Category: General

[EVE Online] Last weekend I was literally turned on by the HUZZAH federation, and was put on KOS for the allience, this occurred after I left the alliance for my own reasons, tried to leave on a good note, but apparantly it can’t be so, on my way out of providence in my kestrel frigate Mr Zarniewoop, executor of the HUZZAH federation attepted to gank me, results 4u!

2005.09.25 22:25:00

Victim: Zarniewoop
Alliance: HUZZAH FEDERATION
Corporation: Galactic Shipyards Inc
Destroyed Type: Typhoon
Solar System: Kheram
System Security Level: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Zxyrox (laid the final blow)
Security Status: 0.7
Alliance: Unknown
Corporation: The International House Of Pancakes
Ship Type: Kestrel
Weapon Type: Bloodclaw Light Missile I

I hope they think twice before tangling with t3h kessie again!

-Zxyrox

Let’s see, my account for EVE Online just expired. I’ll reactivate it soon as there are some things I still want to do – like venture into 0.0 space. A friend of mine stopped by tonight and asked me to help walk him through City of Heroes a little bit since he just purchased it. Thus, I have reactivated my CoH account at least temporarily. If he gets into that I’ll probably keep my account active just to hang out with him since he is moving across country. World of Warcraft is still active but I think it runs out in the beginning of October. I’ve had some good fun there lately so I’ll probably have to reactivate that as well.

Will I really have three accounts active? That’s just nuts. I don’t have the time for three games.

– Ethic

[World of Warcraft] I was strolling through Stranglethorn Vale one day, minding my own business. I was making my way to Booty Bay because us Alliance, unlike Horde, don’t have another flight point in STV except in BB while Horde have GG and BB. This is quite a long journey for a wee Gnome like me to make on foot with no mount. I pass a couple of Alliance dueling on the path, which is a stupid thing to do on a PvP server, and I see an Orc run past on a wolf. He stops next to the duelers and I think he’s going to gank them, so I continue on running minding my own business. What do you know? He doesn’t kill them and instead keeps running down the path in the direction I’m going.

So I’m thinking, “Ok, he must be a nice Orc.” Of course, I hear the “roar” of him dismount and obviously I expect the worse. He’s a warrior, so I wait for him to charge and stun me so I can blink out of it. He does, just like any warrior would do. So after blinking I turn and use polymorph and have to use my Gnome racial to get out of his hamstring. I was expecting him to intercept me (in-combat charge), but maybe he was a bit cocky. Needless to say, even though he was a skull to me (he ended up being a level 50 something), he was off eating some grass as a sheep while I continued my stroll.

A few seconds later he tries again. The same exact thing happens. I continue skipping down the path some more until he then tries another time but this time I ran into a 60 Alliance mage. Yep, the warrior got owned. Then a level 60 Orc warrior attacked followed up by a lower level shaman, who earth shocked me, but I cast frost nova on him and ran away. Instead of chasing me, he decides to help the 60 Warrior try and kill the 60 mage. I turn around once I see that he’s not chasing me and by the time I catch back up, the mage was already starting to kill the Shaman, so I added my scorch and fireblast in for the finishing blow.

Did I mention the level 60 mage was a Gnome as well? Yep…being a slippery Gnome rocks. Being a slippery Gnome mage rocks even more. Eat grass you stupid sheep! Why would you want to harm little ‘ol me anyways? I’m just as cute as can be!

.:lufia22:.

As Ethic has already alluded to, it is Talk Like a Pirate Day. It is also, however, the birthday of the emoticon. To celebrate both of these at once, I suggest using the following, eyepatch-clad emoticon:
P-)

Oh, and we should toss up a link to the relevant game. Yar!

: Zubon

[EVE Online] CCP e-mailed me today to announce the upcoming publication of EON, “possibly the most exciting development in the MMORPG world since EVE itself.” Only eight months in the making! So what is EON? A magazine about EVE: Online, just $15/issue. (Since it will be a quarterly publication, that is not more than the cost of the game itself. I was concerned.)

I have so many different ways that I want to comment on this, I cannot decide which to go with. Obviously, I have been swept away by “possibly the most exciting development in the MMORPG world since EVE itself.” Maybe we can make a week of EON on KTR.

: Zubon

The civil service is a great place for gamers. Sure, there is a bit of a grind, but it’s a level-based system with clear rewards for time inputs. Having reached level 12 this week, in addition to the bonus in gold rewards, I get six skill points and a feat to assign on my stats. It should take about a year to level again, so I have time to shop around and decide where to spend those. You don’t want to be FOTM in government.

Unfortunately, lag was an issue, since I messaged the trainer four months ago. It apparently takes many requests to the server for that to go through. I wonder if they’re getting a lot of those requests lately? It all ends happily, since there was a rollback and the gold rewards are retroactive to when they were originally scheduled for implementation.

Next, we beat another metaphor into the ground for no good reason. But first, I need to go wash some dishes in a kind of The Sims LARP.

: Zubon

[EVE Online] Huzzah Federation allience has declared war on The Short Bus Squad, a known pirate corp in the .1-.4 systems in the Providence region. It’s time for us to put the “windowlickers” in their place :)

-Zxyrox

Well, after reading Zxyrox’s last post about EVE Online, I got an incredible itch to play a space combat game. One of my earliest adventures into online gaming was a game called Dark Space. It’s a p2p space combat strategy game. After downloading the 501MB EVE Online client and realizing that I had to buy an account to get the free trial (I should have known, I feel so stupid), I decided to try out my old addiction, Dark Space.

Dark Space is free to download and you can make a demo account which allows you access to some newbie games but severely limits you to what ranks you can obtain and other such things. However, it has been about four years since I’ve last played the game. The game hasn’t really changed much it doesn’t seem, at least in terms of look and gameplay. The only change that really irked me was that they added some music, which is nice, but I used to love traveling through space with the sound of nothing but some weird radio signals. Now it’s like I’m listening to the Halo soundtrack or something. What’s this? My stealth bomber has a CD player? Yes, in the future we still use CDs.

The most disappointing thing, however, is that the demo community seems to be pretty dead and it’s not even close to a game I would spend $10 on every month. The only populated demo server is a map that takes place in the whole universe, which means it takes about 7 minutes just to jump to a portion of space that has any action going on in it, and being a demo with only access to low rank ships, it sucks to take 7 minutes to jump and then about 10 seconds to die.

Yep, I doubt I’ll be playing Dark Space much unless another map gets put up. Way to scratch my itch Dark Space. You can find Dark Space here, but don’t count on the demo really making you want to play it.

.:lufia22:.

[EVE Online] Why are people so anal about the stupidest things? In my case, what ships you fly, what your bio says, and other meager little crap no one gives a flying F*ck about. I’m out hunting in 0.0 with my shiny new raven, and I warp to a field to see this guy in his appoc getting torn up by two HACs (heavy assault cruisers). They are both at 90km from me, perfect range for my cruise missiles. This other guy happens to be a member of my alliance (although neither of us knew that at that point, as it will show later…) so with cruise missiles in tow, I lock on and blast the Zealot HAC in a few seconds with my wrath cruise missiles, and the other, a sacrelige HAC warps out before I acquire target lock on him. Strangely enough the guy who I killed was a load more polite and respectful then my supposed ally who gave me one hell of a time…

He immediately locked me and said if I didn’t identify myself in 10 seconds he would shoot me, (from 80km ya thats gonna happen Mr Pulse lasers…) I told him who I was. He then says, “WHY ISN’T IT IN YOUR BIO!!?!?!?. I THOUGHT THIS ALLIANCE ONLY FLEW AMARR SHIPS!?!?!?” then threatened to kill me if I didn’t change my bio…WTF!!!!!!!!!!! I just saved your f*cking happyass from becoming spare loot, a little thank you and goodbye isn’t so hard to ask for is it? Apparantly so. My answer to him was 24 cruise missiles up his ass, I warped off and went home leaving him at 35% hull… some ally you are champ.

-Zxyrox

Yes it’s almost that time again. “Talk Like A Pirate Day” is coming up soon. In fact, it is September 19th.

Most days are like all of the others,
Go to work, come back home, watch TV,
But, brother, if I had me druthers,
I’d chuck it and head out to sea,

For I dream of the skull and the crossbones,
I dream of the great day to come,
When I dump the mundane for the Old Spanish Main
And trade my computer for rum! ARRR!

Drink up, me hearties!

– Ethic