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!!!
Tags: Blog Banter Contest, Catching Up, Rancer, United Failfest
