Chatting with Newbies
There's been a huge influx of newbs into EVE following the release of the amazing new EVE trailer. I've always wanted to give a little back to the community, and this seems like a good time for it. So...
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In a Relic Site
It's Thanksgiving weekend. Lots of people playing EVE, including lots of newbs. I am in wspace as normal, and I've been neglecting things here a bit while I answer questions. Time for a roam.I set...
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Whither PLEX?
Here is a graph of recent PLEX prices, courtesy of eve-marketdata.com. Note the long and relatively smooth ride up, then the peak indicated by the red dot, which was Nov. 19. Then there is a small...
View ArticleKilling a This-Is-EVE Newb
I killed a newb yesterday. I see an Imicus in wspace immediately upon dscanning when entering a new system. I am heading down a chain I scanned earlier, just checking for new wormholes and looking for...
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Culling a Flock
It's midday Sunday. The Boy is out at a guitar lesson, so I am in EVE. I've checked out two systems, a C4 and a C5, adjacent to my home system. No targets. Now, into a second C5 via a K162. I'm...
View ArticleMilking Sleeper Data Sites
A few days ago was my corporation's "Corp Night", which is our weekly get-together to run C4 or C5 PVE sites to make ISK. (We also will attack small-gang targets of opportunity if we find them, but...
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Remove the Z-axis Arrow in Scanning
It's time to grind on my favorite axe, the blade having been dulled by time. To get the context, first read my article Against Z-axis Arrows in Scanning, which is more than a year old. It describes...
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Fun in C1
It's Christmas eve. I am not working. So, in between family I work in some Christmas EVE. I am out for a roam in my Manticore.My system's static C5 connects to C5a, as it always does by definition....
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Touring a Shattered C5
I am out exploring in my Manticore. Perhaps I'll break a long kill drought today. But I don't, at least not down two of the four wormholes in my home system. So, on to the third. I warp to my C5...
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A Foolish Viator
I'm back on the hunt. It's the weekend, a good time for interacting with people not in my time zone.But so far, I have not found anyone. Earlier I opened C4b then C2a off of C4b, finding a route to...
View ArticleAbout Dscan Undetectability
I had a message from a reader the other day about the revamp to recons that CCP is going to do. The specifics are found in CCP Rise's Features and ideas posting (also see the second post, pointing to...
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A Ring in Space
It's the late night, and I am exploring. My system's static C5 connection has expired a while ago, but I've held off on opening it to get its timing aligned as I desire. (I want it to be going EOL in...
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A Gank on Scan
It's the weekend. I am out in my Manticore looking for prey. C5 I want to leave closed until later today. So I head out through our static C4, into C4b. It has occupants who aren't home. It also...
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An AFK Helios
Sunday, and I am hunting again. What it is about hunting? It's addictive like a lottery. Usually you pay a small price and get nothing. Sometimes you get a win, and sometimes a jackpot. I have one...
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A Sloppy Scanner
It's getting late in the USA timezone, and it's a weekday. I have not been on today, so my bookmarks are probably out of date. These are not propitious circumstances for hunting. But I am building...
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Stupid or Fearless
A C6 system connected to my system last night, and I scanned it down then. I found some good gas, a Vital Core Reservoir, and I sucked gas for 20 minutes until the sleepers came. Today, I am eager to...
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Strange Events in C5a
It's the morning, and I am out for a bit of exploration before work. It's corp night tonight, meaning we have a standing plan to run sites to make money. Part of that involves opening our static C5...
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Beaten to It
It's getting late tonight. Almost bedtime... but there is still a bit more time, and there is my static C4 to explore through. I've explored our static C5: nothing. Also a K162 to C4: more nothing....
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Jab and Riposte
It's corp night again. Last night I prepared C5a for us, should it prove worthy. By going in a day in advance, I can instantiate all the 16-hour wormholes that may be sitting around there...
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Signal Cartel
Via Nosy, I found out that Mynxee has started a new corp for explorers, Signal Cartel: Signal Cartel is a corp designed from the ground up for peaceful explorers. We are based in Thera... Dedicated to...
View ArticleBearing
I've been low activity in EVE lately. A lot of this has to do with other games occupying my time -- Clash of Clans, Star Wars Commander, and Castle Clash. But it also has to do with luck. I've had a...
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A Relic of Failure
Friday night. It's US timezone, which tends to be less active. But I have time, and I am hoping to find something interesting. I am out in my Manticore, looking for whatever EVE has to show me...
View ArticleHat Trick
I have not been feeling like writing, and not playing as much EVE as I have in times past. So that's what's up with the lack of posting. I am in the process of winding down my occupancy of the C4 I...
View ArticleC4 for sale
As I previously mentioned, I have been in the process of wrapping up my occupancy of the C4 system, J213139, in which I have been living for the last year and a half. It's been a good run.J213139 is a...
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Shallow in EVE
I.I managed to find a buyer for my system. Part of that is the rock-bottom prices I was offering for it and its contents. I think a big part was luck. In any case, thank you Stabs for the suggestion...
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