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Unfortunate Happenings

April 3, 2009

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. :D

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

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Single She-Gamer Seeking Dates Recruits People to EVE?

March 14, 2009

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?

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Life

March 1, 2009

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

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This is my Alt – There are many like it but this one is mine.

February 24, 2009

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!!!

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OOC Blogosphere questions of Doom

February 20, 2009

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. :D

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. :D

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. :D

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!

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Boobies win in E-Peen Fight

February 20, 2009

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!

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Temporary MIA due to Computer Epic Fail

February 17, 2009

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.

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I’m going on a Headhunt… Would you like to come along?

February 4, 2009

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.

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EVE Blog Banter #1

February 1, 2009

Here’s the 4rd episode of EVE Blog Banter for me but it is actually the first topic proposed:

Welcome to the first installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s topic comes to us from PsycheDiver: Ambulation: What are your hopes for your avatar and new functionality of stations?

I do have to say there is only two things I really do not like about EVE. (I promise this has to do with ambulation… :D )

I have no personal customization for my ships compared to any other pilot out there. If you fly a Raven… guess what… It looks like every other Raven in existence. I can’t paint it. I can’t put flashy lights or anything on it. It’s just a Raven. Now you may say “This makes no difference on how your missiles hit so who cares!” I care. I would consider Piracy a lot more tempting than it is at the moment if I could ensure that I could blow you up in a bright white ship with rainbows, flowers and pink fluffy bunnies on the side. Why you ask? Because it would be humiliating and therefore so much more fun. “Yeah… this fluffy bunny ship showed up and WTFPWND my ass…” Don’t you see the humor value in this!

Who cares if ship customization means I have to drop another 10 million per ship to have it custom painted. I don’t. Also no, modular T3 ships do not solve this always having the same look issue in my opinion. It just doesn’t cut it. I will openly admit when I played WoW I dropped thousands of gold and hours of time on items that did nothing accept make me look cooler. I like to customize things I do have girlish tendencies every once in a while.

The second thing that I do not like about eve is the only ways I have seen my character is in a pod, frozen in space after a pod kill and initially building her portrait; which I do believe took about an hour to get it right. I love seeing the actual character I’m playing moving around, customizing height and build and tattoos and piercings. Look at all of the great space TV series and movies in existence, for example, if you put every Bajoran in the Star Trek Universe side by side there would be all sorts of variances between them down to the way they walk and scarring. I love this aspect. I love the idea that if I don’t want to fly around in space I can dock up in a station and find a different way to make isk.

Bringing ambulation to the game and allowing for the opening up shops where you can, for example, custom paint other people’s ships for isk. You could be hired by an entire corp to do a similar paint job on all of their ships so that when *insert corp name here* showed up there ships always look like *insert descriptor here* is an AWESOME concept. Having a bar/casino in a few stations run by your corp where all the monies go to the corp for a supplemental income would be amazingly fun. It also puts a whole new way of looking at espionage towards alliances, corporations, and individuals. No you may not pirate, but you know where to go and who to talk to and where to sit and listen to get very very valuable information. Look a whole new profession(or at least VERY revamped)!! Information Broker!

Another concept I have been thinking of is when you are running a mission and you find a Pleasure Hub what would stop you from going inside of it at that point?? Could make for some VERY interesting story lines. LOL

My final hope for getting the station revamp is that they do something with POS’s it is such a pain to set up a POS so that you aren’t running into structures every 5 seconds if you are flying anything bigger than a friggate. I have read the Dead Horse Thread and think it is a brilliant idea and truly hope it will go into effect once ambulation starts coming around. I would prefer it before then but it appears that’s not going to happen….

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Eve Blog Banter #4: Re-Prioritization

January 31, 2009

Welcome to the forth installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by yours truly. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s EVE Blog Banter comes to us from Manasi of A Mule in EvE. Manasi asks “How do we, EVE bloggers, adapt to changes as they are thrust upon us (speed changes, no more ghost training, all the Dev blogs, etc), or as our lives make playing the game different (more time, less time)?”

This one I really had to sit and think about for a while.

While I know there have been a lot of changes in EVE since I started playing roughly a year and a half ago, most of the changes that have happened really haven’t changed my play style at all.  The speed changes – I just got around to learning navigation on my main account a month or two ago and I think my afterburner skill is a 2. My most often use fitting for my Drakes is a passive tank – on a passive tank you don’t need an afterburner or a microwarp drive. The nano portion of that change I have no idea on I hadn’t gotten within the realm of even contemplating their use yet when the changes happened. SO the speed change to me was just another day.

I didn’t like the nerf to the Eos because it really ruffled the feathers in my household because it was my boyfriend’s favorite command ship in the game. So as any girlfriend with an upset boyfriend for a few days the thing causing the issue becomes spawn of satan and will have to be delt with in a very intimidating manor.

As far as industrial changes, the cargohold boost to the Macinaw was nice, but when you are mining into a Orca or a can immediately picked up by a hauler it really isn’t that big of a deal.  I love the Orca and it was a very needed ship and will help thwart many a can flipper and ha made mining 100X easier and more fun for me. The modifications on the blocade runner are kinda fun even though I can’t fly one; but the concept of a cloak capable hauler is very neat.

The Ghost Training change really upset me. That’s the only one I think I really didn’t like. I have so many accounts in the house on some of the really long skills it would be nice to not have to pay for the account for the month or so that it’s training if I could find a way to live without the account. I mean seriously, I pay more for EVE in a month than I do for my two cell phones in my house.

As far as life making an influence on EVE, there is much more powerful demon. I became unemployed back in October, unfortunately, because there are huge downsizing in my industry of choice, wireless telecommunications. I have used the time since then to study for my CCNA as well as accomplish alot of the things I never thought I would in EVE. It has also allowed me to take a step back and really appreciate the life I have both in and out of game because of having more time on my hands than any other point on my life.

With being unemployed the friends and accomplishments I have made in EVE seem to matter more to me and make me look at the game in a different way which I really appreciate. Also as a blogger it allows me to actually invest some time and get some stories posted. I went nuts the other day when I saw I had 62 visitors in a day. If I was still employed and was dividing my time in the overly rushed fashion, and incorrectly prioritized, like it used to be in my house hold – I don’t think I would have even had the time to customize a header for a blog for EVE let along write as much as I have. Considering that my dream is to someday become a writer that means a lot to me.

It has also forced me to prioritize a lot of things and realize family really does come first. Oddly enough, EVE time is family time in my house so it’s all in good fun. Well I’ll quit Emoting all over the floor: Basically the short and sweet of it is, “You take it in, bitch about it for a few days, and move on.”

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