Settler

I finally have everything settled down irl and in eve.  Next week is midterms at school, so not much homework to bother me.  My new Megathron is helping me help my corp through missions.  But in other news, the holidays are upon us!  Which means it's time for your favorite games to start giving out gifts!  Eve is always included in these traditions, and this year our gifts are coming in the form of an advent calender.  Each day leading up to Christmas will grace us capsuleers with presents from the stars.  My day 1 gift was a festival launcher, 100 snowballs, and 7 synthetic oil.  Here is to hoping for great gifts this year!  CCP rarely has disappointed with these events.  Also, anyone around the Derelik region, prepare for a treasure hunt... Santa Spirit will be handing out gifts to anyone who finds him!  All in all, this season should be nice and eventful, so make sure to fly safe.

runemyth0, over and out.

ただいま... Good to be back!

Excuse my Japanese, I'm taking it as my foreign language for school.  If you know what i typed up there you'd guess I finally returned to MRAD.  Well you're right!  No more thieving CEO, no more lonely roams, and no more empty pockets!  Follow me for I will lead though to the land of plenty!  *cough* Anyway, I've been busy with homework and like the last few posts said, other games.  Blasphemy, I know, but someone's got to do it.  I have no idea what I'm talking about.  Back to EVE, I have moved back to MRAD and will start providing content-filled posts asap.  Until then...

Fly safe! o7

GAH!

Can't talk, Steam sales.

fly safe

No post today

Too busy playing other games today, sorry.

Fiction Friday: Keeping the Feyth

I may be a bit late today, but I'm still gonna post dammit!  Anyway, today's fiction comes from fanfiction.net, a story called Keeping the Feyth by CLS-SamuraiJack.  It's just a short story about an infamous man who has taken up employment in the Caldari Navy, then gets a call about an opportunistic venture back on his old home turf.  It was posted on the site over a year ago, but is definitely a good read.  One warning though, there is a large portion of it where the characters just talk about the logistics of their move.  Here is the link: www.fanfiction.net/s/8483808/1/Keeping-the-Feyth

Anyone wishing to have your story featured here, or have an idea you want turned into a story; email me at runemyth0@gmail.com.  o7 Fly safe

Happy Thanksgiving!

As the title says, I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving!  So, please, before you blow up that explorer with a cargohold full of decryptors in your fancy Stealth Bomber, give thanks to him/her for providing manufacturers (like the one that made your bomber) with decryptors and materials to improve their blueprints and get ships more easily to you, at a cheaper price.  Explorers, I'd like it if you guys gave thanks to the ganker who didn't kill you, the guy station trading, and anyone else you can think of who keeps this game dangerous and interesting for us.  Now that that is out of the way, I need to talk about my corp situation.  It's just something that needs talking about and tomorrow will be back to discussion and explanation.  My current corp has gone fairly inactive, with 2 members most likely too involved with college stuff to come back (even though one of them is in charge of our POS), our CEO has disappeared along with our teamspeak server, and the last is a guy I never really met (he's been inactive as well).  Suffice to say, we were a small corp.  My plan, mentioned last post, is to return to our old corp, whom I have kept in touch with since my departure a few months ago.  They have become more active since we left, plus there has been a shift of leadership in the corp.  The old CEO was not on very often, so he stepped down and promoted one of the active members to the role of CEO.   Luckily the new CEO and directors know me pretty well, considering that we had been in corp for around the same amount of time.  My exit plan is to remain friendly with my old corp (who never gets on), but I am thinking of nabbing some cash from the vault for "hazard pay".  The shift will happen within the next week, I would just like to try and finish Cybernetics V so I can finally plug in a Mining Foreman Mindlink.  In any case, I might not be able to post for a few days while I finish moving things in-game and finish homework for school next week.

Until next time, o7 Fly safe

Slow times in Nadire / My Return

Things have gotten a little too quiet in my corp's channels.  No one is on at the same time anymore, the teamspeak server is down, and I'm pretty sure our CEO has run out of game time, or jumped ship and left us to clean up.  Meh.  This is why it's always important to have a backup plan!  I have one in the form of my old corp, Massive Consumption.  They might be high-sec miners, but I know a lot of them, and have kept in touch with the new CEO since my departure.  Now you might ask, "does this mean you won't give us posts about low-sec Dirn?", but rest assured I'm not leaving low-sec.  I plan to commute to and from ops, and will continue to live in Raeg or a nearby system.  I'm just too twitchy to live in hi-sec anymore.  Very cheesy answer, I know.  You'll get your fix of exploration regularly still (please ignore the 3 days I didn't post).

On to the real post now.  I'd like to talk about a thing we should all know about, D-Scan.  You'd better learn to use and love it if you want to survive out here.  A T2 covops ship appears as a great padding for a killboard, and D-Scan can prevent idiots who do this from getting to your hard earned loot.  Here is a list of some general rules I've thought up.

    First Rule: Pull probes before you begin a site.  This will allow you to see that the probes on scan are someone trying to scan you down's probes.

    Second Rule: Spam the scan button while you do a site.  This, a thousand times this.  If you are not updating your scanner consistently, someone can easily quick-scan and jump you in the middle of a hack.

    Third Rule: Set your scanner to max range for default.  This will allow you to see if anyone will try and get close before they jump on you.  When you have someone on you max scan range, you will know to be careful and prep to cloak or warp out.

    Fourth Rule:  Don't fly what you can't afford to lose.  Cliche , I know, but it's also some of the most sound advice in eve.

Those are just basic rules, and there are many other ways to use D-Scan.  If you want details on D-Scanning, either wait a few days or go look it up on Uniwiki.

 o7 Fly safe, happy scanning