Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Being out of w-space for a while, as I buy and fit a new Drake, a quick check shows that my level four R&D agents have been beavering away creating datacores for me. The number of datacores available to be bought bodes well for further invention attempts leading to ...
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Even though it is a relatively simple matter of buying a new battlecruiser, back in high-sec, and fitting it out with identical modules, losing my Drake to Sleepers has the unfortunate effect of causing an irrational concern over the quality of the passive shield I am running. I pause ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
From Of Teeth and Claws I find that Epic Slant has published a post apparently busting the 'myth' that games with quests are no less of a grind than those without. This piques my interest, so I take a look.
After some preamble there is a statement about what it ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
I am continuing to practice my drumming in Guitar Hero and, I am happy to report, showing some obvious improvement. I am no longer warming up with some medium difficulty songs, albeit from the more complex end of the set-list, and instead diving straight in to the hard difficulty ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Our wormhole engineer expedition decides to enter a magnetometric site that has been scanned down in w-space, analyser modules at the ready to unlock the secrets of loot to haul back to known space for profit. Just as the previous radar site was my introduction to containers that require ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
A radar site is found in our w-space system and with enough pilots available to engage considerable Sleeper opposition we form a fleet and warp in to see what loot we can haul back. The Sleepers are quite keen to keep everything for themselves, which shouldn't be surprising as ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Engaging some pesky Sleepers, trying to stop us from liberating their loot for profit, generally sees our little fleets come under some fairly heavy fire. Being almost the only Caldari-trained capsuleer in the group my response to damage is to sit and take it, letting my passive-tanking Drake battlecruiser ...
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
The skill descriptions are not always as clear as they could be. Quite a while ago I learnt the leadership skill up to a rudimentary level because there was a possibility I may be helping a newbie friend and, from reading the skill description, I thought it was a ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
I was looking forwards to running my new druid alt, Hélène, through Elwynn Forest and, more specifically, Westfall and beyond, zooming through the levels and indulging the furry in me as a DPS kitty or bear tank. But even though I am in the bright, warm countryside of Westfall ...
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
There is a curious feature of EVE Online's market. Occasionally a capsuleer will buy a product and instead of the seller getting the ISK it will go to to a different industrialist selling the same item in the same station. This stock switching only seems to occur when ...
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