Month: October 2025

[Wurm Online] Halloween – Halloween Everywhere!

Wurm Online (like many other games) has a Halloween event active for this year, so I spent some time yesterday collecting the new treats. You run around to doors (that do not belong to you) and knock – and trick or treat, either a greenish mob will spawn that you have to defeat (this happens for the really nice items) or you’ll get an NPC version who will give you an archaeology bit + a candy. This year the rewards were great, though I did have some issues placing the bat swarm in my house (I think I need a ceiling, and right now my Archives building does not have one).

I had every intention of staying logged in so that I could work on Quail Landing (my partially built very neglected castle deed on the main land of Independence) but instead I got sidetracked with a bunch of other stuff. I did also get the pumpkin lantern that you can attach to a vehicle, and this is probably my favourite item. I immediately attached it to my rare wagon, and now there’s a lit up jack-o-lantern beside me on the seat. Too cute!

I’m glad I got the items, and if you’ve never participated in this event before maybe check it out and see if you like it! Afterward, there’s tons of spooky archaeology bits to collect so you can make some fancy items of Halloweens past.

Happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself!

[Warcraft] Gold Making – Week 43 (2025)

Things have started picking up again now that Remix has been live a while. I figured it would, as is the way with these things. It is a quiet time in gold making. The best time to get into things is right at the beginning of an expansion or major update. Since Legion Remix does not bring much auction house stuff to the market (there are SOME things that matter, like battle pets).

This week most sales came from transmog. A rustmaul sword sold for 600k which was a surprise (these things are plentiful and way over priced) along with Last Year’s Mutton, and a Firekin Amice. Collector’s are out looking for deals.

There were a few recipes tossed in there too, but not as many as usual. The largest seller was a recipe: Feast of the Midnight Masquerade, followed by some Tough scorpid boots.

The biggest change I personally experienced was dropping from selling on 20 active servers to 10. I expect this to be a temporary change, but I found with remix going on some of the servers I sell on were severely under performing, and it was basically a waste of time for me to be posting there. This will more than likely change again once housing is released, and I’ll continue to post on the 20 servers I usually do. For now, it’s taking much less time to post my auctions, and I appreciate that.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

[EVE Online] Life in NullSec – I Used to Rent

In late 2024 I decided I wanted to try renting a system from Pandemic Horde, so I entered a lotto and eventually my name was drawn. Renting a system as a single player is a LOT of work which is why even though it SEEMS appealing, I would not recommend it to anyone. I know there’s a lot of “renting is EVIL” out there, but that’s not what this post is about.

I had 8 structures in my system. Most were for moon mining, and I reduced the structures down to 5. Each structure needs to be fueled, and you need a surplus of fuel because there’s all sorts of rules about not letting your structures go into maintenance mode which tends to draw the enemies, something you want to avoid.

It was right around the time that mercenary dens were being released, which added another layer of chores to anyone renting because you also had to take care of them – plus there were skyhooks, and all that fun no one asked for. I got to figure out power and workforce and how to add PVE encounters and ore to a system using the resources that particular system had. It was a huge pain in the ass (but also thrilling for anyone who enjoys spreadsheets).

As a renter you’re also required to keep your ADM above a certain level, and while it’s not impossible as a single player, it does require multiboxing and spending a lot of time on it, depending.

My system was set up for industry and mining (both moon and ore) with a little bit of combat tossed in there. I really enjoyed it, but it was just too much for me as a single character (even with 3 accounts) to make proper use of. After only one month, I decided renting simply wasn’t going to be the path I wanted to take, and I returned to my regular scheduled program.

What this did prepare me for is how structures work, anchoring, un-anchoring, the cost, and how an industry process would look. What sorts of industry I enjoyed working with. This all helps me with my other accounts who are living in a wormhole especially since I was contemplating setting up a structure (I’ve since changed my mind, and continue to use the plentiful Wormlife Freeports available). I also made a lot of ISK from it, more than enough to cover the rental and then extra for whatever I needed at the time. When I gave the system up, I wasn’t out any ISK, which is always nice.

I can at least consider it a learning experience. I got to do a bunch of stuff in EVE that I probably wouldn’t have done otherwise. Plus, it was pretty awesome to be the owner of structures and set them all up the way I wanted with the boosts and buffs I planned.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

[EVE Online] Moving (Again)

I know I said nullsec blocs were not for me, but I do have a single character who has been a member of Pandemic Horde (one of the nullsec corporations) for the past year and a half. It started as an experiment, I was looking for simple ways to make ISK and there was a YouTube video promoting Pandemic Horde and how they would supply you with ships, and you could just spin a vexor (and later an Ishtar, and eventually a Praxis) and make money in their nullsec systems. I had never belonged to a nullsec corporation before so I made a brand new character on a new account and started from scratch.

Back when I joined, things were different than they are now. A lot has happened since then. It took me a lot of time to get over the basic atmosphere (a lot of ‘bro’ type chest smashing, some not-so-polite conversations, etc) I don’t know if it’s the same for all nullsec corporations as this is the only one I have any experience with, but there’s a lot of misogyny in EVE to begin with. It can be incredibly uncomfortable and I’ve definitely had some moments of “why am I even here”. Anyway. I’m not really sure why I never wrote about it much, a lot of covert ops stuff goes on and I suppose I was slightly worried about that, but life’s too short, so expect an onslaught of posts – though I will do my best to keep things paced as ‘events that have already happened’ and not ‘down to the second releasing potentially important intel’ though to be honest I’m a tiny bean on a long pole of more important beans, so nothing I know about is important news anyway.

The point of this post? We got word we’re moving staging – again. We just moved in the summer from our longtime home of MJ-5F9 to E8-432 and now we’re off again. Moving is a huge complex event with a lot of parts. During the first move I actually took it as an opportunity to shuffle 90% of my stuff back to a safe NPC station in highsec (we were not at war at the time, thankfully) and so now I have limited ships to move this time. I’m glad that’s the way I decided to do it. I also moved all of my clones, which was a bigger issue because they’re quite valuable. My preferred method was of course to use wormholes. I scouted out a wormhole close to MJ (where my clones were stored previously) and followed the chain until it jumped out into highsec. Found an NPC station, dropped off the clone and a ship, self destructed back to MJ, rinse repeat.

This time around I have even less ships to move, because I’ve been leaving my PVE ships in the systems I hang out in, so I think I only have some expedition frigates to move, if I even decide to do that. I do have a bunch of NBI gifted ships but those are not worth much at all and I won’t bother moving them.

There are a bunch more posts I want to make, and I may even share some spoof posts I’ve made in the past on another site, but for now I’ll leave it at that. Life in nullsec is very different than other places I play, but I think I’ve done OK with it.

As always, happy gaming – no matter where you find yourself.

[Warcraft] Running after the Legion Remix Dopamine

I have never been a min/max player, instead I tend to wander around doing whatever it is I feel like doing that day. It’s not conductive to productivity – but Legion Remix has changed that, at least temporarily. In Legion Remix, it’s all about focusing on one character so that you can gain the most infinite power, and thus do bigger and bigger things (such as soloing mythic+).

Right now I’ve been attempting to focus on my demon hunter – but it’s not exactly FUN. It IS a rush. You rush through doing all of the heroic + mythic raids for the day, rush through doing a normal and heroic dungeon, maybe even rush through a mythic or two. Then you rush through your world quests, your world boss, and complete your research for the day too, and if there’s time left over you pop over to retail to do the headless horseman instance in the hopes of getting the new mount that was added (no luck as of the time of this post).

Then you log out, satisfied, because all of those little rushes keep you going while you’re playing – even if you haven’t actually DONE much. Plus, it’s temporary. In January when Remix is over we’ll all go back to the regular grind that doesn’t involve us being overpowered and awesome.

I’m enjoying myself, but I am also trying to be realistic. I KNOW it’s because of the rush. I know it’s just dopamine hit after dopamine hit. What I REALLY want, is player housing. I want things to be slower. I want a story. Right now, there is none of that going on. That’s OK. For now. I hope that it changes once remix is over.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!