And another one down....

http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=11891891#lostLoadout

Yup, yet another Tengu and 37k SPs down the crapper thanks to the lovely Northern Coalition boys. Then they sent me on the podless express back to hi-sec, minus a set of +4 implants. Joy!

Liquidated lots of assetts, sold a few ships (4), and have replaced the ship and the implants.

Joined my first 2V pocket defence fleet, looking forward to lots more in the near future.

Hopefully keep this Tengu a little longer.

Kali

Here she is, 1.5 years in the longing for, dreaming off... the age of Kali the destroyer has come.....tremble....run....nothing will save you now... the darkness is upon  you....

Widow...Black ops battleship...fitting...fuck off, I'm not telling you

Back from inner space

Hey,

It's been a while sorry...been travelling in RL. India (on old Royal Enfield) in the himalayas, Maldives (snorkelling), Hong Kong, Philippines (Diving...awesome), Kuala Lumpar (visiting friends), back to HK, now in China with my GF, for a while....heading to the UK for a month soon.

EVE: Managed to keep my skills queue topped up during my travels and now have near perfect shield skills, can use T2 Heavies and Cruise :) Advanced Weapons upgrades and Advanced Spaceship Command now at 5, so the long awaited Widow and Golem aren't far away.

Have been back in Eve for about a week, thanks to a shiny new laptop. Rejoined my old Alliance: Aspire and have joined the Exploration and PvP arm called Field Works, it's about time I got my PvP feet wet (apart from being ganked and caught sleeping in low sec / worm holes that is).

This week I've set up some PI stuff to help the corp fuel the POS and I've been doing a lot of exploration sites. Had a few nice radar sites that have dropped some great loot and had a good escalation yesterday from the 'Sansha Vigil' exploration site.....this led to a four part mission, which led to some good faction loot (true Sansha) some great salvage (5 intact armour plates which go for 35 million each). The only down part of the day was blowing up a True Sansha juggernaut, then instead of aligning to a gate, I warped instead ( I had about 30 other ships kicking the crap out of my Tengu at the time), I van't get over thinking what loot might have been in the bugger, and I hadn't bookmarked the site...Idiot!

So anyway...I'm back, the wallet is filling up rapidly in anticipation of the next new shinies, have made almost 400mill in first week back...not a bad start.

Expect me to be blogging more from now on.

Reli

Here's a shot from the final part of the escalation yesterday, I had to take down a Sansha Battletower, which in my little tengu took some time....I thought I was gonna run out of ammo. It contained a lod of crap loot, but made up for by the Centi a-type small remote armor repairer dropped by an earlier battleship...(yeah why the hell was a BS carrying a small one....I have no idea. :)

Another one bites the dust

3rd Tengu bites the dust, only 4hrs old. Ivegi and attack monkey, in Ahbazon. Gf dudes. I'll be buyin a new one soon. Look for me at the gates of the anomalies.


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Back for a few weeks of intensive

Well, I've delayed my departure for a few more weeks, this means I've got some serious game time, with no work and no gf to stop me. Bring it!


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Character Update

Sometime a few days ago, I passed 20 million SP. Never thought I'd get this far, I remember being a complete noob (still a bit of one now) and chatting with the old timer who had 30 and 40 mill SP, thinking, 'OMG' how will I ever go head to head with these people and win, and the answer is (most of the time) you don't, but I now have lots of skills, 36 of which are at level 5, I can take pain and dish it out. Caldari Frigs 5 finishes in 3 days and then it's cov ops, electronic attack frigs and all the other fun fun t2 frigs. can't wait.
I'm still with the same corp (alliance anyway) that i joined 15 months ago, and doubt I'll ever leave them. We are getting better and better we've divided into specialties, we have training programmes and graduation etc, a great bunch of people and some good leaders.
Eve life goes on, though I really need a kick up the arse to start PvPing, I'm crap at it. Stupid really, it's a game, what can I lose?

Aaaarrrrrghhhhhh!

I was amazingly calm, I should have been punching myself in the face, I should have been smashing the keyboard over my head and putting my very foul mouth to full use. Instead I slowed my heart beat down, relaxed, got my pod and implants to relative safety and then logged and watched the Alliance Tournament for a while, before logging back on and getting my pod back home to settle into a slightly less expensive ship.

It all started with Mericus in Aspire main chat announcing WH op. Stupidly I thought "why not?" been looking for something more fun than low sec ratting or mission running, here it was.

So loaded the hold with all 4 dmg types of missile....it had been over a year since I was last in a WH, forgot what they tanked etc. so took everything including nanite paste, and mods to swap in / out depending on the circumstance. On the way out to the op start place, I had a bit of low sec to traverse, so fitted a cloak and sisters probes.

We found an occupied C3, but no-one was at home, so we went in (just the 2 of us) and cleared out the 2 anomalies. Not a single nanoribbon in the place :( We then started exploring the other exits, and found a C4 entrance from the first WH.  Now....Meri was in a Legion and I was in a Tengu, we knew that trying to do a C4 with just the two of us would be hard, so we called for re-enforcements. Yumirion and Devinaty offered to come in BSs. So we killed time and waited for them to arrive.
Eventually they were at the low sec entrance to the first WH so Meri went off to lead them down the rabbit hole. I waited at the entrance / exit of WH No.2

Now I should explain, AT8 was on, I'd missed the previous days matches and was waiting for the Final days matches to begin, anyway my mind was elsewhere and not really paying attention, as I was watching 2 screens at the same time. I had relaxed spamming the d-scan.
In hindsight....what a ridiculous place to wait. It was like sitting on a nullsec gate with a target on my ship!
I had removed the cloak and probes for more launchers, so wasn't even cloaked up.
Out of the corner of my eye, a flash of orange, Shit! too late, 4 ships had landed at the exit, 2 BSs (I think) and two frigs. Locked in seconds, scrammed and webbed and then as I hit the A/B and Shield booster my ship melted. 550 million isk worth of ship lost in seconds. Why didn't I just jump through? I don't know, I panicked at first and my first thought was get to one of the other BMs I'd made around the sys. Wrong choice! I got my pod and my Implants out of there, back through low sec and to my home.
Gutted, but Mazzy Dark et al, well done, GF. Hope next time I can make life more difficult for you.
Remember folks, be alert, especially in low sec / 0.0, your ship and your life depend upon it.
I suppose I'm grateful I've been put back on my toes.

Low sec

Have spent the last few weeks ratting and mining in a low sec system. Lovely. Bit more exciting than High sec, but it's 0.4 so the rats aren't that bad, always the possibility of being attacked randomly, so ones eye is always on local and overview.
Have also been practicing my scanning; seriously need to work on my skills though. getting blood raider dens and rally points is as easy as popping out a probe and running one scan. Finding anything else is still proving difficult. I have pinpointed a grav site, with lots of nice ochre and gneiss, but mining in low sec is just nerve wracking without combat support.
I've been using my Tengu and have got comfortable with its capabilities. What an awesome ship! BC damage and BS tank on a cruiser hull. and modular so just a case of popping a subsystem out (with rigs) and putting another in. brilliant.
I got my first chance to look at a POS close up too recently, the PvP arm of our alliance has one in low sec and we ran a corp mining op there. Awesome to see and really impressive. A few screen shots below of the op and our POS.

alliance mining op and AT8 \o/

So here we are....about to join a mining op with the alliance, and in a little under an hour the second day of the Alliance Tournament 8 kicks off. Should be fun. Here's the boys at the gate earlier.

The need for speed(ish)

Spent last night trying to make 2 caldari frigs go as fast as possible. Fitted both a Merlin and a Kestrel with an MWD, 2 t2 overdrives and speed rigs. The result roughly the same= 4300(ish) m/s overheated mid. Didn't try overheating lows, not sure it would have any effect. With the alliance frig race approaching I may I have to quickly cross train for minmatar frigs, the vigil in particular. I'll let you know how it goes :~>










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What's in your hangar

A few months back now the rest of the blog crowd posted this, so as usual, fashionably late, not so much jumping on the bandwagon, but falling of the back of it, here's what's in mine.

Bahut Shakti - Raven (name means very powerful / much power) used for lvl4 mishes.

Tandava - Drake (The dance of destruction as danced by Shiva at the end of each cycle), the chuck norris of the Eve world.

Ganesh III - Badger MkII ( the 3rd of these I've owned hence the name, Ganesh is the 2nd son of Shiva, and has an elephant's head.Nig of a fat little bugger, that's why my badger takes his name)

Om Namah Shivaya - Tengu (All is Shiva, the first of the gods, Brahma and Vishnu coming from his left and right side)

Aloo Gobhi Shakti - Cormorant (potato & cauliflower curry power! my ratting corm)

Garuda - Merlin (Garuda being Vishnu's vehicle and looks like a gryphon (the mythical creature).

I own about 40 shuttles spread out across the Eve universe, all called Nip2

There are others but without loggin on (it's DT so I'm killin time) I couldn't tell you what. I think there's a cruiser or two, but rarely fly them, left over from level 2 mish days.

I have a Scorpion, but that will get a new name in a few days as it will be transformed into a thing of beauty by the new release 'Tyrannis'.

So after the sad loss of my never flown Tengu, I ground my teeth for a while and eventually stopped feeling sick. Ran level fours for a while, sold some plex and had the money to buy something shiny. I had been training for the Tengu for the last month or so, so bit the bullet and flew to Amarr, Jita and it's contracts and suicide gankers can go to hell. I flew over, bought the shell and the subsystems separately, taking corp mates advice on fitting etc. and here she is. Flown home this time, fully fitted and rigged. 540 million or there abouts, for everything, bar the dread Guristas booster waiting at the home station that was due to go in.

Her name is 'Om Namah Shivaya', all my ship are named after Indian deities or have Indian themes. More on this later.
I'm not telling you the subs and mods, if you know about T3 ships, you can work it out.

A Tengu dies at birth

EVESo, finally 20 days of training cruisers 5 came to an end, popped strategic cruisers in for lvl 1, 2 and 3. Had a good think, how to get 500mill of ship out of Jita? How to get there? Pod over? Or buy a disposible frig and slap a mwd in, for that super fast, semi-concentrating AP, with occassional MWD stabs to keep it intersting, trip to jita. But... It's my first T3 ship, never fitted subsystems, have seven waiting in Jita, which to fit? Which mods? Then try them out in Jita? Jita!!? I think not. So I need to get it somewhere I can experiment without drawing every suicide ganker from every toilet bowl in the area. I'll haul it out in my badger II, yes I thought I'd out fox them, shitty little t1 hauler that anyone a few days old can fly, nothing to see here, move along, just hauling my shitty worthless loot about.
So into my lovely little badger I slid, ECM across the board in mids ( I know, I know!) WCS in low, I thought I'd be safe as houses. Some tedious, but growing in excitement as I neared jita, jumps later. I arrived at the monstrous place, noting the swarms of oranges around the gates, and the occassional red. Docked up and quickly grabbed my precious cargo, 1 shining Tengu and 7 subsytems, into the hold, set course for sehmosh, and got the hell out of there. Cleared the first gate, and as I initiated warp to Urlen gate someone started to target me, I warped after about 1 sec, so it was no prob, I didn't get chance to see who it was, overview shimmered as usual in and around jita due to sheer numbers. I noticed a few orange dudes jump through as I jumped on contact. The grid loaded slowly, as soon as possible I initiated warp, the further from jita, the faster, the better. Then, before I could even see who was doing it, I was being targeted, I didn't panic, cos I had time, didn't I? As soon as he locked, id slap on the ECM and be out of there. Sadly, he instapopped me, one volley ready to melt me upon lock, good tip, activate guns before lock! That was it, heading spinning, afloat in my pod! Get the pod and the implants contained in the soft squishy thing inside, out of there! That done, the nausea kicks in, and the depression, I tell my Corp mates who are a mix of sorry and incredulous at my stupidity. I log off.



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Welcome to my blog

Welcome,

 I used to include stuff about Eve over on my other general blog (fruit60.blogspot.com), but as I quite often get my students to visit my blog, and I've started getting the urge to blog about Eve more frequently, I've moved the old posts over here and will be using this exclusively from now to blog about the game.

Hope I can maintain the momentum, I'm entering a new phase of gaming, thing are about to get a lot more interesting I hope. I have money and can afford to replace ships and fittings, this means I'm will to start taking a lot more risks and therefore probably have a lot more fun; we'll see.
I noticed that some of the posts didn't come across (pics especially) very well, I'll try to sort out those glitches ASAP.

Fly recklessly

Reli

State of play

Well, here I am, a little over 1yr and 1 month old, with a little short of 16 mill skill points. I had a few months complete downtime while my marriage fell apart and new people came into my life, and now manage to play a few times a week. In 7 days time I'll be sliding into a T3 Tengu, and am very excited after seeing a Corp m8 (NGResonance) tank a mighty difficult lvl4 in one and not go past about 10% shield dmg. Awesome, dps is a bit of an issue. I was all set to go for a marauder (golem) but have been side tracked. The marauder is a week or two away, once I decide to go for it. I have 620mill in the bank and a tengu and seven subsystems waiting in Jita for next week, that I got relatively cheap via a contract. All subsystem skills are already at lvl3, cruisers 5 finishes in 7 days, then strategic cruisers to at least 3 and I'm ready to rock.
Btw, joining my Corp (Aspire)  was the best thing I ever did in eve, I may not agree with everyone all the time, but I'm still here, knowing what I know, thanks to all of them, we get harder and less of an easy target by the day.
my Drake (Bahut Shakti)

Harry's Abaddon and my Raven

Harry an me just waiting for the next wave

Enemies abound lvl4

Here's some pics from recent missions:

End of term and holidays

Well the end of another long term and boy do I need a break.

We were going to catch a helicopter to the north east of the island, sadly that changed to a small plane, then the small plane decided it was going to go a day earlier than planned (while we are still working), because the day we were supposed to go, is good Friday, and the pilot decided that being a Buddhist, he'd like to celebrate Easter. We only bought the tickets a week ago, and obviously good Friday was decided at the last minute.
I lost my cool, as you can imagine.

So no plane trip to the North East. A bus journey to the beach for a bit of RnR before jetting off to Bangkok next Wednesday. Really looking forward to the next two weeks off.
I may blog from Bangkok depending on whether I've got anything to say or not.

Will be putting cruisers level 5 in the queue before jetting off, and upon my return I'll have a few days more training before I can get in my recently acquired Tengu.

A return to Level 4's

This week has seen Religiosa return to doing some level 4 missions with an old friend Harry (do you feel lucky punk?) Calahan. It must be said he did the majority of the tanking and the DPS and I just went along in my Raven (got BS lvl5 completed last week) to help. We ripped through some good ones and earnt ourselves lots of iskies and LPs. It was really good to get back into that kind of mental action again, it was good to see how my tanking and DPS had improved since I last flew my Raven.
I still prefer the tank on my Drake, but my BS lays down a lot more hurt.

My Eve Space

A lot of the Eve bloggers have been posting their Eve Spaces. Here's mine. I'm lucky if I get any eve time at the moment, but if I do here's where I play.

What you're looking at: one 22" and one 19" screens (this screen set up for EVE was an experiment, I don't play like this normally (horizontally split; gives me neck ache! and my ship is always cut in half ). Wireless mouse and keyboard. Quad core processor, 1Gb PCIexpress Graphics, 4Gb Ram, Sound Blaster Audigy sound card. 1 x 120Gb HD and 1x 500Gb HD. It rocks. Oh, and...of course...XP Pro. Considering going to Windows 7; any advice?

Eve Quarterly Economic Newsletter

http://ccp.vo.llnwd.net/o2/community/QEN/QEN_Q4-2009.pdf

Sorry, I had posted this originally from my phone and it came out a bit cryptic.
This is the quarterly economic report for Eve, prices, numbers, etc. Interesting if you're into that kind of thing.

Why I love Eve

Crazy Kinux on his blog wrote:

Eve Blog Banter Special Edition: Why I love Eve

Welcome to this special installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed to me. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

When you’ve been roaming New Eden as long as I have, it almost feels like home. That’s how familiar it has become over the last 5 years. Not that I have done everything or touched every aspect of this most amazing of virtual world, far from it, but it just feels as though it’s always been there. And always will be.

Whether you’ve logged into the game every day since its launch in 2003, or you’ve taken one or several sabbaticals from your capsuleer career, you’ve always come back to New Eden don’t you. Why is that?

We know the EVE Online Community is unique in so many ways, and that EVE Online is like no other MMORPG out there. But what makes the game special for you?

What is it that makes this particular virtual world so enticing, so mysterious and so alluring that we keep coming back for more. Why is EVE one of the very few MMOs to see a continuous growth in its subscriber.

To put it simply: Why do you love EVE Online so much?

Eve is an MMORPG, based in space, a universe of thousands of different systems, inhabited, shaped, changed, managed, exploited and loved by people like me. Here's why it rocks...

1. It's hard, when you start playing it's not a learning curve; it's a learning cliff (as one of the developers of the game called it). It's challenging to get familiar with, the brain works out a lot while you play Eve. It keeps growing and becoming more complex, learning is endless; I like that. I don't want to pay £50 for a game I can blitz in a few days of intense play.

2. Someone worked out it would take 13 or more 'real time' yrs of play to train all the skills the game has to offer, and more keep getting added. This means that everyone who plays has different skill sets, they choose different paths, all players are unique in what they can and can't do; that's amazing when you consider there are in excess of 30,000 players online most days.

3. I've been playing for 10 months , I'm still a noob in so many ways, I like having something to aspire to ( I'm a member of Aspire Corp for that reason). When you meet players who been playing for 6 yrs or more, they are like gods; but even they are afraid sometimes, there's always someone out there who will eat you for dinner.

4. The first time I went into a PvP fight with my corp, after weeks of abuse and intimidation we had decided to fight back, I got into my best ship ( a caldari drake battlecruiser) that had taken me weeks to train and save for. Excited and nervous 12 of us went hunting, hours passed while we tracked down and chased three of the Corp members who'd war decked us. We eventually found one sat at a gate, alone, and we engaged. My heart thumping, sweating and truly terrified of what was about to happen. He had a tank of the gods, his two mates in battleships warped in within seconds. About one minute later we'd lost five ships, mine included, and were running for our lives to gates and stations. Yes we lost, yes I personally lost my ship in about 15 seconds ( it felt like hours), yes we ran scared, but it was amazing, breathtaking...wow, I was hooked. At the time I knew nothing, I had no comprehension of how they'd even done it to us, so easily too, but I knew that I wanted to learn. They tracked us all down later while we sat in a station licking our wounds and counting our losses, AND THANKED US for a good fight! And they were serious! One of them gave me a skill book he 'tongue in cheek' said I'd need; he was right.

5. The people, the community, my Corp mates. People come and go, leave the game, move corps or just go off solo exploring the Eve universe, those that stay are like old friends, I'll probably never meet them, or know what they look like, but friends they are. And what a diverse bunch, scattered across the globe, different cultures and languages all coming together to share something wonderful.

6. The graphics are lush, the screenshot is a real in-game pic, this is what I dreamed of 26 yrs ago sat in front of my Commodore 64 playing Elite.

7. I can do what I want, go where I want, be what I want. I can mine, manufacture, trade, explore, build corporations, run missions, act as a courier, act as security and most importantly... Blow stuff up, in a spectacularly blinding fashion, that is very satisfying indeed.

Get online, come join us, you'd be mad not too :-)
Religiosa ( in game character name)