EVE Online

When I created my alt EVE character, Etha Preve, as part of CCP’s “Power of 2” promotion (have a second account for cheap for six months), I didn’t have any specific plans for her. But I’d always wanted a good hauler to help with the mining and just moving stuff around. Last week, she finally finished the necessary training to fly a Iteron Mark V, a hauler so huge it can nearly carry the contents of an entire jetcan. The PERFECT companion for mining ops, running the trade route from Jita to Dodixie, or picking up buy orders from around the Sinq Laison region. ...

The mega-EVE alliance Curatores Veritatis Alliance (CVA), one of the alliances that keep the nullsec Providence region mostly safe and pirate free, was dissolved today. CVA leaders are calling it an account hacking and have vowed to either get CCP to roll the hack back or to form a new alliance from the ashes of the old. ...

Wow, it’s been a week since I posted? Really? It’s been a REALLY BUSY week, though. And having to leave really early in the morning for the bus and come back really late because of the bus isn’t helping – but I DO get to read every morning and night. I’m reading Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad”, his journey through Europe, Asia and the Holy Land while in exile. I’m really mining that Google Book partnership with Sony’s eBook reader. ...

This Devoter would be the last sight I saw before I was blown out of space by an unstoppable force. That’s my Myrmidon in the background. It would be a twisted pile of tritanium before the night was through. I need to assure you that the Devoter is, as far as I know, fine. So relax! OtakuDyne had the rare opportunity to tag along with another corp on their Wednesday night ops run. This corp has rented space for a POS (Player-Operated Starbase) from a powerful alliance in the Providence region (yes, the region where we brushed with CVA a month ago), and they are about to join an alliance which will enlist them in the defense of a large portion of hotly-desired space. ...

There’s an item in EVE Online, dropped commonly by rats in missions, that can be reprocessed with minimal skills and its component minerals sold for twice the cost of that item on the market. In fact, you can buy unlimited quantities of that item ON the market, reprocess it, and immediately sell the minerals for competitive prices and make a 50% profit. For that matter, you can put a buy order out for as many of this item as you can afford for a competitive price, and people will SEEK YOU OUT to sell you this item. ...

Awwww, over-protective mommy ship takes cute baby alt-ship out for the first time! Yes, I’ve joined the ranks of EVE pilots with two accounts; the lure of EVE’s Power of 2 promotion and the savings in time by having a second account for salvaging, hauling, and extra drones was just too much to ignore. If you think THAT picture is just too twee, check THIS one out. ...

I’m in Damallan Trick (apologies to ) When I warp onto the scene Y’all know me by my miner Like an oldschool forty-niner I’m farming mats I’m killing rats I got some missiles and some drones in my hand Hey you’re looking cute in that Hulk-inator girrrrrl ...

Last night, a “rogue group” of us OtakuDyne types headed to lowsec for some ratting fun, and ended up going to nullsec to rat, and taking on some players we found. We killed our fellow ratters, and then their friends killed us. Was that all there was to it? Nope, we’d kinda opened a playroom door and chucked a stink bomb in, then ran away to a closet to hide and snicker. ...

My luck held out, and I flew the Gun of Happiness, my PvP-fitted cruiser, back home. Everyone else in our null-sec adventure – on our side, anyway – got sent home via express mail. But we hit them first, and we hit them hard, but they soon outnumbered us and that was that. We’d been planning on a PvP op more than our usual wormhole exploration for awhile. Red had scoped out some NPC complexes in low security space. We could play around in those and if some other players happened past – BOOM. ...

Ya know those Deep Field shots the Hubble took, where they point the telescope at a seemingly empty part of the sky and find tens of thousand of galaxies in every shot? That’s pretty much how I was feeling when I fought my way to the last “room” of an EVE storyline mission and found little clumps of ships like this one scattered around. There’s three battleships, six battle cruisers and four destroyers in that shot – and if I fired at the mission objective, they’d be coming for me. ...