We'll take that Alliance

A lot of bloggers are posting about the recent DBoB situation, some are refusing to post about it saying that it will be over exposed in the blogosphere. Personally getting various viewpoints about a particular event is what a community is for so I'll share mine.

BoB I knew thee well...actually not at all.

BoB has been a huge influence in the game ever since I started they killed ASCN as I began EVE. They killed the first Titan as I began EVE. They certainly have built up a momentous legacy. To see it them shattered in a day seems only fitting. Slow decline and eventual crushing would have ruined their place in EVE history in my opinion. Being beaten (assuming that will be the end result of all this) by spy and infiltration means aside from security your military strategy and tactics were sound enough to carry you for years through this game and let's be honest on the internet that's a pretty damn long time.

People that worship the Almighty Goon.
For being masters of misinformation campaigns and dirty tactics this is befitting of them. A lot of people don't believe the DBoB event has been cause by the Hand of Goon, but for all the misinformation that the Goons are known for I think they actually pulled this off. For all you GBC loving nay sayers out there listen to reason and look at the facts. I don't like BoB or Goons at all, BoB are arrogant pricks and Goons are arrogant pricks that fight dirty and do recruitment scams. But you gotta give props where and when they are due. The reason the Goons have likely pulled this off are simple. There has been an immediate flood of specific information about the DBoB that isn't reminiscent of any other Goon misinformation campaign. We have names, chat logs, and MP3s of this. The details are specific enough and have been released quick enough to suggest it is at least likely that this was a legitimate Goon power move. Now its also likely that hacks were involved, which wouldn't be surprising in the least and which would be petitionable by BoB. Now it's still possible that all of this was some huge elaborate quickly devised Goon misinformation scheme, but they've claimed that they have archived all of BoB's forums, which if release would be proof this was truly all a well executed death blow to BoB.

If we see those forum archives I'll be inclined to believe this was a Goon master plan.

Til then POWHA UP THY TINFOIL HATS!

On the roll

So CK has added me to the EVE Blogroll. I've been a big fan of his speedlinking and all the community work he's done.

On community work one of my favorite sources for news EVE Tribune missed their update last week. This is year four for them and as far as I'm aware their updates have been fairly consistent with a missed week being a rarity for them. It's going to be Wednesday and their site is soon to be 14 days roughly without an update. It's worrying me but I'm sure Kirith and FinnAgain have something going on. Either way I hope their doing well and hope an update isn't far off.

This week is gonna be hectic for me, so I probably won't be doing any big posts for a while at least till my Latin exam is over with on Friday.

I'll leave you with this Animal Collective, no matter how many times I watch it, it relaxes and destresses me.

Some here and there things

Hey just a little bump before i'm off to bed.

If you haven't read my Dev Blog Roundup articles over at ENN you really should. I condense tons of information from the dev blog, comments, questions, and answers posted to save everyone time and to keep everyone informed. So do yourself a favor and check it out.

ENN DBRs

On a side note and personal level people are selling thoraxes way below the cost to produce them I can't figure it out at all. I'm sitting on 400mil isk worth of Thoraxes lol. Oh well I suppose if I can't sell em I can always go get em blown up.

I eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Backstory.
I love the Falcon. When it was rebalanced to match the Rook's bonuses I knew that ship was a force to be reckoned with, pun intended. They are unmatched in small gang warfare and cause problems all around EVE and so I use to run 2 accounts out on roams. One pilot was in a DPS Deimos the other in a probing Falcon. I've always said the only way you can lose a Falcon is due to your own stupidity.

The kills.
Here's the KMs.

2009.01.08 07:48

Victim: Jade Elemental
Corp: Choadly Intentions
Alliance: None
Faction: NONE
Destroyed: Falcon
Security: 0.3
Damage Taken: 3260

Involved parties:
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Limited Electron Blaster I
Damage Done: 3260

Ship: Falcon
Weapon: ECM - Phase Inverter II
Damage Done: 0


2009.01.29 02:45

Victim: KingDiomedes
Corp: SniggWaffe
Alliance: None
Faction: NONE
Destroyed: Falcon
Security: 0.3
Damage Taken: 3376

Involved parties:
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Regulated Electron Phase Cannon I
Damage Done: 1920

Ship: Eagle
Weapon: 250mm Railgun II
Damage Done: 602

Ship: Rapier
Weapon: Rapier
Damage Done: 455

Ship: Incursus
Weapon: Incursus
Damage Done: 399

The first kill came early January. I was bouncing around in my home system. An Arbitrator warped suspiciously close to me. He locked and with a few other corp members in system I figured it wouldn't be an issue. Some 3 other ships arrived to support me. Then the Falcon uncloaked. He jammed me and with a plate tank equipped and Arbitrator drones on me, my Thorax was bound to go down. So we disengaged and ran my ship being the only loss. About an hour later one of our guys called comms and asked for assistance the same 2 ships had appeared and were attacking him. I saw an opportunity for revenge so I warped in. At this belt we had a AF which was under attack and a Falcon who was providing support trying to get the AF safe. As I warp in the AF warps out and our Falcon calls out that he has a jam on the enemy Falcon. At this point I'm 30km away with a 9km scram on. I'm closer to the Arbitrator as well. Our Falcon pilot is calling for me to get the hell out of there. I make the decision to stay, I lock and burn my MWD to the Falcon calling out, "If you wanna run go ahead but I think I can take this fucker." I knew full well that my Falcon pilot wouldn't leave a man behind so he says, "I'll keep him locked as long as I can." I bump him web and scram running, drones out and guns blazing he goes down quick and the Arbitrator warps out. After some local chat it becomes apparent it was a single player with two accounts. He made the assumption that he wouldn't get jammed by our Falcon much less perma jammed. When he got jammed I was 30km away, imo he should have warped out the second he was jammed no one had his Arbitrator or Falcon scrammed so he could've made it out. But he got greedy and figured our Falcon pilot would lose jam and he could swing the battle back in his favor. His mistake.

The second kill is from this week. My long time partner in crime Joe asked me to hop on my pvp character so we could take an opportunity for some kills. The situation was there was a Thantos on station engaged by a relatively small fleet of battleships. They had the carrier bumped off station and it was gonna go down. A second carrier joined the fight to save the first. With the BS fleet was a falcon providing ewar support and ofc it was about 150km off the carriers. An Eagle apparently joined the side of the carriers and was attempting to snipe the Falcon but the Falcon secured a jam on it after a few volleys. Joe warped in with his Rapier and began moving toward the Falcon. Now I gotta give this man props. He's a great pirate, highly skilled, very cunning, and has an outstanding record. He's the one that got me into solo pirating; he and I jumped into small gang warfare as well learning off each other's FC style. I've learned a great deal from this man and I'll follow him where ever he wants to go in EVE. Now enough bromance. Joe warped in from a point to align himself with the Falcon with our POS, elaborate to say the least. This way I could warp to him at 100km and hot drop on the Falcon. It's a risky move, you aren't guaranteed to drop in close enough, which can be a real problem, even falling 10km off the target can be enough for them to escape. Joe calls out that we should be good to go, by this time a fellow corp member has joined us as a quick tackle. Joe said we may be a bit off though. So I asked if he could look at the Falcon and see if it was actively aligned to anything. He responds "It's not." So we warp. The Incursus beats me there but we fall out 20km away. We both have 9km scrams. I lock, approach, immediately hit my MWD, turn my guns on, release my drones, set them to attack, and watch the distance so I can get a point on him as soon as I'm in range. The Incursus barely beats me to the point we lock him down and he's a wreck within seconds. I loot the sucker and warp. During all this Joe had uncloaked and provided some DPS via artillery. We warp back to see if we could pick off the Eagle but having just seen us shred a Falcon in seconds he decides it's time to leave. The icing on the cake was that the Falcon pilot and BSs are a rival pirate corp that we engage with frequently so being able to ninja that kill was oh so satisfying.

The moral of these two stories is if you are a Falcon pilot always be aligned to a safe spot and never assume you're unbeatable, cause if you do its likely your stupidity will get you killed.

First! *\o/*

Well my blog is officially up. I wanted to start by giving a bit of background about myself.

RL
IRL I'm a college student at the University of Florida pursuing a Philosophy degree with a Classics minor. Most of my time is taken up by that but I manage to squeeze in girls, partying, and of course EVE.

In EVE, where and what.
July 2006, I began EVE like every good player mining and missioning, but I grew tired of it and ventured into lowsec figuring more risk more reward. Well after some boring belt ratting in my Ferox I was considering making my way back to highsec when something happened that would change my EVE career forever. I was pirated by a Scorpion pilot, mind you this is back when ECM could be thrown on any ship and be LOLWTFBBQ good. After putting up a solid fight I paid the ransom and chitchatted with the pirate for a bit. Some days later I got a convo and was invited to his PVP corp and eventually accpeted. I lived and fought in Irmalin for a bit. We founded an alliance. It wasn't a bad life. We eventually moved to null sec space renting out the FDZ area from Smashkill. Several pvp oriented corps within the alliance merged into one forming a more cohesive group. Then, internal alliance politics went sour and everything short of a civil war broke out. My gained director status after some hard work during the internal struggle, mainly just admin stuff, hauling gear, sharing my personal POS with the corp etc. We joined Smash to keep from moving areas. It was alright at first, then things deteriorated. After several months of being a bottom rung on in the Smash hierarchy, despite the directors of our corp (roughly four of us) FCing 200+ gangs for Geminate defense and active roams for invaders, a lot of our members wound up less and less active. Our CEO went inactive due to RL aggro and I was essentially given the helm. I turned what was left of our corp into a small gang hit and run unit prowling lowsec and enemy terroritories for oppurtunity. It was great for a while but I soon got bored and lost focus. I had made several billion from my mining alts. I was flying Tech 2 ships and failed to reestablish new goals in the sandbox. I mitgated a merger with a corp that had been joining us on roams. They were a great pvp group which had a lot of offer our members. And I quit. BS 5 was set to train and I drifted away from it all right as FW and Empyran Age was set to hit.

The Beast.
November 2008, I made the mistake of getting bored with my XBL games and reactivated one accounts to begin training some skills up for winter break so I could PVP. The beast took hold once again and I became more and more involved. I began writing for ENN and making large sums of money with minimal effort through various trading and production schemes. Right now I'm bouncing around with no real place to call home, which is probably for the best I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to any organization or corp.

Any way that's it for now I'll post a couple of kills tomorrow that inspired me to start a blog. Til then, Fly in style. o/