Hands Off, My Loots!

While reading around a bit on the Ninjas forum today, I came across a thread that I feel needs more attention.  So while I’m not formally in Suddenly Ninjas anymore (more on that in a new post later today), I’m still a Ninja at heart…and will make sure to fit a Salvager to my Rifter!

So, for your reading pleasure, I present you: CCPs Love of Ninjas…stop whining about it Carebears…

Full Log in This Thread

CCP Dropbear: One problematic thing about “generic” missions is how they effectively isolate the mission-runner from other players and provide few avenues for social interaction. If you’re wondering why sometimes epics send players to nullsec, lowsec, exploration sites…well, this is a big part of the reason why

Kahega Amielden (SN Director): Don’t worry, CCP. We here at Suddenly Ninjas™ are working hard to add social interaction to generic missions

CCP Dropbear: And we love you (and others like you) for it! In some weird and wonderful way, groups like yours operate as flag bearers for the full EVE experience, and we wouldn’t want to change, or get in the way of that.

Also, lol.

Two words explain this response well: SIMPLY EPIC!!!

Well, yesterday I spent all day trying to figure out what was going on with my computer.  It crashed in the morning and just wouldn’t come back on all the way for a few hours.  I finally said to hell with it and tried to reinstall Windows, but apparently my disk drive is dead.  So, I’ll be using my daughters not-so-nice computer until I scrape up the money for a new disk drive for my laptop…which might be a while sadly.

Also, in other news, I have decided (after getting an offer I couldn’t refuse) to move back to my own custom domain name for the site.  I’m not going to reveal it until I get it all setup…but believe me when I say it will be nice, got good plans for it.  Should be a couple days until it’s ready to be released.

Before I announce it I’ll of course have to contact Crazykinux, some people that have linked to me, and some other people about getting all my RSS/links straightened out to point at the new site.  I figure people didn’t have enough work to do…what with having babies (Crazykinus…gratz by the way) and just recently updating from my move I just did to podlogs not even 2 months ago.

Oh well, such is the way of things…though I can promise this new site will be the permanent home of Hands Off, My Loots!

Podlogs has been good to me so far, and I wish it the best, but I need my own space to grow and thrive, and I just don’t feel I can do it as well when I’m restricted to what I can do without having full control of the entire site.

Hopefully I can get some time to play EVE tomorrow so I can actually post something about the game soon…as all my planned posts went down the tubes with my hard drive (chat logs…), and with all the commotion I didn’t get a chance to play much the past few days sadly.

It’s been a very eventful couple of weeks!  Got a few kills, got killed a few, got podded due to lag…meh, decided to play in WH space, put up a POS, etc, etc…

I actually started this post sometime early last week, but between working, catching up on a few hundred google reader posts, and actually playing EVE I’ve neglected actually finishing it a bit, as a result…there will be more information than was planned! Hooray!!!

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The War with the Deadspace Society is still going strong, though I have a few opinions of it, and how most of our corp is handling it.

We started off the war with getting a few more kills than we were getting killed, which was good.  I personally got in on a few kills myself, and died twice.  That last kill there was a pretty fun one for us.  We had been chased (and being chased by) a gang of about 7-8 War Targets, and took one jump into lowsec to head to another area of highsec.  Sadly for Slumpert he was the only one of his gang that decided to follow us into that lowsec system…which ended in his destruction.  I hope he said thanks to his mates!

The Typhoon kill was a nice addition as well.  It started with Akquar playing station games with us, not having enough of us to to much about as we couldn’t break his tank before his agression timer ended and he docked up a few times.  Finally, much to his surprise backup arrived and he last attempt to play with us resulted in him going pop.  For some reason (possibly lag?) he sat their in his pod so I pointed him.  Sadly I wasn’t paying attention and clicked on another ship rather than his pod to approach and ended up getting out of range so Zav and Lars helped me crack his pod open.  Yes, his corpse is sitting in my hangar now…no…I won’t tell you what I do with it at night.

My two deaths were no where near as fun.  First one was simply me being the weakest person in the gang I was in so I got primaried pretty quickly I assume.  Second one happened due to my own error.  We were forming up to mess with a WT gate camp and everyone was aligned to the gate.  FC said “Warp…” (so I hit warp) “…to Planet X” (this is where I learned to let the FC finish talking before hitting warp).  So I end up at the gate and play jumping game with them a few times.  I think it was the 4th jump where I couldn’t burn back to the gate fast enough and got squished.

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My alt got podded, that was annoying.  I was in Rens I think selling my lastest haul of sleeper stuff, and making a few runs with a few loads of Arkanor I had to unload.  After 4 trips, I undocked from the station to find a WT in a hurricane sitting out front, I quickly docked back up in my Bestower to purchase a Shuttle to mess with him in.  My plan was to head out, warp to a planet (which I did well) then warp in and out to annoy him while he couldn’t lock me each time.

Well, where it went wrong was the first time I warped back in…I lagged.  My screen updated just in time to see my shuttle go boom, while I was spamming dock the whole time…then more lag.  Next thing, I wake up in some station in Amarr space in my clone.  There goes that full set of +4s.  I hopped in a shuttle and flew back to Rens, logged out, and logged back in a few hours later to successfully get my hauler out and back to the wormhole.

I put in a petition to see if I could get reimbursed, since I was dumb and forgot to check and make sure my clone was upgraded (which…it wasn’t…figures…only 3 days of training to get back the skill I lost though, so wasn’t too bad).  As always, the logs showed nothing.

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I mentioned it earlier, but in case you missed it, I’ve been spending most of the war in a Wormhole system goofing around.  I didn’t actually come in here to avoid the war, it just happened to work out that way…I’m hiding in the Shadows like a good Ninja!

When I first came in it was simply for a quick run with an Alliance Mate (we have an official alliance wh corp that has a pos in this same system).  But it ended up with me staying for a bit, getting annoyed that I couldn’t use the ship maintenance array to store my ships (alliance mates can put them in, but only members of the wh corp can get them out for us…no thanks).  So, the next day I thought about putting up my own POS to base out of.

When the static highsec exit opened up 3 jumps from Jita I took it as a sign from all those Ninjas that have passed before me.  So, 9 trips of 6 jumps each later with my fully decked out and rigged Bestower Alt of Doom I had a medium POS setup in a class 1 wormhole system.  Overkill? Yes!  Fun? Yes! So it worked out well for me.

After a week though, I think I want to find myself a Class 2 wormhole to get to while I work on my skills.

My POSs Overkill Setup

Now, for the part that had to deal with the title of this post.  My plan for my next WH move is to put up a large faction tower with a little bit of everything that I can online/offline when I need certain services.  I know it’ll be overkill…but…I like to do things over the top.  So, in good Ninjas fashion…I need someone to send me 2,600,000,000 isk so I can buy all the stuff.  If you don’t have that much, I’ll accept much less, please just send Donations to Cyberin.

(please also note, the above paragraph is not serious…unless of course, you want to donate lol)

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Where does the future lead?

I’m not sure yet.  I enjoy being with the Ninjas, making new friends, and getting my loots from other people.  But I’m also have a blast in my Wormhole, while also having thoughts of Faction Warfare.  I thought I had finally made up my mind with what I want to do when I joined the Ninjas…but apparently, my mind was playing tricks on me since I’m still unsure of exactly what I want to do.  I think in the end it’s all just going to come down to me doing whatever I feel like doing, whenever I feel like doing it.  I guess only time will tell.

CCP Abathur posted a new Dev Blog, Sovereignty – Breaking the Chains, this morning explaining some of the new concepts that are going into the new sovereignty system for Null Sec that will be coming with the release of Dominion.

I stated previously in my post about the release of Dominion that the Sovereignty changes didn’t excite me much because I didn’t have plans for 0.0 any time soon.  Reading this new information has changed my mind a little.  Granted, I probably still won’t be going to 0.0 any time soon, but the industrialist in me is extremely excited about the fact that Alliances are going to be able to upgrade their claimed systems to provide better “risk vs reward”.

Abathur states that the “Military, Economic and Industrial” aspects of 0.0 space will be able to be altered.  Militarily I’m guessing that upgradeable defenses will be able to be set in place (gate guns anyone?).  For the Economic and Industrial side of things my guess would simply be having some way of finding the rare ores, gases, ice belts, etc it all areas of space rather than the limited amount you can find in very specific places currently.

As always with announcements like this, all the actual details are left to our imaginations, which of course annoys me a bit, I’d much prefer if they just gave us all the info they know at one time…but I guess I’ll live.

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Another new feature that sounds like it will interest me is the ability for “roaming gangs to cause an ‘AFK Empire’ no end of frustration”…that sounds like a perfect fit for the Ninjas…and I am sure that I will be attending roams to go mess with people in the mid-to-near future.

Currently, it’s pretty much impossible for small gangs to have any effect on large (or small for that matter) Null Sec Alliances due to the fact that you have to take down so many POSes to do any amount of annoyance.  But with whatever changes they have in mind…the ability for Black Ops operations to really make a huge difference is going to increase dramatically.  And as a Ninja, and a guy who likes sneakiness in anything really…that makes me happy.

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There are a few other features annouced in the Dev Blog like Alliances having to pay upkeep on the stargates in the space they control and the fact there will be some sort of ‘flag’ they must place in systems to control.  So I’m guessing it’ll be something like the way Faction Warfare currently works.

I’m curious to see what the upkeep is going to be like, and if it’s going to be per system…or per total stargates in the actual system.  Also an interesting concept would be an Alliances ability to shut down certain stargates if they didn’t pay their bill.  Maybe shutting down 2/5 stargates would still give them more than 50% control…so they wouldn’t lose sovereignty…but it would be an interesting defense tactic for sure.

All in all, this Dev Blog, while not giving me much detailed info to salivate over, just increased my excitement for Dominion a little more.

Well, it looks like the Clown Punchers need a few more entries in their contest before they can make a decision on the winner, so I figured that since I only have 202 blog posts left to read in my google reader…I’d spend my time wisely and help out with at least one of those entries.

The question we pose to our fellow bloggers for the first installment of the CKIAGFEBBC is, “What is the thing you hate/dislike most about the player run corporation you are in.”

As most of you probably know (and if you don’t, shame on you) I’m a member of the infamous Suddenly Ninjas corporation, EVE’s premier Ninja Salvaging entity.  While I love my new Corporation, and my new profession…there is of course always something about everything to dislike.

Really, Really, REAALLYYY long chat logs on the SN Forums are one of those.

We love Tears.  Ninjas LOVE Tears.  I relish and roll around in a bed full of Tears, that’s how much I enjoy them.  I like my Tears, and I like reading about other people’s Tears…but…all the random shit in between is annoying.

As ninjas, we of course measure the size of our epeen by the fullness of our “Cup-o-Tears”…and I’ve noticed lately some people trying to water down their Tears with chatlogs that are sometimes hundreds of lines long…diluted Tears are annoying…and not as Salty as I’d like.

When I read Tears, I would simply like to read the Tears.  I don’t need to know what that random guy in local thinks about it (unless his opinion is funny), nor do I need to see the 73 lines of one worded coaxial messages between the good stuff.  I also am not fond of knowing what that random guy in local’s mother is doing at the current moment, unless of course it somehow pertains to the validity of said person’s Manhood.  I just want to read the Tears, and possibly some of the important stuff that lead up to them.

I make it a point when I post Tear Logs to clean out all the dry stuff…since Tears are wet…and I wish everyone would do it!

So to recap…notepad, notepad+, wordpad, word, works, whatever program your computer has to edit text…they ALL have a delete button…use it ninjas!

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