Goals are important

A player without direction quits.
EVE is a sandbox although people may say only an inch deep it’s still a sandbox, there is no hand-holding, no end-game, no levels.
There is you and space, lots of space. Without goals you lose interest and wither away.

The same can be said for corporations. Since we all started playing regularly again after the summer slump, it was time to redefine our goals. After the big WH fail a couple of weeks back, it was important to map out the next year. I’ll not go into detail too much but here is our current overview:

- recruit active members, slice the inactive ones
- clearly divide between hisec and wh
- setup mining-ops for ice, ore and corpwallet
- configure and buy pieces of the corp
- get the hard-working dedicated ppl to wh for setup
- continue to recruit and “reward” active, loyals with a place in the wh
- start large scale production in wh (corp)
- start research (corp)
- continue to use hisec as our launchpad for members, while not bleeding them out
- secure pvp players for protection
- start capital production

jupz that’s our plan by and large for the corp in the near and not so near future.

I noticed though that ISK is a bad goal. Isk is a means for a goal but not a goal in large. Having 10bil isk is fun and all but so what…. having 10 bil isk to spend however…. now that is damn sweet.
I try to keep a decent reserve but am less worried about spending as I was a couple of months ago. So what if I drop a billion or even 2? if I had fun/profit using that isk, it’s all worth it.

Aftermath

Aaah summer came and went. It was a hurricane that raged through the corp, and left many not logging in.

All in all it went as expected. 20+ corpmembers joined, only 10 came out of the other side.
So the corp took a big hit, along with some key-players. (second in command, USTZ spoc) that are having difficulty playing through RL issues.

falling back to a small core group hurts morale… Damn time’s  up I’ll continue this another day…

back once more… and EVE is not dying… yet

Just got back into the game, after a long hiatus.

spending time with my gf (who is now on the other side of the world for a year) was far more important than EVE.

Not only that I also recently started a new blog about urban survival which is something that started out as an interest/project and developed towards the beginnings of a lifestyle.

well whatever, this is an EVE BLOG! Well it used to be.

Since I just started up again, I don’t have much to say.

I’d recommend reading this post though. as it sums up my thoughts exactly

and we are back once again… for a short while

Aah just got back from my trip to London. Personally I’m a huge fan of London, it just came at a very bad timing. My girl really needed the R&R though and since she’s leaving for almost an whole year, we are spending a lot, A LOT, of time together, and what’s better then a romantic stroll next to the Thames during sunset?

Well I’m back for about a week, so I’ll try and cram as much EVE in there as possible and get some decent posts up. Although I have to be fair, I’ll be onanother break next week, so it might not be all that wonderfull just yet.

I’ll  be back in bussiness in september though, when my gf is abroad going to the university in Tokyo I’ll have plenty of time to EVE. well… among other things at least.

 

I hope you guys are still there, and I’ll hit you back as fast as I can with a decent post!

Fly Safe,
Seth

Operation Shinobi: Application

Aah the Super Secret Alt scheme… It’s been a long time since I  could share any news with you guys. Well It’s finally time to release some information!

Baby Steps, was a giant miserable fail.
The application seemed to go well, untill they asked me where I heard from them… well… some alliance hired, this corp, who gave me the contract to infiltrate you and pass along every bit of info I could find… Not really a good way to get friendly…
When he asked me my mind went in overdrive. They didn’t have an application up, they didn’t jump from their wormhole in about a week, I’m 30 jumps away from their HQ. So the only thing I could manage was:
Oh somebody in the npc corp dropped your corp’s name.

I went like: “” yeaah Seth, great save!”.
And he was like: “who?”
…
Euhm a dude, I don’t have his name.
- could you check the logs?
….
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
euhm I don’t keep them, turned the option off…

 

Long story short, they didn’t believe a word I said and Went silent.
I tried for another 2 weeks before calling it quits.

The Corp I work for didn’t have any active contracts up that required my assistance but the leader of that corp did have an other target.
basically the target in question harassed my employer’s main.. and It’s time for some payback.

After having a quick look at who they are it seemed an easy prey: industrial corp whoopwhoop, lot’s of money in that shit

AFter applying I learned that they also are located in a WH.
This is excellent. even more ISK to steal!

So I applied, talked to the guy and hey! I got an invite to join them after the war! Which basically means I can join them this weekend.

TLDR version
Baby steps: FAILED

New Operation: Vengeance
Target: [Classified]
Infiltration attempt: succesful
Primary objectives:
1 –   Bleed them out
2 -  Disrupt their unity
3 – Kill them from the inside out

Basics: getting as much profit out of them as possible on the long run, as a personal goal I’d like to  attain the role of director, or at least get as high as possible in the hierarchy, once I’m there, cause as much strife as possible in the corp, leading up to the disbanding of the corporation.

I’ll give more info on how to successfully apply later this month, as I’ve made a lot of applications with alts of mine to see how I could best get a corp to trust me and let me join.

 

oh btw: the corp hasn’t even asked for my api key yet…. they’ll burn… slowly.

fly safe o7

Wormhole Expidition: Fail and Win

So CL3 had an op planned to go in a wormhole last Saturday.
Sadly enough I lost my internet Thursday and let a mate know to the corp that we would post pone the WH for a week.
Of course fate would have it that friday evening my internet came back!

After this debacle though, we only had 3 people going in the WH. I don’t mind too much as a small group would function a bit better and we would get more isk out of it.
After searching 4 hours for a suiteable WH I was ready to give up, just then I picked up a C3 which appeared empty. A scout went in and reported that there was no activity. Well Thank God! a C3 is a bit higher then I planned but why not eh?

Setting up was fairly uneventfull one T2 BC tried to get the drop, but was met with 2 Drake’s and a Caracal.  No kills, on either side, apart from some drones.

 

I must say that the setup took waaay longer then I originally thought. Warping in with badgers (20K m³) took a while and even the orca (120k m³ without orehold) could bring half of the stuff along.
I should have checked all the stuff first, but hey I can’t think of everything right?
After 5hours in the wormhole I decided that enough was enough, the tower was up, the guns, corporate hangar and the ship maintanance bay was up and so was the refining array. We could start and do our stuff the next day.

5 hours later I woke up… I couldn’t sleep I had to go back in and see what I could do.
Luckily for me, one of my mates had the same problem. So we wen’t out, cleared a ladar site and started gas harvesting and mining.
Later in the day I went out and fitted a WH drake, with 2 drakes we decided to clear one of the easier sites (solar cell) and to our suprise it was actually pretty hard. My 200 regen 45K omni tank Drake couldn’t hold 2 battleships at bay. Mostly , I think, cause I’m still shooting with T1 missiles/launchers. So training switched to get those T2 shooters, so I can bring in a fully fit T2 Drake. After about an hour we finally cleared the site and… Salvaging too low … crap yupz another thing to train.

After that I decided that just gas harvesting would be ok for now, and logged of a bit later.
Monday we came back online, and some russian corp was in the WH… with 2 towers. It seems that our scouting failed to bring out what was in the outmost planet.
Oops, the russians killed my mate (not podded) and decided to give us warning, just mine rocks and gas or die…. aaah fuck.
Not an hour later my mate got killed again, and sadly enough also got podded.

After a good while of talking, we decided that enough is enough. If we can’t do all the sites (radar my primarly interest) and we can’t kill things fast enough it ain’t worth staying in the WH. So on Thuesday we got everything out 20 jumps from where we started.
300K m³ to move 20 jumps… yeah not really. I’ll go to Amarr (8 jumps out) and sell most of the fuel and pos modules before going back to Nonni, with what is left of my ships.

The WH was fun, we learned a lot, but we didn’t make too much money. At most It’ll be something like 50-60million, while that’s still ok for 2-3 hours of game time. It’s lower then what I expected, although with no kill sites etc this could really be the reason for it.

I won’t try this again anytime soon, as my GF is going to study abroad for a year, I want to spend all the time I have left with her, with her and the WH needs constant looking after when you go in with a small group.

It was fun… and let’s try again in september, hopefully in an empty WH system though…

Fly safe o7

Coming soon: Wormhole, infiltration and posts

Yeah I’ve been very busy with my new work, after it all settles a bit I’ll be posting again for a short while since my holliday to England is also coming up.

So expect thrilling details about womrholes, being podded and infiltration with a super secret alt!

fly safe!

Sucker Kill, Patience and Goodbye

A lot of stuff happened yesterday, a lot, lot of stuff. but I’ll keep it to the most important parts.

The Sucker Kill
You know, sometimes an industrial corp can surprise you. Yesterday a member of Suddenly Ninjas (love that corp) started looting the wrecks of a corp member, now the corp member was semi-afking in a hulk,  and was a bit surprised when he saw a 2 month old character looting his wrecks with a minmitar rookie ship… jupz that’s right a rookie ship. He had the sense to contact me though and we fleeted up. I warped in with my little Blackbird, sadly enough I was well on my way when I realized that I still had the jammers on for the previous frigate that harassed one of our miners. DOH! well 3 gallente jammers and a multispectral should be enough to keep a rookieship out of targets.
So warped in, target….still going…stilll going… ffs still going…locked few. warp scram up, all jammers up and pewpewpew.
Now my Blackbird sucks at DPS. One reason for it is he doesn’t have any modules for dps (not it’s job) second reason well heavy missiles don’t really do much against a ship that small.
The guy burns away, lucky this sucker has a mwd just for that.. keep him in range and of course boom goes the noobship.
Knowing Suddenly ninja’s I knew that He couldn’t be that dumb. So I warped off and right back in, jupz there he was a big nice Hurricane. Now if I had my jammers on, I would have tried to kill him. As I didn’t have the right ones though I pulled my last trick: cloaky!
Just sat in the belt about 20 km of the Cane till my aggression was up and bumped him before warping of.
Not much of a kill or battle story but whatever. GF’s were exchanged in local and gz were given on the fits/tactics.

Patience, I need to buy that somewhere.
When I get excited I tend to plow through something doing 320 miles an hour. Not everyone can do that, or appreciate it. If this is something that only concerns me I don’t care too much, but when waiting on others, you can see sparks of frustration from both sides. And so I went a bit over the top yesterday.
I made an application, a good month ago, with EOH to become a banker. After some internal problems with the officer in charge (RL > EVE) , the officer needed to step down and another one came in. After that the process picked up the pace, but after a week and 2 mails I got excited again when I saw the officer in question online along with the CEO.
I might have given a couple (read: way to much) subtle hints that I was looking forward of hearing from them and that someone should be whipped. All in good humor of course.
Basically it comes to show that this went down in bad graces, or so it seemed, and that I can very well cut my chance in half, or even that they became non-existent to become a banker.
I’ll try to back of in the next week or month, and maybe I’ll forget about it in the meantime.  Hopes are slim.

Goodbye, well not to you guys, but to my job. I said fuck it and gave my resignation two months ago, and finally I can say this is my last day at work. I’ll be taking a two week break before starting at my new job so I hope that the little breather gives me enough energy to go at it for 200%
It’s better to leave a job which you don’t like, due to changes/pay/prospects then to stay there and be miserable.

Keeping up with the grind and other news

*siiiiigggghhhh*

Main Character now has 8.13 true standing with Caldari Navy, 4.96 for Homeguard and 4.50 for Kaalkiota. As well as a faction standing of 5.01 with the Caldari State.
If all goes well Homeguard and Kaalkiota will go to 8.0 in the following weeks.

The grind is a real bitch. I’m refining my ore at the Navy, my ice at Homeguard, and Kaalkiota for the research grind.

Now the grind is a part of the carebearing in EVE. And on one character it’s still ok. Sadly enough I need it on three. 1 for previous mentioned reasons, 1 for a JC  and the super secret alt for ALL of the research corps… fun! *cough*

Thank the universe for the agent finder though, it will make this a lot easier.
Sadly enough the fastest way to rake in the standings is through mining mission, yeah I said it, here at Day in EVE I said it.
It’s boring, it doesn’t bring in much money/LP but it’s fast as hell. Got a drone bay full of drones? Check. Hulk? Check. now go grind away!
I haven’t done the lvl 4 mining missions yet (need standing, eh) so I have no idea what kind of things I’ll see there, let’s just hope it ain’t a battleship.
hmm 200 word rant…

In other news
Operation Shinobi: Chapter baby steps isn’t going forward, I’m still waiting on a response on my application.
I’ve also made an application to become a banker with EOH a couple of months ago, and after some waiting, RL issues for the people involved, things are getting hot. I’m a few weeks away of  getting an approval or rejection slip. Either way, the only thing I can do is keep my fingers crossed.

The Tengu is just around the corner: only navigation V, and the navigation subsystem needed before I can go of and train the Tengu. I’ll train every subsystem to V first though… Don’t want to fly a billion ISK ship without skills, aight?

That’s it for today, my creativity is still at home comfortably sleeping under a pile of sheets

fly safe o7

EDIT: just so that we are clear: the application with EOH isn’t involved with operation Shinobi. Not only do I like it way to much to scam, it also has an excellent protection vs it.

Operation Shinobi: Chapter Baby Steps

I was contacted by Mr. X shortly after our first appointment.
A job was ready for me.
My Heart already started racing…

Primary Objective: Infiltrate WH A and look for defenses by corp B
Secondary Objective: Infiltrate WH C and look for defenses by corp D

Notes:
- long term operation, preferred to remain in WH to give detailed move of fleets, strengths etc.
- Personal: find the relation ship between corp B & D
- Permitted Action: Any means necessary

After talking to Mr. X it was clear that joining the corps would be the way to go.
This immediately gave me problems. 1: The account I use has another character on it with more SP, although hopefully selling it for a Billion isk… the character is still there, which could upset the target corp.
2: My infiltration alt just passed 1 Million SP…she’s pretty new.
This would be hard…

Application send to corp B. waiting on response…
Mail back! blablabla, love to have you, blablabla, need limited api blablabla we don’t live in a WH anymore, blablabla wait… read that again. “We don’t live in a WH anymore”
Goddamn it!

“Contract’s Primary objective is no longer valid. Please advice.”
“Roger that, please stand by on the customers response”

My first mission, and I thought all was already going to waste. It seems that the corporation “B” had left he WH, therefor eliminating them as a target for our client. Which seems to have “payback” as motive. No further details are known… yet.

“Operation Baby Steps is still a go, Secondary objective is now our primary objective”
“Roger that”

My application is on it’s way to corp D.
Now let’s hope I’m able to infiltrate successfully…