An Effing Moron

I'm not going to say I did not see this coming. I accepted it as a possibility. I just thought he'd be smarter about it.

Larkonis Trassler resigned from the CSM because he was doing insider trading with his main. What in the world was he thinking? I can understand when politicians in real life get caught doing dumb things, they don't have the ability to create anonymous alts, or funnel money properly(you know, most of the time).

Would if have been so difficult to go to a trusted, but not especially close friend through out of game communication and let him/her do it for you? Then go play some EVE poker and just have 'em "lose" your share of the money to you. This is off the top of my head you FUCKING MORON. Did you somehow not think they were not watching you? Honestly? Seriously?

Still, this transcends ingame theft and moves into a betrayal of trust. Those that voted for you trusted that you'd remain in office for your entire term, which you would have done had you not been a fucking moron. CCP trusted you with knowledge and asked for your input to improve the game. You took that and turned it into cash. That is not why I voted for you.

I trusted you, you fucking moron.

I know I'm a bit late on this, I haven't really been following the whole CSM thing cause the guy I voted in got elected. I figured he could handle things well enough without me watching him. Turns out he was a fucking moron.

EVE Blog Banter #12: I Don't Own a Working Phone.

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 articles at the bottom of this post!

This month's banter comes to us from CrazyKinux himself, who asks the following: First there was the MMO on the PC, and now with the recent announcement of DUST 514, EVE will soon be moving onto consoles. But what about mobile? Allow your imagination to run wild for a second and describe how you would see EVE being ported to mobile devices, whether the iPhone/iPod touch, Blackberrys or Android-based devices. Dream the impossible for us!

I bet this is a good question actually. Sadly, I'm the least qualified blogger to talk about this.

If you're reading this through capsuleer on an iPhone, be advised that I have no idea how the heck you're doing that. Actually... be advised that I don't even know what an iPhone looks like. I actually typed Iphone first before looking it up to see how the thing was spelled.

Let me tell you a little something about me. I've bought two phones in my lifetime. These are phones you buy out of Wal-Mart that you have to buy minutes for or they're useless. I've never bought minutes for either of those two phones. According to the display on my last one, I need to put minutes on it by September 4th 2007, or it's going to need reactivating. Good to know.

The latest phone I bought came with 20 minutes, I used three. Mostly I just hang up on people that call me and then turn the phone off.

I also deleted all applications and games from it as soon as I got it. It's mostly just a paperweight. That said? Read the post beneath this one for actual content. Sorry CK.

List of Participants:

CrazyKinux's Musing - Tying the dots and locking me in!

A Merry Life and a Short One - I Don’t Own a Working Phone

Yarrbear Tales - EVE on Mobile Devices? Eh.

Hands Off, My Loots! - EVE Mobile…Possibility?

Achernar - Trapped on Planet Horror

Rettic’s Log - The Cronofile – Blog Banter: EVE Mobile

A Mule in EVE - EVE Mobility

Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah - EVE Mobile

My Life in EVE - 12th Blog Banter

My God, it’s Full of Stars! - 12th EVE Blog Banter

The Wandering Druid of Tranquility - WOW, look at that ‘micro-Dust’

Adventures in Mission Running - 12th EVE Blog Banter

Ecliptic Rift - EVE Everywhere

Roc’s Ramblings - EVE Mobile

EVE Monkey - EVE on a Mobile Device?

Nashh Kadavr’s EVE Blog - I-pod Capsuleer

Escoce – EVE Trade - Dynamic System Security

Break Vol - EVE Blog Banter 12

Mikeazariah - EVE Mobility

Pods and Pills - The 12th EVE Blog Banter: EVE on the MOVE!

Lords of Space - EVE on my Iphone?

Cle Demaari - Is that EVE in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Life in Low Sec - Wormholes On the Go

The Elitist - EVE On Mobile Devices

Into the unknown with gun and camera - Blog Banter 12: Glue

Zero Kelvin - A year of banting!

Corrupted Datacore - Blog Banter #12: MyEVE

Noir Contract #4: Immensea

Immensea: 103 kills(3.26 Billion Isk), 18 losses(0.78 Billion Isk). 80.64% Efficiency.

I'm going to lead off with our first kill. It was REALLY nice getting this stuff back to empire. I was moving around a few systems over when it went died.

I came over and as we were waiting for a hauler to come down a Nighthawk got caught in our suck bubble. We tackled him, webbed him and started to fire. He had an EM hole, but unfortunately I was the only one with EM torps hammering him. Myself and the other bomber loaded our remote sensor damps with resolution scripts, and whenever the Falcon missed his jam the time to lock was so long that the Nighthawk eventually gave up completely. He loaded friend or foe missiles that eventually took out our active drones.

I called a strategy of releasing and calling back drones on the recons to help them tank the damage the FoF missiles were dishing out. Normally it wouldn't've been a problem, but given the length of the engagement, the aggregate damage was potentially substantial. It took back up ten jumps, but with other corps members hot on his heels another bomber came down and we finally broke the Nighthawk.

It amazed me how often these guys would just let us kill them. One of our roams even managed to down a macro ratter. We had a t3 cruiser but just didn't have the DPS to finish it. Days after our initial camps haulers still came through the gates. I had a lot of fun with this and hope to do it again.

Cloaking Reloaded

Well, looks like I started a huge conversation and a fad of sorts last week.

Mynxee links me and as always that brings me some traffic.

A Mule in Eve talks about his ideas.

Prometheus, an old Alliance mate discusses it.

Black Claw misses the point completely.

Not only that but it's become something of a cool thing to post up discussion post for ingame mechanics. Ok not cool exactly, I mean Spectre's doing it, but he sucks.

There's also a fellow posting a discussion about Local Chat changes. If you read this regularly get me a link.

It's always nice to see a post of mine making ripples through the community. Thanks guys.

Finding Her

I been one poor correspondent.
I been too, too hard to find
But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind
America - Sister Golden Hair

Hallan looked around in wonder as he walked down the street. The sounds and the lights of the crystal boulevard made him smile in a way he hadn't smiled in a while. This was definitely Gallente Prime.

He opened the door to one of the clear buildings and walked inside. The proprietor glanced up at Hallan as though he simple wasn't interested in business and went back to reading off his comm station.

"I'm looking for a way through," Hallan said softly.

"Lots of ways through, or are you just looking?" The man looked up for a moment and squinted.

"I'm always looking," As Hallan spoke the man reached under the counter and flipped a switch. Hallan heard something in the back click loudly.

The man motioned behind him at the door, "They're expecting you,"

__________________

After a fifteen minute elevator ride, Hallan winced at the light as the doors opened. He walked forward and found himself in an office. There were no other doors, and the man behind the desk in the middle of the room motioned for him to sit down. Hallan sat down and looked at the man with a raised eyebrow.

"Do you recognize the face?" The man asked as the screen behind him flashed to life.

"You could say that. That's Sarah." Hallan answered.

"Not exactly, but she is the one who pulled your ass out of the fire on Shiwakusei,"

"I didn't forget. What do you need from me?" Hallan said as he put his feet up on the desk.

"Simple extraction, she's been on a deep cover assignment on Caldari Prime,"

"Woah, that's a bit too much information for someone who's not agreed to anything yet,"

"You'll agree," The man said with a smile, "We've been out of contact with her for three days, we need this extraction done yesterday,"

"She's in danger then?"

"The Caldari have the entire planet occupied and a titan is sitting overhead to ensure it remains that way," The man began before Hallan interrupted him.

"I read the news, I know the situation here in Luminaire,"

"Then why'd you ask a stupid question? She's Gallente Intelligence, of course she's in danger,"

"She struck me as the kind of gal that could handle herself,"

"I'm sure she can, but right now I need your help,"

Cloaking is Broken

If I were the king of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the wars
And make sweet love to you
Three Dog Night - Joy to the World

I've given alot of thought to cloaking and it's inherent problems. I specialize in stealth bombers myself, so I feel somewhat qualified to talk on this subject. There are always simple solutions to the most complex of problems. Here's how I'd change cloaking to make it more fun, and more fair for everyone involved.

First, introduce cloaking signatures, which are much weaker signatures than most people are used to dealing with. It'll take an expert prober with very nice skills to track them down, it should require Deep Space Scanner Probes(and therefore astrometrics five). Once a hit is narrowed down, you'll warp on grid with the cloaked ship. You shouldn't warp in near enough to decloak it though.

Next up, a cloaking signature should show up on your directional scanner when you're on grid with a cloaked ship. They should be like probes, in that they won't show up at all on your overview. They shouldn't show up as brackets and should be unfilterable in the directional scanner. They'll be nearly impossible to track mid combat, since you'll have to pick them out of everything else.

What does this mean? It means that as long as you're online and paying attention, no one should be able to catch you if you're safed and cloaked. It means that ratters won't be able to stay safed up indefinitely in 0.0.(Say goodbye to macro ratters, CCP) It means that if you cloak coming off a gate but don't have a cov ops cloak you're going to be caught.

The cloak stops being an easy button.

Discuss.

Anniversary

Come the 24th this blog'll be a year old. Last week I had my 200th post.

So I've got a question, and you can leave an answer in the comments:

What're your favorite posts of mine over the last year?