Hands Off, My Loots!

It’s no secret that I used to be a carebear…and truthfully…I still am somewhat.  Although I now love to hear people whine when I take ‘their’ crap, I’m currently living in a wormhole and having fun out there…so it’s a bit of both for me.

Just read one of the posts over at Caldari Outcast and thought I’d have a little fun and take the test mentioned there…the Eve Personality Test.

Here…for all my lovely readers…are my results…

Please do take the test and leave a comment with your results

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I’m a little late, but figured I’d post about the new EVE Expansion that was announced last week, Dominion.  Sadly…they included so much nothing…that all I can really pay attention to is the lack of content…or real news.

“EVE Online: Dominion will focus on what is often cited as EVE’s “end game” – alliance warfare. It offers a complete overhaul of the current sovereignty mechanics…Savvy alliances will benefit greatly from following and understanding these changes…”

I’m sure many, many people find this bit of news very exciting…and while I’m happy for them…I don’t do Alliance Warfare, nor do I give a rats ass about sovereignty at the moment…so…enough said about that topic.

“In addition, we’ll be adding some new epic arcs for pirate factions, offering the first iteration of the integrated social networking platform known as COSMOS, setting our artists free to rebeautify planets and more.”

Same as above really, I don’t do much lowsec/nullsec stuff…so pirate faction mission arcs…while good to have, won’t really benefit me at the moment.  Though I find it slightly more intriguing than the Sovereignty changes for the simple fact that I plan on doing them soon that 0.0 stuff.

The most exciting thing to me in this accouncement is the fact that COSMOS is being released…and since I’m a blogger, and tweeter…I think an EVE only Social Networking site is going to be really neat.  I can’t wait to see all the features.

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Now I’m not normally one to complain about things, but this last new item just helps to make up my mind about something I’ve been thinking about for a bit.  Most of the official news that CCP releases really lacks something important…NEWS!  Giving little hints at stuff here, and glints of polish there is, interesting I suppose…but just once I’d like a first news release to be a full news release…and not have to check back every few days hoping for 20 different Dev blogs explaining all the different things.

My main issue with this news item?  The so-called, Feature Page…there isn’t one.  It’s a page with a nice graphic…a link to a video that has nothing to do with the expansion…and a link to the EVE Homepage that doesn’t give any information about the Expansion.  Seriously…what was the point?

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So all in all, expansions are always an exciting thing to hear about…but I’ll hold the applause until I actually hear about it…

Well, since I started playing Eve and blogging about it (I’ve had a few blogs, and more than a few characters…finally steady now, lol) I’ve wanted to be a member of that Elite Group of Bloggers known as the Eve Blog Pack, started by CrazyKinux.  While I feel that the pack by no way includes all the good Eve Blogs, it is pretty much the top of the field…so if you only want to read a few blogs…these are the ones you should be reading.

Though, I can’t mention the Blog Pack without mentioning Galens OPML download either…which for those of us who like to read more than 40 blogs…contains over 340…check it out too!

My wish has finally come true!  I put in a request for admittance, truthfully not expecting to get in because I feel there are so many awesome Eve Blogs out there…but much to my surprise, CrazyKinux left a comment on one of my posts welcoming me to the club, needless to say I’m stoked!

It includes a little more effort on my part, but I’m glad as it’ll make sure I stay involved like I want to do.

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Current Members of the Eve Blog Pack

1. A Ghost Blog, by Mr NOXx
   
2. A Merry Life and a Short One, by Hallan Turrek
3. A Misguided Adventurer, by Xiphos83
4. A Mule in EVE, by Manasi
5. Articulated Sky, by Godlesswanderer
   
6. A Pirate’s Life for Me, by Alagus
   
7. A Rock in a Cold Place, by Abaddor
   
8. Captain’s Log (The), by Prometheus09
   
9. Corrupted Datacore, by Chainer Cygnus
   
10. CrazyKinux’s Musing, by myself!!!
11. DeafPlasma’s EVE Musings, by DeafPlasma
12. Diary of a Pod Pilot, by Myrhial Arkenath
    
13. Ecliptic Rift, by Casiella Truza
    
14. EVE Newb, by Spectre
    
15. EVE Online Wormholes, by Star Defender
    
16. EVE’s Weekend Warrior, Tony
17. Flashfresh – A Pirate, by Flashfresh
18. Hands Off, My Loots!, by Cyberin
    
19. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah, by Kirith Kodachi
20. Journey to New Eden, by Bill
    
21. Kane Rizzel – A Pirate’s Perspective, by Kane Rizzel
22. Letrange’s EVE Blog, by Letrange
23. Level Cap, by Rakanishu
    
24. Life in Low Sec, by Mynxee
25. Loaded Barrels, by Brutus
    
26. My God, it’s full of Stars!, by Jamenta
    
27. Morphisat’s Blog, by Morphisat
28. Munich Mataris, by DieRoteBieroness, Naanook and DocFloyd
    
29. Nashh Kadavr’s EVE Blog, by Nashh Kadavr
    
30. Ombeve, by Ombey
31. One Man And His Ship, by Karox Lominax
32. Planet Risk Show (The), by Luminus Aardokay & Quivering Palm
    
33. Postings from the Edge, by Zapatero
34. Punishment, by Alexia Morgan
35. Rifter Drifter, by Wensley
36. Roc’s Rambling, by Roc Wieler
37. Sweet Little Bad Girl, by Shae Tiann
38. Wandering Druid of Tranquility (The), by Ga’len
39. Winterblink, by Winterblink
40. Yarrbear Tales, by 00sage00
    

Welcome to the eleventh installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s banter comes to us from Joe Brusati a long time reader of CrazyKinux’s Musing, who asks the following: CCP states that T3 Strategic Cruisers are just the start for the T3 line-up. In future Eve expansions what would you like to see as the next T3 ship type. Please be specific on details about what role this ship would play, cost of manufacturing, and the different modules that would be available for it, and of course you must give your T3 ship a name!

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I’ve been delaying this post for a bit now, and I think I might be late already…not sure if it’s 7 days after CrazyKinux sends out the mail, or 7 days after the 31st…either way…here it is.

Truthfully, I’ve always been the kind of person that plays the game I’m given.  I don’t whine about nerfs, and although sometimes I think certain things would be neat to see…I never really mention them in any formal way simply because I believe that it should be up to the Devs to choose what they want to do with their game.  Yeah, we pay to play the game…but all those people who think that means they get a say in the way the game is made are crazy…we pay to play the game…not to make it.  But now I’m rambling…so on to the real meat and potatoes.

I’ve also decided, for once, to write my response before I read anyone elses (I’m cringing at reading the 207 post in my google reader at the moment…I’ve taken the week to sit down and actually play eve a lot and ignore everything else…now to get caught up!)…that way it’s original to me and I can’t be influenced by reading other peoples ideas.

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It’s been hard to determine if I want to see T3 Frigates, or T3 Battlecruisers.  On one hand, Frigates are awesome and can do quite a lot of stuff…but then Battlecruisers can put up some awesome tank and dps….good for PvE or PvP.  I think though that I’m leaning more towards wanting to see a T3 Frigate…and then Battlecruisers after that.

Since as I said above about not being much of an imaginative person when it comes to thinking of new game features…I’m going to go over what I think the role of these ships could be, rather than thinking up 4 different ships and 5 different subsystems for each like there are for T3 Cruisers…I just don’t have the time or imagination for that at the moment.  And naming…hmm…I’ll take the easy way out on that…

Let me introduce you to my T3 Strategic Salvaging Frigate.  Notice…this is only one use for a T3 Frigate…and the only one I’d really like to see at the moment, so I’ll just stick with this one and let you use your own imagination for all the other roles a T3 Frigate could fill.

As it stands right now, I either use a Vigil, or a Dramiel for salvaging, and switch to a Covert Ops ships for scanning.  Both are fast, and both are weak if someone decides to shoot at me.  What I would like to see, is a frigate that I can select my own stats on via subsystems.  Speed/Agility Bonus, Salvager and Tractor Beam bonuses, Cloakiness, Scanning, and a little bit of tank.

The ability to combine the Ninja Salvaging career (yes…it is a career…all you full on carebears can suck it up and stop complaining about it please) into one ship would be awesome!  Some may say it would be overpowered…but I don’t see how it would be…it’s not like I’m asking for pew abilities on it too…just enough to fill one role perfectly.

I’m thinking something along the lines of a 25% speed bonus (with at least a 420m/s base speed) per skill level, 5 high slots, 3 lows, 4 mid, 100% tractor distance/speed, 100% salvager distance, and ability to use a covert ops cloak.  That would be nice.

Discuss.

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2. One Man and His Spaceship – Blog Banter 11 – The many heads of the Hydra
3. Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah – Strategic Capitals
4. Achernar – Strategic Battlecruisers: the Spiders
5. Journey to New Eden – Eve Blog Banter #11: Introducing the T3 Strategic Mining Barge
6. Kyle Langdon’s Journey in EVE – Strategic…. EVE Blog Banter #11
7. The Captain’s Log – Blog Banter 11: Increasing our knowledge of the universe
8. Deaf Plasma’s EVE Musings – Eve Blog Banter #11 – a ship called Starfury
9. Yarrbear Tales – Blog Banter 11: T3 Destroyers
10. Break Vol – Blog Banter #11
11. Harbinger Zero – EVE Blog Banter #11: T3 Landing Craft
12. Diairy of a Pod Pilot – Blog banter #11: Strategic frigates
13. Mike Azariah – Blog Banter #11
14. Ecliptic Rift – Blog Banter 11: Strategic Industrial Ships
15. More to come…