One year

I realized yesterday I joined Wormhole Engineers one year ago.

One year ago I was in an uncomfortable situation, my wormhole corp (Border Deepspace), that was dying from lack of activity, was finally evicted from our C2 and throw out to highsec without a clear path, at least from my point of view. Full details can be read in this post.

In hindsight, I can say I don’t regret at all my decision, and the funny thing is my old previous corp did end asking for joining our alliance, and later merging into WHEN, so I got back my old friends.

WHEN (Wormhole Engineers) it’s a special corp - probably all them are - but at WHEN, the more crazy we do, the more we laugh. There is not any nonsense about killboard reputation or similar, and the only goal is to have fun (even if it looks it’s going to south) like this battle report against an ISKBoxer fleet of proteus versus us with T1 ships, in which by the way we got down a nearly 1B proteus.

In this corp, people are not selfish, they would risk their ships to help you, they would invest their time to fly with you even if it’s a clearly whelp op, and if you add ST (Silent Terror) in the formula, anything can happen.

I have lost some ships flying with ST, but I don’t regret a single time I have done it, because he has delivered the crazy content that makes fun this corp. In the other hand, I learn a lot when Mick is FC’ing, because his calm attitude, even when things are hot. I still remember that occasion when we tried to roll our static and we got attacked in both sides.  Mick managed to handle the situation perfectly without losing a ship (with orcas in the middle) and without any sign of pressure or stress. In the future, as soon I feel myself able, I’d like to start FC’ing small fleets, I am sure it’s a great experience.

Besides improving my subcap skills and getting Kippel into the capital path (he’s able to fly a Dread now) I also enjoyed providing IT support to the corp. Those IT services cover from a Jabber server, that helped to ping colleagues for action or for support tasks; Mumble and now TeamSpeak server, in a private server; and, a forum, not used too much, but it’s there.

Probably, the best thing at WHEN, are the people, not a single one of them is a jerk, all of them are different, but good pilots, and I enjoy alot sharing my time with them and learning from them!

I clearly see myself in this corp for another year… and I'd recommend anyone to try it out.

Blogging is hard

I always wanted to blog about my experiences in EVE, that's the reason why in April I did create this blog, and in my first entry,  I tried to sum-up my past. During some months I did enjoy writing about interesting stuff that happened, taking screenshots when I saw good opportunities to write good stories, but after some months, that excitement seems to have been evaporated.

It's not good stuff has not happened. It's that has happened suddenly and I was not taken notes or good pictures, and later, spending time to remember all the details and write something that could be worthy to read is kinda a lot of work and not something I would call "fun". And at the end of the day, I am here to have fun!

Probably, the key to be a good blogger is to enjoy writing as much as flying ships, and obviously having the right skills. Probably a good blogger (basically, someone who blogs nonstop good content, not like myself) would blog about anything with the same pace, because at the end, writing is a skill independent of the type of content you write about. Having said this, I am completely sure, even for them it takes a lot of time and effort to deliver what they do.

I admire Penny (Tiger Ears) for the amount of detail she can provide in each of her posts, sometimes I wonder if she has an assistant to take notes meanwhile she fights and takes good screenshots!

Another one is Von Keigai (Deep in EVE), another wormholer who writes pretty often, and with lots of detail, and sometimes interesting reflections on w-space changes.

Obviously, there are out there tons of good bloggers, but those two, represent to me what I'd like this blog to be.

I will continue trying to find that "strength" to write, as you only improve by doing, but don't expect to find lots of content here :)