Bartender, I really did it this time…

Part of  the responsbility of owning a blog is having some sort of transparency, even if it means being a bit embarrased at times.

So here’s my confession: I lost my Navy Scorp a few nights ago due to a combination of drunkenness and exhaustion. I vaguely remember running an L4 and had only 3 frigs and 1 BS to kill when I started dozing off. At that point, I should’ve just docked up and gone to bed, but I wanted to beat the damn thing as it had dragged out for several hours. Next thing I know, its 1 am and I wake up to see a floating pod. I didn’t think much about it and docked (again, I was sleepy and fairly drunk). A few days later I log in to finish the mission and am going “Where the fuck is my Scorp?”. Then the memories flood in and I think I got the shakes for awhile. So now I’m in this slow depression thinking about my long lost navy scorp with all the faction mods that went boom. I didn’t even get my wreck since I didn’t log in for several days. In all I think I lost close to 700mil in that ship. Shit happens I guess, still… ouch.

My play time is still rather limited, but my wife is a wonderful woman and concedes one of our few nights together each week so that I can play internet spaceships. The most frustrating thing is that I have been planning these night around Goon Strategic Ops and more often than not I’ve sat in fleet for over an hour waiting for the FC to get us underway when the op is called off due to the targets not showing or some other unfortunate situation. This has happened the last three times I’ve shown up for ops and its getting a twee old. If anything drives me away from nullsec, it will be that I can’t get into large scale ops due to them being called off. I know that there are many other Eve players and Eve bloggers in this situation,so my fellow players, what do you do when the one thing you look forward to most in the game can’t occur?

In training news, Jokine has just started AWU V today and its a 27 day skill for him so I have some time before pursuing the advices of those that commented on my last post. (Don’t worry guys, said isk is still on the way, I just have to remember once I’m in game ;) ) Skerrit Boy is back in the training loop again with Drone Interfacing V, yet another pretty long skill. I’m actually thinking of training Gallente ships for missioning and just tanking the thing to shit and siccing my drones on the NPC’s. It sounds like a lot less work, plus then I can play more fun games that waste less of my time.

Fly safe gentlemen.

Again With The Decisions!

Good morning all. I come to you seeking advice. Just some simple advice. Jokine finishes Minmatar Cruiser V in less than 6 hours and I’m feeling a bit lost in what to pursue. Cruiser V opens up a world of possibilities from a fleet perspective, but each is rather specialized. Personally, I am leaning towards logistics. The fleets that I’ve rolled out with can never have enough Scimitars. My only issue with going down that route is lack of logistics related skills. I haven’t trained any remote rep skills at all and most of my SP are in gunnery. Given the previous statement, HACs are looking awfully nice as well and AHAC gangs are rather plentiful (the vagabond is a damn sexy ship too). In your experience, what has been the most useful T2 cruiser you used and what has been the most fun T2 cruiser you’ve used. This is a rather important fork in the road for me as whatever I decide to train for will consume my training queue for the next 4 to 5 months. In the meantime, I’m focusing on getting some gunnery support skills trained up. Weapons upgrade V is slotted for training after Cruiser V is done. If I remember right, it will be a 5 day skill or so (relief after the punishment of having a 23 day skill sitting in the training queue).

Skerrit Boy has officially finished his first two solo L4 missions and used a noctis to clean them up. I can see how people would want to just run them all day for isk. The safety of the missions is rather silly and the payout with salvage makes it very worth running them. Without salvaging the missions, it becomes a borderline issue for me about whether or not they are worth running. My corpmate and fellow blogger Durz0 Smith was kind enough to lend me his Navy Scorp fit to compare my current fit with. I was pretty close to his and will be tweaking the fit as needed.

Again guys I am looking for some feedback and wwill give 15 million isk to the comment/advice I find most useful. Either post the comments here, shoot me an email or hit me up on twitter @alushinspace. Thanks!

Fly safe gentlemen

Healed By The Power Of Bennie Hinn

I had a fantastic weekend. I truly truly fantastic weekend. Let me give you a quick recap: Saturday I went to Dark Lord Day which is a rather monstrous party in honor of the annual release of the extremely limited Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout. I woke up early and had a few cups of coffee then started in on the water consumption in preparation for a long day of beer consumption. My buddy and I left Indy at 9:30 or so and arrived in Munster at 12 noon. We found our other friend from Indy and immediately opened a growler of fresh Weizengoot from Bier Brewery. We had a great time waiting in line and talking to some new friends and fellow homebrewers, I even saw a guy I went to elementary school with! I had a great time waiting in line as I got to know the guys behind me and they were fellow homebrewers. Three Floyds provided scratch-off sections on the Dark Lord tickets that gave you a chance to win the opportunity to buy one of four different limited edition bottles of Dark Lord. I ended up winning one and chose the Dark Lord aged in Pappy Van Winkle 23 year bourbon barrels. It was bottle #85 of 484 so I’m pretty excited.

Most of Sunday was spent in recovery from DLD but I managed to pull myself together enough to get into a Drake/Hurricane fleet that headed to Cobalt Edge with intentions of murder. About halfway to our destination, we got word of a IRC gang of 30-35 (we had 25) but they only had one logi and we had three. Our FC fancied our chances, so away we went.  Once in U6R, we waited on a gate (don’t remember which one) while the FC got eyes on the other side. A few minutes later, he let us know that the IRC gang was moving our way and that was our cue to slow boat to optimals. The gate began to flash and we all got weapons hot. The IRC guys started showing up on overview and the FC primaried tacklers first to go down was an Aruzu. And with that kill, I recieved my very first 0.0 KM. We were taking down tackle while waiting for the rumored Scimitar to show up. A minute after losing its gate cloak, the Scimi went down. By this point, I had been primaried and popped, I didn’t even have time to call for shields from our logi. I bounced around for a while and according to comms, IRC had brought another 20 or so BS in. I got on one more KM, I apparently shot at a Maelstrom on accident while waiting for the Arazu to be locked. Here’s my loss, you’ll notice immediately that I had a load of faction ammo in there. When the op was rolling out, the FC has said that we would be moving fast and warping in and out, as such I thought that I would have more time to GTFO if I got popped. Oh well such is Eve life. I spent my trip home watching the President speak about killing Bin Laden and while I was distracted, some asshole podded me. Dick. I was watching freedom happen. Clearly Will Clark loves Al Queda and professes Jihad at every moment. But I’m not bitter, I just love freedom and the Constitution and human rights. Which obviously Will does not. That is all.

Fly safe gentlemen…