A long, long time ago

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I’m sure you guys know the rest, but if you don’t. It’s “In a galaxy far away”

Sometime around the same time I first started playing EvE Online I was also playing the SOE/Lucasart MMO called “Star Wars Galaxies”

Last week, when on the way to the gym a friend of mine reminded me of it and how much different it was compared to… Well any MMO on the market back then and even now.

Much like EvE it was a complete sandbox environment, you were the writer of your own story. Graphically it was shit but, well it was a game that launched in 2003 that didn’t have that many graphic updates. Quite a few content updates though, adding new items, new ways to play, instances etc.

Unlike to what I do in EvE, I never played any PvP in SWG. I was a trader, a class for the craftsmen. I made spaceship parts and sold them to people all over the server, taking custom orders etc. I even had a nice little shop customized for it.

The reason why I stopped playing SWG is not because I had a choice, it’s because EA had made a deal with lucasart for a new upcoming mmo called Star Wars: The Old Republic. They figured that it would not be good for their numbers to have two Star Wars mmo’s up and running so they had SWG shut down.

I don’t think that there were more than 15 000 people playing at that time, but it was a loss to all of us.

It’s been since 2011 that I have played that game, and whenever I started thinking about it I missed it quite a bit. But as it turns out there’s a few private servers out there, and my old guild is playing on that one. So last Saturday, I downloaded the client from steam (yes it’s still on there) and joined the private server.

The nostalgia is real and I’m quite enjoying myself. We’ll see how long that lasts.

Stay tuned o7

Moving around

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The joys of moving to and from wormholes. Always quite the adventure when you don’t have a great connection.

I’ve moved tens of billions of stuff through wormhole space in the past weeks, I have moved multiple times more than that in the past. Even going as far as moving around capital construction parts for one of the holes.

Despite having done all of that, it’s still something that “scares” me. Every single time I jump into a hole I feel like this would be the time when a bubble will pop up on me. It hasn’t happened, yet.

It will at some point, but when I get to where I need to be with everything intact, I usually let out a sigh of relief. Despite it being relatively safe because I scout for myself, it’s still quite the adrenaline rush.

I love wormhole space, just a shame that not more people enjoy it as much.

Eviction target

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For those of you that, like me, have been living under a rock the past few days. Here’s some news for you.

Hard Knocks is getting evicted by Goonswarm.

I don’t know much about how and why but from what I gather is that The Initiative has been planning to do this for the past couple of month.  

People are currently tuning in as the current biggest Wormhole corporation in EVE is getting evicted from their home hole. Something many people have thought impossible.

I have been in wormhole groups for the past couple of years and there’s always been a bit of a love/hate relationship when talking about HardKnocks. There’s no arguing that they did good, they were the first to build a keepstar in their home, are able to bring huge fleets and rent out C6 space.

Problem that most people have with it, is that there’s absolutely no way to fight a powerblock like that. None.

As a pilot that has always been in small wormhole corporations, the moment I rolled into rage I made sure that the whole chain got rolled. I never wanted anything to do with them being anywhere near me because it meant overwhelming numbers and losing my ships without ever having stood a chance. 

The fact that they rent out the C6 space also meant that other corporations never really had a chance to set it up themselves. They’re basically to wormholes what null sec alliances do to null sec. Something I’ve already talked about in the past that I hate.

It’s a shame that this is a null sec alliance pushing them out. But let’s be real, no way in hell would us wormholers been able to make this happen. We do not have the resources, logistics or people to do this. 

I’m curious what this means for the future of wormhole space. I just hope it won’t come and bite us all in the ass. I’d rather not have HK be replaced by a bunch of nullseccers. 

Especially seeing that I am starting to log in once more. 

Stay tuned o7

GG CCP

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Those of us that live in a wormhole are used to being left out by CCP or taken up the ass when it comes to people living in other parts of the EvE online universe.

We’re used to it, it’s been like that ever since people figured out that they could live in wormholes. But today truly is a dark day.

The people at CCP released a blog post concerning their newest addition to bending wormholers over a table and taking them up the ass without any lube.

https://www.eveonline.com/article/pf7gpi/october-balance-pass

If you’re not quite well versed with wormholes, it’s the bit where they talk about HIC changes.

When you live in a wormhole you have a one or two static connections, in order to close this one goes out to “roll” a hole. You know their approximate mass and you use a few battleships to close it. From time to time the battleships don’t cut it and the hole goes in a critical state.

Being critical means that it’s mass is less than 10% of it’s total mass. Meaning that it could be as high as 100m or as low as the mass of a capsule.

The good people living in wormholes figured out that in order to roll it faster, you could put a few bubbles on a HIC, activate them, which makes your mass less than that of a capsule, and then jump back inside their home using a prop mode. Usually closing the hole right behind them.

Not having this kind of thing to close a wormhole would make it hard for people living in them to find new content.

BUT! CCP in their current state doesn’t care one bit about the wormhole community.

Unfortunately, wormholers will be unwilling collateral damage, as they often are, due to the incredible usefulness of HICs for rolling holes. We may address this with a specific mass manipulation module at some point in the future but want to move forward on fixing this broken behavior as fast as possible.

Translation: “We know you guys use and kind of need this for your playstyle but sucks to be you”

It’s a damn shame really, a lot of people are already commenting on reddit about all of this. I’m curious to what will happen.

But I doubt anything good will come out of it.

The fact that almost the whole CSM consists of Goons and nobody that actually lives in a wormhole isn’t that great… Who would have thought..

 

Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/9glsyb/a_plea_to_any_who_will_listen_ccpls_dont_let/ for more reading material on what’s upsetting people.

New Design!

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I’ve been helping out my mother with a new design for her site and decided I should update my own.

So now that happened too!

Things are a work in progress still. And I’m still building a house too.

Have to say that buying a Mavic Air drone was one of the best decisions I made this year.

New Neighbourhood

Searching for a way forward

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I logged on the other day, because I was poked by a friend of mine about something that was said about the state of wormholes.

His poke reminded me of the game once more, about the fact that I miss it. And that I’m not playing it right now.

I hate not playing actually, I hate not having a place in the game right now. No friends to log on with, nobody to play with.

Because EvE in a whole, is the most fun when playing it with the people you know, with people you like hanging out with. It’s also one of the only communities that has made me a few lasting friendships.

Luckily I still play games with some of the people I met in EvE, but every few weeks I think on the game, and have this wish to come back to it. But without an idea on how to go at it.

There’s multiple factors at play in this. I don’t want to do anything in Null sec, at all. I hate sov wars I hate the blocks and I absolutely loathe the fact that most people I have seen in null sec are afraid to do anything unless they have 10 times the numbers of the other team.

I’ve tried roughly 3 or 4 different null sec coorporations, the only guys that weren’t like that, are the ones that lived in NPC space, they didn’t care, they were fun to play with and I had a lot of fun hanging out with them on TS.

Unfortunately they went to SOV space and I have no idea what they’re up to now, maybe I should poke someone again, see what they’re up to.

I’m still in w-space right now though, having joined a friend’s russian friends. I’ve had a few fun encounters with them, but mostly don’t log on because of the language barrier. Which is a shame.

Well, that and the fact that the other guys that joined along with me aren’t actively playing anymore either.

The joys that are life and work.

Having typed this. I think I’m going to poke a few people. See if I can shift some things around. Try and become semi-active once more.

Not that there’s many people reading out there, but if you think you have something that could interest me, poke me. For the love of Bob poke me!

 

Stay tuned o7

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We’re there

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It took a bit longer than expected but a few days ago I moved back into a wormhole.

I joined up with a few friends in a C5 and enjoying myself again in the limited time I find myself playing.

The first ten minutes in the corporation already had me participate in a few dread kills so that was of to a good start.

ISK making is picking up again too, I found a whole bunch of hulls that I bought when I had decided to quit for a few months, so I’m putting them on the market again slowly.

Don’t really need the ISK but I don’t need the hulls either seeing that they’re not ships I will be flying at this moment.

I’ll mostly be flying in T3’s, which makes me happy. I really like flying in the more “expensive” things. And it’s not like it’s that hard to earn it back.

Stay tuned o7

And we’re moving

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In the past few weeks a few people have contacted me about coming on EvE again. And I’m in the process of making some things happen. It’ll take a while but eventually something will happen. I’m not going to say when because I can’t set a date to it.

Other than my return to EvE, I’m still in the process of building a house. Well, letting people build it for me. All the damn paperwork, it’s a real pain in the ass. But we’re getting there.

Outside that I’ll also be moving the site to a different provider within the next few days. Time for another change 😉

See you all “soon”

The way of life

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A while back I told myself that if I ever decided to go check out K-space again, I would join up with Goonswarm. Not because I know much about null sec politics and because I think they’re “cool” and whatnot. But mostly because I thought that if I were to join a group, why not join the group everyone loves to hate.

So when the guys I flew with decided to go back to Stain for a while. I just went ‘Ok, let’s see if I can get into Goons’

At the time of writing this, I have literally been part of the Goonswarm for seven days.

In those seven days I have setup jabber, mumble coms, other authentication stuff like their forums etc etc. And joined in on a few fleets. I had a few problems with the fleets itself but that’s the way of life out here.

I killed a few Rorquals earlier today, so that’s nice. We did a two hour roam with a 100+ man fleet. Which was new for me, not really as exciting as doing the same thing with only 10 to 15 people.

But I did come to the conclusion that I really, really don’t like nullsec.

I hate local with a passion, I hate that they have programs like Vintel or TACO or whatever else that can scrape the chatlog and give you a literal warning sound when a neutral arrives because scouts told you.

I hate that you are literally safe from everything as long as you use those things. It’s just not for me. I like wormhole space and the fact that my home will randomly pop in your home from time to time.

That I can scan around and watch someone without them knowing I’m there.

Kspace is just not for me.

I am currently making a few new plans. I will be setting up in a wormhole once more. But this time I won’t be joining an old one, it’ll be a fully new set up. New citadels etc. New way of living.

This is giving me a new objective. And that’s what you need in this game. Objectives to aim for and succeed in.

I’m sure it’ll work out fine. I have a few things in mind that will happen in the next few weeks.

On a little ISK related notice. I have put a big part of my liquid ISK into PLEX. There have been a few rumors that make me think that we haven’t seen the end of the price inflation yet.

A few weeks ago I had bought a few dozen Machariel hulls, right after the announcement that in the near future alpha clones will be able to use them. Since then their price has gone up by almost 50% so that was fun to watch. I still have about 16 hulls left right now. Once the price starts to drop again I’ll probably sell them. Until then, I’m keeping them around. You never know.

Stay tuned o7

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Back to square one

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The past month or so was interesting, but alas, our little experiment came to an end.

We were in a wormhole with three different corporations. Living together, fighting together, trying to get things to work together. But due to different mentalities things went a bit sideways.

We didn’t really disagree on anything but we didn’t communicate. And communication is key. Due to this lack of communication people stopped logging in and those that were logging in were not used to being in a wormhole and missed their Kspace.

Which I get, being in wormholes is a lot different than being in null or low. And it’s just not something that everyone can adjust to.

It was fun while it lasted but unfortunately, I’m back on the “streets” again.

Due to this, I will be applying to Goonswarm. Mostly because I want to see what nullsec is like. And what better way than to do nullsec in the group that everyone supposedly hates.

I really like the whole “Grrr Goons” mentality that people seem to have. I personally don’t get it, at all. But I never really bothered reading up on why people think certain ways about the entities in kspace because I literally don’t care.

But when joining a group in there. Why not go for the ones that everyone loves to hate. The one you know will get you things to do. So I’m curious how that will pan out. I still need to be accepted first though.

In slightly different news, I did kill my first super a few days ago. In a little joint op with hole control. They were baiting with carriers, we were waiting on a blops a few out. And someone took the bait.

It was fun, a bit unfortunate that I only got one of the kills but can’t have it all I guess.

Stay tuned o7