Everybody's Working For The Weekend…

Well, it’s the weekend. As much as I desire to be lost in EVE, I’m headed to Chicago for some RL R&R and to get a new tv aka monitor for internet space ships.

Review of last night’s activities: I was pretty tired from a 10 hour work day, so when I logged it was really with the plan of training Small AC’s to level V and the logging off again. As soon as I jumped in though, and unscheduled class on spider tanking was starting up. Since I have very limited experience with spider tanking, I listened to the class while completing some mundane level 2 mission. The class was informative and I learned quite a few. It actually made me want to train for Ewar. I really like the idea of logistic cruisers in general, so much so, that I almost wish that I were Caldari or Gallente. Hmmm… time to get a second account? Or start a trial on in the very least. (Not sure if my poor MBP could handle having two eve clients up at the same time since one client uses 70% of my avail RAM. Time to upgrade the ol’ RAM then?)

Everyone have a nice weekend. I’ll have an update come Monday or maybe Tuesday. Fly safe, dangerous, drunk, and/or naked.

Side note: Just got my first bottle of Johnny Walker Black label last night. Yum.

Scratching Ze Head

Last night I logged on to fit my destroyer for some frigate killing fun. I threw some 260 Arties on it with sensor boosters and some tracking rigs thinking that I would blast some lvl 2 NPC’s from like 30km out. I was completely wrong. I jumped into an L2Q3 mission that was a simple search and destroy mission. There were 10 or so “Merlin” frigs that appeared and I wasn’t too afeared as I have gunnery level 5 and several other support skills. The flaw in my thinking was that I am only a level 2 in Arty skills. Hmmm…. Needless to say, I got pounded from 20km by the merlin’s missiles while completely missing with my guns. I warped out and decided to just jump into the stabber that I’ve got since it’s tank significantly higher. It’s fit with 220 AC’s so it shouldn’t be a problem right? (My medium AC skills are level 4) Anyway, I got blasted in that too! I could only chuckle at how pathetic it was. I never got into structure, but I didn’t kill any of them.

After my mission fail, I joined a E-Uni class on tackling. I listened to all of the “lecture” section, before jetting the class. I didn’t really learn anything that I didn’t know already, but I never felt like it was a waste of time. I need some PVP. Need it.

Solar Radiation

I think that radiation is one of my favorite things about the Sun. I spent most of the 4th of July weekend in a swimming pool reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson which is quite an entertaining read. Even though I was soaking up slightly diluted radiation, I managed to get myself a bit sunburned. I look forward to my skin turning golden brown in a few days as a result.

Logged back into EVE last night to check my skill queue. I’d actually forgot what I was training (learning lvl V) and was worried that the queue was empty. Fortunately, I have 5 days left on the training. My annoyance level grew faster than my learning level as I kept getting a “socket closed” error. I’ve been receiving this message more often as of late. I think my neighbor needs to reset his router (I gank his wifi).  My client/router finally chilled out and let me stay logged in. RobTex convoed me and asked if I was up to help out on a mish. I’m always up for flying with someone else, so me and the ol’ Rupture rolled out (cue luda). Had a good time doing some lvl 3 missions and then we parted ways as the evening waned. I finished up a lvl 2 of my own and then logged for the evening. I made somewhere around 2 mil in the hour and a half I was on. Not awful.

I am getting tired of missions though.  For a long while I was doing fleets with the Uni about every night. We rarely found a fight, but even low-sec roaming is better than missioning. I think that the main thing holding me back from jumping at every fleet announcement is a desire to help Rob out. He’s a newer player than I and doesn’t know anyone else in game. I remember how much Eve sucks without the social aspect to it, so I try to hang with him as often as possible. He’s in the E-Uni queue right now though, so hopefully he can join me in the PVP adventures soon. He’s worried about joining a corp as his impression of a corp is somewhat ominous. He thinks that all corps expect regular login times, homogeneity, and a general rigidness. I tried to allay his fears by informing him that during peace time the Uni allows a ton of freedom to pursuit individual interests and that there is almost no pressure to log in. That seemed to make him feel a bit better. Here’s to Rob join the Uni sometime soon and learning far more than I can pass along!