Kill Ten Rats

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