Eve Blog Banter #4: Re-Prioritization

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.”

Participants:

• Attitude is Everything
• “If I could save time in a bottle….”
• The Game with the Thousand Faces
  
• [OOC] January’s Blog Banter
• New Ballgames, Same Home Team
  
• EVE Blog Banter #4: I Don’t Know
• Adaptation
• CK’s Blog Banter #4
• Roll With the Punches
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
  
• We, the EVE-bloggers
• Adapt or Die
• I’m in ur blogosphere, hijackin’ ur Blog Banter (4)
• Blog Banter
• Opportunity or Burden?
• Mystic Pizza
• “Stay on target…”
  
• January EVE Blog Banter
• Re-Prioritization
  
• Bonzai in my Bookcase
• Delicious!
• EVE blog banter: Adaptation