Tag: EVE

[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.

A Wormlife Truce

I mentioned in a previous post that there was some drama going on with the Wormlife freeports, and true to my impartial nature, I stayed completely out of it and just waited for things to either escalate, or pass. I temporarily left the channel for the wormlife freeport that I had been using as my base of operations with my signal cartel character, and was very pleased when a few weeks later this diplomatic cease-fire was announced.

Life in my wormhole returns to normal, and I continue to tend caches and explore about on my own – there have been some new people who moved in, which includes a new structure for industry minded folks, but I have mostly kept to myself so that I didn’t inadvertently break some part of the credo while there was a war going on in system.

I did take some time this week to move my huffing ships back, I left my PI ships in system as I had a pilot for each so it wasn’t that big of a deal.

As always, fly your way! o7

Back in EVE? Back in EVE.

In March of 2024 I decided to return to EVE Online, having played off and on since 2009 (but never feeling like I actually achieved anything). This time, for whatever reason, things stuck.

I will say there’s a lot of negativity in the community overall, and it’s not always a friendly place for female gamers – but – I managed to find a few good friends that I get along with very well, and I think that is a big reason as to why I’ve stuck with it. Even though I did take a 3 month break at the end of November.

Anyway. I’m back in EVE. I have three active Omega accounts (again) and while I need to wait 30 days before I can re-apply to Signal Cartel (if I decide to, I am unsure) I have been trying to decide what else I would like to do. Besides ISK making, of course. I picked up with my spreadsheet again so expect an update on that. I’m quite pleased with the liquid ISK I’ve made in the last year, even with my break.

I started off with the easy things. I have a porpoise and two retrievers, and I went mining. Warp core stabilizers apparently changed. Not a fan of that. You can only equip one and now the item is something that needs to be activated once you’ve been caught. Then you attempt to warp again. Mining is still in a pretty pitiful state, but there’s rumor that March 12th is going to bring about some news. Honestly, I’ll believe it when I see it.

The universe itself hasn’t changed much. Apparently before I quit I went on a selling rampage and I got rid of a lot of my ships that I had, so I had to spend some ISK to fix that. Did a little ratting. Nothing fancy.

I haven’t done any WH exploration yet. I did get PI set up, and I have been using the new planetary industry templates that you have to toggle on within feature previews. They’re a good start at reducing the tedium of PI, but could still use some work (IMO). Still. It’s something.

Let’s see how this round goes. As always, fly your way! o7

EVE, Wurm, Warcraft – and an Update

I haven’t been very good about blogging regularly for a while now, there has just been too much going on in my day to day to set aside the time for it, so I won’t promise that I’ll be any better about that, but I do still hope to do some semi-regular updates about my gaming adventures. After all, the blog will be 19 years old in June, and that’s something to celebrate. So. What’s up with me?

First of all. I was having a LOT of issues with my web host, and I’ve decided to just migrate back to good ‘ol wordpress. I know they’re the evil corporation of blogs, but they’re also one of the easier ones for me to shuffle off to, so that’s where I’m at. My previous host kept shutting my blog down as AI bots were crawling it constantly creating a bunch of inflated traffic. Then they removed my ability to post pictures (unless hosted at a place like imgur) and still the problems were not solved. I’m paid up until November, so the old version will remain, but all the updates will be here going forward.

EVE – I started playing EVE again. No surprise there. Due to my inactivity I was removed from Signal Cartel (no malice there) and I cannot rejoin until 60 days has passed since I was removed. So far it has only been 32 days. I’m undecided as to whether or not I will re-join. While I do enjoy the corporation, I cannot guarantee my activity levels, and that’s not fair to the corp, really. For now I’m in an NPC corporation and still living in the Wormlife Freeport. I’ve been testing out the ‘new’ feature of PI templates, which is pretty cool (it only took 15 years) but it will also take me some time to create / save templates. Still, I’m thankful that PI got any sort of attention at all.

Wurm Online – Still working on my deed, Quail Landing. This is a castle deed attached to the mainland of Independence. I also created my 3rd deed, over on the Exodus server. This is just a retreat type of deed for when I need a change of pace, or am looking for something ‘new’ to do for a while. Upkeep is set for the next year, so even if I don’t use the deed I can just keep it there and forget about it until I’m feeling that itch again. Yesterday there was a green dragon slaying over on Release that was quite fun to attend, and I also participated in my first rift (well, sort of) this week. I couldn’t attend the actual combat portion, but I did help complete two of the colossus which are part of the pre-event. I earned a lot of rift points, and some rift materials (used for runes). It was fun!

Warcraft – Sadly Warcraft has been my neglected MMO at this point. I keep waiting to hear more news about things like player housing but I feel so out of the loop and I just haven’t had much motivation to log in. When I do log in, it’s for some simple collecting, or just updating a few things. I haven’t done anything re: making gold, or the economy. I think a large portion of this is due to still not finding my ‘people’ in game. I do not have a community I belong to, where as in both Wurm and EVE, I have a somewhat large community of people I can talk with and interact with at any one given time. Still, I’m not ready to cut ties completely. Especially with housing just on the horizon.

Playing anything fun? Avowed? Palworld? Waiting for the latest expansion to your favourite game? Let me know in comments – or as always you can find me these days over on Mastodon and Bluesky.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!