Yeah, that went great. Had the plan to sub to FFXIV this weekend and then… EVE happened. I’ve not been that active for months. After all we’re moving and there’s other stuff to do. Hopefully this settles down soon because right now I’m losing sleep. Mostly because I’m hyped, but also because there’s so much to do.
It’s Blaugust again and this is post number 6.
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Some parties in the war are claiming they’ve won World War Bee II, and… it’s complicated.
Goonswarm is (rightfully) claiming they’ve won by not losing. Vily (of TEST) is claiming that the PAPI coalition has won simply by not being the Goonswarm, who were boxed into one constellation for a while. But their defenses didn’t break, and we (PAPI) didn’t manage to win.
That’s why our (BRAVE) (new full, ex-interim) CEO Dunk Dinkle declared that we (PAPI) lost, in a refreshing honesty that wasn’t very common in this war (from all parties). And while I agree with the assessment of the situation, I would have called it an unfavorable stalemate that’s worth abandoning. But I’ve not been involved in the war for quite a while, so I accept that “we lost”.
And this is great. My whole hope for the last year had been that the blue donut would be broken up and we could go back to have fun again. I’ve no love for the goons, but this war in it’s original motivation and with TEST’s plan was simply stupid. It’s not that we (BRAVE) could’ve really said we wouldn’t join, but it still sucked that we lost our space in Catch (and Impass, but I never liked Impass anyway). Querious is nice, but to me there was nothing wrong with Catch.
Anyway. We’re evaccing now because our leadership thinks the goons will come for us soon. I personally think they will go after TEST first and not BRAVE, but we are kinda close and I guess it’s warranted. I hate moving, but this time I was quite better prepared than last time.
The only thing that REALLY sucks is tearing down my PI setup, again. I’m not sure I’ll do this again in this form, but I probably will do it again in some form, but not in the near future.
So maybe there will hopefully be more EVE posts again on this blog in the near future. The war has ended and I prefer losing 10 times over it continuing. Even if the goons are coming for us, it’s not the same war. If you’re interested in what happened in the war, Wilhelm wrote at length about it, every single week. I didn’t read any of those war update posts, not because he’s a goon, but because I was so not into this war that I even stopped reading about it, even there. I’m pretty sure I read about EVE on Wilhelm’s blog before I even started playing in 2013, so that might tell you something.
The next few weeks and months will certainly be very interesting. Alliances leaving coalitions, corps leaving alliances, players leaving corps. People joining their comrades in other alliances, people going to the former enemy. I’m sure we’ll lose some people, as will most of the other alliances. My guess is that Legacy will stop existing in its current form. I’m optimistic though and I’m looking forward to the future, because I’m happy in BRAVE.
It’s Blaugust again and this is post number 4.
Another milestone, 80 million skill points on my main. Last milestone in February.
Skill category Points No. of skills
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Spaceship Command 20,713,077 60 *
Drones 8,859,375 18
Gunnery 8,765,560 34 *
Navigation 7,327,839 13 *
Engineering 6,842,040 15 *
Missiles 6,518,514 21 *
Fleet Support 3,656,894 12 *
Shields 3,198,119 12 *
Targeting 2,575,530 8 *
Armor 2,547,805 11
Electronic Systems 2,224,395 12 *
Subsystems 1,312,530 16 *
Scanning 1,191,530 7
Resource Processing 1,039,545 15 *
Neural Enhancement 745,347 5
Rigging 679,060 10
Science 502,275 13 *
Social 434,510 6
Planet Management 394,040 4
Trade 359,530 8
Production 276,743 4
Structure Management 24,040 1 *
Corporation Management 250
* = changes since last time
Skills at Level 5: 93 (+13)
Skills at Level 4: 123 (+9)
Skills at Level 3: 57 (-4)
Skills at Level 2: 2 (0)
Skills at Level 1: 31 (-3)
Skills at Level 0: 4 (-4)
I guess the big changes are that I completed our FAX and Dread skill plans (Caldari for now and damn you, JDC V) and could apply for our cap group. In reality I should probably train those T2 guns the Phoenix I bought is fitted with… but on the other hand my Dread alt is still in training and I’m not keen on losing this one, with the recent spike in prices, I was happy enough to get one for the old price after the update had landed… Other than that I guess the majority of the 10m came from JDC, and Fleet Support skills (yay, I can boost now), some T3C subsystem skills, finishing up some of our Doctrines and slowly working my way to being able to fly all combat subcaps.
80m is an important point for silly reasons (skill injectors only give the original 500k back if you are under 5m skill points, 400k under 50m, 300k under 80m, and only 150k after 80m), so I took the opportunity and a bit of disposable income and bumped myself over the hump, I think from 77.x to 80.x and didn’t spend it, so that’s why I’m only posting this now, with 80m actually spent. I’m not a huge fan of skill injectors, but they’re a reality and now I used some for the second time and don’t plan to in the future (unless I become filthy rich, which I seriously doubt :P). It sucks a little because now my main alt isn’t exactly 40m behind anymore, so maybe I’ll ninja edit those stats in here in a month to keep track.
Skill category Points No. of skills
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Spaceship Command 15,316,772 53 *
Gunnery 6,110,380 34 *
Engineering 4,233,570 13
Missiles 3,917,985 19 *
Drones 2,562,742 18 *
Navigation 1,622,590 9
Electronic Systems 1,481,570 8
Targeting 951,765 7
Armor 933,255 10
Shields 833,805 10
Fleet Support 527,530 2 *
Neural Enhancement 527,530 4
Rigging 508,024 10
Science 483,690 4 *
Subsystems 426,040 16 *
Planet Management 394,040 4
Scanning 184,000 7 *
Resource Processing 24,250 4 *
Structure Management 24,000 1 *
Social 23,072 4
Trade 11,079 4
Skills at Level 5: 53 (+13)
Skills at Level 4: 74 (+18)
Skills at Level 3: 81 (+5)
Skills at Level 2: 12 (-1)
Skills at Level 1: 15 (0)
Skills at Level 0: 8 (-20)
Another milestone, 70 million skill points on my main. Last milestone in August.
Skill category Points No. of skills
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Spaceship Command 19,046,390 59 *
Drones 8,859,375 18 *
Gunnery 8,668,110 33 *
Engineering 6,764,540 15 *
Missiles 6,097,024 21 *
Navigation 5,431,133 13 *
Armor 2,547,805 11 *
Shields 2,260,080 10
Electronic Systems 2,162,395 12 *
Targeting 2,154,040 8
Scanning 1,191,530 7 *
Resource Processing 1,015,545 13
Neural Enhancement 745,347 5 *
Rigging 679,060 10 *
Science 498,525 10 *
Social 434,510 6
Planet Management 394,040 4
Trade 359,530 8
Production 276,743 4
Subsystems 171,510 16 *
Fleet Support 530,030 7 *
Structure Management 750 1
Corporation Management 250 1
* = changes since last time
Skills at Level 5: 80 (+8)
Skills at Level 4: 114 (+22)
Skills at Level 3: 61 (-5)
Skills at Level 2: 2 (-4)
Skills at Level 1: 34 (+10)
Skills at Level 0: 8 (-1)
Free SP: ~710kAnd because this is how math works, my alt hit 30 million.
Skill category Points No. of skills
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Spaceship Command 9,660,740 44 *
Gunnery 4,905,650 30 *
Engineering 3,972,785 13 *
Drones 2,485,080 16 *
Missiles 2,334,123 18 *
Electronic Systems 1,481,570 8
Navigation 1,239,003 9 *
Armor 933,255 10
Shields 833,805 10 *
Rigging 508,024 10 *
Science 483,690 3 *
Targeting 429,423 7 *
Planet Management 394,040 4
Neural Enhancement 279,530 4 *
Scanning 98,386 6
Resource Processing 24,250 2
Social 23,072 4
Trade 11,079 3
Fleet Support 8,000 1 *
Skills at Level 5: 40 (+10)
Skills at Level 4: 56 (+16)
Skills at Level 3: 76 (+6)
Skills at Level 2: 13 (-9)
Skills at Level 1: 15 (-4)
Skills at Level 0: 28 (+14)
Free SP: ~350kIt’s been nearly a month since I posted about EVE, but that’s not for lack of playing. I think I played a lot more than WoW, despite the leveling. But for some reason I don’t enjoy writing about the war, so I don’t.
But last night (2h after I went to bed) I finished training Caldari Carrier I and that means… I have a suitcase now. For people not playing EVE, it’s usually quite hard to move more than one ship at a time, like, the one you’re flying. There’s the Bowhead, a large, slow non-combat vessel that’s mostly used in HighSec, and if the ships are not assembled you can stuff them in a Deep Space Transport, or a Freighter, or Jump Freighter. But when you’re moving your assembled ships, as in move ops during the war perhaps, it’s either taking many, many Titan bridges (or gating), or having a suitcase. Which basically means all Capital ships have a Ship Maintenance Bay with 1 million m3 of space for assembled ships, which means roughly 10 cruisers or a few Battleships. And if you don’t use your capital for fights, you call that a suitcase – and now I have one. First I wanted to go for a Ninazu (yay, Gallente) and bought a cheap one, but then I had second thoughts because our fleets are shield tanked and not armor tanked, and so I sold it (for a profit) and bought a Minokawa a few days ago. And today I finally jumped it to our home system where I can fill it up and then go towards where the war happens. But this was quite some training time, quite some ISK invested (hull + skill books were nearly 2 billion), but now I have it. Oh, and of course I also needed an alt to light cynos, and this means another ~250m cyno ship. Anyway, case closed.
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In this post Redbeard had asked how EVE’s World War Bee was going, given that Wilhelm obviously was reporting from the Imperium side and Mailvaltar hadn’t posted about EVE since August either. And because I kinda didn’t pay attention I only saw the comment a few days ago, sorry – so maybe I should actually write something.
I’m still not a huge fan of the war, I don’t like the goons but I don’t subscribe to purging them from the game. No problem in dunking them, though. But that kind of limits my encouragement to take part in as many stratops as possible, more so because I prefer small to medium gangs over big ones over 50 or even 100 ships. Unfortunately with the blue donut there are not really a lot of random fights to find unless we go to Delve. And while we’ve been trying to get a few small gang roams in BRAVE in the last 2 months, a few people have left to join some of the dedicated small gang PvP groups and I can absolutely understand them; if that is what brings them enjoyment the most, they won’t find that in a Null bloc in the current meta.
Anyway, we seem to be progressing quite fine, it’s a bit of a meme now that we needed 5 Keepstars until one survived. I think I only joined the 5th battle which didn’t see any real action. I liked the time in Querious but it always felt a little dead once we had anchored the P-ZMZV keepstar, didn’t really get any fights when I tried to roam solo. Delve is now a little better but I still seem to not find any fights that are engageable with a solo Cruiser. It’s either 3v1 or nothing.
My main is in Delve now in our staging keepstar (and has been in the 3 main ones before this one), but all my alts live in Catch and I’m actively playing them. My highest-SP alt is good enough to fly anything up to Cruisers, so that’s the way to go for all pings in Catch and Impass and I don’t mind burning a jump clone. With the 3+3 MCT deal I’m training up some roles on some alts, would be a lot easier if I was better at long-time planning instead of chasing new ideas every 2-3 months… Also apparently it’s hard to stay on topic for the war if you don’t find it that exciting.
My losses since the war started weren’t actually that bad, the expensive stuff in proper fleets, the Navy Cruisers in small gang roams, but as it’s mostly Querious/Delve… part of the war I guess. But I’m leaving out my losses in our Catch Standing fleet or if we chase away Wormholers in Impass, otherwise it would be a pure tally of what I flew when playing EVE – and I think that would be misrepresenting that I don’t spend all my time in the war.
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Back in April I did a breakdown of my skills for the first time, and now I have 10 million more.
Skill category Points No. of skills
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Spaceship Command 14,458,987 48 *
Drones 8,300,550 18 *
Gunnery 7,717,630 30 *
Engineering 6,762,040 14 *
Navigation 4,129,060 10
Missiles 3,917,514 19 *
Armor 2,545,805 10
Shields 2,260,080 10
Electronic Systems 2,160,395 11 *
Targeting 2,154,040 8
Resource Processing 1,015,545 13
Neural Enhancement 738,275 4 *
Rigging 567,295 10 *
Scanning 559,295 7 *
Science 493,525 6 *
Social 434,510 6
Planet Management 394,040 4 *
Trade 359,530 8 *
Production 276,743 4
Subsystems 65,000 12 *
Fleet Support 10,500 6
Structure Management 750 1
Corporation Management 250 1
* = changes since last time
Skills at Level 5: 72
Skills at Level 4: 92
Skills at Level 3: 66
Skills at Level 2: 6
Skills at Level 1: 24
Skills at Level 0: 10
Free SP: ~720kMaybe I should start tracking which skills I learned as well, but the biggest chunk was Spaceship Command with 7m, where the biggest chunk was probably Gallente Battleship V, Amarr Cruiser V, Logistics Cruisers V and the way to Bombers. And then a few Gunnery and Missile skills and misc stuff.
Also my alt hit 20m a little while ago, so here are the numbers:
Skill category Points No. of skills
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Spaceship Command 5,679,158 31
Gunnery 2,792,826 23
Engineering 2,708,315 13
Drones 1,807,132 16
Electronic Systems 1,481,570 8
Missiles 1,374,964 17
Armor 933,255 10
Navigation 931,857 9
Shields 548,550 10
Rigging 468,510 10
Targeting 424,765 7
Planet Management 394,040 4
Science 258,665 3
Scanning 98,386 6
Neural Enhancement 93,255 4
Resource Processing 24,250 2
Social 23,072 4
Trade 11,079 3
Skills at Level 5: 30
Skills at Level 4: 40
Skills at Level 3: 70
Skills at Level 2: 22
Skills at Level 1: 19
Skills at Level 0: 14
Free SP: ~230kAlthough I don’t have the old numbers I’m pretty sure there were Caldari and Minmatar Cruiser V and some other Spaceship and Gunnery skills, my plan here is to be able to fly all T1 and T2 ships up to Destroyers (excluding Command Destroyers), and then all of our Doctrine T2 Cruisers and maybe even all of them, skipping anything Battlecruiser and up (although I can at least sit in the T1 BCs).
EVE is a little weird right now, this is the first time I’m on a “deployment” (even if our staging is only 10 jumps from home, often camped though) and so I have my main mostly sitting in station and waiting for important stratop pings, but that’s what alts are for, right?
He’s on 31 killmails this month from those fleets and last night I actually managed to go on a fun fleet with one of my favorite FCs and we also got a few kills, but I’ve been surprisingly active on the alt that had originally joined Brave Newbies in 2014 and that has lived in NullSec ever since (with like a one week break). I’m active in our standing fleet and got quite a few nice fights of our kitchen sink fleet of a few people versus roaming small gangs. Still waiting for my first solo kill, because despite trying badly to roam for an hour here or there I never find any engagable content (Unless I’m in a ship that’s not actually looking for a fight, then it kinda works and I die…). Either it’s a blob or no one (neutral or red) to be found. Maybe the Blue Donut really is too big right now?
Anyway, the skill plans are coming along nicely, my main is brushing up on Large weapons and then it’s time for JDC to finally unlock Black Ops Battleships, still undecided if I want to spend 2-3m SP on Links/Bursts. My alt is at 20m SP already and on the way to be able to fly everything smaller and including Cruisers to a passable degree. Another alt is going Amarr Frigates/Destroyers/Cruisers and coming along quite well. That leaves one alt still training in the direction of a Dreadnought but I might veer off into Blockade Runner for a bit. And that’s 4 of them, another 2 are extracted for money on a regular basis as long as I have dual train running and the remaining 3 are simply used for PI and have no further skills worth mentioning.
Finally, last night our sister corp Brave Nubs had the Corp HQ on a hull timer and despite it being a 1 am formup for most of EUTZ we went and defended it against a LAWN Ferox fleet with a very nice ISK ratio. Well worth staying up till 2 am. The structure is safe, for now.
r/eve on Reddit is pretty entertaining although there’s a bit too much propaganda and shitposting going on. I find it very funny that The Mittani in his latest propaganda piece told the world that they were coming for BRAVE next because apparently a bunch of noobs is more dangerous than they had imagined. Of course you never know what he really thinks but it’s very different to the first announcement where we didn’t matter. Oh well.
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As I wrote I’m not a big fan of the war, I much prefer laid back fun small 20-50 man fleets than 200 people with busy comms.
But yesterday the stars aligned and I was available that minute and in the mood, so I bought a Hawk (new doctrine, as if I already didn’t have enough doctrine ships), eager to see how it handled.
We undocked, took an Ansiblex, took 2 gates… and waited on a Fortizar. Then we got called back to staging and reshipped into Muninns. Had to insure mine as I think I hadn’t flown it before. So we undocked again, took the same Ansibles, took the same two gates, took some more, took a Titan bridge… and landed in Querious. On a POS. For several people (including me) this was the first POS we’ve seen deployed (or I forgot if I saw one between 2014 and 2017). There we sat, waiting. We apparently were some sort of backup. We only saw a single red Karmafleet pilot in system, and it was Anna niedostepny, of all people.
While I was in Brave Newbies in April 2015 I wasn’t actively playing and missed this thing, but I remember some names. Also no idea if the linked post is in any form correct in the details, but whatever.
Well, back to my part of the story. No one else showed up, but I heard that the Imperium dropped caps on some fleet. We bridged home and I didn’t like the outcome. Doesn’t really motivate me to join another fleet this week. Just bad luck and I guess that’s what you get for being part of a NullSec bloc and I know not every stratop can be meaningful, or fun, or see action. But right now I’m not having a lot of fun, and I’m pretty the side wouldn’t matter.
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Work has been crazy the last two weeks, I’m not sleeping well and that’s probably the main reason why I didn’t post.
Been logging in to WoW for only 5 mins most days, collecting and starting Legion Champion missions. So close to 500 on my Rogue, but I might just end up having to grab new resources at like 497.
Been progressing slowly and steadily in SWTOR (9 75s, one at 73). I’m in a bit of a rut now though, I am not happy with the way gear works. Maybe I’m not playing enough (getting the conquest on 2 toons per night usually) but my Renown ranks are not progressing very fast and I’m just barely at 276 iLevel on my best set of gear. As the gear you get is based on what you’re wearing (as I understood it) I’ve been shifting a single set of gear from toon to toon, which gets old really fast. Just an hour ago I deconstructed a ton of 270 gear, keeping only 8 sets of 272-276 gear and one set of 268 that can be worn at Level 71 already. Actually not sure if I’ll continue after this month, but maybe my overall mood will improve next week.
Also not been playing a ton of EVE, the war is boring me already after a week. I wasn’t happy to put my death clone to our war staging as I usually hate traveling just for the sake of it anyway, but at least I’ve been roaming a bit on my alt, doing a bit of PI. Haven’t joined any fleets in a few days though. Maybe all the people who had been playing for months or years were indeed bored and eager for the war, but I’ve only returned 3-4 months ago and was just on a fun ride and experiencing NullSec properly. Then the war came and everything is hectic and different and it held me up by making the things that I was just (re-)learning different.