As with many people, balancing your time between real life and your gaming character can be a bit challenging.  You want to spend time with your friends but you also need to ensure that your real life does not suffer.   It’s hard.  You feel torn between two worlds so to speak and there comes a time where you have to make some kind of change.

EVE Online is a game first and foremost.  It’s not meant to be the center of your life.  Yes, I know there are those who would disagree with me and that’s fair.  But for me, EVE Online has always been a game worthy of my attentions.

OMFG, I never thought Ga’len would leave the Neo Spartans!!!

In a nutshell, I was running logistics a great deal of the time along with the many responsibilities of alliance leadership.  Couple that with the desire for pew-pew and it became more than a game, it became a job and honestly, not a job I really wanted but one that needed to be done.  There were others that were helping, but it simply became the focus of my time when I was online.  I mean no disrespect to anyone, but if you give a mouse a cookie, he will want a glass of milk.  Sticking all the logistics work on a few people becomes quite the annoyance of those people.  They begin to resent it when they are trying to engage in some pew-pew and you are constantly nagged to move stuff.

I enjoy PvP.  It’s what I really enjoy.  I have a logistics alt to ensure that I can get supplies, including isk, when I need it.  Doing that for an entire alliance along with running the forums and the two killboards becomes a bit much.  Add to that the goals the alliance is setting for itself not being the same goals I have leads me to a crossroads.

Neo Spartans, I will miss you and I wish you the best of luck in the future.  They are one of the best groups of people I have had the honor of flying with and perhaps in the future I will return.  For now, I must go my own way and seek out fun along another path.  If you are looking for a pirate corp to make your home, I would take a look at Neo Spartans as I would recommend them any day.

If you are like me however, trying to curb an impulse to wander and have limited time online, then I guess we will see each other out there amongst the stars.

So, where will I end up?  I don’t know.  I could look at fixing my sec status and jump into Faction Warfare.  I could head out to 0.0 or I could just wander about.  Who knows.

I am The Wandering Druid of Tranquility.  It’s time to wander….see you out there!!!!

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I have been busy, so busy, that I have had little time for writing as I would like.  I am still working on the Blade of Truth storyline, part four is finished and will go live on July 4th so do keep an eye out for that.  Yes, there is more of that storyline to tell and I am actively working on part five right now.

I have been spending a nice amount of time playing EVE with my fellow corpies.  General ‘yarring’ about has yielded kills, ransoms (both isk and jokes) and the odd carrier slaughter (http://nspta.net/lacon/?a=kill_related&kll_id=69143).

Our campaign against the ever failfest called United continues.  If they would spend more than five minutes outside a station, we might actually get a fight with them.  As it goes, their operations around the system known as Rancer have slowed considerable.  They do continue to camp the Crilere gate as they are infamously known for, but other than that, they are not very active.  They do come out every now and again, but the good ole “Control Q’s” kick in when we log on or even think of the system name Rancer.  Oh well, we expected nothing less.  The ‘Lords of Otou’ shall continue to rule with the strength and honor for which we have always wielded.

The OPML download has been growing for some time now and with the recently ended blogging promotion event between CCP and GameScribe, there are a number of blogs that are simply disappearing, mainly because they were created to participate in the contest.  Now that the promotion contest is over, some of those blogs are no longer in existence and as a result, they will be removed from the OPML download.  I do have some additions to make and an upcoming announcement post will be made this coming Friday.  The OPML us up to date as of this blog posting, so fee freel to download a fresh copy (http://www.eve-druid.com/opml-download).

CrazyKinux has yet again, provided wonderful inspiration for our blogging community.  He has a wonderful contest setup for the next EVE Blog Banter (http://www.crazykinux.com/2009/06/eve-blog-banter-contest.html).  I myself will be writing an article, however, I will not be among those entries being judged for the prizes.  Now before anyone gets worked up, you should know that this was MY idea.  I shall attempt to explain.

CK, James Egan and I do a lot of work together for the blogging community.  CK maintains the EVE blogroll, I maintain the EVE OPML download and James Egan keeps up to date on the EVE community from a variety of information resources, including both postings among the EVE Blogging community and tips that CK and I send to James. Needless to say, we are friends and we do have a decent amount of regular contact with each other.

I have full faith that CK, Zapatero and James could be objective when judging entries, but there are always people who will take relationships such as those I share with CK and James and create a context of impropriety.  Such people would claim that a contest was rigged.  We have all seen such claims on the EVE forums and honestly, it’s usually a bunch of garbage, but the creation of “threadnaughts’ and other related drama end up ruining an otherwise entertaining and fulfilling event.

Rather than leave such potential drama be something that can ruin the honest, open and honorable nature that the EVE Blogging Community holds itself accountable to, I deciced to stop it from happening, hence my decision to ask CK to remove my contribution to the upcoming blog banter from the judging.  Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t kept me from writing a post.  I had an idea and yes I am going to participate in the Blog Banter itself, just not the contest.

Yes, my blog banter post this time is a long read like my last one.  You have been warned. 

Anyway, that’s all I have for now, see you out there!!!

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No, it’s not what you think…well, perhaps, if you are that twisted.

I have been busy as a beaver with writing projects, enjoying summer movies, recovering from vacation and of course, playing EVE.

For those of you who have followed the ongoing conflict between The United and The Neo Spartans I will say that the fight goes on.  For the latest stats, you can view the stats on the campaign, Ding Ding! Round 2! I missed a good portion of the combat as I was on vacation, but I had a chance to engage a volley or two.

Yes, there is a new look here.  I went over to Podlogs (http://podlogs.com) and downloaded the ‘Angry Amarr’  theme (http://podlogs.com/themes/?preview_theme=Angry%20Amarr).  It’s a nice theme and I like how it looks.

OPML update, I have an update post going live this Friday listing the recent additions.  If you have not already done so, please send me your requests to be added to the OPML no later than downtime on this coming Thursday.  Hopefully I will receive enough responses so that I don’t have to update the post multiple time after it’s gone live.

Speaking of new blogs, I have a few words on the concerns the blogging community have expressed.  As with all things, the more you have is not always better.  Our community recently hit a major milestone with a record number of 535 blogs.  This is a major achievement, however, with all things in nature, there is a balance between the positive and negative.

With the larger number of blogs comes increased administration on the part of myself and Crazy Kinux with regards to the OPML and the EVE Blogroll.  It is a bittersweet thing since both of use love to read the diverse postings of our community.

With all this growth, we must admit that there will be some ‘dead loss’.  CCP and GameScribe had a major promotion going on to get people to blog about the community.  Many blogs were created in that push and to be honest, I see some of those blogs simply dieing out as the promotion ends.  Rest assured, the EVE Blogroll and the OPML download will be revised to reflect those inactive AND inaccessible blogs.

The OPML download has always had blogs listed that were no longer active for the sole purpose of providing a ‘historical’ listing of those who had contributed to the EVE Blogging Community.  So please do not be concerned if the OPML download count of blogs varies from CrazyKinux’s EVE Blogroll.  Many of these older inactive blogs had a lot of good content that any new blogger and member of the EVE Online gaming community may find benefit.

See you out there!!!

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It’s anniversary time!!!  I’ve officially been a member of the Neo Spartans (http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Neo_Spartans_(Player_corporation)) for a year now.  Where the hell did the time go?

I have made a lot of friends over the past year.  I have had the wonderful opportunity to fly with some very talented pilots.  We have a great group of pilots and we have a lot of fun.  It’s been a blast and I am honored to be one of the Neo Spartans!!

Want to share in the Neo Spartans legacy?  Head over to our CafePress store (http://www.cafepress.com/NeoSpartans).  We have lots of fun stuff to purchase!!!

Interested in joining the Neo Spartans or our sister corp, the Neo Catamites?  Head over to our forums (http://neo-spartans.eve-webspace.com/forums) and put in an application!!!

See you out there!!!

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Yes, you read that right.  We have a new alliance on the block.  The Laconian Syndicate has been born.

The Neo Spartans has formed an alliance.  Our goals?  Well, to be honest, we have never really had any true goal except to play the game, enjoy ourselves and act with honor.  At this point, we have no plans to become a ’space holding’ alliance.

So, let’s give up a hearty welcome to the newest kid on the alliance block!!

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