Author: Ethic

[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

[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.

Continue reading The Incident At Alpha Bravo

[EVE Online] I stopped by one of the agents I do odd jobs for last night to see if she had any work for me. She offered me a courier job that consisted of several parts. I was to deliver some cargo 5 systems away, where I would pick up some new cargo that needed to go another 5 systems away, but was in 0.4 space. 0.4 space is low security and you risk losing your ship/cargo/life just by entering. Add in the fact that we have an Empire war going on and a simple courier mission becomes a life or death situation.

I had 4 stations to visit in total, each with a drop-off and pick-up. One of the stations was low security, the rest were in Empire. My reward was to be 125,000 ISK and double that if I finished in 1 hour.

Continue reading A Courier Is You

[EVE Online] I haven’t posted much about EVE Online recently due to the fact that I have been trying to relocate all my ships and equipment closer to our 0.0 station. It makes for a dull post, but it is the reality sometimes in EVE. Making a 30 jump trip in a industrial hauler filled with a few hundred ship equipment items. Then turn around and fly back in a shuttle to climb into my cruiser-class ship and make the trip again. B-O-R-I-N-G.

After my second return trip, I wanted to run some missions as I had not done any in a few weeks. All I had on hand was my Rifter, so I thought I’d try to find an agent handing out courier missions because I didn’t want to bother with any combat.

Continue reading The Empire Strikes Back

[EVE Online] The president of Huzzah Federation has been busy negotiating with the parties involved in the latest war down south. Let me refresh your memories so far: Stain- Alliance (SA) had been in a war against Firmus Ixion (FIX). The Huzzah Federation (HF) was helping SA in this war. My corporation, Ars Caelestis, is a part of HF.

Eventually, FIX surrendered and was presented with terms that they accepted. Something happened at this point to cause FIX to void the surrender and the alliance Band of Brothers (BoB) supported them in the decision. SA attacked BoB.

Continue reading Non-Agression Pact

[EVE Online] The cease fire is off. War is on again, with FIX claiming SA is at fault and SA claiming FIX is at fault. It’s hard for your average peon like me to really come to grips with what went down.

Now it looks like FIX is going to get more help and fight back. Sometimes I really like this aspect of EVE and yet other times it disgusts me to no end. Adults acting like children and children acting like adults. Who is telling the truth? Who isn’t? The politicians are gathering for a summit to see if peace can be worked out. In the meantime, we are on high alert for hostilities. I am avoiding all possible combat situations until we get an official word.

Continue reading War Off. War On. War Off?

[EVE Online] It looks like the “big” war is over. A cease fire has been arranged between SA (Stain- Alliance) and FIX (Firmus Ixion). My corp is part of the HUZZAH Federation and we had been allied to SA in the war against FIX.

It appears that FIX feels that the battle for FAT has been lost and that SA has won. Both SA and FIX have reached an accord that calls for FIX pilots to withdraw back to Querious and for SA & allied forces to take full control of Catch and leave Querious. Full negotiations will continue.

A ceasefire is presently in effect as of this moment.

The “small” war between HUZZAH and Exile still continues.

My tackler training is underway. A tackler is a ship that is set up to keep the enemy ship stuck, or unable to warp away.

– Ethic

[EVE Online] I left our alliance station in 0.0 space to make the long trip back out to empire. I was flying my Rifter, loaded up with lots of go-fast parts and warp core stabilizers to try to avoid any gate campers along the way.

Not having a lot of people on at the time, I decided to fly it solo without the benefit of a scout. Luckily, the 23 jump trip was uneventful. I then decided to fly another 20+ hops in empire space out to our corporation’s HQ. This trip was safe as there is no war declarations on us. Or should I say was…

Exile has declared war against HUZZAH once again, so starting tonight we will not be safe in empire space. Oh well, at least I got my jump clone set up now. I will attempt to find me some pvp action this time around.

Unfortunately for Exile, they stirred up a bit of a hornets nest this time as they “claimed” ownership of the Misaba system (Update: Exile is denying this) and that pissed off the Curatores Veritatis Alliance. Therefore, the CVA has returned the favor by declaring war on Exile. There are rumors of even more war declarations against Exile forthcoming.

Should be fun.

– Ethic

[EVE Online] CCP just posted a new devBlog and it comes down really hard on cheaters. It appears to even say they are going to go after people that cheated in the past. Mostly it concerns the act of buying/selling ISK via an auction site such as ebay.

I really like what they have to say and I hope it’s not just all smoke and mirrors, which is what I’ve come to expect from previous games attempts to stop such deals. I’ll attach the devBlog below, for those that cannot find it on the main site:

Continue reading CCP Cracks The Whip

[EVE Online] I took a little trip into 0.0 space. 23 jumps inside 0.0 space to be exact. In all reality, it was a boring trip. Not a single shot was fired.

Thanks to a an escort from my buddy Mathir, and pretty much everyone doing something else, we were able to finally get that BPO delivered to our station. Now I’m kind of stuck there until we get a bit of a convoy back out. I saved a jumpclone so I can come back later to do some PvP.

It’s not all boring out here though, oh no. Check out this little map screen capture from a battle our alliance was involved in tonight. Reports appear to be in our favor, but what a battle it must have been for both sides.

From our corporation press release: “Ars Caelestis pilot Achilles Thorongmor personally assisted in a mammoth twenty two kills, over half of which were Battleship kills.”

Wish I was there.

P.S. New video card! About time I moved up from that 9700pro.

– Ethic