Month: February 2006

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Seriously, Why?!

wow[World of Warcraft] I try not to gripe too often. No one wants to hear it. This time, I’m just a little too angry. What’s my problem? Obviously it is about World of Warcraft. It’s not about the game itself but the stuff that Blizzard keeps adding to it that simply doesn’t work well. What is it this time? Deserter.

Haven’t heard of the new Deserter debuff? It happens when you abandon a battleground. It’s basically punishment for those people who leave a game when the outcome of the game doesn’t seem to be in their team’s favor. It gives you a debuff that lasts fifteen minutes and does not allow you to enter a BG. Sounds pretty good, right? After all, it just fixes one of those annoying little nuances that whiney, impatient gamers bring to WoW. WRONG! It brings along several other problems.

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Binds for Masterminds (and buffers/healers)

cov[City of Villains] All Masterminds: please follow THIS LINK. Do what it says and use it consistently. Practice a bit solo so that you are comfortable with the controls when we group together.

What am I linking to? This lets you control all your pets from the numperpad. Want them all in passive mode, only attacking the one target you tell them to then going back to passive? That’s three keystrokes. Getting them out of the doorway so the rest of the team can get through? One stroke and a click. Spread out to avoid AoE attacks? You can send each of your three types of pets in a different direction.

If you have buffs and are not using the number keys, you are making things too hard on yourself.

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Lost

EVE[EVE Online] I’m going through one of those times in EVE where not being guided by the game leaves me lost. I’ve got some things I want to do out in 0.0 space but I don’t have the money to do it. Every thing that I do in 0.0 is not earning me any money. Therefore I am running out.

I just end up sitting in a station looking at my skills and chatting with corp members. Last night I logged in too late to join a group of people doing a patrol. I just sat there and listened to the action over the voice comm. I bought a skill and trained it to level 1 during this process. That took 40 minutes. Yawn.

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EQ2 and Fileplanet, Sitting in a Tree…

eq2[Everquest 2] … K I S S I N G!

Anyway, as much as I don’t care for fileplanet, I worked my “Hey bro can I borrow your FP login?” magic and got myself a free EQ2 trial key. Just need to download it tonight (wonder if I can just add the key to my current Trial of the Isle account). So I guess I’ll be hitting the “real” EQ2 a little sooner than I had expected, and just when EVE Online really has me hooked.

If you want to try EQ2 for free too, it’s here.

17 hour download? Hmm. Not so interested any more…

UPDATE: I tried it again, and it only took 2 hours to download. Wonder what changed.

– Ethic

Research & Development

EVE[EVE Online] The R&D agent I have been using for the last month or two was cranking out a massive 4 research points per day. The research points (RP) are like tickets to a lottery. If you win, you get a nice BPO which can often make you rich. I think I was up to around 200 points counting the few missions I ran for her.

I found another R&D agent closer to my latest mission area and he has a better rating towards me. I had to buy a new skill (4 million ISK!) to get him as my new R&D agent, but he is now giving me 36 RP per day. I had no idea how badly the other agent was screwing me over. Perhaps 36 per day isn’t that great either, but it certainly beats 4.

If I win the lottery through this guy, I may have to start up a savings and loan. I’d be loaded.

Regardless, with the next-gen R&D changes coming up in KALI, I don’t have any idea if this will even matter by then.

P.S. send ISK, I’m running out! Heh.

– Ethic

Valentine’s Day, in-game

coh[City of Heroes] I am the only married member of our supergroup online. As far as I know, the guys laughing on Teamspeak as they enjoy PvP have no significant others at all. I do not know which is the cause and which is the effect. At any rate, we do not have enough people together for the Tuesday Night Strike Force. Oh well.

Romance at my house: we are going to eat dessert and watch Serenity, with the comment track going this time! Ah, love!

: Zubon

On The Rocks

EVE[EVE Online] We had a corp mining operation the other day in a 0.0 system. It involved over 10 people, most in medium barges. We were after ice this time. We had a few combat ships with us, basically designed to tank any NPC rats nearby. They could repair faster than any damage was done, and the rats were too stupid to switch targets. We also had a couple of haulers to move the ice back to the station.

The operation lasted about 6 hours while I was only there for the first 2 hours. I think we hauled home close to 500 ice chips. Each chip takes up 1000 cubic meters of cargo space, that’s one big ice chip.

I snapped a few shots for your entertainment purposes. You can view them here: photo one, photo two, photo three, photo four and photo five.

– Ethic

The Joy of Empathy

coh[City of Heroes] Empathy is perhaps the most loved and hated power set in City of Heroes.

Most games have a healer class of some sort, usually paired with buffing and/or some small amount of damage. City of Heroes has Defenders, which has the most diverse primary power set of any archetype. Depending on your power set, you might be healer, buffer, debuffer, or combination. Empathy will be the most familiar.

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The Incident At Alpha Bravo

EVE[EVE Online] My corporation had planned a convoy of ships from our main staging area in Empire space down to one of our 0.0 stations. Just under 10 people signed up, with a few of them flying scout and protection. I had my industrial-class hauler, a Badger 2. It can hold about 10,000 cubic meters of cargo and she was plum full. Some of the cargo quite expensive and most of it not even mine. It was to be a long trip, all of it through 0.0 space. One of our convoy members was an alt of a corp member who was not yet in the corporation.

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