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It hasn’t quite been 2 years since I played Eve, but it’s close enough to make little difference.

A couple of weeks ago, I was tidying up files on my media server, when I stumbled across an old Eve Video that I’d previously downloaded but never watched, it was the Incursion trailer. I watched it through and whilst not blown away, I my interest was piqued and I headed over to Eve-Online to see if there were any better offerings from the game I once loved.

Sure enough the Video Downloads section was littered with offerings, and ones of much better quality too. I don’t know when CCP tried to move away from the phrase “All scenes in this trailer were captured from actual gameplay”, but I don’t think it did the game any good., so I was very pleased to see the later trailers getting back to the ‘no polishing’ ethos of older times and even more impressed to see that the graphics were back to the cutting edge.

It was the Crucible trailer in HD that got me and within 20 mins I’d activated a trial account and was pulling down a 4gb file with feverish anticipation. Really, I wanted to see what the ‘Walking in Stations’ stuff really looked like, just to see of course, I wasn’t really going to play.

3 Days later I’d activated Hygelac.

5 Days later I’d activated my other accounts.

Oops.

Goodbye Eve

The time has come to face facts, it’s been well over a year since I played Eve properly. Sure, I’ve logged in. Set some factories building and placed a few sale orders, but I’ve not actually played in any real sense. The last time I even killed any one was 28th of July 2009 and before that, was in May. That says it all really.

For all that time I’ve been paying 14.95 EUR times three accounts, about £39. It’s about time to do something else with that money. Like put it towards paying of credit cards or suchlike.

So, as of today, I’ve cancelled all of my Eve accounts. They won’t disappear into the ether and one day I might reactivate them but for now it’s a sad goodbye.

I’ve had a brilliant time in eve ever since I first subscribed on 11th January 2004, the high point was flying with the Mercenary Coalitionas members of both Sharks with Frickin’ Laser Beams [FRICK] and Body Count Inc [BDCI] and I’ll never forget the fun I had flying with Millennium [MLM] both in game and in Amsterdam. Ahh happy days.

Hygelac
Total Skill Points: 87.9 million
Kills ~918, Losses ~34
[Character Sheet]

Brynhild
Total Skill Points: 64.0 million
Kills n/a, Losses n/a
[Character Sheet]

Hrethel
Total Skill Points: 47.0 million
Kills n/a, Losses n/a
[Character Sheet]

Theme

In other news, about a month after I managed to destroy the theme on this blog and restore it back to the default, I’ve finished modifying the new theme.

I must say, I’m very happy with it and think it’s a slight improvement over my original attempt, but if you spot any broken bits or have feed-back then feel free to let me know.

New Trailer : The Butterfly Effect

CCP have just released a new trailer, The Butterfly Effect. It’s not bad, although I don’t feel that sense of awe that accompanied the Eve Never Fades trailer, I think that’s in large part due to the soundtrack and nature of the different vids.

In spite of that, it’s still a good job.

First Steps in Faction Warfare

Last night I managed to pry a little ‘me time’ out of life and decided it was time to dip my feet back into the paddling pool. Having freightered all but my Vargur and some rigged Battleships to Amo, our Faction Warfare base, I was ready to rock and looking forwards to podding 100s of noobs, which is what Faction Warfare is about right?

I thought I’d play cautious for my first time out so I jumped into my trusty Claw setup and stormed into Resbroko expecting to be right in the thick of things. alas, there was but one person of interest and he was friendly, or at least I’m assuming that’s what the little purple star meant.

As the ‘waiting for bad guys to fall on my guns’ plan didn’t seem to be working, I put an ear to the Militia channel and started following target reports. As a location was announced, I set the Autopilot and ran in that direction like a puppy wagging it’s tail enthusiastically running after a stick.

After about half an hour of this, having seen gaggles of ‘friendlies’, I was starting to think that this might not be the land of milk and honey I was promised. Just as such doubt was assailing my mood, I was proven wrong, the gate I’d just landed on had a target and a couple of militia engaging him. Hurrah!

With great abandon I turned on the micro warp and screamed towards him, with only the sharp report of my guns and rockets as company. It took but seconds to take him out, as I realized with disappointment that it was only a Rifter. At this point I glanced in local to see a comment along the lines of ‘I’m on your side!’ and such stuff. Clearly this guy had studied the works of Joseph Goebbels and Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, daring to issue such brazen lies.

So I podded him for good measure.

As you’ve probably guessed by now, this “Torothanax” guy was a -10 militia member, personally I have truck with not shooting people who are blinky red as some Sharks who went -10 in the past will tell you. He was suitably outraged but I wasn’t too fussed. But as ostensible CEO, I thought I should probably think about the rep of the Corp and make nice.

I threw him the value of his pods and the implants he claimed (2 x +3s, is that it?) and ignored the rest of his whinging. Another corpse for the freezer though, that put me in a much better mood.

I then spent another hour running around after phantoms from various target report to the other and saw NOT A SINGLE BLOODY target. In fact as the night wore on, I started to question my overview settings and then my eyes.

Clearly I was doing something wrong, but I didn’t want to just set AP for Amarr and lose a ship to NPCs, so I headed back to Amo and logged for the night.

Still, at least I did get to pod someone.

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