Heyas. o/
I am still here, still playing, things have just been pretty quiet in Eve and going off the rails and exploding IRL, so my Eve time has been quite limited. (I am also going to be dropping one of my alt accounts - does anyone want to buy a tengu/onyx/falcon/cerb pilot? :D) I feel bad that I haven't been on as much lately, like I am letting down the guys by not being there, although I know sorting out RL problems comes before game playing... I still hate not feeling dependable, though. Character flaw I suppose.
Since I started playing Eve last fall, I'd heard people muttering about summer and the summer lull - I hadn't quite expected this, though. Many of my friends and acquaintances and even Generally Cool People That I Like But Wouldn't Call a Friend have dropped out of the game or are taking vacations from w-space. The first Eve Podcast I ran into, back in November 2013, was Down The Pipe and one of their frequent guests was Baby Dady, solo hunter. Hearing about what he did was an inspiration; my corp had moved into a WH and I was losing all kinds of stuff, but it was cool to know that not every hunter out there had a full fleet of T3s, Logi, and bombers backing them up, and that when I was ready I could go out there and stalk things myself. It was only a month or so later that I got my alt into a Buzzard and began hunting down the chains connected to our C2 to watch people in their POS, watch them moving haulers, watch people running sites, and try to gank them with my horribly skilled T1 battlecruisers I'd bring down the chain from home.
I haven't seen him online in a few months, though.
I suppose he comes to mind because I have just recently finished a long-term training goal of mine - Gallente Strategic Cruiser and the attendant subsystem skills all trained up, I just need to scrape up the isk to put a proteus in the void. <3 Since the SoE ships came out I have been using a cloaky Stratios for stalking, hunting, and scouting, and (at least on paper) my Stratios does more damage than a proteus - the proteus is going to have twice the EHP, though, be fairly close on damage, and it can fit combat probes when needed.
So. long rambling aside, I'm getting a new ship to play with and hopefully will have some stories to tell about it in the near future. I have a free night tonight and I think when I get home from work, I am going to set off in a random direction down the wormhole chains and fly until I find something to shoot.
o7
-K
