Hands Off, My Loots!

This will come as a shock to some people, while some already know. (and so soon after joining back up with the Ninjas and being made a Director…sorry about that VP ).

I’m quiting EVE, for good.

It’s a very complicated set of reasons that I’ve decided to take this route…but to sum it all up, EVE is hurting me and my family, and I can’t let it do that anymore.

I’ve played EVE for about two and a half years now, off and on, back and forth…with the reason for me taking a break each time either burn-out, or the game affecting my relationship with my family. I’ve realized that no matter what I do, the game always creeps back up to that level of interference and the only way I can solve it is to put down for good.

No, you can’t have my stuff…I already gave it all to Suddenly Ninjas…and I hope they use it to suicide gank you! :p

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Now, onto more pressing issues. What to do with the blog?

I was thinking about keeping it up, and turning it into a Ninja Fiction blog (not sure if I want to leave it in the same format, or convert it over to a RP style of writing?) What I mean, is I’ll still be that bastard Ninja that likes to prey on the idiots of EVE…but the stories, chat logs, and incidents will all be completely fake and made up by me.

What do you guys think of that? I’d love to hear your opinions about it! Would you like to read it? Or would knowing it all didn’t really happen make you uninterested.

I’ve had a LOT of people privately talk to me in game and via email about how much they enjoy my blog. How they read it at work, or in the truck rest areas (I had a convo with a Trucker the other day, that was interesting)…and wanting me to post more since I haven’t in a while.

While I know I must leave EVE, I’d hate to let all you loyal readers down by just having the blog go away if you’d still like to see something like this. It’s up to you! Let me know what you think in the comments, or email me at cyberineve @ gmail dot com.

(And for those that care, I’ll also soon be making a LotRO blog, because that’s the only game I’ll be playing now because my entire family plays it and that is where we spend some of our quality time )…hit me up if you play LotRO on the Meneldor server

Just a quick update.  I’m still out here in 0.0 Ratting my Security Status up.  It’s a slow process…made even slower by the fact that I’m normally too lazy to do it right.  For people that are in a hurry to get their Security Status up, the best technique is to kill one battleship rat and then move to a new system and do the same, over and over.  After 15 minutes you can return to the first system and do it all over again.

This is the best way because you only get a Security Status increase once every 15 minutes per system…so if you go to different systems you can get more than one increase in 15 minutes.

Me?  I’m lazy, and playing it safe.  I don’t feel like losing my ship/pod at the moment to a gate camp…and I can’t be arsed to scout for myself at the moment either…so I’ve just been chilling in one system ratting.  Sure, I’m not gaining Security Status as fast as I’d like…but on the bright side, I’m making more ISK than I would be if I was just killing one Rat per system…since I can farm the belt rat battleships.

Up to -7.88, from -9.94…so I’m getting there slowly but surely.

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In other news, it seems that no matter where I go I can’t help but be a smart ass…this short log is from yesterday while me and another Ninja (who kindly came to keep me company..thanks man!) were ratting and needed to relieve a little boredom.

We played with the guy for at least an hour…he would come in a Cheetah, scan us down, warp out to grab his Vagabond, then a Sabre.  He sling bubbled a gate, and the station trying to get us.  I was cloaked so I let him scan down Onilan in his Rifter so we could move safespots just to annoy him.

After about an hour he called in a friend…and since it was late already, I called it a night when he decided he didn’t wanna have any more fun…lol

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Channel Name:    Local
Listener:        Cyberin
Session started: 2009.12.22 00:52:18
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[ 2009.12.22 01:51:49 ] Marcus Quo > pepper jack LOVE fraggle rock
[ 2009.12.22 01:51:58 ] Cyberin >
[ 2009.12.22 03:03:10 ] EVE System > Channel changed to —– Local Channel
[ 2009.12.22 03:16:43 ] EVE System > Channel changed to —– Local Channel
[ 2009.12.22 03:40:31 ] Cyberin > /emote waves his hand
[ 2009.12.22 03:40:36 ] Cyberin > These are not the Ninjas you are looking for
[ 2009.12.22 03:46:37 ] Cyberin > o/ i see you are back
[ 2009.12.22 03:59:58 ] Onilan > TAG, yer it!
[ 2009.12.22 04:00:25 ] Cyberin > you didn’t really think we were that dumb did you?
[ 2009.12.22 04:00:29 ] Cyberin > we are NINJAS!!!
[ 2009.12.22 04:00:39 ] Namamai > your endless pratter in local led me to suspect that, yes ;p
[ 2009.12.22 04:00:54 ] Cyberin > boredom does that to people
[ 2009.12.22 04:01:08 ] Cyberin > though, i can hardly classify 2 lines as ‘endless pratter’

oh, by the way…Pepper Jack is the name of my Wolf…the first person up there in the log seemed to like that name

Stay tuned for the next episode where Cyberin makes a single ship conga line and shoots rockets at helpless asteroids!

First off, I’d just like to mention that although I haven’t been able to get any of the new juicy Zephyr kills myself due to being in 0.0 at the moment, Suddenly Ninjas are up to I believe 15 or so kills.  We have a corp contest going with about 350mil in ISK/Prizes for the top 3 Zephyr killers…they guys are having a blast!

Oh, and speaking of the Ninjas…I have a new title…I do believe it is something along the lines of “Cyberin, Director of Personnel Recruitment”!  That’s right…I’ve been back for 2-3 days and I’ve been promoted to Director.  As you can tell from the title…I’ll be in charge of recruitment for the Ninjas…which, I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time actually.  I may not have known it until very recently…but Suddenly Ninjas is where I belong…and I’m very happy to be able to give back to this fine group of bastards in any way that I can.  Plus…I’ve been told I have a way with words so I can most assuredly trick, I mean, recruit many a good Ninja for the future!

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I’ve got my security status to under -9 now, sadly…only -8.91 I think…so I still have a LONG way to go.  I would be a lot further, but I haven’t actually gotten much time to undock this past week to work on it.  Early in the week I was busy working on getting some other website stuff I’ve got going done, and then mid-week I was having lag issues so I was scared to undock with 500 Mil ISK in my head in 0.0.  Then Friday when I came home from work my Cable Modem had died so I had to wait until this morning for the Cable Repair Guy to bring me a new one.

Then of course today is my Anniversary (6 years…I love you Babe!  Even if you didn’t let me play much EVE today…what’s up with that? :p)…so…not much play time there.

Tomorrow I get the morning at home to myself though, at which point I’ll get my alt back to where I am as a scout so I can continue pewing these dirty Serpentis Rats so I can get back home to Dodixie…many fun times ahead!

I mentioned in my last post that I had put in an application with the Tuskers, well…after a bit of running around lowsec solo, destroying my sec status, other people…and getting destroyed myself a few times…they decided I would be a good fit for the corp…and so now I am officially a Tusker!

I’ve already been on a few Corp Roams, which have so far been a blast!  I actually got the killing blow on my first kill of my first roam with them…which isn’t that big of a deal really, but I thought it was neat.  I also got to join in on the Ransoming of a Megathron pilot who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  It took a little while, but he eventually paid us 80 Mil to keep his ship, 16 Mil for each of us split 5 ways…so that was pretty decent for my first ever ransom payment.

It’s truthfully been a pretty busy week or so for me and so much has happened that I can’t remember it all exactly how it went down.  You can checkout my personal killboard (link at the top of the site) for the kills/losses I’ve had since I decided to go pirate.  Though one thing I’ve impressed myself with so far (again…not a huge deal, but I like stats and stuff) is I’ve gone from Rank 93,312 in Battleclinic, to Rank 24,456 in 4 days.  I know it’s no where near good…but…it’s a start.

I’ve been sticking with mainly Rifters, and plan on sticking with them for a while since my skills aren’t that good.  I have a few battlecruisers and battleships sitting in station…but I’ll only fly those when I know I have pretty much no chance of dieing…(like killing macros outside station).  My Rifters have the good aspect of being relatively cheap at about 10 Mil ISK fully fit (I am T2 fitting them mostly), as well as being a very popular PvP frigate for good reason.

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In other news…I decided to sell my alt.  I’ve been leaning towards only running one account for a while now…simply to provide more of a challenge to EVE…so with this new change to piracy I figured now would be as good a time as any.  Got a pretty good addition to my Wallet by selling him, so I’ll be able to keep myself in my cheap frigates (and a few fun toys if I want) for quite some time.  I figure next month I might worry about starting to work on actually making ISK…but for the time being…I just want to learn my pirating skills better.

Been an excellent change so far…stay tuned for more updates!

Oh, and I forgot to mention…it’s going to be fun flying with so many fellow bloggers!…there are at least 6 of us in the Tuskers…including Wensley, Ka Jolo, Kirith Darkblade (he just got accepted today!), Noir Avlaa, Bourreau…should be fun.  (if I forgot any fellow Tusker Bloggers…please comment so I can add you to my Tusker Blogroll when I put it up)

Some people will love it, some people will be saddened by it…but I have decided to go Pirate. As much as I’ve enjoyed being a Ninja, the yearning for blood has just become too strong…so I’ve taken the leap.

At the moment I’m running around waiting to hear a yes or no from my application to The Tuskers…hopefully that will go over well, as they are an awesome group of people I’d love to be a part of. Though, I will miss Suddenly Ninjas as they are an awesome group of people too .

I’ve got a decent bit of kills in High Security space, but to be a Pirate I need to do it out in lowsec…without tricking people into shooting me. The first 2 days I started I couldn’t find any kills, but then the 3rd day (yesterday) I got a bit luckier. I got 3 destroyer kills in my Rifter, and the pods of 2 of them. The first pod got away because I forgot I moved my scram to the F1 slot and turned it off rather than my guns and he warped out.

One of the individuals I popped and podded had a nice conversation with me this afternoon…you can read it below.

From: Elliot42
Subject: No Subject
Sent: 2009.11.26 17:31

you blew up my ship last night very effectice tactics would like to work with you no grudge

To: Elliot42
Subject: Re:
Sent: 2009.11.26 sometime (original correspondence not found, paraphrased transcript follows)

What do you mean work with me?

From: Elliot42
Subject: No Subject
Sent: 2009.11.26 17:36

if you alow me to mine in that sector or any other that you cover than i would be willing to split profits i am looking for rare minerals and have the capabilitys to mine alot

To: Elliot42
Subject: Re:
Sent: 2009.11.26 17:41

I doubt a 2 day old character can mine enough to pay me what i’d be satisfied with to not shoot them.

From: Elliot42
Subject: Re: Re:
Sent: 2009.11.26 17:45

this character is 2 days i had a breach in my old character. he may be young but he is already rich. you can either take this offer or the money you could have made will be on your head. it is up to you but in time i will come after you

To: Elliot42
Subject: Re: Re: Re:
Sent: 2009.11.26 17:48

how much isk are you talking? I need a number you are willing to pay

From: Elliot42
AfterSubject: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Sent: 2009.11.26 17:49

for mining rights ill give 30%.

To: Elliot42
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Sent: 2009.11.26 sometime (original correspondence not found, paraphrased transcript follows)

I don’t do percentages, I require a set amount of ISK per day.

From: Elliot42
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Sent: 2009.11.26 18:17

thats what i do percents. never mind ill just park a fleet next time see how you do then. blows up a scout lol good luck

After this, I had to go have Thanksgiving Dinner at two different families places…came back a few hours later to find out that I now have a bounty of 15,000 ISK. Yes, don’t be shocked…you read that correctly. It is 15…with THREE (holy shit…THREE!!!) Zeros. This dude wasn’t messing when he said he was rich!

So, I’m pretty scared now…not entirely sure what I should do. I was considering possibly giving all my assets away and quitting EVE just to be on the safe side. But after speaking with a few people, including a Preacher, two cheap hookers, and a mailman, I’ve decided to take my chances and hope the Noob Fleet of Doom doesn’t show up and rape me mercilessly.