In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
--Douglas Adams
Looking over some of the stats on the blog leads me to one conclusion. You are far more interested in posts in which I discuss things about EVE in general than tales of my exploits in blowing up. This is clearly evident when I look at this post which has more views than all my other pages combined. So, with that in mind, I have good news and bad news. Bad news is, I'm still going to be posting quite often about my personal exploits in the game. Those posts probably help me more than you, because it allows me to look back on mistakes I've made and analyze them in a detailed manner so that I don't make them again in the future. The good news is, I'll try to break them up a bit with posts like this one, where I'll discuss some more general aspects of game play and how you can apply it to yourself.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Head Full of Metal
Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was really clear what the other nine tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.
--Douglas Adams
As I promised Toterra in a previous post, I'm going to give my opinions on implants from the POV of a lowsec Pirate. A lot of these same things will apply to high and null security space, but then again a lot of it won't. Also if you haven't read any of Toterra's posts from Scram Web go check him out. He's been at it about 2 years, but does most of his dirty work over in nullsec with Agony Unleashed. They offer PvP courses to anyone that's interested in learning, which is something I've never participated in, but commend them for the service to the EVE community. I'd also like to point out that his links to my posts on the first day my blog was posted on Eve Bloggers were a great source of initial traffic for me. So, thanks Toterra, hopefully I can return the favor someday.
--Douglas Adams
As I promised Toterra in a previous post, I'm going to give my opinions on implants from the POV of a lowsec Pirate. A lot of these same things will apply to high and null security space, but then again a lot of it won't. Also if you haven't read any of Toterra's posts from Scram Web go check him out. He's been at it about 2 years, but does most of his dirty work over in nullsec with Agony Unleashed. They offer PvP courses to anyone that's interested in learning, which is something I've never participated in, but commend them for the service to the EVE community. I'd also like to point out that his links to my posts on the first day my blog was posted on Eve Bloggers were a great source of initial traffic for me. So, thanks Toterra, hopefully I can return the favor someday.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
If it Ain't Broke...
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
--Douglas Adams
I now interrupt my regularly scheduled programming to bring you some comments on discussions at other blogs. I'm already a little late to the party, and adding this to the end of my queue of scheduled posts means it won't get posted for a couple of weeks. What discussion am I talking about you ask? Well, start here, then read this, and finally end up here. Once you're done with those, join me back here for my own thoughts on the topic.
--Douglas Adams
I now interrupt my regularly scheduled programming to bring you some comments on discussions at other blogs. I'm already a little late to the party, and adding this to the end of my queue of scheduled posts means it won't get posted for a couple of weeks. What discussion am I talking about you ask? Well, start here, then read this, and finally end up here. Once you're done with those, join me back here for my own thoughts on the topic.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Moving Day
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
-- Douglas Adams
I wasn't the only one who had noticed just how blobby our local space was becoming. It didn't help that we were competing with a couple other well known Pirate organizations for what few scraps were left over. Space is big though, and one of the advantages to Piracy is that you're not really tied down to anywhere in particular. The leadership of the Blood Money Cartel had already scouted out some new regions of space that looked promising, and after a couple days spent looking them over, official movement orders came down the pipe. As a sure sign this was a good idea, a 50 man fleet decided to park itself in our old home system for over an hour on moving day. I tried getting a fight out of them on local, but to no avail. I think they were French. Primarily because they wouldn't fight me, but also because most of their bios and Corp descriptions were in French. Come to think of it, maybe that was the primary reason.
-- Douglas Adams
I wasn't the only one who had noticed just how blobby our local space was becoming. It didn't help that we were competing with a couple other well known Pirate organizations for what few scraps were left over. Space is big though, and one of the advantages to Piracy is that you're not really tied down to anywhere in particular. The leadership of the Blood Money Cartel had already scouted out some new regions of space that looked promising, and after a couple days spent looking them over, official movement orders came down the pipe. As a sure sign this was a good idea, a 50 man fleet decided to park itself in our old home system for over an hour on moving day. I tried getting a fight out of them on local, but to no avail. I think they were French. Primarily because they wouldn't fight me, but also because most of their bios and Corp descriptions were in French. Come to think of it, maybe that was the primary reason.
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