CSM 9

I never cared too much about CSM elections, neither who is applying or anything. Indeed for CSM 8 I didn't vote anybody, probably because I was still "too young" in the game.


This time,  I am going to make an exception, because even if I barely know a few of the candidates, I think I should vote those that match my game preferences.


So having said this, I plan to vote with both of my accounts:

• Steve Ronuken. He is pushing for more support of third party tools, and I often use this site.
• James Arget. Wormhole guy.
• Proclus Diadochu. Another pro wormhole.
• corbexx. Yet another wormhole candidate.

I bet my preferences are pretty clear, apps & IT + wormhole stuff.


If you have not yet voted, you still can do it here.

Nothing like a good motd

I log in back from dinner, just expecting to do some boring stuff, like updating PI, when I am quickly greeted by Mick asking for interdictor support.

Chuck Turing > hi again
Mick Straih > hi
Mick Straih > get a dictor, get it to 3a asap
Mick Straih > can you?
Chuck Turing > yes
Chuck Turing > sabre
Mick Straih > go go go

I swap ships and get into my Sabre. The target is in C3a and has been already killed twice by Mick, first in a retriever and second in a vexor. According to Mick he thought he was baiting before, so we were wondering what was he doing now.



Following Mick's instructions I warp fast to the Low Sec wormhole and cloak, waiting there in case he gets aware of our presence and tries to flee through this connection. D-scan shows he's back with a Venture, but this time he's not in the Ore site, but probably harvesting some gas.

Mick decide to throw Combat probes to locate the venture, meanwhile I wait for any signal to bubble up. Mick warps to the Venture and finish it. Then Mick tells me he is warping back to Low Sec with his pod, I bubble up with the Sabre. Wolfram Ulv arrives and is slowed by the bubble giving us enough time to catch him.

Perhaps we should not have killed the pod, and he would have brought another ship? Who knows, in any case, Mick updated channel MOTD with the following funny text that gave the name for this post.

Not a great day again

Nothing in the C4a, it has a C3 static, but I am not in a mood to start scanning, so I go back and jump to the inbound null connection. It's in EOL (End Of Life), but as in siggy it's not marked as EOL I think it already has enough time to go to look and come back. I update siggy.

Just after I jump to null 020-2X and I see some Mobile Tractor Units. I always feel tempted to shoot some of those and grab some "free stuff", they are like a lottery. The locals are also aware of my presence and greet me in the channel. Good thing I am in a cloaky hound.



"I don't speak Russian" in Russian :)

I locate one of the MTUs in an anomaly and I start to shoot it meanwhile I watch dscan. Thanks to the afterburner I am able to speed tank two of the sleepers until I end the MTU. A waste of time. Nothing worthy inside.

Kronos in C4a

After two days waiting in Hisec due a forced trip, I was able to return to my home system. The highsec system that was connecting the chain was not far, neither the chain was looking dangerous.

I had bought a new venture and fitted it again with the gas modules and some agility rigs, so perhaps next time I am more bright and I warp away.

At home there was not much to do, just a few people online, and probably half of them AFKing. I did check my PI, updating the extractors timers and moving products to the POCOs. Nothing really exciting, and neither I was in a mood to explore the chain.

I was about to join the AFKers team when suddenly tgl3 said in the channel: "Kronos in C4a running sites". PVP mode quickly triggered, fleet advertising, pings through Jabber announcing a possible target, comms, Guardian pilots requested... and update status in the channel:

Jabber ping did work, Mick and later Omaristos logged in and joined the fleet. We got a good set of ships, logis and DPS. I was sitting in my Hurricane and my alt Kippel was flying the second Guardian, being Mick in the other Guardian. A must to be able to cap transfer and hold the possible damage from the sleepers and Kronos.

Ticket express to highsec

I was kinda bored, not many people online and I decided to do some exploration in the chain. We had a C6 inbound at home, so it seemed to me like a good opportunity to see if there were some Vital or Instrumental  gas sites.

C6a was looking good, no active towers in the system and only one connection to another C5 wormhole, that was also inactive.



 

I scanned all the signatures in the C6 with my alt Kippel and I found two Vital Core Reservoirs. Those have some nice C320 and C540 gases, the most expensive. I know I couldn't harvest the complete sites, because I am not still able to deal with the sleepers, but at least some quick "ninja-harvesting" would be feasible.

I came back to the tower and I offered in the corp channel the chance to join my fleet to harvest some. Only Avam TheRock joined, and we jumped into the C6.

We started with the C320, and meanwhile Avam was showing me how faster his Venture was compared with mine. The reason behind was the rigs he was using. I told him I'd have to plug some of those on mine also to gain that improvement. I found later, they proved useful.

Who's Chuck Turing: his history up to day.

This is a long story, you  are advised! Some of the facts told here, happened long time ago, so I probably have missed some details and others are a bit blurry.

Chuck was born in Sept 2012. It was perhaps the third or forth time I tried to challenge myself playing EVE Online. Basically, trying to find out if there was anything besides mining and warping to asteroids. Every time I had tried the game, usually around summer, I had not succeed to go beyond a week before surrendering and deleting the whole stuff. The tutorials were a good start, but they didn't help to really get into the game. I still don't think they show what EVE really is.

After playing for like 5 days, something happened and made the difference, I was recruited by Woolly into Border Enterprises. Border was small corp with helpful people, always patient listening and answering to all my questions. They helped to earn my first "huge amount of isk" by running a mining op where at the end of it, they donated all the ore to me. I was mining in a scythe (no longer has mining bonuses) and they were using retrievers and orca support plus links. It was an amazing team experience for a noob.

Mining Scythe