Well, it is official… I have 2 of my 3 accounts reactivated. Tanalei and Avesaria have emerged into the amazing workd of Eve and are out mining the hell out of the Universe yet again!
But belt nullification is not the only thing on my Eve horizon anymore. I have done what was unthinkable to myself a year ago…
I have entered 0.0
Admittedly it wasn’t on my characters (flew some 0.0 mining ops with one of the BF’s 5 acccounts) but the appeal is definatley there. The only trick is – If i were to move to this land of lawlessness (which apparently I do have an invite) I would have to abandon all of my high sec ventures and actually get on some kill mails.
The requirement to leave BHI and the required PVP time is the only thing that is keeping me from moving once I have 2 Billion in Isk again.
But as my adventures continue (and they will) I will continually update. I don’t think I will be leaving Eve for a long while.
By the way… The ore hanger they added to the Orca is WIN!!!
Good and interesting news!! (Some EVE some not…) Lots of things have happened since my last post and it looks as if my three accounts will be coming online October 1st!!!
Thankfully I am now employed again. I was seriously starting to go batty without any form of employment; I personally am not a human that can sit at home not doing anything at all for long periods of time. I will go ape shit. It’s now officially been proven. I passed my Cisco Certified Network Associate exam so I am officially certifiable now. I started working with Dell doing Tech support for the Army Reserves; it is interesting to say the least. The idea of me getting security clearance is still a point of hilarity between me and all my friends. The good news is that Dell does have locations internationally and I am looking at possibly moving to Europe in the next year or two which means there is an option of being able to move as a transfer and no worries about a job when I get there.
I am actually no longer a single she-gamer. I am seeing a long time friend of mine now who I will admit is a big influence in me possibly moving to Europe in a year or so. I am actually hopping on a plane and flying 5,600 miles to Denmark on the 24th to go and see him so we shall see where it goes. It is always nice to be able to sit and have a conversation about how The Horde is FTW, 3.5 DND is better than 4.0 and I can attempt to convince him missiles are better than drones any day. I just came to the realization if the two of us ever sat down to play eve together he has 4 accounts he runs and I have 3 (well 4 really if I count my brothers that he never plays and I d) accounts… is 8 accounts, 2 people, one room getting a bit excessive???
Nah!
Speaking of dating and gaming I watched a very… interesting, to say the least… documentary called Second Skin. http://www.secondskinfilm.com/ It attempted to take a non partisan stance on gamers, even though it focused 80% on World of Warcraft and 20% on Everquest 2, it went into obsessions, expansions, addictions, families, dating and a little bit of everything you may run into in an MMO, including friendships. But one thing I got to thinking about when it was talking about dating is the fact that I would never date a man, or a woman for that matter, who wasn’t a gamer. Period. Now will I openly admit that this is unfair, yes. But probably not for the reasons you think.
There is a 10:1 gamer ratio of male to female gamers. Obviously with such a one sided ratio you can’t be a guy and expect to meet a female gamer, fall madly in love, get dogs and name them Caldari and Gallente and have little gamer babies. There just aren’t enough female gamers in the world. You can hope to convert the love of your life to videogames and/or MMO’s. Maybe get a decent priest or a dedicated remote repair that you don’t have to bot out of it or maybe if you are lucky she will love professions and every one of your characters now makes mad bank. However, if you are a female gamer you can expect that. You can set out and say, “I will never get in a long term relationship with anyone who is not a gamer.”
It’s not fair for the men of the Gaming universe.
I sit and think about how I would react if my boyfriend told me that “it’s the videogame or me!” I honestly don’t know how I would respond to that. I would never get into a relationship with a guy who would ever want to say that to me. I love the idea of sitting down for a full day mining op breaking out my orca with my hauler and two miners and pulling ice for half the day and minerals the other half. Having five hulks in belt and having to press my attention span to make sure the orca hold is being properly emptied. Getting online together in a 25 man raid and running for 4 hours, praying for epic drops. Randomly running missions or questing the afternoon away together or apart. I will not remove that from my life.
So many men have to and it really just isn’t fair.
As much as I do love eve unfortunately due to the fact I am unemployed and have been for 6 months and money is tighter than ever I am having to temporarily close all of my accounts. While the accounts are closed I am going on a temporary Hiatus and when i have the cash flow everyone gets turned back on again. 
Until then if you are wanting to keep up with my blog about the real world and not eve-online it can be found on myspace. Feel free to friend me if you have a myspace account. I love writing my blog about eve and I love eve itself but unfortunately a break is required due to finances.
My myspace page can be found at http://myspace.com/forever_tanalei
Well a lot has happened since my last post. I’m temporarily up in Missouri, I headed this way around the 3rd of March and I’ll be up here until the first of April. Trying to cope with my internet going from 20MB down to 10 MB on a good day is killing me. I am also single now. My EX and I realized that we are best friends and love each other to death just not THAT way and so we are still roommates but we have both moved on. He has found a new girl who I think will work out great for him.
Which brings me to the point of my post… I have started putting myself up on some of the on-line dating websites about a week ago and since I’m a female gamer I am converting the single nerd male masses to EVE Online.
I find this intriguing personally….
I have up on my profiles that I have two dogs, I love movies and books and I’m a gamer. So the first response I have been getting is oh I play WoW… I explain been there, done that and bought the T-Shirt (literally) and begin to explain how EVE is better.
Standard response “Oh but my RL friends play” and/or “I raid”
Counter: You don’t have to be logged in to increase your skill levels or if you do it right even your monies.
Standard response: “No way!”
So one of the new friends I have made has made a new account and is playing and might get some of his friends to switch to the dark side of the MMO universe.
Online dating as a new recruiting tool for EVE. Who’d have thought?
Unfortunately life has struck with avengence. Some very unexpected things have come down the works and I am needing to address them and I should be back in a week. Hopefully everything will turn out for the best and life will be back to a semblance of normalcy and we can figure out where everything is going from there.
BBIAB
Tanalei, Avesaria, Tanave
Welcome to the fifth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, this month’s topic comes to us from Mynxee of Life in Low Sec. She asks “Alts and Metagaming: Is playing two accounts who are logged in at the same time and work together (hauler/miner, explorer/combat associate, trade alts in trade hubs) a form of metagaming that is “ruining the game”?“
When I first read this month’s Eve Blog Banter I immediately went on the defensive and ranted around my house mumbling “I am not a Metagamer!” while attacking dishes with a vengance. Upon the realization that this would end horribly if I immediately started blogging about it I decided to let it stew overnight and start writing tomorrow. So let’s start at the beginning what is metagaming? According to Wikipedia:
A recent slang definition of Metagaming, popular among computer and video game fans, is any tactic in a computer or video game that uses one or more features of that game that lie outside the intended gameplay use, or exploit errors in programming structures. For example, a player who took advantage of a bug in the game to gain some advantage would be metagaming. An example would be deliberately getting one’s character killed in order to return to the last saved game.
Ok well now we are getting into some interesting territory. Is having multiple accounts outside the EULA? Reading though it no it isn’t you just have to have purchased the software for every account you have – obviously – and then you are in the green. So technically no you aren’t Metagaming. Meagaming is the exploit the asshats used on the POS’s to get shit built without all the materials.
But sitting down and thinking this over for an evening I came to a realization – If tomorrow they changed everything where you could only have one account per user I would cancel all my accounts. I’ve sat down and tried to just play Tanalei but seeing her in missions is truely a sad experience when she is flying solo. She can remote rep like a Badass! But she can’t kill for shit. I love my Orca on Avesaria and I made her for defense from can flippers and mining bonuses. She can’t mine for shit but she can easily run missions on her own in the Drake or Raven.
My point is I don’t understand people who can be content with only one account. I experienced eve for my first 30 days with one account and I was miserable. I added Avesaria and the world got so much brighter. Why would anyone fly an Orca if they only have 1 account? You make zero profit. You can’t mine you are just sitting there giving bonuses and taking everyone’s ore for the hauler to pick up or for you to fly back to base. You get none of it unless you charge isk for bonuses and that just makes you out to be an ass. So you drop 600 million and get an amazing ship and no way to ever get a return on your investment. That’s just bad business. – Wow i just realized how Caldari that is of me…
This is my Alt. There are many like it but this one is mine. My Alt is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my Alt is useless. Without my Alt I am useless. I must use my alt for good. I must shoot straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my Alt and myself are defenders of my country, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.
Check out these other Posts from this month’s EVE Blog Banter!!!
- The Wandering Druid of Tranquility, “…you see mate, it’s a matter of leverage, savvy?”
- Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah, I Missed This Month’s Blog Banter!
- A Mule in EvE, Meta what? Is it hurting EvE?
- Morphisat’s Blog, Me, Myself and I
- One Man and His Spaceship, Me and My Shadow
- Ombeve, [OOC] Blog Banter, Edition 5
- Ralpha Dogs, Me, Myself and I
- Diving into PsycheDiver’s Psyche, CK’s Blog Banter #5: Everybody Needs Somebody
- Dense Veldspar, Blog Banter
- Ecliptic Rift, OOC: Blog Banter #5 Metagaming
- Mad Rant, “Blog Banter – It’s my party, and I’ll alt if I want to….”
- EVE Chick, The Handicapper General
- New Eden Diaries, It’s only a game
- Oz’s House of the Evil Dead, If You Can’t Ride Two Horses At Once, You Shouldn’t Be In The Circus
- CrazyKinux’s Musing, Leave what you know at the door please!
- Diary of a Pod Pilot, [OOC] EVE Blog Banter #5 Metagaming
- Roc’s Ramblings, February Blog Banter – Meta Me
- More coming as they are posted!!!
I saw on Myrhial Arkenath’s blog that she had some interesting OOC questions in her blog that she saw on Psychediver’s blog and I figured I’d answer them as well.
1. Can you cook? Yes, actually I can. It is a recent development over the past year and a half. When I met my boyfriend the most difficult thing I could successfully cook was Hamburger Helper and that was generally a hit or miss. Now however I am a very skilled baker and can cook without anything catching fire!
2. What was your dream growing up? I always wanted to be a writer. In all honesty it is still my dream and someday I hope to have a book published.
3. What talent do you wish you had? I wish i wasn’t a Klutz.
4. Favorite place? Hmmm…. Probably out in Kauai. It is so beautiful I just can’t stay for more than a week or two because I have an acute allergy to the Sun.
5. Favorite vegetable? Zucchini
6. What was the last book you read? John Saul – The Presence
7. What zodiac sign are you ? Capricorn!!
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Nope. I had my ears pierced but I am allergic to most metals and my skin grows over them so I don’t try that anymore.
9. Worst Habit? I am an overly organized individual (almost OCD) but I’ve got a bad habit of procrastinating so when i clean it’s super organized otherwise – very lived in.
10. Do we know each other outside of blogging? Nope I haven’t run into very many EVE players in game that blog.
11. What is your favorite sport? I love the LFL: Lingerie Football League. Oh yeah!
12. Negative or Optimistic attitude? I’m Optimistically Negative.
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? Good Question. Probably debate the evilness of whiny EVE’rs that make good Carebears go bad.
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you? I fell down in Jan 2007 and had my L5S1 disk rupture and had to have back surgery that April. I’m completely recovered now but it still causes arthritis issues.
15. Tell me one weird fact about you: I always wear toe rings. I’ve worn most of them for over 10 years.
16. Do you have any pets? I have two “children” a pitt bull mix and a jack russel mix that I love and spoil to death.
17. Do you know how to do the macarena? Unfortunately!
18. What time is it where you are now? 7:03 PM
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary? Neither they are just odd.
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? Like most women I think I should be thinner.
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? Depends on the crime…
22. What color eyes do you have? Blue Green. It depends on how I feel. They range from Slate blue to a vibrant green.
23. Ever been arrested? LOL no I haven’t.
24. Favorite fictional character of all time? Death from the Sandman series.
25. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it? Pay off my Truck!
26. If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Paper control – If you don’t get it watch Read or Die the OVA. Awesome Anime!
27. What’s your favorite hangout? My house there is usually more baked goods here than most places!
28. Do you believe in ghosts? Yeah why not. I have no evidence proving they don’t exist.
29. Favorite thing to do in your spare time? Read and Play EVE!
30. Do you swear a lot? Yup!
31. Biggest pet peeve? People who buy a vehicle and don’t get a permenant tag and drive arround with the temp tags after they expire!
32. In one word, how would you describe yourself? Rambunctious!
33. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? I did!
For starters: My brain has returned!!!! I am happily typing away on my completely fixed and awesome Macbook and so life is grand! So on with the post!
Yes – I am a female – apparently when you are born with the XX chromosomes and happen to live in Oklahoma you will be immediately challenged by every wanna-be fan boy to an e-peen contest. Also being female I decided to do something I have never done before – get Glamor Shots taken – and on this day it seemed inevitable that I should be challenged. Now these challenges I usually adore (mainly because I usually win) and as it is also apparent I love playing EVE. I generally try to use these e-peen fights to recruit others to my cause and abandon alternate forms of MMO entertainment or at least add another game to their repertoire.
However, I did not take into account the stubbornness of Emo boys when they are having their arse handed to them on a stick by a girl who looks like a Heart reject from the 80’s and could break into an exact rendition of “Alone”. I said I went to Glamor Shots and they are really into the big hair thing.
But this guy goes into how he’s a “to the core gamer” and he plays WoW. Ok, sure why not, it could happen even though the only to the core WoW players I know ar ein the UK. So I ask him how long he has been playing… he tells me he has been playing on a private server but he just bought the game and all the expansions a couple months ago and now he’s really into it. I tell him that’s nice but I’d been in it since closed beta and iit just gets boring after a while and he gets this deer in headlights look. Closed beta… you know where you play the game on invitation only before the game can be sold to people. Takes a couple of minutes but we finally get a point of recognition.
I casually switch over to EVE and ask if he has ever heard of it/played and he says he had but he hated it because there was no direction….
No direction??? What direction do you want to go? Herein lies the beauty of EVE! You can do whatever you want and focus wherever you want however you want and you are still playing the game to it’s fullest. It’s not an MMO with a script from McDonalds.
“Hi how can I help you today?”
“Well, I’m needing a Quest.”
“Alright sir here is your order of one Quest you must bring me 40 heads from kills in that field right over there.”
“Thank you!” Runs off to do some killing which on a keyboard is all of 111223112311123 in button mashing per kill and then you run back to the quest/server dude.
“Alright here are the 40 heads you wanted!”
“Thank you and here is your serving of XP have a Nice day!”
Seriously McDonalds scripts!!!
Now mind you I am having this conversation in the mall infront of a kiosk with his best friend who has become a very good friend of mine and wants to try out EVE.
He then brings up the cost and that he has invested so much into WoW which makes it a better game. I then advise him I have over 7 accounts paid for from my bank account each month and when I am employed again am looking at splitting two of the ones I have for a total of 9 accounts.
After being entirely embarrassed and tucking his tail between his legs he runs off leaving me to revel in my win of the Boobies in the E-Peen fight vs. Emo boy!
Here recently I’ve been slightly MIA as far as blogging as well as being online in any form due to the fact that my beloved computer is in the shop getting worked on. Yeah I haven’t been a happy camper. My Macbook Pro has had huge overheating issues and I finally got to the point where I have to have it fixed or I’m going to have a mental meltdown from frustration.
After sending it in a week later I get a phone call saying it’s going to cost me $1250 to have it fixed. I brought the woman who informed me of this to tears and rapidly got her to correct this error in her judgement so when I get home on Thursday I should be able to go by and pick up my brain and move on with life and be back to updating.
Well the blood is boiling and the isk shall be flowing.
I’m going on a head hunt would you like to come along?
There shall be booze and wenches and blood in the trenches,
As I scour the skies with head hunter eyes.
There has been an injustice – Yet to be rectified -
Corp theft for a dear friend of mine.
There is a 10 mil bounty per kill -
W3av3r is his name -
I shall have my first pod kill this day.
So the battle cry has been announced. W3av3r is the name of the man I hunt because he stole from many of my friends. Roughly 1.25 billion in corp theft under then name Chanski2. I do not commit acts of violence that often but I have decided that this is to heinous to go unpunished.
Therefore I am looking for any and all able bodied individuals: be it Care Bears, Industrialists, Pirates, or Faction Warfare Friends. Help me hunt this man until there is no money for him to replace his clone. He cannot replace his ships. He cannot buy ammo. Hunt him to the point of no return. There is a 10 million bounty on his head for every kill mail.
Let the games begin.
