If only Life was more like EVE...

Like many others who play EVE it becomes a way of life, I get up, I go to work, I come home and plug into EVE, im sure many can relate to this, EVE has become my life away from life, somewhere that can chat with my friends play and make virtual money to buy more shiny ships to play in, im also lucky that my fiancé stormo plays EVE to as it also becomes a way of spending time with her when I cant be there in person as my real life work keeps me away :-( well for the time being till I can find something else nearer. for other it must be hard finding eve time while partners and family are also fighting for attention.

If only real life could be as simplistic as EVE where if you need money you can go mine or run some complexes shooting bad guys or completing missions, where if you die you just wake up in a fresh new body, where your home is only determined by where all your stuff is, and travelling light years becomes as easy as using a jump gate, although travel in eve could be made easier as im sure anyone who fly's an Orca or freighter for that matter would know, the thought of jumping 34 jumps can fill you with dread and take just as long as actually driving from Bristol to London.

Some times its easy to forget its just a game, filled with other people also just playing, but that having been said, there aren't many games out there that I am still playing regularly for nearly 2 years, many are like an iPhone game you buy it you play it for a few weeks then never touch it again.

Fly Safe..

A Wolf is Born...

The time has come to spread our wings and try our hand at running our own corp. and as the angles has been beaten down to a handful of us Stormo and I have decided to start our own Corp. and low the Blood Wolf was born :-) that's right Blood Wolf Inc. is open for business, a few of the guys from the angles will be joining us as we rise from the ashes and we will try to increase our ranks as we progress, its gona be a slow start as the corp. wallet has nothing but moths in it but we are a resourceful bunch and although being an industrial corp. we have some big plans, so if you see us in your wormhole ninja mining your belts or killing your sleepers spare a though for the lowly Wolf trying to make ends meet rather than just trying to kill us ;-)

fly safe

Offer of help from an unlikely source..

If you remember a while back our POS in a C1 Wormhole was destroyed at the time we were rather put out by this, well i say put out this is of corse a polite way of saying we were right P$@*d off, however undeterred buy this set back we continued to recruit and joined an alliance in the hep that we would have help should it happen again, however as you can see in more recent posts this didn't work so well as it seems they didn't like war decs, and we were politely asked to leave.

Well as you may have seen we recently ran into some grievers with the sole purpose of hassling us till the corp closes, well this has basically happened as ppl have left because they couldn't make isk, However this is not the reason for this post, the reason was because i was contacted buy someone offering help dealing with these guys from an unlikely source, a chap called Parious Mehoff from the corp (Member of the Galactic Collective), yes thats right the guys that took our POS down were offering to help us :-) i must say this took me back a bit as these guys were the last people i would expect to get help from, we had quite an interesting chat and although we didn't need help right at this moment they have offered to help us up in the future if required setting us to a blue status :-)

it just goes to show you can make new friends in the most unlikely of circumstances  and being an industrial corp having PVP friends you can call upon is always helpful, so cheers guys. 

Golden Angels of War is closing ..

This is a sad day for me, stormo and metogo as we are being forced to close down our corp. Golden Angels of War, we joined Met as he is a good friend of ours and we have been playing the game together for a long time and have followed each other through 3 different corps now, the latter being a corp. that Met himself started, but sadly due to a greifer and known Corp thief called "Wisebudda" we are having to call it a day, for some reason because we wouldn't let this baby join our corp. (presumably to steal from our Wormhole Hangers) he hired a merc corp. to War dec us and keep the Dec up permanently until I presume the corp. has collapsed, this meant our members couldn't do anything without being harassed and followed, this sort of game play I find is just pure evil, even pirates that roam low sec or gank at higesec gates have more honour and respects than this guy, hell I even respect people that can flip miners more, after all lets face it EVE is a game and why do we play it? its because we enjoy playing, however stalking another player like persistent sex pest till they feel like quitting the game altogether doesn't have any honour or merit at all, He claims to be an expert PVP player yet all we have seen him do is watch our Wormhole POS and only attack us when we are trying to mine or in some other defenceless state.

So as this guy doesn't seem to Have a Life of any sort other than to harass us we have closed down our Wormhole operations and will be closing the Corp, Metogo has left the Corp to set one up with the soul purpose to hunt and harass this guy like he did us, he hopes to attract some good PVP'ers to help with this task and give prizes for ship kills and POD's that are successfully logged, So if there are any PVP players reading this that fancy hunting Wisebudda and any of his alts I suggest you Look Metogo up and get in contact.

As for storm and I, it looks like we will have to better our mission skills and stock pile some High Sec ores for production purposes.

EVE Mac or PC..

In an interesting turn of events EVE-Online's FaceBook group (which is always good for a read) posted a thread stating that Mac Gamer is looking for a Mac using EVE player to write for them, this of coarse interested me as I like to write and these are two subjects that are close to my heart, Having been a Mac user for 16 years now and still going strong I have a deep-seated passion for the brand and its products, plus the fact I live and breath EVE I thought I might through my name into the Hat (after a little nudge from stormo that is).

Anyway this sparked an almighty debate in the comments that followed from many PC users that felt the need to bash and belittle my beloved brand, of coarse I felt I had to stand and defend the OS as did others as these guys either didn't understand what they were talking about, for instance one guy commenting that the Mac only had 4 games available theses being Sims, Sim City, World of Warcraft and of coarse EVE, or others just had an absolute hatred for anything that wasn't Windows. what some people seem to forget is that since apple launched the iPod its brand has come back from its decline and is now starting to challenge the top spot the Microsoft have held for a long time, the Key being apple produce there own hardware as well as the software that runs on it while this dose increase the price it guarantees user experience which Microsoft cant as they sling there software on any old bit of hardware that's out there which increases incompatibility and an inability to guarantee that things will work as it says on the box.

I have used both platforms for work and personal use and I can safely say without a doubt that the Mac OS is a much more stable and friendly, im not saying that macs don't have there faults because they do, but in general the good vastly out ways the bad, I will admit there are less game titles out there unlike PC but that is due to developers producing there titles for the masses and because the amount of windows computers out there outweighed the amount of apple, game developers pointed there games towards the windows platform, however things are changing and main stream developers are starting to come back to duel platform even more so now with the launch of Steam and the Mac App store making apple software instantly available and giving the smaller developer a chance to show what they can do.

As Far as the Mac EVE client all I can say is it works great the graphics run on full and I get to enjoy the shininess of all my ships and the detail on all the planets and moons, the only things that don't seem to work and im assuming this is because of the PC to Mac conversion is things like duel screen support or running multiple clients at the same time for alts however this doesn't faze me much as Stormo (who by the way also runs EVE on a Mac) and I work in tandem working together on tasks so running a second alt becomes obsolete..

Gankers Up the anti..

Over the Past few week with the run up to hulkageddon it would appear that gankers are becoming more frequent making it tricky to mine or even haul your valuable salvage or ore's about, this is most apparent in jita where the number of people in local has risen well into the thousands, and undocking from the station becomes the lag fest from hell, with hundreds of ships camping the station exit, to counter these unwanted attacks you have to start looking for alternative ways of getting your goods in and out, this comes in the form of smaller faster ships that can get away quick or flying something so heavily armoured it can survive the gankers onslaught until concord removes the problem, however the latter comes with its own problems as it would seem people that do this sort of ganking think nothing of loosing a battleship or two in the pursuit of a highsec kill.
Even pirates with a -10 security status who normally wouldn't be able to fly a ship in highsec without being instantly set upon by Concord have worked there way round the issue to join in the fun, as explained by fellow blogger of "finders & keepers" (always a good read by the way) although he didn't want to give his secret away, However I suspect his way round this is to fly in with nothing but his flasy red POD and use a neutral orca flying alt to bring in his ganking ships in and another to wait at the gate picking targets for him to warp to, this suspicion confirmed as he removed my comment off his blog shortly I had posted it ;-).

However im not going to wine and bitch about this sort of behaviour, as after all said and done this is a game and people play it however they want and this makes the game what it is and why I love it, there not cheating like people do in other games like battlefield where feckers hack the game to hide in solid objects so you don't see them till you see your blood splattered all over the wall, and there not using a bug or an exploit in the game to swipe your hard earned ISK and although some might curse and whinge and call them every name under the sun, and that dose include myself until I calm down, it dose create some opportunities that wouldn't normally exist, for instance I have recently found myself having some fun with Khan trying to swipe loot from under the noses of these pirates making a snatch and grab and hope I get away before they turn there guns on me this certainly gets the blood pumping and puts a little smile on my face if I succeed, another point to note is with it being harder to get ore in and out of jita its bound to raise the price of ore making our loads more profitable, so there is a bright side to this otherwise dark and tarnished penny

fly safe and fly smart..

The New Face of Mobious28 & Khan28..

Ok so heres the final result of a few hours creating and then another hour of tinkering after they gave us the option to go and re-work our portraits, I'm feeling really good about them although i was a little disappointed there are no tattoo or scar options, although i do hear they are looking at introducing fetchers like that in the future