…you will meet yourself.”  That’s the quote, the saying of old.

No, I have not met myself in EVE, but I did find something I was not expecting.

I was running some plexes in our nullsec space.  It was a quite Sunday evening for me and I wanted to grind away for some isk.  I scan down a plex, warp in and I find this floating in space:

I am thinking, what is this, some kind of new asteroid layout for plex sites?  I click on the object and I begin to laugh.  I can’t believe what I am seeing.  I check the info and this is what I see:

Yup, Stonehenge in Space.  I fell out of my chair laughing.  For over three years this Druid has wandered through New Eden and finally, I find the standing stones of the ancients, floating in space.

Hats off to CCP, this little gem is well placed in my humble opinion, but I may be biased.

See you out there!

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One of the things that happens from time to time when you are pirating about is some foolish soul will place a large bounty on your head.  Now, the bounty mechanic in EVE is not really one that works, unless you have a large price sitting there, say like 50 million isk.

Usually, most people would have an alt pop their pod and keep the isk, hence the flaw in the bounty system in EVE.

Being a new member of Ushra’Khan and with so many people “offering to help me with my bounty”, I thought it would be rather fun to do something else rather than have an alt pop me and keep the isk.

Back in Neo Spartans, when we would catch a pod and they would not pay the ransom, we would hold a “drone lottery”.  For those of you who do not know, a Drone Lottery is where everyone in the gang would launch 1 drone and after a countdown, everyone would attack the pod with the drones.  The person who got the killmail would receive 1 million isk from each member of the gang.

So, I said to myself, why not?  This past Sunday, while everyone in the alliance was high with joy at making it to the finals in the alliance tournament, I announced a POD lottery, where the winner would get the bounty that was on my head.

Call it completing my ‘Pirate Penance’, cleanse my soul as it was and get rid of the bounty on my head.

I had everyone who was in on the lottery lock me up and launch one drone of their choosing.  Needless to say, after the countdown from 5 to 1, as soon as I said engage, roughly 2 milliseconds I was back at my medical station in a new clone.

Congratulations are in order for NCC 1701E who was able to insta-pop my pod.  Good job sir, enjoy the 50 million isk mate and thank you for taking that bounty off my head!!

See you out there!!!

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EVE Online is a fun game, but what makes it truly fun is the little things that mean so much.  Christmas time is a special time in EVE online.  I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and remind everyone, be careful out there!!  That bowl of Quafe Punch is in fact spiked!!!!

This year, we saw the return of the beloved Snowballs (http://www.eve-druid.com/2008/12/19/snowbals-mmviii).

• Semper EVE exercised poetic inspiration with Twas the Night Before Downtime (http://sempereve.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/twas-the-hour-before-downtime).
• Jinarre’s Tweleve Days of Christmas (http://jin-neweden.blogspot.com/search/label/holiday) is a great read.
• A Character named Holiday Spirit is doing his anual gifts give away!! (http://myeve.eve-online.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=952805)
• I put together a little snowball video for The Neo Spartans (http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/galen/NSPTA_Seasons_Greetings_2008.avi)

If you have done something special for the holidays this year in EVE, post a comment and let’s share it with everyone!!

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Well, CCP has done it, Snowballs MMVIII (Snowballs 2008 edition).  WOO HOO!!!!!

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Ninveah’s recent post, My Other Names (http://www.ninveah.com/2008/11/my-other-names.html) gave me a chuckle so I hand to join in on the meme

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names):  Ann Pasquale

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad):  Raymond Joseph

3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 2 letters of your last name, first 4 letters of your first name):  Dajose

4. DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal):  Green Cat

5. SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you live):  Riley Herndon

6. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite alcoholic drink, optionally add “THE” to the beginning):  The Blue Beer

7. FLY NAME: (first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name):  Jone

8. GANGSTA NAME: (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite cookie):  Vanilla Sugar

9. ROCK STAR NAME: (current pet’s name, current street name):  Annie Stratford Commons

10. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on): Ortzo Grove

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