Hands Off, My Loots!

Well, I’ve been off and on a lot lately as you’ve noticed from my last two posts.  I’m back in game pretty much full time now, everything (well, still some personal stuff, blah blah) seems to be going well out of game now…if only things were going good in game .

Since I rerolled my character back in February, and then took another 3 month hiatus…I’m still a flying noob when it comes to skills.  I’ve been all over the place (I can’t just break the habit) so I still can’t really fit any ship decently, though I do have a rifter, battle vigil, and as of today a rupture I’ve been flying around in.

I actually don’t have many Tears for you today.  This post today is mostly about how can-flipping isn’t as fun as it used to be, and my complete failure to coax people into shooting me lately.  Are people starting to get smarter? Say it ain’t so!

[ 2010.07.07 00:58:35 ] decaigo > ill give you a chance to return or have the 939th corp after your ass
[ 2010.07.07 00:58:53 ] Cyberin > oh noes!
[ 2010.07.07 00:59:19 ] Cyberin > which corp is that? one that you aren’t a member of?

I stole this guys ore, a less than a full can of it…and of course got the standard threat.  I never heard from the “939th” and truthfully was a bit confused…because neither his corp, nor his alliance, has the number 939 in it…

[ 2010.07.07 15:10:23 ] Cyberin > are you here to avenge the ore that your corpy gave to me?
[ 2010.07.07 15:10:34 ] Silver Rook > lol nope
[ 2010.07.07 15:10:38 ] Cyberin >
[ 2010.07.07 15:10:42 ] Cyberin > darn
[ 2010.07.07 15:11:02 ] Cyberin > you sure?
[ 2010.07.07 15:11:10 ] Cyberin > don’t wanna blow me up or anything?
[ 2010.07.07 15:11:28 ] Silver Rook > I’m sure thanks, concord will rip me a new one
[ 2010.07.07 15:11:39 ] Cyberin > no they won’t you have aggro on me, your entire corp does
[ 2010.07.07 15:11:50 ] Cyberin > come to belt II-2 and see for yourself, i’m flashy red to you
[ 2010.07.07 15:12:26 ] Silver Rook > as wonderful as that sounds I dont want to, I have no skills ; )
[ 2010.07.07 15:13:12 ] Cyberin > neither do i, i’ve only got about 4mil SPs, half of that’s in learning skills, i took a few months break..i just wanna fight someone, i’m bored
[ 2010.07.07 15:13:21 ] Cyberin > fight to hull and don’t kill each other maybe?

Even when I’m being nice they won’t shoot me .  This guy showed up in system after I stole the ore from one of his corp mates.  I thought maybe he was here to protect his brethren…but sadly I was wrong…again.

[ 2010.07.09 04:37:14 ] Zeo Salis > Evening, what can I help you with?
[ 2010.07.09 04:37:19 ] Zeo Salis > nah take it
[ 2010.07.09 04:37:42 ] Zeo Salis > got attacked. ditch it and run
[ 2010.07.09 04:37:46 ] Cyberin > in that case, you wanna try a fight? i’m bored lol
[ 2010.07.09 04:38:10 ] Zeo Salis > im a miner sorry
[ 2010.07.09 04:38:16 ] Zeo Salis > you on trial account?
[ 2010.07.09 04:38:22 ] Cyberin > i’ll pay you 10 mil isk if you fight me…i’m bored
[ 2010.07.09 04:39:16 ] Zeo Salis > i cant afford to i just started Eve
[ 2010.07.09 04:39:20 ] Zeo Salis > no risks
[ 2010.07.09 04:39:36 ] Cyberin > i’ll be paying you 10mil isk…that will get you started very well
[ 2010.07.09 04:40:47 ] Zeo Salis > i know that you’ll just kill my pod straight out when my ship is gone…
[ 2010.07.09 04:42:08 ] Cyberin > i can’t kill your pod in highsec, concord would kill my ship
[ 2010.07.09 04:42:15 ] Cyberin > you can only kill ships in highsec
[ 2010.07.09 04:42:20 ] Cyberin > unless you are at war, and we aren’t
[ 2010.07.09 04:42:57 ] Zeo Salis > so you want to fight in high sec ?
[ 2010.07.09 04:43:05 ] Zeo Salis > are you mad?
[ 2010.07.09 04:43:29 ] Cyberin > mad?
[ 2010.07.09 04:44:03 ] Cyberin > why would i be mad?
[ 2010.07.09 04:44:14 ] Cyberin > and we are in highsec…so of course i want to fight in highsec…
[ 2010.07.09 04:46:10 ] Zeo Salis > sorry mate, i have much mining to do

I’m 100% certain this guy was an alt, but…he didn’t fight either…damn miners these days. (he was 5 or so days old)

And then there’s the biggest fail of all.  Today while I was running around in Ruvas, I found a group of 5 people, a Hurricane, Osprey, Myrmidon, Raven Navy Issue, and Machariel.  I stopped in there mission, took what salvage I could get (they Osprey and Cane were looting/salvaging)…swiped quite a few wrecks out from under their tractor beams…but didn’t loot because they all had drones out and I didn’t feel like dying in my vigil at the time.

A few hours later, I found them again, minus the Mach. This time I looted, waited about 3 minutes, and the Navy Raven shot at me.

Now, I had just put together a Rupture earlier in order to finish killing someones rats to take their mission item (Ship’s Crew from the damaged Heron) so I warp to the Orca, jump in that, and then put the Orca alt into a 2 Large Shield Rep Osprey.  Then I warp back into the first gate and wait.

Soon enough, the Navy Raven warps back in, I point him, kill all his drones with my drones, and start laying into him with my Faction EMP (with my horrible noob skills).  It took me about 10 minutes because I had to keep warping my RR alt in and out because he shot at him too…but I got him down to 20% shields…but I couldn’t keep him capped out with my medium and small neut because I was low on cap and didn’t have any boosters.

So, while I watched one of his friends in a Myrm (the one from his fleet…corp aggro had run out) suicide themselves on me, and made his RR alt warp out in low structure…his ship self destructed and I died a little inside.  But in the end…he shot at a Ninja…and lost his ship.

So, everyone point and laugh at Erlor…and tell him next time to let me blow him up!

[ 2010.07.12 23:16:12 ] Cyberin > ransom?
[ 2010.07.12 23:16:12 ] Erlor > was
[ 2010.07.12 23:16:17 ] Erlor > ?
[ 2010.07.12 23:16:41 ] Cyberin > pay me 500mil and i won’t kill you
[ 2010.07.12 23:16:52 ] Erlor > lol

Apparently he was glad I didn’t have a Cane too…:(

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Moral of the story?  Miners need to shoot more, and I am buying a Hurricane and a better gank fit Rupture tomorrow.  I’d have killed him if I had either a Cane, or a cap booster on my Rupture …thems the breaks though.

Hopefully I’ll have some wonderful Tears for everyone soon…I plan on going on a rampage this weekend.

Oh, and that guy that I took his Heron Crew? here’s a short chat with him…which is where he annoyed me, and made me spend 2 hours killing those rats in the last room with my shitty Rupture just to get his mission item to sell back to him.  It’s on contract for 10mil now.

He came back in a Manticore after I looted his wrecks but even though he had a friend there with him he wouldn’t shoot a second time (he had shot before while he was in a Navy Raven (yes, 2 shot at me today)…but had docked to wait out the timer.  And then I guess he thought I was a noob and tried to get me to concord myself…lol.

[ 2010.07.12 17:54:54 ] Cyberin > i am red to you because i took your stuff, you are not red to me
[ 2010.07.12 17:55:00 ] Kaverus > i already looted your junk
[ 2010.07.12 17:55:05 ] Cyberin > no you didn’t
[ 2010.07.12 17:55:11 ] Kaverus > already took shots
[ 2010.07.12 17:55:13 ] Kaverus > your lagged
[ 2010.07.12 17:55:17 ] Cyberin > that aggro ran out already
[ 2010.07.12 17:55:20 ] Cyberin > it only lasts for 15 minutes
[ 2010.07.12 17:55:30 ] Cyberin > believe me…if i could shoot at you i would be
[ 2010.07.12 17:55:39 ] Kaverus > ah one sec
[ 2010.07.12 17:56:22 ] Kaverus > im shootin you atm
[ 2010.07.12 17:56:30 ] Kaverus > u must be lagged
[ 2010.07.12 17:56:34 ] Cyberin > um…no…you aren’t
[ 2010.07.12 17:56:39 ] Kaverus > yup
[ 2010.07.12 17:56:47 ] Kaverus > ur laged
[ 2010.07.12 17:56:50 ] Kaverus > press somthing
[ 2010.07.12 17:57:08 ] Cyberin > i’m not a noob by any means, so if you’d like to fight, shoot…if not…get on with your missions
[ 2010.07.12 17:57:25 ] Kaverus > nope i like waisting your time noob
[ 2010.07.12 17:57:34 ] Cyberin > i have nothing better to do with my time at the moment
[ 2010.07.12 17:57:45 ] Kaverus > have to bring frieends to fight your fights
[ 2010.07.12 17:57:51 ] Kaverus > your the noob who cant do a mission
[ 2010.07.12 17:57:55 ] Kaverus > so you gotta steal others
[ 2010.07.12 17:57:57 ] Cyberin > that’s me
[ 2010.07.12 17:58:05 ] Kaverus > exactlly
[ 2010.07.12 17:58:07 ] Kaverus > i have all day
[ 2010.07.12 17:58:10 ] Cyberin > me too
[ 2010.07.12 17:58:29 ] Kaverus > kk lets see how long you can last
[ 2010.07.12 17:59:20 ] Cyberin > most likely i’ll head into the next room soon and start shooting your rats

See, that didn’t take long.

I finally got over all the crap that happened recently (figures it’s like 3 days after I say I’m quiting).  Not sure how much blogging I’ll be doing to start with…but at least I’m back in the game a bit

Greetings fellow readers and trolls.  As you’ve noticed, I haven’t updated the blog in over two months.  Blah Blah Blah right?

Life has hit me once again, with work, travel, family, and my best friend killing himself…I’ve decided to hang up EVE for more important things at the moment.  I’m not saying I won’t be back (because come on…I always come back…).

Just thought I’d provide a little closure to those wondering where I’ve been.

While I sat on the midshift at work last night, I managed to get my backlog of google reader blog posts down from 500 or so to a little less than 100….it was an excellent night. Holy crap I missed a lot over the last month while I was gone. I plan on making a few posts over the next few days about the things that transpired during that time…this is the first.

Don’t want anyone to miss out on my awesome setup. (click images to open full size)

1. I keep up with my calendar very well…this image was taken today
2. My cell phone…:)
3. MOMMY!!!!
4. My Computer…wait…WTF??
5. “Say hello to my little friend!” (I love my wife…one of my favorite b-day presents ever…the rounds below the image are real, from the set of Scarface )…at least…they are supposed to be
6. My Loots
7. My Daughters’ Loots

Where is my computer you may ask?  Well…interesting story.

Recently, my laptop started having some screen issues.  It would stay on for a bit, then the screen would just go black.  It still had a “glow” to it…so I figured it was the power inverter going bad.  It was pretty random, so I didn’t think it was a loose wire…but I took the laptop apart anyway, and confirmed there was no loose wires.  Then…I got an excellent idea…

My wife and I have the exact same laptop…so I took her inverter, put it on mine, put mine on hers…and…mine worked, her’s didn’t.  SUCCESS!!! That’s the problem…now all I need to do is buy a $50 inverter for my laptop screen.

What happens next?  Me being the impatient ass that I am didn’t take the batteries out while I was doing this…and while I was moving the 2 inverters back to the correct computers…I accidentally turned on the computers…yet…both of them.

Now, if you don’t know what an LCD Power Inverter is…to put it simply, there is too much power coming from a standard house plug, so the power inverter (through magic!) lesses the voltage going to the screen…so, if it isn’t there…it fries the screen…dead, blown, all gone, kaput…bad and sad .

So now, instead of needing a $50 piece, I need to buy 2 $300 lcd screens for my computers…which, I can’t really afford at the moment…so, I grabbed my two extra monitors (I did have dual screen setup in the office) and hooked them up to the laptops.  And, as to why it’s not in the office…well…we almost got robbed a few month ago and my wife is still paranoid…so I moved my laptop into the living room to be with her, and haven’t moved back yet.

So here you go…my “current” Evespace

oops…that’s not it…that’s my fierce guard dog to keep the burglars away!

Here it is…finally.

1. My lovely trackball mouse…would be a little hard for a normal mouse on the couch…
2. My daughters cell phone?…maybe I got these mixed up…
3. Not mine
4. Mine
5. Aiden’s…I swear!

Just two more views…computer on left is mine, wife is over to the right.

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