Settling In

It's been a while since my last post; no worries, I am still playing.

I have been getting back into the rhythm of wormhole life; logging in, checking the chain, verifying signatures, then seeing what trouble I can get myself into. I've managed to rebuild a collection of ships for almost any fleet we'll fly - save for a capital ship, which feels almost required, but is well out of my price range. I've also got my own POS set up again. That was, as always, tedious to an extreme but it feels good to have my own little bubble of space again. As I play I am also reminded again how pretty this game can be. Beyond the spreadsheets with their numbers and the cut and dried EFT fits, there are all sorts of things that just look cool.

My POS, orbiting a gas giant

System's sun. And no, this was before I put the guns on my tower.

I've gotten a little pew in, although not as much as I'd have liked; the last few nights I had free for flying spaceships also happened to be nights the corp wanted to run escalations, where I largely feel like a dead weight. Fortunately I have kept myself entertained, though, building ships and going out and hunting - in my first trip in a Flycatcher I caught a Prospect in a gas sight along with the 670 million isk pod, and just last night I combat scanned out a Raven with my Proteus, tackled it, and held it for backup - always a good feeling.

My last tower module has finished onlining, so it's time to get outside and enjoy some sunlight. Until later, pilots! o7

-K

Little Miracles

I resubscribed to Eve yesterday. Technically two days ago, as I am writing this at 1:00 AM, but regardless it has been a while. About 250-ish days, according to Eve. I activated two of my accounts, started the patcher, and renewed my API keys.

To my relief, I logged in to find I had been moved to my medical clone station in high sec - I had not been looking forward to scanning my way out of a C2/C5/null in a Rattlesnake. I checked my alt with my Orca, and sure enough it (and the Tengu and the HIC in the cargo) were parked in high sec as well. That was good, it was enough resources to work with and reestablish myself.

I had a good time chatting with the guys on Team Speak; it's always nice to know you haven't been forgotten, after all. While I was on hiatus, it seems that Sky Fighters have moved a couple of times; out of the old C2 into a C5, and then just recently into a new C5. As a second Eve miracle, as I was taking stock of what I had in my Orca and which assault frigates I still had where in high sec, Kynric asked if I might have left anything else behind in the hole. "Mmm... maybe a Stratios?" I distinctly remembered losing one shortly before I left, and I wasn't sure if I had replaced it or not. Sure enough though, in the pile of ships that had been left in a shared ship maintenance array and then drug out to high sec when Sky Fighters left the C2, was my Stratios:

I took it out for a joyride. I would have taken it into the new C5, but the only route was through a C13 frig-only hole (which was pretty cool to check out!), so I made do with ferrying in a few small ships into the POS.

I hadn't realized how much I had missed w-space. I cried just a little.

This is going to be fun.

o7
-K

Quiet Days

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