Simple but effective

Ever noticed it could take quite some time for the map after pressing [F10] to show up ?

Sometimes theres a very easy explanation:
The map remembers its last setting. So if you choose to search for your "Agents in space" the map will do this, repeatly - regardless of your need or not.
A simple trick is to set the tab "Display Settings, subtab "Stars" to "Actual Color" - this is the way fastest to show the map (because no filters have been applied).



Also have in mind for most short range travels you dont need the HyperDuper-Big O Map - the minibrowser you get by pressing [F11] is often enough ;)

Fear the mighty Stabber

Guess today pirates will run from me - with the sight of my mighty STABBER....



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Home sweet (old) Home ...

Lately we tend to hand around with some mates in our old home in Grispire ...

Some "new" inhabitants of our old home seem to try to lay some "n00b" traps:

Place some cans ...


Some innocent cans in a belt

and hope the best ☺


believe me - I would NEVER lie ...

Next shot is one of my favorites ...

We got a very - ehh pointy CEO ...


Tess can be picky ...

Stay tuned for the detailed "Grisp Files" following in the near future ...

Offtopic: A life next to EVE ?

Having postcard-weather today I was intrigued to visit our greatest lake here in Carinthia.
The "Wörthersee". After several weeks with -15°C to -20°C (5°F to -4°F) this big lake (an area of 19,5km² respective 7,54 sqaure miles) froze ...

Finding the lake frozen (see some details down below) driving around the lake was a beautiful sensation with the perfect weather.



As you see I was not alone with this idea ...



Even some guys from the local Skaters Club tried to get some fees out of the folks for skating on the (public) lake ... Well, they sure had some work preparing the ice - but me and my GF already preferred skating on the unprepared surface - so why spent 2,5 Euro for driving ?



Fortunatly the lake is big and there where other places on the ice without challenging the "Ice Sheriffs". Near this little mansion we came on the ice and ...



... guess the fun skating all this nearly
alone away from the crowds ...

New feature ...

Bah ... I KNOW when the galaxy shut down ;)

Annoying ... maybe too much complained when their universe shut off ?

Ever wondered ?

How a thing like a Giant Secure Can fits in a haulers cargo (in fact 4 of them fit in my Prowler) after deplyoing it ?

There must be some air pump included to inflate them ...


And there are NO tricks with perspective or so involved - the prowler and the can are next to each other ...

Got a plex ?

Recently me and some mates decided to go for complex to beat boredom in 0.0. After a short refit and bunkering lots of ammo we went for a nearby infestion of "pirates" to show them we dont allow them to live outside the law unharmed.

Being there at the first acceleration gate I unrealised my noobish mistake - taking a 100MN Microwarpdrive with me was no good idea ...
Well, after putting it offline I enjoyed my bigger cap, being able to tank more ;)

Fighting off the guards we quickly proceeded to the second stage.


gate to Stage II

Next Stage we found some (ok, not so perfect - but we got the hint) invitation ...



Main target was a stargate under construction ... Hell, I can tell you this things can take lots of damage before you see a really neat *BOOM* ...
Fortuntaly they dont fly and shoot back.



Our party proceeded (see here me and Giogiogiogia - Don is unfortunatly not depicted) easily and than ...



... the s*** boiled. On the way to the accelaration gate due to an malfunction of my pod communication electronic suddely all my systems went black. Nada, nothing. After rebooting my PODs software and logging in I was alone in the plex. The only thing I got was a:

This gate is locked! The Supply Ship Pass must be retrieved and stored in your cargo hold when you activate it for it to be unlocked. The question that remains is, who (or what) is the gatekeeper ...

Bah, would my POD have booted 30 secs before or after - all would be fine.
After digging around my PODs software pool I found some code ©righted by M$ corparation from .edm.nd (. where it was illegible) as source of the failure ...
Maybe a computer expert could help a poor minmatar out ?
What did I made wrong ?

New Toy - Part 2

"Finally", to say so, I earned the honor to fly the minmatar Tempest. Not to say I dont't dislike my phoon now (my "Longtail" which I originally heritaged from a chap over a year before) is still in perfect condition and I still will try to make it the longest living battleship in EVE ;)

Intrigued by my filled wallet I decided to throw some ISKies in to get some at the market. Impatient to wait for VAF building me one I grabbed one of market at 112,000,000 ISK - well more than if bought from corp, but hey I wanted one. With one of our next freighter runs finally the Tempest arrived down in 0.0.



It was definitly fun and and REALLY GOOD FEELING to fly (finally) this big boat. (Let's not speak about my first encounter with belt rats where I got farely spanked ...).

After this (not mentioned here unhappy incident) and some "setup varities" I come to a setup which fits my minmatar proud:

BIG FAT GUNS (imagine a 850mm shell next to your head)
Some decent tanking
and some real nice warheads

Nowadays I scrap Angel Battleships with my decent well thought minmatar technique:

Fly to 3000m, activate the big 'Os - and three mintues later activate Toy I ...


Isn't it a nice one ?

Completly forgot ...

After a complaint I changed the comment option to allow "Anonymous" comments too.
Hopefully I dont't get to much "bots" commenting ...

Well - let's see how it works out ;)

I LOVE IT !

My new toy in action - a Small Tractor Beam I.



Grabbing ...


Pulling in ...

A wonderful tool getting the remnants of unfortunate pirates in my cargo hold. At the expense of one gun looting even during combat is no longer a problem ...

Must be a frustrating sight:
Circling around my royal dustbin, desperatly attacking.
AND watching during circling how the containers from less successful attackers is sucked in ;)

Patch resume

Together with the new patch deployed we get also new funky message boxes ;)



But well - very innovative - especially the logo.

Short (personal) summery:

• Generally surely improvements to the game
• Login now takes longer
  
• Agent runners will NOT love it as the u-hauled all agents again in high traffic systems
• CTRL-TAB works as before
• the new font IS slightly more readable
  

Find Patchnotes on EVE-Online.

New Patch on tuesday the 10th January

Seems a lot of RMR issues have been fixed.
Next patch is planned to be deplyed tomorror, the 10th of January, after/in DT.

Find the patchnotes here.

Well the joke is old - but set a loooooooong skill ;)

Combat Haulers

Combat Haulers

Lately we had a tournament like I did none before, next to fighting in noob ships, frigs, cruisers and even battleships now the tornament (well in fact no real tournament, but a ´friendly´ fight call inbetween corp mates) was restricted to solely Tech I - Haulers ...

Task was setting up a hauler for combat in 20 mins. Yes COMBAT - those ships normally thought to evade combat - so normally either fitted for speed and/or some (very little) tank. But it definitly was a challenge getting the things to be done. After some minor checks (no way a MWD to fit ... hmm sacriface ALL for a Medium Gun ? ... ultimate tank ? ... crap - to few powergrid ... damn no small smartbombs available ...) the `Angry Mammoth` has been fitted and left for the tournament place.

Tessa gave the go and all started from POS. First thing was a little picky as usual there is a problem to find the opponents ...

Warping around suddenly Tessa and I met each other and the battle started.

Lock .. Scramble .. Fight.

After ten minutes (or so) we decided its a stalemate - and warped away from each other.


Me and Tessa in the ´Stalemate´

We had quite the same ideas:
Double NOS'ed, Double Scrambled and Double Fired ;)

Later (it seems) Tessa run into xjudgedreadx and let him live due to her peaceful nature (after neglecting his armor - cite Tessa: "I cannot kill a hauler ..."). After that xjudge ran into me, who deemed not be that merciful (well, I am Minmatar ... but let the cliche go). After realizing he will be dust in a few minutes xjudge decided to try to evade me. Constantly webbing me he hoped to get out of my warp scramble range.
No way - firing his mighty afterburners the mammoth managed to follow the badger denying him to get out of scramble range.


xjudge in "good" shape

***BOOM***

Well I would at least tried to get the pod (just for fun not to kill), but with a locking time of 23 (!) seconds ...

A little strolling in the system made me met Tessa and Sashi fighting each other. Brave corpman as I am, I decided to help our beloved CEO.


Trying to break Sashis tank

Sashi got an impressive tank - Tessa and me together could hardly break it. After the break of Sashis tank was imminent, the tide of fight changed and both started shooting me (an emote of "justice" or what ?). Knowing I couldnt tank both of 'em I hit my trusty warp button.


Sashi and Tessa on me - argh ...

So we ended up with some draws,a relatively easy kill for me - thanks to Tessa - and a killmail surely to remember:


2006.01.08 23:20

Victim: xjudgedreadx
Alliance: Ascendant Frontier
Corp: Vanguard Frontiers
Destroyed: Badger
System: 4-MPSJ
Security: 0.0

Involved parties:

Name: Eol Ruin (laid the final blow)
Security: 1.9
Alliance: Ascendant Frontier
Corp: Vanguard Frontiers
Ship: Mammoth
Weapon: 250mm Light Gallium I Cannon

Name: Tessa Yor
Security: 4.0
Alliance: Ascendant Frontier
Corp: Vanguard Frontiers
Ship: Iteron Mark V
Weapon: Small Nosferatu I


Destroyed items:

Heat Dissipation Field I
Invulnerability Field I
Internal Force Field Array I
Power Diagnostic System I
150mm Railgun I
Antimatter Charge S, Qty: 24

Password Change

Tranquility down and ...



As Oveur of CCP states in his Dev Announcment the cause for the now again down Tranqility is an investigation of password hacks ...

I suggest all to take this seriously and immediatly change your password - you dont wanna loose hard earned ISK, ships, BPO's, dont you ?

Some hints on Passwords:

EVE supports quite long (up to 64! charcter) passwords. So you simply can use some sentences as a password. Use things like "ilikeeveitsgreat" also spicing up with some special non-alpha charcter greatly improves the password quality like "ilikeeveitsgreat&vaf4tw" and you have an easy to remember password ... and dont use the examples here - that are already my passwords ;)

In memoriam Artemis Rage

After being Mr Damage and the Über-Miner one of the monuments of a rolepaying minmatar,

Artemis "The Sleeping Dragon" Rage

or Art as his friends called him, left EVE.

One of his remnants his N°1 damage- monsters, Arts brave Machariel BS is now in the hands of another VAF corpie. Pand3m0nium flew his new possession outside the Bar & Grill for some combat testing. Xjudgedreadx, Zoon, PyjamaSam, some others and me took the oppurtunity to check out an infight with the macha.



The Machariel under fire.



Some more ...


The Macha is in the center of the circles ...



Slowly and majestic the Machariel flies towords the Bar & Grill proven how impressive a machariel can be in the right hands.

Hopefully Pandy doesnt tell the angels his setup, otherwise ratting might be much more difficult in the future ;)

Well - farewell Art - We Miss You !

/me pinks a tear.

Finally ...

After 1 1/2 years of experiencing the vast galaxies of EVE finally it is mine.



My first tier 2 BS - a shiny Tempest.

/me docks and starts to polish it ....

The Highway of Death

Lately one of our regular support runs from the outer rim to the empire worlds has been hold by ASCN (including some brave VAF people helping protecting our valuable assets).

Six freighters travelled the "Highway of Death" from 0.0 to ´civilized´areas.



The fleet gathered and started their dangerous journey.



Protected from a fleet of Megathrons each frigate (including their private escort/support ships) slowly travelled their way through the high risk areas.



Me and my Stiletto, taking a support role the gang.



An Amarr Providence flying next the gate.



See here an minmatar Fenrir (note the deepspace version of the badger cargo tugger right to the Fenrir). Sometimes I will also own a Fenrir ....



Last but not least our brave "Darth Freighter" commanded by our "Queen of EVE junkies", our CEO Tessa YOr, who also took lead in command of the freighter fleet accelerating (hmm...well maybe `slowly getting faster´might be a better description ....) from a gate.

After 3 hours travelling finally the fleet reached "safe" empire space.

As it was 04:15am - well no travel back for me ;)

Time for ranting . . .

6th January, 13:50 GMT+1 ...



And as usual immediatly the discussion starts at e-o:



Normally the first non-sticky thread in "General Discussion" is worth a read ;)

You find problems ...

• Zar Dim: I need my fix!

impatience ...

• britishfish: /me starts tapping his fingers on the desk
  

desperation ...

• Fade Routha: Well looks like i stayed up till 4am for nuttin

anger ...

• lles: DAMN HIPPIES!

irony ...

• Kerushi: ccp can`t help it, the hamsters are on a wild strike and importing server qualified hamsters from icland takes time

memories ...

• Olsen'Kra: Olsen'Kra begins to have convulsions and cold sweats, and has flashbacks of the infamous Easter'05 downtime. (comment Eol: click the link and have a look at the "Previous Posts or select "April 2005" from this BLOGs archives)
  

Nevertheless, a perfect moment to relax a little and prepare some BLOG entries, realizing theres a live without EVE . . .

Or ?