warp in as the carrier starts hitting
low armor. As they land a Calmil Osprey
Navy gang with logi lands at a Tac nearby.
Goons finish off our carrier friend, and are then fighting it out with
Calmil and Horde that are on grid. BR at
the time of this was not working so sorry BR's are going to be Zkill links
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TL:DR undocked and had fun stop being lazy and go out and do
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Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-73622239493270995452017-01-14T23:17:00.001-08:002017-03-07T15:29:18.429-08:00No more<div dir="ltr">
I think this will be that last post for this. I am having issues, and pretending to keep it out of this blog I can no longer do do. It was a Eve Blog not a RL one.<br /><br /></div>
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If anyone did read this thank you and I hope things will get better. Thank you all.</div>
Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-88431428761569521302016-08-21T15:20:00.003-07:002016-08-21T15:20:45.587-07:00AAR / Target Calling: The art of killing things in a Alpha doctrine.<br />
Alpha doctrines are not a new thing to Eve, and are one of the most fun doctrines to use that I have been a part of as of late. <br />
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Alpha doctrines tend to break down to who has the best position, and better numbers. This is not always the case but for sake of this writing those are the things we will focus on. I was also asked to do a AAR as well for the <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Pure_Blind/38G6-L#kills24">KLY-C0</a> fight, and my apologies for taking so long on it, but I will blend the 2 together as best I can. </div>
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I have not fully FC'd a fleet for CO2 as of this writing, and only really did some Algos roams. and corp roams around the area. This day would be different as <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/cubeick">Cubeick</a> and his secondary FC <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/Joli+Torem">Joli Torem</a> took out our rusty Rupture doctrine for a spin. Ruptures are a cheap alpha doctrine that can really punch above its weight given positioning, webs. and hitting not splitting damage. Cubeick was set up as our anchor, and Joli our initial target caller which free's up the main FC to position the fleet properly so we apply max damage for the ammo type he wants us using. We moved into KLY and engaged an initial Pandemic Horde Caracal fleet, and unfortunatly one of the first losses was the secondary FC Joli. This left him without a target caller, and so I jumped in for better or worse it was time to get back to doing what I loved doing calling primaries. </div>
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There is a pace to calling targets in a alpha doctrine, and since the primary FC is anchoring you have to find the right times to be calling targets and letting him call for micro-warpdrives or other positioning calls. This makes things a lot easier if the pair has worked together before (we had not till today), and you allow each other to speak as needed. Once <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55534743/">Joli goes down</a> Cubeick asks for someone to call targets, and I go to work looking for high value targets first or things that will disrupt their fleet the most. If those are not in range or viable you focus on DPS killing DPS from the other fleet helps your fleet survive if you are not volleying them off before reps land then look at picking logistics ships. </div>
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I go into a mode when i call targets I start locking the target, and broadcast him using the right click broadcast target function. (I have been doing that my entire Eve career, and it was going to bite me in the ass later.) I kill what is close first since there were no high value targets on field that I could see so DPS was primary and we go to work on Caracals. I call targets with a cadence once I have broadcasted and locked the primary I start locking the secondary while I see how our DPS applies and today it applied damn well. When you are alpha'ing targets you have to have your secondary ready but keep a pace were folks are killing then locking the secondary this avoids people trying to split their DPS to shoot the secondary and possibly giving the primary a chance to get reps due to the split DPS. So calling targets for this fleet when primary is (as I am locking then broadcast) first 3 letters of the first name or full name depending on how hard it is to say. While I lock the secondary once that target gets to armor I am broadcasting the secondary this means by the time they are done locking the primary should be dead and all DPS should be applied to the new primary. Should the primary get logi reps I call the secondary as primary, and keep moving, but keeping that one locked. Once you have the temp for how the DPS is applying it becomes damn fun fleet with things dying one right after the other. We crush their initial Caracal fleet, and then they come for round 2, and this is where I derp so hard I wanted to just log off. While calling targets and using the right click method I hit remove cruiser from overview ......... Looking at it it is pretty damn easy to do if you are broadcasting targets as quickly as I was, and I boned it up bad!</div>
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So for me all that I could see on my overview was frigates so I called for free fire yet there was still a bunch of Caracals on grid. After going crazy trying to figure out what I had done and got it fixed we went back to work chewing through Caracals, and token <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/55534914/">Cerberus</a>. During all this Cubeick would start to speak, and I would just broadcast instead of speaking over him so he could give a call for an align or reanchor. It went as smooth as my derpiness allowed, and surprisingly we came out a bil a ahead, and I found my grove again. Thanks to you Cubeick for being awesome, and hope we can work together soon. </div>
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Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-59791209867871753692016-07-27T17:52:00.001-07:002016-07-27T18:52:17.666-07:00TabloidSo yea sense I post a TON here you know......... I have been asked to write some more somewhere else.... Ok that is a lie I said I would try so I am going to write some things, and you all get to see them as well. These will be Tabloid type things that are short, crazy, and totally fake....I hope......<br />
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This is where if I had any kind of skill or know how I would photo shop the hell out of something similar to these and put Eve players/CCP folks in game faces. Sadly I have no such ability at this time so it'll just be boring words much like Reddit! eh.....<a href="http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/tabloid-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/tabloid-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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SARANEN MARKET CRASHES! GOONS TO BLAME!</div>
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Locals are in a panic here in the system of Saranen as billions of locals cause mass hysteria and riots due to Goons leaving the area and moving toward Delve. Concord has issued a warning to the Caldari Government to get it under control or be put into marshal law via a press conference in Yulai. Caldari officials lay blame at the hands of The Mittani and his leadership for the current instability of the system. "Our people nothing but gracious to Goons, and the MBC who have both fought violent battles in our system killing millions in their terrible war". "We were told by The Mittani that he not cause issues with our populace with any drastic changes in the near future. Then he announces that they will be moving in less than a month!""This effectively ruined several million businesses with massive layoffs, crashed the stock market, and destroyed any use for new infrastructure we've built to support the outrageous group."</div>
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After speaking further with the enraged Caldari representative they will be looking to take Goons to Concord for reparations for damages caused to the tune of 1 Quadrillion ISK. This is the largest sum of ISK ever in any case thus far Concord has presided over. The Mittani could not be reached for comment due to what his representative said is via instant message "He is currently clubbing and will not comment on this case at this time." Concord said they have sent messages and look to start the trial with in the month.</div>
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Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-16919840523319160942016-07-14T19:37:00.000-07:002016-07-14T20:38:24.966-07:00The deserted wasteland Drone Lands<br />
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These were the things I was thinking when we started taking objectives in Tenal. After the first few objectives we all came to realize that Razor and INIT had both already moved a majority of their assets out of Tenal. After speaking to a few former Razor folks (yes I did find Razor) they had started moving things out almost a month prior to our hitting Tenal about when <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/4cdmmc/wtf_is_going_on_the_answer/">World War Bee</a> (WWB from here on out) kicked off. The link covers more of the overall WWB stuff than I will here so check it out if you would like to know more about it.<br />
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Funny thing to note that PL/NC. would not blue us and would actually shoot at our fleets as we <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/52811379/">moved around</a> to do either roams, or whatever else. They would not shoot us for the major WWB operations, but even then I was skeptical.<br />
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As I wrote before the EUtz would get the brunt of the bigger fights in WWB for Drone Walkers these were normally lead by <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/Bruce+Ernaga">Bruce Ernaga</a> leader of inPanic or <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/JAY+WRIGHT">Jay Wright</a>, We had a couple fights of note, but they were not DW pure objectives for the most part that I can remember. I dug through my killboard and found the biggest fight I was in with DW and either Eve Kill is busted or it has a lot of stuff in it as it has been taking forever to load! We made a huge error by bringing both Cerbs and hurricanes which led to us <a href="http://evf-eve.com/services/brcat/?s=3657&b=6960660&e=120&t=azAQLAgaq&ro=114.73333333333333">losing as much as the CFC</a>. With nearly a 1000 folks in local and brawled it out over what I cannot eve remember, but the fight was brutal for us. Bruce lead us on this one and we the shield to be beat on while we did what we could to keep it close. That was the more memorable battle that I recall, and there were chances we thought for bigger fights to see if the CFC would bite, and we brought our dreads out to play for these <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/53053749/">X-Large Ship Maintenance Array</a> & <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/53053885/">X-Large Ship Maintenance Array</a> if you do battle reports you'll notice the CFC did not show, and to be honest I would not have either. With a 1000 of the MBC, and a small cap fleet from the new comers to the WWB front there was no way the CFC would come and suffer their own personal B-R for what we may have destroyed in those XLSMA's. <br />
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With all that going on Drone Walkers kept pushing and flipping systems in Tenal with minimal resistance at all past some that had clones they would hop in to whelp ships. While flipping systems we killed towers a plenty and things were running pretty quick for us to flip the entire area in a little over 3 weeks. At about the halfway point people started talking about what next, and what would we do with the space. Well the space part was simple enough we would give it away to anyone willing and able to take it and live in it that was not Goons. At least that was the initial notions.....<br />
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For those looking XDeath had been making moves with fleets and Sov in and around Oasa. Then once we declared Tenal fully conquered XDeath made their move. It was capped off with a mail from <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/Attakare">Attakare</a> a diplo from XDeath and controls the standings sheet..but before that since they had not kicked all the groups from the gc.mail list a mailing list XDeath uses to send mails to all renters/supporters. <br />
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Reset Drone Walkers<br />
From: Karer II<br />
Sent: 2016.04.10 17:09<br />
To: gc.mail,<br />
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Greetings ladies and gentlemen.<br />
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Over the past few years we have carried out the practice of Space in dronregah young alliances or corporations wishing to establish an alliance. The only condition was - PVP. As practice has shown once again, people do not know how to appreciate the good. Greed, vanity, these vices turned the head of management of a number of alliances.<br />
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Of all who received dronregah Space are two of the alliance. This Alternate Allegiance and inPanic. Quite recently they organized a coalition Drone Walkers. This in itself is not that important, if not the number of their actions.<br />
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CEO inPanic Bruce Ernaga: "xdeath has no control over us anymore Inpanic, alts and kick dont have to listen to them anymore We are free..". Inpaniki are the second generation of traitors in Cobalt (damn region, if you know what I mean). Alliance Spears of Destiny, which was their predecessor received in Space cobalt in exchange for a promise to close the entrance to the dronregi from Vienna. Leaders of the alliance for a few months engaged in poaching sitizenov, a peace agreement with the attacking alliances region instead of countering them. As a result of the revolution which we have contributed to the reformed alliance inPanic. Apparently the leadership of the new alliance could not get rid of the virus of separatism. By its actions, it has brought the alliance to reset our part.<br />
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CEO Alternate Allegiance P Air: "im tired of being nice guy, thinking of changing tactics". Alliance started its journey from sitizenov NC .. Our cooperation enabled them to expand to an impressive value 3,300 pilots. During formation, as it turned out in the course of a large-scale investigation, the alliance did not disdain the direct theft of R64 moons pribiraniya their hands delicious systems podbivaniyu separatism other residents dronregov (eg recommendations tightening transmission Spacey), poaching sitizenov in stunning scale (about 500 pilots excluding other Citizen Alliance). Apparently it's his understanding "to be a good guy."<br />
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The guys from time to time were silent. Yes, they were helping in local conflicts that have been a part of their agreement. Now they just have declared independence and continue their destructive activities. Yes, during the war in Insmazere small contingents participated in dronregah alliances. Yes, they have played an important role in the final battle for the hub C-J6MT. However, what they have done and are doing now does not fit with the agreements that have been concluded with them.<br />
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A few days ago, the leaders of many alliances Drone Walkers coalition stated that they are in danger of losing their PVP-pilots and forced to begin active operations against the CFC to deter players. Such unanimity immediately aroused suspicions because the war in Insmazere some alliances are not even lit up. A few days later it became known that the alliances Drone Walkers stupid loot received for the contract against the CFC. Provided that they are, through the efforts of our diplomats, are included in the agreement not to invade between us and the CFC is - a direct blow to the agreements of all kinds. Do not be afraid of these words - a betrayal for money and nothing blatant lie.<br />
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Stands alliances with the following members of the Drone Walkers, will be dropped April 10, 2016 at 18:00 eve time:<br />
* Alternate Allegance<br />
* InPanic<br />
* Phoenix Company Alliance<br />
* Bloodline<br />
* District85<br />
* The Explicit Alliance<br />
* Just a Game<br />
* Requiem Eternal<br />
* BlackNovaMercenary Alliance<br />
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We tear them all the agreements and begin to attack their systems. If someone and tired of being a nice guy, so it's me<br />
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standings reset<br />
From: Attakare<br />
Sent: 2016.04.10 17:21<br />
To: alistair en Tilavine, Apoc42023, Argus Sorn, bcpror9981, Beguiler, Bruce Ernaga, Giribaldi, hyprviper1, Iceburn1, Juno2010, KwaLevu, MatthewMN, ThorWotran, Z air, <br />
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Following message is a notice of standings reset between GemiCo and all the alliances that are part of Drone Walkers from 10.04.2016 1800 ET.<br />
Maleficent activity of several alliance leaders of Drone Walkers prevents any further partnership between us. Contact GemiCo coalition diplo for details.<br />
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My guess was it was XDeath were waiting for was for us to fully be stuck in, and in a worse place to redeploy and defend ourselves. As to some of the things said in the mail I cannot comment on anything, but ALTS things. ALTS did a lot of the entosis work in Insmother and from what I gathered a huge amount of it. So the minor praise there is ignorance to the fact of the work they put in, and to the other items listed about poaching was funny enough. They said we took effectively thousands of pilots! Yea right........ you mean picked up groups or pilots that could barely hold on and brought them in sure. Though looking at it from their point they wanted ammo to fire up their war machine. As to the R64 I am not sure on, but after speaking to leadership I am sure we did not steal and when asked it was a matter of we had it and a new group moved in then suddenly wanted it and said no. If that is stealing what we already had then ya we are thieves. The funny thing is the other blocks owned more of the higher end moons in drones than we ever did under alt corps. <br />
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CEASE-FIRE<br />
From: Z air<br />
Sent: 2016.04.14 13:16<br />
To: Alternate Allegiance,<br />
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Dearest ALTS,<br />
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As of this moment, a CEASE-FIRE Order Has been given by Drone Walker Command.<br />
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ALL HOSTILITIES TOWARDS XIX/XWX Sov and Structures will Cease Immediately Until Further Notice<br />
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More information will be coming<br />
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Awaiting Positive Confirmation of the Above<br />
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Regards<br />
AIR<br />
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What is going on? Requiem Eternal is still being aggressed by Legion of Death and Shadow of Death.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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<br />Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-37742381161434569232016-07-04T07:02:00.001-07:002016-07-14T18:45:49.938-07:00The deserted wasteland "Drone Lands" Prologue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> So some people <a href="https://twitter.com/wilhelm2451" target="_blank">@wilhelm2451</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Sarag0ssa" target="_blank">@Sarag0ssa</a> both asked for me to go further into talking about the war in Drones and the things that went on. I hope I do it justice, but just know I was not in the higher echelons so there is tinfoil/2nd hand info on my part so apologies in advance. I will list all the groups as they come up and I remember them with links to eve gate once, and will most likely go to a short form name or ticker for the remainder of talking about this. I will also cover some things from before the reset that I think has a part or impact on it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 14px;"> <span style="color: white;">So let us go back in history a bit to the eviction of <a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/TOG%20-%20The%20Older%20Gamers%20Alliance" target="_blank">The Older Gamer Alliance</a> (from here on out known as TOG) from <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Oasa/04-LOF" target="_blank">their pocket</a> in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Oasa" target="_blank">Oasa</a>.</span> </span></span><a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/Legion%20of%20xXDEATHXx/" target="_blank">Legion of xXDeathXx</a> had come down and said that <a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/TOG%20-%20The%20Older%20Gamers%20Alliance" target="_blank">TOG</a> had not lived up to their requirements and were to be removed from the area. We in <a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/Alternate%20Allegiance" target="_blank">Alternate Allegiance</a> really did not like this, and looked for ways to avoid it completely to even helping to pay rent for them to buy them some time to get sorted. <a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/TOG%20-%20The%20Older%20Gamers%20Alliance" target="_blank">TOG</a> rejected the deal so we were left to go after a group I had come to like since I was asked to join <a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/Alternate%20Allegiance" target="_blank">ALTS</a>. So most of the non-renting groups in and around <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Oasa" style="line-height: 14px;" target="_blank">Oasa</a> started operations to push TOG out of their pocket which we all still call the old TOG pocket. Our first operations would bit start till near the end of the first week in February, but as with XDeath's tradition as soon as they reset their members went to go pick <a href="http://evf-eve.com/services/brcat/?s=1324&b=7095974&e=90&t=e&ro=56.5" target="_blank">fights</a>. The note worthy groups at the time for this were:</span><br />
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<a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/District-85">District-85</a> - D85<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XDeath did come out, but not with anything note worthy fleet wise from what I can remember. We had a few skirmishes with TOG, but TOG had already begun the process of moving once they got the reset notice losing an <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/51829188/" target="_blank">Aeon</a> in LowSec sadly on the way out. Honestly there were not really any good fights here past someone from Bloodline dropping their Titan while I was FCing to try and kill a Naglfar which did not work, since you know they didnt let the FC(me) know what was going on so ended up losing a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/51931925/" target="_blank">Loki</a> for their trouble....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(tinfoil) In my mind this is the start to the growing problem we could see that XDeath was looking at groups and looking to push them out to help stabilize the area in fear of a civil war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Though we still had what I thought was a good relationship with XDeath we held an event called <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/BWF-ZZ" target="_blank">BWF </a>party. Where we spent about 3-4 days to include the weekend gate camping and hopping on XDeath fleets with my goal being top killers in the area! We were asked to help keep points on a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/79143/" target="_blank">hotdrop</a> in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/Oijanen" target="_blank">Oijanen</a> and help with a fight in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Geminate" target="_blank">Geminate</a> with some XDeath pets that got grabbed by <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/corp/V0LTA" target="_blank">Volta</a> in their carriers<a href="http://evf-eve.com/services/brcat/?s=2504&b=6881340&e=150&t=qA01cb&ro=105.15" target="_blank"> (Battle Report)</a>. Time passed we did some other things some guys went to Fountain for a bit of fun with <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/Brotherhood_of_Spacers" target="_blank">Brotherhood of Spacers</a>, So ALTS was kind of in limbo some people looking for more content than just defense fleets that I had been running so we had people out doing their own thing in different parts of Eve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There had been rumors that war with the goons was coming, and we were all talking about if we would get involved. I figured we would not be able due to our ties to <a href="https://gate.eveonline.com/Alliance/Legion%20of%20xXDEATHXx/" target="_blank">Legion of xXDeathXx </a>and their relationship with the Imperium (I call them CFC or GSF still so you will see it here sorry). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">XDeath had a NIP with the CFC meaning basically no SOV//Structure attacking, and so when WWB kicked off it basically kept the larger portion of Drones out of the fight in regards of assisting the MBC. XDeath from what I could tell could not and would not openly support the CFC or be the next in line after the CFC were attacked. Early in the war <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/Mercenary_Coalition" target="_blank">Mercenary Coalition</a> reached out to ALTS leadership if we would be interested in coming out for the war. Other drone residents wanted to get involved for various reason some out of hate for the CFC others just for the content and be apart of what I thought would be the biggest war Eve has seen. Man was I wrong on that one!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> At that point the alliances got together we got a name, but there was a hindrance XDeath's NIP that applied to all of us especially groups like inPanic who wer`e named in it specifically. So the leaders got things rolling then <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Karer" target="_blank">Karer</a></span> turned the key so to speak. Karer is the leader of XDeath from what I have gathered the yes/no man so to speak, even though <a href="https://evewho.com/pilot/UAxDEATH" target="_blank">UAxDEATH</a> is the defacto perso</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n when people think of leadership with XDeath. Karer went to every Alliance on Skype and gave each personally the go for to take Drone Walkers against the CFC. Warning that if we lose and they come after our takings in Drone Lands/where ever they would not assist or support. </span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">With that Drone Walkers formed up and mobilize to <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/HB-5L3" target="_blank">HB-5L3</a> on the edge of <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Tenal">Tenal</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">This is a easy choice for staging since InPanic lived there and was close to their primary staging area. We took the doctrines that were fixtures of the time for Eve primary the doctrines to rule fights more often than not. Most if not all the big fights were Euro time zone so that hampered my participation in the bigger fights. Tenal was at the time owned by <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/RAZOR_Alliance">Razor </a>& <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/alliance/The_Initiative." target="_blank">The Initiative</a> who we expected to put up a nasty defense, and one to be honest I did not think we had the ability to fully push them out. I kept warning that these are not just push overs as INIT (the initiative) are pretty damn good PvP group in my opinion, and Razor has as many people we did coming to fight. </span><br />
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So TL;DR (to long didnt read) ALTS were reset by Xdeath and nearly all the of the people who were to stand with us bent the knee to them so they would not lose their space out of fear. <br />
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We ourselves made some tough choices and those not willing or able to fight left leave we few. Taking Alts from one of the largest alliances in Eve with around 3000+ toons to 300+toons. Which is not a bad thing from my point of view as this gives me a better perspective on what we have as a group. With 3000 you can get big ideas for what you could do with 10% of that, but that number was not reflective of what we really had. I use the 10% rule when looking at groups and what the can actually bring fleet wise and normally it is pretty close, but actually trends to be less than 10% in most cases. The reduction in numbers, the lack of allies, and the increasing support to Xdeath finally pushed us out of Oasa/PF entirely (well sorta). I say sort of because they cannot really keep us out unless we totally back off as Xdeath cannot hope to cover all their space and still has a lot of un-TCU'd systems in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Oasa" target="_blank">Oasa</a>. <br />
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A lot of people put in a lot of work and flipped a lot of systems which is why the Sov mechanics are awesome. We were so good at it <a href="https://twitter.com/Orion_Sa_Solo/status/719593616771952640" target="_blank">we set a record </a>in Eve for most timers <a href="https://twitter.com/CCP_Fozzie/status/719594055106236416" target="_blank">set in a day</a>, We fight in small gangs and either pick off stragglers off of groups or set them up for friends to hit them. <br />
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So what now? I have just put up my recruiting advert again, and will look to try and get YHI as a working corp, and geared more toward PvP than industry, We will always be industry, but it is not fair of me to say that industry is all we do and all that will be asked of members. PvP will not be everything, but will be something we work on and are a well rounded Corp. <br />
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Keeping this one short just because there is no way to really put everything that has happened in the last couple of months! Nor would I accurately be able to describe everything either and that would do justice to all the work ALTS and friends put into everything. <br />
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Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-55981946303651629042016-03-10T20:00:00.001-08:002016-03-10T20:00:10.306-08:00Alternate livingI got poked that I had not posted in awhile, and immediately felt bad. I had forgotten that this is how people who I know who do not play any more keep up to date on things.<br />
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So I've been with Alternate Allegiance for about 4 months so far, and it has been pedal to the metal the entire time. <br />
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I am going to post some numbers to show the progress, and even though to most other groups in Eve these may seem... poor to say the least. So take it for what it is a comparison from before I joined up till now.<br />
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/alliance/99003805/stats/" target="_blank">From January of 2015 - October of 2015 total amount of kills never got over 620 with 927 being the most losses of that time frame. With a negative K/D ratio.</a><br />
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<a href="https://zkillboard.com/alliance/99003805/stats/" target="_blank">I joined 23 November 2015 since then kills each month (except December) past 1000 kills, and has had a positive K/D ratio. It was not huge by any margin, but very noticeable when you look and compare the boards over the last year or so. </a><br />
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This really mean anything? Only time will tell, and keeping focused and working at it will help.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4beHHxAbls57jqNoKhVm84yUJYTF0eE7Cv1aODp9rldyGQxOgiaX2SqeBU1PmiFRqjkKnVKzC4ckyJIPXt-gluN7Vhp5VxsOfIa4Uq-7NzlREOjwmvp3hEvEUDgT0Set4wvSEZubI-Q/s1600/DI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4beHHxAbls57jqNoKhVm84yUJYTF0eE7Cv1aODp9rldyGQxOgiaX2SqeBU1PmiFRqjkKnVKzC4ckyJIPXt-gluN7Vhp5VxsOfIa4Uq-7NzlREOjwmvp3hEvEUDgT0Set4wvSEZubI-Q/s400/DI.jpg" width="400" /></a>Do I think me coming to Alts did that, in part yes, but not totally. Alts was missing fleet leadership, and from what I could tell an active FC who cares. First thing was to start trying to form for every group of neuts or neut that came into our space. I wanted to get people in the habit if intel flashed with neuts nearby to start getting ready. Do it enough times people tend to already long before you are! <br />
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Getting people into a doctrine was the first step, and sometimes even now is still a struggle. As we grow our numbers, and get them into fleet it changes what we need. At first it was I need dps and logi everything else second. Now I am asking for more logi as having just 2 is no longer enough, and support ships to flush out the fleet is needed. That is the hard part getting those support ships, the tackle, the recon, the scouts. These are things we are slowly putting together, and are slowly making us less of a target for easy kills.<br />
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That has been my focus since I have joined, and thankfully I have some great folks around me to help. My corp keep being a CEO easy thankfully, hopefully I can take some time to recruit and rebuild it so its not so lonely in corp chat. Alliance leaders have supported me with all they have, and I cannot thank them enough. Even a failed doctrine yea sorry about the cynabal's!<br />
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The CEO's have been talking about loss mitigation among our members indy/ratting ships. My thoughts are we as CEO's need to talk to our members and do what we can to mitigate them. That is about as far as I think it should go past a few exceptions. One exception would be during a CTA or home defense fleet. What to do about the exceptions and those losses is something I am not sure on. Kick that person? Fine them? I do not think those are things we should do, as we are not an elite pvp alliance by any stretch. So in honest I don't know what to do about it past finding out why, and going from there.<br />
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I've been pressuring others to step up and FC as well. This has to happen if we want any kind of redundancy in fleet fights. I am going to do my best to push these folks to do fleets, and run them on their own without any input from myself or any of the other FC's. Then talk it over afterwards and see what can be done better next go around. I hope doing this that more folks will join fleets since there will be more of them, and getting more folks involved will hopefully get more people to pvp.<br />
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In a industrial based alliance you build your pvp from within, you have to. Bringing in pure pvp groups never usually take well especially with how far out in null sec we are. They get bored quickly normally, and would always away from the area looking for pvp. Which is not a bad thing, but not optimal for them nor the alliance if they end up being at arms reach having to be away to find constant content. Who know maybe a group will come along, and be a good fit Eve can always throw you off.<br />
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So what is next? I have a few ideas, and had a small deployment lined out for the alliance......then PL parked in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/Akora" target="_blank">Akora</a>. So I've put that off to see what happens with them, and the push horde is putting on <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Fade" target="_blank">Fade</a>. <br />
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Hopefully real life will be getting real busy as I am about to start college. Work, this blog, and Eve will suffer for it, but poke me so I don't forge to do another post!<br />
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<br />Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-63834556929840727432016-01-17T14:42:00.002-08:002016-01-17T14:42:34.423-08:00What is this blogging thing?<span style="font-family: inherit;">So yea its been awhile......yea.........</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Real life first my wife had a little girl, and now I am working on not being easy to manipulate... though I doubt any sort of prep will help me in regards to her!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">This is a bit of an events update since I </span><span style="color: #222222;">haven't</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"> posted in a long time. I'm finally employed and that has firmly placed my play time in UStz prime. I am currently in charge of Yulai Heavy Industries again even though I wanted to let someone else run it. I was not sure if I could handle it alone without the support of my directors who are mostly afk due to real life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So after talking to some of the remaining members they really wanted me to push recruiting. So after trying to recruit some it didnt seem that I could rebuild the corp to ts former glory, and so I started thinking of alternatives...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then real life brought me to my knees. A friend out of game as well as in game, a fellow vet, and former CEO of YHI Talon Purvanen (Chris) was in a car accident, and died sometime later. He helped me start YHI in July of 2013, and was our mining director up until I asked him to take the CEO role. That was so I could focus on FCing and working on PvP doctrines, and fleets for the alliance. That way YHI could focus on being industrial, and being damn good at it. Were he did just that! Helped us get a cap building project going and we were producing a few caps a month. Which for us was pretty damn awesome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As always in YHI "real life first always" he was building a home, and had a new girlfriend to focus on. I was happy for him, and sad he'd be away. Someone else took over, and he'd pop online for bit to talk or call my cell to talk things or just about real life stuff. He'd kept in contact with folks via email, and would log in from time to time to help sort something. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I started looking at either leaving YHI to pursue FCing in medium to large gangs or have the corp join an alliance that allows me to do that. After talking with the active members we decided it best to join an alliance. So we joined Alternate Allegiance based in the Drone Lands who helped my old alliance a lot, and provided pilots for the war in Insmother fighting Red Alliance. I hope things work out the way I see them, and hopefully YHI will have a lot more options on the table for content.</span></div>
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So I've moved across lowsec, and have joined <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/WAFFLES." target="_blank">WAFFLES</a>. a very active Eve Online PvP centered Alliance. <br />
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My first impressions after being here for almost a month and spending serious hours in fleets, and Mumble.<br />
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As to content there is a ton of it, and by far more than any other group you will run into in Eve if you like PvP. Looking at my stats in August I had 267 kills 34 losses / 26.57 Billions isk destroyed to 2.72 Billion lost. September has exploded, and pay mind to that I joined waffles in late August. 514 kills to 34 losses / 90.22 Billion isk destroyed to 1.58 Billion isk lost. <br />
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That is a crazy jump, but will go down as real life gets back to normal for me. Fleets are up constantly going on, and you will get content because Waffles generate it. <br />
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As to the people it is taking a bit to get used it. I am currently doing fleets in both time zones so I am getting know both, and figure out who I like to run with, and who I need to adjust to. Just like any group there are folks who will get on your nerves, and ones that are great to be around. <br />
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Everyone will fly something that is needed as they can. You will not be able to just ship up into your favorite ship every time. If logi is needed, and you can fly it with the skills needed you'll be shipping into it or something else that is needed. That is the best part of Waffles. in my opinion because that is what will make you a better over all player, and asset to everyone. Forcing folks to do this will always put your group higher than others that just corner themselves into only being able or wanting to fly a certain thing.<br />
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We are doing a lot of stuff, and poking groups in <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Cloud_Ring" target="_blank">Cloud Ring</a>. This has been interesting, and different as I have fought for space, and nearly burned myself out of Eve defending it. I feel more comfortable doing in it because it is what I know, and now learning the new mechanics is pretty interesting. We've forced <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Iron+Armada" target="_blank">Iron Armada</a> out, and currently poking <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/SpaceMonkey%27s+Alliance" target="_blank">SpaceMonkey's Alliance</a>, and forcing them to show for fights. <br />
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So far so good, and my current goal is to get -10 Security Status so I can check that Eve block. <br />
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Oh also check out the Podside Podcast, and the Best of Us in game channels. Best of Us is for veterans across the world, and helping one another. Podside is a great podcast where you can be heard, and listen to folks talk about just about everthing.<br />
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So a lot has gone on since my last post. One would think that in a game it would be easy you know? Just do what you want and have fun! Sometimes it brings really emotions if you care about the folks you interact with, and this is the case with me.<br />
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I just left my Alliance, and as silly as it sounds it was one of the hardest things I have done. I grew into loving PvP, and eventually a FC defending our home. With that I left the corporation I started as well with my main. I need a break from leadership, drama, and politics I disagree with. Not to say it was that bad, but there were ideals that I just couldn't deal being a apart of and not having a real choice in the matter.<br />
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I'll always care about them more than any other group, and one day I'll come back. Hopefully in a better place to help it more so than I did before. As for what I am doing now? I am in lowsec trying my hand at that, but even that as it seems isn't as good as I had thought. Well at least at the moment that is some recent events have gave me pause in my current course. <br />
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The grass isn't greener by a long shot, but its different and that's what I wanted and need at this time. I don't know what I want to do right now, and hope the current situation gets resolved soon. As I am looking for my next fight/skirmish/war now.<br />
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Sorry for the lack of a real post, but I wanted to at least let folks know that follow this know my situation. If you are reading this thank you, and hope it helps in some way. <br />
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Below is something I had no idea was old as it is! I first came across this after listening to the Black Hawk Down soundtrack, and love it. This is what came to mind with all this going on in Eve with my toon.<br />
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Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-56325411040240921972015-08-09T16:31:00.001-07:002016-01-17T14:31:07.610-08:00Turbulence Hello! <br />
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Sorry for not writing more (not that you really enjoyed it anyway!), but real life has as always taken things 1st, and Eve last then this blog somewhere further down. Real life has given me a beautiful baby girl Lilly, and I now have to buy more guns...... for hunting......yea......<br />
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Now to Eve stuff sadly its been up and down as it always seems for me and my merry band. I am a CEO again, but going to be giving that to someone else. He's by far more knowledgeable in Eve than I am, and an industrial power house. My corp was and is a industrial force, and with its new CEO I think it'll become something much more as I had hoped. He's also a lot better writer than I will ever hope to be so go read him <a href="http://libertyeve.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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Now you may ask what I have been up to? Fighting and trying to support my alliance as best I can. See the following links below for some of the fights, and even a video of my boss's fun fleet he runs weekly.<br />
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We've been having skirmishes with the Imperium (goons), and taking on some heavy fights till they just cyno in more than we brought....which is every time lol. I also did a event for <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Nova+Haven" target="_blank">Nova Haven</a> who is lead by the awesome <a href="https://twitter.com/kiratsukimoto" target="_blank">Kira Tsukimoto</a>. Where my alliance helped Nova Haven kill my <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/48220401/" target="_blank">Dominix Navy Issue</a>.<br />
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Now what to do... that I do not know I have to find a new home in the Alliance as I plan on staying out here. That being said I will keep my options open, and hope for the best as always. This blog will have long periods of no posts, but I hope someone gets something out of this even if its a laugh. Fly safe folks.<br />
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I've heard the stories of the epic fights between Solar, and Xdeath since I join my currently alliance in null sec. I've been flying with Xdeath for awhile now, and they have some good people, and their leader is one of the best people I have spoken with (well skype'd with). Solar even with their hate for Xdeath, I figured would get pushed out of the Drone Lands at least or would come to terms like Tri, did, and prepare for Fozzie Sov. <br />
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With the changes to Sov, and the new missile buffs I am looking forward to trying out some Sacrilege fleets. Using the new missile mods you should be able to do some fun things with them, but we shall see! As it's not in any of our doctrines so it may be awhile sadly..... Oh and Caracals... Caracals everywhere! Seems like every time I undock there is a Caracal gang running around, and even on a Spectre fleet we ran into a Caracal gang. They are cheap, and very damn effective right now, and it makes sense with the Heavy Missile buff that are getting a lot of love. Myself and <a class="ProfileHeaderCard-nameLink u-textInheritColor js-nav
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What will I be doing till then? I have no idea really past trying to earn isk to buy some ships for the new doctrines. The shield Ishtar is dead <a href="https://twitter.com/MaxSingularity" target="_blank">"Thank you Space Pope!"</a>, and it seems the Armor Ishtar is a thing though. I don't think it will work nearly as well as a Armor doctrine, but time will tell if the Ishtar will have a roll in the coming months.</div>
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So system after system fell <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/PX-IHN">PX-IHN</a>, <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/ZZ5X-M">ZZ5X-M</a>, <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/SAH-AD">SAH-AD</a>, and so on, they begain to creep closer to our home systems. We made the decision to pull all major and not immediately needed items out of ER. We also made sure to <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Sovereignty_Blockade_Unit">SBU</a> everyone of our systems, and leave all our tower up. We were not going to make this as easy as the were already making it out to be. When Tri didnt want to fight they dropped Supers knowing Xdeath nor us could oppose them. This seemed counter to their wanting content and seemed more out of laziness than anything.</div>
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We killed the SBU forcing them to bring and online another. Our logi could hold the ANIs but anything less or not tanked properly died. We pushed to station to fight with bombers from bombers bar, <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Hashashin+Cartel">HASH</a>, and us trying to kill RattleSnakes. I had everyone switch to their triage carrier and he was breaking. As he neared 30% shields a cyno was lit and Tri brought in more Triage Chimeras. With that we disengaged, with no one able to come assist we could not hope to win. With a heavy heart I stood everyone down and thanked them. As a final gesture Tri Reinforced the safe POS we were in. As they left one their <a href="http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Huginn">Huginn</a>'s was bouncing off the shield after they warped. I burned out and grabbed tackle to get us a <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/45703770/">token kill</a>. <a href="http://evf-eve.com/services/brcat/?s=2340&b=6444230&e=67&t=e&r=1&ro=33">NWX Battle Report</a></div>
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So you may ask where are we now? Well I moved Alliance to support SERIN, and our new companions <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Advent+of+Fate">Advent of Fate</a> ( AoF from here on). To start again, as after losing your first home in null and something you worked so hard for.... people took it differently. Some moved with us wanting to grow again. Others went back to highsec, some sought out other corps/alliances to test other waters. As with Eve we all have ups and downs, and this was both of ours in rapid fire. We now fight <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Intrepid+Crossing">Intrepid Crossing</a> IRC from here on, who flipped sides to garner favor of Tri. Which is sad for me as we fought together, and even made a couple friends in game. Which now has strained and most likely will break those in short order. </div>
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This would be the spark that would set my former home ablaze like we had never thought it would. The restrictions on jump ranges were/are huge in mitigating responses from the larger blocs in Eve. I am for limited force projection though while reading this you may think I am not right in the head in being for it.<br />
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This is my memories (right or wrong to whomever reads I do not care) of our time in Etherium Reach from Renters to building a Coalition of Industrialists to defend their homes. We thought ER was a place no one wanted, but us....Others thought it the perfect place to start because they thought the same.....<br />
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Its starts literally day one of the patch an upstart group called <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Phoebe+Freeport+Republic" target="_blank">PFR</a> with a noble goal of freeporting station in Nullsec for all to dock. To each his own I guess, but thoughts are if it was meant for everyone to dock it would be Low/High Sec. Neither here nor there so on to the post.....<br />
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It all started for us on November 4th 2014 with us finding out PFR had made a move to claim <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/WPV-JN" target="_blank">WPV-JN</a>. They had taken down the Sovereignty structures required to online their own <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Territorial_Claim_Unit" target="_blank">TCU</a>. We were asked to kill it as we had really just started to grow and get ourselves ready to do PvP due to the new patch we took on the challenge. We were not alone at the time a local lowsec group was helping us <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/F0RCED+ENTRY." target="_blank">F0RCED ENTRY.</a> a good group of pilots who you will hear more about later. They had anchored the TCU so to deny them their claim we killed <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42201477/" target="_blank">it</a> and its defenders <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/39766/" target="_blank">Battle Report</a>.<br />
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I at least thought that would be the end of it our Land Lords don't have to come do anything job done we look better, and back to growing our alliance. Oh how wrong I was! They were tenacious to the point of absurdity/ignorance. <br />
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We had got intel from a source on them moving a freighter with another attempt at placing another Sov. structure down. We nearly had stopped them, but sadly we were to slow.... I burned my alt in a interceptor as fast as I could to get tackle and a warp in with help of <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/ROC.">ROC.</a>. A snall fight with their small defense force was enough time for the freighter to offload, and secure its objective. <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/13462/">Battle report</a> from that event.<br />
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At this time there were more groups either at the time scouting out the area <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Mostly+Hammered">Mostly Hammered,</a> and even ROC. had ideals at this time to even try to take space. With all these factions starting to bleed into ER we were asked to deploy and sport defending <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Etherium_Reach/1VN-XC">the front pocket of ER</a>. So we deployed to <a href="http://evemaps.dotlan.net/system/C-4D0W">C-4D0W</a>. <br />
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This would be our deployment area to defend ER from those coming in as best we could. Now mind you we did have landlords who did come and help but rarely and only for the final timers normally so keep that in mind. Though through our early successes we did something no one thought possible we grew a USTZ Renter coalition, and one had it been given more time could have done a lot of good things for the area.<br />
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We fought with a T1 Doctrine of what we called the Mighty <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Maller">Maller</a>, and the <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Moa">Moa</a>. Since most of us were new to PvP to easy the cost, and skill points needed we went these as our main line ships. We wanted tank over DPS which helped us early, but proved to really make grinding anything painfully slow! With T1 and eventually T2 logistics we could hold the field far longer than we really should have been able to. These were what I cut my teeth on as I learned to FC and take fleets out.<br />
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As things go people change sides and who you worked with are against you the next. Seeing weakness in our landlords ROC. and F0RCED ENTRY. both went to either support PFR or do their own thing. * I will not try to dig to deep on the politics here as my memory is terrible and I don't want to bog this post any more*<br />
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We lost WPV and surprisingly we had no idea that CT8K-0's station after the last invasion was never repaired so when PFR struck it was quick, and we woke up to PFR owning their first Freeport on 11 November 2014. Now with them having a foot hold we were asked to be the force to make their work miserable, and to hit them <a href="https://zkillboard.com/kill/42703208/">everywhere</a>. We continued to pressure them with fights <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/39771/">here</a>, <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/39772/">here </a>with help from the best solo pvper I know Joffy!, Small things but it was building to one of the most defining fights for me personally as the largest battle I had FC'd. <br />
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Though this isn't all we were battling a group called Anti-Social Club was trying to take space as we were called. Oh at this point we were no longer renters per our land lords a major milestone for us and renewed our members, and helped us grow our new coalition. This is one of my first FC battles, and with a ship I had little knowledge and use of the <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Ishtar">Ishtar</a>. <a href="https://zkillboard.com/br/39776/">The Battle Report</a> and Video below.<br />
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Now the first fight for CT8K-0 was not to happen. PFR called for help, and had a NPSI group come and support them so we stood down knowing that we had one timer to win, and it was the one that mattered. If you would like to know more about that please refer to PFR's Reddit. The armor timer for the station was where we would make our stand, and one that would change the course of Eve for me, and my want to go full into FCing, and doing what I can to make my Alliance great.<br />
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Please see below video, and Battle report here for the down and dirty. For me it was the largest fight I FC'd, and I was wide eye'd, but determined to fight and lose it all to try to win this fight. At the time we formed 50 pilots from our Coalition, and were told <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Legion+of+xXDEATHXx">Legion of Xdeath</a> and/or <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Shadow+of+xXDEATHXx">Shadow of Xdeath</a> were not going to be able to make the timer at all or if so late. PFR called upon those who believed in their cause, and those looking to get into a fight which I think was their undoing in the end. Notably <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Test+Alliance+Please+Ignore">TEST</a> / <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/Brave+Collective">Brave</a> came through a new frigate Worm Hole with a <a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Maulus">maulus</a> fleet which made our logistics group only able to lock out to 5k at best forcing us to ball up. This with their other supporters and randoms brought the total if 300 pilots at its peak vs our 50. PFR switched from their normal Caracal doctrine to<a href="https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Vexor_Navy_Issue"> Vexor Navy Issues</a> which in my opinion a better choice, but I feel they just didn't have enough time in them to be very effective, and that I focused on their logi to help us drop their DPS quicker, and that caused them to leave the field early the first time.<br />
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<br />Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-25047175732005622442015-04-02T11:06:00.001-07:002015-04-02T11:06:24.800-07:00Unto the Breach "liberal use of Shakespear"<p dir="ltr">Orion Sa-Solo</p>
<p dir="ltr">Once more unto the breach, dear SERIN, once more;<br>
Or close the Station up with our SERIN dead.<br>
In peace there's nothing so becomes a pilot<br>
As modest stillness and humility:<br>
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,<br>
Then imitate the action of the tiger;<br>
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,<br>
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;<br>
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;<br>
Let pry through the portage of the head<br>
Like the Blasters, Lasers, and missiles; let the brow o'erwhelm it<br>
As fearfully as doth a galled rock<br>
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,<br>
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful systems.<br>
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,<br>
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit<br>
To his full height. On, on, you SERIN!<br>
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!<br>
Fathers that, like so many ,<br>
Have in these parts from morn till even fought<br>
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:<br>
Dishonour not your FC; now attest<br>
That those whom you call'd CEO did beget you.<br>
Be copy now to pilots of grosser blood,<br>
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,<br>
Whose limbs were made in Etherium Reach, show us here<br>
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear<br>
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;<br>
For there is none of you so mean and base,<br>
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.<br>
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,<br>
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:<br>
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge<br>
Cry 'For SERIN, and Etherium Reach!'</p>
Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-24077899686927445112015-03-23T12:25:00.001-07:002015-03-23T12:33:52.271-07:00Change<strong><em>Eve is changing……. So I need to change</em></strong><br />
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With the `new patch rhythm it is changing faster than ever, and with it I need to as well. See Eve literally saved my life well it comes down to one person in Eve, but the game and notable people in here helped me. There has been a shift the constant stress of RL and our current situation in Null have brought out feelings I had damned people on my blog/twitter/reddit.</div>
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<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/" target="_blank">Reddit</a> was a place I used as a resource for Intel at first, and then got embroiled in the trolling, and trash talking that is generated in there. Now there good things there do not get me wrong, but there are good post that support fellow eve players/events, CCP posts and very good folks, but deleting my account was the best thing to help avoid me even wanting posting anything. It pulled me into saying things that are not what I want to be like anymore.</div>
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First to my <a href="http://evewho.com/alli/The+Serenity+Initiative" target="_blank">Alliance</a> and my <a href="http://evewho.com/corp/Yulai+Heavy+Industries" target="_blank">Corp</a>. you all are my brothers, and sisters that have followed my </div>
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Our blues who have join my fleets and supported our operations you all have been great.</div>
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The people below have had a heavy part helping and getting me feeling better, and really enjoying this game. Some of these people I will name are their respective twitter handle or in game name if you would rather me not have you on there at this time of this posting hit me up and I will take your name off of here. No offense on the order I just wrote as I thought.</div>
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<a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Spanky+Ikkala" target="_blank">Spanky Ikkala</a>: This man is one of the main folks who has talked to me and helped me with my issues. A fellow soldier, and loud advocate for the <a href="http://www.thecoffeerocks.com/dir/index.php/articles-and-news/34-broadcast-4-reps" target="_blank">Broadcast4reps</a> (#B4R) in game channel/twitter hash tag. </div>
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<a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Emma+Kado" target="_blank">Emma Kado</a>: I hated you for a time till I sat down and started writing this, and where I realized I had really messed up, and figured out we are one in the same for the most part. Though I as told this once already by someone, and it is true looking at it. Sorry about what I said for what it is worth, and hope the best for you.</div>
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<a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Saragossa" target="_blank">Sarragossa</a>: People in the alliance call you mom, and for good reason. You deal with all our problems RL and in game. You care about the alliance more than the boss! You've talked me from the edge of quitting more times than I like to think of, and I cant thank you enough for that. </div>
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<a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/sweetnjuicy" target="_blank">sweetnjuicy</a>: Saved me from myself, and still holds me together in the worst of times. No matter how bad it gets always brings me back to where I am thinking straight. There are not words to say to thank you, and or give enough to equate what you have done. Thank you.</div>
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<a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/TorrinDeCaptor" target="_blank">TorrinDeCaptor</a>: One of the blues I just met not to long ago. Pretty sure we were separated at birth or something. I knew I like this dude the moment he hopped on comms! We'll deal with our issues and pod those who try to fuck with us man. Hoping I can learn a lot from you and your time FCing, and our Armor fleets will make others cower!<br />
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<a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Joffy+Aulx-Gao" target="_blank">Joffy Aulx-Gao</a> / <a href="http://evewho.com/pilot/Rixx+Javix" target="_blank">Rixx Javix</a>: Dirty pirates both, but the best two folks you can run into. They both have done what they can to help me out in Eve, and have been there for me when others could not. Joffy you are an inspiration, and Rixx you got me to do this, which has helped me a lot. Thank you both.</div>
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The real question is can I change? Well I will have to or continue to suffer, and hurt those above who have been helping me. So here it goes, and I hope I can get things righted so I can help get us through the crazy that is Eve, and these constant updates, and soon to be SOV changes.</div>
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I am sure there is more that you or your group does, but Eve is back on line and I need to get in!<br />
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-OrionOrionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-86403662819901655132014-08-02T16:52:00.000-07:002014-08-02T16:52:15.032-07:00Mob MentalityWhile playing Eve I try to be as easy going as I can be. Not try to jump to anger, and be understanding to; issues, complaints, problems, he said/she said, drama, etc... I try to remind myself not to troll people as you never know how your words may affect someone else. I'm human though and fail a lot in things I try to do, and this brings me to the <a href="http://people.howstuffworks.com/riot3.htm">Mob Mentality</a>.<br />
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I say Mob Mentality as if a group starts to troll another even though you're not the type to, you very well may troll those people in return. This normally seems to start in Eve with a bit of trash talking from one side or the other. Nothing hard hitting just thinking like; 'come out and play' 'aww dont run', 'dont be scared of us', and etc.... <br />
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The turning point normally in Eve is when side starts taking major ship losses, losing the fight, or losing a war. These can be amplified if the two sides have bad blood to begin with which doubles the chance of things like cursing, personal assaults, and hate speech. Like the fight itself it progressively escalates it burns itself out like your prop mod in a low sec fight.<br />
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I try my best to not do these things, and seeing personally how words have a real way of hurting or helping someone. I'm human though, and if one of my corp members get caught out I'm out for spaceship blood. I'll taunt in local to see if I can get him to slip up, to break his focus, and give me or my gang a opening to get retribution. In the Mob though things can go do far, and get out of control so it takes strong minded people with influence to stop the cycle. As a leader you have to see the point where your mob mentality has turned in the wrong way, and stop it cold if possible. This may not be possible depending on how intense the situation is, so you may just need to help guide it the right way before mistakes are made in game, and to someones mental health. <br />
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You may not care, and Eve does not care that is for sure, so why should you? I can type till my hands bleed with reasons you shouldnt, but like in RL its all up to you. <br />
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It can be used for good though, and applied the right way it can do lots of good. Your corp/alliance is a 'Mob', like mine I, and my awesome members do my best to train new players and help them as much as we can. <a href="http://www.sindelsuniverse.com/the-angel-project/">The Angel Projec</a>t is a great 'Mob' doing great things in Eve Online, and I am sure there is more support, but that is a known group that assist hard up pilots. <a href="http://www.eveuniversity.org/">Eve University</a> is another 'Mob' that does so much I can put everything that mob can do! Is there more? Well that's for you to find out...<br />
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Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-54438127155109630652014-07-05T23:30:00.000-07:002014-07-06T20:47:43.206-07:00Real Life and Eve<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When this blog goes dark, and like even Eve itself it will go dark
eventually. I wanted to say why I really started this blog. I
needed an outlet something to help me express my feelings. Channel the
varied emotions, trials, and tribulations that is this wonderful game.
That and Real life which dictates when or if we can even undock……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">My RL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Though what this blog really is, is something hopefully that will
help me figure out myself, my real life (RL). I've mentioned I am a
soldier with 11 years active service. These last 2 years have been the
worst for me mentally and physically. I'm currently seeing a
psychiatrist, and going to other medical appointments to see what is wrong with
me. As it stands it's all in my head which in its own way seems worse to
me. Either way those are my burdens to bare, and thankfully I have good
people around me to help deal with them, and a loving family. I count
myself lucky to have that, as others may not, and if that's the case I hope I
could help someone in need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Eve & RL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I use Eve as an escape from RL, but....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I had both collide in a way I wasn't prepared for. We picked
up a new member who was a soldier as well. Soon after we picked up a
WarDec, out of the blue. So I reached out to them, and found out they
were after our new member. Not unheard of, but they wanted us to kick
him, and or have him undock to get attacked. Sadly as a CEO I
didn't have this knowledge and this was our 4 WarDec and would keep my guys
docked and I'd lose more members. So I kicked him and immediately
regretted it. Come to find out they were other soldiers who he'd had a
disagreement/fight (not a lot of details) with and they were harassing him in
game. This violates some rules CCP has in place, so my diplo filed the
ticket to have it stopped. This places me in a odd place I ask for RL
numbers as a leader bullying, and harrasment like this in game, is likely a
lesser of what he is getting on RL. Once I confirmed I out ranked all
parties against my corp mate by several ranks sufficed to say they stopped the
in game stuff. I also knew the people to call on the RL side were they
were stationed that'd stopped it cold. In the end I invited him back, as
soon as I found out the full information, but he declined making feel even
worse for what I had done. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Loss<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Sadly even we cannot fully escape death of those close to us by
logging into Eve. People like Vile Rat, Uber pain, and many others have
passed on avid players of Eve Online. How this impacts everyone is
different, but all are a huge blow to someone. Vile Rat touched many and
by far the most notable loss to the community as a whole.<i> </i>Such
a high profile person in his RL won't go unnoticed when something as tragic as
what happen come to pass. Their losses have RL effects that we cannot
begin to fully emotionally rationalize, and leaves holes that will remain
hollow. I didn't know Vile Rat in game, but he was a patriot in RL as am
I. So I'll call him brother, and mourn him like I would a fellow soldier
as he should be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6i4XZTr7QrnMKm_C58ZrRjJiKk4joViKZBXLH5UUJ8zSexTwpXyQ2dUsDMIV5ky8Cyfy7yoDna3vsedCaltUxMV7QmLqbTBfLJuIeeprNS_4653vrB9jVHWydgxPCzyRw2NI2vvy4IA/s1600/Soldier+Memorial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6i4XZTr7QrnMKm_C58ZrRjJiKk4joViKZBXLH5UUJ8zSexTwpXyQ2dUsDMIV5ky8Cyfy7yoDna3vsedCaltUxMV7QmLqbTBfLJuIeeprNS_4653vrB9jVHWydgxPCzyRw2NI2vvy4IA/s1600/Soldier+Memorial.jpg" height="320" width="320"></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Uber is what everyone called him, was a pilot from our alliance, and
had a huge effect on some our members. I didn't know him either, but
regardless he was in our Alliance, and one of us... so I undocked. I flew
my Gila on my main, and my Skiff on my Alt, orbited a lone can that said RIP
Uber. The Alliance head, and other leadership and orbited the can
shooting fireworks, and snowballs. It stop me cold it felt like I was
looking at a combat memorial in Iraq. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Excerpt from Alliance mail:<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Today we gather to recognize the loss of a brother; Uber’s time on
Earth and in New Eden came to an end in March 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Kel Gallnt, uber pain, over medicated, black, vicodin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Uber was a great man and a valued pilot who will be missed. His
bluntness made him a man we loved to hate at times but loved him all the same.
I remember spending many late nights having a good laugh at the jokes he would
tell. He would keep us entertained with his life stories and blunt jokes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">He was always willing to lay his pod down for his EVE friends and
family. Regardless of the odds he was always there. If there was an event he
was there to support his friends and family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Eve is Real<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This is when Eve isn't a game anymore it becomes a community.
A group of brothers, sisters, friends, and enemies. We laugh, and
cry with one another, and in this instance grieve for those we've lost.
It touched me they did this for Uber, and what struck me more was others
from my corp that undocked. They never knew him, but I felt as leadership
I needed to attend either way. They fired all their Fireworks, and
snowballs, then we undocked larger ships, and repped the can with drones.
Some were related a story, and talk about taking a roam to an area he had
wanted to go to. One by one people docked up, and like RL the pain is
there, and the memory brought forward to deal with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Tomorrow we undock like any other, but hopefully with the purpose
of enjoying the time we have in game and out with the people we care
about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Fly safe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">RIP Uber<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This blog was for you all at C5, members who knew him, and
Sara <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Orionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161064119348682516noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200107931870795882.post-20501665454694251092014-06-24T20:43:00.000-07:002014-06-24T21:08:05.473-07:00Skill Training for new Pilots and my ProcurerThis is one of the hardest things for a new pilot to figure out. Lots of options, and normally when you first fire up Eve it can be over whelming looking at everything. So the TL:DR (too long didnt read) pick a ship you'd like fly and skill toward it.<br>
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I take on brand a lot new pilots still in trial or just getting their first 30 days in. I've been lucky some have stayed, and grown with us! So the leadership will get asked what they should skill toward, to get better. I ask what do they think they'd like to do. Because at the end of the day if they aren't happy then they don't log in or work toward your goals at all. </div>
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If I do make a suggestion I start with mining, or PvE especially with very new players. Why? Because ask anyone PvP doesn't pay out for new pilots, and getting ISK early on is the name of the game. My first suggestion is to create a goal, pick a ship you like that fits that role and start skilling to sit in it. </div>
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We'll go with mining in this instance, and my suggestion as a goal for new members to skill towards.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is by far the ship for newer members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">S</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ource of information from Eve Uni:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue Light, HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I am in the minority in fitting these or any mining ship, because I choose tank over all things.</span><br>
So do not loose your mind when you see the fits I suggest! That being said the below fit is optimized against ganking ships like the often used Catalyst, so Kinetic and Thermal damage is what we are tanking against in HiSec. </div>
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Sub any T2 mod you cannot fit with a T1.<br>
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High Slot - Ice or Ore Strip miner T1 or T2<br>
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Mid Slot -Adaptive Invulnerability Field II<br>
Mid Slot -Kinetic Invulnerability Field II<br>
Mid Slot - Thermal Invulnerability Field II<br>
Mid Slot - Medium Shield Extender II<br>
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Low Slot - Damage Control Unit II<br>
Low Slot - Ice Harvester Upgrade II or Ore Harvester Upgrade II</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">High Slot - Ice or Ore Strip miner T1 or T2<br><br>Mid Slot -Adaptive Invulnerability Field II<br>Mid Slot -EM Invulnerability Field II<br>Mid Slot - User's choice<br>Mid Slot - Medium Shield Extender II<br><br>Low Slot - Damage Control Unit II<br>Low Slot - Ice Harvester Upgrade II or Ore Harvester Upgrade II</span><br>
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Drones: 5xWarriors *1</div>
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How I do skilling has evolved, and will most likely cause the Eve L33t people to have a seizure. I skill toward what I need or want at a given time, but it Alliance/Corp need or a ship I'd like to try out crazy I know! Though I do it a bit differently I work week to week (does not work so well once you get to the longer skills) I work toward say flying a Gila. I'll start working the requirements for that for a week, and once I finish that week I work toward<b> Core skills </b>following .<br>
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It's not as bad as all that, but it's not far off either....<br />
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Remember that recruiting channel I said you should have started? Well to do that you need to do a few things first. Open the chat channels button on the left,and click Channels. Once done I'd type something along the lines (Corp Name) Recruiting Channel. I'd suggest only use this channel for recruiting do not make it a hangout so you can see if a new person joins immediately. Click Create *We will come back to this later<br />
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Now take all the things I suggested earlier and be ready to put them in a recruiting advert. <br />
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Go to your corp tab on the NEOCOM on the left. Click on the Recruitment tab, then Corporation Ads.<br />
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Now click on the Create Advert button it'll bring up another window. Put a snazzy Ad title like Free Beer! No not really unless you can then good on ya! Put something on there you'd be looking for when joining or interest you. Reason being you'd people that would join liking the same thing you do right? <br />
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<b>Looking For </b><br />On the Details tab on the right you'll see "Looking for and a drop down. Click that arrow and you'll see at the time of this posting 3 areas. PvE, PvP, Trade & Industry, and Other. Choose the things you do or will do in the very near future. Reason being is false advertising sucks, well unless that's what you are going for...<br />
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Check the appropiate boxes and go to the next area " Area of Operations " or AO to us military folks.<br />
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Pretty straight forward on this selection check the area's you operate in. I take it as where we run operations out of not to, meaning I do not claim low sec as an operating area if I only do a roam once in awhile. If we had a station there we worked of or POS (player owned station) sure.<br />
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Select what applies to you, and your group.<br />
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Go ahead and go the full length of 28 days, and pay up the 7.5mil for the Ad.<br />
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Now the block I avoided the<b> Message to Recruits</b><br />
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State short term goals, long term goals, and Tax rate.<br />
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What you can provide to new or old players SRP (Ship Replacement Program) Ore Buy back program, and so on.<br />
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If you are going to require API put the link to set one up in there, and if you do not know what an API is yourself. Check out the link below, and also look up EveMon. A great tool to check API's its not a catch all as there are ways to look innocent, but its something at least. I am sure there are other 3rd party programs, and please check them out I've only used this one so it's my base. *If I can remember I'll post on checking people's API's via Evemon.<br />
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Put what you like on the message, but leaving it blank seems a waste.<br />
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Now to the next tab <b><u>Recruiters</u></b>! <br />
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Pick people you can trust, who know how the corp operations run, and who do not mind talking to people who may literally be 1 day old in game. <br />
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Pick them out hitting the Add button below your corp member list. Next is Recruitment Channel (see told you we'd get back to it) use the drop down and pick the channel you created earlier.<br />
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Review for error's typos and such, and when ready click submit!<br />
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What I have noticed when you hit membership milestones is when you start seeing more people put in applications or join your recruiting channel. These normally are 10 50 and 100 respectively.<br />
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I was playing whatever iteration of FPS shooter at the time, and League of Legends (LoL), but being super competitive it went from fun gaming into anger/rage inducing moods. I needed a change of pace, RL was really getting to me (still is) at the time. My uncle had been bugging me for days to try Eve Online, and after the first 2 hours <u>I do not think I'll stop playing till the servers shut down</u>. If you have not tried it give it a try: <a href="https://secure.eveonline.com/trial/?invc=f9371051-e6cb-4b5d-97db-b5ba10f92922&action=buddy">https://secure.eveonline.com/trial/?invc=f9371051-e6cb-4b5d-97db-b5ba10f92922&action=buddy</a></div>
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Without the above Eve Uni Wiki it would have never happen! Also checkout all their things out as their information is far better than a few Billion isk in your wallet. So I learned enough to get us started, but sadly sometimes even they leave things out that I had to learn the hard way. I'll save some of those for another post for another date as I am still learning a lot of do not's. </div>
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Though we hit the jackpot for a new corporation, and that was having a member join with a Rl friend of a friend who had been playing for 6 years! That in of itself is like someone giving you 100 million isk when you first start playing Eve (Love ya T). Without him I would not have a 130 member corp with some of the best people I've come to know in a game. </div>
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