April Fools

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

I set up a base in some rather unpopulated 0.0. I'm not going to quit the game or stop posting here, but I'm done with PvP apparently.

I'll be ratting up my sec status and writing here in the mean time. My apologies to most of my readership who come here for the piratey stories.

On to a little bit of actual content. CCP's apparently working on rebalancing ECM and Stealth Bombers.

Falcon Discussion.

Stealth Bomber Discussion.

See you guys on Friday.

Interviewing the CSM Candidates

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
Moody Blues - Question

Completed Interviews:

1. Interview with Chip Mintago
2. Interview with Larkonis Trassler
3. Interview with Omber Zombie
4. Interview with Sokratesz
5. Interview with Heartstone
6. Interview with Dierdra Vaal
7. Interview with Erik Finnegan
8. Interview with Vuk Lau
9. Interview with Gaetring Xana
10. Interview with Admiral IceBlock
11. Interview with Torda
12. Interview with DJ Hijak
13. Interview with Happy Joymaker
14. Interview with iulixx
15. Interview with Dan DeGagne
16. Interview with Mrs Trzzbk
17. Interview with Weazy Z
18. Interview with Herschel Yamamoto
19. Interview with Les Bains
20. Interview with Garthran
21. Interview with Shatana Fulfairas
22. Interview with PsychoBitch
23. Interview with Mazzilliu

And we're done.

EVE Blog Banter #6: Die Bard

Welcome to the sixth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here . Check out other EVE Blog Banter

This month's topic comes to us from Quintrala of Speed Fairy . She suggests to "write a short fiction story about the dissolution of the BoB alliance. It could be from BoB's point of view, the Goons', by neutrals in 0.0, civilians in Empire, NPCs or even rats. Write about before, during or after the coup; give us stories of market, war, people or love. In-character or roleplay. We want to know what happened, from those fictional characters that, in your mind, were part of it."

Out in zero zero,
Once was a great power,
They conquered like heroes,
They fell like a tower.

They tried to fight back,
For what it was worth,
They seemed to lose track,
Resistance was birthed.

In their regions they stood,
And in Delve they did fall,
To some Goons from the Hood,
And the Goons took it all.

Think this is funny?
Don't think it at all,
Bob's like a bunny,
Quick to drop the ball.

All the spies in the game,
Didn't help them be good,
Try it next time with pain,
Try it next time with blood.

Annoyed by the Goons?
I Guess that's your call,
Winning is a boon,
Justifies it all.

From the inside easy,
From the outside it's hard,
Still empires are lazy,
And that's all from this bard.

Speed Fairy, The Hand of BoB

CrazyKinux's Musing, No where to go...

A Mule in EVE, Rolling to the Warzone

The Ralpha Dogs, Two Tales of Glory and Honor

One Man and his Spaceship, Times they are changing

OZ's House of the Evil Dead, Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side

The Wandering Druid of Tranquility, Who the Hell are They?....

I am Keith Nielson, He Gave Up the Stars

Life in Low Sec, Six Degrees of Seperation

A Merry life and a Short One, Die Bard

Roc's Ramblings, Mythology

Dense Veldspar, EVE Blog Banter #6

Letrange's EVE Blog, A toast to the disolution of BoB

Fumbling in Space, Scarnan Vs The Fleeing Bankrupt Hordes

Super-Special-Awesome

Whose eyes am I behind
I don’t recognize anything that I see
Whose skin is this design
I don’t want this to be the way that you see me

I don’t understand anything anymore
And this web that I’m tied up
Is taking me right up these walls
That I climb up
To get to your story
It’s anything but ordinary
Train - Ordinary

I don't intend to be average. I never have and never will. The recent updates to Eve have been alot of fun for me. There's always a downside to things. For me that's graphical.

I'm still not sure why they need to do anything special to "support" low end graphics. Give me an option to turn textures off, give me an option to show nothing but the basic rendering of objects in space. It's in there, underneath the fancy textures, right?

Long story short, I'm nothing but an ordinary pilot right now, and it stinks. I lag on entry to belts, I lag anytime I undock, I lag anytime a new system loads, I lag sometimes just when bringing up new menus. Not a little bit of lag, like a couple of seconds, but thirty seconds to a minute. Group work is fine, but I can't solo anymore. There's a distinct possibility that if things don't change, and quickly, that I'll be ratting up my security status and going back to high security space.

I'm taking a semi-sorta break from Eve right now(doing mostly PvE stuff if anything). Hopefully my frustration subsides. In the mean time, you'll still get regular updates from me.

Good Day.

The Girls Are Pretty

Rags to riches or so they say
Ya gotta-keep pushin'
for the fortune and fame
It's all a gamble
When it's just a game
Ya treat it like a capital crime
Everybody's doin' their time
Guns 'n Roses - Paradise City

What is it about Evati that's so appealing to me? Kaalikoata is such a boring station. Standard Caldari architecture. We've got the Hub, and I've got the By Jove there, but bars don't make the place a home.

I've lived alot of places in my time as a Capusleer. I've lived in the heart of Heimatar, near Rens. I've lived near Jita. I've lived out in Vitrauze, in Gusandall, even spent a bit of time populating Amamake. No where have I had as much fun as I've had in Evati.

The Bastards live there, but that isn't it. It's just... I just can't put my finger on it.

I guess I'll just have to go ask the Hellcats, maybe they can come up with something.

Vote or Die. Then, Give Me Your Stuff.

But under skinned knees and the skid marks,
Past the places where you used to learn,
You howl and listen,
Listen and wait for the,
Echoes of angels who won't return.
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want

There's been a bit of talk lately about the concept of a CSM who represents those of us who are, as of yet, unrepresented. That's pirates.

Visit his website and take a look at Larkonis.

The CSM is your voice to CCP, and you need to ensure that your voice matches you. This won't be the last time I mention it, expect more on this later.

Wanderlust - Part 1 of 2

'Cause you are not alone,
And I am there with you,
And we'll get lost together,
Till the light comes pouring through,
'Cause when you feel like you're done,
And the darkness has won,
Babe, you're not lost,
Michael Buble - Lost

Most of you have already heard the news. I'm glad to say I didn't know anyone on Seyllin One. For so many to die so quickly, it's almost unthinkable. I took the time to trek to the dead world.


The wormholes that've appeared all over New Eden are the most likely culprits. I've a working knowledge of astrophysics, enough to know that it's likely that a wormhole opened up near Seyllin that connected to the interior of a star. A bit of bad luck and that could've happened in where I live in Evati.

The best thing to do in such a situation is to get back to living, so I hopped into my Cheetah. I proceeded to hunt down a Radar site in Todifraun. After ripping off the Angel Cartel for about twenty million isk, I started running my probes again. In Akkio I found it.


I could not resist the urge, and traveled through. I came out in unknown and unexplored space. A ringing alarm that I'd never heard before started as my ship sensors adjusted. As my systems came back to life I checked the alarm. It was a gravitational anomaly alert. A black hole was only a few light years out.



I warped to a planet and made a bookmark between. I then doubled back to my bookmark and deleted it. Then I warped to another planet, repeating the process, but renaming this bookmark as a safe spot. I released four probes and cloaked.

I made sure to deactivate three of the probes, and took the other out to start my process of searching.

Very shortly I found an asteroid belt with some strange signatures coming from it. I order my Cheetah to warp to the location and the strange readings became stronger as I approached.

A sense of dread filled me as I came into visual range of the asteroids.