December 2011
4 posts
Life in a Wormhole: Agency #eveonline →
Strange kind of a day.
There’s a bit of a snafu when we get online, simply because a few of the things Gor expected to pick up in market simply aren’t available yet. Still, he picks up a couple of…
Life in a Wormhole: Preparing for Change... →
There’s a lot of interesting stuff happening in EvE, and in anticipation of some of the changes, most of he wormhole pilots have set out into known space to pick up supplies or to station…
Life in a Wormhole: Blowing Up Properly #eveonline →
The home system has been quiet this week (which is why I’ve been writing a few more guide-like things than normal), but one thing we did manage to accomplish was getting one of our old friends/new…
Life in a Wormhole: How Soon Can I Start?... →
In the past, I’ve written a fair bit about what you need to bring when you decide to move into a wormhole. That list is intended for an entire group heading into a class two or something similar,…
Life in a Wormhole: Too Long in the Wasteland... →
[Good album, by the way. James McMurtry. I recommend it.]
Yeah, I know it’s been a few weeks. Believe me when I say I’d rather be here — I’m still in lesbian with you, EvE, even when you…
November 2011
5 posts
Life in a Wormhole: Moa Constrictors #eveonline →
Once Em and I are back on line, she grabs her Onyx heavy interdictor and breaks several laws of physics to finish collapsing the connection between our wormhole and the one with the extremely…
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"Toss it in the Water"
Things have been a little quiet around here. Let me see if I can explain why:
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I don’t want to imply that when you have a small human to take care of, you can’t get anything else done, but I (at...
Life in a Wormhole: Eager Defenders #eveonline →
Morning in the ‘hole, and with the wardec over and mining ops closing down, I’m ready to explore our connection to class-two wormhole space. Sounds great, except for the fact that our connection…
October 2011
14 posts
Life in a Wormhole: Things that are Harder than... →
I log in the next morning to find most of our pilots mobilizing for some kind of major operation.
Their plan is hazy, but their enthusiasm is clear.
After a few minutes, I’m able to…
Life in a Wormhole, Always Smaller than You... →
There are Germans in the adjoining class two system, but since I’m really just looking for a good exit to known space (and the Germans are going to sleep), we just ignore each other and I keep…
Life in a Wormhole: An Embarrassment of Riches... →
I get another message from my broker the next morning, telling me that the buyers are back online and still interested in buying the C4, so I send up a flare and meet Tira online.
Em and Cabbage…
Life in a Wormhole: Frontier Real-Estate... →
The wardec has ended as it often does: not with a bang, but a whimper.
In this case, the whimpering comes from me, wrestling with some serious server problems — stuff the keeps me offline for a…
Life in a Wormhole: Dangerous When Bored... →
It’s less than 24 hours since I first heard murmurs about getting a Rorqual for the system, with a number of ideas tossed around about funding the whole thing.
Twenty-four hours is a long time for…
Life in a Wormhole: WAR (or something like it)... →
I log in a few days after our last big day to find a notification of War Declaration in my mailbox, so my evening plans are put on hold to make proper preparations.
War declarations are something…
Life in a Wormhole: Day-tripping #eveonline →
A few days ago in the comments, Ko asked:
Question, when day tripping, at what point do you say “thanks but no thanks” to a hole? It seems that most holes spawning into High Sec space are…
Life in a Wormhole: Payout #eveonline →
The last couple days have been…
How should I put this?
Here. This:
There. That. The one and only time you will ever see me compare myself to Brad Pitt in any context.
Moving on.
I…
Life in a Wormhole: Skipping the Boring Stuff... →
The title of this post is misleading; one of the things you can’t do in a wormhole is skip the boring stuff.
Every day, when you log in, you scan. It may just be a passive scan and d-scan, or it…
Life in a Wormhole: Hole-crashing a Manticore... →
A new day! Albeit another day where my playtime is limited. Kate’s out of town, and while she’s taking The Littlest Copilot with her on her trip, I’ve still got a pretty heavy work schedule and…
LotRO: Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey →
One of the more interesting bits in the Lord of the Rings Online MMO is the fact that the events within the game are taking place roughly within the timeframe of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
I…
Life in a Wormhole: Weekend Coda #eveonline →
It’s been a fairly frustrating weekend. We started off with the loss of an Orca, which we replaced by selling off a Tengu hull, a blueprint, and some faction fittings, losing and replacing an…
Life in a Wormhole: Orca Recon #eveonline →
We’ve had a number of good sleeper-running evenings lately, but tonight Em is taking off early, and while Wil and CB are game for some shooting, the local system is barren and the neighboring system…
Life in a Wormhole: For Want of a Nail #eveonline →
It’s early in the morning, and after last night’s hauling run, I’m in a mood for a shufti and some alone time in a fast ship.
The class 2 system we’re connected to is the same as last night —…
September 2011
18 posts
Star Wars: The Old Republic — The Question of PvP →
A few days ago, Fogsong wrote:
Star Wars: The Old Republic. My LoTRO guild is debating whether to go with a Player vs Player (PvP) server or Player vs Environment (PvE) server. We are caught on…
Life in a Wormhole: It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas... →
It’s been a few days since our Proteus kill, and we’re done messing around in the home system for a little while — Planetary Interaction colonies have been set up by Bre and Berke, and in addition…
Life (in a Wormhole) Goes on… #eveonline →
So I’m still playing Eve.
I’m still enjoying playing Eve, more importantly.
But I think I’m going to slow down from posting daily reports for a little while. There are a couple reasons.
Life in a Wormhole: “How do I shot teh Sleepers?”... →
Those of you who don’t really play EVE and just read this stuff to see what I got blown up this week might want to either skip this post, or just read the bits that aren’t in text-blocks.
This post…
Life in a Wormhole: “The Drake is Always Bait”... →
It’s morning in the home system (at least for me — some folks are already into their evenings), and Bre and Em (from Walrus) are up to no good.
“Get in your bomber,” they jabber in unison.
“But I…
Life in a Wormhole: Really, Truly, Doing it Wrong... →
I’ve mentioned the alliance’s pending group operation a couple times, alluding to the fact that the corporation that they’ve targeted deserves to have their tower destroyed and their frozen corpses…
Life in a Wormhole: Treasure Mapping #eveonline →
The day dawns with me suspiciously free from other commitments, so I start off the morning with some scanning. It’s a good thing I get an early start, because our current constellation of systems is…
Life in a Wormhole: Overwatch #eveonline →
I log in to find Gor staring fixedly at a point in space. Not any random point in space, mind you, but a very specific one: the location of our current connection to another class 2 wormhole.
“It…
Life in a Wormhole: Working Out #eveonline →
“I think you guys are working out,” Cabbage takes the time to tell me in private. “You just fit right in here.”
That’s good news, and nice of him to say so. He’s in a far distant timezone (Our…
Life in a Wormhole: If yah don’t kill ‘im, he... →
A new day dawns in Home System Mk 2, but rather than stay at home and shoot sleepers, I’d rather poke my nose (and guns) where they aren’t wanted; let’s save the local sleepers for later and see…
Life in a Wormhole: The Unpackening II – Son of... →
An Orca flying on autopilot is so slow that by the time Berke has gotten the Monolith back to our highsec staging system, Bre and Tira are already there and ready to act as escorts for the return…
Life in a Wormhole: “Last one out…” #eveonline →
It’s later on the same day as the short-lived stealth bomber vs. industrial hauler death match, and I’m ready to recover from previous losses. I check in and find Gor moving his massive freighter…
Life in a Wormhole: “Less than Useful” #eveonline →
I’m messing around with a couple armor-tanked builds for our PvP ships, due to some issues I have with shield-tanked PvP ships when living out of a tower. They work great when you have a…
Life in a Wormhole: Deadly Correspondence... →
“Regardless of whatever we decide to do with that wormhole alliance,” I say to Gor as he logs in, “we need to get away from the old alliance.”
“Agreed.” He doesn’t even ask for context regarding…
Life in a Wormhole: The Great Debate #eveonline →
The next couple of days feel like one very long debate about the merits of joining a new alliance. I’m sure it’s not the only thing we talked about it, but it’s the only thing in my notes and the…
August 2011
12 posts
Life in a Wormhole: Sifting through the White... →
My evemail box is brimming with messages when I log in, and for a few seconds I get excited; after talking it over with Gor and CB last night, I wrote up an official application to the wormhole…
Life in a Womhole: Kicking the Anthill #eveonline →
It’s an early Saturday morning, and the cupboard (by which I mean “our home system”) is bare. The random number generator hasn’t been particularly kind the last few days, and there’s nothing…
Life in a Wormhole: What are the Odds? #eveonline →
It’s been a few days since the Rattlesnake/Orca Debacle of Aught-leven, and things have been quiet around the home system — not only a lack of violence, but a lack of anything to do violence against…
Life in a Wormhole: Worst Case Scenarios... →
Gor really shouldn’t feel bad about struggling with fittings for his ships in the wormhole; sleeper combat is a bit of a cold-water shock for lots of players — I remember the very first time we…
Life in a Wormhole: All Alone #eveonline →
The Germans, it appears, are moving out of the system we’ve been sharing for the last month.
One of their best English-speaking members emails me to let me know of their impending departure, saying…
Life in a Wormhole: Making room and Settling In →
Breedi is back in the wormhole, albeit only with one of her Buzzard cov-ops ships and not her entire fleet, which is still awaiting a closer connection. That’s fine, since Ty has a number of ships…
Life in a Wormhole: Escape from Nullsec #eveonline →
The home system is quiet the day after the destruction of the Drake, and even two days later the sleepers still seems to be reeling under the onslaught that netted us some nice profit. Given that…
Life in a Wormhole: the Tapeworm #eveonline →
The interesting and wonderful thing about wormholes is that situation changes constantly. The day after Gor and I blew up a Cyclone in our system, the connections to our neighboring systems are…