epic coolness

this is epic
1st time ever i have been able to play eve accoss 2 screens (apart from  main and alt setup)
i will have to play arond with diffrent layouts of windows to see which works best

i love this to bits i can now see EVE without all the windows
also the way the veiw is over other windows (not steched) is so lovely a real vista if i say so

this plus being able to respend my learning skills (and the genral getting rid of leading skills) and the changes in the new patch (inc ammo changes and  genral inpovements)
i have to say its a patch im most looking forward

also playing around some more with fraps im going to start by makeing a video guide to flying a keres in small fleets or solo :)

intill next time
fly sideways

So i made a EVE video now i want a medal

so yer while siting around in my pod i played around with fraps and made this



not the most fantasic thing in the world i know (muisc is crap to start with)
but this is just the 1st stage now i know how to use the program and what kinda stuff it will give me (and tested uploading and very basic editing) i am now going to make the guides i was talking about but useing fraps and a mic :P
thats going to be fun... 

apart from this since i last posted only a few things have happend
My corp has a new home (so we can now center ourselfs once more)
Iv gotten in to some nice fleets with nice fights(also still working on the FCing and cov ops gang work i want to do)
FACTS is no1 on the killboard still (dam we own :P)

so all good times
the effort i was putting in to the old alliance is now going in to my corp and i want to aim high (be recoinised as a major corp in EVE would be nice) so i have whole load of plans and so far they are working :D
lots of plans i have (money makeing plans, Cap building plans, PvP plans etc...)
Im also working on expanding my PI work to incude my alt so i can make 2 times the product i have been able to before (i need to stock up enfo to fill a JF)


intill next time (which might be soon again)
fly sideways

Ok so its been a while (again)

allright i think i keep starting this blog and burning out because i put to much effort in to makeing it sound good. also its a lot of work for me to make long texts that are spelt and gammicaly correct (as you can see in said example). but latey my writeing has inporved a lot so i was thinking i would fill you guys in (yer no one reads this so i am basicly talking to myself) about whats been going on with me and my eve life, without trying to go in to much detail and without trying to write long epic blogs...
i also like to post some new pics :D

so where did i leave off.... ahh PI.

so my PI stuff expanded quite a bit i now have 4 worlds mineing and 1 world puting everything toghter (which seems to be a very populer choice) i will get some photos toghere so you can see how my system works

so what has happend to my Alliance
as i have said i help run an alliance (VVA) which for all instisve resons is dead now (about 30 members all alts of the old directors (inc my own)). long story short: VVA takes in more carebear corps(than we allready have), VVA told to PvP more, VVA makes a massive push to PvP (which i might add starts to work), some people rage quit when we tell them they cant carebear 24/7 (carebear corps leave), others quit as we are pushing hard and they are working hard so they go somewhere else where they can relax a bit (i dont blam them that much), our leader lumis goes MIA (this is just before we are told to PvP more), with no order from up high people lose fiath and start looking else where, LOTS of people leave at once, VVA left with the hardcore (which are very very good PvPers and Eve players), we have a meeting and say we dont want to rebuild again so we will part ways...

thats a very long story cut short and maby i am talking about how i feel it happend.

so what is happening with my Corp
my corp FACTS on EVE... did not die with the alliance as most would think founding corps do, when VVA split ways we took in all the corps membership which was left and wanted to stay in NC space (XSI who our still our very good freinds left to go back to provi and help CVA i wish them much luck as i wish CVA luck as well).
so we said ok lets join another NC alliance, after a good look round and chat with lots of people (offers and such) we settle with OWN allaince... why you ask with all the news of them at late. OWN repesent for us a chanse to grow our name inside an alliance which is still growing and learning. we stand out more in OWN and we will help with whatever they tell us to do. i understand the stuff thats just gone on and see it from both sides, and to be honast i dont care as now i can grow my corp (which now has lots of members and fantasic ones as well its a real joy to see corp chat :D) while not haveing to deeply submit myself to alliance matters and politics.

so we are very happy

so whats been going on with me
well for a while now (ever since VVA droped sov and said to PvP more) iv been homeless new space is on the horazien but iv been pritty much soild PvPing (major fleets and such)
i trying to solo PvP more (and small gang) also keeping up my FCing skills and learning new stuff. like takeing down logi supported gangs and such.
here some stuff i been up to with PVP with pics..

such as bubbleing the crap out of stuff

titan brigeing

Big fleet movement

 Raining missles down on stations (oo yer i have trained missiles skills up and cand fly a tech 2 drake, i feel so very very wrong)

 Lazors on a Ihub!

 MOUR LAZORS on a IHUB

To end with
im still working on them guides (very slowley ofc) and i have a new plan for a maby new type of fleet style... but i will keep a lid on that coz if it works i dont want you to know :P

yer so i played with the new avitars a bit to much and made zama 2.0

  notice he looks sorta like zama but older and more strict (instead of zamas current im passive face)

till next time (which i think wont be that long)
fly sideways!

This world is mine

OK so i been taking a look in to PI and how I'm going to do it

I'm going small scale at the moment (1 world 1 end product)

I'm going to setup on a lava world in NPC 0.0 (which i wont tell you where it is)
This world will use Heavy Metals and Base Metals to make Toxic Metals and Reactive Metals respectfully
then take them metals and make Construction Blocks which i see is used in Tech 2 ships and carrys on to a respectable amount of planetary Specialized Commodities and Advanced Commodities so i believe with demand on this going to be high so i can make a respectable passive income on it :D (here is me hoping)


so the idea is this will be a little money maker for me (0.0 system will give me then eage) i can use it to make some respectable money (not anything crazy) then expand on it if i get the time



i may expand on this later see how it goes (more worlds would be cool but I'm not a big indy player)

iv been using the EvE uni wiki to work out the details very useful give it a look if you can
http://www.eve-ivy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Planetary_Interaction

anyway here is some images of my current setup on Sisi (so this may be subject to change)

so this image you can see 3 extractors for the Base Metals a storage that stores the excess. the goods get moved from the storage to the processing that makes Reactive Metals that then again moved to storage that is linked to one half of the Refined factory's (making Construction Blocks) which then is linked to my spaceport

 The other side same again with the Heavy Metals making Toxic Metals that links to the final half for the Construction Blocks

 

The whole thing:

Now please i would like to know what you think of my setup how could i inpove or if you found to information useful

Ok enough with the sopy stuff

Ok iv not updating in a while

A lot has happened since my alliance lost HP to Noir/AAA, Meh so what Eve is all about loss
I see that Noir are making good use of the space and our station will always live on
So im going to stop with the sopy stuff about how unfair it was we lost the space and how we pritty much left on our own after that and move on to the really cool stuff that has happend since.

so lets start from there.
as some of you may know i am one of the leaders of my alliance, we command 400 people its not big but we are close Friends in eve all of us, major matters get voted on but final say is always down to the alliance CEO who always seeks advice from his leadership (namely me and some others), Cpt Lumis our current leader he always has been and probley always will be and to be honest he the best man for the job (used to be my corp CEO when i was in his corp before me and delta made Facts on Eve).

so at any rate to the point
when we lost HP we where layed with a choice:
A. live in low sec and PvP from there in to provi with CVA
B. move
C. disband the alliance

I understood we would not last as a low sec alliance (we PvP yes we are not a PvP alliance) and a lot of people agreed with me. provi was lost to us all the hard work we put in (year of hard work i put in to that area) was ruined so we would hold on to a broken dream try to rebuild or start afresh. needless to say we choice to move, there was a vote one it and we had a plan 1 week pass by and it would start in motion. now some would as we ran away well i don't seem many that when they run they run in to another fight which leads me on to the next part.

so while I'm a leader i don't have all the info somethings are kept secret for our own safety i know that and understand its need. so i knew general area we are going to move just not exactly where. so i spent a week in high sec (carebearing) and low sec (helping Provi fleets annoy the locals) when my alliance vice-CEO asks me to make a move so we can start getting ready for the big move. He asked me to move to Tribute so i pack a single frigate and off i go (my corp CEO already there guiding me in). i head off to D7-ZAC and start setting up (buy a few PvP battlecrusers and ratting ships).

So here i am everyone is blue to me (I'm neut to some this is why we did not move everyone down yet) i fly around join in on some fleets, do scouting, make bookmarks and learn who has set me neut (they are the ones shooting me) and what (had a very close call in my trusty Ares with a carrier and 10 warrior II's). We are here to join the NC...

WHICH IS FANATIC!!!
When i moved in to Provi that was my 1st move to 0.0 and i was trained to believe that all the other 0.0 alliance where evil pirates who came to provi to kill us just minding our own business... now don't get me wrong i got over that idea a long time ago but iv always seen other 0.0 enteys as red and to meet such a wonderful bunch of guys was not what i was expecting. to shock is NBSI 0.0 rules are not just shoot everyone in the face and is much safer than the old NRDS that provi had. 2nd shock everyone down here are not pirates in fact most are anti-pirate.

so i spent my 1st week down here got in on some major ops (sorted out all the nuet issues) and started to get used to the area. PvP is much easier than in provi and there is loads of it (our killboards have shot up while being here just take a look http://vva.evekb.co.uk/?a=home don't forget we are a small alliance). iv made good use of all my ship types and its been loads of fun. fleets are so much more relaxed than in provi where they where very stressful and inexperienced compered to this. the FC's down here lead there fleets around with a relaxed ease and get in on fights (and win) often. they are experienced and powerful bunch of guys.

I already knew what to expect (as i have Friends who have lived in the NC for years and my best Friend in real life used to play eve down there). but i have still learned a tone of new stuff in the process (which is so good).

the NC itself is fantastic they are a close bunch of friendly alliances that seem to be so tight nit that they will never lose. Morsus Mihi (which owns the space we live in) are fun always doing something and understand the needs of there players and allies. from the moment we moved down here all my fears where put to rest and it looks like we will be here for a long time (may be even the rest of our time on eve).

After everything was sorted the order was given and the rest of the alliance moved down here. lost some in the move some people did not want to leave provi and i wish them all the best. since then one by one people have been falling in love with this place, which is so much different to any other space iv ever lived in and so much better for it (i never want to go back).

Now about the comment i made above "that when they run they run in to another fight" yes we never ran away. we just ran to where the fighting was and just in time iv been involved in a major battle before (D-G) which was a duck shoot and i was the big jucy duck, feels nice to be on the other side for once the fight for H-W was incredible the NC win and lose some and just came back stronger and stronger and stronger in till the SC was not able to match them, and well the rest is on the eve forums and stuff but duck shoot involving titans and super capitals. iv had more high profile kills down here in a week than i ever had in lifetime of eve.

its not all just big fights plenty of little roams as well. so that sums it up for my PvP down here which i am getting in to more and more every day my alliance is happy and im happy which is the most inportatint thing (we have a propas again and we love it).

PvE side which iv not done much of is good as well its very easy to make a good amount to replace ships with (you can salvage which makes you more). i must try out the pirate epic arc (for the Guristas that live right next door) but that can wait im busy at the mo.

the move has also added a whole new area on my map which i have visited (let me show you)

i think that is so cool (you can see where i am)

In other news
my corp setup some small time moon mining POS's in low sec which took a lot of my time, but that is over with and sould supply us with a good income.

I think i might of fallen in love with twitter and the tweet fleet :) and OMG i made an update on my blog

I am working on guides for ships to name some: The Arazu and how to make the Sensor Dampener effective tool of mayhem, The drone boats of Eve (the Dominix, Myrmidon, ishkur and ishtar) how to use them, How to fly Interceptors and do you really get a sucessful decloak and how to fly Interdictors (with my fav bubbleing bombers as they try to bomb you). these guides will need some work (with me also exprementing with them) any comments would be cool on any of them subjects but thats my main project for the moment.

so yes i have rambled on again like i always do (i know it makes for very hard reading). so i will leave you with some more pics so you can go "ooo aaahhh"

From a POS take down i was on

more titans that i have ever seen (hummm whats the task bar doing there)

one of the fighter bombers in a POS take down (very cool stuff)

A "rape cage" around a POS in H-W so much fun i never done this before i hope for me

Some of my 1st days down in trib (you see titans all the time)

My Eve Space

i seen other Eve blogers do this, so i think i will give it a go, as it looks like fun

So yes lets start with an image

so yes as you can see i have two screens which is a must for Eve online (i also do a lot of programing which is a god send for). my wall behind is a pinboard which i have a lot of photos, posters, maps and stuff on

my PC case (you can see a "big daddy" from bioshock game and a walker from red) i built the rig myself its due for a remodal/rebuild soon. big fan on the front keep its nice a cool apart fromt that pritty standerd stuff.

two keyboards ?!?! "wtf he is mad"
no i dont type with them both one is a normal egro keyboard which i use to type with (once you use one you cant stand any other type of keyboard takes a bit of getting used to but so much faster and so much better for your hands). the other is a Zboard kinda a old make now but basicly has interchangeable keyboards for diffrent games (non for eve at the moment) and all the keyboards you can program with macro keys and stuff (i have the standerd layout on it and i use the diffrent keys for diffrent commands in combo with my main keyboard so basicly when i play eve i play it on overkill mode)

my mouse
i hate fancy mice give me a plain old optical mouse with 3 buttons and a weel and im as happy as larry

anyrate
till next time
fly safe

Let it be known

HP-6Z6 has fallen

all my stuff is out and we/myself are ready for the next move :)

but let it always be known that HP-6Z6 is VVA space we came to the HK constaliaton routhly two years ago where it was contstantly under attack from Pirates and the locals where useless at defending themselfs. after a long time training and work we made it to a place where all pirates stay clear of (under knowlage that they would never leave again or die very quickly)
we then became CVA holders and HP became ours it was a dead system with a few POS in system no one wanted to do anything there. we moved in (30+ VVA in local almost all the time) built our outpost (which was a long and painful process) without no help from no one else, thus turning HP-6Z6 in to a trade up for the HK constaliation and a place where people came for fun.

The outpost was never CVA's its always been VVA stronghold and thus i hope everyone will respect the work we put in to this system and to the whole of the constaliaton.

I allreayd seen some people clame the system is a CVA space and the attack is on CVA not VVA. nope its ours we managed it and built it up and they are takeing away the very 1st outpost from VVA not the last outpost but still.

I never really liked the whole idea AAA put out which sums up to "we come in overwelling force so that small alliances can take away what larger and more powerful alliances worked very hard for". Noir who i have respect for (no smack talk in local, very dissapined force, pirates and mercs that plan out there moves and rarely slip up) would of never taken the system from us on there own VVA alone would of betten them back (this i am sure of). We based everything we do off hard work (never take handouts worked for our system worked for everything we have) and it has made us strong (strong enfo to get past this horrabile loss) and we will keep on doing this space we own we will work for.

Getting my Corps stuff out was quite fun they really wanted to kill my black ops (lucky for me iv flown big ships far to much and not make meny misstakes)
Got a POS in system which going to let die (no point takeing it down its too hot in system)
all in all as always FACTS as the lest amount of losses (all losses in direct PvP not runing away) and everything is out.

So i will close off with the Fact that as an alliance and a corp we stayed with CVA to the very end holding our Holders oeth and i was very happy to do so.
After all EVE is a harsh, black and evil place this is why i love the game so much. This war its all part of the game and i enjoy every moment of it.

Anyrate lets see what happens next

fly safe