As you can read in my previous post I’ve applied for Hellfleet and I’ve been invited to fleet up and roam around with them, so here’s a report of the latest one.

When I joined the fleet I had no idea what we were doing, all I knew was what the mandatory fitting was (cruiser, remote armor reppers and some other stuff).

So when the briefing started it turned out as a sort of remote repping course, the basics were explained and after that we set out learning while we were roaming about.

As soon as we undocked someone immediately managed to get gate aggro by remote repping someone else, resulting in a perfect training environment of the gate guns rotating targets and us keeping up with them.

After this we continued to roam about with the gate guns still aggressive to us so the learning continued.

After a while we managed to spot what I think was a Zaelot, we warped back and forth between gates at 100km for a while however he kept warping to the gate at 0.

After the last warp he started approaching us, and we decided to approach him, we locked him up and started orbiting, while keeping a close look on our watch list to make sure no one would get blown up.

After a while it became apparent we weren’t going to break his tank (Cruisers don’t do that much damage), and one of us even died because we ran out of cap.

After this the Zaelots friends warped in so we decided to jump. After this we somehow encountered them again, however this time some of us had trouble warping out and didn’t survive.

Finally we decided to dock up to refit, however as everyone was getting a bit tired we decided to call it a day and go home.

So my first steps into the realms of remote repping, it’s quite hard to keep up with the RRing while still putting up a fight, however it’s powerful so good thing I get some experience with it.

~Xeross

Welcome to the eighteenth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by none other than me, 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 crazykinux@gmail.com. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

On May 6th 2010, EVE Online celebrated its 7th Anniversary. Quite a milestone in MMO history, especially considering that it is one of the few virtual worlds out there to see its population continually grow year after year. For some of you who’ve been here since the very beginning, EVE has evolved quite a lot since its creation. With the expansion rolling out roughly twice a year, New Eden gets renewed and improved regularly. But, how about you the player? How has you gaming style evolved through the years or months since you’ve started playing? Have you always been a carebear, or roleplayer? Have you only focused on PvP or have you given other aspects of the game a chance – say manufacturing. Let’s hear your story!

Yes, the next Blog Banter is upon us, first of all a belated congratulations to CCP for EVE’s 7th anniversary.

With most games I’ve always focused on a single part of the game, but well most games don’t give you a choice over what to do other than the class you want to play.

Now in EVE there’s lots of things to do: Mining, PvP, Ratting, Missioning, Trading, Manufacturing, etc. and every one of these activities have all sorts of sub-categories themselves too (For example PvP: Pirating, Null-Sec Roaming, etc.).

So I started my career as a Capsuleer on the 31st of July 2009, knowing nothing about EVE I started following the tutorials to understand it a little better.

After that I still had lots of questions and somehow I got into Corsair Industries after this I had some great people help me out with all the questions I had about the EVE universe, and they’re probably the people that have gotten me through those critical first days in EVE.

Now I quickly got into a Rifter back then and traveled to our headquarters, I joined my corp mates in doing missions, while not being of use it was fun to have some people to do stuff with.

After a while I moved from Corsair Industries to the Escarthian Mining Corporation I got in touch with them through the Corp Recruitment Channel (Yep it’s possible), and moved again to their base of operations.

As their name suggests I got my first taste of mining with them, though I was still mining in a frigate/cruiser back then, and of course I did missions with them (While still missioning myself in a shiny rupture.

Now after this some corp hopping occurred until I settled into Novadyne Dynamics (Corp’s closed now) for a while, however the CEO turned out to be a big fraud as he had stolen billions of assets from corp members (Which he also did when he was the head of the Escarthian Mining Corp).

This discovery was only made when I already left Novadyne Dynamics for Ghosts of EMC (It took a while to join them) which was the corp people that left EMC (Escarthian Mining Corp) founded after they discovered the CEO’s fraud, so I hang out with them for a while in high-sec mining and missioning as usual.

However after a few days when I logged in a mail had arrived we were moving to null-sec, both thrilled and scared by this bold move we started packing and joined Fusion Death inc. which was coincidentally a corp most of us also hopped into a while ago.

So after a few days we packed and headed into null-sec, it was  quite a trip, and even though it was just flying and jumping it was still exciting and fun for me, I was shaking (IRL) the entire trip from anxiety and adrenaline I guess.

Now we settled into null-sec and my wallet that at that point contained 900 million ISK I had acquired through GTC’s quickly shrunk to under 50 million ISK as we didn’t have our ships from high-sec down here yet.

Here we spent ratting and mining and PvPing and we’ve been here ever since, null-sec is awesome and I can’t imagine life in Empire anymore, even just the ratting and mining has been awesome with the corp so we’re here to stay that’s for sure.

After this move I’ve tried various things including manufacturing in both null-sec and high-sec, however those weren’t profitable, however that will change because I’m primarily training for manufacturing now.

I have also recently started a new venture on an alt: trading. After I encountered someone that happened to be a programmer and also a trader in EVE I gave it a real try, and I can say it’s going pretty well.

My NAV (Net Asset Value: Estimated ISK value of everything you own) on my trade alt has doubled in a week and is continuing to grow so I’m going to keep this up to fund my PvPing.

Well that’s my history in EVE from august 2009 to present day, I hope you enjoyed reading it, and you can continue reading with the adventures of my fellow bloggers:

1. CrazyKinux’s Musing: The Heroes with a Thousand Faces
2. StarFleet Comms: Life. Evolved.
3. A Carebear’s Journeu: This Carebear Thinks He Is Developing Teeth
4. The Elitist: Our ventures in EVE
5. A Mule in EVE: From a guppy predator
6. Travels of the Ronin: Evolution and Adaptation
7. The Ralpha Dogs: The Past Through Tomorrow
8. Where the frack is my ship: A journey, not a destination
9. I am Keith Neilson: 7 Year Itch?
10. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah: Evolution Me
11. EVE Opportunist: A long history of a short time
12. Roc’s Ramblings: Things Change
13. Guns Ablaze: Onwards and Upwards
14. EVE On Real Life: Haven’t you grown up yet?
15. The Fang: The path of the ninja
16. EVEOGANDA: Whoops Apocalypse!
17. EVE SOB: Learning to swim
18. The Life of a Dead Jester: My Time with EVE
19. Personal Files, Ciarente Roth: Personal Diary 18.6.112
20. Learning to Fly: Change is Good
21. Depths Unknown: Falling With Style
22. Morphisat’s Blog: Jack of all trades
23. More as they get published…

Another fitting, tried and tested, it works fine on belt rats, and it should also be able to complete the hardest anomalies (Drone Hordes for example).

however for that you need a lot of level 5 shield and capacitor skills (Or you can use it in conjunction with a Dual Large Shield RR Osprey).

[Raven, Ratting Active Shield]
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Capacitor Flux Coil II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II
Ballistic Control System II

X-Large Clarity Ward Booster I
Shield Boost Amplifier I
Shield Boost Amplifier I
Invulnerability Field II
Invulnerability Field II
Photon Scattering Field II

‘Arbalest’ Cruise Launcher I, Paradise Cruise Missile
‘Arbalest’ Cruise Launcher I, Paradise Cruise Missile
‘Arbalest’ Cruise Launcher I, Paradise Cruise Missile
‘Arbalest’ Cruise Launcher I, Paradise Cruise Missile
‘Arbalest’ Cruise Launcher I, Paradise Cruise Missile
‘Arbalest’ Cruise Launcher I, Paradise Cruise Missile
Salvager I
Small Tractor Beam I

Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I

Acolyte II x5
Infiltrator II x5

And if you have the skills for it and you don’t need the salvager/tractor beam you can swap the SBA’s for tech 2 ones, and swap the Clarity Ward for a T2 shield booster

After having my trusty server running for 4 years (+5 years before that as a desktop) it became clear that it would probably die soon (Well some part of it). the graphics card was making noises (it doesn’t have an on-board graphics card) which turned out to be the fan that was vibrating heavily, and I didn’t like the idea of running it without a fan.

I coincidentally had acquired enough spare parts to create a new computer with so I decided to use those to build a new server. After disassembling and assembling I reinstalled Debian Linux 5.0 and started restoring my back-ups, this time I’m trying to keep it as organized as possible.

So this is basically what I’ll be finishing the coming days besides playing EVE. Oh yes and E-ON magazine arrived today, read about 1/3rd of it so far (Great job on the article Mynxee), my new USB stick also arrived, a 16GB Sony Microvault Excellence, it’s 2 times faster then my current 2GB Titanium Cruzer (Will still use them both) and I’ll primarily run Linux and EVE from it (Not EVE inside Wine, just EVE when inside a windows environment).

Well that wraps it about up I think, thanks for reading my huge wall of text and see you at the next post. or leave a comment and we can discuss or talk about something related or unrelated.

~Xeross

Note to self: Don’t write posts when sleepy, they turn into huge walls of  text.

Just as a quick update, I’ve decided to create an alt. account to support my main account with. I’m not entirely sure what skills I will make her focus on but I think she’ll be specializing in hauling.

Yuuko Sozu

Race: Caldari
Gender: Female
Bloodline: Achura
Ancestry: Inventors
Date of Birth: 19th of March 2010

Yes my long awaited EVE space photos are here, though many of you probably weren’t waiting for them, I was. Because I said I was waiting for something to arrive before I would post them, well they’re here now so let’s go.

First of all my EVE space as it was until about half an hour ago.

Then…

And the result is…

For those interested a few specs:

Size: 24″
Type: Samsung Syncmaster 2443bw
Resolution: 1920×1200

And finally the full resolution photos:

Hmm my maximum upload size is 2MB, calls AnMiTh, hmm offline, well I owe you guys the full resolution photos then.

~Xeross

Some people might have noticed some downtime on my blog, this in combination with just being added to the blog pack isn’t exactly ideal, but the issue has been solved, there were a few issues with the nameservers that have been permanently fixed by Lonetrek.

Besides this I’m not feeling really well at the moment, I feel a little sick and exhausted but I hope it won’t develop itself into the flu or something. I’ll also be actively blogging soon again as I have some material I want to write down.

~Xeross

I was talking to an old corp mate of mine a few days ago and I was looking for a new corp and they had room. So I tried to apply but I got the message that I couldn’t apply because the CEO doesn’t have the Ethnic Relations skill. I asked my friend if the CEO could train it, and tonight I asked if the CEO trained it already.

Xeross155 > But does CG have Ethnic shizzle now so I can apply ?
Rammit > we will all watch ethnic jokes we talked about it last night
Xeross155 > I’m talking bout the character skill -_-
Rammit > oh
Rammit > wow I feel stupid
Xeross155 > You seriously discussed ethnic jokes with the corp o.O
Rammit > yes

I wish everyone a merry christmas, have a lot of fun. And for the people that don’t celebrate christmas, just have lots of fun then.

I’m enjoying some dinners with family at the moment, and ofcourse all the christmas events in World of Warcraft (^^,)

~Xeross

After being unable to use the computer for almost anything I finally fixed my Windows 7 installation (Link), so now I can finally get back into my normal rythm. I’ve installed EVE, CoD2 and WoW so I’m ready to roll again.

I’ll be primarily focusing on getting the corp website online when doing anything EVE related, my CMS is as good as finished so I just need to implement the design and EVE specific modules.

Other than that I can get back into blogging and following everyone’s blog again so that’s good too, and ofcourse continue helping out my clients.

Well that’s it for this update, I’ll be writing a detailed post on the Windows 7 issue soon.

Regards, Xeross