Pirate Log: Flights 6 and 7 - Success(?)

I do not play on Thursdays as a rule, I have things to do(tm), and boy was I glad I did! Since I returned from my girlfriend's a little bit early I sat down to refit some Incursus and then thought I'd roam a little bit with my super Vexor. I wanted mainly to test out the tank and thought that I would look for a really unfavorable fight and see how well it held. 

It worked, at least the part where I die. However, I did not die in vain and it takes a bit of telling. I warped the Vexor to a plex in Hevrice, the medium one, where W0lf Crendraven of The Tuskers was waiting for victims. I know W0lf to be an excellent pilot and he was flying a Dramiel, it was clearly going to be tough.

Pirate's Log, Flight 2, 3 and 4... crickey!

Wednesday's are my only play night during the week, the rest is taken up by work, poker, taking care of my lovely girlfriend and exercising properly. I was looking forward to an evening of getting into good fights, winning them, finding some helpless afk plexers and murdering them while having a great time.

That didn't go very well.

PSA - Transitioning null to low

Lots of people write guides on things of this nature, so I won't go into the details of how to do each; such as making a tactical and setting up your overview. I will assume that you already know all this or have read all the different guides out there. Ripard Teg, for example, has some excellent ones in his blog, go there and become enlightened in case you have doubts.

What I intend to do with this post is speak from the perspective of an ex-nullsec pilot who's moved to lowsec and begun a dangerous life of crime. Which habits and lessons learned in null work? Which apply and which don't? That's what I'm here to document; life in low is different and exciting and requires some paradigm shifts.

Keep Calm and Stay Frosty

This will probably only be read by the two or three search bots that visit my blog, but if by any chance someone made of flesh and blood comes across it know this: Stay Frosty is awesome, if you want to be a pirate then you should join. Now.

Why you ask? Well here are some reasons:

Pirate's Log, Flight 1

Defenseless fool ahoy!

After hauling five Incursi and a Vexor into Hevrice I set about assembling one and going out there looking for victims. As a newly minted member of Stay Frosty I was eager to prove myself and get a notch on the kill-boards, which were recently created by Rixx. I chose the Incursus, fit it for speed and 1v1 combat, a rather standard configuration but one that has had good results in the past... during in house tournaments. Time to prove my mettle!

Pirates be cool!

Today I that mythical button labeled "Quit Corporation"; my finger hovered over it for a fraction of a second and then with a big smile smashed it. In the blink of an eye I'm back in The Scope listening to inane corporation chatter the likes of which you only see in Dodixie local. Well not that bad, but you get the point.

A couple of hours later Rixx logs in and accepted my application to Stay Frosty, he made my hauler alt light-blue (she did the same with ST-FR) and officially made me a pirate!

 Yarr mateys!

Frogs took my chunches

I never cease to be amazed at how much junk one accumulates; our storage spaces get filled up with the trinkets that surround us without it dawning on our conscious thoughts. This happens in real life where I am convinced everyone has a room full of stuff, or a garage or a shed in their back yards. In my home country we call this the "cuarto de los chunches". The word chunche [choon cheh] is one we invented here, or so I am told, giving it a variety of meanings and applying it universally to anything. It is both a noun and adjective in such a way that "stuff" would only cover half its meaning. In any case, we all accumulate chunches and our virtual lives in EvE are no exceptions.

Site Looks

I've updated the blog look, and I think it looks nice. I was after a clean look, that is easy on the eyes and not too difficult to put up; I have very little time to create something more complex.

I did not make the images. Perhaps later, when I have more time, I will give the whole thing a custom look, dive into the CSS and fuck around with it. For now, I like this. The background I found on Google and immediately was struck by its beauty; if you're the owner and object to me using it please let me know right away. I don't aim to steal images but it's hard to know what is copyrighted and what was given out freely to the Eve community.

Well that's it for the blog. Now on to other things like hitting the "quit" button on VlV and applying formally to Stay Frosty!

Creating dissapointment

Well I can safely say that my ex-CEO is one disappointed man. This hurts a bit because I know I'm the source of the disappointment by leaving my corporation when it needs every single person. A part of me keeps telling me that I'm behaving like a rat making a bee-line on a sinking ship; that's an analogy I hate because I would hate to see VlV go down completely. That would be a damn shame.

I know he's dissapointed, possibly angry beacause I sent him a very personal, heart-felt letter and he returned a very proffesional, terse acknowledgement reply. This particular line:

Greetings

As much as it "sucks" for VlV to loose good members in our time of need, i can however understand.

That hurt. Also he signed "CEO of VlV" which I've never seen him do. All I can say is I understand and don't hold it against him, I'd be mad too. I'm decided about my choice to join Stay Frosty and even if that were not to work out there are a million things to do in this game that aren't Hi-sec bearing or null-sec sov bashing.

Goodbye Virtual Life Vanguard, and thanks for all the fish! 

Start at the beginning

After years of being in sovereign nullsec as part of Virtual Life Vanguard I come to the realization that I need a change. At first I thought I needed a break and took advantage of some real life difficulties and let all my accounts lapse into inactivity. The Eve bug however doesn't go away easy and two months later I resubscribed and found myself doing nothing exciting.

VlV is a PVP/Industrial corporation, its strengths are life in null-sec, small gang pvp and most of all Black Ops hot-dropping of unsuspecting fools deep in enemy territory to make their lives miserable and convince them to vacate the premises. I always thought we were good at it but that opinion belongs to others; we certainly enjoyed our lifestyle and did the best we could. However after loosing our homes in 0.0 the corporation came back to high-sec to cool its heels. So it cools, and cools, and cools and as I write this it's probably under a think layer of ice. I need action, pew-pew as we call it. Good fights! Ships need to explode, somebody else's if possible, mine if it cannot be helped.