Category: EVE

I’ve been playing two accounts in EVE for quite some time, but I wasn’t very optimal in my play style, opting for one account on one monitor, and the other, on my second monitor. Then I learned about EVE-O preview, which lets you stack your clients and then have a smaller preview of each window on top of whichever window is active.

Game changer.

In fact I love it so much that I decided it was time to start up a 3rd account. This account is a bit different than my other ones, because it’s actually the very first account I ever made. My character is over 14 years old, but she also has less than 3 million skill points and got caught up in the renaming that happened many years ago, so her name was Gallente citizen 238423984723894738294738. Thankfully, CCP changed her name easily enough, as her original name was taken, and I spent some ISK and bought a month of game time to get started.

This week has been incredibly profitable when it comes to exploration. I found a storm system and camped it for a few days, earning just shy of 1b ISK in materials. I got some mining done (but not much) and have happily found myself back in the throws of EVE – despite my inner voice reminding me that The War Within launches very soon. No matter how I try, I just can’t seem to convince myself that Warcraft is where I want to be right now. I log in for market purposes, and then immediately log out. It’s exhausting trying to balance so many games, and I just don’t have the patience to play something that I’ve got to convince myself to enjoy.

In any case, I figure this 3rd account will become another mining character, and once the skills for that are trained up I’ll work on some combat skills. Nothing fancy is planned, but I know ISK/h goes up the more accounts you’re running (in most cases) so we’ll see how it goes. I can always drop back down to two accounts if it’s not for me.

As always, fly your way! o7

I’ve mentioned in a few prior posts that I was looking for EVE Online streamers to watch on twitch – it tends to be a mixed bag, I’m not a fan of loud streams as I use them to relax, I like to lurk, and I don’t enjoy the very (VERY) “bro” like culture that typically stems from EVE Online. That being said, there are a few streamers I have found that I enjoy watching, and one such streamer is known as ‘Steve’ and his channel is ‘Steve’s Haven‘. He runs a lot of giveaways for people, the more subscriptions in the channel (gifted, etc) the more he gives away.

Last night I was hanging out in the channel – and for the first time ever, I WON! I was so excited! A billion ISK is no small amount, and I was very thankful and excited. I probably used up all of my luck for the year.

I know there’s a lot of controversy around EVE and how they treat their content creators lately. Some folks are frustrated, feel like they can’t grow, are not appreciated by CCP, etc. I hope that these people know how valued their streams are to people like me. Chaos1298 is another streamer that I enjoy watching, along with Erst, and MarkeeDragon (Oz_Eve, also, of course). I’ve been thinking about streaming my own adventures but I don’t think it’s in the cards, I have far too much anxiety and I really dislike people constantly telling me I should fit my ships THIS way or why am I doing THIS etc. I am not a fantastic EVE player, it’s just a game I really enjoy (and I’m good at making ISK in it).

Anyway. It was a really awesome night, that ISK is going to be put to some good things and I should have some more posts coming up about what I’ve been up to in game since details have been a bit sparse.

As always, fly your way! o7

At the time of this post, I’ve visited 209 systems, and 150 unique wormholes. I’m not sure how many signatures I’ve scanned down, but I’m sure the numbers are up there. I notice a lot of similarities when it comes to scanning wormholes, but sometimes the layout still surprises me. Take, for example, J204030 which I mention above. When I entered that wormhole there were 5 other signatures up, all to wormholes. I thought I’d spend some time hunting down data/relic sites, but it was not to be.

Instead, it was 5 signatures that ALL lead to a highsec connection! FIVE! I don’t know that I’ve ever come across that before. I picked a random one to head out of, and found myself in a quiet area of Gallente space, so I decided to do some high sec scanning for a bit.

I must say, I do appreciate the changes that have happened to the daily opportunities. Instead of being forced into a specific type of gameplay, I can just carry on with my day and go about whatever it is I would naturally be doing. I feel like this is a much better method of motivating people to play – just rewarding them for logging in and doing whatever it is that they want to do. Sometimes I want to mine, sometimes I’m involved in combat, other times I’m doing some manufacturing, or exploration.

I know EVE Online posts here have been a bit lacking (as in, I haven’t done any) for the past month, but I just haven’t had the spoons to do much posting. Hopefully that’ll change, but if not, at least this is something. Happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!

It was bound to happen sooner or later. I was mining in an anomaly with a retriever & porpoise combo on (what was until then) a quiet day – and suddenly someone showed up on d-scan. Normally, I don’t constantly run compression on the porpoise because it makes the ship a sitting duck that cannot move until it’s out of siege. I turn on compression only when I have to, and I check first to make sure for the minute or so that I can’t move, all is well.

This time it was just bad luck on every front. First. I attempted to warp off to a safe, but I didn’t confirm anything and instead was looking at my other monitor moving the retriever to a different safe. Turns out, the porpoise might have been out of siege, but I didn’t actually warp her off grid, so when the attacker showed up, I was basically already dead – but it didn’t have to be that way. The porpoise is tank fit, with 97k EHP, and drones. There was just 1 person on me, and it was taking them a LONG time to do any damage, in the meantime, my drones were hacking away at them (warrior II), and I thought if I could just swap the retriever to another ship, I might make it.

Unfortunately, it did not happen the way I wanted it to, and I lost the porpoise. Thankfully, this ship is really not THAT expensive, and in a bonus event, the compression pieces both dropped as loot, and those things are HUGE, so unless you have over 3500m3 of space, you can’t just haul them away. The attacker even left my frozen corpses behind so I grabbed those. I flew in with a hauler, grabbed 80m worth of loot that they had to leave behind (including my compressed ore) and aside from the loss of the hull, it still ended up being an ISK positive day. For now I’ve decided not to bother replacing the porpoise, I know I can compress with the Orca, but I rarely uncloak it these days because I’m terrified of the ISK loss. The cost just seems to keep going up – when I bought my first one it was 450m and now they’re well over 2b just for the hull.

Compression is a big deal when you’re mining out in space. Ore is huge and awkward, and ideally you want to remain out on the grid as long as possible. It was only a matter of time before I lost some ships, I’m just glad it wasn’t any worse than it was.

Fly your way o7

Equinox has not been good to most of the players of EVE. What was hyped and praised as a ‘rejuvenation’ of nullsec, has been met with a lot of drama all around. Player numbers over the past few months have lowered – which is expected in summer months, but not quite to the extent that we have seen. The steam reviews have also recently been bombarded by negative ratings, in an effort to make CCP pay attention. I’ve been reading reddit stories of skyhook robberies, nerfs to ratting anomalies, systems that can no longer support any sort of isk generating content (ie: not enough workers, or power), nerfs to mining anomalies and an overall reluctance to convert the systems to the shiny new (you’re not forced to at the moment, they will auto swap sometime in November, is the speculation). Once you swap you are unable to revert the change. Even if you don’t personally live in nullsec, a huge portion of the active population of EVE does, and these changes will trickle down and affect everyone over time, no matter where you live. There’s arguments about Pochven and WH faucets, and an overall feeling of frustration.

Personally, I’ve always been a ‘let’s wait and see’ player, and I like to think that game developers (given enough time) are smart enough to be able to turn things around, but I’ve also never really experienced an expansion in EVE before, and I’m not sure about this one since so much of it doesn’t relate to anything I personally do, directly. I’m concerned about the trickle down effect, more expensive ships, less players around, those items do affect me.

I’m also not naive enough to think that CCP can please everyone, especially in this sort of a game. I do think they (CCP) need to remember that it’s supposed to be fun, and if you remove all of that fun, you need to replace it or people will leave.

I guess we’ll see what happens in November.