Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
My agent asks me to mine some Green Arisite, a variant of the Gneiss mineral, for a new research project. There a catch in that the ore can only generally be found in low-sec systems. I ponder this for a minute, as going in to a low-sec system ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
There have been many times where I have wanted to stay away from Jita because of the problems caused by the sheer number of ships in the system. But however much I am able to stay away from the system there is the occasional reason to visit the busiest ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
The ship's autopilot in EVE Online is like HAL 9000, as it will happily follow instructions to get the ship to its destination whilst killing the crew in the process. Manually warping to a stargate will get your ship close enough to be able to activate the gate generally ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Earlier I wrote that there was no way I was going to take my brand new Drake out of the hangar without getting it insured, and that was indeed the plan. It would have been the height of foolishness to pilot a brand new ship without having any means ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
It would be easier to leave Jita if it were possible to enter the system in the first place. Having found some asteroids in a deadspace mission pocket I thought I'd take the opportunity to mine some ore with less chance of being
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
I had read somewhere previously about finding ores rarer than normally found in a system existing in deadspace whilst on missions, and had found some omber of my own recently. In that instance, I took my Caracal home to Jita, dusted off my mining Bantam frigate and went back ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
The explosion-damping module is fitted, the heavy launcher is swapped out for a fourth assault launcher, all launchers are fully loaded with Bloodclaw missiles for kinetic damage; I'm ready to end the Minmatar threat I was made aware of in the level two mission Technological Secrets.
The Minmatar ships are converging ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
My agent in EVE Online gives me an important level two mission. Codenamed Technological Secrets I am to find and capture a rebel captain, which means fighting off a few waves of his mercenaries first. I am going to encounter Minmatar ships again, so I keep the Ladar ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
After my introduction to level two missions in EVE Online I contact my agent to pick up another couple of missions, now that he trusts me enough to offer me the decent jobs. Before I take any new assignments I hit the market and look at different launchers, after ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
I was a little concerned when I bought my new computer a few months back. It was an expensive purchase and was replacing what was essentially a World of Warcraft arcade machine. As I had been burning out on a regular basis I wasn't sure I could fully ...
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