Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Patience is a virtue, and capsuleers of stealth bombers need to have it in abundance. Sitting in their lair of a quiet pocket of space, waiting for unsuspecting pilots to wander in to the kill zone, stealth bombers are not ships for the impatient. I can't be entirely ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Finding myself alone at our tower in w-space encourages me to try find an exit wormhole. Despite my previous poor attempt at scanning, I have a couple of points in my favour from the last time. First, I am on my main rig, with a bigger screen and ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
A non-aggression policy can be quickly modified when everyone starts shooting at you. The corporation maintains such a policy, which generally suits all members. By staying mostly in high-sec and avoiding annoying other pilots directly we can operate with little interference or worries about security standings. But ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
It's quiet in the w-space system. Too quiet. But then another engineer turns up at the tower and we decide to strike hard at some of the more exotic asteroids lurking in one of the gravimetric sites. The rather large arkonor asteroid that was in the site ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
The sleepers don't seem so tough. They may be more diligent in determining active threats and keen to pop drones but our simple two-man fleet recently managed to defeat a few waves of frigates, cruisers and battleships, and when we were bolstered with another fleet member we sailed through ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Gnomesblight, my death knight, has finally reached one hundred victories in the battle for Lake Wintergrasp, granting her the achievement of 'Wintergrasp Veteran'. The last few victories took a while to get under my belt, what with the Horde being so powerful at defending of late and my continued ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Wintergrasp bugs and geographical bias aside, the Horde are continuing to defeat the Alliance on a regular basis partly because they are employing strong and effective strategies as a team and partly because the Alliance are less likely to work as a cohesive unit.
Some Horde forces take advantage of the ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
The Horde have almost complete control of Wintergrasp on my server at the moment. Even with an small advantage of numbers the Alliance assault falters before we get too far in to the fortress and the Horde manage to repel the invaders successfully. It is becoming a little ...
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Wintergrasp is not just a zone for a regular PvP battle, it persists outside of the battle times. It isn't quite an 80th level zone in its own right, as there is no standard quest hub or paths in to the area, but there are NPC mobs extant outside ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Like any aspect of a complex MMORPG the battle for Lake Wintergrasp is not without its problems. Some are problems of balance that can be expected to occur for an open PvP zone without guaranteed or limited attendance on either side, which Blizzard have tried to solve with the ...
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